Red jade sandworms are highly prized; even top-tier figures covet them. Shall we go find their lair?
The system is aware of the messages left by the hosts on the interface. If it can find a few larvae, the resources needed to leave this world will be secured.
Rong Yi sat inside the specially purchased tent, where he could finally take off his mask and eat something.
If food is taken out from outside, it will be blown into sand by the hot wind.
"I won't look for a host. That's my principle for adventurers. I'll leave everything to fate unless I'm willing to pay a higher price."
Red jade sandworms are extremely rare, and their larvae must be heavily protected. Even if one were to find one, it would be a brutal slaughter, which Rong Yi did not want.
These worms aren't invasive species like the ferocious worms, so you can kill them without hesitation. If they dare to kill creatures from this world, the world's consciousness can kick them out immediately.
Unless the worm swarm actively provokes her.
After hearing Rong Yi's words, the system fell silent.
Through various creatures that actively attacked him these past few days, Rong Yi sold a lot of energy stones, barely managing to increase his progress by 1%, which was already a very fast pace.
Rong Yi ate the ready-made food that Wei Yanqing had made before. He had specially prepared some delicious food for her and stored it in her storage compartment, considering that they might be separated one day.
She learned barbecue skills from Wei Yanqing, and her storage compartment contained many demonic creatures she had acquired in the previous world.
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Having been in this world for almost half a month, the weather has changed from scorching sun at the beginning to increasingly strong winds now.
The temperature difference between day and night is huge; it can kill living things in the heat during the day and freeze everything in ice at night.
Before the sun rises in the early morning, hidden below the horizon, its light has already illuminated the sky.
After Rong Yi finished dressing and packed up the tent, a large number of creatures crawled out of the sand outside the cave, collecting the rare water droplets.
She saw various scaly and swarming creatures, their bodies covered in water droplets, which they quickly absorbed as the sun was about to rise.
Rong Yi squatted to the side, watching the spectacular scene without moving.
Before sunrise, the creatures burrow back underground one by one, and at this time they will not attack each other. Anyone who breaks the rules will be surrounded and killed.
Once there was no living creature left outside, Rong Yi got up and continued walking.
But the sun had only been out for a short while when a strong wind arose, and the flying yellow sand turned the world into a dim yellow. Not to mention the sun, Rong Yi himself couldn't distinguish between humans and animals even half a meter away.
Thankfully, after walking for so many days, we finally saw a grotto.
In the dimly lit world, relying on the topographical map to move forward, they finally reached the cave after more than half an hour.
The cave has many openings, and without a map or if you are not familiar with the area, you can easily get lost inside and may be trapped for a long time without finding an exit.
Inside the grotto was a hollowed-out space. Rong Yi saw many moving yellow dots inside, indicating that they were neither ordinary people without energy storage nor players, but intelligent natives of this world.
Rong Yi slowly approached the object and soon heard a sound.
The system then converted the language into a way she could understand.
"A sandstorm is coming, but this time something's not right."
"It's been over a week now, I need to go to the main city to ask."
It turned out to be a sandstorm outside. Rong Yi was wondering why the sandstorm was stronger than before.
Rong Yi's entrance put the natives on guard; they had never seen a "native" dressed so strangely before.
"Who are you?"
As the natives asked questions, Rong Yi also saw their appearance clearly. They had humanoid bodies and their skin was dry like vertical scales, but upon closer inspection, it could be seen that they were keratinized skin rather than real scales.
Because of the dryness, they look particularly thin. When they blink, their eyes are like those of crocodiles, which have a membrane that blocks light and dust and keeps them moist.
The native's eyes had a faint purple tint, which, combined with his outer skin, quite matched Rong Yi's image of an alien.
"People traveling abroad should come here to take shelter from sandstorms."
Rong Yi spoke the same language as the natives, which made them relax a little.
The indigenous people also wore clothes, but the material looked like the skin of local creatures. They were more like capes than clothes. The female indigenous people wore veils to protect themselves from the sun.
But seeing someone like Rong Yi, who was wrapped up so tightly, for the first time, they couldn't help but take a few more curious glances.
After Rong Yi came in, she sat in the corner. The natives began to feel a little awkward. As time went on, she didn't say anything, and the natives continued talking about the topic they had just discussed.
“No sandstorm has ever lasted this long before, there must be something wrong.”
“Actually…” a female native spoke up, “My family and I stayed in the capital for a while last time. At that time, we heard someone say that a sandstorm that only comes once every thousand years is coming soon, and it may be this time.”
"A millennium-old sandstorm?!"
Natural disasters are inevitable in any environment. The sandstorms here are far more frequent than those on ordinary planets, not to mention the sandstorms that occur only once every thousand years.
"We can't stay here, the yellow sand will bury this."
"Go to the capital, where great figures can push aside the yellow sand after a sandstorm."
Indigenous people live for at most two hundred years, and a thousand years is enough for future generations to be unable to comprehend the power of a disaster of this magnitude.
"You can hide in a cave like this and be fine?" the slightly younger native asked, puzzled.
“Silly child, the millennium sandstorm is different. The gale can blow hundreds of meters of yellow sand from the other half of the planet. When that happens, the caves that were buried on the other half of the planet will reappear on the sand surface, while the small caves here will be completely buried, waiting to see the light of day again in the next millennium sandstorm.”
The millennial dust storms do not occur simultaneously across the entire planet, but rather on one side of the planet over a millennium. However, to the indigenous people, it is no different from an all-encompassing event. In order to survive, they must migrate to the other side of the planet, repeating this process every millennium.
"Is it too late for us to leave now?" Realizing that the millennium-old sandstorm was no ordinary event, some of the young indigenous people began to worry.
"Not so fast. What we're seeing now is just the prelude. There's still some time before the real catastrophe. We'll have enough time to find the main force and migrate together."
The natives sat together, their fathers and sons showing affection and their mothers showing kindness. Rong Yi, feeling awkward, sat in a corner and slipped a small bottle of purified water into a box on her waist. This way, she wouldn't have to take off her mask to drink; the box would automatically feed the water to her mouth through a tube.
As darkness fell, the natives started a fire. The temperature at night could drop to tens of degrees below zero, and without proper care to keep warm, one could die without even realizing it.
Rong Yi moved to a more secluded spot, where she could be completely invisible unless one looked closely.
The natives didn't pay much attention to the stranger who suddenly came in. They took out the dry, rock-like food, used their powerful bite force and sharp teeth to crush it, and chewed it for a long time before swallowing it.
After they finished eating, they took out a strangely shaped, bulging, water-bag-like object.
The native sucked directly from the tiny opening of the bag, his Adam's apple bobbing up and down as he drank water.
Rong Yi carefully sensed it and then saw that the water bag moved. It wasn't shrinking due to sucking, but rather wriggling from bottom to top.
Rong Yi: "..."
She scanned the so-called water bag and fell silent.
Third-order water sac worm...
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