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Chapter 53:
Fu Yucheng took a big bite of the apple in his hand and squinted his eyes comfortably. The golden-yellow sand dunes like fish scales undulate to the sky, and the vast expanse of the sky presents an extremely deep blue.
The boy clenched his teeth and moved with difficulty.
Lifting one foot mechanically, stepped into the hot and soft yellow sand; then pulling the other foot out of the yellow sand...This cycle repeated, numb and stubbornly moving forward step by step.
Because of extreme thirst and exhaustion, the scene in front of the boy gradually blurred.
He blinked hard—there was still yellow sand in his field of vision.
The boy had not remembered how long he had been walking. He could not even judge whether he was in the center of the desert or on the edge; he did not know where he was desperately advancing, whether it was a desperate dead end or an oasis of hope.
Despite this, the boy never regretted doing so.
He knew very well that the spacecraft carrying his batch of failed experiments did not go to another beautiful ecological zone of the empire, but to a certain space incineration plant.
In that huge incineration plant, they will be quietly burnt to ashes like those experimental products that disappeared in the past, and there will be no traces ever since.
The boy used a little skill and broke free of the restraint without any expression. After several years of extremely rigorous killing training in the laboratory, he almost easily hijacked the pilot and caused the spacecraft to change its course.
He neither wants to go to the space incineration plant, nor does he want to return to the Imperial Ecological Zone.
The boy decided that he was going to that savage place of exile-earth.
After the spacecraft entered the atmosphere, the pilot refused to land. In the fierce battle between the two sides, this small spaceship, like a swaying kite, plunged into the largest newborn desert on earth, the New Sahara Desert.
Except for the mutated genetic monster, the boy, all the crew on the ship had no life.
...
The hot air was like a flowing flame, burning the boy's trachea and lungs.
His throat was as dry as a knife, and his legs were as soft as overcooked noodles. Every small step requires all his physical and willpower.
He reluctantly walked forward seven or eight meters, his knees suddenly weakened, and finally fell down.
The boy lay dazedly on the hot sand, and the sand gradually covered the back of his hand-the desert looked like a quiet painting of death, but the flow of sand never stopped. Genius remembers in one second: www.72wx.com 72 Literature
He turned his head laboriously, panting heavily.
The boy knew very well that the sand would soon overwhelm himself, and he didn't even have the strength to get up.
... Am I going to die?
He thought blankly.
The boy's mood did not fluctuate much, and he was not even scared.
After all, if you make a summary of his short 14-year life, then "living" is not such a beautiful thing.
Moreover, it might not be too bad to be able to die alone instead of stuffing it into an incinerator with other experimental products.
......Is that so?
The boy was in a trance.
Gradually, he felt very sleepy, his eyelids drooping uncontrollably.
In the blurred and narrow vision, the distant sky and the vast desert are sometimes distorted and sometimes turned over, presenting various bizarre angles, which makes people dizzy and confused.
I don't know how long it took, between the sky and the earth, on the horizon where the dark blue and golden borders, a person appeared.
A man.
The boy half-squinted his eyes and watched the man approaching ignorantly. The severe dehydration made his brain chaotic, and he didn't even understand what was going on.
The man's pace is fast and steady.
He walked to the boy and stopped.
The boy was lying on the ground and could only see a pair of short boots on his feet. It was a pair of old and sturdy camel-colored overalls. The leather had a rough texture and a layer of ash, which was a bit dirty.
Although he couldn't see the man's face, the boy knew that the other party was looking down at him.
"Water..." He squirmed his lips, barely spit out a broken syllable.
The boy immediately felt a sharp pain-a thick layer of blood scab had already condensed on his lips, and when he opened his mouth, all the blood scabs split open and turned into a series of hideous blood holes.
There was a low sigh from above: "Poor kid."
This was the first word the man said to him.
The boy's mind was already a little vague, he didn't even understand the meaning of this sentence, but in a daze, he felt that this low and slightly mute voice was extremely sweet.
Like a thick spring afternoon, a gentle breeze blows over the cello.
The man did not hesitate to untie the cowhide water sac around his waist, then he knelt down, reached out his hand to support the boy's upper body, and put the spout of the water sac to his mouth.
The water in the sac is cool and sweet, so delicious.
The boy swallowed greedily and rudely, because it was so eager that some of the water was too late to swallow, and it ran down his cheeks and neck.
"Hey, don't worry." The man's voice was a little helpless, "No one will fight you."
Until he couldn't drink anymore, the boy looked up at each other while panting. His vision was still a bit blurred, and he had to blink his eyes vigorously, and the scene in front of him gradually became clear.
The first thing he saw was a pair of eyes.
At such a close distance, the boy could almost see the color of each other's iris—the pitch black was faintly with a bit of dark green, like a deep lake under the bright starry sky.
There is no doubt that this is a very handsome man. The narrow and long tails that are slightly raised make him look very aggressive, and the color of his lips is beautiful and light.
At this moment, the bloody afterglow of the setting sun just reflected behind the man. The moderate backlight makes his look very soft.
Seeing the boy staring at him blankly, the man raised his eyebrows jokingly: "I'm full? Seeing how you were just now, I thought you could drink a river."
The boy stared at him without speaking.
No response was received, and the man didn't mind, he shrugged indifferently and stood up.
He hung the leather water sac back to his waist, and then stretched out his hand to the boy: "Can you stand up?"
It is a slender and powerful hand, each nail is trimmed round and clean, the palms and fingers are slightly callused, it seems that they often do some rough work, or are used to using certain weapons-such as firearms, such as short crossbows, or dagger.
The boy looked at the hand, but did not put his hand on it. He gritted his teeth, supported the sand by himself, and climbed up slowly and hard.
"You kid, although you are not very old, you have a strong sense of guard...It's a good habit not to trust others casually." The man chuckled inexplicably, "Remember to keep it."
The boy stared at each other closely and slowly opened his mouth. Dehydration for a long time made his voice hoarse: "You...are you going to catch me back to the laboratory?"
"What laboratory?" The man was taken aback.
Soon, he seemed to understand something, changed his gaze with a whole new look, and looked at the boy thoughtfully.
"Labor..." He rubbed his thumb against the beautifully shaped lower lip, as if assessing the value of the prey in front of him, "I caught you, how much money can I change to that laboratory? To be honest, I have recently I'm really short of money. Tsk, in this world, a penny is hard for a hero."
The boy's body tightened in an instant.
Sure enough... Sure enough!
He stared at each other, took a few steps backwards very slowly, turned and ran!
"Hey, it's just a joke." The man stood behind him, spreading his hands helplessly, "Why are you running so fast."
The boy ignored him completely, stumbled and ran for more than ten meters, suddenly the collar tightened, and then his body lightened-the man lifted him up like an eagle catching a chicken.
"Little guy, it’s not a way for you to go around like this. It’s not another place, it’s the new Sahara, and there is no water source in a radius of thousands of miles. Do you want to be a mummy? By the way, you may not Knowing what a mummy is, this thing is..."
The man babbled nonsense, but the boy didn't listen at all. He panted heavily, opened a pair of dark eyes, and stared at each other helplessly and fiercely.
It was like a little tiger who was seriously injured but insisted on bluffing.
Hey, kind of stubborn. The man felt inexplicably soft: "You kid..."
Before he finished speaking, the boy stretched out his middle two fingers like lightning and poked his eyes mercilessly!
"...Damn!" This move is extremely vicious, but the man's reaction is surprisingly fast, and he suddenly leans back!
At the moment of the moment, the boy's sharp nails brushed his cheeks, and then slashed all the way from the neck, bringing up two strings of bright red blood!
In the flash of lightning, the man slammed his backhand and threw the opponent to the ground!
"boom!"
For a while, sand and dust filled.
There was no mercy in this fall, and the boy lay on the sand in a daze, completely confused.
His eyes turned black and his ears were buzzing, and he only felt that 206 bones under his body were all falling apart, and he couldn't get up for a while.
"Hiss..." The man touched the scratches on the skin on his neck. He took a breath of cold air in pain. He looked down and his hands were dripping with blood.
He couldn't help tightening his eyebrows, and his tone was a little annoyed: "You kid, you really don't know what to do..."
Before he finished his words, the man's face changed abruptly, and he pulled out a dark old-fashioned short-barreled gun from his waist with his backhand!
Seeing the other party drew his gun in anger, the boy's heart suddenly sank. In a panic, he casually grabbed a large handful of sand and threw it at the man in a frantic manner!
"Oh shit!"
The man cursed, his left arm raised to block the sand, but the right hand holding the gun did not stop at all, pulling the trigger continuously!
It was too late and then it was fast, only a few light sounds of "Papa Papa", all six bullets in the magazine hit the sand, and suddenly a piece of dust was raised!
The boy had already rolled around and hid behind a dry poplar tree.
He picked up a sharp-edged stone and hurriedly looked back, and he couldn't help but wonder.
That man...He didn't take the opportunity to chase him, but stared at the sand in front of him intently, and took a few steps back extremely slowly. No Ads 72 Literature Network am~w~w.7~2~w~x.c~o~m
With the passage of time, five seconds, ten seconds, fifteen seconds, twenty seconds... Six groups of dark red blood stains gradually ooze out on the sand, which is where the shooting was just now!
There is something under the sand.
The boy lay behind the poplar tree, staring at the six weird bloodstains-some kind of beastly intuition, making his throat dry.
Suddenly, the peaceful sand squirmed violently!
With this squirming, a brown monster that was as big as a water tank suddenly lifted its upper body from the sand!
The upright upper body of this monster is seven or eight meters long, to say nothing. It is composed of thousands of dense ring-shaped body segments. The huge head is almost left with a big mouth in the blood basin, and the hideous mouthparts are covered in it. Dozens of densely packed fangs.
It slowly lowered its head, a weird "hissing" sound from its mouthparts, and a stench pounced on its face, which made people feel nauseous.
"I'll just say, why the eyelids jumped wildly today... This month, I really got a little back, and I came across this cheating stuff again." The man looked at the giant monster in front of him and couldn't help sighing, "Really, now Run, is it too late?"
This is a giant mutant sandworm!
The mutant sandworm is one of the most terrifying mutant monsters in the New Sahara Desert.
More than two centuries ago, most of the earth's species did not survive the catastrophic solar system catastrophe.
However, a few species have adapted to the extremely harsh new earth environment through genetic mutation. Among them, it includes a kind of earthworm in Southeast Asia-now the giant mutant sandworm.
This hermaphrodite mutant sandworm, with an adult body length of more than 20 meters, is an absolute predator at the top of the food chain. Sand, Populus euphratica, poisonous scorpions, mutant giant rats, desert hyenas... and even humans are all on their recipes.
The boy looked up at the terrifying behemoth in a daze, and involuntarily held his breath.
Until then, he finally understood the purpose of the man drawing his gun.
The man took a deep breath and threw the empty black short barrel gun to the ground.
He stared at Sandworm's numb mouthparts, and slowly pulled out a scimitar from behind his waist: "Baby, work."
The "baby" in the man's mouth-that is, this machete, its shape is very strange. The blade is narrow and curved, like a crescent moon, and the blade is as thin as paper, flowing with a touch of cold blue light, which makes people feel inexplicably cold.