Chapter 36 On the Road
To be honest, if Mai Dong hadn't completely changed everyone's impression of her over the past ten days, her desire to go to the forest would definitely have been ridiculed.
Now, not only does no one mock her for overestimating her own abilities, but those viewers who are already her die-hard fans are also worried about her.
Because there are too many potential dangers in the forest, two adventurers have died in the forest so far.
Mai Dong naturally didn't know what kind of motherly attitude her die-hard fans had towards her, worrying about her in every way. She walked towards the forest at a moderate pace.
Whenever he reached the top of a sand dune, Maidong would look around for a place to spend the night.
She didn't dare to search with her mental power anymore because she had consumed too much mental energy in the sandstorm.
Especially in the last half hour, she was nearly hit by debris in the sand twice. Unable to dodge, she had to use her mental power as a barrier to protect herself.
Therefore, Mai Dong now only has 20% of her mental abilities left. In this environment, she cannot sit and practice mental meditation to restore her mental strength, and the speed of natural recovery is very slow.
In the sandstorm, Mai Dong's physical strength was almost exhausted.
However, as long as she could sit down and have a good rest, her physical strength would recover faster than her mental abilities. After lying on the sand dunes for more than ten minutes, she had already recovered half of her physical strength.
Her wood ability was fine, but it was too weak for Mai Dong. It had no fighting power and was completely useless in the sandstorm.
When she didn't need the wood-related supernatural power to give birth, Maidong would often forget that she still had the wood-related supernatural power.
This is why Mai Dong forced herself to drink meat soup even though she couldn't eat anything. This meat soup was made from level 3 mutant wolf meat, which not only could slowly restore her physical strength, but also help her mental power recover faster.
But as the saying goes, it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. Mai Dong is already accustomed to exploring with his mental power, so if he uses his eyes to observe, he always feels that the range of what his eyes can see is too narrow.
She walked for more than ten minutes, and all she could see were sand dunes. Finally, she couldn't help but search the surroundings with her mental power. In order to reduce consumption, she scanned the area every two or three minutes.
They walked and watched like this for more than half an hour. Within the range of Mai Dong's mental detection, there were only sand dunes and no place for her to sit down and spend the night.
By this time the sky was already getting dark, and the temperature had dropped after the sandstorm. The wind was chilly rather than cool.
Mai Dong had no choice but to release her mental power to expand the search range, and finally found a stone forest four kilometers to the right of her route.
There should be a place in the stone forest where they can shelter from the wind and spend the night, but it is so far away from the current route. Then she thought of the mutant beasts that kept coming to drink water along the way during the ten days she stayed in Oasis No. 1.
The desert around here is nothing but sand dunes, so the place where those mutants are hiding is likely to be this stone forest.
Mai Dong hesitated for a moment. In her current physical condition, she was not suitable for hunting groups of mutant beasts.
For safety reasons, she decided not to go over there. After making up her mind, Mai Dong continued to move forward, but her pace slightly quickened.
Maybe Maidong was just unlucky today. She couldn't find a place to shelter from the wind until it was completely dark.
However, when we got here, the monotonous dune landscape finally changed, and the dunes began to become shorter and taller. About a kilometer ahead, gravel landforms began to appear between the dunes.
Although there is no water in the sandy place and the second largest sand dune cannot block the cold wind, it is better than sitting on the sand dunes and eating sand.
So after walking over, Maidong chose a relatively flat place to sit down.
She took out some dry wood from her space backpack and started a fire. These were the trunks of mutant poplar trees that she had dried in the oasis.
Populus chinensis branches are very resistant to burning and do not produce much smoke, so Maidong spent some effort to find withered Populus chinensis trees in the oasis and collected them to burn as dry firewood.
When he discovered that a sandstorm was coming today, Mai Dong did not forget to put all the poplar trunks that were still drying in the sun into the space buckle and space backpack.
After lighting the bonfire, not only my body but also my heart felt warm. I put on a pot and cooked some hot soup made from mutant meat. Even though the wind was very cold, Maidong didn't feel cold.
But it was impossible to sleep in such a place. Maidong was warming himself by the fire, looking after Juaner and keeping a vigilant eye on the surroundings.
Mai Dong's guess turned out to be correct; that piece of stone forest was the gathering place of the mutant animals.
She was not far from the stone forest, so she encountered two waves of mutant animal attacks at night, and both waves were groups of mutant animals.
However, the mutant leading the group is only a level two mutant, while most of the others are still level one mutants.
Even if there were more than a dozen of them at a time, Maidong could quickly kill them with a single blow. The fields of these mutants, except for those that were very alert and escaped, became Maidong's stockpile of food.
Although there was no danger, in such an environment, Maidong only managed to survive a few attempts.
When the east of the aquamarine planet began to be dyed with rosy clouds, Maidong, who had not slept all night, felt a little sleepy.
By the time she cooked the meat soup and ate and drank her fill, her abilities and physical strength had almost recovered.
So soon as the sky brightened, she continued to head towards the forest.
While cooking breakfast, Mai Dong took some time to read the hot news on Star Network and the forum of Huangguo Live.
There wasn't any big news in the Nerazzurri yesterday. The hot news was all gossip about celebrities, so Mai Dong naturally had no interest in reading them.
However, the Huangguo Live forum was very lively, with many viewers discussing the sandstorm in the desert. Mai Dong looked at the title and found that most of the discussion was about Adventurer No. 068.
It turned out that she was not the only one who suffered from the sandstorm yesterday. Oasis No. 068, where Adventurer No. 068 was located, was hit by a sandstorm at three in the morning.
The area of Oasis No. 1 is only half that of Oasis No. 1. Oasis No. 1 does not have as many old and tall poplar trees as those in Oasis No. 1.
Therefore, Adventurer No. 068 had nowhere to rest in the wild sandstorm.
Shortly after the sandstorm hit Oasis No. 5, Adventurer No. 068 was blown away by the wind and ended up with multiple fractures. He had to quit the survival game and became the fourth adventurer to be eliminated.