At the foot of Yu'e Mountain, in the Nan forest.

Zhang Mingchuan, who had been in the desolate world for three days, ran all over Yu'e Mountain, but still found no trace of the armadillo.

Fortunately, before Zhang Mingchuan drank all the bottled water, he fortunately found a mountain spring, but he didn't expect the spring water to be sweet and cold, and it was better than nature's porter.

Zhang Mingchuan simply settled down in the campsite next to the mountain spring, drank the mountain spring water when he was thirsty, and ate the fruit of Jingqi when he was hungry, and his survival was free and worry-free.

"Breathing the fresh air in nature is the dream of many people living in the steel jungle." Zhang Mingchuan's flying against the wind is also becoming more and more proficient, more and more durable, and he shuttles freely like an elf in this forest that is at least a thousand-year-old nanmu.

Zhang Mingchuan saw that the sun began to set today, and planned to go back to the tent to rest as usual, but when he passed by the mountain spring, he accidentally saw a strange beast drinking water.

"Its shape is like a rabbit and a bird's beak, with a snake's tail, isn't this the armadillo in the record, it is really a thousand times to find him, and it takes no effort to get it." Zhang Mingchuan, who had been wandering for four or five days, finally found the goal of this trip and couldn't help but be very happy.

Zhang Mingchuan, who was walking against the wind, galloped towards the armadillo, took out the net bag he had prepared while flying, and threw it directly above its head.

The large net that was spread out covered the armadillo around the two-meter range, and the armadillo felt very keenly, before being covered by the net, it used a three-meter jump, and jumped out of the range of the net pocket, and the frightened armadillo was going to jump away.

But Zhang Mingchuan is no longer what it used to be, even if the armadillo jumps fast, it will never be able to shake off Zhang Mingchuan's figure following closely behind, and the distance between the two is getting closer and closer.

"Look where you're going." Finally, Zhang Mingchuan flew in front of the armadillo and blocked its path.

The armadillo felt that there was a sudden black shadow in front of him, raised his head and stared at the human in front of him with his eyes like an owl, his limbs suddenly became stiff, and he lay on the ground with his belly facing up, and closed his eyes by the way, and finally did not forget to twitch twice, and then returned to calm.

Zhang Mingchuan looked at the armadillo who was skilled in pretending to be dead, and unceremoniously loaded it into the net and carried it back to the tent.

"The armadillo has been caught, and after being delayed in this Yu'e Mountain for so long, there is no need to stay any longer, so I will leave for the south tomorrow morning to go to the next peak." According to records, the next mountain peak you encounter when you travel south is Mount Luqi.

In the middle of the night, the mountains and forests, where there was only the sound of wind blowing and leaves, suddenly heard a rustling sound all over the mountains, and the armadillos began to move uneasily in the net.

The sound of the armadillo waking up Zhang Mingchuan in his sleep, and Zhang Mingchuan who woke up also heard the rustling sound outside the tent, and the armadillo saw Zhang Mingchuan's gaze after waking up, and passed out with one leg kicked.

Walking out of the tent, Zhang Mingchuan took advantage of the bright moonlight to find that the catalpa tree on the top of the mountain was covered with a layer of blue-yellow locusts, overwhelming locusts.

Seeing that the locust swarm was about to come to the Xiangnan forest near Zhang Mingchuan after eating the catalpa forest, although Zhang Mingchuan had a wind wall to protect his body, he was not afraid of this locust plague, but he thought that if he was surrounded by this group of locusts, the materials prepared for the next trip would inevitably be lost.

So Zhang Mingchuan hurriedly put away the tent and flew towards the south to resist the wind.

The locust swarm behind him also made a rustling sound and followed Zhang Mingchuan to the south, and was about to leave Yu'e Mountain, Zhang Mingchuan looked back and saw that the locust swarm had bypassed the fragrant nan forest and eaten up the vitex trees and wolfberry forests under the mountain.

"This group of locusts actually doesn't eat fragrant nanmu. It is no wonder that the ancient palaces loved to use nanmu, and the effect of repelling insects was well deserved. Zhang Mingchuan thought that the main beams of each room in the courtyard at home seemed to be made of nanmu.

Zhang Mingchuan, who came out of Yu'e Mountain, took advantage of the moonlight to speed on the grassland, and the locusts behind him seemed to have GPS on Zhang Mingchuan, no matter where Zhang Mingchuan ran, the locusts behind him would chase him.

Now it is really where Zhang Mingchuan has passed, there is no grass, and gradually he also discovered this phenomenon, no matter how he changed his direction, the locusts followed his direction and flew.

Zhang Mingchuan, who had flown all night, had almost exhausted his physical energy, but when he saw the swarm of locusts chasing after him, he didn't dare to stop and rest.

The surrounding area gradually became desolate, the grassland became the Gobi, along the way, some of the locusts starved to death, some died of physical exhaustion, some were shot to death by Zhang Mingchuan with the wind wall, and more Zhang Mingchuan fell into the locust swarm again and again, in order to break through the fire to death.

When he fell into the locust swarm for the first time, Zhang Mingchuan still had a fluke mentality, thinking that the locusts would fly away, but who knew that countless locusts were all impacting Zhang Mingchuan's wind wall, and found that Zhang Mingchuan, who was indeed chasing himself, had to set fire to break through again and again.

Zhang Mingchuan, who was moving along the river on the Gobi, had lost most of the locust swarm behind him, especially since there was no food for locusts to gnaw on in the Gobi, and the speed of locust swarm extinction was also accelerating.

I don't know how far I have traveled, Zhang Mingchuan, who was flying in mid-air, suddenly found that there was a city standing in the Gobi! A city wall made of stones mixed with loess appeared in front of Zhang Mingchuan's eyes.

On the city gate, in an unknown font, the three characters of the country of the sand are written. (Don't ask the protagonist how he knows the characters of the Flood World, and don't ask the protagonist why he understands the Terran language of the Flood World.) ）

When he met the leader of the Wu tribe before, Zhang Mingchuan thought that most of the human races in the desolate world were at the level of primitive society, and there was a transcendent human race such as monks.

The city standing in the Gobi Desert in front of us obviously has its own perfect writing system and a mature class system.

Zhang Mingchuan, who was flying in the sky, was also quickly discovered by the guards guarding the city gate.

"Captain, there's a monk in the sky flying towards our city!" A young guard at the gate shouted.

"Not good, look behind the monk! It's a swarm! Alert! There is an enemy attack! The mature middle-aged captain noticed the unusualness behind Zhang Mingchuan at a glance.

In the desolate world, the victory of the war between the two countries depends entirely on the victory or defeat of the battle between the two sides to worship the monks, although the city has a certain defensive ability, but it is more used to resist foreign beasts and natural disasters.

And the monks enshrined in a country often reflect the overall strength of the country, because the monks receive offerings, and the more powerful the monks, the more resources they need.

In this world where alien beasts are rampant, population is also a scarce resource, and it is a waste of resources to use the youth and strength for the two sides to fight, so there is an unspoken rule that the survival of the country and the tribe is determined by the high-end combat power.

Zhang Mingchuan saw that the occasional human race under him was attacked by locusts, so he had to stop his body, turn around and save the human race that had been gnawed and bruised, and then changed direction and led away the locust swarm in another direction.

Fortunately, the locust swarm has traveled a long way, and there is no edible food on the Gobi, and now they are on the verge of death.

I saw a young man coming out of the Zhusha Country, riding a strange beast like a horse, galloping towards Zhang Mingchuan.

When he came to the front, he faced the locust swarm behind Zhang Mingchuan, and released a red flame out of thin air, and the flame touched the locusts, which did not die endlessly, and slowly spread, and in less than a moment, the locust swarm behind Zhang Mingchuan was burned into slag.

"Thank you brother for coming to help." Zhang Mingchuan saw that all the locusts behind him were gone, so he fell to the ground to express his gratitude to the young man.

"You're welcome, in Xiayushamen Youding, he is the current enshrinement of this Zhusha country, I don't know who this Taoist friend is?" You Ding looked at Zhang Mingchuan, who was dressed strangely, and asked.

"I, I'm Shanhaimen Xiao Ming, I'm going to Luqi Mountain, and I happened to pass by here, bothering my brother." Zhang Mingchuan replied.

"It seems that the guards are making a fuss, but my sand country is located on the edge of quicksand all the year round, and Shanhaimen seems to have never heard of it in this quicksand area, and the elders in your door are actually relieved that you are going out of the gate so far alone?" You Ding looked at Zhang Mingchuan, who was also refining himself in front of him, and said, after all, the human race in this desolate world is the weak side in terms of alien beasts, and it is difficult for a small monk who refines himself to travel far in the desolate world.

The human race is scarce, and there are even fewer people who can become monks, and the Yushamen protects the Zhusha country, and the Zhusha country supports the Yushamen, and there are also the Great Xia Kingdom, the Juyu Kingdom, and the Yuezhi Kingdom in this Gobi, which also have sect protection.

Then You Ding invited Zhang Mingchuan to enter the city to rest, and through small talk, Zhang Mingchuan also learned that the largest sect that shrouded the entire quicksand was Xihu Baiyu Mountain, and these small sects that protected the country were more like the outer gate of Xihu Baiyu Mountain, and the highest level that could be achieved was only the ninth level of refining one's own realm, and only excellent disciples could enter Xihu Baiyu Mountain to learn the next stage of exercises.

The country of Zhusha is a country established on the flat land on both sides of the river with the Yigao River above the Gobi as the middle line, and the clam is a special product of this country and the main food of the people of Zhusha.

After Zhang Mingchuan entered the city, he looked at the surrounding buildings like ancient buildings, rows of stone houses, the closer to the river, the more exquisite the stone houses, representing a higher status, and the houses far away from the river and under the city wall are more houses piled up with yellow mud.

There were not many people in the streets of the city, most of them wore coarse cotton and linen robes, covered with coarse cloth, and only a pair of eyes were exposed.

You Ding took Zhang Mingchuan to walk in the city, and enjoyed the scenery of the city while introducing him.

Along the way, Zhang Mingchuan used his modern thinking to talk to You Ding more and more speculatively, and You Ding said that he had met a genius.

After returning to You Ding's residence in the city, he immediately called the servants to set up a banquet to treat Zhang Mingchuan who came from afar.