Chapter 185: Exploring the Northwest Corner of the Continent
Two days!
It took Tang Zheng two full days to leave the active volcano area and reach the outer area.
"Gudong~Gudong~"
Tang Zheng was wearing black hand and foot binders and loose clothing. He sat on the sand as if no one was around, drinking water from his water bag in big gulps.
This was the same suit he usually wore, except without the white clerical robes over it.
“Huh~”
After taking several big gulps, Tang Zheng let out a breath, raised his head and looked at the endless Gobi Desert in front of him.
The temperature was high, the air was dry, the ground was covered with earthy brown gravel, and wherever you looked you saw uneven landforms eroded by wind, without even a single decent plant.
There are only sparse, short shrubs and some cactus-like plants.
"Is this the area connected by the natural portal deep in the magma sea of the 'Lava Zone'?" Tang Zheng was silent for a while, muttering to himself with a solemn and strange expression.
When in the lava zone, facing the magic released by the ancient red dragon, Tang Zheng knew that he could not stop it, so he could only rely on the small anglerfish that was accidentally brought out of the magma by the sun anglerfish.
After forcibly crushing it to death, he used some of the materials on its body to activate the ability of "Wild Transformation", thus avoiding the scorching heat in the magma.
Tang Zheng entered the magma and discovered that the reason the ancient red dragon entered the magma was to use the energy in the magma to recover from its injuries.
As the "Lava Ruler", the Sun Anglerfish actually allowed the Ancient Red Dragon to heal him on its territory...
I realized something was wrong and I was still on the opponent's territory.
Tang Zheng's own magic power was exhausted, and in the short and fierce confrontation, the skills of the Valkyrie were also used up. He could only choose to temporarily avoid the attack and plan to dive deep into the magma.
I wanted to recover my magic power while avoiding the search of the Sun Anglerfish and the Ancient Red Dragon!
As a result, he was inexplicably sucked in by a suction force deep in the magma. When Tang Zheng came out of the magma again, he had already arrived in this area.
"So this ghost place couldn't be far away from the northwest corner of the continent where humans live?" Tang Zheng held the water bag in his hand, his eyes flickering.
He was quite sure that there were no such large volcanoes in the area where humans lived.
in addition!
It is impossible to sense the exact location of the magic mark originally left on the twin witches.
If the power of magic is related to the basic value of magic attack, then the effect of magic is related to the level of the caster.
Tang Zheng's magic spellcaster level, plus the newly acquired basic profession of [Warlock], has reached 50th level after superposition, which is equivalent to the level of being able to use eighth-tier magic spells.
A spellcaster of this level cannot even sense the location of the magic mark, which means that the distance between the two sides is too far.
Tang Zheng flipped his hand, took out a roasted wild boar meat leg from the prop box, and started eating it with big mouthfuls.
He always carried enough food with him in case of any special situations.
"Then there are two options."
Tang Zheng's cheeks puffed up slightly as he chewed wild boar meat, a thoughtful look on his face.
The first option is to wait until the magic power is fully restored, use the ability of "Wild Transformation" to return to the Angelicia Mountains through the natural portal deep in the magma.
He has now confirmed the time. It has been seven days since he left, which is not a long time.
The reason why he was able to determine the number of days was thanks to the fact that his own magic power recovered very slowly. It was not difficult to reversely deduce the time through the magic power recovery time.
The second option is to take the opportunity to explore this unknown area. It must be said that this is a rather risky behavior.
The unknown continental zone represents completely unknown risks, completely unknown intelligence, and completely unknown enemies.
Whoosh! In the sky, a goshawk with black and gray hair and a one-meter-long wingspan swooped down rapidly from the air and flew towards Tang Zheng.
Wait until you are about to get close to Tang Zheng.
The goshawk folded its wings, and its body twisted in mid-air, quickly expanding into an evil dog, and fell from the air.
Bang! The evil dog stepped on the ground with all four limbs, ran to Tang Zheng excitedly, and rubbed his shoulder with its head.
"Thanks a lot."
Tang Zheng smiled, raised his hand and patted the evil dog's head, then took out a wild boar meat leg from the prop shell and threw it to the evil dog.
Yesterday, he had used resurrection magic to revive the evil dog and re-established contact with it using "Partner Contract I".
The behavior of the evil dog transforming into a goshawk just now was naturally through the ability of the partner contract, allowing it to use Tang Zheng's skill "Wild Transformation"
He had just sent the evil dog to transform into a goshawk, naturally to explore the surroundings, but the result was not ideal.
Obviously!
These two options have already been chosen.
Tang Zheng could also sense through the ability of the partnership contract everything that the evil dog observed in the air. This Gobi desert was much larger and more uninhabited than he had imagined.
At least so far, Tang Zheng has not seen any living creature.
After a moment.
The man and the wolf finished their rest.
"One month of exploration time at most."
Tang Zheng turned over and rode on the evil dog. He squinted his eyes and raised his hand to pat the evil dog's neck.
Being able to reach this mysterious and unknown area with the help of the magma sea in the lava zone is a remarkable discovery.
There is too much information and intelligence to collect. It would be a pity to give up such a unique channel. However, given his current situation, he cannot spend too much time on it.
If I don't appear in front of them for a month, I'm afraid there will be problems with the two twin witches.
"Ao." The evil dog growled and immediately moved, heading in the completely opposite direction of the volcanic area.
Night is gradually falling.
Darkness quickly enveloped the deserted Gobi Desert.
The evil dog lay beside Tang Zheng, somewhat tired, chewing a thick bone in its mouth to grind its teeth as a snack before dinner.
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This little habit was formed when Tang Zheng used goblin corpses as food for the evil dogs.
"Still haven't found any living creatures. Could this be a very remote corner of the continent?"
Tang Zheng sat cross-legged on the ground, his back leaning against the soft body of the evil spirit dog, thinking silently.
Of course, not necessarily.
According to the limited information known in the previous life, this continent is very large. The northwest corner where humans live is not even as big as the area ruled by some countries in the center of the continent.
In such a large area, it is normal to have some sparsely populated areas. The exploration continued for the next two days, but there was no gain.
Until the evening of the third day.
Sha! Sha! Sha! "Roar." The evil dog showed its sharp teeth under its limbs and stared at the sand in front of it.
Pile upon bulging piles of sand quickly gathered here from the sand in front, as if something was attacking from under the desert.
Faced with this sudden situation,
Tang Zheng's somewhat dry cheeks revealed a smile: "It's good to have living things."
After exploring for several days, he did not encounter any living creatures, which made him wonder if this area was truly a barren land.
If you want to collect intelligence, you must communicate with intelligent creatures, but you haven't even encountered a living creature, let alone an intelligent creature.
Puff! Puff! The sand in front of us exploded, and a large amount of sand rushed into the sky, forming a yellow sand curtain that blocked the view.
Gray and earthy brown tails with hooks emerged from the exploding sand and stabbed fiercely towards Tang Zheng and the evil dog.
"A scorpion-like monster."
Tang Zheng took a glance, and an iron sword appeared in his palm. He took a step forward and swung his wrist.
With a casual swing, all the stabbing tail hooks were easily cut off.
The broken scorpion tails fell to the ground and twisted, and purple-red smelly blood flowed from the wounds.
"hiss--"
"hiss--"
“…………”
A painful hissing sound came from underground, and then several desert scorpions about one meter long crawled out from the sand.
Without waiting for these desert scorpions to make an attacking move.
Tang Zheng moved his feet and rushed into the scorpions. He swung the iron sword casually, easily breaking the earth-brown, solid shell.
"Experience gained: 421"
"Experience gained: 387"
"Experience gained: 405"
"..."
[Experience slot: 108632/120000]
A total of five desert scorpions were killed by Tang Zheng in just two breaths.
"The strength is not high, it should be around level 11 or 12." Tang Zheng saw the experience points gained on the panel and analyzed quickly.
He chose to use physical attacks instead of magic, naturally to avoid the noise caused by magic.
(End of this chapter)
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