The battle is over.

While Liu Fei was fighting, more than a dozen sand armor beasts appeared in the orchard.

The count of the number of people shows that two female travelers and a tour guide are missing, and ten hovercars have been completely destroyed.

The result was the killing of seven sand-armored beasts, the loss of combat of four mechs, and the minor wounding of one mercenary.

The atmosphere was suffocating, and Liu Fei's face was pale, because among the two missing people, Xiao Qiao was included. And Liu Xiaofei kept his head down and didn't dare to look at Liu Fei's eyes. The story is very simple, when a large number of sand armor beasts appeared to fight with the mecha, Liu Xiaofei couldn't help but join the battle, forgetting to protect Xiao Qiao, and when the battle was over, he found out that Xiao Qiao was missing.

Liu Fei didn't blame Liu Xiaofei too much, the battle was chaotic at that time, and there were too many sand armor beasts, if Liu Xiaofei did not participate in the battle, it might cause greater casualties, because, judging from the battle records, Liu Xiaofei killed five sand armor beasts alone, which is not a brilliant record.

And Da Qiao, she didn't speak from beginning to end, she seemed to be in extreme sadness, she didn't cry, her face was expressionless, she just looked at Liu Fei with a pair of empty eyes, as if she was a walking corpse without a soul.

Liu Fei also didn't speak, just nodded, he understood the meaning of Da Qiao's eyes, seeing Liu Fei's nodding expression, Da Qiao's dull and empty eyes recovered a little firepower, sat in a corner, bowed his head and wept silently.

"Captain, we have lost contact with the city of Kabaxing." Steel Tooth's expression was heavy.

"Why?" The cold Liu Fei showed a faint kill on his face.

"The hover's communication system has been destroyed."

"Why don't you use mechs?"

"This desert contains a strange mineral that forms pulses that can interfere with communications, and after more than five kilometers, holographic scanning and ordinary communication systems will be ineffective, only Kabastar's unique communication system will be effective."

"That is, we can't communicate with the fleet in space through the mech?"

"Yes. To be exact, our mechs can get out of here, but even if we leave here, under the interference of pulses, we can't locate them, because we don't have the map and coordinates of Kaba, and if our mechs fly into space and send a signal to the Fawkes, they can only let them know what happened, and it is more likely that the rescue mecha is lost in the desert. ”

"What do they say, tour guide?"

"They said it doesn't matter, if we don't return to the city today, the travel agency will send someone to check it tomorrow."

"Why not today?"

"This is the law of Kaba, because the desert environment of Kabastar is special, and it is not suitable to fly at night, so-"

"So we have to spend the night here?"

"Yes."

"However, we can also send a mecha to fly to the city of Kaba Star to seek support, but, it will take at least four hours to go back and forth, or even more than five hours, in Kaba, it is strictly forbidden for aircraft to enter the desert at night, it is said that the dense fog will cause a series of chemical reactions in the desert, and flying is very dangerous, so the law prohibits flying, even if we send the mecha out, from the current time, it is impossible for them to send a hovercar-"

"Then stay overnight."

Liu Fei was not an indecisive person, and immediately made a decision after determining that there was no choice.

"Yes."

"Gather all the people and find a rocky layer of sand to build a defensive circle."

"Yes."

――

After a burst of arrangement, the fiery sunset has enveloped the desert orchards, and the travelers are getting longer and longer in the desert. In the air, there was a faint mist, and people began to cool down a little.

Ten ruined luxury hovercars were dragged together by the mechs, forming a huge circle, like a steel wall.

In order to make this city wall more solid, Liu Fei personally drove an engineering mecha to weld these hovercars into a whole, and the four damaged mechs were dismantled and welded to be used as a support for the steel city wall, so that the entire steel city wall was more solid.

There is no doubt that this is a huge project, and almost every passenger is mobilized.

People don't understand why Liu Fei is making a big move, and even causing dissatisfaction among many travelers, after all, people only stay here for one night, and the time is no more than twelve hours, and there is no need to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to build a defense line.

For frightened travelers, they prefer to sit back and rest.

In the face of the passengers' doubts, Liu Fei did not explain, but just worked silently. Liu Fei knew very well that his time was limited, and that the crisis would come when darkness and fog enveloped the entire desert.

Liu Fei has an instinctive sensitivity to danger.

After he personally determined the camp and the defenses, he spent all his time inspecting the place where Little Joe had disappeared. He spared not every tree, every branch, even rocks and gravel.

Liu Fei believes that a living person cannot disappear out of thin air.

Finally, Liu Fei found a space button for a mecha. Liu Fei knew this mecha button, which was hung around Xiao Qiao's neck, like a silver cross.

This mecha button is Xiao Qiao's only self-defense weapon at the moment.

Obviously, when Xiao Qiao was threatened, he didn't have time to summon the mecha.

Next, Liu Fei used the magnetic wave chainsaw of the engineering mecha to dissect the corpses of several sand armor beasts, and in the corpses, there were no animal or human bones.

――

When night falls, the desert is silent.

The huge fruit trees cast huge shadows in the moonlight, like monsters lurking in the desert, and the swaying branches were like ever-changing fangs, hideous and vicious, making people shudder.

The thin layer of fog began to thicken and thicken, and gradually, the Great Wall of Steel made of hovercars was shrouded in thick fog, and the range of those temporary lights became smaller and smaller.

Artificial fog began to fill every inch of the desert, and the air was getting colder and wetter.

A wave of fear spreads among the travelers.

Anyone can have a sense of awe for the dark and unknown, and the fog makes travelers feel like they are stuck in a bottomless abyss, where people can't see anything more than two meters from them, and everyone becomes an individual.

The mecha's analysis system shows that in the fog, there is a special structure of ions, which can not only stabilize the dense fog, but also shield and hinder electronic signals.

No wonder the Kaba Star law prohibits flying in desert areas at night.

In this environment, it is possible for the mech to crash into the ground, let alone lose its way.

In the middle of the camp, a raging fire burned, and the orange light dispelled the chill and fog, and also made people find a little sense of security.

――

Liu Fei had been thinking quietly for three hours, and he had been combing through the information in his brain, of course, including the communication with the little monk.

"Thirty percent of the likelihood, I've calculated it tens of trillions of times—"

"Your calculations are often wrong." Liu Fei shook his head.

"Hmph, tell you, this monk from-"

"So, how do you explain that those sand-carapace beasts don't have the bones of small animals in their stomachs?"

"Sand carapaces are vegetarians."

"Then why do sand carapaces hunt humans?"

"They also eat meat occasionally, just like rabbits—"

"Rabbits eat grass because they are not strong enough, and they have evolved to use grass as their staple food. But, from an evolutionary point of view, the sand carbs are strong enough, and the point is, they are also very agile and not as clumsy as cows, and according to the evolutionary theory of the jungle, there is no reason for the sand carbs not to eat meat-"

"Dizzy - this monk is all stunned by you, what do you want to say?"

"It's very simple, the sand carapace beasts don't eat meat at all, they are completely vegetarian animals, they can't attack humans in order to hunt and eat humans, not to mention, they don't lack food, I have checked their stomachs, they are all very full, judging by the habits of fierce beasts in the Zhorstar Prairie, carnivores generally do not take the initiative to attack other animals when they are full."

"Maybe- maybe they're really cruel to humans, and maybe they want to get revenge on humans—"