Han Ling'er saw the concern in Qu Wuming's eyes, her heart warmed, she shook her head and smiled: "I'm fine, it's just that my back was wiped just now, and I lost a little bit of blood." I have already taken the pill, but in this lawless place, the healing effect of the pill seems to have slowed down, but fortunately, the bleeding has stopped. ”

"That's good, if you encounter sand thieves again, don't follow and rest in the carriage." Qu Wuming cautiously helped Han Ling'er to the cart with Tong Xiangyu.

"Slow down, be careful!" Tong Xiangyu reminded.

"Thank you, Sister Tong." Han Ling'er smiled slightly, "I'm fine." ”

"There is such a long cut on the back, and you still say it's okay?" Tong Xiangyu opened the carriage door and said, "Even if you have stopped the bleeding, you still have to bandage it with some gold sore medicine, and then change your clothes." Okay, Brother Qu, you go and get busy with something else, just don't let anyone else in. ”

Qu Wuming heard this, and glanced around the battlefield again, and saw that Hu Baye, Hou Jinhai and others who were cleaning the battlefield were almost all injured at the moment, but they were all very excited, and they were smiling and picking up the belongings, weapons, dry food, gold and silver of those sand thieves...... Except for Zuo Songchan and the two who were shot at the beginning, no one else died.

"You have good skills, and your body speed is not bad, among so many people, you are the only one who can keep up with my speed!" Qu Wuming turned around and said to Tong Xiangyu.

Tong Xiangyu was not modest, and said with a slight smile: "Well, if it is on the normal field, Brother Qu's speed may not be faster than mine." Besides, they're just ordinary sand thieves, and if I didn't have a bow and arrow to suppress them, I could fight ten of them. ”

"Only ten? Sister Tong is inevitably too modest," Han Ling'er wanted to hide her mouth and smile, but accidentally pulled the wound that had just begun to heal, and said with a painful grin, "The one who died under Sister Tong's sword was almost all killed with one move, and I think that without our help, ordinary twenty or thirty sand thieves are not my sister's opponents." By the way, my sister's sword is also extremely sharp, I'm afraid it's not forged by a famous artist, but it's a fairy sword of a cultivator, right? ”

"My sister guessed right, this sword is what the old shopkeeper of the Juxian Inn used to do, and he said it was a fairy sword." Tong Xiangyu replied, "It's a pity that I don't know mana, so I can only use it as an ordinary sword." ”

"The sword he left you, and the soft armor, don't seem to be anything ordinary." Qu Wuming lowered his voice on the side and said, "He should also be a cultivator, and his cultivation before suffering that dark injury is afraid to be extremely high. ”

"How do you see these two things?" Han Ling'er was surprised.

"My gut feeling." Qu Wuming grinned and said, "You know, my instincts have always been accurate, and I can't be wrong." While speaking, Qu Wuming naturally drilled into the carriage.

"Hey! Why are you quietly following along? Don't follow up, I'm going to change my clothes and take medicine! At this time, Han Ling'er just turned around and sat down in the carriage, and when she looked back, Qu Wuming was following Tong Xiangyu and getting into the car while talking, and hurriedly spoke to stop her.

Qu Wuming saw through it, and he didn't argue, he turned around with a smile and went down, and gently closed the carriage door. I wanted to stand guard in front of the car, but I saw Wei Yixian and Mo Tong supporting each other and walking towards the oasis, Mo Tong had bandages wrapped around his legs, as if he had just suffered some injuries.

Qu Wuming hurriedly took two steps to follow, caught up with Wei Yixian and asked, "Have you been here before?" ”

"Well, here it is." Wei Yixian nodded and replied truthfully.

"What's next? You'd better make it clear to us in advance. There are only a few people left, and they can't be damaged because of carelessness. Qu Wuming's face showed a rare serious appearance along the way, and said to Wei Yixian.

"The next place to go." Wei Yixian replied, "However, I only went there once a long time ago. As for what's going on over there, I'm not sure so. ”

"Still can't use mana over there?"

"It should be."

"Got it."

……

After everyone cleaned up the battlefield and carefully counted the remaining supplies, everyone's faces were a little unpleasant.

Although the sand thieves had deliberately spared their hands, five of them had died, but that didn't really matter.

Importantly, there were only three large wooden barrels for storing water, and two of them were broken during the battle, and they were completely irreparably broken. Even if they put together the dozens of water bags left by the sand thieves, they could only barely scrape together more than half a bucket of water—but now, Qu Wuming and other cultivators have also become like ordinary people, no longer like before, they can live without water and rice for a few days, and they can live only by meditation and cultivation, and if they don't drink water for a long time, they will also not be able to hold on. That's less than two buckets of water today, which is a small amount for a team that has to travel long distances in the desert.

Dry food is also becoming somewhat inadequate.

The dry food originally brought out from the Juxian Inn had been halved before this battle, but some of it was lost in this battle, and even if the dry food of the sand thieves who were collected later was added, it would be difficult for the rest of the people to support the rest of the people to return to the Juxian Inn the same way.

Fortunately, the two chefs came up with the idea of cutting the meat of the horse and the sand camel beast into strips, smearing it with salt, and putting it on the roof of the carriage to dry. It's just that after eating, it's easier to get thirsty, and people don't dare to eat more.

After leaving this oasis, only yellow sand was left along the way, and even the desert lizards, snakes and insects that were occasionally seen before became difficult to see.

After a few days, the water bladders and buckets they were carrying gradually became empty, and even the sand camels, which had always been known for their thirst tolerance, began to show some signs of thirst and dehydration......

A group of eighteen people, there is no interest in chatting at this moment, except for two or three people who take turns to lead the sand camel beast forward, the rest of the people are mostly hiding in the carriage and dare not show their faces, for fear that they will not be able to help but drink more water after a while of sunbathing.

Nowadays, everyone's water is limited, and one sip is missing.

Only by finding the last oasis that Wei Yixian said could it be possible to regain supplies.

……

Qu Wuming sat in the carriage with his eyes closed, Han Ling'er, who had been sleepy, leaned on his side, his pretty face, which was originally blown, was now a little haggard, and even a pair of red lips became dry and cracked at the moment, which made Qu Wuming feel distressed when he saw it. Next to Han Ling'er was Tong Xiangyu, who was sitting there with her knees crossed, and she didn't have much energy at the moment, just shrunk in a corner of the carriage and kept napping.

Suddenly, a rush of cries for help and shouts suddenly entered the carriage, and the three people in the car were immediately awakened and opened their eyes in unison. Qu Wuming was the first to stand up and get out of the carriage, looking towards the source of the sound.

"Stop, back off! Quickly rewind !! Someone shouted from the front.

In the front and back cars, Mo Heng, Ding Xian, Hu Baye and others also got out of the carriage one after another, and when they saw the situation in front, they hurriedly ran to the side of the several sand camel beasts in front of them, and struggled to drag the sand camel beasts backwards.

Qu Wuming also hurriedly took action, turned around and found a rope from the cart, tied one end to his wrist, and threw the other end forward......

Seeing that Han Ling'er and Tong Xiangyu also got out of the carriage, Qu Wuming hurriedly shouted: "It's quicksand!" Don't go to the front! Help me save someone! ”

……

From Qu Wuming and the others moving when they heard the sound, to everyone rushing out of the carriage to take action, it was only a time of two or three breaths.

However, in this short period of time, the sand camel beast that was originally at the front of the group had only one head still exposed—its entire body, along with the rider above, had already fallen into the quicksand! And the one that originally walked behind it was now long gone, and only a huge cone-shaped hourglass was left on the ground, which was still sinking......

The third sand camel was also struggling, writhing its massive body with all it could do, but its efforts only made it sink faster, and most of its neck was still on the ground. The knight on its body had already seen that something was wrong and jumped down in advance, but it still did not escape the fate of falling into the quicksand, and at this moment, most of its body was swallowed by the yellow sand, and even breathing became a little difficult.

Just as the yellow sand was about to overflow his throat, the rope thrown by Qu Nameless landed precisely between his outstretched and raised hands. The man grabbed the rope and struggled to avoid being swallowed by the sand.

"Hold on to the ropes and stop moving!" Not far away, Wei Yixian shouted anxiously, "The more you move, the faster you move!" Don't move! Wait for us to drag you out!! ”

However, at this moment of life and death, the instinct to survive has long overwhelmed that person's reason.

He clung to the rope as hard as he could, and writhed as hard as he could, trying to break free from the quicksand.

At the other end of the rope, Qu Wuming struggled to pull back, however, the yellow sand under his feet was too soft to focus on at all!

Qu Wuming's body was involuntarily dragged forward, Tong Xiangyu and Han Ling'er had already rushed over at this moment and grabbed the rope together and dragged it back, but when they tightened the rope, they found that what they were pulling at the moment seemed to be not a person, but a giant beast! No matter how hard a few people tried, not only did they not take a step back, but they were dragged and kept sliding forward!

Suddenly, the three of them felt their hands loosen, and they took several steps backwards, falling to the ground like a gourd rolling on the ground.

When the three of them struggled to sit up and looked forward again, where was the shadow of the man in the quicksand pit that was still collapsing in the distance?

All that remains is a giant hourglass on the ground, and it keeps expanding, as if there is a bottomless pit below that wants to swallow up the entire desert......