A mysterious metal skeleton appeared in the projected sand dunes. This strange scene instantly attracted everyone's attention.
Judging from its appearance, there is really no way to connect it with anything specific.
Large areas of rust and decay have made this iron guy lose its original appearance.
What's more, from the obviously twisted or even torn metal edges, it can be guessed that this should be part of a larger structure.
"This is obviously a man-made artifact! It means that the other world that this projection refers to also contains humans, or highly intelligent creatures similar to humans!" Someone immediately judged.
This guess was immediately approved by everyone.
However, this is not a big surprise. After all, people have witnessed the "Elven Civilization" in the last projection, which makes them more certain about the judgment that "the projection refers to a different world".
"The rust on this..."
As everyone gathered around, a rather pedantic little lapel muttered and walked forward.
It seems that I want to take a closer look at its surface.
However, in the next second, a practitioner of the perception system, who was pinching his eyebrows, uttered a short "Be careful!"
Immediately, a black shadow suddenly emerged from the metal frame buried in the sand dunes!
Small, yet extremely fast!
Between the electric light and flint, a cyan light curtain suddenly appeared, forming a wall of light.
The black shadow hit it and penetrated half of it.
However, this also successfully slowed it down.
Huang Yin had quick eyes and quick hands. She reached over with her fair little hand and grabbed this thing directly in her palm!
Then there was a "pop" sound, and a stream of light blue liquid splashed out from the gap in her fist. The attacker was actually crushed to death by her!
Cheng Lin's eyelids jumped as he watched from behind. He remembered that Huang Yin was from the elemental system, right? Why was he so violent?
"nothing else."
Seeing that everyone was on guard, the perception monk with his eyebrows pinched said, and after being confirmed by two other perception systems, everyone felt relieved.
"What kind of creature is this?"
Cheng Lin and others also walked over and saw that Huang Yin's snow-white palms had been dyed blue.
The creature looked like a crocodile, but was only as big as a palm. Its surface was covered with a thin layer of phosphorus armor. It had been crushed, and its internal organs and blood spilled out.
Huang Yin found a red crystal that was only the size of a little fingernail from its corpse.
He handed the body to others and put it in a sampling bag for specimens. A ball of flame burned in his hand, roasting the blood and internal organs and dripping down. Not a bit was left, which saved him from having to wash his hands.
Then she picked up the crystal between her thumb and forefinger and lifted it.
He stared at the sun for a few seconds and said, "A crystal similar to spiritual ore, the energy response is barely second grade."
Someone nearby quickly recorded it and bagged the crystal.
Cheng Lin's eyes moved at the side. This is the magic core, a second-grade one... It's useless for him to use it. What he needs is an elite magic core, which can only be provided by fourth-grade monsters.
After solving this "new monster", everyone finally had a certain understanding of the dangers in this desert.
"The perception system distributes evenly, provides sufficient supply of medicine, keeps the ability always on, and observes the foot, the bottom of the sand, and the dunes at the end... Once you find anything, report it immediately, do you hear me?"
Huang Yin clapped her hands and gave the order.
Everyone agreed one after another.
After dealing with this monster, everyone finally gathered around the iron frame again.
Huang Yin looked at the monk who was attacked: "What did you want to say before? Keep talking."
"Ah... yes," the little lapel was stunned for a moment, nodded with a little fear, walked over, scraped the rust on the metal frame with his fingernails, observed it for a while, and said cautiously, "This rust doesn't look like...
It will happen in a desert environment."
"What's the meaning?"
"The desert environment is dry. Generally speaking, water and oxygen are necessary for metal corrosion. Iron is more likely to corrode only when the humidity in the air is greater than 70%, and here... the air humidity obviously cannot meet the requirements, even assuming that the humidity here is
The desert climate will also change, and it will rain occasionally, which can cause rust, but it must be layered, and the rust on it... is more like formed by long-term immersion in the ocean." The little lapel hesitated.
He said, paused, and added, "Of course, this is based on our world. Different worlds may be different."
Everyone was silent for a while.
Ocean immersion?
Could it be that this invisible iron frame is part of a ship?
Was it moved to the desert after it became rusty?
This sounds a little weird.
"Could it be that...this desert was an ocean a long time ago?" Someone suddenly said.
Everyone looked at him but said nothing.
Under normal circumstances, if an ocean wants to turn into a desert, the unit of geological change must be measured in tens of thousands of years, and ten thousand years... what kind of ship can be underwater for tens of thousands of years and still exist?
It has long been rotten into elements, okay...
"Ahem, there are studies saying that the Taklimakan we are in was an ocean a long time ago, but it seems to have been in the middle of the Miocene Epoch, which must have been 10 million years ago..." The one who raised the issue of rust
The little lapel said with a pause, "But considering the existence of different worlds and spiritual energy...many things cannot be measured with common sense."
This is true. Before the spiritual energy was revived, if someone told them that they would enter the spiritual world in the future, no one would believe it. But what about now?
Ever since I revived with spiritual energy, the world has become strange.
"Any guess is possible, come here, get some specimens, take some photos, and then move on!"
Huang Yin thought for a moment and said loudly.
She is not interested in these things related to "scientific research". She is more interested in those "monsters" and "magic cores". When she takes them back and lets those scientific research institutes study them, they may be able to turn them into practical results.
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Everyone dispersed as told.
Some began to use knives to take surface samples and pack them into bags, while others held cameras around to take pictures.
"Cheng Lin, let's go too, there's nothing to see here." Fu Zhongting saw him and said in a low voice.
But got no answer.
He turned around and saw Cheng Lin standing there in a daze, his eyes falling on a certain spot on the metal frame that seemed to have a special symbol, where someone was taking pictures.
"Cheng Lin? Did you find something?" Xie Qingke is a girl after all, and she has a delicate mind. She looked at him and asked in a low voice.
"Ah... No, I just think it's quite strange."
Cheng Lin smiled covertly, and then returned to the car under Xie Qingke's suspicious eyes.
From beginning to end, his face was calm, but no one knew how speechless Cheng Lin was right now.
There were only two twisted and rough symbols " " left on the rusty sign. The two letters were widely spaced, so others could not associate them with each other, but he recognized it at a glance. The complete spelling should be p, but
The two letters in the middle were completely worn away.
And p happens to be the English abbreviation of the largest oil company in Xia State...
After further thinking, Cheng Lin quickly guessed that this thing was probably part of Xia Guo Petroleum's offshore drilling ship. When the monsters came, the sea was under martial law, and the personnel were evacuated, but some large equipment, such as oil exploration drilling ships, were
It was still there, and then it was directly hit to the bottom of the sea by his "Bolide" move. I didn't expect that after so many years, there were still wreckage preserved in the desert.
"Fortunately, the traces have been corroded to the point where the original traces cannot be seen, otherwise..."
Cheng Lin shuddered when he thought that a group of scientific experts from around the world gathered in a high-tech laboratory, and then after unremitting research and efforts, finally discovered that the mysterious metal wreckage in this other world was actually a drilling ship of Xiaguo Petroleum.
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The convoy set off again, but this time everyone was more serious.
Each vehicle is equipped with a practitioner of the perception system, exploring the desert in different ways.
During this period, the convoy stopped several times, and some pale and strange skeletons were dug out from under the dunes.
Everyone agreed that this should be a creature from this area. After death, it rotted and its bones were buried.
Most of these are small in size, and few have tall heads.
And judging from the bones, the body is more slender.
Probably just to move under the sand layer.
We also encountered several attacks, but were easily dealt with by everyone.
The highest level monsters I have ever seen are level three monsters, and I have never seen elite monsters, probably because they are still on the verge of projection.
This made Cheng Lin feel a little anxious.
After walking for a while, everyone gradually became familiar with this place, but it was too inefficient for a group of people to gather together to explore such a large area.
After the convoy stopped for the eleventh time, Huang Yin gathered everyone together and decided to allocate teams and disperse the exploration.
"Now allocate teams, one team of ten, and those whose names are called will enter the queue as required. Each queue will be assigned a vehicle, and the distance between each other will be kept within one kilometer, so that they can support each other. Each team will be allocated enough flares and medicines.
and food...Send a signal immediately if there is danger, and the two teams closest to each other must immediately support...Okay, now start reading the personnel allocation list!"
As each name was called, ten queues appeared.
Cheng Lin stood behind the team, listening to the roll call and thinking about how to reasonably break away from the team and act alone.
"How about using the same method as the last fairy island projection? Or the experience of the fairy floating land..."
Cheng Lin thought about it and suddenly felt that there was no one around him.
He came back to his senses, looked around, and was shocked to find that he was the only one standing at the back of the entire team, while the others were already in place.
Then I heard Huang Yin snap the folder and said loudly: "The teams have been assigned, each captain will lead his team and set off!"
"yes!"
Hundreds of monks replied in unison, with vigorous momentum.
When the shouting ended, the lonely Cheng Lin weakly raised his hand and asked: "Well... what about me?"
ps1: Thanks to the book friend "Autumn Leaves" for the thousand rewards!