Chen Yunsheng said politely: "To be honest, we are a pair of cultivators, and we came to Bahuang to realize the Tao."
Hearing Chen Yunsheng say that he was a monk, the man looked a little wary in his eyes and said, "No wonder you can cross that death zone, you can fly."
Chen Yunsheng nodded. "Can fly" is indeed the most common impression ordinary people have on monks. People who can't fly are probably wary of those who can fly, which he can completely understand.
"Can we go with you?" Chen Yunsheng said with great sincerity. He did not need this group of people to take him to find the final destination. His real purpose was to understand the actual situation of Bahuang as much as possible.
It is beneficial and harmless to the two of them who plan to go deep into the wilderness.
The red-bearded man frowned slightly and looked at Chen Yunsheng, whose eyes were shining with light, and Liu Xiaoshan, who was hiding behind Chen Yunsheng with a dark red face. Finally, he nodded reluctantly. After all, he did not dare to refuse Chen Yunsheng.
request.
Chen Yunsheng took out a middle-grade spiritual stone from the Naxu Ring. The dove-egg-sized spiritual stone shone with bright white light.
"I'll give this to you as a reward."
Chen Yunsheng did not give the other party gold or silver, because gold and silver are not easy to use in all places. On the contrary, spiritual stones are more widely circulated in Cathay. The red-bearded man took out a big leather bag from his arms very familiarly and put the
A piece of spiritual stone was placed in it. He did not touch it directly with his hands. It seemed that this was not the first time he had come into contact with this kind of thing. He knew that this beautiful stone was highly corrosive.
After Red Beard received the spirit stone, his attitude became slightly softer. He pointed at his nose and said: "My name is Pan Jia, and I am the leader of this caravan. The person who just spoke to you is my nephew. We come from Fengsha
The town is more than a thousand miles away from here. If we don’t lead the team, you won’t be able to find it even if you can fly.”
Seeing that Pan Jia's attitude became more normal, Chen Yunsheng smiled slightly and said: "Brother Pan, is it true that I heard that bandits are rampant in Bahuang?"
Pan Jia didn't seem to hear these words, and while beckoning the team behind him to continue moving forward, he prepared his Sand Luo. After finishing, he turned around and said roughly: "Sand bandits are not scary, the ones are scary.
It's a sandworm. You follow me in a car."
Chen Yunsheng and Liu Xiaoshan got into Pan Jia's car, and the group drove slowly, like a worm crawling in the sand.
"What are sandworms?" Liu Xiaoshan asked. It had been a long time since they got in the car, and Chen Yunsheng had already used wine to turn Pan Jia into his old friend. As he guessed, people living in this area
The people on this land are really addicted to alcohol, and of course the wine here is probably ridiculously expensive.
Panga's cheeks were red, redder than the beard under his chin. He said drunkenly: "Sandworms are the only beasts in this sea of sand. They hide underground and come and go without a trace.
It’s everyone’s nightmare. Even those monks who can fly often accidentally become snacks for sandworms.” His last sentence was obviously a bit of gloating.
"Don't sand bandits make a living by robbing people? Why do you say sandworms are more terrifying than sand bandits?" Chen Yunsheng is particularly concerned about the issue of sand bandits.
Pan Jia glanced at him and said with a smile: "Sand bandits, sand bandits, although the name is not nice, but those people are not all bandits. In this vast wilderness, if there are no sand bandits, what will happen if there are no sand bandits?"
It has become a vast hell.”
The more Chen Yunsheng listened, the more confused he became, "Brother Pan, you might as well make it clearer."
According to age, Chen Yunsheng may be older than Pan Jia's father, but he still talks about his brother and his friends, which makes Liu Xiaoshan laugh.
Panga unceremoniously poured the wine from the jar into his own sheepskin water bag and muttered: "This matter is very simple. In the desert, there are no officials, so we have to find some people to uphold justice. For example, at the beginning of last month
, the Sima family at the corner of the street and the Weimar family at the end of the street got into a fight over a trivial matter. Sima's son beat the Weimar woman to death. Weimar found Mr. Shatou Geya and explained the situation to him. Geya
Immediately, he chopped off Sima's son with a knife. The right way is to kill for life. This is a truth that even children understand. If there are no bandits, then who will uphold justice?"
After listening to the other party's statement, Chen Yunsheng always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't find any big problems.
Liu Xiaoshan said: "In other words, the sand bandits are the king of this place?"
Pan Jia nodded and said: "You can also say that. We living in this land have been doing this for generations. The bandits collect money and then uphold justice for us. Sometimes when the times are bad, they will still
Help us. It can be said that the bandits and the townspeople depend on each other, and no one can live without the other."
"Do the bandits live with you?" Chen Yunsheng asked.
"Of course not. They live in a sand castle, far away from the town. There are also monks who can fly among the bandits. Each bandit gang controls a large area of desert, and there are usually a lot of fights between bandits.
But they all follow some basic moral principles and will not go too far. But in recent years, the bloody battles between some gangs have often gone too far!" Pan Jia sighed, and patted Shatuo's butt lightly with his big hand.
"Pan Jia, what if the bandits did something wrong? For example, they killed someone they shouldn't have killed, or they favored a certain party, or they destroyed the tacit understanding between you." Chen Yunsheng always seemed to want to find a way for the bandits to do something wrong.
The reason why it should exist.
Pan Jia frowned and thought for a long time, then Shi Shiran said: "Then we will find a bigger Shatou. Someone will always uphold justice."
Chen Yunsheng sighed, this answer was far from what he thought, "Can't you just mind your own business? Why do you have to leave your destiny to others? People always have to live with some dignity."
Pan Jia looked at Chen Yunsheng coldly and said: "Young man, although you fly higher than the long-tailed vulture in Bahuang, you don't understand this land and the people living on it. Here,
People can only live by the little gifts given by God. Everything is lacking here, except for the dignity you mentioned. When the first thing you do when you wake up is to worry about how to fill your stomach, you still have time.
Would it be fair to care about bandits?"
Although he still couldn't agree with Pan Jia's words, Chen Yunsheng felt that his understanding of the world had been shaken.
"Pan Jia, apart from being familiar with the terrain in this area, where have you been?" In order to avoid being subverted by the other party, Chen Yunsheng changed the topic.
Panjia curled his lips and said proudly: "Although old Panjia can't fly, my footprints are all over most of the Eight Wastelands. Except for the black tower where the god lives and the nest of Qiongta, the mother of sandworms, there are no
Somewhere I don’t know.”
Chen Yunsheng speculated that the god the other party was talking about was the Shura Sect, and the Black Tower was probably the main altar of the Shura Sect. It seemed like what Liu Xiaoshan said, in Bahuang, it was the sand bandits who really connected the Shura Sect with all living beings. The Shura Sect
They have no intention of interfering with the eating, drinking, sleeping and sleeping of mortals. They can satisfy their own interests through bandits. And the bandits also survive by exploiting the people living here.
He took out the map of Cathay from the Naxu Ring, unfolded the eight wastelands, handed it to Pan Jia, then pointed to a small dot in the map and said, "Do you know this place?"
Pan Jia brought the map to his eyes. After drinking a lot of wine, his eyes were not so good. After looking at it for a long time, Pan Jia put the map down and told Chen Yunsheng with a serious face: "You can't go to this place, even if
You are monks who can fly, and you can also die."
Chen Yunsheng asked: "We are just curious and will not really go there. Can you tell us why it is dangerous there?"
Panga opened the sheepskin water bag, took a sip of fruit wine, and muttered: "That's the nest of the mother of sandworms. Joanta, the mother of sandworms, is the nightmare of everyone living on this land. It will bring everyone close to it."
Its people are sucked into the depths of that horrific cave."
Hearing this, Chen Yunsheng had secretly slandered the Hermit a thousand times. Along the way, they overcame obstacles and narrowly escaped death, and finally cracked the final secret. However, they never thought that the Hermit would set their final destination in the sandworm.
in the lair.
He did not doubt Pan Jia's words and believed in the terror of the Mother of Sandworms. Because he believed even more that the Hermit God was perverted enough. Among the three ruins where the golden skeleton was buried, there were nothing more than very powerful spiritual beasts guarding them. According to the
According to this logic, the final place must be guarded by the most terrifying spiritual beast. According to this logic, the mother of sandworms may be more ferocious than the Lord of Han Kun, the white dragon, and the Kui dragon.
Seeing Chen Yunsheng lowered his head and said nothing, Pan Jia thought his words had an effect. He patted Chen Yunsheng on the shoulder and comforted him: "Young man, don't think so much. As a flying monk, you are already better than us."
The sand ants are too strong. As long as people don't commit suicide, they will basically be able to survive."
Chen Yunsheng woke up from his meditation, looked at Pan Jia, who had a kind face, and gave him a smile in return. However, his smile gradually solidified, because Chen Yunsheng felt an unusual vibration coming from the ground. This vibration was not Shatuola.
The normal vibrations produced by the car. Years of life and death gave him a vigilance that went deep into his bones.
The experienced Panga also realized this unusual vibration. He jumped out of the car like crazy and shouted at the top of his lungs to the convoy behind him: "Everyone, run quickly, the sandworms are coming."
The caravan was in chaos. Chen Yunsheng jumped out of the car, but before he could stand still, a camel cart in the center of the caravan was suddenly lifted up, and an earth-yellow monster with countless legs jumped out of the ground. The monster's body was very long,
There are many segments, about five feet thick and five feet long. Each segment has a sharp thorn on the body. There are two large claws on the first segment behind the head, which Chen Yunsheng has seen before.
The insect monsters are somewhat similar.
The monster swallowed the sand camel pulling the cart in one breath, and blood oozed from the corners of its mouth, splattering all over the floor. Chen Yunsheng saw clearly that the big mouth was full of sharp teeth. He realized that this was
Sandworm, under the attack of this monster, this group of people would probably suffer heavy casualties.