Chen Jiaxu, clinging to hope, and the stratosphere also jumped in hastily. However, the sandstorm wasn't strong tonight, and the pit wasn't covered immediately. Wen Zuo, who had already activated a defensive talisman and was still holding onto hope, stuffed it into Liu Dongcheng's arms and quickly climbed back up.
"Wen Zuo! Get down here quickly!"
At Chen Jiaxu's anxious cries, Wen Zuo pushed the sand to bury most of them before jumping down and piling sand on himself. The biting cold made his movements slower and slower.
Chen Jiaxu stared blankly at the sand, which was isolated by the defensive talisman, and then his eyes widened even more, "Damn it, Wen Zuo hasn't come over yet!"
"He's fine." Liu Dongcheng pressed down on Chen Jiaxu's hand, which was about to brush away the sand.
Chen Jiaxu looked anxious. "Hopefully, the stratosphere is with us. Even if he comes down, he'll freeze to death! We have to get him in quickly! The captain told me to keep an eye on you. How can we let Wen Zuo wander outside now!"
Liu Dongchen stared silently at Chen Jiaxu, a vein throbbing on his forehead. His voice lowered further. "I told you he's fine. If you don't keep quiet, not only will he be in trouble, but we will too."
"Then..." Chen Jiaxu reacted and covered his mouth in horror.
On the other side, Mo Shuwan and Yang Zhou were still lying on the steep slope they had been on before. Worried that there might still be monsters left in the oasis, the two of them did not dare to make any rash moves and remained frozen on the sand for more than ten minutes.
Mo Shuwan trembled as she took out a map and found a red dot between the oasis in front of her and the next oasis.
"Hiss... those monsters really are gone." Mo Shuwan put away the map, trembling as she sent the message that the monsters had gone far away to the discussion group, and then lay down to stare at the oasis not far away.
"Captain, it seems there really are no monsters left in the oasis, but the oasis looks perfectly fine. Why did those monsters suddenly leave?"
Mo Shuwan was also thinking about this question. Upon hearing this, she shook her head. "I don't know. Maybe it's their living habits, maybe they can't stay in the oasis anymore, or maybe the next oasis has a more attractive place for them."
It's only been about a day since we first encountered the monsters, but in such a short time, the first batch of monsters we encountered has already moved between two oases and is now heading towards the third oasis. There's definitely something wrong with that.
However, they cannot know the exact problem simply by guessing; they must verify the situation themselves.
Mo Shuwan gasped and moved her fingers, which had become stiff from pressing on the sand. "I'll go check on the situation."
"Captain, let me go!"
Mo Shuwan turned to Yang Zhou helplessly, "What if there are still monsters in the oasis? Can you handle them?"
Her voice was calm, and she was simply stating a fact. Yang Zhou didn't feel slighted; he was indeed too weak. Helpless, he could only let go and whisper, "Captain, be careful. I'll keep an eye on the surroundings."
"You also need to be careful. Keep the defensive talisman on at all times, and call me immediately if you encounter any danger."
As she walked toward the oasis, Mo Shuwan immediately activated a defensive talisman. The terrifying speed of those monsters made her wary, and she couldn't guarantee that she would still be able to activate the defensive talisman when she spotted them.
It took her more than ten minutes to walk the distance of about 100 meters.
The oasis was really small; you could see the end of it at a glance. There was nowhere to hide inside. After just one look, Mo Shuwan confirmed that there were indeed no monsters here.
She first sent a message to Wen Zuo and the others, asking them to come over, then turned around and called Yang Zhou over before walking into the oasis. The grass under her feet had turned yellowish-brown, and it even made a crunching sound when she stepped on it.
This oasis was, after all, a place where monsters had been, and it was a mess to behold. Mo Shuwan looked around and took a few more steps inside. In less than two minutes, she arrived at the only lake in the oasis, which was only about ten meters in diameter and the water inside was very dirty.
Yang Zhou, who was running towards the oasis, paused, rubbed his eyes, and after confirming that what he was seeing was not a hallucination, his expression changed drastically. "Captain! Come out quickly! The oasis is disappearing!!!"
Mo Shuwan, who was squatting in front of the lake preparing to check, changed her expression slightly, quickly stood up, and rushed out of the oasis.
The oasis was shrinking at a visible rate, and fearing that something might happen if they stayed nearby, the two immediately retreated to the steep slope they had been on before.
"The oasis has really disappeared..."
Mo Shuwan pursed her lips and remained silent. She glanced one last time at the oasis, which had shrunk to only a few dozen square meters, and silently took out a map. The size of the oasis on the map had not changed, nor had it disappeared.
Half an hour later, Wen Zuo and the other two arrived.
Wen Zuo quickly walked to Mo Shuwan's side, pressed her shoulder, and asked silently.
"I'm fine." Mo Shuwan shook her head. "Take a look at the map."
Holding both of Mo Shuwan's hands in his own, Wen Zuo looked down at the map. Hope, who had been put down by Chen Jiaxu, stumbled over to Mo Shuwan and plopped down on the map.
Mo Shuwan was both amused and exasperated, and reached out to push Hope aside, "Stop fooling around."
The night sky in this desert is filled with so many bright stars that it could be called a galaxy, so even without any lighting equipment, they could still read the map without any problems.
Liu Dongcheng and Chen Jiaxu also came over. When they saw that the oasis was almost overlapping with their location, they were all stunned. They subconsciously turned their heads to look around, but all around was sand. Where was the oasis?
Wen Zuo looked at Mo Shuwan in surprise.
Mo Shuwan sighed helplessly, "The oasis has disappeared. Before, those monsters would never stay in the oasis for long before leaving. Now it seems that they knew the oasis would disappear, so they rushed to the next oasis before it disappeared."
"The oasis will disappear... so how do we build a desert city?"
Chen Jiaxu's frustration was everyone's frustration. Before arriving here, no one expected the oases to disappear, and these disappeared oases did not disappear from the map.
Wen Zuo: No rush. These lost oases should reappear, otherwise the monsters' routes wouldn't be so predictable.
"Is there a pattern?"
Wen Zuo nodded and pointed to the red dot on the map representing the group of monsters that had just left.
Mo Shuwan looked down carefully and finally discovered the pattern Wen Zuo had mentioned: "The oasis they went to is the same one that the previous group of monsters went to." After a moment of contemplation, she said, "Let's stay here for a day and see what's going on at the oasis."
They finally reached the oasis, but it had vanished. Their water and food supplies were dwindling, and they needed to replenish them as soon as possible.
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