At this moment, the sun had already set, and the moon had emerged.
The vast sky was also blooming with brilliant starlight.
Duomaiti unconsciously raised his head and stared blankly at the stars filling the sky, muttering something under his breath.
Zhou Ke, standing beside him, could not make out what he was muttering.
Just like that, one sat on the sand while the other stood nearby, both immersed in the desert night sky.
"Hey! Tell me, if we can't find Xiye Ancient City, will Uncle Zhou Ke take us straight back?" Zhou Hai asked his companion beside him as he ate beef jerky and drank hot tea.
"Hehe! Don't even think about it. If we can't find Xiye Ancient City, there's no way we'll just turn around and head back," his companion replied.
"What? If we can't find it, we still won't go back? Staying in this desert and eating sand every day isn't exactly an option, is it?" Zhou Hai was rather straightforward by nature. Zhou Ke had always kept him by his side, hoping he would get some tempering, but he could never change that blunt personality of his and always spoke his mind.
His companion glanced at Zhou Ke in the distance before saying to Zhou Hai, "You need to understand how many supplies we brought. They're absolutely enough for all of us to stay in the desert for several months. How could we possibly turn back just because we can't find Xiye Ancient City? At the very least, we'll stay here for ten days half a month and search properly. Only if we still can't find it in the end might we consider returning."
Thinking about it, Zhou Hai realized that was true. With so many people and so many supplies, since they had come