Chapter 82: The Barren Land

"Ah Shu, how is that girlfriend talking?" Shinki was afraid of the silence during the meal, and sure enough, his mother began to have a hard time.

Originally, Shinki wanted to say that it was inappropriate to say it directly, but yesterday he was shopping with Mika, and it seemed very irresponsible to say that.

"Well, there is relatively little contact, so there shouldn't be much drama." Nobuki tried his best to keep his voice down, but he couldn't escape Nobuno's ears anyway.

"Mom, who introduced me this time, look at my brother's appearance at a disadvantage. Can you give me a little information, I'll help my brother with the staff. "Nobuno doesn't open any pot, and he seized the opportunity of his mother's home to inquire about information, showing a strong interest in his brother's lifelong events.

"What nonsense is the child, where do you see that I am at a disadvantage, I just think it is inappropriate, don't ask if it's okay." If it weren't for his mother's presence, Nobuki would have been serving Nobuno a long time ago.

"It was introduced by your aunt. The other party's family seems to have opened a company, and the conditions are very good, and your aunt said that it was the opportunity to create this meeting. Actually, I didn't agree with it at first, but then I thought that young people's thinking may be different from ours, and I didn't know until I met him. ”

Mom took a chopstick and put Xinshu's favorite vegetables into Xinshu's bowl, and the meaning of the words was obvious, so that Xinshu cherished this hard-won opportunity.

"My brother came back so late last night, does it have anything to do with this?" Nobuno stared at Nobuki's face seriously, trying to dig out something useful from Nobuki's expression. Nobuki, an old fox, how could he not know Nobuno's thoughts, and his face was expressionless.

"Mom, I did meet her last night, just like a normal friend, go shopping and have something to eat." Nobuyoki decided to confess, mainly to release a smoke bomb for his mother, and the provincial one couldn't change to another one, and Nobuyoki was the most afraid of trouble.

"Do you have enough money, why don't I lend you a little? People are children of wealthy families, you should not be too stingy, you want a man, even if it is not suitable, you can't be ridiculed by others. "It's worthy of Shinshu's own mother, but that borrowed word sounds so weird.

"We met once last night, and we don't usually contact each other, so maybe she's blacklisted me by now."

"Well, just let it be, just don't let down my aunt's hard work."

In the last few days of the game, Nobuki is still working hard to level up, and has formed a high-level leveling team with Hiiragi Yexi, Yi'er and Jiesan. The highest rank among the four people is Jiesan, who is already 90, Shinshu is 89, Hiiragi is 88, and Yi'er has also reached 86.

The Shattered Tower is located in the Wastelands on the eastern front of the Great Rift Valley of Middle-earth. According to the information, the Barren Land was originally called the Tomb of the Gods, and it was the main habitat of the Sky Race. There was a huge Psychic Stone Tower, and the Sky Race who later lived there had internal struggles for unknown reasons. The Sky Race collapsed, causing a terrifying and restless energy to appear in the Tomb of the Gods, destroying the Divine Stone Tower, leaving behind a ruin that formed the current Barren Land.

The current barren land is inhabited by many powerful monsters, and it is difficult for ordinary people to find the path to the Shattered Tower smoothly even when they reach the barren land. Banjin provides the letter tree with map information and asks to go to the Badlands together.

The Stone Forest is a necessary place to enter the depths of the barren land. There are countless stout boulder pillars here, and the people of Nobuki and the others walked inside the stone forest, as if they had entered a labyrinth, and everywhere they could see were earthy yellow stone walls and stone pillars, and it was almost impossible to distinguish the difference between them, obviously following the direction on the map, but unconsciously turning in the other direction. Shinshu had to keep correcting the direction in order to barely close the distance to his destination.

[Desert Stone Wolf] LV80, a predatory animal that is good at teamwork, has the power to manipulate sand and soil, often appears in groups, never underestimate the power of the desert stone wolf team.

At first, Jiesan and Shinshu disagreed, thinking that it was just a group of level 80 monsters, until they encountered a desert stone wolf ambushed in the sand. Not only are they adept at using the protective color of their fur to launch surprise sneak attacks, but they also love to attack by exploiting the weaknesses of their enemies.

For example, for the team of Xinshu, the group of desert stone wolves released 5 desert stone wolves to attract the attention of Xinshu and Jiesan in front, and the other part of the desert stone wolves launched a surprise attack from the flanks and behind, if it wasn't for Yi'er's cleverness, they would have been able to get it.

Not only does Yi'er acquire a variety of buff skills, but also a lot of control and recovery skills. Shinki is getting more and more strange, Yi'er is almost like a decathlon, and it seems that nothing can bother her.

The desert stone wolf has a hard shell formed by a layer of sand, which can resist the attack of weapons well, and Yi'er released the [corrosive acid] that can corrode the opponent's shell, so that the attack of Nobuki and others will be twice the result with half the effort, and finally scrambled to solve this group of cunning opponents.

The opponent in the stone forest is far more than a cunning opponent like the desert stone wolf, for example, a whirlwind suddenly blew in the middle of the road ahead, forming a whirlpool sand monster, and the letter tree cut it for a long time without any effect, under the reminder of the third ring, the letter tree attacked a piece of crystallization in the center of the whirlpool sand monster, and only then did he succeed in killing the monster that gave people a headache.

The desert vulture who likes to take advantage of loopholes, the desert sand fox who peeps secretly, and the desert sand python that creates a sand pit made Xinshu and his party suffer a lot, and there was no danger along the way, and finally crossed the stone forest. In front of it is a barren plain, because of the erosion of strong winds for a long time, the bare rocks on the ground have been carved into strange shapes, and the peeling sand and soil have been blown away by the wind, forming a yellow curtain.

There are a few buildings scattered here, and there are two main types of styles in terms of style.

The first is a building made of large blocks of rock, and since there are only some wreckage left, Shinki is not sure what the complete building looks like. Judging by the dilapidated ruins and vague reliefs that have been eroded by the wind, they must be some imposing large buildings that resemble temples and churches.

The second, much more shabby, were improvised tents and fences made of wood, more like temporary dwellings for nomads, scattered throughout the moor.

Judging by the styles of the two buildings, their owners are from different races, with different living habits and intelligence, and the second race came here after the first race abandoned their homeland, so the wooden buildings appear more complete.

"There are still remnants of desert people here." Ban Jin spat out the sand from his mouth, breaking the silence.

"You know all about this?" Nobuyi also smelled something wrong, which was an intuition.

"Of course, the insider told me." Ban Jin glanced at Xinshu and reminded Xinshu that an insider had already been here.

"It's too strange for the desert people to live in a place where birds don't." Thinking that this was just a game setting, Nobuki was relieved.

"Yi'er has heard of the desert people, a race that lives in deserts and wastelands, and has superb desert survival skills, if Brother Ah Shu plans to travel to the desert in reality, you can learn from them." Yi'er only showed a fluttering eye, and the rest of the part was covered by the mask.

"Yes, a lot of the setting of Bonding Blade is not a coincidence, it seems more like the result of natural development." When there weren't many people, Hiiragi became less taciturn.

"Tell me what else you know." For the encyclopedic Yi'er, how could Shinki let it go so easily.

There is a desert between the northern part of the Xijue Jungle and the Middle-earth Rift Valley, where you can meet deserters, and if you go deeper, you can get some information about deserters. Desert people do not like to live in the desert, after a long period of selection and evolution, they have become accustomed to dealing with the desert in their bones.

The desert is not as barren as it seems, there is a rich food chain hidden inside, and it can be known from the totem of the desert people that the source of the desert people's strength is the desert, but it does not include the kind of completely barren place, such as the wasteland in front of them, the hidden food chain may have been destroyed, resulting in little left of the desert people, and it will not be long before they leave to find a new habitat.

Yi'er analyzed the Tao at the head, and Xinshu was so impressed that he even had to give up the food he brought after hearing it.

"Are the desert people going to attack us?" Shinki turned around and asked Ban Jin.

"I don't know, the insider didn't disclose it, and I didn't bother to ask." Ban Jin scratched his head and smiled embarrassedly.

"I'm afraid we're going to be ready to be attacked." Hiiragi pointed to a branch of a tree standing in the sand not far away, which was covered with the remains of various creatures, including some wind-dried corpses.

"The Tower of Shatter is in the depths of the wasteland, get ready to go up." The letter tree checked the information on the map and reminded everyone to be prepared.

There are countless paths scattered in the wasteland, which protrude about half a meter above the ground, crisscrossing them. At first, Nobuki and his party only walked on these ridges, but later found that if they wanted to spend the least amount of time to get closer to the depths of the desert, the shortcut was to give up walking on the ridges.

Puff puff!

As soon as Shinshu's feet stepped on the ground, a strange sound of rustling came from the desert between the ridges, and it was getting closer and closer to Shinshu. As soon as Nobuki lifted his feet, the strange voice disappeared.

It seems that there are unknown threats hidden in the desert, and the choice to make now is to take a shortcut in the face of those threats, or continue to move forward from the safety of the ridge, and Nobuki and his party chose the former.

For the sake of safety, everyone has been standing at the intersection of the ridge and the desert, and if the situation is not good, they will immediately return to the ridge.

【Desert Dragon】LV85, with a hard shell, can well lock in the moisture in the body while resisting attacks from the outside. Females are larger than males and have supremacy in the group.

These desert dragons also act in groups, and when the letter tree puts his feet in the desert, the desert dragons will surround them, and when they are carried up, they will scatter. Xinshu was so happy that he made Ban Jin look at him like a nervous disorder.