Considering the difficulty of marching in the desert and the difficulty of obtaining supplies, Ronan asked Magna to select 800 elite soldiers to enter the desert to support them, because more would be useless and might become a burden.
"This desert is huge, and there are definitely more than just these monsters. They haven't all gathered together yet, so we must hurry up, otherwise we will face more and more enemies, and they will become stronger and stronger!"
Mathias held his chin and said that during the battle just now, he captured a living body with the help of Ocide. Although the living body died quickly, Matthias still developed a
Some things, such as those giant scorpions and monitor lizards, are really the mutations of the original small animals in this desert.
"That is to say, we may encounter monsters such as sand snakes and bugs that have mutated in the future!"
"Aldridge, those resurrected skeletons are also undead, right? Can't you control them?"
Ronan asked, Aldridge shook his head and said:
"I tried it as soon as I found them, but although they are resurrected skeleton warriors, they have no soul fire and no undead energy in their bodies. In other words, they are not undead and were resurrected by that mysterious power.
They're more like puppets and I can't control them!"
"If you say so, those other monsters don't have souls either!"
After hearing Aldridge's words, Matthias, who is extremely sensitive to souls, raised this question.
"So how do we deal with them?"
Muhammad rubbed his chin and said with some distress, he was not very good at dealing with these huge non-human monsters.
"Just take it one step at a time. Wait for the support to arrive first. I'll go out for a walk while you think about countermeasures!"
After a moment of silence in the conference room, Ronan broke the silence and said, then picked up the sword on the table and walked out.
This oasis was originally very large, but now it has been reduced to less than half of its area due to the erosion of wind and sand. On the edge of the oasis, a few trees are surviving tenaciously, helping the oasis resist the erosion of wind and sand.
There is a small lake in the center of the oasis, and the water source is relatively clean. Ronan's camp was built around this small lake. These monsters are far more difficult to deal with than Ronan imagined, because Aldridge went first before Ronan entered the desert.
The team has not encountered many powerful monsters, and there are not many of them. They are all scattered wild monsters.
Otherwise, Ronan would not have just brought these soldiers into the desert, but a few days after Ronan entered, the number of monsters suddenly increased sharply, as if the creature controlling these monsters had discovered the intrusion into its territory.
Ronan, Aldridge and others inside, and made targeted arrangements.
Standing by the lake and seeing a few small fish in the clear water, Ronan couldn't help but marvel at the tenacity of life. Even in harsh environments, life will survive!
"Your Majesty, I have made a new discovery!"
After Ronan sat by the lake and stared at the calm lake in a daze for a while, Mathias walked up to Ronan and said. Ronan came back to his senses, rubbed his eyes and took a breath before asking:
"What is it?"
"From the remains of the living creature I captured before, I successfully captured a trace of that mysterious power. Then I did several experiments and found that this power can revive dead creatures or induce mutations in the genes of living creatures.
Because there are no experimental subjects, I haven't been able to test whether this energy can induce human mutation, but this energy can do more than just that!
And this energy is unconscious. If it adheres there, it will change the characteristics of the host. However, it cannot affect inanimate stones or dead wood. It can make yellow sand gather into sand giants. There must be some that I have not yet seen.
The reason was researched, but unfortunately the energy decayed and disappeared after I studied it several times!"
Matthias sat next to Ronan and said, Ronan frowned and said:
"When I help you capture a few living creatures later, you have to try to follow the energy of escape to capture their final destination to prepare for our subsequent entry into the depths of the desert. It is best to also study some of their weaknesses.
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"Yes, Your Majesty, I will do my best. By the way, Lord Aldridge also asked me to tell you that the meal is ready and you can go and dine!"
Ronan nodded, then stood up and walked towards the wooden house that served as the canteen, but Matthias stayed by the lake and stood in a daze, seeming to be thinking about something.
The food in the desert is really unsatisfactory, because in order to avoid wasting water resources, the food is not made with too strong flavors that make people want to drink water. It is very light. For example, dinner is simply boiled vegetables and dried meat.
When soft, add it to bread and serve as a staple food.
Eating a simple sandwich and drinking vegetable soup, Ronan looked through the system to see if there were any units or props that could restrain these monsters.
In the end, Ronan reluctantly spent a huge sum of money to buy three detection crystal disks that could cover a radius of 300 meters. These crystal disks could detect all existences with vital signs and display them as red dots on the blue.
Although it is useless against the desert undead in the plate, it can detect those monsters that still have vital signs after mutation.
As for the threat that those desert undead can pose, they are just delivering food to experienced warriors. Even if they become large-scale, the threat is relatively small. As for the sand giants who are also undetectable,
All we could do was be careful. Ronan didn't find any props in the system that could detect nearby energy-carrying units.
In addition to these detection crystal disks, Ronan also exchanged a lot of sniper heavy crossbows. In actual combat, this kind of heavy crossbow can even penetrate thick plate armor within a hundred meters, and can deal with giant scorpions whose carapace is not particularly hard.
For monitor lizards whose scales are not very hard, as long as they shoot accurately enough, they have a chance to kill them with one hit.
The sky is getting dark, and watching the sunset from the endless desert is a very beautiful scene. You can clearly see the red sun slowly sinking into the horizon, taking away the last trace of warm light.
The temperature difference between day and night in the desert is huge. It's extremely hot during the day. You can bury an egg in the ground and cook it at noon, the hottest day. But at night, the wind is biting. Ronan has expertise that allows him to not be afraid of severe cold and heat, but ordinary people
The soldiers on duty couldn't do it, so the soldiers on duty put on thick cotton linings under their armor, otherwise the armor would become unbearably cold.