The cellar was narrow, and Iska spread a layer of dry soil on the ground, and then put on a fur coat. Because they can't make a fire, the two can only lean against each other to keep warm. The temperature difference between day and night in the desert is extremely large, with the lowest temperature at night being around minus 20 degrees Celsius and the average temperature being around minus 10 degrees Celsius. Besides, the cellar is such a big place, and it is spherical, and two people can only squeeze together.

Relatively speaking, heating is still a secondary issue.

Chu Tianjiang is protected by colorful battle armor, so naturally there will not be much of a problem. According to his observations, the people of this era were particularly adaptable, especially hardy. The night she first met Iska she withstood the freezing cold of -80 degrees Celsius.

The biggest problem is oxygen.

Because the Daredevil has an extremely keen sense of smell, and the top of the cellar is less than half a meter above the surface, it is impossible to resist the Daredevil, so Iskar does not have a ventilation hole. The air in the cellar was originally only enough for one person to breathe, but now there are two people, so there is no oxygen in the second half of the night.

After sleeping for six hours, Chu Tianjiang woke up.

The air in the cellar had become extremely cloudy, and the walls were covered with fog and water formed by the condensation of fog. Iska leaned tightly on Chu Tianjiang's side, almost lying in Chu Tianjiang's arms, sleeping deeply. Chu Tianjiang felt dizzy, obviously a symptom caused by lack of oxygen.

Of course, for Chu Tianjiang, because he had a colorful battle armor, this was not a problem at all.

But for Iska, that's a big problem.

It's not that there is no oxygen in the air, it's that the oxygen content is too low, and the carbon dioxide content is too high for the blood to absorb oxygen. The Colorful Battle Armor can extract the oxygen in the air and remove carbon dioxide, so that the air that Chu Tianjiang breathes contains enough oxygen, and can even convert carbon dioxide into oxygen when necessary. The problem was that the oxygen produced by the Colorful Battle Armor was directly supplied to Chu Tianjiang and could not be discharged into the external environment. In other words, Chu Tianjiang couldn't use the Colorful Battle Armor to produce oxygen for the cellar.

Iskar, who seems to be sleeping soundly, is actually "poisoned", carbon dioxide poisoning.

Chu Tianjiang got up, ready to open the round door that had been sealed by Iskar to ventilate the cellar, otherwise Iskar's life would be in danger.

Touching the wall, Chu Tianjiang immediately stopped.

The walls were shaking, and they were shaking very violently. Chu Tianjiang was all too familiar with this feeling, it was the vibration generated by the running of a large group of night demons.

"Don't go out of the way." A figure appeared.

"Daredevil?"

The figure nodded and said, "There are a lot of them, around a hundred, and they are nearby, and they seem to be looking for you." ”

"Looking for us?"

"I'm looking for something, or someone."

"Yes."

"The oxygen made by the Colorful Warframe is enough for two people, and you can give her a portion. There's enough oxygen left in the cellar to keep you going until dawn. Seeing Chu Tianjiang go and pick up Iska, the figure said again, "However, I suggest that you control the oxygen supply and let her continue to sleep." ”

"For what?"

"She doesn't know that you have colorful armor, if you wake up now, how will you explain it?"

Chu Tianjiang nodded, indicating that he understood what the figure meant, and then put his hand on Iska's mouth and nose, allowing Iska to breathe oxygen. Because Chu Tianjiang has always been wearing Manya steel scale armor, and the colorful battle armor is fused into the scale armor, Iskar didn't know that Chu Tianjiang was wearing a colorful battle armor. If Iskar knew that Chu Tianjiang had such a magical set of battle armor, it was really possible to regard him as a savior.

Obviously, Chu Tianjiang didn't want Iskar to know that he was the "savior".

Showing his identity to Iska before was just a plan, that is, Chu Tianjiang said it in a joking tone, which made Iska have a preconceived notion that he was not a savior. In this way, even if something is discovered in the future, it will not connect Chu Tianjiang with the savior.

"Those Daredevils are looking for us?"

"There's no third person around here besides you."

"But ......"

"Something to do with that saint?"

The figure nodded and said, "I've always suspected that the Night Demon has something to do with the church, and now it seems that it does have something to do with it, otherwise there wouldn't be such a coincidence." ”

Chu Tianjiang also thinks so.

In the previous few days, he had not encountered the Night Demon, and he had not found any trace of the Night Demon in the desert. According to Jack, the Daredevil needs to obtain food, and is a monster that is completely dominated by instinct, and predation is its first instinct, so the Daredevil mainly haunts near human settlements such as towns and farms, and sometimes attacks pedestrians on the road, but rarely goes to deserts that are inaccessible.

"What is the relationship between the Daredevil and the Church?"

"The Shadow Empire has died, the Shadow Alliance is also half-dead, the North Wind Country is in a safe corner, and there is no strength in the Old Continent that can confront the Church and the Holy Empire. Without a prominent external factor, people are bound to have all sorts of bizarre ideas. What's more, everyone has creativity, but it is suppressed and not able to play it. The Church and the Holy Empire need the same thing, the same thing that can make the people feel fearful and become more dependent on the Church and the Empire. ”

"You're saying the Daredevil was created by the Church?"

"Even if it is not made by the church, it is the result of the connivance of the church."

"This ......"

"The Vantaa you killed is much more powerful than the Daredevil. Ten thousand towers can deal with at least a thousand night demons, and the church is obviously more than ten saints. As long as the church wants to, it can wipe out the night demons at any time. And the Holy Warriors of the Empire, dealing with the Night Demon is not a problem at all. The figure paused slightly. The question is, what good would it do to the Holy Empire by driving out the Night Demon the Absolute Church? ”

"There's one more question."

The figure smiled and said, "The origin of the night demon." ”

Chu Tianjiang nodded and said, "The night demon is also a creature, it should be a mutant. If the Daredevil can't reproduce itself, it must have been created. If the night demon could reproduce itself, there must be a nest and a mother, and the people on the farm didn't know any of this, and no one thought about it. ”

"The Daredevil should be able to reproduce itself."

"Are you sure?"

The figure nodded and said, "The night demons we met are all females, or have female reproductive organs, but no female hormones. ”

"This ......"

"What comes to mind?"

"Bees!?"

"Ants or bees."

"That is, there is a queen in the Daredevil, a queen who is specifically responsible for breeding, and a male individual who fertilizes the queen."

The figure nodded and said, "In some way, such as biological hormones, only the queen has the ability to lay eggs, and the other night demons do not have the ability to reproduce. If the queen dies, the biological hormones produced by the queen will disappear, and another night demon will evolve into the queen. This is how social insects such as ants and bees reproduce, and it is precisely because of this that the night demons always move in swarms. Of course, the Daredevil's community structure should be a bit more complex, and the Queen may be unique and irreplaceable. ”

"If you have a queen, you will have a lair, and you will be able to destroy the night demons."

"The most important thing is food."

"Food!?"

"Even if the Daredevil is dormant during the day and is cold-blooded, it does not need to maintain its body temperature, so its need for food is very low, and it can survive even if it does not eat for a long time, like snakes, crocodiles and other reptiles. The problem is that to sustain a large ethnic group, you definitely need enough food. At the moment, it seems that the Daredevil's main food is definitely not human, so there must be other food sources. ”

"The church is raising the Daredevil!?"

"Don't forget, the most important tribute the church asks for is meat, and the Daredevil obviously doesn't think bread as food."

"This ......"

"These are all my guesses, what the hell is going on, it's too early to tell."

Chu Tianjiang sighed secretly, this was obviously more than just speculation.

The figure has made it very clear that the Church needs an external force, so that the common people living in this world will regard the Church as the main force to rely on, and the best way to do this is to let the people live in fear, so that they have to rely on the protection provided by the Church, and the Night Demon exists for this purpose. Because the population is already very small, the church must protect the civilians from harm, and at the same time allow the night demons to exist.

It was almost dawn when the night demon quietly left.

Chu Tianjiang opened the circular door and released the turbid air in the cellar. Then, he put away his multicolored armor and placed Iskar on a fur cushion.

The sun had risen, and the ground was full of the footprints of the night demons.

When Iskar woke up, Chu Tianjiang was ready to be early. It's mostly bacon, and some wild fruits left over from yesterday.

Because he had been asleep, Iskar was unaware of what had happened last night. Seeing the footprints on the ground, she realized that the Daredevil had been here last night. Aside from feeling a little strange, Iska didn't think much of it and didn't ask about last night.

She thought that Chu Tianjiang was also asleep, and she didn't know what happened to Lu Dao at all.

After breakfast, the two hit the road.

Although Chu Tianjiang's physical strength had fully recovered, the two of them were not in a hurry to dry the road. There is a foothold of the Shadow Alliance in front of it, an underground cave. If they rush to dry the road, they will miss their foothold during the day and have to camp in the field at night.

At the speed of ordinary people, the two walked for a day, and in the evening they came to the vicinity of the foothold.

It's just that the situation is very bad.

The underground cavern was badly damaged, and the entrance was smashed large enough for a few Daredevils to enter, so the underground cavern lost its value.

It was not caused by natural causes, but by man-made destruction!