"I'm not a walking encyclopedia of questions, I'm just curious about you and want to know more about you, like... can I touch your fangs?"

"Are you too tired and starting to talk nonsense?"

Shi Jinzhe: "No, I am perfectly sober."

I was even a little excited.

"Then don't touch the sharp points, or you'll break your skin." Shekh revealed his two large fangs, his venom glands, which could not stop working, were in a state of hyperactivity, dripping venom incessantly.

When the tooth was broken and touched, the slender, venomous fangs would twitch.

After touching it several times, Sher uncontrollably swallowed.

The way she stared at Shi Jinzhe also underwent a subtle change; the more intently he looked at her, the less she could control herself.

With his hands clenched on the mat, Sheikh reached forward and slid his hand up from his fingertips.

She retracted her two venomous fangs, bent down to get close, and straddled one of his legs. A passionate kiss was then pressed against his heart, lingering upwards.

Shi Jinzhe pulled her in front of him, and Shehe bent over, looking up at the shooting star in the sky.

A thirst for knowledge and greed can make someone study a kiss with great enthusiasm for half the night, unable to stop.

It rippled like an oasis in the desert, the stars overhead shone brightly for half a day, but I didn't get a single wish and became just a backdrop.

As dawn broke, Shi Jinzhe awoke from the slowly rising temperature.

He buttoned up his open clothes, grabbed the roof of the carriage with one hand, and climbed down, returning to the carriage to continue sleeping.

I turned on the air conditioner, and sleepiness returned. I slept until after 3 p.m.

After a day of rest, most of the fatigue from the long day has disappeared.

As evening fell, he made adjustments and checks before setting off. After Shekh and Jin Jian finalized the new route, the two set off again.

The desert at night is the domain of nocturnal animals. Around 2 a.m., they saw a third type of animal besides lizards, insects, and snakes.

A fluffy fennec fox.

It appeared in the car's high beam headlights, and when the light shone on it, it was so frightened that its fur stood on end and it dared not move.

Shekh: "You scared it."

Shi Jinzhe glanced at the hand she was holding outside the window, and... he was startled.

The fennec fox was frozen in place by the high beams, so Shi Jin turned off the headlights, fearing that it had been temporarily blinded by the sudden exposure to the glare.

Two minutes later, the fennec fox resumed its movements, tucked its tail between its legs, and trotted away.

Shi Jinzhe stared at the two big ears: "They're fluffy and quite cute."

Even as the size of the fluffy fox increases, its cuteness remains undiminished.

Shekh touched his smooth legs. "They look good even without hair."

“Yes, what I like most is the snake tail. It’s cool and refreshing, and the texture is very delicate,” Shi Jinzhe said. “Fennec foxes just look cute.”

Shekh looked up: "Fennec foxes are beautiful too, you can't say that."

"Fine, you're all good-looking, I'm ugly."

"It's alright, she looks best when she doesn't reject me."

With a helpless smile, he drove off in the dark.

They continued their journey until 7 a.m. the next day, when the two, whose days and nights had been reversed, found a place to rest.

On the fourth day in the desert, a strong wind blew across the ground, and a super sandstorm filled the car's exhaust pipe with sand.

The sand and gravel obscured the sky, and when the wind blew from above, the car was wrapped in a waterproof tarpaulin to prevent more sand from getting in.

After more than an hour of struggling, he was covered in sand, and the water in his shower was full of sand, almost clogging the water pipes.

To get the car repaired, Shi Jinzhe spent the entire next day cleaning and re-inspecting it, and he drove even more carefully afterward.

With ample water and food, guaranteed safety, a guide named Golden Butterfly, and a vehicle to shelter them from the wind and rain, their journey through the desert proceeded smoothly.

A week later, the two safely left the desert, having traveled a total of 7,400 miles.

The soft sand turned into saline-alkali land, and new problems soon followed.

On the 40th day of the game, Shi Jinzhe faced the rift valley beneath his feet and took a deep breath.

They walked out of the desert in the morning and encountered this rift valley, which is two thousand meters deep, in the afternoon.

The vertical, pitch-black crevice was bottomless; a large stone thrown into it wouldn't even make an echo.

Shi Jinzhe: "This is troublesome."

The depth below is unknown, so it's definitely not safe to go any further, and the width of about 100 meters is quite challenging.

He clicked his tongue in frustration and called to Shekh, "Why don't you take me there?"

“Then I can only transform into my original form, but my original form will harm you.” Shekh made an upward gesture. “The ends of the scales will curl up, and you will slip if you can’t hold on. Before you fall, you will be cut in half by the scales in front.”

Shi Jinzhe kicked a small stone off the edge of the rift valley to test the depth again: "Then I'll make a zipline device. You go to the other side first, and then install it?"

"Okay, you can try it first."

In fact, Shekh didn't think there was much hope. There weren't enough ropes. At such a long distance, both ends needed to be secured, but there wasn't even a tree here.

If someone were to fall in the middle, or if the rift valley were alive, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Shi Jinzhe realized his suggestion was unreasonable, and touched his forehead, "Butterfly told you that this rift valley is thousands of miles long, is there really only one road?"

Shekh nodded: "That's what the butterflies say. This is the only way. No butterfly can avoid it; they all have to go through it."

"……All right."

In my sorrow, I occasionally caught a glimpse of a green leaf out of the corner of my eye.

"Leaves?" He quickened his pace and spotted a long vine at the edge of the cliff.

The brown branches were somewhat withered, and there was only one green leaf on them; nothing else had grown.

If you manage to break off a dead branch and hold onto it tightly, there's still hope if leaves can grow back.

Life force was transferred into the withered vines, and the green plants clinging to the rock wall grew and sprouted rapidly.

A complex network of veins forms a net, with the vines growing from the opposite bank of the rift valley, and a large green net perfectly connecting the two sides of the rift valley.

Shi Jinzhe loosened his grip and let Sher test its toughness.

Sheh lashed out with his tail, causing leaves to fall in a rustling sound, thinner branches to break, and the entire vine net to shake violently.

After swaying precariously for about ten minutes, the vine net finally stabilized.

Shi Jinzhe nodded in satisfaction. If it could withstand Shekh, then it was resilient. He just needed to reinforce it a few more times.

With the vine netting, isn't there a way to cross the rift valley?