When Youya heard this, she immediately became happy: "Old Mu, what you said is wrong! If you say old, you may not be as old as A Ling. If you say young, I am the shortest, so I am afraid you are the one with the shortest life. People should respect the old and love the young! But you are a troublemaker! Teasing? Huh! I finally saved your life, and I don’t want you to die in vain again!"
After hearing this, Mu Fengchun remembered what happened before, rubbed his sore cheeks, and said hesitantly: "What do you mean by this? Could it be that...the water is also poisonous?" Mu Fengchun said, and after a moment He took a few steps back.
"Water itself is naturally not poisonous, but your body is out of balance now. Try not to drink more water. Then!" Youya said, throwing a piece of cut water vine over and said: "Hold this in your mouth "It can produce fluid and quench thirst." "What's the use of producing fluid and quenching thirst... My chest is now pressed against my back..." Mu Lao'er rubbed his shriveled belly with a sad look on his face, but he still put the wooden sticks in honestly. into the mouth.
The three of them have been delayed for an extra day because of Mu Fengchun's incident. Although Mu Fengchun walked awkwardly at this time, his mental condition finally returned to normal, and he led the two of them into the Gobi...
According to the original plan, they should go all the way eastward from Xianfu, bypass the mountains on the north side, and then enter the Gobi and go westward. But I didn't expect to encounter such a thing on the way. I accidentally walked north along the mountain and directly arrived at the edge of the Gobi, which saved me a lot of trouble. This piece of Gobi is distributed in a spindle shape. If you really enter from the east and west sides, you will probably have to walk through most of the desolation. This is naturally not feasible in their situation of no supplies. Fortunately, they are now starting from the south of the Gobi. Stepping sideways naturally saved a lot of time, and after walking for a long time, we finally arrived in the middle of the Gobi.
"Old liar, the purpose of our trip is to find news about the spirit bead. What clues can we find if you bring us to this sterile place?" Although she was full of energy, she was also a little tired after the long journey. He complained unhappily.
"Of course I have a purpose for coming here. This girl didn't say anything, but you little white snake is complaining a lot...Don't you think I am willing to suffer such foreign crimes?" After getting along with each other for a few days, the three of them can be regarded as As they became more acquainted with each other, Mu Laoer stopped being formal and addressed her as a girl and as a little white snake. The two of them were exhausted and had no intention of correcting themselves, so they just let him call them whatever they wanted.
"Mulao'er... you have always said that you will know when you get to the Jinsha Temple. But as far as I know, the Jinsha Temple has been destroyed. What news can we find out?" Youya leaned behind a pile of rocks and unscrewed the water bag. After taking a few sips, he shook his mask and asked calmly.
In the Gobi Desert, the wind, sand, and sun were quite strong, and several people had already covered their masks. Yuya shook off a lot of dust, and it instantly blended into the ground beneath their feet. While Mu Fengchun was watching the excitement with boredom, he laughed and said, "Don't worry, I will naturally have my own arrangements..."
Before the third prince came to the Immortal Mansion, Mu Fengchun hinted that there was something unusual here at Jinsha Temple. When leaving, he also told him that if he came here, he must leave a message so that he could come and assist in the investigation when he regained his energy in the future. If the third prince didn't come, it wouldn't matter. They just wanted to find out why Jinsha Temple was not infested by monsters. However, because the two people in front of him had been tormenting him before, Mu Fengchun also kept his secrets and refused to tell the truth no matter what.
"Sister Youya! There seems to be a small town at the foot of the mountain over there!" Before Youya could ask the question, she heard Yu Siling's call. She jumped up and looked according to Yu Siling's direction. Sure enough, she saw it. The lonely town was shrouded in yellow smoke. She put the mask back on her face and said, "Let's go over and have a look!"
As the three of them got closer and closer to the small town, they found that the small town was surrounded by loess-covered earthbags. Mu Fengchun curiously took a look and was shocked: "Ouch! Scared! Damn! How could anyone just put a corpse on the road?" You Ya and Yu Siling looked at each other strangely, and then came to where Mu Fengchun was, and found that there was indeed a corpse under the dirt bag.
But the strange thing is that ordinary corpses must rot over time, but although this corpse still has skin and flesh, it is slowly weathering like sand and gravel. Under Mu Fengchun's move just now, the place where the arms are connected is even more... Turned into a puddle of yellow sand.
"What...what's going on? Amitabha...that's so good...I just did it unintentionally. I didn't mean to destroy your body. I hope this donor won't blame you! I'll help you take it back..." Mu Feng As Chun spoke, he slowly lifted his palm back with a branch, but accidentally touched the man's body. This time, except for half of his arm on the ground, his whole body turned into a pool of yellow sand.
"This..." Mu Fengchun looked embarrassed and at a loss.
"Sand poison?" "Sand poison!" You Ya and Yu Siling suddenly said in unison.
Hui Siling often heard people mention it when she visited Immortal City. Although she had never seen it, she was somewhat familiar with the symptoms of the sand poison. As for Youya, Wu Fan had mentioned sand poison to her before, so she was no stranger to it, but this was the first time the two of them had come into contact with sand poison, and they didn't react immediately.
"Sand poison? Why does the sand poison appear here?" Youya knew the source of the sand poison and subconsciously looked at Hui Siling, but Hui Siling was also very puzzled. As far as she knew, the source of the sand poison had been discovered. Brother Wu Fan was killed, why did he appear in this place again?
Seeing the same confusion in the other party's eyes, Youya turned her attention to the large and small dirtbags and investigated them one by one, but she found that the sand poison was far from what she knew...
Anyone who is infected with sand poison will indeed turn into yellow sand, but the symptoms of these people are slightly mild. Either an arm is left, or a leg is left that has not been completely weathered. What's more, their complexion is sallow and their skin is... Rough, but there is no sign of the body turning into yellow sand... It's as if they were just drained of life and turned into mummies... It's said to be sand poison, but it's more like a life-sucking magic!
Youya looked at these dirtbags one by one with a solemn expression. Just as she had guessed, the symptoms of the remaining people were mild or severe, as if they had been subjected to some kind of experiment. But the same thing is that they are all like mummies, and these mummies look painful. They must have not died directly, but were slowly eaten away by this evil magic.
Just when Youya opened another dirt bag, she saw that this man's condition was a bit special. There was no trace of sand poisoning on his body, but there was no blood in his body. Looking down again, I saw that the man's legs were broken, and there was blood under his body. Only the wound showed a faint sandy state. It must be that the wound could not heal and he died of excessive bleeding...
Youya felt secretly strange, and inadvertently glanced at this man's face. Seeing that he had big eyes, a big nose, and big ears, he looked familiar, so she couldn't help but think about it carefully. When Yu Siling saw You Ya concentrating on the investigation, she was afraid that Mu Fengchun would cause trouble again, so she pulled him aside. At this time, when she saw You Ya staring at one place intently, she came over and asked: "Sister You Ya... did you find out? What... Huh? This person looks familiar..." Hui Siling suddenly took a breath of cold air.
"Let me see, who made you lose your composure?" Mu Fengchun saw the two people standing there one after another, and moved over with a wooden stick, leaning his head and looking forward, and then His face suddenly darkened: "No wonder...sigh...this person is the Jade Pot Sect disciple who was with Wu Fan before...Yuan Chu!"
Hearing this, You Ya and Yu Siling suddenly remembered something, and quickly searched Yuan Chu's belongings, but found nothing. Suddenly, their bodies softened, and they fell to the ground with two thuds, feeling their heads buzzing. Sound. They heard that Jia Laosan said that after Wu Fan killed the sandworm, the Earth Spirit Pearl was stored with a fellow disciple. Among the surviving disciples, Zhao Xiaozhong is unconscious, and the Earth Spirit Pearl must be on the other two. Youya has always hoped to get news about them one day, but she didn't expect that it was already a corpse when she saw it! The original hope was illusory, but it existed after all. In this way, it was completely wiped out.
"Sigh... I heard that Jia Laosan said that these people were still a little angry when they left without saying goodbye. Now it seems that they must have encountered some difficulties and left on their own for fear of being involved in the Three Immortals Pass. Unexpectedly, now they are both yin and yang. After a while..." After a while, Yu Siling regained consciousness, and her mood was also very low.
When Mu Fengchun saw the two men behaving strangely, he kept asking questions, and finally figured out the general meaning. He also sighed for a while. He leaned on a wooden stick and went through the remaining soil bags one by one. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and comforted: "Two Don't worry too much. I checked carefully, but I didn't find the bodies of the other two people. There must be a glimmer of hope... Why don't we bury this old friend alive first, so that he can be buried alive? May we find the whereabouts of the remaining two disciples as soon as possible."
When the two heard this, they realized that it was indeed the case. Staying here would only increase their worries. They nodded and buried Yuan Chu's body on the spot. Then they walked towards the small town not far away, following their footsteps as they approached. , the small town shrouded in yellow smoke became increasingly clear.
I saw that half of the plaque above the city gate was engraved with the two characters "Shan City", and there was another half of the plaque with the word "下" engraved on the ground not far away. Presumably this city should be "Xia Shan City" . However, after a brief investigation, Youya found that not only was the city wall rotten and falling off, but there was no trace of living people in the city, and it should have been an abandoned city. She said a few simple words and was about to open the city gate, but was stopped in mid-air by the wooden stick held by Mu Fengchun.
"Daughter... Something is wrong with Shancheng now..."
