Chapter 370 Edge of the Desert

The past year has been really long. I don't know how Wu Song is now. Shishou wanted to catch up with Wu Song all the way, but he couldn't hear his news. He just heard from some of the most sporadic rumors that a man just lay in a carriage and didn't come out, and the man looked very strong. Zhuang doesn't seem to be sick. Liu Lin can only speculate from this that it is Wu Song.

But it doesn't matter. Even if it's not to find Wu Song, he fell in love with this process of traveling all the way to the west. This is the most wonderful trip of his life. He even occasionally thought that it's better not to look for Wu Song this time, but it's happy to travel west in this way. Liu Lin can completely pass it. He forgets that it is just a dream and regards what is now as reality. What's the difference between him and reincarnation?

He said this to himself many times, but in the end, he gave up this idea. Wu Song must find it. What he said before can't be counted. More importantly, Zhang Shu also said that after finding Wu Song, he will witness more novel and great things, which is exactly what Liu Lin expected. Shouldn't it be like this all your life? What's more, after finding Wu Song, you can continue to travel west. Since you already know the benefits of being a hero and know how to be a hero, everything else is much easier. As long as this stone hand is still there, there will still be songs belonging to stone hands on the road.

When Liu Lin stepped into the desert, it was already the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, and there were still five days before the Spring Festival. He had considered whether to enter the desert after the Spring Festival, but on second thought, it was not interesting to celebrate the New Year in a foreign country, and it would also evoke some sadness in vain, all memories of the past. Although the memory must be warm and fascinating, Liu Lin also knew that it was just a trick to deceive people. He himself just broke away from the so-called warmth. Behind that warmth, there was the most sinister trap hidden.

In order not to let his heart hesitate as in the past, the stone hand did not even spend a night by the desert. He bought some food and water from the small town by the desert, and then entered the desert overnight. He heard from those luxury guests before that the night in the desert is a little cold even in summer, and the sand ground can't store any heat, let alone winter.

Shishou is not afraid of the cold. On the contrary, he is more panicked about the legendary heat, but now that the New Year is approaching, the heat like midsummer will definitely not appear, which almost dispels all his concerns.

In the starry sky in the desert, the stars are dotted on the sky like gems. Before that, Liu Lin has never looked at the sky so seriously, because there are always many things on the ground that need his attention. However, in the desert, the road under his feet is a little monotonous, and it can even be said that there is no road, as long as he recognizes a direction. , you can keep going. In the process of staring at the sky, Liu Lin even saw a few meteors. The last time he saw this thing, he was still a half-sized son and liked the girl next door, and the girl's family was very concerned about these erratic things in the sky. They always felt that those things hanging high in the sky could represent the fate of people. .

Both at that time and at this time, stone hands knew that such remarks were nonsense. The stars in the sky were too far away for people on the earth. They could not have any predictive effect. Otherwise, all people would see It's a sky. Whose fate is the foreshadowed by the stars? If such a big starry sky speaks something for a few people or dozens of people, it is simply ridiculous.

The stone hand before the west trip did not think so. He felt that there were so many people in the world, and their personal fate could affect everyone. However, he found that the farther away from the Central Plains, the more independent the people along the way, the emperor was. They didn't even know who the emperor was. Of course, the emperor was also very likely. I don't know that there are still people who can be ruled in such a remote and declining place. When the two sides do not know the existence of each other, the rule and the ruled cannot be established. Although Liu Lin knows that this must be the territory of the Song Dynasty, this seemingly strange thing is really common.

Thinking of this, Shishou suddenly found that something was wrong. From the beginning of entering the desert, some things became strange, which made him a little creepy. The environment here is very different from what he thought in advance. Everyone said to Liu Lin - including Liu Lin, who also thought so. The night in the desert should be very cold, but after walking about two miles into the desert, he actually felt a little hot in the sand. Although the temperature in the air is still cold, this kind of coldness is better than sand. The temperature outside is actually slightly worse. This deviation from common sense has the illusion of feeling strange, which must be paid attention to.

Shishou took a deep breath and stopped. He had to find the source of this strange feeling. Only in this way can he continue to travel at ease. There is no one else in the desert at night. The stone hand must feel courage from his heart. Otherwise, he will only be afraid like the most timid gerbil.

After a moment of meditation, he suddenly found the problem. From the beginning of entering the desert, the red comet in the sky, the red ghost, disappeared. The stone hand was very sure that it was originally there. Even when buying water and dry food in a village on the edge of the desert, the seller complained to the stone hand. Since the appearance of the red star, the seller's daughter-in-law has been shouting for more worship every day, less messy business, and disturbing the seller is upset. These are certain facts engraved in the mind, which are well-founded and will never appear out of thin air. Therefore, even if he has encountered all kinds of magical things, Shishou is convinced that the red ghost is hanging there.

The reason why it was not found when entering the desert is also very simple. When Shishou came to the desert for the first time, he didn't know much about the scenery in it, so when the sand was not dyed with a faint layer of red light like what he usually saw at night, he subconsciously felt that it was just because of the original color of the sand and did not think about the red ghost. More importantly, the stone hand went all the way to the west and carried the red ghost just behind him. No matter how he looked up at the sky, as long as he didn't look back, he could not see the red ghost.

The first thing Ishite thought of was that he was not in the real world. He heard Zhang Shu say that some people are good at creating illusions, and even people as strong as Wu Song are attacked because they are trapped in this imperceptible fantasy. On the way to the west, Shishou also talked to others about the fantasy. Those luxury guests told Shishou that there are indeed people who can create illusions, but most of the illusions are not perfect. As long as you observe the things around you carefully and find any subtle differences from the original, you can find that you are in a fantasy. Medium. However, there are a very few wonderful illusions. They are perfect as if they are real life. If they encounter such a fantasy, ordinary people will have no choice but to ask for more blessings. They look forward to any small probability of flaws in the operation of the thing, or people who use the illusions have no time. For malicious purposes.

The temperature of the sand and the disappearing red ghost appeared at the same time, which made the stone hand have great doubts. He was even sure that he was trapped by someone and clenched the petrified right fist, ready to find a way to break the illusion, and then fight to the death with the enemy that may appear at any time.

In such a defensive posture, Shishou was deadlocked with the air in the desert for about an hour, but the danger he expected did not come. Instead, the sand under his feet and the air around him gradually cooled down. He thought about it and suddenly realized that the sand can't store temperature, heat and cold. So even in winter, the desert is not cold at noon, and the sand will be a little warm. After nightfall, the sand will have a cooling process, and this process is just felt by the stone hand.

The process will not last long. The sand has completely cooled down, and even the surrounding air is even colder. It seems that the sand that warms the feet is not a flaw, but a natural phenomenon that the stone hand himself does not understand. In this case...isn't this the so-called illusion?

After all, if the stars in the sky, such a big thing suddenly disappear, even a fool can detect it. Even if there is a problem, it may be a little wrong with the red color similar to the red ghost. These small things are reasonable.

If this is not an illusion, that is to say... the red ghost really disappeared after I entered the desert. This conclusion surprised the stone hand more than the assumption that it may be in a deep fantasy.

Zhang Shu once said that the red ghost is contained in the hand scroll of an iron bachelor, and this comet is not an ordinary comet, but related to a big event. Although Shishou did not believe that the stars could represent fate, some of Zhang Shu's mysterious performances and some facts foreseen on the scroll also forced him to consider these things carefully. Anyway, the red ghost is a very important thing. There must be a reason for its sudden disappearance.

At this time, what the stone hand wants to do most is to quickly get out of the desert to see if the red ghost is still there.