Chapter 203: A Different Desert
The team officially stepped into the marked area at noon the next day.
Twenty people were divided into four groups and scattered to search, focusing on a few nearby oases,
No matter what kind of creatures, it is very important to survive in the desert to ensure water and food supplies, most of the area outside the city only has a sky of yellow sand and stretching sand dunes, if you don't carry your own supplies like the contestants, you can only get food sources from the few remaining oases, so Mr. Harvey naturally attaches great importance to these places.
However, the results of the search were somewhat disappointing, except for a few magical beasts and small animals, there were no signs of other creatures living in these oases.
Mr. Harvey looked up at the sky, it was already afternoon, and there were two smaller oases that had not been searched, but they were on the edge, some distance from here, and he said, "Let's rest a little and then go over." ”
Because he has stepped into the opponent's activity area, which means that the battle may happen at any time, so Mr. Harvey has also become extremely cautious, although he is anxious and wants to rescue those missing staff as soon as possible, but he will no longer rush non-stop like yesterday, and he will also remind everyone to pay attention to conserving physical strength when he acts, so as to avoid the team not having enough reaction speed when encountering emergencies.
After a short break, everyone arrived at one of the oases before dusk, but they went around but found nothing, Luo Luo could clearly feel the change in Mr. Harvey, although he still remained calm in front of everyone, but he could see that as the places were excluded, he began to become more and more anxious, if the last oasis was not harvested, it meant that his previous inference was probably wrong.
This is undoubtedly very bad news, because it probably means that the teachers and students of the referee committee have been killed, and there are many reasons why the corpse has not been found, perhaps this thing is particularly cunning, allowing the corpse of the monster to be exposed in the wilderness, but burying the human corpse under the yellow sand, and it also means that its behavior pattern is complete hunting, so it will become extremely difficult to catch it.
This time the team did not rest again, and rushed to the last place before sunset.
However, the result made everyone dumbfounded, the oasis marked on the map no longer existed at this moment, and the place where everyone was now was left, only some dead branches and exposed rocks buried by the wind and sand, and some traces of life could still be vaguely seen.
Luo Luo briefly checked the surroundings and shook his head, "There should have been a spring here before, but it looks like it has dried up, and this oasis should have disappeared in the last year or two, so the map has not had time to change." ”
The members of the team were all heartbroken when they heard this, and they couldn't help but look at Teacher Harvey, along the way, everyone had become accustomed to relying on the latter's wisdom at critical moments, but this time they were destined to be disappointed, because Teacher Harvey's face was also full of confusion.
The setting sun stretched the team's shadows, making them look particularly lonely in the empty desert.
Sweat was oozing from Mr. Harvey's forehead, he had flipped through the map in his hand and looked at it many times, the main areas had been searched, and the chances of the remaining areas were very small, and it would take a lot of time to search them all, while the chances of survival of those missing were decreasing over time.
Everyone's mood became a little heavy, and Rob suddenly spoke, "Actually...... A nest doesn't have to be built on an oasis. ”
Teacher Harvey was stunned, and subconsciously retorted, "How can you get food and water without an oasis?"
"Other deserts may not work, but this one can, don't forget where we are. ”
If the biggest difference between this desert and other deserts is that it exists as a new competition ground, it has been artificially modified to add many things that should not exist in the first place, such as those treasure chests and traps scattered around, and the inexplicable five holy weapons, and the most important supply points.
According to Rob's previous analysis, the number of supply points in the outer city is relatively scarce, but it does not mean that they do not exist, and any supply point has an extremely large amount of food and water, which can completely replace the role of the oasis, as long as you can find a place, you can basically solve all the consumption of a team until the end of the freshman competition.
"But the locations of the supply points are very secret, so they can't be easily discovered, and there are often mechanisms at the entrances, so it's not easy to get into. "Teacher Harvey has almost been moved, but he still has one last doubt.
Rob's answer to this question was simple: "The staff of the referee committee know the location of all the supply points in the arena. ”
"Huh?"
"Don't underestimate the cunning of that thing, it can easily spot and capture a supply point by attacking a staff member of the Referee Committee and destroying the supplies they are carrying, which will almost certainly move to the nearest supply point, which can be easily found and captured. By the way, Mr. Harvey, do you know how many supply points there are in this area, and where are they located?"
The latter shook his head when he heard this, "I'm not from the referee committee, I'm just here to investigate the disappearance of the demonic beasts, and I don't know the distribution of the supply points in the competition field, but I can try to find ......"
After Mr. Harvey finished speaking, he took out a small wooden snake from his pocket, "This magic guide can take us to the place where there are magic fluctuations within a radius of ten miles, there must be a magic array around the supply point, and the magic beasts in this area are basically dead, so as long as there are magic fluctuations, it is either a treasure chest or a supply point." ”
The little snake was thrown on the sand and waged its tail, and soon swam in one direction with its head held high, and everyone followed, and after about half a magic hour, the little snake stopped in front of a sand dune, where there were neither supply points nor treasure chests, but then unexpectedly dug out half of a staff from under the yellow sand, and the broken part of the staff was vaguely engraved with the pattern of a giant bear.
Teacher Harvey's expression changed, "It's the staff of the Andrei family, he had a fierce battle with something here, and the result didn't look promising, someone was injured." "There is still some blood left on this half of the broken staff, I don't know if it is Caesar or whom.
This is not bad news, someone is attacked in this place means that they are getting closer and closer to the thing's lair, and the little snake does not stay here for long, and continues to crawl towards the next place where the magic fluctuations are heard, this time it leads everyone to an abandoned tower.