Chapter 557 Undead Creatures [Wish everyone a happy new year]
[Golden Body Forged by Thunder Fire] was an unexpected gain, but he still has a small flaw in his swordsmanship: how to solve the problem of the sword spirit of the flying sword in the flying sword state.
Should he use his mind to fly away as a part of himself as a sword spirit? Or get another flying sword? No matter which way, there is no way forward.
He has realized that it may be difficult to solve this problem in the Tongtian realm, because without the golden elixir, his spiritual strength in Dantian is not enough to support him to complete such improvements.
We can only find answers in practice. If we consider that it is impossible to solve all problems at a low level during personal practice, then such flaws do not seem so unacceptable.
Hou Zi followed the camel team in the desert. After more than ten days, they approached a water source.
The route of the camel caravan is not always a straight line, which is very different from the understanding of inland people. Inland people always subconsciously think that since the desert is as flat as a mirror, it is natural for them to travel in a straight line. However,
In fact, mortal humans decide their routes in the desert based on the distribution of water sources.
Maybe it's a small oasis, maybe it's a water pool, maybe it's a hidden well that can provide necessary drinking water for people and sand camels. They can't carry enough of these things. If that's the case, then there's no way they can bring any cargo.
Already.
What Shaka's camel team found was such a small water pool, with a radius of more than ten feet. It seemed to disappear at any time when it appeared among the sand dunes.
"This water pool is seasonal. It appears in spring and summer and disappears in autumn and winter. Therefore, our trade routes are not fixed in different seasons. In fact, there are many such water pools in the Kuaixu Desert, but they are very rare.
It’s not fixed, maybe it will disappear after a few years, and then another one will pop up somewhere else, last for a few years, and then disappear again…”
Hou Zi nodded, "In other words, they are all accidental after the rainy season, not because there is groundwater here?"
Shaka grinned widely, "That's right. The rainy season in the desert seems like a joke in the interior, but it has some consequences after all. This is just the edge of the desert, and it is far from going deep into the desert..."
Hou Zi watched the camel team get off their camels one hundred feet away from the water pond, and took up their bows and knives. "Is this, is there danger near the water pond?"
Shaka was very cautious, "Yes, a water pool is the source of life for all nearby creatures. This is true for humans, and it is even more true for those creatures. All kinds of creatures nearby will crowd here, and all kinds of poisonous insects
, also includes sand wolf, sand fox and sand sculpture.
But the most important thing is that although the undead creatures do not rely on water sources, they know that the best way is to raid humans near water sources."
After thinking about it, he still made his request, "Although it is unlikely, if an accident happens, please give me more help."
Hou Tzu waved his hand, "It goes without saying. Since we are in the same team, of course we share weal and woe. This is also the purpose of my coming here."
His consciousness has been monitoring the vicinity of the water pool, and he has not found anything unusual yet; he knows very little about the undead creatures in the desert, and he does not expect to get much useful information from these mortals. They do not
Understand the perspective of a monk and cannot look at the problem from the perspective of a practitioner.
Underground, he could feel that the number of poisonous insects had increased significantly. There were still a few sand wolves lying on the other side of the water. Even if they saw humans, they would not leave. Instead, they would roar threats in their throats.
There is no problem within a few hundred feet around the water park, but this refers to the ground. Just like the threats in the sea basically come from under the sea surface, most of the threats in the desert come from under the sand layer.
Shajia directed everyone to divide into two teams, one team stayed where they were, and the other team led the sand camels to the waterfront to drink water and fill the water bags that were starting to dry up.
They were all very careful when doing this, and even though they had done it thousands of times, they still did not dare to take it lightly.
Hou Zi did not go to the water, but stayed where he was, so that he could take care of everyone more conveniently. Shashi stood beside him, holding a bow and arrow taller than others, and came to the boy from the northwest.
Said that bows and arrows were their only toys growing up.
The child was not nervous, "Uncle Tzu, actually it's nothing. In most cases, it's safe, just like when we came here. There are very few undead creatures south of Loulan City, but it's hard to say north of Loulan City."
Yes, I heard from those adventurers that encountering undead creatures is a common occurrence."
Hou Zi smiled and said, "The monks in Loulan City, will they never go out to protect the caravan?"
Shashi was very open-minded, "Where can I protect it? There are different teams coming in and out every day, both inside and outside the pass. The duty of the Taoists is to patrol, and the main direction will be in the north of Loulan City, looking for big undead stocks.
As for the traces of creatures, as for the occasional two or three, we can only try our luck."
"How many cultivators are there in Loulan City?"
Shashi scratched his head, "I don't know, the Qi Practitioners are all in the area where they live, and ordinary people can't enter. However, there are hundreds of Qi Practitioners, and most of them are traveling with the adventurous teams heading north."
...Shajia and other four or five people led a dozen sand camels to drink water by the waterfront, while confronting several sand wolves on the opposite side. No one on either side acted rashly; they probably felt that the other side was not easy to mess with, and in the desert
In addition to being tough, we must also learn to coexist. These things cannot be killed, and they cannot take precious water as their own.
Suddenly, a sand camel broke away from its reins in fear and ran away. Immediately afterwards, the entire camel team began to explode. The senses of animals are always sharper than humans. The next moment they ran away, three
Black shadows emerged from the sand and attacked everyone in Shajia.
These sand people are not completely unprepared. When the sand camels exploded, no one tried to control these animals. They could not run far and would stop and wait and see after they were a certain distance away from danger. More importantly, they had to deal with the undead that might appear on the sand.
biology.
Five people gathered together, and three black figures had already emerged from the sand, like huge insects. Their bodies were incomplete, without flesh and blood. Only a skeleton was supporting them, but the red light in their eyes could be seen.
Their violence.
There is no other emotion except killing.
Three of the five Shaka men wielded their swords in front, and the two behind them shot arrows. The arrows hit the bones and created a stream of fire, but they were unharmed by the undead creatures. It was obvious that ordinary mortals would be very vulnerable if they did not hit the vital points.
It is difficult to cause fatal damage to them.
Waving their huge bone claws, the five Shaka people kept retreating, and the situation became increasingly dangerous.
Hou Zi held down the impulsive Shashi and shouted in a deep voice: "Don't go there, leave it to me over there. Your most important responsibility is to guard this place."
