Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

"Alas -" Lou Fei'er let out a long sigh and looked up at the endless desert. "We won't be able to get out if we go like this. This desert is probably... very, very big."

Jin Yue took out a bottle of water from her backpack, drank a few sips, and put it back into her backpack: "Well, if we were in the center of the desert and had to walk, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to get out in this life."

Now that the earth's surface area has expanded a hundred times, the area of ​​​​the desert is beyond what ordinary people can imagine, and it is impossible to get out simply by walking.

It is precisely because of this that the three people took a short rest here and did not rush forward.

"Apart from this strange plant, there isn't even a place that can provide shade around here." Lou Feier stood in the shadow of the thick Mahua tree and fanned herself with her hands. "If this continues, I'm afraid we will all I'm going to die of dehydration..."

Her whole body was soaked with sweat, and her hair was stuck to her forehead.

Being exposed to the fierce sunlight until now, her eyes began to look a little dazed.

Shi Wanyun squatted on the ground, clutching a handful of sand and stones.

The sand and stones were scalded by the strong sunlight.

The sand and gravel are not fine, but very rough, with some small pebbles mixed in. Compared with the fine sand at the beach, the sand here cannot be stepped on with bare feet, otherwise it will only be scratched.

Shi Wanyun rubbed it with the palm of his hand, and then let the sand slip from his palm. He turned to the other two people and said: "The water resources here are enough for the three of us to last for a long time. It will not be a problem for at least a few months. We will not be destroyed." Death of thirst...unless we're stuck in this desert for months..."

"Don't say such terrible things!" Lou Fei'er looked at the endless desert, then rolled her eyes slightly and sighed again.

She has no confidence anymore.

The scenery around here is the same, even after the three women walked for more than three hours, it has not changed at all.

If they hadn't always used the sun and time as the criteria for determining direction, she would have thought they had been spinning in circles for the past two hours.

Jin Yue reached out and touched the weirdly twisted dead wood: "Don't worry too much, you might be able to find an oasis nearby."

The same bug crawled out of the twisted gap again.

"These trees should be alive." Jin Yue speculated, "At least it means that this place is not so dead and dry. Maybe there are undercurrents underground, otherwise this plant and the insects that live in this plant would not be able to survive. Maybe there’s an oasis nearby.”

Lou Fei'er looked at the tree: "The roots of plants in the desert can drill hundreds of meters underground to absorb water. Who knows how many meters this weird plant can drill down? It could be hundreds of meters. Right, or a thousand meters?”

"Dig down." Shi Wanyun grabbed another handful of sand and said softly, "Maybe we can give it a try."

"...Huh?" Lou Fei'er looked at her with wide eyes, "What do you mean? Digging downwards? Why?"

Jin Yue also looked at her incomprehensibly.

"Don't forget, our goal now is to find a place where I can draw the teleportation pattern."

Shi Wanyun patted the hand that had just held Sha Shi, stood up and said.

She had tried painting in the desert sand before, but it simply couldn't work.

The sand and gravel are too loose and will fall apart with any force, or even blown away by the wind.

Moreover, the sun at this time was too fierce, and the skin of the three women was burning, and the lines drawn by the blood of the mutated creatures would evaporate within ten seconds.

Therefore, the teleportation formation pattern cannot be drawn successfully at all.

The three women walked for so long just to find a place with flat ground and where the direct sunlight would not cause the blood to evaporate.

As long as the teleportation formation can be drawn successfully, they can go back.

The main thing is the flat ground. After all, the factor of sunlight disappears at night.

But along the way, they didn't see anything like that at all.

"No way... this is a desert, not soil." Lou Fei'er lowered her head and stepped on the sand. "Can you dig a hole on this kind of ground? You can't. Once you dig out a shovel, it will be filled with the surrounding sand and gravel. Up."

"The sand and gravel next to the plant should be rougher and tighter. Maybe you can try it. Underneath the sand and gravel... it shouldn't be so loose, right?"

"Then give it a try!"

There was no way to continue, and the three women had to try this seemingly outrageous and stupid behavior.

result……

Barely succeeded.

Although the sand and gravel next to the plant are relatively compact, they still have the properties of sand and have a certain fluidity.

The three women could only increase the scope of sand and gravel excavation, and gradually dug out a funnel-shaped pit with a depth of two meters.

"Ah, the sand and gravel below are already a bit hard!" Lou Feier said in surprise as she shoveled it down.

The three women immediately dug down again.

They gradually discovered that the sand and gravel in the ground near the plant was very compact, while at a location relatively far away from the plant, even at the same depth, it was still so loose.

Shi Wanyun dug through the tight sand and found that there were some... densely packed small holes on it.

"...These compact sand and stones seem to be the work of those insects." Shi Wanyun frowned.

"This really seems to be the nest of those bugs." Lou Feier knelt down and took a look, "We dug out their nest, they won't rush out and fight us..."

Just before she finished speaking, what she said came true immediately.

The kind of bugs found in the gaps between trees began to pop out crazily from those small holes!

Lou Feier suddenly stood up from the ground and took two steps back: "So many!"

At this time, Jin Yue immediately poured a bottle of water into the countless small holes that were dug.

In an instant, the cave entrance was flooded with water.

Those insects had probably never seen so much water in their ancestors. They struggled twice on the wet sand and gravel and then stopped moving.

There are no bugs coming out anymore.

"Draw here!" Shi Wanyun immediately seized this opportunity, "Pour a little more water, the sunlight here has been blocked, and the water will not evaporate quickly, which just makes the sand and gravel more solid!"

Just like playing with sand at the beach, the three girls watered the loose sand and tight nests.

"You have to succeed! Otherwise we will be wasting the source of life!" Lou Feier stepped on the wet sand and said.

"I try my best."

Shi Wanyun didn't waste any more words, and immediately began to draw the teleportation pattern on the ground that had been watered and then trampled flat.

"Can draw!"

"Very good!"

Soon, the teleportation formation pattern was completed.

Shi Wanyun immediately reached out and touched the teleportation formation pattern, and then the red light slowly lit up.

Then, she was slightly startled: "This is..."

"Successful!" Lou Fei'er immediately grabbed Shi Wanyun's arm, "Quick, let's go quickly, don't let those bugs get out!"

On the other side, Jin Yue also grabbed her other arm, waiting for her to start the teleportation.

"But... okay." Shi Wanyun nodded.

Immediately, a purple-black vortex appeared.

"No more, desert!"

Then the three disappeared in place.

Half an hour later, a strong wind suddenly blew through, raising dust all over the sky.

The hole they dug was filled up instantly, even burying the spiral plants.

Then, the continuous sandstorm stirred up the dust again, and those weird twist-like plants appeared and disappeared.

The dust storm continued.

The entire desert is shrouded in a sandstorm, and I don't know when it will stop.

If the three women knew that this happened immediately after they left, they would be very grateful for their choice.

…

On the other side, Xu Xin and Xu Ying were unable to know the situation of Shi Wanyun and others for the time being, so they planned to start with this unconscious person.

This man was probably the culprit responsible for the disappearance of the three of them.

If you want to know where Shi Wanyun and the others have gone, just ask him.

In order to save time, the two people immediately returned to the World Tree where time flowed at a hundred times the speed. However, they did not return to the place where the survivors lived. Instead, they entered through another thick root and changed their location.

After all, this person didn't know what was going on. It would be bad if he hurt the people around him after waking up.

Although he was already in the World Tree and could not escape, the two of them tied him up for safety reasons.

Although I don't know if this ordinary rope is of any use to him.

"Well...how to wake him up?" Xu Ying was a little troubled, "Otherwise, just kick him awake!"

As she said that, she raised her foot and wanted to kick it over.

"Wait a moment."

Looking at the pale man lying on the barren soil, Xu Xin suddenly remembered something.

Could he read this guy's mind?

After being teleported, this guy only stayed under the tree house for a few seconds before entering the tree house.

At that time, he didn't have time and didn't expect to activate his mind-reading ability, so he didn't know whether he could read this guy's voice.

but now……

He immediately activated his mind reading ability.

【Good... so painful...】

【very scary……】

【I'm dying……】

The first voice that came from her heart made Xu Xin open her eyes instantly.

"I can hear this guy's heart!" Xu Xin said in shock, "Is this person an... aborigine of this world?"

"Can you hear your heart?!" Xu Ying was immediately surprised, "He... isn't he still sleeping?"

"It's just sleeping, it's not like my brain has stopped functioning."

"That……"

Both of them started to speed up their brains.

Why can I hear his voice?

But this is not important for now!

"What can you hear?" Xu Ying asked immediately.

"Indistinct sounds. So painful, dying, or something like that."

Xu Xin continued to listen.

There are also words such as "so dark" and "torn apart by time and space", which are relatively broken.

This man was probably having a nightmare.

"Then wake him up first!" Xu Ying was about to kick him over immediately.

"Don't be so violent." Xu Xin stopped her, then took out a bottle of ice water that had been stored before and poured it on the man's head.

"Hiss—" The man suddenly trembled all over, then his eyes suddenly opened, and he sat up as if there was a spring on his back.

【So cool! It's so cold! 】

The man's voice echoed in Xu Xin's mind.

Reading human voices for the first time made Xu Xin feel very amazing.

Although the voices of the advanced mutated creatures and giant beasts in the past were relatively fluent and almost the same as humans, he still found it quite exciting to be able to read human voices.

The man's hair was completely wet from the bottle of ice water and stuck to his scalp. His eyes stared blankly ahead, and then he slowly raised his head to look at the two people standing in front of him.

During this process, Xu Xin never heard his voice. It was obvious that his mind was blank at this time.

But when he saw Xu Xin and the other two, his eyes immediately widened and he wanted to jump up from the ground, but his legs and feet were tied and he couldn't get up.

"It's you! Who the hell are you! You hindered me when I was teleporting and almost killed me!... I can't be dead already..."

As he spoke, he noticed where he was at this time.

An endless expanse of barren soil, desolate.

It seems like... there are no upgrades.

And his inner voice was completely consistent with his words at this time.

[Hao Cao Cao...dead, am I dead? 】

[Where is this... is it the world after death? 】

A good one looks the same on the inside.

"Who are you?" Xu Xin asked directly without talking nonsense.

He didn't care whether the guy answered or not.

Just hearing the question makes him think, just hearing what's on his mind.

【……who I am? 】

【I am your father! 】

Xu Xin suddenly had a black line on his forehead.

[I'm not dead...wait a minute, who are these people? 】

The man closed his mouth instantly and looked at Xu Xin and the others.

【Who? Um……? That man is carrying... is it a backpack? survivor? Could it be a new batch of survivors? Grass! He was caught by such a little white mouse! 】

[It’s a joke that you still want to tie me up with this kind of rope. 】

[By the way, where is this place...? 】

[Hmm... let’s clarify the situation first. 】

"Who allowed you, a group of low-level creatures, to question me like this? I want to kill you, but it's just a piece of cake."

An arrogant and disdainful expression appeared on the man's face, and then when he exerted force, the rope tied to him broke.

This is not a difficult task, Xu Xin and Xu Ying can do it easily.

Then he stood up and dusted himself off very nonchalantly.

It was as if the pale-faced person foaming at the mouth was not him.

Of course, he doesn't look that good now.

"Being knocked unconscious by little white rats like you is simply a shame in my life!"

He didn't even look at Xu Xin and Xu Ying, concentrating on dusting himself off.

"Hey, who are you?" Xu Ying asked.

She is also guiding this person to think about more information.

"Who am I? You are not qualified to know. It's my turn to ask you." The man curled his lips disdainfully, "Where is this place?"

[The little white mouse also wants to know the truth...wait, who are they? They seemed to be teleported to me before? 】

Thinking this, he began to look at the two people with doubts.

"Who are you? If you can teleport, you can't be one of your own, right?"

As he spoke, he took two steps back warily.

"Which department do you belong to? Why do you want to interfere with me? The survivors in District 1 are managed by me, and you have no right to interfere!"

[Hey, isn't it some Aisby who came here to take the credit? Those three women, but people related to the World Tree, must not fall into their hands! 】

[By the way, why did they suddenly appear next to me? The new technology above? 】

Xu Xin's eyes froze.

Sure enough, he is the person in charge of World Tree, and he also knows the whereabouts of Lou Feier and the others!

And what is his identity...