Before leaving Darwin, the last thing Huaishi did was to take out his phone and turn it off.

According to the crow: if you are looking for excitement, follow through to the end...... Well, although the original words are not like this, they always mean the same thing.

After all, this is the present situation, and there is no place where astronomy will not receive a signal.

Just make a phone call, not to mention emergency rescue, even the orbital strike can be prepared for you.

If you open your mobile phone throughout the whole process, swipe Weibo, sing songs, and post on Moments, won't there be no adventurous atmosphere at all?

Then it wasn't long before he found out he was blind.

- He's lost.

Australia has more than 16% of the world's iron ore.

Well, that's what the high school geography books say, at least in the present world.

However, Huai Shi didn't think of this stubble until the compass began to spin like a mad dog...... Who knows how much magnetite is buried in this broken desert!

When he was about to turn around, he found that he couldn't even find his way back.

What's even worse is ...... Even the positions of the stars are constantly changing.

The Big Dipper in this broken place is like the lottery wheel of some unscrupulous lottery websites, which is blindly turned around when you are idle, and will point in any direction, but it just won't tell you where the right direction is.

People are in Australia, and they are so lost that they are lost.

The vast desert looks like an invisible labyrinth, looking like a cookie-cutter wasteland and yellow sand, but in fact it is constantly changing.

Like the senior patient in the insane asylum, Huai Shi let out a mocking and sharp laugh whenever he was depressed.

If you don't move, I want to move, when you move, I move, you move, I move blindly......

The seemingly monotonous barren world is actually like a chaotic field that is constantly spinning and churning, and once you walk in, the whole person will be lost in the endless heat and desolation.

Fortunately, even though it was already so chaotic here, the sun still maintained its original pattern of rising in the east and setting in the west, which allowed Huai Shi to reluctantly find her way at the turn of morning and dusk.

And a handful of local 'friends'.

"Excuse me, which side is south. ”

Huai Shi squatted next to a cactus like a nervous disorder, grinned and reached out to press on its thorns, and asked for directions tirelessly: "Don't be so fierce, brother, your temper is not very good...... Don't be angry, I'll just ask for directions, south, where is the south side? Which side is the sun rising? Brother, you look like you're only four or five years old, why are you Parkinson's? I'll water you, right? Over there, right?"

Enduring the hard thorns of their hands, Huai Shi repeatedly asked three close cacti, sea buckthorn and shrubs, and finally determined the direction.

Then taking advantage of the thick night, Huai Shi glanced left and right, and after making sure that there was no one on either side, he whistled and poured water on the three little brothers.

Everyone took what they needed, and they got along quite happily.

Of all the botanical circles that Huai Shi has ever seen, the botanical circles in the desert can be said to be the most exclusive and stingy.

Being able to survive in such a harsh environment has the ability to compete with all sunlight, water and even nutrition

It's like Darwin's black-hearted merchants.

For foreign mountain ghosts like Huai Shi, they didn't bother to deal with it at all, and some even rejected it extremely, and directly rejected Huai Shi's communication at the moment of contact.

Resolutely do not give a little water and nutrients to foreign vegetative people.

Unless Huai Shi also takes out the water to exchange.

But after so many days, Huai Shi can be regarded as having a little experience and gain—especially when he finds out that this group of local guys don't care what kind of water you provide......

In this way, for the first two days, find a shady place to sleep during the day and hurry at night.

When Huai Shi looked at the map and looked at the active volcano that was spewing lava intermittently in the distance, she finally determined her approximate location.

He had made his way through the edge of the desert and was about to enter its formal confines.

Looking up at the gray sky in the distance and the sound of thunder, Huai Shi reached out and took off the gas mask from the suspension of his backpack and put it on his face.

Then fasten and fasten the zippers and buttons of your clothes.

Before he could finish his preparations, the dark clouds in the sky had already drifted in, and immediately after, the dust drifted down from the sky like a blizzard.

The dust was mixed with fine ice crystals that crackled when they landed on the mask's goggles.

In the hurricane, Huai Shi could only bend over and carry her backpack forward with difficulty.

Otherwise, I am afraid that I will be swept into a rolling gourd by the strong wind, and when climbing some sand dunes, I will even have to pull out the rope first and secure myself.

Otherwise, it could easily be buried in the turbulent sand dunes.

From time to time, pollution clouds from distant industrial cities drift into the desert, bringing dust and pungent smog that make the desert environment even worse.

He finally understood why Lucien's list repeatedly emphasized the need for gas masks.

After a gray snowfall, a filter cartridge that can work in industrial pollution for three days is completely reimbursed, and Huaishi's filter cartridge reserve is simply not enough.

He can only use his brain to transform himself.

Now on both sides of the mask, the outer side of the filter element is two happy water jars that Huai Shi welded with his forbidden hands, which are layered according to the structure of hookahs and filled with the filtrate that is commonly available in alchemy.

Every time he gasped, he could hear the gurgling sound coming from the jar, and the pungent smell couldn't even be completely isolated from the filter.

But fortunately, it only smells bad, and the harm is not great. Even the mountain ghosts' resilience that has been weakened to the limit in the desert can barely be handled.

During the difficult climb, Huai Shi didn't step on one foot, stumbled a little, and then was blown to the ground by the howling wind, rolled in embarrassment, and the moment the mask fell off her face, Huai Shi felt as if she had inhaled a big mouthful of acid.

Instantly lost the real sense of breathing.

I don't feel the presence of my heart anymore.

After he hurriedly fastened the mask for a long time, he finally felt the hot pain from the spasm of his internal organs.

He suspected that his eyes were burned red by this old haze.

Why is Australia's pollution so strong!

In the following time, he lay dead on the ground and did not dare to move, the ashes and dust buried him, and was blown away by the strong wind, and finally, with the roar of the distant volcano, the gray dust rain and snow gradually dissipated.

Amid the turbid yellow and dust remaining gray, Huai Shi finally raised her head, got up from the ground, and shook her body with great difficulty, shaking her body out of the corrosive chemicals that had been scraped into her sleeves and trouser legs.

In the end, he sat unkempt on the sand, looking up at the glimmer of sunlight gradually rising in the sky.

It's getting dawn.

He finally breathed a sigh of relief, got up, looked around, found a backlit spot, and propped up his tent with difficulty.

After getting in, I didn't have time to change my clothes, so I lay on my sleeping bag.

I don't want to move.

"It's still too weak......"

He muttered softly and closed his eyes.

After a while, snoring rang out.

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Before this, Huai Shi had never thought that in this desert, the most dangerous thing was not daytime, but night.

During the day, it is just unbearably hot, and at night, what awaits people is torture with no end in sight. Again, the most disturbing thing is not the endless yellow sand in front of us, but the ruined towns in the ruins that have long been abandoned......

Just getting close enough to feel the instinctive oppression.

These were settlements built by fugitives, makeshift towns created during the Gold Rush 60 years ago, or settlements that were abandoned as water sources disappeared...... Most of what remains are the tattered walls and the faint edges and corners of the sand.

There are unseen enemies here.

No, it should be said that it is only the enemy who sees it......

The combat power he had acquired in the past was of no use at all in this situation, and after stripping away the illusion of his omnipotence, the boy who remained was no different from other ordinary people in the face of malice from the whole world.

If it weren't for the crows and Beelzebub who occasionally chatted with him, he might have already tried his best to get home.

Traveling is a tough thing to do, and it's often asking for trouble.

Now he finally understands it.

I also have a full understanding of my own insignificance.

But that's the case...... But he felt that he was looking forward to the next journey more and more.

It's as if the group leader secretly sent a yellow picture without being kicked, braving the wind and snow to peek out of the iceberg and grow its own branches in this barren desert.

It's so much fun to die.

Especially in the midst of such unexperienced adversity.

He felt that he must be sick.

But shouldn't that be the essence of travel?

There is always going to be some challenge.

After a good night's sleep, Huai Shi got up again and stretched out at the sunset in the distance. On the small gas stove next to it, water from a can is gushing with compressed biscuits thrown into it.

Almost wait for them to be cooked into a mushy porridge and ready to eat.

The taste is very unpleasant, but at least it is full.

While he was waiting, he took out a pen and paper and a map, and worked out the next route. I checked the supplies and equipment again, and confirmed that the situation was still within the range of what I could handle.

Huai Shi rubbed a spoon and began to gobble down her breakfast.

Rest for three minutes after eating.

Pack your things and get ready to hit the road.

A new day, a new meal, and so it began.

In the following suffering time, Huai Shi found that this place at least had a little advantage.

That is, he can stop thinking.

At the beginning, his mind would still be chaotic with thoughts, including what to eat at night, including what the future holds, including his future life, employment direction, and even how to find a girlfriend, and all the things that seventeen-year-olds will idle and think about when they can't sleep.

But as he went deeper and deeper, more and more tired and sleepy, those chaotic thoughts disappeared as quickly as the sea at low tide.

In the end, only the purest instinct remained.

Step on your left foot, then on your right foot.

He's going to keep going.

Other than that, nothing else is inconsequential in this long hike.

Overhead, the ever-changing starry sky is in front of you, and in front of you is an endless barren desert.

When the crows stopped talking, all that accompanied Huai Shi was the long silence and the distant sound of the wind, as well as the deep rhythm from the heart.

Exhale, inhale, exhale, inhale......

Repeat and then step by step.

His heart was empty.

No more worrying about the problems of the past few days, and no longer thinking about those distant futures.

For a moment, a deep realization rose in Huai Shi's heart.

- He lives in the moment.