Chapter 8: The End of the Desert

No one can say clearly how terrible the desert is, but they can only see that the sky is connected to the sky, the earth is connected to the earth, and the eyes are full of endless yellow sand. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Yue Que, Zuo Mingzhu and Huangfu Gao entered the desert at dusk with six camels.

Six camels, some carrying water, some carrying grain, some carrying shelter, and some carrying bits and pieces, although they seem useless, they are useful at critical times.

These were all carefully prepared by Ji Bingyan.

Huangfu Gao walked at the front of the camel caravan, holding a whip more than a foot long in his hand, although there was only one person, but he took care of the six camels obediently, one followed the other, and none of them ran around and barked, and none of them came out of the team, like a pair of veterans who had been trained for a long time.

Although Huangfu Gao can't talk to people, he seems to be able to talk to animals. He seems to be able to use a mysterious language to communicate his thoughts with the beasts.

Zuo Mingzhu finally believed that this deaf, dumb and blind man could really lead them to find the place Yue Que said.

The temperature change in the desert is what Zuo Mingzhu can't stand the most.

By this time, the sun had set, and the heat had evaporated from the desert, but it was still so hot that I wanted to strip off my clothes.

But it didn't take long for the heat to disappear, and a biting chill followed, and the wind blew on the face like a knife.

Zuo Mingzhu couldn't wait to hide her whole body behind the hump, she sat on the camel, only to feel wobbly, as if she was riding a boat.

Yue Que also sat on a camel, he was also riding a camel for the first time, but his whole person seemed to be a whole with the camel, his body was always stable and steady, not shaking or shaking, and Zuo Mingzhu was envious.

Huangfu Gao did not sit on the camel with him, but he followed the camel step by step, whether it was a desert, a swamp, a cold or a heat...... It didn't seem to have any effect on this man.

If it was before, Zuo Mingzhu would definitely be unable to help but ask Yue Que: "Why didn't he also sit on a camel?"

But now she didn't have to ask, she knew that Huangfu Gao would never sit on the back of any camel or camel, because they were friends.

The deeper the night, the heavier the chill.

Zuo Mingzhu was so cold that she couldn't stop shivering on the camel peak, and she felt that the blood in her whole body was about to freeze.

Only Yue Que and Huangfu Gao seemed to have no effect at all.

Yue Que is because his skills are extremely profound, and he has already reached the point where the cold and heat are not invaded.

And Huangfu Gao, who has lived in the desert for all these years, has long adapted to the extreme climate in the desert.

Yue Que found a place to shelter from the wind, and then hit Huangfu Gao on the left shoulder with a small stone.

This is the special language that Ji Bingyan gave him to communicate with Huangfu Gao.

If you want the team to stop, hit him on the left shoulder, and if you want the team to go, hit him on the right shoulder.

Yue Que and Zuo Mingzhu set up a tent behind the sand dunes and lit a fire.

Huangfu Gao circled the camels, and the hump blocked the fire.

A pot of hot dishes was cooked on the fire, and Yue Que and Zuo Mingzhu surrounded the fire, drinking wine, smelling the aroma of pepper, green onion and ginger, and beef and mutton.

At this time, Zuo Mingzhu felt much more comfortable.

But Huangfu Gao still sat far away, and under the bright starlight in the desert, his face was not only colder and uglier, but also had a strange look.

The next day, before the sky was completely bright, Zuo Mingzhu got out of the tent, and she was woken up by the heat.

She had never seen such a sun, so fierce and poisonous that it seemed to burn the whole desert.

The sun was so hot that Zuo Mingzhu on the camel peak didn't even want to drink the water, just hoping that the sun would go down soon.

There was no wind, not a single wind, not the slightest sound, and under the scorching sun, all life in the desert had entered a state of fainting.

At this moment, a groan came from nowhere.

The moans were faint, but in the dead desert they sounded clearer than a man speaking in his ear.

Yue Que knew that they had been targeted by Shi Guanyin's men, and this was not deliberately targeting them, but all the merchants who came to the desert.

Zuo Mingzhu widened a pair of eyes that were exposed outside the veil, and said to Yue Que, "Childe, did you hear this voice?"

Yue Que said: "Hmm!"

Zuo Mingzhu said again: "There seems to be someone around here, or a person who is about to die, should we go over?"

Before they entered the desert, Ji Bingyan had told them not to trust anyone in the desert, so she had to ask Yue Que.

Yue Que condensed his voice into a line and said in her ear: "We have been targeted by Shi Guanyin's men, and you went over to kill them while they were unprepared." ”

Zuo Mingzhu nodded, jumped off the hump, and followed the sound behind a pile of sand dunes on the left.

In less than half an hour of incense, Zuo Mingzhu came back, still holding two dark syringes in his hands.

Zuo Mingzhu handed the syringe in front of Yue Que and said, "This is a hidden weapon found from those two people." ”

Yue Que glanced at it, nodded and said, "You put it away, maybe you will use it in the future." ”

Zuo Mingzhu put away the hidden weapon, turned over the camel, and everyone started the road to the desert again.

This night, Zuo Mingzhu was wrapped in a thick quilt and lay in the tent, under the gentle reflection of the oil lamp, carefully looking at the dark syringe in his hand, under the light, the dense and small holes looked especially ugly and cold.

She thought of Huang Fugao's gray eyes again, and it turned out that his eyes were actually blinded by the scorching sun in the desert.

On the second day of entering the desert, Zuo Mingzhu had slowly begun to get used to the scorching sun and learned how to preserve the water in his body from losing quickly.

I walked like this for seven or eight days, and I don't know how many miles I walked, how many traps and sandstorms I avoided.

The food stored in the Qingshui River has gradually bottomed out, and they can no longer find their destination, or they can't find a water source, and they really have the possibility of dying in the desert.

The water and food that could have been eaten and drunk wantonly were also stipulated by Yue Quan, and only when he was so thirsty that he couldn't stand it could he take a sip.

She hadn't showered for more than ten days, her clothes were full of sand, and her lips and fingers were all chapped.

Zuo Mingzhu has now deeply realized why entering the depths of the desert is really a life of nine deaths, and there is no return.

Yue Que and Huangfu Gao still maintained the appearance of entering the desert on the first day, as if the cruel environment of more than ten days had not affected them in the slightest.

"It's here. ”

With Yue Que's whisper, Zuo Mingzhu finally cheered up, looked into the distance, and couldn't help but be moved: "Where the sinister place is, could it really be that you have really reached the entrance of hell?"

But I saw a rocky peak in the distance, uprooted from the ground, large and small, all kinds of colors, strange rocks, the big ones were like stone pinnacles and clouds, high into the clouds, straight into the firmament, and the small ones were also dozens of feet high, like the evil dragons and monsters of the primeval flood and famine, squatting there quietly, waiting to devour any creature that entered here.

It is not only as if we have reached the end of the desert, but also as if we have reached the end of heaven and earth, and if we go any further, we will fall into the abyss of no catastrophe.