What?

Without lifting his eyelids, he put his pipe back into his mouth and continued, "Meet the god Khalpa." ”

Cheng Xinghe saw the thing in that position clearly: "That's a god?" ”

To us, it looks like a weathered black stone, but on closer inspection, it does look a bit like a standing statue with many hands and feet.

The old man told us that in the old days, when the merchants went to Xichuan to do business, the city of Khalba was a necessary place to take shortcuts, and the caravans with livestock would disappear from time to time, and they could not find even a single slag, and the merchants had to worship the god Khalba before entering, praying to go in and come out vertically.

Some people think that the merchants were robbed by sand bandits. However, the locals disagreed, saying that this desert has an owner, and if you live in it, you will be eaten.

The back of my head tingled: "Eat? Eaten by what? ”

The old man smiled strangely: "You'll know when you go." ”

He saw it, he came for the gold and silver cave, and he was not afraid of death?

Cheng Xinghe muttered: ", there are moths in this place?" ”

Nonsense, if you don't say that wealth is in danger, this is the same as the fruit on the side of the road, if it is easy to pick and delicious, it will be taken away, and the fruit is fruitful and the branches are low, you must not be able to eat it.

Dumb Balan and White Huoxiang have long been accustomed to this kind of battle, and they don't take it seriously.

When I entered the city, it was full of Western style, and there were sparse pedestrians on the street, most of them with dark faces and beards, and occasionally girls with scarves wrapped in their faces, their complexions were also bronzed, revealing a pair of black eyes like deep pools, staring curiously at us outsiders.

Like the twilight of the beauty, it can be seen that the original elegance of this place is peerless, and it has also been prosperous, but now most of the shops with wine signs have decayed and there are few residents, because the country has built a big road, and no one takes the shortcut of Khalpa, which is naturally gradually declining, and there are not many locals - most of them have gone to the city to work.

And when these people passed by us, they were very careful to keep their distance, I thought it was for religious or customary reasons, they were taboo against outsiders, but it didn't take long for me to see that they didn't seem to be afraid of us.

And it seems that he is afraid of this old man.

Especially—jealous of the hand in which he wrapped the strip of cloth.

I didn't pay attention to it just now, but now when I look closely, I am suddenly shocked—the position of the old man wrapped in strips of cloth seems to have a black aura.

I pretended to be casual and asked him what he was called.

The old man claimed to be Lao Xu, although he was not a local, but he had lived here for decades, and he was not much different from the locals.

He led us into an inn made of loess, and it was like traveling back in time.

I saw a string of conjuring bells hanging under the wine stick, which was the dead man's shop for the gentleman.

It's no wonder, because of the legend of this gold and silver cave, I don't know how many gentlemen want to come and make a fortune - not for getting rich, but also for fame, and they found a place that they couldn't find for hundreds of years.

There were a few people in the lobby who were eating, and they seemed to have come to look for the gold and silver cave.

But as soon as they saw Lao Xu, their faces were a little awkward, and they hurried away after a few mouthfuls.

Lao Xu took out his pipe casually: "Light the incense and plug it into the stove,"

As he spoke, he looked back at us: "How many?" ”

It's really an old guide, and the cuts in the dead man's shop are so standard, I replied, "One for each person." ”

Behind the cashier was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old local girl, with high eyebrows and deep eyes, her face was red from the wind, her eyes were very bright, and she skillfully took the position: "Do you want to be taboo?" ”

Mandarin is very proficient.

The local specialty is sand beans mixed with tomato sauce, with rice, very local characteristics, seeing Lao Xu go to the bathroom, the bright-eyed shopkeeper girl asked in a low voice: "Why did you find Lao Xu?" He's not good. ”

What did she mean, I asked?

She continued: "Locally, everyone calls him Apotong. ”

Bai Huoxiang has been traveling south and north for so many years, and he knows all the dialects, and he frowned when he heard these three words: "It's the meaning of eating people and monsters." ”

Cheng Xinghe's face changed: "What do you mean?" ”

The shopkeeper girl glanced back at Lao Xu who hadn't come back for a while, and then said: "He has been a tour guide here for many years, and he has also taken many people into the desert, but he ......"

She lowered her voice: "None of the guests he brought into the desert returned. ”

Cheng Xinghe glanced at me,, black tour guide?

Birds don't poop in this kind of place, and there are no monitors, so if it really hurts you, it's really a piece of cake.

The shopkeeper's voice lowered: "Legend has it that he ate all the customers just to support him with something......"

As he spoke, he gestured to his arm.

"Ahem," impartialAt this time, Lao Xu was coming back from behind, and the girl suddenly stopped talking, she was not very old, her acting skills were not bad, she pretended to be casual, and returned to the counter.

I noticed that the black cloth strap on Lao Xu's arm was tighter than just now, and he went out just now, did he get his own arm?

The black aura has also faded a little.

No wonder the locals are so taboo when they see him.

Cheng Xinghe was under the table, as if Ximenqing had seduced Pan Jinlian, and kicked my foot, which means that this place is originally a poor mountain and bad water, and then with a black tour guide, isn't it lit in the pit - (looking for death)?

Bai Huoxiang also looked at Lao Xu's arm, and suddenly turned over his wrist and gave Lao Xu a pulse.

Lao Xu's eyes darkened, as if he wanted to withdraw his hand, but Bai Huoxiang looked weak, but he didn't know what he was capable of, and Lao Xu didn't break free.

It didn't take long for Bai Huoxiang to let go of her hand and smiled at Lao Xu: "Eating indiscriminately is not good for your health." ”

Lao Xu's pupils suddenly shrank: "Who are you from the White Willow Tree?" ”

Bai Huoxiang was also a little surprised: "You know my grandfather? ”

"It's just the ghost doctor of the Bai family, pinching my wrist." Lao Xu grinned, and I found that the color of his teeth was very abnormal—ordinary people were yellow at most, and his was actually blue.

I haven't seen this tooth yet.

White Huoxiang then said, "If you want to cure it, I can ...... it."

Lao Xu waved his hand, meaning that there was no need for it.

Even Bai Huoxiang looked at his expression a little strangely.

Lao Xu looked at his watch and said that he lived in the store, and early tomorrow morning, he would prepare things to go into the desert, and finally added a sentence, let us not think nonsense, if there is no him, we will not find a place in our lives.

With that, he turned around and left.

Cheng Xinghe didn't wait for a second, and immediately asked Bai Huoxiang: "What did he eat?" ”

White Huoxiang stared at his weak back and said, "Poison—all kinds of poisons. ”

Dumb Balan also raised his head suddenly: "He doesn't want to live anymore?" ”

Bai Huoxiang shook her head: "It's very strange - the poison he ate was very accurate, it stands to reason that he should have been poisoned to death, but he still survived." ”

Cheng Xinghe was also in awe: "Could it be that he is Ouyang Feng of White Camel Mountain?" ”

There are only two reasons why people eat poison, one is that they don't want to live, and the other is that they want to restrain some kind of disease on their body.

I asked Bai Huoxiang if he had any stubborn disease that needed to fight poison with poison?

Bai Huoxiang shook her head, saying that he was not sick, but the toxins were accumulating, and he should not feel good. But he was in pain and refused to be cured.

This Lao Xu is really not simple.

Cheng Xinghe thought for a while and said, "Qixing, don't count it - anyway, we also have the map given by Di Hongyan in our hands, it's really not good, we can touch it ourselves, in case he gives us some ingredients one day......"

Bai Huoxiang said categorically: "Don't worry about this, with my over-the-top tiger support, you can't get any poison." ”

"I'm not cautious......"

"Then you can't look down on my profession!"

"Zhengqishui, you just want to quarrel, right?"

The two of them choked, and the dumb man was in a daze, and I followed his line of sight, and he was looking directly at the shopkeeper girl.

it? The mute Balan couple's palace is pink, which is a spring heart.

It turned out that he liked this exotic.

However, I looked at the girl in the store, and I also felt that something was wrong - this store was brought to us by Lao Xu, and it stands to reason that we must be very familiar with the people in the store.

Everything here doesn't seem to be easy to explain with common sense.

At this time, a boy who was a little younger than the shopkeeper came out of the bathroom with a pole and muttered a few words to the shopkeeper.

Bai Huoxiang stopped arguing with Cheng Xinghe, and turned around and told me that the boy told the shopkeeper that a strange thing had been pulled out of the gutter in the bathroom.

Strange thing...... Lao Xu was the last guest in the bathroom just now.

Cheng Xinghe continued: "You said that when you enter the desert, you have to defend the east and the west and the guide, you are too tired, right?" ”

But the first time we came, we went into the desert without a guide, and it was not much better.

At this time, a scream suddenly came from the bathroom, and a local dialect.

White Huoxiang immediately stood up and said, "What the people inside are talking about is - tongue, knife. ”

As I watched, a black aura wafted out of the bathroom and spread in the direction of being far away from us.

There is something.

I immediately ran in, and saw the boy lying on the ground, holding his hands and screaming.

The little girl in the shop, leaning against the wall, her face was like ashes, and she couldn't move.

As soon as I glanced at the little boy's hand, my scalp exploded - I saw that the hand that had been fine just now was now only the skeleton of the hand, which was white - it looked like a model of the hand bone in the hospital, and there was not a trace of flesh left.

How did you get this, it was only a minute or two before and after, and the meat sellers couldn't pick it so clean!

And the shopkeeper girl slipped from the wall to the ground, and repeated a sentence in horror.

White Huoxiang also came in, and as soon as she saw the little boy's hand, she immediately squatted down to give him medicine to relieve the pain, and then said: "What she said is - that kind of thing, it has come out to eat people again." ”

Again?

Is it the kind of thing that Lao Xu said?