Since entering the northern cold land, some crystal clear snowflakes will fall from the sky from time to time.

Su Su, a soft and charming woman who has been living in the warm land of Great Xia, first saw these snowflakes with ice crystals and jade, quite noble and elegant, and loved them very much.

She couldn't help but pick up one or two pieces with her little jade hand, watching them slowly disappear in her palm, and even sometimes asked Xiang Bei with a little melancholy, if people were all such snowflakes, fluttering in the wind involuntarily, and then disappearing, as if they had never come.

But as the weather became more and more cold, Su Su was a little overwhelmed.

Relying on the foundation of perennial martial arts, she could barely cope with it, but in the dark and damp place in this hat well, she was first trapped by the illusion of Sha Xiao, and then in order to warm and cold Xiang Bei, she opened her coat and was exposed to the cold, and finally fell completely ill.

On the contrary, it was Xiang Bei, who was sick, who enjoyed this biting cold very much, and the immortal insects that were about to move in his body seemed to be a lot more honest.

Not only was the sharp pain that tormented his body much lessened, but even the speed of his body's recovery after the injury was much stronger.

Although the sternum broken by the sand ray still made him dare not gasp for breath, the bloody breath in his mouth quickly dissipated, and the internal injuries must have recovered.

The three of them sat around the edge of the well and were silent. Even Tian Mo, who had always been talkative, lowered his head and rubbed the ancient jade known as the Dragon Descending Ding, thoughtfully.

Seeing that Su Su couldn't support it anymore, Xiang Bei didn't care about the difference between men and women, and gently held her in his arms. Su Su is not without the reserve and shyness of a girl, but because she can't think of these anymore, under the high fever, her consciousness began to blur a little, and she only whispered in her mouth.

"I'm sorry, Xiang Bei, I'm dragging you down. ”

"What nonsense are you talking about, the person who said this should be me. ”

Xiang Bei remembered that along the way, he wanted to give up several times, but it was this stubborn Su Su who insisted again and again that they came here. He felt the changes in his body, and gradually forgot the fear of the immortal insects gnawing on his internal organs.

It's just that maybe he and Su Su can only go here.

In fact, it was only thirty miles away, and the other one who was even worse than them was the Jebecuo, who was also waiting for death. The only thing that accompanied him was his broken legs.

The old horse pulling the cart has been lying quietly on the ground, no longer struggling, a pair of eyes that have lost their luster are slightly opened, looking at the sky, if it also has an afterlife, I believe it will not choose to be a military horse again, a lifetime of hard work, the corpse wilderness, the dead body, those scars left by countless whippings have some blood stains have not dried.

Jebetso gave up the futile struggle and lay quietly on the carriage waiting for death to come. If death is unavoidable, then the only regret should be that there is no way to die with your family.

The golden crow rose and fell, the jade toad alternated, and several dying people in the desert were in such a stalemate for about three days. Except for the wind and quicksand, everything seemed to stand still.

Suddenly, in a trance, Jebecuo vaguely heard the sound of a camel bell, dang, dang, and more than one hanging bell. The voice was getting closer and closer, and Jebetso came back to his senses, this voice should not be a hallucination.

Jebecuo on the carriage pursed his chapped lips, struggled to get up, and looked in the direction from which the voice came, and a line of shadowy camel figures, under the faint light of dawn, slowly moved towards the direction of the carriage, becoming clearer and clearer.

Strange, Jebecuo couldn't help but rub his cloudy eyes with his sleeve, could it be that there was anyone other than himself who knew the secret of Maoerjing?

The caravan came to a stop a stone's throw away from the carriage, and the leading guide shouted, "Captain Jebecuo in front?"

Jebetso couldn't see the faces of the people who came, but he was relieved to hear such a title, he had always been the leader of the camel caravan from country to country, and only those closest to him knew his other identity, a captain under the king of the southern court of the Ranger Country.

It's just that the old man has collapsed so much that he has no strength to shout, and he raised his arm with difficulty and waved it in response.

The lead guide jumped off his camel and walked to the wagon. He gave a deep bow with his palm on his chest, "Master, I can find you." ”

Jebe closed his gaze, only to realize that the person who came was actually the old butler who had followed him for many years, Jebu.

Jebu grew up with Jebel Cuo since he was a child, although the two are master and servants, but they are as close to each other as brothers, originally Jebu has been following Jebel Cuo's camel team to dart, but this mission is special, before leaving, Jebel Cuo's family was all taken hostage by the king of the Southern Courtyard, Jebu stepped forward and was willing to protect Jebecuo's family as a hostage.

But for some reason, Jebu appeared in front of the carriage at this moment.

Seeing Jebu, the old guy finally couldn't hold back the bitterness in his heart anymore, and two lines of muddy old tears flowed down from his air-dried face, and together with his snot, they flowed into his gray beard.

"Brother Jeb, where is my family?"

"Don't worry, they are all very good, I am here to meet you on the orders of King Zheda. ”

It turned out that among the group of dart masters who left Jebecuo in Shule City and only cared about their own run, there was a boy from the same Talgar tribe as Jebecuo. After the boy fled from Shule, he wandered around with nowhere to go, and finally ran back to the Talgar tribe, but was caught by Zheda.

The dart master did not know the secret mission of Jebelcuo, and at first wanted to lie to Zheda that the camel team had encountered bandits, and only he survived, but he could not withstand Zheda's torture, and finally revealed the situation in Shule City.

Zheda was worried about the Dragon Descending Ding brought back by Jebecuo, so he ordered the dart master to find Jebecuo, to see people alive and corpses to die.

To be on the safe side, Jebu, who is familiar with the desert, was also sent to look for him.

After listening to Jebu's explanation, Jebetso sighed, "I see. ”

"Brother Jebetso, when we arrived at Shule, we found that the city had been razed to the ground, but we did not find you. Later, I searched all the way, but I really couldn't find any trace of you, so I thought about trying my luck at Mao'erjing, but I didn't expect to really find you. ”

When Jebu and Jebel were darts, they also went to Mao'er Well. Now that he had finally found Jebecuo, he was to help Jebecuo out of the carriage and take him back with him.

"Wait. Jebecuo waved his hand to stop Jebu and pointed to his legs, "My legs are broken." I can't ride a camel, so you can help me find a camel that can pull a cart and replace the dead horse. In addition, there are a few friends on the other side of the Mao'er Well, and I am going back to take them with me. ”

"Yes. Jebu was ordered to go down and make arrangements.

After arranging it, Jebecuo lay down again and breathed a sigh of relief, "God help me." ”

His little abacus is very shrewd, counting the days, even if he goes back, it will be almost the fourth day that those people have been in the well, they are injured, and there is nothing to eat, only bitter and salty sand and water, and there should be a few corpses when they go back. As long as he takes back the Dragon Descending Ding, his family can save his life.

At dusk, the caravan finally arrived at Mao'er Well.

Jebecuo peeked through the gap in the curtain of the carriage, and couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, three figures were lying on the edge of the well of the hat well, could it be that someone had already fished out these corpses in front of him?

He was worried about the whereabouts of the Descending Dragon Ding, so he asked the others to wait in place, and he and Jebu sped up and came to the three of them. The pain from the broken leg was still painful, but Jebecuo still gritted his teeth and let Zhebu help him get out of the car, groping in the tattered and dirty robe of Tianmo Lao Dao.

"It's still there, it's still there!" Jebetso took out the ancient jade wrapped in red cloth from under his robe, and the stone in his heart fell to the ground.

"Big brother, they seem to be alive. Jebu suddenly noticed that something was squirming in Xiang Bei's chest, and when he came closer, a snow-white sharp mouth came out of his clothes. The little white ball-like head stretched out his tongue and licked Su Su's face next to him, and then licked Xiang Bei's palm covering Su Su's face, and Jebu realized that the chests of the two were still slightly undulating.

Jebel pretended not to hear, but only told Jebu, "It's not appropriate to stay here for a long time, let's go home as soon as possible to save people." ”

"But, they ......" Jebu thought that Jebel had not heard clearly, and wanted to remind his friends that he had not yet breathed.

Who knows that Zhebecuo rarely lost his temper with himself, "I said go quickly, go quickly, don't you understand this?"

Jebu didn't dare to ask more, so he had to bend down and salute, "Yes." ”

The caravan did not stop at Jebecuo's instructions, but turned back in the same direction.

The surroundings of the well were soon engulfed in darkness again.

Inside the rickety carriage, Jebecuo took advantage of the dim light of the horse lantern to hold the Dragon Descending Ding in his hand and looked over and over again, and couldn't help but wonder in his heart, "There are many talented people in Great Xia, and it shouldn't be difficult to make such a jade carving, but why does the king value this thing so much?"

With Jebu's guard, the Dragon Descending Ding has also arrived, and the nerves that Jebecuo has been tense have relaxed a lot. After pondering for a while, I couldn't help but have my eyelids sink and began to feel drowsy......

"Give me back!" a low, urn-clad voice suddenly came from outside the car window, waking Jebetso from his sleep.

"Who's? Jebetso was frightened repeatedly, and at this moment there was a strange move, and he didn't even have the courage to lift the curtain, so he had to summon Jebu.

"Big brother, what's the matter?" Jebu, who looked puzzled, poked his head in.

"Who's shouting outside?" Jebecuo's heart panicked, and his voice trembled a little.

But Jebu was even more confused, "Big brother, what did you hear?" It seems that he didn't hear the words with a commanding tone.

Jebecuo listened intently to the movement outside, and there seemed to be nothing. Could it be that he was hallucinating, while comforting himself, he carefully wrapped the dragon tripod in red cloth again, wanting to receive it in his arms.

"I said, what doesn't belong to you, you won't take it!" Suddenly, the hoarse voice sounded again, this time close to my ears.

The hairs on Jebecuo's body stood up, and in the carriage, except for himself, only Jebu had just come in. He looked at Jebu and wanted to ask him again if he had heard anything, but the scene in front of him instantly frightened him.

I saw that the facial features on Jebu's face looked so unfamiliar, and he was no longer the Jebu he knew. And at this moment, those facial features were slowly deformed and dissolved like melted wax oil, and along with the deep folds on Jebu's face, they flowed down the furrows and cheeks.

"Jebu, your face?" Jebel suppressed the tremor in his voice, shouting Jebu's name to give himself courage, but at this moment Jebu no longer had eyes, nose and mouth, and the whole head began to rise towards the back of the neck, and the neck connecting the head and body also began to grow rapidly, like a tree branch at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"There is a life to take, there is no life to go, there is a life to take, there is no life to go......"

Now Jebecuo finally saw clearly, it turned out that these sounds were coming from the longer and longer neck, and at this moment there were countless openings in the neck, which at first glance looked exactly like human lips.

"There is a life to take, there is no life to go, there is a life to take, there is no life to go......" The sound of broken thoughts was like a small hammer beating on Jebecuo's heart. He watched as Jebu's entire upper body began to fall apart, and each one turned into a branch, growing wildly, and the horrific scene in front of him finally reminded him of the monster, "Sandworm." ”

Jebeco screamed and woke up from his nightmare, drenched in cold sweat.

Jebu's old face covered with pleats suddenly poked in again, "Big brother, what's the matter?"

The voice almost scared Jebecuo out of breath.

"Sandworms. Here comes the sandworms. "Nightmares are so real that Jebecuo is so frightened that he can't tell the difference between reality and dreams. After slowing down for a while, he came to his senses and checked that Gu Yu was still there, but out of the corner of his eye, he inadvertently saw Su Su's quiver box, a few spirit feathers exposed outside the quiver box, emitting a miserable white fluorescence in the dark.

Probably thinking of the few bowstrings that Su Su saved him, Jebecuo rubbed the cold sweat on his forehead with his sleeve, and explained to Zhebu, "Are you saying that my friends in Maoerjing haven't breathed yet?"

Jebu nodded.

Jebetso muttered again, "Then, go back and bring them with you." ”