Directly opposite the warehouse door, there is a smooth tunnel.
Dorothy controlled the mechanical corner stone, climbed in along the tunnel, and soon left the castle and appeared in the endless desert.
A miniature map is displayed in the upper right corner of the cabin screen.
The red dot on the map represents the location of the mechanical corner stone.
The flashing red arrow represents the current direction of travel.
In the center of the map, a small area circled by a blue line is the excavation site of ancient ruins, which is the destination of Dorothy's trip.
Once the coordinates are set, the mechanical corner stone will automatically go to the destination.
During the journey, the path forward was occasionally blocked by towering sand dunes.
Dorothy can manually operate the mechanical corner stone to get around the dunes.
However, the girl decided to take this opportunity to try out the drilling function of the mechanical corner stone, and pressed the black triangle button on the console.
The metal pointed cap of the mechanical horn stone immediately buzzed and rotated, and the entire head turned into a thick drill bit, which was pushed towards the base of the sand dune, and the yellow sand flew out with the drill bit.
Like a red-hot awl piercing cheese, the mechanical cornerstone used a roaring drill to clear the way, easily penetrated the sand dunes, and advanced forward in a straight line.
After crossing the sand dunes, you will see ancient civilization ruins in front of you.
Thousands of years ago, this was originally a prosperous and prosperous city, but now it has been buried by the long sand, leaving only scattered ruins.
Among the ruins, there are about a dozen potholes scattered, all of which are bottomless.
These pits were dug by the Witch of the West. If you dive down thousands of feet, you can reach the ruins of the ancient city buried under the sand.
Dorothy looked at the caves and hesitated.
She was not sure which cave she should choose as the entrance to this trip, or should she simply dig a new tunnel with the mechanical corner stone and try to explore an area that Theodora had never reached before?
Unable to make up her mind for a moment, she prayed silently and asked her guardian angel for guidance.
At the same time, Ma Yun finally received a system prompt: Turn on the "divine mode"!
"Wow! It's finally my turn!"
Xiao Ma got on top of Dorothy excitedly.
"If the old witch dug a hole, even if there were good things inside, they would have been taken away by the old witch long ago, and there is no value in exploring anymore!"
"The right thing to do is, of course, to open a tunnel yourself!"
After making up her mind, Ma Yun was about to use the mechanical corner stone to dig a hole when she suddenly remembered something and quickly opened the astrolabe to check the attribute panel of the construct.
Special abilities: Construction characteristics, magic detector 300 feet (dark vision/tremor perception), damage reduction 10/adamantine
Auxiliary devices: searchlight, gas storage bottles
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"Wow~ This steel giant squid is quite powerful!"
Xiao Ma’s classmates were beaming with joy and admired him.
She originally thought that the mechanical corner stone was just a vehicle.
Now it seems that although the mechanical corner stone has no intelligence attributes, it is at least a semi-intelligent construct that can execute relatively complex instructions. When attacked, it can also automatically fight back according to a predetermined program, which is quite powerful.
At this time, Ma Yun suddenly remembered another very important thing.
"Brother Fei! Sister Feng! Where are you?"
"We have entered your module, but currently we can only choose the God's perspective, and it is not time to go into battle in person yet."
Gao Fei answered in the Astrolabe team channel.
"Where are your roles?" Ma Yun asked next.
"It's in this desert ruins, not far from where you are." Jiang Feng pointed to the small map on the cabin screen, "Xiaoyun, did you see the green cursor on the map? Your brother Fei and I are the characters
A temporary camp was set up there, and it seemed that he was participating in this expedition as a treasure hunter."
Ma Yun looked at the cursor and murmured: "Your camp is only two miles away from me. I will go find you right away!"
With that said, she activated the mechanical corner stone, turned around and moved towards the camp.
At this moment, the game perspective switches to the camp.
Gao Fei and Jiang Feng received system prompts at the same time that they could "seize the gods"!
The two people quickly switched to a subjective perspective and took over their respective roles.
Before I could clearly see the situation around the camp, another system prompt popped up:
"A small group of sandworms are about to launch a siege on the camp! Escape from the camp as soon as possible and join your teammates driving the mechanical corner stones!"
"Huh? A handful of sandworms...how many are they?"
Jiang Feng showed off his twilight sword and pistol, carefully observed the movements around him, and said to his boyfriend:
"We are already level 8 experts. Three or five sandworms are not enough to pose a threat to us. There is no need to escape. It would be easier to just kill them all."
Before he finished speaking, the surrounding sand trembled and flew, and one after another ferocious-looking sandworms came out, waving huge and sharp jaws, twisting their poisonous tail spines, and surrounded the camp.
"One pair, two pairs, three pairs...isn't it? There are twelve sandworms!" Jiang Feng was so angry that he couldn't help but cursed, "Grandma special! You call these 'a handful'?!"
"You little bitch, you still have a few hammers! Run away!"
Before the sandworms gathered around him, Gao Fei grabbed his girlfriend's hand, ran towards Ma Yun's direction!
A dozen sandworms chased after the two of them, rolling yellow sand into the sky.
Gao Fei and Jiang Feng activated "Sprint" and ran at full speed, moving 60 feet in each round.
The crawling speed of sandworms is 30 feet, and they do not have acceleration methods such as "sprinting". Under normal circumstances, they cannot catch up with them.
However, the two sides are not chasing each other on a flat runway.
In the game, soft sand is a typical "difficult terrain".
Unless players are naturally adapted to the desert environment like sandworms and can move freely through quicksand, or have mastered skills such as "walking through the forest" that are not hindered by difficult terrain, running on soft sand will have their movement speed halved.
Every time you run a certain distance, you must make a DC10 reflex save.
If the save fails, it sinks into quicksand and slowly sinks.
Even if you are able to escape the quicksand trap in the end, it will be delayed and you are more likely to be caught up by the sandworms behind you.
