Chapter 144 Desert Survival Day 19 (2) You don’t have to worry about me…

Yu Miaomiao chose a wide and high sand dune, aimed the four turrets at the four sides, and settled down.

Standing on the top of the sand dune and looking around, you can have a wide view, but it may be a bit too conspicuous. People standing far away should be able to easily notice the stone wall here.

Thinking of this, she sent a message in the group.

"Meow Meow is not short of water: Api, how are you progressing? I see you've reached 6% already, how come it's so fast?"

"Pangpang: Sister Miaomiao, you're seeing her current dungeon progress, not her total expedition progress."

Oh yes, when in the expedition area, the percentage she sees in her holographic screen is the percentage of the total progress of opening treasure chests, while when her friends view it, they can only see how far the friend has walked into the Dark Oasis map, which does not correspond to the treasure chest progress.

Why is the system set up like this?

Seems like a simple measure of explorer protection?

For example, if there are two survivors who are friends with each other, and one of them follows the other person in unknowingly after 12 hours, it would be a bit difficult to quickly find the other person's location unless he has already completed the game himself.

If he completes the game himself, he can roughly match the location in his memory with the location of the expedition site viewed by his friends. Otherwise, he can only let others check his progress while matching the progress of the people he tracks. However, this is very inefficient and can easily be detected by the other party.

But even so, only the survivors who are far away from the completion of the level are protected.

People like Yu Miaomiao, whose rankings rise rapidly in the leaderboard, coupled with server-wide announcements, can easily attract people with ulterior motives.

Or like Iris, although there are no obvious changes in the rankings, if someone follows her in a group chat and sees that her exploration map position is close to 100%, it means that all the treasure chests are about to be opened, so you can just follow her all the way to the end.

Moreover, the system provides so many additional capabilities, such as group members checking positions, perspective functions, etc. Isn't it just to make survivors fight with each other?

The system is not kind, but wants ordinary survivors to develop more so that the fighting will be more intense.

"Is Pipi here?: Yes, my treasure chest progress is only 2%. My dungeon is different from Miaomiao's, so I'm not going fast. I'm driving very carefully and drawing a map along the way. I'll share it with you later."

"Meow Meow: Good! Be careful. I think the active monsters didn't notice you wearing a hat, did they? By the way, can I borrow your excavator?"

"Pangpang: Sister Miaomiao, I see your position has changed. Are you going to dig a new underground fortress somewhere else?"

"Whether Pipi is here or not: I can still sense it, but I have to be close to it, and I'm always vigilant. I can chop it down before it gets a chance to grab it. I don't need the excavator right now, so I'll trade it to you."

"Meow Meow is not short of water: I want to build an above-ground fortress, thank you Api."

The terrain here is high, so it is easy to see whether there are other survivors passing by, but it is also easy to be exposed to the sight of others, so she wants to dig a depression on the top of the sand dune, push the sand dune to the sides, and use sand as cover.

Normal sand dunes should slowly move with the wind, especially when a sandstorm passes, the terrain of the dunes will also change. But here, once humans put up buildings, this piece of land will never change again, and when a sandstorm comes, it will just pass by.

It was not until the sun was about to set that Yu Miaomiao dug the first 10-meter-long pit, as wide as the excavation shovel. She immediately put up a wall on it to prevent wind and sand from blowing through, and filled the piled sand back in.

If Api wasn't in the expedition area, she really wanted to ask online for advice on how to operate an excavator.

On one side outside the stone wall, a thick layer of sand has been piled up. At least on this side of the sand dunes, when looking up from the bottom, there should be no signs of human habitation. Only a high surface of sand can be seen.

Yu Miaomiao used the system backpack to collect the nearby high-quality sand piles and filled them next to the turrets again. The two turrets were also well hidden in the sand, leaving only the muzzles.

In the current sand fields, not every grain of sand is of high quality, and it can only be collected in some designated areas, but it is enough for her to use.

After killing glowing monsters for more than ten days, her resource search function has been upgraded to the intermediate level and can be used once every 12 hours. As soon as she arrived here in the afternoon, she searched everywhere. Next to where she set up camp, there was a huge water drop. There should be plenty of water. Now, before the monsters come, she drills a well and gets some water.

“Meow~~~~~~~”

Hearing the familiar voice, Yu Miaomiao's heart finally settled down.

As soon as she emptied the well, Xiaoguai appeared outside the door with a long, complaining cry.

She pushed open the stone door of the wall and bumped into a zebra cat that rushed towards her.

Because Xiaoguai jumped straight towards her, Yu Miaomiao was knocked to the ground by the big cat. Fortunately, the weather was much cooler at this time, and the sand on the surface was no longer scorching hot. The soft sand did not cause her to fall heavily.

Seeing the tiger's head so close and the barbed tongue that was about to lick her, she quickly turned over and blocked it with her arm guard.

A pink tongue licks the leather protective gear.

She raised her hand and saw that the arm guard on her hand had been scratched with dozens of scratches. It was hard to imagine how horrible it would be if it licked her face.

Seeing that Xiaoguai was still trying to lick her, she quickly called out, "Xiaoguai! Don't move!"

After saying that, she quickly stood up and took out the barbecue that had been prepared for it from the system backpack.

Xiaoguai, who was originally a little confused, suddenly had his sapphire eyes light up and opened his mouth.

Surprisingly, Yu Miaomiao didn't fight for it anymore. She threw the piece of meat in. Xiaoguai took a big bite of it and happily started eating it while holding the small piece of meat.

Seeing how it ate, she found it hard to tell whether it was a cat or a dog.

Cats usually don't like to lick people, they only like to lick fur, or...lick those they think need care, that is, those with lower status.

No matter what, she couldn't let this tongue lick her, otherwise it would be another bandage.

While it was gnawing on the second piece of wolf meat, she carefully walked out the door and made sure that Xiaoguai had not brought any other monsters before she built a fire and continued to grill and cook.

She took out the crispy grilled fish from her backpack and began to eat it with relish. At this time, Xiaoguai was sitting on the new cushion she had prepared and licking his fur.

It wasn't long after nightfall today when Xiaoguai came over. Yu Miaomiao asked while slurping on the crispy fish: "Xiaoguai, how did you find me?"

Xiaoguai looked at her as if she was a fool, kicked the cushion, and lay down with his eyes narrowed as if he was too lazy to pay attention to her.

This cushion was the first item Yu Miaomiao put out. Knowing that Xiaoguai liked it, she specially sewed a bigger one based on the original one. Could it be that Xiaoguai found this cushion by following the smell of the place where it had slept?

Is this cat's nose so sensitive?

"Crunch" Every time she took a bite of the crispy and fragrant fish, she felt very satisfied. The fish bones had been fried to be crispy and edible, and there was no need to worry about them getting stuck in her throat. I wonder if Xiaoguai likes to eat this fish?

She picked up a piece of fish belly that was not soaked in oil and held it in front of Xiaoguai, but saw it turn its head away in disgust.

It's strange that cats are not interested in fish at all.

After eating a large portion of crucian carp, she still felt it was not enough.

She didn't ask Xiaoguai where he went last night, because Xiaoguai couldn't answer in human language. It was enough for her to see that Xiaoguai was clean and unharmed. Even the big cat in the apocalypse had his own things to do.

At this time, the automatic cooking pot had already finished cooking a level 4 food - mutton pot cake. She pinched a corner of the pot cake and continued to eat.

The moon in the sky will also change from waxing to waning as time goes by. At this time, the moon is a full moon, like a bright pearl hanging in the night sky, and a meteor streaks across the sky.

This was not the first time she had seen a meteor. She would see this scene every time the death toll decreased by 1.

If I didn't know at the beginning, I would have thought the meteor shower was very beautiful. But now when I look at it again, I just feel that the fleeting starlight is like the traces of shining tears. The death of a survivor has made me wonder how many people are crying.

After eating and drinking, Yu Miaomiao coaxed Xiaoguai with a piece of roasted wolf meat, confirmed that the fixed ropes were tied, and after Fengsha arrived in 2 hours, he headed to the next platinum treasure spot again.

Xiaoguai pushed very fast today, as if she wanted to use up all the strength she hadn't used in the past two days. Even though she had taken motion sickness medicine, she still felt a little dizzy during the rolling process.

When she arrived at her destination, she was very glad that she didn't eat too much, otherwise she would have vomited when she got out of the zorb ball.

After lying on the ground for a long time, Xiaoguai let out an impatient "woof". Yu Miaomiao turned over, took out a piece of meat, handed it to the cat ancestor, drank some water, and then crawled towards the platinum treasure point.

As soon as she stood up, she fell into the treasure cave.

With the help of night vision goggles, she saw that there was only one door in the cave. She turned on her waist lamp to confirm and found that there was indeed only one door.

It seems that the system no longer intends to give her the opportunity to open two doors.

Open the glittering treasure chest.

[Failed to trigger the Lucky trait. Platinum Treasure Card: Frost Trap*2, Hard Hat*2, Medium Energy Storage Battery*2, Energy Drink*11, Preserved Egg and Lean Pork Porridge*2, Intermediate Medical Kit*2, Flamethrower*1, Charcoal*4, Refined Iron Ingot*3, Iron Ingot*2, Copper Ingot*4, Screws*8, Explosive Mine Crafting Blueprint*1.]

[System prompt: Congratulations to the player Miaomiao Buqshui for successfully digging up the platinum treasure. Your wisdom value increased by 50.]

From what the system gave her, she knew the materials needed to make explosive mines, but why was it a flamethrower organ?

Of all organs now, the fire-breathing organ is the most expensive. This is probably because the nights are getting colder and fewer turkeys appear, so the output of this item has naturally decreased.

However, no one sells gill and lung organs. Now everyone is interested in collecting some items used for survival at sea.

If we say that the previous times she opened the platinum treasure, many people did not take it seriously, and there were even people like Qi Jintao who deliberately misled public opinion, but today when Yu Miaomiao opened the treasure chest, the world's reaction was completely different.

While she was eating braised pork rice to replenish her energy, she was reading what people in the world were saying.

"I love playing games: Miaomiao God is really amazing. He opens a platinum treasure chest every day. His wisdom value is almost twice that of the second place. It's a cliff-like lead."

"Lonely Mother: Kind-hearted people are always lucky."

"Parallel Lines: Auntie upstairs, luck is also a kind of strength. In the end times, people still need kindness. Are you jealous of others' success?"

Yu Miaomiao had dealt with the "lonely mother" before and knew that this was not what she meant, but she did not agree with her. Instead, she looked at a temporary message.

"Is Ziren here? Is it convenient now? Can I trouble you with something?"

"Is Ziren here? I know it's not realistic for you and Huabie to come and rescue me. I also don't want A-Pi to take such a big risk alone. I'm also worried about A-Pi being out there alone. I've thought about it and wondered if I could trouble you to take A-Pi in and live with you from now on."

Yu Miaomiao felt very uncomfortable listening to these words.

Api didn't invite her to go and save Ziren because the relationship between Yu Miaomiao and Ziren was really ordinary. It could only be called a cooperative relationship, and they had no private contact.

In addition, Ziren had previously had ideological conflicts with Yu Miaomiao, and Api was well aware of this, so Api never asked Yu Miaomiao for help.

As for Yu Miaomiao herself, she also thought about asking Api to come find her. After all, it is better to survive with someone you trust than to fight alone.

Every time she goes out, she has to consider whether the battery is strong enough to last. If she can have someone with strong abilities by her side, she will feel more at ease.

But Yu Miaomiao knew too well that Api wanted to save Ziren, so she didn't say it. If she let Api come to her side now, it would be tantamount to giving up the rescue.

Besides, why would Ziren bother her? And what about taking her in or not?

Ziren seems to be like this every time, bypassing Api to find himself.

Shouldn't it be Api who decides what to do and what not to do?

"Is Ziren here? I've been trying to persuade her for a long time, but she still won't listen. She says she'll come rescue me when she becomes stronger, so we need to find a good base near me as soon as possible."

Could it be that he felt that Yu Miaomiao could persuade someone who he couldn't?

"Meow Meow is not short of water: Can the people around you see you typing now?"

"Is Ziren here? Yes, this person reads every word I type, but doesn't care what I send. However, he seems to have the ability to hide the system interface. From time to time, I see his fingers operating in mid-air, but I can't see his holographic interface."

"Meow Meow is not short of water: Did they feed you the antidote?"

"Is Ziren here? I fed him, but he was quickly poisoned again."

"Meow Meow is not short of water: Actually, apart from your lack of personal freedom, there's nothing wrong with you, right?"

In fact, Yu Miaomiao felt that the key now was not whether Api would come to see her or not, but not to let Api worry too much and do something irreversible.

"Is Ziren here? Aside from the stinging and discomfort of this poison wound, everything else is fine. They saw that the festering on my hands was affecting my handiwork, so they said that the others feed me the antidote once a day, so I should give it twice a day. This way, the initial festering will be healed. As long as I keep helping them, there shouldn't be any other problems."

"Is Ziren here? I understand what you mean. Aside from this poison injury, I will make it clear to her that I'm fine. That way, she should be able to come to you without worry."

"Meow Meow is not short of water: I think you can tell her about the poison damage. There's no need to hide anything from her. The more you hide, the more worried she'll be. Besides, she's currently in the Dark Oasis, the only place where the antidote is produced. If she knew the antidote could relieve your pain and help you, she would have a goal, rather than just standing there anxiously."

"Meow Meow is not short of water: It is very dangerous to rescue you, but you should also consider that if you don't let her do something, she might do something more dangerous. Imagine if she was the one being kidnapped, what would you do?"

"Is Ziren here? Okay, I get it. Then about her going to your place..."

To be honest, Yu Miaomiao really disliked such male chauvinists, but considering that it was someone Api cared about, she had to remind him.

"Meow Meow is not short of water: I think Api is an adult. Whatever she wants to do should be decided by herself. If she is willing to come, I welcome her. If she has other ideas, I will also provide help within my ability. She is my friend."

Yu Miaomiao's implication was very clear. A Pi was her friend, and Ziren didn't need to say much. Moreover, he was making the decision for A Pi, so could he please respect her wishes?

"Is Ziren here? Okay, that's enough. I see you've unearthed another platinum treasure. Congratulations. A lot has happened these past two days, and I haven't done the half-hour work I promised you. What do you need?"

Headache.

"Meow Meow is not short of water: Not yet, I will find you if there is."

Xiaoguai, who was standing by, saw Yu Miaomiao frowning and holding a bowl of food for a long time without moving. He tilted his head and rubbed her arm, making a sticky "meow" sound.

The well-behaved zebra cat cleared most of her troubled thoughts. She looked at the braised pork rice in her hand, which was almost frozen into a lump of rice. This was level five food, how could she waste it? She put it in her backpack and would heat it up when she got back to the base.

After touching the soft tiger's head, Xiaoguai squinted his eyes and enjoyed making humming sounds.

Yu Miaomiao sighed, "Xiaoguai, I'm glad you're here."

"Meow?"

Xiaoguai had just enjoyed the caress for less than two minutes when he saw the human withdraw his hand.

"Let's go back first." Ignoring the dissatisfaction in Xiaoguai's eyes, she took out the zorb ball and went in.

This place is already five kilometers away, and the sandstorm will arrive in an hour. If she waits for this sandstorm to pass, the sandstorm near her base will come again. She can't be so strict with time.

Seeing this, the zebra cat nudged the zorb ball with its head in dissatisfaction, but found that the smooth surface of the ball did not give its head any stroking sensation, so it had to slap it with both claws. As the ball rolled faster and faster, the little cat, who had been a little unhappy just now, immediately flipped its whiskers forward and pushed the ball happily all the way.

The cat and the man quickly returned to the base. Looking at the base which was only a wall of sand, she prepared to continue digging. While Xiaoguai was there and no other monsters were attacking, she would prepare the sand and the wall tonight.

Put on your safety helmet, start the excavator, and shovel down.

Huh? Why can't I dig it? Is it because I'm not strong enough?

She turned the shovel control handle again, but before the shovel was inserted into the ground, the entire excavator fell to the side as if it had lost weight. Before the machine was about to hit the wall, she hurriedly put the excavator into her backpack.

"Ah..." He fell hard onto the sand that had already frozen into a hard block. Even though he was wearing thick clothes, his shoulders and arms were still hurt. He was only fine because of the safety helmet on his head.

The sand wasn't like this before, but why is the soil so hard tonight? It's as if all the moisture on the surface has been frozen.

She took out the unfinished braised pork rice and put it into the automatic cooking pot, then looked at what the world said.

"Shanhewan: Have you noticed? It's very cold tonight."

"Invincible Boy: Who says it isn't? The sand on the ground has frozen into dry soil, and the fire was blown out in a short time. The wind is much colder tonight, and it feels gloomy."

Just as she saw this sentence, the fire in the pile in front of her went out with a "crack". She picked up the tampon, but found that it would not light up no matter what. It seemed that the temperature was too low.

"I'm fine. How about you? The three wolves were very slow to approach today. I didn't even feel like fighting them. Since there's a stone wall around us, I decided to stay warm inside. My hands are starting to turn purple."

"A thousand years later: I've already returned to the wooden house. Looks like I'll be upgrading to a brick house tomorrow. Just a question: will the wooden house crack from the cold?"

Suddenly, Xiaoguai, who was still sleeping, pricked up his ears, looked at the sky in the distance with alert eyes, shouted "Ha" at Yu Miaomiao, and ran away.

She glanced at the wind and sand forecaster. It was clearly still half an hour away, so why did Xiaoguai run away?

But it must not be an ordinary situation to scare it away, and it also gave her a special reminder. She put the half-heated braised pork rice into her backpack and turned around and walked back into the house.

Just as I took a bite of the braised pork rice, which was fatty but not greasy and left a lingering fragrance in my mouth, I suddenly heard a "pop" sound above my head.

What?

Looking out the window, hail began to fall from the sky.

Fist-sized hailstones fell from the sky, hitting her walls and planting boxes.

Fortunately, the hail had little impact on the buildings, and there were only dense "popping" sounds coming from above our heads.

She looked out to the world to chat.

"I never complain: My house is cracked, it's cracked by hail, it's terrible, I can't even hide in the house."

"A thousand years later: Looking for stone powder or bricks online."

"Beautiful Girl Warrior: There are people selling it at the auction house, so there's no need to waste time in the world."

"I never complain: 'It's so expensive, I won't buy it.' They obviously calculated that we would need it last minute, so they set such a high price."

"Yang Haotian: The Tiandihui is recruiting new members. New members can exchange stone powder for a low price."

Yu Miaomiao: ...

This Yang Haotian is really good at keeping a close eye on things.

"Ma Lou: Indeed! The Tiandihui is amazing. President Yang is like the savior of the end times. My life is saved."

He even arranged people to flatter him. Yang Haotian is really good at making things happen.

"Three straws: Isn't hail formed from water? If I catch it in a container, will I never have to worry about water again?"

"Parallel Lines: If you can't catch it, the container will be smashed. Don't ask why, I just thought so too. After leaving, I was injured and lost a plastic basin. Fortunately, this kind of injury doesn't require a bandage. The freshly broken hole has stopped bleeding and is slowly healing."

Yu Miaomiao couldn't help but sigh that meeting Xiaoguai in the apocalypse might be the luckiest thing that ever happened to her. Just now, Xiaoguai had given her a warning.

Although the hail fell very quickly and was gone in 10 minutes, at least I avoided an injury. I don’t know if Xiaoguai dodged it, but he should be fine.

She had just sent a message to Lulu and Api, informing them of the hail situation, when she received a message from Hua Bie.

"Huabie: It's starting to hail, be careful."

"Meow Meow: Well, I'm hiding in the house. Are you still with Lulu and the others? Please be careful too."

"Hanabie: Well, you don't have to worry about us. "

Yu Miaomiao did not continue to recover, but ate the entire level 5 braised pork rice set meal cleanly.

There is a constant stream of discussion around the world tonight, some about speculations about the future climate, and some about the rankings. There is a huge gap between the people at the top of the list and those at the bottom, and there is almost no suspense, so everyone is more concerned about what will happen in the future and whether there will be new patterns. After all, hail is coming.

Yu Miaomiao hasn't set foot in the expedition area since the last time she passed the level. This is because if she wants to improve her ranking, she must go to unfamiliar expedition areas, but there is very little useful information available now.

Iris, who ranked first, was able to push the total progress to the highest level, and that was because she took the risk to go to the prank cave and got a total progress value of 40%. Yu Miaomiao felt that even if she went there, it would be difficult for her to surpass her. She was now in second place, and Hua Bie was in third place.

As for why Yu Miaomiao was willing to tell Iris about the situation in the Dark Oasis, it was because she felt that for Iris, there was not much difference between 38% and 40% exploration progress. As long as the person ranked first was the one who wanted to go home, it would be fine.

The shadow of her last expedition still lingered in her mind. She needed to prepare more stimulants without side effects before considering exploring other places she had never been to. Otherwise, the unfamiliar environment and the side effects of falling asleep at any time could easily lead to her losing her life.

Yu Miaomiao did not wait for the system announcement in the early morning, but instead concentrated on practicing the tortoise breathing technique.

Because only by improving your personal values ​​and applying this technique better can you rank at the top in all the values ​​in the monthly settlement rankings.

After feeling full of energy, she slowly began to practice the tortoise breathing technique. Before she completely lost consciousness of the outside world, the sound of hail falling above her head came again. It seemed that the difficulty of the apocalypse had increased again.

That night, Yu Miaomiao was not very confident in her training. The sound of the roof falling reminded her all the time that the end of the world was not easy at all and she could not relax at any time.

When she woke up the next day, her first reaction was to look around to see if everything was alright.

Fortunately, the brick house was very sturdy, and there was no problem with the plants in the planting boxes outside the house. The only thing was that there was a hole in the stone wall.

When I looked at it last night, it was fine, but it seems the continuous hail and rocks couldn't withstand the impact.

I looked at the time, [Desert Survival Day 20 9:22], and the death toll next to the world chat box became 21339.