Chapter 49: A Sudden Disaster
The next day, after leaving the sparse woods, the streamer walked on the empty plain for three days and three nights. The weather began to get hotter and drier, and as far as the eye could see, there was not a single tree in sight, except for a few small yellow bushes, and there was no greenery except for a few small yellow bushes. The once green space has long been replaced by yellow sand, leaving only a few dead leaves.
If you go west from here, you will soon reach the desert region of the western continent, but if you go straight east, you will reach Suolong, the capital of the Saviey Kingdom. The desert covers almost the entire north-western region, but the presence of the towering Essetti Mountains prevents the possibility of wind-blown sand continuing to expand into the north-east region. As a result, the winters in the northeast are a bit wet and cold, but you can see lush jungles all year round. The south is also protected by the Silvenian Forest and its surrounding wetlands, so it also maintains a relatively humid and mild climate. It can be seen that the only way for the Northwest Desert to expand now is the central to eastern regions. The current eastern region is the capital of the Sava Kingdom, and 80 percent of the Sava people in the western continent live in that area.
After migrating to the Western Continent, this nomadic hunter-gatherer people, who inhabited the eastern continent in the early days and ate animal meat as their staple food, continued to hunt and expand their pastoral areas due to the gradual growth of the population, and the forests around Suolong City were largely cut down. It can be seen that the overgrazing of the Savoy people is also one of the reasons why this area has been replaced by sandy land year by year.
Even at the speed of the Streamers, it would take at least ten days to traverse this empty area, but they had only been walking in it for three days, and the weather was unusually hot and dry.
Priest Sylven suddenly stopped as he was hurrying and said, "The weather is about to change ...... catastrophe."
"The wind, too, has changed. Silo, who followed closely, was clearly aware of it. Although the current changes are still extremely weak, the streamer people who are good at communicating with nature are quite familiar with the natural temperament and can keenly capture the subtle changes in the air.
"In two days, strong winds from the west may strike. Chi Mo also said.
"The west is a desert ......," Mono couldn't help but be a little worried.
"If this is the case, it is likely that a sandstorm will form, but it is difficult to predict the intensity of the sandstorm. Xiliu looked around and felt that the situation would not be very optimistic. Although there have been sandstorms in the western continent before, they are relatively small in scale and have not caused much harm. But this time it was noticeably different, and there seemed to be an eerie restlessness hidden in the air.
"Let's go one more day, and then decide how long you want to stay according to the weather. The priest said.
So, they continued to live in this hot and dry weather until the second day.
In the afternoon, the sky began to get a little dark, and the further you went, the more blurred the scenery became. They seemed to be nearing the edge of the sandstorm, and the wind was noticeably much stronger than before. Soon, barely had time to think, the sky in front of them suddenly changed color, and the sandstorm rolled in like a roaring wave, and the thick sand and dust suddenly occupied the field of vision in front of them, and they could no longer move on.
Everyone stopped, and the sandstorm was much stronger than expected. Although the sky at the end of the migration was still blue, it was dark ahead, and it seemed as if the sky had been split in half by this terrible sandstorm. The magnitude of the sandstorm is largely due to the fact that a storm from the west coast swept a large amount of quicksand along the wind as it passed through the western desert.
Violent sandstorms are sweeping towards the east coast, but there are no mountains or forests in the east, and the sandstorm can smoothly break out of the east coast as long as it passes through Suolong City, almost unimpeded. What's even more terrifying is that it does not sweep away like an ordinary tornado, but rolls up thick sand and dust like a torrent, constantly spurting and flowing forward, unstoppable.
With such a strong wind, it must last for at least three days and three nights, otherwise it will never stop. But in this way, I am afraid that Suolong City will be buried in sand. You must know that 80% of the Sava people in the Western Continent live in and around Solong City, which means that if they don't have time to escape, they may be buried alive under the heavy sand. Not only that, but they will also lose most of their livestock and food, and those who survive will probably suffer from hunger and disease for a long time to come. The Savoyard do not have the same powerful ability to heal themselves as the Streamers, and they can lose their lives at any time due to an untreated disease.
Priest Sirwin was about to get his people out of the fringes of the sandstorm and wait for it to pass before moving on, but just then, he noticed that the child beside him had been staring intently to the east—that was the direction of the sandstorm and where the city of Thor was located.
They can't see him, but he has control over everything. The child said calmly, without the slightest hint of fear or pity in his eyes, as if he were just stating a very ordinary thing.
"The Savoyard people have gone their own way of maintaining their culture and way of being, turning a blind eye to nature, not a creator, not realizing that they are only creatures and not creators who depend on the gifts of nature to survive......," the priest naturally grasped the meaning of the child's words, and asked, "Although we are only here temporarily, we have also received his favor, so you want him to be out of trouble and maintain balance, do you?"
The boy looked back at the priest: "You know, he always likes to dress himself up with rich species and brilliant colors, but here it is like a skin has been peeled off. ”
"My sun, your will is our law of survival, I know what to do......"
Of course, the streamers do not have any compassionate emotions, they just instinctively follow the rules of survival and make corresponding adjustments according to the actual situation. The child is naturally the same, he sees the life of this land, and is intended to save the Western Continent, not sympathize with the Sava people who cannot escape the disaster. However, the restoration of the prosperity and beauty of this land is inseparable from the joint efforts of many creatures that inhabit it, and the Savoy people are one of them.
As a result, the Streamers postponed their journey to the north and immediately turned to Suolong City in the east.
The speed of the sandstorm was obviously faster than their footsteps, and the streamers who were chasing the wind continued to run for several days before finally reaching Suolong City. Because, when they set out from the forest, in order not to attract the attention of the Savoyards, they deliberately went westward and took a long detour to the Northlands, so it would take a little more time to turn to Suolong.
When the streamers hurried to the edge of the city, a ferocious sandstorm happened to pass through. All that was left was sand and dirt, most of the livestock had died of thirst or choked to death, and only a few panicked Savoyards who had narrowly escaped the disaster stood sparsely on the edge of the rubble.
More than 1,000 years ago, when the catastrophe of the Eastern Continent occurred, the Sava people had already migrated to the Western Continent, and they had never seen such a terrible natural disaster. Therefore, this sudden sandstorm may be the first real natural catastrophe they have experienced. Now there is no countermeasure other than panic, and I don't even understand how this happened.
When thousands of streamers followed the sandstorm and suddenly appeared on the edge of Suolong City, it really made those Sava people who had just escaped the catastrophe like they were about to doom, and instinctively thought that the aliens wanted to take advantage of the danger, so they dragged their weak bodies and rushed forward without thinking, intending to resist. The aliens avoided their attack and ran instead to the sand-soaked city, then tore through the mound and lifted the collapsed stone wall to find the Savoyard buried underneath one by one. In fact, many people are only slightly injured, but they are crushed underneath and cannot get out, and their lives are not in danger for the time being. However, there are also some that have been buried too deep and for too long, and they have not breathed anymore.
It was only then that Savoie finally realized that the aliens had come to the rescue. As a result, the people who were helpless before joined the rescue with hindsight.
Unlike the Streamers, the Savoyard can survive for a long time with light and water alone. Therefore, whether it is those who have escaped death before, or the wounded who have just been dug out of the mound, they are now in urgent need of water and food to replenish their strength. But the livestock in the pasture have long been frightened by this merciless sandstorm and fled in all directions, and some have even been buried directly by the wind and sand. The amount of food and fresh water that could be dug out of the sand of the city was so limited that the newly dead livestock could barely be roasted to feed their hunger, but it was not enough to last long.