The desert is a river in another sense. She bears everything with her soft body. Deserts and rivers are places where life is born, but it is just that it lurks beneath the unreachable sand.

Marshall felt the blazing yellow sand with her feet, and her sideburns were already dripping with hot sweat. In just a moment, they had gone from the cool and comfortable auditorium to the endless desert. They are about to survive here for a month, with only enough food to support them for three days.

If someone in the team could use water magic, it would definitely save them the effort of finding a water source, but unfortunately, there was no juice in this golden rose. No one conjures up a drop of water through their own magic.

Zibelin, who was beside Marshall, took out a yellow cloth robe from his bag, put it on top of his head, turned his head and frowned: "It's really hot here, at a glance, there is no shade, if we don't go farther, we will definitely leave early due to dehydration." ”

Minia now finally realized the benefits of the mallet - it didn't feel too hot to hold: "What a torture." Luckily, everyone had a robe in their backpack. ”

Talking in the scorching desert sun is just boring, and the team needs to find a cover to hide from the sun. Zibelin was temporarily elected captain of the Order, with Marshall as vice-captain. Each person has a compass in their backpack that gives them direction. With plenty of food, they still have the physical strength to explore.

The wind in the desert was hot, the sweat oozing from the pores was dried in an instant, and the rough grains of sand stuck to the skin, like the tip of a needle pricking the skin. One by one, the sand dunes were in the midst of the raging wind, and Zibelin took out a rope, and the team formed a line to avoid separation.

"Look, it's a hill!" As soon as Ellie saw a mountain appear on the edge of her vision, she was immediately overjoyed.

Zibelin persuaded Ellie to dispel the idea of going there immediately: "It's too far away, maybe you won't be able to get there in four or five days...... I now know what this test is trying to do for us. We need to find a shelter during the day and hike at night. During the day, the weather obviously roasts us dry, which is a serious drain on food and water. ”

"Yes......" Marshall was wary of any wild beasts under the yellow sand, the golden roses around his waist became bare, and the golden petals were hidden in the yellow sand, and if there was anything unusual, they could at least have a care.

"Because it's so hot now, most of the beasts come out at night to feed." Yuri shook her body in fear, her clothes clinging to her flesh, "I can't take a shower now, it's just a few minutes, and I'm already sweating so much......"

It's still morning, the roulette sun is still swinging in the sky, and from noon onwards, the wind is gradually getting lighter, and everyone is even more difficult. After all, you can still use magic, but luckily Yuri is good at a little wind type magic. The wind and the wood merged, and he barely conjured a few huge green leaves from his hands and inserted them into the ground, so that at least he could create a few places to enjoy the shade.

The team quickly swallowed the dry food in their mouths in the shade that quickly dried up, and when they were finished, they got up and looked at the green leaves that Yuri had conjured, and found that their surfaces had turned gray. What's more, something seems to have been attracted to the green leaves.

"Ah!!h Yuri screamed, and the reason for this was that the sand under her ass was scurrying, and before she could react, a fist-sized scorpion suddenly jumped into the air, its tail flashing with sharp poisonous light, and stabbed at her without saying anything!

"Be careful!" Marshall grabbed the magic sword and stepped to Yuri's side in three or two steps, the golden light flashed, and the dark black poisonous scorpion was immediately pierced by the thin sword. Yuri fell to the ground with a thud, ate a mouthful of sand, and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Marshall neatly shake off the scorpions that had been strung together.

"They're probably attracted by Yuri's conjured leaves." "Because there is water in the leaves." ”

"Hmm...... If only I could be as decisive as Marshall. Yuri stood up reproachfully, "It's better to have a gun in hand at all times, in case something comes out of the sand...... It won't be as embarrassed as it is now. ”

Minia said, "It's not your fault. Let's go, in case we are discovered by other squads, there will inevitably be a conflict. Wait, Marshall, this scorpion looks like something has fallen out. She immediately crouched down and pulled out a shiny gem from under the motionless scorpion, and after wiping off the green bodily fluids, she found that it had a shiny "one" written on it.

"Hold it, let's go first, it's likely to be useful then." Marshall's proposal was unanimously agreed.

As we walked and stopped, the sun gradually went down, and the things we encountered along the way were limited to all kinds of insects curled up under the sand. It will probably be during the night that some of the big guys will wake up vaguely. They found a variety of gems inside the insects, and the gems were also engraved with numbers ranging from one to five, with one getting the most and five getting the least.

"It's scary to think about getting familiar with these bugs...... Ilya said, raising an eyebrow, "I hate bugs!" ”

"Maybe we'll have to eat worms later...... Marshall half-jokingly, "and you'll probably have to eat these things when you don't have them." ”

"N-yes!" Ilya had nowhere to vent his anger, so he had to use his big sword as a shovel, constantly stirring the gravel under his feet under the setting sun.

Although these scorpions eventually became the ghosts of Marshall's sword, this inevitably caused severe psychological trauma for Elijah. Zibelin had no choice but to direct the march to the north while calming Ilya's tender heart. Marshall looked at the hands full of gems, and she was convinced that they would have a purpose.

The weather finally cooled down, and the scorching sun gradually fell into the dry horizon, and in the eyes of the girls, the sun seemed to be a troublesome thing that could only be pulled by a million wagons, otherwise why would it go so slowly? The stars in the sky are about to become the main force of the sky, and the cool wind is rushing from all directions, and the fatigue of the day has finally been washed away to a certain extent.

But before the girls were familiar with the coolness of the night, the ground around them began to tremble! Countless insects sprang out of the sand, and they did not mean to attack the girls, but were fleeing for their lives. The creaking sound kept coming, the ground was paved black, and the small black cloud quickly flew into the distance, and soon disappeared.

"What's going on again? It's disgusting! Yuri took out the magic gun in his hand and shot hard at the large scorpions and centipedes around him, as he spoke.

"Look......" Ellie pointed in surprise to the rising rock walls and mountains in front of them, the sand under their feet was rapidly hardening, and the dead grass was quickly emerging from between the cracks in the stones, "the terrain had changed......

Marshall became vigilant and asked Erin if anything was wrong. And Irene's reply was striking: the space was essentially fake, and it wasn't surprising that the terrain had been manipulated.

"False?" Marshall crouched down and twisted the gravel on the ground hard, "But it looks too real!" ”

"There are more things that look real." "You have to be careful, the danger is even greater at night than during the day. ”

Today, everyone was quite tired, so they chose a rock wall that could block the wind and settled down like this. Ellie and Minia picked up some dead branches and made a fire with the flint they had with them. It was so hot during the day, but it was very cold at night.

Marshall specially picked up some scorpions that he had killed during the day, wanting to taste what roasted scorpions tasted like. She had seen others selling grilled cockroach skewers in the Land of Desire. The taste of roasted scorpions is indescribable, and the word "unpalatable" is too simple, sour, sticky, and a little foul. Zibelin also took a small bite, but it was so unsmoked that he almost vomited. This is a rare and happy moment for everyone. Actually, after getting used to it a little, this kind of life is not particularly difficult - with plenty of food and water.

"There seem to be words on these rock faces." Yuri caressed the rock wall and looked at the contents carefully, "'Just press this button, you can exchange loot for survival necessities', something like this. ”

In other words, the gems they had acquired during the day were not useless.