At this time, Hu Baye, Mo Heng and others had already driven all the remaining sand camel beasts and carts to a safe area. Hu Baye walked over cautiously and slowly, glancing at the distance not far away from time to time and swallowing three of them in a moment.
In the quicksand pit of human life, he sighed, stretched out his hand to pull up Qu Wuming, who looked unhappy, and said, "There is no other way, let's go."
Qu Wuming stared deeply at the quicksand pit, helped Han Ling'er and Tong Xiangyu up, and walked towards the cart in silence...
Three days later.
"Where is the next oasis?"
"Yeah, how far is it? I'm almost dying of thirst..."
Beside a large car, more than a dozen people gathered around Wei Yixian, licking their chapped lips and staring at the handful of copper coins Wei Yixian had just thrown down, their eyes full of hope.
Wei Yixian also had dry lips and a haggard look on his face. He raised his finger in a direction and said in a hoarse voice: "The hexagram says it should be in the southeast direction."
"But yesterday you were talking about the northwest direction!" Hou Jinhai couldn't help but feel a little angry when he heard this, "We have been walking for so long, if we go to the southeast, won't we go back again?!"
"That's what the hexagram says...I don't know why..." Wei Yixian had a helpless look on his face.
A burst of noise suddenly broke out in the crowd.
"Is it because this is a lawless place and your hexagram is inaccurate?!"
"My hexagram technique does not require the use of magic power and will not be affected by this place."
"Then I don't think your calculation is accurate! How can you turn around and walk back and forth?"
"Damn it, I have been in the world for more than 20 years. I am not going to die of thirst in this desert..."
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Everyone first broke out into a brief quarrel, and then fell into a deathly silence.
"I think you are still not thirsty enough and still have the energy to quarrel..." Qu Wuming leaned against the wheel of a large car and said lazily, "Just let Wei Yixian do the calculation again! Whatever you figure out is what it is.
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"I agree." Hu Baye agreed, "Calculate again, I will accept any result!"
"Okay, forget it! It's better than walking blindly and dying of thirst in the end..."
Wei Yixian picked up the copper coins one by one, then waved his hand to smooth the sand in front of him, saying something silently, and after a while he threw the coins down again.
Nine copper coins plopped down on the yellow sand. Everyone looked down and were surprised to find that the positions of the nine copper coins were exactly the same as last time!
"This..." Everyone's eyes fell on Wei Yixian's face again.
Wei Yixian spread his hands helplessly and said, "Everyone has seen it...it's still in the southeast direction."
"Southeast is southeast!" Qu Wuming stood up and walked towards the front sand camel beast, "If you don't listen to Wei Yixian, do you have a better way?!"
"Let's go!" Hu Baye seemed to have accepted his fate.
Everyone stood up listlessly and set out on the journey again.
Half a day later, Qu Wuming, who was walking at the front, raised his head and looked at the scorching sun in the sky. He raised the withered water bag in his hand. Not a drop of water came out for a long time, and even his moist and dry lips turned into a lump.
A kind of extravagant hope.
Just when I was about to throw away the water bag, I suddenly saw a small dot in the distance that seemed to be different...
Qu Wuming put up a pergola with his hands, looked at it intently, and murmured: "Could it be an oasis?"
When Qu Wuming saw it clearly, his voice couldn't help but become a little excited: "Oasis
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, is an oasis!”
Hu Baye behind him looked in the direction of Qu Wuming's finger and shouted: "It is indeed an oasis! We are saved! Let's go!"
As if grasping the life-saving straw, the group of people, who were already a little desperate, now had renewed hope of life. They struggled to drive the sand camel beast and rushed towards the oasis...
However, after walking for about two hours, the group was still surrounded by only long stretches of yellow sand. The oasis on the horizon was clearly right in front of them, but they could not reach it.
Everyone is full of hope and stares into the distance, with only one belief in their hearts - as long as they walk a little longer, they will eventually arrive there.
However, not long after, the oasis on the horizon suddenly disappeared——
In the longing eyes of everyone, as if being swept by a heat wave, the oasis swayed in front of everyone's eyes for a few times, and then disappeared like a phantom condensed by water vapor...
"What's going on? Where's the oasis?!" Hu Baye was stunned.
"I'm afraid I encountered a mirage..." Qu Wuming's heart also sank. He murmured in a hoarse voice. After speaking, he swallowed hard, but felt that he had not swallowed anything.
"Mirage?" Hu Baye asked a little puzzled.
"It is said that this kind of illusion often appears in the desert or the sea. It seems to be somewhere in the distance, but in fact it is an illusory phantom that will disappear before you get close. If you are chasing a mirage,
I'm afraid I'll be trapped and die on the way..." Qu Wuming replied.
"Then what should we do..." Hu Baye licked his chapped lips and said feebly, "I feel like these sand camel beasts won't last long... If we can't find an oasis again, we will have no choice but to
Kill the sand camel beast and drink its blood..."
"Wei Yixian, can you calculate how far it is? Where is the correct direction?"
"No way..." Wei Yixian shook his head, "Since yesterday, my hexagram technique has also failed. I can only say that it should be nearby, no more than a day's journey away!"
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but show a look of despair on their faces, and fell into silence.
Suddenly, Tong Xiangyu, who had been silent all this time, said, "I have a way to try!"
"What can we do?" Qu Wuming and Hu Baye's eyes lit up and they asked in unison.
"I'm just trying, everyone, please stop talking!" Tong Xiangyu turned over and got off the sand camel beast. With three strokes, she removed all the reins and saddles from the sand camel beast, and then placed it on the sand camel beast's butt.
He clapped his hands hard.
The sand camel beast was in pain, and it suddenly ran away for a long distance.
It has been living under the servitude of people since its birth. This is the first time for this sand camel beast to experience such a thing - there is no rein on its head, no saddle on its body, and the group of people behind it have not come over to try.
Control your own thoughts.
The Sand Camel Beast turned its head and looked at everyone for a long time. Seeing that no one came to chase it, it stood there hesitating for a moment and finally started to move.
It first raised its head and turned around, as if sniffing something in the hot air. After a while, it took slow steps and walked in one direction.
"Everyone, follow it from a distance and don't disturb it!" Tong Xiangyu climbed onto a big car and whispered.
Everyone has no better way at this moment. Since Wei Yixian's divination technique failed, everyone has no direction and escape route. Even if someone said at this time, they can find the water source by digging downward.
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, I’m afraid everyone will give it a try.
The group of people followed the sand camel beast slowly forward in the desert from a distance, and they walked for more than an hour in the blink of an eye.
"Look over there! It's an oasis!" Hu Baye excitedly raised his finger and pointed into the distance.
"Great, it's really an oasis! Go there quickly!" Hou Jinhai pulled the reins and turned to the oasis.
"Wait a minute!" Qu Wuming stopped everyone, pointed at the sand camel beast in front of him and said, "Keep following it!"
"What if it's just walking blindly?" Hou Jinfa said uncontrollably, "The oasis has obviously been seen! It's not in the same direction at all!"
"How do you know that it is no longer a mirage?" Qu Wuming asked.
"This..." Hou Jinfa was startled when he heard this and didn't know how to answer.
"If anyone thinks that there is an oasis over there, just go there by yourself." Qu Wuming shook the reins and continued to follow the sand camel beast, "I will follow it anyway."
The three Chen brothers looked at each other and chose to follow Qu Wuming without hesitation.
"I also followed the sand camel beast." Hu Baye looked at the oasis in the distance. Although he was a little unwilling, he still pinched the sand camel beast under his crotch and chose to continue moving in the original direction.
"you……"
After a while, only three brothers, Hou Jinhai, Hou Jinfa, and Hou Jinbo, were still staying there. The others all chose to believe in Tong Xiangyu's method.
"Hey, let's go!" Hou Jinhai sighed, pulled the reins, and exerted force on his feet, urging the sand camel beast to follow...
In the blink of an eye, more than two hours passed.
The scorching sun in the sky has slipped from the center of the sky to the edge of the sky, hiding behind a cloud that appeared at an unknown time, disappearing and appearing. In the scorching desert, there is actually a hint of coolness. It has passed.
After a while, the few clouds on the horizon were gradually coated with a layer of red, and the sunlight cast by the setting sun on the desert also turned into an orange-red color with golden light. Looking from a distance, a team of sand camel beasts walked slowly
As we entered the sand dunes, long shadows were still trailing beside us. Even though we were still moving forward, we seemed quiet and peaceful.
However, the group of people walking in this desert no longer had any intention of appreciating the beautiful scenery. Even when they stared at the sand camel beast walking alone in the distance, their eyes became a little blurred and in a trance.
Suddenly, the sand camel beast in front snorted several times in succession, and then started running excitedly. Its four huge hooves kicked up clouds of dust on the desert, and its footsteps seemed to fly happily.
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When everyone saw this, they couldn't help but cheer up. They quickly cheered up and drove the other sand camel beasts to catch up.
"It's an oasis! I really found an oasis!"
“It is indeed an oasis!”
"There is help! There is help!"
"Hahaha……"
After running for several miles, everyone finally arrived at the oasis!
This oasis is very different from the ones we passed along the way.
There are no tall trees in the oasis, only a few tawny bushes, sparse and half-dead, growing beside a small pool. Surrounding the oasis is a large half circle of khaki-colored rocks that appear to be messy, about 20 to 30 feet in diameter.
, it can barely block the invasion of the surrounding yellow sand, protecting this not too big oasis. The area of the pool is also a bit pitiful, the water surface is only more than a foot wide, but the bottom of the water seems to be extremely deep, and the center of the pool is as dark as