"Alas—" Lou Feier sighed deeply and looked up at the endless desert. "We won't be able to get out of here if we keep going this way. This desert is probably...very, very vast."
Jin Yue took out a bottle of water from her backpack, drank a few sips, and put it back in her backpack. "Well, if we are in the middle of the desert, I'm afraid we will never be able to get out if we walk."
Now that the earth's surface area has expanded a hundred times, the area of the desert is larger than ordinary people can imagine, and it is impossible to get out of it simply by walking.
It is precisely because of this that the three of them took a short rest here and did not rush forward.
"Aside from these strange plants, there's not even a place to get shade around here." Lou Feier stood in the shade of a thick, dense hemp flower tree and fanned herself with her hands. "If this continues, we'll probably all die of dehydration..."
She was soaked in sweat and her hair was stuck to her forehead.
Having been exposed to the strong sunlight until now, her eyes began to look a little dazed.
Shi Wanyun squatted on the ground and picked up a handful of sand.
The sand and stones were very hot under the strong sunlight.
The sand and gravel are not fine, but very rough, and there are some small stones mixed in it. Compared with the fine sand on the beach, the sand and gravel here cannot be walked on barefoot, otherwise you will only get scratched.
Shi Wanyun rubbed her palms together, letting the sand slide off. She turned to the other two and said, "The water resources here are enough for the three of us to last a long time, at least a few months. We won't die of thirst... unless we're trapped in this desert for a few months."
"Don't say such terrible things!" Lou Feier looked at the endless desert, then rolled her eyes slightly and sighed again.
She has no confidence anymore.
The scenery around here is all the same. The three women have been walking for more than three hours, and there is not even a single change.
If they had not been using the sun and time as standards to determine their direction, she would even think that they had been spinning in circles for two hours.
Jin Yue reached out and touched the twisted and strangely dead tree: "Don't worry too much, maybe we can find an oasis nearby."
The same kind of insects crawled out from the twisted cracks again.
"This tree must be alive," Jin Yue speculated. "At least it means this place isn't so dead and dry. Maybe there's an undercurrent underground. Otherwise, these plants and the insects that inhabit them wouldn't be able to survive. Maybe there's an oasis nearby."
Lou Feier looked at the tree. "The roots of plants in the desert can burrow hundreds of meters underground to absorb water. Who knows how deep this strange plant can burrow? Hundreds of meters is possible, or even thousands of meters?"
"Dig down." Shi Wanyun grabbed another handful of sand and gravel and said softly, "Maybe we can give it a try."
"...Huh?" Lou Fei'er looked at her with wide eyes. "What do you mean? Dig down? Why?"
Jin Yue also looked at her in confusion.
"Don't forget, our current goal is to find a place where I can draw the teleportation array."
Shi Wanyun patted her hand that had just been holding the sand and stood up and said.
She had tried to draw on the desert sand before, but had never been able to do it.
The sand and gravel are too loose and will fall apart if you apply any force, or even be blown away by the wind.
Moreover, the sun at this time was too scorching, burning the skin of the three women. The patterns drawn by the mutant creatures' blood would be evaporated within ten seconds.
Therefore, the teleportation array pattern cannot be drawn successfully.
The three women walked for so long just to find a place with flat ground and no direct sunlight that would cause the blood to evaporate.
As long as the teleportation array can be drawn successfully, they can go back.
The main thing is the flat ground. After all, the sunlight is a factor that disappears at night.
But along the way, they didn't see anything like that.
Condition.
"No way... This is a desert, not soil." Lou Feier lowered her head and stepped on the sand. "Can you dig a hole in this kind of ground? You can't. If you dig out a shovelful, it will be filled with sand and rocks from the surrounding area."
"The sand around this plant is a bit rougher and more compact. Maybe we can try that. Underneath the sand... it shouldn't be so loose, right?"
"Then let's give it a try!"
There was no way to continue walking, so the three women had no choice but to try this seemingly outrageous and stupid behavior.
result……
Barely succeeded.
Although the sand and gravel around the plants are relatively compact, they still have the properties of sand and have a certain fluidity.
The three women could only increase the scope of sand and gravel excavation, and gradually dug out a funnel-shaped pit with a depth of two meters.
"Ah, the sand and gravel below have become a bit hard!" Lou Feier said in surprise as soon as she dug a shovel.
The three women immediately dug again.
They gradually discovered that the sand and gravel underground near the plant was very compact, while at a location relatively far away from the plant, even at the same depth, it was still loose.
Shi Wanyun dug up the compacted sand and gravel and found some... densely packed small holes on it.
"...These compacted sands and stones seem to be the masterpieces of those insects." Shi Wanyun frowned.
"This really looks like the insects' nest." Lou Feier squatted down to take a look. "We dug up their nest. I hope they won't rush out and fight us..."
Before she finished speaking, her words came true.
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