The town of Mighty is surrounded by a desert.

The desert was extremely cold at night, and the bitter wind howled by, and the rolled sand particles hit people's skin as painfully as a knife. Above the vast yellow sand is a magnificent starry sky, the stars are high and far away, and they are beyond reach.

The group of three people struggled to move forward in the desert, surrounded by sand, and at night, and it was impossible to distinguish between southeast and northwest.

"Why haven't you arrived yet, you can't be wrong. Xu Ming wiped his face fiercely and wiped the wind and sand off his face, "It's a big night, we won't get lost in the desert!"

"How is it possible, I have walked this road many times!" Li Yihuan, who was walking in front, turned his head, panting, with a blush on his cheeks that he didn't know whether he was tired or angry, "You don't believe me!"

Xu Ming nodded hurriedly: "Okay, good, I believe it." ”

"It's coming soon. Li Yihuan turned around aggrievedly and continued to lead the way, "It's just ahead." ”

Li Yihuan said that the place where the county lord might be was the ruins of an ancient city, which she and the county lord had accidentally discovered when they went out to practice a few years ago.

The ancient city had been abandoned for a long time, and its contents had either been taken by the people who had been here before, or had been weathered to the point of being unusable. However, the remains of the ancient city were constructed with a mixture of forbidden spirit stones and meteoric iron, and were extremely difficult to detect.

Chu Feng is now wanted by the Qingyang Sect and has just been rescued, and his whereabouts have probably not been determined, and the county lord will most likely take Chu Feng there to avoid it.

"You and the county lord are too lucky, aren't you!" Xu Ming couldn't help but sigh, "First I found a secret passage from the City Lord's Mansion to the outside of the city, and then I stumbled upon a hidden ancient city. You are the chosen one!"

"Do you think someone did it on purpose?" Guan Chunuan keenly captured Xu Ming's meaning and transmitted the voice to Xu Ming, "Could it be that this person is the city lord?"

"Maybe I'm thinking too much!" Xu Ming shook his head and kept up with Li Yihuan's pace.

Rounding a small hill, a strange black shadow suddenly appeared in front of me. The shadow was round, and it could not be seen clearly in the night, but it looked like an eagle crouching on a sand dune with its back to them.

"That seems to be a person!" Guan Chunuan looked at Xu Ming, pulled the corner of his clothes, and whispered. Her voice was a little shaky, a little nervous.

At night, no one can be idle, go for a walk in the desert!

Xu Ming couldn't figure out the situation, and he couldn't figure out who this person would be, whether he was friend or foe. But he still calmly patted the back of Guan Chunuan's hand, signaling her not to worry, and then took out his Longyuan Sword from the Qiankun bag, put it in front of him, and slowly walked towards the black shadow.

As he slowly approached the black shadow, Xu Ming's uneasy feeling in his heart became weaker and weaker, he always felt that this figure was very familiar, but he couldn't tell where he had seen it.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Xu Ming was almost sure that he knew this person who squatted in the desert in the middle of the night and didn't know what to do, he held back for a long time and chose to take the initiative.

The man was visibly startled, slipped on his feet, and squatted on his buttocks. Immediately, he stood up with a carp, turned around and assumed a fighting posture. The corners of his mouth were clear and conspicuous in the night.

"Damn, Chu Feng, are you ...... Smoking?"

"Brother Xu?!"

Xu Ming knew a long time ago that he and Chu Feng would definitely meet again, because in the novels he read in his previous life, the protagonist's life-saving benefactor would not be mentioned in one stroke. But Xu Ming really didn't expect that seeing Chu Feng again would be like this.

Xu Ming and Chu Feng squatted on the small sand dunes together, Xu Ming asked Li Yihuan to take Guan Chunuan to the ancient city to see the county lord first, and he accompanied Chu Feng and stayed.

"I didn't expect your kid to be an old smoking gun!" Xu Ming smiled and took the eye handed by Chu Feng, and did not light it, but pinned the cigarette to his ear, "This doesn't quite fit the character of the protagonist." ”

"When I was a child, I worked as a servant, and I didn't have enough food and clothing, so I relied on a pipe left by an old man. When I was hungry and tired, I smoked two puffs of cigarettes, and I just lasted for four or five years. Chu Feng lit another cigarette, he didn't understand what Xu Ming said about the "protagonist", "character design" and the like, but told Xu Ming his story: "Later, my biological father found me and took me back to the Chu family. The Jinzhou Chu family under the rule of Jingguo Mountain Customs. But I suffered a lot of scorns and ostracism in the Chu family, and they even kicked me out after my father died. ”

Chu Feng took a puff of cigarette gently, and gently exhaled a circle of smoke, slowly drifting towards the starry sky, and was soon dispersed by the wind that came to blow.

"At that time, in order not to make it difficult for my father, I would secretly smoke two puffs of cigarettes with my pipe when I encountered such a thing. Chu Feng shook the cigarette in his hand towards Xu Ming. It was not a spiritual smoke that monks would smoke, but a cigarette made from ordinary, even low-quality tobacco. In this world, only the inferior untouchables would smoke such cigarettes.

"Smoke is a good thing, it calms me down and thinks about things seriously. Chu Feng looked at the cigarette in his hand and was a little distracted, "That's how I've come over for so many years." ”

"But in their eyes, my smoking of this kind of cigarette is a big rebellion and a loss of face for the Chu family. Chu Feng's voice gradually lowered, and there was a dim light in his eyes, "Later, after my father died, they smashed my most cherished pipe. Later, I left the Chu family and lived in a small village on the border of Jingliang. ”

"Then how did you enter the Rune Gate and become a monk?" Xu Ming asked.

"It's just a matter of luck. Chu Feng didn't want to say it, and Xu Ming didn't ask anymore, there might be something unspeakable hidden in this!

Seeing that Chu Feng's expression was a little depressed, Xu Ming hurriedly found another topic: "Then Brother Chu, why did you come all the way to smoke in the middle of the night? ”

"If I say it, Brother Xu, don't laugh. Chu Feng's face was a little embarrassed.

Xu Ming was interested, and said with a smile: "Say, why am I laughing at you!"

"Yu An said that the smell of smoke is not good for the fetus, and she is not allowed to smoke within a radius of ten miles......" Chu Feng looked at Xu Ming, who was gloating and laughing, a little flustered, and he explained incoherently: "Listen to my explanation, the child is not mine." No, I don't have children, and I'm not ......"

"I know, I know ......" Xu Ming looked at Chu Feng and smiled narrowly.

"You definitely didn't understand, you still laughed, you didn't stop!" Chu Feng thought a little deflated.

"You must think I didn't understand, but I already knew. Seeing that some people were sympathetic to each other, Xu Ming didn't know why he was happy.