The man who lived on the edge of the desert was weathered and generally old, and the lame man was dressed in tatters and had ash on his face, so it was impossible to judge his exact age, but only to roughly estimate that he was between forty or fifty years old.

Zuo Dengfeng has a good impression of the crippled, and he also has a good impression of the person with messy hair and a long beard, and this good impression comes from Cui Cripple, who once gave him herbs, and his own appearance.

"Cripple, you really know where that serpent is." Feng Si frowned and looked at the middle-aged man who limped in.

"I once saw a monster, but it was too dark for me to see what it looked like." The cripple looked back at the crowd, and Zuo Dengfeng followed his line of sight to find a little girl at the edge of the crowd, who was the thief he had met the other night.

"I didn't see you wanting to get the bounty, this just died." Feng Si stretched out his hand and pointed to the corpse lying on the ground.

"That monster can swallow camels." The cripple did not show a look of fear, but frequently looked back at the little girl at the edge of the crowd, who was supposed to be his daughter.

"Stand aside and we'll talk about it later." Zuo Dengfeng raised his hand to interrupt the cripple's words, if this person was not lying, then what he said was very likely to be the main man, ordinary camels are two meters tall, even if their limbs are curled up and crouched, they are more than one meter, and the monsters that can swallow them must be extremely huge.

"Who else knows that the weird things that happen in the desert have to be big things, don't talk about trivial things." Zuo Dengfeng looked around and spoke again.

"I haven't seen a giant snake, but I've seen a big scorpion, bigger than a camel." An old man on crutches walked out, and people on the edge of the desert usually describe the size of other animals by referring to livestock.

"Stand aside and we'll talk about it later." Zuo Dengfeng nodded, the Yin Fire Snake is the main master, and it also has a poison associated with it, what is this poison Zuo Dengfeng did not ask Thirteen.

"I once saw a dead horse snake in the desert, and it was several years long when it was dry." This time it was also a middle-aged man who spoke.

"You stand aside, too." Zuo Dengfeng nodded and spoke.

"There are human-like monsters in the desert." A woman spoke loudly.

Zuo Dengfeng heard the words and found the woman talking in the crowd, this person was about thirty years old, very tall, wearing a faded sheepskin shoulder, carrying a long knife with a wooden handle similar to the katana, with a circle of red tasseled flying knives hanging around his waist, the muscles on his arms were fully displayed, and his appearance could have been regarded as medium to upper, but there was a long scar on his face from the left eyebrow to the right cheek.

Although the woman spoke without a head, it did not mean that she did not know in detail, but that the person did not want to say too much in front of others.

Zuo Dengfeng nodded at him, and instead stretched out his hand and pointed to the bottom of the bell tower, and the woman quickly left the crowd and stood out.

After that, no one spoke for a long time, and waited until nightfall, Zuo Dengfeng waved his hand to disperse Feng Si and the others, and returned to the restaurant with the four of them.

Sister Hua didn't sell all the food, but quickly lit a fire and cleaned up the banquet for the five people.

These four people are all guides, and here the guides are also synonymous with bodyguards, responsible for protecting the safety of caravans, explorers, and treasure hunters, who go in and out of the desert all year round, and will inevitably encounter some strange things after a long time.

"Don't be nervous, tell me what you know." Zuo Dengfeng said with a teacup in his hand and said with a smile, most of these people were crowded at the other end of the table, only the scarred woman was sitting on the right side of Zuo Dengfeng with a big grin.

After Zuo Dengfeng finished speaking, the four of them glanced at each other, but none of them spoke first.

"You speak first." Zuo Dengfeng stretched out his hand and pointed at the oldest person.

"Thirty years ago, I was protecting a caravan westward, and I was resting in the dead woods at night, and in the middle of the night I heard something wrong with the cry of a camel, so I got up to check, and found a huge black scorpion dragging a camel to the dead woods to the north, and the scorpion was so big that it was dragging the camel back quickly." The old man recalled.

"What that scorpion looks like, remember it well." Zuo Dengfeng nodded his hair and asked.

"There was a moon that night, it wasn't very dark, the scorpion might be black, two big pincers with pimples on it, the eyes were about the same size as a bull's eye, and they were glowing blue, and the tail of the general sand scorpion was hooked, and its tail was not hooked up, and I don't know if it had no tail or what the ground." The old man coughed nervously.

"When it dragged the camel away, the camel didn't bark." Zuo Dengfeng asked.

"It's called, but it's not loud." The old man shook his head and said.

Zuo Dengfeng nodded when he heard this, he wanted to determine whether the scorpion was poisonous or not, and the weakening of the camel's cry meant that the scorpion was poisonous.

"Who else has seen it?" Zuo Dengfeng pondered for a moment and asked again.

"There's still a handful of hair, but a handful of hairs sent to the caravan ten years ago and never came back, and what I said is true." The old man was afraid that Zuo Dengfeng would misunderstand him, so he hurriedly spoke to emphasize.

"What the camel said is true, the dead forest is evil, and we all walk around it when we pass by the dead forest." Scar interjected.

At this time, Sister Hua had already started to serve the food, Zuo Dengfeng pointed to Sister Hua on the plate, and then pointed to the little girl standing outside the door, Sister Hua understood, picked up a leg of mutton and gave it to her.

"Thank you, thank you." When the lame man saw that Zuo Dengfeng gave his daughter food, he hurriedly thanked him.

"Which of you can draw." Zuo Dengfeng waved his hand at the lame man, and asked in a different way.

"A man's wife paints a good picture." The lame man stretched out his hand and pointed at the scar girl beside Zuo Dengfeng.

Zuo Dengfeng nodded when he heard this, took out a pen and paper from his bosom and handed it to Scar Girl, "Help me draw the general shape of Lop Nur, and then mark the location of the dead woods." ”

The scar girl was pinching a leg of mutton and wanted to nibble on it at the moment, seeing this, she took the pen and paper in Zuo Dengfeng's hand, grabbed the leg of mutton with one hand, and quickly drew a topographic map on the paper with the other.

"What else do you know?" Zuo Dengfeng asked the old man again.

The old man shook his head.

Zuo Dengfeng smiled and nodded, stretched out his finger and pointed to the plate, motioning for him to eat something first.

"Where did you find the horse snake?" Zuo Dengfeng turned his head to look at the middle-aged man next to the old man, the horse snake is a common name for a four-legged snake, referring to a large lizard.

"Dead Sea Child." The middle-aged man hurriedly replied, although this person was five big and three thick, but he was not very bold and spoke bluntly.

"Where's the Dead Sea?" Zuo Dengfeng rushed to the scar girl next to him and asked, why do the place names in the Lop Nur area have a dead word.

"The Dead Forest is in the north, and the Dead Sea is in the south, which was a fork in Tarim back then, but now it is dry, and you will know when I draw it." The Scar Girl shook the leg of lamb in her left hand.

"Go on." Zuo Dengfeng raised his hand at the middle-aged man.

"We generally don't go to the Dead Sea, that day when the wind was hanging in the west, the boss was in a hurry to deliver the goods, so he urged the camel team to go against the wind, and then lost his way to the Dead Sea, in the sand of the Dead Sea, we found a three-ton long and short horse snake, dead, all dry, and the sand of the same color, this old Wang Ba also knows, at that time he was still working, don't believe you ask him." The middle-aged man stretched out his hand and pointed to the restaurant owner who was drinking next to the wine tank.

"What do you mean by hanging Xi'er?" Zuo Dengfeng frowned and asked.

"It's evening." Scar Girl explained.

"What do you mean by walking?" Zuo Dengfeng asked again.

"This doesn't need to be asked, it's just working with the caravan." Scar replied casually.

"Don't talk to me in the future, don't say your nickname, I sound awkward, what is the difference between the lizard you found and the ordinary lizard." Zuo Dengfeng frowned and asked again.

"It's big, it's five or six meters away, it has fangs, and its legs are longer than ordinary horses and snakes. The middle-aged man recalled.

"And there's more." Zuo Dengfeng asked again.

"Nope." The middle-aged man shook his head and said.

Zuo Dengfeng nodded when he heard this, it is not strange to say that a lizard five or six meters long is strange, ordinary lizards may grow so big when they live for a long time, but ordinary lizards have no teeth, and this one with teeth is strange.

"Well, the dead woods that the camel said are in this direction, and the dead sea that the urine bubble said is here." The scar girl quickly drew the map, handed it to Zuo Dengfeng and pointed to him to explain, the map is very simple, based on the center of Lop Nur Lake, and found that the dead forest of the giant scorpion is in the west of Lop Nur, and the dead sea is in the south of Lop Nur, and the scar girl represents the Lop Nur area with a circle, the ancient city of Loulan is on the southwest edge of this circle, and the Dead Sea is between the ancient city of Loulan and the ancient city of Milan in the south, and has been out of the Lop Nur area.

"One for each person." Zuo Dengfeng took out a golden ticket and the silver ticket given by Feng Si from his arms, he had promised to give a hundred taels of gold if he provided clues, although the clues provided by these two people may not be useful, but they must be done.

The two glanced at each other, cowardly and did not dare to accept it, Zuo Dengfeng raised his eyebrows slightly, and the two hurriedly reached out to take it.

"Let's go, you can leave tomorrow morning." Zuo Dengfeng waved his hand at the two.

The two quickly hid the gold and silver tickets, and went with a thousand thanks.

"Eat something first, and we'll talk about it later." Zuo Dengfeng pointed to the lame man on the table with a few plates of meat, and he picked up the noodles that Sister Hua specially made for him.

When the lame man heard this, he looked back at the little girl standing at the door, Zuo Dengfeng waved at him when he saw this, called the little girl, and ate at the same table.

"If you give them so much money if you say something useless, then the two of us won't lose money." Scar Girl pouted.

"It's okay, I'll give you more then." Zuo Dengfeng said with a smile, if this scar girl is not disfigured, she can be regarded as a beauty, but her surname is the same as that of a man, she is very arrogant, and she is a little bit of a tiger.

Hearing this, the scar girl frowned at Zuo Dengfeng, and Zuo Dengfeng frowned when he saw this, completely unable to understand whether this guy was a second tiger or a second tiger.

Zuo Dengfeng ate a bowl of noodles for half an hour, in order to feed the lame man and his daughter, as for the second tiger, he had already held on to hiccups.

After the meal, the two began to tell that the long monster that the cripple found suddenly jumped up under the sand, and he didn't see if it was a snake when it was dark, but he must not be wrong, the location was near the dead woods, and the hairless ape-like strange man found by the scar girl was also near the dead woods.

Three of the clues provided by the four of them pointed to the Dead Forest, which made Zuo Dengfeng frown, because the area where the Dead Forest was located was precisely the middle of the endless desert