Volume 1: The Seven Stars of the Twilight of the World Chapter 36 One Hundred Secrets and One Neglect
"Have you thought about it?" Xiang Bei returned to the carriage, looking at Jebecuo still frowning, looking thoughtful, knowing that he wouldn't have any ideas, but he still couldn't help but want to give him some color.
"Immediately, ...... immediately" Jebel didn't care about the pain on his body, nodded and flattered with a smile.
"The old thing must be thinking about how to hurt people again. Xiang Bei's face was gloomy, and he turned his head and shouted, "Susu." ”
Hmph, the dagger in Su Su's hand instantly hit Jebecuo's neck, and a chill suddenly came from the hair-blowing blade, and Jebecuo, who had been tortured by pain, finally collapsed, and he shouted,
"Kill me, the caravan is gone, and it will be a death to go back anyway. From the day I got on the camel, I was doomed to die in the sea of five hundred miles of sand!"
"Who gave you that jade?" Seeing the old man lose his mind and shout, Xiang Bei lowered his voice and asked sharply.
"It was given to me by Master Song of Sheng'an City, and he wanted me to bring it to the king of the Southern Courtyard. Lao Tzu was really unlucky to take on this fateful job. ”
"How the hell did you get from the well to this sea buckthorn tree?"
"At sunrise, 15,000 steps due south, 15,000 steps due west, 15,000 steps due south, and 15,000 steps due west. ”
"Why didn't you tell the truth in the first place?"
"If you had killed me at that time, you would have gone to find it yourself according to the 10,000 steps I said, and you would not have found the well of the hat if you were looking for death. ”
"Sure enough, why are you telling us fifteen thousand steps now?"
"I'm not afraid that you're looking for it, even if you tell you fifteen thousand steps, tell you, you won't find it, don't you accompany my old man to become a pile of rotten bones in this sea of sand?"
After Jebecuo said this, he suddenly regretted it, what happened to him, how could he have always been calm and calm fall into the hands of the cold young man in front of him this time.
The dagger in Su Su's hand was put down again, in fact, Xiang Bei and her tacit understanding could not be seen by outsiders, as long as Xiang Bei had not given Su Su the look that hinted at his move, all the actions were to scare him by forcing Jebez to comply.
Jebecuo saw Su Su put down the dagger, and then he let out a sigh of relief, and bowed his head in frustration and said nothing.
Su Su walked up to Xiang Bei, "Xiang Bei, what are your plans?"
"I said, I won't let you die. ”
Xiang Bei's eyes focused on the dry branches of the sea buckthorn tree, and he didn't notice the blush on Su Su's face, he continued, "I thought about it for a while according to the old fox Jebecuo, and found that he was clever but was mistaken by cleverness, and made a very low-level mistake. ”
"You mean the hat well?"
"Yes, you see, in order to let others not find the Mao'er Well, he specially walked two 15,000 steps to the south and west, but this seems to be an insurance calculation, but in fact there is an obvious loophole. ”
"What vulnerability?"
Xiang Bei broke off a dead branch and circled a small circle on the sand, "If this is a hat well, you see," the dead branch walked out at two right angles on the sand, and then the place where it stopped was crossed by Xiang Bei.
"This is the dead tree we are. ”
Xiang Bei looked up at Su Su, and Su Su suddenly came back to her senses, in fact, she had been immersed in Xiang Bei's sentence "I won't let you die......".
Xiang Bei didn't realize it, but this girl was absent-minded,
"Do you understand?"
"Huh?"
"Look at this. As he spoke, Xiang Bei directly connected the small forks and circles drawn on the sand.
"What does this mean?" Susu was still puzzled.
"You fool, if we follow in Jebetso's footsteps to the east and north, and we can't find the Mao'erjing, it's because we can't master Jebecuo's steps. But if we go all the way from here in the direction of the Gen, we will definitely pass by the Mao'er Well. ”
"Oh, you're saying we're going to go northeast?"
"Yes. ”
It was getting late, and everyone decided to go to Mao'er Well early tomorrow morning to get water, and then continue on their way.
Early the next morning, according to the direction of the rising sun, the position was set, and the carriage swayed and headed in the direction judged by Xiang Bei. Jebecuo didn't know how Xiang Bei decided on the route, and still sat in the carriage and waited to see the joke.
Although Tianmo was still complaining, he also knew that if he couldn't find Maoerjing, everyone could only be a dead end, so he gritted his teeth and insisted on following behind.
When he walked more than 40,000 steps, according to Xiang Bei's explanation, Tianmo sent a reminder. Xiang Bei opened the car window and told Tianmo and Su Su that everyone should spread out a little, continue in this direction, and look forward together.
The dry and cold air in the desert passed through the carriage, and Jebecuo couldn't help but shudder, thinking that this kid was too whimsical, and he wanted to find the hidden hat well by luck.
After walking for a while, Tianmo suddenly said, "I really want to smell the water." ”
Jebecuo, who had been pretending to be asleep, couldn't believe it, and looked at the scene outside the carriage through the window, and couldn't help but let out an "ah?".
Not far ahead, there is a low sandbag, which is different from the others. Other sandbags bulge out like steamed buns, but this sandbag is surrounded by a protrusion, but it is dented in the middle.
"This kid is so lucky that he can be bumped into by him so well. ”
Su Su saw the light in Jebeco's eyes, hurried a few steps, and walked to the front of the sandbag, and sure enough, the place where the sandbag was sunken down was a very deep pit, and it was faintly visible that there was a bright light flashing at the bottom of the pit, presumably there must be stagnant water below.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and now, there is no need to worry about the water source for the time being.
Xiang Bei carefully inspected this so-called hat well, it turned out that under the sand was covered with a huge stone slab, under the narrow hole in the middle of the stone slab, but it was a very deep and spacious space, looking at it, except for the puddle of water in the depths of the pit, I couldn't see how open the surrounding space was.
"How do you get water in such a deep place?" Xiang Bei couldn't see the situation in the well clearly, so he had to ask Jebel Cuo again.
Jebecuo told everyone that in the past, when they came to the well to bring water, they used a long rope to tie a person's waist and ribs, and the person could naturally take out the water by putting him down.
Xiang Bei looked at a few people in his company, he was in pain all over his body and couldn't exert his strength, Jebecuo's leg bones were broken, the old blind man Tianmo couldn't see anything, and the only one who could go down to the hat well was the girl Su Su.
This made Xiang Bei a little unacceptable, and he gritted his teeth and wrapped the rope he found around his body.
"What are you going to do?" Su Su snatched the long rope from Xiang Bei's hand.
"I'll go down first. ”
"What can you do?" Su Su tied the rope to his body while bumping into Xiang Bei, and did not forget to say to Xiang Bei, "You have to help me watch the rope from above, Tianmo and Jebecuo, the two old men are not reliable." ”
It's not that Xiang Bei didn't think of this problem, it's just that he didn't want Su Su to go down alone.
Su Su didn't talk to Xiang Bei either, one end of the rope was tied to himself, the other end was tied to the carriage, and the rope went down from the well with an empty water bladder.
"Be careful. Xiang Bei inexplicably had an uneasy feeling about the situation underground, and specially told Su Su.
After Su Su entered the wellhead, Xiang Bei immediately lay on the side of the well, holding his eyes to see the situation under the well.
Sure enough, with the help of the torch in Su Su's hand, Xiang Bei found that there was a huge space below that could not be seen, and the light of the torch was quickly swallowed up by the boundless darkness around him.
Although Susu had not yet reached the bottom of the well, she could already feel the damp chill coming from under her feet.
On the well platform, Xiang Bei lay on the ground, watching intently as Su Su prepared to land. Suddenly, the old horse pulling the cart was stimulated by something, his ears were tightly pressed against his head, the horse's head was raised, there was a roar, the front hooves were raised high, and at the same time, the hind legs kicked and the whole carriage jumped forward.
The carriage dragged the rope on Su Su's body back and forth on the edge of the well a few times, and the edges of the well platform were all sharp and abnormal stones, so pulling, bang, the rope was completely broken.
Xiang Bei didn't look good, and subconsciously grabbed the place where the rope was broken with his hands. I didn't know that my physical strength was too weak, and the whole person fell into the well with the rope.
"Su Su!" While falling, Xiang Bei was just worried about Su Su's safety.
Fortunately, Su Su was already almost at the bottom of the well, and as soon as the rope broke, luck protected the key point when she fell, and after she landed, she rolled again, but it was no big deal.
The poor one was Xiang Bei, he fell directly from a very high place, and he couldn't protect his body by luck, so he fell to the bottom of the well from a place more than ten zhang high.
Xiang Bei screamed miserably, and almost fainted in pain again. Frightened, Su Su hurriedly came over to help him up, but seeing that he was not in danger of his life, he did a cursory examination, and found no internal injuries and fractures. Su Su then dragged Xiang Bei under a big stone, made him lean against the stone and half-lay down, and by the way, picked up the Mingyang Sword he had been using and put it beside him.
After settling Xiangbei, Su Su didn't dare to delay more, picked up the water bladder and thought about getting water and returning as soon as possible.
When she got to the puddle, she realized that the so-called well water was just a shallow pool of water, just enough to cover the water bladder. Su Su picked up a handful with her hand, moistened her chapped lips, and licked her lips again, sure enough, there was a salty taste, but as a life-saving water source, Su Su would not be too picky, she carefully immersed the water bladder in the water, trying not to stir up the mud under the puddle.
After taking the water, Su Su first brought the water bladder to Xiang Bei, opened one, and handed it over, Xiang Bei had already been tortured by thirst for a long time, and took the water bladder without caring about the saltiness, and drank a few big sips.
"Are you all right? Tianmo on the edge of the well also appeared at some point, he found that Su Su's rope was broken, and Xiang Bei was also pulled by the broken rope and fell into the well, and after a while, he remembered that he needed to greet him, but he didn't hear the concern from his tone, but it seemed to have a relaxed and happy feeling.
There was only one long rope on the carriage, but this long rope was cut off by the waist, and the bottom of the well was more than ten zhang high from the wellhead, and Su Su's light skills could not break through such a height.
Xiang Bei beckoned Tianmo, "Now the rope is not long enough, we can't go up." ”
Tianmo thought for a while, "Then I'll come down to help you?"
As he spoke, he took Susu's bow and arrows and jumped directly from the entrance of the cave.
"Why are you jumping in?" Xiang Bei didn't appreciate Tianmo's behavior, but felt that this old blind man was stupid.
"I agreed with Jebel that when Susu had shot the rope over the carriage, he would drive the carriage up so that the others could help each other. ”
"But, what if that Jebel runs away?"
Tianmo's face was relaxed, "Run, how can he run, the remaining water on our carriage is not enough to get out of the desert." ”
As he spoke, he heard the sound of horses on the well, and Jebetso drove the carriage, ignoring the people who had fallen below the well, and began to run alone.
"Alas, the water in the carriage was not enough for the four of us to get out, but if we were thrown out, there would be only one person left. ”
"Ahh