The dry Gobi Desert experiences extreme temperature differences between day and night, only slightly better than the snowfields.

After drawing the circle, Shekh put on his clothes and sat back on the bed, letting himself sink into the pile of soft cushions.

The car was dark, and she looked at the bonfires that the other players had lit outside and listened to their casual conversation for a while.

"They say you're very capable."

Shi Jin, lying down, replied, "You're more powerful."

"They also said you must be a very good driver."

"My skills are rusty, so it's just average. I could have done better."

“The guy in the leather jacket said you’re an experienced driver,” Schech continued, relaying the story. “He said the car you chose was particularly challenging, so your driving skills must be excellent, but he didn’t know how good the car’s performance was.”

Shi Jinzhe opened his drowsy eyes and asked, "Were you still laughing after you finished speaking?"

Did you hear that too?

"Tell him to shut up. If he can't speak properly, then he shouldn't speak at all."

"Why? Was that something bad?" Sheh leaned back, tossed two cushions to the foot of the bed, and made room for himself to lie down.

"No, don't listen to that."

"You don't like it."

"Yes, I don't like it." Shi Jinzhe asked, "Who would gossip about other people's private affairs behind their backs?"

“They were betting on what you and I were doing in the car.” Schechter paused. “The RV driver told him to go back to his own car and not come up again, and they started arguing.”

Shi Jin sat up, leaned over her, and opened the window.

The man in the black jacket continued talking, a cryptic smile on his face, as he subtly discussed "cars" with the person next to him.

They'd chat for a bit, then glance this way, their minds seemingly preoccupied with something else entirely.

Shi Jinzhe glanced at the distance, took out his butterfly knife, and threw it, striking the boy squarely between the eyebrows.

When talking about this kind of thing, it's impossible not to have images in your mind. You're talking about cars, but you're thinking about Schechner. Just thinking about it makes me feel nauseous.

The man in the black jacket, who had been talking so confidently, suddenly collapsed to the ground. Everyone who had been listening to him was startled and, forgetting about warming themselves by the fire and eating, hurried away from the corpse.

After running a couple of steps, he remembered he had to go back to pick up the props.

However, the RV owner picked up the props first, not giving him a chance.

The player in the RV returned to the vehicle, took the wooden box from the bed where the man in the black jacket had been sleeping, and got out of the vehicle to walk towards the direction of Shi Jinzhai.

The wooden box containing the golden cocoon and the props were handed over to Shi Jinzhe.

Shi Jinzhe accepted the wooden box, choosing only one item called the "Fearless Gloves" and leaving the rest untouched.

The black gloves, which look unremarkable but offer 70% protection, are a good thing.

Before closing the window, Shi Jinzhe told the RV owner, "Go back. I'll let you know before we leave tomorrow."

This person is quite capable; following him won't cost me anything, so I might as well give him a ride.

Shekh lay on the bed, quietly watching him do all this, and belatedly realized what the man meant.

It seems she hasn't learned enough.

After lying back down, Shekh asked, "Can I kiss you?"

Shi Jinzhe pulled the covers over his head. "Yes, but it needs to be postponed for eight hours. I'm going to collapse from exhaustion if I don't go to sleep soon."

"Then remember this when you wake up."

Even if you forget me, I will never forget you.

Will I still have flowers tomorrow?

"I'm not sure, but I'll try my best to find one for you."

"I want the purple one too."

"Okay... is there anything else?"

"I want to eat ice cream."

"...This is too difficult..."

"Then let's have some juice."

"Try your best..."

"You're a puppy."

"…Um……"

The voices inside grew softer and softer until they finally fell silent.

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Day four of the game.

A thin layer of yellow sand covered the car windows. The car was stuffy and hot in the high temperature. It was so cold last night that I had to cover myself with a quilt, but it was so hot during the day that my lips were chapped.

Shi Jinzhe goes to bed early and wakes up early; when he wakes up, Shekh is still asleep.

After clearing away the yellow sand covering the outside of the vehicle, he discovered that Shekh could maintain human form for a longer period of time, basically two and a half hours.

Shi Jinzhe rested his palm on his chin, pointed with his index finger, and vaguely found a clue.

Since he can now control a portion of the energy, could it be that he no longer needs to use the method of bloodsucking to dissipate energy so that Shekh can absorb it?

To verify his hypothesis, he began practicing dispersing energy in the Gobi Desert.

It's hard for plants to grow here, so he didn't have high hopes. But after wandering around for half an hour, Shi Jinzhe actually managed to grow some purple flowers.

No blood is needed; the tiny purple flowers are created directly by his control of energy.

The sandalwood and aster are interspersed, and the purple flowers of varying heights bloom in a patchwork of colors within the territory designated by Sheh.

The three cars parked not far away gave me increasingly complicated looks, and I had the feeling that they were the only ones playing a game.

Here, the yellow dust flies everywhere, and you can't even open your mouth without getting a mouthful of dirt; over there, the grass grows lush and the birds sing, and it's like April in the human world.

It's heartbreaking to watch.

Shi Jinzhe stood among the flowers and said, "If only we had fruit tree seeds. Flowers and grasses don't retain water very well, but Sheh would definitely like them."

He walked back to the car and knocked on the window.

Shech pinched a corner of the curtain between two fingers and lifted it up.

Seeing that the time was ripe, she pulled back the window curtains, and her eyes were quickly filled with purple.

The flower branches swayed, and the fragrance of flowers wafted in. Sher, who had been lazily sitting up, quickly leaned out of the window.

Shi Jinzhe leaned his arm across the window frame: "I've completed one of the things I promised you yesterday."

“Very good.” Sheikh climbed onto his shoulder through the glass. “What about what you promised me?”

"I haven't forgotten."

Shi Jinzhe turned his head and placed a light kiss on her cheek.

Shekh waited a few seconds, but there was no further response. "Is that all? You're trying to fool me?"

"I'm not kidding you, this is the normal procedure."

When other people are in love, they confess their feelings, hold hands, hug, kiss, and finally sleep together. But for him and Sheikh, it was the complete opposite.

Shekh looked over, puzzled. "You're not a normal person, why would you follow normal procedures?"

She said this person was sick, always doing things that were superficially useless.

"I don't want to be normal, I want to do what I like."

Sheh leaned half her body out of the window, with only her waist and below still inside the car. She knelt on the bed, her weight pressing down on Shi Jinzhe.

Shi Jinzhe supported her back: "You like kissing me so much?"

"I like it. It's very comfortable. It makes you feel like you're floating. It's completely different from what I used to imagine."

"What...you were thinking before? What were you thinking?"

“A long time ago,” Shekh nuzzled his face against hers, “in the forest, I watched many other snakes mate, but they never seemed to enjoy it.”

"This problem..."

Shi Jinzhe fell silent; this was outside his area of ​​knowledge, and he found it difficult to answer.

"Have you watched it many times?"

"They weren't looking on purpose; they just didn't know to go further away."

"I didn't expect you to know so much..."

The sound of breathing was right in his ear. Sher caught a glimpse of the clusters of purple flowers, blooming profusely, with no leaves in sight. The long, soft petals embraced the inflorescence, stacked in two or three layers, and were swayed by the wind into waves of flowers.

She lowered one hand and pinched off the tallest branch with her fingernail. It was a small flower, just big enough for her to hold the calyx in her mouth.

"Turn your head."

Shi Jinzhe obediently turned her head, and a blooming aster immediately pressed against her lips.

The calyx on the back is stained with venom, and through the petals, on the other side is a kiss as sweet as honey.

The flowers were pressed down, the asters collapsed, and the petals were squeezed until a petal fell, revealing a gap and no longer serving as a cover.

Shekh opened her mouth, letting the flower fall to the ground. Her lips were glistening, and she couldn't stop licking them.

"Honey, this tastes a bit bitter."

"It will be sweet soon." Shi Jinzhe picked another flower from beside him, bit it into his mouth, and quickly kissed it back.

This time, the nectar side was facing Shekh.

When the second flower also fell to the ground, she said, "It is a little sweet."

"It still doesn't sound sweet enough, let's try another one."

With so many flowers here, kisses could be everywhere.

The car blocked their intimate figures, and the two hid in the shadows until they kissed until they were completely satisfied.

At 11 a.m., Shi Jinzhe began preparing lunch.

The sunlight is so strong that the sunshade must be drawn inside the car.

An hour earlier, he found a jujube and fulfilled Sheikh's request for juice last night.

"What did you say you wanted last night?"

Ice cream.

"There's nothing I can do about it." The snow water had already been melted and filtered by him, and even if there was ice, there were no other ingredients. Shi Jinzhe took a sip of the warm juice. "I can only give you some ice."

"Then let's have some ice." It's too hot during the day, and Shekh wants to cool off.

"This is fine." Shi Jinzhe immersed the kettle in ice water and gave it to her after lunch.

Before they set off, three figures supporting each other appeared in the direction they had come from yesterday.

They were the two players who abandoned their car yesterday, and there was also a stranger.

The group looked extremely disheveled, with cuts on their foreheads from being hit by stones, dried blood on their faces, and covered in dirt, resembling homeless scavengers.

Shi Jinzhe: "He has great perseverance."

The three people got into the RV. Shekh overheard the conversation and told Shi Jinzhe that the two people who had abandoned the vehicle had encountered the players behind them.

Those players who hadn't set off together gradually discovered they could use the golden cocoon to view the map and slowly caught up.

These two people encountered the player who drove the three-wheeled motorcycle.

He traded fuel packs with others and rode in their cars to the foot of the snow-capped mountains. Unexpectedly, the normal cars couldn't go halfway, but his mini three-wheeled vehicle, because of its small size, went the farthest.

It was a bit bumpy, but on a road covered with stones, whose car doesn't bounce? Rounding it up, it's like his car was very stable.

Shech said, "The valley has closed off a lot of vehicles, and now it's only wide enough for one person to pass at a time. People who are too strong or have too wide shoulders have to walk sideways."

Apart from the three of them, the other twenty or so people were trapped in the valley, not knowing how many days they would have to walk. If it weren't for the distance they had traveled and the use of equipment, the three of them would have been trapped too.

"Then they're lucky." Shi Jinzhe started the car and drove forward according to the directions given by the golden disc.

As he turned the steering wheel, he said, "Our progress is very good. Based on the calculation that we will cover 10,000 li in 55 days, at an average speed of 180 li per day, we have covered almost 900 li in the first three days."

"There's no snow or big rocks here, so we can walk a little longer today."

Shekh held a glass of cool jujube juice in his hand. After drinking it, he picked up the wooden box and began to help Shi Jin fold the route.

The golden butterfly icon on the map remained stationary, only showing the direction, indicating that the Gobi Desert was not very large, and barring any unforeseen circumstances, they could cross it in a day.

After following the Kingdee logo for more than seven hours, we started to see piles of weeds along the roadside.

The sunset was delayed; the afterglow was still present at 7:30. The dry grass, which was taller than the calves, was not suitable for venturing out at night, so Shi Jinzhe decided to rest where he was.

The two spent the fourth day peacefully.

On the fifth day, at dawn, hail began to fall from the sky, the hailstones so large they seemed custom-made to kill people.

Shi Jinzhe was very lucky; the sky was half clear and half cloudy, and his car was parked on the side where it wasn't hailing.

The thick, rolling clouds never drifted in his direction, but his good luck only lasted until nine in the morning.

At nine o'clock, the hail stopped, and a surging storm followed, with thunder roaring and torrential rain pouring down.

The wind whipped up rain that lashed against the car windows, creating a curtain of water. Shekh, with nothing to do, lay on his bed listening to the rain.

In the sudden rain, she heard the sound of animals running.

There were a huge number of them; it sounded like a swarm was rushing towards this place at high speed, as if they were frantically trying to escape something.

She pushed it, and it broke. "Stop studying your golden butterfly egg. Something's here, a lot of it. Go get the car."

If she doesn't leave now, she's afraid she won't have anywhere to stand later.

Shi Jinzhe didn't ask why, but walked straight to the driver's seat, started the car, and honked the horn twice as a warning.

Shekh took the golden cocoon and map from his hands. The golden butterfly icon flashed rapidly, as if urging him on.

"Drive faster, we're getting closer."

In the deserted wilderness, cars trampled over dry grass and sped through the rain, leaving behind a haphazard trail of tire tracks.

Ten minutes later, tens of thousands of wildebeest passed by the spot where they had just parked.

In this kind of rain, the wipers can only serve as a companion. Shi Jinzhe followed Shehe's directions and drove almost blindly. "Luckily, there's no one here, so it's okay if we deviate from the route a little."

The thunderous roar scattered the caravan, and a lead wildebeest caught up, much larger than those in the original world, along with the wolves and sheep.

"The animals here are so big, do you feel like you're home?"

Shi Jinzhe accelerated and shook off the wildebeest. He was so optimistic that he even had the mind to joke around, as if he wasn't worried at all about being overturned by the wildebeest. He showed no sign of concern whatsoever.

Shekh didn't know what was so funny, so he just chuckled expressionlessly as a response to show that he found it amusing.

The vehicle that used to lead people now leads animals. The car moves forward, and occasionally a wildebeest will rush ahead, heading in the same direction as the butterfly's hint.

The wildebeest galloped forward tirelessly, without resting at all, their stamina was astonishing.

Mud splattered onto the car window, and after being washed away by the rain, long, yellowish-brown streaks appeared. Shekh no longer wanted to look out the window.

After driving for an unknown amount of time in the wind and rain, the scenery outside changed from yellow to green, and the two officially entered the Great Plains.

The gray-blue clouds gradually dissipated, revealing a gaping hole in the overcast sky that was not obscured by the clouds. The haze dissipated, and sunlight pierced through the clouds, creating the Tyndall effect.

After the rain stopped, the wildebeest herd ceased their chase. Once the sound waves subsided, they opened the window.

"Come over here and see some nice things."

Shekh leaned toward him, gazing at the horizon.

A huge arc of dazzling light landed, and a beautiful rainbow appeared over the plain.