The crowd looked at each other blankly and shook their heads.
“I…I only know that there used to be a clear river…” The old woodcutter licked his chapped lips, “but…but that was many years ago…now…it’s probably long gone…”
The others shook their heads as well. They were all disaster victims from the city or nearby villages, and were equally unfamiliar with this desolate wasteland ravaged by drought.
Jiang Chan's heart sank. The detector couldn't be wrong. Within a hundred miles, there probably wasn't a single drop of natural water left!
Are we supposed to keep feeding these dozen or so people with the spatial water until we get out of this death zone? No matter how much spatial water we have, it can't withstand this kind of consumption! And what if... what if we never get out?
A sense of despair spread silently through the silent ranks. Thirst, like an invisible flame, burned in everyone's throat and nerves.
Frustrated, Jiang Chan took out the detector and scanned the path ahead carefully again. A grayish-yellow image scrolled across her retina: abandoned mud houses, dead trees, cracked riverbeds… not a single blue dot representing moisture!
Unwilling to give up, she enlarged the scale and scanned even further afield...
Buzz—! Just as she was intently searching for a water source signal!
That cold, abrupt, death knell-like electronic voice exploded in the depths of her mind without warning!
【bite!】
[Key information detected: The dried-up Qingshui River! Mission loading...]
[Identity recorded: Liu Gui, a laborer at the river works project]
[Mission Description: Survive the floodwaters after the breach; minimize casualties/protect nearby villagers; expose the truth behind the shoddy construction of the dikes due to corruption in the river engineering work.]
[Mission Reward: Water Source Detector x1]
[Mission Failed: Death!]
[Accept the mission: Yes/No?]
A water source detector?!
Jiang Chan's heart skipped a beat!
Without the slightest hesitation, her will shot forth like an arrow, fiercely piercing the flickering "Yes!"
accept!
Buzz—!
A familiar dizziness instantly struck! Consciousness was forcibly pulled from the body and thrown into an unknown temporal turbulence! The parched wasteland, the scorching sun, the silent crowd behind... all vanished in an instant.
Only the boundless thirst for water sustained her as she charged into that unknown mission!
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