The space in the station was not very large, so it was quickly filled with the aroma of bread and ham heated over the charcoal fire. Yun Ge eagerly cut a small piece of ham and put it in his mouth to chew, while watching the three children who were constantly swallowing their saliva.

  Yun Ge took a bite of the bread and asked, "Hey! Aren't you guys hungry? If you're hungry, come out and eat something quickly!"

  Upon hearing Yun Ge's words, the little girl cautiously poked her head out from under the table again. This time, the other two boys did not stop her, but instead followed suit and stuck their heads out from under the table.

  "Sir, will you really not hurt us?" the oldest boy asked worriedly again.

  Yun Ge cut another small piece of ham into his mouth, then shrugged and replied, "Believe it or not! If I wanted to hurt you, I would have done it already! Besides, I'm worried that you might want to harm me!"

  "No, sir! We won't hurt others! We have always been the ones who are bullied! We have never hurt anyone!" the younger child immediately defended.

  "Humph! That's the best! Hey! I said, are you coming out or not? If you don't come out, I'll eat all this food!" Yun Ge urged.

  "Please rest assured! We are really just wanderers, we just want to survive! We are not bad people! Wuwuwu!" After crawling out from under the table, the little girl sat on the ground and cried wronged and sadly.

  Seeing the crying little girl, Yun Ge's heart softened, so he hurriedly called out to the girl, "Alright, alright! Little girl, don't cry! Uncle believes you! Come! Come over and eat something quickly! You must be starving, right?"

  This time, the little girl did not hesitate anymore, but sat beside the fire, crying, and immediately started eating the food handed over by Yun Ge. Seeing this, the two little boys could no longer resist and crawled out from under the table.

  They quickly crawled to the ham and raised their hands together like beggars asking for food, while looking at Yun Ge with eyes full of anticipation and a bit of timidity.

  Seeing this, Yun Ge smiled heartbrokenly, then handed the cut ham and bread to the two boys, and then he sat there holding a water bottle, quietly watching the three children eat. The three children were obviously starving, so after their appetite was whetted, they no longer cared about anything else and started to grab the food in front of them frantically.

  Seeing this, Yun Ge took out some more food from the backpack on the camel, and while heating the food, he raised his voice a bit and said, "If there are any other people around you, tell them to come out and eat together quickly! I just want to take shelter from the sandstorm here, I really have no ill intentions towards you!"

  Upon hearing Yun Ge's words, the little girl, who was holding a piece of bread with both hands, couldn't help crying again, "Wuwuwu! Uncle, there is no one else here except the three of us. Because, they all died outside! Wuwuwu!"

  Yun Ge didn't expect the little girl to say this, so he asked in surprise, "How did they die?"

  At this time, the slightly older boy answered, "My brother, Tianxiang, has been intelligent since childhood. Unfortunately, after our parents died, my brother could only take us to wander around because he couldn't afford to go to school."

  "But because my brother has a real talent for learning, we have always been working to earn money to buy books for my brother, so that he can have the opportunity to learn more knowledge.”

  “In this way, my brother can enter the best school in Yu Town and become a future reserve talent there, and obtain a generous scholarship. Wen Linlang and I can also have a stable place to live, and can work hard to support my brother to continue to take the exam in the future!"

  "However, because we are really poor, and there are very few things we can do, we can only work part-time and beg on the street to go to Yu Town. Only in this way, we can save enough registration fees to ensure that my brother can participate in the next unified exam and thus completely change our destiny."

  Brother Boxiang paused for a moment, then continued in a crying tone, "Because the journey from Sandy Sea Town to Yu Town is long, I joined Uncle Li's team before setting off. Uncle Li's team is composed of more than a dozen wanderers."

  "Because they often wander in this desert, they are very familiar with the environment in the desert. Coupled with the fact that their destination for this wandering is also Yu Town, we asked them to take us with them."

  "All the people in Uncle Li's team are very friendly. Because everyone is a humble worker living at the bottom of society, they know how to stick together, which makes us feel very at ease in this team."

  "But when we were about three days away from this station, we were attacked by a group of desert bandits. Even though we were poor and destitute, those hateful bandits were not willing to let us go."

  "No choice. In order to survive, the three of us could only let the bandits take away our food and the meager savings we had accumulated to support my brother's schooling."

  "But that's not the end of it. After robbing us, those ruthless bandits wanted to kill us all. So Uncle Li Lu and others decided to fight back and protected the three of us to escape from the scene during the fight with the bandits."

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  "Later, the three uncles who protected us successfully killed two bandits who tried to chase and kill us. But in order to kill those two bandits, two of the uncles also paid with their precious lives.”

  “And the remaining Uncle Wang also failed to survive the sandstorm we encountered later because of his serious injuries. Wuwuwu!" In the end, Boxiang also cried sadly.”

  “Seeing the three children in front of him crying again, Yun Ge hurriedly said, "Alright, alright! No matter what, at least you are all safe now! Don't worry! Come on! Hurry up and eat the food in your hands! Otherwise, the food will get cold and won't taste good!"

  As he learned more about the three children's background, Yun Ge became more and more sympathetic to them. At the same time, he also sincerely admired their spirit of being able to endure hardships at such a young age and face suffering bravely and optimistically. After the four of them had a full meal, they finally fell asleep soundly with the sound of the sandstorm outside the station.

  After a night's rest, the spirits of the four people obviously improved a lot. The sandstorm outside the station also finally subsided after a night of ravaging, allowing the outside of the station to see the sky again.

  Since the sandstorm had passed, the four people naturally had no reason to stay any longer. So, they decided to part ways and set off on their respective journeys again.

  Out of sympathy for the three children, Yun Ge specially prepared a lot of food for them before leaving, and also gave them two of his camels. He even gave the token that the elder had given him to the three children to ensure that they wouldn't have to worry about their livelihood for at least a short period of time. Then, Yun Ge rode the camel and headed towards Sandy Sea Town in the direction indicated by the children.

  According to the children, they were actually very close to Sandy Sea Town. Yun Ge only needed to ride the camel for another day to get there. Therefore, after giving most of the food to the three children, Yun Ge prepared to go there to rest first and then continue on his way.

  As for how to replenish food without the token, Yun Ge thought that if these three children could survive under such harsh conditions, he, as an adult, naturally didn't need to worry about it.

  After bidding farewell to the three children, Yun Ge set off on his journey again. To his surprise, even though he only needed to travel for a whole day to reach Sandy Sea Town, he still couldn't find peace on this short journey.

  Just after Yun Ge rode the camel to the top of a sand dune, he immediately saw several people lying at the bottom of the sand slope in the distance. Yun Ge hurried over to check the situation and soon found traces of a fight at the scene. He checked the condition of these people very vigilantly and found that they had no breath due to serious injuries.

  Then, Yun Ge quickly identified through the clothing of these people that they should be the wanderers and bandits that Boxiang had mentioned. So, Yun Ge hurriedly drew the curved knife from his waist and quickly checked the surrounding situation to make sure there were no other bandits nearby.

  At the same time, feeling that it was not suitable to stay here for long, Yun Ge immediately prepared to leave this dangerous area. But just as he was about to get up and leave, an extremely weak voice stopped him: "Uh——, cough cough cough! Save, save me——"

  Yun Ge looked in the direction of the voice and found that under a tall man with a large cut on his chest, there was a very thin man. It was precisely because the man on top was too tall and almost buried in the sand that Yun Ge didn't notice this person just now.

  Yun Ge hurriedly went forward to move the tall man off the thin man and pulled him out of the sand. Then Yun Ge found that the man, who was covered in blood, had also suffered multiple serious injuries and looked like he was about to die.

  Yun Ge pinched the thin man's chin and forced him to drink some water, then said, "Brother! Hold on! I'll take you away from here!"

  "No! I won't go! Cough cough cough!" The thin man refused after catching his breath, while staring at Yun Ge with a look of horror and struggling to get away from him.

  Seeing this, Yun Ge immediately realized that the man might have taken him for a bandit with ill intentions. So, Yun Ge hurriedly pointed to his clothes, which were still obviously expensive despite being covered in sand, and then pointed to a dead bandit nearby, saying, "Brother, don't be nervous! I'm not a bandit! I'm just a passer-by who happened to be here."

  Then, Yun Ge asked, "Brother, do you know the three children, Boxiang, Tianxiang, and Linlang?"

  Upon hearing the names of the three children, the thin man said suspiciously, "You——, how do you know them? Who are you?"

  Seeing the thin man's reaction, Yun Ge immediately confirmed that these tattered dead people were the wanderers that the three children had mentioned.

  So Yun Ge said, "I met those three children on the road yesterday. Then, I gave them my camels and food. Now, they are safely on their way to Yu Town."

  "As for how I guessed that you are a member of Li Lu's wandering team, it's because the three children told me a lot about you before. So, please don't be nervous! I'm not a bad person, I'll take you back to Sandy Sea Town in a while!"

  Upon hearing Yun Ge's words, the thin man's expression finally relaxed. However, he quickly stopped Yun Ge from trying to help him up, and said in a weak voice, "No! I, cough cough cough! My life is about to end, don't waste your strength!"

  Then, the thin man grabbed Yun Ge's collar with all his strength and said, "Brother! You must hurry to Sandy Sea Town and tell the boss of the inn there about our experience! Cough cough cough! Also, please make sure to hand this item over to him!"

  As he spoke, the thin man turned over and started digging in the sand where he had been lying just now. In a short while, he dug up a small cloth bag the size of a palm.

  The man handed the cloth bag to Yun Ge and tried his best to make Yun Ge hold the cloth bag tightly with his cold and weak hands, then instructed, "Brother! I believe you are a good person! So, you must help me return this treasure map to the boss of the inn in Sandy Sea Town. Also, hand over my token to the innkeeper, and he will believe that what you say is true!"

  After handing a small token to Yun Ge, the thin man coughed violently a few times and continued to instruct, "Cough cough cough! Brother, please, please tell the innkeeper that the bandits are coming faster than we thought. They are already searching the desert for the messenger! We absolutely cannot let them get our treasure!"

  As soon as the thin man finished speaking, he stared with wide eyes and completely lost his breath. Seeing this, Yun Ge slowly closed his eyes, then carefully opened the cloth bag to check the treasure map inside.

  As a result, when Yun Ge opened the cloth bag, he was stunned by what was inside. Because what was presented to Yun Ge now was not an ordinary treasure map, but a small booklet bound with some kind of precious golden paper.

  This small booklet shimmered with an incredibly brilliant golden light under the sunlight, making Yun Ge immediately have the urge to take it for himself. Yun Ge held the small booklet in his hands and stroked it for a while, then held his breath and opened it to check.