early morning.

Lu Ban saw the stars dim and the sky turned golden. The gradual change from pitch black to golden yellow surpassed all the landscapes on Earth and was truly a magnificent sight.

He decided to pretend that what happened last night never happened.

In fact, Lu Ban doesn't really want to learn magic.

Because it is said that as long as you stay single until you are thirty years old, you will be able to make a fireball. Lu Ban feels that he still has a few years left and there is no need to rush.

In the second half of the night, Xia was basically studying with her reading technique, like a statue that moved from time to time.

Lu Ban felt that this spell was extremely useful.

Xia can completely let her consciousness go to sleep, and then let the book learn on its own. In the end, she can gain knowledge and get rest.

This is something that many people dream of!

At the same time, Lu Ban also tasted some details from Xia's words.

For example, the magic of the Kingdom of Darkness is essentially the "knowledge" obtained after praying to the gods. This knowledge is like Lu Ban's technique of using a crowbar when he holds the [Holy Sword of Physics]. It is like a spider web wrapped around the cerebral cortex and can be withdrawn at any time.

In the foreign land of the Land of Silence, knowledge represents pollution.

Therefore, it can be imagined that before the founder of the Gray Tower developed the magic network, the mages of the Kingdom of Darkness were probably the ones who mastered this knowledge on their own. In other words, their brains were probably polluted and their mentalities became abnormal.

As for ordinary people, it is even more impossible for them to master magic.

Therefore, the founder developed the magic network system, turning magic into a gift from God, which was indeed a powerful move.

No wonder Xia respects that man so much.

From this perspective, the Kingdom of Night has indeed developed a way to utilize the knowledge of the Land of Silence without driving the entire world into madness.

As for Ku Shui Town... the forbidden knowledge was leaked. The Hai family must have been contaminated by the Black Queen Mother's knowledge and transformed into fishmen. No wonder they had to hide it.

It’s just… the magic network is praying to the gods, so who are these gods in the Kingdom of Darkness who would generously grant humans magic spells without overly influencing human will?

Lu Ban wasn’t quite sure.

As he was thinking about this, he saw three natives waking up and starting to cook breakfast over a campfire.

Breakfast was of course also buggy.

"…I actually have some food here that tastes better."

He pointed to his backpack.

"Really?"

After a night's rest, the short-sleeved Yanxin felt much better. It seemed that his crystal core disease was the most serious and he seemed very tired every time he used his ability. Of course, this also meant that his strength was the strongest.

Lu Ban took out a few pieces of compressed dry food from his bag.

"This is... this is a treasure from the old times!"

The giant recognized what Lu Ban was holding at first sight.

"I'm telling you guys, hey, I once went to a ruin and opened a warehouse that may have been sealed for hundreds of years. Guess what I found?"

He didn't wait for anyone else to reply and continued speaking.

"It's wine!"

When this word was mentioned, the other two, Yanxin and Jiumeng, showed longing expressions.

"Although it doesn't taste like much, it's still wine! A gift from a hundred years ago!"

The giant wrist seemed very proud.

"Of course, there are these foods in the warehouse. I can't taste them, but at least they taste better than bugs."

He took a bite of the bug meat on a skewer.

Some of the insect meat was cut into strips and dried last night. By this morning, it had lost its moisture and turned into hard strips of meat that looked like stored food.

After a night of observation, Lu Ban discovered that most of these people's food seemed to be insects.

The insects in the desert hide under the sand and need to be lured out by certain means. Then, after the three people kill them, they can get the insect meat which is full of juice and protein.

Chicken flavor, crunchy?

Lu Ban, who has eaten insects, doesn't think so.

"You can eat."

Lu Ban opened one of the pieces. As soon as they tore open the package, the unique smell of oil and starch from the compressed dry food penetrated into the noses of several people.

“This smells so good!”

The giant arm stretched out his hand and took Lu Ban's compressed dry food.

“Is it really edible?”

"certainly."

Lu Ban distributed a bag of compressed dry food and watched them eat it carefully.

The expressions of the three of them became happy.

"The last time I tasted something like this was when I just left home..."

"I shouldn't eat this. How can I continue to chew bugs after eating this?"

"tasty."

After eating, the usually taciturn Jiu Meng licked his palms.

Lu Ban looked at them and suddenly felt a little emotional.

In one's own world, at least one does not have to worry about food and drink, but in a post-apocalyptic world like the wasteland, even compressed dry food has become a luxury.

The differences between different regions are too great.

"Hmm? If I can go to the city in the wasteland, can I use these compressed dry food to exchange for many precious things in this world?"

He thought of some scenes in novels and movies, where the protagonists traveled between ordinary cities and the end of the world, exchanging ordinary food for various high-tech items in the end of the world.

"I have some energy bars here. They taste good. You can keep them."

He also gave everyone an energy bar. This food made of nuts and chocolate tasted much better than compressed dry food.

"I must keep it."

The giant wrist was not unpacked, but stuffed deep into the backpack, like a kindergarten kid who saves the best snack for last.

"You're usually called setting a flag, and it's very likely that you'll suffer misfortune later..."

Lu Ban secretly complained, but when he saw Yan Xin immediately opened the energy bar and ate it quickly.

“This is so delicious!”

He even licked the packaging bag clean, leaving no residue behind.

It seems that this person is the type who lives for the moment and enjoys life to the fullest, and will eat up any delicious food as soon as possible.

After packing up the camp, several people got on camels.

Although this creature is called a camel, it is actually different from the camel that Lu Ban knows. From the appearance, it looks more like a hybrid of some kind of lizard and a camel, with slippery scales and a signature hump.

"We have to get there as soon as possible and hope there are no other competitors."

Riding on the camel, Giant Wrist took out a tattered piece of paper.

"Where are you going?"

Lu Ban asked directly from behind.

"A ruin. I got this blueprint from a group of wilderness hunters who were wiped out. They were apparently on their way to that ruin, but unfortunately they encountered an accident. When I found them, they had already turned into mummies."

The giant said without any emotion.

"Following the direction of the sun, we will be able to see the ruins at the edge of the wasteland in one day at the earliest."