Third, Sulla: Psionic energy
The blinding light stimulated the boy's vision through his eyelids, and the scorching wind swept across his face. He opened his eyes and looked directly at the sun high in the sky.
Strangely, it seems that the sunlight is not as dazzling as it used to be. The boy said secretly, then straightened up and did it, and the fine sand fell from his body, some falling back into the sand, and some gathering in a heap in the folds of his robe.
It's still the same desert as before, but it doesn't seem to be exactly where it was. Judging by where the sun hangs in the sky, it seems that time has not passed very long. As for how he got out of the mysterious secret room and came here, the boy had no clue. I just remember pushing open the door and falling into a sudden darkness, and a nightmare that seemed to be incomparably long, full of disembodied fear. Strange words appeared in my dreams, the characters seemed to flow freely, and a faint but lingering profane breath flowed from every character, every line of text, every paragraph.
Words that have never been seen before, compose secrets that no one knows.
Then, the flowing chapter was imprinted in his mind, but it mysteriously disappeared. Then, as if suddenly, he regained consciousness and returned to the surface, lying on the sand with his eyes closed.
The boy thought about it for a while, but he really didn't have a clue, and the more he tried to think about it, the more he felt a strange headache, and it was okay. The top priority now is to survive in this unknown world. But the strange thing is that now my condition has magically improved a lot, the sun no longer feels so scorching, the heat has become less unbearable, and even the fire in my throat has temporarily subsided a lot. His body seemed to have become stronger and more powerful, and although it was the body of a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy, his limbs seemed to be filled with energy that seemed to be squandered. With a casual jump, you can jump a long distance, at least fifteen feet. It's a little stronger than his original adult body. What was even more strange was that the boy no longer sweated, and although he could still feel the heat of the desert, his body did not show any discomfort, as if he was in a cool room.
And there is also a strange feeling, elusive, erratic. It was as if there was a force wandering in my mind, quietly waiting to be awakened.
The boy subconsciously stretched out his hand, palm facing the sand under his feet. As if responding to a call that echoed repeatedly in his heart, the boy felt as if a thin string was taut in his mind, and a warm current burst from the inside of his body, slowly transmitted to his outstretched arm with the guidance of his will, and gathered in the palm of his hand.
There was a faint audible sound, and then, he clearly saw that there was a fine stream of sand on the sand, which was flowing slowly like a snake against the direction of the wind.
The young man's shocked brain was filled with only one thought.
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When the night of the day was about to come, the boy had already gone a long way, and the sun pulled a long shadow behind him.
The sand on the surface is no longer as fine, which is a good sign and means that it is now at least a little farther away from the center of the desert
After gaining the power of telekinesis, the boy had been tested repeatedly, and now this strange ability to move objects is actually very weak, and objects that are too heavy will not move at all, and if they are a certain distance away from him, they will also be completely ineffective. Moreover, after repeated use, the brain will become groggy, and it will take a while to sit still and calm before recovering. Such a weak force seems to be completely helpless to get out of this boundless desert at the moment.
Perhaps after being opened and exercised, it can become a powerful force. But first, you have to survive from this desert.
Stay alive. The mechanical step of a teenager.
It's hard to tell the way here, but since the mysterious dark room came out, the boy had a strange intuition. Knowing that there must be nothing wrong with going in this direction is like having some kind of guidance in the dark.
Keep walking until your legs seem to be filled with lead and your feet are numb to the point of being unconscious. Then, move on.
The surrounding landscape still seemed to be spotless, but the boy noticed that there were scattered weeds in the sand, leaves lying on the ground, and the trunk standing upright. Short and lifeless.
In any case, the presence of vegetation is a good thing, which should represent water, and more importantly, it means that the place has an ecological structure similar to that of the earth, with green plants that can photosynthesize. Seeing this barren desert just now, the boy was almost suspicious that this was Frank Herbert's Arrakis, a completely desert planet. The ecosystem there is built on spice fungi that use geothermal energy to fix organic matter, rather than on greenery like the earth. If that were the case, the social structure derived from this world would be very different from that of the earth, and I don't know if it would be able to adapt to it.
It would be even better if you could find a plant like the barreled cactus on the earth, so that you can quench your thirst with sap, even if it disrupts the electrolyte balance in the body. The teenager licked the corners of his mouth, he already had symptoms of dehydration, even if his body seemed to have inexplicably adapted to the current environment, it still seemed that he could not completely fail to replenish water.
I hope someone here will pass by, and then I will be able to get rid of the pain of this trek, the boy continued. But this is most likely just wishful thinking, in this strange place, there are no roads, no traces of livestock, and perhaps no one may have passed through it for thousands of years.
After a while, the vegetation grew more and more, and dwarf trees began to appear all around, thin and twisted, less than ten feet tall, its branches stretched out like umbrellas, but not a single leaf. Some of these dwarf trees had fallen, and their roots seemed to have been inhabited by something, and there were several fist-sized cavities. But even so, it can be seen that this plant has a huge root system that can extend far and wide.
Not far away there was a skeleton, white and terrifying, and surprisingly large. The boy paced forward, touching the rough surface of the skeleton with his hand, thoughtfully. This massive skeleton is more than 7o feet long, and its structure is very different from that of any creature that has ever existed on Earth, but it is surprisingly familiar.
No matter how you look at it, this skeleton looks like the skeleton of a legendary dragon.
A huge skull like an enlarged crocodile, with sharp teeth the height of an adult at the tip, huge eye sockets larger than a round table, staring hollowly at the sky. The spine bones and ribs are thick and long, and the bones in the wings are a little thin and hollow. At least half of the huge corpse was buried in sand, but even the exposed parts were enough to be awe-inspiring.
The boy suppressed the turmoil in his heart, now was not the time to be curious, he reminded himself. The trek continued, and before you knew it, night was falling quickly. The brazier-like sun went down, and two strange moons hung high in the sky. They are larger and brighter than the Moon on Earth, and they are not grayish-white, they are yellow-green colors with distinct rings, as conspicuous as Saturn's rings. Hanging in the dark night with few stars, the two moons are particularly terrifying.
It's almost the limit. The thought swirled in the boy's mind more than once, but he did not stop, and continued to walk mechanically, until he stumbled and fell to the sand.
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