Chapter 172 The city in the sky must be in the desert!

When Lu Yuan saw the insect tide, he felt cold and thought that there was no chance of winning.

He rushed quickly, grabbed the old wolf and the old cat, touched the tree of life, and transferred his soul over.

"Master Turtle, protect yourself, the enemy army is coming!"

"Retreat, it's not shameful! The wind is strong and you can't help it!"

He roared this sentence, and then activated the alien space with the tree of life as the core.

This alien space is very large. After all, the tree of life is almost 10 meters high. The soap bubble-like structure with a diameter of 10 meters is dozens of times larger than before, and it can accommodate more air.

Because of the super-fast recovery ability of the tree of life, this small alien space can almost last forever.

This large group of metal insects rushed over at an astonishing speed.

Although the immortal giant turtle was angry in his heart, he also knew that he could not be the opponent of so many insects, so he quickly shrank his shell into a stone and entered a semi-dormant state.

"You actually called for help. Grandpa Turtle will spare your life."

The defensive power of this black stone is amazing. The carvings on the surface are constantly flowing. Even strong acid can't cause any damage.

Then, after these insects arrived at the destination, they actually fought each other!

The tent was directly trampled and the food was looted.

The water in the old wolf's basin was naturally robbed.

Even the feces it just pulled out and the urine in the urinal were eaten by a certain insect.

Seeing this scene, the old wolf licked his dry nose with his pink tongue, and seemed a little embarrassed.

It howled sadly: "Ah!"

Then, something even more unexpected happened. The insect whose water sac was burst by Lu Yuan became the target of public criticism.

All the insects launched a fierce attack on it. Hundreds of extraordinary creatures with all kinds of strange abilities all greeted it, mental attacks, venom spitting, and acid attacks.

One by one, straws were inserted into its body.

It struggled frantically, but it was meaningless.

The body shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In just one minute, the injured desert spiral worm became an empty shell, and even its brain was completely sucked dry.

The army of insects studied the black stone for a while, and found that there was nowhere to start, so they finally left reluctantly.

It was not until then that Lu Yuan came back to his senses and sighed with sympathy: "This desert is so crazy, and a level 3 extraordinary creature just died like this?"

"It's only been more than 5,000 days, has the combat power been inflated to this extent?"

He used the pioneer's eye to look at these strange insects and memorize their information in his mind.

"Level 2", "Level 3", "Level 1"...

These monsters generally have very thick shells. Except for the abdomen, joints and compound eyes, which are barely considered weaknesses, there are no flaws in other places. Even machine guns are useless.

The most important thing is that they all have extremely sharp mouthparts, which secrete a strong acid.

Conventional armor is like paper in front of these mouthparts, and it will break with a poke.

And they move very fast. The body structure of these insects is completely adapted to the desert, and they are simply flying on the sand.

Whether it is humans or turtles, running on the sand is particularly difficult. Compared with insects, the movement speed is at two different levels.

"It's okay to fight one or two, but there are so many that I can't stand it..." Lu Yuan sighed.

A person's civilization is so magical.

Sometimes, even the anomaly can be singled out!

But now encountering a large group of high-powered insects, it feels quite tricky.

Fortunately, these insects come and go quickly, and they flee in the blink of an eye and hide in every corner of the desert.

Lu Yuan analyzed: "They should come for water. I just distributed 10 liters of water to each person, for bathing and making popsicles."

"Too much water evaporated, and they smelled it, so they swarmed over."

"Fortunately, these guys have no wisdom and kill each other."

"If I encounter a large group, I only need to injure one with a bomb, and the others will go crazy to hunt. Then I can just run away... Oh, that's probably it."

The old cat nodded in agreement: "So the most important thing is water. I must be more careful in the future. The urine must be put into a gasoline barrel and then collected in the storage space."

Lu Yuan frowned and reluctantly agreed: "Okay."

The old cat: "There is water in the feces, so you can't just poop randomly... It's best to collect it in the storage space."

Lu Yuan thought this method was so perverted.

The storage space is full of feces and urine. What's going on?

The old cat shook his head and continued, "The creatures here have evolved this ability. You have to be prepared for the desert to be large and dry enough."

"Besides, aren't hundreds of extraordinary life forms too many?"

"More than all the extraordinary life forms we have observed before. How many level three are there?"

"33 level three, 61 level two, and 139 level one insects." Lu Yuan replied, "In such a large desert, it is possible that there are level four or even level five insects."

Theoretically, in more than 5,000 days, the combat power will not expand to such an extent.

If it continues to expand at this rate, after 10,000 years, extraordinary life forms will be able to beat civilization.

Suddenly, Lu Yuan slapped his head and showed an excited expression on his face.

"There must be some reason... for this phenomenon to occur."

"The biggest reason is the ruins!"

"The City in the Sky must be in the desert!!"

He became more and more excited and laughed loudly.

Yes, the life forms in the ruins are far stronger than the normal Pangu Continent, which is the legacy of the previous era.

Just like the ruins of the Meda civilization, there was a large man-eating plant at the beginning, as well as extraordinary life forms such as scorpions, poisonous queen bees, giant snakes, and mother bears.

The civilization represented by the City in the Sky is far stronger than the Meda civilization, and it is natural that the surrounding creatures are stronger.

Now even the old cat was moved.

"The evidence is indeed sufficient."

"Comrade, your persistence makes sense."

However, a bigger trouble is in front of them: How can they find the City in the Sky in the vast desert, surrounded by a large number of insects?

Even if the water resources are hidden well, they will inevitably be attacked along the way.

These bugs are not friendly.

Lu Yuan can win a hundred times, a thousand times.

But these bugs generally spray venom and acid, and hide in the desert, which is not easy to detect.

If he gets hurt once, he will be in big trouble... Especially for Lao Lang, whose combat power is a bit lagging behind now. If he gets sprayed, he will be injured if not dead.

How can we avoid risks?

This is a big question.

...

Half an hour later, when the outside world was completely calm, Lu Yuan released the alien space.

First, he habitually checked the pile of insect shells to see if there was any garbage to pick up.

Unfortunately, after being corroded by acid, these shells were like newspapers, so fragile that they broke when touched, and obviously had no value.

"Well... these two straws are okay?"

He said "Hey" again, and moved the black stone that the turtle turned into to the tricycle.

Pushing the tricycle, he temporarily stayed away from this terrifying desert.

Two hours later, the black stone shell peeled off piece by piece, and the immortal giant turtle revived, but its size shrank by a few centimeters.

The sentimental turtle recalled the experience just now, and the fierce turtle shed tears: "Damn bugs, sudden attack. It hurts me so much, why is it always the turtle that gets hurt?!"

The old cat said indifferently: "If you cry again, the water vapor will evaporate in large quantities, and the bugs will come to bite you again!"

The immortal giant turtle quickly wiped away the tears with its claws and licked them clean with its tongue.

In order to comfort this meat shield, Lu Yuan gave it a hundred small pomegranates: "Grandpa Turtle is really invincible, and he has opened the blood lock."

"If we were bitten a few times, several lives would be lost."

The shiny, rosy little fruit attracted its attention.

In addition, Lu Yuan was a nice guy, and the immortal giant turtle soon forgot about what happened just now.

"Brother, I'm not being mean, but you will die if you get bitten... Hurry up and get a bottle, hurry up, I'll squeeze out the venom!"

The giant turtle howled: "It hurts, it hurts!"

A wound opened on its neck, and turbid and sticky liquid kept flowing out, which was disgusting.

Lu Yuan immediately used a glass bottle to catch the liquid, and it took a long time to fill it with about a cup of pus from the old turtle.

[A strong idealistic toxin: It has a unique dissolving ability, and can dissolve both metal and bones. (Inferior level·Natural wonder)]

"It's also a good thing."

In this way, while arguing, everyone found a big rock on the wasteland and rested on the shady side.

Everyone seemed very sad.

Now, the biggest problem is not water, but...how to find the city in the sky under the siege of the insect army.

There can't be a single mistake.

This tolerance rate is obviously still too low.

"I thought about it carefully. The first method is to get a hot air balloon and fly it into the sky. Most of those bugs can't fly, so they won't attack us."

He has a hot air balloon donated by the Rize people. He uses a generator to electrolyze water, and the hydrogen produced can be used to inflate the hot air balloon.

"It can probably fly to an altitude of two thousand meters."

But this plan also has some minor problems.

On the one hand, the sandstorm in this damn place is a bit big, and there is no way to control the direction of the hot air balloon, so it can only drift with the wind.

On the other hand, the hydrogen in the hot air balloon will continue to lose, and their energy and water are quite limited. When they can't fly and fall into the desert, they will be besieged by bugs again.

Lu Yuan said optimistically: "This plan also has advantages. Looking into the distance at an altitude of 2,000 meters, the field of vision will be very wide. Maybe we can find it immediately?"

"Not appropriate, really not appropriate."

The old cat shook his head: "The electrolysis of water requires a lot of fuel and water resources."

"You can't expect the sandstorm to blow you down to the sky city. It's better to be down-to-earth."

"Then the second plan is mental shock." Lu Yuan drew a pattern on the sand. "My donkey head mask and spider shield have the effect of mental shock."

"But how useful it is is unknown."

The donkey head mask is damaged and incomplete. If it is repaired, it will be very powerful and it will be no problem to shock these insects.

He shook his head helplessly: "With my current technical level, I really can't fix it, even if I have inspiration, it's difficult."

As for the spider shield, the spider is only level one, and the monsters here are all level three.

It's obviously a bit unrealistic to expect the spider's eye pattern to scare all monsters.

The old cat pondered for a moment: "If it doesn't work, you can take out that drop of [ghost] blood to scare the bugs?"

Lu Yuan grinned and smiled bitterly.

What if someone is blind and releases the [ghost] blood, wouldn't it be the end?

"The third way is to use the power of glyphs to hide yourself."

"The glyphs of hiding, there happens to be a corresponding tutorial in Daedalus's manual..."

"But I haven't even learned mathematics yet. Isn't it a bit late to tinker with glyphs here?"

"How long do I need to study before I can learn the most basic glyphs?"

"It seems that you can only choose this method..."

At this point, he looked at the blue sky with a vicissitudes of life.

If mathematics is compared to a beautiful girl, you have to become a dog and spend time and energy tirelessly.

And you have to have a little talent to get a glimpse of the true face of the coldest girl in the universe.

Lu Yuan actually knows the truth that "it is better to set off immediately than to lament that the road is difficult", but he has never been a top student since he was a child. His academic performance is average and he has always been around the 20th in the class. He is just an ordinary student.

It is really painful to let an ordinary person learn the damn mathematics knowledge!

He actually tried to study hard along the way, but he was always distracted by various things.

He doesn't like to use his brain, especially mathematics. If he knows, he knows, and if he doesn't, he doesn't know. He can't use his "perception" in the dark, let alone cheating.

Otherwise, even if the answer is in front of him, he will copy it wrong!

"I am the greedy demon god, can't I be more thirsty for knowledge?!" Lu Yuan beat his chest and stamped his feet, trying to stimulate his greed.

"I'm greedy for knowledge!!"

"If you're not satisfied with humans, don't be a human anymore." The old cat said happily, "Become a towering tree, castrate your desires, and take root. It's more suitable for learning."

"Why do you look so happy?" Lu Yuan said bluntly, "Are you gloating?"

The old cat said, "You taught me that cats live to torture others..."

The man-eating plant ate the lewd cat in one gulp.

Lu Yuan corrected righteously, "Only I can torture you, not you."

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