"Cheng Jin? Cheng Jin? Wake up! "
Cheng Jin abruptly opened her eyes, as though a switch had been turned on. She sat up and bumped into Wu Ye's forehead. The two of them couldn't help but touch each other's forehead and gasp.
Cheng Jin covered her forehead with one hand and looked around. Looking at the white sand all over the ground, she asked, "Are we in Gu Tong Jing?"
Wu Ye nodded. "Yes."
"Where are they?"
"I don't know. We should be separated now." Wu Ye stood up and extended his hand to Cheng Jin. "Let's go."
Cheng Jin stared at his hand for a long time before finally putting her hand in his and letting him pull her up.
"How are you? Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?" Wu Ye asked as they walked.
"I'm fine." Cheng Jin followed behind him and slowly climbed up the sand dune. "You're quite considerate."
Wu Xie chuckled and said, "If it was me 10 years ago, I'm afraid you wouldn't say that."
Cheng Jin was slightly taken aback and asked, "Ten years ago? What were you doing ten years ago? "
"It's a long story. Let's talk about it when we have time."
Cheng Jin saw that he didn't want to talk about this topic. "Ten years ago, I was only eight years old. I was still in primary school."
Wu Ye turned to look at her. "Now that you mention it, even I feel that I'm old."
Cheng Jin suddenly felt like laughing, but she held it in. In the end, she only pursed her lips. "When is your birthday?"
"Let me think …"
Wu Ye didn't speak for a long time. Cheng Jin asked curiously, "Why do you take so long to think about your birthday?"
After a long time, Wu Ye said, "I remember … it's the fifth of March. I'm older than you … by fifteen years." He smiled. "It's been so long since I celebrated my birthday that I can't even remember it."
Cheng Jin calculated the time of his birth and was slightly stunned. She whispered, "I haven't celebrated my birthday in a long time."
Wu Ye looked at her and said, "I remember that your mother treated you quite well."
"It's me who doesn't want to celebrate it. Isn't it weird for only one of us to celebrate our birthdays?" Cheng Jin looked up at the blue sky and lowered her head again. She said, "My mother is with someone else. I'm unnecessary. It's better if I don't cause her any more trouble."
Wu Ye stopped in his tracks and turned to look at her. "How long before your birthday?"
Cheng Jin blinked. "… 16th of November."
"Okay, when we get out, I'll get someone to make you a knife as a birthday present."
Cheng Jin glanced at him and said, "You're so good at saving money. You promised to give me something as a birthday present."
"Previously, I was looking for a knife for you. Now, I'm making one for you. How can it be the same?" Wu Ye smiled at her.
Cheng Jin met his smile and looked away. She snorted and said, "Boss Wu is so meticulous. I can't compare to him."
"Let's go and see where Li Chu and Wong Meng are."
The two of them walked for a while and saw Wong Meng half-buried in the sand. They quickly dug him out.
"Boss … Miss Cheng …"
Cheng Jin hurriedly asked, "Is my brother not here?"
"Li Chu? I don't know. When I woke up, I saw you and my boss … "
Cheng Jin looked at the white desert in the distance. She couldn't see anyone. Her heart tightened.
"Li Chu should be buried in the sand. He's not far from here. It's fine. Don't be afraid. Let's go and look for him now. We'll find him soon."
Cheng Jin nodded worriedly.
After walking for a short distance, the three of them saw a few trucks covered in white sand. Wu Ye and Wong Meng went to check the situation. Cheng Jin shuttled between the trucks to look for Li Chu.
After some time, Wu Ye suddenly shouted, "Cheng Jin! Run! "
Cheng Jin was slightly stunned. Her body instinctively stopped in place and couldn't move. After a while, she reacted and quickly ran out. Fortunately, she was still far away. She was only hit by the shockwave. She hit the truck door and fell to the ground. She was crushed by a pile of sand and couldn't recover for a long time.
Li Chu heard the explosion and came over. He looked at Wu Ye and Wong Meng and asked, "Why are you here? Where's the braised fish? "
Wu Ye stood up and shook his head. "I don't know. Maybe she was hit by the shockwave. Let's go and find her."
"I'm fine!" Cheng Jin wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and the sand on her face. She walked out from the gap between two trucks. She rubbed her neck and said, "What happened? You still have guns?"
"No, it was an accident." Wu Ye looked Cheng Jin up and down. Seeing that her expression was normal, he was sure that she was safe.
"Speaking of which, where are we now?" Li Chu looked around and asked curiously.
Wu Ye smiled and raised his hand. He saluted him and said, "Welcome to Gu Tongjing."
"This is Gu Tongjing?" Li Chu climbed up to the roof of the truck and looked curiously at the trucks that were lined up in a circle. "Oh my god, this Gu Tongjing is actually a parking lot."
Wu Ye said helplessly, "What parking lot? I think this is a ring-shaped campsite." He pondered for a while and said, "But I don't understand. Usually, a campsite is close to a water source. This place is clearly some distance away from Hai Zi. I'm guessing that they're trying to surround Hai Zi. "
Li Chu was dumbfounded. "Why would they surround Hai Zi?"
Cheng Jin replied casually, "Since this Hai Zi can move and send us to Gu Tongjing, perhaps its position isn't fixed at all. I've heard that there are underground rivers under the desert. Sometimes, they form rivers or lakes that are not fixed. They're considered mobile water sources, and it's difficult to capture their movement patterns. But people didn't think of that, so they thought they could stop Hai Zi. "
Wu Ye stared at her for a while before looking away. "Forget it. Let's not talk about this for now. Let's clean up these trucks and see if there are any supplies."
Li Chu suddenly thought of something and asked with a trembling voice, "Can we still get out …?"
Wong Meng comforted him. "It's okay. We still have water. We won't die for the time being."
"We can't just drink water. If we drink too much, we'll become bloated. We won't have anything to eat and will starve to death."
Wong Meng patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile, "You don't have to worry about that. It's so dry here. No matter how much we drink, we'll dry up. Besides, I think it's not a bad idea to die together with Boss."
Cheng Jin sighed helplessly. She had already turned around and was thinking about which truck to search first. She had vomited everything she had eaten in the water, so she was a little hungry now.
Wu Ye nodded when he heard Wong Meng's words. "Yeah, that's a good bootlicker."
Li Chu rolled his eyes and said, "How is that bootlicker? That's more like bootlicker!"
"The four of us will dry up together. Yeah … that sounds interesting. In the end, we'll become a —" Wu Ye raised his hand and gestured. "— a natural work of art."
Li Chu blinked blankly. After a while, he said angrily, "Big Bro, are you crazy? We're all going to die soon! "
Wu Ye had a calm expression as if he had seen through life and death. He said, "In our line of work, the more dangerous the place is, the more we have to downplay it. In the end, you won't be in so much pain."
"… As long as you're happy."
Cheng Jin was too lazy to pay attention to the three childish men. She walked to the side, opened the door of the truck with force, and began to search for supplies.
Wu Ye looked at her struggling figure with the truck and smiled. He said to Wong Meng and Li Chu, "Let's go. Let's hurry up."
Wong Meng and Li Chu watched Wu Ye walk away. Li Chu said, "Why do I feel that Wu Ye has been strange recently? It's like … he's becoming more and more perverted. When he smiles, it's like his heart is rippling. Could it be that he's plotting something against my braised fish?"
Wong Meng rolled his eyes and said, "My boss has a handsome smile. It's full of masculine hormones, okay?"
Li Chu looked at Wong Meng with a complicated expression and said, "Brother Meng, it's been hard on you. Wu Ye isn't here and you're still flattering him." After saying that, he also walked away.
"It's just like that!"
Wu Ye looked at Cheng Jin struggling to drag out a skeleton and said, "Okay, Wong Meng and I will carry these bones. You go and see what's inside. If you see any more poison, you must throw it back. Hurry up and run. "
Cheng Jin nodded and handed the skeleton in her hand to Wu Ye. After he took it, she got into the truck and began to look for things. As soon as she got into the truck, she couldn't help but touch her spine. She only felt that it was very painful.
About half an hour later, Cheng Jin jumped out of the last truck without finding anything. She rubbed her sleepy eyes because of the white sand and began to look around for traces of Wu Ye and the others.
"Why does it seem like there's something swimming across the sand and leaving behind ripples …" Cheng Jin felt a little uneasy. Just as she walked to Li Chu and Wu Ye's side, she heard Wu Ye say,
"No matter what purpose these people have for coming here, they're already dead. Let's erect a tombstone for them."
Li Chu put one hand on his waist and said, "Okay, then what should we erect? Gu Tong's Sand Proof Monument? "
Wong Meng said with a look of disdain, "Oh my god, you've been in school for so many years, and this is what your language teacher taught you? Can't you be a little more humane?"
"Wong Meng, you've been with me for so long, when did you learn to be humane?"
Wong Meng chuckled and didn't say anything. Instead, it was Li Chu who said after careful consideration, "For these people who left home, they can no longer go back … Parting people, parting people, let's call it Parting People's Sorrow."
The four of them felt a little sour in their hearts for a moment. They fell into silence and quietly did their own work.
Cheng Jin thought that they might as well bury themselves under this "Parting People's Sorrow". In any case, they would soon be no different from the dead.
After a long time, when the Parting People's Sorrow was erected, Cheng Jin said, "Wu Ye. You see the desert in the distance, right? The patterns on it are very strange. "
Wu Ye followed her gaze and looked into the distance, saying, "It is a little strange. It looks like the traces left behind by a snake. Cheng Jin, did you see a snake just now? "
Cheng Jin shook her head slightly.
Li Chu stared and suddenly said, "Those traces are not formed on the sand, but under the sand, formed by some kind of twisting. In other words, there is some kind of snake living under our feet, or perhaps there are other creatures."
Wu Ye thought for a while and said, "It's getting late. For safety's sake, let's stay in the back of the car for the night."
The four of them had just turned around and were about to leave when the ground suddenly began to tremble. The "Parting People's Sorrow" standing not far away suddenly fell down, and that piece of sand began to shake violently.
Wu Ye pulled out the knife at his waist, ran over and stabbed it fiercely, but still found nothing.
"It's alive."
"The sand is not like the water, its speed will not be so fast. It should still be nearby, or deeper in the sand."
Cheng Jin raised her eyebrows and asked, "Dig it out?"
Wu Ye nodded. "Let's dig and see."
The four of them dug layer after layer, Cheng Jin suddenly asked, "Did you dig a hole here to bury the body? It's so deep … "
Wong Meng reacted and said, "No, we did not bury it so deep."
Li Chu shuddered and said, "The body is gone."
Wu Ye stopped digging and quickly got up, saying, "I changed my mind. We can't stay in this place. It's too strange here. Go and fill everything that can be filled with water. Take everything that can be carried and leave here before it gets dark."
As soon as his voice fell, the ground began to shake violently. The sand rubbed against each other and made a terrible sound.
Wu Ye shouted, "Run! Run to the truck! "
The four of them quickly ran to the truck. The vine-like thing behind them chased closely. It did not take long for Wong Meng and Wu Ye to be dragged down.
"Damn, what the hell is this?!" Li Tuo turned around to take a look. Her heart skipped a beat as she said, "Wu Xie and the others couldn't have …"
"Don't look! Run! Hide in the truck! "Cheng Jin only felt a faint pain in the place where she was hit by the air wave. Her speed could not help but slow down.
Li Chu saw Cheng Jin's speed slow down and hurriedly pulled her forward.
"Don't pull me, I can't run anymore …" Cheng Jin gasped for breath and said intermittently.
"Are you stupid? If you don't run, you'll die!" Li Chu's eyes were almost red and said, "How about I carry you and run?"
Cheng Jin suddenly smiled and said, "You can't run fast with me, so you run first." After that, she pulled out the dagger from her waist and deliberately pointed it at the place where they were holding hands. When Li Chu instinctively pulled back his hand, she pushed him.
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