Chapter 100: Contact Established
Seeing that Nie Xiaoxiao was extremely excited, Achen arranged for her to take the first shift of the night watch.
“Junior Brother Zuo, you don’t need to do the night watch, I’ll take care of it all myself!” Nie Xiaoxiao said.
"Are you sure you can stay up all night?" Ah Chen asked.
“I can have my fairy keep watch at night. She’s a spiritual plant and doesn’t need to sleep,” Nie Xiaoxiao said.
“But I remember your Xianxian was injured when she was fighting the Black Fiery Falcon flock on the second floor, wasn’t she?” Achen asked.
"That's right, those damn birds can breathe fire. My Xianxian used her fairy thorn to injure them, and as a result, they breathed fire and burned at least 20% of her branches."
However, after entering the fourth level, Xianxian's injuries recovered considerably, and she even gained many new branches.
Then I remembered that the true form of the fairy is the cactus thorn, which is a plant found in the desert.
"When we arrive in the desert, it's like returning to Xianxian's hometown. The climate and environment here are particularly suitable for its growth," Nie Xiaoxiao said.
With Xianxian as their protector, the three of them went to sleep soundly.
However, since this was a gerbil's den, they dared not sleep for too long, so they asked Xianxian to wake them up before dawn.
After sleeping for nearly three hours and recovering their strength, everyone continued on their journey.
They still ventured into gerbil burrows, and now they were quite adept at it, emerging from one burrow and disappearing into another.
By the time the sun was directly overhead, they had already crossed most of the desert.
When Ah Chen's communication talisman lit up, he almost thought he was dreaming.
After staring at it for three seconds, she finally activated the communication talisman, and Leng Qiuchan's familiar voice immediately came through:
"Junior Brother Zuo, where are you? I'm with Senior Brother Ni, and we're heading east."
The sound transmission talisman can accurately pinpoint locations and confirm that the distance between the two parties will not exceed 500 li.
"Senior Sister Leng, we just crawled out of a gerbil burrow. There are no obvious signs around. Were there any landmarks along the way you walked?" Achen quickly replied.
Although they could locate themselves, this was a desert, and they relied on gerbil burrows to avoid sand scorpion swarms, so they still couldn't travel in a straight line.
To find them, it's best to have landmarks along the way.
"Ahhhhh! We finally got in touch! Waaaaah! Junior Brother Zuo, I thought we'd only be able to see each other again after leaving the Spirit Realm and returning to the Academy."
"Great, great! Oh, the landmark you mentioned, we passed a small oasis and two crescent-shaped lakes yesterday, but they were dry. I don't know if that counts as a landmark?" Leng Qiuchan quickly replied.
Overwhelmed with emotion, she hugged Ni Zhiyong tightly.
The girl's soft body seamlessly connected with his, and Ni Zhiyong froze for a moment.
Her fragrance wafted over him, lingering in his nostrils. Though her skin was covered by her clothes, it felt like burning embers, searing every inch of his skin.
The brief hug ended abruptly as Leng Qiuchan replied to Achen.
Looking up and seeing Ni Zhiyong's stunned expression, Leng Qiuchan couldn't help but laugh and said, "Senior Brother Ni, are you so happy you've gone crazy?"
"Huh? Oh, I am quite happy," Ni Zhiyong replied hastily.
"Senior Sister Leng, you should use the communication talisman sparingly, otherwise it will soon exceed the number of uses and become a piece of waste paper."
Just listen to what I'm about to say; you don't need to reply for now.
We will speed up in your direction, but you don't need to stop and wait for us.
Because the desert harbors many potential dangers, staying in one place for too long might attract terrifying desert monsters.
"You two must be extremely careful. If you encounter a situation where death is certain, do not struggle; immediately crush the teleportation jade talisman and leave."
After replying to this message, Achen then explained the situation in detail to Nie Xiaoxiao and Lele.
The three of them headed towards the location indicated on the communication talisman, trying to choose a straight line as much as possible.
This time, instead of continuing to explore the gerbil burrows, they affixed talismans to their bodies and quickly moved forward across the desert.
Perhaps the three of them were traveling fast enough, or perhaps there weren't any particularly sharp and hungry monsters along the way, as they quickly closed the distance between themselves and Leng Qiuchan and her companion.
“Oasis! Is that the landmark that Senior Sister Leng mentioned?” Nie Xiaoxiao was the first to spot the oasis; it was Xianxian who pointed it out to her.
Once at its base camp, Xianxian felt right at home. It could communicate with the surrounding spirit plants at any time. Since they were all desert plants, there was no conflict of interest between them. In addition, Xianxian was of a high level, so the spirit plants were happy to pass on information to it.
According to the information Xianxian obtained, there is a huge creature in this desert, so the sand scorpions dare not set foot there.
The big guy is a sixth-tier lizard king, but it chooses to sleep most of the time, and low-tier small animals like gerbils don't bother it.
Low-level human cultivators like Ah Chen wouldn't provoke it either.
With this information, Ah Chen and the others continued their frantic running, clinging to the Swiftness Talisman.
As evening approached, they finally got close to Leng Qiuchan and the others. Judging from the distance shown on the communication talisman, they should only be a dozen miles away.
Nie Xiaoxiao was overjoyed, and Achen was also a little excited. After all, it was rare to find his teammates in such a vast desert.
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