"Lang Jun, you crossed the desert, why did you enter that deserted castle."

"You think I want to go in! This sandstorm was blown for several days, and I was dizzy and lost, not to mention that there was no place to hide, and finally I saw the castle inexplicably, so I wanted to go in and rest, and just look at the clear water that I can find. ”

I didn't expect the elf to complain about himself, Dole said angrily, and sat up next to the elf after speaking, and said that the doubts and curiosity of the castle Dore came up again, although he didn't want to see that ghost place again in his life, and spit out a few questions in a row:

"You say that such a large castle, with houses and canals, how can it be so desolate and dilapidated? And how could there be so many dead human bones in it? Were they all eaten by that sand king? ”

"Lang Jun really wants to know?" The elf glanced at Dole.

"Yes, yes, yes," Dole kept nodding.

"That's a long time, Lang Jun, you have to be patient. The castle was not originally called 'City of Ten Thousand Bones', it was originally a green state in the desert, and the castle was originally endless, and it was the second largest city in the desert empire after the national capital. Five hundred years ago, the Demon Commander led all the Demon Cultivators and united with our Eighteen Desert Alien Races to launch a general attack on the Holy Emperor. ”

"Eighteen aliens?" Dorr interrupted the elf.

"Yes, eighteen alien races, not only human beings live in this desert land, but also eighteen strange races, like our elf race, and the sand people led by the sand king all belong to the eighteen alien races in this desert. Five hundred years ago, in the decisive battle with the Orthodox Church, our desert empire was defeated, not only the demons were suppressed, but the eighteen alien races also suffered heavy casualties. The sand king was even more devastated in his vitality. The thousand-year-old cultivation was almost ruined. The Sand King is not only the ruler of the Sandmen, but also the creator. Shaben is inhuman, and it is lifeless, a grain of stubborn sand has undergone thousands of years of cultivation, not only has a human form, but also has a primordial spirit, this is the sand king. However, in the decisive battle with the Orthodox Church, the Sand King almost lost his soul and almost turned back into a grain of sand, and only by eating human blood could he reunite his vitality.

Although the desert empire is vast, the population is the thinnest, and the decisive battle with the orthodox Christians The human race also suffered heavy casualties, and there was so much human blood in the desert for him to suck, and the demon lord and the emperor imprisoned the sand king in the vast desert in order to maintain the reproduction of the human race. It is not allowed to enter the green state in the desert at will. The Sand King died like this, surviving for hundreds of years, occasionally finding a little human blood in the desert to maintain the remaining bit of vitality.

Until two hundred years ago, the empire gradually regained its prosperity, and the people gradually prospered, the holy lord and emperor at that time could not bear the repeated requests of the sand king, and the sand people were an important force in the empire, so they gave the castle and all the humans in it to the sand king, on the condition that without the promise of the holy lord, the sand people would never be able to step out of the castle half a step. ”

Speaking of this, the elf sighed heavily, and a sense of compassion appeared on his face. Needless to say, Dole also understood what happened next.

"Perhaps what the Sand King has done is too extinction, and as the castle is deserted, the green state is gradually being eroded by the desert. Becoming desolate and decadent now, the castle has gradually been forgotten by the world in the corner of the desert, and the Sand King has returned to the situation where there is no blood to suck, and he can only rely on cultivation to slowly consolidate his vitality. ”

"Hey, this demon is really, why do you want to fight the Holy Emperor and make all this yourself." Dole sighed and muttered.

"Lang Jun, you are now the heir to the mantle of the devil." The elf stared at him coldly.

"I didn't think about being a mantle, my dream was to be a pirate king." Dole yelled.

"But the crystal is in your hands now."

"What about in my hands, I'll just use it." Dole continues to sell silly.

"Hehe, the soul of the magic crystal and the bloodline of Lang Jun are fused together day by day, it seems that it has reached the point of telepathy now, maybe you will be the second demon in the future."

The elf blinked his faint green eyes, and returned to that playful chuckle, and the strange evil flashed in the beautiful eyes again, he had seen such a smile more than once, such an evil, but at this moment, his heart was inexplicably beating in shock, but his mouth was still unconvinced, and Dole shouted louder:

"Yes, this stone is fused with me, and in the future it will have to obey me, I am Dol I, it is Dol II."

The elf looked at the kid's excitement, smiled silently and then shook his head helplessly, turned his head sideways to look at the distant night and said no more, and after Dole was greatly stimulated, he puffed out his cheeks and didn't want to talk anymore and looked at the starry sky. Sitting silently like this, a boy and an elf felt this awkward atmosphere for the first time since they met in Sami City, and they didn't know why they were in such a situation.

Finally couldn't stand the sleep, Dole lay down tiredly and finally closed his eyes, and snorted heavily, the elf turned his head sideways to look at the boy who was sleeping like a dead pig, and sighed heavily, the longer they got along, the more they cared about this kid, could it be that elves also have feelings! It rotated twice and turned into a wisp of light smoke and drifted into the earthen pot.

Melting snow cascaded down the summit of Mount Kilimaro, over the rocky cliffs, through the wildflowers and grasses among the trees, and finally turned into a rushing river rushing through the desert, dotting the sand and yellow with verdant green.

Finally rushed out of the desert Dole continued to run all the way, rushed to the side of the rushing river, turned over and fell off the horse, ran to the river bank in a few big steps, rolled up his trouser legs and kicked off his boots, his legs were impatient to step into the river, the melting snow was still cold and biting in the hot summer sun, the cold soaked in the skin Dole felt extremely cool, the whole body was hot, only this cold can wash away the fatigue of the whole body.

Drink enough to cool enough Dol to ride a horse and continue to gallop, the horse's hooves tread across the turbulent river, the desert pedestrians are sparsely seen, mostly riding tall camels and flocks, it seems that they are walking in the desert of the caravan. Looking at these big wooden guys, Dore felt fresh and saw this kind of beast for the first time.

Dol was fresh here, and the desert people who came and went saw the boy on the horse, and their eyes flashed with curiosity, although Dol was wearing desert clothes, but he had black hair and black eyes. At first glance, it is from a foreign land.

The towering Mount Kilimaro gradually comes into view. The top of the mountain is covered with snow, and the sky is clear at a glance. As the galloping horse's hooves became clearer in the distance, the ridge on the side of Mount Kilimaro seemed to have been cut vertically by a sword, creating a straight gorge in the sky, and at the mouth of the gorge lay a tall and solid city wall, reconnecting the severed peaks.

Running close to see the whole picture of the city wall completely, the spectacular and solid shocked Dole's eyes, the city wall built by the boulder is about ten zhang high, and the solid seems to be indestructible, the black flag flutters in the sky and looks at the two ends, and the peaks on both sides are like a thousand blades of cliffs straight into the sky. The grandeur of this wall alone is not weaker than that of the 'City of Fire'.

'Gados City' is the capital of the desert empire, and the headquarters of the Demon Sect Samiya.

The city wall is full of desert soldiers guarding the city, the same is true on both sides of the city gate, the security is tight, it is clearly visible that the pedestrians and merchants are constantly being checked, looking at this situation, Doer is a little hesitant and hesitant, this is completely different from the appearance of the desert people, entering the city must be interrogated, the check is not afraid, anyway, you and I can't understand what I say, I can't fool it, it's a big deal to enter the city, and then think about it.

I'm afraid that the body-searching horcrux is in the package, and the elf can be in the wanted list of the Desert Empire, once it is searched, it will be a big trouble. The elf can't keep it, not to mention, it is estimated that he will be put in prison even if he is in prison, if it is really such a vast desert without relatives, then it is really crying and no one responds. The head kept spinning. I don't know if the set of bribing the soldiers defending the city with a big ingot of silver in the 'City of Fire' is effective in this desert empire, and then I looked up at the cliffs on both sides, and it is a good way to climb over the mountain peaks and enter the city, not to mention how to come down when it is difficult to climb up? Is it possible to fly down the steep, almost vertical cliff?

Looking at this foreign boy who was standing still, the eyes cast by the passers-by became more and more curious and even weird, and he couldn't delay like this any longer, Dole gritted his teeth and went over to see it first, and then he couldn't fool it, and it was a big deal to say 'run'. took out a piece of clothing from the package and wrapped it around his head, revealing only a pair of small grunting eyes, and there were many people wearing cloaks and veils in the desert wind and sand, which was not strange.

As soon as he took a few steps with the horse, a group of camel caravans passed slowly behind him, more than 20 camels passed in turn, and more than a dozen pedestrians in front of him sitting in desert costumes were all wearing cloaks, and one of them was a woman whose back alone was enough to make people linger and forget. Dole is also a human and a half-grown man, so he naturally took a few more glances at the back, and looked at it in a trance and felt that the back was familiar.

In a trance, the camel team has completely passed by, and the back horses are all carrying bags such as parcel boxes, and there are no people sitting in two or three staggered rows, and after a trance, looking at the big belly under the camel's huge body, a notice flashed in his mind. Shake off the horse rope in his hand, run lightly to the back of the camel team's buttocks, swish to the belly of the middle one, grasp the long hairy legs with both hands and turn up, the whole person lies on his back under the camel's belly.

There was an inexplicable burden under the stomach, and the camel that was lying on his stomach snorted a few times, and then continued to walk in the camel caravan, as if this thing was not very powerful and had an extra box.

Walking to the gate of the city, the soldiers guarding the gate of such a large camel caravan naturally wanted to go up to investigate, a dish of official documents stretched out from a hand under the cloak, the soldier caught it and looked at it a few times, and then respectfully beckoned the other soldiers to dodge aside, as if this group of people was some kind of noble person. More than twenty camels crowded into the city gates, and Dore, who was lying under the belly of the camel, was not even found, so he mixed with the camel caravan into the city of 'Gados'.

After lying on his stomach for a while, Dole tilted his head to look out, the city gate was no longer in sight, his feet fell lightly to the ground, let go of his hand and squeaked out of the camel caravan, and at the moment when Dole ran out, the woman with the cloak on the camel that covered her face glanced back inexplicably, and through the light silk scarf, a seemingly familiar figure flashed from her eyes, and her forehead not only frowned slightly.

Pedestrians saw a dry boy slipping out from under the hooves of a group of camels, and they looked at each other with curiosity and bewilderment. Dole couldn't care about any of that now, and looked around with the same curiosity to see what was different about this big exotic city.

Sure enough, it is completely different from the five great powers of the Black Dragon, the buildings on both sides of the city under the cover of the cliff are not the houses with flying eaves and corners, all of them are towering buildings with spires, there are no carved railings and flower beams, only arched wooden windows and boulder beams, and the familiar courtyard is not visible. There is no dazzling array of the city of fire, nor the willow fireworks of Sami City, but only the stalls set up on the side of the street, which is neither the prosperity of the five major cities nor the feeling of twilight.

The feeling of standing outside the city wall suddenly plummeted at this moment, and sure enough, as Luo Ying said, the prosperity of the five great countries is far from being comparable to the desert empire, and the first thing to do when entering the city is to find a place to settle down, but looking at the almost a similar building, the crooked words on the signboard of the store that occasionally open the door are not recognized, and after walking for a while, there is not a shop full of tables, and in Dole's impression, the one with a table must be a tavern or something.

'Grandma, don't all the people in this city eat or sleep?' Dole muttered and cursed in his heart, and continued to walk down the street, and as he walked, he suddenly noticed a phenomenon, the pedestrians seemed to be walking in the same direction, and there were few pauses in the middle, and the more pedestrians gathered behind them, almost to the point of passing by.

Dole walked aimlessly down the street and unconsciously followed the flow of people, and came to a cross street, a huge palace-like building towered in the middle of the cross street, and the pointed roof of the square building built up of huge stones reached into the sky, not a roof, and four pointed roofs were born at the four corners of the top of the wall, like the stars and the moon around the main roof in the middle, which was much lower than the main roof. The magnificence of this building is only surpassed by the tall walls, and the thousand-edged cliffs on both sides of the city are in perfect harmony.

The high main roof is topped by a large oak relief, a relief of heads, the head of a black fang, facing the mouth of the avenue that extends from the city gate. This head has been seen more than once, and the face that usually looks extremely terrifying looks more like a totem shape at the moment after being processed by the carver.

Isn't that the head of a demon! Dole muttered again, and the terrifying and strange shadow that bred in the 'Strait of Death' could not be erased from the bottom of his heart, and goosebumps involuntarily broke out all over his body. Seeing the huge building rushing forward, as if walking towards the temple, the already tall, stout and dry bodies of the desert people crowded into the crowd like a mess of minced meat, and their bodies were almost carried forward by the people in front and behind.

Stepping up the high steps and walking through the high gate, the crowded flow of people became orderly, and one by one they continued to walk quietly with their heads buried in front and back, and Dole didn't know what the situation was, so he had to pretend to be respectful and bury his head and follow the person in front of him. Walking on the smooth and translucent stone slab, Doll couldn't hide his curiosity and quietly glanced up, and was suddenly dumbfounded at a glance.

What a huge hall this is, it is the first time in my life to see such a large house, what royal palace hall is a drop in the bucket compared to this hall, not worth mentioning, but this huge hall is so empty that it is almost empty, only the bright floor is neatly spread with small black blankets, so small that it can only accommodate knees.

The person who walked in silently walked to the black carpet on the floor and then knelt on it, kneeling in turn from front to back still with his head bowed, and Dol had to do the same, and when the rustling footsteps disappeared completely, Dol secretly looked around, and there were at least three or four thousand kneeling people in the empty hall, all in one posture, all consciously. (To be continued......)