"Phew... Captain, Captain, let's... take a break for a while."

"Okay, let's rest first."

Once he realized he needed to rest, Chen Jiaxu immediately lay back on the sand, feeling his legs shaking violently.

Although her calves were a little sore, Mo Shuwan looked very happy. After all, she used to be a shut-in who would get tired after walking a short distance.

Mo Shuwan placed Hope beside her and saw that its two hind legs were stuck in the sand. It tried to struggle out but, without the support of its front legs, it plunged headfirst into the sand. She couldn't help but laugh and poked Hope's back. "Hope, do you want to play in the sand?"

Hope's head was still struggling in the sand, unable to even give Mo Shuwan a response, but Mo Shuwan, the unscrupulous owner, immediately took it as consent, happily picked Hope up, and then laid it on its back on the sand, saying, "Don't move."

Wen Zuo, who was sitting next to her, was studying the map when he heard the cheerful laughter beside him. After hesitating for a few seconds, he decided to turn his head to see what Mo Shuwan was doing.

They found her smiling as she buried hope in the sand, while hope's brother, the stratosphere, was also diligently digging in the sand to bury hope.

When hope was buried by sand, leaving only its head, the stratosphere proudly raised its head and roared.

Mo Shuwan looked at it, and under the wary gaze of the stratosphere, she grabbed the stratosphere and laid it down next to the sandbag where hope was buried. "Tsk tsk tsk, did you think I would let you escape?"

"roar!!!"

Upon meeting the pleading look in the stratosphere, Wen Zuo ruthlessly averted his gaze and continued staring at the map in his hand. Soon, he noticed something amiss.

The red dot representing them seems to be getting closer to the oasis they've locked onto?

Wen Zuo: Look at this red dot, do you see anything strange about it?

After sending the message, Wen Zuo spread the map out on the sofa and called Liu Dongcheng and the others over to take a look. As for Mo Shuwan, who was currently playing happily with the two little dinosaurs, Wen Zuo did not inform her.

Shuwan had finally managed to relax for a while, and he didn't want to spoil her happiness. He figured he could tell her after he figured it out.

Wen Zuo deliberately asked a question, and Liu Dongcheng and the other two, who were eating, did not dare to be careless and quickly went over to take a closer look.

Yang Zhou looked at it for a moment, then pointed to the red dot representing them and said hesitantly, "Has this red dot been moved? It seems like the distance between this red dot and the oasis was a bit farther before."

"I also feel like this red dot has changed."

Liu Dongcheng is still watching, but hasn't offered any opinion.

Wen Zuo: Do ​​you remember how long we walked today?

"I remember, it's always at least five hours."

Wen Zuo nodded and started typing again.

Wen Zuo: If we're not mistaken, this red dot has indeed moved forward a bit. We forgot to make a mark beforehand, otherwise the distance it moved could be shown more clearly.

Then Wen Zuo took a pen and drew a circle on the red dot, connecting it to the nearest oasis.

Liu Dongcheng, who had been silently observing the map, finally reached out and tapped a spot on it. "The red dot should have been in this location."

Wen Zuo drew a small circle where his finger was pointing. As he put down his pen to type, a head squeezed in next to his hand.

It was Mo Shuwan who had had enough of playing with the two little dinosaurs.

"Let me see."

Mo Shuwan had overheard their conversation and read Wen Zuofa's message in the discussion group. Now, her focus was on the distance between the red dot and the oasis. "It is indeed a bit closer. I don't remember the exact location, but it should be around the same location as Liu Dongcheng mentioned."

Wen Zuo nodded.

Mo Shuwan looked at the original location of the red dot that Liu Dongcheng had confirmed, and then at their current location. She couldn't help but smile. "It seems we were wrong before. After only five hours of walking, the distance to the oasis has visibly shrunk. This at least shows that the oasis isn't very far away."

This was exactly what Wen Zuo had wanted to say. Seeing that Mo Shuwan had already said it, he stopped typing and nodded with a smile.

"Ah, that's good. With less time spent traveling, it will be much easier for us to build the desert city and complete our mission." Among the group, Chen Jiaxu was the first to breathe a sigh of relief.

"Looking at it this way, the game isn't so bad after all. It not only gave us a map, but it's also a map that allows us to pinpoint locations, which saves us a lot of trouble."

Mo Shuwan said with a smile, "Otherwise, the task would be too heavy, and it would be too difficult to complete."

Now that they have this map that can locate them, they no longer need to worry about getting lost halfway through their journey.

Mo Shuwan and Wen Zuo ate something, and the group drank some recovery potions before continuing their journey. However, this time they encountered some trouble.

The increasingly strong sandstorms made it difficult for them to move. At first, they didn't pay much attention to the strong winds, but as time went on, the winds became so strong that they could no longer move forward, and they didn't stop there. If this trend continued, they might be blown away by the strong winds in no time.

"Let's find a place to hide!" Mo Shuwan shouted, immediately getting a mouthful of sand. She coughed twice, clutching her hopes in one hand, and yelled, "Hold hands, don't get separated!"

Looking around, there wasn't even a large rock. They couldn't find any cover, and the defensive talisman couldn't protect them from being blown away by the wind. Helpless, Mo Shuwan had to use her silver bow to shoot a huge hole in the sand.

The sandstorm had reached a point where it could blow people away, and there was no other way but to jump down. Fortunately, all defensive items were still usable, and they could hold out by activating the defensive talismans after going down.

"Holy crap!"

Chen Jiaxu's terrified voice had barely faded when the swirling yellow sand engulfed them. In no time, the huge crater created by the arrows vanished without a trace, and an exceptionally powerful storm was forming in the desert.

"roar!"

From the original deep pit, Hope, protected within the defensive talisman, spat out a fireball toward Mo Shuwan.

Mo Shuwan trembled as she lifted her lower eyelids. The frost on her eyelashes slowly melted in the hope of this fireball, but soon, frost formed again on her eyelashes. Because the previous frost had not completely melted, water droplets remained on her eyelashes, and now the frost that had condensed again made Mo Shuwan feel that her eyelashes were incredibly heavy.

It desperately wanted to spit out a fireball again, but it tried several times without success.

Mo Shuwan trembled and moved her fingers, "I...I'm...okay..."

"Captain... Captain... I... We should... phew... let's hurry up and go up..."

"It's so cold!"