After being reborn, he became cinnabar in the heart of Quanxianmen

The camel's difficult climb is like carrying a heavy weight of iron.The slowly flowing sand is like a yellow python, tightly entwining its prey.The four of them were like a boat sailing against the current and lost its anchor, swaying in the huge vortex.

Lu Ran looked at the calm ground in the distance, and shouted to Song Jun, "How far can you throw a four-two-weight spear?"

Song Jun replied subconsciously: "At most twenty feet. Why do you ask this..." She suddenly came to her senses: "You brought the [Immortal Spear]? But it is used in water!"

With one hand, Lu Ran pulled the reins to control the panic-stricken camel, and with the other hand, he took out a white spear about ten feet long from the Qiankun bag, and shouted: "I modified the runes on it before I left! It can be used on sand In the ground! Throw to the northwest. Twenty feet is enough!"

[Immortal Spear], a secluded magic weapon.After being thrown, it will be fixed in place and cannot be shaken, hence the name.

It was originally a magic weapon for positioning in the flowing lake water for the immortal families on both sides of the lake to get rid of water ghosts.When preparing for his departure, Lu Ran changed the direction in which the spiritual veins flowed so that it could be used in the sea of ​​sand.

Just as Lu Ran was about to throw the spear/spear to Song Jun, the front paw of the camel suddenly fell into the quicksand and lost its balance.The long/spear was out of hand and had deviated from the direction.

As soon as it was about to brush Song Jun's outstretched fingertips and flew over, with a ding, Ah Ying shot out a sleeve arrow and collided with the spear.The Immovable Spear, like a white gull in the sky, slid over an arc and landed in Song Jun's hands successfully.

The camels of several people were connected together, and Yi Yao, who was at the front, threw the leading rein into Song Jun's hand.Song Jun quickly tied a knot on the spear, took a deep breath, and the spear flew towards the direction indicated by Lu Ran like a rainbow piercing the sun.

The Immovable Spear is firmly inserted into the sandy ground in the distance, the spiritual veins flow on the pure white gun shaft, and the unique magic circle of the magic weapon is opened, which cannot be moved or shaken.The camel borrowed strength from the reins connected to the long/spear, and staggered with difficulty towards the outside of the quicksand vortex.

With a bang, huge sandworms burst out from behind them.The giant pillar-like body cast a huge black shadow, hanging over everyone's heads like a nightmare.

Grains of sand fell down one after another, and Lu Ran got sand in his eyes, mouth and nose, and coughed continuously with tears.The camel neighed in horror, and struggled hard without listening to Lu Ran's command.

No wonder this quicksand pit moves so fast...

This is simply a bug nest!

A Ying, who was at the end, flew behind Lu Ran along the rope, covered the camel's eyes with a cloth, took the reins from Lu Ran's hand, and barely controlled the camel to continue walking forward.

Yi Yao, who was at the front, walked out of the quicksand pit first, and reached the temporarily calm sandy ground. Song Jun followed him and jumped to the ground, reaching out to Lu Ran and Ying who were about to get out of danger behind——

A sandworm that had been dormant for an unknown amount of time rushed out from under the two of them with incredible speed!A Ying and Lu Ran were like bait thrown in the air, and below was the huge mouth of the giant worm full of sharp teeth like an abyss!

Song Jun's expression changed so suddenly that he didn't notice the thick black air around the fingertips of the mortal businessman beside him.

Aying reacted very quickly, hugging Lu Ran by the waist, slashed at the reins connected to the camel with a knife, and jumped into the air following the impact of the sandworm.

This is a slightly smaller sandworm.However, compared to other behemoths, this worm with the thickness of the carriage compartment appears a little slender.The camel that walked alone at the end was eaten half of its body in one bite, and blood spurted out.

A Ying and Lu Ran landed on the worm's back.Under the rough skin, brown liquid could be vaguely seen flowing through the blood vessels.Lu Ran stood firm, shedding tears to clean the sand from his eyes.

A Ying half-knelt aside, shook out a black copper tube as thick as a forearm from his mustard seed bag, and inserted it fiercely through the folds of his skin.

Lu Ran glanced at the copper pipe in surprise, before he could ask a question, the body of the sandworm on the soles of its feet began to tremble violently due to the pain.Lu Ran slipped on the sole of his foot and almost fell.The worm twisted its ring-shaped body, trying to burrow into the ground again.A Ying took advantage of the situation to push Lu Ran into the air.

The sandworm didn't have the good thing of having food delivered directly to its mouth, so it immediately opened its mouthparts full of sharp teeth again.Song Jun threw a long whip around Lu Ran's waist and rolled him around.The sandworm's huge mouth narrowly brushed against Lu Ran's body and closed, blowing out a violent airflow.Lu Ran tilted his body and was about to fall to the ground.Yi Yao took a few steps back and stretched out his arms, just in time to catch Lu Ran.

It stands to reason that a normal mortal would have to sprain his wrist if he didn't break a bone.But Yi Yao was completely fine, he put Lu Ran's head on the side of his neck, and hugged him tightly with his arms.

It didn't occur to Lu Ran to be surprised by the abnormal iron arm.He subconsciously rubbed Yi Yao's neck comfortingly, then turned and looked back at A Ying who was still in danger.A Ying was like a bat in the dark night, nimbly positioned on the worm, and jumped towards the direction of the crowd with his strength.

The howling wind came quickly.The thick tail of the sandworm struck Aying, and was pulled away by Song Jun's long whip.

But Song Jun didn't have time to catch A Ying with his second whip.Seeing that A Ying was about to break the string and fall like a kite, Yi Yao's eyes were dark, two blood lines faintly appeared in his pupils, and black air gathered on his back.Ah Ying felt as if she was being pulled by an invisible hand, and she flew into the air again.

In this little time, Lu Ran mobilized his spiritual power, and the barrier of the Immovable Spear shattered in an uproar.He grabbed the spear and threw it in Aying's direction.

A Ying raised his eyebrows, his flexible body twisted in an incredible arc, kicked on the spear with his toes, and landed beside Song Jun smoothly.

The Immovable Spear is not an offensive magic weapon, it can only cause one point of damage to the rough-skinned sandworm, but unfortunately it is interpreted as a [-]% taunt.The furious sandworm squirmed its dark red body and attacked several people.

Yi Yao picked up Lu Ran, and Song Jun took A Ying and fled in the opposite direction.Spiritual power poured out from Song Jun's body, and the mana of Huo Lingen shimmered with a faint red light.The copper pipe inserted on the sandworm's back received an induction clank, and the golden-red runes floated on the surface of the black pipe like molten iron.

When the spiritual power reached its peak, the copper pipe exploded.Accompanied by an earth-shattering loud noise, countless thick brown liquid spewed out, and the sandworm fell to the ground with a groan.Yi Yao pinched a spell with his hands in his sleeves, and an invisible barrier unfolded, blocking the impact of the explosion.

Those disgusting giant insect bodies/liquids fell like raindrops, barely landing in front of the toes of several people.A few small brown meat worms fell on the sand with the viscous body/fluid, wriggling desperately.Although it is only the size of a thumb, it has a sharp giant jaw.

Lu Ran suppressed his nausea and looked at the larva on the ground: "What is this? It looks like a parasite inside the giant sand worm?"

Song Jun guessed with a hint of uncertainty: "Is this... locust larvae? Eight years ago, when I led the army to relieve the locust disaster in the Central Plains, I saw something similar."

Lu Ran looked confused: "There are locusts in the desert?"

A Ying nodded: "Yes. I read about it in the customs of foreign countries, the migratory locusts in the desert..."

Her blue pupils shrank suddenly, and she was about to throw Song Jun and Lu Ran down when she rushed over.Lu Ran only felt his body lighten, and Yi Yao pulled him back suddenly, and the two of them fell down on the sand together.A Ying dragged Song Jun to roll back.

The sand not far away suddenly collapsed.

The four of them knelt on the sand, gasping for breath with lingering fear, and watched another slightly larger sand worm snake its body out, dragged the body of the sand worm to the ground bit by bit, and devoured it greedily. The sticky swallowing sound of the same kind of flesh and blood came from the ground.

Lu Ran paled: "This..."

In the distance where the night was thick, countless sandworms gushed out.A sandy land almost the size of a small town collapsed, and in the resulting deep pit, countless wriggling long worms were tangled together, biting each other, and cannibalizing each other.The sea of ​​sand is like the carcass of some kind of animal, and the swarm of sand worms are densely packed maggots writhing wildly on the wound.

Everyone looked at the grotesque and terrifying scene in the distance, and they were speechless.

Several people discussed it and decided not to rest, but to drive all night.Yi Yao corrected his direction, and the four of them bypassed the wormhole far away and headed towards Sumuya in a detour.

Lu Ran slowly regained his mana while riding on the back of the camel, and Yi Yao held the reins for him.Looking back at the wildly dancing scene of insects behind him, he murmured, "Are such large-scale insect swarms common in the desert?"

Yi Yao shook his head: "Sumuya used to be the must pass through from the Great Zhou Dynasty to the countries of the Western Regions. This road leads directly to Sumuya. There are very few insect infestations."

A Ying added: "I have read a travelogue of ghosts. Giant worms live in the hinterland of the desert, feed on the black soil underground, and occasionally hurt people. In the centuries-old historical records, there has never been a large-scale giant sand worm swarm break out.."

Song Jun looked back worriedly in the direction of Dingcheng.

Lu Ran comforted, "Sandworms can only swim in the soft sand. Dingcheng is on the Gobi, so there is no danger. Besides, Dingcheng still has weapons and equipment, and a batch of gunpowder was just confiscated yesterday. Speaking of this -"

He looked at A Ying curiously: "What is that copper pipe you inserted into the sandworm?"

A Ying took out a copper pipe from the mustard bag and handed it to Lu Ran.Song Jun glanced at Lu Ran suspiciously: "Aren't you an instrument repairer? You don't even know this?"

The brass arms are thick and thin, the body is slender and graceful, and the black paint has a cold and solemn light.The top is extremely hard and sharp, and it seems that it can easily cut through the rock wall and insert it.

Lu Ran looked at the runes on the brass tube by the moonlight, and sent out a trace of spiritual power to explore the inside of the magic weapon along the gap, and hesitantly asked, "This is... the firearm from the Yanni Pavilion?"

Song Jun nodded: "The proud work of the Flame Salt Pavilion, [Thunder-Sounding Tube]. After infused with spiritual power, it can produce a violent explosion. If placed properly, only a few dozen tubes can blow up an entire small hill. So use it with caution."

She glanced at Lu Ran: "Forget it, if you don't practice martial arts, you can almost poke your own people even if you throw an immovable spear. To be safe, you should not use it at all."

Lu Ran said awkwardly: "Ah, is there any? I think A Ying cooperated well with me just now."

Yi Yao chuckled and blinked his eyes.Aying's face was cold and kind-hearted, and she didn't have the nerve to expose the truth.Only Song Jun was more upright, complaining:

"Your shot almost scared me to death. It's a good thing it was Aying, otherwise I would have been stabbed to death by you before being swallowed by insects. Didn't Fu Xiao say that you are another one-in-a-hundred-year-old born after Jianqing? The wizard of the sword bone? May I ask where are you the wizard?"

Lu Ran: "..."

Didn't your great Zhou royal family cultivate the art of speaking?

The climate in the desert is treacherous and unpredictable. It is already noon, and the sky is still shrouded in an ominous haze. It is gray and there is no sunlight.At this time, the four encountered the second wave of insect swarms.

A dozen or so scorpions covered with hard armor, under the cover of the sand, quietly surrounded the four of them, raised their tails nearly one person high, and the tail stings at the end shone with a highly poisonous light.

But the group of scorpions did not love to fight. After Aying Luran and Song Jun killed one each, the group of scorpions gave up their entanglement and left as quietly as when they came.

During the melee, a camel was accidentally stabbed by a scorpion tail, and fell to its knees, foaming at the mouth and convulsing in pain.A Ying half-kneeled on the ground, and a pair of shadow knives appeared in his hands and cut its throat, giving it an end.

Song Jun was so tired that she didn't want to talk, she drank water silently.Yi Yao knelt down and tied up Lu Ran's robe where the scorpions had scratched it.Lu Ran looked at the scorpions leaving in a hurry, feeling a lot of uneasiness and apprehension in his heart.

The four led the only remaining camel forward.At dusk, they encountered the third wave of insect swarms.Under the dark night, countless palm-sized flatworms that could not be named came flooding in like a black tide.The shiny black carapace hides a soft belly.Dozens of thin black legs that are as short as cold hair support the oblate body.

These bugs are blood sucking.The flatworms spread over the ankles like overflowing black water, biting open the seams of the cotton boots on the soles of everyone's feet, sneaking into the shoes along the gaps in the boots, and even up the trouser legs, leaving itchy and painful bruises on the legs. blood spots.

Lu Ran closed his eyes, relying on his spiritual perception to move forward in the insect swarm.Even so, the sticky feeling of the bugs being crushed from the soles of his feet still made him feel chills one after another.

Song Jun, on the other hand, was almost crushed by the worms that were rustling on the soles of her feet and wriggling on her legs. She tried her best not to burn all the nearby flatworms and clothes on fire.In the end, he was almost dragged out of the sea of ​​insects with the help of A Ying and Lu Ran.

Yi Yao lit a torch for deterrence, and Ah Ying shot a rocket to open the way.Lu Ran circulated his spiritual power, forming a thin barrier around everyone, and the four of them struggled forward amidst the swarm of insects all over the mountains and plains.

Helplessly, there are too many flatworms, and the few people have already consumed a lot of spiritual power to deal with the previous two waves of insect swarms.Finally had to give up the last camel.

Countless sandworms swarmed over and climbed onto the back of the camel. The camel wailed and fell into the sea of ​​insects. The innocent big eyes silently looked at the direction of the few people leaving, and were soon drowned in the dense blood-sucking insects. nautical mile.

The four of them took advantage of this little time gap to speed up their escape, rushed out of the insect swarm, and sat slumped on the sand.

Everyone looked tired and ragged.At the beginning, Lu Ran still used tactic to clean his clothes, but later the clothes were soaked with the dark yellow slimy body/liquid of flatworms, and he couldn't clean them off at all.Yi Yao gently wiped off the stains on Lu Ran's cheeks with his sleeve, and Lu Ran smiled weakly at him.

Song Jun accidentally sprained her foot, but she didn't seem to feel the pain at all, she just kept cleaning up the remains of flatworms like crazy, her hands trembled uncontrollably, her face twisted like she was about to cry .Aying really couldn't think of words to comfort her, and helped her apply herbal medicine on her ankle without saying a word.

Lu Ran blankly looked in the direction of Su Muya in the distance.Harsh weather, violent sand and dust, ferocious horse bandits, and nightmare swarms of insects.He really doesn't know what is worth people traveling thousands of miles to come to this kind of place to suffer.

He subconsciously asked in a low voice: "Why are there still people willing to live in such a dangerous place?"

Yi Yao looked towards the sky, his eyes seemed to be shrouded in clouds:

"Because this is their hometown."

Aying supported Song Jun, Yi Yao pulled Lu Ran, and the four of them staggered forward slowly.

It was already late at night, and I couldn't see my fingers.As if strayed into a strange secret place, there is no life at all, only the huge black sand dunes stretching silently into the distance.

The vastness of the world, the indistinctness of being alone, the indescribable loneliness and fear shrouded my heart.I don't know where I am, and I don't know where Angelica is going.In the wandering dark night, even his own heartbeat seemed to be gradually frozen in the severe cold.

Yi Yao stretched out his hand to Lu Ran, and Lu Ran gently hooked his little finger.The warm touch of the skin caress reminded him that he was not alone.

Facing the cold wind like a knife, several people limped up a sand dune.Lu Ran bent down to support his knees and panted slightly, feeling that Yi Yao beside him patted his shoulder lightly.

Lu Ran raised his head and looked in the direction he pointed——

It was the darkest and most silent time in the desert.The bright and soft moonlight quietly shines on the ancient town.The ancient and primitive stone buildings are like goddesses in silver gauze.Sporadic lights dotted her soft and pure face.

All the hardships, all the sorrows, all the loss, uneasiness, grievance and loneliness seem to fade away at this moment.Only the Populus euphratica under the moon is left in the evening wind.The rustling sound is like a ballad echoing in a distant dream.

Lu Ran suddenly remembered the question he asked Yi Yao in a Sumuya ballad:

"When will we meet you again?"

"Tonight, under the moon, in a dream."

The author has something to say:

Two very important magic weapons: [Immortal Spear], [Thundering Tube]

Among them, the latter is referred to as Lei/Guan (bushi), and the former will be the MVP of the entire "Sand Sea" chapter~

PS: I can understand that body/fluid needs to be separated, but why is the word long/gun also blocked?What about Ma Chao, Yue Fei, and Yang Yanzhao?Fight the enemy with your mouth?