Chapter 944: The Terrifying Heat
45 degrees, ordinary soldiers can carry it.
What about 50 degrees? Ordinary people who don't have a little cultivation at all, even if they are usually trained, will definitely not be able to last a day.
If the temperature rises like this, it is tantamount to boiling a frog in warm water, and it will soon be able to eliminate a small half of the army of 200,000.
Lin Nan didn't expect that the simple temperature would be the first severe test they suffered after coming to another world.
After walking about 50 kilometers, the temperature at this time was already outrageously high.
Many of the soldiers had bitter faces, their mouths open to hold marching kettles, and their bones gulped down river water.
They were barebacked, sweating profusely.
But without the protection of their clothes, the heat soon burned their skin red, and some people began to faint on the ground and had to lie on stretchers.
A lot of baggage was discarded.
Wu Yansong was very sad before making this decision.
With the physical strength of the soldiers now, if they don't give up a division of baggage, the heat will quickly kill them.
Looking ahead, the red mountains are like the flaming mountains encountered in the ninety-nine eighty-one difficulties of the Western Heavens.
But Wu Yansong and they don't have banana fans, such mountains are connected one after another, and God knows how many more they have to cross.
Lin Nan walked forward with a straight face, and at this time, a young man in a white robe ran over.
It is the Thousand Star Sword, and as the second senior brother of Emei with a head and a face, he naturally came to this other world.
Qianxingjian's face was not very good-looking, and he said: "Senior brother, ordinary soldiers have fallen behind more than 20,000 people, if they continue like this, I'm afraid..."
"It doesn't last more than ten hours. Lin Nan said what the Thousand Star Sword wanted to say. "The temperature continues to rise, and in ten hours, only warriors will be left in our ranks. ”
"What should I do?" asked Qianxing Jian anxiously.
"Forward. Lin Nan said expressionlessly.
In fact, there is no need for him to answer at all, everyone, those ordinary soldiers who are almost unable to hold on, also know very well: there is no turning back.
The door of space is one-way, and if you come in, you can't go back.
The only way to survive is to kill Tianli, let Hongmeng Nether, tear the space, and send them back.
The weak can only be eliminated.
Under this cruel test of heat, life is as fragile as ants on a teppanyaki, and it will die after two struggles.
"Alas. We shouldn't have brought ordinary soldiers in. Qianxing Jian shook his head and sighed unintentionally.
Qianxing Jian didn't know that this sentence stabbed Wu Yansong's heart abnormally.
The proposal to bring ordinary soldiers in was decided by him, and every soldier died like a knife, scraping Wu Yansong's heart.
Plop, plop.
One by one, one person fell, at first, there were medics carrying stretchers, but later, there was really no manpower.
What's more, even if they are temporarily treated, the harsher heat will take their lives again.
I don't know how long it took, but it was getting dark.
There was no sun, but the sky was getting dark and the temperature was slightly cooler. From the hot fifty or sixty degrees during the day, it has dropped to about thirty degrees.
Although it is still very hot, at least, ordinary soldiers can bear it, and for warriors, they can have a good rest.
Lin Nan secretly calculated that in this other world, the length of time for a cycle of day and night was almost equal to seven days in the outside world.
Survive seven days and you'll have a 'cool' night.
"Fortunately, there is no end to the sky. Lin Nan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He ordered the soldiers and warriors who were still physically fit to pitch their tents.
Some people will keep vigil, others will rest as soon as possible, and after a while, everyone will take advantage of the fact that the weather is not hot and set off again.
Finally, it was completely dark.
The exhausted soldiers almost fell asleep, and in a few moments, the snoring sounded in unison, and the sky was shattered.
At this time, Lin Nan did not sleep.
He sat down on a small mountain of crimson rocks, pulled out his crumpled cigarette case, took out a cigarette equivalent to a 'precious resource', and lit it slowly.
"Senior brother, aren't you sleeping?" a young man came from behind and sat down next to him, it was the Thousand Star Sword.
Lin Nan shook his head, "I'm not sleepy." And I always feel that if I don't wake up, something unpredictable will happen, and I don't feel at ease. ”
"Me too. Qianxing Jian smiled bitterly, "The environment here is too strange, there is no sun, but there is a difference between day and night, calculate the time, we have been here for almost a week, and we still haven't seen any signs of life." ”
"Senior brother, you say, should this be... It's an endless wasteland, isn't it? Where is that white-robed man hiding?"
Lin Nan sighed lightly: "I don't know, I can only take one step at a time." ”
While the two were chatting, there was a buzzing vibration nearby.
The voice seemed to be at their feet from below and above.
Lin Nan and Qianxing Sword's faces became solemn at the same time.
They looked at each other, and they both got up, looking for the source of the sound.
"Senior brother, this is it!" Thousand Star Sword shouted, pointing to a crack about two fingers wide on the ground.
When the land is dry and barren all year round, it will dry up and crack. This is common in desert areas, and this different world has the same characteristics.
Cracks like this, everywhere.
Some of the gaps were so large that they could sink people's feet into them, and many soldiers were dizzy from heat and tripped over these cracks.
Lin Nan frowned and looked there, and the divine sense at the peak of Jin Dan surged out.
"Senior brother, what have you discovered?" Qianxing Sword's heart thumped, only to feel that suddenly, Lin Nan's face became extremely bad.
On the ground, Lin Nan took out his sword and stabbed it into the crack in the earth.
The Thousand Stars Sword was shocked to watch, and when Lin Nan pulled out the sword...
On the sharp tip of Kusanagi's sword, there is a reddish, palm-sized fleshy ladybug.
"Zerg!" Thousand Star Sword's eyelids jumped wildly!
He looked at the ladybug in amazement, this strange insect was full of pink flesh, and even the wings were made of flesh.
After being punctured, it stenched, and a pair of small arthropods writhed in pain.
This ladybug is certainly not terrifying, what Lin Nan and Qianxing Sword are shocked about is that this other world is alive!
Although there are no plant grass covers, there are zerg!
They hide all year round in the shadowy underground, in the cracks of the ground that can be seen everywhere.
Lin Nan had a bad guess in his heart, and he suddenly felt a chill in the back of his head: No, the Zerg is not 'perennial' hidden, but nocturnal.
Only after a seven-day cycle and night falls will they crawl out of the ground!
Qianxing Jian suddenly remembered something, and he said with a panicked expression: "Senior brother, there are large cracks near those tents where the soldiers were rooted. ”
"Quick, blow the military horn and wake everyone up!" Lin Nan let out a low shout, and when his words fell, the whole person also rushed out like an arrow.
But at this time, it was too late to find out.
Under Lin Nan's superb hearing, he heard the sound of dense insects buzzing, sounding in pieces.
Those damn bugs, rubbing their arthropods against the rocks in the ground, crawling up little by little along the cracks in the earth...
Lin Nan was so anxious that he didn't care about going to Wu Yansong, so he directly opened his throat and used his internal qi to roar - "Enemy attack !!"