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After Dong Ni had finished looking through all the memories, the background slowly faded away like flowing water. She sank to her knees and buried her head between her knees. Behind her, a warm hand slowly rested on her shoulder.

The man's hoarse voice was heard. "You already know about it?"

Tony lifted her tear-stained face from the crook of her arm. She nodded and smiled through her tears.

Xi Qi also squatted beside her, holding her hand, and put her head on his shoulder, "Do you look down on me?"

Dong Ni shook his head and asked, "You really …" What 'me'? " Even if she was that shrewd, she wouldn't be able to say that word in front of her beloved.

Xi Qi replied with a low "En".

Donnie looked at him, and for the first time in many years, she smiled and called out to him, "Hello, big brother Xiqi." The man looked at her in surprise. The woman continued, "We will be married once we leave the ancient ruins."

Xi Qi also smiled and quietly promised her, "Okay."

The two continued to walk forward. The environment was getting more and more treacherous. Slowly the desert began to form a desert wall, without any trees or water. The two of them looked up at the huge sun that was shining down on them from the sky and continued their journey with great difficulty.

From time to time, there would be a strong wind blowing by, bringing with it the sand on the surface, blowing both of them into the air. The two of them only wore a single outer garment, a single inner garment. Xi Qi took off her outer clothes and tore it into pieces, carefully wrapping Donnie's exposed mouth and nose with a piece of cloth, then pulled her hand and continued walking.

Tony's voice came from the mummy-like package. "What about you, Siqi gege?"

"I'm fine."

Dong Ni still pulled him over, ignoring the girl's reserved manner, and wrapped her coat around his body. Her inner clothes were light white, and one could faintly see the purplish-red undergarment beneath. However, she didn't care about that, and carefully wrapped it for him before continuing to walk forward.

The two of them had no idea that they would encounter such a scene. Looking from afar, they could not see the edge of the desert. The sun showed no sign of abating. Slowly, Dong Ni felt as if her entire body was heavy, and her head felt as if it weighed a thousand pounds. The sand beneath her feet seemed to have glue stuck to it, and no matter how she sank, she couldn't pull it out. Sweat began to roll down his body. But they did not drink water for a long time, and eventually they did not even sweat.

Dong Ni stopped walking, and Xi Qi looked at her powerless eyes, like a dying beast looking at himself: "Xi Qi gege, I'm tired, I can't walk anymore. I'll rest for a while, you can go first. "Find the way, then come back and find me."

"What's going on?" She looked at her weakened appearance and became more and more worried. Neon, wake up. Can big brother Xi Qi carry you? "Don't sleep, let's talk."

Dong Ni was already too weak to refuse. She felt the man had difficulty carrying her on his back, and then she continued walking forward, swaying.

The man lifted the woman's body and said while gasping for breath, "Neo, you should lose some weight too." Tony didn't have the strength to argue with him. She tried to hit him on the shoulder with her head, and the man smiled and walked on.

"Do you want to hear about our childhood?" As the man walked, he asked, "Donnie, do you want to hear it?"

Dong Ni felt dizzy, she couldn't hear what he was saying clearly, but big brother Xi Qi hadn't talked to her for a long time, she obediently nodded her head.

"Did you know?" I saw you when you were born? You were so ugly, your face was wrinkled and red. I was scared silly and I was crying. " He was lost in his memories. The woman on his back slowly fell asleep under his gentle and low voice.

"Later, when you were one year old, mother took me to your house. It was winter, and you were wearing a red cotton jacket with white rabbit fur at the cuffs. It made your lips even redder and teeth even whiter. Hmm … " He thought about how to describe it and finally came up with a suitable adjective: "It's like Sesame Rice Ball's Soup Dumplings."

Dong Ni, in a trance, heard her words. With great difficulty, she opened her mouth, which had been dehydrated for a long time, and blood flowed out. Dong Ni greedily licked the sweet blood and asked, "And then?"

Xi Qi gently said, "Do you know how hateful you were when you were young? "You always come and disturb me. When I draw, you grab a grasshopper and put it in ink. You scamper all over my paper, and I get scolded by my master."

"In the books that Master told me to read, there would always be a few sticky pages with unknown liquids and solids on them. Then, I would be scolded by Master."

"When I write, you always pull on my sleeve. Whenever I start writing, you pull on it. I have no way of completing the tasks taught by my master."

He recalled every little detail of the past, and his voice had a sweetness and nostalgia that he did not know himself. "Do you know how much I hated you back then, Neon?"

"When my father was betrothing me, your face flashed in front of my eyes. It was dirty like a kitten's face. But I looked at the drawing of Miss Qin, her smiling face before the flower, she didn't look like you at all. I'm glad that she's not like you and won't disturb my studies. She's just like my mother, always standing behind my father in silence. But there is a faint sense of melancholy in the depths of my heart. "

Dong Ni's head tilted to the side, and he had already lost consciousness. Looking at the girl whom he had difficulty loving for a long time, she suddenly felt like crying. If she could, he would carry her on his back forever.

The girl couldn't hear him at all, and he was still talking to himself. His mouth was cracked, blood was coming out, then congealing and then ripping again, and he was fighting his way forward, his eyes wide open.

"Neon, when you were with Miss Qin, you were so beautiful when I gave you that peach blossom. I wish I could put it in your hair. "

"Neon, do you know how badly I was beaten up by my father when we said we were going to break the engagement? I've got several broken ribs. You'll have to touch them when we get married. "How much did I pay?"

Slowly, the sky began to darken, and she carefully placed Tony behind a wind-sheltered rock. It had been a long time since Dong Ni had eaten or drank water. Her originally rosy face had turned pale and her mouth was devoid of any blood. There were many small wounds on her face, all of them dried up.

He touched her lifeline, the thin life, and felt it slowly slipping away, and there was nothing he could do about it.

He gently held her in his arms. She wasn't fat at all, she was thin, but she was tough as a reed. He wanted to cry. In this illusion, they might never be able to go back. They might just be buried in this unknown desert, but their eyes were so dry that they could not even shed a single tear.

He touched her cheek and carefully pressed his lips against her cheeks, her forehead, her nose, her lips. He called out to his lover in a low voice, "Dong Ni, Dong Ni …" He could no longer hear the pretty girl with a beautiful smile replying him "Brother Xiqi".

The sun had finally disappeared. A cold moon hung in the sky, casting its cold light over the entire world. The desert, still scorching hot during the day, was freezing cold.

Dong Ni could no longer feel the cold. She quietly slept there. Xiqi also felt cold, almost as if she was naked in the cold water of the snow. He couldn't feel the warmth of his body either. It was numb and stiff.

He covered Tony with almost all of their clothes, and once again touched her hand. It was still cold. He picked up the knife that had been placed aside and cut open his wrist. Warm blood flowed down his wrist in a wriggling stream.

He felt only numbness and no pain at all. He shakily placed his wrist next to Dong Ni's mouth, but it flowed down her mouth.

Xi Qi put his arm to her mouth again and lightly inhaled. The warm, rusty and fishy liquid flowed into her mouth. He resisted the urge to quench his thirst and slowly fed the woman the blood in his mouth. Although the girl was unconscious, she subconsciously took the blood from her mouth.

DongNi's mouth gradually turned red. He didn't know how many cuts on his arm and how much blood Xiqi fed him, but he felt cold all over. He couldn't even feel where he was and felt dizzy. He finally could not hold on any longer and fell to the ground.

When Dong Ni woke up, it was already daytime, but there was no sun like yesterday. There were stifling black clouds in the sky, as if it was about to rain. Xiqi fell down beside her, her mouth red with dried blood.

She carefully held him in her embrace, his arms hanging limply over her legs. She saw that there were several deep cuts on his arms, but she … Ever since she woke up, there was a fishy taste in her mouth. It was her big brother, Xi Qi, who had fed her her his blood.

She pressed her face against his heart, and there was a faint sound. How glad she was. He took off the clothes of the two people on his body, and fixed their waists on his abdomen. Their limbs were all tied up together with his own. He walked forward with the heavy man on his back.

Every step was stuck in the sand. Raising her foot was difficult, but Tony didn't dare rest. She knew that if she fell, they would never be able to get out. She still had to marry brother Siqi. They couldn't die here.

Suddenly, a big rain began to fall on their bodies. Finally, it began to rain. Dong Ni carefully formed a bowl with her hands and fed the water to Xi Qi's mouth. She also looked up and drank the rain from the sky. Finally, she was able to cry loudly.

It was raining, and the snake that had been nestling in the hole had come out. Donnie fought back her disgust and fear as she watched the snake slowly wrap itself around her legs, then suddenly stab the snake in the belly with the dagger in her hand.

There was no fire, so Dong Ni had no choice but to skin the snake and cut it into small pieces. With blood on them, she swallowed them one by one. His tongue sensed the stinky taste in his mouth, and his stomach automatically opened its mouth to spit something out. Dong Ni resisted the urge to vomit and swallowed the raw snake meat. She didn't dare to chew at all. Then, he carefully chewed the slightly better piece of snake meat into pieces and fed it into her mouth.

After eating her fill, Dong Ni continued on her way. After walking for who knows how long, she finally saw the lake where they had separated from Su Yuewu. She finally felt at ease and allowed herself to faint.