Because this desert is an environment that the Federation has never recorded before, it is of great research value.

Therefore, the group walked and stopped frequently, with An Lan conducting experiments from time to time. In addition, they needed to remain vigilant in such an unfamiliar environment.

Therefore, their speed is not particularly fast.

To everyone's surprise, they had been in the desert for almost ten hours.

So far, the only monsters encountered are zombies and corpse puppets.

According to An Lan, this ecological structure is very unreasonable.

This means that this desert may have been created by humans.

Just as they were crossing a sand dune, Lu Ning suddenly noticed something and looked at the sandy ground not far away.

Not only Lu Ning, but An Lan also let out a soft exclamation. He chuckled softly, "There are monsters lurking down there. I wonder what they are?"

An Lan's tone was somewhat excited.

He had collected a lot of data from the previous zombies and terracotta warriors.

New monsters mean new data, which will be useful for future experiments.

Ling Chuan reached out and grabbed at the patch of sand.

The next moment, a stream of water suddenly appeared, enveloping the sandy area and rising into the air.

As the bone sand flowed away, a huge, ferocious monster appeared in the water sphere.

It was a giant scorpion that was over 10 meters long.

The giant scorpion's exoskeleton was grayish-white, as if it were formed from solidified bones.

At this moment, the giant scorpion struggled desperately, trying to break free of the water sphere.

However, its aura was only at the sixth level, and its struggles were naturally futile in the face of the abilities of a ninth-level awakened being.

Seeing that its struggles were futile, the giant scorpion's tail hook flashed with a grayish-white light. The next moment, a grayish-white beam of light shot out, intending to attack Lu Ning and the others.

However, the beam of light was instantly swallowed by the water sphere, which then became a grayish-white color.

Ling Chuan then threw the giant scorpion onto the sand and used the water flow to bind its claws, pincers, and tail hook to prevent it from escaping.

An Lan rushed forward as if she had seen a beautiful woman, and took out various instruments to begin her research.

Before long, An Lan had obtained a lot of information about the Bone Scorpion.

The carapace of this bone scorpion is made of calcified bone plates, which are adept at concealing one's aura and mental fluctuations.

In fact, if it weren't for Lu Ning and An Lan, Jerry and the other ninth-level awakened beings wouldn't have discovered it yet.

Only three saints detected the location of the bone scorpion.

The stinger of a bone scorpion is a potent toxin.

Awakened beings below the sixth rank, unless they are physically enhanced, would likely be corroded to the point of being nothing but bones if hit head-on.

For higher-level awakened individuals, it has a slight nerve paralysis effect.

After An Lan dissected the bone scorpion, she discovered that it had special vocal glands in its body.

Anlan guessed that this might be used for communication with other similar devices.

Based on An Lan's brief study of the bone scorpion's brain, she discovered that the bone scorpion was quite intelligent and was a kind of intelligent creature with a collective consciousness.

As he listened to An Lan's explanation of her research findings, Ya En's brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

"This kind of monster, which is good at stealth, has intelligence, and knows how to cooperate in groups, is more dangerous than the previous two types of undead monsters."

Osiris didn't refute, but couldn't help complaining, "What kind of place is this desert? I've explored quite a few places, but this is the first time I've encountered a place like this. These monsters, no matter what kind they are, are all very troublesome."

The others nodded in agreement.

"Fortunately, we came in this time and collected the relevant information and data. Otherwise, if all the monsters in this desert broke out of the fog, the base city's defense system would easily suffer heavy losses since it knew nothing about these monsters." An Lan carefully recorded all the data she had collected.

High-level Awakened Ones naturally don't need to expend much effort to deal with these monsters.

The problem is that there are too few high-level awakened beings; most humans are not even awakened beings!

When facing these monsters, know their weaknesses, use weapons to exploit those weaknesses, and defeat them.

This is the way for humanity to survive in the foggy era.

Otherwise, facing such powerful monsters and anomalies, it would have been impossible for Awakened Ones alone to establish so many base cities and survive until now.

The group continued deeper into the area.

Just as An Lan had predicted, they found themselves surrounded not far away.

The ground is filled with bone scorpions.

There are a large number of them, numbering over a hundred.

Moreover, according to Lu Ning and An Lan's investigation, each one was stronger than the fifth rank.

The most powerful one even reached the eighth rank.

That eighth-tier bone scorpion was over thirty meters long; it was an enormous creature.

These bone scorpions lurked and surrounded the area through the bone sand, without making a sound whatsoever.

In other words, Lu Ning and his group were very powerful.

Any other ninth-tier awakened individual might have died.

For Lu Ning and his group, these bone scorpions posed no threat whatsoever.

Before they even broke free of the bone sand, clusters of golden flames burned, melting the bone sand and vaporizing the bone scorpions within.

As Lu Ning and his group continued deeper into the area, they encountered other monsters besides the Bone Scorpion.

Vultures with strength reaching the eighth rank, for example, have all their feathers shed, exposing their periosteum, and are extremely fast.

They also appear in large groups, not only possessing powerful physical bodies, but also capable of spewing corrosive corpse fluid.

Anlan's autopsy revealed that the vulture had completely lost its visual ability and was tracking its prey through hearing and smell.

In this desert, besides the troublesome monsters, the harshness of the environment is far beyond imagination.

The temperature can change every ten hours at most.

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