The next day, Ke Li and his party inspected the oasis area, cleaned up the abandoned insect nests, and then walked to the next location.

During this time, Enzo did not allow the Traveling Merchant to peep at the back of the line, and the latter seemed to have a bit of iron, and if Flanders wanted to use the merchant to test the competition, Enzo would have done it.

Not high enough, Colli's plan is even simpler: cross the dunes to block the view, cast the Wall of Inspiration to hide the team, and then walk through purgatory to see what this guy wants to do.

I saw the traveling merchant climb over the sand dunes, and could not find anyone and footprints in his field of vision, before turning his head and walking in the direction of the assembly point.

"He looks like he's giving up, let's take some time to investigate the little oasis he's been in."

Lifting the hidden wall of inspiration, Ke Li and the others came to the oasis not far away, and found that the movement of the traveling merchant at night was indeed not a lie, and those wild plants were also conspicuous after dawn.

Colley touches the plants and tries to identify their medicinal properties and toxicity, only to discover that there are lines of information hidden inside.

[Bull Dragon Blind Ke Grass: It can be used as a *** and a body booster, so that the weak can forcibly burst out of the courage and potential to travel in difficult times, but every time you take it, there is a certain chance of forming a chewing addiction, and the threshold of the effective dose will continue to rise until its irritation becomes not obvious enough, so the user will consider purifying the plant and increasing the dose. 】

[Devil Colored Mist Fish: Fish containing abnormal toxins, even after cooking, will gradually paralyze the user, so that fish eggs, fish bones, fish scales, and toxins accumulate in the body, and the poisoned person will produce high fever, feel abnormal thirst and desire to drink, if the poisoned person breaks his stomach or drowns at the water's edge, the colored mist fish will enter a new water body after hatching. 】

"It's not a curse, but it's all poisonous, and the water must be filtered and heated when you drink it, and if necessary, let me treat it with demonic flames."

"Nothing else, maybe it's a distance away from us, we're all extraordinary ourselves, and that guy doesn't have time to do bad things."

Mary used drawings to jot down images of pests and fish, and Flanders and the others moved on.

It took 2 days, and there was no trace of the Zerg at the third mission site, and there were dead bug eggs everywhere.

Burn the fire clean, clean up the dust, and it's almost time to go back to the errand.

However, under the patient inspection of Flanders and others, they made unexpected discoveries.

Before the Dragonmen moved, it seemed that something had fallen in the cave of the Zergs and picked it up for them.

Enzo: "What is this? The head of a large dragon lance, or something like a dagger or a taper? It is carved with many mysterious patterns of dragonman totems, which have certain extraordinary properties, but the degree of activation is very low."

"What do you think should be done?"

Flanders: "Then seal it up and bring it back to its original owner, and see if we can get some rewards, if they clearly don't want it, or if they don't think it's valuable, we can take it and study it casually, and it doesn't matter if it is broken."

Colley didn't have a problem with that, he was in charge of burning and setting fires all the way, there were no creatures or things he was interested in, and he didn't mind pushing quickly:

"Then let's go back, such a large territory and ruins, the dragon people themselves do not guard or protect them, and we don't need to seal up all the cultural relics like the archaeological team, if we can record and study them, forget about it."

"But the dragon people didn't urge us to go back, if the conditions allow, we can also go back to replenish the supplies, this has been going for half a month, pay attention to the movements of the competitor team, and then see how that guy is?"

Calculating the time, before Colly and the others returned to the harbor camp, the traveling merchant would almost be able to arrive.

Even if he is very slow on his feet, he is lazy on the road, and he takes a break from time to time, and he sets off 3 days in advance at a relatively close location, so he must have arrived early.

"Then let's go, anyway, we have an accurate map, the route over there is a plain meadow at the edge of the jungle, it's easy to walk and fast, and the time consumption is actually about the same, but it looks farther away."

The six of them packed up and set off for another 5 days back to the edge of the jungle to find the first team of competitors to explore the desert, leaving obvious traces of exploration here.

For some reason, the path back to the forest was blocked by a large clump of thorns the width of a palm, and there were needles and blades everywhere. The blood and rags in the entrance area, as well as the stacks of machetes slicing through the thorns, all indicate that they are in trouble.

"That's it?" Colly threw out a cloud of demonic flames, and the wildly growing thorns were burned to ashes with precision.

This kind of regular trap really doesn't pose much of a threat to the extraordinary, and even Mary's half-toned tower path can be done with card cutting.

Flanders looked at it for a while and said, "We don't need to clean them all up, we can just dig a way through them ourselves, these thorns will grow after they are cut down, and they should be some kind of natural attack characteristics."

It took another 3 days to quietly return to the harbor camp to confirm its status and camp inventory, and to confirm that the ship was normal.

Although there was no real threat or fighting, and the beds, tables and chairs in the camp were relatively rudimentary, everyone felt a sense of mental relaxation and some solace in the camp they had built.

Monitoring the competitor team is one requirement, and the second requirement is to make sure that they are not returning with any dangerous items, and that all the illusory things are excluded.

Mary: "I didn't see the shadow of the traveling merchant, did he not appear, or did he go the wrong way, or did he disappear when he left the desert area?"

Colley: "I don't know, there is no sandstorm in the desert area, he should not have gone in the wrong direction, everything is normal in our camp, even the small leaves and hair strands placed in the crevices are the original fingerprints and location, where did he go?"

Flanders: "If he showed up because of us, then he probably won't be in the area until we come back."

Enzo also said, "Yes, there are such strange examples in the expeditions I have personally experienced."

"For example, in some cases, due to too little expectation and investment, resources are urgent, resulting in team members being nervous and emotionally abnormal during long-term travel, and they have a quarrel with the person in charge and leave the team in a fit of anger."

"Theoretically, after the expedition team left these leavers and returned home, they should have disappeared into the wilderness, turning into savages and madmen with the confusion of time, but when the expedition returned to China for 5 years and then re-traveled to the same historical fog, these people could suddenly appear, claiming that they regretted their original decision and wanted to return to the team and go back."

"After being examined by churches and clubs, it was found that they were indeed real living people. But these people can't tell what happened to them, but their memories have become very confused, and they only unconsciously meet their former teammates before leaving."

Mary covered her mouth in amazement, "And this kind of thing, it's terrible."

Enzo: "So, if the Traveling Merchant is a similar being and needs to meet certain conditions to appear, then our arrival is the timing of his appearance."

(End of chapter)