Before the body and mind wake up, the soul of the astrologer's apprentice suddenly discovers the fact that it is constantly falling into a coma, missing key events one after another, and using lost memories to split life into incoherent colorful pictures.
The salty wind of the desert filled his mouth, and Jonah woke up with a cough. As soon as he moved his hands and feet, he was blown away by the strong wind blowing in his face, "Ahhhhh..." The world was spinning, and he didn't know how far he rolled. There was a sharp dull pain in his waist, and something in the shape of a pillar blocked his momentum. The astrologer apprentice clumsily danced his hands and feet and fell to the ground, using the elbow of the staff to hook a bulge to resist the wind. , using all his strength to stabilize his body, he leaned against the pillar and opened his eyes with difficulty.
"What the hell...what kind of place is this?"
Jonah's eyes widened, and the sand immediately got into his eyelids, stinging his eyes painfully.
The golden Matlactili hangs diagonally in the sky. The sun should be around four or five o'clock in the afternoon. Of course, he is still in the endless sea of sand. The sunlight illuminates the endless stretches of sand dunes. Apart from the blue sky and yellow sand, there is nothing else. One color disrupts the simple color scheme of the desert. There are no hindworms, no sailing boats, and no Tantuha natives. This is a barren sea of sand. The only life that exists is Jonah himself, who looks confused,,, plus the body beneath him An unknown object traveling at high speed.
Judging from the oncoming strong wind, he was galloping in the desert at a crazy speed of forty or fifty knots. Jonah looked around fearfully. This was a strange and rugged place, and the ground under his feet was covered with high and low ridges. Many pillars with sharp tops and thick bottoms rise up and pierce into the sky at various angles. There is also such a conical pillar behind him. It is more like a thorn than a pillar. The material of the ground and the giant thorns is dark brown, hard and elastic, not stone or metal. When touched by hand, the rough scaly surface seems to have a certain temperature.
"Ghost...Ghost Bahamas," Jonah retracted his fingers like an electric shock. The sense of speed, sight and touch simultaneously reminded him that he was in a dangerous place, an extremely dangerous place.
The most terrifying legend of the endless sand sea is a black object that wanders in the desert like a ghost. It has the most majestic size, the fastest speed, the most powerful attack power and the most ferocious personality in the entire desert. No one can see it clearly. The true face of the Ghost Bahamas, whether it is a sand-eating worm, a man-made object, or a monster, countless mysterious and mysterious guesses have been spread by word of mouth among the desert residents. Since the Ghost Bahamas suddenly appeared in the endless sand sea a hundred years ago, no matter the ancient Tantuha people around the campfire A ballad, or a bedtime story told to the infants of Tocharian merchants. This ghost that unscrupulously attacks any object on its path has become synonymous with death and destruction, forever imprinting the shadow of terror on the subconscious of every new life in the endless sand sea.
The Ghost Bahamas is named after its ghostly image and the name of the desert town that was completely destroyed when it first appeared. It does not follow the sand-eating insect's figure-eight cruise route. For many years, people have observed the ghost with deep awe. The movement of the Bahamas seems to be using the entire endless sea of sand as a stage to draw an extremely complex ancient pattern. Every line left by ghosts in the desert in the past hundred years is part of this extremely complex pattern. People know what it wants to draw, so no one can predict the movements of the ghost Bahamas. They can only watch it tear dunes, giant insects, buildings and human bodies into pieces again and again. Even the big sand waterfall cannot slow down its speed. Half a minute, what will happen if the ghost Bahama meets the queen worm? This question is the deepest fear in the souls of the Tantuha people. Fortunately, time flies and the ghost's path never coincides with the queen worm's node.
Naturalist Raquel Rosena, who was tortured by the legendary "herbivore phobia" for his whole life, recorded the ghost's patrol track in the Bahamas in his posthumous work "Rosena Memoirs". Every node of the track represents a tragic accident. , Rosena spent a lot of energy to find the exact places where these accidents occurred from folk tales, songs, historical records and relics in the endless sand sea, and drew this shocking trajectory map, although many places in the pattern were blank due to lack of information. , but in any case, this is the most detailed and thorough research record that humans have ever done on the ghost Bahamas. Before figuring out what the function of this picture is, the naturalist Rosener died due to long-term malnutrition. His research No successor has been found, because the age of sails has arrived, and the endless sand sea has entered the glorious era of plundering by the king of sand pirates. The scientists from Tochara were looted by the Zawi bandits, and they lost their magnifying glasses, telescopes, and walking sticks. Sundial, change your underwear and have the courage to continue exploring. You can no longer continue the work of your predecessors.
The above information comes from the "Geographic Survey of the Southern Continent". After a full half hour of hysteria and half an hour of futile calls for help, Jonah resignedly took out the big book in the deerskin bag, found the chapter about the ghost Bahamas and started reading.
"Ghost Bahamas..." After reading a paragraph, the astrologer apprentice closed the book in despair and looked up at the sky: "Why did you kidnap me and trap me in this ghost place... The betrayer Segre Si, this is fate again, right? Why do I separate from my friends every time? Is it predicted that I am destined to move forward alone? Tell me, why is this?"
The sound was blown away by the wind as soon as it came out. The ghost Bahamas, which was running wildly at fifty knots, turned the air into a hard wall. Even though Jonah moved behind the giant thorn to hide from the wind, he was still swaying like an insignificant person. Tumbleweeds drifting helplessly everywhere.
The sun has already set in the west, there are no clouds in the sky, and there is no sunset. Just a moment ago, the sky and the earth were filled with bright red sunshine. The next moment, Matlactili fell into the distant horizon, and the night suddenly enveloped the endless sea of sand. Jonah used The belt tied himself to the giant thorn, and he curled up as much as possible. The cold, hunger and thirst were gnawing at his soul like a monster. The rumbling wind made him unable to think. At this moment, he really felt it. Fear, fear of being alone, fear of the future, fear of death.
"If...if I am the chosen one, then I will never die alone here, in the ghost Bahamas..." The astrologer apprentice gritted his teeth, held Siela Pina tightly, and lit the top of the staff. The illuminated star array, the light of fireflies lights up the back of the ghost Bahamas. If there are witnesses watching from the side, they will be able to see the giant speeding in the night leaving a bright red stream of light in the dark sea of sand.
The light gave Jonah a brief moment of comfort. He tried his best to throw away the influx of terrifying thoughts from his mind. He breathed a breath to warm his cold hands and observed the back of the ghost Bahama through the light of the star array. There was no doubt that the ghost Bahama was not man-made. It is not an object, but some kind of living creature. The skin of this monster's back is covered with ugly pits and giant thorns, and it looks like a battlefield that has experienced a fierce battle.
From Jonah's point of view, he could not see the head and tail of the giant beast, nor could he guess what its full appearance looked like. After thinking for a long time, the astrologer apprentice finally made up his mind to explore. Sitting back and waiting for death was the worst idea. In the terrifying giant Walking on the beast's back is the second worst idea, but at least there is a chance of survival.
Jonah untied his belt and tied his robe tightly, put the hood on his head, used his staff to support his body and left the hiding place, and slowly walked towards the leeward direction. The wind blowing from behind immediately made him stagger around, and Jonah staggered as much as possible. Staggering forward, he was secretly glad that Ghost Bahama's attack did not bring him any new wounds. He had just checked his whole body, and found that except for some scratches and bruises on the Backworm's Backbone, there was no new wound. , how this monster threw itself on its back without any harm was a question that puzzled him.
After walking a distance of twenty or thirty yards, the terrain dropped significantly. He jumped down a slope. The wind immediately became much lighter. Jonah fell to the ground with relief and gasped for air. His judgment was correct. If the position just now was In the center of the back of the giant beast, if you move towards the leeward direction, that is, towards the tail of the monster, there should be a descending arc. This is a standard feature of vertebrates. In other words, this body surface carries a huge temperature The beast is indeed not a cold-blooded sand-eating worm, but a warm-blooded higher vertebrate. What kind of vertebrate can grow to such a size? The largest vertebrate mentioned in the "Geographic Survey of the Western Continent" is the earthworm. A close relative of the dragon, a half-dragon creature called the "Ebenezer Mountain Monitor." The largest one can weigh 30,000 pounds, and can eat an acre of cabbage in one meal, and the thing in front of Jonah is This behemoth is two laps larger than the "Racing Star" catamaran carried by the giant sandworm Layton sisters. At the same time, it can still maintain an absurdly high forward speed. This is simply impossible. matter.
Jonah rummaged through his deerskin bag and found some dregs of dry wheat cakes. He greedily poured the dregs into his mouth, chewed slowly, and reluctantly swallowed this precious mouthful of food. After resting for a few minutes, he decided to continue Moving forward, night has fallen, and the temperature in the desert drops rapidly at night. If he does not find a safe haven, his physical strength will quickly drain away, until he loses the last bit of precious heat and turns into a cold corpse.
The astrologer apprentice increased the output of the illuminating star array. Light and heat are two forms of the same energy. It is not difficult to make the illuminating star array release appropriate heat. Although the warmth of the body cannot stop the loss of physical strength, it at least gives about Receiving the motivation to move forward, he gritted his teeth and continued to move forward.
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