You call this a shield?

This is not to say that only a gentle girl will not come.

Is it easy to realize the desire of adolescence?

Looking at Dart, who was sitting on the wax, and Stick, Ix, and Neveu, who were arguing in full swing, Sheld sighed.

To be honest, he didn't even know why Neveu had joined the fray.

The dispute between Ix and Sticker lies in the elemental stone, and in the sentence that Sheld said.

"However, if it's just the elemental stone, we can jump out of the car now and leave this place to find it."

Sheld's words were the trigger. He was just telling the truth. After all, if he wanted to find the elemental stone, he just had to keep going to the place with the yellow dot and he would be done.

The rest of the investigation is superfluous and he can completely ignore it.

Came here just to listen to the story.

Since there was a simpler and more direct option, Ix naturally changed her mind, and proposed not to get involved in these people's affairs, and leave directly. Anyway, Neveu's life experience has been roughly clarified, and more details don't seem to be necessary. .

After all, Neveu doesn't care too much about it.

But Stee had a different opinion.

She believes that it is necessary to investigate in depth, at least to clarify the weird "curse of the dead tree".

"If the people of Dantonia Kingdom were able to be infected with the dead tree virus in this desert, how can you guarantee that we will not be infected?"

Generally speaking, Stike means to be conservative, and Ix's opinion is simple and direct, and it may not be risk-free to cooperate with these people here.

Until Neveu came out and said something fair: "Since it's so dangerous here, why don't we stay in the Ampken Desert any longer? Just go back to the big forest and teach him the way?"

This is a more "simple" idea, simple and straightforward, since there are risks here, then just avoid it completely and not participate.

Then a few people quarreled into a pot of porridge.

Sheld listened for a long time, except for some yin and yang words, everyone was right, but the emphasis was different, and each had its own considerations.

"that……"

Dalter, who had been silent for a while and was stunned by the side, suddenly raised his hand to signal.

"Are you going to join the battle too?"

Shield stared at Dart as a "warning".

However, Dalt did not intend to participate in this event. Seeing everyone looking at him, Dalt easily changed the target of the fire to Sheld: "The final decision on this matter is the leader. No matter how noisy you are, Why don't you just ask the captain directly."

These words sound like they are defending the authority of the head of the regiment, but in fact...

"Don't do human affairs! Dalt! Oh, yes, you are not human..."

"Ah? Captain, is there something wrong?"

Looking at Dart's confused and slightly "horrified" expression, Sheld tentatively thought it was a natural black.

"Dalter is right, there is no point in arguing too much. In the end, it is up to the leader to decide." Stike took the lead in setting an example. She sat back on the chair and leaned back slightly on the back of the chair, letting the chair's The front legs were raised slightly: "I also got on the head, arguing with you idiots."

"Who is an idiot!"

Neveu rolled up her sleeves and was about to start working.

"Ix."

"Oh."

Neveu was "pressed" back again, and happily nudged Ix with her elbow: "She said you were an idiot."

Sheld, Stick, Ix: "..."

In the debate about who is the idiot, it seems to be clear at a glance.

Sheld sighed slightly. He had been thinking about the quarrel with the three women for a long time just now, and he had some ideas in his mind. It was time to make a final decision.

"First of all, in some respects, I agree with Sticker's point of view. Going directly to the Elemental Stone theoretically does have the risk of contracting that strange disease."

According to Sheld's not-so-hard daily knowledge in his previous life, the survival time of viruses outside the human body depends on conditions such as temperature and humidity. Under suitable conditions, the survival time of viruses is longer. Viruses are on water-resistant surfaces, such as stainless steel and plastic. Surfaces are particularly survivable and can sometimes survive for several days on indoor surfaces, but their ability to cause infection gradually decreases over time.

However, the question is whether the "curse of the dead tree" is really a "virus"?

It is not only viruses that are transmitted by blood contact, but the real transmission route is actually not clear to the people of those ancient kingdoms at all. What's more, the virus can be suppressed and isolated by the power of elemental stones.

Is it really a curse?

Sheld stood up again, walked over and patted Ix on the shoulder: "Of course, Ix's worry is not incomprehensible, staying here to help the rebels is also a risk, and about that strange disease, even if it is in the past After so many years, no one can guarantee whether that strange disease still exists. It would be great if it doesn’t exist, but what if it does exist? Even the probability is one in ten thousand.”

"However, the risk of the virus to us is uncontrollable."

"There are real risks in helping the rebels."

"But the risks are manageable for now, and helping them isn't necessarily a long-term project."

"Eh?"

All the women were stunned.

"Is there any problem?" Sheld spread his hands: "We can help the rebels, but do we have to be good people to the end? If you figure out what we want to figure out, you can leave, unless..."

"unless?"

Stike raised his eyes: "Unless they add enough chips."

"You know me pretty well."

Sheld patted Stick on the shoulder with a smile, and was slapped away by Stick.

"Also, Neveu's life experience can be made clearer."

In some respects, they are actually a kind of people.

They can prepare some copper coins and food for the refugee children on the roadside, and they can also open their mouths to a poor employer lion.

It's not for the black and white secondary differentiation of justice and evil, but to make myself feel better.

Of course, there is a situation, that is, what Sheld and others want must be after everything here is over, then Aldrich and others are lucky.

……

Time soon came to the next day, a good night, tea and drinks on the table, including snacks, everyone tasted it, and immediately changed to the goddess table to eat.

Rina loved the things that Sheld and the others disliked. When she came to deliver the table the next day, she packed those unnecessary things in boxes—that was originally a lunch box for delivering meals. It's just that Sheld and others can't use it.

Supplies are scarce.

This is not unexpected.

In the desert all year round, I still live a dark life in this iron car, even if the lights here are bright enough.

However, it is said that the environment of the Garden District in the fifth district is quite different from here.

It is really difficult to rely on one district to supply the supply of all districts.

It's no wonder that Sangbo's goodwill can be brushed up by food.

"Mr. Aldrich said that if you think about it, you can call him at any time, just tell me."

After packing all the food, Rina was obviously in a very good mood. She hummed an unknown tune and asked, "Don't you really need to eat? The dry biscuits made from the seeds of giant flower fruit are rare and delicious." .”

The gap between people can sometimes be so big that people's inner defenses collapse instantly. For the sake of physical and mental health, it is better not to say some things too clearly.

Sheld even had a preview in his mind of the scene where Rina would take the things back later, but Sambo found that the previous delicacies were now unpalatable.

"I'm really guilty..."

"what?"

"No, I mean, you can call him over now, we figured it out."

"Okay, I'll call him right away!"

Seeing Rina's back leaving happily, Stike suddenly said: "I thought you would give her some local products, such as 'salt-roasted bighorn ox tongue'."

"Are you the devil..."

Depriving others of simple happiness is detrimental to merit. The less you know, the more happiness you have, and the more you know, the less happiness you will have.

It is enough to have Sangbo suffering.

Aldridge arrived as promised, so fast that Sheld wondered if this guy lived in a container nearby.

"I heard from Rina that you have thought it over, what's the result?"

"We'll help you, but if necessary, we'll just leave."

"more specific?"

"We want to find out the truth about this 'curse of the dead tree', and after we figure it out, we will leave."

Sheld stretched out his hand in advance: "Whether you want to overthrow the tyranny or not, those have nothing to do with us."

"can."

Aldrich just thought for a moment, then reached out and held it.

"It's a happy cooperation. Then in the next period of time, maybe you can reveal your plan."

Sheld shook Aldrich's hand, pretending to be casual and casually asked: "Ah, by the way, do you have any news about the source of the power Cumin Stolt absorbed? "

"The source of power? I don't know. Although we have explored this aspect, the first area is heavily guarded and it is difficult to penetrate, especially the power area. However, it is said that Cumin Stolt has always been Fixed, maybe you can investigate from this aspect."

"Huh..."

"Plan, we can talk about it tomorrow. At that time, I will take you to the place where our personnel gather to meet some interesting guys. Today you can take another day off."

Aldridge left.

It seemed more rushed than when it came, and it was obvious that it was going to be busy. Because of the participation of Sheld and others, many plans were on track, and some layouts had to be re-planned.

And after Aldrich left, Sheard immediately took out his small notebook from the storage compartment and opened it.

On it is the "star map" that Sheld copied from the "station" that was bombed before.

Opening the map panel again, Shield began to compare little by little.

"what happened?"

Sheard behaved to Stick as if he was looking at the notebook in his hand and turning his head up and down.

"I'm comparing locations."

"?"

Shield was still twisting his head, determining the approximate location where he was before, and then drawing up an approximate route based on Cumin Stolt's trajectory in the past two days.

This is also thanks to the fact that there has always been a yellow light spot representing the elemental stone in the Ampken Great Desert as a reference coordinate, so he can smoothly determine the previous position and the position of the car.

"Just now, that guy Aldridge said that in ancient times, Cumin Stolt always operated according to a fixed route."

"If our previous location was a part of its fixed operating route, then maybe the previous fixed route is the connecting line of the star map."

"What does this mean?"

Ikes asked while squatting on a nearby chair with her legs crossed, like a curious cat.

"Explanation... Hey! Sure enough."

Sheld started to write and draw again in the small notebook, and after a while, he spread the notebook directly on the table.

"If the location of the Elemental Stone is continuously generating water until it becomes a body of water, then the Kingdom of Dantenia, who lived here, must have had land in the first place, and they created Cumin Stolt to want Restoring the land further illustrates this point..."

Before Sheld finished speaking, Stike, who had already understood, continued to speak:

"That is to say, they want to ensure a certain amount of water and maintain land, so Kuminstort's running route must be to surround the Elemental Stone and forcibly create a lake."

"Yes."

Sheld snapped his fingers. At the same time, the index finger of his right hand pointed to the black dots that were smeared into a large group on the book: "Basically, this proves that what caused the water to be produced is the elemental stone."

"Does the elemental stone that creates water contain the power of water elements..."

Thinking about it this way, the power of the Elemental Stone is really amazing.

Sheld suddenly thought again that the previous Earth Stone, which contained the power of the earth, was also obtained from the Ampken Desert, and it was sealed.

Reminiscent of the gradual expansion of the water area...

"You said, would the original Dantonia kingdom be very peaceful, with half of the water and the land?"

"Why do you suddenly think so?"