heavy fog

As the sun sets, the camel bells jingle.

In this very rhythmic rhythm, the child on the camel's back opened his eyes in a daze, and all he saw was yellow sand, extending endlessly to the end of the sky.

The scorching high temperature of the day has passed, and the cold night has not yet arrived, which happens to be the best time of the day in the desert to travel.

"Yo, wake up." A voice came out suddenly.

The child turned his head, looked blankly at the walking camel, stretched out his unbroken hand to touch it with difficulty, and found that the animal didn't respond, it didn't look like a beast.

—He has never seen a camel.

"How is it?" Xi Er asked Wen Luan in the spiritual connection, who had just withdrawn from the dream.

Wen Luan was silent for half a minute before hesitatingly said: "He doesn't have nightmares...or in other words, it's all nightmares."

"Ah?" Simonli hung on the saddlebag of another camel, expressing bewilderment together with Xier.

"Can you say something the mecha can understand?" Xier asked modestly.

"..."

Wen Luan was in a complicated mood. He didn't know what was causing the happy mood at this time. Could it be that Xier was too arrogant, a philosopher who liked to use his IQ to ridicule others, so such an opportunity was extremely rare?

"This child has been living in a hopeless environment, so the dream is a real memory replay, but unlike those who have dreams and long to get rid of this misfortune, he has never seen hope, so he has no desire. When When the dreamer is dumbfounded, even nightmares are not tasty."

"Huh? The Holy Glory Empire is so scary?" Simoli muttered.

"No, he should be from the Moby Dick galaxy." Wen Luan recalled the dream he saw just now, "He was born on a mine star. When the Holy Radiance Empire occupied Morvia, the mine star was also occupied."

A woman who was reduced to slavery in a defeated country, and a child born to the leader of the mine star supervisor.

Living in all kinds of indifference, occasionally the foreman is in a good mood and will throw him some food. The eight-year-old child is as thin and small as four or five years old. After all, the foreman only takes this woman for fun.

There was no one to look after them, but they were not beaten, because the child did not see his mother once for ten days and a half months, and other slaves were busy working to reach the standard of redemption as soon as possible. Who would care about a dirty, boring slave all day long? Silent child?

What happens when a person grows up in a place where there is no expectation, no value, and no hope?

The child caught on the back of the camel by the Seier robotic arm, after touching the hump, struggled to lift his upper body, his hands covered in blood, he seemed not afraid at all, just staring at the sunset gradually sinking down the sand dunes, seeing shocked.

Most of the goods on the camel's back were lost in the previous chaos.

Shier picked up a compressed freshwater capsule found from the wreckage of the war fortress, and stretched out the mechanical arm to the child's mouth: "Hey, kid, eat this!"

The child took it awkwardly and swallowed it.

"Isn't he afraid of being poisoned? Does he have any consciousness of being a prisoner?" Shier turned to his mental connection and muttered.

"captive?"

"Isn't it a captive? I still have a confession to ask—wait!" With a sudden pull of the Seier robotic arm, the child was pulled out of the camel's back, and hung in mid-air with the clothes in his hands: "...you, Are you talking?"

The child with blood on his face didn't even open his mouth, his expression was still in a daze, and the thoughts coming out of the mental waves were very complete: "I didn't say anything, can you hear me?"

It's you, not you.

He did hear what Xier and Wen Luan said in the spiritual connection.

"The value is exceeded." Simonli made a judgment, "The mental energy is huge...there is no exact value!"

Wen Luan also felt it.

If it wasn't for the previous dream, he would have doubted that he had captured a big shot in the Holy Glory Empire.

"Hey, with this kind of mental power, it's no problem to manipulate a king-level mecha!"

"No, there is a defect!" Simengli was worthy of being a professional mech, and soon discovered the problem, "The mental power is too scattered, and I can't concentrate at all."

It's like being able to accurately fill a glass of water. Even though it's small, you win if you fill it up.

No matter how much water there is, what's the use if it's all poured out of the cup?For the Deep Blue Kingdom, this kind of manipulator is simply adding chaos to the mecha.

"The Holy Glory Empire deliberately took this child away from the mine star, can't they see it?"

"I don't know..." Simonli snorted, "But this kind of spiritual power is easy to resonate, and I have a bold guess that it may take a large number of people with this quality to trigger the spiritual power of ordinary people to come out of the Holy Glory Empire." guide."

Such a prisoner is really embarrassing, he has never even been to the Holy Glory Empire, and he can't say anything of value.

In this desert, carrying him is simply a burden.

The child was still staring blankly at the sun falling into the horizon. He heard the conversation between the mecha and Wen Luan, but he didn't respond at all.

"Is there no problem with IQ?" Xier muttered.

"Maybe it's a communication disorder." Simonli added.

Wen Luan had a headache and asked one more question: "What are you looking at?"

"star."

"Huh?" Wen Luan was still used to thinking of that as the sun, so he didn't realize it when he heard it.

"The stars here are very beautiful." The child raised his head seriously.

"..."

Xier hurried ahead of Wen Luan and said, "The stars are all similar, the difference is the planet you're standing on."

Because of the atmosphere and life here, the sunset is so beautiful.

There is no such thing in the protective cover of the ore star. After the ore star was taken away, he has been staying in the battleship spaceship, and he has never seen what a planet suitable for human habitation looks like.

It wasn't until the sun was completely gone, the night was shrouded in darkness, and the stars were dotted with stars that the child turned his head, his eyes fell on the main body of the Xier metal ball accurately, and asked seriously: "Are you gods?"

"..."

"Bishop Jason, who took me away from my hometown, said that only God can give me a different world."

Wen Luan corrected: "Don't listen to his nonsense!"

The child's expression was numb, but he was very serious: "Bishop Jason said that the light of God appeared before me with the Gospel and gave me a new life."

Wen Luan almost cursed out loud, but after a second thought, he finally held back.

For this child, going to the Holy Radiance Empire is actually much better than his previous life. Without the invasion of the Holy Radiance Empire, he might spend his whole life on that barren mine star. Who would want him?It takes about a hundred years to develop a mine star. When the foreman is promoted and leaves, and the woman is free to leave when the time limit expires, the mine star will be abandoned and sold to other places. It will be a good ending, otherwise he will not know If you leave, you will probably die alone in the abandoned mine star.

"Is there a hypnotic function, the one that forgets the past and starts over?"

Simonli and Seir replied at the same time: "Yes, Andusia will."

Wen Luan didn't need to ask to know that Andusia must be the name of another mecha, which is N light-years away!Can you still call off-site rescue?

"Hey, this is a desert. There is not much compressed food and water found in the wreckage of the Holy Glory Empire. When we get to the next oasis, we will find a place to settle this child down first."

Although Wen Luan was sympathetic, he never thought about bringing the child with him all the time.

Wen Luan didn't even know if "self" could continue to exist, and couldn't find a way back.Both Xier and Simonli need energy. They are going to destroy other people's temples on this trip, and it is dangerous to bring children with them.

"By the way, I saw a group of bandits today. It is estimated that their tribe is nearby, maybe on the oasis-it's terrible, we may continue to walk for a few more days."

"Master Xier, you don't need to worry at all." Simonli said slowly, "No matter how scattered this little devil's mental power is, he still has the ability to protect himself, but he has not been triggered. If anyone wants to kill He even beat him, thinking he would die first."

"..."

I don't know if it's luck, or the bandit's lair is really close, and there is already a faint noise in front of it.

The bonfire, the sound of hooves.

"oasis."

Shier added: "It's really a Sand Bandit."

It hastily put the child back on the camel's back, and before it could figure out how to deal with the bandits who spotted the camel team, several horses galloped towards it.

The yellow sand rolled and covered this side, but the other side didn't even stop.

The rider seemed to be running for his life, screaming and running wildly.

Xi Er and Wen Luan looked at Simonli at the same time.

"Translator, the time has come to need you."

"Fuck off, how can I understand the languages ​​of ancient Babylon and Assyria, I only know Latin. There are only Athenian guards in the complete collection of lost population files, and there are no desert robbers."

"Then what's the use of you! Useless!" Shier tried his best to imitate the tone of the king of true knowledge.

"Insufficient information, insufficient collection of example sentences, is it wrong to not be able to translate?" Simonli was annoyed.

Wen Luan really wished he hadn't picked up this mecha that traveled through the high-dimensional space, and that child, who was simply causing trouble!

"Don't move, I'll go and see!"

After Wen Luan drifted away, he could vaguely hear Simonli sarcastically saying:

"There is no owner in the entire Beluga galaxy to go out to check the situation. The mecha is staying in place safely and waiting for news. Are you really a mecha? Trash!"

"That's my master is amazing, do you understand? Just say it when you're jealous!"

"Just you, what's there to be jealous about?"

"Too many, have you ever lived at the entrance of the warehouse? The Eye of Reality, the configuration only available to His Majesty Purson, and—"

"The ardent pursuit of the King of Shadows? Let me tell you, the mechas and people that Asmodeus has chased can circle the entire dark blue star!"

"Shut up! I didn't take it seriously at all—wait a minute, what did you just say? Go around the deep blue star? You're playing with me, His Majesty Purson's energy is fully activated, and you can go around it once you increase the size. not simple!"

"...Hey, not bad, IQ is not bad."

"Smack you dumb!!"

Wen Luan drifted a little further speechless.

The area of ​​the oasis is not small. The sporadic plants extend all the way to a lake. There are many low trees here. Whether the water is clear or not, it is not so much a lake as it is an enlarged puddle. Judging from the lush plants, It should be an elevated groundwater vein.

There are many such oases in the desert, and the water source may dry up in a few years, and the people who live here need to migrate again.

Rough stones were randomly piled up to form a stone house. A pit was dug in the sand, a bonfire was burning, and a barbecue fork was set up. Now the meat dripping with oil has begun to become mushy, but no one cares about it.

People ran around in horror, as if they were fighting among themselves.

Wen Luan looked around and was stunned.

A group of people with bloodshot eyes and strange noises from their throats attacked others crazily, biting the aorta of the neck fiercely after holding it down.This is a gathering place for sand bandits, and many people took up their machetes and slashed at them. As a result, these lunatics had their hands and feet cut off and screamed and crawled on the ground without dying.

It was simply the chaos created by the blood clan of the Demon Party on Deep Blue Star!

"I found the dark creature!" Wen Luan hurriedly looked for the attacker who was suspected of being behind the scenes in the crowd, but he saw another horrifying scene. Several horses tied by the lake turned into skeletons, and a bearded man The sand bandit held his head in pain, his back stretched and bent down, his head became sharp, and he opened his clothes in an instant.

"Wolfman?"

But this werewolf is too unreliable, the hair is sparse, the fingers and the soles of the feet have not changed, just rolled down on the ground, struggling.

Before Wen Luan could see what was going on, the bandit rolled his eyes and died.

Among the blood-sucking monsters, one suddenly stopped, looking in horror at his long and sharp nails, and the fangs protruding from his mouth, covering it with his backhand, looking around in horror.

At this time, a rebel swung his machete and cut off his neck.

There was only one blood-sucking monster that regained its sanity, and the others roared and continued to attack.

The scariest thing was the moving skeletons of the horses trying to break free from the ropes around their necks.

Wen Luan felt his mind went blank, and he immediately floated back to look for Sier, but when he returned, he suddenly saw the camel caravan running wildly, and another cloud of smoke floated in the distance.

"What's going on? Who's chasing you?" Wen Luan saw the answer just after asking.

A group of horses riding skeletons of skeleton horses rushed over with scimitars swung, looking in the same direction as Seer and the others.

"Necromantic creatures? Where are the necromancers?" Wen Luan almost suspected that this was the Dark Council's siege.

"No, this is the sand bandit who attacked us during the day." Seir had stopped messing around with Simonli a long time ago, and the metal ball floated into the air, scanning out the skeletons with obvious stampede marks.

"It's not controlled, and there is no trace of mental power." Simonli added.

Wen Luan was dizzy: "Could it be that they suddenly became undead creatures? I didn't find any shadows of dark creatures before. Could it be that they all mutated like this? Not to mention the dark blue star, even the earth before Signs, is this still a parallel world?"

Seir and Simonli rarely remained silent.

"There is also a reason for the mutation. Even if they are the first batch of dark creatures, they shouldn't have jumped out of the desert—" Wen Luan suddenly got stuck and fell silent.

This afternoon, there was an inexplicable heavy rain in the desert.

It's not rain, it's the water that came in when another world merged with this world, some evaporated, some penetrated to the bottom of the sand, and this is the nearest oasis with underground water veins.

"Shit!"

Wen Luan finally couldn't hold back, and cursed furiously.

It turns out that there shouldn't be dark creatures on the earth, but were they induced or infected by water sources in other worlds?

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