Whispering Verse

"You don't know that fairy tale? Okay, I'll be happy to share this story when I have time later."

After Shade nodded, the lady with light brown skin who looked more and more like a dancer unique to desert areas also smiled and said:

"Hello, Mr. Hamilton who has come from afar. Please call me 'Ms. Meister'. I am also here to find the Heart of the Oasis. My tribe needs this. Rumor has it that it can make any barren land A treasure that keeps alive forever, to sustain the oasis that is about to decline.”

The fabric on her body is indeed very little, and on the surface, she is an eleventh-level witch.

Finally, there is the ordinary female knight. Although her face is not as beautiful as the three witches, she is still pretty among ordinary people. Although her hair is gray, judging from her face, she should be around thirty years old.

"Hello, I am Shelly Knight from the Principality of Vlad in the Eastern Continent. Our country was cursed by the devil. The queen asked the witch for help, and the witch gave Her Majesty the way to find the 'Heart of the Oasis'. A total of 45 Of the team of people, I am the only one left here."

She gave Shade a standard knightly etiquette, and Shade, who also had the status of a "knight", returned the gift to her unskilledly:

"Miss Knight, you are so brave."

At this point, we have a complete understanding of the basic situation of our companions this time. So Grandma Siam Nod asked everyone to sit down on the chairs and talk, instead of standing there all the time:

"Mr. Hamilton, do you need food and water? We still have some here and can share with you. It's okay to be hungry in this desert, but you must not be short of water. Even if you are not thirsty, you cannot be short of water. Lack of water It will lead to further confusion of memory and loss of control of the ether, until finally the human body turns into a pile of sand or melts into the light.”

The other three people actually had no objection at all to the old elf allocating everyone's supplies to an outsider named Shade. As expected, the old elf had taken over the leadership of the team.

And when she mentioned the consequences of not drinking water, except for the brown-skinned Miss Meister and the mermaid Miss Sandel, the old elf herself and Miss Knight all showed complicated expressions, and it was obvious that more than one person was in front of them. Died like this.

"It's okay, don't pay attention to me, I have a lot of supplies here."

As he spoke, Shade took the toys from his pocket and turned them into real objects one by one. The most supplies that Shade carries are food and water. Although he doesn't need them in most cases, ancient witches and ordinary people in time exploration usually need them.

Seeing that Shade was willing to share, the four ladies had a better impression of him. So while everyone was packing the supplies, Shade asked them how they got here.

The blue-haired mermaid Miss Sandel introduced the situation to him:

"The four of us didn't come here together. After unexpectedly successfully arriving in this desert, I appeared in a cave, but probably because of my race, I couldn't be exposed to the sunlight here. I would faint if exposed for more than half a minute. .”

"I can't even do it for ten seconds."

The female knight said on the side, moved the water bottle to the corner, and then covered it with a piece of canvas. They originally had an old water jar and several kettles, which were filled with yellow liquid and muddy water mixed with sand. There seemed to be a water source in this dilapidated temple, but the water quality was obviously not good.

"I can walk for five minutes, but as I get older, if I have to stay here in the sun for that long, I will probably have to go see the tree father."

The old elf said the same thing. As for Miss Meister, she thought she could walk for three or four minutes in the current sunlight outside. Of course, this is all without protection.

From this point of view, Xia De, who thought he could last ten minutes, was indeed extraordinary. Of course there is a reason why his physical quality is extremely strong, but there is also a reason why Shade is very adaptable to the power of the "sun".

"After I woke up, I stayed in the water-seeping cave in the rock crevice for a long, long time. It was so long that I lost track of time."

The mermaid girl shook her head violently, as if to drive away invisible flies:

“Until one day, I knew I couldn’t stay there any longer. Otherwise, even if my body was still alive, my soul would dry up.

So when day turned to night in the desert, I rushed out of the cave. Later, I collapsed in the cold night, and when I woke up, I had been rescued by my mother-in-law. "

Siam Nord’s mother-in-law explained from the side:

"It is not always daytime here. Because of the confusion of time, we cannot know the specific day and night transition rules. But before the night really comes and recedes, there will be a special period when the temperature returns to normal. These two time periods are the only The heat of the day and the cold of the night would destroy our lives if we had any chance of functioning normally in the desert."

The gray-haired knight lady also said:

"The cold at night is easier to bear than the heat during the day. After all my companions died, I set out alone one night and walked for twenty minutes before I collapsed. Miss Meister rescued me and took me to meet Siam Granny De and Miss Sandel.”

After a pause, he added:

"Time cannot be distinguished, but at least from a somatosensory perspective, the length of night is much shorter than that of day. The day is almost eternal, and the night is just a moment. At dusk and dawn, even an ordinary person like me can move in the desert for a long time. "

"So are you staying here long?"

Shade asked again, distributing the jam bread to the four people. Miss Sandel took a bite of the bread and looked like she was about to cry.

"I see there seems to be a source of water here, and it can also be protected from light."

Grandma Siam Nord was the last one to take the bread from Sha De:

"We have stayed in this dilapidated temple for a long, long time. In my opinion, it is longer than the rest of the time each of us has spent in this desert combined."

"Why not leave and continue to search for the Heart of the Oasis?"

Shade asked curiously, and Miss Meister answered with a smile. She always had this relaxed expression:

“Because it’s impossible to determine where the next building or crypt to stay is.

We gathered in this old temple by various coincidences, but if we go out at dusk, night and dawn next, it is not sure whether we can return here because it is not clear when daylight will come again. "

"We can only briefly explore outside when it's dusk, and then seize the time to come back before the end of the night. We can't go out at dawn, because the short dawn is followed by daytime. So far, we have gone out."

There was a little confusion in the eyes of the Siamese mother-in-law, so she looked at the blue-haired mermaid. Miss Sandel took out a notepad:

"It has been 13 times, but I have never found a building that can be temporarily occupied. Although some shelters have been found, they either have no water source or have other shortcomings. The walls of this temple will seep intermittently, and the space will be damaged. Not small, relatively speaking the most comfortable, so we can survive.”

To put it simply, the four of them are completely trapped here. Although they can live here for a long time in the short term, they will get lost in this sea of ​​sand sooner or later.

"So do you know how to get out of this desert?"

Shade asked again, and the four of them shook their heads:

"Perhaps you can find out if you find the Heart of the Oasis. There is no way to leave here recorded in the data. Each of us comes here with the determination to die."

Shade nodded in surprise. In this way, the purpose of coming here that the mermaid said seems to be somewhat

"Fortunately, the sun god protected us."

The words of the female knight Miss Knight interrupted Shade's thoughts, and Shade was stunned:

"Sun God? Wait, are you saying that the building we are in now is the temple of the ancient Sun God - [Supreme Sunbinder]?"

He stood up suddenly from the bench and looked around in surprise. Granny Siam who was eating bread nodded:

"There are still some remaining murals on the wall. This is the story of the ancient sun god. Although there is no longer a holy emblem here, the pattern of the altar under the wall where the holy emblem is hung does belong only to the oldest god. The sun god."

The altar described by the old elf was placed crookedly under the wall, one-third in the sun and two-thirds in the shadow. The ladies were eating, and Shade walked up alone to investigate.

The black stone platform is not big and looks like it is carved from a single boulder. Shade didn't actually understand the pattern of the ancient sun god. He just looked at it curiously, and then placed his hand on the shadowed surface of the stone platform.

A warm feeling came from the palm of my hand, but nothing else happened, not even the elements were felt.

After hesitating for a moment, Shade stretched his hand into the blazing sunlight, and then pressed it on the surface of the stone platform under the sun.

For a moment, he almost thought his hands were going to be roasted. At the same time as the pain like needle pricks came, "she" whispered in the ear:

[Outlander, you have experienced a miracle. 】

The lines on the outside of the altar emitted a faint light that was almost invisible to the naked eye. A little spirit poured into Shade's body to replenish his small loss, and then "she" continued:

[Outlander, your thaumaturgy "Praise the Sun" has been enhanced. 】

The thaumaturgy of "Praise the Sun" comes from the [Pride] spiritual rune. The effect is to praise the sun once a day. The recovery speed of one's own physical strength and spirit will be slightly enhanced, and at the same time, the power related to the sun will also be enhanced.

Feeling the enhanced effect of thaumaturgy, Shade had a sudden thought:

"If I climb on top of this altar, do you think it's considered blasphemy?"

[It probably doesn’t count. 】

"She" said softly, and the ladies who were eating bread saw Shade transforming into a group of butterflies, and then returning to human form on the altar.