Jiao Qi is an orphan, he has grown up alone in this small desert city like a cat and a puppy since he can remember. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

No one ever told him how he got here, who his father and mother were, where they went, and why they abandoned him here. He lived here for nine years, trembling and careful.

It's nominally a small city, but it's just a place near the edge of the desert and full of ruins of an ancient city. But don't look at this shabby place as inconspicuous, it has a domineering name that doesn't match it - [Pingsha City].

The name of [Pingsha City] is not made up casually by some middle two teenagers, people have called this place since ancient times. It is rumored that [Pingsha City] was a first-class city on the mainland many years ago, and it was built to guard the murderous monsters in the desert and protect the peace of the party. It also had a glorious and prosperous history, and these rumors are now only reduced to the jokes of the past sand diggers - "What bullshit [Pingsha City], I haven't seen the city, but the sand is everywhere, I think it's almost the same as the poor sand city." ”

Despite the jokes made by the sand diggers, it is not uncommon to see bricks and tiles in the half-buried sand around Pingsha City, and the ruins are quite old, so it seems that those rumors are not entirely credible. In addition, from time to time, there are Taosha people who recover one or two priceless treasures from the desert, and [Pingsha City] also has its own unique popularity. Of course, most of these popularity comes from gamblers who are desperate for their lives.

Since [Pingsha City] is on the only way to enter and exit the desert, it is the closest foothold to the desert, almost all pedestrians and passers-by will resupply and repair here, and then set off on the road the next day. Therefore, there are still a few inns and hotels in the city, which can be regarded as a relatively prosperous industry in [Pingsha City].

In addition, there are also people who set up stalls on the roadside and some small traders and hawkers who resell goods, selling some old objects that are claimed to be picked up from the depths of the desert, which is also a major feature of [Pingsha City].

Although everyone doesn't say it, in fact, everyone knows it very well, and all the things sold here are worthless, specially used to deceive those wrongdoers who have no eyesight. You must know that there are first-class connoisseurs in this city, not to mention anything else, even these vendors who set up stalls, under the influence of [Pingsha City] for many years, their eyesight has become extremely vicious. Where else will there be any treasures in these stalls, and the really valuable things have long been taken away.

However, everything is not absolute, it is said that a while ago, a team of sand diggers went deep into the desert for several months, and finally only one old man picked up a life and came back, and the rest of the people were all buried deep in the yellow sand. As soon as he returned to [Pingsha City], people gathered around him, wanting to see what kind of rare treasures he had obtained in exchange for so many lives, but he didn't expect that he didn't find any good things, and only brought back an inconspicuous pitch-black spar from the desert, and no one cared about it after setting up a stall for a few days. Who knows that this old man doesn't know what **** luck he has taken, and this spar was finally taken away by a mysterious person at a sky-high price of 10,000 taels of gold!

Since that day, no one has seen the old man in [Pingsha City], and I don't know if he really left this barren land forever with ten thousand taels of gold as he wished, and enjoyed his old age in glory and wealth ever since, or whether he has been secretly robbed and killed and abandoned in the wilderness. After all, this is [Pingsha City], and the puppet is not guilty.

[Pingsha City] is located in the southernmost part of the mainland, it is located in a remote area, poor and backward, surrounded by only boundless yellow sand, a desolate, no grass. In such an environment, everyone is struggling to maintain their lowest level of life. And when people can't guarantee even the most basic survival, the moral law and anything else naturally don't have any binding force on them. Fighting and killing are common in [Pingsha City], which also makes there are many orphans like Jiao Qi in the city. Most of these orphans who can't find a means of livelihood go to beggars, but how many well-meaning rich people in this [Pingsha City] are not enough for these beggars to live by begging, so they actually mainly do some petty theft on weekdays.

Jiao Qi, who is also an orphan, didn't know what kind of good things he had done in his previous life, but he met a noble person like Boss Ding of the Chengbei Road Inn, and gave him a job of picking grain and grass to feed the livestock.

Jiao Qi is helpless and not good at words. In fact, his nature is not wooden, but because he has been bullied by beggars since he was a child, coupled with his inferiority complex and loneliness without the love of his parents, he has become the appearance of being a man of few words. However, although he is clumsy, he is honest and diligent in his work, and he is quite loved by Boss Ding. The name of his Jiao Qi was also given to him by Boss Ding, because of his dark complexion, and it is said that he is the seventh guy hired by Boss Ding. Jiao Qi was very happy at first, and he finally had a name. But when he grew up, he didn't think the name was particularly good, because it sounded exactly the same as his wife.

On this day, Jiao Qi got up early as usual, preparing to go to the south of the city to pick up some grain and grass to feed the livestock. This is his daily routine, which is usually done in an hour or two when he is not busy. At this time, Jiao Qi would go around the city, look at the fakes sold by roadside merchants, go to the city gate to see the notices wanted, and listen to all kinds of bragging, and the life is relatively leisurely and casual.

In fact, Jiao Qi has always wanted to go to the front hall to greet guests like those little boys, although he must have broken his legs after running around like this, and his work of picking up grain and grass to feed the livestock was much heavier. However, if he is lucky one day, the guest may give him more money. He wanted to make more money, because he had heard that there were martial arts halls in the towns north that taught people kung fu and were recruiting apprentices. He decided that when he had saved enough money, he would go to the real big city to find a master to learn some physical skills, so that he would no longer be bullied by those hateful beggars as before.

But [Pingsha City] is not only a place where people dream of soaring in the sand, this desolate and chaotic environment is also the first choice for all fleeing outlaws, and none of the people who can open an inn restaurant here hire some shrewd and clever guys. This is also where Jiao Qi is quite helpless, he himself knows that he is not only not articulate, he is simply a fool, and he doesn't know how to please people at all. If every guy in the Passage Inn is like him, I'm afraid the store will be destroyed within two days of opening. So being a junior is just a luxury for him, and he still has to honestly pick up his grain, grass and firewood.

On the way to the south of the city, Jiao Qi found an unusually strange person, he was so strange that even Jiao Qi could see it at a glance. Because he was carrying a huge gourd on his back, and the gourd was covered with a layer of mud that looked like dried up, and it was crumpled, and he didn't know what was in the gourd. What's even more peculiar is that this person's eyes are slightly closed, his walking is a little unsteady, crooked, and his mouth is muttering something that he still mutters, as if he was drunk early in the morning!

Jiao Qi curiously followed behind this "gourd man", wanting to see what was going on.

In fact, not only Jiao Qi, but many people along the way found this rickety and strange man, of course, including the beggar who couldn't hold back next to him. The beggars usually have to take advantage of the opportunity in a roundabout way, racking their brains to make a "deal". Today, such a big fish was personally delivered to the door, of course, there is no reason to let it go. So in this situation, I saw a beggar moving left and right in the crowd, and in two or three clicks, he ran to the side of the "gourd man". The beggar glanced back at Jiao Qi, who was walking behind, and then reached out to fish for something in the arms of the "gourd man", and saw that a dark red stone was about to be fished out of the arms of the "gourd man" by the beggar!

Jiao Qi wanted to remind the "gourd man", but he didn't know what to say. In a hurry, Jiao Qi stepped forward, slapped a slap on the gourd covered in mud, and shouted loudly, "Hey!" Maybe it's because Jiao Qi's heart is too nervous, the strength of this slap is not well controlled, and the force is too strong, and the mud scab of the gourd has been cracked.

It stands to reason that Jiao Qi should definitely not be brave enough to do such a thing. He's just a young guy who barely eats at the Passage Inn, he has been thin since he was a child, and he doesn't know anything about kung fu. But his character is surprisingly stubborn, he refused to be a beggar because of his reluctance, and almost starved to death on the street, only to be discovered by Boss Ding of the Passage Inn and taken in. Coupled with the fact that he has been bullied by these beggars since he was a child, he naturally has no good impression of the beggars. Of course, Jiao Qi also knew that if he had the courage of this moment, he would definitely not be able to escape the beating of the beggars when he turned back.

Sure enough, when the beggar heard the movement behind him, he suddenly turned his head and found that it was Jiao Qi, the bastard, who was meddling with rats again. The beggar gritted his teeth, glanced at Jiao Qi viciously, and then prepared to stop and quickly leave. But who knew that the "gourd man" still didn't react at all in such a situation, and the two of them were stunned for a moment at the same time. The beggar was overjoyed, and with a smile on his face, he took the red stone into his arms, and after two or three strokes, it blended into the crowd again and disappeared. Jiao Qi was dumbfounded, he never thought that it would be such a result in the end, so he could only sigh helplessly, then glanced at the "gourd man" again, and walked away silently, leaving only the "gourd man" to continue to staggering forward. Jiao Qi didn't see it, when his hand slapped on the gourd, the mud scab outside the gourd shattered a little. From the small gap in the crack, the color of the gourd inside was revealed, which was somewhat similar to the red stone.

Although what happened early in the morning made Jiao Qi depressed, he still had the courage to pick up grain and grass and feed the livestock. While working, Jiao Qi thought that the suffering of the flesh and skin he would suffer was really meaningless, and at the same time he was complaining about the "gourd man", he had never seen such an unreliable person.

The day passed quickly, but Jiao Qi returned to the firewood room where he lived, but he didn't feel sleepy. On weekdays, whenever Jiao Qi offended those beggars, they always found him quickly, humiliated and beat him severely. But nothing has happened until now today, which makes Jiao Qi's heart feel a little uneasy.

Jiao Qi has been lying in the firewood room with his eyes open in a worried mood. This firewood room is also the residence that Boss Ding gave to Jiao Qi, and there are some firewood for cooking, feed for livestock and some sundries, as well as a small bed for Jiao Qi to sleep and rest. Although the environment here is shabby, for Jiao Qi, it is enough to have a place to shelter from the wind and rain.

Just when Jiao Qi's eyelids began to fight, he couldn't hold it anymore, and he was about to fall asleep, a muffled sound of "bang" suddenly woke up Jiao Qi, as if something had smashed on the door of the firewood room. For some reason, Jiao Qi felt a sense of peace of mind. "It's finally here", Jiao Qi thought to himself as he got up and opened the door to meet the punishment that came from his impulsiveness this morning. Jiao Qi opened the door, but to his surprise, there was no one outside the door. He looked around carefully, and couldn't help glaring, the thing that had been smashed into the firewood room was lying not far from his feet, it was the dark red stone that the beggar had stolen from the arms of the "gourd man" this morning!

At the same time that Jiao Qi was confused, in the desert a few miles away from [Pingsha City], a man with a gourd on his back was faintly seen in the boundless darkness, and it was the "gourd man" that Jiao Qi saw in the city in the morning. But at this time he did not look drunk at all, and was carrying a dead ant, and carefully examined its chelicerae, which was really amazingly large, and was half the size of a man.

"Looks right, that thing should be around here. The man whispered to himself.

As the man spoke, there was a rustling sound in the surrounding sand. Trails of sand were moving towards him all around him, as if something was digging tunnels under the sand to move towards him. The man threw the ant's corpse casually, and the mud scab on the surface of the gourd behind his back was instantly shattered, and the gourd broke away from the man's back on its own and rose into the air. Then the gourd shimmered dark red and fell into the sand in front of the man's eyes, and the surrounding sand also exploded, and more than a dozen ants the same size as the man had just seen jumped out of it, holding their foreheads and making a "squeaking" sound at him. The gourd glowed red, spewing countless fireballs like a volcano in all directions, and the dozen or so ants were all burned to ashes in an instant. But the man soon noticed that more ants were constantly jumping out from under the sand around him, surrounding him, and several huge sand dunes in the distance were also moving rapidly towards him, and he could faintly see a black giant palate in the wriggling sand dunes - in the sand dunes were giant ants dozens of times larger than the previous ants!

"Hey, it's so troublesome. ”

The man frowned and was also very decisive, grabbed a nearby ant, pressed its head with both hands and twisted it, "click", crisply and neatly, and directly twisted its head off. The gourd flew up from the sand, and the man jumped on the gourd with the ant's corpse and flew into the air, leaving an ant with its huge palate standing up and hissing incessantly at his departing figure.