Chapter 318: Desert Town
After two hours of packing up the tent, Limma continued to set off. Dogs and horses are in good shape, but people are in poor condition. I was hungry, but I couldn't secrete my saliva and couldn't swallow the dried meat at all.
To say that the Phantom's all-terrain enhancement is still very powerful. The sandstorm slows down at night, but the Phantom is like wearing a four-eye night vision device, and the night has no effect on it at all.
Isn't it all-terrain? Why round-the-clock?
You're not honest! Lin Wu glanced at the phantom and reined in the horse, and dismounted to do magic. Lin Wu first took the pocket drone from the back of the backpack. How pocket-sized? The uninformed will mistake a drone for a hot dog for a backpack. Press the button on the pocket drone, and the drone will immediately become a normal drone, and then run and fly. However, even a pocket-sized drone weighs up to 28 kilograms.
I can give you a discount on the volume, but the weight is not discounted at all.
Maya stopped her horse and watched the drone take off: "I have a question that I don't know if it will offend you." ”
"Yes!" Lin Wu replied.
"Oh." Maya shut up.
I don't know what the problem is, but it's definitely not a good problem to make Maya so tactful. Maybe she thinks she likes the new and hates the old, likes phantoms and neglects Xiaowei? Or does she feel like she's emotional when she runs?
"What?" Lin Wu asked.
Maya: "Why don't you fly a drone?" "As soon as it reaches a speed of 30 kilometers per hour, the drone will automatically take off its hands and take off into the air.
"It's okay if it's just that." Lin Wu looked at Maya: "You added offense......"
"Well, you're right."
Dead mother-in-law, say you're stupid! Are you stupid? I'm a distressed phantom, this is a big guy of 28 kilograms.
However, Lin Wu didn't have time to worry about Maya, and said in surprise: "There is an oasis ten kilometers ahead. ”
"Oasis?" Maya decided to ask a little clearer.
"Well, a small lake, some trees, some shrubs."
Maya said, "Can you see it so clearly?" "It's dawn, the darkest dawn.
A fire lit up in the distance, and Lin Wu said, "I can see it more clearly now." "The tail flame of the rocket has already given Lin Wu the answer. After the rocket landed in the sand, it exploded and set up a fire for half a second, illuminating the vicinity.
"Let's go!" For a long time, Maya couldn't define Lin Wu with stupidity and cleverness, at least she couldn't think of using rocket tail flames to illuminate for a while.
……
The oasis is 3 kilometers from the roadside, but due to the topography, people can't see the oasis from the road. By the time they arrived at the oasis, the sun had already risen, and the two were able to get a direct view of the whole picture.
The oasis is not big, but it is not small, and around the small pond of 1,000 square meters are a dozen date palms, as well as sparse shrubs. On one side of the road is a natural stone wall. The most amazing thing is that the stone wall has a cave, and this cave can be occupied as a base.
Limma, of course, did not occupy the cave, but spread out his tent by the lake, and then ran to the lake together. During the comparison, it can be found that Lin Wu is still more particular, he took off his coat and pants before jumping into the water, while Maya entered the water in kimono.
Lin Wu's thoughts on this are: Doesn't she forget that the water stains on her coat will not be refreshed? Is it just to wear and dry? Won't it be rancid? Or maybe you're afraid you'll see her underwear?
Although he is not very smart, Lin Wu is happy to use his little brain. Two hours later, the tent was set up, and he found himself sunburned when he came ashore from the water......
"It hurts!" Lin Wu lay bareback on the grass, and Maya only used one finger to make Lin Wu feel painful. His upper body was as red as a monkey's buttocks, and he didn't even dare to wear clothes.
"What about here?" Maya pressed her fingers.
"It hurts, too." The fire burns like a fire.
Maya had no choice but to pour water on Lin Wu, and Lin Wu instantly felt much better: "Chop wood and build a ward." ”
Lin Wu knew that Maya had taken a medical book and a general medicine book from the Sunny Base, but Maya vetoed Lin Wu's proposal: "There are not many trees here, we need a crafting room to make small wooden barrels to carry more water." ”
"But ......"
"You're healing yourself."
"Help, someone's killed."
"Got it, got it." Maya said helplessly: "You just lie like this, the water is beside you, and it is uncomfortable to pour it yourself." ”
Lin Wu raised his hand to indicate that he knew. Death dawn, can the morning sun be so scorching? I didn't feel very hot, so why did I get sunburned? Stinky Maya, and don't remind yourself a word. And Xiao Crooked, you get out of me, don't jump around on me, can you afford to step on it?
This is the first time Lin Wu has been sunburned in his life, and it is not necessarily painful, as long as he does not touch the sunburned skin, he only feels hot. But even if you make a movement, it will be painful to pull on the skin. It's not that Lin Wu is hypocritical, he has a pain-prone physique, and a minor operation under local anesthesia can make him cry wolf.
But how did Dawn know? It must have been deliberately aimed at itself. Lin Wu found that when he was in a good mood and when he was not in a bad mood, what he thought in his head was completely different.
The date palm tree is not comparable to the log tree, and the Maya left one tree for the oasis, and the other trees were only enough to build an infirmary or a crafting room. In other words, even if the production room is made, there is no extra material to make small wooden barrels.
Maya didn't expect this desert to be so vast. Not carrying enough containers was a huge failure. If it weren't for the shit luck of drones and forest fog, both of them might have died in the desert today.
When the ward was being built, Maya went to the lake to catch crabs and fish, and Lin Wu climbed into the tent and put one hand on the hospital bed, feeling that something was wrong, so he shouted, "Doctor, doctor." "I thought it was at the event.
Maya had no choice but to come back for treatment, and for non-inpatient patients, the doctor had to accompany her throughout the process. In addition, it was a general practitioner, and the treatment time was doubled, and it took two people an hour to get the sunburn that was supposed to heal itself. However, compared to Lin Wu's shouting and screaming for two hours, Maya thinks that it is worth wasting this one hour.
Maya was about to go out, and Xiao Crooked returned, a crab hanging from its nose, and it sat on the side with a look of grievance. Maya was angry and amused, reaching out to take the crab. Lin Wu stood up and relaxed: "Go, I'll go and avenge you." "You can't beat Maya, you can't beat a few crabs.
……
Fish soup is boiled on a bonfire, and crabs are grilled, and the aroma is overflowing. Maya is still the same old thing, reflecting on her overly optimistic attitude and underestimating the difficulties ahead. To this, Lin Wu replied: "It's okay, I forgive you." ”
At that time, Maya wanted to kill this thing. I'm not reflecting on it for your forgiveness. However, it can't be said that self-reflection does show that he has an attitude of eating a trench and growing wise, which contains the meaning of apology. Herein lies the problem, if I don't apologize and you forgive me, I'll beat you up. But I really apologized.
He really shouldn't have built a hospital bed, at least he wouldn't be so badly beaten when he cried wolf.
Lin Wu couldn't think so much, and said, "It's one o'clock in the afternoon, and the time is very embarrassing." Do you want to take a break and pack your tent and travel in the evening, or do you want to rest here for the day? "You can't rush during the day, otherwise you'll be sunburned. The most important problem is the container, five liters of water is a little too little.
Well? Can you make Xiao Crook drink enough water, press its stomach when needed, and water will spray out of its mouth. No, what if it fills its pockets? It is not to drink water, but it will spit water to play. It won't do that? It will do it itself, can it?
Well? I've been thinking about it for so long, why haven't you said anything? Lin Wu reminded: "Huh? ”
Maya said, "I'm thinking about how to store water. ”
Lin Wu came up with an idea: "Rest for one night, maybe you can catch a few stupid wolves and make a few skin bags and water bags." ”
Maya looked outside: "There is only one date palm left in the entire oasis, where is the production room?" ”
Lin Wu thought for a while: "When we find the wood, won't we have a water bag?" ”
Maya sighed deeply: "If you can find wood, why worry about not having the material to make a water bag?" ”
"What do you mean by sighing?"
What does sigh mean, you don't know? Not to mention, with such a guy by his side, even the harsh environment can't stop his passion, and he wants to kill his passion. Thinking of this, Maya smiled rarely, startling Lin Wu: "Are you okay?" ”
Maya shook her head and threw the waste wood into the campfire: "Although this is an oasis, there are too few resources. Camp at 4 p.m. and leave at 7 p.m. I have another bad news for you, with the circular shape of Beicheng in Technopolis, and our understanding of the topography of Beicheng Beishang Town, and in connection with your sunburn, I think we are at an altitude of more than 2,500 meters. Route 88 is still slowly ascending. ”
Lin Wu asked, "Is the altitude of the desert high?" It is said that many deserts were once oceans. "The horizon, the desert, the altitude?
Maya said: "When humans left the earth, the Qaidam Desert was 2,500 to 3,000 meters above sea level, and the highest point was 4,700 meters. To test my theory, you can get sunburned one more time after ruling out the water factor, and I can basically guess where we are at the current altitude. ”
"Little crooked, you see, there are always people who want to harm me." Lin Wu said: "Even if you are right, maybe the high place is not a desert. ”
"No, it's supposed to be a desert. From low to high, and then from high to low, you can finally get out of the desert. Maya said: "Dawn also gave us a problem, Highway 88 arc is very large. Let's put it this way, the distance from point A to point B is about 150 kilometers, and the distance in a straight line may be only 30 kilometers. ”
Lin Wu said: "But we can't leave the road. ”
"Yes." Maya said: "But if we reach a desperate situation, we can only use drone reconnaissance to gamble." ”
Lin Wu said: "I don't know what kind of terrain Fantasy City is. ”
Maya asked, "What terrain do you want?" ”
This simple question knocked Lin Wu down: "There are mountains, but they can't be too high and too steep." There is a lake, not too deep and too big. There are plains, but they can't be too vast. The altitude cannot exceed 100 ......"
"I'm sorry, my fault, I shouldn't have made you wish."
"It's okay, pay attention next time."
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The length of the desert section of Route 88 was beyond Limmar's expectations. From setting out at night until 7 a.m. the next morning to rest from the sun, Limma still could not leave the land.
The drone didn't bring any good news, and at 7 p.m., Rima continued on the road, and by 6 a.m. on the third day, Rima finally arrived at an abandoned town built on the side of the road.
The wind and sand on the road were strong, and the wind and sand were not delicious, and the two of them took strips of cloth to tie their ears and noses, which looked quite a bit like robbers. The second thing you need to do when you enter a desert town is to find a source of water. The first thing, of course, is to open the tent.
According to the recovered transcripts, this is a town that has been relocated for 10 years, and the reason is desperate. The town's three wells had completely dried up 10 years ago. Literature says that they lived here for thousands of years, and it was once a large oasis, but with the erosion of wind and sand and the destruction of nature by humans, the wind and sand became more and more serious, and eventually became uninhabitable.
However, there are some discrepancies between the situation in the town and the record. The sandy land in the town has a lot of green weeds, not the thorn plants of the desert, but the reeds that are common in the green space. There are not many of them, but without a certain amount of water, it is impossible to grow reeds. This discovery boosted the confidence of the two, Maya took a wooden stick, used a rope to go down to the No. 1 well, and dug for half an hour without finding anything.
Undeterred, Lin Ma immediately went to Well No. 2. The situation is completely different from what the literature says, and there is more than one meter of fresh water in Well No. 2. Well No. 3 is also a normal well. The Mayan explanation of this: humans leave, nature repairs, resources are restored. Originally, two wells could provide a normal life for 10 people, but there are 100 or more people in the town, and there is no other way but to migrate.
Lin Wu thinks that it is pure dawn and shameless. It deceives the player by giving obvious documentation, and then drains the nearest well, Well 1, in order to get the desperate player to give up. But it didn't calculate that it would take 3 hours for its tent to open, and Maya was a person who couldn't stay idle.
"Tentatively rest for the day, and leave tomorrow at seven o'clock in the afternoon." Maya said, "We need to collect as many vessels as we can. ”
Lin Wu asked, "Can the two horses carry it?" I say weight, the weight of water. ”
"Adding another 50 kilograms to each horse's weight will not affect them. ”
"Really?"
"The weight of a sandstorm is about 800 kilograms, and generally the weight of a horse is about 20% of its body weight, which means that the weight of a sandstorm is 160 kilograms. Within this range, its actions will not be disturbed. ”
Lin Wu thought, 160 minus 50 equals 110, the weight of your backpack plus weapons......
Be at the end of one's forbearance! A hook foot was put down, and it was a hammer when it was pressed on the sand, Lin Wu sat on the ground and watched Maya leave, and said aggrievedly: "I didn't say it." ”
Maya turned around and threw half a bottle of water in her hand at Lin Wu, who reached out and caught it: Hmph!
At 110 kilograms, the weight of your backpack plus weapons is about 40 kilograms, which can be deduced as your weight is 70 kilograms. No wonder they want to beat people and kill them. Hehe, you didn't expect that, right? You can gag me, but you can't gag my thoughts.
No matter how bad the environment is, as long as you have a second goods by your side, you will not feel lonely and empty.
The buildings in the desert town are mainly low-rise houses, basically boxy, with one door and one window, not to mention the poor lighting conditions, and the space inside is not large. The house is mainly made of sand and stone, and there is no wooden material to be seen.
Maya's voice came from the headset: "I've found the answer." ”
Lin Wu asked: "What's the problem?" "Did you miss something?
"In my head." Angry again, Maya took a deep breath to calm down: "I couldn't figure out why they left the town after the well dried up, no one would like such a living environment." The answer is in the town office documents, which say that there is a gold pit 15 kilometers from the town. I'm going to go over and have a look and see if I can find something useful. ”
Lin Wu asked, "What about here?" ”
"Isn't there still you?" Maya raised her voice by one degree.
"Oh!" Lin Wu said: "You are very angry today. ”
"I apologize."
"I accept."
(End of chapter)