Chapter 170 The hardships of traveling alone

"Ahem..." Lu Yuan cleared his throat, stood on a big rock, and pretended to be a leader.

"I declare that the result this time... everyone is normal and performed well!"

"As a harmful organism, how can we take good care of rats? Eating them is the only normal choice. The more you eat, the more normal you are." He expressed respect to everyone.

"Ouch!!"

Everyone screamed, and even the old wolf who had eaten three mouse tails was cheering and jumping around.

Lu Yuan always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't place it.

"Dear friends, this driver will take you out of the hospital."

He called his friends to get on the bus. The total weight of so many animals was almost a ton.

In particular, the turtle was twisting wildly inside the hood, the wolf and the cat were dancing disco on the turtle's back, and the whole tricycle was constantly vibrating.

"Stop fucking moving. Why is it so hard for me to step on it?"

It's not that he's not strong enough, it's that he doesn't have enough self-respect.

Even though he stood on the pedal, he did not step on the pedal.

This time it’s really a small horse pulling a big cart.

"Then you transform!"

"Transform! Good brother, it's good to be a tree!"

The two good brothers roared wildly, mixed with the roar of the old wolf.

"Crash", Lu Yuan was helpless. In fact, he could step on the tricycle with a 50 kilogram load on his back, but now it could only turn into a big tree. He climbed onto the tricycle and stepped on it with his own vines. Tricycle.

"It feels like something is getting more and more wrong. Isn't this scene too weird?" Lu Yuan said expressionlessly.

In fact, if he wanted to make an expression, he couldn't do it - after all, a big tree is just a big tree, and only the human body can make expressions.

The wheels clattered on the cobblestone ground.

"This thing is so fun, let Mr. Turtle try it!" The immortal giant turtle howled in the open hood.

Lu Yuan had no choice but to give it up and regain his human body. He was happy and relaxed.

This time, the painting style is even more informal.

A jet black turtle riding a tricycle.

Every time you step on it, the chain will make a "clattering" sound.

This giant turtle is quite nimble and is just the right size for a tricycle.

"If the tricycle is compared to a white dragon horse, who is the master?" the old cat said suddenly.

Lu Yuan's current mood is very Buddha-like. He feels that he has the weight of a Tathagata Buddha, who neither takes pleasure in things nor feels sorrow for himself.

Most of this wasteland is flat, so riding a tricycle is okay, and the speed can reach about 20 kilometers per hour.

This is actually much faster than walking. In really uneven places, the turtle can also carry a tricycle on its back.

After a while, they circled the lake and found a small, clear stream.

After replenishing the water supply for the last time, filling up the storage space, we set off towards the city in the sky.

"City in the Sky, here we come!"

"Ouch!!"

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Time passes day by day.

Another month has passed in the blink of an eye.

Happy time is always short-lived, and boring and tasteless are the main subjects of travel.

The vastness of this desert far exceeded Lu Yuan's imagination.

Since leaving the lake, the air has become increasingly dry, and it has never rained again.

Even though it seems to be spring, it is cloudless. Under the hot sunshine, this piece of land is increasingly cracked and hardened, losing its original vitality.

There was only a small tricycle traveling alone across the vast dry land.

"Turtles hate drought."

After a month of traveling, the Immortal Giant Turtle was a little annoyed by the action of riding a tricycle.

Most importantly, it craves water.

The weather is so hot, not only can we swim, but we can't even drink water.

"I never thought that being tortured in prison was nothing, but that I would be sunk to death after I came out."

This guy keeps complaining.

Lu Yuan was speechless, poured a basin of ice-cold water from the storage space, and gave it to drink.

The immortal giant turtle held the basin and drank it all in one gulp.

"I'm alive...Thank you, brother..." It panted heavily, not satisfied with its desires.

"Brother, it's not that I won't give it to you, but that we must cherish it." Lu Yuan said helplessly.

"Too much waste now, we will die of thirst on the road..."

"Or I will give you another basin, which will be your last water today, and you can make your own plans?"

The turtle stared at the basin, and the drops of water rolled down the bottom, like sparkling diamonds.

It shook its head heavily and leaned in to lick it.

"It won't be a problem if it continues like this. Let's find a way to recycle it." The old cat came up with a good idea, "You hold your own urine and don't poop randomly. When you rest, poop into a hole and then poop into it. "The pit."

"Finally, put a layer of plastic film over the urine pit. After the urine evaporates, you will see shiny water droplets on the plastic film."

"Similarly, the water in the stool can also condense into water droplets!"

"Holy shit, are you a human! You let Mr. Turtle eat poop?" The turtle who was licking the basin was shocked, and his huge body trembled.

The old cat looked at it with round eyes: "First of all, I am not a human being, and I don't need to drink water."

"Secondly, I want you to eat the condensed water drops, idiot."

It turned its head and said, "Lu Yuan, you are also a big water consumer. Can't you turn into a tree? It should be no problem to eat some feces and urine with the roots of the tree. Your dog can also eat feces."

"That's good, that's good. Brother, you eat feces and I eat water droplets!" The turtle was ecstatic.

Lu Yuan was stunned and almost fell off the tricycle.

He screamed miserably, "Don't you know that trees will be choked to death by feces and urine?"

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Lu Yuan's tree state does not really need to eat, and can grow by photosynthesis.

But if he materializes again, he still needs water... and the damn demand is not small.

Even if the bottles and jars in the storage space are filled with nearly 15 tons of water, he still has no idea. If he consumes 30 liters of water a day, it will be used up in 500 days.

You have to know that this is still a desert, and there are still a few weeds. It is not a real desert.

If you go to the desert, it will be even more tormenting.

"What if the sky city is located in the center of the desert?"

"What if there is no water source around? I must be prepared for this."

After some discussion, everyone decided to implement the strategy of "hiding during the day and going out at night", that is, hiding in the tent to rest during the day and traveling at night.

Although the speed of traveling will be slightly slower, the consumption of water resources will be significantly reduced, and there is no need to drink from time to time.

In addition, the "Ice Unicorn Core Crystal", a strange item that was useless in the past, was actually put to use. (Picked up from the cave of the [Monster].)

On the one hand, the "Ice Unicorn Core Crystal" can be used as an air conditioner, which can be regarded as bringing a touch of coolness to the unbearable heat.

On the other hand, when water vapor encounters cold, it will condense into water droplets.

It is not impossible to use the urinal. Anyway, the water droplets condensed every day are enough for the old wolf to drink a pot!

So the old wolf was surprised to find that the water he drank recently had a faint smell of urine.

Awoo?

Well, this is actually dew, and the smell is quite pure.

Its poor IQ can't tell it apart, and it doesn't matter if it has a little smell.

After riding for two whole months, the group arrived at the end of the desert.

At 100 kilometers a day, it's almost 6,000 kilometers.

Theoretically, they reached a location beyond the location given by the Meda civilization, but the fact is that they didn't find it at all!

"The Meda civilization misled me!" Lu Yuan felt his heart trembling.

What is the end of the desert?

It's not a forest, nor an ocean.

It's an...unimaginable huge basin.

And in the basin, there is a more arid desert where even weeds can't survive!

It's dead silent here, as if they have come to the end of the world.

Under the scorching sun, the golden sand dunes are endless, as vast as the ocean, both rough and soft. Countless wind and sand, blown by the breeze, float up from the ground, forming a turbulent sandstorm.

Even before entering the desert, everyone's breathing became difficult, and every heartbeat seemed to be knocking on the edge of survival...

"Damn, what a hell of a place... Where is the promised city in the sky?" Lu Yuan put his hand on his forehead and looked far into the distance. He even took out the "cornea of ​​distant vision" and kept searching.

No!

Nothing!

"I haven't seen animals for a long time..." The immortal giant turtle muttered to himself, "Isn't it really dead in this hell of a place?"

Morale was extremely low.

A faint bitterness lingered in his heart, and Lu Yuan wanted to cry a little, but he could only pretend to be strong and pretend that nothing happened.

Everyone decided to rest for a day at the edge of the basin to reorganize morale.

The temperature at this time rose to 45 degrees Celsius. Ordinary people would easily get heatstroke if they basked in the sun outside.

The old wolf's tongue kept drooping. Fortunately, there was a tricycle to shelter it from the wind and rain, otherwise, it would be sunburned to death.

There is only the old cat, no big problem, the superiority of the robot is fully demonstrated here.

Lu Yuan bit his tongue and roared: "We have reached the edge of the desert today, everyone will have an extra 10 liters of water, everyone drink it!"

Inspired by the water, the turtle and the old wolf howled.

They are always easy to satisfy.

And Lu Yuan, the director of the zoo, has some small frustrations and sadness.

He is actually very confused.

Take out a document from the storage space.

That is the coordinates of the sky city obtained by the experts of the Meda civilization after verification, and there are photos of the sky city on it.

[This sky city has suffered a huge disaster, with thick black smoke, and it is suspected that the city equipment is unmaintained. No city residents were observed, and no maintenance personnel were seen. ]

[It is slowly descending. According to this trajectory, it will fall completely to the ground after 16,000 kilometers. ]

[If we can explore this city, we will get a lot of resources! ]

But this coordinate is originally a speculation.

If the Sky City resumes normal operation in the middle, or persists for a while longer, the coordinates will be inaccurate.

Meida people said: No guarantee, no blame.

Lu Yuan shouted in despair: "Why did I walk so far?!"

"If I hadn't left, what changes would have taken place in the remains of the Meda civilization? Has the mother bear given birth to cubs again? Did the wolf pack cheat on the old wolf?"

"What kind of cooperation has taken place between the Rize civilization and human civilization?"

Running out alone to face hardships is a very stressful thing in itself.

He couldn't express the depression in his heart.

So he went into the tent, used the 10 liters of water just allocated, plus the original 10 liters of accumulated water, a total of 20 liters of water, to take a cold shower for himself.

After not taking a shower for two months, the dirt on his body was just like diatom mud, a pinch of it was a ball.

After taking a shower, he felt refreshed.

Then he took out the textbook again, turned to the last few pages of beautiful women's images, and indulged himself...

"It feels so good... I'm alive."

Sage Mode·Lu Yuan's eyes were sharp, and he regained his fighting spirit again.

If he couldn't find the Sky City, he couldn't go home, and he could only return to the territory of the Rize civilization and live on "挊".

This was something he would never accept!

"I must find it!!"

He gave the bath water to the Tree of Life to drink.

The roots of the Tree of Life stretched into the bathtub, not disdaining it, and drained the water from the bathtub in the blink of an eye... The emerald green leaves glowed.

"The Tree of Life drank my water."

"I, Old Lu, naturally need 10 liters of water. We are two different individuals." Lu Yuan took a gasoline barrel and secretly filled his water bag.

The old cat crawled into the tent and looked at him with round eyes: "You are so bold and shameless, secretly drinking water here."

"But have you thought it through? Don't go home and continue to stay here?"

Lu Yuan's face was red and his neck was thick: "Since I'm here, I must continue to look for it."

The old cat asked: "But where to look? East, south, west, north, you choose a direction."

Lu Yuan was silent for a moment, and his soul entered the Tree of Life.

It let a vine spread continuously towards the sky, all the way to a height of 100 meters, and finally spread to the limit.

He used the "Explorer's Eye" on the vine and looked down from a high place.

Obviously, there are no relics of civilization around.

He sighed softly, and his soul returned to his human body. He put on his robe and hat.

As the saying goes, "the land and water nurture the people", why do Middle Eastern people wear wide sleeves and long robes to their feet? Because this kind of clothing is most suitable for desert tropics.

He drew a picture on the sand with his fingers: "We can boldly assume that the sky city persisted for a while longer. Such a behemoth has great inertia, and it is difficult to change its direction of movement significantly. It just keeps sliding forward."

"Well, you continue, I'm listening." The old cat scratched his head with his hind legs.

"So I am determined to keep going forward in the original direction!!"

"How many kilometers?"

"Until... there is no water at all!" Lu Yuan gritted his teeth and said.