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On the other side of the sea, where the desert meets the sea.

Since Shao Xuan disappeared on the coast, after Sapphire solved some of the Golden Armor Guards, he took the team to the beach every day to see if Shao Xuan had returned.

This is a bitter pain for the people of Heavenly Wheel City, which is closest to there. The patrol team encountered the beetle army several times, and each time they saw the black wave, they flew away. After getting along for a long time, everyone in Tianlun City knows that those insects eat meat, don't you run and stay and wait to be gnawed?

As the days passed, Sapphire also felt that Shao Xuan was getting farther and farther away from here. Because of the frequent appearance of insect tides, few people have come to this coast, and even the wild beasts in the desert have rarely appeared, avoiding this group of black waves.

Food is scarce, and the sea can't go, Sapphire can only take the beetle army to other places temporarily, and when he senses Shao Xuan's return, he will come here to greet him.

The desert has been swept away by the flames of war, and the first city to be broken is White Rock City, followed by other cities. The ownerless slaves fled to other places in order to avoid the fate of being killed, and the desert was so big that the slave owners were busy waging war and would not spend too much energy to recover those slaves. For the slave owners, the slaves were too cheap to be worth the large number of men.

The big blue beetle is foraging for food with an army of beetles, and more and more beetles are joining this team. At some point, there are fewer and fewer beetles living in the animal pen, their recipes are changing, and these beetles are also changing.

The battlefield after the battle is over is a great place. They continue to act as scavengers for the entire desert. Wipe out the remnants of the battlefield, leaving only skeletons and other unusable utensils.

In the past, they mostly lived in animal pens and acted as cleaners of animal pens, but now, they act as cleaners of the entire desert.

As a beetle that has been putting balls since childhood, Sapphire has grown a lot bigger now. The recipe has also changed, but the habit is still there, and after each sweep of the battlefield, it will collect some things from the battlefield, wrap them into a big ball, and push them to play. Running around with an army of beetles while pushing the ball. Except when it sleeps in the ground, the rest of the time it is outside the sand.

If it weren't for the fact that many people ran away as soon as they saw this beetle, you could still see this group of insects after sweeping the battlefield, and the leading blue beetle pushed a big ball to roll on the sand. And behind the blue beetle who pushes the ball with two long legs upside down. A large area of small black beetles followed closely as onlookers.

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A group of slaves who had fled the city from the fighting between slave owners walked in groups on the desert, with only a few pieces of rags hanging from their bodies, covered in stains and wounds.

Half of them were the lowest-ranking slaves in the city, and they had not yet confessed their masters, so they did not receive any strength from their masters. The chances of such a tourist-like slave surviving in the desert are almost nil. Fortunately, there are still half of the slaves in the team who have recognized their masters, which may not be very strong, but at least they can ease the dilemma and capture some small desert beasts to satisfy their hunger.

This group of slaves has a certain blood relationship with each other, has been slaves for generations, and is also familiar with each other. It's still united, otherwise it would be impossible to escape en masse.

From the moment they fled the city, it was impossible for them to go back, there was still a glimmer of life outside, but if they went back. Ironclad will be killed by the slave owner. They don't want to be cannon fodder on the battlefield, they don't want to be killed by slave owners, they just want to survive.

There were men and women, old men and children, and although they were not sick and weak, they would become weak after a long time in the desert.

They settled in a long-abandoned place, a small garrison that might have been built by some slave owner, with no roof and only ruins. It is also enough for those who have fled.

There may have been many slaves who had escaped before them, but in the end, for some unknown reason, those slaves turned into white bones.

To their surprise, there was also a small pond that once seemed to be an oasis, but then the underground pond shrunk and the water became turbid, and it was abandoned.

Even the muddy water was a precious thing to the fleeing slaves, and it kept them alive.

For some time when they first arrived, they were afraid to see the slave owners' army, but gradually their worries were put down, and they saw nothing but the occasional fierce desert beast passing by.

One day, the sun was in the sky, and the sun scorched the earth.

The people of the wasteland leaned against the wall, resting in the shadows with their eyes closed.

Suddenly, a swarthy man with a stone spear opened his eyes suddenly, got up and jumped up the broken wall, and looked in one direction.

Seeing this, the others also rose vigilantly, picked up all kinds of rough tools, and looked in that direction.

In the distance, a procession approached, the army of the slave owners, and the sand and dust were flying from the running of the beasts, and although they were still far away, the refugees could already smell the blood.

Wherever the armies of the slave owners passed, all the slaves who fled were slaughtered, regardless of the city.

The man standing on the broken wall looked at that side with a fierce look in his eyes, his lean body was tense, and on the back of his hand holding the spear, the meridians were beating suddenly. He looked like a wolf in a desperate situation, but still unwilling to back down.

As soon as his legs tightened, he lowered his head, and his youngest son, who was less than five years old, was holding his legs with panic in his eyes.

"Don't be afraid, go back. The man said.

A woman came and picked up the child and gathered it with the others.

When encountering the slave owner's army, he had no choice but to flee. After the young ones had some ability to stay, the others packed up their things and prepared to hurry up and leave.

The ranks of the slave owners are getting closer and closer, and they also see the signs of slave activities in the abandoned land, and the leader of the team roars, and the team accelerates forward, and all the criminal slaves encountered outside will be killed!

Booming like thunder rolling closer, the air seemed to be filled with killing and evil aura.

The sound of roaring is getting closer. On the other hand, the people who left the wasteland did not go far, and their speed was too slow compared to the slave owners' armies.

The hoarse voice of the man standing on the broken wall sounded, intending to greet this group of slaughterers in the desert, but. Soon he found that the team that was rushing towards this side with murderous energy suddenly slowed down as if they had stepped on the brakes, and in the team, the people who were running behind did not have time to stop, and directly crashed into the people in front, dazed for some reason.

The procession of slave owners stopped, did not go any further, and stood on the cliff of the abandoned land, and the people looked at each other. Seeing the confusion in each other's eyes, they couldn't figure out what was going on.

However, when they spotted the sight of the cycling team and looked behind them, they were shocked to see a scene that they will never forget.

A pointed sand dune appeared in the air, and above the dune, something that looked like a bug was pushing a large round ball. Go to the top of the hill.

They had been here for days and had never seen anything like it. It was as if the sand dunes had suddenly appeared in mid-air, and they were shocked by a miracle.

The slaves who fled here didn't know what the pusher was, but the slave owner's team knew very well that in the desert, as long as they encountered that group of black bugs, there were two choices: first. Stay and die, and second, run!

The leader chose the second one, who cared more about their lives than those lowly ant-like fugitive slaves. Pulling the reins vigorously, the leader of the group took control of the biker. Turn away.

The team that rushed to the scene counted the time and turned around again.

The fugitives who had not been far from the abandoned site watched the miracle in the air, and one of the elderly people immediately bowed down excitedly, and the others also bowed down. They felt that it was a miracle that had saved them. But what did the miracle show just now? the dunes? and the putting?

For some time after that, they did not see the slave owner's team come again.

After a while, the people who stayed in the wasteland really saw the army of black beetles that appeared like a wave. The most conspicuous thing is the big blue beetle that rolls with a ball on the head.

As soon as they saw such a wave of insects, the people in the wasteland were so frightened that their faces turned gray, and in the face of the slave owner's team, they could still have a ruthless strength to fight, but they really didn't know what to do in the face of such a wave of insects.

Fight? How to fight? It seems impossible to escape, right? There is already a dense circle around!

On the contrary, an elderly man in the abandoned area was extremely excited, seeing the big blue beetle pushing the ball, scooping up a beast that his son had just caught, and heading straight for the insect tide, the others did not react at all, and they did not have time to hold back.

Seeing the man dragging food and running towards the insect tide as if committing suicide, everyone else was stunned.

Sapphire has been here once. Why were there so few beasts in this wasteland before? Wherever the insect tide sweeps the place, there will be no other fierce beasts to hang around in the short term. This is the main reason why these refugees were able to spend those few days in peace.

When Sapphire saw a person coming towards him, he wanted to cut it with a claw, but when the other party was more than ten meters away, he knelt down directly, knelt down and moved to it, and threw the small beast in his hand to it.

The sapphire didn't move, and the other beetles wouldn't move easily, even if they wanted to nibble on the piece of meat.

Walking over slowly, he looked at the beast thrown on the ground, and with a sapphire claw, he threw the meat to his little brother, which he still didn't look down on.

The beast that was thrown into the pile of insects was instantly overwhelmed by the rush of insects, and the blood of the people in the abandoned land seemed to be frozen, like falling into an ice cave.

After throwing away the beast, Sapphire looked at the person who was kneeling in front of him, well, there was no aggression, no murderous aura, and after careful distinction, Sapphire came to a conclusion - it was not delicious!

At this time, Sapphire noticed that there seemed to be another war in the distance, and he couldn't care about the people here, so he beckoned the other beetles to rush over to the battlefield, without even bringing the ball that rolled over. If you slow down, the food left behind after the war will be robbed by other animals!

The insect tide departed in a mighty way, and not long after, all that was left was a barren sandy area and a skeleton that had gnawed at no flesh. It was the beast that had just been thrown over.

No, there was a large ball that was much taller than a human being, and it was pushed by the big blue beetle just now.

After the people of the abandoned land made sure that the insect tide had gone, the blood that seemed to freeze melted down, and the young man ran over and picked up the old man who was still kneeling on the ground.

And when they got up and looked at the big ball, they found that there were a lot of good things in the big ball!

Swords, axes, spears, animal armor, and other bones, branches, large and small pieces of cloth, and so on.

When the elder saw this, he burst into tears and knelt on the ground again. He felt that this was the reward left to them by the big blue beetle.

They got better weapons from the ball, fur, armor and clothing to protect themselves, and twigs, bones, and cloth to build a roof to protect them from the wind and the sun.

The elders used a stone knife to carve a painting on the highest wall of the abandoned land where they had settled, and worshiped every day.

On the painting, the beetle has been standing upside down, and above the beetle is a round ball. (To be continued......)