man sanctified in death row vest

Chapter 196 The Finishing Eye (4800 words)
On the edge of the desert, there is a small town that no one cares about——Linsha Town.

There are only residents in the town, no officers and soldiers, no bandits, no martial arts.The residents here have lived here for generations. Although it is difficult, they have nothing to do with the world and live a barely subsistence life.

Zheng Xiu learned that when the previous dynasty had close relations with the countries in the Western Regions, there was a "trade route", er, it was not the Silk Road, but the "Green River".The commercial road named "Green River" runs from Linsha in the east to Richan Valley in the west, crossing the desert.After passing through the Richan Valley, climb another mountain and two rivers to reach the countries of the Western Regions.

Many years ago, Linsha was the starting point of the "Green River". In the past, foreign businessmen from various countries in the Western Regions even came here from across the desert.There are blond and blue-eyed exotic beauties, rare jewelry, and strange animals, making this place full of enthusiasm, magnificence and magic, full of the taste of spring, and very lively.

"Nowadays the 'Business Road' is no longer run by people, but the 'Green River' is still there."

Xie Luohe led Zheng Xiu skillfully, walking in Linsha Town.

"money for the journey."

Xie Luohe stretched out his hand to Zheng Xiu carelessly, asking for money.

Zheng Xiu pressed the heavy purse into Xie Luohe's hands, but he didn't feel bad about it.

"You, maybe it's the best appearance of 'Ruyi Langjun' as others say."

Xie Luohe said with emotion.

"I don't believe it." When Zheng Xiu heard the words, he habitually said the mantra at first, and then quickly changed his words: "No, I believe this sentence. Is it because I... have sword eyebrows and star eyes, are handsome and extraordinary, and are unparalleled in the world?" Zheng Xiu twisted his chin tentatively. Handy stubble.

"Bah, it's because you can make money... make a lot of money." Xie Luohe laughed, left Zheng Xiu where he was, and went to purchase supplies.

"This is called 'live well'." Zheng Xiu looked at Xie Luohe's leaving back and complained.

Xie Luohe raised his fist from a distance.

Not long after, Zheng Xiu, who was waiting on the spot and bored, finally returned to Xieluo River.

Behind the Xieluo River, followed by two strong camels.

The camels are equipped with one red and one green saddlebags, and the saddlebags are embroidered with colorful patterns.

The saddlebags are bulging, and each camel has seven or eight full water bladders hanging on its body.

Zheng Xiu used his barren desert survival knowledge to check the Xieluo River's supplies.Among the materials purchased by Xie Luohe, there are dried meat, dry food and other food suitable for preservation, water, a thick cloak, clothes that can cover the whole body, ointment for trauma, and Si Nan, who can roughly identify the direction in the desert. Everything is available.

It can be said that except for sunscreen, there are basically everything in it.

Xie Luohe's carefulness was beyond Zheng Xiu's expectation.

In front of Xie Luohe, the good-looking Zheng Xiu smacked his lips and said "it's okay", but Xie Luohe snickered and retorted "hard-spoken".The fight between the two, in the eyes of outsiders, is like a couple in the city who don't know life and death, and don't know the cruelty of the desert, but want to go deep into the desert.

Zheng Xiu and Xie Luohe seem to be two extremes.

The "foreigner" aura inadvertently exuded from Xie Luohe made the two little camels restless.

When Zheng Xiu stepped forward to comfort him, the two camels moved closer and licked the saliva all over Zheng Xiu's face, as if meeting their long-lost relatives.

"You really don't look like a stranger."

Xie Luohe watched Zheng Xiu "kiss me" with two camels, a male and a female, respectively, a slight jealousy flashed in his eyes, and he said softly.

Zheng Xiu didn't reply, after all, he is not his body now.

No matter how stubborn Xie Luohe is, Zheng Xiu believes that the facts are the facts. He entered the cannibal painting ghost as an incarnation, and his body is still suffering from the death thaumaturgy of the "crow breeder" in Zheng's mansion.

At this moment, he doesn't look like a stranger, which is not surprising.

Xie Luohe's eyes flashed, he didn't say any more, and quickly changed to another expression. After Zheng Xiu comforted the camel, Xie Luohe turned over and rode on the camel saddle, kicked his feet, and walked towards the desert.

It seems that Xie Luohe has no plan to stop in Linsha Town.

Zheng Xiu followed behind.

So far, July [-]th.

sunny.

The sun is shining brightly.

Scorching sun.

The two rode camels deep into the desert.

July twenty.

dusk.

Zheng Xiu's seventh day in the desert.

No matter which world you are in, there is probably only one impression of "Desert".

Vast, solemn, dead, cruel.

It was as if an invisible hand was pushing the yellow sand on the desert, layer by layer, rolling forward.The turbulent sand moves with the wind, sometimes rolling and sometimes straightening, rolling to the depths and disappearing at the end of the undulating sand dunes.

And the desert gives people only one "color": yellow.Egg yolk, dark yellow, dim yellow, golden yellow, thick yellow.Various levels of "yellow" are intertwined, presenting another desolate aesthetic feeling.

On the seventh day, Zheng Xiu vaguely regretted it, but Xie Luohe's mood became better and better as he moved away from the crowd, and the smile on his face became wider and wider.

The sun has never left a trace on Xie Luohe's body; the high temperature has never caused Xie Luohe to shed a drop of sweat; the night is extremely cold, Xie Luohe will even take the initiative to get close to Zheng Xiu, curl up in Zheng Xiu's arms, wrap the two of them in their big cloak, Xie Luohe euphemistically named this behavior: the rivers and lakes take care of each other in difficulties; when the wind blows, Xie Luohe will stand on the back of a camel, face the strong wind, open his arms, and feel the carefree and carefree swinging in the wind.

It seems that such harsh weather and desert environment bring only enjoyment to the Xieluo River.

After entering the desert, Zheng Xiu really understood what the so-called "Green River" was.In the past, Zheng Xiu had only heard that there was a fixed route from the Western Regions to Dagan.

The "Green River" is exactly a route explored by the predecessors. Every certain distance, it will pass through a fertile oasis.There are sixteen oases on this route. In the desert, the oasis can be said to be the source of life. Only when you reach the oasis can you have the hope of crossing the desert.

Along the way, Zheng Xiu noticed that every few tens of miles, there was a pile of heavy stones piled up to form hills, which did not seem to be formed naturally, but more like man-made.When Zheng Xiu asked casually, Xie Luohe smiled and said:

"That's Mount Hou on the Green River."

"It really is 'Hou'."

The so-called "hou" generally refers to the stone mounds and soil blocks used to mark the road on the official road.How many miles you have traveled can be estimated for every "hou" you pass.Along the way of the Green River, each "Houst Mountain" is a full foot high, and unless there is a sandstorm, it is difficult for ordinary wind and sand to blow the Hou Mountain down.

It is difficult for Zheng Xiu to imagine how the predecessors built "Houshan" with big stones in this vast desert. The difficulty is self-evident. A "green river" that allows people to pass through the desert is relatively safe.

In the beginning, there were no roads in the desert, but when more people walked and killed more people, it became a road.

July 28.

I entered the desert for more than half a month.

Zheng Xiu's skin was tanned, Xie Luohe's skin was as fair as ever, and his skin was better than snow.

They arrived at the eighth oasis along the Green River, where a few wild coconut trees grew, and a small pool was crystal clear.

After filling the water bag, Zheng Xiu told Xie Luohe not to look around, then stripped himself naked, jumped into the pool, and took a bath for the first time in a long time.

The heart is cool and the heart is flying.

When Zheng Xiu was almost soaked, she wrapped her robes and went back to the two camels. Xie Luohe unknowingly dropped a few coconuts. She peeled off the top shell of the coconuts with her bare hands and drank the coconut juice.

Xie Luohe stared straight at Zheng Xiu's naked upper body, a few crystal clear drops of water dripped down Zheng Xiu's abdominal muscles and vest line.Xie Luohe blushed and coughed twice, and offered to help Zheng Xiu open another coconut: "It's so sweet, drink some too."

"Really?" Zheng Xiu asked habitually suspiciously, took a sip, and almost spat it out.

Bitter and astringent.

He just remembered that the juice of the old coconut is not drinkable.

Xie Luohe laughed loudly, dropped the coconut, and began to undress.

Zheng Xiu's relationship with Xie Luohe is a bit delicate these days, but this scene still made Zheng Xiu's expression froze.

Xie Luohe was halfway through, and reminded:
"You... are not allowed to peek."

After saying that, Xie Luohe leaped high and jumped into the pool with a plop.

Zheng Xiu ignored him, took a deep breath, and, listening to the sound of birds playing in the Xieluo River in the distance, walked to the edge of the oasis and gazed into the distance.

At the end of the field of vision is still the same as before, rolling sand dunes, rolling yellow sand.But the color of the desert today seems to be different from usual. At dusk, the desert is dyed with a layer of magnificent and dazzling maiden red, as if it could bleed at any time.

The sand dunes in the distance twisted, and a mirage appeared indistinctly.

Zheng Xiu stared at the distance, watching quietly.

Soft footsteps came from behind, Xie Luohe simply wrapped his body, walked barefoot, tilted his head and wiped his wet long hair with a towel.

Zheng Xiugang glanced back, and moved away with difficulty: "Can you dress tighter."

Xie Luohe sat down calmly beside Zheng Xiu, smiled and said, "Is this important?"

Zheng Xiu was speechless.

After a while, Xie Luohe covered his mouth and smiled: "Are you worried that I will suffer, or that she will suffer?"

Zheng Xiu didn't answer.

Along the way, Zheng Xiu deliberately did not mention "Zheng Xiu" and "Feng Bei" in front of Xie Luohe.

Because Zheng Xiu noticed that every time he accidentally brought the topic to "200 years later", although Xie Luohe's expression did not change, she would secretly clenched her fists.

Seeing that Zheng Xiu didn't answer, Xie Luohe put the wet towel that wiped his hair on Zheng Xiu's shoulder, leaned his head gently on Zheng Xiu's shoulder, and looked into the distance together with Zheng Xiu.

After a moment of silence, Xie Luohe smiled and said, "A sandstorm is coming."

"to make."

Other Zheng Xiu would subconsciously doubt it, but Zheng Xiu firmly believed in this matter.

Xie Luohe must have heard the "footsteps" of the sandstorm.

Zheng Xiu sat with Xie Luohe for a while, until the blood-red setting sun completely sank behind the sand dunes, Zheng Xiu got up and said, "Let me prepare. You and I should be safe in the face of the sandstorm, but don't let 'Xiaohe' and..." Xiaohe Mo' was buried."

"Xiaohe" and "Xiaomo" are naturally the names of two camels - the taste of Xieluohe.

She rides "Xiaomo" and Zheng Xiu rides "Xiaohe".

When usually walking on the desert, Xie Luohe would happily shout to the camels from time to time, "Xiaomo, Xiaomo, run faster." Zheng Xiu was ashamed because of his birth, so he didn't have the nerve to fight back against Xie Luohe on this matter, so he could only swallow his anger. Wrap your ears and don't listen.

Zheng Xiu walked towards the camel, pulled out a small bright machete from the animal skin scabbard in the saddlebag, looked at his wrist, and walked silently towards the pool.

"Are you going to cut it again?"

Xie Luohe came over curiously.

She has always been interested in Zheng Xiu's "thaumaturgy".

Unlike Xie Luohe and Fengbei, Zheng Xiu was obviously many times more than ordinary people.Zheng Xiu's thaumaturgy still has strict restrictions and rules that must be followed.This is also one of the reasons why Xie Luohe feels that Zheng Xiu is not like a "foreigner".

"Can you wear Yanshi first?" Zheng Xiu gave Xie Luohe a white look, and cut off his wrist decisively.

gurgling...

The blood flowed profusely, and Zheng Xiu's blood dyed the pool light red in an instant.

The dense blood energy is vivid, and the faint red light moves like tentacles on the surface of the pool.

"birdcage."

Zheng Xiu sacrificed the Luohe brush, using the pond water as the ink, and easily released the "birdcage", forming the entire oasis into a "prison cell".

clap clap.

Zheng Xiu's bones made a crisp sound, and his muscles bulged.

Xie Luohe couldn't hold it back for a moment, and dazedly touched Zheng Xiu's well-developed pectoralis major muscle, and it was instantly split.

Oh, woman.

Zheng Xiu gritted his teeth, strode forward, and raised his palms to dig a deep hole in the oasis.

Immediately afterwards, Zheng Xiu lifted "Xiaohe" and "Xiaomo" respectively, jumped into the pit, placed them properly, and then backfilled the bunker a little, leaving a gap enough for the two of them to hide in.

At this time, the sky was completely dark, and the dark cloud in the distance was like a huge beast, which opened its huge mouth and swallowed the world.

Before the sandstorm arrived, strong winds blew up, the ground was shaking, and the air was trembling.

The dark clouds seemed to be within reach, and they pressed down on the oasis in the blink of an eye.

"Go in, I'll block you for a while, if it doesn't work, I'll go in and hide."

Although Zheng Xiu and Xie Luohe are both strangers, Zheng Xiu still dare not be careless in the face of vast natural disasters.But in prison, the attributes of [Zheng Shan] and [Unbreakable] gave Zheng Xiu full confidence.

The physical body should be able to carry it. What Zheng Xiu worried about was that the storm would be too big to involve all of them. In the vast desert, what Zheng Xiu was most worried about was losing his way.Once lost in the desert, even a foreigner will have only one dead end in the end.

Xie Luohe quickly changed his clothes, ignored Zheng Xiu and hid in the sandpit, but sat down quietly on the edge of the oasis.

"It's okay." Xie Luohe turned his head, smiled slightly, patted the open space around him, and shook his head at Zheng Xiu: "With you here, I'm not afraid."

Zheng Xiu's heart trembled.

He lowered his head and sat beside Xie Luohe without saying a word.

huh... huh... huh...

boom!boom!boom!boom!
The wind is getting stronger and stronger, and the depths of the black desert are more intense and strange black.The sand and gravel blown up by the strong wind hit Zheng Xiu's "birdcage" heavily, making a loud noise.

In the "Birdcage", Zheng Xiu and Xie Luohe, who are sitting quietly together, seem to be in another completely different world.The quietness of the two of them was in stark contrast to the hustle and bustle of the outside world.

The air pressure became lower and lower, and in the sandpit, Xiaohe and Xiaomo neighed anxiously.

"Shh, I'm not afraid."

Xie Luohe said softly, with his index finger raised on his lips.

The two camels quickly calmed down, leaning against each other in the sandpit, with their feet on the ground, and the camels' mouths came and went, exchanging saliva.It seems that in this desperate environment, the sour smell of love fermented between the two camels, one male and one female.

Xie Luohe gazed into the depths of the darkness, where the dust was noisy, and said with a smile: "You once said that the third death of a person is when the world is completely forgotten."

Zheng Xiu nodded, he didn't know why Xie Luohe said this at this time.

"That's why you became a 'painter'?" Xie Luohe pulled her long hair behind her ears, revealing her two eyes.She no longer concealed the strange words in her right eye, she completely exposed her unbearable and distress to Zheng Xiu's eyes.

In the depth of her right eye, there is faintly the word "Ding Wei".

Xie Luohe continued: "Why do you always refuse to draw 'people'? If you draw me at this moment, at this moment, here, as long as the scroll is not destroyed, people in the world will know that there was once a poor woman named 'Xie Luohe' Live, even if there is only one person."

In the dark, Xie Luohe smiled sweetly, and calmly told Zheng Xiu what he wanted to say to Zheng Xiu all this time: "Gongsun Mo, can you draw a picture for me?"

At this moment, Xie Luohe's smile, in Zheng Xiu's eyes, looked extremely glamorous.He could no longer tell whether the woman sitting next to him was Xie Luohe or Fengbei, and he even forgot the "rules" he had always adhered to.

He couldn't refuse the Xie Luohe at this moment, he couldn't refuse the Xie Luohe who spoke the saddest words in the calmest tone.

"it is good."

With a calm mind like water, Zheng Xiu spread out the scroll, took a few steps back, and painted ink with blood.

rustling...

woohoo hoo...

At this moment, neither of them spoke, only the roar of the wind, the sound of breathing, and the sound of writing were left around.

On the picture scroll, the sky is dark and the sky is full of desolation. A pretty woman sits quietly in the desert, facing the desperate wind and sand, facing Zheng Xiu, with a slight smile on her face.

The desolation of the desert, the ravages of sand and dust, the beauty of the woman, the desolation of the corners of the mouth, everything Zheng Xiu sees is condensed in the small scroll.

"Dotting."

At the last step, Zheng Xiu hesitated for a moment, then clicked Xie Luohe's eyes on the scroll.

The eyes are the windows of the soul.

Before dotting the eyes, the woman on the scroll is both Xie Luohe and Fengbei, it is hard to tell the difference.When Zheng Xiu clicked his "eyes", the "Xieluo River" on the scroll seemed to come alive in an instant, and the Xieluo River was the Xieluo River.

puff.

Yea.

A slightly loose door, easily pushed open in the doorway.

The door was pushed open with incredible speed, as if it was already open, just waiting for Zheng Xiu to reach out his hand.

The moment the painting was completed.

Outside the birdcage, the raging black wind and sand froze for a moment.

next second.

The wind died down.

The sand that was frozen in mid-air fell down with a splash.

It became a sandstorm.

(End of this chapter)