Part 14 The Great Smash Bros. in the Alien Realm Chapter 117 Etiquette and Exchanges

Duguhong didn't expect to meet a team of people in this place at all.

After sending them away, Dugu Hong didn't plan to ignore them, but there were too many things that followed, and he was so busy that he couldn't even take the time to care about the whereabouts of the seven people.

But now that he has encountered it, he can't ignore it.

The Council's disengagement will inevitably continue several times, which means that the same inexplicable sandstorms, the same losses in numbers and supplies, and the same heavy blows, will be repeated three times and twice.

Although after contact, the result is that the team needs to move on, but the first blow has already created such a disagreement, and if it comes a few more times, God knows if these people will be able to hold on.

Anyway, whether or not they can make it has nothing to do with the actions of the Abilities Council, and even increases their chances of stealthily infiltrating - an expedition team that has split for some unknown reason seems to be the best background to cover their whereabouts.

As for the lives of the three people left behind in the ruins, such as telegraph, love, and camouflage, they wish that the three of them died there, so that they could continue to control the secrets of the ruins without being known to outsiders.

It's just because for the time being, the three of them have to act as bait, attracting groups of explorers to the heart of the Sahara Desert, helping the Council muddy the waters here, and there is still value in existence, so they can stay on the edge of the ruins safely, right?

All in all, despite the disagreement, the expedition made its way west......

It took five or six days of hard work, a journey of thousands of kilometers, and finally crossed the stony desert and gravel desert, and the group came to the real desert.

The special forces of the Alien Council have also been following the trail of the expedition at any time, in order to meet the members who have separated from the team at any time.

Of course, in these five or six days, there was a big sandstorm in three days, and a small sandstorm in two days, and the expedition suffered losses one after another, which was unbearable.

I don't know if it was a coincidence or a calculation, or if there were still a lot of secret lines in the Abilities Council in the expedition, and the team that barely advanced westward had once again diverged after the Council's special forces broke away from that sandstorm.

This time, some people said nothing and didn't leave.

The journey was only halfway through, and in five or six days, more than 100 men had been lost, accounting for almost one-eighth of the total.

After a fierce quarrel, the disagreement was resolved peacefully, with the leader of the expedition leading a small group of men, carrying nearly the maximum amount of supplies, especially food and fresh water, to the ruins of Nashia first, while the others turned around and returned to Kulaimai, replenished the supplies, and set out again.

In this kind of expedition, there is a general contribution evaluation system, which gives a comprehensive assessment based on the material or cultural discoveries made by the adventurer through the exploration of the ruins, as well as the cost and labor spent throughout the expedition.

The reward for the completion of the expedition is based on the assessment.

In this expedition mode, the person who arrives at the ruins first will obviously have a lot of advantages in terms of scores.

However, in the face of the reality that it is expected that reaching the ruins will pay a quarter of the price of missing people, such an advantage cannot offset the fear born in the hearts of explorers.

In fact, the soldiers were divided into two routes, and it was only a better way to say that they continued to go home all the way, but in fact, only twenty or thirty people led by the leader of the expedition team continued to advance, and the remaining six hundred or so people had made up their minds to go home, and the so-called large amount of supplies was only more than 30 camels.

This expedition is too evil, and although the people with extraordinary abilities are basically characters who like excitement, the difficulty of this expedition is obviously far more than expected......

As for Duguhong, he was naturally the one with a small number of people, and as for how the others would act, it was not within his consideration at all.

However, he is not a figure accustomed to being at the mercy of others, and on the day when the council's departure from the operation was successfully completed, he did one thing that made the council suffer a loss and could only hold back in his heart and could not vent - he used the invisibility potion he bought from old John to steal the Desert Storm Scepter from the instructor's hand.

There are surprisingly many types of potions in the Shadow Sect, but most of them are used to improve their own abilities, and their effects are much worse than the explosion of internal forces, of course, Dugu Hong chose this special effect that he would never have no matter how he broke out, but he didn't expect to use it so soon.

The hidden retrograde manifestation of internal strength, coupled with the effect of the invisibility potion, is the product after the combination, which is perfect.

The team that broke away from the council was all supernatural, and several of them were middle and high masters, but even so, the Desert Storm Scepter was taken away by Dugu Hong, and no one could find out......

If not...... In the bag of the Desert Storm Scepter, Dugu Hong secretly left a note, I am afraid that in the end, these people will be kept in the dark.

In the words on the note, this is not stealing, it is borrowing!

Dugu Hong didn't hide his identity at all, and he did it for a good reason - for their detached team, the role of the Desert Storm Scepter has disappeared, and there is no need to use it for the next action anyway, in this case, everyone is a friend, is there still a courtesy......

Of course, this is written in the open side, there is no one-way exchange of courtesies in the world, and the implicit meaning in that is naturally that everyone knows each other, I know what you want to do, you ...... Don't fool me casually, since you borrowed the scepter, I won't leak your sneaky deeds.

On the one hand, it is the scepter of Desert Storm, and on the other hand, it is a special operation related to the survival of the organization, how to choose, anyone who understands things should know, not to mention, Duguhong also indicated his identity and declared that he was borrowing.

These people can only swallow the bitter fruit at the moment, and they are extremely depressed and turn south, and embark on a predetermined course of action.

This scepter cannot be withheld, not because of the coveting of ancient tools, but because of ...... If the council were to be left with the scepter in their hands, and then stuck the scepter back into the ruins throne, it would be expected that this ruins expedition would be very rewarding.

Since the Council of Abilities has made the decision to abandon the ruins and attack the Shadow Sect, there should be preparations for the ruins to be completely revealed in front of the people, at least Dugu Hong thinks so.

In addition, he also felt because of the instructor's description, to uncover the secret of the ruins, the Desert Storm Scepter is obviously the most important key, to break through the empty door, how can it be done without a key?

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Stripped of those who wavered or were simply inside the Council of Abilities, the number of expeditions had plummeted, but the average strength had risen dramatically, and those who remained were those who had been through battles and were confident in themselves.

And the next trip, it is naturally calm, even if there is occasional wind and sand, compared to the masterpiece of the Desert Storm Scepter, the grade is not the same at all.

Therefore, the progress of the expedition team was not slow but fast, and it only took three more days to get out of the sea of sand, cross the gravel desert, and enter the rocky desert again.

"Actually, the Nashia civilization cannot be said to have completely died out, their form, their culture, and many of their things have been circulated until now." Although the people were almost gone, the only non-anomalous one, Professor Lunt, stayed behind, completely unconcerned about the impending danger, showing that an archaeologist was obsessed with the ruins.

If he happens not to be meditating when he is fine, he will take the opportunity to give a lesson to the people around him, the popularization lecture of the Shia civilization......

Although I also know that calming down and learning something will be helpful for the future exploration of the ruins, but these people have long been out of their student days, and their minds are full of lights, where to learn to enter, in the whole team, only Duguhong, can be regarded as a good student of Lunt.

Huang Rong was reluctant to accompany him at all, and as for Mo Ye and Lin Ling, they were not even perfunctory, or rather, they had already decided that it was enough for Dugu Hong to learn alone.

For this student, Lunt is the most fond, not only because Duguhong is smart and enlightened, he can draw inferences from one another, and he can understand everything at a moment, don't forget, he hasn't returned Duguhong's favor for saving his life yet.

"Until now? And still circulating? ”

At this moment, it was dawn again, the dawn had appeared, and the group was walking on the rocky desert, and the sound of small fragments was mixed, and the people of the expedition team heard this statement, and someone inquired at the moment.

"yes!" Professor Lent, on the back of the camel, nodded, "The broadest and most popular example, for example, the classification of earth, fire, water, and wind. ”

"Earth, fire, water, wind? The Four Great Ones in Buddhism? Among the explorers, there were really well-informed people, and when they heard it, they said, "That's all superstition...... Oh no, it's religious worship, right? ”

"No, no, although it is the same earth, fire, water and wind, it represents a completely different meaning. The earth, fire, water, and wind in the Nashia civilization are much more complex than the Buddhist sayings, and seriously speaking, they represent materiality, spirituality, time, and space...... That is, all the properties of every thing. ”

"The earth represents the materiality of eternal existence; Fire represents the fiery and unyielding spirituality; Water represents the temporality that cannot be separated and blocked; Wind represents ubiquitous spatiality. ”

"The foundation of the civilization is based on the cognition of these four attributes, and the ability of each of them depends on the change of these four attributes of things. When their civilization reached its peak, I heard that they could even extract or distort a certain attribute at will, compared to the current era, their civilization was not inferior at all! ”