May 19, 15926, Shangqiongli.

At dawn, in the town of Sosa, which is located in the easternmost suburb of Qishui City, the residents got up early and began to prepare food in the faint light.

They will keep some of the prepared food for themselves, and some of it will be sold to adventurers who come to hunt and capture sand beasts, so as to get money to buy daily necessities from merchants.

As its name suggests, the town of Sosao means dancing and fluttering gently, but it is not the person dancing and floating, but the yellow sand in the sky.

No one in the town knows where the end of the desert is. Occasionally, the adventurers coming here mention that the end is the sea and the sea is full of water.

Many people in the town have longed to reach the end of the desert since they were young, and want to dig a long enough ditche to lead the water from the sea into the town.

As for the idea of ​​moving to the beach to live, there is absolutely no way to have it. The town wants water, not the dangers that may arise from the beach.

A peaceful morning and an uneasy human heart constitute a period of time in the ordinary years of Sasa Town.

Local Moti Kashu is also busy today. At the age of 72, he does not look aged. He has been a tavern chef for sixty years in the town and has the best skills, at least he thinks so himself.

Because a group of adventurers who returned to the town last night gained a lot and drank too much wine brewed from the brown fruit, he gave Moti Kaxiu an extra 20 kilograms of ball-shooting snake meat. Today he had ball-shooting snake meat as the main ingredient.

Making barbecue quickly, Moti Kahuliu carried the board to the outside of the tavern. This part of the meat was prepared to be sold to adventurers who headed to the desert in the morning.

Moti Kashu always felt that he did not understand whether adventurers took risks for the sake of living or were living for the sake of adventure. He only knew that he would live without taking risks.

After putting everything on, Moti Kaxiu clapped his hands, took a deep breath, looked up at the sky, and murmured: "The two suns today are brighter than yesterday. The stingy old Xier will run to the desert to sell water again. I hope he will not sell the last drop of water and die of thirst in the desert, so that he will not see too much in the morning..."

Moti Kashu's murmur suddenly stopped, and a complicated look appeared in his eyes, panic, frightened, and confused.

"The sun fell." I don't know which child made the first sound, and then more people looked up at the sky.

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

Countless people's eyes followed the fireball, which was flying across the sky at unknown height, like a meteor at night, but did not dissipate in the air 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, but the person who came to his senses began to talk to people nearby about his guesses. The fireball falling from the sky became the only topic in the morning in Sosa Town.

Half a month later, more adventurers appeared in Sosa Town, making the town more prosperous.

Few people have mentioned the fireball. Everyone in the town knows that the fireball has fallen into a desert that may be a thousand miles away from the town. The people who were looking for it in the past did not encounter the fireball, but found a ruin that is said to be at least 20,000 years away from now.

It is said that there are many unknown ferocious beasts in the ruins, and they only eat and cry but not sleep; it is said that there are countless treasures in the ruins, and the people they get will become the richest existence in the principality; it is said that there are potions in the ruins that can keep women young forever and make men stronger.

There are many statements, but more adventurers don't come for these things. They want to get a few antiques from the ruins in exchange for more gold coins.

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May 19, 15940, Shangqiong Di.

Fourteen years have passed since the desert ruins appeared.

Moti Kashu still runs his tavern, and there are still so many adventurers coming to Sosa Town.

According to the people who came back alive, the ruins have been explored to the sixth floor, and there are really many dangers inside. No one has seen the powerful beasts. Various mechanisms have taken the life of the adventurer, and the adventurer has been poisoned to death for no reason.

Almost everyone knows that adventurers' deaths are not necessarily all due to the danger of ruins, and many of them die at the hands of other adventurers.

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

"Damn Bick, I stress again, I want to call me Kaxiu. If you always forget something, you will not find your way back. If the thing you want to exchange for is... Near the ruins in the desert, a four-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl snatch the stingy old Xier's business, I will sell you the wine twice the price."

Moti Kaxiu's arms were supported on the counter where the original color was not visible, and he narrowed his eyes and said to the person coming in.

"Okay OK, Lao Moti, actually the new thing I want to say is another thing, yes, another thing." The man called Bick waved his hands without caring at all, and when he walked to the table, he pulled out a chair with his feet, sat on it and said, "The boy's name is Gongsun Murong, and the girl's name is..."

"Sophia Narasha, Bick, it seems you must pay double today." Moti Kashu's lips bent and he shook the cup that had just received the wine.

Bick was stunned for a moment, hugged his head with his hands, and shouted exaggeratedly: "Oh no! Is it slow to come back? Who got the free wine? Well, Lao Moti, what I want to say is another thing, Gongsun Murong and Sophia Narasha are going to have trouble soon."

The people in the tavern were silent after Bick said that they understood that not everyone was willing to trade prey and money for the two children to sell water in the desert.

Just like the stingy old Xier, he occasionally comes back with wounds or other adventurers' equipment. He is definitely not hurt by the wind and sand, nor is the equipment given by others.

He was carrying the third-level and six-level fighting spirit and still had someone to provoke him, let alone two children who survived in the desert... without mercy.

"May the God of War bless them. Adventurers need water, not children's lives, right? Oh, I remember, Kailong, who provided the new news, brought me fresh erhu meat. Yes, delicious erhu meat, it is about to be roasted. Does anyone want a serving?"

Moti Kaxiu changed the topic in time.

Soon the tavern was filled with noisy shouts and curses.

*******

The nights in the desert are cold and dangerous, and some creatures must start hunting when the two moons rise.

In the desert sixty miles away from the ruins and more than nine hundred and seventy miles away from Sosa Town, a big boy who looked fourteen or five years old was walking side by side with a three or four-year-old girl.

"Brother Murong, Narasha hates nights." The little girl complained.

She was wearing a knee-length skirt that exposed her shoulders, white, with a pair of translucent pink crystal shoes on her feet, two horn-like horns on her head, and the rest of her hair was scattered on her shoulders and back, all the way to her waist, undulating with the wind, and there was something on her forehead that looked like a cosmetic, with a blurry and dazzling color.

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

The clothes he was wearing were similar to those who were taking risks in the desert, but they were a little loose. He held a torch in his left hand and a sword that was one meter long, ten centimeters wide and about two centimeters thick in his right hand. There was a blood stain on the blade that had not been wiped clean, and it showed a dark color under the reflection of the torch.

"No one comes to buy water at night, and no one delivers us things. How should we live when we get a place where people gather? Don't be hungry. Narasha is now hungry, Brother Murong!" The little girl rubbed her stomach as she spoke, raised her head to look at the big boy's face.

A golden plate suddenly appeared on the big boy's hand, and there was a circle of meat slices in it. He comforted him while handing it to the little girl: "Don't worry about Narasha. When we arrive at a crowded place, we will find something to do, and there are more delicious food waiting for us."

The little girl took the plate to her hands. Before the wind fell with the sand, a transparent cover appeared on the plate. She pinched a piece of meat with her hands and gently stuffed it into her mouth to chew it. She asked in a vague voice: "Brother Murong, am I really called Narasha? Did you pick it up from the ruins?"

"Yes, you sleep in the ruins. That year you were as big as you are now. In three years, you have not grown up. You are lying in the crystal coffin... In the cabinet, your name is written beside the cabinet. My housekeeper knows that kind of words. The whole ruin is your home." The big boy said confidently.

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

"It's a sleep. When I return to my hometown, they will have a way to wake the housekeeper. My arrival is an accident. The housekeeper said that I should grow up on a specific planet, my fleet will accompany me, and then return to the family to compare with other people, select the next generation of successors."

"I know, I know, you said last year that you and your fleet were separated during the space jump. You and your life capsule fell to this planet. You grew up little by little and received training from the butler. Because the life capsule consumes too much special energy, your butler must have special energy to run, so he fell asleep."

"Yes, yes, I said it."

"Brother Murong, you also said that the ruins are eight floors in total. I am on the last floor. You helped me put away most of the things. At that time, the adventurers here explored the fourth floor. What you left them was something that looked worthless and embedded in the wall. You said you would also help me find my family."

"Well, find your family."

"Brother Murong, you are so nice. Narasha will marry you when she grows up, but why is Narasha always so young? Wow, Brother Murong, another sand-swallowing beast that the adventurer said appeared. I want to eat it, it tastes the best."

The little girl was chatting and repeating the topic that she didn't know how many times, but suddenly pointed ahead and shouted happily.

A head suddenly emerged from the sand three hundred meters ahead of the two. The pointed mouth in front of the head suddenly opened and swallowed a dormant hid there. Perhaps the upward rush was too strong, and its entire body had already rushed out of the sand and headed towards the sky.

At a distance of 300 meters, the little girl seemed to be able to see clearly without the light of a torch.

The moment her voice sounded, the big boy rushed up with his sword, and his figure did not have a clear trajectory like the others, but flashed.

There was a clear and blurred wave, and it seemed that the light that the moon shone on him also had a special refraction, which was a movement and a highlight, a pause and a step away, a blink of an hour, and a moment and a closer approach.

At a distance of three hundred meters, the big boy rushed out 200 meters in four seconds. At this moment, the sand-swallowing beast's rushing force had reached its peak. It began to fall down for a moment. The twelve-meter-long body was still twisting, and at the same time it fell down, with its head down, and its closed sharp mouth facing the sand, which was obviously faster than when it rushed up.

Another second passed, and as the mouth of the sand-swallowing beast was about to touch the sand, the big boy shouted loudly, and the one-handed sword came out of his hand, flashing a blurry line of light and shadow under the moonlight, and then pierced into two inches of the head above the sharp mouth of the sand-swallowing beast.

The dust and sand swayed, and the body of the sand-swalking beast fell on the sand. It twisted irregularly below its head, but could not get into the sand.

"Ha!" The little girl jumped up happily and waved her fists: "I have something to eat, Brother Murong is so awesome."

Nights in the desert are not a good time to make food, so two people, one big and one small, drag the sand-swallowing beasts to move forward, instead of putting them away like when the big boy used to create plates and pieces of meat inside. Humans can intimidate other ferocious beasts with lower ranks than their class, even if they are just corpses.

Sure enough, when the day started to light up that day, the eldest boy Gongsun Murong and the young girl Sophia Narasha were relaxed all night and did not encounter any other sand beasts again. I think the sand swallowing beasts on this road are considered top-notch.

Moreover, the two of them advanced more than 270 miles in one night, one could scare to death and take risks.

They are less than seven hundred miles away from Sosa Town at this moment, and they are no longer in a hurry to sell water.

Because selling water is not the purpose, they appeared and disappeared in various places near the ruins like ghosts, and sold water for two months. In fact, it was to learn the language of humans in this place and find out about living habits and other things.

Every time they appear, they are at a time when there are fewer people, such as three miles ahead of a certain adventurer team, or at the other side of a certain corner of a certain floor in the ruins.

Every adventurer who has traded with them but has never taken action against them will worry about their safety. Every adventurer who has taken action against them has disappeared in the ruins or around the ruins.

Relatively kind adventurers, occasionally sigh with pity when talking to other adventurers, always think that their two children cannot survive, and whenever they hear others say they meet two children somewhere, they will breathe a sigh of relief.

These adventurers know the change of human nature, but when they meet two children, they choose a kind side. When they are satisfied, they do not know that at that moment they choose not only good or evil, but life and death.
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