Strong winds swept through the desert that turned into hills, throwing up yellow sand all over the sky.
This endless stretch of barren sand seems like the end of the world, with only dust and gravel.
Until a figure whose cloak was pulled by the wind and sand broke into the desert, leaving behind a lonely footprint that gradually disappeared, trudging in the lifeless desert.
We should be thankful that the dark clouds that never dissipate cover the sky, and the most dangerous heat in the desert disappears. The only thing that hinders Lu Li is the flowing gravel and the hills one after another, endless and lifeless. There are only hills with never-ending wind and sand.
After decades of spread, this desert corridor that once occupied only one area has long since become a desolate desert covering hundreds of miles.
There is nothing here, not even the weird ones want to set foot here.
But this desert is not a completely dead place——
The broken abyss bordering the desert is like spilled mercury, distributed on the edge of the desert. From the size of a finger to the size of a person to the size of a house, the bottomless abyss will never stop swallowing the gravel that slides into it.
There are also those worms that swarm in the sand dunes like earthworms. Everything is their food, including gravel.
Thinking about it narrowly, there is no essential difference between worms and swamps to some extent - they both consume the world's substances and support themselves.
It's just that the worms are allies, while the swamp is aggressively hostile to all existence.
And their attitudes towards the world are also completely different.
Maybe decades or hundreds of years later, the worms will eventually grow into swamp-like weirdness that will destroy the world and turn into a new crisis. But now, they are like fish jumping out of the water, surging between the sand layers,
Follow and send greetings to Lu Li.
Lu Li stood on the top of the sand dune, with sand dunes stretching in front of him one after another that were no different from those under his feet.
Still far from the destination.
After sliding to the bottom of the hill, Lu Li continued to climb on the flowing gravel.
As night falls, the desert temperature quickly turns to the coldness of the main continent. A strange fog also climbs over the sand dunes and fills the air.
Lu Li slipped into a sand pit formed for unknown reasons and summoned the merchant Anthony to raise a fire. He brought a prepared suckling pig - this was today's dinner.
A strange mist filled the air and enveloped the world outside the sand pit. Only the bottom of the pit was bright and warm, exuding the intoxicating aroma of meat.
"Snowy mountains, oceans, forests, deserts..." Businessman Anthony asked the mother of the swamp, "What are you looking for? Or what are you leaving behind?"
"Look for the truth, leave footprints, and verify some doubts."
"Did you find it?"
"Still on the way."
Lu Li turned the suckling pig skewered on the fire and listened quietly to the "sizzling" of fat dripping into the flames and the whining of the wind outside the dunes.
There were no strange noises or footsteps. The desert was so barren that not even the beings in the strange fog wanted to appear here.
After enjoying the sumptuous dinner, Lu Li put the remains of the food under the gravel. He filled a few pieces of firewood into the fire, covered himself with his coat next to the fire, and fell asleep.
Gradually, the sound of wind outside the sandpit became clearer and howling.
In the morning, when Lu Li woke up from the coolness of the extinguished fire, the coat on his body was covered with a layer of sand, and there was a lot of gravel in his cheeks and hair.
It seems like a sandstorm is brewing.
Lu Li spent some time cleaning up the excess gravel on his body while waiting for the wind and sand to subside.
The wind that swept the gravel into the sand pit showed no sign of dying down, so Lu Li had no choice but to set off again, confirming his direction and moving forward against the oncoming sand and dust.
Lu Li's speed was forced to slow down, and the low visibility forced him to stop frequently to confirm his direction.
This situation continued until Lu Li's left leg sank into a salt crust.
He accidentally found a dry river.
Lu Li staggered forward along the winding ancient riverbed that guided him. His cloak was pulled behind him, and the gravel crackled against his body.
These difficulties did not prevent Lu Li from going deep into the desert, but when the wind turned to a sandstorm, he had to find a typhoon shelter on the riverbed to rest.
The sky was dim and yellow, the visibility was less than ten meters, and the raging wind passed in front of us.
This sandstorm lasted longer than expected. When it weakened into the ever-present wind and sand in the desert, night came again.
Today's dinner is canned food.
Setting up a hanging pot on the fire, Lu Li poured several cans of cans produced in the Land of Light into the hanging pot and waited for it to heat up and boil.
The fire dissipated the chill, a long and narrow shadow danced behind me, and the smell of canned meat did not attract any presence in this desert and strange fog.
Because he only had to travel in the morning today, Lu Li, who was not tired yet, had no sleepiness.
The eyeballs rolled from the fingertips, rolled along the dry river bed into the darkness, and hit a boot.
Lu Li leaned against the warm rock and listened to the merchant Anthony telling what happened in the Land of Light.
Claire, who was doing evil everywhere, made the residents miserable, and the exorcists also complained that the crows they cultivated were corrupted by Claire. The people who couldn't bear it made arrangements to fix the bird trap, captured Claire in the alchemy yard, restored her to an adult, and banned her from contacting alienation potions.
Then the eldest sister came.
The eldest sister, who formed a secret front at some point, stole the alienation potion from the alchemy yard and gave it to Claire, and then Claire turned into an albino crow and once again caused trouble in the Land of Light——
This time there is an extra eldest sister.
The burning fire gradually extinguished, and the smoke was torn into pieces. The strong wind that raged all night only turned into a whine near dawn.
Lu Li woke up from the still warm sand and shook the gravel off his body.
The weather is good today. There is still wind and sand, but the visibility is good and it will not slow down the speed.
Lu Li rekindled the still warm ashes and prepared breakfast. But as if to stop Lu Li, the wind and sand changed again at this moment, and a sob blew.
Lu Li gave up waiting for the can to boil, took out the meat that was not yet warm and ate it, shook off the gravel, put on his cloak, and set off in a hurry.
Lu Li continued to move forward, hoping that today's sandstorm would come later. As if his expectation was realized, until the afternoon, the wind and sand still maintained a speed that only slowed down, and there was even a brief period of windlessness in the afternoon.
Then Lu Li saw that in the distance where visibility had been restored, behind a tall sand dune on the way forward, an orange-red sandstorm blocked the sky.
There were only sand dunes around, and there was no place to hide from the sandstorm. Lu Li sped up and climbed up the sand dunes before the sky turned dark yellow.
A basin suddenly appeared behind the dunes.
This basin was once an oasis. The strange-shaped branches buried in the gravel are evidence of this.
When Lu Li climbed over the sand dunes and slid towards the basin, a prelude to a sandstorm arrived unexpectedly.
The gravel slapped his body, causing stinging pain. Lu Li covered his mouth and nose in the wind that was hard to distinguish, and barely managed to breathe.
Lu Li, who was sliding down against the wind, soon felt tired and exhausted, and had to approach a shadow standing in the sandstorm - an old wooden door half-hidden in the dust to avoid the wind and sand.