Chapter 34: A Moonlit Night in the Desert
After walking for more than two hours, everyone was still walking seriously, but from the gas machine, Jin Liang found that they were all a little fast. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info looked at the sun that was still hanging obliquely in the sky, Jin Liang in front of a shady sand dune, and called everyone to stop and rest for a while.
Zheng Xin sat on the sand very unladylikely, slid down for a short while, leaned back, and half-lay down with his backpack on his back, "Splash monkey, give the teacher a watermelon." ”
Lin Wei poked his whistle stick into the sand, sat casually, began to rummage through his backpack, poured water into the thermos cup with a water bag, and replied while he was busy: "Master, the somersault cloud is lost, let Bajie go today!"
Jin Liang was happy when he heard it, and saw that Zheng Xin and Lin Wei were looking at him, and deliberately said to Wu Li seriously, "Second senior brother, the master and senior brother called you." Then he pointed to the shoes hanging from his backpack, "I'm a luggage picker." ”
Everyone laughed and relaxed. Zheng Xin sat up straight, "Thanks to you, if you are alone, it will not be a feeling of tranquility, but the horror of loneliness." He dug into the sand with his hands, "Why don't you see the cactus?" I heard that water can be squeezed out of the cactus. ”
Wu Li said: "There are no cacti here. If you're lucky, if you find poplar in the desert, you may have a water source nearby, or if you see the footprints of a sand fox, there may be a water source nearby. I heard it from our geography teacher. ”
Jin Liang thought for a while and said, "Let's go northwest for half a day tomorrow, we should go deeper into the desert for more than thirty miles, and then we can go west." When everyone only had a glass of water, we all went south, endured to our limits, and just walked to a place where people lived, and then went inside after filling it with water. What do you think?" A water bag contains about eight catties of water, and the current situation is estimated to be about three days.
Lin Wei stood up and walked towards the sand dunes to the south, Zheng Xin was about to ask, Jin Liang said something, let him. Then ask everyone how much water they still have? Zheng Xin had already drunk one and a half cups, Wu Li had only drunk one cup, it seemed that Lin Wei was also a cup, and Jin Liang himself drank a third of the cups. He talked about the practice of consciously closing pores, and saw if he could give the two of you a little reference.
The two beauties tried to do it, and slowly realized that after the pores were closed, the body temperature rose little by little, and then the pores were released, and then they returned to normal little by little. Even Lin Wei didn't know when he came back, Lin Wei wanted to say something, Jin Liang gave a quiet gesture and gently told him this method. As soon as he heard about cultivation, Lin Wei immediately tried it. Jin Liang sat with his eyes open, and the other three sat with their eyes half-closed, and began to practice the control of pores. After perceiving the skin, this control should not be difficult for them. In the shadow of the sand dunes, the four of them struggled to adapt to life in the desert.
Half an hour later, Jin Liang looked at his watch, and it was almost eight o'clock in the evening. Calling the three of them up and preparing to continue walking, Lin Wei said, I saw the wheel print. A few people were stunned, in the desert so inside, there are wheel prints?
After following Lin Wei to the sand dune, there was a clear wheel print, it should be an off-road vehicle, there was only one, driving around the bottom of the sand dune, heading west. Jin Liang thought for a while, looked at everyone and said, Let's continue to walk northwest, several people nodded, obviously they didn't want to get involved in anything, and the current interest is in practicing pore control.
Everyone changed positions, Jin Liang walked in the front, walking towards the sun, the sun was very low at this time, only thirty degrees angle, and everyone dragged a long shadow. Zheng Xin, Wu Li, and Lin Wei followed in turn, asking that it was best to walk in the shadow in front of them to reduce the exposure of the sun. Four people, like a string of grasshoppers, walked unhurriedly towards the sunset.
The sun slowly sank, Jin Liang felt that the temperature was also dropping, and walking barefoot on the sand, just a little warm. Maybe it's because everyone is practicing and walking at the same time, Jin Liang listens to everyone's breathing very softly, the rhythm of walking is very consistent, and the speed has always maintained a speed of five kilometers per hour, which is rare that there is very little rest. As for the cultivators, how could they have the courage to go straight into the desert with such a backpack. This is known as the "Sea of the Dead".
The sun is getting lower and lower, and on the distant horizon, the sunset has been reflected in the sky, thinking about the first night on the desert, Jin Liang's heart is also very excited. He looked back, maybe it was caused by practicing closing pores and rising body temperature, maybe it was because of the excitement in the sunset, everyone's faces were red, especially the two beauties, even the sunglasses were taken off, and they looked at the sunset with a happy face.
Now the sand dunes are getting higher and higher, and the drop has been four or five meters. Jin Liang led everyone along the back of the sand dunes for more than a kilometer to the west, stopped, and prepared to find a place nearby to spend the night.
He and Lin Wei arranged a flat bottom at the south bottom of a large sand dune about five meters high, and inserted more than half of Lin Wei's whistle stick into the ground as the center point of everyone's tents, and the four tents were arranged in the shape of "Tian". To the north near the sand dunes are Wu Li and Zheng Xin, and to the south are Lin Wei and Jin Liang, close together and fixed. This tent is very easy to support, four telescopic strips are put into the four corners of the tent, pulled to the longest, the top to the highest point of the tent, and about a meter is exposed. Everyone put the exposed straight into the sand, and a tent was done in two minutes. Four identical silver-gray tents became their overnight places.
Listening to Aunt Qin, the backpacks were all placed in the tent, the sleeping bags were spread out, and they came out one by one. The sun had already set, the moon only had a twist and turn, the temperature had dropped to more than ten degrees, and the moonlight was a little cold. Zheng Xin and Wu Li sat on the top of the sand dune, looking into the distance and whispering something softly, and from time to time Zheng Xin's silver bell-like laughter could be heard. Lin Wei also began to go barefoot, took his shoes away from the distance, and said, "Wash your feet with sand for the first time." ”
When the two beauties heard this, they ran down and began to walk around barefoot as well. "The place where we stayed is estimated to be free of grass and mosquitoes for three years. Lin Wei disgusted everyone as he walked, "Eight poisonous feet." "Everyone started to make a fuss again.
Zheng Xin was the first to calm down, "I miss the big lake in the base, as well as the stream in the base." "Everyone agrees that the days of water shortage need to be adapted the most.
Let's wash up briefly, wipe it with a wet paper towel and wash your face. Begin to perceive their inner world cross-legged in their tents.
In the desert, the moon is responsible for cooling, and the temperature at night is quickly only a few degrees. Jin Liang was relieved, he was worried that the poisonous insects at night should not be at such a low temperature. As always, I carefully perceived the inner world and paid special attention to the operation of the surge. In the outer space of the planet, the mind also wants to perceive it to the outermost, and the feeling that comes back is nothingness, a wonderful sense. The space of the Mud Pill Palace is chaos, and there will be some intuition created by it. It's nothingness here, and there's an intuition of what will move in. He also asked Yu Wen, and she also joked, do you want to rent it, no one has ever had a neighbor on the inner planet.
Jin Liang sensed for about an hour, came out of the tent, and also sat on the top of the sand dune, looking at the sand dunes around him faintly like waves, in the moonlight, he was like a small boat, in front of nature, it seemed so small, and the road to cultivation was still very long. He began to let his mind revolve around the fire, and he sat like this, as if he was not thinking, as if he was awake.
He didn't know how long it took, but he faintly heard the sound of digging, which seemed to be two or three miles to the west. Standing up and staring carefully, sure enough, the occasional flashlight from there swept over the top of the sand dunes in the distance. Jin Liang looked at the place where his companions were resting, they should all be asleep, and looked at his watch, it was already past one o'clock in the morning. Decided to sneak over and take a look.
Jin Liang was still barefoot, stepping on a little cool sand, like an agile cat, and leaned over cautiously and quickly. The sound of shovels shoveling sand became clearer and clearer, and the occasional short coughing sound could be heard, Jin Liang slowed down and cautiously approached from the bottom of the dune.
At the top of a sand dune, Jin Liang was on it, looking at the south side of the sand dune in front of him, half of it had been dug up, and a section of the wall was exposed, and there seemed to be a door on the wall, and there was light inside. There was a flashlight on the ground outside, and two people were sitting next to them, one of whom coughed occasionally. The cigarette butts flashed red, and they could be seen both with beards on their faces, and black strips on the ground, possibly shovels. There are three more people digging in the sand along the exposed wall. Five people, Jin Liang looked at it, I don't know how many people are in the door? Is it a thief? Jin Liang didn't make any sound, looked at other places, and found nothing. After a while, two people came out of the door, both with things in their hands, and came to the side of the flashlight to show the two people who were smoking. The four of them immediately muttered, and the smoker got up and walked through the door. After a while, there were three people shoveling sand outside, still shoveling sand.
Jin Liang estimated the distance, his position was exactly about thirty meters away from the door, hesitated, he carefully moved five or six meters there, leaned on the sand dune, motionless, used his mind, and sensed straight into the door.
It is definitely an ancient building, the stone walls, are all built of strip-shaped bluestone, because of the age, a little mottled, Jin Liang's idea only arrived at the door, I felt different. Further inside, I found a ladder with a horse lantern hanging on the stone wall next to it. It went down for more than three meters until it reached a layer of ground, which was also paved with stones, and the four of them had already gone far, and Jin Liang's mind had reached the limit, so he had to retreat. After the position where they put the flashlight, they sensed it, and the thing that the two people in front of them picked up was pottery, which was quaint in shape.
Thieves, seven thieves.