across mountains and seas

After walking west along the snow-covered sand dunes for two hours, passing through the tornado gorge with the sound of the wind, you can finally see the broken outline of the mirage in the distance.

I thought the mirage was just a place of two courtyards with dilapidated courtyard walls, but after seeing it with my own eyes, I can only sigh.

The mirage should be a city tower in the sand sea with a radius of several miles, and now only the dilapidated building of the main hall remains, crookedly half-hidden in the desert.

"This area should have been very prosperous back then." Jing Lan couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Bell jumped off the camel, raised his gun and looked in the direction of the mirage, "There's a lot of quicksand ahead, I'll take you inside."

"Thank you Miss Jin." Jing Lan also jumped off the camel and nodded gratefully.

Ling Dang said displeasedly: "Jing Lan, you don't have to be so polite." After a short pause, Ling Dang smiled and said, "But my great-grandfather said that people in Daliang are very polite, so I'll just get used to it." After she finished speaking, she smiled Looking at Youyou and Liu Xi who were walking over, "You two sisters have to get along. It looks quiet here, but in fact there are murderous intentions hidden. Sand snakes come and go from time to time, and they still bite and don't let go."

Liu Xi asked curiously: "Miss Jin is quite familiar with the area."

Ling Dang said seriously, "It's Grandpa who is familiar with this area."

"Oh?" Youyou's eyes lit up, this place is not familiar after just one or two visits, the old man Jin Shoujiang kept saying that there is no golden sand and silver sea here, maybe the old man led people to quietly evacuate it.

Ling Dang hesitated to speak, and finally chose to remain silent.

Those past events are not very interesting, even though we are considered friends with them, we don't have to explain everything.

Seeing that Lingdang held back her words, Liu Xi didn't get to the bottom of it, she smiled and said, "Let's take the Mirage Fountain quickly, let's go back quickly." Then, she glanced at Jing Lan and reminded, " Ah Lan, where is the jug for the spring water?"

Jing Lan patted the two pouches hanging on her waist, "They're all inside."

Liu Xi breathed a sigh of relief, untied the shadow around her waist, and held it in her hands, which would make her feel more at ease.

Jing Lan also untied Chong Xiao from her waist and held it in her hands.

Seeing the two people acting in harmony, Youyou couldn't help joking: "Tsk tsk, Young Master Jing seems to be becoming more and more docile, like a little sheep, he will do what his sister-in-law does."

"My Alan is already good, why should I teach you?"

"I'm happy to listen to my sister-in-law!"

Liu Xi and Jing Lan spoke in unison, and their proud expressions were exactly the same.

Youyou only felt in a trance, did these two people go together because of their long-cherished intentions?It's just getting more and more similar, even the tone of voice is exactly the same.

Jing Lan and Liu Xi looked at each other and smiled lightly, "Let's go."

This time, not only Youyou was stunned, but even Ling Dang was also stunned.

These two are clearly just uncles and sisters-in-law, how can they have such a good understanding?

Ling Ding didn't understand the reason for the tenderness in the eyes of the two when they stared at each other, but she could feel the warmth in their gentle eyes, warm enough to melt the white snow in the desert, without making a sound.

"Hey! Hey! There's something wrong with you two!"

If it were two people, Youyou would be able to give the right answer without any mistakes - two people are in love with each other.

its not right!

How could Liu Xi, whom she knew, fall in love with a brat who hadn't yet given the crowning ceremony?

How could the Jing Lan she knew dare to marry the widowed sister-in-law back to Haicheng?

"Alan and I are very good, don't think about it." Liu Xi said coldly, and when she looked at the bell, she smiled, "Miss Jin, don't be spoiled by Youyou, she has seen too much Fengyue, I often say something about Meng Lang, but my heart is quite pure."

Bell nodded blankly.

"Liu Xi, are you praising me or scolding me?" The more Youyou heard this, the more she felt something was wrong.

Liu Xi smiled mysteriously, "If you think it's a compliment, then it's a compliment, if you think it's a scolding, I don't say that much anyway."

"you……"

"Miss Youyou, don't be rude."

Jing Lan soared slightly into the sky, and stood between Youyou and Liuxi, making it clear that she was protecting her weaknesses.

"Young Master Jing, you are really domineering!" Youyou's beautiful eyes widened, it was by no means her illusion, Liu Xi had taught Jing Lan to be as domineering as her in the past few months.

Jing Lan nodded with a smile, "I'm being praised by Miss Youyou."

"The skin is also thick..." Youyou muttered, slightly annoyed, she could only take down the pipe, and slammed it a few times, pretending that she also vented her anger.

"Let's go, grandpa said, this place will become a fierce place after nightfall, and the quicksand will shift. We can only come out safely along the old road after waiting for the next morning." Bell glanced at the sky and urged.

"Ah."

The three followed the bell to avoid the quicksand mouth, and walked for about half an hour before they entered the mirage.

The beams in the building have decayed a lot, and the door leaves have been eroded beyond recognition by the wind and sand.

The cold wind passed through the building, and many rotten trees trembled with the wind, and occasionally there was a "creak" sound. This dilapidated building seemed to be blown down by the cold wind at any time, and finally buried in yellow sand, never to be seen again.

In the atrium of the mirage, there is an ancient well that has collapsed in half.

The bell pointed to the mouth of the ancient well, "The Fountain of Mirage is inside."

Jing Lan was about to go quickly to get water, but Liu Xi grabbed her arm and told her, "Snakes like cold, be careful if there are snakes hiding at the mouth of the well."

"En." Jing Lan nodded, slowed down, and approached the ancient well step by step vigilantly.

Looking at this dilapidated ancient building dully, this kind of place that has been broken for hundreds of years, no matter how much gold, sand and silver sea there is, it must have been cleaned up by people.

Come here for nothing.

Youyou dejectedly kicked the sand under her foot, and suddenly felt a pain in the bend of her leg, as if she had been hit hard by a stone, and her legs softened and she knelt on the ground.

"Who! Dare to sneak up on this girl..." Youyou turned around behind her, but there was no one behind, and there was no place to hide.

Liu Xi and Ling Dang heard her voice and turned to look at her.

"what happened?"

"There's a fifth person here!" Youyou stood up while patting the gravel at the corner of her skirt, she could be sure that someone was definitely sneak attacking just now.

Liu Xi subconsciously approached Jing Lan, pulled out Shu Ying, "Ah Lan, hurry up and fetch water."

Jing Lan didn't dare to hesitate, she took a hasty inspection and saw that there was no sand snake at the mouth of the well, so she threw down the wooden barrel beside the ancient well, brought up a bucket full of spring water, took out the kettle and started filling it.

Ling Dang approached Youyou with a gun, and stabbed a few times in the yellow sand behind Youyou with the silver gun.It is winter now, after the snow melts, it will harden the yellow sand, so it is impossible to hide people under the yellow sand.

"No one." Ling Dang looked around again, there were obviously only four people here, where did the fifth one come from?

The more Youyou thought about it, the weirder she became, she was not even reconciled, being beaten by that man for no reason and knelt down, it was really abominable!Thinking of this, Youyou held his breath, and looked deep into the broken building, "I'll go inside and have a look! I'm sure to catch this pretender!"

"Youyou, be careful." Liu Xi knew that Youyou would not play this show inexplicably. She said that there was a fifth person who did not show up. Ghosts are even scarier.

"It's rare that you care about me, so of course I have to be careful!" Youyou raised her eyebrows and smiled, holding a pipe and stepping into the broken building.

The furnishings of the dilapidated building have long lost its original appearance. Although the inside is large, because the building has been dilapidated for many years, at a glance, there are only rotten logs full of holes, so naturally there is no one to hide.

Youyou subconsciously raised her eyes slowly, but instantly froze in place.

"Miss Youyou, what did you find?" Ling Dang couldn't help asking after seeing Youyou standing there with her head up for a while.

Youyou remained motionless and did not answer.

Jing Lan had already filled the four small water bottles and tied them back to the side of her leather belt. Looking at Youyou's back, she always felt that this scene seemed familiar.

"Not right..."

"Alan, do you still remember the black shadow that attacked us in the Temple of Death?"

Liu Xi stopped Jing Lan, turned to the bell and said, "Don't act rashly, I'll go and have a look."

"But..." Jing Lan was worried.

"If that person sneaks up on me from behind, you have to protect me!" Liu Xi nodded to Jing Lan.

Jing Lan nodded heavily.

But before Liuxi could make arrangements, I saw Youyou lowered her head, and turned around very slowly - she didn't raise her head, and walked slowly towards this side with her head drooping.

Ling Dang felt a little apprehensive, and couldn't help sneaking towards Jing Lan's side.

Liu Xi could see it in her eyes, so it was not easy to make trouble, after all, there was something different about Youyou at this time, she was only worried about Youyou or the sudden onset of corpse poison.Liu Xi reminded Jing Lan in a low voice, "Suppressing Corpse Grass."

"The corpse-suppressing grass is with you." Jing Lan replied in a low voice.

Liu Xi naturally remembered that it was on her waist, but now she was holding the scabbard in one hand and Shuying in the other, and she couldn't open the pouch with the corpse-suppressing grass on her waist.

"You take it out for me." She quietly squeezed between Ling Dang and Jing Lan.

"Okay." Jing Lan put away the pouch, just pinched the mouth of the pouch when Liu Xi suddenly pushed it away.

I saw Liu Xi pushing Jing Lan away with the scabbard, protecting the bell by her side and retreating three steps in a row, watching You You suddenly rushing towards him like a madman, but after being out of the air, he jumped into the ancient well .

"Plop!" The sound of the water was muffled, and the depth of the water was unknown.

"Yuyou!" Liu Xi blurted out, and jumped to the edge of the well, and in the dim light, Youyou could be seen thumping continuously in the well water, "Hold on! I threw the bucket down, and you have a good hold on it!"

"Ah...hh..."

The well water was icy cold, bitingly cold, but after soaking through the fur clothes, the well water stained the green veins on Youyou's back, causing a severe pain like gouging out flesh.

Under the severe pain, Youyou suddenly woke up, but there were smooth stone walls all around, no matter how much she scratched, she couldn't use the momentum to climb up an inch.

"Hiss...pain...so painful..." Youyou didn't have time to understand why this happened, she just felt something wanted to come out of her veins.

The color of blood gradually seeped out of the middle coat, then the fur coat, and finally a smear of blood bloomed in the well water.

The strong smell of blood suddenly permeated, and Youyou knew that the smell of blood was not only her own, she reluctantly sniffed the source of the smell of blood, "Danger! Liuxi! What's wrong with you outside? Such a strong smell of blood!"

"Boom!"

As soon as her words fell, all the light was completely blocked.

Liu Xi wanted to throw down the wooden barrel, but the moment the wooden barrel fell into the mouth of the well, it was bounced up—the ancient well seemed to have touched some mechanism, and suddenly sealed the mouth of the well.

What's more terrible is that the sound of snakes and insects crawling around the mirage sounded one after another, followed by a strong smell of blood.

"Crack!"

In the depths of the mirage, somewhere suddenly broke, and there was an empty sound.

The vigilant three people by the well felt that their feet were empty, and it was too late to take advantage of the momentum to jump out.

"Xi'er!" In desperation, Jing Lan called out urgently, stretched out her arms to hook Liu Xi's waist, hugged Liu Xi into her arms, and fell under the mechanism together.

The author has something to say: More text~ Yes, this time the light bulb turned into a golden bell~