Chapter 130: Oasis
At first, Enzo and the others also tried to collect bones, take inventory of mutilated relics and suicide notes.
Later, they found that there were more and more bones buried in the sand, as if they had been cleaned up a long time ago, but the bones crawled out on their own, so they asked *** for Ke Li to deal with the aftermath.
Demon Fire is very resistant to extraordinary derivatives and cursed products, no matter what it is, as long as there is a problem with it, it will be burned clean as soon as it is a problem, which is very simple and crude.
However, Flanders and the others had to stop exploring, first take a look at the last words of the forerunners, and then plan to find the lair of the Zerg.
Colley examined the objects and threw the useless things into the fire, "Well, it seems that these 'seniors, before they died, died in solitude, and they were unaware of the existence of their companions."
"This doesn't match the situation where the bones are buried together, maybe you should ask the Dragons to see if they were buried when they passed by, it is difficult to judge without information, it is impossible for the bones to crawl in and bury themselves."
Flanders said, "These bones are a bit similar, I suspect they may be the bones of the same person, there have been strange cases of this crazy cycle in the fog of history, don't you think?"
Enzo: "I don't know, I'm not a mortician in the Grim Reaper sequence, but I think that with so many people together, the possibility of dying of thirst, starvation, and disease is very high."
Then Enzo whispered, "It could also be the work of insects, I heard that there is a bug called the Bone Carver, they have some special rules of communication like bees, and these worms are said to burrow into the human body, hollow people out from the inside out, and then carve bones into similar shapes."
Ke Li took out the magnifying tool of gem crafting: "If you have experience with insect bites, I have the tools here."
Six people can investigate small graves, but it is a thankless task to take stock of large mass grave pits.
At first, Mary was very patient in researching, carefully sorting bones 1 and 2, but then she couldn't finish digging up the bones in the sand, so she simply gave up and said, "No, I can't figure it out, normal logic doesn't work at all."
"There is an oasis water source, there are fish in the water, there are city ruins nearby, and there is a summer river underground, how can such a large group of people be on the edge of the dead water, I am really not sure that I can not come to the desert area, this can die?"
Colley added: "It's too time-consuming to check so many one by one, let's set fire to it if we can't check it out, the main goal is to have a good relationship with the dragonmen, as long as the curse and trouble don't come over, we have nothing to fear."
Flanders clutched the fragments of the suicide note and studied it for a long time before finally saying, "It's a sandstorm."
"These people may have wanted to leave at first, but they were trapped by the sandstorm and couldn't get out of here."
"People who enter sandstorms have difficulty breathing and become disoriented, and in the fog of history, these sandstorms may have other ingredients mixed in. For those who have no resistance, certain extraordinary properties are highly poisonous, so they will die."
"Well, it is also recorded in the ancient books of the Dragonmen that after entering some strange sandstorms, even if they stay where they are and do not move, or use animal carcasses or rock crevices as shelter, they will be moved to different locations."
"It's a bit like the Elder Teleportation we encountered in Mammothhorn, and that's one of the reasons I wanted to investigate the Fog of History, I'm curious to see what happened in history, and this might give me the answer."
Colley concluded, "Well, it's not without gain."
"That is, beware of dark caves in jungle areas, and beware of sandstorm teleportation in desert areas, at least these two terrains are clearly threatened. What we're going to do is document the area and make sure nothing is 'refreshing, coming out' out of the blue."
"After processing, let's make an ash pit mark, and I'll add some follow-up measures, where there is no curse, I can also curse it, and it will not be in the way for a while."
Corrie burned the bones with a fire, and the group continued towards the oasis area.
Before nightfall, they came to a ruin, and they couldn't help but wonder: the dragonmen had abandoned the places where they lived, and they were all places with good resources.
Constantly moving when there are no wars and disasters is strange no matter how you look at it.
If you can avoid the end by constantly moving and migrating, then this matter will not be so serious, and it should not be unlucky for a dragon with wings that can fly around.
If there is no point in moving, then isn't this kind of behavior simply anxiety and internal friction?
Wasted manpower and material resources, but there are no substantial benefits and changes, and in the end it is still given in vain, what is this dragging?
"There are no volcanoes or magma lakes in the desert area, at least with the characteristics of the demon sequence, I can't find similar elements in the air, and the overall conditions in terms of disasters are still missing."
"Do you really have to wait until there are enough people to farm something? In this case, we will have to wait for the competitor team to regroup and set off, and the number of people here can be reached."
Coolie didn't have much idea, and after Flanders and Mary had finished their archaeology, and after Enzo had positioned him, he set fire to the nest full of dead eggs, and the group decided to move on.
But when it gets dark, something unexpected happens.
Because they found that they were not the only ones in this oasis, there was another weak traveling merchant, who appeared in their field of vision with his bags on his back, and spoke a fluent lingua franca:
"Hello, I guess you must be explorers from outside, right? I'm a traveling merchant doing business here, don't look at me like that, if you need supplies, I'll trade with you here."
"I'm interested in leather, teeth, animal bones and exotic treasures with local characteristics, I'm not interested in modern products, don't think about selling those industrial products at a high price, I'm very knowledgeable."
Colly opened the demon's eyes and looked at him, and found that this guy was also in a strange state, just like the red-skinned dragon man he met that night, and it was also an impure state with some kind of extraordinary characteristics mixed together:
"Really? We have some collectible antique fragments in our hands, what can you trade them for? We are interested in canned food, fruits, and other daily necessities, so you can trade them if you have them."
During the conversation, the traveling merchant opened the inside of his backpack and coat, revealing his trading items:
"A small can for a gold mine the size of a nose, and to tell you the truth, it's a fair trade."
Ke Li couldn't help but feel funny, he hadn't started to perform this demon sequence yet, but this guy had started to talk about businessmen?
As he spoke, Colley picked up the can and quickly glanced at it, "Uh, this thing looks like it will be constipated if you eat too much?"
"I thought it was a high-quality canned oriental yellow peach fruit, but forget about ordinary canned beans, the dry food we prepared ourselves is better than this."
"Really? Now that you eat and drink well, you will definitely not be able to look down on these ordinary foods, but when you run out of ammunition, you may be able to live one more day with a mouthful of canned food?" The traveling merchant has a hippie smile, but Colley is unmoved.
At least Colley was now sure that the traveling merchant was a traveling merchant who had appeared as a corpse, a man who had long since died in the mists of history, because the date mark on the can had betrayed him, and he didn't realize it.
(End of chapter)