Chapter 172 The city in the sky must be in the desert!

When Lu Yuan saw the swarm of insects, he felt a chill in his heart and felt that he had no chance of winning.

He sprinted quickly, grabbed the old wolf and the old cat, touched the Tree of Life, and transferred his soul there.

"Master Turtle, protect yourself, the enemy army is coming!"

"Retreat, there's no shame in that! If the wind blows, retreat!"

After he roared this, he activated the alien space with the Tree of Life as the core.

This alien space is very large. After all, the Tree of Life is almost 10 meters high. The soap bubble-like structure with a diameter of 10 meters is dozens of times larger than before and can accommodate more air.

Because of the Tree of Life's super-fast recovery ability, this small alien space can last almost forever.

This large group of metal insects rushed over at an astonishing speed.

Although the Immortal Giant Turtle was angry in its heart, it also knew that it could not be a match for so many insects, so it quickly shrank its shell into a stone and entered a semi-dormant state.

"You actually called for help. Master Turtle will spare your life."

This black stone has amazing defensive power, with carvings constantly flowing on its surface. Even strong acid cannot cause any damage.

Then, after the bugs arrived at their destination, they actually started to fight each other! The tents were trampled and the food was looted.

The water in the old wolf's basin was naturally also robbed.

Even the feces it had just excreted and the urine in the urinal were eaten by some bugs.

When the old wolf saw this scene, he licked his dry nose with his pink tongue and seemed a little embarrassed.

It howled sadly, "Ouch!"

Next, something even more unexpected happened. The insect whose water bag was shot and burst by Lu Yuan became the target of public criticism.

All the insects launched a fierce attack on it. Hundreds of extraordinary creatures with all kinds of strange and bizarre abilities attacked it, including mental attacks, venom spitting, and acid attacks.

Straws were inserted into its body.

It struggled madly, but to no avail.

The body shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In just one minute, the injured desert spiral worm became an empty shell, and even its brain was completely sucked dry.

The army of insects studied the black stone for a while, but found that there was nowhere to start, so they left reluctantly.

Only then did Lu Yuan come back to his senses and sighed with sympathy: "This desert is so crazy. A level 3 extraordinary creature died just like that?"

"It's only been over 5,000 days. Has the combat effectiveness already been inflated to this extent?"

He looked at these strange insects with the eyes of a pioneer and memorized their information in his mind.

"Level 2", "Level 3", "Level 1"...

These monsters generally have very thick shells. Except for the abdomen, joints and compound eyes, which can barely be considered weak points, there are no flaws in other places. Even machine gun fire is useless.

The most important thing is that they all have extremely sharp mouthparts that secrete a strong acid.

Conventional armor is like paper in front of this mouthpart and will be torn with just a poke.

And they move extremely fast. The body structure of these insects is completely adapted to the desert, and they are literally flying on the sand.

Whether it is humans or turtles, running on the sand is particularly difficult. Compared with insects, the movement speed is at two different levels.

"It's okay to kill one or two, but I can't handle such a large number..." Lu Yuan sighed.

One person's civilization is so magical.

Sometimes, even the anomalies can be fought alone! But now encountering a large group of high-powered bugs, it feels quite difficult.

Fortunately, these insects came and went quickly. They scattered in the blink of an eye and hid in every corner of the desert.

Lu Yuan analyzed: "They should be here for water. I just distributed 10 liters of water to each person, for bathing and making popsicles."

"The water evaporated a bit too much, and they smelled it, so they swarmed over here."

"Fortunately, these guys have no wisdom and kill each other."

"If I encounter a large group of them, I can just injure one with a bomb, and the others will go crazy to hunt them. Then I can just run away... Well, that's about it."

The old cat nodded in agreement: "So the most important thing is water. We must be more careful next time. The urine must be put into a gasoline barrel and then collected in the storage space."

Lu Yuan frowned and reluctantly agreed: "Okay."

Old Cat: "There is water in the feces, so we can't just poop randomly... It's best to collect it in the storage space."

Lu Yuan thought this method was very perverted.

The storage space is full of feces and urine. What's going on? The old cat shook his head and continued, "The creatures here have evolved this ability. You have to be prepared for the desert to be large and dry enough."

"Besides, aren't hundreds of extraordinary beings too many?"

"This is more than all the extraordinary life forms we have observed before combined. How many level three ones are there?"

"33 level 3 bugs, 61 level 2 bugs, and 139 level 1 bugs." Lu Yuan replied, "With such a large desert, it is possible that there are level 4 or even level 5 insects."

Theoretically, in more than 5,000 days, the combat power would not have expanded to such an extent.

If the expansion continues at this rate, in ten thousand years, extraordinary life forms will be able to defeat civilization.

Suddenly, Lu Yuan slapped his head and an excited expression appeared on his face.

"There must be some reason... for this phenomenon to occur."

"The biggest reason is the ruins!"

"The city in the sky must be in the desert!!"

He became more and more excited and laughed loudly.

Yes, the life forms in the ruins are far stronger than those in the normal Pangu Continent. They are the remains of the previous era.

Just like the remains of the Meda civilization, there was a large carnivorous plant at the beginning, as well as extraordinary life forms such as scorpions, poisonous queen bees, giant snakes, and mother bears.

The civilization represented by the Sky City is far stronger than the Meda civilization, so it is natural that the surrounding creatures are also stronger.

Now even the old cat was moved.

“The evidence is certainly strong.”

"Comrade, your persistence makes sense."

However, a bigger trouble lies before them: How can they find the city in the sky in the vast desert, surrounded by a large number of insects?

No matter how well you hide your water resources, you're bound to be attacked along the way.

These bugs are not friendly.

Lu Yuan can win a hundred times, a thousand times.

However, these insects generally spray venom and acid, and hide in the desert, making them difficult to detect.

If he gets hurt once, he'll be in big trouble... Especially this guy Laolang, whose combat power is a bit lagging behind now. If he gets sprayed by him, he'll be injured if not killed.

How can we avoid risks? This is a big question.

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Half an hour later, when the outside world had completely calmed down, Lu Yuan released the alien space.

First, I habitually checked the pile of insect shells to see if there was any trash to pick up.

Unfortunately, after being corroded by acid, these shells are as fragile as newspapers, and they will break into pieces if touched. They are obviously worthless.

"Hmm... these two straws are okay?"

He shouted "Hey" again and moved the black stone that the turtle had turned into onto the tricycle.

Pushing the tricycle, we temporarily got away from this terrifying desert.

Two hours later, the black stone shell peeled off piece by piece, and the immortal giant turtle was resurrected, but its size had shrunk by a few centimeters.

The sentimental turtle recalled the experience just now and burst into tears: "Damn bugs, sudden attack. It hurts so much, why is it always the turtles who get hurt?!"

The old cat said indifferently: "If you keep crying, the water vapor will evaporate and the bugs will come and bite you again!"

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

The immortal giant turtle quickly wiped away its tears with its claws and licked them clean with its tongue.

To comfort the tank, Lu Yuan gave it a hundred small pomegranates: "Master Turtle is really powerful and has unlocked the health lock."

"If we get stung a few times, we'll lose a few lives."

The shiny, rosy little fruit attracted its attention.

In addition, Lu Yuan spoke so nicely that the Immortal Giant Turtle quickly forgot about what had just happened.

"Brother, I'm not being mean, but if you get stung you'll really die... Hurry up and get a bottle, I'll squeeze out the venom!"

The giant turtle howled and grunted, "It hurts, it hurts!"

There was a crack on its neck, and turbid and sticky liquid kept flowing out, which was very disgusting.

Lu Yuan immediately used a glass bottle to collect the liquid. It took him a long time to fill about a cup of it, which was mixed with the old turtle's pus.

[A strong idealistic toxin: has a unique dissolving ability, it can dissolve both metal and bones. (Inferior level, natural wonder)]

“It’s a good thing.”

Amidst the noise, everyone found a large rock on the wasteland and rested on the shady side to cool off.

Everyone looked very sad.

Nowadays, the biggest problem is not water, but... how to find the city in the sky while being surrounded by a horde of insects.

There can't be even a single mistake.

This tolerance rate is obviously still too low.

"I thought about it carefully, and the first method is to get a hot air balloon and fly it into the sky. Most of those bugs can't fly, so they won't attack us."

He had a hot air balloon donated by the people of Rize. He used a generator to electrolyze water, and the hydrogen produced could be used to inflate the hot air balloon.

"It can probably fly to an altitude of two thousand meters."

However, this solution has some minor problems.

On the one hand, the sandstorm in this damn place was quite severe, and there was no way to control the direction of the hot air balloon, so it could only drift with the wind.

On the other hand, the hydrogen in the hot air balloon will continue to be lost, and their energy and water are quite limited. When the time comes, they will not be able to fly and fall into the desert, and they will be besieged by insects again.

Lu Yuan said optimistically: "This plan also has its advantages. Looking into the distance at an altitude of 2,000 meters, the field of vision will be very broad. Maybe we can find it immediately?"

"It's inappropriate. It's really inappropriate."

The old cat shook his head: "The electrolysis of water consumes a lot of fuel and water resources."

"You can't expect a sandstorm to blow you down from your castle in the sky. You'd better keep your feet on the ground."

"Then let's use the second option, mental shock." Lu Yuan drew a pattern on the sand. "My donkey head mask and spider shield both have mental shock effects."

“But how useful it will be is still unknown.”

The donkey head mask is damaged, but if it is repaired, it will be extremely powerful and will easily scare off these insects.

He shook his head helplessly: "With my current technical level, I really can't fix it. Even if I have inspiration, it will be difficult."

As for the spider shield, the spider is only level one, while the monsters here are all level three.

It is obviously a bit far-fetched to expect the spider's eye pattern to scare away all monsters.

The old cat pondered for a moment and said, "If all else fails, why don't you take out that drop of ghost blood and use it to scare away the bugs?"

Lu Yuan grinned and gave a bitter smile.

What if someone is so blind as to release the ghost's blood? Wouldn't that be the end of us?

"The third method is to use the power of the glyph to hide yourself."

"Hidden glyphs. There happens to be a corresponding tutorial in Daedalus's manual..."

"But I haven't even learned math well yet. Isn't it a bit late for me to tinker with glyphs here?"

"How long do I need to study to learn the most basic glyphs?"

"It seems that this is the only option you have..."

Having said that, he looked at the blue sky with a haggard expression.

If mathematics is compared to a beautiful girl, you have to become a bootlicker and spend your time and energy tirelessly.

And you have to have a little bit of talent to be able to get a glimpse of the true face of the coldest girl in the universe.

Lu Yuan actually knew the truth that "Instead of lamenting that the road is difficult, it is better to set off immediately", but he was not a top student since he was young. His academic performance was average and he always hovered around the 20th place in the class. He was just an ordinary student.

It was really painful for a person with ordinary talents to learn the damn mathematics! He actually tried to study seriously along the way, but he was always distracted by various things.

He doesn't like to use his brain, especially when it comes to math. If he knows, he knows, and if he doesn't, he doesn't know. There is no way he can use his "intuition" and it is even more impossible for him to cheat.

Otherwise, even if the answer is right in front of you, you will still copy it wrong! "I am the Greedy Demon God, can't I be more thirsty for knowledge?!" Lu Yuan beat his chest and stamped his feet, trying to stimulate his greed.

"I am greedy for knowledge!!"

"If you are not satisfied with humans, then don't be a human." The old cat said happily, "Become a towering tree, castrate your desires, and take root. It is better for learning."

"Why do you look so happy?" Lu Yuan asked bluntly, "Are you gloating over someone else's misfortune?"

The old cat said: "You taught me that cats live to torture others..."

The Piranha Plant took a big bite and swallowed the slutty cat.

Lu Yuan corrected him righteously: "Only I can torture you, not you."

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(End of this chapter)