Chapter 8: The Desert (Rewritten)
Although Grint said so, she couldn't do it after all with complete trust. Lanaya could see that she was still nervous, she cared about the rumor, this trip, she was gambling with her own life.
From a distance, Lanaya had been observing her companion until she inadvertently turned her eyes to herself, "Eh...... Actually, it feels good to see the scenery here, right?"
Lanaya smiled, nodded, and looked out of the transparent cabin.
The mountains and rivers are like silk, and the clouds are blowing in the face.
Most of the trees here are purple.
So beautiful.
Suddenly, Ranaya felt a little unwell, and her heart cramped. She frowned and tightened the handrails, at first, she was still wondering if she was not used to flying at high speeds, but this situation should not hurt her heart.
She thought of something, took the medicine Muhans had given her from the ring, took one of them, and after waiting for a while, the pain gradually subsided.
"What you have in you is a dark poison", she remembered what Muhans said, and she couldn't help but be afraid. If there is no drug to maintain it, the dark poison will intensify, and the heart will hurt as if it had been pierced by a sharp sword.
Grint still saw the movements, but she just saw them, and didn't say anything.
Lanaya will do everything she can to find a way to get rid of the residual toxins once and for all...... If you can go back this time.
After four or five hours of flying, the two of them landed, and they both felt a burst of fluttering under their feet. It was not yet in the middle of the Khagoral Desert, but it was already extremely hot, and they draped the tulle they had prepared to shield them from the sun.
In response to the agreement reached by the two of them, they first found a place to rest, and did not dare to go out until it was completely dark. During this time, they have always looked at the passers-by with great admiration.
"Hey, Outlander, huh?"
The two left without a veil, and were caught by the innkeeper at a glance. He was ready to return the deposit, but he kept it in his hand: "You have also seen the weather in our Lanyu Town, I rarely see warriors from the fertile land of the East...... You have the courage to come here, why did you come here?"
"For ......"
"For victory. In order not to bow to the opponent. Grint said ahead of him.
"Good!" the boss laughed heroically, and with a push of the deposit, it was back in their hands.
"Let me guess again, you're for the psionic crystals?"
The two were just about to leave, but they were stopped by this sentence again.
This time, the boss's face became serious again. "You must have heard that rumor, right?"
Seeing the two nodding, the boss said again: "Then do you know the story behind the rumors?"
They shook their heads.
"I used to be a merchant who resold psionic crystals," he said, leaning back in his chair, "One day a few years ago, I met a seller, and the last oneβlet's say, after him, no customer ever approached me, and soon after, that terrible rumor spread. Maybe it was the feeling that that person gave me, and my first instinct was to suspect that he did it, but he was just a kid your age at the time......"
The air seemed to freeze. For a while, no second person spoke.
I didn't expect all this rumors to be artificial, and that person was just a ......
"If that's true, as long as we find that person, it's still possible for us to recover the psionic crystal, right?"
The boss glanced at Lanaya and suddenly smiled. He waved his hand: "The world is so big, where can I find someone?" I have only seen that child once, and I have forgotten what he looks like except for his black hair and cold eyes. The walls leading to the desert in Lanyu Town have been sealed, and you are still young, so I advise you to do your own thing and not do stupid things. β
Lanaya and Grint looked at each other, then turned to the boss, nodded as if they were gone.
The boss just smiled and sighed softly.
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"Shouldn't we really come here?" I heard someone tell me not to go to that place before I left......
"What?
"No, nothing. Lanaya shook her head, "Maybe it's just an illusion." But he was right. β
"Actually, there are artificially crafted psionic crystals on the market, but they are very expensive, and the two of us can't afford them, so if you want them, I can find a few more people to make up for them. Grint said, "Then we won't go this time?"
In the night, the voice paused with footsteps for a few seconds.
"No...... I think we can try. Climb over the wall in front of you, and I'll show you how. β
And Grint actually nodded, sometimes what Lanaya said could make her feel a sense of trust for no reason, and at this moment, she didn't hesitate at all.
Is she sure? Lanaya didn't know herself, she only knew that she would rather die than be instructed by someone like Rosen.
The city wall was already in front of him, and this wall was not much different from the height of the other side of the Holy Hidden City. Perhaps the people in the city deliberately sealed it all off in order not to let people take that risk again.
If you want to cross over, there is no other way than to fly. Of course, this is what most people think, compared to the real world, in the supernatural world, many impossibilities can be possible. Today's Lanaya is not as good as before, she has mastered the psychic ability, and has a level 27 strength, just take this wall as an example, as long as there is a proper method, she can still climb it.
With the chanting of the incantation, three circular circles formed outside the walls, one after the other at the same height, against the walls - these were psionic traps, usually used to slow down their prey.
But sometimes it's not impossible to use it on yourself.
"Ah, you're already ......," Grint exclaimed, looking at the psionic light in Lanaya's palm.
Lanaya didn't reply, then threw out a psionic rope, bolted it firmly to the top of the wall, and held out a hand to Grinthe.
"Hey, what are you doing over there?" shouted in the distance.
If there is a downside to psionic energy, it will always glow, especially at night. Grint hurriedly handed his hand over, and as soon as the rope was closed, they came to the top of the city wall.
One of the patrolling soldiers was so frightened that they jumped out as soon as they thought about taking down the two unknown figures.
"Bang, bang, bang-" The three traps were detonated one after another, and the speed of the two of them decreased again and again, but dozens of meters were unbearable after all, and the appearance of landing on the ground was not good-looking.
"What just happened?"
"Two people jumped from here......"
There was a conversation on the walls.
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The grass next to the closed gate moved.
Lanaya pulled up her palm, which was almost sticking to the ground, her palms covered in scars, blood mixed with gravel, spicy and painful. Grint was lucky, he was above before he fell, and he fell on someone......
"Are you alright, can I help you take a look?"
"No, Accelerator, let's go!"
Grint could only put aside the prepared healing spell and listened to Lanaya's words. It wasn't until they came to the wasteland far away from Lanyu that they stopped again.
From just now, Grint's eyes changed when he looked at Lanaya. The girl in front of me who is as big as herself is by no means an ordinary person, no matter what way it is.
Lanaya took out the water, cleaned her palms, and was about to say something to Grintl, when she saw her stunned expression.
"Come here. Lanaya said.
Grint was stunned for a few more seconds before walking over.
This is what Ranaya has come up with, she wants to teach the Glint to conceal, so that the Grint can protect himself, and in a dangerous place like the Hagoral Desert, he will encounter difficult creatures at any time.
"Remember, once you're invisible, you can't move, or you'll show up. You do it now and take a look. β
Grint learned in a good way, leaning over to hold the ground with his hands, and his figure gradually faded. Lanaya was a little surprised, the skills she had worked on for years were so good that Grint could learn them, it was really ......
Suddenly Grint shouted, "Behind you!"
The moment she saw the sudden change in Grint's eyes, Lanaya realized that the situation was not right, and immediately used concealment, and at the same time, a behemoth stabbed against the side of her head!
It was a desert python more than twenty meters long, and after the first blow was in the air, it stood up and looked around with a letter in it.
In the field of vision, except for the sand python, there is an endless desert, except for the sound of the wind, there is no movement at all.
They froze in place, not daring to breathe. Lanaya could still see Grinthe's shallow silhouette, and made a silent gesture to her, signaling for the sand python to reappear after it left.
Muhans had told Lanaya that her psionic energy was not yet stable, that she was already at the limit of using 27 strength to make such a long rope, and that her hand was also injured, and that she could never be an opponent of this behemoth.
I didn't expect to encounter such a dangerous situation before I arrived at the Crystal Cave, and the ultimate mission of the Hidden Sanctuary was really not something that ordinary people could touch! Now that I think about it, most of those who have never returned because of the search for the Psionic Crystal have probably never reached their destination.
"Hiss...... The sand python circled around them with its body crossed, and finally, turned its head in Lanaya's direction. Just because it can't see it doesn't mean it can't smell people, and if you look closely at the two pairs of footprints, you can see that they haven't left.
Suddenly, the sand python raised its head and spewed out a stream of venom from the tip of its teeth, and the place where it was sprinkled on the sand surface quickly became wet marks, gradually forming a small poison pool!
Maybe you have to be glad that the sand python has poor eyesight, and the poison pool is only a few centimeters away from the tips of Lanaya's fingers, otherwise......
The poison pool gradually spread. Lanaya's hand shrank and shrunk, this was already the maximum, she couldn't make any more movements, otherwise the invisibility would be forced to lift.
The venom finally touched her, and her fingers immediately became swollen, and all the pores turned red and oozing blood. When the blood touches the venom, it condenses into a gelatinous shape and sticks to the hand.
Strange pain, strange itching, under this unbearable pain, what Lanaya saw was the face of a sand python magnified dozens of times. The snake's pupils shrunk into thin leaves, the snake's snout opened slightly, and the trembling letter swept across the tip of her nose, bringing a fishy wind.
She was drenched in cold sweat, but she could only close her eyes.
A second passed, two seconds passed, and the sand python bypassed Lanaya's side and snaggled away.
It wasn't until there was no movement in their field of vision for a long time that they breathed a sigh of relief.
At the same time, on Lanaya's right hand, which was injured by snake venom, the eye-shaped rune on the back of the hand that was slightly bright also quietly faded......