Chapter 1: The Eye of the Sahara
Under the scorching rays of the sun at noon, the overall gray-brown quartzite rock community, from time to time there are fragments of mottled color of rock fragments, in the hot wind that blows against the surface of the ground that can quickly suffocate people, makes a crisp sound from the quartzite rock mass to peel down, the peeled off quartzite fragments can not resist the erosion of time and wind, forming a piece of gray-white sand layer covering the lowland around the quartzite, which is a rocky desert area covered by rocks and sand grains, desolate and hot.
On the surface of a flat ground covered by a gray-white sand layer, the hot wind swept across the surface of the sand grains, rolling up a tiny whirlpool wind quickly dissipated, and the surface of the sand made of sand grains suddenly appeared a human body with a light yellow complexion lying on the ground, motionless limbs lying in the scorching sand in a large shape without the slightest movement, I don't know how he appeared, his head was leaning on the sand, except for one nostril barely exposing the sand grains, the whole head was almost buried in the sand, is he still alive?
Time passed slowly, and there was a low crisp sound of rock fragments of quartzite rock formations, and the red fruit human body lying prone on the surface of the hot sand finally moved, and almost the entire head melon buried in the gray and white sand shook from side to side, perhaps the sand completely blocked the only nostril used for breathing, and the survival instinct made his body struggle violently and unconsciously, and the whole person coincidentally turned over from the prone state and became supine on the ground, This man's appearance looks like that of an Asian race, a man in his thirties!
"Ahem"
"I wipe, how did the cold white snow turn into white sand, I said why is it so uncomfortable?"
After the sand grains choked into the trachea, he coughed uncomfortably, and the man's arm pressed against his chest to recover from the suffocation state with difficulty, and his big black eyes barely opened from the dry eyelids, regardless of the sand grains' stinging conditioning of the eyes, and quickly blinked and secreted tears, because he found himself lying in the hot gray-white quartzite sand, blurted out two hoarse words, still in Chinese with dialect sounds.
"Phew!"
"Hahaha, no matter what, I can still breathe, my Song Xiaoshuang is still alive! Of course, it's still on the earth, damn the old man Qin Shiyu and the old witch Catherine, it should be over, so the violent explosion is imprisoned, and they won't escape, Xiao Zheng and his junior sister should be able to avoid the explosion, the snow there is not thick, and a lot of it has turned into snow water"
Song Xiaoshuang, who was lying on the sand, turned his head sideways, spit out a mouthful of sand grains in his mouth, smoothed his breath, and quickly came to his senses, stroking his chest, and did not find the bloody wound that was necessary to perform the forbidden skill self-harm, only a scar that could be touched by shallow fingers, and the small folding knife used to instantly improve personal strength for self-harm was nowhere to be seen, thinking of the appearance of his whole body in an extremely strange place, Song Xiaoshuang was quickly relieved, the folding knife should have disappeared together with the clothes on his body during the explosion, Song Xiaoshuang was a little excited and glad that he was still alive, and whispered to himself, like crazy, without any scruples that his body was already seriously dehydrated, and his lips were chapped and his lips were chapped and bloody.
Song Xiaoshuang, who had the heart of death, never thought that he would still be alive, and a strange and scorching region would appear in such a strange and inexplicable way.
He only remembered that the use of the primitive religious secret spell borrowed from the Institute of Human Sciences, with his own comprehension, had an unexpected effect, and killed the two bigwigs of the black net and the team of aliens led by them (her) in one fell swoop, Song Xiaoshuang still remembered that the old man Qin Shiyu had nothing to do and scolded, and the well-behaved junior sister Wang Dongwei who was standing in the snow in the distance cried hoarsely, as if it was what happened a second ago.
Made, if you don't find enough water to quench your thirst or live animals soon, people will soon become human, this place is too desolate and hot!
Song Xiaoshuang, who was weak, reluctantly turned over and stood up, shaking off the sand particles on his body, the sand particles hidden in his ears, eyes and hair roots could not be removed for the time being, and he went to it, without affecting his hearing, Song Xiaoshuang looked up and saw a quartz stone wall more than one person high, blocking his vision, and he had to climb up to the top of the quartz stone that was scorched hot by the sun's rays, and the surface of the high-temperature stone that could blanch the eggs was very uncomfortable, and he could only stand on the top of the stone with one leg alternately.
After looking around, Song Xiaoshuang was completely dumbfounded, surrounded by rocks and gray-white fine sand, he couldn't see the same geological structure at a glance, and the gray-brown rocks at the end of his vision seemed to be distributed in a ring on the surface? In the crevices of the rocks and sand, the rare herbs and low woody plants have all turned into dry specimens due to lack of water supply, and the hot wind blowing in his face distorts the scenery on the surface.
Song Xiaoshuang, who has been accustomed to self-rescue in the wild, saw that he was in the scorching rocky desert wasteland, and quickly left his past experience behind, because of the weakness of his chapped lips and extreme dehydration of his body, he told him that while his mind was still in a clear consciousness, it became a top priority to find a water source as soon as possible, otherwise it would really be mummified.
In such a dry stony desert wasteland, shaving your physical strength along the sand to dig sand under the hard stony rock formations to find water is pure death-hunting!
Maybe there is indeed an aquifer formed by rainwater that seeps down in the depths of the formation, but before Song Xiaoshuang dug into the aquifer, he couldn't support it, and the weakness of his mental power exploration ability is the solid underground rock formation, who knows that he has to dig dozens of meters deep to find the water source? Isn't he a ground-penetrating missile that fell from the sky, dragging his weak body to dig sand on the rocky sand to find water? Song Xiaoshuang instantly gave up such an idea, it was unwise to do useless work and not much physical strength.
As soon as he woke up from a coma, Song Xiaoshuang knew that his abnormal ability skills were basically invalid, not to mention that he couldn't use the ball lightning skill, and his majestic internal strength had inexplicably disappeared by more than half, and the detection distance of his spiritual power was suddenly shortened to only forty meters, less than half of his peak state, Song Xiaoshuang instantly understood that even if he became two, he was not the opponent of the mature woman Liang Li, this was the sequelae of his forcible use of forbidden skills, and it was difficult to recover from meditation and pranayama in the short term!
Fortunately, just before climbing to the top of the quartz stone wall more than one meter high, Song Xiaoshuang tried to use the auxiliary skill of the power control ability, the high-temperature arc technique, when he saw that the ten fingers of his hands were as he expected, there were arcs shining with blue and white light, Song Xiaoshuang thought to the good, this is the source of fire that the rain cannot extinguish, as long as he finds something to eat, maybe he can eat a cooked meal?
There may be some low-lying terrain where the sun does not shine, and there may be water sources in the low-lying terrain surrounding the quartzite rock formations, and if there is a water source, there may be plants and animals, so find such a place as soon as possible!
Song Xiaoshuang had such a thought in his mind, and his feet jumped off the rock more than a meter high, but because of the sudden feeling of weakness in his body, he did not stabilize his body, and fell into the gray-white sand, making his mouth full of dry sand grains, and that kind of embarrassment is needless to mention.
After spitting out the dry sand grains in his mouth, Song Xiaoshuang identified a direction as fast as possible, walking barefoot on the sand between the stone rock walls, the temperature on the surface of the sand is not as high as the temperature of the exposed rock surface, Song Xiaoshuang quickly mastered the trick, as long as he did not stand in place in the sand all the time, the soles of his feet did not face the pain of standing on the surface of the stone and scorching the high temperature, the temperature in the sand is layered, the temperature of the part of the surface exposed to direct sunlight is high, and the temperature on the surface is significantly lower, Song Xiaoshuang is a little self-deprecating, This experience reminded him of the basics taught in school books.
With the ability to detect the spiritual power that can still be used, Song Xiaoshuang, who walked all the way, knew everything about the movements around the hinterland of the rocky desert, and soon found a few scorpions with black and black tail hooks, black and red bodies and golden feet and palm-sized scorpions, which were surrounding the corpse of an unknown bird the size of a fist the size of a lost thirsty and dead fist, holding a pair of jaw pliers to feast, and from time to time they would use each other's tail hooks to shake each other to threaten their companions because of competition for food.
Although Song Xiaoshuang knew that the scorpion was high protein energy as long as it was roasted by fire, he did not hesitate for a moment to walk quickly from a few meters away from the scorpion, and now he is seriously dehydrated, although the scorpion is food but not as important as water, scorpions and dead birds can already be seen here, indicating that there are still many small animals hidden in various corners of this rocky desert wasteland, maybe there are snakes, even if you can't find a water source for a while, you can hunt a snake, snake blood can play a role in quenching your thirst, thinking of this, Song Xiaoshuang's spirit was shocked, The interest became high, and he immediately let go of a few scorpions that had eaten the carcasses of birds.
With the memory of standing on the top of the stone from a bird's-eye view, Song Xiaoshuang walked along the gray-brown sandy ground between the many stone walls for nearly a kilometer, and couldn't wait to pass sideways from the gap between the two stone walls that naturally formed a circle, and walked into a small narrow depression of more than ten square meters in the middle.
The stone wall here is relatively much higher than other places, at least twenty meters high, the sun can only shine at noon on the depression surrounded by stones, looking at the puddle at the foot of the rock at the end of the field of vision, Song Xiaoshuang almost had green light in his eyes, and quickly stepped on the hard gravel ground to run in front of the puddle in front of the rock root, and sat down next to the puddle, where he could take care of the pain of the legs and feet of the stones.
The water in the puddle looks a little pure and abnormal, it is so clear that you can see the rock fragments at the bottom of the water, only a few blue-green algae float on the water surface, and you can't see any small insects swimming in the water body, the water body is less than a foot deep, not like the puddle formed by the groundwater, it looks like the puddle formed after the rain a long time ago, such pure water quality, but there is no trace of snakes, insects, birds and finches around, but it makes Song Xiaoshuang, who has always been cautious, a little suspicious, and he can't figure out whether this water can be drunk.
After a slight hesitation, Song Xiaoshuang put one hand together to open the algae on the surface of the water, and the palm of his hand took up a small amount of water and sent it to his mouth, Song Xiaoshuang tried to take half of the saliva in the mouth cavity.
"Poof!"
A mouthful of water arrow rushed out of Song Xiaoshuang's mouth, and the water droplets hit the dry rock surface and scattered and fell away.
Song Xiaoshuang showed a bitter smile on his face, this puddle of water is extremely bitter and contains high salt water containing minerals, whoever drinks it will die quickly! Song Xiaoshuang has nothing else around him, it is too difficult to obtain edible fresh water by distillation, and he doesn't have so much time to wait, he urgently needs to replenish the water in his body, Song Xiaoshuang licked his lips that seemed more painful and cracked because of the high salt content with his tongue, and let out a long breath, the intended target was found but could not drink, Song Xiaoshuang felt speechless.
Soon he jumped up like a clockwork alarm clock, and rushed out along the crack in the stone, because his spiritual power detected that outside the gray-brown rock wall, there was a snake with nearly two meters of black lacquer scales, sliding along the sand by the rock, and it seemed that the speed of the weakness was not fast, there was no water to drink, and it was okay to catch a snake and drink snake blood to quench his thirst. At this time, where can you still see that he is a weak person!
Night is about to fall, in front of a corner of the stone wall in the depression surrounded by the stone wall, Song Xiaoshuang, who was full of the smell of snake blood and blood, ended his meditation and internal vision pranayama luck, picked up the dead cobra on the ground and walked out of the stone wall, snake blood can be drunk while it is hot, now he has to find dry low bushes and dead branches, make a fire to roast snake meat, can make a fire without eating raw meat, this is the creed that Song Xiaoshuang has always abided by