Sand, endless sand. They are climbing up all the time, trying to devour everything. From the slit of clothes, from the opening of boots, from mouth, nose, ears. Before Zhao Mai and his party climbed up the sand dune, they smelled of sand all over.
Stored grain can't walk in this environment. Its foot mat is unprotected and tramples on the sand. Sooner or later, it will send out the smell of barbecue. Zhao Mai stuffed it into his backpack and stayed with the flowerpot. The extremely hot environment here is too severe a test for two small creatures.
It will increase the load, but Zhao Mai has decided to live and die with everyone. At present, his only plan is to find a shelter for three months and find a way to dig out the car. The environment here is neither suitable for survival nor cultivation. He didn't want to stay.
Climbing up the dunes is a very difficult thing. The soft sand always takes Zhao Mai on the slide, trying to hold his legs and flow down. He stepped down heavily, most of his strength was used to make sand pits, but the distance of rising was very short, sometimes even further, but two steps back. It took him more than half an hour to get up because he had only a vertical height of more than 40 meters.
Looking around, it's hard not to have the idea of despair. Endless yellow sand, layers of black shadows, countless sand dunes are everything on the ground. On the pale sky, the huge sun is emitting endless red flames, the air is ignited, expanding and making strange sounds, as if repeatedly saying the word "death, death, death". There are no trees, no grass, no moving objects except sand and wind. The natural force here is the oxygen in the vacuum and the water drop in the fire. Zhao Mai can't release any magic.
Their only hope is a mountain in the distance. Maybe it will be harsher there. No one is sure, but there will be differences there. Change means vitality. Since there is no reference object, it is difficult to estimate the distance. The only certainty is that it can never be reached today. Zhao Mai held his knee and gasped with his mouth closed. He not only wants to recover his strength, but also takes this opportunity to cheer himself up. "To give up is to die." He knows that very well.
According to the height and direction of the sun, it is considered that the mountains are a little north in the West. In a strange world, the direction, time and season can not be confirmed, and the experience of other worlds can not be used to deal with this world. But if he can communicate with the natural force, Zhao Mai will have a way to understand most of the situation, which is also the purpose of his visit to the mountains.
"It's over there. Let's go." Zhao Mai pointed. Bucher nodded and said nothing. Both men covered their mouths and noses with strips of cloth and shaded their eyes with headscarves. If possible, they only use one eye at a time, open and close in turn, and try to reduce the evaporation of water.
The sand dunes they climbed up in an hour only took more than ten seconds to rush down. This is their rare and only happiness. After that, shake the sand hanging on your body. The road is still far away and you need to walk slowly.
As Zhao Mai walked, he looked at his mobile phone. The mobile phone has a function to open the map. The map of the place you have been to is bright, the one you have seen but haven't been is gray, and the one you don't know is black. Relying on the shining walking track, Zhao Mai can determine the relative position of himself and the starting point, correct the direction of progress, and avoid too much deviation when walking around the sand dune. They can't keep climbing over the sand dunes, it will consume too much energy. The best way is to move along the top of the dune and avoid moving up and down as much as possible.
A spider about the size of a nail came out of the sand and chased Zhao Mai desperately, trying to hide in his shadow. It seems that even local creatures can't stand the scorching heat and merciless sunlight. This is the first creature Zhao Mai met. Naturally, he won't let it go. He took two crossbows from Bucher as chopsticks and picked up the little reptile from the ground.
It has eight spider legs, a bulging stomach and a pair of scary teeth. This little thing is very aggressive, constantly trying to bite Zhao Mai's dagger.
"Its bite is poisonous. Do you see the drop on the dagger? It's from its mouth." Zhao Mai turned the little thing back and forth and looked at it carefully. Although spider is very fierce to him, Zhao Mai is very happy. At least he saw the creatures, which means that this is not a desolate dead place.
You can feel the unique natural force here from small things. If you savor it carefully, there is a very primitive feeling, which is more emphasis on elements. It is totally different from that of gallion. There are many natural creatures in glarion, so there are more cycles and systems in the natural force. This spider is used to living in isolation. The natural force is extremely conservative, but it has a faint smell of water.
Just at this time, a larger breath of the same species quickly approached, and Bucher also issued an alarm to let Zhao mai be careful. The sand dune seems to be suddenly alive. The rolling yellow sand bulges and flows along the steep slope. In the space below, a bigger spider is coming.
Maybe this kind of raid works for other creatures, but it doesn't work for Zhao Mai and Bucher. Grain reserves also called, from the backpack out, ready to fight.
The sand suddenly stopped shaking and burst open. A spider the size of a crocodile opens its mouth and cuts a pair of cutlass shaped teeth. Zhao Mai stabbed the monster's mouth down with the blade of the giant toothed beast's gun, and stabbed the monster to the ground. Bucher rushed up and was about to cut off his head."Wait a minute, I have an idea. Don't kill it yet!" "I feel the natural force!" Zhao Mai cried
The natural force exists in all living things, and this spider is no exception. Unlike glarion, more force is preserved in the biological bodies here, which seems to be in response to the extreme natural environment here. Only when they are rich can they exchange more. Those who are poor in the force will naturally collect and store more and reduce their consumption.
Zhao Mai first tried to communicate wildly with the giant spider, hoping to domesticate it. It is obviously more adapted to the desert environment than its own people. If it can be used as a mount, it will save a lot of physical strength. Even if we can't acclimatize, it will be a life-saving move to be able to communicate and lead us to find the water and oasis in the desert.
Spider struggling, Zhao Mai constantly pacify, can achieve little. No matter how Zhao Mai explains it, there is only one instinct in the spider's mind, that is to hunt. It struggled harder and harder, and Bucher was about to lose control. "Whatever you're going to do, hurry up!"
There's no choice but to kill it. Bucher waved his sword and cut off the spider's head, while the rest of it trembled. Zhao Mai put his hand on the spider, and then, using the method taught by Wordsworth, began to mobilize the natural force and perform water making. Spiders constantly tremble, the body quickly shriveled down, its water was Zhao Mai pumping out.