Chapter 84 Goodbye everyone, today I will sail away with the wind...

"No--"

"I don't want to leave!"

"Let me stay—"

"No! No! Stop! Stop!!"

Under the scorching sun, the air was rippling slightly, and the temperature was approaching 30 degrees Celsius. Now? It was only around seven in the morning.

Chu Xiuyan held on tightly to a big rock and refused to let go even when his cheeks turned red from being burned by the rough stone wall.

Zhang Chun, who was beside him, tried to persuade him kindly, but seeing that the boy was not listening, veins popped up on his forehead, and he rolled up his sleeves and prepared to drag him away by force.

One night passed, and Chu Xiuyan's fever had not subsided.

This? It's not normal.

He had never seen a stranger get sick!

The previous words of discomfort with the climate were just words of comfort. I had an abnormal reaction right after entering the desert. What would happen if I stayed for two more days?!

Not far away, Chu Li stood beside the SUV with his arms folded, his eyes shifting to the young man and Zhang Chun who were arguing, and then to the witch who was mumbling beside his legs.

After a night of contact between Zhang Chun and the leader of this team, Brother Hui, a temporary cooperative relationship was established.

This group of mercenaries has some connections with the rebels, and they can act as intermediaries to prevent unexpected conflicts between the two sides during their first contact.

Therefore, the witch who was originally a hostage was also released this time and returned to her companions.

It should be like this.

"How rude! How dare those fools attack the Chosen One like this? Bah, bah, bah!"

The old woman, who was hopping and stomping the sand, had a ferocious look on her face. It looked like she would have rushed over and kicked Zhang Chun a few times if Chu Li hadn't been holding her collar.

It was early in the morning, the weather was hot, and the strange laughter, which was sometimes sharp and sometimes eerie, made people's heads hurt even more.

Chu Li gently pressed his solar plexus and walked slowly towards the back of the car.

Two minutes later, still there? The witch who was cursing suddenly felt a shadow pressing down on her head. She looked up and saw her toothless mouth suddenly opened wide, her cloudy eyes full of astonishment.

The mercenary convoy was parked four or five meters away. Brother Hui was sitting in the driver's seat, smoking and waiting for Zhang Chun on the other side to deal with the boy who was unwilling to leave.

"Regardless of whether he is a man of destiny or not, this? His boisterous personality is just like a naughty child who is afraid of ghosts."

The car door was suddenly opened, and Gray was choked by the smoke and started coughing like crazy. He thought someone had heard him say something bad about someone behind his back, and he felt quite uneasy. When he turned around, he found that the equally noisy witch in the tribe was tied up with hemp ropes all over her body, with a towel stuffed in her mouth. She was struggling hard on the back seat, whimpering non-stop, as if she was cursing.

Chu Li stood outside the car door, wiping the red powder that the witch had sprinkled on his hands with a tissue, and said to the mercenary Hui calmly: "Although he has a somewhat noisy personality, he is not a bad person by nature. No one has the right to forcibly suppress an ordinary teenager's desire to explore the world. Of course, you may not understand it now, but when you get along with him for a long time, you will understand what I mean."

Brother Hui: “…”

I don't know why, even though the other person's expression didn't change, I felt a chill in my heart.

When Chu Li's figure disappeared outside the car door, Brother Hui suddenly remembered something.

He just spoke in the dialect.

"Fuck, that guy can understand the language of the Bone Tribe?"

The hand holding the cigarette began to tremble.

…

When Chu Li walked back to his original position, he saw two people approaching, one happy and one depressed.

The boy, still wearing a baseball cap to cover his short black and white hair, waved his arms and smiled, obviously cheerful and happy.

"Brother Chu Li! I'm back again?——"

Zhang Chun, who was a little slower, covered his head with his hands, and a heavy and dark aura emanated from his body.

It seems that persuasion has failed again.

Chu Li thought so, so he opened the car door and looked at the happy boy. He got into the back car and said softly, "You know I'm very sensitive to changes in aura, right?"

Chu Xiuyan gave him a thumbs up and said, "Don't worry, Brother Chu Li! I have already made three rules with you. You must never leave the team, and you must be obedient. If you have any abnormal reaction in your body, report it immediately!"

Chu Li chuckled. Looking at the boy's appearance, he knew that the other party's promise was just a perfunctory promise. However, he did not say much. After closing the car door, he saw Zhang Chun mumbling to himself in despair.

"Failed... failed again..."

To prevent accidents where people were killed or the car was destroyed, Chu Li said, "I'll drive today, you sit beside me."

So, at about 7:30, the four cars finally started to set off and headed towards the location of the rebels.

It was still a long and boring journey, and the unchanging desert scenery made people drowsy.

At around two o'clock in the afternoon, after a short rest, the mercenary Hui Ge got into Zhang Chun and his team's car when they set out again.

Chu Xiuyan already felt that the space in the back seat was cramped, and now there was one more person, so he ran to the roof of the car to look at the scenery, holding an umbrella, with a square piece of cloth under his buttocks, and Chu Li's silver thread wrapped around his waist to prevent him from falling out of the car.

Through the gap in the car window, you can clearly hear the conversation in the car.

"...There are many bases of the resistance army, the closest one is Youdu, which is relatively large in scale. But if you want to talk about its characteristics, it is the thick fog that permeates day and night. It is said that it used to be a large base, but unfortunately it was destroyed by the monster tide. Coupled with the appearance of thick fog, many people who wanted to come back to rebuild said that they saw wandering undead in the fog, as if they were crying about why they were abandoned, and those who wanted to rebuild fled in fear... Unknowingly, it became an empty city, and gradually became the activity site of many mercenaries and various forces. Later, the resistance army suddenly appeared and directly occupied Youdu as one of its bases. Of course, the wandering undead must be an illusion. There are too many reasons that can cause illusions in the desert... Why are you sweating so much? Hey, I wanted to tell some ghost stories to cool down, but it’s useless. This? The weather is too hot..."

Then Zhang Chun's calm and steady voice sounded: "Roll up the window. Chu Li, turn on the air conditioner, we have enough energy."

Chu Xiuyan on the roof burst out laughing, and then heard Zhang Chun calling him, "You're coming down too? You've been sunbathing on the roof for long enough. If you get heatstroke, you'll have to go back to the ruined city."

Chu Xiuyan thought about the petty-minded uncle, and then replied: "I will go down after that stinky uncle leaves."

Mercenary Gray Brother: "Ah? Do I stink?"

Zhang Chun replied: "Stinky, you can go down now."

"Wait a moment, wait a moment, I'll just say a few more words and then I'll leave..."

Chu Xiuyan didn't say anything else, and a new round of conversation began in the car.

He sat cross-legged, with the parasol on his shoulders, holding the metal juicer that the witch had given him in one hand, and the jar of strange bloody sticky sand in the other.

System alert: [You want to create water of life? ]

Chu Xiuyan: [No, I am? Thinking about something interesting? . ]

His action power was always strong. He opened his hands, and the blood crystal energy in his body gradually overflowed from his skin. Following his thoughts, it turned into a pole about two meters long. He then pulled the silver wire at his waist and broke it directly. Then he wrapped the broken silver wire around one end of the pole and tied a knot.

When the new silver thread was wrapped around his waist, Chu Xiuyan had successfully made a fishing rod!

[Item Bar +1, Mysterious Fishing Rod! ]

The system made a pretentious ding-dong sound at first, then returned to normal, even with a hint of caution: [This? It's all desert, there are no fish for you to catch.]

Chu Xiuyan grabbed a handful of blood sand from the jar given by the witch, rolled it into a ball, and used it as bait by wrapping it around and around with the silver wire on the fishing rod. After making sure that no sand would leak out, he threw it heavily to the back of the SUV!

——The blood sand tangled into a ball by silver threads hung in the air.

It’s not long enough and there’s still quite a distance from the sand surface.

But it doesn't matter.

What Chu Xiuyan wanted was a fishing atmosphere.

System: […Alright, the absurdity of the scene is coming out? ]

Chu Xiuyan: [? ]

Is the car still there? Communication.

This time we talked about the giant [The Prisoner] on the desert border.

It can be said that one dares to ask and the other dares to answer.

Mercenary Gray: "About a month ago, there was a riot in the depths of the desert, and many highly polluted creatures escaped from the dead zone. Most of them could not adapt to the outside environment and died, but a small number of them merged into the less polluted desert area. The originally safe routes have now become dangerous. As for the giant, I haven't heard that it escaped from the dead zone. Are you sure it's the monster that is more than ten meters tall, has a chain around its neck, and can spit out insects from its mouth?"

"Are you sure? We encountered them on the edge of the grassland and the desert. The swarm of insects chased us for a long time."

Gray was bewildered: "Ah? But this? With such a big body and slow movement speed, it is impossible that no news would get out... By the way, could it be an illusion?"

Zhang Chun was speechless: "We haven't even admitted our intention to kill."

Brother Hui was completely speechless. If the prisoner really wandered in the ordinary desert area with low pollution, it meant that the original safe route had completely failed and there was no safe space in the entire desert!

It can be called a death battle royale!

"Now? The good news is that three days ago, someone saw the [Crawler] and the [Ascetic] in the Death Land. They should not have come out?..."

Chu Xiuyan chewed some dried meat, holding a parasol in one hand and a fishing rod in the other. Apart from feeling a little dizzy, he felt very relaxed and happy. He thought that if he stayed in the car and listened to this serious topic up close, his head would probably explode.

It was about three o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was still scorching, the air was boiling, and it was twisted with visible ripples.

He didn't know if it was a hallucination from chewing the dried meat, but he seemed to hear faint sounds of camel bells, which came and went, as if they were there and not there.

At this time, the voice of the mercenary Brother Hui was constantly heard in the carriage. He seemed to be overwhelmed with explanation and began to describe the three most terrifying monsters in the desert. In addition to the [Punishment], there are also the [Crawler] and the [Ascetic].

[Crawler], looks like a worm, ranging from a few meters to several hundred meters long, with densely packed black scales on its body surface, and thin legs on its abdomen. It can move in the depths of the desert, and can also move quickly on the surface of the sand. Like [The Prisoner], it will attack the humans around it.

[Ascetic], a giant round luminous object with wings flying in the sky, it will drop bloody rain when moving to expand the contaminated area. It is the least threatening to humans among the three monsters - after all, it only rains blood and will not chase humans!

"It glows, in the sky..." Chu Xiuyan thought, "a light bulb?"

What a strange description.

His thoughts wandered aimlessly.

At this moment, the fishing rod in his hand suddenly shook violently, and the off-road vehicle under him also shook, like a sudden earthquake.

Chu Xiuyan was about to go back to the carriage, but the next second when he stood up, everything in front of him suddenly went dark. The scorching sunlight was blocked by a giant object that appeared out of nowhere, and the shadow it cast was terrifying and weird.

It was a giant monster that had just emerged from the sand. It had a slightly round head and seemed to have a circle of scarlet eyes surrounding its entire head. Its body was covered with dense black scales. Countless tiny grains of sand fell from the air, rustling like a light rain.

And that terrifying size brought a suffocating sense of oppression.

This? The monster lowered its head slightly, and the middle of its scarlet eyes seemed to be a mouth, biting a thin silver thread, which was connected to a fishing rod, which was being pulled by Chu Xiuyan.

The monster and Chu Xiuyan's eyes met.

Chu Xiuyan blinked slowly, "...This? This fishing rod is mine."

The off-road vehicle suddenly accelerated, causing him to stagger for a moment, but fortunately Chu Li's silver thread stabilized him.

Zhang Chun's voice rang out: "Yun Yan! Throw away that pole! Get back to the car!"

The mercenary Gray Brother screamed in fear: "F-Fuck! This? Isn't it a Crawler——"

Long, thin silver threads emerged from the gaps in the car window, with one part densely stretched out towards the boy?, trying to pull him back, while the other part attacked the monster. Every second of control was a chance to escape!

But at this moment, the monster called "Crawler" suddenly bit the silver thread and swung it high into the sky, and Chu Xiuyan, who was holding the fishing rod, also flew into the sky uncontrollably.

When he was about to turn into gray mist to escape danger, he suddenly found that what was facing him was not sharp teeth, but a wide and flat head.

Just because he was a little slow due to surprise, Chu Xiuyan successfully landed on the monster's head, still holding the fishing rod in his hand, with a confused look on his face.

"ah?"

The monster simply ignored the several off-road vehicles speeding away not far away, and turned around without hesitation. Thousands of tiny legs flashed quickly on the sand, almost turning into afterimages. Although it was a huge body, it moved at an extremely fast speed!

The SUV's escape came to an abrupt halt. The tires made a sharp blast on the sand, and it suddenly turned around and chased in the direction the monster left!

In the other three off-road vehicles belonging to the mercenaries, everyone was at a loss for what to do.

"What the hell, what are they doing?"

"It's my first time seeing a creeper. It's so big."

"…This? How do I do this?"

"What can we do? The boss is still here? Those outsiders? They're in the car! Chase them!"