Volume 2: The Blood of the Sun Chapter 21. Reasons for smoking
Lu Yuan slept very unsteadily this night, and woke up four or five times. The desert night breeze cut the car window like a knife, and it was also a reason for the bad heart to sink, and at the darkest moment before dawn, Lu Yuan was wrapped in a blanket, and his eyes widened and turned his head to stare at the rifle resting beside him. Not only that, but with a boot saber and a pistol at his waist, he can draw a gun and shoot at the slightest sound.
Nothing happened overnight.
The sky was bright, and the all-terrain vehicle set off on the road, this time Lu Yuan did not set up navigation, but held the steering wheel by himself and followed the map drawn by himself. Lu Yuan was looking at the boring and monotonous desert in front of him until noon, and instead of counting cans in the back compartment idly, Lu Yuan was more willing to find something more meaningful, rather than empty power.
The edge of the car window suddenly swept over the plastered green, Lu Yuan was instantly shocked, and immediately turned the drone to repeatedly confirm that there was a surface plant surviving.
Lu Yuan wanted to get out of the car and pick up this green plant in person, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was better to be cautious, maneuvering the drone close to the ground, speeding up, and using the rotor wind to stir the plant shaped like a sun ring.
The strong wind instantly lifted the green plants that seemed to have some heavy branches and leaves, and a black shadow struck at the ground, and the drone suddenly fell crookedly, and Lu Yuan immediately lost control of the drone, and the camera rolled wildly, and finally froze to the sky.
Lu Yuan immediately grabbed the rifle and rushed to the driver's seat, drove the all-terrain vehicle closer, released the spare drone, opened the shooting hole by himself, and searched for the black shadow of a reconnaissance plane that had just been shot down. After searching with the naked eye to no avail, Lu Yuan turned on thermal energy detection and infrared scanning in turn, but found nothing.
"Hell." Lu Yuan scolded secretly, he was not glad that he was not personally involved in danger, but regretted the loss of a reconnaissance drone in vain. But at this moment, he didn't care about more, demarcated the area, let the drone start to coil, and after getting the new real-time data, Lu Yuan stared at this green plant after all and didn't see anything different, at best, the branches and leaves were more grotesque, like wanton extension of the octopus's tentacles.
But Lu Yuan didn't care about this, recalled the drone, hung the ammunition and covered it directly with heavy firepower, and within a minute, the unknown plant was completely shattered, Lu Yuan waited for it, and simply shot a small air-burst projectile over.
With such an episode, Lu Yuan naturally knew that this seemingly empty desert was by no means a real dead silence, on the contrary, there was also an extremely dangerous ecosystem. How can a life that can survive in such a barren and difficult environment be easy and kind, since it can scrap a reconnaissance drone without warning, it is not too easy to kill Lu Yuan, a thing that is not made of iron.
So Lu Yuan no longer spared fuel, raised the speed of the all-terrain vehicle to the highest speed, put the rifle on his knees, and set up weapons in the shooting holes, and decided to rush out of this desert in one go, march to a more suitable environment, and ease the competition to ease some creatures that should not appear too vicious.
After all, if Lu Yuan was acting in a mecha at this time, he wouldn't bother to pay attention to it.
After driving for seven or eight hours in a row, the green plants just now did not decrease but increased, Lu Yuan tried to press it with the wheels, but there was no response, Lu Yuan was tired, just to keep his energy in cruise mode, and he was also covered with a blanket in the passenger seat and squinted slightly, as soon as there was movement, it was a heart to mention. At night, the night wind howled and made it difficult for him to sleep.
Until dawn, Lu Yuan took a nap with a gun, and the green plants in the sun ring were every tens of meters, and it was not a desert at this time, but a wasteland was more appropriate. It's just an internal urgency, and it's just a matter of making do, Lu Yuan really doesn't want to risk getting out of the car, after all, it's too embarrassing to die in the mouth of an indigenous creature.
After driving like this for many days, sparse bushes and slender reeds gradually paved the wasteland, but Lu Yuan never found a ferocious predator. Through the drone, Lu Yuan found some insects attached to the grass, either extremely small but in a group, or a huge carapace sickle species, once the two met, they were endless, and the ferocity of the fight made Lu Yuan's eyelids jump a little.
Lu Yuan's watch still maintains the date of the Celestial Star, and the rest of the meaning can only let Lu Yuan know how many days. On the fifth day after leaving the Yuyun, the desert wasteland finally gradually covered with a little shallow grass, and Lu Yuan asked the drone to go with a lightweight gun to test it, and it was normal many times in a row.
Lu Yuan had not gotten off the all-terrain vehicle for many days, Lu Yuan was quite difficult to stretch his muscles, and this time he stepped on the slightly soft shallow grass, and suddenly felt like a world away, Lu Yuan pulled away the short sword that broke most of it, picked out the grass plants, and dragged out the wisps of rhizomes that were half a meter long, hugging the soil, and Lu Yuan had to shake it hard to shake the soil foam.
Lu Yuan naturally didn't say much, boarded the all-terrain vehicle to continue the journey, he missed Murphy who was not popular at all, but Lu Yuan had to talk to himself to relieve his boredom, fortunately, the all-terrain vehicle had a megaphone, connected with some non-nutritious shouting content, and made do with the right to make do.
The packet of burning Yun Lu Yuanzhen was reluctant to smoke it, and he smacked his mouth while filling the ATV water tank with antifreeze, thinking that he had to find a good reason to smoke one.
Xu is wish came true, and in the afternoon, Lu Yuanzhen caught up with the reason to smoke one.
"Yes." Lu Yuan put down the binoculars, wiped the sand on the mirror cover with his thumb, and licked his lips.
Two kilometers away, through the telescope, Lu Yuan saw dozens of knotted trees resembling poplar trees surrounding a small waterhole, and the surrounding area was overgrown with verdant grass, which was by no means an overly strange sun-ring grass.
To be honest, Lu Yuan really wanted to take a bath, he naturally wouldn't have the luxury of using one less bottle of drinking water, and usually poured a bottle cap on his face at most. There is a wasteland oasis here, not to mention that there may be spirits and beasts, even if there is a team of imperial mechas, Lu Yuan will have to give them a boost.
The all-terrain vehicle "woo boom" spewed out a cloud of black smoke, Lu Yuan lit a cigarette, held the steering wheel with both hands, did not dodge or dodge, stuffy his head recklessly poplar, and the front corner of the car was unceremoniously shoveled down, seeing that there was such a big movement, he still didn't react, Lu Yuan plugged in the warning device casually, and walked to the waterhole with a bucket to scoop water in.
"Whew~" Half a bucket of cool Qintan water was poured over his head and face, Lu Yuanshuang shivered all over, the wind and dust were swept away in the past few days, he simply took off his shirt, rinsed it with his bare shoulders, and howled to his heart's content.
As soon as people were happy, they had more ideas, and Lu Yuan wondered if it would be nice to make a grill and roast a few canned beef in the starlight at night? That's happier than lying in a carriage.
Lu Yuan laughed a few times, and there were more than a dozen cigarettes in the cigarette box, so he decided to make another one to celebrate. So he threw the rag and turned back to the cigarette that had been specially locked in the armament box.
So he didn't notice that the waterhole was inexplicably stirring up some ripples.