Chapter 12 Sweat in the Wasteland (2)
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Cummins was already impatient after walking the first time. He urged Ge Zheng to return several times, but Ge Zheng had firm confidence in the stone equation. Although there was no danger in searching along the canyon, it was boring and occasionally encountered adventurers hunting monsters on the road. Most of the adventurers came with purpose, and would never be like barbarian warriors. No matter what kind of battle or enemies, they would rush up and chop them up. Four-eyed flying snakes and three-toed jumping rats are all monsters that are good at flexibility. In addition, the four-eyed flying snakes can also emit chain lightning, and the hard hair on the back of the three-toed jumping rat can be used as sharp arrows to launch. For these two kinds of monsters, special fishing nets and wooden shields are indispensable.
Ge Zheng did not have these two types of equipment, which seemed a bit strange to many adventurers.
Cummins is indeed very familiar with this place, and even knows clearly how many cracks there are on the cliff. From the very beginning, Ge Zheng did not completely believe in this desert fairy. The reason is very simple. He seems very alternative among the many adventurers, but Cummins doesn't even ask about the purpose of his coming here. People who talk too much are generally curious, but he can hold it back.
When he arrived in the canyon, Ge Zheng felt that Cummins seemed to be hiding something intentionally or undoubtedly. Although there was no conclusive evidence, Ge Zheng had such an intuition.
"Don't go over, I've told you many times. It's a quicksand place. If you fall in, don't think you'll come back." Cummins stopped Ge Zheng angrily. Ge Zheng looked at the sand and soil there, and picked up his toes, and a rock flew in. As Cummins said, the rock quickly fell. Despite this, Ge Zheng still looked at Cummins intentionally or unintentionally. Cummins calmly responded. The shadow of Yin Bai's deceitfulness could not be found in his big frog-like eyes.
The day was spent in search of nothing. The sunset in the desert showed a dry pig blood. Cummins followed him to look for a campground and complained, "Ge, what are you looking for? If you can't find it tomorrow, I don't have time to waste time with you here. I want to change my charges to calculate by days, fifty silver coins a day. Or you can also use your blood to refine Hercules potion. With just one bottle, I can accompany you to search in the desert for a whole year. How about it? Think about it..."
He seemed to be asking about Ge Zheng's purpose of coming here intentionally or unintentionally, and the alchemist thought it was not heard.
In the middle of the night, the desert fairy lay on her back on the mattress, snoring evenly with her big belly. Ge Zheng suddenly opened his eyes. He didn't know what danger was there in the place he was looking for, and there was a desert fairy with ulterior motives around him. How could he sleep peacefully in such a situation?
Ge Zheng quietly stood up, without taking anything to the west, and walked back. The camp he chose was not far from the quicksand land, in order to get up in the middle of the night and explore the quicksand land at night. Although that quicksand was very terrible, after careful observation, Ge Zheng found that the cliff behind the quicksand land seemed to be a little different from the cliffs around him.
He tied a solid rope to a three-person-high boulder, and tied the other end to his waist, so that he could save himself if there was any change. Then he found two wooden boards from his material library and tied them to his feet, and began his adventure of crossing the quicksand land.
The area of the wooden boards reduces the pressure on the unit area as much as possible. Ge Zheng carefully explores the way with a wooden stick, while moving his footsteps and stepping on the sand. The area of the quicksand is actually not large. If he reaches level 8 or above, he can completely leap over with magic or fighting spirit. However, there are almost no adventurers above level 8 in this valley, so the opposite of the quicksand land has almost become a forbidden area.
Ge Zheng walked through the quicksand land in fear and turned around to look at the camp under the moonlight. Cummins was still asleep. He breathed a sigh of relief and walked towards the cliff.
In the night, the cliff cast a hideous black shadow on the ground, as if a monster was trying to choose a monster and devour. Ge Zheng walked along the cliff but still had no gains. He did not give up. After the second time, he found a crack on the cliff under the moonlight.
There were many cracks on the surrounding cliffs, but most of them were vertical and were made of cracks in the mountains. Only this crack was horizontal. This attracted Ge Zheng's attention. He used his hands and feet and quickly climbed up. His experience of climbing Jueling outside Roland Village came in handy at this time.
The crack was not big from the bottom. When he got up, he found that it could allow an adult to crawl in. He hugged his waist and crawled in. With a sway in his hand, a magic lamp lit up.
The cliff is like a giant beast, and the crack is like a giant beast's mouth. The light of the magic lamp soon disappeared into the giant mouth. If Ge Zheng looked back at the camp, he would be surprised to find that the mattress of the desert elves who were still sleeping just now was empty, and under the cliff, the sand in the quicksand land was squirming, as if he had just swallowed something.
The passage was getting wider and wider. Later, Ge Zheng was able to walk upright. The stone wall gradually became flattered from unevenness. It seemed that someone had specially decorated it. A cool breeze blew in front, and Ge Zheng was energetic and quickly ran over. Sure enough, he didn't go too far, and a battle helmet-shaped hole appeared in front.
The moonlight like silver threads floated in from the entrance of the cave, and the night light was like a fireflies, quiet and beautiful; Ge Zheng was careful and picked up a stone in the cave and threw it out. After a long time, he heard a "click". Although it was very light, it could be transmitted far away in the quiet night. He looked out from the entrance of the cave, secretly glad that he had not rashly broke out of the cave. It turned out that the entrance of the cave was also on a cliff!
Under the cliff, there is a bowl-shaped valley. Ge Zheng looked familiar: this is the place marked on the treasure map. But this valley is so difficult to find, why is there no prompt on the treasure map? Thinking about the simple equation, Ge Zheng couldn't help but shake his head: The person who made this equation has a different mindset than ordinary alchemists.
He climbed down with a rope tied up. The stone he threw just now from the hole had already fallen to pieces when it landed. There was a white dot on the ground, which was smashed out by the stone.
Since he got here, Ge Zheng's memory became alive, and the lines on the treasure map appeared in his mind. Through his eyes, they gradually overlapped with the terrain in front of him. He decisively chose a direction. Before leaving, Ge Zheng thought about it, and took out a piece of armor from his storage ring and put it on, put on a pair of special wrist guards, and found a short knife to insert it on his waist. Although according to the label on the treasure map, there would be no mechanism traps here, the maker's thinking seemed to be different from that of ordinary people. God knows whether he forgot it or deliberately forgot it.
Chapter completed!