Chapter 1536: Small Oasis in the Desert
Some scattered supplies suddenly appeared on the desert, scattered all over the ground, many of them half-buried in the yellow sand. Alice and Bing Zhixie ran over and looked around. Alice said, "It's supplies from the Schaller family. They must have been exposed to the hot wind and sand yesterday." She had seen the Schaller family loading food and supplies. The boxes and sacks were instantly recognizable.
"There are no corpses of humans or monsters here. They probably chose to give up their supplies to avoid the foehn." Bing Zhixie flew into the air in a few steps, looked into the distance, and then fell back to the ground.
As soon as Alice saw Master's expression, she knew that she had not found anything, and prayed: "I hope they will be fine. By the way, isn't there an oasis nearby? They may have escaped to the oasis, let's go and see it too Let's see."
"But before that, let's take some food and water with us." Bing Zhixie picked up a crowbar on the ground and pried open a wooden box with several bottles in it. The rum is still in good condition.
Alice smiled and took out a bottle and asked the master to chill it for a while before opening it. She took a few sips of the amber-colored cold wine. She chirped, licked her lips with her little tongue, and sighed: "It tastes so delicious. I haven't had such a satisfying sweet drink in almost a month."
Since they abandoned these supplies, Bing Zhixie unceremoniously obtained enough food from it and stored it in another space. However, because they lost their compass, they could only judge the direction intuitively to find the oasis, but they couldn't find it after searching for several hours.
Seeing that the sun was about to set, Alice was worried that she would have to sleep in the desert again tonight, and said: "What's going on? Where is the oasis? They said it was not far to the east. Why are you looking for it?" You haven't found me after so long? Are we going in the wrong direction? "
The yellow sand nearby is flat, there are no sand dunes with large fluctuations, and the surrounding area is still a sandy land. You can see far away at a glance. If there is an oasis, they Should have seen it a long time ago.
Bing Zhixie looked at the vast yellow sand, with a worried look on his eyebrows, and said: "They said that it was a small oasis, maybe... it was destroyed and buried by yesterday's foehn wind and yellow sand. .”
Alice exclaimed in shock: "No way! Aren't those people very dangerous!?"
Yesterday's foehn wind and dust were so heavy that they could be described as filling the sky. A small oasis was not even covered by the dust. Not surprising.
Bing Zhixie also has this worry. If there is not a good shelter from yesterday's wind disaster, even an expert will have a hard time surviving. If the Oasis really did not survive being annihilated, the chances of something happening to the Schallers would be very high. But what can't be determined now is the location of the oasis. What should we do?
Alice was worried about this when she suddenly kicked something hard under her feet. She pushed aside a layer of yellow sand on her face and discovered an old well.
The well is sealed by a thick stone slab with two lifting rings on it. Bing Zhixie walked over and took a look and said, "Come on Alice, let's move the manhole cover and take a look."
It took some effort for the two of them to move away the heavy stone slab on the old well, revealing a dark well hole. Bing Zhixie squatted by the well, shot a fireball and dropped it into the well. This well is about twenty meters deep, and the bottom has been filled with yellow sand. It is a dead well.
Alice was a little disappointed, and when she was about to speak, Bing Zhixie made a silent gesture and listened carefully at the mouth of the well. Alice didn't know why, so she followed and listened at the entrance of the well.
Bing Zhixie seemed to have heard something just now, but now he could no longer hear it. He asked Alice, "Did you hear anything?"
Alice shook her head no. .
Bing Zhixie listened for a while, but there was still no sound, and she became suspicious.
Alice said: "Master, could it be that you heard it wrong? I didn't hear anything except the sound of the wind."
Bing Zhixie got up and looked around, and soon ten Dry leaves were found beneath the sand a few meters away. This leaf has dried out due to water loss, but the leaf surface is plump, not the kind of leaves of grass and flowers. They searched nearby again, and soon found many dried plants, as well as some man-made objects and wooden board debris, all buried by the yellow sand.
Alice dug out a silver metal dinner plate from the sand and said in surprise: "Master, is this an oasis?"
Bing Zhixie nodded: "It's very possible." He immediately thought of the sound he heard at the wellhead, and became more and more certain that the sound was true, and said: "Although I'm not sure, the sound I heard vaguely just now may be someone asking for help below."
"Are they buried below?" Bing Zhixie and Alice returned to the well, He said to her: "You stay up there, I'll go down and have a look." After saying that, he turned over and jumped down.
The four walls of the well are dry and made of small square bricks, with no moss at all. Bing Zhixie stood among them and didn't hear a sound. Bing Zhixie thought to herself, could it be that she had really heard wrong? He touched the surrounding well walls with his hands, and suddenly found that one well wall was cool, slightly lower than the temperature next to it. He touched the well wall and searched carefully, and found two loose stone bricks after a short search.
Above the well, Alice looked at Bing Zhixie's movements and asked, "Master, did you find anything?"
Bing Zhixie pulled out two square bricks, and sure enough, he saw Arriving at a machine, after triggering the machine, a small door immediately opened on the well wall, and a cool wind blew out from the door. He looked inside and said to Alice above: "There is a secret passage here. Let me go in and have a look."
"Should I go down?"
"No, you wait above." Bing Zhixie took out the magic crystal and lit it, then ducked into the secret passage.
The secret passage leads downwards diagonally, and is surrounded by rough earth and rock formations. The further you climb, the wider the front becomes, and it will soon be able to accommodate people standing upright. Not long after Bing Zhixie walked down, he could feel the air gradually becoming moist, and thought to himself: "There is underground water down here, it is indeed an oasis."
He took the spar and looked around. At this time, I heard a hoarse voice shouting in the cave: "Who is it!?"
"Who are you?" Bing Zhixie stopped walking and stood on the rock slope and asked .
After a while, the man in the cave said: "Are you Celeste?"
Bing Zhixie heard that the voice sounded familiar and said in surprise: "Ruola?" The other party's voice was so hoarse that he almost didn't recognize it.
“It’s me, it’s me!” Ruola shouted happily and hurried towards the light. After running a few steps, she fell in the darkness.
Bing Zhixie heard the sound and found that Ruola was not very far away from him, so he carefully slid down the rock slope. When he got down, he saw Ruola with a broken head and blood. Bing Zhixie helped her up and asked, "Why are you here? Where are the Schaler family members?"
Ruola was very panicked and said, "They are inside, I don't know what happened to them. They were all lying on the ground motionless. I couldn't wake them up."
Bing Zhixie was startled and said, "Take me to see them."
After walking inside for a while, Bing Zhixie soon saw a group of people lying in the cave. Most of them were servants of the Schaller family and people from the White Skeleton mercenary group. In addition, there were some other people. These people all fell to the ground without a sound. I checked their noses and found that they were all still breathing. However, no matter how hard I screamed or pushed, I couldn't wake them up.
Ruola was anxious and frightened, so she told Bing Zhixie what happened.
Yesterday, like Bing Zhixie, they encountered the Foehn wind attack unique to the Forgotten Sea on the road. Because there were too many supplies for the carriage and horse, which affected everyone's speed, Charles Tyson had no choice but to abandon the supplies. Lead everyone to escape to the oasis for refuge. This small oasis has been in the desert for many, many years. Every two or three years, it will experience a foehn attack, destroying the oasis and the small hotels and restaurants built here.
However, there is underground water, and the lost oasis will grow again soon, so every time the foehn comes, people here will hide in underground caves to take shelter until the foehn passes and then come out to rebuild. Tyson and others hid in underground caves with the locals. They thought they would retrieve supplies after the foehn passed, but after the night passed, only Ruola woke up. The others were sleeping on the ground as if they were dead. Not moving.
Ruola stayed alone in the crypt for a day, shouting until her voice became hoarse, and no one came to save her. She almost gave up in despair. I never thought...
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(End of this chapter)