enchanting blacksmith

oasis.

An oasis in the desert.

The mercenaries all regained their vitality at this moment. They cheered and rushed to the continent of life in front of them. Some of them even erupted a burst of vindictiveness in their legs, speeding up their running speed.

The black captain had no expression on his face, even when he saw the oasis in front of him, he did not show any excitement. He led the oldest camel in the two caravans forward firmly and slowly, and the hundreds of camels behind followed him calmly. The guy walked forward unhurriedly.

Finally, a young mercenary who ran the fastest rushed to the edge of the oasis. He staggered and fell to the ground. He didn't care to get up, and just crawled forward on the ground for a short distance.

"Hahahahaha..."

The young mercenary laughed wildly.He turned over and lay on the ground, tightly holding a handful of fresh green grass with moist soil foam falling from its roots in his raised hands.

Seeing this, the other mercenaries sprinted forward even more frantically. When they stepped on a piece of wet and sticky land, they all lay down in the grass without caring about their image and kept rolling. Some of them knelt down excitedly , Close your eyes and pray to thank the totem of your belief for the good luck brought.

On the sandy slope not far away, the black captain saw these mercenaries who were overjoyed, and their usual steady pace also took an eager rhythm. But then the lush greenery that greeted the eyes made the livestock walking in the desert ecstatic, and they took even bigger steps.

The black captain touched his bald head, with a rare look of excitement on his face.I have been walking in the center of the desert for nearly half a month, and I have seen many large or small oases and human settlements, but without exception, they are all illusory desert mirages, and now I have finally passed the test of the devil How can one not be ecstatic when they arrive at the real destination.

There is never a lack of oases in the desert. In some places, due to special geographical conditions and natural environment, large or small underground rivers will appear. These underground rivers are the heart of the oasis, supporting the growth and life of plants on the ground. However, with the passage of time, various weather conditions and the gradual change of the surrounding environment, the dark river will gradually dry up, and the oasis will be buried by yellow sand again.

Oasis is just a name, a misnomer.It is a good wish of people who have been walking in the desert for a long time and a spiritual motivation to encourage and support each other. In fact, the oasis is not green.

The oasis is just a small place that occasionally appears in the endless sand sea. On the ground of this place, there are some yellowish brown or dark blue hard plants. These plants are sparsely distributed and grow according to the flow direction of the underground river. Into a winding and extremely short road.

But no matter what, as long as there are plants growing, you can dig down to the moist sandy soil. If you are lucky, put the moist sand into your clothes and wring it vigorously, and you may get a few drops of life-saving muddy water.

This is the true face of the desert oasis.

But the oasis the mercenaries came to was very different.This can be called a real oasis.

Looking around is a dense green dandelion. The leaves of these drought-tolerant plants grow tightly on the ground. A green stem stands up in the center of the leaf, and a small white ball is tremblingly attached to the top of the green stem. , there was a constant breeze blowing, the ball split into countless small white umbrellas and flew all over the sky, falling on the hair and temples of the mercenaries.

Strange things happened. These elves full of vitality only flew over the green ground, as if they were banned by a strange curse. Once they flew near the desert, they would disappear completely, as if they had never existed , The mercenaries who discovered this scene were very surprised. After the blind surprise, the mercenaries regained their vigilance. A group of twenty ten people searched and inquired around in a radioactive direction.

The results of the search are surprising. There is no excessive area between the desert and the oasis. The first step is still yellow sand, and the next step can directly step into a green field. There is a clear dividing line between the two, and the yellow sand can't invade. Come on, the green space will not expand.

On the other side of the meadow is a lake.

It was impossible to imagine that there would be such a large lake in the center of the sand sea. It was so vast as far as the eye could see. The lake was terribly calm. Even though the wind was blowing, the surface of the lake was as motionless as a mirror, without even a single ripple.

"My God!"

Someone screamed, and the mercenaries followed his example and looked over the lake. It was noon at this time, and the mercenaries were scorched by the scorching sun just before entering the oasis, but there was a clear hanging over the lake. A pale yellow crescent.

The humming sound of the Ball of Amos spread to the ears of everyone in the square, and the scene changed again in the space above.

It seemed that it was already night, and the crescent moon over the lake had completely turned into a full moon. The bright and soft moonlight was projected on the surface of the blue lake, reflecting countless cold rays around.

I don’t know why, the camels were not taken into the oasis, and they didn’t complain. They lay quietly in the outer desert and leaned against each other to keep warm. They resisted the cold and dry desert night with a huge temperature difference between day and night, chewing and eating. Watching the hay and salt fed to them by the mercenaries.

Under the leadership of the black captain, the mercenaries looked around nervously lying on the grass. They surrounded each other in a circle, and there was a pile of skin bags as high as a hill in the center.Each mercenary held a seven-foot-long hollow iron pipe in his hand, and wrapped a bundle on his back with tanned cooked cowhide.The iron pipe is as thick as a baby's wrist. The thick pipe wall is very strong. The front end is a sharp acute angle. Except for two small parts that are very smooth to be grasped by hand, the rest of the pipe body is studded with sharp barbs.

Thousands of water bags made of leather are also thrown in the shallow water area where the lake is close to the grass.The plugs of the water sacs had all been opened, and they were randomly thrown by the mercenaries in the shallow water area and on the grass. In each water sac, viscous liquid continued to flow outward, and a disgusting smell filled the air. The strong smell of blood is not fresh blood, but the stench of rotten blood after it has deteriorated.

It was extremely quiet, and the mercenaries even controlled their breathing slowly and slowly, as if they were nervously waiting for something.

The smell of blood in the air became stronger and stronger, and the viscous blood began to spread to the depths of the lake. There seemed to be a little movement on the surface of the lake. The black captain lay on the grass and stared at the lake closely. Steel Pipe.

"Wow...Wow..."

Big water flowers emerged from the lake, and the water flowers bloomed along the dark red in the deep water area towards the deep red on the shore, and the speed of opening became faster and faster. Finally, all the water flowers were connected together, and finally you can see the water in the lake. There was a huge monster cruising towards the shore with the smell of blood. From a distance, the outline of the monster could be seen. It was a thick snake-shaped monster. Its body coiled together to form a ball. Occasionally stretching its body, paddling moving water.The monster swam so fast that it even cut a dent in the calm water. The dent extended to the shore and then disappeared, and the huge monster disappeared without a trace.

"Roar!!!!!!!!"

A dull roar came from the ground.

"There it is!"

"Oh my god!"

"Oh no!"

The mercenaries lying in ambush on the grass were in a state of confusion. Some people kept screaming and being thrown into the air by an inexplicable force.

There was a slight tremor on the ground under my feet, and the soil on the surface was quickly plowed into a long, wide, meandering deep ditch. The deep ditch was constantly changing direction among the crowd, and the soil on both sides became soft, unable to exert strength The mercenary fell into the soft soil and disappeared in an instant.

"Quick!" The black captain roared loudly, "Quickly insert the iron pipe into the ground."

The mercenaries scattered all over the grass burst out all kinds of grudges without exception, and the iron pipes studded with barbs were nailed deeply into the ground.Then, under the command of the black captain, the mercenaries kept pulling out the iron pipes from behind and shot them into the grass without any rules. The place where the iron pipes were most dense was around the skin bags piled up like a hill.

"howl!!!!!!!!"

A shrill roar came from the bottom of the pile of skins, and a large pile of skins was scattered in all directions by a huge force, and the monster, which was stabbed all over by the barbs on the underground iron pipe, finally got most of its body to the ground .

To be precise, this cannot be called a monster, because it is just a huge purple-black reptile. The thickest part of this reptile's body is more than ten meters in diameter. Its head is very small, just a small dot that is disproportionate to its body. It has no eyes but a white nose that looks like blooming petals. It is the same as the characteristics recorded in books. Rare huge earth dragon.

Earth dragons live in the depths of the land all year round. They are docile and non-aggressive. They eat rotten animal carcasses. This kind of creature was very common in ancient times, but due to the special function of its muscles, it was almost killed. Most of them fled to the depths of the earth's crust and never appeared again. Up to now, it is rare to see the existence of the earth dragon, let alone such a big one, the mercenaries were all shocked, and the earth dragon in front of them seemed to have turned into a pile of dazzling gold coins , full of infinite attraction.

This earth dragon has lived in the mud at the bottom of the lake for countless years. Tonight, it was attracted to the shore because of the strong smell of rotting corpses. Unexpectedly, it was covered with scars from the hard iron thorns in the soil, and it became angry from embarrassment. Xiadilong straightened up its body, and the upper half of its body, which was more than ten meters high, squeezed out a large amount of green sticky juice from the flesh wound because of too much force, and the earthlong howled again.

"Shoot, shoot it in the head hard!"

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

Iron pipes with colorful vindictiveness rushed towards the body and head of the earth dragon. After each iron pipe pierced into the body of the earth dragon, a large amount of green juice would be ejected from the end of the iron pipe. The earth dragon Lie down on the ground and keep rolling, no matter how many more iron pipes pierced into the body, dozens of mercenaries were crushed into a meat paste before they could dodge in time.

As time went by, more and more iron pipes were pierced into the body of the earth dragon, and the hollow pipe body took away a large amount of its body fluids. He could only struggle a few times until he finally collapsed completely on the grass without making a sound.

Only a dozen or so mercenaries who survived took off the remaining iron pipes on their backs, sat on the grass and panted heavily, and the black captain still had a piece of internal organs sprayed out by his teammates after being crushed on the shoulder of the black captain.

The lake was calm again, and the rotting blood in the water had sunk into the mud at the bottom of the lake. The full moon in the night sky was partially covered by a night cloud. On the sand not far from the edge of the grass, an old camel sprayed water. snorted, then buried his head in the sand and continued to doze off, as if nothing had happened.