King Ember's Journey to Tevat

Chapter 625 Roughness and Desert

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The sky is filled with yellow sand, and as far as the eye can see, there is only a gray patch.

And in the midst of this terrifying sandstorm, there was an extremely strange-looking combination moving forward.

Just one person, one mushroom, and one peach.

To be precise, the big peach in front is rolling against the storm, while the figures and mushrooms behind it are just following.

"It's so big. Xumi is really a vast territory." Yi Yan raised his head and looked around. What he could see with the naked eye was still the same yellow sand dunes.

This made Yan Yan's desire to complain immediately fill her up. He was confused, where did such a huge desert come from in Sumeru? It was obvious that there was a lush rainforest next door. This climate change was simply unbelievable.

"It's going to... turn into dried mushrooms." The Iwamoto mushroom beast, who was at the back, couldn't help but echoed in a hoarse voice when he heard the words.

Even though it was a member of the Dragon of Grass, it couldn't bear the heat and exposure for so many days.

Now its rock-like skin has shrunk and is dark in color, just like the black rock beneath the earth that has been burned and squeezed by lava and plates.

The big white peach who was rolling and leading the way at the front obviously noticed this. It stopped in place, and after a while, the still plump shape of the fruit shook a few times and rolled in another direction.

After continuing to move forward for a while following the traces drawn by the big white peach on the fine sand, a clear crescent pool appeared in front of Yi Yan.

Near the pool, green appeared for the first time in a long time. There are also plump fruits of various colors hanging on those unknown trees, making people drool at the sight of them.

Of course, all this is unattractive to Ember. The only one who was really excited was the Iwamoto mushroom behind him who was about to return home.

Looking at Iwamoto Manato who was so excited that he was rolling around in the pool, Ember sighed.

"Sure enough, in a place like this, it's better to have a guide!"

After saying that, Yan Yan pushed the big white peach and sat under a tree in the oasis.

Considering the state of Iwamoto's mushroom, a few people...a few things rested until dark.

The night in the desert is particularly quiet, and the raging sandstorms during the day seem to be tiring and want to take a break at night.

Ember leaned against the tree and counted the stars. The mushroom beast Iwamoto had already fallen into a deep sleep, and the big white peach beside him also became quiet.

"Hurry up, I remember that there is an oasis ahead. You can rest when you get there!" A rough urging voice came from the darkness. Although the voice was bold, if you listened carefully, you could still tell that it was a female voice.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for a group of desert people dressed in desert-style clothes to come over holding torches.

"Where did the monster come from?!" The firelight illuminated the vicinity, and the woman in the lead exclaimed when she saw the strange combination of embers.

"It's a human, eldest sister." Yi Yan leaned against the tree trunk and responded helplessly.

"It turned out to be a human being. I thought it was a mummy that escaped from the mausoleum."

Yi Yan glanced sideways at the woman with a red silk headband and rough skin, making the latter shiver for no reason.

"It cooled down a bit too quickly tonight. I need to warm up a bit later." The woman rubbed her arms, a strange smile appeared on her face, and she just dropped the strange combination of embers and ignored them.

Ember thought the group would light a fire to drive away the darkness, and they did raise flames from a distance.

But the way desert people keep warm is much more than that.

The makeshift tent was shaking, and the sound of flesh colliding could not be heard, which shocked Yi Yan for a while.

"Tsk, you're so open-minded. Do you have any clues?" Yi Yan turned to look at the white fruit beside him and asked pointedly.

The big white peach jumped up and down for a few days. It looked like it was trying to defend itself.

"Okay, okay, I'm not that particular. This little movement is trivial!" Ember pressed the beating white fruit, nonchalantly.

The shaking of the tent continued until the latter half of the night, and Yi Yan continued to count stars as usual until dawn, as if he didn't hear the movement.

At dawn, the coldness of the desert night turned into the heat of the day, so hot that even if you wanted to sleep in, you couldn't. "Huh? You didn't freeze to death?" The tent was opened, and the leader's face was red.

She was surprised to see flexing embers in the distance. You know, the desert in Sumeru has the largest temperature difference between day and night on the entire continent.

During the day, it can roast people without protection into jerky, and at night, it can also freeze people without warmth into popsicles.

The dangers of the desert are not only the blazing heat during the day, but also the cold at night.

"You knew I would freeze to death and didn't you move the bonfire closer?" Yan Yan picked out his ears and complained to the desert people in the distance.

He originally thought that such a large group of people would be kind-hearted and move the bonfire, but as a result, the group of people snored like thunder and slept until dawn.

This makes Yi Yan have to reasonably suspect that these desert people may be mushroom pigs.

"Haha, if you die, the armor on your body will be worth a lot of money." The desert people all laughed a few times when they heard Yu Yan's words.

Most people in the desert have no idea of ​​helping each other. The reason is that the resources in the desert are too scarce, even survival resources.

Most of the desert people are still in a tribal state. If it were not for the existence of the Sumeru Rainforest nearby that allows them to use force to beg for food, I am afraid that the state of the desert would be even worse.

"Isn't the desert the territory of Sumeru?" Ember shook his head and sighed, then took the mushroom beast and pushed the big white peach out of this small oasis.

As for being angry? Sorry, most of the time Ember ignores everything he says, whether it's a compliment or an insult.

He has his own world in his mind, so most of the time Ember's mind is filled with his own thoughts, and it is difficult for other things to get in.

The strange combination left, and the leading woman finally relaxed.

"Phew, a strange combination, but we finally left."

Watching the ember's back gradually disappear into the rising yellow sand, the desert people retracted the sharp blades hidden behind them and forgot about this small chance encounter.

They stood up again and repeated their actions day after day in the yellow sand.

……

After an unknown amount of time, the scene around Yu Yan and others finally ceased to be filled with yellow sand, and instead turned into a canyon with crisscrossed ravines.

The surface here is still covered with a layer of sand, and huge cracks that suddenly open and close suddenly can be seen everywhere.

From time to time, you can still see bulging lumps of soil rising. It doesn't look like a mountain, but like a large floor block that was lifted up after being hit by something heavy.

Looking at the more complicated and difficult-to-discern terrain in front of him, Yi Yan wiped the yellow sand from his face and asked to the fruit rolling in front of him:
"I said, how long does it take to get there? Are you lost?"

Of course, Big White Peach couldn't answer Ember's question. After all, it was just a peach that couldn't speak.

But from the clever mushrooms.

Masato Iwamoto stood at the very back, but his gaze kept looking forward, falling on a few black figures jumping in the yellow sand.

"That's my twisted family over there. The Dragon of Grass should be nearby."

As everyone continued to move forward, the black shadow hidden in the desert gradually revealed its true appearance.

They were a group of strange-shaped creatures, some of which looked like shellfish stuck on the ground. Their two large dark green shells closed and closed, as if they were breathing heavily.

Some are like Inazuma's floating spirits, but they are much enlarged. They hang low in the sky, confused and not knowing what they are doing.

Some of them no longer look like living things, they are more like lumps of biomass, following this strange army in a squirming way.

"Is this a mushroom?" Yi Yan asked, pointing at the strange creature in front of him.

"That's right, don't look at the appearance, look at the essence, they are family." Iwamoto Managumo nodded.

"Well, your mushroom family has quite a lot of faces."

(End of this chapter)