Azur Lane: I Crossed the Graduation Port Area

Chapter 1174 Desire
In the vast yellow sand desert of Xizhou in Natlan, it was already evening.

The scorching orange sun burned the endless desert, forcing even the monsters and animals living in the desert to hide under the sand, quietly waiting for the night to fall.

And in such a lifeless and barren land, there is a slender and unsteady figure walking in the sand.

This is a tall woman with long curly black hair and wearing a silk gauze dress, with bruises all over her body and wheat-colored skin.

On her back was a petite, curly-haired girl of about seven or eight years old who looked severely malnourished and had a very weak breath.

"Sister...I'm so thirsty..."

When Xu Ning heard his sister's faint cry of pain, he bit his dry lower lip and forced some strength out of his almost exhausted body.

"Qing'er, hold on a little longer, we will soon reach the tribe."

She endured the burning pain from the sand under her feet and encouraged her sister in a hoarse voice.

But even though the physical pain could be endured, the pain and sadness in his heart still made Xu Ning feel close to collapse.

She and her sister escaped from the tribe, and it had been four days since they had been in the desert.

The famine, which was rare in a century, caused hundreds of people in the tribe to starve to death every day.

Even though her cultivation had reached the third level of the Body Refining Realm, she still could not rely on spiritual energy to ensure that she did not need to eat.

The monsters and wild animals around the tribe had long been hunted and killed, and in the torment of hunger, her father even asked her to send her underage sister to be eaten in exchange for her own children...

As soon as Xu Ning recalled this, he stumbled and fell into the yellow sand.

The gentle smiles of his parents in the past flashed through his mind. Xu Ning fell into the sand and wanted to cry, but because of severe dehydration, even tears could not shed.

Wiping the dust off his face, Xu Ning looked towards the north and tried his best to stand up again with his sister on his back.

She learned from an elder in the tribe who was captured and sent to serve at the border of Northern Province that there was a Spark Column in Northern Province that would protect all those who were suffering.

She used to be not interested in this beautiful fairy tale-like description and thought that the elder had gone mad after serving in the army for so long.

After all, the Western Desert is extremely short of both supplies and training resources.

Strength is respected, and the strong prey on the weak; this has always been the tradition of the Western Desert.

Therefore, the tribal chiefs appointed by the sects and the provincial royal palaces openly divided up the disaster relief grain and cultivation resources sent by the Zhongzhou court, and it was never the turn of these mortals and independent cultivators to get any.

Xu Ning was not interested in things like equality for all and uniting to resist exploiters.

The fact that only in Beizhou could everyone have enough to eat and eat meat at every meal was what she remembered most.

Now, that absolutely fictitious fairy tale is her only hope.

Xu Ning didn't know how far Beizhou was from her tribe.

But she only knew one thing, that if she and her sister wanted to survive, they had to head north.

The scorching sun in the sky was reluctant to set, and Xu Ning, who was climbing up the sand dunes, had an illusion that today's sun seemed to represent the life of her and her sister.

Once the sun sets, their lives will come to an end.

The endless desert dunes filled Xu Ning's heart with despair, and her body was finally on the verge of collapse.

"Sister...sister...thirsty...hungry..."

She heard her sister's weak whispers in her ear, her voice getting lower and lower, as if she was going to return to the Desert Witch God before her.

After several days of torment, Xu Ning could no longer bear it and began to sob.

"Qing'er, I, I saw an oasis...

"It's right in front of us, we're almost there... The water in the lake is so blue and clear, and there are lots of small fish. We can have fish tonight..."

Xu Ning felt his sister's life gradually leaving him, and his vision gradually became blurred.

She ignored the dryness in her throat and tried her best to express her hope in a trembling voice, hoping that her sister could stay with her for a little longer.

As if she was telling a monologue, Xu Ning never got a response from her sister again.

After climbing up the sand dune, she was finally completely exhausted. She lost her balance and rolled down the edge of the dune with her sister.

"I'm sorry, Qing'er..."

In today's Xizhou, countless people die in the desert every day while trying to escape famine to the North Province.

The cruel but just Desert Wizard God will devour all life equally. This is the concept that the mortals of Natlan in Western Province have been instilled with since childhood.

But this time is different from the past.

Desert Witch God...

Afraid.

"Pfft!"

Just before Xu Ning closed her eyes and was about to die, she heard the sound of falling into the water.

When she opened her eyes, she found herself immersed in a vast ocean.

The endless hunger, thirst and exhaustion disappeared, and the wounds on her body also disappeared. She didn't even feel like she was drowning in the water. Like her, floating in this vast deep blue ocean with eyes wide open was her sister Xu Qing.

Xu Ning did not hesitate and held tightly her lost sister.

Although her heart was full of confusion and puzzlement, Xu Ning, who regained consciousness, knew that something had definitely happened to her and her sister that was beyond their imagination.

Sure enough, before she could comfort her sister, a strange situation occurred.

A small strange device with an odd shape, many legs and a dark blue body slowly emerged in front of them from the bottom of the ocean as if it had life.

"-ńˇ."

A language never heard before and indescribable rang out from the reflective circular hole on the front of the object.

But for some reason, Xu Ning felt that he could sense what the other party meant.

"Are you asking... about my wish?"

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After receiving what seemed to be a positive answer, Xu Ning did not think too much, but said directly:

"I hope my sister and I will no longer be hungry... No, I hope everyone in Western Province and Natland will no longer be hungry."

The painful memories of the famine in the tribe emerged in his mind. This was Xu Ning's only wish at this moment.

“…ú°.

“ó.

"üü."

There was still an incomprehensible voice coming, but Xu Ning could vaguely feel that the other party seemed to really agree to help her realize this wish, and that it was not a difficult task.

But the other party also told her that every wish has an equal price.

"Please ask what you need me to do. As long as you can fulfill this wish, I will take all my life span."

Xu Ning gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice.

But her sister tightened her grip on her hand and shook her head wildly at her.

This time, this very strange object remained silent for a long time.

He seemed to be considering Xu Ning's words.

Just when Xu Ning was feeling uneasy, the device finally made an indescribable sound again:

"ó, ńü′, ň."

"You mean... you're going to leave here soon, and I just need to find someone for you?
"Please tell me what that person looks like, and I will definitely help you get rid of him!"

Xu Ning instinctively thought that the other party wanted her help in revenge.

After all, in the Western Desert, hiring people to commit crimes is not uncommon.

However, what surprised Xu Ning was that the device made a sharp explosion, as if it was dissatisfied with her wild words.

"!ó!"

"You mean don't hurt him, and when you see him, ask him to sincerely want to... go home?"

Xu Ning racked her brains to guess what the other party meant, and she got a positive answer:
"."

The next second, Xu Ning suddenly felt the world spinning around him.

The endless ocean around her disappeared like a mirage, and she returned to the Xizhou Desert which had already fallen into night.

But right before her eyes, a dark blue lake that shouldn't have appeared in the desert was quietly reflecting the starry night sky.

"Qing'er!"

"Sister, I, I'm here!"

The call received a response from the petite loli next to her. Xu Ning turned around and saw her sister looking at her in confusion.

The next second, hot tears welled up from her eyes.

Xu Ning quickly stepped forward and hugged her sister tightly in her arms.

As the two sisters from Natlansi who had come back to life embraced each other in tears of joy...

The "lake water" behind them kept shrinking and eventually turned into nothingness.

It's like disappearing completely from this world.

Instead, the endless desert soil that had been dry since the birth of the world gradually became moist, and trees and vegetation sprang up from the ground visibly.

No one knew that the world was just one wish away from complete annihilation.

(End of this chapter)