Chapter 85: Two young men, unable to tell the difference between Youdu and Youdu...
"The wind is cool, but a little irritating... it's too cold up here."
Chu Xiuyan sighed.
The system was speechless. [You? Hurry up and think of a way to deal with this situation. There is a trail of people following you... Warm reminder, Zhang Chun's? His expression is very ferocious.]
Chu Xiuyan coughed lightly, changed his posture and sat cross-legged, muttering: [You can't blame me for this. I thought that even if I could catch a strange beast, it would be the kind that could be easily dealt with. Who knew that I would really catch such a big fish... I remember it was called the Creeper, wasn't it said to be in the deep desert? Death Place. ]
He patted the hard and rough? head of the monster under his buttocks. It felt strangely cold, like touching a? not-so-smooth? stone.
As if in response, the scales touched by the boy undulated slightly, and emitted a cold white mist.
The crawler's movement method is very strange. The front half of its body emerges from the desert, carrying the boy in front to clear the way, while the other half disappears into the sand, leaving obvious collapse marks on the sand as it moves forward, and in the meantime creating some trouble for the convoy that is chasing it closely behind.
Chu Xiuyan looked back at the off-road vehicle behind him, and after judging that there was no danger there, he raised his head and looked around. There were rolling sand dunes all around, with some bare trees scattered around, covered with thorns. The desert scene that he had long been tired of seeing actually had a strange beauty when he looked down from the air.
"You? Want to take me somewhere?"
Chu Xiuyan seemed to be talking to himself, or to the monster crawler.
It was a bit strange, he felt that this monster should be able to understand what he meant.
But the reality is that the crawler is still moving quickly in a certain direction on its own, causing the surrounding dust to fly all over the sky.
Under the dark red sky, dust rolled and rose higher and higher, gradually covering the sky and making the surrounding environment darker and darker, as if gradually condensing into a sandstorm, bringing an extremely terrifying and depressing atmosphere.
He wanted to deepen his cooperation and friendship with the strong men in the ruined city, but ended up being forced to participate in a thrilling action. He was almost scared to death. The mercenary Brother Hui finally recovered and saw the horrifying scene of yellow sand outside through the car window. He immediately gasped and said:
"F--k, a sandstorm! The creepers are angry. If we don't run away, we're really going to die here!"
No response.
The carriage was quiet. He was the only one who could hear his voice. The wind whistling outside the window seemed to hit his heart directly, making it beat violently.
Brother Hui looked ahead at the two people who were unshakable, pulled the corners of his mouth, and forced a smile: "Hey, are you planning to cross the sandstorm?"
He touched the door handle, thinking about how likely it was that he would survive if he jumped out of the car at high speed. At this time, the sandstorm had not yet formed completely, and it was still not too late to escape from this car that was rushing towards the hell of death.
But at this moment, a cold and oppressive voice sounded, and instantly a cold chill swept through the entire interior of the car.
"There are some differences between sand and soil, but they both end up falling to the surface."
Concentrating on driving? Chu Li glanced at the passenger seat, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, and he sighed: "Isn't this very skilled?"
Brother Hui was thinking about jumping out of the car and surviving. The possibility was almost zero. When he was thinking about whether there was any other way, he looked up and suddenly saw a wisp of blood-red gas floating slowly above the front seat.
He quietly leaned forward and found that the man in the co-pilot seat had some blood-red crystals on his body. As his arm was raised, the blood crystals shattered, fell down, dissipated, and turned into dark red gas and merged into the air.
An ominous? A strange aura? Is spreading rapidly.
Brother Hui: “F-F-…”
His mind was full of ghosts.
Zhang Chun ignored this person, his eyes were fixed on the monster in front of him, no longer suppressing the blood crystal energy flowing rapidly in his body, driving the supernatural power to mutate rapidly.
Soon, his eyes, which were covered by his bangs, turned scarlet. With his thought, the flying dust in the sky stopped in midair, as if suppressed by a terrifying gravity, falling down like a brown rainstorm, landing on the ground and the hood of the car, making a rustling sound.
The crawler in the center of the sandstorm suddenly let out a sharp, high-pitched cry, and the densely falling sand and gravel once again stopped in the sky. Looking closely, every grain of sand was shaking violently, as if two forces were fighting invisibly.
Chu Xiuyan was still hesitating when he suddenly saw the sand suspended in the air. An idea flashed through his mind, and his eyes widened slightly. He couldn't help but laugh out loud, and his smile grew bigger and bigger.
"Oh, this must be an uncle. He can actually control the sand. How amazing!"
He seemed to have let go of something, stood up, and said cheerfully to the creeper below: "I'm sorry, my family seems to be very strict and doesn't want me to go on adventures far away. How about this, I'll talk it over with my family, and then call you to pick me up for adventures, how about that?"
The crawler did not react, but continued to move forward. Its tail, which had been hiding in the sand, emerged from the ground at some point, and from time to time it would vent its anger by hurling itself at the convoy behind it.
Chu Xiuyan sighed: "Don't pretend you don't understand. Anyway, I have to go back. See you next time!"
After saying that, he turned into a ball of gray mist and rushed towards the back. As he moved, the thick gray mist spread out in all directions like an explosion, and instantly covered the sandstorm.
The yellow sand in the sky turned into a thick fog that covered the sky and the earth, bringing a kind of illusory shock.
At this moment, seeing the gray fog coming, Zhang Chun in the off-road vehicle finally changed his expression and sneered.
Chu Li turned the steering wheel and drove in the opposite direction of the crawler, with an inexplicable smile in his tone, "Control your expression, otherwise he will run away when he sees you."
Zhang Chun didn't say anything.
Gray's mind is full of questions like who am I, where am I, and what am I going to do?
Suddenly, the off-road vehicle shook violently, followed by a feeling of weightlessness.
Gray Brother almost screamed, "What happened again?!"
Four huge fog birds grabbed the poles on both sides of the roof and flew up, rushing away from the sandstorm at an extremely fast speed.
The other cars were also pecked by the fog bird. Seeing that the SUV where Brother Hui was was flying away, they had to roll down their windows and let the fog bird follow.
The gray fog still enveloped the surroundings, blocking the view. I had no idea where I was, or whether the creepers behind me were chasing me.
After an unknown amount of time, the four off-road vehicles that were flying in the sky landed, and the gray fog gradually dissipated, revealing the endless sand around them. The figure of the crawler disappeared, and the surroundings seemed calm and peaceful, without any danger.
Brother Hui was the first to open the car door and crawled back to his team.
Chu Xiuyan regained his human form and rushed towards Zhang Chun who had just gotten off the car, trying to give him a warm hug.
"Uncle! I'm so touched. You? You actually love me so much—"
Zhang Chun opened his arms towards him, then with lightning speed, he flipped the man to the ground with his back shoulder, pressed his knee against the man's lower back, strangled his neck and gave a sinister sneer.
"What a skill! You can actually tame a monster as a mount. How impressive! Yes? It's really impressive."
Chu Xiuyan was like a frantically flailing fish, howling miserably: "I didn't do that! This was an accident! I didn't know that monster would run after me!"
"Who is fishing on the roof of a car with high? concentration? Blood sand?!"
"But, the one who was taken away? It was me!"
"You? Can't you fly back by yourself?!"
"But that head-crawler seems to be taking me somewhere. Isn't this very curious? Uncle, aren't you curious? Why is that head-crawler so fond of me?"
"...Isn't that how this idiom is used? Besides! You are so brave to follow a monster without knowing anything!"
"I am the son of the desert! Hehehehe——"
Zhang Chun listened to the boy's various weird noises, and was almost angry. He smiled, "What did we say before? We had three rules, and one of them was that you absolutely cannot leave the team and run around. How did you do that?"
Chu Xiuyan looked around, and suddenly realized something. He patted Zhang Chun's arm with his backhand, "Inhale some electricity, sizzle."
Zhang Chun: “…”
He was shaking at the boy? He was slapped on the back of the head.
“Ouch!”
at the same time.
After watching the lively scene between Zhang Chun and the boy, Chu Li turned around and walked towards the other team. He grabbed the witch who was running towards the boy by the collar, ignored the curses in his ears, handed the person to a mercenary who was not familiar with him, and then walked towards Brother Hui who was squatting by the car smoking, asking about the current location and the distance from Youdu.
Gray Brother had already determined his current location, but he couldn't understand why he had chased the creeper in the opposite direction for a long distance, and was led by a strange bird for a while in the gray fog, but the final direction was roughly the same, still on the original route.
The more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became. He looked at Chu Li who was walking towards him and said in a muffled voice, "What a coincidence. Just walk another four or five kilometers to the northwest and you'll be there."
Chu Li glanced at the sky and said, "It's getting late. Let's take a short rest and then set off."
So, after resting for half an hour, everyone set off again.
Chu Xiuyan sat obediently in the back seat, his body wrapped in ropes, tied up tightly? He couldn't be disobedient.
The journey was smooth and they finally successfully approached their destination.
That? Is a huge? pitch-black base, which is particularly conspicuous in the yellow sand. The four walls stand tall? High? Standing majestically. Although it is located in the desert, the sky above the base is filled with thick? Gray fog, which looks gloomy and weird.
As the convoy approached, the horns on the base walls sounded a warning.
"Stop! Who are you?"
Brother Hui answered loudly: "I am Hui. I contacted Wu Wang about a week ago. I came to join you!"
After the voice fell, there was no sound on the wall of the base for a long time. It seemed that someone else spoke after a long while. The tone of response was cold and indifferent, "Sorry, there is no Wu Wang here. Please leave immediately!"
Brother Hui: "Impossible! Isn't this Youdu? Youdu is not part of the resistance army? Wu Wang is the second leader of the resistance army! Did you misunderstand something?"
The same cold voice still rang out on the wall: "This is indeed Youdu, and we are indeed the resistance army, but the Wu Wang you mentioned... Heh, you must have been deceived by him. Let's go quickly, find a place to rest for the night before it gets dark, and then go back the same way you came here."
Gray wanted to say something, but the bullets fired from the base wall bluntly expressed his attitude of exclusion and expulsion.
So Brother Hui and the others had to find a Gobi Desert nearby to rest for a while.
The sky was gradually getting dark.
Chu Xiuyan sat by the fire, listening to the discussion of the people around him.
Zhang Chun sat on the left, and Chu Li sat on the right, surrounding him tightly, but they didn't seem to want to participate in the mercenaries' discussion. One was looking through the information, and the other was touching his silver hair, wondering what he was thinking.
"Wu Wang founded the resistance army? He was one of the original founders, he is well-known and powerful, how could anyone not have heard of him!"
"You? Didn't you notice that Youdu's? attitude was strange? That? It's obviously not like he had never heard of it. It seems more like for some? reason, he hated and resented Wu Wang... Did an internal conflict occur?"
"Wu Wang was kicked out?"
"Although I don't know the situation, I feel that things are a bit troublesome. We left? It's Wu Wang's? side? The relationship was obviously rejected by Youdu."
......
Chu Xiuyan looked left and right, smacked his lips, and interrupted, "How about we take down Youdu?"
There are mercenaries all around. They don't understand what I'm saying. How feasible is it? They just think it's a complaint and laugh it off.
Zhang Chun thought for a moment and whispered, "If there is really no other way, let's do this."
They are here? Discussion, Gray Brother is away from the team, squatting beside the SUV, smoking, feeling very worried.
Although they are mercenaries who can go anywhere, there are also old people and children in the team. They originally came here for a long-term residence, but Youdu doesn't allow anyone to enter. What can they do...
The wheel is the wheel.
A small stone suddenly rolled from a distance and came into view.
Brother Hui's expression changed instantly. He pulled out his gun, became alert, looked around, and was ready for battle.
The next second, a tightly wrapped head popped out from the high ground of the Gobi Desert, revealing only a pair of blue eyes, which looked towards Gray Brother with a look of scrutiny and observation, and finally seemed to be sure of something, and smiled and greeted him.
"Hey, Gray?"
When Brother Hui heard this familiar voice, he was somewhat shocked: "Wu Wang?"
"It's me, oh my god! I finally got you."
The noise here caused the fire? Attention, the mercenaries stood up and asked vigilantly: "Boss, who is this?"
Although Brother Hui knew Wu Wang, he was not sure whether he had any ill intentions. He temporarily gave his companion a calm gesture, then turned to the man on the Gobi Desert and asked, "Why are you here?"
"It's obvious that I was driven out of Youdu, along with my companions."
The man pulled off his mask, revealing a face that could be considered handsome, but now he had an untidy beard, was covered in dirt, and looked very embarrassed.
He gave Gray Brother a warm hug and then whistled. A dozen hooded heads appeared on the Gobi Desert above him. All of them were gray. Some even waved to the mercenaries below, showing their white teeth to show friendliness.
Wu Wang pulled Brother Hui's arm and very naturally and skillfully pulled him to the mercenary team beside the fire, then found an open space to sit down and warm himself by the fire, greeting the mercenaries standing alertly around him.
"Don't stand, sit down, I need to talk to you about the situation in Youdu. But I have to ask a small question first..."
He rubbed his messy hair, looked at Zhang Chun and Chu Li, who clearly had an aura that did not belong to the desert, and then looked at Chu Xiuyan, who was tied up tightly. He paused hesitantly on the latter for a moment, then turned back to Zhang Chun and Chu Li and asked, "You are from the ruined city, right?"
Zhang Chun nodded.
"Then? That's good. That? That's good, hahahaha!"
Wu Wang clapped his legs and laughed out loud, "Fortunately, fortunately you didn't let those bastards touch you first? Hahahaha!"
Zhang Chun keenly noticed something.
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