Chapter 9: The Train Across the Desert

The scorching light shone on the sea of sand, and the extreme temperature seemed to distort the air around it, and Lynn thought that there should be no living creatures in this environment, but the giant worms never stopped for a moment.

Lynn's flyer followed them for a long distance, and there was no more pinnacle forest in this position, no matter east, east, west, west, or west, it was an endless desert, with hardly any droplets of water in the air, and the ground was nothing except for a few oddly shaped stones that could occasionally appear.

The worms have not been secreting large amounts of lysed fluid in an attempt to digest the Leviathan, and Lynn thinks they may have been trying to conserve water for the long journey.

The temperature of the sand is extremely high, Lin has tried to let the flyer touch the sand, and that temperature can instantly kill the cells in the body, and even the heat wave can be felt at a height of more than ten meters above the ground.

But the three worms kept moving, and they were cutting through the sand with their heads, like a big fish with their heads out of the water, and Lynn didn't know what they were doing with their heads, but it should be cooler in the sand.

Where are they going? The heart of the desert? And they seemed to be familiar with the route, and it was the first time that Lynn had gone so far into land.

Leviathans in worms don't feel heat, and they may have some kind of special ability to resist heat.

Although the worms resisted, Lynn's pilots had a hard time resisting the heatwave, and Lynn had to quickly repair and change the cells in their bodies, but fortunately the air was relatively cool, so Lynn had enough time to evolve the ability to resist heat before they were killed by heat.

But this is only temporary, after all, there are not many nutrients in the pilot's body, and a lot of nutrients need to be lost in constant repair and evolution, if you can't find a cool place quickly......

The intense heat wave caused some dizziness in Lynn's thoughts, and some of the flyers were now unable to resist falling down, and Lin immediately asked the surrounding flyers to surround them and break them down, so that the nutrients could not be wasted.

Fortunately, most of the pilots have no problem, although the cells that make up them are exactly the same, but there will always be some differences between individuals, always some strong and some weak, and Lin doesn't know what's going on.

The current heat wave comes entirely from the light of day, and maybe it will be better to wait until the night.

Lynn began to notice that the speed of the three worms slowed down a little, and they couldn't stand the heat wave.

After following them for a while, Lynn noticed that the worms were indeed much slower, and eventually they stopped, all shrunk into the gravel, and then stopped completely still.

What is this for? Are you resting?

Lynn was wondering, but suddenly a dark shadow came into its field of vision.

The flyer's eyeballs mimic dragonflies, so they have a wide field of vision, and they can see a large flying creature approaching this way.

Giant veined dragonfly?

A huge dragonfly rushed towards it, and it was a hundred meters away from the pilots, and almost instantly it rushed to the side of the pilots, grabbed one of them, and flew away at great speed.

Lynn felt like the flyer was being bitten by countless sharp blades, and it was quickly torn apart.

The dragonfly was not satisfied after eating a flyer, and rushed over again, Lin immediately let the flyers scatter when he saw this, and the dragonfly successfully caught a flyer again and ate it quickly.

However, after the dragonfly finished eating the flyer, it was still not satisfied and wanted to catch more flyers.

But now it found that the surrounding flyers were gone.

The scattered flyers are now parked in the sand, and they also have the ability to change color, so that dragonflies can't detect it as long as they disguise themselves as the exact color of the desert.

But there was also a problem, the surface of the desert was too hot, and Lynn's flyer couldn't stay on it for long, and after just standing on the sand for a while, Lynn felt some leg cells start to die.

The dragonfly is dangling in the air all the time, what a trouble...... If it continues, it won't be able to hold on, so it's better to eat some of it and lose less......

Suddenly, as if sensing something, the dragonfly flew away in an instant.

Lynn immediately let the pilots out of the sand to avoid the danger of being 'roasted', but Lynn was surprised that the dragonflies flew away, not like they couldn't find their prey and gave up, but like they were hiding from something......

'......Boom'

A loud noise in the distance confirmed Lin's concern, and the flyer flew to a high place, and Lin could see that in the north of the desert, a yellow-brown mist covered the entire desert, it was tens of meters high, maybe more than a hundred kilometers wide, and kept tumbling and rumbling towards this side.

It wasn't any ordinary mist, it was supposed to be made up of countless gravel pieces...... Dust storm!

The word popped into Lynn's thoughts, and it now knew why the worm had crept into the gravel.

What to do? The Leviathan in the worm should be safe, but the flyers will most likely be wiped out.

Only in this way, Lin asked all the pilots to fly in the opposite direction as fast as possible, the speed of the sandstorm was not very fast, and Lin thought that she should be able to escape.

Not long after the flyer flew, Lin noticed that the sandstorm suddenly stopped as if it had run out of energy, and the yellow sand that had gathered had also dispersed, disappearing in a short period of time, as if it had never appeared.

This is too bad for staying power, isn't it? It's far worse than a tsunami.

After the sandstorm stopped, the worms emerged from the sand again and continued in the same direction.

The desert journey continued, and the pilots followed the worms through the sea of sand, and nothing special happened until the day slowly wore off.

The pilots were running out of nutrients, and Lynn was thinking about whether to break down some of the flyers, not knowing how far the worms would go.

The night in the desert and the day are two extremes, the temperature of the night is so low that the water can almost freeze, and in the cool environment of the night, the worms move much faster, but Lynn still doesn't know where they will go.

Lin found that she could let the flyers rest on the heads of the worms, probably because they were too small, they would not pay attention to them at all, which would save a lot of body.

However, the night was soon to pass again, and as the day approached, the worms still did not stop advancing, and their stamina was quite strong, although their speed of advance and attack speed were completely opposite, which was considered a very slow speed.

Still, they don't stop.

Pilots can't stay on worms during the day, their carapaces become very hot, even hotter than grains of sand, but they don't seem to be affected inside.

Relying on their special resistance to heat, they moved through the desert, but the journey was too long, and after another day and night, many of the flyers had been broken down by Lynn, and now there were only five left.

After another day and night, Lin was left with only three flyers, they were wearing thin, and the worms were not in good condition, except for the one that ate the Leviathan, the other two were gone, they both escaped into the sand, and Lin didn't know if they were dead or where they went.

Now, there's only one worm left on its way.

The Leviathan's nutrients are sufficient, and it can last for a long time, but now even if the worm's two companions are dead, Lin can't just kill the worm and get out, otherwise Lin won't know where to go in the face of the vast desert.

The worm also became weak, its progress slowed down, and Lynn suspected that it would die here too.

In this case, the Leviathan will be trapped in the desert.

However, after another day and night, the worm's endurance was beyond Lynn's expectations, and it continued to move forward, and there was only one of Lynn's flyers left, but in its field of vision, it finally found something other than the desert.

In the desert hundreds of meters away, a large expanse of green appeared.

It's ...... Water?

Lynn could clearly feel the smell of water, wafting from that direction.........

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Thanks to ~Ah Chi~godmorgan~'s tip~