Chapter 51: Survival in the Wilderness?

The empty earth was carried up by the occasional passing wind, and two small human figures, under the light of the setting sun, dragged out a long shadow on the desert, showing loneliness and helplessness.

"Zilde, are you sure you are going in this direction?" Shrein's voice came from one of the humanoids, and if you look closely, you can see that he is now completely a humanoid slime, not only does he have no facial features, but even his body is the same blue as when he was in spherical form, but he has his hands and feet separated. This is not to say that Shi Leiyin can't become very close to humans like Shui Jing, after the previous advancement, if Shi Leiyin wants to imitate the appearance of humans, it can be said that he is closer to humans than Shui Jing, he can even imitate the color and texture of his skin, but this change lasts for a very short time, and the consumption of only changing the face is not large, but I don't know why once Shi Leiyin transforms his entire body into a human body form, the consumption of energy will rise sharply, and he will soon interrupt the transformation state and return to a spherical shape。 So now Shi Leiyin's humanoid slime form is a change in exercising himself. From the beginning of the humanoid slime form, which could only hold on for one hour a day, to now, ten days later, Shi Leiyin has basically been able to maintain this form for seven or eight hours.

However, although Shi Leiyin's cultivation has made great progress, their march in this desert is very unsatisfactory. According to Zilde's previous statement, the carriage had been traveling for three days and then another day before it reached the bottom of the cliff from which they had set out, so after taking out some additional factors, they should have been able to reach the town of Lott on the fifth or sixth day of their direct heading north, but in fact it was now the tenth day, and they still did not see any signs of human activity nearby. There was not even a sign of horses passing by. Since there was only the last day's share of food left, Shi Leiyin didn't dare to turn into a huge spider form to look around for the town. Now he can only rely on Zilde's vague memories to find a small town further north of Lot. There was no way to do it, they had been going north or northwest, and as far as Zilde could remember, there were four or five similar towns to the northwest of Lot, and although he hadn't been there, he had seen the markings on the map of the carriage shop in Lot.

"I can't be sure if I can't find the reference marked on the map," Zilde was the remaining humanoid. Unlike Shi Leiyin, he had a cloak on his body, and even the body of his headband was wrapped, and Jieliya hid in the hat of his cloak. As for Shui Jing, in order to reduce consumption, the little water spirit took the initiative to change into the previous water drop form two days ago, and was placed in the body by Shi Leiyin. Shui Jing, who usually consumes very little food, can go without eating or drinking for a long time after entering this form.

"Then I can only sleep in the open today" Shi Leiyin looked around helplessly, hoping to find a place to camp. Any part of the slime's body can be converted into the required functional organs, so in fact, as long as Sleiyin wants, he can have a full viewing angle of 360 degrees, but with human habits, he still prefers to use the 'eyes' on the 'head' to observe the surroundings. It's just that when this habit is combined with the slime's physical functions, Zilde helplessly sees the humanoid slime stretch out his long neck, and his head slowly turns from one side to the other in a semicircle, completing a 180-degree scan. And such an action, ordinary humans only need to turn their heads and necks, and it can be completed in less than half the time.

"How? Have you found a suitable place?" Although he was speechless about Shi Leiyin's actions, Zilde also had to admit that the distance and accuracy of Shi Leiyin's detection in this state far exceeded his own, and he might even surpass his mother.

"There are no good places, but there is a small dirt slope about three kilometers to the northwest, which should be able to block the night wind. Luckily, we didn't deviate much from the direction we were heading, otherwise, let's go there for the night today" Shi Leiyin withdrew his outstretched head, and then, his entire body simply shrank into a sphere. Although it is still far from the upper limit of the transformation time of the humanoid state, maintaining this state will require additional energy, and in the current situation of lack of food supplies, any excess consumption is unwise. "Come with me, get there before the sun goes down. ”

By the time Shi Leiyin and his party reached their destination, Xiaotupo, the sun had completely lowered below the horizon, and only a trace of afterglow reflected a sunset on the horizon. The small dirt slope in Shi Leiyin's mouth is indeed very small, the width is only six or seven meters from the beginning of the uplift, and the highest point is less than three meters. But fortunately, this slope is slightly sloping inward from top to bottom, and it can be regarded as a little shelter for camping.

"Looks like we're lucky, it seems that today's dinner can be a little richer" Shreyn found several caves in the shadows of the dirt slope, which looked like they belonged to some common snakes. With Shi Leiyin's current ability, even the toxin of the most poisonous giant tooth poison pit in the desert would not have a serious impact on him, let alone some ordinary poisonous snakes. Several tentacles reached into the cave without hesitation, and after a while, several venomous snakes resembling rattlesnakes were wrapped in Shi Leiyin's tentacles and dragged out. The serpent's head was left on the outside of the tentacles, its mouth wide open, revealing its fangs, and one of them even spewed venom.

"Do you want one?" Shi Leiyin asked Zilde, Shi Leiyin dragged out a total of six poisonous snakes, each of which was more than a meter long, with Shi Leiyin's round body, Shi Leiyin now looked like a miniature version of the Deep Sea Demon Seal with six snake-headed tentacles.

"I don't have the ability to eat raw, do I want to make a fire?" Although Zilde was young, he didn't reject eating snakes and other things, but raw food was still unacceptable to him.

"Jie Liya and I don't know fire magic, will you?" Since he wanted to make a fire, Shi Leiyin immediately searched the surroundings, and several tentacles scattered out, collecting some shrubs and dead branches around the dirt slope.

"I'm not a fire attribute either," Zilde shook his head as he looked at the 'fuel pile' piled up in front of him, "Why don't you try it with lightning magic?"

"It's no problem for me to electrocute these snakes, it doesn't seem to be so powerful to roast them," Shi Leiyin replied as he sent out an electric shock, and the several poisonous snakes wrapped in tentacles twitched violently, closed their mouths, and curled up slightly. However, Shi Leiyin could feel that the snake body wrapped in his tentacles was still not edible to the point where 'humans' could eat.

"Stupid Zilde, don't you still have that sword?" Just when the two of them were at a loss, Jielia, who had a little bit of a sense, came out of Zilde's cloak, "What is that sword called? Doesn't the sword of the Elemental Collection have all kinds of elements, wouldn't it be better to use that?"

"However, with my current ability, I can't make the elemental* convergence transform into a flame form" Zilde shook his head and took out the elemental* aggregation that looked like a fire spirit stone, unlike when Shi Leiyin held it before, the elemental* fusion in his hand didn't even show the slightest sign of forming a sword body, and I don't know if Zilde's magical strength was too weak, or because Aluma had added some seal to it.

"No, maybe I'll have some way" Seeing the elemental * aggregation like a fire spirit stone, Shi Leiyin suddenly had some idea, even if he couldn't use the elemental * fusion, but the fire element above was not fake, with his own absorption ability, as long as he could transform a little fire element into his body, he could find a way to make a little flame.