Hoarding money to raise cubs Day 42【Two in One】
The team rested for several hours under the big tree, with water and shade, it was like a luxury villa area in the desert.
Xiandan's team hardly wanted to leave here.
They finally escaped from the fingertips of the god of death. God knows how much willpower and courage it will take to set off again, leave the safe shelter, and walk towards the unknown route that they know there will be more hidden dangers.
The other team members were counting and sorting out the remaining materials. They sewed most of the craft furs they brought to make water bags, and brought as much water as possible.
Xiandan came to Lu Liran's side from time to time, and the number of times was so high that the audience in the live broadcast room could see that this person seemed to have something to say.
Xianyu covered his face across the live broadcast room, his stupid brother must never mention letting Brother Lu lead the team, he thought with his toes and knew that Brother Lu would not only not agree, but would also turn people into stupid dogs.
When Xiandan flashed in front of Lu Liran again, Lu Liran frowned.
[Pfft, it's over, Brother Lu is upset]
【Master Feller: Brother Lu is so fierce】
[Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, I have a voice in my head! 】
Xian Yu took a light breath.
Xiandan stopped in front of Lu Liran, finally mustered up the courage to speak, and asked, "How does Mr. Lu plan to go next?"
Lu Liran was not surprised that Xiandan would come to him.
He had reminded these people not to try to conquer the desert in vain, and not to trust bounty hunters who are so-called desert guides.
He raised the corner of his mouth mockingly, glanced at the other party, and lazily leaned against the tree trunk and replied: "Anyway, it's not on the way."
Xiandan: "..."
[Hahahahahaha Brother Lu's answer really cut off all chat options]
[Engrave the words "I don't want to chat" on my face]
Xiandan choked, thought for a while and then asked: "Then can I ask Mr. Lu to point us in a direction?"
"I just want to bring the living team members home safely." He looked at Lu Liran and said sincerely, "We didn't want to challenge the desert, but we just stumbled into the hinterland by mistake, and now we just want to get out of here."
Lu Liran glanced at Xiandan, was silent for a few seconds and said, "Sit down."
Looking up at the tall man, he looked tired.
Xiandan didn't react, but felt flattered, and quickly sat next to Lu Liran.
Ke Ji squinted his eyes, and suddenly said: "Sit across from me."
Xiandan: "?"
Lu Liran turned to look at Ke Ji, but also felt that Xiandan was sitting too close and was too hot, so he nodded and said, "Sit over."
Xiandan groaned and moved his buttocks to sit opposite Lu Liran, looking at him with bright eyes: "Mr. Lu, please tell me."
"Tell me briefly about the route you have traveled, the situations you have encountered, and the current status of the team members." Lu Liran said.
Xiandan scratched his head. Although he didn't quite understand the direct connection between this and the direction he asked, he still answered in detail one by one:
"We came in from the northeast border of Salba. The original route was intended to cut straight into the hinterland, but after walking for half a day, the route was cut off by a rock ledge several hundred meters long, and we had to go around the ledge and go inside. "
"In conclusion, after bypassing that rock ledge, the nightmare began. The rock ledge is tens of meters high and nearly a thousand meters long, like a towering giant wall separating the two sides of the desert."
As Xiandan spoke, her heart skipped a beat, giving birth to an indescribable uneasiness and shock.
He looked at Lu Liran, suppressed the uneasiness and fear in his heart, and said to Lu Liran: "Thinking about it now, that ledge looks like it was deliberately erected there to thwart travelers who tried to break in."
Lu Liran narrowed his eyes slightly and said nothing.
When their escape boat made an emergency landing in this desert, it should be closer to the foot of Teller Mountain, and thus closer to the core hinterland. They walked all the way south, the closer to the south, the lower the altitude, and the higher the probability of finding water.
The route of Yu Xiandan's team happened to be one north and one south.
Xiandan went on to say:
"After we went around the desert behind the rock ledge, we lost our way for a while, and we deviated from our direction as we walked. At that time, we didn't realize that the optical brain had been affected."
"It wasn't until night, when we camped and slept, unable to take out the tents stored in the terminal, and all the equipment seemed to be out of order, that we realized that there might be something in this desert that would affect the optical brain and the energy of the terminal."
"We immediately decided to go back, and chose a route that took about half a day and less than a foot journey. Starting from here, crossing this section, we can reach the border." Xiandan broke a branch and drew on the sand. Draw a general route.
He drew a rough map of the Salba Desert in two or three strokes. It can be seen that he had indeed pondered over the route map before, and he was very impressed.
Lu Liran glanced at it, but couldn't help but let out a sneer, took the branch from Xiandan's hand, and drew it in a circle: "You cross from here? On the map, it saves nearly two-thirds of the walking time, but here Do you know what it is?"
Xiandan looked at Lu Liran and shook his head in a daze, they hadn't gone there yet.
"This is a canyon, a thousand-meter-long Zhangyuan canyon. The fragile sedimentary rocks are weathered and can be broken at a glance. It is almost impossible to climb rocks with bare hands. Do you still want to cross here?"
Xian Dan was taken aback.
Even if it is a solid rock wall, it is impossible for this group of people to climb rocks with bare hands.
Freehand rock climbing? No one would do such a thing!
Lu Liran: (Not difficult)
Xiandan murmured: "We don't know...the map doesn't show that this is a canyon."
Lu Liran clicked his tongue: "Can't you see it if it's not displayed on the map? The contour lines on both sides, the surface shape nearby, you can't see so many clues? Blind?"
Xiandan choked slightly, these data analyzes were all done by optical brains, and they were not geological experts, so how could they have such comprehensive analysis capabilities.
Lu Liran glanced at him, skipped the topic for the time being, and said, "But since you planned to go in this direction, but now you have walked to the southwest of it, this is also quite enchanting."
It can be said to be offset by a quarter.
Xiandan blushed, they were wary of the direction of the guide, but they were all accustomed to judging the route with the help of optical brain calculations. Once they were separated from the optical brain, the field professional training they received would become useless.
Even the most basic direction of judgment will be affected by the deviation a little bit during the process of travel, resulting in the final result being quite different from the expected one.
Not to mention other things - looking for water sources, avoiding wild animals, predicting the weather... these are small problems that are not worth mentioning under the powerful knowledge base and computing power of high-end optical brains, but now these small problems are a One by one, they are sucking their life force.
This is not only because they rely on optical brains, but most of the modern interstellar people rely on optical brains to assist in judgment. This is the influence of tools in the technological age, and it is the epitome of the characteristics of the times, just like in their eyes, they also know how to use the most primitive tools People with astrology, on the contrary, are niche and different.
Seeing that Xiandan blushed and couldn't speak, Lu Liran knew what was wrong with the other party when he raised his eyebrows.
He waved his hand and said, "But even if you go right, you will still encounter that canyon, and you will have to return to the current route in the end. Since your guide has planned the route for you, no matter what Go, and you will reach his goal."
Lu Liran became a little interested in the guide. The man seemed determined to lead the merchant fleet into the hinterland. He seemed to be very familiar with this desert. A very strong person.
"Where did the guide go? When did you separate from each other?" Lu Liran asked.
"We encountered a sandstorm that night. We originally had forty camels, half of which were lost in the sandstorm. The guide also disappeared at that time." Xiandan said with a serious face.
When the sandstorm happened, all the team members were close together, and the reins of the forty camel horses might not be tight, and they ran away in panic when the sandstorm came.
"Sandstorms come and go quickly. After the sandstorm dissipated, we recovered some camels overnight, but we still lost a lot," Xiandan said.
Lu Liran nodded. In his opinion, the loss of the camel was considered a good result.
"The guide disappeared at this time? Then the rest of the road, which is equivalent to the second half of the night and this morning, was walked by yourself?" Lu Liran asked.
Xiandan nodded: "We judged the general direction based on the sun, and walked towards the border we thought."
"We didn't walk at night, and we made a temporary fire at a pile of rocks for the night. But when we woke up in the morning, we found that two team members had been frozen to death." Xiandan lowered his eyes, "They were huddled among the camels. Sleeping on the back to keep warm, the fire next to it did not know when it went out, and when we were about to set off to count the number of people, we found their bodies."
Lu Liran was silent for a while, Salba's night has always been a quiet executioner.
【Ah, this... Brother Lu highlighted what he said before】
【Yes, Brother Lu said that walking like this is particularly painless】
【But dying is too embarrassing, it feels like it can be avoided, eh】
Xiandan looked at Lu Liran, his face pale with memories: "The death of those two team members is like a signal to start."
"We've been without water for almost a day, we've hiked for almost four hours during the day, and most people have symptoms of dehydration stroke, and some people have blurred vision and even blindness, as if something happened. Something invisible is cursing this team..." Xiandan said in a low voice.
【...I probably understand why I am blind】
[understand +1]
[Brother Lu has more examples of live negative teaching materials]
[I used to think that the host was exaggerating the consequences and influences, but I didn't expect it to be true...]
[The host's little tricks may look ugly, but they work! The status of the anchor is much better than that of the team]
[Didn't you say there were dozens of llamas? ? Even if half of them are lost, there are more than a dozen of them. Why do I only see so few? 】
"The team members fell one by one, and the fallen team members were carried by camel horses and continued to move forward."
Xiandan suddenly raised his head and asked Lu Liran: "Have you ever seen beautiful, regular and symmetrical long and thin lines suddenly appear under the sand?"
Lu Liran paused, then came to his senses, and asked, "Is it the one-horned viper?"
Xiandan nodded, with surprise in her tone: "It sounds like something. Have you seen it?"
Lu Liran didn't know what he thought of, and his face changed slightly.
Those unpredictable scale prints, who never know where they will appear in the next second, are swarming quickly on the surface of the shallow sand, gently raising the sand, like an early warning before the appearance of the devil, and no one knows which is it. The next unlucky egg will be rolled up by something hidden under the sand and rushed into the air.
There was a time when these fine lines printed on the sand surface were frequent visitors to Lu Liran's nightmares at night.
"I don't know what it's called, but it looks like a snake, but it's thicker and longer than ordinary snakes. It's about the thickness of two arms. It's covered with withered yellow scales. A long bone spur sprang out." Xiandan said.
"Strictly speaking, it is a python. Pythons are generally bigger and longer, and have a longer lifespan. As long as they are alive, they will continue to grow." Lu Liran said in a deep voice.
[I searched on the star network, this team is too bad, the one-horned viper looks like this [Share picture]]
[Grass, this mouth is too good! ! Are there hundreds of them? ? It's too cruel! ? 】
【I'm numb, I'm afraid of retreating】
Xiandan lowered her voice, her face was pale, and the palm hanging by her side even trembled slightly.
For him, such a scene had just happened not long ago, and his memory was extremely vivid, but it felt as if several months had passed.
He said: "It suddenly jumped out from the bottom of the desert and raised its huge snake head high. The team leader who was walking in the front didn't even have time to react, and was swept up to a height of three or four meters by it."
"Then, the bulging cyst on the top of its head burst open suddenly, and a long, sharp bone spur came out of it, piercing through the man's chest in an instant."
"All of this happened in less than a few seconds. The python didn't even come out of the desert completely. We didn't even see its whole body."
"It threw the man's body out, it attacked us, but it didn't eat us, and it fell back into the desert in a blink of an eye."
Lu Liran pursed his lower lip. The one-horned viper python didn't eat them because Xiandan's team was not the python's prey at all, but just uninvited guests who broke into its territory.
The habits of wild beasts are nothing more than this. Creatures that break into the territory can only die.
Xiandan clenched his fists and trembled slightly: "It jumped around and attacked, completely disrupting our formation, and we had no choice but to run around in a panic."
"But what we didn't expect was that after finally getting out of the python's attack range, we plunged into a more terrifying place."
Lu Liran subconsciously looked at the map route Yan Xiandan had drawn on the sand earlier, which happened to overlap with the road he had walked just now.
"You encountered a quicksand belt?" Ke Ji asked, although it was a question, but he used a declarative tone, very sure.
Xian Dan nodded and looked at Ke Ji in surprise: "You guys also met?"
Lu Liran nodded and responded, "I found it in time."
Xiandan said with a wry smile, "We didn't find out."
"The llamas who were walking in front refused to move forward at first. We just thought it was because the sun was too hot and the sand was too hot, so the livestock refused to go any further, and we didn't think about the threat of quicksand."
"We drove the camel horses and continued to move forward. After the first few camel horses carrying the wounded walked in, the camel horses behind followed obediently."
"After walking a little distance, the people on the camel horse suddenly realized that something was wrong. They were sinking a little bit. The speed of sinking was not fast, but they actually submerged the camel horse's leg joints and thighs little by little... ..."
"It took less than five minutes for a camel horse with a height of four or five meters to be there, and it was submerged until there was only one hump left. When the remaining camel horses and people saw it, they all hurriedly wanted to retreat, but the more they wanted to Pull out the foot, and the sand will wrap the foot tighter, as if there is a hand underneath, dragging the person down."
"The people who survived were all carried on the back of the horse. They ran back by stepping on the camel horse, and the twenty or so camel horses were swallowed up by the quicksand belt, and there was not even a trace of it." None left."
Xiandan took a deep breath. When he met the one-horned viper python, he was physically and mentally frightened and frightened, but when he met the quicksand, he didn't even have time to struggle, and he couldn't get out of it.
The python took away the three of them, but the quicksand belt swallowed up half of their team.
The cunning and terror of the quicksand belt is that when you walk on the edge, you don't feel that it is a quicksand area at all. It is not until you walk to the center that the power becomes obvious, but at that time, any struggle is nothing. Useless.
"Later, that's what you saw. We found this place, stopped and rested for a while, and didn't know how to continue walking." Xiandan said.
If it wasn't for that guide, they wouldn't be in such a dilemma at all.
The closer you get to the hinterland of the desert, the more chaotic the airflow will be, which will bring great difficulty to the search and search work of the search and rescue boat. Therefore, before departure, the merchant fleet has made a plan not to enter the hinterland for the time being if the assessment is threatening. , safety is the first indicator.
But now they have broken into the desert area close to the hinterland when their equipment and condition are the most embarrassing, and they are not even prepared.
"There are two routes you can take." Lu Liran opened his mouth, glanced at the situation of several members of the Merchant Fleet, and changed the topic, "But in view of the situation of the wounded in your team, I suggest you go this way. "
Lu Liran circled a route, close to the place where he walked out of the desert last time, the route overlapped with the road he was going to take now.
Without saying a word, Xiandan nodded happily.
Before meeting Lu Liran, he couldn't understand why Xianyu would regard the other party's words as the first principle of action.
But when he bumped into Lu Liran in the desert when he was most desperate, he could fully understand Xian Yu after just a few face-to-face encounters.
After personally experiencing the horror of Salba, a young hunter who was able to cross the desert unscathed with only a dagger, a water bottle, and a backpack appeared in front of him. No matter how extravagant the praise is, it is more convincing.
Xiandan had to agree with Xianyu's evaluation of Lu Liran——
Lu Liran has a convincing sense of security. Every word and every movement of his is extremely firm, like a shot in the arm, calming down the already frightened heart.
Lu Liran pointed to the route and said: "It is expected to walk for about two days, bypassing the center of the hinterland, passing by the edge, and then all the way to the south, you can clearly feel the change in altitude and terrain. The altitude is getting lower and lower, and the probability of surface water is almost Bigger."
"For those of you with low judgment ability, it should be a good and obvious sign." Lu Liran glanced at Xiandan, "If you find that the altitude does not drop significantly while walking, it means that your direction has appeared again. Deviate, and then adjust yourself."
Xiandan choked, although it was true, but very few people would say this unceremoniously in front of him.
He scratched his head embarrassingly, and replied, "Okay, thank you, Mr. Lu. I will pay attention."
He thanked Lu Liran repeatedly, thought for a while and pulled out a jade pendant from his neck, and stuffed it to Lu Liran: "Whether the Merchant Fleet and I can successfully walk out of Salba in the future, we will all be helped by Mr. Lu. From now on, Mr. Lu With this jade pendant, I can find my elder brother, and he will know how to thank you."
Lu Liran paused, but remembered that Xianyu had just rewarded the live broadcast room, and thought that the other party had already given it.
"This section, we are going together." Lu Liran glanced at him, "You can go with me."
Xiandan's eyes lit up suddenly: "Really?! That's great!"
"When is Mr. Lu going to leave? We will follow your time." Xiandan said immediately.
Lu Liran glanced at the sun and said, "An hour later."
Xiandan nodded: "Okay, then I will inform the team to take a rest at the same place."
He immediately turned around and walked quickly to his team: "Let's rest at the same place for another hour. After an hour, Mr. Lu will set off with us. After going through the most dangerous journey, we will separate."
As soon as the merchant fleet heard that they could rest for a while, they immediately cheered, left their equipment and went under the shade of the trees.
Some people leaned over to the edge of the dug puddle and drank two sips of water.
"I see that the boss seems very happy, is it because of that who wants to go with us?"
There is always no shortage of curious people in the team, and the discussion is small, but it attracts many people to join.
"Sure, Boss was very sleepy before he passed, and he almost engraved the word "happiness" on his forehead after he came back."
"This guy must be very powerful, right? Look at him, he dared to enter Salba without any equipment. He even found water from under a tree."
"Great, having him walk with us, after all, is much better than walking blindly before!"
"What do you think happened to our guide? Could it be..."
"I don't know, that guide is actually pretty good, at least he didn't encounter such unlucky things when he led the way."
"Shhh, last time I happened to hear the boss tell our team captain to be careful of the guide, there must be something wrong with that guide."
"That's it... But I see that when the guide was there, at least we didn't die that many people..."
Xian Dan passed by those people, glanced at them, and the voice of the discussion immediately softened.
Lu Liran leaned against the tree trunk and closed his eyes to rest his mind. After a while, he suddenly said, "Why do you keep staring at me?"
After he finished speaking, he opened his eyes, and his eyes precisely caught Ke Ji's sight that he couldn't move away in time.
Lu Liran raised his eyebrows: "An Omega, be more reserved."
Ke Ji choked.
Just about to get close to Lu Liran and then set up a close-up string: "..."
I have never seen an Alpha who is more sympathetic than Mr. Lu.
The author has something to say: Thanks to Green Fox, He Sui, and Ting Wu for throwing a landmine, and thanks to the bosses~ refills! =3=
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