Volume 2: A Dream of Mars Chapter 5: The Terrifying Sand Beasts

The empty wasteland stretches as far as the eye can see in the early morning.

A ray of sunlight fell in the distance, accompanied by a sky full of dust rising.

Suddenly, a shrill car roared, and it scrambled to appear on the wasteland, provocatively looking... Not to mention that there are also nearly a thousand modified off-road vehicles.

In the plain of Mars, this kind of lively scene is only produced when one thing happens.

That's when the breeding season of the sand beast has arrived.

In order to clear out an absolutely safe area, the male sand beasts will gather together and use their lives to expand outward.

They control the winds, and this ability is also the reason why they can stand in the wasteland where blood beasts are rampant.

The nomads of the wasteland called them the Knights of the Winds, brave and useless in the presence of the wind, and all the places they passed were lost to dust.

But not only that, sandstorms usually last two to three days.

This also means that the survival period of the male sandbeast, as well as the breeding period of the female sandbeast, is over.

At that time, the male sand beasts will be torn to pieces by the sandstorm they have started because they are exhausted, and they will become dust and sand particles in the wasteland.

He drove the car and looked at the sandstorm behind him, and he was about a few kilometers away from catching up with him.

But you must know that a few kilometers is not a blink of an eye for the sand beast herd.

The car was not driving fast, and there were constantly hunting group vehicles next to him to catch up with the upright.

Those people were all surprised, and looked at the upright eyes from the car window as if to say: "Are you driving so slowly to get up close and personal with the sandstorm and make a documentary?"

Correct the bitterness in my heart, I will slap a hammer.

"Little Ancestor, don't you even know how to wear a seat belt?"

The girl's words scared the girl, but she looked at the sandstorm behind her and seemed to understand the mood of the upright.

The terrain on the wasteland is not uneven, and the presence of cracks in the ground is easy to overturn if the speed is too fast.

But it's not a question of whether you can turn it over or not, and if you don't open it quickly, you'll die.

"I... I can hold on a little bit. ”

The girl pulled the seat belt in her hand and said weakly for fear of being upright and angry.

It doesn't matter if it's upright, just bump it, as long as you don't die.

With one foot on the accelerator, the upright car directly overtook several other fleeing vehicles.

I'm not afraid of overturning when driving so fast!

The same car ran away, but looking at the broken pickup truck that would be like a drug, those other mercenary hunters looked incredible.

After all, at this time, let alone overturning, even if you hit somewhere and stop, the sandstorm behind you may catch up with you.

Proper skills are not covered, and his driving skills were also trained as soldiers in his previous life.

The terrain on Mercury is no better than that of Mars, which is a real mountain, and it is not only good to drive.

Even the driver's license of some basic mecha mechs, he also took the test in the army.

But it's useless, it's still a big-headed soldier.

Running wild for hours in the wasteland is not an aimless escape.

According to the positioning system, he quickly found an underground cave set up in the wild.

This is for Martian mine workers, and Union soldiers.

But most of the time, the federal staff has already been evacuated in advance, and the place is basically hidden by ordinary people and even vagrants.

"Come down, let's hide in there."

After getting out of the car and opening the car door, the girl looked at Duanzheng in fear, obviously still afraid of him. Straight, this girl stays in the car with one leg, and maybe something will happen.

Bring the hood to the other party, the protective clothing is instantly tightly connected to the hood, and as soon as the princess stretches out her hands to hug her, she picks up the girl and hides in the underground cave.

"Don't be afraid, if I really don't do anything to you, do you think I'm a bad person?"

Straightened the girl and walked inside, but as soon as the girl saw that she was about to enter such a dim place as underground, she immediately began to struggle.

With a slap of the knife in her hand, she fainted.

Underground caves are considered buildings, and they are large enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people.

But at this time, he also felt a little crowded, and he kept holding the girl, looking at the vent above his head worried.

Most of the people here are mercenaries and vagrants, and they need to hide for two days.

But he soon found that when he came in, he didn't bring any food or even a bottle of water.

Now that it's time for lunch, damn it, I'm fine, but what will this little girl eat in a while?

Sand beasts are raging, and there is a good chance that the cars outside will be scrapped.

The food in it will be gone, and I will be worried.

Holding the girl to find a slightly loose place, he squatted down and the people around him also had time to care about others.

But they seemed to be very experienced, and they all carried a little sun-dried meat and hydration bags.

This is the old hunter.

Righteous and sad at the thought that he would be hungry for two days......

Suddenly, he felt the clothes on his chest tighten, and found that the girl was awake.

At this time, the girl's sanity was restored, and she clung to the head of the well-dressed and hooded body, and also clinged to the upright body.

Scared of the surroundings.

Her eyes were fixed on the flickering electric lights of the cave.

Sure enough, the next moment all the lights in the cave went out, and the electricity here came from the generator inside.

It should be that the generator is out of gas, "It's okay, don't be afraid." ”

Duan Zheng groped for two geothermal beads in his pocket and handed them to the girl.

In the dark cave, the geothermal beads emit an unusually bright light and a hint of warmth despite their small size.

"Hungry?"

At night, the upright, who was not wearing protective clothing, asked the girl.

The girl didn't speak, but clutched his clothes tightly in her arms.

Straighten your heart and say, "It's useless to be hungry and have nothing to eat." ”

Continue to hold the girl, upright and don't mean to let go.

This girl has one leg, he let go of the girl and can only sleep on the ground, how cold and dirty!

Think so in your heart.

"Alas, brother, this is your wife?"

It's too dark in the cave, people have mobile phones but they don't have enough power to squander, and it's full of sandstorms.

So straightening a middle-aged man with a beard and raunchy next to him, he pushed and chatted with him.

"Yes, this is my wife, what do you want to do?"

The upright performance is like a little friend who has not been deeply involved in the world, full of vigilance.

"What's the matter, it's so dark and cold in this cave, I won't die of cold if I don't talk for a while."

He was surprised to find that this person was not wearing protective clothing, but this person was not a divine warrior and he did not awaken the divine pattern, which means that this person's physical fitness is very good.

It is a person who has taken the Z element in the body of the Vol Wheel.

"It's okay to chat, bring your water bag, my wife is thirsty, she needs to drink some water."

The middle-aged man who said this was stunned and a little reluctant.

"I'm going to have to hide for two days, don't drink it all."

The middle-aged man untied the water bag and handed it to the man, and the words in his mouth were very reluctant.

"Come and drink water from my wife," said the girl, ready to open the girl's hood.

But he didn't know the girl's name yet, so he asked, "What's your name?" ”

The girl pushed open the water bag with both hands and kept shaking her head, indicating that she didn't want to drink water.

The middle-aged man on the side looked confused.

He's your wife, you don't know her name.

"Okay~_~ My wife is not thirsty, but the water you promised us to drink will be stored here for you first."

Duanzheng returned the water bag to the middle-aged man, but the other party frowned when he heard this one day, and quickly opened the water bag and poured it himself.

The water was lukewarm.

There should be geothermal beads in it, and the hunters in the wasteland should make the best use of it.

"My name is Ma Zhengfei and you are from the Asian region of the earth, brother, you are from that planet."

Duanzheng frowned, and this really started talking.

"Right, by the way, I'm from a cold country in Asia."

The other party didn't believe it, so he shouted a bird language, and he was stunned.

"Brother, you're not honest now, and you can't understand Hanguo's own language."

Dignified is embarrassed and wants to touch his nose but stops himself.

"It doesn't matter."

replied dignifiedly.

"Yes, yes, yes, it doesn't matter."

"Then you are here to be a hunter, you should only be in high school at such a young age!"

Uh, I feel despised by myself, do I look so much like a high school student?

"By the way, I graduated from high school this year."

Duanzheng moved his body and wanted to adjust the posture of the girl in his arms, but the girl grabbed his clothes tightly and didn't let him move upright, and he was speechless

"My son also graduated from high school this year and is ready to go to Shenwu Academy."

Rightly nodded.

"Oh! Then you came to Mars to be a hunter to earn your son's tuition. ”

"Not all" Ma Zhengfei shook his head and said, "I bought several properties in Kyoto, but they were all down payments, and the balance was not settled!" I'm here to pay off my mortgage. ”

"Well, what are you buying so many houses for?"

Surprised, the man scratched his head as if he didn't know why.

"If I don't buy a house and owe debts, why should I go and hide at home all day long?"

Ma Zhengfei suddenly held back a sentence, which made the heart of Duanzheng want to die.

Co-authors, rich people motivate themselves like this.

"Then if you die, your son will have to pay back all the money you haven't settled, and asked again."

But suddenly I felt that my words were very rude.

But the man didn't care.

"It's okay, otherwise what if he sits back and enjoys his success in the future, how can people live without some pressure."

"Just like on Venus, we have to wear stress relief suits, but the creatures that have survived there for a long time will gradually get used to it."

"Even once those creatures come to our earth, free from the shackles of stress, their strength can be amazing."

"That's the pressure effect."

Forehead.

People like you work so hard, what's the use of us ordinary people working hard.

I feel that this person is not good-looking, and he is still stunned when he talks about the reason.

"By the way, brother, you just said what your name is."

It's more sincere to correct this, he really didn't care about people's names just now.

"Ma Zhengfei," the man replied casually.

"What's your son's name?" Asked again.

"Ma Hai"

Straight and dumb, I haven't heard of it, and I haven't heard of it in my previous life.

I thought he would be a great character in the future.

"Brother, I see you as a hunter alone."

Ma Zhengfei suddenly said to Duanzheng seriously, and said to Duanzheng that there is another person in my arms, we are two people.

Ma Zhengfei shook his head.

"She's a vagrant, you try to leave her alone, Mars is the first planet of human immigration, but its fate is the most tragic in the Federation."

"The prosperity of Mars is gone, and people born on Mars have some bad things, so they are not recognized by the Federation, and after you go out, you should not take care of this girl in the end."

Ma Zhengfei persuaded him to be right, turned around and squeezed the crowd towards another place, where there should be a hunter with him

But looking at the girl in her arms, she grabbed her clothes tightly, and her eyes were like black gems, and she didn't take the other party's words seriously.

Aren't the homeless just black households, and besides, the little girl doesn't admit that she is a Martian!