I picked up skill fragments in the demon world

Chapter 56: A Thousand Miles of Withered Yellow (First Update)

"Can't you scrape some together for me?" Zhang Chen's voice was filled with speechlessness, but facing the ice-frozen soil, he had no choice but to obediently search for dry branches, then light them and smoke them inside the stone cave.

The soil was frozen as hard as stone; he couldn't dig it! This icy cold was clearly abnormal.

Zhang Chen lit the fire, then crawled out of the cave, carefully concealing the traces of the cave, and then used a Luoyang shovel to remove the surrounding weeds one by one, disguising the place as a desolate mountain.

"This place is a desolate mountain and remote wilderness, already considered the depths of the mountains and forests. The common people may not be able to set foot here, but we still need to take precautions." Zhang Chen surveyed the disguise, dealt with the matters of the ancient tomb, and then walked down the mountain.

"Huh, is that a herd of deer?" Zhang Chen walked halfway, just climbing onto a large mountain, and from afar he saw a group of sika deer eating withered weeds in the mountains.

"It really is a herd of deer." Zhang Chen stared for a while, confirming that he had not misread, and couldn't help but reveal a hint of joy, as venison was a great tonic.

"Although the rivers are dry now, some vegetation can take root seven or eight meters deep, and can still draw moisture from the ground. Animals can chew on plants to barely extend their lives when they lack water, but I don't know if the situation will continue to deteriorate." Zhang Chen thought to himself. If the situation worsened, it would be time for the beasts to migrate.

"Although the air in the world circulates, it can't withstand the dragon's head constantly plundering it." Zhang Chen's eyes flickered with golden light as he looked at the cloud-like dragon head in the darkness, which was swallowing the water vapor from all directions.

"This dragon aura isn't yelling anymore. Last time the dragon's roar collided with my protective golden light, it directly shook my protective golden light and dropped a Water Control Technique. I now hope the dragon aura will act up again." Zhang Chen muttered to himself.

Checking the traps, all he saw along the way were figures everywhere on the mountains, each of them lying on the ground, painstakingly digging for something.

Zhang Chen arrived at the trap and frowned as he looked at his own trap.

The trap mechanism had been triggered, and there were even traces of wild chickens struggling on the ground, but the prey was gone.

"In the future, villagers from nearby villages will come to the mountains to dig for grass roots and tree bark. I have to change my hunting methods!" Zhang Chen muttered to himself.

"I need a long-range attack weapon. I need to manufacture a slingshot as soon as possible. Iron pellets combined with a slingshot can kill ordinary wild chickens and rabbits with one hit, of course, provided they are accurate enough." Zhang Chen directly dismantled the trap, because more and more people would be entering the mountains, and the probability of his own trap not being discovered would become smaller and smaller.

After wandering around the mountain without any harvest, Zhang Chen returned to the cave, stuffed the small basket containing the bumblebees into the basket on his back, and Zhang Chen glanced at the falcon.

He also put the falcon in a cage, covered it with clothes, and carried it down the mountain.

In a few days, the villagers will be desperately hungry and running around in the mountains. If someone happens to stumble upon it, the falcon will probably die. Moreover, he can't let the falcon fly around, in case those hungry people follow the falcon's trail.

Back in the village, the village chief was gathering the people to prepare to dig a well again. Zhang Chen couldn't help but shake his head as he watched the well-digging crowd:

"It's impossible to dig out water. The groundwater five meters below the village has dried up, all of it has been drawn away by that dragon."

Zhang Chen walked in the village, and after walking around, he knew that there was no water under the village at all.

Nothing happened overnight, except that the fox spirit swaggered around carrying a wooden bucket, filling it with a bucket of water at his house.

Watching the fox spirit leave with a bucket of water, a cold light appeared in Zhang Chen's eyes: "Only ten more experience points are needed. The outcome will be known tomorrow!"

The next day, just as the sky was slightly bright, Zhang Chen was awakened from his sleep by a series of screams:

"It's not good, the seedlings in the fields are all dried up!"

"You old heavens, how are you going to let my family of five survive!"

"God, please open your eyes and take a look, are you going to drive us all to extinction?"

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The villagers were wailing, and the desolate cries awakened Zhang Chen. Zhang Chen hurriedly pushed open the door and walked out, and the first thing he saw was the withered grass in the yard.

Zhang Chen carefully walked to the withered grass and reached out to touch it, but who knew that the withered grass had already turned into two halves as soon as it touched Zhang Chen's fingertips, dry and without any moisture.

Zhang Chen's pupils shrank upon seeing this, his eyes full of disbelief. After a little thought, he frowned: "I understand, that dragon can't directly extract the moisture from the vegetation, but the dragon can directly extract the moisture from the air. The moisture in the air decreases, and the rate of evaporation of moisture in the grass is of course several times faster, and the grass also has no groundwater to nourish it. It's normal for it to be dried out overnight."

But what Zhang Chen was most worried about was that the reduction of moisture in the air would inevitably cause a reduction of moisture in the human body. At that time, it would be humans and animals who would die of thirst.

How many days can people last without water?

Two days? Or three days?

Zhang Chen walked out of the yard and followed the crowd towards the fields. From afar, he saw a field of withered yellow. Some people were sitting in the fields, staring blankly, while others were lying on the fields, crying and wailing at the dried-up seedlings, their voices full of sorrow.

"Fortunately, I have mastered the Water Control Technique, but unfortunately, my Water Control Technique can only gather the water vapor within five meters of my body, and cannot save the people of the world. Because of the drought, chain reactions will occur next. The medicinal materials in the mountains will skyrocket in price, and the price of food will also skyrocket. All living costs such as food, clothing, housing, and transportation will increase. The trouble will be great!" Zhang Chen's heart was filled with a sense of urgency. He had to dig open the tomb as soon as possible, upgrade his skills, so as to get rid of the fox spirit's restrictions and escape this human purgatory.

"Today's goals are two: one is to upgrade my first skill, and the other is to capture sika deer. I am still raising falcons now, and I desperately need a lot of food. The reason why I didn't capture sika deer in the past was because there was a fox spirit, and I didn't want to benefit the fox spirit. Now that my first skill is about to be upgraded, I am going to use sika deer to test the fox spirit's details." A cold look appeared in Zhang Chen's eyes. If he had the opportunity to subdue demons and eliminate evil, he would never be soft-hearted.

A fox girl is not as fragrant as a fox fur collar!

"Of course, if I could suppress the fox spirit, ask the fox spirit to steal money from wealthy families, wash my clothes and fold my quilts, and make me a person who doesn't have to worry about life in this world, that would be great. At the very least, I have to catch the fox spirit and take the fox spirit to walk the streets and alleys to sell art, and rely on the fox spirit's skills to perform acrobatics. There will definitely be no shortage of rich people giving rewards." Zhang Chen was very happy in his heart: "Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, I am getting stronger every day, you fox spirit will be killed by me sooner or later."

He himself doesn't have the means to transport things, but the fox spirit does? He can directly go to wealthy families to move silver, which is simply punishing evil and promoting good!

"That fox spirit can leave its soul, maybe I can communicate with it and take the opportunity to analyze the mysteries and obtain the fox spirit's cultivation methods. I don't know if there is a way to live forever in this world!" Zhang Chen's thoughts were a little divergent. He still prefers to find skills that can prolong life. As long as he keeps adding points, he will be able to add out a long life and immortality sooner or later.