Author: Half-wounded but not broken

Pei Renli had never been to the desert before, at most he had been to the beach.

Even if he goes on a trip, he never wants to go to the desert. After all, there are so many beautiful places in the world, so why go to the desert and suffer.

My understanding of the desert basically comes from movies and documentaries.

When he was a child, he naively thought that if all the desert sand was used to mix concrete, the desert would be hollowed out. It felt like he had found a blind spot that others were unaware of.

Thinking that he could make a fortune from this in the future, he even recorded it in his notebook. It wasn't until he confidently showed off this to his father that he realized that the sand in the desert was too fine and too light to use this kind of method.

When sand is mixed with concrete, the house built is no longer just tofu, but simply tofu.

So little Pei Renli's dream of getting rich was shattered.

This was all he knew about the desert. Only when he was in it himself did he realize that the desert is not a place that you can easily pass through if you are well prepared.

Pei Renli carried two water bags, which should have been enough for him to consume throughout the day, but now even with the cooling medicine to lower the temperature and prevent heat stroke, the fresh water is still consumed at a very fast rate.

What's even worse is that there is no map at all this time, only a compass that can point out the direction. Pei Renli has no idea how far he has to go.

This anxiety about the unknown is also gradually wearing away the will.

And this is not just walking in the desert, Pei Renli needs to stay awake and focused at all times.

In the desert, the sand dunes are constantly moving due to strong winds. Some places may seem like you can step on them, but in fact you will miss them if you are not careful. What's more, there may be quicksand somewhere.

At this time, a small shadow blocked the sunlight from above. Pei Renli was observing the surroundings through his Thousand Eyes. When he saw this, he took off the dummy crossbow on his waist without hesitation, raised his hand and pointed an arrow at it.

Due to the special nature of the dummy crossbow, the arrows corrected their trajectory in the air like missiles. With a suppressed scream, a vulture fell on the sand not far away.

When he saw it was just a vulture, Pei Renli breathed a sigh of relief.

Not long ago, Pei Renli saw several giant eagles flying around in the sky. It was probably the guy who controlled the summoned creatures again.

Speaking of which, Pei Renli has met this guy three times, but has never met him face to face.

The rules this time were very dangerous. Perrenli actually hoped to meet people he was familiar with, such as Philfield or Dürer, so that the cooperation would be safer.

But no matter which direction you look, you can't see anything but yellow sand.

Pei Renli's boots were filled with sand. At first, he just walked a few steps before they fell over. Later, he just let it go because he couldn't finish it.

Just as he was about to continue walking with his head lowered, Pei Renli suddenly stopped forcibly, carefully picked up his staff and poked it into the sand in front of him on the left.

Then there was a slight sound of the carapace breaking, and a poisonous scorpion was pierced by the staff and brought out from the sand.

This is one of the reasons why Pei Renli didn't walk in the desert wearing only socks when his boots were filled with sand. These small pools hidden under the sand will definitely surprise you.

He shook the staff vigorously. Normally he would take out a rag and wipe it clean, but he was really not in the mood now.

At this time, Pei Renli turned his head inadvertently and saw that the body of the vulture he had just shot was gone.

It should obviously be about ten or twenty meters ahead on the left, but except for a little bit of sand stained red with blood, there is no trace of the body.

This made Pei Renli immediately alert, and a chill ran down his back to his forehead.

Although the rules this time clearly allow demon kings to kill each other, this does not mean that there are no monsters in the desert.

Life is very tenacious. Even in the endless void, which is almost the same as the environment in the universe, there are void creatures and astral demons wandering around. The same is certainly true in the desert.

Pei Renli felt something was wrong, and he immediately drew a few runes quickly:

"Detect creatures!"

A dim wave spread out in all directions with him as the center. This spell can detect life signals near the caster.

Then Pei Renli saw rows of red auras like landmines appearing on the previously empty sand.

There's something under the sand!

Since he has always adhered to the philosophy that it is better to rely on himself than to rely on anyone else, the spells he learned were as balanced as possible, rather than simply using one's strengths in one aspect, so Pei Renli was actually not afraid of acting alone.

But after all, time is limited, and he currently has fewer detection spells that he can use, and the detection of creatures can only roughly mark their locations, and cannot lock them more accurately.

Looking down at the remains of the scorpion that had been poked by the staff, Pei Renli kicked it hard and lifted it to the sand in the distance.

Immediately afterwards, he saw the empty sand suddenly sinking silently, and a large rock-colored mouth emerged from below, swallowing the scorpion accurately, without doubting that the thing was

It's so big that it can swallow a person whole.

But seeing this scene, Pei Renli relaxed a little.

The monster hiding under the sand, waiting for its prey to come to you, should be a subspecies of the Burrower.

At the Trickster's hunting ground, Perrenli and Philuffy saw the Digger. On its forehead was a small grass flower that was harmless to humans and animals. The main body was hiding under the soil. If a creature approached, it would suddenly open.

Open your mouth and swallow the prey.

Pei Renli breathed a sigh of relief because the burrowers were the type that waited for prey. They could not move underground, and even if they climbed up, they would move very slowly.

Therefore, just follow the position displayed by the detected creature and avoid it when moving.

There seem to be a lot of burrowers gathering in this area. If you walk in rashly, the result will be basically the same as dancing in a minefield, but since there are detecting creatures, you don't have to worry at all when walking.

In order to avoid them, Pei Renli had to move a little farther, and the direction was probably shifted by a few hundred meters.

When Pei Renli came down from the sand dune on one side and used the creature detection method to see that the red light indicating that something was nearby could not be seen, it meant that he was far away from the Digger.

But this is no reason to relax, because it is impossible for Pei Renli to keep detecting creatures all the time. Even if he is far away, there is always a suspicion that he will be suddenly swallowed while walking.

What's more, the dangers in the desert are not limited to diggers.

Pei Renli, who had just walked around the sand dune and was about to return to the right direction, immediately saw through Thousand Eyes' vision that behind him to his left, a sandbag suddenly sunk underneath, as if something had swam from the bottom of the sand layer to the top.

, and leave a layer of fine traces on the surface of the sand...

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"Bah! Can't the wind be lighter in this shitty place?"

During the battle, Pei Renli lost the face towel he used to protect himself from wind and sand, and happened to catch a gust of wind and swallowed a large mouthful of sand.

However, mere words would not make any improvement to the situation. Pei Renli could only curse the sun above his head in his heart to explode.

He carried his staff and walked a few steps forward. There, there was a huge insect corpse with yellow-green mucus gushing out.

It is almost as thick as a train, and its exposed body is not the whole picture, most of it is still buried under the sand layer.

This thing is called a sandworm. It is not the kind of seafood that can be eaten in the sea, but a kind of super large fleshy worm that can move as fast as swimming under the desert.

It is said that this thing is related to earthworms. Anyway, Pei Renli saw this in the monster illustrated book, and he didn’t know what earthworms did to have such relatives...

They sense prey through vibration and sound, with a sensing range up to one or two kilometers away, sneak around to the prey's feet, and then launch a surprise attack from underground.

This thing has strong surprise attack ability, but is relatively weak in terms of being able to fight.

Once its body leaves the sand, it cannot get back in quickly. At this time, it becomes a target for Pei Renli.

Moreover, sandworms are very afraid of cold attacks. During the whole battle, Pei Renli just spotted the sandworm's attack and avoided it for a moment, then hit it in the face with an ice storm with his backhand, causing the sandworm to rush into the street.

The low temperature made the soft skin of the sandworm brittle and cracked on its own, and the ice cubes cut off its vitality. It looked as if it had been disemboweled, and its internal organs and body fluids were scattered all over the floor.

Under the scorching heat, the magic ice is also melting rapidly, and the body fluids mixed with the sandworms emit an unpleasant smell.

If Pei Renli has no water to drink, he can use magic to create ice cubes, which will turn into water when they melt.

But this is a hopeless solution. The ice cubes created by magic are different from natural water. Not only do they have a strange smell and are hard to drink, but drinking too much of them can also lead to poisoning.

If you switch to a priest, there will be no problem. The fresh water created by the water-making technique in divine magic can be drank directly...

Having digressed, let’s get back to the topic.

Pei Renli approached it to see if there were any eggs in the sandworm's belly.

The embryo fluid of sandworm eggs is a very precious alchemical raw material that can be used to make potions.

So the adaptability of human beings is indeed amazing. Pei Renli was an ordinary person a few months ago. Now when he sees a sandworm as big as a train, his first reaction is to use its eggs to make a potion and prepare to drink it himself...

But maybe he was unlucky, or maybe the sandworm was a male. Anyway, Pei Renli scanned its remains on the surface and found no sandworm eggs.

There are also some materials on the sandworm's skin and mouthparts that can be used to make magic items, but because the weather is too hot, it takes too much time to decompose them.

Also, Pei Renli saw traces of something swimming underneath on the sand not far away.

Sandworms are solitary creatures and often move in loose colonies. If you don't want to mess with a bunch of these big earthworms, it's best to run away first.

The corpse of the sandworm will become a meal for other sandworms. Taking this opportunity, they will not chase Pei Renli.

After walking out for almost a hundred meters, Pei Renli, who was still on alert, sniffed.

In the air that was so dry that it caused nosebleeds, he suddenly smelled a whiff of water vapor.

When he climbed over the sand dune on his hands and knees, he saw a rare green color breaking into his field of vision...
Chapter completed!