Chapter 438: Welcome to Sand City
The night is like a curtain, and when it is lifted again, it has already changed the tone of the whole world. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ info
Feng Manyun was almost the first among the passengers to wake up, but when he opened the porthole of the cabin, he was greeted by an unexpected change. In the faint morning light, the low hills and jungles that spread all the feet were no longer scattered and changed, but turned into a vast yellowish dry hard ground, and the vegetation was also drastically reduced. Flying all the way west, these dry loess will be quickly blown by the land wind from the northwest, scattered into tiny gravel, becoming the most treacherous and dangerous monster settlement on the entire continent.
Of course, the young man in white was familiar with this, so he smiled slightly, and returned to his familiar hunting groundβno, just returning to the hunting ground would make his mood better than ever. For the past six months, even though his post is less than three kilometres from the shelter hunting grounds, the proximity and unreachability have been more painful than escaping from that life entirely.
After straightening his white robe, the young man silently thanked Ah Ping in his heart, in a sense, it was the kind girl who made him realize again that he still had this level of enthusiasm for hunting.
"Clouds?" The voice of the dust seal sounded outside the cabin, "There are still ten minutes before landing, do you want to eat something together?" β
"Nope." The boy said in a hoarse voice. The knife wound on his back has not completely healed, so if he is in such a hurry, the wound will heal more slowly under the bumps along the way.
But the decision to go has been decided, Feng Manyun can't wait even a day, when he is still in the Xishu Department, it is common to continue to fight the submersible dragons with such an injury, just taking an airship is not a big deal for him. What's more, even after so long, the pain from the wound still seems very slight, and if it is not deliberately felt, it will almost be ignored as a mosquito bite, which makes him often ignore the fact that he is injured. Although the boy is very concerned about the abnormality that happened to him, the most important thing at the moment is, of course, how to return to the hunting ground.
"My teammates said you should at least come and see the airship landing." The boy outside the door said, "I don't know why...... But Miss Qin insisted that we all go to the deck when we landed. Seeing the sun is also good for wounds, isn't it? β
"During this time in the sand sea, you will be able to spend your life in the sun." Feng Manyun scolded, but it was an "oh" sound: "I'll come later." β
When the young man in white arrived at the bow of the ship, there were already a lot of people gathered there, some of them were dressed as hunters, but also there were lone merchants and idle crew members who came with the ship. There was an extra red-haired dragon man and a girl in a robe who had never seen it before, which made the group a lot more lively than before.
"You're here!" A bottle of brown and yellow heavy armor slowly took a step and beckoned to the young man with difficulty. The sound coming from the armor was a little urn-like, as if the fully wrapped mask made him a little uncomfortable.
"Dust?" The boy said strangely, "Why are you dressed like this?" Are you going to defend the fortress? "The dust in front of him has been replaced by a suit of armor that he has never seen before, and the heavy armor is similar to the standard high-level hunting suit, with almost all the armor that can be added. The plate of the cuirass was the thickness of a thumb, the joints of the joints were rounded and raised, the wings of the neck that stood on the shoulders were protected from the base of the neck to the top of the head, and the skirt armor was tightly wrapped around the thighs like a second pair of leggings. With such a heavy and multi-layered armor, the young man sealed the dust as if he had been stuffed into a chariot, only the head was still comically exposed, small like a toy.
"It's just a new hunting outfit," Feng Chen smiled awkwardly, "it's not as heavy as it looks...... It's just that the joints are a little tight. As he spoke, he grasped the helmet with both hands and twisted it vigorously around his neck, only to hear a creaking sound for the boy's neck to turn normally.
"Really...... Novelty hunting outfits. Feng Manyun didn't know what to do.
"This is the equipment I need to test for my promotion," he clumsily tapped on a few apparently hollow bumps in his armor, "the test prop hasn't been installed yet, it's just an empty shell now." β
"You'll need to get used to it as soon as possible." The boy reminded, "If you can't move freely, it's going to be dangerous in the hunting grounds." β
"After disembarking, be sure to have Master Tresor fill up some oil...... When I walk now, I hear the sound of metal rubbing against me. The boy finally took off his helmet, and his cheeks were already red.
"Oh yes, let's get acquainted" Seeing that the fellow villager was already immersed in his new hunting suit, Lu Xiu had to clear his throat and introduce to the young man in white, "This is Master Tresor, the client of the Dust Sealing Promotion Commission." β
"Dragonman craftsman...... "The young man in white said in his heart, bowing shallowly with Lu Xiu's guidance.
"These are my companions from the hunting group, you've seen them." The dragon man introduced them one by one, "Miss Lu is a companion I met at the challenge festival, a real scrivener. β
"If it's Lu Xiu's companion, just call me Yingying." The girl smiled sweetly, but asked, "The airship is about to land, don't you put on a hunting suit?" β
"I don't have the right equipment yet." Feng Manyun replied truthfully. At the same time as giving up the job of guarding the gate, of course, the armor was also recovered by the Hunters' Union, "After landing, I will figure it out myself." β
"Hey! Look! Qin Shuiyu, who was standing on the bow of the boat, suddenly shouted, "I can see the city!" β
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Looking down, Locklac is not a city, but a huge lake that is embedded in a larger goose-egg-shaped boulder. Of all the names that Locklack has been called, "Eyes in the Desert" is definitely the loudest and most vivid of them. The lake was particularly blue and clear under the cloudless sky of the desert, and it was reflected against the light-colored boulders, like a whole lifeless desert, suddenly with a blue eye.
The undulating rocky mountains around the boulder are like the eyelashes of this eye, and the people in it seem to live under the gaze of this eye all the time.
"The Hunter is on top...... Will there be such terrain in the world? Feng Chen sniffled vigorously. In front of the airship, the huge rock almost stretched to the end of the boy's vision, the huge rock was a little higher than the ordinary sand, and the lower part was deeply sunk into the yellow sand, not as if it was formed naturally in the sea of sand, but as if it fell from the sky and fell into this place of nothingness.
"This lake alone...... It's the size of half of Golden Feather City! Lu Xiu's eyes widened, "Where does its water come from?" β
"A gift of hunter's glory, of course." Nie Xiaoyang teased.
"It's just groundwater, it's still a shallow part of the desert, and it's normal for there to be an underground river of this size." Lu Yingying didn't look surprised, "Under the survey of hunters and scholars for hundreds of years, the underground water veins nearby have been opened up one by one, and this lake is more than twice as big as when we first saw it. β
"What kind of underground river can break through hundreds of meters of rock formations and rush to the surface!" The little dragon man is still excited.
"That's thanks to the power of nature, but there's a saying, and I guess you'll be interested." The girl pointed to the center of the lake and said, "See that pillar?" β
The airship had descended more than 1,000 meters into the air, and the scenery on the ground had become clear. Everyone looked in the direction of Lu Yingying's finger, but found that in the center of Yomo Lake, in the middle of the blue lake, there was a huge strange stone pillar standing crookedly there. The stone pillar was two or three hundred meters high, and there were a chaotic number of stone thorns growing obliquely downward, like a weapon with teeth and claws, and it was inserted straight into the pupils of the Desert Eye.
"How did the pillar get into the middle of the lake? Humans can't make that kind of thing, can they? Feng Chen asked.
"It's not a pillar," Xiong said with his hands crossed, "but a tooth." β
"What?"
"Rumor has it that a long time ago, when Locklac was first built, an ancient dragon species called the Fengshan Dragon migrated here. In a fierce battle with the hunters for water, the dragon crashed into the massive rock, leaving half of its teeth stuck in it. "The impact opened up the channel for groundwater gushing out, and it also made the lake what it is now." β
"Ancient dragon species!" Hearing this word, Feng Chen's spirit was excited, and he glanced at the huge stone pillar under the airship a few more times, "There are also ...... Such a large ancient dragon species? β
"It's normal for such a big ancient dragon species." Lu Yingying raised her eyebrows, "When the human dragon fights, hundreds of hunters have always fought against an ancient dragon, and a single turn of the dragon can make earth-shaking changes in the landform of the entire hunting ground. In this way, it may be true that the lake was created. The girl pointed her finger at the boy who had survived with the dragon for six months, "In comparison, the one you saw may really be only in the juvenile stage, no wonder it is about the same size as an ordinary monster, and it has no power of the ancient dragon species at all." The little scribe spoke eloquently, as if he had completely forgotten how he had been shamefully stunned in front of the ancient dragons.
"It's coming!" As the airship activated the two auxiliary propellers on the side of the airship, the entire hull also stopped falling, and slowly turned in the air, the bow facing the conspicuous stone pillar. "I suggest you hurry up," Qin Shui reminded him, "and you won't see it anywhere else in the New World in the next show." β
"Airship...... Don't land? Feng Chen squinted at the ground, and the course of the merchant ship at the moment was getting farther and farther away from the open space that was obviously like a landing pad.
"It's not time to land yet!" Qin Shuiyu said excitedly, the girl had already untied the pigtails on her head at some point, and her hair flew away in the wind, "This is the reserved program of the airship that goes to and from Locklac!" β
With the shouts of the little commander, the four main propellers of the merchant ship that maintained the liftoff stopped at the same moment.
"Hey...... What does the captain do? Lu Xiu panicked and grabbed Master Tresor, who was still smiling beside him, "If you descend here...... It's going to fall into the lake! β
Of course, the air tanks alone could not keep the fully loaded merchant ships afloat, and the airships descended slowly, and then faster and faster, like unconscious birds. As the merchant ship fell, an irresistible sense of weightlessness filled the bodies of his companions, and the dust reflexively clung to the guardrail of the ship's side to ensure that he was not blown away by the howling wind.
Even if there is a huge lake below everyone, if they fall from a height of nearly a thousand meters, no matter how soft the cushion is, it will turn into a heavy stone slab, so that the teenagers will become a puddle of meat as soon as they come into contact with the lake.
"Trust the captain! We'll be fine! Xiong Fuji, who had been here once, was not afraid, and jumped sharply and stood on the bow of the boat. He relied on the heavy armor to stabilize his body, but he opened his arms to meet the increasingly fierce low-altitude crosswind.
"We're still moving forward!" The speed of the fall became faster and faster, and Feng Chen boldly opened his eyes, only to see that the distance between the merchant ship and the huge tooth pillar was also rapidly approaching. While the merchant ship stopped the main propeller, the transverse propeller used for propulsion was still running at full speed, and at this pace, the people on board would crash into the towering stone pillars before they could fall into the water.
"It's going to crash!" Lu Xiu shouted at the top of his voice, and the little dragon man prayed at this moment, compared to the ancient dragon sharp teeth that could pierce the entire rock formation with one blow, it was better to have a better chance of surviving if he fell into the water. Although he didn't know what the captain of the merchant ship was crazy about, he had already made up his mind that if he survived this time, he would never give himself a chance to ride in the airship that came to Locklac again.
"Keep your eyes open!" Qin Shuiyu's eyes persistently opened in the wind, and the cat lay on top of her, although the hair on her whole body was blown and shaking, she also did not go to the side of the boat to avoid the wind with great interest.
Thousands of meters in the air passed in an instant, and the airship's air chamber touched the top of the stone pillar in a few blinks of an eye, and the bow of the ship was no more than a hundred meters away from the dragon's teeth, but it was still rushing forward at full speed. Feng Chen gritted his teeth, at this time, he didn't need to use much force, he could see the jagged texture and hideous stone thorns on the giant pillar, the battleship adjusted its direction slightly, and rushed towards the narrow gap between the two stone thorns without dodging.
"It wants to get through the middle!" Lu Xiu's heart tightened, the distance between the two stone thorns was only a few tens of meters, and the airship was nearly a hundred meters high in the air cabin, if it continued like this, the merchant ship would definitely be stuck in the cracks of the stones and unable to move.
"It's over!" Feng Chen's eyes were tightly closed.
Two seconds later, the expected impact did not come, the strong feeling of falling turned into a sense of climbing, and when he opened his eyes again, the shadow of the stone pillar had been lost in front of the little Orion's eyes. Feng Chen looked back in amazement, and the huge fangs were standing quietly behind them.
"Welcome to Locklac!" Qin Shuiyu patted Feng Chen's shoulder and said playfully to the young man who was still stunned.