Chapter 761 (1/2)

Duanmu Xianyue's reaction surprised Zhang Yitian. Before, he thought it was a small jasper girl, but when his slender jade hand reached in front of him, he suddenly realized that she was a young woman with a new appearance and a fire in her heart. What he had seen before were appearances.

Facing the woman's slender hand, Zhang Yitian couldn't resist. He stretched out his hand like a dream. Then he felt that his big hand was caught. A strong force came from his arm and spread to his whole body. Then his body was pulled up and sat in front of the woman.

Duanmu Xianyue put her hands around the waist of the man in front, pulled the reins, kicked the stirrup under her feet, and ran forward on the cloud horse

Not long after they left, a group of guards followed them and looked at the marks left on the ground. The leader's guard had no choice but to announce to turn back and return along the original road. Not long after walking, an eagle crowed in the air and an eagle landed on the leader's guard's shoulder.

There was a small bamboo tube on the eagle's leg. The guard leader opened the bamboo tube and hid a secret letter sealed with red wax. When he opened it, the guard leader showed a happy face, raised his hand and shook it into powder, and announced to all his subordinates: ”listen to me. The leader has just received an order to meet Lord Sato. The task must be completed smoothly, or all will be cut and decided!”

Walking all the way along the sand sea, Zhang Yitian and Zhang Yitian identified the direction. Before long, they finally came to the place where Duanmu Xianyue woke up. Here, the sand sea is vast and the direction is not clear at all. The only coordinate is the sky sun. Duanmu Xianyue identified the path to the ice lake through the sun.

”I remember clearly that the previous sandstorm came from the northwest and went straight to the East. We just need to look to the East and there will be great hope of finding them.” Duanmu Xianyue expressed his personal views, which Zhang Yitian deeply thought.

After determining the direction, the two set out again. Not long after walking, a piece of village relics appeared in front. Several dead Populus euphratica trees stood upright, inserted obliquely in the periphery of the village and pointed to the sky. The scene was very lonely. Looking at the towering Populus euphratica trees, they had a hunch in their minds that they should be able to find something in this deserted village.

Thinking of this, they urged the horse to whip, accelerated the speed, and ran very fast on the cloud horse. They came to the village in the blink of an eye, but they were deeply surprised by the scene in front of them.

At this time, it was nearly dusk, and a curl of cooking smoke actually rose in the village. It was obvious that someone was making a fire for cooking, indicating that there were people living here, or it was the smoke signal released by childe Mingxi. They wanted to attract the attention of their separated companions in this way.

When Zhang Yitian said his idea, Duanmu Xianyue showed a surprised look and said to herself, ”smoke signal?” obviously, she felt very strange to this new word, and then changed a way to confirm her guess, ”should you say wolf smoke?”

Zhang Yitian smiled bitterly, nodded and said, ”one meaning.”

Duanmu Xianyue just felt that Zhang Yitian's words were a little fresh. She didn't think deeply, and then urged her horse to walk towards the village. After entering the village, the two jumped down from their horses and walked slowly towards the rising direction of cooking smoke. When they came near, they found that they had guessed wrong and that was not the case at all.

A mottled earthen house appeared in front. Outside the house was a fenced yard. A medicine field was dug in the yard. A dark old man with a dry tobacco pole was squatting beside the medicine field, looking down at the herbs in the field and saying, ”Alas... Sandstorm, all the herbs are destroyed...” he noticed that an outsider was coming, and the old man looked up.

Just as Zhang Yitian and his wife were looking at him, they looked at each other. The old man looked stunned and said, ”how did you come here?”

Zhang Yitian answered with a smile, ”we passed by here. We are looking for them because we were separated from our companions by the sandstorm. Has anyone else been here?”

The old man shook his head and said, ”I haven't seen anyone this year. There was a sandstorm yesterday. I've been hiding in the house and didn't see anyone passing by.”

At the meeting, Zhang Yitian released his divine knowledge and scanned the old man. He didn't find that he had any accomplishments. He was an ordinary man, but he knew how to cultivate medicine fields and plant herbs, which was very inconsistent with his identity. Another desert was deserted. What an ordinary old man depended on to survive here is a very worthy question.

On the way here just now, Zhang Yitian carefully observed that there were sand seas around. There was no land to grow crops, and food was an essential material for ordinary people. The old man claimed that he lived here all the year round. This is very doubtful.

The old man in front of him was very wrong. He felt mysterious all over. In order to confirm whether the other party was dangerous, Zhang Yitian asked, ”what do you do for a living after living here for so long?”