frontier fortress.

The desert is solitary and the smoke is straight, and the sun is setting over the long river.

The scenery in Saibei is different from the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, where people live in small bridges and flowing water.

As far as the eye can see, there is loess and sand, and not many tall trees can be seen. The further west you go, the more desolate and desolate it becomes.

In addition to the endless sand, there is an endless sky in the sky, which is deep and far from the top.

It seems that if you are not careful, you will fall into the boundless universe and the deep well of the boundless blue sky.

Blue sky covers the desert.

The one yellow and one blue picture is extremely pure.

It looks comfortable.

There are no plants in the desert.

Low shrubs, cacti.

Ups and downs dot the sea of ​​sand.

This is a desert painting.

Under the shrubs and on the sand, there are lizards and sand snakes lurking, watching the things in the desert indifferently, like statues, motionless, and they have been looking at them for thousands of years.

In fact, they are hunting and waiting for their prey to take the bait.

As long as the prey reaches their attack distance, it will burst out with a ferocious side, as cold as their cold apricot eyes.

These are the rules of the desert.

In the desert, there is also ruthless competition.

Under the blue sky and white clouds, there are also forest laws.

"Hissssss~"

A sand snake as thick as an adult's arm sank half of its body into the sand, leaving only half of its head exposed. It looked around with emotionless eyes, spitting out snake messages from time to time to collect information about its prey.

It can sense the movements of prey within a radius of one or two kilometers from changes in molecules in the air.

Snakes are natural killers, lurkers, and predators!

Suddenly, it spotted a prey.

That's a wild rat.

Pushing his limbs in the desert is like a fish in the water. Whether it is soft sand or uneven sand pits, he can walk on flat ground.

In the desert, a long string of small footprints with no visible edges was left.

The gerbils were walking around, obviously very alert.

After walking for a while, I would stop and observe, sniffing the air to see if there was any killing, danger, or food.

What it doesn't know is that there is a sand snake in the sand, staring at it, waiting for it to slowly approach...

The gerbil did not notice the danger and kept walking.

"Hey~"

Finally, the gerbil entered the attack range of the poisonous snake.

This poisonous snake has been waiting for a long time.

Using the sand as a support, his whole body was like a spring, thrusting forward.

Dust and sand flew everywhere.

The snake's mouth opened to almost 180 degrees.

Extremely exaggerated.

By preying on this plump gerbil, the venomous snake will not have to worry about starving to death in the coming months or even a year.

"Hiss~"

No surprise.

The venomous snake's big black mouth instantly bit the gerbil.

The normal process should be that the moment it bites the prey, it releases a large amount of venom, poisoning the gerbil to death, and then quickly rolls its body into a ball, preventing the gerbil from having any chance to escape.

But the poisonous snake had just bitten the gerbil, and before it had time to release its venom, its head was suddenly nailed to the sand with a long sword.

Snakes are very tenacious.

Even though his head was nailed, his body was still not stiff.

Like a hemp rope, it was wrapped around the blade of the sword.

At this time, a big hand reached down and grabbed the venomous snake's head.

Remove the snake from the sword.

The snake wrapped itself around the man's wrist.

A man with a face full of vicissitudes of life and the temperament of a big man outside the Great Wall smiled with satisfaction, his eyes were like wolves and tigers.

This is a man in his forties who is in college.

Wearing the common clothes of people outside the Great Wall, with a water bottle hanging from the waist.

"Second brother, you are still very good. If you know how to track gerbils, you can find food. This venomous snake is very fat. With the venomous snakes, scorpions and insects we caught before, we can have another feast tonight." There was another person about two years old next to him.

The teenage man said with a happy face.

"Predators must always hunt and follow their prey... We can gain something at some point!" A man in his forties named Tuoba Xiong was a well-known strong man outside the Great Wall.

"Let's go, it's time for us to go back and meet up with Big Brother and the others."

"Yes, what the second brother said is that we have been out for a long time. If we continue to delay, the eldest brother and the others should become anxious!" The young man also looked like his face was red from the sun.

His name is Tuobatian.

He is also one of the strongest people outside the Great Wall.

After the two of them finished speaking, they walked away from the place.

The venomous snake never imagined that its status as a predator would instantly transform into its prey.

These are the rules of the desert.

Things are unpredictable.

In the blink of an eye, the sun sets in the west.

The figures of Tuoba Xiong and Tuoba Tian melted together with the darkening blue desert sky and became part of the painting, becoming two black shadows in the desert.

not long,

They joined up with other brothers.

"Second brother and fifth brother, are there any gains?" Tuoba Ying, the eldest brother, asked when he saw the two returning.

"Fortunately, I did not disgrace my life!" Tuoba Xiong smiled and took out his sack.

"call out…"

Open it, and it's full of prey.

Heavy.

The boss Tuoba Ying was very happy.

"As expected of my second brother, good! Good!"

"Seventh and eighth brothers, come here and take care of the food." The boss ordered.

Tuoba Wu and Tuoba Di responded and took the sack.

"Second brother, you have worked hard, come...drink!" He said and handed over the wine bottle.

"Thank you, brother!" Tuoba Xiong grinned.

"Gudong, gudong."

He took the wine bottle and poured wine into his mouth in big gulps.

soon.

At night in the desert, a bonfire burns brightly.

Various foods were roasting on the fire.

Weird food.

Poisonous snakes, centipedes, scorpions...

All.

It sounds scary, but they actually bake it until it's golden and crispy, so it looks pretty good.
To be continued...