Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Shangqiong calendar year 15-926, May 19th.

It is getting bright. In the town of Susuo, in the outer suburbs of Qishui City, east of Gels Duchy, residents get up early and start to prepare food under the faint light.

Part of the prepared food is kept for self-eat, and part is sold to adventurers who come to hunt and catch sand beasts, so as to obtain Copper Coin for buying daily necessities from merchants.

Suo Suo Town, as its name suggests, means dancing lightly and gracefully, and it means dancing lightly and gracefully, but it's not people dancing and flying, but yellow sand in the sky.

No one in the town knows where the end of the desert is. Occasionally I hear the adventurers who come to mention that the end is the sea, and the sea is full of water.

Many people in the town have been yearning to reach the end of the desert since they were young, and wanted to dig long enough ditches to lead the water from the sea to the town.

As for the idea of ​​moving to the seaside to live, it is absolutely impossible. What the town wants is water, not from the danger that may arise from the seaside.

The calm morning and the restless people's hearts constitute a period of time in the ordinary years of Su Suo Town.

Normally, there are occasional conflicts between adventurers, or merchants have raised prices for goods, and the people in the town will adapt and compromise as quickly as possible.

Nothing seems to make local residents angry for a long time, including the oppression of the locals by the three forces formed by outsiders in the town.

People who have never had the power to resist will curse in the dark, and then repeat the original life.

The local Morty Kasiu is also busy today. The 72-year-old does not appear to be old. He has been a tavern cook in the town for 60 years. His craftsmanship is the best, at least he thinks so. .

He has been to Qishui City dozens of times. He feels that his craftsmanship can at least rank in the top 1,000 in the kitchen world of Qishui City. Whenever someone asks how many chefs he has in Qishui City. At that time, his answer always expressed the same meaning:'Who knows, there should be as many stars in the sky'.

Therefore, many children who like to eat his food will count the stars hard at night. When they grow up, they realize that the memories of the twinkling stars are so beautiful.

Because a group of adventurers who returned to town last night had a big harvest, they drank more wine made from sand brown fruit, which gave Morty Kasiu an extra 20-pound ball-shooting snake meat. Today, he has ball-shooting snake meat as the main material of the barbecue.

Ball shoot snake meat is one of the most delicious in the desert. Twenty pounds is enough for yesterday’s adventurers. They ate what they ate four times in the evening, but who made them drunk yesterday’s harvest? Woolen cloth.

Morty Kasiu, who felt that he was taking advantage, hummed and changed the little tune that I don’t know how many times, doing the work at hand, what happened yesterday will at least make him happy half a month.

Morty Kasiu carried the board to the outside of the tavern after making the barbecue quickly. This part of the meat is ready to be sold to the adventurer who goes to the desert in the morning.

If there is an adventurer who went to the desert last night, or a few days ago or even longer, and comes back during the day today, they will not just buy a piece of barbecue and leave, but enter The tavern had a good drink.

Morty Kasiu doesn't understand that advertisers take risks to live, or for taking risks and live, he only knows that he lives without taking risks.

Set everything up, Morty Kasiu clapped his hands, breathes deeply, looked up at the sky, muttered: "Today’s two suns are brighter than yesterday, and the stingy Old Xier will run again Go to the desert to sell water, hoping that he will not sell the last drop of water, and then die of thirst in the desert, so he will not see the morning too..."

Morty Kasiu's mutter Suddenly, there was a complicated look in his eyes with his mouth slightly open, panic, panic, and dazed.

"The sun has fallen." I don't know which child made the sound first. More people lifted the head looked towards the sky.

A large group of Fireball flew from the distant horizon, as if a third sun appeared in the sky, even more dazzling than the sun.

The eyes of countless people followed Fireball, and Fireball passed by at an unknown height, like a meteor at night, but did not dissipate in the sky like a meteor.

Until the horizon blocked people's sight, the people in the town still looked confused and puzzled.

I don't know how long it took, the people who came back to his senses began to talk about their guesses with people nearby, and Fireball that fell from the sky became the only topic in the morning in Su Suo Town.

After half a month, more adventurers appeared in Su Suo town, which made the town more prosperous.

There are very few people mentioning about Fireball. People in the town already know that Fireball fell into the desert, perhaps a thousand miles away from the town. People who were looking for in the past did not encounter Fireball, but found A relic is said to be at least 20,000 years old.

Said that there are many unknown ominous beasts in the ruins. They only eat little children who cry and don’t sleep; say that there are countless treasures in the ruins, and those who get them will become the richest existence in Duchy; Said that there are potions in the ruins that can keep women young and make men stronger.

There are many sayings, but more adventurers do not come for these. They want to get a few antiques from the ruins in exchange for more Gold Coins.

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Shangqiang calendar, 1590, May 19th.

Fourteen years since the desert ruins appeared.

Morty Kasiu still runs his tavern, and there are still so many advertisers who come to Suo Suo Town.

People who came back from the ruins alive said that the ruins have been explored to the Sixth Layer. There are really a lot of dangers inside. No one has seen the powerful ominous beast. Various institutions have taken the life of the adventurer. There is an adventurer unfathomable mystery to die.

People in the town know that the death of an adventurer is not necessarily due to the danger of the ruins. Many of them died at the hands of other adventurers.

"Hi! Old Morty, good evening." The wooden door of the tavern was pushed open, and a group of adventurers walked in. The person in the front greeted Morty Kasiu enthusiastically: "If you are willing to give me free A glass of brown wine, I will tell you something new."

"Damn Piccolo, I emphasize again, call me Kasiu. If you always forget something, you will find If you don’t get to the way back, if the thing you want to exchange is... if there is a fourteen-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl near the ruins in the desert who have taken the stingy Old Xier business, I will use twice as much I will sell you drinks for the price."

Morty Kasiu's arm rested on the counter of the original color, and he narrowed his eyes and said to the person who came in.

"Okay, okay, Old Morty, in fact, the new thing I want to say is another one, yes, another one." The person called Bick waved his hand indifferently and walked away. When I got to the table, I pulled out a chair with my feet and sat down and said: "The name of the boy is Gongsun · Murong, and the girl is called......"

"Sophia ·Naraza, Bick, it seems that today You must pay double." Morty Kasiu curled his mouth and shook the glass that had just been filled.

Pick was taken aback for a moment, he hugged his head in his hands, exaggeratedly exclaimed: "Oh no! Did I come back slowly? Who got the free wine? Old Morty, I want to say It’s another matter. Gongsun · Murong and Sophia · Naraza are about to be in trouble."

The people in the tavern became silent after speaking in Piccolo. They understood that the two children were in the desert. Not everyone is willing to trade prey and money for water.

Just like the stingy Old Xier, he occasionally comes back with wounds or other adventurer equipment. It is definitely not wounded by the wind and sand, and the equipment is not given by others.

He is still carrying the Second Rank Level 6 Battle Qi, and there are still people who provoke him, let alone two children, living in the desert... without mercy.

"May the War God bless them, adventurers need water, not a child’s life, don’t they? Oh, I remembered, Kairon, who provided new information before, brought me freshness The hyena wolf meat, yes, the delicious hyena wolf meat, it will be ready soon. Does anyone want a portion?" Morty Kasiu changed the subject in time.

Soon the tavern was filled with noisy shouts and curses.

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The night in the desert is cold and dangerous. Some creatures must only start hunting when the two moons rise.

Sixty miles from the ruins and 970 li or so from the town of Susuo, a fourteen or five-year-old boy is holding a torch and a three- or four-year-old little girl walks side by side.

"Big Brother Murong, Naraza hates the night." The little girl complained.

She was wearing a knee-length skirt with exposed shoulders, pale-yellow, a pair of translucent pink crystal shoes on her feet, two horn-like pulls on her head, and the rest of her hair loose. On her shoulders and back, all the way to the waist, undulating with the wind, there is a crystal-like thing on her forehead that looks like makeup, the color is blurred and dazzling.

The big boy smiled and glanced at the little girl: "Yes, I hate it too."

The clothes he wears are similar to those adventurous in the desert, but a little looser. The left hand holds the torch, and the right hand holds a sword that is one meter long, ten centimeters wide, and about two centimeters thick. The blade has blood stains that have not been wiped off, and it shows a dark color under the reflection of the torch.

"No one came to buy water at night, and no one gave us anything. How do we live when there are people? Naraza don’t be hungry, Naraza is hungry now, Big Brother Murong!" little girl while speaking Rub your belly and look up at the big boy's face.

Suddenly there is a golden plate in the big boy’s hand. There is a circle of meat slices in the middle of the plate. While handing it to the little girl, he is comforted: "Don’t worry about Naraza, we will find it when there are many people. As things are done, there are more delicious food waiting for us."

The little girl took the plate, and before the wind brought the sand down, an arc-shaped transparent cover appeared on the plate. She used He picked up a piece of meat and gently stuffed it into his mouth to chew, and asked in a vague voice: "Big Brother Murong, my name is Naraza? Did you pick it up from the ruins?"

"Yes, yes , You slept in the ruins, that year you were as old as you are now, you have not grown up for three years. You are in the crystal coffin... in the cabinet, your name is written on the side of the cabinet, my steward knows that Words, the whole ruins is your home." The big boy said confidently.

"Oh, I'm always afraid of forgetting. In the future, Naraza will try to ask the same questions as little as possible. Big Brother Murong, your steward is really gone?"

"It's a deep sleep, When I return to my hometown, they will have a way to wake up Steward. My arrival was an accident. Steward said that I should go to a certain planet to grow up, and my fleet will accompany me, and then return to the family to be the same as others. People compare and choose the next successor."

"I know, I know, you said last year, but you and your fleet were separated during the Space Jump, you And your rescue capsule fell on this planet, you grew up a little bit and received steward training. Because the rescue capsule consumes too much energy, your steward fell asleep."

"Yes, yes, I I said."

"Big Brother Murong, you also said that there are 8-Layer ruins. I am on the last floor. You helped me put most of the things away. At that time, the adventurers here explored the Fourth Layer, what you left for them is something that looks worthless and is inlaid on the wall. You have to help me find my family."

"Well, find your family."

"Big Brother Murong is so nice, you will marry you when Naraza grows up, but why is Naraza always so small? Wow, Big Brother Murong, there is another sand-eater that adventurer said, I want to eat , It tastes the best."

The little girl was chatting and repeating a topic that she didn't know how many times, suddenly she pointed to the front and screamed happily.

Suddenly drilled a head out of the sand at a position three hundred meters in front of the two of them. The pointed mouth in front of the head suddenly opened, swallowing a hyena that was dormant there, maybe The upward momentum is too great, its entire body has rushed out of the sand, moved towards the sky.

At the position of 300 meters, the little girl seems to be able to see clearly without the light of the torch.

When she heard the sound, the big boy had already rushed up with the sword. His silhouette did not have a clear trajectory like the others, but flickered.

There was a burst of clarity and a blur, and it seemed that the light from the moon shining on him also appeared special refraction, which can be described as one step in and one out, one step by step, tossing and turning, and the left and right seem to disappear.

At a distance of six hundred meters, the older boy charges ahead two hundred meters in four seconds. At this moment, the momentum of the sand-swallowing beast has reached its peak, and it began to fall in the air for a moment, and its 12-meter-long body is still twisting. While moving, he dropped his head at the same time, with his head down, and the closed mouth facing the sandy ground, obviously faster than he rushed up.

Another second passed. Seeing that the sand-swallowing beast's mouth was about to touch the sand, the big boy yelled, and the one-handed sword shot out, flashing a faint light and shadow in the moonlight. Dive into the two inches above the head of the sand-swallowing beast's sharp beak.

The dust swelled, and the body of the sand-swallowing beast fell on the sand. The place below its head twisted irregularly, but it could not get into the sand.

"Ugh!" The little girl jumped up happily, waving her small fist: "There are good things to eat, Big Brother Murong is awesome."

Night in the desert is not food making It’s a good time, so two people, one big and one small, supported the sand-swallowing beasts to move on, instead of putting away the sand-swallowing beasts like when the big boy conjured the plate and the meat inside, the humans rated it as third rank Level 7. It can deter other ominous beasts lower than it, even if it is just a corpse body.

Sure enough, when the day started to light up, the older boys Gongsun · Murong and the little girl Sophia · Naraza were very relaxed all night. They didn't meet other sand beasts. They would be Peak if they wanted to come on this road. The presence.

And the two of them advanced 270 li or so in one night, an adventurous distance that scared to death 99%.

They are less than seven hundred miles away from Suosuo Town, and they don't have to continue selling water.

Because selling water is not the purpose, the two of them appeared and disappeared like ghosts in various places near the ruins and sold water for two months. In fact, they were to learn the human language in this place and to inquire about life. Used to something.

They appear every time when there are few people, such as three miles in front of a certain adventurer squad, such as on the other side of a corner on a certain floor in the ruins.

Every adventurer who has traded with them and never shot them will worry about their safety. Every advertiser who shot them has disappeared in the ruins or around the ruins.

The relatively kind-hearted adventurer occasionally sighs with pity when talking to other adventurers. They always think that two children cannot survive. A child, they will breathe a sigh of relief again.

These advertisers know that human nature is changeable, but they chose the kind side when they met two children. They didn’t know when they were satisfied inside. They chose more than just Good or evil, but...life and death.