Chapter 270 The Sandstorm Is Raging

The next day, when Zhou Lu was preparing materials for the next secret realm exploration, Ye Qingyu knocked on his door.

When she knocked on the door, Hua Huo was happily cleaning the room in the maid outfit she had grown.

Seeing Hua Huo opening the door for her, Ye Qingyu was stunned for a moment: "Have you guys played so much?"

Hua Huo greeted Ye Qingyu very happily.

This cute look plus this very interesting maid outfit made Ye Qingyu's eyes light up: "How did this dress grow? Can my little Yuan learn it?"

Hua Huo tilted her head in confusion: "This shouldn't be difficult..."

"Hehe, teach my little Yuan some other day." Ye Qingyu showed an excited expression.

"Sister Qingyu, aren't you going to deliver the research and development results?" Zhou Lu put down the work in his hands, looked at Ye Qingyu, and asked curiously.

Ye Qingyu smiled and said, "It's too much to produce a finished product today for the requirements sent yesterday. It will also make the front line think that our R&D is very easy, and they will continue to make outrageous demands."

"Uh... can you slack off on this kind of thing?" Zhou Lu complained.

"It can't be said to be slacking off. We also need time to verify whether Xiaoqing's moss is really effective." Ye Qingyu explained when she saw that Zhou Lu misunderstood.

"Okay." Zhou Lu just asked casually, "So, what do you want to talk to me about? Has the competition for Qiu Daomu to re-select the beastmaster started?"

"That won't happen so soon." Ye Qingyu shook her head, and then said, "This time there is a commission, see if you are interested in accepting it."

"Commission?"

"Commission from the pioneer army." Ye Qingyu introduced, "They need a spirit pet that can withstand a large range of sand and dust spirit beasts to help open up the mine. They sent the demand to me and wanted to ask me to go, but I thought of you."

Ye Qingyu is the deputy captain of the nursing team. In the official system, the deputy captain of the nursing team is basically the real power figure of the nursing team. It is indeed busy with official duties.

At this point, she sighed and said: "Recently, the incidents of lonely spirit pets being attacked in various places have become more and more frequent. I need to organize a special task force to investigate this matter."

"Is it a task in the secret realm?"

"Well, the secret realm that has not yet been opened, and the pioneer army has encountered difficulties in exploring it." Ye Qingyu said.

After hearing this, Zhou Lu agreed directly and readily.

Unknown secret realms that have not been opened?

Then it should be more interesting to explore than to go to known secret realms.

He was also very curious about what those secret realms that had not been set foot on by beast masters before were like.

According to existing scientific theories, all secret realms in this world are essentially part of the world.

The secret realms occupied by immortals are actually only a part of it.

Based on the information left by their ancestors, humans have basically explored all the secret realms where the immortal sects are located.

The remaining secret realms are either little known or have never been visited by anyone.

In addition to providing people with a variety of special spirit beasts that have never been seen before, these unknown secret realms also produce a large number of special minerals.

Some of these valuable mineral secret realms are not even open to the public.

These are what Zhou Lu read in the newspaper. The reports above are openly and secretly accusing the authorities and urging them to open these mineral secret realms.

And this time, the mission Zhou Lu accepted came from a desert secret realm.

Huahuo Caosheng saw a real desert for the first time.

Coming out of the temporary teleportation point, it looked at the rolling yellow sand in front of it with a curious expression.

The yellow sand covered the sky, and the whole sky was dyed with a layer of khaki.

The teleportation point was in the center of the pioneer army's camp, so when Zhou Lu came here, it was equivalent to entering the pioneer army's camp directly.

The commander here had long known about Zhou Lu's arrival from the logistics.

A tall and handsome man with a handsome dark face greeted him.

The moment he saw this man, the system task popped up.

After Zhou Lu took a look, he chose to skip it directly.

The current firework, the most urgent task is to accumulate attributes,

As for the system task, he only needs to know that the man in front of him named Lin Kexing is from his camp.

Lin Kexing didn't know that Zhou Lu had already known his name and background through the system, and smiled and stretched out his hand to Zhou Lu and said: "Hello, I am Lin Kexing, the deputy commander of this pioneer army."

Zhou Lu replied politely: "Hello."

Then he saw Lin Kexing showing an embarrassed expression.

Following Link's gaze, Hua Huo was curiously digging the sand on the ground with her roots.

After realizing that she was being watched by everyone, Hua Huo immediately stood up straight and hid behind Zhou Lu.

"The sand here is quite compacted, and we deliberately let the plant pets solidify it." Link introduced to Zhou Lu, "But after leaving the camp, the environment outside is bad. Even many plant pets cannot adapt to such a dry environment."

As he said, Link took Zhou Lu to his temporary residence.

"We plan to set off in the afternoon, go to the location where we went deep last time, and then continue to explore forward." Link invited Zhou Lu to sit down, and then brought some food and tea, "The supplies on the front line are tight, please forgive me."

"Didn't you say that we just resupplied not long ago?" Zhou Lu asked curiously.

Speaking of this, Lin Kexing's face changed slightly: "Those bastards in the logistics department also counted those mushrooms as our consumption. If we don't save money, we will have to eat those damn delicious mushrooms later."

The man in front of him seemed to have a lot of opinions about delicious mushrooms. When he mentioned this, he even lost his good self-control.

Zhou Lu smiled awkwardly.

Fortunately, when Sister Xiaoqing made the final product, she didn't let me experiment, otherwise I would probably be as broken as him now.

"Zhou Lu?" At this time, Xu Dalong walked in.

When he saw Zhou Lu sitting opposite Lin Kexing, he was also surprised.

Immediately, he understood: "Are you the beastmaster who came to help us from the logistics department?"

When Zhou Lu saw Xu Dalong, he immediately asked: "You are the monitor's brother, hello! I often hear the monitor mention you."

When Xu Dalong appeared, the system also popped up a task prompt.

Even though Zhou Lu had never seen Xu Dalong, he recognized him at once.

"You actually know me." Xu Dalong laughed and patted Zhou Lu's shoulder. "It seems that you also caught the wrong-toothed dog outside. Aren't you from Xin'an College? Why did you go to Xinyue?"

"Exchange and study."

Xu Dalong really didn't expect that when he saw Zhou Lu again, this young boy who looked so immature at the beginning was actually a fourth-level beastmaster at the same level as himself.

This growth rate is too exaggerated.

And looking at the fireworks beside Zhou Lu, there has been a huge change.

The last time I saw him, he was still a small grass shrinking in a white jade snail shell.

"I thought it would be Ye Qingyu coming." Xu Dalong greeted Zhou Lu.

In fact, when he made the request, he had already thought of the person he wanted to come.

Ye Qingyu's spirit pet Big Leaf Iris is also a famous quasi-god spirit pet. "Okay, come with us this afternoon. We must find a way to drive away that sand beast." Xu Dalong didn't chat for too long, and soon brought the topic back to the point.

As he said that, he looked at Hua Huo and smiled, "It's up to you, little guy."

"I'm not a little guy." Hua Huo retorted subconsciously.

Then he suddenly realized that this made Zhou Lu embarrassed, and immediately wanted to apologize.

"Hahaha, that's right. I forgot that you have grown up." Xu Dalong didn't care about these at all, and laughed, "I'll tell you the characteristics of the sand beast I summarized later, so you will have less work."

"Thank you."

Judging from the information in hand, the sand beast encountered by the pioneer army is definitely not simple.

It can affect the environment on a large scale, even if it is a favorable terrain. It is a beast starting from the fourth level.

Although he believes in Hua Huo's strength, Zhou Lu did not slack off at all, and carefully checked the characteristics of the enemy summarized by Xu Dalong.

No specific entity was found.

It will stir up the yellow sand in the sky.

If necessary, it will stir up the immortal sand soldiers.

Other things are actually fine, the main thing is that there is no entity...

Is it really no entity, or has it not been found yet?

These are two completely different concepts.

In any case, after having some confidence in his mind, Zhou Lu followed the large army to the forefront of the development.

As Lin Kexing said, after leaving the camp, the environment suddenly became bad.

The yellow sand in the sky almost blocked all vision.

"Sure enough. As soon as we retreated, it occupied it again." Xu Dalong frowned as he looked at the sandstorm in front of him.

Although he had expected it when he ordered the retreat, he still felt a little tricky when he really saw this situation.

"Is this the sandstorm I have to deal with?" Zhou Lu also showed an incredible expression after hearing Xu Dalong's words.

He looked at the rolling yellow sand in front of him.

This is a specific weather in a specific environment.

Is it a spirit beast?

"Yes. It is very cautious. It may know our strength, so it just surrounded us and did not attack us."

At the beginning of the confrontation, Xu Dalong had fought with Shachen.

But that was not Shachen's body, but a huge sand man made of sand.

It was also because of that battle that Shachen knew the strength of these people. After that, he never launched a frontal attack again. Everything he did to the pioneer army was mainly harassment and blocking.

"Is there a way to fix these sands?" Xu Dalong asked.

Although they can continue to move forward with the help of the wrong-toothed dog, if this fundamental problem cannot be solved, they will have to worry about sand attacks every time they mine, which will also be a disaster for future generations.

"I'll let Huahuo try." Zhou Lu nodded.

Huahuo received the order from his master and immediately entered the combat state.

I saw it lift up its leaf skirt, and its roots rushed into the soft sand.

In an instant, the sand within a radius of hundreds of miles entered a solidified state and was firmly grasped by Huahuo's roots.

At the same time, tall and swollen branches grew like crazy at the nodes of these root systems, and soon formed a small forest.

The leaves of these plants blocked all the surging sand and dust, and soon a layer of sand condensed on the surface of the leaves.

As the branches shook, all the sand fell to the ground, and was instantly fixed by the roots of the branches.

When Lin Kexing saw this scene, he was dumbfounded: "Fuck..."

He has also seen plant spiritual pets, and quasi-gods have also seen them, but he has never seen this scene before.

Can a quasi-god's spiritual pet be able to transform a forest into a forest with just one thought?

"We can pass for the time being." Zhou Lu said to Xu Dalong on the side, "There will be no sand and dust in the woods."

But beyond the trees, sand was flying wildly.

However, the wind force of the sandstorm has weakened significantly. It seems that the fireworks still have some effect on solidifying the sand.

"I found its traces." Hanabi suddenly said, "Although I ran very fast, I felt it."

Xu Dalong was also ecstatic when he heard this: "Really? Then let's go find it quickly!"

"...It's not that easy to find." Hanabi said again, while looking for clues about the other party, "The other party ran away so fast... He just ran away decisively when he showed a trace of breath."

"At least it proves that it has an entity." Zhou Lu suddenly became excited, "As long as we find the entity, we can defeat it."

After saying that, Zhou Lu looked at Hua Huo and asked, "Didn't you leave any parasitic ramets on the other party?"

"It ran too fast, and basically ran away with a trace of breath." Hanabi thought for a while and said, "The sand has also lost its spirituality now. It seems that the other party gave up the operation."

Are you so stubborn?

Zhou Lu was not sure whether the other party would have to pay a price for expanding the sand, but at least he knew that the other party was very cautious and even a little timid.

Facing such an enemy, we must strive to kill him with one strike. A little slack will give the opponent a chance to escape.

According to Xu Dalong, there are very rich mineral deposits under this desert, which can basically meet the energy needs of the real world for the next three hundred years.

If this unknown spiritual beast is not caught, its current hostility towards humans will definitely cause it to continue to cause trouble for humans during the subsequent mining process.

And this is one of the reasons why Xu Dalong asked the logistics to find foreign aid.

Since you have encountered a problem, you have to find a way to solve it.

You can't just trust the wisdom of future generations for any problem, right?

"Keep going." Zhou Lu used empathy and checked it again with Hanabi's perception, and then said, "I want to see how long it can hide."

Since Hanabi took action, the opponent showed the courage of a strong man to cut off his wrist.

He would rather give up part of his body than fight head-on with the beast masters. This move made Zhou Lu more determined to capture the opponent.

The spiritual beast that controls sandstorms on a large scale.

If its ability is not weak, Zhou Lu is still quite interested.

After he was promoted to the fourth level, there was still a beast-control slot without a contract.

He does lack a means of large-scale control.

Although Hanabi can be done, it will consume a lot of ramets and is not actually cost-effective.

As for the contract with Dao Mu or other divine beasts, let me first say that this matter has no influence in the first place. Even if I really win it, it is another contract.