Chapter 78 Tracing the Desert (1) - Discovering the Oasis
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"..."
Before them stretched a vast, boundless desert.
Wu Yi's terrified voice came over: "Sister Ning, are we dreaming?"
Ning Shu: "...Probably not."
Wu Yi: "Did we leave the safe zone while we were chatting?"
Ning Shu: "No, not either."
Wu Yi: "So now it's..."
Ning Shu: "Copy".
Damn it, it's a non-fixed instance, and they actually ran into it!
Li Mengqi stated that the safe zone is only safe relative to fixed instances, but is ineffective for non-fixed instances.
That's how they ended up running into them.
Wu Yi almost burst into tears: "Sister Ning, I don't want to play this dungeon."
"..."
It's as if she wants to play around.
Now there's an even more serious problem: Ning Shu's current attire is really unsuitable for tackling dungeons.
She was wearing a T-shirt, shorts, and slippers, looking like she had just finished showering and was about to go downstairs to throw out the trash.
Then the game knocked me into a dungeon.
The key point is that the only prop she has now is this pair of glasses, and that's it.
Luckily, she had just finished eating, otherwise she would have been eating sand right away.
Thinking of this, Ning Shu looked at Wu Yi and asked, "Have you had lunch?"
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Wu Yi was surprised that Ning Shu would care about this.
"...Eat, I ate." Is this the time to be concerned about that?
Ning Shu didn't say anything, just nodded, and looked down at the game's freebies—survival supply packs thrown at their feet.
She opened the zipper and looked through the items inside, and Wu Yi followed suit.
Inside were a compass, a flashlight, two bottles of water, 15 compressed biscuits, a sun hat, and a whistle.
Ning Shu didn't understand the meaning of this whistle. Did it mean that blowing it would bring a rescue team to save them?
The sun hat was the same style as the fisherman's hat, military green. I wonder if they were trying to artificially create some greenery in the desert.
Ning Shu looked up at the sun in the sky. It seemed to be midday here too. It was scorching hot, and being in the desert, the perceived temperature was incredibly high.
She quickly put on her sun hat and fell into deep thought as she looked at the few supplies in her bag.
She was eager to know how to survive in the desert for 30 days with such limited supplies, let alone complete any missions.
The man with glasses described the items in the supply bag one by one, and then the text disappeared.
Hmm, is there something wrong with these glasses? Why is there a blurry patch in the upper left corner?
It looks like glass fogged up by water vapor, making it difficult to see clearly.
Ning Shu took off her glasses and wiped them with the hem of her clothes, then put them back on, but the glasses were still there. She took them off again and wiped them again, but the glasses were still there.
Isn't this an item dropped from a dungeon? Why is it pulled like this? Wait, this blurry area doesn't seem to be on the glasses.
Ning Shugang blinked, trying to see if there was something wrong with him, when he heard Wu Yi shouting.
"Sister Ning, I have a problem with my eyes. Is my cornea injured?!"
"Cornea injury? What did you do to injure your cornea?" Ning Shu looked at Wu Yi speechlessly.
“I see a blurry thing in my upper left corner, and it’s always in the upper left corner no matter where I look.”
Ning Shu's heart skipped a beat. She carefully inquired about the situation and then said, "Don't panic, I have it too. It's probably a game setting."
Wu Yi was relieved: "But what is this? It's a blurry mess, I can't even see what it is. Why is this part of the game settings?"
Ning Shu didn't know either: "I don't know, let's not worry about that for now. It's too sunny, I'll get baked dry if we keep talking. Let's hurry up and move on."
Wu Yi asked curiously, "Which way are we going? Do you know how to use a compass?"
"No." Ning Shu certainly wouldn't use it; her good sense of direction depended on having navigation or reference points.
There's nothing but sand all around here, I don't know why the game gives a compass, it would be more practical to give a couple of compressed biscuits.
Wu Yi: "Which way should we go?"
Ning Shu looked up and gestured: "Over there."
The glasses prop was quite a good thing; it seemed to have known her needs, and two large characters appeared in the air—Oasis.
Next to these two characters, there is a leader line and an arrow pointing in one direction.
With glasses, why would you need a compass?
Wu Yi asked curiously, "Sister Ning, how did you know?"
Ning Shugang's explanation that her glasses were props was completely pointless; she was too lazy to answer and simply said, "Intuition."
Wu Yi's eyes lit up: "Sister Ning is so amazing!"
Ning Shu was wearing short sleeves and a t-shirt, which didn't provide much coverage. After walking for a while, she felt like her skin was about to be burned.
However, there was nowhere to rest. Although Wu Yi was a rough and careless person, he was actually quite perceptive. He noticed that Ning Shu kept rubbing his arms and guessed that it was because of the sun.
He was wearing long sleeves and trousers, and quickly took off his coat and handed it to Ning Shu: "Sister Ning, wear my coat to block the sun."
Ning Shu looked at him and saw that he was only wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt, and asked a little embarrassedly, "Then what will you do?"
Wu Yi said nonchalantly, "I'm a grown man, why would I be afraid of this little bit of sun? Besides, it's not a big deal for a guy to get a tan."
This was quite different from his usual style, but Ning Shu still accepted it, after all, she really couldn't stand the intense sun.
They walked for quite a while, and when a patch of green and a water source appeared before them, Wu Yi was as happy as a child.
Desert oases are generally located in low-lying areas of the desert, and water sources are mostly distributed in a strip-like pattern.
This is because rainwater, snowmelt, or even rivers seep into the sand and become groundwater as they flow through the desert.
This is caused by groundwater flowing along impermeable rock layers to low-lying areas in the desert and then gushing out onto the surface.
With a water source, various vegetation will grow nearby, especially drought-resistant plants.
Upon seeing the water source, Wu Yi dashed off downstream, with Ning Shu close behind.
The two first drank heartily, and then Ning Shu instructed Wu Yi: "Take out the bottle of water that you just finished drinking from and fill it with water."
Wu Yi nodded in response.
After filling her water container, Ning Shu looked around and discovered that there were fruit trees. She had never been to a desert region, so she didn't recognize date palms or abalone trees, but she did recognize grapes.
She rushed over, picked a few plump grapes, wiped them with her hands, ate one, and found it a little sour but very thirst-quenching.
She also saw other fruits hanging on some trees, so she quickly called Wu Yi over.
"Look, there are still many fruits on these trees. I'll go pick grapes, and you go pick these two kinds of fruits. Pick the ones that are ripe but not too ripe, and fill both backpacks."
Wu Yi: "Why fill it up? Isn't that heavy? Let's just pick as much as we need."
Ning Shu was speechless: "Are you stupid? There must be other players in this instance. We might be the first people to get here."
"Quickly pick all the fruit you can, fill not only your schoolbag, but also your clothes and pockets!"
Wu Yi then understood Ning Shu's meaning and quickly went to take action.
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