Chapter 54 Sand Sea

This damn gourd didn't give me any chance to think at all. I was still thinking about how to deal with this damn gourd. It had already flown near the German-French border. At this rate, it wouldn't take long for us to enter France.

Ashford said to me in a private chat: "How about we try sticky bombs first?"

"Then you should deliver it quickly!"

"Where are you? I'll go in front of you to intercept you."

“I just passed through Stuttgart and I can already see the Black Forest Mountains.”

"Wait a moment, I'll be there soon."

Ashford's movements were indeed fast enough. Less than five minutes after cutting off the private chat, he saw him with a large group of people riding Thunder Eagles coming up from the front.

"How's it going? Is it fast enough?"

"Not bad. Where are the things?"

"Here it is." Ashford took out a red sphere from his body. "This is a finished product. It explodes ten seconds after being thrown out. The quick-drying glue sprayed out is very powerful. If it can stick to the nozzle, it might work."

"Give me a few and I'll try them."

"Give."

Ashford's Thunderhawk was flying below me. He stretched out his hand to pass the sticky bomb to me. I lay on top of the flying bird and reached out to catch it. Just when I was about to reach it, there was a sudden bang behind Asuka, and then my hands and Ashford's hands became farther and farther away. I got up and looked at the wings of the flying bird. The outer combustion chamber on the right side was actually dragging billowing black smoke.

"Asuka, are you okay?"

Before Feiniao had time to answer, the combustion chamber on the left side also made a sudden bang. I clearly saw a large fireball ejected from the combustion chamber. After the flame disappeared, the combustion chamber also began to emit black smoke. The gourd of heaven and earth in front of us is getting farther and farther away from us, and our speed has obviously slowed down.

"Asuka? Asuka? What's wrong with you?"

"I don't know." Asuka's voice sounded weak. "I feel a little dizzy and I can't exert any strength. Maybe it's because I've been flying for too long."

"Then why don't you take a rest first?"

"I can still be strong..." Boom, there was another explosion. This time it was the combustion chamber on the outside of the left wing. Only one of the four propellers was left. The bird was obviously out of control, and we began to shake violently.

Ashford's voice appeared above us: "Zi Ri? What's wrong with your mount? It doesn't seem to be normal!"

"It seems that the propeller overheated and caused deflagration. The aircraft probably needs to be replaced. Get out of the way." After Ashford and the others retreated a distance, I summoned Fenglong: "Let Xiaofeng come out."

The speed of the Qiankun Gourd is relatively fast, and ordinary things cannot keep up with this speed, so I always use a spear instead. Yeying's speed is good, but his endurance is not. After all, it is a small monster and cannot have much endurance. Xiaofeng is a phoenix, his speed is passable, and his stamina is also okay.

I jumped on Xiaofeng's back and let Changqian return to Fenglong's space to rest and let Xiaochun help him heal. Xiaofeng took over Feiniao's task and led me to quickly catch up with the gourd, but now it was a problem to get close to the gourd. After all, the phoenix is ​​a large creature. The result of being too large is that it has poor flexibility. Moreover, it is not as fast as a flying bird, so it is obviously very difficult to fly.

Ashford threw me a few sticky bombs. But the effect after use is very bad. This thing can't resist the super water pressure, and it can't seal the outlet at all.

"It seems that your sticky bombs are not working?" I said to Ashford.

Ashford nodded: "Then let's find the water inlet, go in and detonate it with a bomb."

"But how do you control the timing of the explosion? You don't want me to put it on top of your city and detonate it, do you?"

"Why do you care about so many things at this time? Two people go in, one is responsible for going offline and reminding the time by phone. As long as the error is not too big, it's enough. Don't always think about using it to blow up the enemy's lair. Under the current conditions Don’t let it cause more damage is the first priority.”

"Okay!" Ashford is more practical than me. He doesn't expect this thing to cause losses to the enemy. "I mean Ashford. At least we have to find the entrance first!"

"Don't you have the Tower of Babel? I think with such a large amount of water, the amount of water at the water inlet will not be too small. Shouldn't it be difficult to find such a large vortex?"

"Then you keep an eye on this thing first, and I'll go back to find the whirlpool."

"Hey." Ashford wanted to call me, but I was too fast and disappeared.

Use the teleportation ring to return to Tianyu City and then use the transnational teleportation array to return to Essinger. When the gods saw my appearance, they immediately surrounded me and asked me about the gourd. "Stop it all. It will be next year if you all answer it again. I can only tell you now that that thing has caused a lot of trouble. I decided to blow it up now. If you agree, give me a guarantee. Don’t ask me to compensate the gourd or anything inside the gourd.”

"Of course." The gods were so annoyed by this gourd that they no longer care about me.

"Now that you have agreed, it's easy to handle. I'm going to blow it up now, so don't block me first."

As soon as they heard that I was going to fry gourds, the gods immediately made way. I first found Hongyue and asked her to send someone to make sure that the calabash was not within our or German territory. Now we don’t expect to use it to bomb the Japanese, as long as we don’t drown our own people. I gave the task of finding the vortex to Scott and the others in Steel City who were still watching a movie.

Based on the information collected when the vortex came out, we can still roughly guess the location of the vortex. The first is the time. It was daytime when we came out of it, which means that the place is not far from our time zone, which means it is either the Pacific Ocean or the Indian Ocean. The water temperature felt relatively high at that time, which meant that our location was not at the poles, but near the equator. With this information we quickly found our target. The vortex is located just off the coast of Japan, very close to their territorial waters.

The Iron Crusaders gave me the super bomb. Then I asked Vina to help. There is no one in the base now. So no one can go offline and tell me to detonate a bomb, but Vina is in the base. She is perfectly qualified for this position. In fact, our demon pets and Scots can all hold this position, but we can't let people know that they have become real people. The identity of Goddess Vina is easier to tell lies about. Let's just say that because Vina and I have exchanged blood before, she can use large-scale magic to contact me without being restricted by the gourd. In fact, as long as Vina gets the news and logs off in an empty room, then goes to my room and presses the emergency call bell on my helmet, I will know that I can detonate the bomb. And as long as the call button is pressed, I will be forced offline after ten seconds. This will avoid the shock wave of the explosion and prevent me from being killed too. Vina has a special status. Before she goes offline, she can use the secret technique of not being seen to clear the room. It’s not easy for others to hold them accountable.

After deciding, it’s time to think about how to get to that vortex. That thing is also on the opposite side of Japan. My flying bird has such a serious problem again. I think I have to rely on other mounts in the past. How much time will this waste?

Hongyue said to use a spear, but the spear is not as durable as the flying bird. It cannot fly that far at all, and the speed is also very different. Others have their own ideas, but none of them are very good. When everyone was worried, Su Mei suddenly said something lukewarm. "Actually, this question is very simple."

"Do you have any idea?" Everyone looked at our little consultant.

Sumei hooked her fingers and summoned two NPC guards to whisper a few words to them. Then the two guards immediately ran out. "Everyone follow me."

One by one, we were inexplicably brought to the top deck of the city by Su Mei.

"What did you bring us here for?" I looked at Su Mei and didn't know what she wanted to do.

Su Mei pointed at the magic arrow launcher next to her: "Two people go up." Two NPCs climbed up according to her request. "Open the cover that is in the standby position." The magic arrows are fired in sequence, and each time it is the turn to fire, the one that is fired will enter the standby position in advance. After the NPC opened the lid, Su Mei asked the two of them to pull out a section of the magic missile inside.

The people around were even more curious. They didn't know what was going on in Su Mei's little head. Just when everyone was wondering, the two guard guards also came back, but at this time they were holding large bundles of rope.

Su Mei herself climbed onto the top of the divine arrow and asked me to go up first. He pointed at the magic missile that popped out and said to me: "Stand with your back against it."

"What are you going to do?" I asked as I leaned closer.

Su Mei didn't answer me but picked up the rope and tied me up. She actually tied me to the missile. "Damn it! You're not going to let me get there on a missile, are you?"

The people below finally understood. Hongyue said quickly: "This... Su Mei, is this too exaggerated?"

Su Mei doesn't care what we say. She tied me up tightly and then jumped down to pick up the control crystal. "Everyone, step back." Although everyone was still trying to persuade Su Mei, they still backed away.

I started to get anxious. "Hey! Su Mei, this thing is not for people to sit on the ground. Put me down quickly, I don't want to sit on a missile! Hey..."

Su Mei and Ben ignored me. She faced me with a pure angelic smile and waved her little hands. Although the smile did look like an angel, I seemed to see the two small horns on her head and the small fork in her hand. "Bye-Bye!"

"No...!" Boom!

My screams were getting farther and farther away in the smoke, and everyone around me was stunned with their mouths open, and their jaws almost dropped.

Su Mei threw the control crystal into Hong Yue's hand, and Hong Yue quickly caught it. "Isn't that enough? He should be here in less than twenty minutes."

Erlangshen swallowed and patted a player in our guild next to him. "Whose child is this?"

The player shook his head: "I don't know. It's not my child anyway! Ask those old Black Mountain demons and White Bone Demons, maybe they are their relatives!"

Although Su Mei's method is very problematic, I have to say that this method is very effective. At least I arrived at my destination within twenty minutes. And it plunges headlong into the center. The missile took me directly into the center of the vortex vertically. I cut the rope in the water and then the missile stalled and was swept down by the water. I tried to slow down my dive speed until the missile exploded and then swam inside.

The suction force of the vortex is obviously much stronger than before, and the reason is that the seal is getting weaker and weaker. Although I am quite familiar with the route into the gourd, it still took me a lot of time this time. By the time I arrived at the designated location, more than an hour had passed.

Before coming, we made an appointment to start the timer from when I set out. I would start observing the location of the gourd two hours later. As long as it was not within our interest range, I would be notified to detonate it. Because the time hasn't come yet, I have to wait here. To prevent being rushed out. When I came here, I made a fixed stake at the bottom of the gourd. Then I tied it with a rope and slowly dragged the rope here so that the water flow would not take me away.

Wait until the two hours are up. I heard the system prompt someone to press the emergency call bell, and the system started counting down to remind me that I would be forced to log out. It seems that we are no longer in the danger zone now. I took out that super bomb. Then activate the bomb according to the activation method you have seen in advance. There is only a 5-second delay after this thing is activated. It is not intended to let people escape at all, unless they are offline, otherwise this time is not enough to even throw the teleportation scroll.

The way to activate the bomb is very simple. After I was ready, the system prompted me that I would be exited in six seconds, so I had to wait a little longer. When the system prompted that there were three seconds left, I finally pressed the detonation button and threw the bomb. Three seconds later I was in my bedroom, Vina standing next to me.

"Ashford said you'd better wait a little longer before entering the game. The bomb is very powerful. And the flood may prevent you from landing."

I nodded: "Can you tell me where the gourd was when it was detonated?"

"When I logged off, it was near the border between Libya and Egypt. It was full of sand and there was no reference point, so we have no way to determine which country you are in, but it may be more likely to be in Libya."

"Well, okay. I understand. You go online first to avoid being suspected by them."

"Then I'll go back first."

I was active in the room for more than half an hour before going online again. Even if the flood hasn't receded yet, there shouldn't be any problem as long as I don't fall to the ground.

I was shocked when I entered the game again. There was water all around. Why am I still in the water? Didn't the gourd explode?

After looking around, I dismissed this possibility. The water above my head is very close to me, and I can see the sun from here. It seems that the Gourd of Heaven and Earth has been completely destroyed. I was about to go upstream when the system prompted me. "The player Ziri used energy beads to complete the explosion. In this explosion, 7 players died. You will lose a certain amount of experience points and compensate 0 crystal coins. This compensation has been automatically deducted. The Qiankun Gourd belonging to the Chinese Heavenly Court was destroyed in the explosion. Damage, but the owner agrees that you don’t have to pay compensation, so you don’t have to bear responsibility for it. End of notice.”

It seems that some people were accidentally injured in the explosion, but not many. And it seems that these people are not of high levels, because the combined experience points lost by seven people cannot make me drop the level. Normally, I should lose as much experience points as they lose when they die, but the result I checked is that although my experience points have become less, my level is still 800.

After hearing the announcement, I spread my wings and flapped a few times before reaching the water. The sunshine above the head is very strange, hazy as if in the fog, and seems to have a faint green color. What kind of sunshine is this? Vina said that the final location was near the border of Libya and Egypt, so it should be in the desert area! Why does such dreary weather appear in the desert?

After looking at the sky, I looked around, and the surroundings were not the water world I imagined. Of course it won’t be all sand. My current location is in a lake. And the lake area is not small. I was not far from the shore. I dived down again and flapped my wings a few times before hitting the sand on the shore. I originally wanted to walk up along the shore. As soon as my feet hit the ground, I realized something didn't feel right.

The sand in the desert itself is very soft, and quicksand is completely unable to carry heavy objects. After the gourd exploded, the floodwaters obviously seeped into the interior of the dunes. The already weak dunes were dug even softer by the floods, and now they are completely inoperable. Fortunately, I had a pair of wings. I flapped my legs hard twice in the water and pulled my legs out. If it were anyone else, the kick I just stepped on would have been fatal.

Although quicksand can flow like water, it is still different from water. A boat can float in water but not in quicksand. The law of pressure does not apply in quicksand, because quicksand is not water after all, and its fluidity is one-sided. In quicksand, the gravel transmits pressure to all sides and below but not upward. The boat can float in the water through the pressure difference between the bottom and the top, but the sand does not provide this upward pressure, so after falling into the sand, no matter how strong your buoyancy is, it will just continue to sink.

"Rose Vine." Fortunately, I have all kinds of magic pets, no matter how complicated the environment is, I am not afraid of it.

The rose vine entered the sand directly from the Phoenix Dragon Space, and then two thick branches emerged from the water and dragged me out of the water. The large number of branches of the rose vine can spread the pressure. And its flexible branches can make snaking movements, which is the most efficient method of propulsion in the sand.

The rose vine took me out of the water, and then according to my request, he dragged me up so that I could observe the surrounding scenery. If the location mentioned by Vina is correct, this should be part of the Sahara Desert, but now it doesn't look like a desert or a beach. The place where we are is a relatively high sand dune, and there are many such sand dunes around. The low-lying land between the dunes was flooded, and the remaining dunes were connected by ridge-like sand piles, making the place look like ponds.

Loosely packed sand absorbs water better than soil. The water level is falling at a rate visible to the naked eye. It is estimated that it will not take long for the water to completely seep into the ground, and then return to the sea along underground rivers or other channels. A desert cannot turn into an oasis just by having water, let alone seawater containing a large amount of mineral salts.

The large lake I just came out of seems to be the largest lake nearby, and it is estimated to be directly below the explosion point. It's possible that this wasn't such a big pothole originally, and the shock wave probably blew the sand away.

Take out the ** needle from your pocket. Then I thought about the target Essinger. The ** needle starts working immediately, and the two needles point to the final destination and the next destination that should be reached. As soon as I confirmed the direction, the surroundings suddenly darkened. The mercury shield covered my whole body, and the surrounding area became pitch black. But I still felt a slight vibration on my hand, and there was a crisp sound.

The mercury shield immediately retracted after blocking it for a moment, and the surrounding light returned to light. "Ah! My baby!" The parts of the ** needle were scattered on the sand around me, and this poor baby was actually scattered!

When I was in great grief and anger, the phantom voice suddenly appeared. "Master, the enemy is still nearby. I think now is not the time to feel sad."

I raised my head angrily and looked around. "Where are the people?"

"Over there." The phantom directly controlled my body and moved my gaze over.

I saw a row of cavalry standing on a sand dune opposite. These people all wore gray and white gauze clothing, with only a small amount of metal armor on important parts. Moreover, they all wore gauze turbans on their heads and black veils covering their faces. At first glance, their outfits look like Arab cavalry, but if you look closely, there are some differences. Maybe this is the style of the local equipment here!

Compared to the cavalry, the mounts they ride are more interesting. It was a type of camel, but not an ordinary camel. This kind of camel actually has a horn on the top of its head, and they are much larger than ordinary camels. A horse with horns on its head is called a unicorn. I don't know what to call a camel with horns.

In fact, compared to clothing and mounts. What surprised me the most was that these people were all holding rifles. Why do I feel like these people look like bandits?

During the short time I was observing them, they actually started aiming their guns at me again.

"Pioneers." I pointed at the unknown people.

The pioneers jumped out from Fenglong Space and plunged into the sand. Then like a dolphin leaping from the water, the pioneers actually leaped out of the sand. Then it disappeared into the sand again. For the pioneers, this place is like paradise. The soft sand offers no resistance at all, and movement becomes extremely smooth.

The other party fired again, but there was really no accuracy at this distance. I don’t know whether it was my bad luck or some other reason, but the shot just hit the target. That thing was a very practical piece of equipment, but it was destroyed so quickly!

I didn't have to move at all. Most of the opponent's bullets missed, and the few that might have hit were blocked by the mercury shield. Suddenly, the sand around a special camel at the edge of the opponent exploded. The pioneer flew over the camel's back and sank into the sand again. Everyone on the other side was startled. When they looked over there, the camel was standing there fine, but the rider was missing.

Suddenly, the sand on the other side of these people stirred, and the upper body of the rider who had just disappeared appeared. This guy was being dragged backwards in the sand while screaming, and the people above could only see his upper body.

"Let's go there too." I said to Rose Vine.

A large number of vines suddenly rose up from the surrounding sand, like lotus petals, wrapped me into a pupa and then sank into the ground. Those people on the sand dune opposite jumped down in panic and tried to rescue their companions, but the guy was dragged backwards and moved very fast in the sand, and they couldn't catch up at all. Suddenly the guy stopped, and a spring of sand spurted upward from where his waist entered the sand. Then everything stopped.

His companion ran to him, grabbed his arm and pulled him out. When he was pulled out, everyone was dumbfounded. Only half of this guy is left, with nothing left from the waist down. The red blood stained a large area of ​​sand.

"Ah!" Just as they were stunned, the person standing at the back suddenly fell into the ground. The two people who were closer flew over and grabbed his arm, but the drag force It was too big, and the two of them were pulled to the edge of the sandpit together, and then their hands slipped and they disappeared. One of the two people was digging sand frantically, but this was obviously in vain.

There was a pop. Another sand spring spurted out from the side of these people, and a black object flew out. After those people ran over, they discovered that the black object was a human leg connected to half of the body, while the other leg and the other half of the body were missing.

"Woo!" Another guy yelled, but this time they saw that the attacking object was a cane. Canes wrapped around the guy's head and dragged him upside down into the sand.

boom. In the sand next to him, the Pioneer jumped out of the sand, then opened his big mouth and swallowed a man standing on his landing point from the top of his head into his mouth. Then disappeared into the sand.

"Ah...!" One of the masked men suddenly turned around and ran over to his mount. Then he jumped on the mount and shouted, urging the mount to escape. The others took the lead and followed his lead, but I wouldn't let them run away so easily.

boom! The first person to escape had not run twenty meters when the sand in front of him suddenly flew up like an explosion. Six glowing red eyes appeared in the shadows blocked by the sand in the sky. When the sand fell, they finally saw clearly what was in front of them.

A giant red scorpion, dozens of meters long, stood in front of them. The scorpion demonstrated in a sexual manner by opening its large pincers several meters long and then closing them suddenly, making a sound like a hammer striking a steel ingot. Before they could understand what was going on, the sand and soil around them suddenly started to stir like a pot boiling. Tens of thousands of small scorpions of various types emerged from the sand, their tail spines standing high, and judging from the direction, these cavalry were their targets. Many of my familiars have similar skills, that is, they can summon the same kind. The scorpion happens to be the target of Red Thorn's summons.

These extremely panicked people suddenly started to stir up the sand again, but this time it was not a monster, but me rising from the sand. I don't know if the other party was planning to fight, but one of the guys actually picked up a gun and pointed it at me and 'shot'.

Ping! One gunshot and two bullets. This guy's double-barreled rifle actually fires both barrels as soon as the trigger is pulled. I thought all double-barreled rifles fired alternately! The mercury shield deployed by Phantom only blocked one bullet, and the other hit me slightly to the right of my head. But it's a pity that this guy's gun doesn't have as high an attack as the Gunslinger's. The bullet only made a spark on my helmet and disappeared.

The calculation method of the attack effect of weapons such as muskets is different from that of cold weapons. If the gun penetrates the opponent's armor after hitting it, the full lethality is calculated. In other words, as long as the armor is penetrated, the damage will be calculated according to the attribute of ignoring defense. But if the armor cannot be penetrated, then one drop of blood will be forcibly deducted as if the armor is not broken.

"Your gun doesn't seem to be very good?"

The guy looked at his gun in surprise and then shot me again. The shot just now was a mistake caused by habitual thinking. Of course, it is impossible to be hit again now. All the bullets were blocked by the mercury shield, and the warhead that lost its power was pulled out bit by bit by the mercury and fell to the ground. "Ordinary flying weapons are useless against me. You'd better not waste bullets."

"..."

faint! Can't understand! Quickly open the translator and select automatic language recognition.

"...Peace talks are possible." I didn't understand the previous part because I didn't have an interpreter.

"Wait a minute. What did you just say? I didn't understand the translation without looking at it."

"I said that you, a foreigner, are so arrogant when you arrive in our place. You can't get out without our help. So you'd better not kill us. We can make peace."

"I don't think so. I can get out without you." Even though the needle is broken, at least I still have a compass. It's not easy to leave here. "But when it comes to peace talks, I think it's really necessary." I took out a bunch of parts. "You just broke my baby, what do you have to say about it?" Huh! Is it that easy to forget about breaking my things?