Chapter 82 Will a young boy see living skeletons after having a fever? ^……
"Desert High-Risk God? One of the mysterious creatures, the prisoner?"
"The prisoner? Is that the giant that was more than ten meters tall that we just saw? He has a chain around his neck, moves slowly, and spews out a swarm of insects from his mouth to attack all living people within a radius of three thousand meters? Many desert forces have joined forces many times to besiege and kill him, but they all failed without exception, and even a few escaped."
"Fighting this monster is a thankless task, so the only thing we can do now is to get out of its attack range as quickly as possible."
"...But it's a little strange. According to the records, the prisoner usually only moves around in the polluted area in the center of the desert, but now he has appeared at the border. Is there some uncontrollable change in his trajectory?"
"You doubt it might get out of the desert?"
"Not only that, since the prisoner's range of activities has changed, what about the other abnormal desert creatures?"
"...We are not locals after all. It seems that in addition to judging the positions of the forces in various parts of the desert, we also need to find a way to understand the reasons for the changes in the prisoner's activity trajectory, and whether other dangerous creatures are also showing abnormal phenomena."
Even when being chased by a swarm of insects, Zhang Chun was still racing and thinking clearly.
And? The bartender sitting next to him, the man who currently calls himself Chu Li? Still sitting still, his eyes always on the map in his hand, judging whether the high-speed car has taken the wrong route at this time, and from time to time following Zhang Chun's thoughts to add clues.
The wind slapped against the car window, making a loud whirring sound. Chu Xiuyan was in the off-road vehicle moving at high speed, hugging the seat belt tightly and curling up into a ball, as if being swallowed by the waves. It felt like the whole world was turning upside down. The scene in his vision was squeezed into a ball, and the vague sounds in his ears seemed to be separated by a layer of fog and could not be heard clearly.
After an unknown amount of time, the SUV began to slow down.
The car window was rolled down. The desert had already taken on a dark hue as dusk fell. The wind was dry and cold, barely dispelling the uncomfortable feeling after motion sickness.
"Me? I feel a bitter taste in my mouth."
Chu Xiuyan unbuckled his seatbelt with difficulty, looking listless. He took out an orange-flavored candy from his backpack and suppressed the bitterness that seemed to spread from the root of his tongue.
"Hold on a little longer, we'll be there soon."
Zhang Chun saw through the rearview mirror that the young man in the back seat looked pale and weak, which was unusual.
Chu Li, who was holding the map, seemed to notice something and turned around to wave at the boy? Then he touched his forehead and frowned slightly.
"It seems like a low-grade fever."
Before Zhang Chun could say anything, Chu Xiuyan was the first to express shock.
"Really? Me? I actually have a fever!"
He touched his forehead and blew on it to feel the temperature of his breath, feeling a sense of wonder.
After all, in the real world, I have an ordinary physique, and fever is a very common thing, but in this wasteland world? It's the first time I get sick, it's strange.
Zhang Chun was not as optimistic as him. He deviated from the original route according to the map and quickly found a Gobi desert nearby to shelter from the wind, deciding not to continue his journey.
"Eat the bread first and then the medicine."
Zhang Chun took out some antipyretic medicine from the back of the car and handed it to Chu Xiuyan. "It should be caused by the long journey, the unfamiliar climate, and the long period of motion sickness. Rest here tonight and we'll see how it goes tomorrow."
Chu Xiuyan responded obediently, and when he saw Chu Li got out of the car and followed Zhang Chun to light a fire and set up a tent, he was also a little eager to go down and help, but when he thought about it, he thought about being a patient, so he decided to stay still.
System: [Host body inspection completed, data normal. Pollution value 46%, normal. Emotional fluctuations are stable. The air pollution level in the environment is low, not much different from the forest, ruled out.]
Chu Xiuyan took a few bites of bread, then swallowed the medicine and said casually: [It's just a fever, don't worry too much.]
System is anxious: [If you are seriously ill with the local climate, you will die... How about I make a new body for you here? ]
Chu Xiuyan: [? ]
System explanation: [After all, your body was made in the territory of the ruined city, so it may have a bit of forest atmosphere. Now it has been changed to the desert, so it is normal that you can't adapt to it. I will replace it with a desert version for you.]
【……】
Chu Xiuyan was very moved, and then decisively refused.
Swapping bodies sounds weird, and? What's more, the forest version and the desert version... Is this? Some kind of wholesale market? !
But it must be said that tonight's limited edition weak state made Chu Xiuyan live a comfortable life of "stretching out your hand and opening your mouth for food". Although it is an exaggeration, it must be said that he was taken care of so well that he almost floated.
"Poor glass man? Want to? Eat a cut apple."
Chu Xiuyan stretched his arm out of the window and said to Zhang Chun pitifully, and then he was hit on the palm of his hand.
"Get off the car and have some porridge." Zhang Chun said with a serious face.
Seeing that the other party was in a bad mood, Chu Xiuyan got out of the car honestly and walked to the lit fire, but he had no appetite. He drank porridge while playing with sand.
Zhang Chun and Chu Li didn't urge him either.
About an hour later, Chu Xiuyan felt a little sleepy, so Zhang Chun pushed him into one of the tents and told him to sleep well tonight and not to wander around.
"I?m? the? most? worry-free!"
Chu Xiuyan patted his chest and said.
Zhang Chun thought that no one would believe this, but he naturally couldn't say it out loud, so he responded perfunctorily and urged the boy to go to bed quickly.
Wait? When the rustling noises in the tent disappeared, he turned back to the fire, staring at the flickering flames, unconsciously clenching his hands? .
The night in the desert is not as strange and dark as the day. The dark red clouds are covered by the darkness. The sky is full of twinkling stars and the full moon hangs high in the night sky, illuminating the entire desert.
Chu Li, who was sitting on the other side of the fire, was quiet, the firelight reflected in his dark eyes. What was he thinking? After a while, he suddenly said, "It's not too late to turn back now."
Zhang Chun also had a headache: "Let's see if the fever can be reduced tomorrow morning."
Chu Li didn't quite understand, but he didn't try to persuade her. He said, "You go back and rest first. I'll be on guard tonight."
Zhang Chun did not refuse. He was indeed a little tired after driving for a whole day. However, Chu Li was a high-level alien. Unlike him who was barely considered half an alien, his physical fitness was extremely terrifying. He could easily do several days of high-intensity training.
But just as he stood up, the sound of camel bells suddenly rang out in the distance, coming near and far, high and low.
Three off-road vehicles roared towards their location and arrived nearby in a blink of an eye.
A woman in a brown cloak got out of the car that stopped first. She staggered and almost fell to the ground, probably because she was anxious and flustered.
She was wearing a sand mask, her skin was rough, her hair was dry, and she was obviously a desert native? She was well aware of some of the unspoken rules of outdoor activities, and she almost stopped when she approached. This was the perfect distance for both sides to react immediately if a fight broke out.
"Excuse me, do you have any anti-inflammatory and antipyretic drugs? Can you give me some? A child is sick, it's urgent, we can exchange weapons for..." The woman gestured as she spoke, as if she noticed that the two men in front of her had an aura that did not belong to the desert. She used the common language, but it was still mixed with local dialect, so that her speech sounded upside down and difficult to understand.
At least Zhang Chun listened for a long time before he understood what she wanted to say. He turned to look at Chu Li, and after seeing the other party nod to confirm that there was indeed a sick child in the opposite car, he stood up, broke off a few pills from his backpack, and threw them over.
"leave."
He ignored the woman's joyful thanks and said with a cold face.
The driver of the off-road vehicle stuck his head out and said thank you, then threw a backpack over from a distance, which landed on the sand a few meters away. Inside was a pistol and matching bullets. He then started the engine and prepared to leave. It seemed that he had no ill intentions.
Zhang Chun still stood there, watching these people's actions.
But soon, one of the cars seemed to have unusual movements. It was clearly reversing, but the door was suddenly pushed open, and an old woman with wrinkled skin jumped out.
She rushed towards Zhang Chun and Chu Li with a vigor that didn't belong to her age, with only one or two teeth half-lost in her grinning mouth.
"Fuck, what are you doing, old woman!"
"Grandma, stop running around! Come back soon!"
All kinds of curses came from the car she jumped out of, mixed in with the anxious calls of the woman who had earlier asked for medicine.
But the old woman turned a deaf ear and rushed towards the target quickly.
Zhang Chun looked solemnly, looking up at the group of strangers who were obviously angry or anxious without any disguise, and then at the short old woman who was running towards him. Without hesitation, he activated his supernatural power, and the loose sand suddenly condensed and formed a sand wall to block the old woman.
As a result, the other party jumped up and easily crossed the three-meter-high sand wall, rushed to Zhang Chun in one breath, grabbed his clothes and sniffed him.
"No, not this one..."
Zhang Chun's face was extremely gloomy. At this time, Chu Li also stood up and raised his hand. There was a gleam of silver.
The old woman looked at Chu Li and shook her head, "No, it's not you either..."
Her cloudy eyes searched around and quickly locked onto the target. Tears seemed to be flashing in her excited eyes. "There! Right there! That's right—"
She was about to rush to the tent behind the fire, but she paused the next second, and resumed her movement the moment Chu Li controlled her. But this time, Zhang Chun had already pressed her shoulders in time to stop her from moving further.
"Take care of your people?"
With a grim expression, he pushed the old woman towards the sturdy man coming from the convoy, who was also wearing a sand-proof mask and a brown cloak.
"Sorry to bother you."
The man? He grabbed the old woman's hand? and walked back.
"Let me go?! You bunch of stupid idiots! Let me take a look, just one look! Fate! Fate made us meet here! That's the legendary destiny man! Destined by heaven, destroyed by heaven, hahahahaha!"
Man? Cursed: "Crazy woman."
The old woman struggled frantically, and suddenly took out a strange prop from the cloak behind her and threw it towards Zhang Chun. The metal surface flashed an extremely ominous dark luster.
"Give it to him! He needs this! Water of life, gurgle gurgle..."
The old woman was speaking the dialect of a small settlement, but she didn't understand the common language, so she could only use her hands and feet to gesture to express her meaning.
"He is really crazy. He even threw away the holy objects."
Man? He was furious, and he looked hesitantly at Zhang Chun and Chu Li who were obviously on high alert not far away, and raised his hand? He called on his companions to take the old woman back.
And he carefully pointed at the prop that fell at Zhang Chun's feet and said: "That thing is very important to us..."
Zhang Chun had no idea what this group of people were talking about.
The old woman spoke in the local dialect, a lot of gibberish, and I couldn't understand a word she said, but it was obvious that she was targeting the boy in the tent.
Naturally, he would not let down his guard, and he did not want to have too much contact with this group of people. It was too dangerous to rashly contact with strangers without knowing anything.
At this moment, a familiar voice suddenly came from behind, with a bit of confusion as if he had just woken up.
"Uncle, you guys are so noisy..."
Zhang Chun was slightly startled and looked at Chu Li.
He blocked the old woman's sight calmly, while Chu Li turned around and pushed the boy into the tent.
"It's okay, is there anyone there? Come and change the medicine, they will leave soon." Chu Li still spoke without any emotion, but tried to soften the tone, making it sound comforting.
"But I? Also want to? See the locals in the desert?..."
Chu Xiuyan backhanded? He dragged Chu Li towards Zhang Chun. Although he was still a little confused after waking up and having a fever, he was still very strong. For a moment, Chu Li was unable to break free.
So under Zhang Chun's shocked eyes, he reluctantly said that he had tried his best.
The young man walked dazedly behind Zhang Chun, and felt his head was heavy, so he leaned his head on his shoulder again, then stared at the strangers in front of him, and the old woman with a shocked and speechless face, and fell into a long thought, and said:
"Maybe I haven't woken up yet, I saw a lot of living skeletons talking..."
He paused, "A skeleton, alive."
His expression began to change, and the voice in his mouth became weaker and weaker, and then suddenly became louder.
"Uncle, look! It's a living skeleton! It can talk, put on clothes, and drive a car—"
"Ooooooooooooooooooo!"
The old woman also chattered and danced with excitement.
Men? He had to lower his head and grab her hard to prevent her from causing trouble again.
As a result, when he looked up, he saw a dark red long stick coming towards him, and a pair of scarlet eyes that were filled with hope for some reason.
Wait? Wait? , scarlet... eyes?
Bang!
Man? He fell to the ground with his head tilted back, and a red and swollen bump slowly appeared on his forehead.
At the last moment before falling into a coma, he heard a creepy conversation.
"Uncle, can I raise them?"
"no."
"Then I? Want to? Plant them in the yard. I think they won't rot."
"Even worse."
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