Chapter 56: Torment
The entire feathers of the red-crowned crow were already mutilated, covered with yellow sand, and completely devoid of the fierce aura it had before.
It's just that the other party still seems to be hostile to Jiang Xiaofan, so he flapped his wings again, screamed hoarsely twice, and rushed towards Jiang Xiaofan again.
It seems that even so, he has no intention of letting Jiang Xiaofan go.
Seeing this, Jiang Xiaofan immediately shook his head helplessly.
When the red-crowned crow approached Jiang Xiaofan, the flaming knife in the latter's hand swung slightly, and the other party immediately fell on the yellow sand.
The blood flowed out, but it was quickly absorbed by the yellow sand, and there was no trace at all.
The red-crested crow, which had lost its head, temporarily returned to the light and moved its wings again, and then completely lost its vital signs.
"Hey......" Jiang Xiaofan sighed inexplicably, and then picked up the crow's body.
Although he was not willing to kill, but in the current situation of food shortage, and the other party took the initiative to send it to the door, he couldn't care so much.
Seeing that the sky was already dark, Jiang Xiaofan simply found a leeward place, planning to roast crow meat, and it would be overnight.
For Jiang Xiaofan, it was already quite good luck to be able to harvest some food in this boundless desert.
After finding a suitable place, Jiang Xiaofan used the flame knife to shine the light, and at the same time used it as a grill, and after removing the hair of the crows he had killed earlier, he planned to skewer them and roast them to eat.
Although he had never eaten crow meat, now at a special moment, he naturally wouldn't pick anything more, and he was ready to remove the crow's fur
However, when Jiang Xiaofan removed his fur, he accidentally found an extremely inconspicuous ankle ring on the crow's leg.
And because the ankle ring is dark, it is very close to the skin color of the crow, so Jiang Xiaofan didn't notice it until he was peeling.
"What is this ankle ring for?" Jiang Xiaofan took off the ankle ring, studied it carefully, and found that there was a line of numbers engraved on the ankle ring.
"0522?" Jiang Xiaofan looked at the numbers and was puzzled, but he had no clue at all.
After some fruitless research, he was pulled back to his thoughts by hunger, and Jiang Xiaofan directly put the ankle ring in the space bag and ignored it.
Now for Jiang Xiaofan, the most important thing is to fill his stomach.
And after studying intentionally or unintentionally, Jiang Xiaofan's cooking skills have reached a very shocking level.
Even if there is no seasoning now, looking at the roasted "zizi" oily meat, Jiang Xiaofan only felt a cheer coming from his stomach. I even felt the presence of saliva.
After a while, seeing that the color of the meat had changed, Jiang Xiaofan quickly removed the meat from the knife. After two simple blows, tear off a piece of meat from the leg and put it directly in your mouth.
After the meat was entered, I only saw Jiang Xiaofan's eyes half-squinted, chewing constantly in his mouth, and his demeanor was like tasting the delicious food of the world.
Even without seasoning, it is quite a happy thing to be able to eat meat even when you are already hungry and unbearable.
For Jiang Xiaofan, now he feels that this piece of meat is simply the best in the world.
Unconsciously, the food was quickly eaten by Jiang Xiaofan. When he tried to do it again, he found that only a skeleton was left in his hand.
"Hey......" Looking at the skeleton in his hand, Jiang Xiaofan sighed. Then he touched his stomach again, but fortunately it was enough to replenish the body's energy.
For genetically awakened people, they will fully digest and absorb the food they eat in their stomachs. Even if they eat the same food as ordinary people, their absorption of nutrients is several times or even more than the former.
Therefore, as long as there is a small amount of food, it can support Jiang Xiaofan's activities for a long time.
But this is not what makes Jiang Xiaofan the happiest.
When he was sorting out the space bag just now, Jiang Xiaofan accidentally found the mini air compressor that he had put in the space bag when he was packing up his things in the dormitory.
This kind of machine is not too high-tech products, and almost everyone in school has one.
It can compress the air with high intensity, so that the moisture in the air can be stored, and it is generally used as a water storage device, which is very convenient to use.
And now with this thing, Jiang Xiaofan naturally doesn't need to worry about drinking water anymore.
As long as his body can replenish water uninterruptedly, he can even maintain a month without food without life-threatening conditions.
Of course, this is limited to low-intensity activities.
Immediately, Jiang Xiaofan took out the machine and supported it on the ground, turned on the switch, and let the machine start to operate.
Previously, Jiang Xiaofan was still worried about whether the air in the desert was extremely dry and would not be able to compress the water, but it turned out that he was thinking too much.
Although the desert air is dry and contains less moisture, the efficiency of the compressor is very high. In just a few moments, half a glass of water was compressed.
After solving the problem of food and drinking water, Jiang Xiaofan's worries have also decreased a lot. Although he didn't have the slightest clue about finding the ice wolf, he had time, and he believed that one day the scenery in front of him would no longer be a piece of yellow sand.
Then Jiang Xiaofan found a sunken place, and lay down with his arms on his pillow, intending to sleep for a few hours to replenish his strength.
It's just that in the middle of the night, he was woken up by freezing.
For some reason, the temperature difference between day and night in the desert here is very large, and it is hot and sweaty during the day, but it is shivering all the time at night.
According to Jiang Xiaofan's estimate, the temperature here at night is likely to drop below zero.
In desperation, Jiang Xiaofan had no choice but to take out the flame knife again, add another flame to it, raise the temperature a little, and then fall asleep again.
The night was peaceful, and as soon as it was dawn the next day, Jiang Xiaofan woke up.
After rehydrating a bit, we set off again.
Originally, in Jiang Xiaofan's opinion, although there was a desert in front of him now, it should not be difficult to get out.
It's just that the next development of things is beyond Jiang Xiaofan's expectations.
After walking for three days and two nights in a row, it was still a piece of yellow sand, except for the sand and sand. Not to mention the Icewolf, I haven't even seen anything of any other color.
So much so that in the end, Jiang Xiaofan began to wonder if the old man was deceiving him.
But after thinking about it, Jiang Xiaofan vetoed this idea again. After all, the two parties did not know each other in the first place, and there was no conflict of interest at all.
Moreover, the other party also counted on Jiang Xiaofan to bring back the ice wolf crystal nucleus, and there was no reason to deceive him.
After thinking about it, Jiang Xiaofan couldn't come up with a result in the end, so he had to keep going.
"Hey, it's a valley, and now it's been three days and three nights, what valley can be so big?" After the third day, Jiang Xiaofan was still looking for the figure of the so-called ice wolf in the boundless yellow sand.
It's just that nothing has been found.
If it weren't for the luck of bringing an air compressor, I'm afraid he would have collapsed here by now.
However, what comforted Jiang Xiaofan was that there was no danger along the way, and the worries that he had previously spoken about did not happen.
"Huh?"
Just when Jiang Xiaofan walked on a sandy place, a strange feeling suddenly appeared in his heart.
I looked left and right, but I didn't find anything different from before.
Thundered!
And at this moment, a roaring sound came from Jiang Xiaofan's feet. Listening to the noise, it seemed like something was collapsing.
Jiang Xiaofan was startled and wanted to dodge at the moment, but before he could react, a piece of yellow sand under his feet collapsed instantly!
Immediately afterwards, Jiang Xiaofan, who was caught off guard, fell.
The bump and bump lasted for a few minutes before Jiang Xiaofan's falling body stopped.
It's just that when he came to his senses, the scenery in front of him surprised him.
What appeared in front of Jiang Xiaofan's eyes at this moment was no longer a large area of yellow sand, but a completely opposite landscape - an ice cave!
There was a white expanse all around, and there was nothing but ice.
Even the four walls were frozen.
The huge ice cave stretches as far as the eye can see. Jiang Xiaofan looked up and saw that at the top of the ice cave, he could see the entrance of the cave where he had fallen earlier.
It's just that because the height is too high, it's impossible to go back the way you came.
At the top of the ice cave, several huge inverted ice picks are very conspicuous.
The originally scorching temperature suddenly became cold, so that Jiang Xiaofan couldn't adapt for a while, and his body trembled uncontrollably.
However, the speed at which his body temperature was adjusted was amazing, and after a while, it was back to normal.
Crash!
However, just as Jiang Xiaofan was about to explore around, he had just moved his steps, and there was a strange sound under his feet.
And when he looked down, what was under his feet made him speechless in shock for a while.
"This ......"
Jiang Xiaofan slowly lowered his body, and what was in front of him at this moment was a pair of skeletons. According to the shape of the bones, there are not only animals, but even people!
And looking at the number of skeletons, there are probably dozens of pairs!
This kind of amount is by no means as simple as dying here by accident.
Jiang Xiaofan's heart was shocked at the moment, and then he looked around vigilantly, lest if one of them was not careful, there would be some danger.
Although there has been no danger so far, the dozens of skeletons under the soles of the feet speak for themselves.
It's not a good place.
"Ice Cave...... Icewolf......" Jiang Xiaofan suddenly connected the two, and his body jerked for a while, "Could it be that this is the icewolf's lair?"
When the idea came out, a cold sweat broke out directly behind Jiang Xiaofan's back.
He had also seen from some books before that the ice wolf was a social animal, and its attack power was very terrifying.
If he fights alone, maybe he still has some life. After all, the strongest strength of the ice wolf is at the D level, Jiang Xiaofan is confident that he can solve several heads, but now it is very likely to fall directly into the other party's lair, and it is no longer a matter of quantity.
Now he has no way to run at all, and has become food delivered to his door.
"Whew!"
At this moment, a wolf howl suddenly sounded. Immediately afterward, the howls of wolves were heard in all directions.
Jiang Xiaofan's heart tightened, the Flame Knife was already in his hand, ready to deal with emergencies at any time.
A moment later, Jiang Xiaofan saw a terrifying number of wolves appear in front of him......