Strange Records of Xijing

They walked for about a moment, and saw a faint green patch in front of them from a distance, floating up and down gently under the steam of the desert.

"That's the oasis?" Gao Zekai, who came to the northwest for the first time, felt strange and fresh about everything in the desert, and asked, "Why is it still moving?"

"The oasis won't move," Elder Aya'an replied while leading the camel for Su Yan, "The temperature here is too high, people's eyes can be easily blinded."

Zhao Shimin was sunburned, and now he urged weakly: "Hurry up and leave."

Among the five, except for the old man Aya'an who was used to the harsh environment in the desert, the other four were not feeling well, and among them Zhao Shimin was the most.Everyone urged the leading camel to trot all the way, and finally arrived at the oasis when Zhao Shimin was still breathing.

As soon as he stepped into the oasis, Zhao Shimin seemed to come alive. He quickly rolled off the camel's back and rushed to the only water source in the oasis.

In the past, Zhao Shimin would not even look at this kind of small pool, but today he put his hands on the ground, dipped his whole head in the pool, swung it back and forth a few times, and then suddenly lifted himself out of the water with a groan. A sigh of relief.

Seeing this, Gao Zekai simply moved a few steps to the side, trying to stay away from Zhao Shimin, and then took out a clean handkerchief from the hidden pocket in his sleeve.Gao Zekai wet the handkerchief, first wiped it on his face a few times, then wiped his hands and neck, and then took two sips of water.

Even though Pei Jingxing was also thirsty, he didn't follow the two people in front of him to drink a few sips of cold water at the pool. Instead, he walked to the side of the camel that Su Yan was riding and reached out to hug Su Yan down.

Su Yan was startled at first, and then seemed to sense the familiar aura of the person holding him, so he stopped struggling, but the face that was already flushed by the sun became even redder, almost as if it was about to bleed. Bleeding - These days, he sometimes inexplicably sees what seems to happen between himself and Pei Jingxing in his dreams, and it is the kind of thing that the fox girl told him when he was a child, only between lovers, but he I only saw an impression, as if my eyes were covered with a thick layer of gauze, and I couldn't remember it clearly.

But Su Yan knew that there was no friendship between Pei Jingxing and him who would do such a thing, but why did he dream about this?It is said that there are dreams every day and dreams at night. Is this all you think in your subconscious mind?

What Su Yan was thinking, Pei Jingxing didn't know. He was worried that Su Yan was not familiar with the terrain here, so he led Su Yan to the edge of the pool with all his heart, took out a clean sweat towel and wet it, and handed it to Su Yan: "Wipe wipe."

When the old man Aya'an saw this small oasis, he also smiled sincerely.However, he was not in a hurry to gather around the water pool with the others to drink the river water. Instead, he walked to a small bush near the water pool and stretched out his hands to search among the bushes.Not long after, the old man Aya'an had a few small lumps of unknown plants in his hand. He broke one of them, put it in his mouth and sucked it a few times, shaking his head triumphantly.

Zhao Shimin had long been forced to lose his elegance by the scorching heat in the desert. When his stomach was filled with cool water, he simply took off his clothes and wanted to jump into the pool and roll around twice.

"This weather is really disturbing," Zhao Shimin muttered while splashing water on his body, "How could anyone choose to build a Chicheng in such a place?"

Seeing Zhao Shimin's behavior, Pei Jingxing couldn't help frowning, and directly took Su Yan to change places.But Gao Zekai took two steps back, using the camel to block the sun, and ignored it.

Zhao Shimin was just complaining, and he didn't care if anyone paid attention to him, so he plunged down, leaving only ripples on the water.

But the good times didn't last long, and soon Zhao Shimin surfaced, slapped his hands fiercely in the water, and shouted tremblingly: "There...there are dead people, there are dead people at the bottom of the water!"

As soon as these words came out, the few people who had drunk the water felt their stomachs tumbling. Pei Jingxing and Su Yan were better, but the pampered Gao Zekai had a sore throat and vomited it out.

"What's going on?" Seeing that Gao Zekai would not recover for a while, Pei Jingxing had no choice but to let Su Yan stand aside, walked to the edge of the pool by himself, and stretched out his hand to pull Zhao Shimin up.

Zhao Shimin was so frightened that he grabbed Pei Jingxing tightly with both hands: "I... I dived down, and I felt something slippery... slippery. I thought it was a water plant, but it ended up feeling soft. When I opened my eyes, I found that it was a dead person!"

While talking, Zhao Shimin hid behind Pei Jingxing, and continued: "Not just one, but several...several dead people! There are still stones tied to their feet, they must have been thrown down!"

Gao Zekai felt trembling all over his body, walked quickly in front of the old man Aya'an, grabbed the latter's collar with both hands, and said angrily, "Did you do it on purpose?"

The old man Aya'an didn't react for a while, and shook his head again and again: "No, no."

"We all drank water, but you didn't drink it. How dare you say it wasn't on purpose!" Gao Zekai naturally didn't believe the old man Aya'an's pale explanation.

"I really didn't do it on purpose, I... I don't know." The old man Aya'an rolled his eyes, as if thinking of something, he turned to ask Zhao Shimin: "Tell me, are there any wounds on those dead people? "

Zhao Shimin spat: "How could I have time to see it!"

When he opened his eyes, he saw that there were several dead people in front of him. He was frightened out of his wits long ago, and desperately floated up to ask for help. There was no time to check whether there were any wounds on these dead people.

In the panic, Pei Jingxing was the calmest one. He walked up to Gao Zekai and patted him on the shoulder: "Don't worry, listen to him first."

The old man Aya'an was put down, took a few deep breaths, and then said: "In the desert, there is a group of people, their number is no more than a dozen, but they are very cruel, and they live by plundering passing caravans and tribes. Because of the small number of people, they will not provoke those big tribes, but once those caravans and small tribes encounter them, it is very difficult to have a chance of surviving."

"You mean, those people at the bottom of the lake met this group of people before?"

"It's very possible," the old man Aya'an said with an ugly face, "This group of people usually move around the oasis, so after killing people, they will tie the corpses to the bodies and throw them into the lake, so as not to be discovered by others... ..."

"What? You clearly know that this group of people are near the oasis, yet you still lure us here!" Zhao Shimin was the first to call out, "Okay, you really have intentions, you are with them!"

"No!" Elder Aya'an explained with a pale face, "This group of people has always laid down their activities in the southwest of the desert, and rarely went north. Perhaps the people at the bottom of the lake were not done by them, it was just a coincidence."

"No matter who it is, after killing someone, they deliberately tie stones to the body and throw it into the bottom of the lake. Those who do such a thing are definitely not good." Pei Jingxing made a decisive decision, "We have to leave immediately, Su Yan and I Camel, old man, ride a camel yourself."

"I...I still want to serve Sunara's envoy..."

"It's important to hurry!" Pei Jingxing turned his head to give orders without leaving any room for negotiation, "Clean up everything on the ground and leave immediately!"

After helping Su Yan onto the camel, he turned around and found a piece of clothing from the bag next to the camel, tore it into four pieces, filled each with some sand from the ground, and handed three pieces of clothes to Gao Zekai, Zhao Shimin and others respectively. Old man Ayaan.

"Tie this to the back of the camel," Pei Jingxing explained, "Sprinkle it while walking, try not to leave footprints."

Maybe Pei Jingxing's trick worked, or maybe the oasis experience was just a false alarm. Until nightfall, the group of people didn't encounter the group of looters that old man Aya'an mentioned.

After nightfall, the temperature in the desert dropped sharply, and it was no longer suitable for everyone to move on.

Under the leadership of old man Aya'an, a group of five people came to the windward side of a hill and set up two simple tents at the foot of the hill.Except for the old man A Ya'an who was old and Su Yan who was blind, Gao Zekai, Pei Jingxing and Zhao Shimin took turns to watch the night for an hour, and two tents were given to each of the four to rest.

The accident occurred when Zhao Shimin was vigilant.

Zhao Shimin was the third vigilante. He was woken up from a dream, and sat with his head stretched beside the fire, with two simple tents behind him that could shield him from the wind.

The fire was very hot, dispelling the chill for him, but it also made Zhao Shimin feel a little dry in his mouth and tongue.The clear water for drinking was in the camel's bag, and Zhao Shimin didn't bother to get up to get it, so he just reached out and pulled out a dry branch stuck obliquely on the ground - this was collected by the old man Aya'an in the oasis.

A few drops of dew have gathered on the branches, which is very attractive in the water-scarce desert.Zhao Shimin didn't hesitate, he opened his mouth to pick it up, and at the end he took a sip, just for aftertaste.

These few drops of dew were sweeter than the usual drinking water. Zhao Shimin still couldn't get enough of it, so he stretched out his hand to pull out another branch, but pulled out a black and gray mouse.

Zhao Shimin did not expect such a result, and the mouse looked particularly ferocious and frightening, with all its criss-crossed fangs exposed, and its gray-black fur seemed to be covered with dirty kerosene.

Terrified, Zhao Shimin threw the branch and the mouse far away.

The mouse rolled two times on the ground, hugged the branch and gnawed it non-stop. After a while, all the short branches were eaten by the mouse.

Unexpectedly, the mouse did not leave just then, but rolled on the sand, screaming at Zhao Shimin continuously.

Zhao Shimin stood up, waved a small branch in his hand, trying to drive away the mice with fire.However, the mouse seemed to have made up its mind, it just lay down on the sand and squeaked at Zhao Shimin.

"Go away!" The more Zhao Shimin looked at the mouse, the more disgusted he felt, and he didn't want to reach out to catch it, so he kept waving the burning branches, trying to drive the animal away with the fire.

The mouse was afraid of the fire, and whenever the fire approached, it backed away, but once Zhao Shimin retracted, it rushed back without giving up, circling around anxiously.

Zhao Shimin became more and more angry, and simply threw the burning branch in his hand at the mouse.The mouse happened to be hit, and sparks landed on its fur, turning into a huge fireball, stumbling towards Zhao Shimin, but only after a few steps, it completely burned out and turned into a pile of ashes.

Satisfied, Zhao Shimin was about to turn around and cook for a while, but unexpectedly heard a sound coming from the side.He had just killed a mouse with a scary face, and now his back felt cold, and he quickly turned his head to look.

It didn't look good, Zhao Shimin felt his scalp go numb, and he was about to jump up from the ground.

One of the camels had already stood up, and because of the reins, it could only jump around in a small area, trying to throw off the seven or eight mice on it!

But it was too late, more mice climbed up the hump along the camel's limbs, unceremoniously tore open the camel's body, got in and sucked the flesh and blood inside.

"Help... help!"

Zhao Shimin only felt that his legs were weak, and he stumbled and ran out!

The author has something to say: I have been too busy recently, and my work has changed. Try to update it every other day. I hope everyone understands