Chapter Eighty-Nine: Salt-Roasted Sand Crab
The vast yellow sand desert is surrounded by towering green dots.
A young man with black hair and green eyes walked slowly in the hot dust under his feet, and the breeze that blew up the sand and dust in the sky from time to time hit him, but surprisingly, when the dust storm approached around it, it was blocked by a transparent wall of wind, and split into two petals from the middle and floated away, without a single dust stained at all.
Feeling the signs of fading light sources in the sense of food, Mebis couldn't help frowning.
"That's not a good sign." Looking around at the scattered dots in the direction of his own head, there were almost no signs of life in the other areas, which was a big trouble for him without a directional goal.
"You can only take one step at a time."
Mebes looked at the distorted blurred space in the distance and sighed in her heart.
According to this trend, if he loses his natural navigation and has not yet found a trace of people, he may have to live in the desert for a long time, not to mention the harsh environment and the 'death sandstorms' that often occur in the stormy desert.
Although there is no sign of it in the surrounding area at the moment, in the ever-changing desert, any tiny breeze can snowball into a death sandstorm that can kill living beings, and a huge death sandstorm can be taboo even for official wizards.
He only hoped that he would not encounter it, especially if he had lost his cactus' natural shelter.
"Huh? What is that. ”
In his low-consumption state of eating, Mebis noticed a few white flames not far from him, and they were constantly moving, but from the naked eye, there was no sign of biological movement in the distance, just a vast desert decorated with withered dry branches.
"No, it's under the desert."
Seeing the flame light quickly attacking him, he didn't dare to be careless, and instantly turned on his mental rhythm to wait for the attack of the unknown creature.
I saw that the delicate dust around me was flowing with the wind, and there was no violent movement at all, and the flame light point under the food sense seemed to pause, as if to let the prey enjoy the last beautiful moment of life.
Immediately, a hideous monster suddenly broke through the yellow sand, bursting a large area of choking dust in the air, and a thick and sharp clamp stabbed straight at the confused young man who had lost his vision, as if he could meet the moment when the other party was cut bloody and died in pain.
"I've been waiting for you for a long time, Wind and Smoke Group Dance Technique!"
A flat male voice fell, and four violent wind dragons roared out with dust in the sky, instantly surrounding the sneak attacker, whose hard armor was completely vulnerable to the forces of nature, and only struggled in place for a short time, before being broken into pieces by the storm and dust, and deliberately blown aside by Mebis.
"Rustle... Sand"
After dealing with the creature that had perished without seeing its face, the same kind of monster appeared on the front and back sides of the youth, and he could only clearly observe these things when the dense dust cleared.
The giant carapace in the middle was the width of two strong men's arms stretched out, and at a height of more than a meter were two fist-sized gray-black beads, and their gray-yellow back armor seemed to blend in with the desert environment.
On the left and right sides were a pair of dark blue thick clamps, and the rest of the structure was not much different from the river crab he had ever seen, all of which were four pairs of appendages, and it seemed that the last pair of fan-shaped limbs were exceptionally wide and thick to facilitate sneaking in the desert.
"One of the specialties of the Raiding Desert, the Ink Blue Sand Crab."
The young man, who had no panic on his face at all, showed an unusual surprise, and he had not tasted the sweet flesh of crustaceans for a long time.
In his thoughts, the other party was not like a stupid waiter, the three monsters noticed the death of their companions and attacked him even more frantically, divided into three different phalanxes in the front and back, and flanked them.
"Just in time."
The wizard who was thinking about something hurriedly urged the magic model in the sea of his consciousness, and the uneven ground slowly gathered four gray tornadoes, which were the wind and smoke group dance that he had plundered back not long ago.
He himself realized that the power of Qi Witch's magic seemed to be more powerful than the sand and dust of the natural environment, and the consumption of mana was only at the usual level, and it did not increase in the slightest because of the increase in power.
In the face of this brutal wind and dust, the sand crabs actually stopped for a while, perhaps because of the natural fear of death sandstorms since birth, and their fighting instincts at this moment also dispersed like extinguished fire candles, and began to burrow into the desert, which symbolizes the complete earth.
However, the black-robed wizard would not let go of these 'walking delicacies', and hurriedly urged his spiritual power to divide the tornado into three equal parts, and quickly chased after the sand crabs fleeing in different directions.
Even deep in the sand, the tornado with extremely high wind speed tossed it into the air for only a moment, shattering sharply with a knife-like spiral, sparsely falling on the yellow sand.
In a short time, the four predators became a pile of prey that emitted residual heat, and the young wizard who was in a good mood hurriedly picked it up to prevent it from being covered by the quicksand.
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"Click, click..."
A rough puddle of flames was set up on the edge of the sand near the towering cactus, warming the silence in sub-zero temperatures, while Mebes was transporting the gourmet technique 'Magic Seal', rotating the transparent sand crab pieces above the fire, and the carapace with little moisture quickly made a crisp sound under the heat, and the red color that reflected from time to time was also slowly covered with gray and yellow crab shells.
Accompanied by a rich and fishy scorching aroma, the coarse grains of salt sprinkled by the wizard from the sky with one hand were evenly distributed inside and outside the cracks of the meat shell.
Next to the fire were piles of sand crab meat pieces as tall as a hill, these were only part of the net meat left after the internal organs were removed, and the rest were all closed by him to the Void Illusion Realm, after all, the content of crab meat was very low, counting the crab shells were only about two or three thousand catties.
knocked down a large piece of the divided black blue crab claw, and immediately saw the snow-like crystal flesh color, as the young man waved willfully and kept beating, he was already tired of eating cacti, and he hurriedly bit down a large piece of crab meat.
A fresh sweetness, the slightly tough chewy feeling of the meat instantly rushed through the entire plain and tasteless mouth of the young man, perhaps the unique climate of the growth of sand crabs, its texture is firmer than that of sea crabs, and the rotten smell of seawater is less, retaining the original sweetness.
Taste it carefully, and you can also feel the fine fibers disperse and melt in your mouth, because it is simply baked, and the coarse sea salt is less salty, and the sweetness is even more charming.
Feeling the red cells that have been strengthened again by the magic energy food, his physical fitness is also slowly improving, and the original sand crab has brought him nearly 1% progress, and he continues to swallow at the moment.
It's a little frustrating that there are no crab roe inside its spacious carapace, and Mebeis estimates that the time for its breeding has not yet come, but the sand crab with crab roe will lose nutrients and cause the meat to lose its original flavor, and he would rather have a good quality sand crab than eat two but medium ingredients, after all, he is a loyal supporter of the 'quality' that the food wizard highly respects.
While waiting for the fire to be baked, the young man couldn't help but raise his head to look up at the desert night sky of the endless galaxy, and the dazzling dots of stars decorated with dark blue scrolls, which looked extremely beautiful.
Even though the desert is so lonely that he is alone, he does not feel lonely, perhaps because of the presence of food, but also because of the departure of other tedious emotions.
At this moment, Mebis had a preliminary taste of the unchanging rules in the wizarding world, the privileges that only the strong deserve, and this is exactly what he pursues.