Chapter 1228 1210. Desert Water
The bright sun hung high in the sky, and the layer of air on the sand was burned by the heat so that the light was distorted.
It seems that even the air sucked into the nasal cavity and trachea carries the heat of evaporating the moisture.
Not half a minute after the flannel ball stepped on the sand, he immediately raised his furry hind legs and paws and jumped up and down on the sand.
While jumping, it took out a small cloak suitable for its body shape from the space expansion bag on its body, and covered itself neatly.
In this environment, if the armor is exposed to direct sunlight, meat will be fried on it over time.
Berengar, who was still wet and dripping with water, was relatively comfortable at this time, but the old demon hunter estimated that he could finish it within an hour in this environment.
Lan En came last. After he came, the air pressure disturbed by the intersection of the celestial sphere and the layer of sand and dust that was rolled up gradually stopped.
"Is this a different world?"
Tisaya is a warlock, and she usually wants to use teleportation as a carriage. At this time, her dizziness is the slightest.
There was nothing wrong with the desert, but she was surprised when she looked at the large ant mounds that were tens of meters high and looked like rock pillars standing on the sea of sand.
“Welcome to the New World.”
As a specially recruited hunter for the fifth phase of the New World Survey Group, Lan spoke to Tissaya and Belengal in a half-local tone Said.
“Believe me, there is no place more comfortable than here.”
“You mean this place is suitable for vacation?” Tissaya frowned slightly, “But the weather here is It’s too hot, and the desert is deserted.”
"This is a new continent, Tisaya. What is the concept of continent?" Lan En spread his hands and said with a smile, "The desert is just a corner of this continent."
"And if you say anything else, I It doesn’t matter, but you want to say that the ecology here is ‘barren’.”
The young demon hunter smacked his lips, and his disapproval and enjoyment were evident.
Tissaya raised an eyebrow: "This is a desert."
Lan En responded decisively and confidently: "This is a desert in the New World."
"Okay, okay." Berengar tried to spread his wet clothes so that he could dry them quickly with the help of the environment. "We'll decide whether it's deserted or not later. It's too hot here now. How about finding a way first?"
Of course Lan En said it was no problem.
Suddenly falling into a desert environment is completely fatal to ordinary people.
But this is different.
The vitality of the New World is far more prosperous than that of the normal world.
Although the Great Ant Mound Wasteland looks like a desert or the Gobi Desert, in fact, with the prosperous vitality of the New World, this kind of natural environment should not exist at all.
According to the research of the old people at the Ecological Research Institute of the New World Survey Group, this may be because the endless circulation of vitality in the New World is too strong. Instead, there are temporary siltations and obstacles during the circulation process, creating an environment that is constantly created.
The emergence of deserts in other places is the evolution of the natural environment, but the wastelands in the New World are actually 'unnatural'.
Precisely because it is unnatural, the natural and ecological resources of the Big Ant Mound Wasteland are not impoverished at all.
There are many rivers and swamps in the wasteland of Big Ant Mound.
Nowadays, humans in the New World are basically professionals in the investigation team. They think that it may be more difficult for accidents to occur in this desert due to the natural environment.
"Mentos, start adjusting the time and determining the position."
"It's in progress, sir."
Mentos was at Lan En's arrival in the new world. In a moment, he had already started his work.
Lan En, who was working with the biochemical brain in his mind, also asked Qilin next to him.
"Which direction is the Coral Platform? Can you feel it?"
While relying on the computing power of the biochemical intelligence brain to advance the measurement progress, Lan En is still collecting more information to reduce the difficulty of measurement.
At this time, Qilin seemed to be feeling very comfortable. This species is extremely adaptable. People have witnessed traces of Qilin's activities in volcanoes, ice sheets, mountains, and basins.
At this time, relying on its physical superiority as an ancient dragon race, it came to the desert without any discomfort.
“Huchi~”
Two puffs of air blew out from its large wet nostrils, and Qilin's hooves hesitated on the sand for a few seconds.
Then he stretched his neck, and the pale horn, which was still a short section away from being fully grown, pointed in one direction.
It was born in the New World, and had been living on the Coral Platform before meeting Lan En, where the terrestrial seaweed is its favorite.
It is familiar with the electromagnetic environment there, so it can recognize it even if it just comes back.
And Lan En, who got the general direction as a reference, quickly worked with Mentos to construct the current time of the New World and the scope of the area where they were located.
"I probably know it well." Lan En removed the large package Berengar was carrying, put it into the space-expanding horse bag on Qilin, and called for everyone to follow him.
"Here, I remember that the investigation team set up a camp nearby before. After all, the New World still lacks manpower, and the built camps will not be abandoned easily."
That was for the purpose before. The camp built to block the large-scale operation of the Molten Dragon was not very far from the valley where the initial blockade was conducted. If Lan En was not mistaken, what they found at this time might not only be a small camp, but even a large facility set up by the New World Survey Team.
Under Lan En's confident guidance, the group began to walk on the desert, one foot deep and one foot shallow.
Tissaya and Berengar are both true northerners, and they have only seen the desert a handful of times in their lives. Of course I can't adapt to walking in the desert.
But just as Lan En confidently introduced them to them before, after walking for three or four hours in the seemingly barren desert, they heard the sound of trickling water.
Although they had expected it, Tissaya and Berengar were still a little surprised.
Because if they were not very lucky to land on the edge of a desert, it means that this desert really has water veins flowing through the middle and crisscrossing it.
The water veins in the desert are really strange.
Sure enough, the sound of water flowing through the fine sand under my feet became clearer and more solid.
Gradually it changed from sand to dry soil, and then to ordinary soil with moisture.
The flannel ball is very happy, although it is usually an optimistic and hard-working character.
But after returning to his 'home', he had already planned to find two friends from the thief adventure group he had formed.
The same goes for the Kirin, but it misses the terrestrial seaweed of the mainland coral platform.
As for the golden lion that broke off its unicorn horn and chewed it.
Hey! This guy who can't even control his own energy without his tail is probably already consumed by his own rampant energy!
The grumpy guy deserves a short life!
Qilin thought proudly, after all, it had used great force when it chopped off that guy's tail.
While thinking about it, Qilin's very easy-to-understand thoughts were reflected in its actions, with its four hooves jumping up and down like a dance.
But others were not in a good mood.
Tishaya and Berengar, two people who had never been active in the desert, were sweating profusely and panting.
Although Lan En has not stayed in the desert for too long, he now has a bunch of high-tech enhanced organs in his body that are regulating the balance of the physiological environment in his body.
The current temperature difference is nothing uncomfortable for him.
After a friendly exchange with Qilin, Tisaya got permission to sit on the back of the ancient dragon.
But there is no chaotic magic power in this world for the sorceress to call upon. All she can use to cast spells is the little bit left in her body.
So even though the sorceress is still trying her best to keep her clothes neat and tidy, the collar opening on her chest, which is considered a rule among sorceresses, is unrestrained among ordinary people.
The large area of skin on the exposed chest was covered with sweat, giving it a shiny and smooth look.
Maintaining just the right amount of restraint and self-respect among the wild and bold group of sorceresses, to some extent, this is Tissaya’s unique charm.
Berengar's clothes had dried out long ago, and now they were stuck to his body with his own sweat.
After hearing the sound of water, everyone was relieved, because even if they didn't find the so-called camp, there would be nothing wrong with fresh water.
But as they got closer and closer to the sound of gurgling water, Lan En's brows slowly wrinkled.
"What's going on?" Berengar muttered as he wiped his sweat, "Is it because of the humidity? Why does it feel like it's getting hotter and hotter?"
It's not just him. , Velvet Ball, who had been active in the New World for many years and was relatively adapted to the desert environment, opened his mouth at this time and unconsciously stuck out his little tongue to gasp for air to dissipate heat.
“It’s really too hot. Why does it feel hotter than in the desert?”
But when they walked forward for a while and actually saw the water flow, they were sure: something was indeed wrong!
It’s not because of any sensory error or the humidity, but it’s really hotter here than in the desert!
“This is.” Linbuqiu stood on the semi-wet and semi-dry land by the river, surrounded by swaying and wilting weeds by the water.
The calico kitten looked at the slowly flowing water with its mouth open.
On the water, several large fish with a very wild New World style were turning their bellies and being carried away motionlessly by the current.
This is a biting fish, a fish commonly found in the water systems of the Great Anthill Wasteland.
One was at least half a man in size, with a ferocious mouth, and its whole body was covered with tough fish skin and powerful muscles.
A normal large dog standing on the shore may be bitten by this fish and dragged into the water.
But now.
"He was burned to death." Lan En took a quick look and came to the conclusion.
This kind of fish that could be included in the hunter's mission list and was already considered a small monster was scalded to death in the water.
Not to mention other ordinary creatures in the water.
The scalded corpses of creatures such as sashimi fish and the whetstone trevally whose scales can serve as whetstones all flowed downwards along the current.
In the upstream direction of the current, a black and white Ellu cat was trying hard to row a small hovercraft that fit its size, anxiously swimming down the river.
(End of this chapter)