Chapter 54: The Sea of Rocks
The beautiful scene in everyone's hearts was broken, which made people shudder.
Zhang Jianyang looked at the Devouring Tree, which had regained its aesthetic side, and said softly: "In this world, the more beautiful things are, the more dangerous they are. Behind this beauty, there is an infinite killing opportunity. ”
Chen Zhuangping understood the words that Zhang Jianyang had gone through too much to summarize, but Wang Hanguang and they still didn't understand, they were at most shocked by the means of devouring the tree, how could they associate Zhang Jianyang's words with life? In life, how many beautiful things are tempting people's eyes, minds and hearts, but who cares about the dangers?
Feeling this shocking scene, Zhang Jianyang took them back to the tent again, believing that they who had seen this scene did not dare to step into the canopy.
The caravan carried some fire-making tools, and simply boiled some boiling water, which made people feel a little warm in this desert that was beginning to get cold.
For dinner, it was also dry food, but one person had an extra piece of jerky.
After dinner, Zhang Jianyang told him once, and then went into the tent that belonged to him and slept without fear.
But the others are different, in the tent, they can't sleep at all.
It's camping in the dark, and if this kind of thing gets out, the horror won't be believed. The fear of the night is almost engraved in the bones. But now that these people are camping in the dark, just thinking about it is an unbelievable and exciting thing. The blue light of the Devouring Tree was soft, but also bright, like a moon at hand.
Who can sleep peacefully?
Not only that, but the blue light outside the tent sometimes appeared with a more shining light, and every time the starry waterfall flashed, people would know that another mutant beast had fallen under the deception of the Devouring Tree. Throughout the night, many people didn't know how to fall asleep, with a kind of excitement and fear, the excitement of pillowing on the edge of death made them feel magical and fresh.
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In the early morning of the next day, everyone was covered with dark circles under their eyes, and the old Chen Zhuangping couldn't sleep peacefully.
When Zhang Jianyang got up, he stretched his waist, this sleep was extremely comfortable, he could rest assured that he could let go of all his burdens and sleep with peace of mind, even in his home in Shacheng, he was not so relaxed at this moment. Zhang Jianyang sighed with emotion, he is a person who is naturally suitable to appear in the night, without a trace of fear of the night, but is accustomed to the way of life in the night.
Seeing their lack of energy, Zhang Jianyang smiled dumbly, but he forgot that he was similar to them at the beginning.
The people who got up were staring at the towering giant tree standing next to it, and now it seemed that this tree was very ordinary, almost the same shape as the banyan tree in the south, the leaves were all rolled up, and the frightening fibrous roots were all shrunk and disappeared, and the whole tree gave people the feeling of entering into self-protection.
The animals and plants living in the desert have their own set of water locking methods.
The Devouring Tree is now in a state where it rolls up its leaves to prevent it from losing too much water in the heat of the waiting. There is abundant groundwater under the desert, and the root system of the devouring tree has long been deep into the groundwater, but its huge canopy will be tens of thousands of times that consumed by other plants, and the water absorbed by it cannot withstand squandering if you do not pay attention to protection.
After breakfast, the caravan returned to the road, passing by the Devouring Tree, gradually leaving it behind.
There are not many devouring trees like this in this world, only a few countries have their appearance, and they all grow in the desert, so they are not a mutated plant that people need.
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The desert where the sun rose was very hot, and the wild cattle dragged more than a hundred tons of five cargo compartments, constantly panting.
The temperature has risen to more than 40 degrees, and people are sweating profusely.
Zhang Jianyang looked up at the nuclear explosion cloud that has not dispersed for a hundred years, if it were not for its blocking sunlight, the temperature here would have exceeded 50 degrees, not to mention living here, it would be impossible to cross this sea of sand. The heat is not something that humans can bear, and a transport mutant beast like a wild bull can't tolerate this kind of heat either.
Out of familiarity with this area, Zhang Jianyang led the caravan and advanced on different routes.
Chen Zhuangping was very surprised, what Zhang Jianyang showed was completely an old man who had walked this road countless times, and he had never encountered anything dangerous except for the death of the Gobi at the beginning.
As the afternoon came, Chen Zhuangping kept looking at his watch, the time on it was draining, but the caravan was also getting closer and closer to its destination.
When many clumps of weeds appeared in the desert, waves of rocks could be seen in the distance, which also meant that the caravan had successfully crossed this sea of sand and entered the rocky area of the plateau. Next, it will be a completely unknown journey, and even Chen Zhuangping is no longer familiar with it.
Chen Zhuangping, who lost his direction, will not understand what it means for the appearance of this rocky sea, which will mean that the caravan has entered the scope of the Tamu Basin, and this piece of rocky sea is the most peculiar regional business card of the Tamu Basin. Probably due to the high temperatures, most of these rocks are gray-brown, and between the crevices of the rocks, a dwarf plant that is as fiery red as a maple leaf grows.
The Tamu Basin is also home to an outstanding animal, the rock sheep.
The appearance of the caravan seemed to break the silence of the area, and a herd of rock sheep, who were eating the grass in the gap between the rocks, were frightened, and ran around in this sea of rocks, jumping, and finally disappeared into the distant rocky abyss. The mutated leader of the tall rock sheep was the last to leave after letting out a shocking roar on the rock.
The ability of the mutant rock sheep is not strong, but it is only at the second order, about the same level as the wild bull, on the flat ground, they do not look good, but in this rock sea, they are the real masters.
Chen Zhuangping sighed a little: "The meat in Shacheng is expensive, if you bring this large group of rock sheep back, the money you earn will definitely be on top of the refined salt." ”
Except for a few flying mutants who can hunt them, humans cannot have this ability, as long as they are frightened, they will flee in all directions, taking advantage of the undulating rocky sea here to hide. And the ferocious mutant rock sheep, this is simply their domain, who wants to taste what it is like to push them down the abyss with the impact of their horns, although you can come and hunt them.
A hundred years ago, the highway was built between this rocky sea.
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Before it fell, the caravan passed through this rocky sea, revealing a vast and boundless basin.
In the basin, there are also rolling mountains, and a sea of rocks, and at the far end of the world, there is a blue lake. On the edge of the lake, visible to the naked eye, is a narrow snow-white jade belt, which is the world-famous natural air-dried fine salt land in the Tamu Basin.
Standing at the exit of the Iwakai, the caravan stopped, and from this corner it was a shock of this vast and endless basin.
Chen Zhuangping burst into tears, stood on the loading platform, and looked into the distance with a telescope: "This is the Tamu Basin, this is the Tamu Basin." ”
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