The Dead Sea, the harshest natural environment above the surface, is like a god who has unleashed all malice on this land.

Strong currents have been interspersed with strong currents running back and forth over the black clouds of the entire Dead Sea region, with more than 3,700 clouds and blue thunder per second, making the Dead Sea area illuminate as if it were daytime.

Because of this electromagnetic explosion cloud, no aircraft dares to fly here, let alone penetrate the clouds to attack the ground.

On the outskirts of the Dead Sea, there are long-term winds of force 10, mixed with radioactive sand, forming an invisible giant wall.

But for the sake of the Earth Codex, Apollo's convoy still turned on the bevel armor, like a fortress that only sticks to the ground, rushing in against the wind and sand.

At the moment of entering the wind and sand, countless sands hit the sand baffle like bullets. While! While! The sound was incessant, and the whole body swayed like a ship on the waves.

Illian clung to the handrail, inexplicably nervous.

Looking at the bulletproof windshield in front, you can't see anything, the headlights are on the high beam, but you can't even see the road 1 meter away. The only thing you can bet on is that everyone is driving at a constant speed, and there is no change.

The whole convoy traveled for 1 hour, and finally, the wind and sand in front of her stopped instantly, and the bright light made Elian look sideways.

They finally made their way through the deadly wind-blown sand circle to the Dead Sea area, where the sand baffle next to the vehicle was retracted, and the Dead Sea was truly visible to everyone.

It was a land so barren that there was no vegetation to live in, and the dryness of the air made your throat dry. Looking at the meter, the relative humidity here is 0%, and there has not been a drop of rain in more than 100 years, no matter how green the sky is, there is not even a drop of acid rain coming down.

It is in this extremely dry environment, but there are still strange beasts to live, from the descriptions of past entrants, there is a kind of ghost-like creature living here, their bodies are like ghosts, erratic, but they like to feed on human blood, all the corpses brought back by the attackers, the body is drained like a tree, and even the water in the cells is not a drop left, extremely terrifying.

And these creatures are nocturnal, yes, the Dead Sea has a day and night difference because of the relationship between the green thunder, where the clouds and green thunder will roll for 8 hours every day, illuminating everything in this desert, and then, the green thunder will pause and weaken, allowing the earth to return to the darkness for up to 16 hours before it will emerge again.

No one has ever captured this creature alive, and no one has ever taken a video of it, so it's more of a legend of the Dead Sea. After all, this is a region with a drought index of up to 100%, and life here lacks the core element of existence, water, what kind of creature can survive? Incomprehensible.

Regardless, as he walked along the ruined highway, Apollo looked at the map and the parameters of the black box on his arm.

"Although we are only in the fringe area, the magnetic field and radioactivity here are already very dangerous, and when you are outdoors, you must wear protective equipment, otherwise you will not survive for even 10 minutes." Apollo sighed.

"Apollo, how long will it take us to get to Las Vegas?" Elion wondered.

"If the road had existed, it would have taken six hours to get there, but now we have to take a detour, there are so many quicksand areas in the desert that it can take 15 hours at the fastest, and we can't move at night." Apollo said with all seriousness.

"Are you worried about the ghostly beast that the record says?" Iliane had also read all of the operational reports, including the current route, which had been paid for with the lives of numerous exploration parties in the past.

"They will be the difference between success and failure of our operation, and I must make sure that you are safe, and that setting up camp before dark is the right thing to do." Apollo has now stepped into the posture of a bodyguard, with Elion's safety as a priority.

The vast convoy drove along the highway until the highway disappeared completely, and then turned to the sandy land, and the dust rolled up told everyone that this was a desert. Occasionally, the bones of weathered animals can be seen, which proves that this place was once full of life.

In this environment, it is easy to forget the existence of time, only the alarm clock reminds you to drink water every 15 minutes, so that the body will not have problems in this environment.

Looking at this barren land, there are still traces of human existence everywhere, the wreckage of crashed planes, scrapped cars on the side of the road, scattered clothes and gas masks, all of which show the terrifying scene of how many people fled in panic at the moment of disaster.

Apollo's chosen camp site was a motel, which had destroyed most of the complex, leaving only a row of two-story hotel rooms, supply trucks parked in front of the buildings, and armed jeeps surrounding the hotel in a circle.

Large heavy machine guns were carried up to the roof, erected in four corners, and snipers with Barrett anti-materiel sniper rifles were also placed on top, and it took less than 20 minutes to construct a simple steel fortress.

"It's dark in one and a half hours, so let's spend the night here today." Apollo looked at the mechanical watch.

"Actually, we can walk more, even if it's 5 kilometers more." Eliam was so urgent.

"No, there won't be any such convenient cover to defend any further, and tonight, we're going to face the real Dead Sea, and I'm definitely not going to put you in danger." Apollo was so blunt that even he had to be part of the guards.

Ilian was placed in the middle of the room on the second floor, with four of the best fighters standing guard with machine guns outside the door.

The walls and windows of the room were specially treated so that Illian could take off her helmet and rest on the floppy mattress. This kind of environment always reminds Illian of Zhang Lan unconsciously, although Apollo is also a top guard, but that sense of security is no longer there.

"Hurry up, you need to be a little busier, so busy that you don't have any free time to stop thinking about him, right?" Elianne closed her eyes tightly, as if this was the only way not to miss them.

And the dark night also arrived on time after one and a half hours, only to see the green thunder jumping in the sky suddenly decreased, and the darkness instantly enveloped the entire land.

In the case of light, the temperature is still 8 degrees, and it drops to minus 5 degrees in an instant, and even the gas coming out of the mask can condense a faint layer of frost on the mask.

Regardless of the fact that a group of men and horses were stationed in the hotel, the cordon they had arranged extended to a kilometer away, fixing all kinds of mixing locks in the desert, and tying bells to them, as soon as a living creature walked by, it would immediately make a tinkling sound.

In this dead desert, this sound can be particularly harsh even from a distance of 1 kilometer.

All the team members were divided into two shifts, each with 30 guards, and they had to stay in battle for 16 hours until the day came again.

As for Apollo, he was the only one who guarded the whole day, he stood on the highest billboard of the hotel, with the NS double sword stuck behind him, and rested with his eyes gently closed, like a hunter waiting for his prey, ready to pull the trigger at any time.