Hugo was awakened by the heat. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info he struggled to open his eyes, feeling sore all over. He supported his body with his elbows, gasped, and found that his elbows had a bloody scab, and when he exerted force just now, blood oozed again.

He barely sat up, his head groggy, and the sun's rays made his eyes white. He subconsciously put his hand on the pergola, touched his forehead, and found that there were also blood scabs on his forehead.

Where am I?" he squinted, looked around, and saw a gray-white rock beside him, with dried blood stains on it. This is my blood.

As far as his eyes could see, there was a desolate desert dotted with gray-white rocks. Everything seemed familiar: the desert, the battlefield where I fought the polar people for the first time. Is this the province of Orlando? Hugo looked closely, and in addition to the gray-white rocks, there were also flat red stone fields, and the sun was like a golden disk, emitting terrifying heat. His chest was so hot that he felt dizzy in front of his eyes, and he fainted again.

I don't know how long it took, but Hugo gradually woke up. He struggled to sit up, leaned against the rock, and reflexively straightened up. It's too hot. He looked back and saw that the huge rock looked like an egg lying diagonally, white and hot on one side, and casting a long shadow on the ground on the other. Hugo shifted and ducked into the shadows.

He checked his current condition, and in addition to the aches and pains all over his body, his elbows and forehead had broken and formed bloody scabs. He moved his hands and toes. Thankfully, I didn't break a bone. He breathed a sigh of relief. He found the sword at his waist and the wolf's head pendant around his neck, but there were no horses, no kettles, no dry food. There are also 2 Arcane Crystal Balls.

One is mine, the other? He shook his head, trying to remember everything. He heard something, and he remembered that he had entered a space that was pitch black, and his whole body was floating in the air, moving rapidly. When he saw the light, he felt a rush of pain and lost consciousness.

A gust of wind blew, mixed with gravel, he closed his eyes and held his breath, but it didn't take long for him to hold it back, he opened his mouth wide to breathe, and as a result, his mouth poured a lot of grit. He coughed hard, but found that he couldn't cough up the sand, swallowed his saliva, his mouth was dry like a desert, and his tongue was bitter and astringent.

Thirst. He realized that I needed water, or I would die of thirst.

He drew his sword, brushed the sand through the shadows, and found a book with a brown crusty cover that didn't even have a name on it. He tried to open the book, but found that the pages were not moving. Strange book.

He remembered. He went to the white tower of Pulsatilla Hill and found Schultz of the Magic Council. Scholz said a lot, the incident of the violent Viren, Holland forced Schultz to put the Forgetting Potion in the food of the soldiers, and Holland wanted to kill Scholz. When he talks to Schultz, Schultzse gives him a book, as well as Schultz's own arcane crystal ball, which contains teleportation spells. And the last person Hugo saw was the angry Hausen.

Why did Howson appear there? Wasn't he imprisoned in Devil May Cry Mountain Prison? Why did Howson kill Schultz? Hugo's head popped up with several questions in succession. His mind gradually became clearer.

The shadows are getting shorter, which means that the sun rises right in the middle of the sky, and the desert at noon, when the sun is at its most vicious. Hugo kept curling up, but the shadow was completely gone. He didn't even have a place to hide from the sun.

I had to save my energy, and at noon, I couldn't walk, and that would hasten my death. After Hugo judged, he chose to curl up and sleep, and couldn't help but feel groggy and fell asleep again.

He woke up trembling. The sun is turning orange and is gradually setting in the west. The heat dissipated and the sky turned cobalt blue. Hugo knew that night would soon fall.

I have to get out of here. The feeling of hunger and the thirst in his throat forced him to his feet and try to move forward. The only places in the desert that can tell the direction are the sun and the North Star.

Hugo decided to go north, and if he judged correctly, he was in the desert of Orlando, which was long and narrow, with the shortest distance between north and south. If you go north, you can go to the desert towns in the north, and you can also encounter oases in the process.

The initial topography did not change radically, with gray-white rocks interspersed with red flat stone floors and a few dwarf shrubs sticking out of the cracks in the stones. Hugo dug through the bushes with his dagger and tried to dig out the water, but his fingers were pricked with blood.

He greedily sucked his fingers and tasted blood. Blood can also be drunk. He was reluctant to take his fingers out. No! reason told him not to do that. He regretted that he hadn't chosen water magic. In his arcane crystals, there are spare sand magic and fire magic. The average magician graduate can equip 3 spells, and he has a magic slot vacated.

By the way, I can try equipping a portal spell and teleport myself. On a whim, Hugo pulled out Schultz's Arcane Crystal. It was the first time he had seen an arcane crystal from a member of the Magic Council, a round ball that had been polished to a very smooth finish and permeated with a faint red hue. Oh no, the Arcane Crystal made a contract with the magic user, and the Crystal died, and I couldn't take the magic out of the crystal that signed the contract with Schultz. What's more, I don't even know how to use portal magic.

Schultz said that his magic crystals were to be smashed, buried in the ground, and sunk to the bottom of the sea, according to Hugo's wishes. Hugo decided to keep the magic crystal, and intuitively, he felt that the portal spell was precious.

After digging through the bushes and finding that there was no water underneath, he had to keep going. Yellow and purple lights appeared in the sky, and the sun sank rapidly. He was overjoyed that he finally didn't have to endure the heat, and he licked his lips, but soon became depressed. Darkness quickly approached, and it was getting colder and colder around.

In the desert, at night eat watermelon around a campfire. He remembered that during the War of the Year, the locals of the desert were guides and led Hugo's team to the oasis, and they gathered around the campfire, felt the temperature, and took a bite of the freshly picked watermelon, the fragrance of the melon and fruit was so fragrant that the juice ran down the chin.

Hugo went crazy at the thought of watermelon, he was hungry and thirsty, and now the cold enveloped him. He stumbled and shouted softly, "Water...... I want water......"

It was so cold and so tired that he lay on a rock, which had been hot during the day, and now it was cold. He waved a hand, and the bushes beside him burned, and the faint fire made him feel a little warm. He gasped and stamped his feet. Suddenly, a long thing went around his right foot. By the light of the fire, he saw a snake, with inconspicuous spots on its back and sides of its body, coiling sideways and advancing to Hugo, spitting out a letter and hissing its tail.

He immediately reacted that during the desert battle, a soldier had been bitten by it, and later the Bachelor had to amputate the soldier's leg to save his life.

Hugo snapped his fingers, and the horned rattlesnake's head burned, and its body pounced on Hugo, who dodged sideways, and saw the flames spread downward, and the snake's body shook wildly. There was more hissing on the rocks beside it, and it seemed that it had just encountered a snake's nest. Hugo waved his arm, and the rocks burned, and out of the bushes, several flaming snakes sprang out, curled up and writhing wildly.

Hugo felt nauseous, he ran with his legs, although he was hungry and cold, but under the adrenaline stimulation, his nerves tensed, and he did not know how far he ran, and finally he could not support it, and fell to the ground.

He gasped for air, his heart beating out. A stomach ache swept over him, and the thirst made his throat itch. He suddenly regretted it, and he had burned all the snakes when he knew about it, and then found a few pieces of snake meat to eat. Poisoned or starved to death, both are dead, what's the difference?

He smiled wryly. Suddenly, the sand beneath him flowed. His first instinct was to run. He supported his body with his elbows, and suddenly slipped and fell, and his legs sank in the sand, and before he could react, his body continued to sink, and in a few moments, half of his waist was sunk in the sand. The quicksand wrapped him tightly.

He wiggled his legs slightly, trying to get some vacuum area out of his body under the quicksand, allowing water and sand to pour in to reduce the pressure. He tried to keep his limbs as far apart as possible to increase buoyancy and prevent further falling. But he didn't dare to exert himself, and gradually, his strength became weaker and weaker, and he was already sleepy, and a feeling of exhaustion welled up in his heart.

No, I can't sleep. He told himself. But to no avail, the eyelids are getting heavier. The sand magician died in the quicksand of the desert, which is a wonderful way to die. Cassius would definitely laugh at him. What does it matter? Die alone, Cassius must not know that I died in the desert.

Hugo was on the verge of giving up. At this time, a drop of water dropped on his face. He almost screamed for joy, but the rain grew heavier, and he opened his mouth greedily to taste the sweetness of the water.

The sand beneath the body met the water and formed lumps. Hugo drank enough water, came to his senses, he recited magic, and the sand covering his lower body mixed with the torrential rain and flowed away like a mudslide, and he climbed out of the quicksand area with both hands.

He smiled, raised his head, stretched his arms, thunder, and the rare rain in the desert saved him. After resting for a while, he braved the rain and continued to move on. When the sun rose over the horizon, he froze. He walked all night, and after encountering a rattlesnake, he was in a mess, and after running wildly, he lost his bearings.

The flat red stone floor is dotted with gray-white rocks, and the terrain is exactly the same as before departure. He realized that all night, he had come full circle and returned to square one.

Hugo wanted to cry. No, if Cassius finds out, I'll laugh at me. Man in his 40s, crying nose. Wait, there's no one else here, maybe I can cry to my heart's content......

He quickly discarded the thought, wiped his face, and licked the remaining raindrops off his hands, the last bit of water he got.

The sun is getting bigger and brighter, and the scorching hot days are coming.