Deserts, especially areas with severe water shortage in the desert, have always been a place with few human footprints.

"There are grass in front of me again, let's take a look..."

"Hey, this is a kind of grass unique to the Rubhali Desert, called Nasi."

Jia Long walked forward and pulled up the short-stemmed grass leaf.

After observing it, she picked up the white and tender parts of the rhizome and stem to cut it off, then patted the white-stem soil as clean as possible, and then threw it into her mouth.

"It's sweet and a little moisture, but it's not satisfactory in general."

"This grass called Nasi, which grows in large quantities in the Rubhali Desert, is one of the staple foods of some of the better organisms, including the antelope."

Jia Long chewed while explaining.

In fact, there is not much moisture in grass, it can only be considered better than nothing.

The green on the ground is more, and it can be seen that there will be more vegetation appearing in front of you.

"People may think that the desert must be like the scenery just now, and there is nothing. But in fact, the desert is not all the extreme terrain of sand dunes."

"Even in the desert, the dunes we just walked through is one of the very extreme areas."

"In other desert terrain besides sand dunes, there are not only plants, but also unique vegetables or fruits that are only found in certain deserts. Are you surprised?"

"Of course it is impossible to see the lush branches and leaves like the primeval forest here."

Jia Long said that, but there were still not many plants in the desert area she slowly walked into.

There was a green spot in the distance, but when it was close, it became sparse, one on this side and one on the other side.

Ordinary plants are not helpful to Jia Long now. She needs to replenish a relatively large amount of water, and ordinary plants cannot satisfy her.

Her eyes kept watching.

Soon, Jia Long's expression was happy.

Because she discovered a plant that can help her solve her current difficulties.

"Look at it, do you all know that kind of plant?"

Accompanied by Jia Long's surprise words, the drone camera turned to the direction she said.

After seeing the plant in the camera, everyone can name it.

"cactus?"

"There are actually cactus, and it's still that big."

That's right, the direction Jia Long looked at was a huge cactus.

It is more than one meter high and several stems are divided into pieces.

Jia Long walked towards the cactus that reached more than one meter high and had many thick plant stems.

"Cactus, also known as the desert plant chamber, is characterized by its characteristics of dormant in the dry season. The existence of this plant evolved to survive in arid areas."

"In order to prevent moisture from escaping, their branches and stems become wider, and their leaves become needle-shaped, with fleece-shaped white hairs on them. This evolved to minimize the loss of water and reduce the harm of sunlight to plants."

"And cactus also has ribs, allowing them to shrink the stems to a certain extent. When the plant is full of water, the branches and stems will stretch and try to hold more water. When the water is not much, the plant will shrink inward to reduce the loss of water."

While Jia Long said so much, he had already observed the cactus in front of him.

"Luckily, this cactus should have accumulated a lot of water."

"Just as long as part of its stem is cut off, you can get water. You can see that it must have a lot of water hidden in its wide stem."

Jia Long licked his lips that had been thirsty for a long time.

Then she didn't say much, reached out to touch the back of the belt, and pulled out the small straight knife that was redeemed from the system.

After pulling out the scabbard, Jia Long lit up the sharp knife face.

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With the knife in hand, cut off a piece of cactus stem about twenty-five or six centimeters long.

After it fell to the sand, water flowed out soon after it looked like clear water.

Jia Long quickly used the blade to cut the surface of the spike on the stem, then raised his bare hands and picked up the stem that had been removed in his hand.

Looking at the dripping cut, Jia Long quickly approached the section, and then the dripping juice started to drink.

Not to mention, such a small section can actually drip a lot of water.

After drinking about a small sip, the moisture inside stopped dripping.

"The taste is very strange, and many types of cactus actually contain toxins such as alkaloids. Generally, when it is difficult to distinguish, I do not recommend that you drink the water in the cactus casually."

"But the one I drink is non-toxic. It is called the Immortal Palm, which contains many trace elements. I have even recently discovered that it also has skin care, beauty, and the effects of treating diabetes. It has many effects. If you want to try it, you can find edible cactus to try it."

After Jia Long finished speaking, he picked up the cut-off cactus again. It was so big that it was not very light in weight.

I looked around and searched for five minutes before I found several huge raised stones on a back slope a hundred meters away.

"We went there, there were some stones, and it was seen that the sign did not meet the requirements of our temporary shelter."

It was already past ten o'clock, and the sunlight above my head became extremely vicious.

Jia Long even felt that he could not secrete his sweat because he was dried as soon as he came out.

"Did you feel that the highest temperature in the desert is coming."

"Now my body temperature is definitely more than 35 or 6 degrees. Maybe it will be more than 40 degrees later. At this high temperature, I have begun to feel signs of heat damage in my body."

"Although it's not as good as heatstroke, there is a slight spasm in your hands and feet. This is because the water in your body is lost and a lot of salt is taken away."

"These signals are warnings from our bodies. If we don't deal with them, they will become a life-threatening problem. So I must find a cool place to rest as soon as possible, otherwise what is waiting for me will only be heatstroke like Nanyang Island. Of course, this time, there are no better conditions as good as Nanyang Island. If I have heatstroke, I will be alone in the desert, so I can only call it "Daily not responding to the earth, and I will be lonely waiting for death."

Jia Long said, quickly rushed to the places that looked like big stones.

Sure enough, there is a sunken terrain here, with a shadow covered by the high ground, which is only about two or three people in size.

Jia Long looked at the sky and probably wouldn't be directly exposed to the sun even at noon. So he satisfactorily took the cactus stem plant and crawled into it.

The drone seemed to be not afraid of the high temperature and followed here slowly.

"It is already very good to find such a relatively shady place in the desert. At least we can try to avoid sunlight, and even at noon, we should be able to block a certain amount of light here so that we can rest well."
Chapter completed!