Golden sand dunes with green grass, volcanic hell and freshwater paradise.

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As we continued to advance, the edge of the continent, which was only faintly visible on the horizon, gradually became clear. Xinglan flapped her wings and flew straight towards the mainland in the sky......

"Where...... Wrong. Xinglan tried to discern the land in front of her through the sharp eyesight of the white puffin, and strangely, there seemed to be no sign of green on the land ahead, but a patch of yellow, "Even if it is a beach, it is impossible to occupy such a large area." ”

The wind on the sea is very strong, and the fishy smell is mixed with a hint of salty seawater. Xinglan was headwinding against the wind at the moment, and although it helped to float in the air, it was quite difficult to keep moving forward.

"Wind ...... It's big, it's bad! Xinglan narrowed her left eye and shook it in the wind, "There's sand blowing in front of you!" ”

Blinded by some fine grains of sand, Xinglan couldn't control her flight, and while she tried to maintain her balance, she landed quickly downward, while searching the sea with her right eye, which was temporarily fine......

"Chirp ......"

Finally, Xinglan found a relatively large reef very close to the shore and hurriedly landed, and with a quick blink of an eye to shake off the sand, she turned her head to look at the shore not far away.

"Sure enough, it's a beach...... It's a big stretch of sand, no, it's just a desert! Xinglan tilted her head in confusion to look at the golden coastline ahead, "Shouldn't it...... Grey-eyed cranes can pick up branches from the sea, so this should not be a desert. ”

Mistaken, there must be something wrong!

Xinglan vented her temper on the small fish swimming in the ocean, although the fish population has decreased greatly this season, and it can no longer meet the feeding needs of the ship-dwelling beast, but it is still more than enough for the white puffin that eats very little. After catching and eating a few bait fish in a row, Xinglan felt that her nutrients and water had been replenished, and she regained her spirits, spread her wings in the wind, and began to fly towards the desert along the coast of the Macro Continent......

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"It's really a desert ......" white seabirds flew quickly in the sky, overlooking a golden sand dune below. The blazing sun emitted a fiery glow, as if it was about to completely scorch the whole world, "but it shouldn't be...... Although it is tropical, it has a humid climate in the coastal zone, so how can there be a desert? ”

There were clouds in the sky, and it was supposed to rain, but the desert below was not the normal luxuriant forest, but a dead silence of golden sand.

"Eh, what's that?" Xinglan suddenly noticed that a strange green flat triangle appeared on the sand dunes below, and in this golden world, it appeared so abruptly and so regularly, it was almost as if it were ......

"It's like a guiding arrow deliberately laid by a smart being......" In the oncoming wind and sand, Xinglan squinted her eyes to avoid the sand, flapped her wings and flew down, her white body looked very eye-catching under the blue sky, "However, intelligent creatures or something, it shouldn't be possible......"

After circling and descending for a few hundred meters, Xinglan finally saw the true face of the green flat triangle. It's not something special, it's not a strange landform, it's something very ordinary...... Grass.

That's right, it's grass, clumps of grass that grow densely in the desert.

"Scald, hot!" Xinglan landed slowly, and suddenly flapped her wings and flew up again, it turned out that she was scalded by the scorching sand, she looked at the golden sand below her with palpitations, and carefully stepped on this sand again, "This place is simply super hot...... Huh? It's ......"

With a slight stroke of her paw, Xinglan was surprised to find that the sand here was very thin, only about five or six centimeters thick, and she gently swept away the sand in one place, revealing the dark ground below: "This is ...... Basalt? ”

Strange, so weird! There's something wrong here!

Xinglan cautiously shifted her steps closer to the green triangle in front of her. These small grasses grow densely together, and not only are they rooted in the sand, but some of the roots even burrow into the hard basalt. There's no water underground, but that's okay, the rainfall can meet the water needs of these grasses.

"What a tenacious vitality...... Xinglan jumped to the side of these little grasses, only to find that in addition to arrowheads, they also formed dense strange patterns in the overall shape, "Strange, what is going on with these growth forms?" ”

"If you name it, it's called Sand Grass!"

"Moisture? Or is it the influence of air composition? Xinglan pondered, "I don't believe it's the result of intelligent beings, but in any case, there must be something unusual about the direction the arrow is pointing into......

Well, don't you know this kind of thing when you see it? Thinking so, Xinglan rose back into the air, looking down at the arrow in the shape of a green flat triangle in the sky. The direction it points in is probably a slight slope along the coastline, if it is an anomaly that even plants can feel...... It shouldn't be too far.

Having made up her mind, Xinglan continued to fly along the coastline, gradually approaching the interior. What is even more surprising is that the sand grass is not only here, a few kilometers in front of the previous arrow, another identical arrow continues to guide the way, and soon, the arrow appears a third and a fourth......

That's right, Xinglan can be seen from a high altitude that it is directly ahead! It's simply amazing!

Not all of them are grouped, and there are some scattered grasses scattered in the golden sand, but as long as it is a large group of sandweeds, the shape will invariably grow into the shape of a long, long, green triangle, and become an arrow that guides the community ahead.

"There must be some kind of induction between these sand-veined grass......es," Xinglan flew all the way in the direction of the arrow, gradually losing sight of the ocean in the distance, "The roots of the underground are connected?" Probably not, it's too tough, so, is it some kind of pheromone that spreads with the wind? But it becomes extremely difficult to position yourself in this way......"

Soon, the desert ahead began to reveal more of the dark basalt inside, but the golden grains of sand began to decrease, and even between the continuous green arrows, another strange desert plant began to appear.

Xinglan lowered her altitude again, carefully observing the plants that looked like bunkers in the desert. They have broad, brown leaves that should not be found in the desert at all, and are blooming with clusters of beautiful orange flowers, but there is not the slightest insect flying around, and it seems that they are pollinated by the wind.

"Sure enough, the desert here must have received frequent precipitation, otherwise the plants would not have retained their broad-leaved structure, but the sand grains have not been washed away by the rain?" Xinglan tried to get closer to these bunker-shaped plants, but they didn't move, they were just ordinary plants, "This plant is called a sandcastle tree." ”

Even between the sandcastle trees, the green triangular arrows of the sandweed did not break, and some of the arrows even directly encased a sandcastle tree inside, and they pointed unwaveringly to an unknown place somewhere ahead.

Xinglan rested on a sandcastle tree, she shook her feathers irritably, she felt very hot, the few fish she had just caught kept her from dehydration, but she should find a water source as soon as possible.

You say the ocean is not far away? Please, can you drink seawater? White puffins mainly get water from food, but they do not have the ability to drink seawater directly.

After a short rest, Xinglan took off again in the scorching desert wind. Until now, she had not seen any animals in the desert, nor had any obvious references, so she could only fly in the direction of the arrows made of sand-streaked grass......

The range of growth of the sandcastle tree soon faded away, disappearing into the end of view. Ahead, basalt rocks are taking up more and more of the area, turning the tone of the entire area black. The sand grass still grows tenaciously on these hard rocks until ......

"I didn't ...... Gone? Xinglan hovered around the last arrow in surprise, according to the previous law, the straight-line distance between the two arrows would not exceed ten kilometers, but the ten kilometers in front of this arrow were completely empty......

Rumble!

A loud sound that almost directly deafened exploded in front of him, and Xinglan only felt dizzy for a while, and almost lost her balance and fell. She saw the huge black smoke rising into the sky in front of her, and instantly understood why there were so many basalt here, and why the sand grass in front of her suddenly stopped......

An active volcano erupts!

The pungent smell of sulfur filled the air, and the distant sky was faintly filled with fire, as if the flames had burned from the ground to the endless expanse of the sky.

"You can't get close to that place...... Even if you don't get hit head-on by the lava, you will suffocate due to the lack of oxygen. Xinglan glanced at the sand grass arrowhead on the ground again, firmly remembered the direction, and began to flap her wings and turn, "But the area of the volcanic eruption is not large, and it can still be surrounded from the outside." ”

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White seabirds flew across the burning land, not just an active volcano erupting violently, but a dense mass of volcanoes below. Most of them are dormant volcanoes, and some even have lakes in their craters.

Starland swept low past the dormant craters, the smoke of the active volcanoes plunging them into the horror darkness of the night, and the hydrogen chloride spewed out by these volcanoes reacted with the water accumulated in the craters to produce large amounts of hydrochloric acid, turning the water of the lakes completely eerie green.

There are also volcanoes that are not spewing magma, but are still spewing sulfur. The sulfur erupts from the volcano at a temperature of more than 600 degrees Celsius, condenses into liquid sulfur and flows down the crater, burning with a strange blue light, which is very spectacular.

"It seems that these volcanoes are very old...... Xinglan squinted at these volcanoes, "Such a dense distribution, could it be an ancient volcano left over from the Starfire Age?" ”

After rounding the erupting active volcano, Xinglan was surprised to find the arrowhead of the sandweed grass again on the other side. They grow on a few scattered sandy grounds, but they still struggle to form arrows, faithfully pointing into the distance.

"The tenacity of this life is simply terrifying." Xinglan continued to fly in the direction of the arrow, gradually passing over the volcanic area. On the other side, large areas of sand reappeared on the basalt wasteland, and the sand grass arrows appeared more densely.

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Finally, the real last arrow appeared in front of Xinglan......

"Oh my God, how did you little grass sense the ...... from so far here? Freshwater? Xinglan stood on the barren basalt rock, watching a wide freshwater river shimmer below, and then merge into the sea towards the coastline, which had been greatly narrowed. It was like the river Styx that divided the two worlds of life and death, on this side of the river, the volcano erupted violently, the golden desert was filled with the breath of dead silence, and the last sand-veined grass arrow stopped here, and on the other side of the river......

Never-before-seen animals drank on the sun-drenched riverbanks, and the verdant meadows were stained with dewdrops. Further on, the endless rainforest next to the ocean stretches all the way to the end of the spectrum......