“It’s like a desert ocean current.”
…
The fat worm on the tip of Lu Liran’s dagger is still struggling, twisting and turning, and its tiny triangular fangs can still be vaguely seen in its opened mouthparts.
In comparison, the worm that Lu Liran ate earlier was cuter.
Lu Liran couldn’t help but frown slightly when he saw it, so he simply removed its head, squeezed the internal organs, and handed the limp worm towards Ke Ji’s eyes.
Ke Ji took a deep breath and asked: “How does it taste?”
“Not so good.” Lu Liran replied honestly.
[Yi, the worms that Brother Lu said were not very good…must be particularly unpalatable!!]
[Brother Lu’s answer is not very informative, it made me break into a cold sweat for the beauty]
Lu Liran glanced at the live broadcast room, and had to explain the definition of “unpalatable” after thinking about it: “If the taste is really weird and difficult to swallow, it is recommended not to eat it. Usually this means that they are indeed not suitable for consumption. Eating them may cause diarrhea and vomiting.”
[Brother Lu’s explanation doesn’t have much reference value. In the eyes of us mortals, the food that Brother Lu usually eats is “hard to swallow”!!]
[That’s right +1]
[I’m really curious about the extent to which Brother Lu would find it difficult to swallow…]
[Dreaming about one day seeing Brother Lu eating and vomiting in the live broadcast room]
[Lol, upstairs is so bad, I like it so much]
[Let’s dream together]
The corners of Lu Liran’s mouth twitched, the liver broadcast room was filled with a group of scourges who elated about others’ misfortune.
He turned to Ke Ji: “Have you finished your psychological preparation?”
Ke Ji: “……”
The worm with its head removed was still the size of a palm and cannot be stuffed in one mouthful.
Ke Ji tried to bite the bug in two with his teeth. The extremely elastic worm body was like plastic that could not be chewed. After biting for a long time, the brown-yellow body fluid flowed out of the bitten body, but the worm body was still not separated.
Lu Liran couldn’t bear to look directly at it, so he looked away, and turned to lie on the two tree trunks, and it was unknown what else he was tinkering with.
Ke Ji closed his eyes, then stuffed it all into his mouth, he chewed for a long time, and swallowed it abruptly.
Lu Liran thought Ke Ji would spit it out, but unexpectedly he swallowed it all. He patted the other person on the shoulder to express his respect: “I think one point higher of you.”
Ke Ji: “…only one point?”
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“Three points, six points, nine points are fine, you can get as many points as you want.” Lu Liran raised the corner of his mouth, and after the dagger was wiped clean in the sand, he stuck it into his waist.
As everyone knows, three, six, nine are function words, without much meaning.
[Brother Lu’s domineering pampering, this love is scary (dog head)]
[Brother Lu is enough to spoil only one beauty!]
[Thinking about it this way, Brother Lu’s special favor is really only given to Beauty. Rocke Feller, who was rescued before, didn’t eat such a strange thing, did he?]
[…indeed, he ate charcoal-roasted jumping sheep?]
[Hahahahaha, Imao, this monopoly is too difficult]
[I still want to see a lot of the Beauty being pampered 23333]
[Ke Meiren: You want me to die]
Lu Liran patted Ke Ji, and said: “Let’s go after eating, I reckon if we walk forward, there should be a place to rest.”
“We set off at seven o’clock in the morning and have been on foot for nearly four hours now.” Lu Liran said to the drone, “The most vicious time in the desert is the two hours before and after noon. Avoiding this time and finding a shaded place to rest and adjust can greatly increase the probability of survival.”
“There was once an army drill in the desert, the officer leading the group was the one who made a wrong decision. First they went in the wrong direction, far away from the place where the camp should have been, and then because of the sandstorm warning, they wanted to turn back to the camp before the sandstorm arrived.”
“So they traveled in the blazing sun at high noon and took the whole group of fifteen people and led them into the abyss of doom.”
“When the sandstorm came, the whole team was in a state of heat stroke and dehydration, with little ability to resist. Due to the power of the sandstorm, no rescue team dared to go to rescue. It was His Excellency the Commander who came in person. In the darkness that covered the sky and the sun, the steel-blue super mecha was like a solid safe haven, providing a life-saving shelter for those fifteen people.”
“Even so, fifteen people, including officers, died of exhaustion due to severe dehydration later, and none survived.”
Lu Liran said. This was something he had heard when he first entered the interstellar military camp, and everyone took this as a warning, and dare not underestimate the desert.
[Brother Lu’s Negative Textbook√]
[Today exceeded the standard, two!]
[Why did I hear a bit of praise towards the Commander from Brother Lu’s negative teaching materials?]
[+1 Brother Lu’s previous teaching materials have no adjectives, they are very flat!]
[Brother Lu, in capital letters is a commander brag, and an only fan himself]
[ Speechless, what’s so good about that commander, does he dare to come to Desolate Star? Does he dare?]
[I don’t understand. Why’s everyone scolding?]
[Shh, forget it, don’t talk about this in the live broadcast room]
Ke Ji looked at Lu Liran: “You really know that commander very well.”
Lu Liran paused, his ears turned red, then he gave Ke Ji an indistinct look, and said dryly: “These are things that can be learned by just asking around, it’s not unusual.”
Ke Ji smiled and said nothing.
Lu Liran coughed dryly, he pursed his lips, and strode forward.
When Lu Liran’s probing stick touched a piece of fine sand in front of him, he suddenly stopped, feeling something was wrong. At the same time, a large red system popped up in front of him, paving a wide space of nearly a dozen meters in front of him.
Before Lu Liran had time to remind Ke Ji, a man’s deep and serious voice suddenly sounded in his ear: “Don’t move!”
At the same time, Lu Liran was pulled back by Ke Ji and took a small step back, leaving the probing stick in the sand.
They saw that the probing stick, which was originally one meter long, sank rapidly in just a few breaths. In a blink of an eye, only a pointed end remained on the sand pile, as if there was empty space under the sand.
Lu Liran gasped: “It’s quicksand.”
Ke Ji nodded: “Dry quicksand.”
Dry quicksand, as the name suggests, refers to dry quicksand, and the other is wet quicksand, which is a mixture of sand and water-soaked salt and soil. The latter is relatively less deadly, and even if you step on it by mistake, you will not sink completely.
But dry quicksand is different. It can easily engulf an airship without the slightest change in the surface.
Lu Liran said with a serious face: “Actually, when I walked through those rivers before, I should have known that quicksand is likely to appear here. After those rich river systems dry up, such quicksand belts are most likely to form.”
“Once you stumble and fall into the quicksand belt, it is useless to just use brute force to get your companion to pull you out, and it is even very likely that your companion will be pulled into it as well.”
“In fact, the strength needed to pull a foot out of the quicksand is probably comparable to that of lifting a light airship. Even if such strength can be used, the human body cannot bear it. I am afraid that before being pulled out of the quicksand, you’ll be forcibly torn into two pieces.”
[Hiss!!!!! It’s too bloody, I already have a picture in mind!!]
[Holy shit, that tree branch from the anchor is gone?! This is fucking outrageous, how long is it, ah!]
[Fortunately, the anchor responded quickly! —— MissingLord gifted the anchor 1x Sukiyaki Pot]
[Ke Meiren reacted so quickly?? Actually pulling Brother Lu back a step, 23333, working hard to create a miracle??]
[Wouldn’t it be incomprehensible to encounter quicksand…]
Lu Liran pursed his lips and said: “Many people who fall into the quicksand will subconsciously think about shaking and paddling their feet, thinking that this can make the sand around their body loosen, so that it will be easier to pull out their trapped legs. But in fact, this approach will only accelerate the deposition of quicksand and increase its viscosity, and struggling will only lead to deeper and deeper sinking.”
“If you don’t encounter quicksand that is too deep, its lethality will be greatly reduced. Instead, the cause of death is being trapped, and then quickly dehydrated to death due to the scorching sun above your head.”
After Lu Liran finished speaking, he couldn’t help looking at the quicksand belt that was more than ten meters long in front of him.
The weakness of the primary detection skills at this moment—— If it’s not approached, the detection skills will not be able to accurately identify and judge, so a quicksand belt like this cannot be predicted in advance, and it will become extremely dangerous.
The quicksand belt in front, under the revelation of the detection skills, shows that its depth is at least three meters. According to the speed at which the probing stick sank just now, it may not take a minute to engulf a grown man.
A veritable desert killer.
He pulled Ke Ji carefully around this quicksand belt, and said at the same time:
“Quicksand is a terrifying monster in the desert. It is like a flowing ocean current. It appears here, swallows everything silently, wraps those things, and maybe after a few months or a few years, it will appear again in the desert thousands of miles away.”
“The last thing travelers in the desert want to encounter is this and sandstorms.” After walking through the quicksand belt, Lu Liran was thankfully relieved, and let go of Ke Ji’s hand. Fortunately, they discovered it in time and avoided it perfectly.
Ke Ji dropped his eyes to look at his released hand and withdrew it as if nothing had happened.
“However, the appearance of quicksand also brings good news.” Lu Liran changed the subject.
“Quicksand usually appears near the coast, but the Salba Desert is an inland desert, far away from the coastline, so there should be a flowing underground river under it, or there should be a river source nearby.”
“Even if it’s an underground river, it shouldn’t be too deep, and it’s very likely that it will appear on the surface.”
Lu Liran had a smile in his eyes. With the river, can that oasis be far away? Definitely not.
Sure enough, after they walked forward for another distance, three big trees rooted in one place appeared in the distance directly in front of them.
From a distance, the roots of three large trees crossed together, even the trunk, like a rope twisted and growing with each other.
The big tree has luxuriant branches and leaves, and the horizontal branches are covered with wide leaves, forming a natural and spacious pergola. Just looking at it makes one’s heart feel refreshed.
But when Lu Liran and Ke Ji got closer, they realized that there were already people under the three big trees.
Lu Liran and Ke Ji looked at each other, there were quite a few people under the big tree, a rough scan showed that there were about a dozen people, there were even four camel-horse mounts.
Such group appearing in Salba, it must be the Xian family Merchant Fleet.
Lu Liran watched Ke Ji out of the corner of his eye, thinking that the other party would rush over excitedly, but instead he was unexpectedly calm.
Sunnyshies: There’s a reason why Ke Ji can’t think straight! So right now, even if you push all the clues right in front of his eyes, he will still be in a daze not thinking anything! It will be explain in the next chapter, I think.
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It’s edited now!
Didn’t I recommended a novel yesterday, I went to read the author’s other works, and was led astray again…The author’s other BL works has the same theme and genre, but for some reason, I was in a mood to read this kind of thing, so I can’t concentrate with anything, especially with the weather being so hot, and its specially hot today since it rained in the afternoon. It feels like a cold water was poured into a hot oil pan and then the lid was closed. The air was really suffocating.
but i think its edited…and its in the beach. Just take it as a reference.
Thanks for updating!! ❤️
Sandstorms and how bad it is to encounter one got mentioned a lot this chapter. Betcha one’s going to show up within the next 3 chapters.
don’t jinx them those poor people 😂
».. the liver broadcast room was filled .. scourges who elated about..« live broadcast & who were elated
»Hepatted the other person on the shoulder..« He patted
»why’s everyone scolding?« Why’s
Oho? They found the group unexpectedly. And I always found quicksand creepy.
Thx for the ch ٩(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )و
Your description of the weather makes me afraid of summer again D: I’m living in an attic flat, it’s like living in an oven in summer. And even over night you won’t get the heat out of the rooms. Should stop thinking about that. That’s stuff for in three to four months x’D
Hahaha, thanks!
But hey, it wasn’t even summer! Summer here usually starts in May and June, and rain in summer is too scary, it will either made the temperature hotter, and made it flood…but really, its too suffocating yesterday. The air I breathe made me cough and it made my throat itch. This made me afraid of the weather in summer that’s about to come. Actually the water companies in our country was already cutting off the water supply every night, just to minimized the water consumption…
That’s smth I see happening here in the future too. The water gets less and less (especially) in the summer D: Well, our planet is just fucked up and we somehow have to live with it ^^°
Thank you for the chapter ! And please stop recommending novel you have such a great taste and I’m poor with bad self control QAQ
I think Ke Ji is almost there, at least 40%, he’s met his cub, so that should be the best convincer.
Hmm. Since Sunnyshies mentioned there was a reason KJ cannot think straight, I remembered KJ mentioning in passing that Alpha and Omega of high Mental power need to either take meds or be bonded to each other else they will become unstable. I think the temp bond was what helped win the war. If I remember right, meds have bad side effects. But the bond will only work right if the two partner’s mental power are on par with each other. And KJ has very high power (as does LL.)
I’m so curious what Ke Meiren thinks. Does he get it little by little?