The sentry wolf appeared quietly a few meters away from the camp.
Smooth and burly figure, strong and thick long claws, its shiny gray mane almost perfectly blended into the desert night under the moonlight. It looked so majestic, and there was no such thing as its cowardly and weak appearance before.
Lu Liran even felt that this Big Wolf seemed to be a lot bigger than before.
He doesn’t know if it’s an illusion.
He was thinking about something in his heart, and then he heard the system blah blah blah again:
[It’s not the host’s illusion, the follower slot fixed Big Wolf’s genetic problem, just like what I told the host before, our Big Wolf is a Wilderness wolf with the level of wolf king, and it’s absolutely worth investing!]
Lu Liran recalled the size of the Big Wolf just now, and it was still a little far from the wolf king, which was too exaggerated.
The system detected Lu Liran’s thoughts, and quickly added:
[Big Wolf is still a wolf cub, it’s still developing, and it will be the size of a wolf king when it becomes an adult!]
Lu Liran was a little surprised, it’s still not an adult?!
He twitched the corner of his mouth. It was rare to see such a big wolf cub, and it was even rarer for a juvenile to be injured and reduced to a sentry wolf for provoking the wolf king.
Sure enough, it was a stupid Big Wolf.
With a flash of its body, Big Wolf ran into the woods at an astonishingly fast speed.
Ke Ji felt a strange breath, he opened his eyes suddenly, but saw nothing.
He frowned slightly, he sat up and looked towards the woods.
“What’s wrong? Go to sleep.” Lu Liran glanced at Ke Ji, thinking in his heart that this person is really sensitive.
He forcibly pushed him back to sleep, then glanced at the state of Big Wolf in the follower slot, it looked normal. He closed his eyes and rested lightly, praying that the not-so-smart wilderness wolf would know how to flee back into the follower slot in case of danger.
Lu Liran had ver low psychological expectations for Big Wolf to bring back food, but what he didn’t know was that the wilderness wolf he released into the mountains almost turned the world upside down for some of the original inhabitants in the small forest.
Before he knew it, three or four hours passed.
A sudden howl of wolf came from the other side of the forest, startling Lu Liran and Ke Ji to open their eyes at the same time.
Ke Ji looked into the woods, through the cascading forest barrier, he could vaguely see the silhouette of a huge wilderness wolf standing on the huge rock, howling towards the sky towards the big moon that was about to fall into the horizon.
Lu Liran checked the status of the follower slot at the first second, seeing that Big Wolf in the follower slot still had more than half of its health and was in a good condition, he was relieved.
He listened to the howling of Big Wolf again, clearly showing its territorial awareness.
Lu Liran was a little surprised, he didn’t expect that Big Wolf could hunt freely in that forest. The survival ability of Big Wolf was much better than he expected.
Seeing this, he slightly bent his eyes, fortunately, what he picked up this time was no longer an oil bottle.
Lu Liran looked outside, the newly rising sun and the setting moon appeared in the same sky at the same time, forming a rare spectacle.
Compared with a few hours ago, the outdoor light is much brighter, and they’re able to make their way.
Lu Liran simply got up, he cleaned up briefly, then released the drone, and opened the live broadcast room.
“Hello everyone, I’m Lu Liran, a wilderness survival expert. After the attack in the middle of the night, we took a short rest for a few hours and are now ready to go again.”
“Before I set out for Salba, I said that the purpose of coming to the desert this time was to find a kind of medicinal material called sand cocoon. Just yesterday I was lucky enough to find enough sand cocoons to accomplish the biggest goal of my trip to Salba, and now I’m ready to leave.”
Lu Liran packed his luggage and backpack on hand, then counted the supplies and tools left with him, and explained to the live broadcast room at the same time:
“The airship leaving Salba should stay at the landing point we previously agreed on. If there is no accident, the pilot will wait until the sun sets. In other words, getting to the airship before sunset is our only chance to leave Salba.”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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[Aoaoao, Brother Lu is going home!! Very good! It’s a rewarding experience!—— Brother Lu’s Leg pendant gifted the anchor 1x Sukiyaki Pot]
[Congratulations Brother Lu! Successfully complete the task! Go home and have a good meal! —— ButterHotPot gifted the anchor 1x Top-quality Wagyu Beef]
[Brother Lu inadvertently praised himself again! Laughing to death hahaha]
[Brother Lu’s implication: The brothers in the merchant fleet has to catch up with all their strength, if they can’t keep up, I don’t care]
[Hey, the merchant fleet seems to have disappeared?]
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Lu Liran was stunned for a moment.
Ke Ji came over, glanced at it, and then said to Lu Liran: “They probably left first.”
Hearing this, Lu Liran turned to Ke Ji and said after two seconds of silence: “In that case, let’s go.”
Ke Ji answered.
Lu Liran judged the direction, and decided on the direction to leave, he then set off with his luggage on his back.
They first climbed over the huge sand dune that they walked over, which was about a hundred meters high. When Lu Liran and Ke Ji stepped into the area, the moist mist surrounded them like a shadow.
[My god, its here again, the nightmare is back TAT]
[Brother Lu’s mentality is really stable, I would rather take the road I haven’t walked before, let me walk into the woods than go back here]
“Returning the way we came is also a choice of last resort, for one thing, we don’t have much time, and for another, even if there is plenty of time to bypass the oasis, there are more unknown dangers in the oasis.” Lu Liran spoke.
“Compared to facing unknown dangers, I would rather come back here, at least I will know what I will encounter here.” Lu Liran said in a deep voice.
He held a burning torch in one hand and a military lighting lamp in the other. The penetrating lighting tool tore through the fog, and he could vaguely see the hot and dry scene on the other side of the dunes.
On both sides of the top of the dune, one side is like a tropical rainforest like a spectacle, and the other side is the endless barren yellow sand, no one can imagine just a huge sand dune, there will be such a difference between the two scenes.
In the thick white mist, occasionally one or two sounds of birds flapping their wings can be heard, passing overhead, and then disappearing.
Lu Liran couldn’t see any shadows of creatures, and could only judge whether there was anything around by the sound, taking every step very carefully.
The sand under his feet became a bit muddy, as if he was stepping on some kind of soft mud worms that can move, and occasionally it will make a “crisp” sound of being squeezed, which makes people’s scalp numb.
[I thought of the worms that Brother Lu walked through before…]
[+1, listening to this movement feels like stepping on it again…]
Lu Liran frowned slightly, he brushed away the mist near his feet, and saw the desert locust blood worm larvae twisting around his feet in the place he had bumped into.
Segments of squashed larvae and green bodily fluid still stuck to the soles of his shoes.
“It’s just a larva, it hasn’t grown sharp claws yet, so there’s nothing to be afraid of.” Lu Liran said, then he walked forward beckoning Ke Ji to come to his side, “Don’t stay too far away from me.”
Ke Ji bent the corner of his eyes when he heard this, and he took two steps faster: “Okay.”
[Hey, Brother Lu’s focus is only on whether those bugs have sharp claws, we are different TAT]
[Regardless of whether there is a sharp claw or not, it is an unbearable existence, aahh, Brother Lu, wake up!]
[Brother Lu, hurry up! Set them on fire!! Once and for all!!]
[Agree! Send money to brother LU! Crowdfinsing begs to be burned!]
Lu Liran twitched the corner of his mouth amusedly: “I don’t want to do this kind of outrage. What’s more, these are all part of the desert oasis biological chain. Human intervention and destruction of the link will cause unpredictable consequences, it’s just harming others without benefiting yourself.”
“No need to bear it for too long, we’re going out soon.” Lu Liran said.
He already felt the obvious heat wave coming from not far away, which meant that they would soon return to that sweltering flaming hell.
When the dense fog in front of them gradually dissipated, the boundless Gobi landform in front of them rolled up waves of sands under the wind. Obviously it was the usual desert scenery that they had stared at for several days till they were about to vomit, but this moment at first glance, there was this inexplicable sense of familiarity and intimacy.
[It feels like Brother Lu is going back to his mother’s house]
[Brother Lu has been showing this happy expression of returning to his hometown here. You can make it with great strength, they are all younger brothers!]
[That’s right hahahaha, forget about the oasis, that difficulty level sucks, and there’s not much to eat]
[I think that fish is quite delicious, but unfortunately, Brother Lu lacks tools, otherwise he will definitely catch it]
[If the star shuttle can be used, I will immediately send Brother Lu a fishing line with a pulling force of seven or eight hundred catties!]
[Laughing to death, have you considered Brother Lu’s feelings?]
Lu Liran walked forward for a while, but because the sun was too high at noon, he gave up the idea of continuing on his way. He and Ke Ji found a rock and hid in the shadow of the rock.
“The temperature here is at least 20 degrees higher than the oasis.” Lu Liran panted lightly, and pointed to the Gobi Desert where they were.
After resting for a while, he continued: “Look at the surface of these rocks, they are very smooth, and they were formed by the erosion of the river for a long time. If I’m not wrong, the flow here should have been cut off for less than a few months.”
“That’s good news, and while I’m not praying for stagnant water to be dug up to the surface, oftentimes water is concentrated under these rocky outcrops, and even if it’s not much, it’s accessible to us.”
As Lu Liran spoke, he began to dig the sand with his hands. After several shovels, a sand pit about seven or eight centimeters deep came out, and the turned-out sand became significantly wetter and deeper.
Seeing this, Lu Liran shoveled down a few more handfuls, and soon, he saw a thin layer of water overflowing from the bottom of the sand, slowly filling the sand pit gradually.
“Water is coming!”
Lu Liran let out a soft cry, quickly took out the straw he made earlier, and took a couple of careful sips.
“It tastes very refreshing and clean!” Lu Liran said, handing the straw to Ke Ji, “Come and replenish yourself, drink slowly.”
Ke Ji nodded, he took the straw that Lu Liran had just used to drink, and slowly sucked the few overflowing water in the sand pit.
“It’s almost noon now, when the sun is at its hottest, even if you hide in the shadow of a rock, you can still feel your skin being scorched by the sun. At this time, even if you hurry, you can’t go too far. Instead of consuming too much, it’s better to find a cool place to hide as much as possible like me.”
Lu Liran leaned against the slightly hot rock, waiting for the water in the small sandpit at his feet to fill up little by little.
He raised his eyes to look around, hoping to find a higher place when the sun was not so hot, to see where they were and whether they had deviated along the way.
As a result, he just turned around and saw two camel horses standing abruptly a hundred or so meters behind him, with the people in the merchant fleet hiding underneath the camel horses.
Lu Liran：“……”
They turned out to be quietly following.
He twitched the corner of his mouth, but he had to admit that Xian Dan’s choice was much more comfortable for him.
“Just let them follow.” Ke Ji also took advantage of the situation to look over, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly. Still, he just didn’t expect that group of people to hide under the two camel horses.
“Salba is so big, they have their own legs, I don’t care how and where they want to go.” Lu Liran snorted softly.
After a while, he looked at the two camel horses exposed to the scorching sun, and cursed angrily: “What an idiot, isn’t hiding under the rock better than those two camel horses?”
Ke Ji smiled slightly when he heard his words, he looked at the merchant fleet over there, and his mind moved.
Soon, Xian Dan led the team to Lu Liran and sat down on a rock more than 20 meters away from Lu Liran.
Qin Qi and Six in the team smiled shyly at Lu Liran: “What a coincidence, Mr. Lu!”
Lu Liran：“……”
“We are here to hide from the sun, Mr. Lu, just don’t take us seriously!” Little Six also laughed.
Lu Liran glanced at those people lightly, and didn’t say much, he just bumped Ke Ji lightly, and motioned him to drink some more water with the straw.
Ke Ji raised his eyebrows slightly, and took a sip of water. Soon, Qin Qi and the others noticed the puddle here, and immediately imitated it one by one.
“You have to dig against the rock, right? I think Mr. Lu’s pit looks like this!”
“It makes sense, it makes sense, let’s try.”
“Hey, do you think Mr. Lu deliberately divulged it for us to see?”
“That’s for sure. Otherwise, why did he let Mr. Ke drink water? Isn’t it just to attract our attention and let us see this!”
“Wuwuwu, Mr. Lu is so nice.”
The members of the merchant fleet busily started digging pits. started digging pits. Seven or eight people immediately dug a row of sand pits against the rocks, waiting expectantly for the water to overflow.
“Ah, there it is! There is water!”
“Why don’t I have one here, ah…”
“How about letting you learn from Mr. Lu by sticking to the rock? Look at what the hell you are digging.”
“Then I’ll dig another one.”
Lu Liran did not expect that even with him being twenty or thirty meters away, the noise and movement of the merchant fleet could still fall into his ears without missing a word.
He pinched his brow to endure it.
[Host, Host, Big Wolf seems to have picked up something that is not quite right]
[Does the host want to take a look? It’s not far away!]
[Big Wolf’s first search was very successful! The host should properly touch Big Wolf’s head and belly as a reward to improve the pet, ah no, the happiness of the follower oh √]
Lu Liran：“……”
What did this big fool pick up…Lu Liran’s face darkened in an instant.
Seeing this, the chattering members of the merchant fleet not far away suddenly fell silent one by one obediently.
QAQ
Sunnyshies: Oh, almost forgot to update. I’ve been crying all day o(╥﹏╥)o, I don’t want to do anything TT, I really have love-hate relationship with emotional novels. I avoided them like a plague, but in some occasion, you really can’t help but want to read them. There’s a lot of emotional dogblood novels I refuse to read because I don’t really want to cry, but for some reason, I went to read two novels straight today.
So, I’ll recommend these two! Accompany me to cry (இ﹏இ`｡)
I’m done reading Inferior by Nature this morning. I didn’t sleep much, since I started reading this novel yesterday night. Reading this kind of novel, you can’t just casually stop, I felt like something was blocking my throat if I stop reading and pause for a second, so I read it straight till morning.
The author like writing angst very much, so after reading Inferior by nature, I went to checked out her other works. I clicked on The Selfish Gene and my finger slipped and accidentally rated it 3 stars even though I haven’t read it yet. I felt guilty for some reason, so I went to write a review, and went to read it immediately after waking up this afternoon.
I just finished it…my eyes were swollen. ♡o(╥﹏╥)o ♥♡
I have shallow tears, so I cry easily…but its worth it…hahaha…anyway, I’ll continue reading the author’s other works, haha (つ﹏⊂)
Oh right, btw, if you guys notice this chapter has no sub-title, it’s because there’s none. So, well, just letting you know.
The merchant fleet…lmao! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🐺
Wolf got big
Thank you very much!♡♡♡♡
Thank you for the chapter
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»Lu Liran hab ver low psychological expectations..« very low
»Send money to brother LU!« Lu
».. the boundless Gobi landform in front of them..« & ».. and pointed at the Gobi Desert where they were.« Shouldn’t it br Salba?
»started digging pits.« – that part, it’s a repetition
So, the wolf did find smth, was confused earlier lol And why didn’t they refill their water in the oasis? They could at least have cooked it to be on the safer side.
Thx for the ch ٩(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )و
Our Lulu’s heart is soft like tofu and Ke Meiren is like a pupper master playing with people right and left😅