I don't know how long I slept, but Quartz was buoyed by the rumbling belly, and he woke up hungry.

Rubbing his eyes and looking at the sky, he found that it was not dark yet, and Ali next to him was still asleep.

Quartz touched his forehead and found that it was a little hot, and the ice pack that had been placed on his forehead had already turned into a water bag, so he had to change a few pieces of ice from the ice bucket and apply it to him.

Looking left and right, the two black ruga that fell to the ground before were gone, and only a small amount of blood remained there, probably escaping.

Quartz waited for hours in fear in this humble makeshift camp, and Ali finally woke up, and after several sips of water, he looked much better than before.

The two of them gathered some dry firewood nearby with great difficulty, made a small fire pit, and then cleaned up the few remaining fish, then removed the internal organs and skewered them on a skewer to roast on the campfire.

I don't know if it was the injury that affected Ali's performance or if he wasn't good at barbecue in the first place, anyway, the fish was grilled to a mess, and the two of them plus the four elves barely ate these things that couldn't tell if they were fish or charcoal.

Then they began the long wait.

…………

A few more dead branches were stuffed into the campfire, Quartz wiped a handful of sweat from his forehead, sat down next to Ali, and felt a little relieved to listen to the tiny crackling sound in the campfire.

The sky overhead was dark but well-lit, and the sun showed no signs of setting, but Quartz's biological clock reminded him in his mind that he had been here for at least twenty-four hours.

Could it be that this is a polar region, or is it simply a slow day/night cycle? Quartz had a lot of questions in his mind, but Ali, the only one who could answer his doubts, was now lying flat near the campfire and falling asleep again.

His originally dark and shiny complexion now looked a sickly pale, apparently the result of excessive blood loss.

It stands to reason that such sufficient lighting does not need a bonfire, but Ali's body temperature fluctuates, and he is hot to sweat profusely for a while, and cold to swing for a while, although Quartz does not have much advanced medical knowledge, he also knows that Ali should be provided with a dry and warm environment now, and he must replenish enough water, and most of the buckets and a half of fresh water rescued in the sink are given to Ali to cool down or take it orally.

The state of the fire dinosaur is a little better, except for the heat and sweat, it is just a little sluggish, if this state is definitely a little affected during the battle, but now the situation is urgent and I can't care so much.

"Ahem..."Ali coughed violently a few times, then suddenly opened his eyes and sat up and looked around, and found that Quartz was sitting next to him intact, so he lay down with confidence: "How long have I been asleep?" ”

Quartz couldn't tell the time, so he could only report a number by feeling, and Ali was bitter after hearing it: "It's been so long, it seems that the speed of this secret realm is very slow, it's too bad." ”

"I feel like it's been a long, long time since I've been here, at least more than twenty-four hours, why is it still bright?"

Ali looked up at the clear sky above the sandstorm haze: "Do you know what the essence of the secret realm is?" ”

"Is it a different world where elves live?" Quartz has studied hard during this time, and he is no longer the little white he was at the beginning.

"That's right, the so-called secret realm is actually another world.

In these worlds, time and space are chaotic and ambiguous, and there is no unified standard.

To take a famous example, in the spring of 1999, a primitive volcanic plain secret realm appeared in the city of fallen angels in the United States.

A month before that, a secret city of the future on the sea appeared in Bengaluru, the country of peacocks..."

Saying this, Ali's expression became mysterious:

"It may not be a big deal, but... Ahem... You know what?

The Alliance's exploration team explored the geomorphological features and cultural records in detail in these two secret realms, and finally came to an astonishing conclusion..."

Quartz didn't expect Ali to say half of the fisherman's appetite, and hurriedly asked him, "What conclusion?" ”

Ali smiled:

"You would never have dreamed that these two secret realms are completely the same region on the same planet!

It's just that the space of the two is the same but the time is different, and the ocean is actually formed by volcanoes after thousands of years of environmental changes! ”

"What?!" Quartz was really stunned at this time, it was obvious that it appeared in the secret realm on the earth first, and it turned out to be thousands of years after the secret realm appeared later, this is too chaotic and outrageous!

Just listening to this description, this kind of chaotic setting of time and space is too much of the soul of so-and-so, let's take a good look at an elf world should be so scary.

"Weird, isn't it?

But don't worry, no matter how chaotic the time and space of these secret realms were before, as long as the cave of the secret realm and the earth begin to merge, the time flow will be synchronized.

In your fable, 'Taro Urashima returns and finds out that a hundred years have passed,' doesn't happen. ”

Ali obviously knew what Quartz was worried about, and hurriedly added an explanation.

It's just that he got the allusion wrong, and the story of Taro Urashima is clearly oriental...

Forget it, nine out of ten foreigners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Oriental cultures, just like we probably can't tell the difference between Celtic, Slavic and Germanic cultures.

Although Ali is weak, he has a lot of sex, and he doesn't stop as soon as the conversation box opens:

"Although the time is very chaotic, it is because each time the world of the secret realm and the earth will only merge in a small place.

Therefore, we still can't leave the location near the cave of the secret realm, otherwise if the fusion is completed, we are not within the range, then we will be trapped in the world of this secret realm forever. ”

Quartz nodded, but the location where he fell out of the cave of the secret realm was far away from here in the woods, and the "very small place" that Ali said was a bit too big?

Told Ali about this doubt, Ali frowned slightly: "No wonder, theoretically, the larger the scope of the secret realm, the slower the speed of fusion, this range is definitely not a small secret realm, we have to be prepared to wait here for a week or so."

Then Ali began to worry, the fresh water and food had bottomed out, and the dry food in the emergency kit was not enough for two people and four elves to eat for long.

Fortunately, as a water spirit, a warrior with armor can condense a small amount of water from the air, and can also rely on the instinct of a water spirit to find a nearby water source, as long as it finds a water source, then food will not be a problem.

After all, having a water source means that there are fish, and wild animals that go to drink water can be caught and roasted and eaten.

You can also go to the woods mentioned by quartz to collect wood and fruits, after all, it is also very important to survive wood in the wild.

It's a pity that the heavens don't fulfill people's wishes, Ali Qiang cheered up and told the armored warrior to go to the nearby to find a water source, it went out to look for a long time between the stone forests but found nothing, it seems that there is no water source nearby.

Ali had planned to let it go to the woods again, but Quartz volunteered that he could go to the woods with the fire dinosaur to look for it, and the armored warrior could rest near the camp, and he could also protect the injured Ali.

Naturally, he didn't want Quartz to take this risk, but the current situation was that he was the one who should be taken care of, and the armored warrior had been fighting at a high intensity since he entered the secret realm, and if he was exhausted as the team's highest combat power, then everyone would be doomed.

Therefore, in order to survive here, a reasonable division of labor is necessary.