Chapter 283 Sandstorm
A creaking sound was heard, and another shell box was pulled down from above Shen Yuexi's head.
In order to avoid being seen, Shen Yuexi and Xia Lan could only squat close to the boxes on the bottom layer.
There were fifty or sixty soldiers carrying the shells, and more than ten of them were always standing in front of the two men. There was no way for them to escape.
I don't know when the sky darkened, and candles were lit in the tent. Figures were moving around inside, and the sounds of boxes being dragged and hooks being removed could be heard. A group of people were busy and happy.
When she was really at her wit's end, Shen Yuexi was not panicked at all. She thought of Xiao Zhuo.
If someone of Xiao Zhuo's height had squatted here, he would probably have been discovered by the time people were moving the boxes on the second floor.
What does this mean? It means God wasn't trying to make things difficult for her. God was taking care of her, preventing her from growing too tall and mighty, allowing her to hide until now. Since God was taking care of her, she would definitely be able to get through this difficult time.
She looked at Xia Lan who was squatting opposite her.
Xia Lan's eyes were glazed over, her gaze fixed on something unclear. Perhaps she'd been numbed by the shock of the camp. Or perhaps she was desperate, waiting for the moment she'd be discovered.
This is also good. At least Xia Lan won’t attract the attention of the Qi King’s soldiers next to the box because of her teeth chattering.
Shen Yuexi looked up at the sky. The white clouds in the sky looked like torn cotton wool. Under the setting sun that was about to disappear, the cotton wool looked black.
"Big Bear, can you make clouds?"
Since there was nothing she could do anyway, she decided to chat with Big Bear.
She had designed this universal manufacturing machine in the lab, but before she'd used it twice, she was transported to this world. Upon arriving, she discovered that Big Bear wasn't perfect here, and there were flaws there. Especially when it came to his speech, which was always cheerful. Sometimes, when she was desperate or being chased by a group of people, Big Bear's cheerful voice would suddenly burst out, absolutely infuriating her.
But then again, Big Bear did help her through many crises, and she was very grateful to him. If it weren't for Big Bear, she would have been finished long ago.
"Dear Master," Big Bear's cheerful voice rang out in her mind, "You want to create clouds, but the scope is too general. Please specify the type of cloud."
Shen Yuexi was surprised. When she designed Big Bear, it didn't have this ability. Could it be that after upgrading itself, it could also create clouds?
She remembered Big Bear saying that it had proactively upgraded to handle large-scale manufacturing. She hadn't expected it could even create clouds.
There was a creaking sound as another shell box was pulled down from above her head, and now only two layers were left.
"Can you really create clouds?" Shen Yuexi asked in her heart, "Do you have to specify the type?"
"Dear Master, Big Bear can create white clouds, dark clouds, rain clouds..."
"Wait," Shen Yuexi shouted in her mind, "You said you can create rain clouds. Are they clouds that can rain?"
"Dear Master, do you want to create rain clouds? Please specify the level. There are light rain, moderate rain, heavy rain, and torrential rain..."
"Heavy rain!" Shen Yuexi answered immediately without thinking.
Since the bear can create rain clouds, let the rain come harder. Once it starts to rain heavily, people will take shelter in their tents.
"Dear Master, we are collecting the raw materials needed for the rain cloud. The progress is 1%... 1%... 1%... Dear Master, the raw materials are insufficient, and the production is interrupted."
Shen Yuexi looked around. The big bear's collection range was only five meters in radius. It was impossible to create a large-scale rain cloud.
But she was no longer panicking.
It doesn’t matter that the big bear can’t create rain clouds, the key point is that the big bear can create them.
At her disposal were two inexhaustible materials: air and earth.
"Big Bear, no need to create rain clouds," she thought to herself, "create a twenty-second sandstorm."
"Dear Master, creating a 20-second sandstorm. Collecting the raw materials for the sandstorm. 20%... 50%... 70%..."
Next, Shen Yuexi clasped her hands together and closed her eyes.
Xia Lan woke up from her trance. She felt something was wrong.
The air around them seemed to be boiling as if it was heated, and it seemed that winds were blowing towards them from all directions. What was even more incredible was that the ground where they were seemed to be sinking, and even the large nails used to fix the tent were gradually exposed from the soil, until they were completely out of the ground, pulled straight by the ropes, and jumping up and down in the air.
She rubbed her eyes, thinking she was seeing things, and looked at Shen Yuexi again.
Just now, Shen Yuexi looked up at the sky, and she saw it too. Now Shen Yuexi closed her eyes and clasped her hands together. In her opinion, Shen Yuexi was probably praying to God for help.
But at this time, even God can't save them.
A sharp whistling sound of wind suddenly rang in her ears, and the scene before her eyes suddenly turned dark.
It's a strong wind.
The sudden and powerful wind swept through, carrying sand and dust with it. The entire Qi camp was instantly engulfed in a khaki-colored haze, and no one could be seen more than ten steps away. The soldiers guarding the shell boxes finally cried out, their mouths full of dirt. No longer bothering to carry the shells, everyone fled into their tents for shelter.
Shen Yuexi took advantage of the chaos, grabbed Xia Lan's hand and ran away.
As soon as the two men ran out, the box of ammunition behind them collapsed due to the uneven ground.
The sandstorm created by the big bear was extremely powerful, but it also caused quite a bit of damage. First, the sand hitting the back of the head hurt like being hammered by a lot of small nails. Second, the two people were blown off the ground several times by the wind, and they had no control over their bodies at all. More importantly, since others couldn't see anything, she couldn't see anything either. Squinting her eyes, she could only see a dark yellow hue everywhere, and couldn't tell east, west, south, or north at all. Occasionally, a few soldiers would emerge from the dust, then disappear into the sand like ghosts. The wind rustled their clothes, and even the hairpins that held their hair were blown away by the wind. They were in a state of extreme embarrassment.
She remembered that she was not too far from the camp gate and wanted to run there, but the wind was so strong that she had no control over her direction. It would be more accurate to say that the sandstorm was blowing them both along rather than her running with Xia Lan.
"I should let Big Bear choose the direction of the wind." She reflected on herself.
If only the sandstorm were blowing right towards the camp gate, the two of them could have flown right over without even touching the ground. The worst-case scenario would be that they wouldn't have had time to brake when they saw the camp gate and would have crashed head-on into it.
Big Bear's voice suddenly rang out:
"Dear Master, Big Bear's stored energy cannot support the next production and needs to be replenished. It will shut down soon. Three, two..."
Shen Yuexi was startled and shouted in her heart: "It's only been more than ten seconds, isn't it twenty seconds?"
She was afraid the Big Bear wouldn't be able to hold up, so she deliberately underestimated the time. But the unlucky thing died in ten seconds, just like last time.
"One." After Big Bear read out the last word, he fell silent.
The sandstorm stopped as soon as it was said to stop.
Shen Yuexi pulled Xia Lan to their spot, only to realize with dismay that the sandstorm created by the bear had blown them even closer to the camp. They had originally been near the camp gate, but within ten seconds, it had blown them a full thirty meters closer, now placing them even further away.
The fluttering flags and yellow sand fell at the same time, and heads popped out of the tents one after another.
Shen Yuexi's heart trembled. She couldn't stand here stupidly any longer.
Looking around, she saw two people standing in front of the tent. She pulled Xia Lan and lifted the curtain, and quickly got in. A maid was about to come out of the tent to check, and she almost bumped into them head-on.
"Hey, you guys..."
The maid was frightened when she saw two people covered in dirt rushing in. Just as she was about to shout, Shen Yuexi and Xia Lan simultaneously raised their fingers to their lips and said, "Shh!"
The maid stopped talking when she heard that the visitors were two women. She took a closer look and asked in surprise, "Xia Lan?"
She turned around and shouted happily to the inside of the tent, "Master, Xia Lan is back."
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