Judgment Day [Unlimited]

Xie Xingyin couldn't help turning his head to look at Lu Fen. This young master Lu was leaning on his shoulder, staring at him with those indifferent and innocent eyes.

"what happened?"

The questioning words stuck in his throat, and suddenly he couldn't speak again.

never mind.Xie Xingyin shook his head, omitted the content about the monster Humbaba, and told Lu Fen the part about the tree of life.

Lu Fen's expression changed slightly: "The painful soul watering?"

Xie Xingyin was also wondering in his heart: "I'm not sure what this means, painful soul... Do you remember those stone statues we saw before?"

"Yeah." Those Tintin statues.

"Those statues should be the god Baal they believed in. Although the belief in it in the Mesopotamia region gradually declined after the rise of other religions, the worship of Baal god in the Central Asian grasslands and Mongolian grasslands has been preserved for a long time. down."

"Reproductive worship was very common in ancient times. For example, the word 'and' in our oracle bone inscriptions also refers to that shape, which is derived from the word 'zu' for ancestors, representing the origin of all things... and the original Bon religion, that is, Shamanism, inherited This Baal cult, they believed that the soul entered the baby through the father's penis."

Lu Fen is also a smart person, so he raised his eyebrows: "Oh, so the painful soul may refer to—"

Xie Xingyin nodded with a tragic expression.

"If you want to practice this skill, you should go to the palace first."

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That night, everyone set up camp in the desert.

Old Liang stayed in the middle of the night, and Xie Xingyin sat with him by the campfire for a while, and talked to him about the "soul of pain".

"Hiss, that's really painful..." Lao Liang stared at him with a painful expression on his face.

"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, there are seven men here, it probably won't be my turn!"

"..."

"If we had known this earlier, we would have to carry that night watchman's body back no matter what!"

Old Liang complained dejectedly, and came up with bad ideas: "Oh right, can we capture that leader and chop him up? Anyway, he is not a real person."

Xie Xingyin comforted him: "Let's think of a way as a last resort. This is just my own guess, right? It's not certain. What you should worry about now is what will happen tonight."

The murderer who killed the night watchman last night is still in their team, and that person is likely to do it again.

Xie Xingyin subjectively believed that the murderer would not be in a hurry to strike in the first half of the night, otherwise he would be easily discovered by shift workers, but he still couldn't take it lightly.He gave Lao Liang a few more instructions and returned to his tent.

Xie Xingyin also knew that Lao Liang was not very reliable, so he exchanged with him and offered to ask to be guarded in the middle of the night.

"I'll keep an eye on it in the first half of the night." Lu Fen said lightly, "Brother will be on guard later, so go to bed first. I'll call you if there's a situation."

Xie Xingyin was also tired after traveling and traveling all day, so he obediently lay down and rested.

According to their current speed, they can walk to the land of sunset in two days.

Lu Fen opened the tent a crack, and quietly monitored the movement outside from there.

Since birth, people have lived in noisy cities most of the time, and the night sky is filled with neon lights and the sound of cars.Sitting in such a desert far away from the smoke and smoke of the world, Xie Xingyin closed his eyes and fell asleep after a while.

At two o'clock in the middle of the night, the moon hangs high in the sky.When it was time to change shifts, Xie Xingyin was woken up by Lu Fen in a daze.

Lu Fen stuffed the saber into Xie Xingyin's hand and asked him to go out to replace Lao Liang.

Xie Xingyin lifted the curtain, and went out to watch over the campfire alone, so as not to startle the snake.

He purposely sat obliquely towards the direction of the tent, observing his surroundings from the corner of his eye.

It was very quiet in the desert at night, not a single insect could be heard, only the faint snoring coming from an unknown tent.

The bonfire was crackling, and no one was talking to him. Xie Xingyin was also a little sleepy, but he still pulled himself together.The bonfire flickered, casting a soft golden light on his side face.

The rock wall riddled with holes in front of me has stood here for tens of thousands of years.There was dead silence in the sky and the earth, and Xie Xingyin felt in a trance that he was the only one left in the world.

Just when Xie Xingyin was drowsy and almost thought that that person would not act again tonight, a shadow flashed in the corner of his eye - a person came out of the tent.

Xie Xingyin was shocked immediately, no sleepiness at all.He pretended not to see, and quietly observed the other party's movement from the corner of his eye.

The man moved very quickly, and Xie Xingyin judged from his body shape that it was the short man who fed the camels yesterday.

He was sneaky, obviously not just at night.Xie Xingyin looked at the black figure and found that he quietly walked to the side of the camel and started to rummage through things.

Xie Xingyin was not in a hurry to say anything, he wanted to wait and see what he was going to do.I saw the man paw and pull in the cloth bag for a while, and unexpectedly came up with a handful of hay.

He divided the hay equally among the camels.The camels were very happy to have supper, and they all lowered their heads to chew.

Xie Xingyin was puzzled.What is this for?The man turned out to be just feeding the camels hay.

But what is he doing running out to feed the camels in the middle of the night, can't sleep and get up to find some work?

Lu Fen quietly signaled to him in the tent here, Xie Xingyin shook his head slightly, signaling him to wait and see what that man was going to do.

The short man over there had just finished feeding the grass, and before he had time to move again, another person emerged from another tent.

The new one was of medium build, so it was hard to identify him.Xie Xingyin immediately became alert, could it be that the crime was committed by a gang?

However, in the next second, he heard Lao Liang's cry: "Hey! What are you doing!"

It turned out that Lao Liang got up to pee in the middle of the night. As soon as he came out, he saw someone sneaking around beside the camel, and he quickly scolded him.

The short man was spotted and was about to run away when he saw the situation was not going well. Lao Liang grabbed his collar to prevent him from running away, but he caught a handful of sand by surprise and threw it towards his face——

Lao Liang didn't wear sunglasses when he came out to pee. Suddenly, his eyes were blinded by the sand, and he sat down on the ground in pain.

The change happened in an instant, Xie Xingyin got up immediately, it was still a step too late.

The short man flipped onto the camel quickly, kicked it three times in the stomach, and the camel carried him out like a mad dog.

Xie Xingyin rushed over, stepped on Lao Liang's shoulder, and mounted another camel to chase after him.But as soon as he kicked it, instead of running forward, the camel fell straight down on its knees——

Unexpectedly, Xie Xingyin fell off the camel and bumped into Lu Fen who came after him.

The camel didn't know what kind of wind was blowing, Xie Xingyin's fall was almost a smash, and under the action of inertia, the two of them both rolled down on the sandy ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.

In the confusion, Xie Xingyin's chin hit Lu Fen's hard collarbone, and he gasped in pain.

During the delay, the short man had already ridden away on a camel and disappeared into the darkness.

The two who fell on the ground were a little embarrassed.Xie Xingyin was afraid that he would crush the young master, so he wanted to get up from him, but he couldn't push his legs hard, and fell back again——

I don't know if he bumped into something that shouldn't be hit, Lu Fen's expression changed obviously.But he didn't say anything in the end, and carefully grabbed Xie Xingyin's wrist to help him up.

"Are you okay?"

Xie Xingyin shook his head and patted the dust off his body.Looking down again, the camel he was riding just now had foamed at the mouth and fell to the ground, humming.

Except for the one that was ridden away by the short man, the remaining four camels were the same, and they seemed to be dying.

At their feet was a large handful of uneaten hay.Xie Xingyin knelt down and grabbed a handful to look in his hand, and found that there was a lot of poisonous shrubs in the dry grass!

The guide had already said that camels should not eat this, but the short man went so far as to poison all the camels to death.

This is clearly to put them to death and take 100 days of survival time alone.

Xie Xingyin weighed it up and knew that he would definitely not be able to catch up.It was dark now, and it was dangerous for them to pursue them on foot recklessly.

So they pulled Lao Liang up, washed his eyes with clean water, took out his fake eyeballs, washed them clean, and put them back in again.I don't have the conditions to do additional disinfection, and I don't know if it will cause infection.

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After dawn, everyone who woke up had to face the bad news.

To make matters worse, everyone checked and found that the original food bag had been stolen by someone at some point, and it was full of sand and weeds.

Xie Xingyin remembered that the short man acted quietly last night, and it is very likely that he used to be a pickpocket.

It doesn't matter that he poisoned the camel, but he didn't know when he sneaked away and stole the food. Did he really want to leave a little way for them to survive.

Old Liang knew that he had been guarding an empty bag all night last night, so he was so angry that he almost lost his breath.

Fortunately, he was short and couldn't carry such a heavy material by himself, maybe he knew that Xie Xingyin and Boss Hou were not very easy to do so so he gave up.

The camels died, supplies were lost, and they had to walk across the desert on their own to the land of the sunset.What was originally a two-day journey on a camel would at least double on foot.

Things are really bad right now.

Everyone is very angry about what happened last night, but there is no way to undo it

The camel was gone, they had to continue on the road, the short man had already set off ahead of them, if he took the elixir first, they would die.

The remaining eight people have a common enemy, and it is rare to unite.Now I can't even find the shadow of the land of the sunset, and before it's time to tear my face apart, even Boss Hou is willing to share his few food with everyone.

Xie Xingyin also knew that the current imbalance of materials would easily lead to violent conflicts, which would do them all harm but not any benefit, so he compromised and took out everything.

Even so, everyone put food together, barely enough for a day.

"We still have one day's worth of food, and it's not hopeless. At worst, we will starve for two days." Li Tiefeng said, "Everyone should save some food. After eating, we will have to drink northwest wind."

At that time, the boss saw that he had been sitting in the office all year round. After walking a few steps, he gasped for breath and sweated all over his body.

The dry ground was full of cracks, some cracks were wider than the soles of the feet, and if they accidentally landed, they would get stuck, which greatly affected their forward speed.

After traveling like this for a whole day, at dusk that day, they finally reached the junction of the desert and the wilderness.

"Let's camp here and take a good rest. We will enter the desert tomorrow," said the guide.

After entering the desert, everything will never be the same as before.If they had been trekking hard in the wilderness these days, then the desert they were going to enter next was the real death zone.

There they will see no vegetation, nor will they see any living things except poisonous snakes and insects, nor will they find any source of food or water.There is only boundless yellow sand in front of you, and you have to endure the scorching and drying of the scorching sun.

That night it was the turn of Li Tiefeng and Boss Hou to watch the night.The guide glanced at the sky, and the moon had been covered by thick black clouds.

"It's going to be windy tonight. No one should leave the camp after nightfall." The guide solemnly warned them.

Everyone returned to the tent to rest. After walking all day, everyone was very tired. After a while, the camp became completely quiet and fell asleep.

Sure enough, after nightfall, the wind and sand became stronger.The surrounding area is flat and sandy, so it is not easy to form an echo, but from the tent, it sounds like the wind is whistling and has a lot of momentum.The wind caused the tent to shake slightly, and the flashlight hung on the top of the tent by Lu Fen also flickered.

Xie Xingyin lay down casually with his head in his hands, turned his head to look at Lu Fen sitting beside him, the shaking flashlight hit him, illuminating half of his face.Xie Xingyin saw from bottom to top in the shaking light and shadow, half of Lu Fen's face was hidden in the shadow, but the bridge of his nose was so straight and beautiful that it seemed to be able to reflect the light.

He was sitting casually with one long leg bent, wiping his knife with a silk cloth.Lu Fen's knuckles were slender and powerful, and his movements were loose but somewhat inexplicably elegant. He wiped the cold sharp blade with a soft cloth one after another.

Xie Xingyin was also tired, watching Lu Fen's movements, his eyelids became heavy, and he closed his eyes at some point.

In the middle of the night, the wind became louder.The sound was a little scary, like a harbinger of a storm coming on a summer night.

But now is the dry season, there is no rain in the desert, only hurricanes and dust.

The wind outside the tent became louder and louder, and Xie Xingyin was awakened by the sound.

When he opened his eyes, he saw that Lu Fen was not sleeping, but sat up, looking solemnly outside the tent.

"What happened?" Xie Xingyin knew something was wrong when he saw his expression, and sat up quickly.

Lu Fen gently lifted the door curtain, and the sound of the wind rushed in.He motioned Xie Xingyin to look out.

"Brother, look at the sand dunes over there."

The strong wind kicked up the dust all over the sky, and the visibility was very low amidst the wind and sand all over the sky.Xie Xingyin looked in the direction Lu Fen pointed, and narrowed his eyes slightly.

——A figure quietly appeared on the sand dunes in the distance.

The figure merged with the desert night behind, and if you didn't look carefully, you would almost miss it.