Chapter 170: The Hardships of Self-guided Travel

"Ahem..." Lu Yuan cleared his throat, stood on a big rock, and pretended to be a leader.

"I declare that the result this time... everyone is normal and performed well!"

"Rats are pests, so how can we take good care of them? Eating them is the normal choice, and the more you eat, the more normal it is." He tried to save face for everyone.

“Ah!!”

Everybody screamed; even the old wolf who had eaten three mouse tails jumped up and down for joy.

Lu Yuan always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't put his finger on it.

"My friends, this driver will take you out of the hospital."

He called his friends to get on the bus. The total mass of so many animals was almost one ton.

Especially the turtle in the convertible, twisting wildly, the wolf and the cat dancing disco on the turtle's back, and the whole tricycle shaking constantly.

"Don't fucking move, why is it so hard for me to step on it?"

It’s not that he is not strong enough, but that he doesn’t have enough self-weight.

Even though he stood on the pedal, he didn't press it down.

This time it really is a small horse pulling a big cart.

"Then transform!"

"Transform! Brother, it's good to be a tree!"

The two good brothers roared wildly, mixed with the howl of the old wolf.

"Hua La La", Lu Yuan was helpless. In fact, he could pedal the tricycle with a 50 kg weight on his back, but now he could only turn into a big tree. He climbed onto the tricycle and pedaled it with his vines.

"I always feel like something is getting more and more wrong. Isn't this scene a bit too weird?" Lu Yuan said expressionlessly.

In fact, he wanted to make expressions, but he couldn't do it - after all, the tree is just a tree, and only the human body can make expressions.

The wheels clattered on the cobblestone ground.

"This thing is really fun, let Grandpa Turtle try it!" The immortal giant turtle howled in the convertible.

There was no choice, Lu Yuan had to give in to it. He felt relieved after regaining his human body.

This time, the style of painting is even more non-serious.

An inky black turtle, pedaling a tricycle.

Every time you step on it, the chain makes a "clattering" sound.

This giant turtle is quite agile, and the size of the tricycle is just right for it.

"If the tricycle is likened to a white dragon horse, who is the master?" the old cat suddenly asked.

Lu Yuan's mood now is very Buddhist. He feels that he has a kind of profoundness like Tathagata Buddha, and is not happy with things nor sad with himself.

This stretch of wasteland is mostly flat, so it's okay to ride a tricycle on it, with a speed of about 20 kilometers per hour.

This is actually much faster than walking. If the terrain is really bumpy, you can also let the turtle carry the tricycle on its back.

Soon, they circled the lake and found a clear stream.

After replenishing the water source for the last time and filling up the storage space, they set off towards the sky city in a mighty manner.

"Sky City, here we come!"

“Ouch!!”

…

…

Time goes by day by day.

Another month has passed in the blink of an eye.

Happy times are always short, and boredom and dullness are the main theme of travel.

The vastness of this desert far exceeded Lu Yuan's imagination.

Since leaving the lake, the air has become increasingly drier and it has never rained again.

Even though it seems to be spring now, there are no clouds in the sky. Under the scorching sun, the land has become increasingly cracked and hardened, losing its original vitality.

There was only a small tricycle, crossing the vast dry land alone.

“Turtles hate drought.”

After a month of travel, the immortal giant turtle became a little annoyed with the action of pedaling the tricycle.

Most importantly, it craves water.

The weather was so hot that not only was there no swimming, there was no water to drink.

"I never thought that being tortured in prison would be nothing, but being sunburned to death after being released."

This guy keeps complaining.

Lu Yuan was speechless. He poured a basin of ice-cold water from the storage space and gave it to the cat to drink.

The immortal giant turtle picked up the basin and drank it all in one gulp.

"I'm alive...thank you, old brother..." It panted, looking unsatisfied.

"Brother, it's not that I don't want to give it to you, but we must cherish it." Lu Yuan said helplessly.

"We're wasting too much now. We'll die of thirst on the road..."

"Or I'll give you another basin of water, which is your last one for today, and you can make your own plans?"

The turtle stared at the basin. The drops of water rolled down to the bottom like sparkling diamonds.

It shook its head heavily and leaned over to lick it.

"It's not going to work if we keep going like this. Let's find a way to recycle it." The old cat came up with a good idea. "Hold your urine and don't pee randomly. When you take a break, dig a hole and pee in it."

"Finally, put a layer of plastic film on the urine pit. After the urine evaporates, you will see sparkling water droplets on the plastic film."

"By the same token, the water in the stool can also condense into water droplets!"

"Damn, are you a human? You let me eat shit?" The turtle who was licking the basin was stunned, and his huge body trembled.

The old cat looked at it with round eyes: "First of all, I am not a human, and I don't need to drink water."

"Secondly, I'll make you eat the condensed water droplets, you idiot."

It turned its head and said, "Lu Yuan, you are also a big water consumer. Can't you turn into a tree? It should be no problem to use the roots of the tree to eat some feces and urine. Your dog can also eat feces."

"This is great, this is great, brother, you eat feces and I eat water droplets!" The turtle was ecstatic.

Lu Yuan was stunned and almost fell off the tricycle.

He cried miserably, "Don't you know that trees can be choked to death by urine and feces?"

…

In Lu Yuan's tree state, he really doesn't need to eat much and can grow by relying on photosynthesis.

But if he materialized again, he would still need water... and a lot of it.

Even though the bottles and jars in the storage space were filled with nearly 15 tons of water, he still felt uneasy. If he consumed 30 liters of water a day, it would be used up in 500 days.

You have to know that this is still a desert, there are still some weeds, it is not a real desert.

If you go to the desert, it will be even more painful.

"What if the city in the sky is located in the center of the desert?"

"What if there is no water source nearby? I must be prepared for this."

After some discussion, everyone decided to implement the strategy of "hiding during the day and moving out at night", that is, hiding in tents to rest during the day and traveling at night.

Although the travel speed will be slightly slower, the consumption of water resources will be significantly reduced, and you don't have to drink a sip from time to time.

In addition, the "Ice Unicorn Core Crystal", a previously useless item, was actually put to use. (It was picked up from the cave of the [Monster].) On the one hand, the "Ice Unicorn Core Crystal" can be used as an air conditioner, which can bring a bit of coolness to the unbearable heat.

On the other hand, when water vapor encounters cold, it condenses into water droplets.

It’s not a bad idea to make use of the urinal. The water droplets condensed every day are enough for Old Wolf to drink!

The old wolf was surprised to find that the water he had been drinking recently had a faint smell of urine.

Ouch?

Well, this is actually dew, and the smell is quite pure.

With its poor IQ, it is impossible for it to tell the difference, so a little smell is nothing.

After riding for two whole months, the group finally arrived at the end of the desert.

If we calculate it as 100 kilometers per day, it is almost 6,000 kilometers.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Theoretically, they had reached a location beyond the one given by the Meda civilization, but the reality was that they had found nothing! "The Meda civilization has misled me!" Lu Yuan felt his heart trembling.

What is the end of the desert?

Not a forest, not an ocean.

But it is an...unimaginably huge basin.

In the basin, there was an even drier desert where even weeds could not survive! It was dead silent here, as if they had come to the end of the world.

Under the scorching sun, the golden sand dunes are boundless, as vast as the ocean, both rugged and soft. Countless wind-blown sands float up from the ground under the breeze, forming a raging sandstorm.

Even before entering the desert, everyone's breathing became difficult, and every heartbeat seemed to be knocking on the edge of survival...

"Damn, what a hell of a place... Where's the promised city in the sky?" Lu Yuan put his hand on his forehead and looked into the distance. He even took out his "cornea for distant viewing" and kept searching.

No!

Nothing! "I haven't seen any animals for a long time..." The immortal giant turtle muttered to himself, "Is he really going to die in this damn place?"

Morale was at its lowest point.

A faint bitterness lingered in his heart, and Lu Yuan wanted to cry, but he could only pretend to be strong and pretend that nothing had happened.

Everyone decided to rest for a day at the edge of the basin to build up their morale.

At this time, the temperature rises to 45 degrees Celsius, and ordinary people can easily suffer from heatstroke if they bask in the sun outside.

The old wolf's tongue was hanging down all the time. Fortunately, there was a tricycle to shelter it from the wind and rain, otherwise it would have been sunburned to death.

There is only an old cat, no big problem, the superiority of the robot is fully demonstrated here.

Lu Yuan bit his tongue hard and yelled, "We have reached the edge of the desert today. Everyone will have an extra 10 liters of water. Let's drink to our heart's content!"

Inspired by the water, the turtle and the old wolf howled.

They are always easy to satisfy.

However, Lu Yuan, the director of the zoo, felt a little frustrated and sad.

He was actually very confused.

Take a document from storage.

Those are the coordinates of the City in the Sky obtained by experts from the Meda civilization after research, and there are also photos of the City in the Sky.

[A huge disaster has occurred in this sky city, with thick black smoke billowing out, and it seems that the city equipment is not maintained. No city residents have been observed, and no maintenance personnel have been seen. ]

[It is slowly descending. According to this trajectory, it will fall completely to the ground after 16,000 kilometers.]

[If we can explore this city, we will get a lot of resources! ]

But this coordinate is originally a speculation.

If the Sky City resumes normal operation or persists for a longer period of time, the coordinates will be inaccurate.

Mei Daren said: We cannot guarantee the authenticity and we will not take any responsibility.

Lu Yuan cried out in despair: "Why did I walk so far?!"

"If I hadn't left, what would have happened to the remains of the Meda civilization? Has the mother bear given birth to cubs again? Has the wolf pack cheated on the old wolf?"

"What kind of cooperation has taken place between the Rize civilization and the human civilization?"

Running out alone to face hardships and difficulties is itself a very psychologically stressful thing.

He couldn't express the pain in his heart.

So he went into the tent and used the 10 liters of water he had just been allocated plus the 10 liters he had saved, a total of 20 liters of water, to give himself a cold shower.

After not taking a shower for two months, the dirt on my body is just like diatomaceous earth, with a pinch of dirt forming a clumping mass.

After taking a shower, I feel refreshed.

Then he took out the textbook again, turned to the last few pages of pictures of beautiful women, and indulged himself...

"It feels so good... I'm alive."

Sage Mode: Lu Yuan’s eyes were sharp and he regained his fighting spirit.

If he can't find the city in the sky, he can't go home. He can only return to the territory of the Rize civilization and live on "挊".

This is something he would never accept!

“I must find it!!”

Give this bath water to the Tree of Life to drink.

The roots of the Tree of Life stretched into the bathtub without any disgust, and in the blink of an eye, they drained all the water out of the bathtub... The emerald green leaves bloomed with light.

"The tree of life drank my water."

"I, Old Lu, naturally need 10 liters of water as well. We are two different individuals." Lu Yuan took a gasoline barrel and secretly filled his water bag with it.

The old cat crawled into the tent and looked at him with its round eyes: "How dare you be so shameless to drink water secretly here."

"But have you thought it through? Are you going to stay here instead of going home?"

Lu Yuan blushed and said, "Since we are here, we must continue looking."

The old cat asked, "But where should we look? East, west, south, north, pick a direction."

Lu Yuan was silent for a moment, and his soul entered the Tree of Life.

It let a vine continue to spread towards the sky, until it reached a height of one hundred meters, and finally reached its limit.

He used the Explorer's Eye on the vines, looking down from above.

Obviously, there are no remains of civilization around.

He sighed softly, and his soul returned to his human body. He put on his robe and hat.

As the saying goes, "the land and water nurture the people", why do people in the Middle East wear wide sleeves and long robes that reach the feet? Because this kind of clothing is most suitable for the desert tropics.

He drew a picture on the sand with his finger: "We can boldly assume that the city in the sky persisted for a while longer. Such a huge object has great inertia, and it is difficult to change its direction of movement drastically. It just keeps sliding forward."

"Well, go on, I'm listening." The old cat scratched his head with his hind legs.

“So I am determined to keep moving forward in the original direction!!”

“How many kilometers?”

"Walk until... there's no water left!" Lu Yuan said gritting his teeth.

(End of this chapter)