After seeing the figure outside the tent, Chen Zhi was startled and immediately jumped up reflexively.
There are two reasons that make him nervous:
First, there are no children in their team, and no child will appear alone in this desert. Abbat has been standing outside. If someone enters the tent area, he will definitely notice it. If he does not call the police, it proves that he is likely to
He was killed, or he was an accomplice.
Second, and most importantly, Ji Ying is extremely sensitive. It is impossible for someone to enter without hiding it from her ears. Moreover, Ji Ying is the highest strength of the team. If she does not react now, it proves...
Chen Zhi looked at Fat Wei next to him. Fat Wei was still snoring next to him. Chen Zhi hurriedly pushed him, but the damn fat man didn't know what was going on and couldn't wake up no matter how hard he pushed.
At this time, I heard an extremely dry voice coming from outside the tent. The voice was as dry as the sand in the desert.
"Come out, they won't wake up..."
Chen Zhi immediately looked at the shadow. The short figure was still standing outside the tent, motionless, like a corpse.
Chen Zhi's heart stabilized slightly, and then he suddenly opened the tent curtain...
And when he saw the scene outside the tent, he couldn't help but gasped.
Standing outside was a little girl of about ten years old. The girl had brown-blond hair and was wearing an off-white coarse cloth robe, but the robe was torn and torn and full of stains.
Wormhole, the girl's lower body had obviously been violently violated, and there was thick blood all over from her thighs down. The blood dried through the robe and turned into brownish red.
When Chen Zhi saw the girl's face, he immediately determined that the girl was not alive. The girl's two eyeballs were gone, the black eye holes were exposed, and her face and body were covered with whip marks.
The scars, the cracked flesh were covered in sand, and the thick white bones were exposed on the cheek.
"Who are you?"
Chen Zhi asked softly in English, and slowly reached out to touch the Baipi dagger in his trouser leg.
"I am this desert...",
The girl's voice was as hoarse as a zombie crawling out of the ground, and her face was still stiff, but she spoke Chinese and her grammar was very fluent.
"I existed a long, long time ago, before your country existed..." the girl said silently.
"Yeah……",
After Chen Zhi heard the girl's words, he raised his eyes and looked at Ateba at the bonfire in front of him. He was still sitting there, but his body was stiff, neither moving nor turning around, as if he was an empty shell that had lost his life.
"God of the desert?",
Chen Zhi turned to look at the girl and asked calmly,
"Why did you come to see me?"
"I am not a god, I am the desert, a lifeless desert...",
The girl with a terrifying face looked directly at Chen Zhi, her lips motionless when she spoke. For some reason, Chen Zhi felt an endless power from this girl. That power was very deep, like the depth of the sea.
The place is ordinary, the bottom is bottomless,
"Foreigner, I'm here to give you a warning. Turn around when you get here! Leave my desert..."
"I can't leave..."
Chen Zhi stopped reaching for the dagger. She looked at the girl's uncomfortable face and said,
"I have to move on. One of our children was caught here. I promised that I would rescue him..."
"Life is short, don't worry...",
The girl said in a voice as dry as sand,
"Just like the girl in front of you, I often see such lives appear and see them pass away in front of me. Life is short and meaningless. What you want to find does not exist, and your team is not all friends.
Someone has deceived you. If you continue to move forward, you will only see the devil, and the devil will take away everyone's life..."
"Devil? Are there demons in this desert?",
For some reason, Chen Zhi felt a hint of irony in his heart.
"As far as I know, the ones who kidnapped and killed those children were humans, right? Why blame the crimes of humans on the devil? Do you gods also like hypocrisy..."
"I said, I am not a god, I have no life, foreigners, please leave my desert, the devil will never appear..."
After the girl finished speaking, she disappeared in a flash, but suddenly there was dust all around. Chen Zhi was blown up by the wind and sand, and then fell heavily to the ground. At this time, countless withered hands stretched out from the sand and asked Chen Zhi.
Chen Zhi struggled desperately, but couldn't exert any strength. He watched those withered hands pull him into the hot sand...
"Orange, Orange, wake up quickly...",
Chen Zhi's body was shaken vigorously. Chen Zhi opened his eyes slightly and saw Fatty's fat face appearing in front of him.
Fat Wei was so anxious that his face was covered with sweat, and he shouted to Chen Zhi,
"Chengzi, why are you grabbing so hard? In the middle of the night, I thought you were going to molest me! Can you stop scaring me..."
After hearing Fat Wei's voice, Chen Zhi felt that all his consciousness had returned. He immediately adjusted his breathing. It turned out that it was just a dream...
Chen Zhi did not tell Fat Wei about the dream just now. For some reason, the little girl covered in blood in the dream made her feel disgusted, especially when the devil was mentioned...
The brief nightmare didn't take much time. It was still around three o'clock in the morning. Fat Wei was very tired during the day. When he saw that Chen Zhi was fine, he turned around and started snoring again.
But Chen Zhi couldn't sleep anymore. He opened the tent and walked outside. He saw Atba still doing his duty by the campfire to let everyone know. When he heard Chen Zhi coming out, he immediately turned around.
"Chen! Why don't you sleep? It's still dark..." Atba asked strangely.
"Can't sleep",
Chen Zhi replied,
"Your desert doesn't seem to welcome me, and it keeps giving me nightmares. Go in and sleep for a while. There's still a long way to go tomorrow, and you need to regain your strength."
Ateba was obviously hesitant after hearing Chen Zhi's words. He looked back at his daughter's tent, and then heard Chen Zhi say,
"Don't worry, I will do what I promised you. I will protect the safety of your child! No one will come near your daughter's tent, including myself~~"
Ateba nodded slightly after hearing this. He seemed to have a natural sense of trust in Chen Zhi. He stood up with a spear, turned around and walked into the tent.
Chen Zhi sat alone next to the bonfire and watched the night. It was dawning very early in the desert. It was estimated that it would be dawn in more than two hours. Chen Zhi put the teapot on the fire to heat it and wanted to make some mint tea, but these were broken.
The tea leaves were difficult to handle. At this time, there was a sound of thin footsteps behind him, and someone gently put their hands on his shoulders...