"Let's go. We can't stay here any longer after this door appears." Mo Shuwan said, pushing open the door and walking in first.
Seeing Wen Zuo and Liu Dongcheng following closely behind, Chen Jiaxu pouted, "Yang Zhou, we're the two weakest. If we encounter any danger or accident later, you must keep an eye on me."
Yang Zhou looked helpless. "I know, let's hurry up and go in. If we dawdle any longer, we might get separated from the captain and the others again."
Upon hearing that he might get separated from Mo Shuwan and the others, Chen Jiaxu immediately panicked. He quickly reached out and pushed Yang Zhou, who was standing at the door, inside, and then rushed in himself.
As soon as they stepped out of the gate, a sandstorm hit their faces, making it impossible for them to open their eyes for a moment. Mo Shuwan raised her hand to pat her face, but the sand seemed endless and she couldn't brush it off no matter what she did.
Behind them came Chen Jiaxu's loud, boisterous voice: "Holy crap, is this a desert? There's so much sand."
Yang Zhou said, "You probably guessed right."
Mo Shuwan squinted to barely make out their surroundings. In front of them was an endless expanse of yellow sand, with sand visibly whipping against their faces in the wind. She turned to look behind her and saw the same endless desert. The gate they had just come out of had disappeared.
The others squinted and surveyed the desert, eventually becoming completely bewildered. Even Liu Dongcheng, who was usually taciturn, frowned. "This doesn't make sense in a game, does it?"
"Does this mean we have to escape to the desert?"
Upon discovering that they were in a desert, Wen Zuo squatted down and touched the sand. Hearing this, he shook his head. "This isn't a normal desert. It should be noon right now. Let's wait here; there will be a notification."
When Wen Zuo brought it up, Mo Shuwan immediately realized that at this time, if they were in a real desert, they should feel extremely hot. However, not only did they not feel hot, but they also felt that the wind was slightly cool. Of course, the experience of having sand blown up by the wind and covering their faces was not very pleasant.
"I wonder what kind of calamity awaits me in this trial," Mo Shuwan murmured.
After figuring out their current situation, they didn't dare to relax. They spent more than ten minutes surveying the surrounding area, but found no trace of monsters or human footsteps. It seemed as if only the five of them remained in the entire desert.
Welcome to the second major level.
"They're here!"
Chen Jiaxu, who had been sitting lazily on the ground, suddenly jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, staring wide-eyed at the words formed by the sand on the ground.
'You need to build a desert city within a month, and have at least one hundred residents within that month, to pass the test.'
The countdown begins now. Good luck!
After the black text disappeared, a map appeared in front of Mo Shuwan's feet. Before it was swept away by the sandstorm, she immediately bent down and picked it up. It was a map of this desert, and their current location was marked with a red dot, indicating that they were very, very far away from the nearest oasis.
"Are you kidding me?! Our main quest is just to survive for fifteen days! Now this level's quest is to build a desert city within a month? What does this mean? Are we going to be left behind?"
Mo Shuwan glanced at Chen Jiaxu and noticed that he had become more talkative since losing an eye. He was constantly chattering away in her ear, and it was really... quite annoying.
"Don't rush. Although the game world says we can build a desert city in a month, it doesn't mean the flow rate here is the same as outside."
Mo Shuwan's calm voice calmed the panicked Chen Jiaxu down a little. He wanted to ask more, but Yang Zhou pulled him aside.
Yang Zhou said helplessly, "Please be quiet for a moment and don't disturb the captain and the others' thinking."
"……oh."
Mo Shuwan thought for a moment and said, "To build a desert city, we must first find an oasis."
“I saw on the forum before that almost every team encounters a different mission in the second major stage. Apart from us, there shouldn’t be any other teams in this desert, but we still need to be on the safe side.” Wen Zuobian said as he took out a pen and paper and circled several oases on the map.
"There are many oases here, and they are not far apart from each other. Let's go and take a look."
“Okay.” Mo Shuwan nodded, still looking at the map repeatedly. She helplessly discovered that the map only covered the current desert area. Towns that might exist outside the desert were not included on the map.
Their task was not only to build a desert city, but also to have at least one hundred residents in it. Completing these two arduous tasks in a month was extremely difficult.
After putting the map away, Mo Shuwan said worriedly, "We still need to find a town first. Otherwise, if we find an oasis but discover that there are no towns around, we won't be able to complete our mission at all."
"Don't rush. The direction we chose earlier is closest to the edge of the map. Since this map shows the entire desert, once we reach the edge—"
Mo Shuwan, who was slightly anxious because she was worried about not being able to complete the mission, turned to look at Wen Zuo. Seeing his helpless expression and that he was about to put down his head to type, she couldn't help but laugh. "Next time, you should exchange for more voice-restoring pills."
Wen nodded slightly on the left side of the typing area.
Wen Zuo: Once you reach the edge of the desert, it should be easy to find towns.
Yang Zhou sighed, "What I'm worried about is that we'll have a hard time getting to the oasis safely."
Yang Zhou's concerns were not unfounded. Although they did not have to face the extremely harsh temperature problem in the desert, this was a game world, which did not have any rules. Who knew what even more dangerous things might be waiting for them?
"Let's go first. Everyone stay alert. Judging from the direction on the map, we still have a long way to go, and it's very likely that we'll spend half of the next month traveling."
They all nodded, their mood growing even heavier. It was already difficult to find their way in the desert; even seasoned desert travelers could get lost, let alone the five of them who had never been to the desert before.
Unable to discern directions, in a place surrounded by sand, they might not even realize they've gone the wrong way.
Without the threat of high temperatures, Mo Shuwan and the others didn't actually find the journey too difficult. However, walking for several hours straight through what appeared to be the same desert in their eyes was bound to make them feel restless.
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