Chapter Seventy-Five: The River of Quicksand
As we got closer, the heat in the air began to rise gradually, and each breath became thicker and hotter, and the oncoming hot air almost gave the trachea the illusion of burns.
The structure of the ground has also changed significantly, and the ground is full of strange gray-black rock formations, shaped like solidified foam, giving people the feeling of coming to an alien planet.
"Just stop here." Xuanzang got off the float boat five hundred meters away from the river, pushed the windproof glasses to his head, and stared at the magnificent picture in front of him.
Kilometers wide of rivers spread out in front of them, with no source in sight and no end in sight.
Instead of water, the river flows with fiery lava.
The lava wriggled at a slow pace, and the river of lava was like an unhealable wound across the earth.
The quicksand river, that's its name on the map.
Whether this was its original name or whether it was later changed is unknown. But the reasons for its formation can still be glimpsed in the database.
The quicksand river was born out of a frenzied nuclear bombardment. After an unimaginable baptism of horror in which the nuclear bombs were dropped by various sides, the geological structure of the area was destroyed by the atomic explosion, resulting in an earth-shattering volcanic eruption.
The continental plates here were even torn apart by the eruption, creating the unfathomable course of the Quicksand River.
The lava that flows from the volcano and the lava that bubbles up from the crevasses turns the place into a real purgatory. But one day they suddenly reached a delicate balance, and instead of raging, they flowed like a real river.
No living creature dared to live here, and a small flood of the quicksand river would swallow everything around it into the hot lava, leaving not even the slag behind.
The white dragon made a disgusted expression at the canopy, who had been staring at him, and said, "What are you doing, you are obsessed!" ”
"I'm thinking, if she falls into this quicksand river, Miss Bailong shouldn't be spared."
"How much you want me to die."
"No, no, you misunderstood, just habitually studying the nature of the material." Tianpeng walked to Xuanzang's side, turned his head and asked him, "Do you really want to do it here?" ”
"This is the best location. With our current strength, if we want to achieve our goals, we can only take advantage of the situation. The kamikaze cannon on the Yellow Wind Ridge has given me a revelation that the power of an individual is too small compared to this planet. The power of nature is truly awe-inspiring to simply use an instantaneous change in air pressure to cause air currents to fluctuate and create a super sandstorm that we can't resist. So I thought we could learn from that design philosophy. Xuanzang said, laughing self-deprecatingly, "But before I got here, I didn't expect the lava river on the map to be so big." ”
"We don't have that much time to complete the modeling calculations to avoid the catastrophic consequences of the chain reaction, so we can only make a rough layout," said Tianpeng worriedly. What if a larger-scale geological disaster is triggered? ”
"Then it's up to our luck." Xuanzang paused for a moment, suddenly remembered something, and joked again, "Don't look at me like this, according to the attribute value of the shelter S.P.E.C.I.A.L, my luck is 1." ”
"Doesn't that mean bad luck, Mr. Xuanzang......"
"If you survive this time, I'll tell you a story about stat values." After speaking, Xuanzang turned to the white dragon and bowed.
"Without me, you guys can't do anything." White Dragon said.
"Remember, don't hurt any civilians."
"Got it." After speaking, she bowed her head slightly, and her eyes were snow-white.
In the search and arrest force, urgent messages suddenly came out.
"The sniper is in position, waiting for orders."
"Action confirmed."
"Target 2 has been destroyed."
"Target 1 enters the human village, repeat, target 1 enters the human village."
"In the event of an emergency, suspend over-the-horizon strikes. The incident is beyond discretion and the commander's approval is requested. ”
Manjushri looked at the message that popped up on his interface and clenched his fists: "What a sinister villain!" ”
He quickly understood the other party's intentions. Sending the transformed Heavenly Soldiers to the human settlements, the attack of the long-range troops will definitely hurt the mortals, and it is estimated that half of the village will be blown away. But even if the sniper doesn't attack, the opponent will control the Celestial Soldier to destroy.
is still that set of methods, using the image of the heavenly soldier to do unreasonable evil deeds and discredit the immortals and Buddhas.
Manjushri couldn't ignore this seemingly petty behavior, and the above side currently attached great importance to this kind of incident, and if the influence continued to expand, it would only end up in the same fate as Lingji's guy.
Just as he was about to give the order, a new notice appeared: "The enemy continues to send heavenly soldiers and begins to disperse operations. ”
The other side is stalling for time. But what do they need time to do?
"The target aircraft has stopped moving, don't wait for the surrounding, the sniper will attack directly!" Manjushri commanded.
"It can't be executed, there are conflicting instructions."
"What?"
He opened the detailed instructions and found that the map had automatically switched to the reincarnation net perspective, with several red circles flashing on it.
"These bastards!"
On the bank of the quicksand river, Xuanzang and his party had evacuated to a relatively safe area, but there was still a strong vibration under their feet.
The river churned with magma, spewing out pillars of fire. The ground in the distance is constantly splitting, and the gray-black volcanic rock has broken apart in the earthquake, revealing the semi-cooled magma at the bottom, which flows in all directions.
It is like an apocalyptic scene, but it is a shelter that they cannot ask for.
The so-called search and arrest operation, when carried out by the immortals, will not care about the life or death of the target. They only have one way, which is to kill the target, copy the soul into the underworld and check it directly, and when they need to be questioned, they can put the soul into the body used for interrogation.
And Xuanzang threw a part of the heavenly soldiers into the quicksand river, using the high temperature of the magma to cause the explosion of their energy batteries.
Batteries, which are mainly made up of nuclear fuel, will produce about one hundredth of the power of a nuclear bomb when it explodes. In the right place, this is powerful enough to upset the balance of geological activity in the quicksand river and cause earthquakes.
In this way, the soul collector, which is difficult to destroy because it is buried deep underground, can be destroyed by earthquakes, creating blind spots.
If you can't save your soul in the blind spot, you will die completely, and if the enemy still wants to get information from them, you won't dare to kill them easily. There was such a big accident in Huangfengling before, Xuanzang had no doubt about the importance of a few of them, not to mention that there was also an immortal and a mysterious girl who could transform in this team, if they didn't ask something from them, the gods and Buddhas would never give up.
Although the FTB has been disconnected from the reincarnation network, it is just unable to carry out legal soul retrieval and can still scan the location of the soul collector. They moved in time to the nearest blind spot to gain valuable time.
"The question is, how do we survive this situation?" The white dragon dodged a flying volcanic bomb and grabbed it in his hand to play with it, "Bald, I found your plans to be cool, but they always drag us into other crises. ”
"Indeed, I really don't know if it's lucky or unlucky." Canopy sighed.
Xuanzang frowned and pondered, and at this moment, the FTB beside him suddenly said, "Master, it has been detected nearby-"
The abruptly stopped the report that made Xuanzang a little confused for a while, and then quickly understood.
What is it that is detected but cannot be said? Of course, it's something he's been trying to retrieve for a long time, and he's been letting FTB detect it.
Lost equipment from a past life!
Bai Long knocked on FTB dissatisfiedly: "Hey, what has been detected, don't say half of it." How can you robot not learn this trick? ”
Xuanzang disguised: "It should be a ...... detected"
"Oh, I see." Before he could finish speaking, Bai Long suddenly said. She looked in one direction and laughed excitedly, revealing two tiger teeth. "I can't imagine that in this situation, there will be something close and meet a powerful opponent."
Opposite her, on a trembling volcanic rock, stood a slender figure.