Chapter 378 Thirsty Journey

S weird events, weird deserts, stone hands can't tell whether this is a dream or reality, or the most demagogic environment in the legend. The situation in the desert is no different from the previous one. There is yellow sand everywhere, which annihilates the color of life. The stone hand carefully searched for the shadow of the sand dune where he was located and did not find the skeleton guiding the way. So the problem arises. No matter where you are now, whether it is real or illusory, there must be one The way forward, but there are no road signs...

No, there are road signs! Shishou suddenly realized that in fact, when he was lying here just now, didn't he happen to be a road sign? He lay down again and seriously recalled the direction his fingers pointed to when he woke up. Since this was the only clue he could find, it was always right to follow this.

Shishou checked his belongings before departure. In addition to stones and silver, the water and dry food he had bought before were there, and even those dried meat he bought by the way were kept intact in the package. Shishou was even a little strange. According to his habit of wrapping, it would not have such good sealing. Yes, although the bags containing dried meat are buried in the sand, even in the smallest cracks of dried meat, without even the smallest grain of sand sticking, they can still maintain the same taste as eaten in the inn.

In this case, there is nothing to worry about. If there is a way forward, food and drinking water, just go ahead. Anyway, even if it is a dream or a fantasy, there is no way to break it. Shishou also thought about it, so he stood up, patted the sand on his body carefully, and strode forward.

The instructions of the skeleton still appear at every rest of the stone hand, but there is a clear difference from the previous one. First of all, the burial of the skeleton is lighter than it began. After a few excavations, it is easy to dig the head of the skeleton that has become a skeleton, which is not available in the previous journey. The other difference was realized by Liu Shishou a few days later. This time, there is no difference between age and men and women. Their bodies are similar to Shishou. They should be young men. This change caused Shishou's thinking. Was there such a pure man a long time ago? Has the resulting team passed through here? Then he died for some reason and was turned into a road sign.

This is not surprising. As seen in the town, the vast majority of business travelers are young men. They must have suffered disasters when a huge caravan passed by here. Thinking of this, Shishou couldn't help but feel a little depressed. He shuttled back and forth in the desert to sell things, which is common to him. Even in the Central Plains, as long as he is willing to spend money, he can buy goods from the Western Regions. If he pays more, even those goods from faraway Europa can be bought. .

Shishou usually blames businessmen for being black-hearted. They look at things that should be cheap, but they sell them so expensive. But now think about it, there is life attached to cheap things, and those things are sold expensive, which is easy to explain.

After icing these things, when the stone hand encountered the skeletons, he not only buried them again, but also deliberately added more sand on them. In this way, even if there is a sandstorm, their remains will not be easily blown out in this desert. In the middle, even if it is just a bone, it will slowly weather with the sand and wind, crack into sand, and eventually become part of the immortal desert.

The stone hand went all the way forward. This time, because he had dried meat in his diet, and his daily diet was much richer, but this also had a very negative impact. The meat was salty, so the amount of water he drank increased unconsciously. The most terrible thing was that all this happened imperceptibly. When he found that there was no water in the water bag, he was dumbfounded.

He remembered clearly that it should have been only five days since he woke up from the desert, and the water bag should be able to provide eight days of drinking water. Shishou is very clear about the situation in the desert. Even in winter, he can persist for up to two days without water, and he will lose most of his ability to move in the second half of the next day. He must find a water source before that.

The stone hand abandoned the remaining dried meat. He was afraid that he could not help eating a little when he was finally hungry, which would only make him more thirsty and would not give him any strength to find water.

Finding water source is an embarrassing thing for the current stone hand. He doesn't know if Zhang Shu has considered this matter when making these road signs. Just like the previous town, Zhang Shu will definitely arrange this kind of place to supplement water and food for himself, but the only question is whether Zhang Shu has The early depletion of water sources is taken into account.

I'm afraid not, because Shishou found that even if he threw away the dried meat, there was still a lot of dry food left. At present, the only hope is to drive out three days without water. Shishou believes that Zhang Shu will leave a turning point for him on the eighth day.

Thinking of this, Shishou couldn't rest and began to travel one after another. He only found a place to lie down at will when he felt that he was going to lose his way. He used this way to find the skeleton. After determining the direction, he did not rest and immediately stood up and continued to drive. Every time he found a skeleton, he felt disappointed, because The direction indicated by these skeletons did not suddenly turn as before, but basically pointed the way in one direction. This made Shishou desperate. He felt that Zhang Shu not only did not consider that his drinking water would be exhausted in advance, but even that the dry food and water energy he considered would persist for far more than eight days.

In the desert, it is useless to howling, and it is useless to complain. Shishou could only hold back his thirst and run forward desperately. When he ran extremely, he even used his hands and feet and began to run with his limbs. This method made him feel very labor-saving, and his speed was much faster. Anyway, there was no one nearby. His beastly running style would not make others laugh and forced to survive. Shi Hands begin to use this method more and more frequently. His speed is getting faster and faster. Despite this, the impact of the lack of water is getting bigger and bigger. At dusk the next day, even if his hands and feet are used together, he can hardly stand. I don't know when a lot of sand was wrapped in the saliva in his mouth, and even pricked his mouth.