Chapter 347: No Appointment
"The figure is still OK." Sister Haolu stood up from the grass more than ten meters away, smiling and stunningly expressing her expression.
Oh! Sister Good Luck. This is simple. Sister Good Luck can cover her body with the force of the force. It is okay to resist the little snake and pinch the little snake to death. She is in a state of destruction, so she naturally has no eyes and does not see the force, so she was shocked.
Sister Good Luck came over and saw the snake: "I just suddenly remembered that I just discovered a snake. I want to remind you... Hey, why are you taking a bath in your shorts? Is it interesting?"
"Is it fun?" Cui Ming despised: "Are you interesting? I teased Ding Wen and came to tease me again. Are you playing monkeys? I have to show superiority in the sentiment of a hooligan."
Sister Haolu sat down next to her, picked up the snake's body to deal with it, and said, "Oh... how do you say it, it's actually quite... I never like to say sorry, but because of my persistence on the Sixth Ring Road, we almost died here. I still have basic knowledge and know that we can't lack water for too long."
Sister Good Luck's anxiety was not shown, but with the continuous and exhaustion of water on the fifth ring road, Sister Good Luck began to worry. She thought that her decision had harmed everyone, but at the same time, she believed that apology was useless, and her personality hated admitting mistakes and apologizing. She always believed that apology was the behavior of the weak, and the strong had to compensate or reverse the substantive actions to apologize, rather than just staying on her mouth.
"After finding the water, I think I can admit my mistake." Sister Good Luck replied: "I'm glad you two didn't blame me."
Cui Ming spread his hands: "I don't feel that it's a big deal."
"Tsk, when you're about to die, you'll feel like something is going to be big."
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Camping overnight, drinking water, eating, and resting, today is the most comfortable day I have ever been here during this period, and there are countless waters to use. After one night, the three of them returned to their best condition and continued to advance towards the Blackstone Zone.
As we approached the Blackstone area, the plants began to gradually decrease and there were more and more rocks. It is said that this situation was caused by volcanoes. Is it true? Anyway, Cui Ming did not see the crater. The Blackstone area has many characteristics, including black rocks, no plants, no animals, mountains, many peaks, high drops, and cliffs everywhere. The temperature during the day is as high as forty degrees, and the temperature at night can reach minus ten degrees.
When entering the Blackstone area, the biggest problem is fire and no fuel. Although it carries clean water, it cannot be boiled and eaten without fire. Boil it first, bacteria will grow in many days. You can only rely on water purification slices. This water tastes super unpalatable.
Without fire, the extremely low temperature at night will also cause cold air to invade sleeping states. Practitioners who have to watch the night and use the power to protect the sleeping people from being awakened by the cold to maintain full physical strength. This matter was quickly despised by the Party A. Again, you are not ordinary people, why don’t you sleep during the day and rush to the road at night? Find a cool place to rest when it is hot, and exercise when it is cold and your body can warm yourself.
Cui Ming, who was despised, despised Ding Wen and Sister Good Luck after meditation, and both of them accepted humbly.
Another feature of Blackstone District is climbing, going down, climbing...
In order to know what is on the other side of the mountain, you have to climb to the highest point. With the help of a telescope, you can only see the landforms of ten kilometers nearby. No matter how far away, because the colors are integrated, it is difficult to identify specific things. Sister Haolu also began to search for the snow-capped mountains with Sagittarius instinct, but two days passed, and there was no white at all, and what they saw was endless black.
Because of the color of the landform, the three of them fell down the cracks many times in the past two days. It looked black, but only after stepping on it was found that it was a crack. The stones lacked three-dimensionality, and it was easy to fall down when jumping because of judging the height of the foot. Fortunately, the three of them had died for several rounds.
On the morning of the third day, we camped at a high point of a mountain. They wanted to find obvious references. Ding Wen said: "At present, we can eat water for four days. If we do not find snow mountain before noon tomorrow, we must return to the Fourth Ring Road, and after replenishing the water in the Fourth Ring Road, we will enter the Black Stone District of the Third Ring Road. There is no water found here."
Sister Good Luck looked around and pointed to the southwest: "Look, is there a cloud on the top? Or a fog?"
Cui Ming picked up the telescope and saw that it was a mountain range. He felt that the image was fluctuating. This was because the heat during the day caused the refraction of the air, and it was not ruled out that it was a mirage. At the top of this mountain range, there seemed to be something gray. If it was clouds, it would be great, because in the past three days, the Black Stone area was cloudless.
Cui Ming said: "That must be a hundred kilometers, right?"
Ding Wen held the telescope and said, "Just this landform, you can cross mountains and ridges in a straight line, and you can only arrive the morning after tomorrow. If we are wrong and cannot find the water, we may die here." She said indifferently, but there is no alarmist statement.
Sister Haolu didn't make a decision this time and said, "What about your opinions? Will you take a risk to bet?"
"I don't like gambling." Cui Ming said: "According to the comprehensive information, it is impossible to find snow-capped mountains from a distance. Of course, it may be another place with water, but the possibility is not high. I suggest to be more conservative, leave at 4 pm, and set up camp until 11:00 tomorrow morning. If there is no harvest, prepare to return to the Fourth Ring Road tomorrow afternoon to replenish water, and then enter the Blackstone area from another line."
Sister Haolu nodded: "It's a pity that there is no fuel here, otherwise we would have fires everywhere. If they see white smoke, they might have come to us on their own initiative."
Ding Wen stood kneeling on the ground and was drawing a topographic map: "In the past three days, we have found four mountains with peaks in total. We only climbed one, which is the mountain we are in now. Look, the three of us can search these three mountains separately, and then meet at this point. If the search fails, retreat to the Fourth Ring Road."
Sister Good Luck said: "No, it's too easy to get lost here, so I can only rely on the North Star and the Sun to guide the way."
Cui Ming asked, "Aren't the North Star and the Sun enough?"
Sister Good Luck was speechless for a while and said, "It's not enough for me."
Ding Wen glanced at Sister Haolu and continued to draw: "Then it is divided into two groups. I will search for this mountain range. You will search for this mountain range, and then gather here at around 10 o'clock tomorrow night. This is the only way to improve efficiency."
Cui Ming nodded: "Yes."
Sister Haolu asked: "By the way, Cui Ming, there is not even fuel here, why did you put the beacon and tell the airship?"
Cui Ming smiled bitterly: "Sister, don't say it out loud." On the first day of entering the Black Stone District, Cui Ming knew that he had made a mistake. This was also a mistake that was dark under the light. Ordinary logic would not work here.
After this discussion, I took a break for about ten minutes and was surprised to find that it was raining. When I came out, I saw a dark cloud covering the scorching sun. It was not rain, but hail. They were at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters, and the temperature dropped instantly. The hail did not bring any substantial help. It was very sparse. The hail, which was quite large, hit the black stone and smashed it, and then instantly melted and evaporated by the heat-absorbing black stone.
The temperature dropped to only a few degrees that day. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, after everyone split up, the temperature continued to drop. However, after falling into this mountain range and approaching the altitude, it was another kind of high and hot weather. It can only be said that without the Force, you will definitely not be able to survive here.
Cui Ming and Sister Haolu were very fast, with the standard cultivator speed, leveraging force, bounce, running, and jumping, just like ninjas in TV cartoons, walking easily in various landforms. The two arrived at the mountain range of investigation at 3 o'clock in the morning. They searched all the way, and even Sister Haolu climbed the highest peak, but did not find anything related to the snow mountain or magic circle. Along the way, the two didn't talk much because they were moving forward at high speed.
After not finding it, at 10:30 in the morning, camping, the two of them rested until 4:00 in the afternoon, and had too much time to talk, and only talked a few times while drinking water and eating. After four o'clock, they turned to the junction point. They arrived at the junction point at 11:00 in the evening, but they did not see Ding Wen.
I waited until 11:00 am the next morning, and Ding Wen did not show up.
Cui Ming concluded: "There is something wrong." Something must be wrong, otherwise the journey would be available at 9 o'clock last night with Ding Wen's ability. Procrastination would not be delayed for so long.
Sister Haolu agreed with Cui Ming’s opinion: “What do you think?”
Cui Ming took out the map copied by Ding Wen: "We are now two and a half days away from the water source on the Fourth Ring Road. Our water is still enough for one and a half days. One day there is no water, so there is no big problem. If we want to find Ding Wen, we will go to the mountain range that Ding Wen explores, and then go to the water source on the Fourth Ring Road. There is no water for two days, which has a great impact, but we can still persist. For safety, we have to sacrifice sleep time and save time. So we will not sleep for the next two days."
Sister Haolu asked: "Do you think Ding Wen has found the snow mountains and grasslands?"
"It's possible, but even if you find it, it's probably not good news."
Sister Good Luck asked: "Why?" She found that she was getting lazy to think when she was walking with Cui Ming.
"If we find the snow-capped grassland, Ding Wen's personality will not wait for us to find her. She will definitely reach the meeting point. Ding Wen likes to do things based on logic and does not like to act on inference. If Ding Wen doesn't come, the troubles she faces may not be the regional environment, but people. If we infer this way, I would rather Ding Wen search for the mountains not the snow-capped mountains and the grasslands." Cui Ming smiled bitterly: "But my crow mouth has always been very effective."
Sister Good Luck nodded slowly. There are four people in the snow-mounted grassland, Beiyue, Bei Master, Vick and Vick's son. Even if Beiyue is not there, Vick is said to be very reasonable. In this case, if Ding Wen encounters trouble, it means that the previous inference is wrong. Or Vick is not reasonable, or they want to kill people to silence the land to protect the land. Or other reasons. As Cui Ming said, the mountains that Ding Wen searched for are not snow-mounted mountains and grasslands. They will not be too thirsty for two days at most. Ding Wen's condition will not be too bad. If this place is snow-mounted mountains and grasslands, they will face great difficulties. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!