(Two in One) The distant skyline rolls up fiery clouds
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Lu Liran felt that something was wrong with Ke Ji. It seems that since entering the Salba Desert, this person has always looked at himself vaguely, and he did not look too eager to find his own Alpha as before.
Could it be a change of heart?
Lu Liran’s alarm sounded.
“You got leaves on your hair, should I pick them off for you?” Ke Ji pointed and asked.
Stuck with leaves? What an old lame excuse. Lu Liran snorted coldly in his heart, he rejected Ke Ji and directly reached out to stroke his hair.
There is indeed a small leaf.
Tsk.
Lu Liran nodded to the other party with a bad face: “Thank you.”
Ke Ji withdrew his gaze, and quietly heaved a sigh of relief.
He couldn’t help but keep looking at Lu Liran, which aroused Lu Liran’s sensitivity.
He rubbed the center of his brows, his face was slightly pale, but it was not so obvious among a group of people in worse condition.
Recently, his mental power has become uncontainable again. Injected concoctions under long-term injections since adult differentiation, his drug resistance gradually appeared, so much so that this domineering mental power is always turning his brain upside down.
In fact, he has already gotten used to this power that messes with his head all the time, but recently it has become extra active, and he has to divert more energy to deal with it at one time.
He cannot bring the threat of instability to those he values, and he must stay away if necessary.
As Ke Ji thought about it, his eyes darkened, his eyes avoided Lu Liran, then stopped at Lu Liran’s fingers casually propped on the sand.
The hand was stained with gravel and water, his knuckles were slightly bent, and his fingers were slightly rounded and curved, which looked extraordinarily slender and elegant, like a hand that should be carefully cared for and placed on a musical instrument.
——Ke Ji didn’t realize that he was distracted again, but when he looked at these hands, the mental energy that was stirring in his mind seemed to be soothed.
Lu Liran uncomfortably grabbed the sandy surface under his palm slightly.
There is really something wrong with this Omega, why is he still staring at his fingers in a daze.
Lu Liran pursed his lips indiscriminately, his ears turned red, but fortunately no one could see it.
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Ke Ji stared at that hand, and saw that the fingers and the inner side of the palm were slightly red and swollen, his eyes paused, this should be the sequelae of always holding on the probing stick before.
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When Ke Ji handed the polished branch to Lu Liran, Lu Liran was stunned for a moment. The obtained tree sticks have been shaved off the rough bark, grinded into a rounded curve, not at all piercing, and the thickness and length was just right.
“You were doing this just now?” Lu Liran blinked, “Is this for me?”
Ke Ji responded, and said with a smile: “Tools need to be used while they last.”
Lu Liran took it, and the red marks and broken skin that had been worn out before were more clearly visible on his open palm.
He avoided Ke Ji’s sight somewhat unnaturally, and thanked him in a low voice, never expecting that the other party would notice such a small thing.
After a long hot noon, the group finally set off again.
Xian Dan led the team to Lu Liran, completely at the mercy of the other party’s orders.
Lu Liran glanced at the team indifferently. There were only less than 15 people left in the team, three of them had cornea burns and were placed on the hump of the camel horses, leaving thirteen people all more or less suffering from semi-dehydration and semi-heatstroke.
What a lineup of wounded and disabled.
But this was also much better than when they made an emergency landing.
Lu Liran stood right in front of the team and said:”I only have two requests.”
No one in the team made a sound, everyone looked at Lu Liran quietly and pricked up their ears, apprehensive about the upcoming journey.
Even if Lu Liran asked them to exchange all the supplies, or even asked them to exchange the remaining drinking water, they seemed to have no right to bargain.
“First, obey my orders.”
“Second, never go in front of me.”
The merchant fleet was taken aback for a moment, just these two requests? Nothing else?
There was a little bewilderment in their eyes, and they all looked at Xian Dan subconsciously.
With a glance, Xian Dan knew what his subordinates were thinking, and he repeated loudly: “Did you hear everything!”
“I heard it!” The whole team came back to their senses and replied subconsciously.
Lu Liran took out the remaining charcoal and gave it to Xian Dan: “Apply it under the eyes and on both sides of the nose to avoid corneal burns. As for the eyes of the three people, cover them all with a cloth so as not to aggravate the symptoms. ”
Xian Dan took the charcoal with a little surprise, he never thought that such an insignificant thing could play such a big role.
Everyone was smeared with the same black charcoal faces like Lu Liran and Ke Ji. At first glance, they are all neat and tidy panda people.
[Pfft, how can I be so happy hahahaha]
[I didn’t think it was funny when Brother Lu put it on before. But in the blink of an eye, I saw a row of more than a dozen of people who put it on, and now I laughed stupidly, hahaha]
[Be serious, be serious]
After the preparations were completed, Lu Liran led the team to set off.
Lu Liran still wanted to head towards the hinterland of the desert, while the evacuation route of the merchant fleet would pass through the edge of the hinterland, bypass the hinterland, turn towards the low-lying and flat sand dunes, and walk south out of the desert.
A team of more than ten people was added behind him. It looked like a tail was attached to his back, but it didn’t affect Lu Liran’s live broadcast at all.
The number of viewers in the live broadcast room has already reached 90,000, and the peak was 120,000. This was because some people left during the previous lunch break.
Now starting again, the number of people began to grow slowly again.
“In order to avoid the hottest time in Salba, we found a shady tree and had a short respite for a few hours. Fortunately, we found a water source and gain enough supplies.” Holding the newly made probing sticks in his hand, Lu Liran said as he walked, “Although we have encountered terrible quicksand before, this also implies that we are indeed getting closer to the water source and the oasis.”
“You can see that on the sandy slope along the road, there are already many small bushes emerging from piles of stones, which is much more prominent than the barren scene you saw at first.”
The drone lifted up to a high altitude and overlooked the surrounding area. From the perspective of the drone, such a shrub demarcation line seems to have started from that quicksand belt.
“Behind me is a merchant fleet that wanted to enter the desert to search for treasures and commercial routes. They encountered a sandstorm on the way, lost their way, completely deviated from their original route, and almost strayed into the desert hinterland.”
“For the next short distance, I will walk with them.”
“The desert is full of death traps. Everything here is the enemy of human beings. The hot climate is like an oven. Poisonous snakes, insects, and scorpions are hidden in the sand…if you want to survive, you must be more cautious, make full use of what you have learned, and never make a wrong step.”
“In a place like this, even a small wrong step could lead to death.”
Lu Liran spoke at a steady pace, as if a narrator was recording in the background, without panting at all.
After he finished speaking, he glanced at the team behind him. He somewhat overestimated the physical fitness of the dozen or so people. It was obviously just a normal speed, even an Omega could keep up, but that team was several meters behind.
Lu Liran squinted his eyes, he was too lazy to urge them, he saved his saliva, and continued to move forward.
“We have traveled a long way in this relatively low-lying place.” Lu Liran squinted and looked around. The endless desert looked the same everywhere, and it was very easy to lose the ability to judge the direction.
“Remember what I said before, find the highest point and determine the direction you want to go next.”
He pointed to a sand dune on his right. The leeward slope facing him was shorter and steeper, about as high as a Star City Central Hotel.
[Fuck, this is too high!!]
[Mom, I feel like I can stand shoulder to shoulder with the sun]
[The anchor wants to climb this dune?? You won’t be able to climb it even for a day!!]
Climbing the sand dune is no problem for Lu Liran, the question is whether the team behind him can climb up.
And It’s very likely that the direction they will go next is to cross the sand dune.
After hearing Lu Liran’s words, Xian Dan nodded and said: “We can go. Mr. Lu, lead the team, we will follow.”
Seeing this, Lu Liran nodded and didn’t say much.
He turned his head to look at Ke Ji who hadn’t spoken much all the way, and asked: “What about you? Are you okay?”
“En.” Ke Ji nodded, not talking much.
What’s difficult in crossing the sand dunes is that the sand on the sand slope is loose, and every step seems to be stuck in it. The sand reached their ankles, and they couldn’t step on the ground at all. So as they walked up, they slid down.
And the sand during the day, scalded by the high sun, is like stepping into boiling syrup.
Even the local camel horses, known for being good at running in the desert, seem to have difficulty walking an inch on such sand dunes.
Three camel horses followed closely behind Lu Liran and Ke Ji, followed by Xian Dan and two men, who looked like team leaders, and the rest of the team dragged at the end of the group in twos and threes, tripping over the sand after a few steps, looking very embarrassed.
After finally climbing to the top of the sand dune, the wind wrapped in heat was blowing head-on. Lu Liran narrowed his eyes slightly and looked around. The scenery was unexpectedly majestic and magnificent.
The prevailing wind in Salba sculpts this dune into a unique shape. The windward slope is blown into long shallow slopes, like linear waves, while the leeward slope is blown into steep sand cliffs with jagged shapes.
Lu Liran narrowed his eyes slightly, this is the unique charm of Salba Desert.
Even though this place has swallowed countless bones and flesh and is the nightmare of countless hunters, no one can deny that the beauty here is breathtaking.
Sunnyshies: I procrastinated again! In our country, this week is holy week, and its almost a long holiday for everyone. My mom rarely become generous and opened the aircon for the whole day…so it was a very cool week…but I spoke too soon, at the end of the day, my mom credited the electric consumption of the aircon, my dad and I have to pay, hahaha. Electricity here is quite expensive. Anyway, yesterday is black Saturday, and it also happened to landed on my brother’s birthday, so my brother’s b-day celeb has to be postpone today, but we have to prepare the food yesterday, so its quite busy. Well, this was my excuse, in fact I’m just lazy…
Anyway, I’ll post the other half later at night! I’ll focused at eating first!
Happy Easter! 🐇🐰🥚
Thanks for the update!!
Thank you for the chapter. Today I have to cook a special dish for a big family dinner, it’s a holiday here, too. Luckily it’s not so warm here that I have to worry about the aircon yet.
Happy Easter! Chocolate bum my here I come: no scorpions, no snakes, no sand to scrape off—hahahaha! Thanks for all your great translations! 🤣❤️🐇🐣🌼🌷
Geez, autocorrect turned my chocolate bunny into a bad word… 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Yup, it all looks beautiful (especially that first picture of canyons in the previous chapter) but still…. pictures are okay but I don’t need to be there in person.
Thx for the ch (ㅅ˘ㅂ˘)
thanks!!
hahaha here he/she is the daily auto corrector XD
Also thx for correcting the mistakes in the translation I got confused in some parts since my IQ is literally in the negatives…
I stayed indoors for Holy Week, my family went on an island holiday and it was a bit awful. Me? I don’t pack my luggage for a 3 day weekend. lol
Nature is beautiful, but also contains the equal dangers. Even a very gorgeous scenery of sea could actually be a poisonous lump of liquid.
+1 “Even a very gorgeous scenery if sea could actually be a poisonous lump of liquid” – words of wisdom for today ✅ teacher I have learned something new
Thank you for adding videos, photos and other details. It makes the reading much more interesting ❤
damn- so many holidays where do you live girl? 💀 this is too unfair over here There are like 2 holidays a year (excluding the normal ones like Christmas, queens birthday)