Chapter 22: Back to the Desert
The storage ring is stocked with a lot of drinking water, as well as whole beef and mutton, and naturally a lot of cow dung as fuel. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Info said goodbye to Lambas and left the white wolf tribe, Chen Tang occasionally hunted some yellow sheep, hares and other prey along the way. Coupled with the countless wines and earthly delicacies in the storage ring, he felt that he would have no problem surviving in the desert for more than ten years. As for the battle between the wolf clan and the minotaur, what does it have to do with him?
is alone again, Chen Tang sometimes feels quite funny. But now he has found his goal in this world, which is to explore the secrets of magic and see if he can find his way home.
As he left, he talked to Lambas once, hoping to learn some secrets about the power of the wolf spirit. It's a pity that Lambas only knows how to release the power of the wolf spirit, and as for the magic that is like the [Wind Blade] cast, he doesn't know anything, let alone explain the principle. Chen Tang was a little disappointed, but it was nothing, it was much better than having no chance at the beginning.
A few days later, Chen Tang crossed the mountain range and entered the Yanggu Desert again. He wanted to go back to the place where he had first come and see if he could find a clue to his home. I don't know if he fell from the space tunnel at random, or if there was something mysterious in the desert that attracted him, no matter what the connection is, he always needs to be confirmed.
Riding on horseback, nibbling on a leg of lamb in his mouth, and even humming a little song on earth, it is quite leisurely. The only thing that dissatisfied Chen Tang may be table salt. What the world of Faratuk has is salt, and naturally Old Junker does not need to carry it from the earth, so in the storage ring, although there are a large number of various spices in Huaxia, salt is the only thing missing.
When Chen Tang asked Lambas for it, he couldn't help but grin when he saw this guy take out a yellow-brown lump like mud congealed from the animal skin bag...... Why the hell does this look like dry?
It turns out that the salt eaten by the wolf clan is very primitive and simple, that is, following the wild animals such as yellow sheep wandering in the grassland, and finding some soil layers, the soil in which contains salt. So I took it and soaked it in water a little to precipitate, and then I ate it and used it. No wonder I used to eat barbecue, I always felt like I had teeth, and I thought it was the soil that accidentally fell during the barbecue, but I didn't expect the roots to be here.
Alas, in order to control your stomach, you need to make a decent amount of salt first. Chen Tang followed a flock of yellow sheep and found a mud salt layer. Dig out a lot of them, then dig up the grass roots everywhere, mash those thick grass roots, rinse them to leave the fibers, lay them together layer by layer, use them as a filter screen, integrate the mud and salt into the water, filter them down layer by layer, and then pour them on a relatively flat stone surface to dry. Luckily, the weather has been nice lately and there is plenty of sunshine. After a few days, I also collected a lot.
Dressed in animal skins, they used a rough cloth woven by a wolf woman to shield their ears and nose from the wind and sand, and at the same time did not forget to block their horses, and they went into the desert. Although Chen Tang is a road idiot, he can't find the direction in the vast desert, but fortunately, the location where he fell is not far from the edge of the desert, and there is a gravel area around him, so it is not difficult to find it. But it's a pity that after he came here, he searched everywhere, and even dug three feet into the ground, but didn't find any useful clues, but dug up several large sand lizards hidden in them, just to add some other food to dinner.
This road is broken, it seems that he can only find another way, and Chen Tang is not discouraged............ It's already like this anyway, it's useless to cry to death.
At night, Chen Tang set up a tent in a pile of gravel, surrounded by a simple fence surrounded by the bones of a large sand lizard. This kind of ferocious beast bones can effectively block some small animals, at least like two-tailed scorpions or poisonous snakes, poisonous ants and the like dare not approach.
When night falls, the sky is full of stars, and although it is completely different from the earth, it has a quiet beauty. If you can't do it in this state, you will be homesick and go crazy. Chen Tang took out Old Junker's magic book and flipped through it in the light of cow dung.
Fortunately, when I was in the Nebula Lord incident, I had a special adventure and was able to understand and understand all the language and writing. Holding the magic book, I read the obscure text bit by bit. After all, it was out of the perverted Falatuk world of the Nebula Lord, and their magic was incredibly powerful, and it was not so easy to learn. Chen Tang watched it for several days in a row, but there was no progress.
Perhaps only by coming into contact with real magical creatures and understanding how and how their magic is released and how it is composed can we make a breakthrough?
The depths of the desert are full of dangers, and they are full of unknowable beasts. Chen Tang guessed that there might be a demonic beast or something like that, so he stayed at the edge of the desert for more than ten days and began to go deeper into it.
Just a few days after entering the school, his mounted horse was accidentally bitten by a poisonous snake, and he died after a few convulsions. In the end, I had to bury it in the sand and go on my own.
There are also some plant sea buckthorn or gravel areas on the edge of the desert, and as Chen Tang gradually goes deeper, there is no other scenery in front of the yellow and vast sand dunes in front of him. The day is very hot, the night is cold, and you have to be on guard against the huge sandworms or sand pythons that come out at any time.
It seems that this is the case in this Yanggu Desert, and Chen Tang has the intention of retreating. I thought I would go for a few more days, and if I didn't find anything more, I would just go back. Didn't Lambas say that in the eastern part of the Deria steppe, there are mountains and large forests, and there are so many creatures in there that there must be something to be found?
had already decided to return the next day, but Chen Tang encountered an unexpected situation that night.
He had already laid down, and since there was no wind to-night, and it was not very cold, he did not have a tent, but he was wrapped in a felt blanket and skin, and lay on the sand, lying on his back in the starry sky. Occasionally, his gaze swept over the undulating sand dunes in the distance, and it was then that his sharp gaze saw a figure. Although it was far away, it was like seeing an ant, but the familiar shape made him realize...... It was a lion-like creature.
I have been in the desert for several months, and I have seen sand pythons, sand lizards, sandworms, swimming snakes, poisonous scorpions,...... This is the first time I've seen a lion-like creature. Chen Tang's spirit was shocked, he quietly put away the felt blanket, leaned down, and leaned in the direction of the creature.
Afraid of alarming the lion, Chen Tang walked very slowly, hiding in the shadow of the sand dunes, and quietly advanced. As the distance got closer, he could finally see the lion clearly.
It's a big lion, because of the distance, the size of the lion is just like a cat, and now after coming to dozens of meters away, I really feel the huge majesty of the lion. The body is dark yellow, the huge head is wrapped in thick animal hair, and the body is comparable to a half-sized elephant, especially a black tail, dragging behind him, sweeping the sand on the ground from time to time, gently raising sand and dust, covering half of the body.
The lion seemed to be hunting, looking at him so engrossed in front of him that he didn't notice Chen Tang approaching behind him. The huge body walked on the sand dune, but silently, and after walking a distance, it quietly lay on the ground, its tail swept the sand and dust, and gradually buried its body.
Chen Tang simply lay in the dark of the sand dunes, ready to watch the lion hunt. Although he could no longer leave his body, his keen sense of touch still existed, and he could feel a certain power in the lion, which was majestic and heavy, like the earth. His heart couldn't help but beat...... Nine times out of ten, this lion will surprise him.
The lion was very patient, lying on his stomach for a quarter of an hour, and when Chen Tang was a little impatient, there was finally movement in front. A sand bag suddenly bulged out on a sand dune, and then a lizard's head poked out, looked around vigilantly, and after confirming that it was safe, it crawled out slowly.
It was a large sand lizard, but unlike a normal sand lizard, it was covered in maroon scales and twice as large as a giant crocodile. Some clumsily moved their limbs and staggered to a corner of a sand dune, then plucked the sand with their front paws, and licked it with their thin tongues, and soon their tongues were covered with dense desert fire ants.
At night, the fire ants are sluggish and can only make food for the big sand lizards. It was a good meal, and the sand lizard ate it so much that he was completely oblivious to the approaching crisis behind him.
The lion moved, and the huge body did not show clumsiness at all, and it was as agile as a fox and slammed out more than ten meters, opening its bloody mouth and biting fiercely on one of the hind limbs of the sand lizard. Chen Tang vaguely heard a dull crisp sound, and then the big sand lizard let out a terrible hissing sound, and he knew that it should be the hind legs that had been bitten off alive.
Unexpectedly, the lion only bit off the hind legs of the maroon sand lizard, and did not make any further movements, but threw it out with all his might, and fell to the ground with a thud, and fell dizzy.
Chen Tang was a little disappointed, feeling that there was nothing special about these two seemingly ferocious beasts. The next moment he changed his mind.
The wounded sand lizard hissed, and its maroon scales rose and fell, as if it were burning and emitting fire. The erected pupils stared coldly at the fierce lion, and opened and spewed out a cloud of flames and went straight away.
The lion didn't dodge, and even Chen Tang saw a hint of banter in its eyes. Just as the fire was about to approach its body, the sand beneath its feet suddenly tumbled and swelled, erecting a wall of sand out of thin air in front of it. The fire slammed into the sand wall, scattering and crumbling, but not a single hair of the lion was burned.
Chen Tang watched it and shouted wonderfully...... Ya, it's really time to run, and I met two monsters at once. Undoubtedly, a lizard of fire and a lion of earth.