ALL NOVEL Chapter 36 - On the Road
To be honest, if Mai Dongzi had not completely changed everyone’s impression of her in the past ten days, her desire to go to the forest would definitely attract a wave of ridicule.
Now, not only does no one ridicule her for overestimating her own abilities, but those who are already her die-hard fans will also worry about her.
Because there are too many potential dangers in the forest, so far, two adventurers have died in the forest.
Mai Dongzi naturally didn’t know what kind of motherly mentality her die-hard fans had towards her, worrying about her here and there, and she walked towards the forest at a moderate speed.
Whenever she reached the top of a sand dune, Mai Dongzi would use her eyes to search around, looking for a place to spend the night.
She didn’t dare to use her mental power to search again because she consumed too much mental power in the sandstorm.
Especially in the last half an hour, she was almost hit by debris in the sand twice, and she had to use her mental power as a barrier to protect herself because she couldn’t dodge.
Therefore, Mai Dongzi’s mental power has only 20% left now. In this environment, she can’t sit down and practice mental meditation to restore her mental power, and her natural recovery speed is very slow.
In the sandstorm, Mai Dongzi’s physical strength was almost exhausted.
But as long as she can sit down and have a good rest, her physical strength will recover faster than her mental ability. She has recovered half of her physical strength after lying on the sand dunes for more than ten minutes.
Her wood ability is still good. After all, this ability is really weak for Mai Dongzi. It has no combat power and can’t be used at all in the sandstorm.
When it is not necessary to use the wood ability to give birth, Mai Dongzi often forgets that she still has the wood ability.
This is also the reason why Mai Dongzi forced herself to drink the broth even if she couldn’t eat just now. This broth is cooked with the meat of the third-level mutant wolf. It can not only slowly restore her physical strength but also help her mental ability to recover faster.
But as the saying goes, it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. Mai Dongzi was already used to exploring the road with her mental power. She always felt that the scope of her eyes was too narrow when she used her eyes to observe.
She walked for more than ten minutes, and there was nothing but sand dunes in her sight. Finally, she couldn’t help but search her surroundings with her mental power. In order to reduce consumption, she scanned every two or three minutes. She walked and looked like this for more than half an hour. Within the range of Mai Dongzi’s mental power detection, there was nothing but sand dunes. There was no place for her to sit down and spend the night.
At this time, the sky was a little dark. The temperature was a little low after the sandstorm. The wind blowing over at this time was chilly instead of cool.
Mai Dongzi had to release her mental power to expand the search range. After a look, she finally found a stone forest four or five kilometers to the right of her route. There should be a place to shelter from the wind and spend the night in the stone forest, but it was so far away from the current route. Thinking of the mutant beasts who kept coming to drink water along the way during her stay in Oasis No. 1 for more than ten days.
The desert around here is nothing but sand dunes, so the place where those mutant beasts hide is likely to be this stone forest.
Mai Dongzi hesitated for a moment. With her current physical condition, she was not suitable for hunting groups of mutant beasts.
For safety reasons, she should not go over. After making up her mind, Mai Dongzi continued to move forward, but her pace slightly quickened. Maybe Mai Dongzi’s luck was really bad today. She still couldn’t find a place to shelter from the wind until it was completely dark.
However, when she got here, the monotonous sand-dune landscape finally changed. The sand dunes began to become shorter and smaller. About one kilometer ahead, gravel landforms began to appear between the small sand dunes.
There was no water in the place with gravel, and the second small sand dune could not block the cold wind, but it was better than sitting on the sand dune and eating sand.
So after walking over, Mai Dongzi chose a relatively flat place to sit down.
She took out some dry firewood from her space backpack and set it on fire. These were the mutant poplar branches she had dried in the oasis.
Poplar branches are very resistant to burning, and there is no smoke, so Mai Dongzi spent some effort to find withered poplar trees in the oasis and collect them as dry firewood.
Today, when she found that the sandstorm was coming, Mai Dongzi did not forget to put all the poplar trunks that were still drying into the space buckle and space backpack.
With a bonfire, not only the body but also the heart felt warm. Then she put a pan on the stove and cooked a hot soup with mutant meat. Even though the wind was very cold, Mai Dongzi didn’t feel cold.
But it was impossible to sleep in such a place. Mai Dongzi roasted the fire, beat the drum, and was alert to the surrounding movements.
Mai Dongzi’s guess was right. The stone forest was the gathering place of mutant animals.
She was not far from the stone forest, so she encountered two waves of mutant animals at night, and both waves were mutant animal groups.
However, the mutant beast led by the leader was only the second level, and most of them were the first-level mutant beasts. Even if there were more than a dozen at a time, Mai Dongzi would quickly deal with them with a knife. The fate of these mutant beasts, except for those who escaped very alertly, became the inventory of Mai Dongzi’s food reserves.
Although there was no danger, in such an environment, Mai Dongzi could only beat a few drums.
When the east-facing blue star began to be dyed with rosy clouds, Mai Dongzi, who had not slept all night, felt a little sleepy.
But after she cooked the broth and ate and drank her fill, her supernatural power and physical strength had almost recovered.
So soon after the sun rose, she continued to head towards the forest.
While cooking breakfast, Mai Dongzi took the time to look at the hot news on the Star Network and the forum of the Huangguo live broadcast platform.
There was no big news in the Blue and Black Empire yesterday. The hot news was all gossip reports about some celebrities, so Mai Dongzi naturally had no interest in clicking in.
However, the forum on the Huangguo live broadcast platform was lively, with many viewers discussing the sandstorm in the desert. Mai Dongzi looked at the title and found that many discussions were about Adventurer No. 068.
It turned out that she was not the only one who suffered from the sandstorm yesterday. Oasis No. 5, where Adventurer No. 068 was located, was hit by a sandstorm at three o’clock in the morning.
The area of Oasis No. 5 is only half that of Oasis No. 1. There are no poplar trees in Oasis No. 5 that are as old and tall as those in Oasis No. 1.
Therefore, Adventurer No. 068 had nowhere to rest his body in the wild sandstorm.
Shortly after the sandstorm hit Oasis No. 5, Adventurer No. 068 was blown away by the strong wind and danced wildly in the wind. He ended up with multiple fractures and had to withdraw from the survival game, becoming the fourth adventurer to be eliminated.