Chapter 243 Dust Storm
It only took a minute or two for the sky to go from azure blue to completely covered by dark clouds. First, the wind picked up, and even through the car, one could feel the howling wind.
When the sky was completely overcast, the air outside the car became visibly turbid, filled with rolling dust balls.
The khaki dust hit the car windows one after another, and the car body seemed to be hit by countless tiny stones, making a crackling sound. The rolling wheels were no longer smooth, as if countless gravel was rolled under the wheels, and even the car body began to shake.
The visibility outside was getting lower and lower, and the flying sand and rocks made it almost impossible to see anything clearly. Everyone unanimously decided to stop the car temporarily and wait until the sandstorm passed before continuing to drive.
There were no roads anywhere in the Gobi Desert, and the surrounding area was vast and boundless, without even a rock to hide under, but fortunately, Lin Wu and Tang Yatong's bound weapons had protective barriers.
The jeep stopped on the spot and turned off the engine. Lin Wu opened the weapon arc, and a translucent arc of light appeared outside the jeep. The car, which was originally crackling with the sand and dust, instantly became quiet. The sand and dust were blocked outside the shield, and the jeep became an absolutely safe place.
"How is it? Does it consume a lot of defense points?" Youxi knew that such a shield relied on the defense card loaded with the weapon, and the points of the defense card would be reduced to varying degrees according to the external attack impact.
Before Lin Wu could answer, Tang Yatong spoke: "Such a super strong sandstorm has a very strong impact. I also have a defense shield. Let's take turns, half an hour at a time, so as not to use up all the defense for one person, which would be very inconvenient."
The elder sister spoke, and Lin Wu did not refuse and nodded in agreement.
The sandstorm lasted for several hours. Outside the shield, the whole world was engulfed by the earthy yellow sand, but inside the jeep, there was a spicy smell of hot pot.
Youxi set up a small table in the back seat and cooked two self-heating hot pots of different flavors. Lin Wu took out a box of Shengjian, a box of fresh meat soup buns, a box of sliced salinated beef and a plate of mixed cold vegetables. Tang Yatong looked at her twenty item slots and sighed, feeling that her little friend would not be interested in military ration bags and compressed biscuits and canned meat.
I waited until the self-heating hot pot was cooked, moved the small table to the middle of the driving area, and discussed the next things while eating lunch.
They still had a lot of time left, so they could go through the high wall to take a look inside.
Currently, Youxi still has two stops left, Lin Wu has one stop left, and Tang Yatong has two stops left. In other words, everyone has tickets for this trip, so there is no need to worry. But when it comes to the next stop, Lin Wu will have to focus on finding the ticket. Therefore
, they went to the other side of the high wall this time to see if any prompt task would be triggered, so as to get rewards and whether they would get tickets.
Although every time after entering the station platform, passengers would fight for tickets, and it is possible to fight back and get tickets at that time - like the extra stop ticket for Youxi and Lin Wu's ticket this time, they were both obtained in this way, but it depends on luck after all.
If you don't get a valid ticket in the last hour, you will have no choice but to die.
They couldn't put all their hopes on the last hour, nor did they want to become like other passengers who, in order to survive, would ambush others on the platform. So the best way was to walk around the station more often, trigger more reminder tasks, get more rewards, and increase the chance of getting a ticket.
However, when discussing this, Youxi suddenly looked at the translucent shield outside the front window and calmed down.
"What's wrong?" Tang Yatong felt that she was abnormal.
You Xi slowly frowned: "Except for you and Lin Wu, I have never seen other passengers use similar defensive shields. Although everyone's skills are different, in general, you and Lin Wu seem to be from the same faction, while other passengers are not."
"You mean... other passengers don't seem to be tasked with the system tower? They are the natives of this entire endless train world?" "
It feels like the world in the bottle. The people in the bottle don't know that they are actually the objects of others' viewing." Lin Wu said in a deep voice.
You Xi continued: "So, our abilities and space have been greatly weakened, probably in order to lower our ability level to the same level as other passengers. Have you - read infinite flow novels?"
Lin Wu:? ?
Tang Yatong:? ?
You Xi understood. A military doctor and a career-oriented woman, neither had read any novels about this subject.
She now had another guess in her mind, but it would take a while to explain it clearly, and she couldn't be sure for the time being. She would have to wait until she found more Easter egg fragments.
When her personal lunch was about to end, other travelers appeared outside the shield. It was a team of seven or eight people. Because they didn't have a car, they were wrapped up and struggling to move forward in the sandstorm. They
quickly discovered this translucent shield and saw the jeep inside clearly. Both this magical light film and the jeep inside were what they needed most at the moment.
Several people first called the people in the car through the shield outside, lowering their posture to let them open the light film and let them go in to avoid the sandstorm.
They said that someone in the team was injured and exhausted, and then they said that their boarding time was approaching, and the weather was so bad that they might not be able to get to the high wall in time. They also said that if the other party was worried, the two teams could temporarily form one team, so that the teammates would be immune to injuries and could help each other.
However, no matter what they said, the people of Youxi did not respond.
Not to mention that the jeep could not accommodate these seven or eight people, even if they were willing to open the shield to let the other party in, there was no guarantee that the other party would not turn against them in the next second because they coveted their car and shield. After all, adding teammates required the consent of both parties.
But none of them wanted to quarrel with the other party because of this matter, and waste time arguing back and forth.
Tang Yatong glanced at the front of the car and found that the sandstorm was smaller than before. At least she could see the road ahead for a distance. So she asked Lin Wu to restart the car and prepare to leave under the protection of the shield.
However, the car had only driven less than a hundred meters when the shield at the rear exploded with a bang.
Lin Wu braked, and the people in the car looked back. Among the passengers who had lowered their posture and were in a weak position not long ago, someone took out a rocket launcher and was arrogantly holding it on his shoulder and aiming at them. The fire that just exploded was the rocket launcher.
In the world of endless trains, the passengers have a consistent perception that running away without a fight is a sign of weakness, and people with strong offensive capabilities simply disdain to escape.
Translated into simple words, it means: fat sheep, you can attack.
They looked at each other and thought, OK, they were just thinking about where to get more tickets, and now someone has delivered them to their door.
"Get ready, the jeep is back." As soon as Youxi finished speaking, the jeep disappeared.
Lin Wu took over the work of shielding and protected himself. Tang Yatong threw a Gatling gun and several strings of bullets to You Xi, signaling her not to save and to shoot freely. She touched the MP5 in her hand and smiled at the group of passengers who were looking at her outside the shield.
The other party:...
Ah, why do I have a bad feeling...
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Half an hour later, the jeep was back on the road, leaving the battlefield far behind the car.
You Xi and Tang Yatong deliberately gave Lin Wu the chance to make the last attack on several passengers. Finally, the ticket resource dropped from the th passenger. At the same time, Lin Wu's item slots expanded to 12, and he also got a special skill of "copying".
This skill has no station restrictions and no cooldown time, but it can only be used times. After times, the skill disappears.
The scope of "copying" is all non-living things.
The remaining passengers saw such a ferocious individual and knew that they had run into a tough guy, so they quickly used their best skills to escape for their lives.
Youxi and his friends did not pursue him, but took out the jeep again and headed north under the protection of the shield.
An hour later, the sandstorm slowly ended, and the sky above the Gobi Desert became clear and blue again.
The individuals took turns driving, and because they were attacked by mutant creatures in the desert once at night, they did not stay there and left overnight, and rushed outside the high wall a day later.
Looking from a close distance, the black high wall stood in front of them like a towering mountain wall, towering into the clouds, stretching for hundreds of kilometers in the east and west directions, and also blocked the giant worms and other unknown huge mutant creatures in the sea of death in the east.
The technology used to build the wall is obviously higher than the current technological level of this station. Various weapons are mounted on the wide wall, but due to the lack of energy and bullets, most of them are just for display.
However, the wall itself is strong enough, and it is a hidden station. Even the most ferocious passengers will not deliberately damage the high wall.
Youxi took out his mobile phone, confirmed the station, and everyone received a mobile phone notification.
For the remaining ten days, they chose to sneak into the wall to take a look.
Speaking of which, it is not difficult to sneak into the wall. There are several passable passages in the middle of the high wall. You need to walk up the stairs on the wall to a position about four or five floors high. The passage is only about two people wide, and there are many sentries stationed in it. Someone needs to let you pass before you can pass.
Most of the people inside the wall will not come out. Most of those who venture out of the high wall have some connections and will trade with people outside the wall at fixed times.
As for the items traded, they are varied, including fuel, food, scorpion and horned viper venom, and even beautiful girls from the exile group... The prices are also set by the people inside the wall.
There is neither surveillance nor high-tech weapons here. For travelers with various skills, as long as they have the ability, they can think of ways to sneak in.
The Youxi people targeted a person who went out to trade, threatened and beat him, followed the other party in, and disappeared immediately after leaving a few packets of instant noodles.
The world inside the wall is still desolate, with ruins of former buildings everywhere. This place is very similar to the world of the original world of Youxi, which is always at war.
People set up stalls on the dilapidated streets and settled in buildings with missing walls. There is no clean water or green plants around, and the ground is full of khaki dust.
It is said that a small number of powerful people live in the Green Eden in the far north, where there is an oasis with clear water, fat animals and fresh fruits.
But the resources there are firmly in the hands of a few people, and ordinary people living outside cannot access them.
A few people in Youxi once climbed to the top of the building ruins and used a telescope to check. Sure enough, there was a touch of green in the far north, which was particularly eye-catching in the khaki world.
They guessed that if tourists went there, they might trigger a new hidden mission and get a reward.
But most travelers don't have enough time, and few people will go there.
The people of Youxi now have tickets for two stops and are not short of supplies, so they didn't go any further. After that, they hid themselves in the city and found a shabby room in a secluded high place to spend the remaining time quietly.
Remaining time: 1 hour, 0 minutes, 0 seconds.
The mobile phones of the people vibrated at the same time. They had been waiting outside the high wall for a long time and followed the arrow instructions on the mobile phone screen and walked in from a doorway at the bottom of the high wall that looked like an abandoned storage room.
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