In the vast Gobi desert, scattered rocks eroded by wind and sand stand in the desert, forming landmarks. Jing Yu was dizzy at this moment. He turned over and sat up, and suddenly found that his joints were so sore that they seemed to fall apart if he moved even a little.
Jing Yu simply looked around. The scene in the distance was a little distorted in his eyes due to the heat of the air. He licked his chapped lips and stood up despite the pain. The wind slapped his face fiercely. Jing Yu's eyes narrowed slightly as he climbed up a sand dune and watched with difficulty as the yellow sand was swept up by the wind.
He was still sleeping in Dingmingsi... Jing Yu thought in confusion. He looked at the boundless yellow sand again, and a feeling of despair surged in his heart. He also tried calling his friend's name, but his weak voice disappeared into the dust like yellow sand.
"Am I dreaming?" Jing Yu slapped himself hard, eyes flashing with stars, but the scene in front of him did not fall apart, but became more concrete.
This reminded him of a program in his previous life - "Survival in the Wild".
Of course, Jing Yu was not in the mood to look for meat worms with six times the protein of beef, nor would he pick up an innocent little scorpion from the sand and remove its head and tail to satisfy his hunger. But he didn't eat breakfast, and now every organ in his body was protesting against all Jing Yu's movements.
The yellow sand was still blowing so hard that people couldn't open their eyes, and even squinting was unstoppable. Jing Yu had two lines of clear tears on his face at this moment, and he couldn't tell whether they were real tears or a foreign body feeling.
Jing Yu habitually said to himself: "No, I have to find a place to shelter from the wind first. It really hurts my eyes." He picked a very complete stone wall and dug a hole there to effectively resist the wind and sand. .
Just as he was about to slide down the sand dune, a "corpse" lying face down in the sand not far away attracted his attention. Jing Yu changed direction, ran to the corpse, and pulled it away to find Chen Xueyun. Fair skin, chest rising and falling rhythmically.
"Hey, wake up, you're a scholar and you're still sleeping in!" Jing Yu slapped him mercilessly.
Chen Xueyun opened her eyes drowsily, swallowed her saliva, and said tiredly: "Isn't it true that I am studying the issue of meridian sealing every day? I don't go to bed until midnight every night."
"You get up first! Look where this is?" Jing Yu helped Chen Xueyun.
Chen Xueyun finally opened his eyes wide. His head moved quickly, and when he confirmed that the surrounding area was not a familiar place, he knelt down pessimistically: "Oh my God! I just went to bed late, why did you catch me in a deserted place to die? "
Jing Yu did not look at the scholar who was also confused about the situation. Since there were two, the others might be nearby. However, the wind was getting stronger and stronger, and sooner or later there would be a sandstorm, so he decided to go back to the stone wall and hide.
Chen Xueyun followed Jing Yu to a stone wall, and Jing Yu unhappily fiddled with the stones on the ground with dead branches. Chen Xueyun calmed down and reviewed the behavior of several people last night.
First of all, it was himself. He stayed in the study room after dinner and did not go out. During this period, Qiao Xu came mysteriously once, but he came to deliver milk. Then he kept looking for books. If he hadn't noticed that the time was already close to Xu, he would have gone out to buy books. As for sleeping... naturally I saw half of my eyelids fighting, so I lay down and fell asleep.
It is not impossible to say that he was kidnapped. After all, he fell asleep instantly, and Chen Xueyun could not sense what happened next.
Then Jing Yu also began to review his behavior last night.
Jing Yu doesn't go to bed early at night. This is his habit and Chen Xueyun's professional ethics. I bought a few new books and planned to enjoy them, especially the book "Pictures of Happy Fish" from a snowy place. The painting is not outstanding but the details are clear. As a result, Ningqu discovered her, and she felt as embarrassed as when she was a child, secretly watching a disc in her father's room, and her mother pushed in the door just as she was cleaning.
Ningqu's pretty face turned red and she blamed him for being immature and still looking at such pictures to relieve his boredom. Jing Yu's brain was so cramped that he didn't realize that there was a beauty sleeping with him every night. Instead, he blurted out a shocking sentence: "I don't have the money to go."
It ended with Ningqu huffing and huddled under the quilt to sleep, while Jing Yu happily experienced the refreshing feeling of sleeping alone.
Chen Xueyun and Jing Yu looked at each other. Their behavior last night was fine, but it seemed that there must be something fishy involved.
"Is it possible that we were transported to the Western Region?" Jing Yu expressed his thoughts.
Chen Xueyun shook her head: "I analyzed it and found that it is completely unreasonable. There are only two possibilities at present. One is that we are trapped in an illusion, and the other is that the entire capital has changed like this."
"I still believe in the first one." Jing Yu couldn't accept that the capital turned into yellow sand overnight.
At this time, Song Qian and Qiao Xu woke up together behind the stone wall. After experiencing the same emotions and reflections as the two people on the other side, they began to consider the possibility of the matter. Although Qiao Xu's brain has been shut down for a long time, she can't do it without food. Wu Fu's hunger is several times that of ordinary people.
These four people seemed to be destined, but no one went to check on the other side of the stone wall, and they all stayed in the sand pit.
Seeing that the wind and sand were still there, Jing Yu seemed to be stagnant at the critical point of a sandstorm. He stood up on his own initiative and walked around to the back of the stone wall, where he saw Song Qian and Qiao Xu talking with frowns.
"Are you at the back?" Jing Yu said helplessly.
Qiao Xu turned to look at Jing Yu, then turned back to Song Qian and said, "Look, this guy has dead fish eyes and he has to look at me every day. It's disgusting."
Jing Yu's blood pressure soared: "You said bad things about me in front of me? Do you want to see what you are doing?!"
Qiao Xu was still stubborn: "I thought it was an illusion. Who knew you were standing nearby."
Jing Yu led the two of them back to the small hole he dug, and the four of them squatted inside with their legs crossed. The air at this time was silent.
Chen Xueyun was the first to hold back: "I believe that if it is an illusion, then it must have boundaries. Why don't we find the boundaries together and strive to break the illusion."
The other three people all agreed, so they walked along the desert. Jing Yu didn't see Ning Qu either. Wouldn't she be troubled by the illusion? Now the mystery is getting bigger and bigger, and Song Qian doesn't seem to be in the mood to popularize his profound knowledge.
It wasn't until midway that Song Qian spoke: "I didn't realize it just now, but now I think of a possibility. We are very likely to be in the domain of a certain great demon."
"When you reach a certain level, the demon clan will awaken a special ability and create a small world for yourself." Song Qian gushed as soon as he mentioned demons.
"Is there a boundary in the small world? Is there any solution?" Jing Yu asked.
Song Qian spread his hands and said, "I don't know. I can only communicate with the owner of the domain."
The four people started shouting to the sky. The specific content was not determined, but it was loud enough to be able to contact the master of the domain. It lasted for a full quarter of an hour, making the already dry mouth and tongue worse. Jing Yu desperately wanted to absorb water, and his mouth continued to secrete saliva.
If communication fails, we can only start with the field itself. The most important thing right now is exploration, including solving our own problems. All four of them are thirsty. If this desert is real enough, then an oasis can be found.
Sure enough, he found a lake that was about to dry up somewhere. Jing Yu rushed over first, picked up the water with his hands and started drinking. The cool lake water flowed into his mouth along the tip of his tongue, and his chapped lips suddenly became full. The other three people followed suit and enjoyed the hard-won sweetness.
As we go deeper into the center of the desert, there is a looming blue building, half buried in the sand and half exposed. Jing Yu curiously walked forward to check and found that this was a ruins. Could it be the owner of the domain? After gently pushing aside the pile of sand, the stone door at the entrance to the ruins was ajar, leaving a gap. Qiao Xu came over and used his arms to force open the stone door. The ruins seemed to sense someone entering and began to tremble violently.
The ruins automatically emerged from the sand sea and were completely displayed in front of everyone.
Jing Yu took the lead in entering. He first threw out a few fireball charms to light up the road ahead. There are no mechanisms in the ruins, and being in the desert, the passages inside the ruins can make people feel cold and damp.
The four people walked back-to-back in the dark. The passage was very narrow and short. After only walking forward for a while, they found that the front was blocked. Jing Yu threw the fireball talisman again, and the fireball shattered on the stone wall, briefly illuminating the stone wall.
Jing Yu also took the opportunity to start researching. He kept pressing up and down the stone wall with his hands. There were no protruding bricks. Then the four of them started stamping their feet. As expected, Chen Xueyun stepped on a pedal on the ground instead of the wall. A passage opened underground, and all four people fell into it.
Jing Yu covered his buttocks in pain with a ferocious look on his face, but Qiao Xu was lucky and had already stood up in advance. Jing Yu did not get up in a hurry, but looked at the surrounding environment. The passage above was closed at some point, and the four people were locked in a regular bronze chamber.
There was an ancient coffin in the center of the secret room. The outside of the ancient coffin was written with gold paint. This writing was ancient writing. Chen Xueyun had seen it before, but he didn't understand it. Jing Yu didn't expect to get any information from the text. He was more concerned about who was buried in this coffin.
"Qiao Xu, our bodies are about to fall apart. Please help push the coffin board away." Jing Yu begged.
Qiao Xu obeyed this time and kicked open the coffin board. It must be said that the strength of the body-forging realm martial artist was great, and the coffin board was already embedded in the bronze wall on the side. Qiao Xu lowered his head and looked at the ancient coffin. Not only was there no so-called corpse inside, it was also pitch black and bottomless.
Qiao Xu covered her mouth and pointed at the coffin: "There is no body inside! There seems to be a secret passage."
"I no longer have the energy to walk the vertical secret passage." Chen Xueyun said painfully.
Jing Yu stood up and approached the ancient coffin tremblingly. There was indeed a passage inside, which was bottomless. He gritted his teeth and jumped straight in.
"Wait!" Qiao Xu didn't stop him.
There was no pain this time. After Jing Yu fell in the passage for a while, he was attracted by the power of a magic circle and teleported to the other end of the desert. He spat out the yellow sand in his mouth, and it was now in a flat sandy area. There were no stones around, and no protruding surface could be seen within hundreds of miles.
After about a few moments, the remaining three people teleported to him one after another, and Jing Yu breathed a sigh of relief. The sun is already hanging overhead and has not changed. What is the flow rate of time in the realm? He lay on the ground, his exhausted spirit prompting him to fall asleep quickly.
Suddenly he was awakened by a violent vibration. He sat up straight and found Qiao Xu confronting a strange man. The man seemed to be able to control the sand, and there was a swimming dragon made of yellow sand following behind him. When Chen Xueyun saw that Jing Yu was awake, she came over and said, "A stranger came here just now. I saw that he had a strong figure and an extraordinary temperament. He might be related to the master of the domain, so I planned to have a conversation, but the other party was very hostile. Qiao Xu I almost got into a fight with him.”
The strange man's body was bronze, his pupils were golden, and his messy short hair hung on his head. He was not afraid of the desert heat and walked barefoot on the sand, approaching Qiao Xu who was about to punch step by step.
Qiao Xu gathered his true energy, stepped forward with his left foot, and used his right fist. The powerful force hit the strange man's chest. The strange man frowned, and swung a palm with his backhand, sending Qiao Xu flying with a curtain of sand.
Song Qian's intuition told him that the man in front of him was not simple. He quickly stopped Qiao Xu, who was about to continue fighting, and signaled her not to move.
The bronze man stopped, moved his fingers slightly, and countless sand and dust rose up, forming sand cones, and began to attack the four people. Jing Yu saw this and ran away, sand cones falling one after another behind him.
Chen Xueyun didn't run past Jing Yu, and the clothes on his back were scratched by the sand cone. He was now half naked and running wildly.
Jing Yu shouted in desperation: "Where is Ningqu! Come help me!"
Then there was a hint of coolness, which seemed to calm his panicked heart. Drops of water shot through the sand cones like arrows. The strange man stopped attacking as if he was facing a powerful enemy. Jing Yu noticed that the sand cone disappeared behind him, stood firm, and turned to look.
A tall figure came slowly and came face to face with the strange man. Jing Yu recognized the figure from behind and the oil-paper umbrella.
Ning Qu showed a bad look on his face, and with a flick of his fingertips, several ice picks attacked the strange man. The strange man summoned a sand curtain to block him, and then the earth dragon behind him started roaring and rushed towards Ningqu. But when Ningqu opened her umbrella, it started pouring rain. Near the strange man, the rain turned into icicles and fell down. The strange man had to use a curtain of sand to resist.
The earth dragon was beaten to pieces. The strange man was a little reluctant, but he was unwilling to continue to pester him, so he turned into a pile of sand and escaped with the wind.
Ningqu did not pursue him, but tapped his toes and moved in front of Jing Yu.
"What's wrong? Are you injured?" She looked at Jing Yu's body distressedly.
Jing Yu collapsed on the ground: "No, who is that person?"
Ningqu muttered: "This domain belongs to him. Although he is still sleeping and is only a sixth-level clone in the domain, he will definitely know about the battle just now. As for how you got in, it's because he is The enemies of the Demon Kingdom are here specifically to deal with Dingmingsi."
Jing Yu recalled the powerful enemies in the stronghold that day. None of them had left the realm. This showed that the strength of the strange man just now was far greater than that of the seventh-level Shitian.
Song Qian and Qiao Xu also came to join them. Qiao Xu followed Ningqu's example and cared about Chen Xueyun's injury. Chen Xueyun just showed her the skin on her back. A long and narrow gap appeared on her clothes, and there was a blood line, which was the result of being hit by a sand cone. The corners were scratched. (To be continued)
