Chapter 3: The Burning Desert (2)

In the vast desert, Ansu only heard the rustling of his own footsteps. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info She felt herself shatter into grains of sand at the sound of her footsteps, melting into the desert, unable to see where she came or where she was going. She stood on the dunes in silence for a moment before she raised her legs and walked forward. Since you can't go back, let's move on.

As the starry sky and red light began to dim, Ansu stopped, looking for a place to build shelter. The easiest and most convenient way to be in the desert is to dig a bed of a desert pit. You can't dig on the back of a sand dune or a dry lowland riverbed, where it's cooler, but the desert weather is unpredictable, and no one knows if it will be stormy, rainy, or flooded in the next second. Although Ansu has not encountered it so far, it does not mean that it is not, in this treacherous desert, it is not wrong to be cautious.

The sand above was still warm after a night of coolness, but a hint of coolness could be felt underneath. Ansu dug a rectangular pit with no branches and leaves to cover it, so she folded the fish skin canvas in two layers, spread it flat on the pit, and compacted it with sand around it to make a simple desert pit bed. The heat in the desert can't be driven away, so I can only try to cool it down a little.

As the sun rose little by little, the temperature continued to climb, and soon broke through the 70 mark. Ansu lay in a bunker, sheltered from the direct sun, but it was still hot. The harsh sun, the scorching heat, and the fact that there is no wind in a bunker make it difficult to sleep at all. Ansu closed her eyes and felt the burning breath spray on her face, she shifted her body and lay on her side, facing the sand pit wall, but a cloud of heat hit her face again. She frowned and switched directions, the heat still lingering. As the temperature continues to rise, the bunker becomes a steamer, and now not only do you sweat, but the oil on your face is also steamed. Ansu put the back of his hand on his forehead, felt a piece of greasy, grabbed his hair fiercely, and Ansu opened his eyes.

Really TMD Hot!

She exhaled a breath of hot air upwards, and saw the fish skin canvas swaying slightly, and suddenly a little worried that it would spontaneously combust under the scorching sun, and couldn't help but reach out and touch it, stunned, it was not very hot, and when her fingers slid over, she could still feel a trace of coolness, like gliding across the water, no wonder the wizard could wear it all the time. An Su can't wait for a lake to suddenly appear in front of her, she will definitely jump down without hesitation, and rub the layers of old mud on her body, there are crocodiles? That's great, there's no need to look for food, Ansu thinks she'll be able to eat a crocodile. Wearing cool and silky clothes, eating fragrant meat, and drinking fresh water that he couldn't finish drinking, thinking like this, An Su couldn't help but show a faint smile. She closed her eyes again, trying to ignore the blinding sunlight, the heat, and the itching on her body. Although I can't fall asleep, at least I let my body rest.

When the setting sun once again painted the blood-red sunlight on the bunker, Ansu had already eaten some fish bladders and drank some water, and when she stuffed the last water bladder back into her backpack, she knew that the future would be even more difficult, but she still relaxed and continued on her way.

In the days to come, Ansu will see nothing but sand and sand, like a sea of fire burning. She trudged alone in the land of death, and the feeling of crumbling into gravel came more often, and sometimes she looked up at the starry sky and felt that she had become a star, flying into the vast universe.

The water is long gone, the body is dehydrated into a cracked dry land, the lips are cracked, the body is constantly peeling, and it quickly emaciates into a skeleton shelf, and the red eyes on the face are particularly large, as if they will fall down at any time.

The body was extremely dehydrated, and the organs in the body began to fail, An Su didn't know how long it had been since she urinated, and the last time she poured it into her mouth herself. The lack of water also made Ansu's head throb constantly, as if she had been beaten desperately with a whip, and she felt the strength in her body that had calmed down began to move. She longed for water, and she longed for blood.

A struggling red lizard was put in its mouth and chewed, eaten, and spit out a few grains of sand, Ansu stood up and continued to search. These lizards are very difficult to catch, they can use their colors to cleverly stealth, and they are especially good at burrowing, burrowing into the sand at the slightest hint of trouble. These days, Ansu has only found two, one escaped, and the other has just entered her stomach.

These days, she had been chewing on the thunder eel skin and fish skin canvas on the rope, and without water, every bite was like swallowing a small sword, and her dry lips burst again, and she swallowed it with her own blood.

Ansu's distance became shorter and shorter, and the sand pit she dug became shallower and shallower, and Ansu had no doubt that one day she would fall on the sand and soon be ignited like paper by the sun. She blinked, and heard the crunch of eyelids colliding.

The day was not too late, and Ansu was trying to climb a sand dune and rolled down again, and the sand covered her face, but she no longer had the strength to brush it away. The feeling of her body flying lightly into the universe grabbed her again, and she seemed to hear the call of her teammates, and in an instant it seemed to be back to the Explorer, and the star map slowly unfolded in front of her eyes.

Her eyebrows burned as hot, and An Su slowly opened her eyes, and two dark fires burned under her eyes. A warm current flowed through the limbs, and the body regained its energy. Lying down like this and looking at the starry sky, the universe seems to be within reach. An Su stretched out her hand and shook it in the void, as if she wanted to take the starry sky into her palm, thousands of miles of stars and rivers had been conquered by her, how could this small desert trap her? Ansu propped up his body with his bony hands, slowly stood up, and like countless times he had stood in the command room, he raised his head and chest, and with the courage to conquer the unknown.

A few fire ants scurryed their slender legs over the hot gravel, and their companions sent back a message that there was a dead bee under the cactus near the dry riverbed. They had to get there as quickly as possible, and after a long exposure to the scorching sun, they were in danger of losing their lives, and they crawled over the rocks and through the bushes to finally reach their destination before they were dried by the sun. After exchanging information with their tentacles, they start to cut the bee carcass in a race against the clock, and transport the bees back to the nest before the surface temperature exceeds the tolerance range. As they carried some of the bees' carcasses, there was a strange vibration on the ground, and the fire ants touched their tentacles, and quickly agreed to transport that part back first, and if it took too long for them to come out, they would all die of heat. The leading fire ant commanded the other fire ants to line up and hurry back, but it itself was at the end of the line, and the moment before leaving, it didn't know whether it was reluctance or curiosity, and looked back to see that something was coming from the side of the Flame Desert.

After almost a month of trekking in the desert, Ansu finally saw a different color, an uplifting green, like a rich stroke on an oil painting on a red background.

It was a cactus more than ten meters high, like giants holding up a sky. They don't know how many years they've been standing here to form such a massive body. This giant cactus is cylindrical, with dense spines as thick as fingers, and a torso that it takes several people to hug it, although no one dares to do so. Ansu licked her chapped lips and finally had water to drink.