Judgment Day [Unlimited]

Xie Xingyin thought while eating, they must find a way to get water quickly.

Since the possibility of their own people was ruled out, the most likely person last night was the short one.

That person failed yesterday, and he might come again tonight.If they can catch him, they might be able to get water and food back.

The people walked for another whole day in the long yellow sand, without water or food, very uncomfortable.

After nightfall that night, everyone still set up tents and set up camp, but no one was arranged to keep vigil.

The dead branches and dry wood collected a few days ago were all used up, and the surrounding desert was so desolate that even the dead branches of bushes could not be found, and they could not find anything to use to light the fire.The temperature in the desert at night is extremely low. If they can't make a bonfire, they can't keep people outside the tent to watch the night.

So after nightfall that day, everyone returned to their tents to keep out the cold.

Xie Xingyin pulled Lao Liang over, and the three of them huddled together in a small tent, and then told Lao Liang what happened last night.

Old Liang was timid, so Xie Xingyin simply omitted those strange details, and only told him that the short man who stole their food might have returned.

"What is he doing here again? Aren't you afraid we'll whip him?" Lao Liang scratched his chin and said strangely, "Hey, you said he didn't ride a camel. Is it possible that something happened to someone on the road and lost everything? , so you're targeting us again?"

"It's indeed possible." Xie Xingyin said, taking out the remaining half of his dry food.

It still hurts a bit to say that he only has such a piece of dry food left.But he couldn't bear the child not being able to trap the wolf, so Xie Xingyin put the dry food as bait outside the camp.

He was afraid that the other party would not dare to come if he put it too close, so he put the bag at the foot of a sand dune, pretending it was a place to pile up supplies.

This distance is just right, not too close and not too far, if the other party comes to steal something, they can see it clearly.

The three of them hid in the tent and watched secretly.In the first half of the night, Lao Liang was so hungry that he couldn't stand it, his stomach was growling, and he just fell asleep for a while.

There was no snoring from Li Tiefeng here, and Lao Liang slept soundly, even dreaming in a daze.In the dream, he was leaning against the arms of two fairies and eating grapes, but before he could eat, he was suddenly woken up.

"Lao Liang, wake up, don't sleep." Xie Xingyin pushed his shoulder to wake him up, "Here we come—"

When Lao Liang heard this, he quickly rubbed his eyes and got up, opened the curtain and looked outside, and the figure really appeared on the opposite sand dune again.Lao Liang immediately rolled up his sleeves excitedly: "What are you waiting for! Copy the guy, he can't kill him."

Since the other party has followed for two consecutive nights, he must have some purpose that must be achieved.He didn't succeed the night before, and came back the next day at the risk of being caught by them.

Old Liang's only remaining good eye has excellent eyesight, and because he wears sunglasses all the year round, his night vision ability is also very strong.He also leaned over and looked out along the gap, but when Xie Xingyin wanted to ask him what he saw, Lao Liang didn't respond.

As soon as Xie Xingyin turned his head, he saw his frightened expression and trembling lips, as if he was going to pee in fear!

"What did you see?" Xie Xingyin asked quickly.

Old Liang's forehead was sweating, as if he had seen some weird scene: "Then, that man was wearing red clothes and squatting on the sand dunes over there."

"Red clothes?"

If he remembered correctly, the short man should have been wearing a black jacket.

"Yes, yes," Lao Liang said with difficulty, "Old Xie, why does this man in red look familiar to me..."

"look familiar?"

"Yeah, this one seems to be the night watchman who died the first night..."

Lao Liang's lips trembled, and cold sweat dripped down his back.

"How is it possible?" Xie Xingyin was shocked, and Lu Fen also turned serious.

They had checked clearly, the night watchman was already dead, and the body was thrown in the cave, how could he follow them all the way?

Could it be that the night watchman is not dead, and played them together with the short man?

Xie Xingyin raised his head to look at the figure, feeling even worse in his heart.The night watchman was dead when he was dead. When they found the body, it was cold and stiff. How could he be alive.

Old Liang's face turned pale, and he quickly touched the peace talisman in his pocket: "Could it be that the dead body has changed? No way, he can still turn dead in such a dry place...?"

Having said that, everyone has a little premonition.That figure is not an ordinary human being, but I can't confirm it until I walk in and see it.

Lao Liang vigorously took out his three-dollar safety talisman, and handed each of them a courageous one: "Those various lucky charms may not really work, but the chicken blood and cinnabar used to draw the charms are good for those ghosts." It's really useful. The big rooster crows against the sun every morning, and its blood and yang energy are the most abundant, and black and white are uncommon, and they are afraid of three points."

The figure on the hillside seemed to be very vigilant, squatting on the hillside for a long time, and finally came down.

He walked carefully to the pile of supplies, and instead of reaching for them, he squatted down and picked them up from the ground with his mouth open.

Under the cold white moonlight, Xie Xingyin saw it for real this time.The figure was really wearing red clothes, and it was by no means the short man.

What a hell.

Almost as soon as the figure picked up the object, Lu Fen who was beside him suddenly grabbed the knife and rushed out of the tent.The figure was startled, dropped the things and turned around to run.

Lu Fen's running speed was already against the sky, but it was still relatively slow to the naked eye, and he would soon be unable to catch up.

Xie Xingyin and Lao Liang also hurriedly followed, when they chased to the sand dune, Lu Fen was standing there, the bottom of the sand dune was covered with endless yellow sand, and he didn't even see a shadow.

The figure disappeared again.

Old Liang held his compass and looked at it, seeming relieved a lot: "This distance is enough for the compass to respond, but the needle didn't move at all just now. I suspect that the thing just now may not be a ghost or a zombie..."

Xie Xingyin asked: "It's not a ghost or a zombie, so what else can it be?"

The vicinity is full of yellow sand, let alone a hiding place, there is not even a larger stone.I don't know how that person disappeared without a trace again.

Lao Liang shook his head: "I don't know, it's not a ghost anyway, maybe we made a mistake, maybe it's a desert savage or something?"

Wild man in the desert, even Lao Liang himself didn't believe what he said.

And Lu Fen, who was the first to chase out, said very firmly: "I can see clearly, it was the night watchman just now."

—

The dead night watchman came back, and after knowing this, everyone was disturbed.Even when Lao Liang was on his way, he looked back suspiciously, always feeling that someone was following them.

Boss Hou drank all the water the day before yesterday. He was thirsty for a day and a night, his eyes were blurred, and he looked half dead like a dehydrated salted fish.As soon as he saw Lao Liang's heavy water bottle, his eyes almost lit up, and without saying a word, he took off the hundreds of thousands of Patek Philippe in his hand and pestered Lao Liang to change the water bottle.

But no matter how valuable a watch is, it doesn't matter how valuable it is. Of course, Lao Liang was not stupid enough to change it with him, holding his water bottle in his arms like a baby.

Xie Xingyin watched from a distance, wondering in his heart—everyone's kettles were already empty, how did Lao Liang get a full jar of water overnight?

At that time, the boss pestered him for a long time, seeing that he couldn't be deceived, and he was so thirsty that he could not be soft enough to be hard.He whispered something to his tall and burly bodyguard, and then watched his bodyguard walking towards Lao Liang with a sinister expression.

Without saying a word, the bodyguard went straight to Lao Liang, and snatched the kettle from his arms.

Old Liang didn't have as much strength as he did, and watched helplessly as the bodyguard snatched his water bottle, and even pretended to accidentally push him to the ground.

The bodyguard proudly brought the water bottle to Boss Hou, who got the water bottle, and lifted the lid impatiently with excitement on his face.Old Liang didn't even have time to stop him, he had already gulped down his stomach with his face raised.

Three seconds later, Boss Hou's face turned green, and he coughed desperately.

His expression was distorted with disgust, and he roared angrily: "God stick! What's in your pot!"

"Where the hell is there still water? That's my urine!" Lao Liang snatched the kettle back, very angrily, "I use it for emergencies, and I still feel sorry for you after taking a sip."

"..."

Just now, the bodyguard who was standing beside Boss Hou anxiously, waiting for the boss to drink and give him a few sips of water, silently straightened his clothes and turned his head away.

Boss Hou was very annoyed that he stole water but lost a lot of rice.Since when has he ever eaten this kind of suffocation, and walked to the back of the line angrily.

Lao Liang snorted, and picked up the kettle like a baby.

The group continued on their way.

In the evening, the setting sun in the desert stretched out the figure for a long time, swinging slowly across the sand dunes.

Most of the people were already out of breath, wishing to sit down on the ground to rest, and afraid of being left behind by others, they had to grit their teeth and follow.

Li Tiefeng, who was physically strong, walked in the front and led the way. Xie Xingyin and Lu Fen broke up behind the team, looking at Boss Hou in front of them, panting.

"What is that?!" A voice suddenly came from the front.

It is human nature to watch the crowds. Even though they were exhausted, everyone still looked forward one after another. Even Boss Hou straightened his neck.

There was something crouching on the sand not far ahead, like some white skeletons, more than half of which had been covered by the yellow sand.

Xie Xingyin squinted his eyes, seeing those big skeletons, definitely not ordinary little animals.

They stepped forward and took a closer look, and there were indeed two skeletons on the ground.One was clearly a human skeleton, and the other, a larger one, resembled a camel.

Xie Xingyin pushed some sand away with his hands, and together with Lu Fen, he dug out the entire human skeleton.

Also dug up was a black jacket with a string of ribs draped inside.Judging from the clothes, the skeleton in front of him was the short man who had escaped.

Xie Xingyin couldn't help frowning.This person died strangely. I don't know what happened to him on the road. He turned from a living person into a skeleton in just a few days, with no flesh left.

"There are tiny bite marks on the bones, as if they were eaten by something." Lu Fen looked through the bones and said, "The climate in the desert is dry, and the corpses cannot rot so quickly."

Judging from the depth of the sand, the man died before the night of the strong wind.The figure they were chasing in the wind and sand at that time was indeed not this person.

"It's called self-destruction if you do many unrighteous actions!" Boss Hou became angry when he saw him, and went up to the skeleton with two kicks, kicking his skull away.

If it weren't for this grandson, would he be a rich and powerful man who would still drink urine when he was starving!

Two of the ten people in the team died. Some looked serious, while others were secretly happy.There are still eight people left, so now the task reward has risen to five days per person.

Everyone searched around the bones, but found no food stolen by the short man.There are only two skeletons here, and all the food is gone.

Boss Hou's bodyguard stared greedily at the two skeletons on the ground, and couldn't resist taking a knife to split open a section of camel skeleton, and held it to his mouth to suck the raw blood and bone marrow.

The others looked at him strangely, but said nothing.They are so thirsty that they don't want to let go of a little water.

—

At night, Xie Xingyin sat in the tent and took out the clay tablet.

The pace of walking was slower than originally planned, and it took them another two days to get to the place.When the sun sets, perhaps there will be water to drink.

After discussing with Lu Fen, Xie Xingyin decided not to go out in the tent tonight.

Now that it is confirmed that the figure is not a short man who has turned into a skeleton, they don't have to chase it anymore.The other party always wants to lure them to other places. I don't know what their intentions are, and they can't be led by the nose.

After staying up for two consecutive days, Xie Xingyin's body couldn't hold it anymore, so he planned to sleep well tonight to preserve his strength.Lu Fen was lying beside him, very quiet, and seemed to be asleep.

In the middle of the night, Xie Xingyin was awakened by a nightmare.He dreamed that the night watchman had returned and got into their tent, and he opened his eyes suddenly in fright.

Xie Xingyin glanced at Lu Fen, who was closing his eyes.It's okay, it's just a nightmare.

There was no movement outside the camp, Xie Xingyin might have been disturbed by this nightmare, so he looked out suspiciously.

The sand dunes are empty, only a moon hangs, nothing unusual.

That thing didn't come tonight.

Xie Xingyin heaved a sigh of relief, changed to a comfortable position and lay down, and was about to fall back and continue to sleep when he suddenly felt something move from the corner of his eye.

In the dim tent, he saw behind Lu Fen's shoulder, a piece of tent fabric slowly collapsed, as if something was pushing their tent outside with his hands, gradually forming a depression——

At this time, Lu Fen seemed to have noticed something, and opened his eyes suddenly.Xie Xingyin looked at him in shock, before he had time to speak, Lu Fen had already made a judgment from his expression, and simply stabbed him with a backhand, and stabbed the thing outside firmly——

Xie Xingyin immediately turned over and opened the door curtain to chase after him, but it was still a step too late.

There is nothing outside the tent, only the cold wind blows.

"Run away." Lu Fen quickly followed.

It seems that the thing is really not a living thing, otherwise it must be crippled after being stabbed by him, how can it run so fast.

It was quiet everywhere, and there was nothing.Lu Fen walked around the tent and found something. He suddenly squatted down and picked something on the ground with the tip of his knife.

It was a small black beetle with two sharp mandibles, and it was not a good stubble at first glance.It was motionless and dead.

Xie Xingyin hesitated: "Beetle?"

"It's something that fell from its body." Lu Fen shook his head, unwilling to touch it with his hands as if he was a clean freak, and only held it in front of his eyes with the tip of a knife.

"The teeth are sharp. This guy looks like he eats meat."

Xie Xingyin took the handle of the knife from Lu Fen's hand, and stared at the bug, looking thoughtful.

"Brother, do you know what kind of bug this is?"

The moonlight hit Xie Xingyin's face, Lu Fen saw his serious expression, and thought he recognized this kind of bug.But Xie Xingyin said: "I don't know. But thanks to it, I suddenly remembered something."

Although the climate in the desert is dry, it is absolutely impossible that there is no water vapor at all.When the sun just rises, there is often fog, which is a rare time of day to get dew.

Xie Xingyin once saw in a certain science and education documentary that there is a kind of bug in the desert. Every morning, it would stand on the sand dunes and lift its buttocks, letting the mist condense on the buttocks to form dew, and then slip into its mouth.

It is a good way to collect dew.But they are not bugs, they can't stand on the sand dunes and stick their butts.

Xie Xingyin thought for a while, found a few pieces of thinner fabric from his luggage, and dismantled a few tent supports, and erected the fabric on the sand dune.

"Try to see if it works, but don't hold out too much hope. Let's see it tomorrow morning."

Xie Xingyin put an empty water bottle under the baggy depression, and went back to the tent with Lu Fen.

—

The next morning, Xie Xingyin was the first to wake up.

The sun had just risen and the air was warm.Xie Xingyin walked to the sand dune, touched the few pieces of cloth used to collect the dew, and it was really wet.

A thick layer of water has already accumulated in the kettle placed below to catch the dew.

Xie Xingyin put away the few wet cloths, and wrung out all the water inside, and took nearly half of the pot in total.Holding the hard-won dew, he raised his head and drank a few sips, then returned to the tent with the water bottle, and gave the water bottle to Lu Fen: "Let's make do with it."

Thinking about it, Lu Fen must have been a young master who didn't touch the spring water with his fingers in the past, but now he is running around in the desert, but he can only share such a little water with him from the same kettle.But Lu Fen didn't seem to mind, took a sip, then raised his eyebrows at him: "Thank you brother."