Text Chapter 14 Fishy
This is a barren sea of sand, and the huge sand dunes are familiar with the giant's raised back, broad and vast, but under the action of the wind, it is like a rootless grass turning over and over again. The blazing sunlight distorted the air, making the place lifeless. As far as the eye can see, there is an infinite dusk.
But everything has yin and yang, and it is such a place, at the end of the field of vision, there is a piece of green that makes people's hearts sway, and it is also the only bright spot in this endless dusk.
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"Knock (finally) is coming!" The chapped lips made the old man's lips and teeth a little blurred, but looking at the green in his eyes made people feel refreshed.
"Well, here it is. The child's voice was also a little hoarse, because he had not seen water for nearly a day, and his throat was already on fire, so he could talk less at this time.
But this was not the case in the old man's ears, because it was too calm.
In fact, this is the third day of the two of them, speaking of which the old man is also a little embarrassed, that is, looking at the boy's eyes are a little dodgy, after all, he said that there are only three days of going back and forth, but it is only a one-way trip It has been three days, the original prepared water has been consumed the next day, it is really too big a desert, and there is only one scene here, even if he remembers the direction, but he doesn't know where he is when he walks. And you can't imagine how tormented it must be in such a desert without water for a long time, all the time you can feel your body drying up a little bit, but at a glance you can only see the sand and unbearable heat, every once in a while, you will feel your consciousness is depressed, but when you look up, what you see is always the same dusk, and for a moment the old man feels that he is about to be unable to hold on.
But thinking that he was not alone, and that there was a child under the age of six by his side, the old man had to hold on, and he wanted to bring hope to the child.
Every time he turned his gaze to the boy, he would always find that the weak body, the already white face could not hide a pair of bright glowing eyes. And the boy never complained about his inadequate preparation as a gentleman, nor did he complain about the damn ghost sky and the pain caused by the lack of water, but just silently followed himself, believing that his husband could lead him out of this desert, or that he believed that he could get out of this desert.
In fact, the old man didn't know where the boy's belief came from, and the old man had never seen anyone with such a belief, so strong that it was suffocating.
In fact, even if this is the case, it is difficult for the two of you to get out of the desert, because in the end you are already walking by feeling, and you are already inseparable in the desert, let alone know where your position is!
But there is no endless road, because there is one biggest variable around the two of them, that is, the snow-white little goat next to the child.
If you want to say who has the most obvious perception of water in the desert, the old man knows that it is definitely not a person, but a living being, and it happens that he is followed by such a creature.
In fact, the two of them were able to survive in this boundless desert for a day without water, and it was precisely because of the existence of this little goat that the two of them could find the few grasses in the desert, and it was only by relying on the residual water in the grass that they did not fall in this desert.
In the end, the place still leads the way, as long as the little goat goes there, so that he can still find some support, otherwise the old man will never think that there is still hope for life.
It is also because of the baby goat's sensitivity to aquatic plants that he finally found this oasis in the desert.
"Xiaoba, you go first!" Although I saw the oasis, but Wangshan ran a dead horse, and it would take a while to arrive, since the target was already in sight, there would be no problem of getting lost, but looking at the little thing's shriveled body and dull hair, Lie was very distressed.
"Huh!"
The little goat was a little hesitant, because the state of the two of them was really a bit worrisome at this time, and almost a gust of wind could blow them away.
"Go ahead, we won't lose it, maybe it would be better if you could come back soon!"
The little goat still circled around the two of them, and finally turned into a white whirlwind and galloped towards the green.
"Sir, let's go!" the boy took the first step. The old man also knew that although he saw the oasis now, it did not mean that the crisis had been resolved, and the longer he stayed here, the more dangerous it became, so he also followed.
"How far is it, sir?"
Although he was moving towards that piece of green, he didn't feel that he was moving forward, and that piece of green was still a little bit, and it stands to reason that if he got closer and closer, it should be getting bigger and bigger at this time.
"I guess it's going to be half a day younger!"
"Do you want to be half a day younger?" Lie frowned slightly, although he knew that it would not be possible to arrive in a moment and a half, but he obviously did not expect that it would take such a long time.
"Let's go, I hope it can come back soon!" The old man actually didn't know the bottom of his heart, it was too early for the two of them to be in the situation, after all, they didn't enter the water for a day, and it was a miracle that they could hold on until now, and no one could say how long they could hold on next. At this time, we can only hope for the lamb.
Next, in order to maintain their strength, the two stopped talking, but kept moving forward.
But after all, the old man is old, even if he is strong, it is not as good as when he was young, and he has tried his best to keep his legs and feet moving, his eyes have long been half-open and half-closed, and his body is swinging from side to side, and he looks like he is going to fall at any time. Lie knew that the old man couldn't hold on, maybe it would just be faith insisting, but he couldn't go on like this, otherwise sooner or later the old man wouldn't be able to reach the end.
"Hands!" the old man only heard this sentence in a daze, and then felt his little hand grasp his fingers. He wanted to open his eyes to see, but he couldn't open them widely, and in the end he could only give up, and in the end he could only follow the energy from his fingers.
In this way, a small figure walked in front, and a hunchbacked figure walked behind, gradually walking towards the green.
"Sir, the oasis has gotten bigger!"
"Really?" the old man's eyelids, which were about to close, opened a slit.
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"Sir, Tree Shadow!"
"Really?" the old man was about to hang his head and lift it up, but he couldn't lift his head to see the shadow.
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"Sir, grass!"
"Eat!" the old man said with great difficulty, let alone other actions.
"Grassy, juicy!" the boy didn't even have the word sir left, and he tried to say as little as he could.
Well!
There was a muffled grunt from the boy's. The old man's fingers trembled, but the next force from his fingers calmed him.
Then a drop of liquid dripped into the old man's mouth.
"Fishy!" Although it was only a drop, it finally made the old man recover a little, and now he can barely say a word.
"You. Of course, the old man did not forget the martyr.
"Good!"
After that, there was no more sound, only two figures moving at a rapid pace.
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Boom!
But there was no more sound of talking, and the old man suddenly found that the little hand on his finger was loosened, and then he suddenly felt that the sky was dark, and there was no strength to guide him forward, and he wanted to grope forward to find the boy, but suddenly his feet were weak, and he fell straight down.
The moment he fell, his heart was full of remorse: "Why did you bring your child to this place, why?"
"Huh!"
Just as the old man lost consciousness, the voice of a goat seemed to be heard in his ears.
The old man didn't know if it was his hallucination, how much he hoped it was true.
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"There's still breathing, there's still help, come on!" and then there was a rush of footsteps.
"Huh!"
There is also this snow-white little goat mixed here.
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In a room the size of an adobe house of the Lie family, there were two wooden beds, one with a child lying on it, and the other with a hunchbacked old man lying on it.
"How's it going, sir?" a crisp voice sounded.
"What a miracle, what a miracle!" I saw that the man who was called Mr. was in the prime of life, stroked his black beard, and said one sentence twice.
"Sir, what's going on?" the crisp voice sounded again.
"Don't worry! Next to the gentleman stood a little girl carved in pink, with two small braids stretched all the way to her back, extremely bright, wearing a pink dress, revealing most of her snow-white arms and legs, a pair of big eyes were very bright, and her long eyelashes made her eyes twinkle like stars.
"Say it, say it!" the little girl looked impatient.
"Actually, according to our words, these two people should be people who have entered the earth, especially which one is older. Judging from the cracks at the corners of their mouths, there has been no water for at least a day, and such people are already people underneath. ”
"And how did they survive?"
"See that boy? He's the key to their survival!"
"He?" The little girl was puzzled, shouldn't this be the key to being an adult?
"Yes, that's him. Don't look at him as a child, but I found that his skin is extremely tight, very elastic, and his musculature is many times better than that of a child of this age, I think I have to fight with you!"
"You say he, with me, some fight?" the little girl pointed to herself, with a different expression. Others may not know, but he himself understands that even this oasis is difficult to find children of the same age who can break wrists with himself. But the gentleman actually said that he could fight with himself, but the boy was about the same age as himself, but the little girl still didn't believe it.
"Don't believe it, if you meet him, you may not be able to win!"
"Are you kidding me, sir? I can't win him?"
"It's not a joke, although he still has a slight gap with you in terms of strength, but you really can't necessarily win him!"
"Why?" the little girl was very unconvinced, her eyes widened, and she did not give in to her husband.
"Do you know how that old man survived?"
"How did you survive?" the little girl was not in a hurry, and he wondered why the gentleman could give such a high opinion to the dying boy lying on the bed.
"Do you see the tooth marks and blood on the boy's wrist?
Suddenly, the little girl trembled inexplicably.
"You say by his blood?"
"Yes, that's it!" Hearing her husband's affirmative answer, the little girl widened her beautiful big eyes.
"Look at the marks of those teeth, doesn't they look like the size of your teeth?"
"It's not mine!" the little girl glared fiercely at her husband.
"Don't make a fuss! I mean, the boy bit his own wrist and gave the old man blood. It means that the old man was about to die, but the kid still didn't give up on him, you said that if you were in the desert, you and your grandfather walked together, and suddenly your grandfather died, what would you do?"
"What are you going to do, what will I do, what will I do?" Suddenly, the little girl found herself stumped by this question, and without the support of an adult, what would a five or six-year-old child do?
Turning her gaze to the boy again, the little girl tried to examine herself and the boy.