Chapter 240: Faucet in the Desert
"Captain, I don't think we can go straight through the food desert anymore. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info," said one of the team members.
"That's right, these natural ingredients don't know how many beasts live in the desert, and we are asking for trouble when we enter the food desert. Another member of the team said.
Several other members, however, had the opposite opinion.
"We lost nearly one-sixth of our supplies just now, and the next exploration of the Gem Desert is already difficult to carry out as originally planned. If we go straight through the food desert, we can still get some supplies on the spot, otherwise we may starve to death on the way. ”
As the owner of the food cell, the amount of food consumed every day is far more than the average person, which is the biggest problem faced by the expedition.
"Okay, don't fight. The minority, obeying the majority, now votes by a show of hands, agreeing to a show of hands across the gastronomic desert. Sean was the first to raise his arm.
"We're food hunters, how can we go against the grain?" said Justin as well, holding up his hand.
"There are too many unjust ways to get around the food desert, and I don't approve of it. Another man raised his hand.
After a vote, eleven out of fifteen people did not agree to change course, and the team continued to move along the original route. Although the other four people were dissatisfied, they could only accept this result. When everyone gathers together, there is hope to complete the mission, and if you scatter the action, you can die in the desert at any time.
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Lin Su walked in a straight line towards the red desert in the center of the desert garden, and on the way, he kept seeing abandoned vehicles and water-stored camels that had been eaten to the point of being reduced to bones. He didn't know what the purpose of the expedition was, but it was clear that the other party was in a bad situation.
At first, Lin Su found only the carcasses of water-stored camels and scrapped vehicles, but when he reached the edge of the rice desert, he finally saw the dead members of the expedition.
A five-meter-long scorpion with huge golden pincers was devouring the corpse of a human, and it had already eaten half of it when Lin Su found it.
The golden claw scorpion, which captures a giant scorpion of level 17 and lives in a dry environment. The golden pincers have incredible power, and their tails can also shoot poisonous needles for long-range attacks. The meat of the pincer part of the golden claw is a rare delicacy in the desert, and the taste is similar to that of king crab.
According to Lin Su's judgment of the strength of the members of the expedition, a golden scorpion should not be enough to kill the members of the expedition. Judging from the situation at the scene, there should have been other beasts involved in the attack.
If it was usual, Lin Su would definitely grab the golden claw scorpion and taste the taste of the golden claw, but seeing the other party's behavior of eating humans, his appetite was swept away.
However, Lin Su did not kill the man-eating golden scorpion, in nature, every creature must be prepared to become prey, and humans are the same.
Not long after leaving the Rice Desert, Lin Su saw a dark desert. This is a brown sugar desert made of brown sugar, and the scorching sun melts the brown sugar on the surface of the desert, forming a syrup lake.
Coming to the edge of the syrup lake, Lin Su released a small amount of cold air to solidify the syrup, and knocked a few pieces of brown sugar into his mouth. The sweet brown sugar has a sweet taste of sugarcane, and there is a natural aroma of caramel charcoal, which is rich and wants to get drunk, leaving a fragrant aftertaste in the mouth.
The previous rice desert was not suitable for direct consumption, but when he arrived at the brown sugar desert, Lin Su had no scruples, and a large amount of brown sugar entered its stomach.
The vast syrup lake has shrunk significantly, and if he stays longer, the entire syrup lake may be eaten up.
"I remember that there seemed to be a kind of chow noodle desert mentioned in the anime, but I wonder if that desert is also in the desert garden. Lin Su had an urge to explore this gastronomic desert in detail.
As soon as he said and did it, Lin Su began to look around in the place where this food desert gathered. He successively discovered the salt desert, the sesame desert, and a small sand and ice desert, but he did not find the fried noodles desert.
After wasting a week in vain, Lin Su readjusted his direction and headed towards the Red Desert.
As soon as he stepped out of the scope of the food desert, three staggering figures appeared in front of Lin Su's eyes.
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"Justin, I hurt you. If I hadn't pulled you into the expedition......" Sean was weakly holding a stick, his lips cracked several times due to lack of water, and when he spoke, he pulled the wound, and blood flowed out at once.
A week ago, everyone was full of confidence when they first entered the desert garden, but they didn't go far before they were attacked by desert marching ants. Although there were no casualties this time, disasters began to bebefall the expedition team one after another.
The continuous attacks of the beasts made people unable to deal with them, and the deeper they went into the desert garden, the stronger the beasts became, and even Sean had no way to deal with them easily.
Under such circumstances, the expedition began to be constantly attritional. First the vehicle ran out of fuel and scrapped, then the water storage Luo began to die, and the number of members was reduced from the original fifteen to five.
With two-thirds of the personnel lost, and no one could even see the shadow of the Gem Desert, this time the operation could already be declared a failure. The remaining five decided to return the way they came, but on the way back, they were attacked by the beast again.
It was a colony of desert sharks, a giant fish and beast that swam in the sand sea.
The Desert Shark has a catch level of only 8, and every member of the expedition team in its heyday will be able to kill this giant shark with a body length of 18 meters. However, the five people who survived had already been tortured by the harsh environment of the desert garden, and they were no match for the hordes of desert sharks.
Sean desperately rescued Justin and Tucci, and the other two and the last ten water-storing camels were killed in the belly of the fish.
The teeth of the desert shark are attached to the venom of the poisonous creatures that it has eaten, and the three people who have been bitten have completely lost the chance to leave the desert garden alive.
Under such circumstances, Justin proposes to continue to the location of the Gem Desert, hoping to die on the way to the Gem Desert.
"Uncle Sean, don't say that, if it weren't for you I would never have seen the Desert Garden in its true form. Justin barely smiled, "Only now do I understand my father's insistence, even if I die here, I want to see the gem desert." ”
"If the two of you had said less, we might have walked a few more steps. Tucci said hoarsely. Without a water storage camel to travel, the trio had to endure great pain every step forward.
"I'm ......" Justin was about to speak, when he suddenly rubbed his eyes vigorously. "Am I dazzled, there is a huge faucet in the desert!"
"No, you don't have a flower, it's a cactus. Tucci said excitedly. "We might still have a chance to live to see the Gem Desert!"
Cactus balls can replenish energy and water for everyone, and they are a lifesaver for Tucci now.
The three of them burst out with all their strength and ran frantically to the cactus, and the end of the cactus ball in the shape of a faucet was constantly oozing water droplets, like a faucet that was not closed.
"If you don't want to die, stay away from that cactus. ”
Just as Sean and the others were standing under the cactus to drink the dripping liquid, a voice suddenly sounded from behind them.