Fantasy Game: Infinite City

Chapter 20 How to leave

After a period of communication, Han Zu and Lu An gained some information.

These people were not the natives here. Like Han Zu and Lu An, they also suddenly came here while traveling. Around the village where they lived, Han Zu and Lu An saw a train that had gone off the track. Although its shape was different from any train on Earth, it could be seen from its structure that it should be a military train.

And those villagers are not ordinary people, they are all soldiers, which is why they have those weapons that look like standard weapons. The middle-aged man should be their superior.

The place where they live now is called a village, but in fact it is a place to stay with tents set up on an open space. They arrived here two weeks earlier than Han Zu and his friends.

Although there is a language barrier, the behavioral habits and culture of both sides are very similar, so by using body language, both sides can now communicate relatively smoothly.

Lu An and the two hounds were helping others with some work. Han Zu and the middle-aged man were sitting on the ground in the center of the village. The middle-aged man took out a map with a topographic map of the surrounding area of ​​the village drawn with a pen.

The map was simple and easy to understand, and Han Zu quickly memorized the surrounding terrain. He asked the middle-aged man to get him some blank papers and put them together with the middle-aged man's map.

Han Zu roughly drew the terrain he saw before the plane landed, and used body language to tell the middle-aged man the terrain of these places. Looking at the completed map carefully, the middle-aged man seemed a little excited. He kept saying something to Han Zu, but Han Zu couldn't understand.

The middle-aged man put the map aside, found a long and thin piece of stone on the ground, and drew something on the ground.

The middle-aged man's painting skills seemed to be very good, as he had received special training, so Han Zu quickly understood what he meant.

They knew that mountain range.

But soon, the middle-aged man's mood became depressed, he sighed, and continued to draw on the ground.

Through the paintings of middle-aged people, Han Zu analyzed what they expressed.

After crossing the mountains and walking for a while, you will reach a city that those people are familiar with. This should be the world they live in, but the people in their world don’t seem to know much about this side of the mountains.

Han Zu gestured, meaning, why is your world still so unfamiliar with it? In response, the middle-aged man gave an answer with body movements and pictures on the ground.

The middle-aged man first drew a circle on the ground, then drew a question mark in the middle, and then pointed at himself and Han Zu, meaning that this was their approximate current location.

He drew a bigger circle outside the circle, indicating the huge desert surrounding this place, and drew a question mark on the desert. Then he remembered something and drew a strange creature on it, which was exactly the creature that Han Zu had seen on the altar on the top of the pyramid before. He also drew a little man next to it, probably to illustrate its size. If you look at it in proportion, this creature must be at least hundreds of meters long, and it seems that there is not only one of these things in the desert, but many.

Han Zu used body language to ask the middle-aged man how he knew about this creature. The middleman drew a pattern on the ground. It was those creatures leaping out of the desert and eating something like a drone in one bite. Judging from the height, the bodies of these creatures were very outrageous.

Next was the primeval jungle outside the desert. The middle-aged man drew some plants, but painted terrifying fangs and sharp teeth on them, and then made an eating gesture. The plants in the entire primeval forest were almost all carnivorous or omnivorous, and they ate almost everything.

There was also a creature that looked like an insect. They looked a bit like ancient insects that had been enlarged dozens of times. Of course, they were also carnivorous. The middle-aged man pointed at his gun, shook his head, and used his fingers to form a circle twice as large as the muzzle of the gun, then nodded, meaning that these insects needed large-caliber weapons to cause effective damage.

The lake outside the primeval forest was much better than the desert and jungle, but the middle-aged man made a gesture of drinking water, then lay on the ground pretending to be dead for a few seconds, indicating that the lake water was highly poisonous.

The last mountain range was normal, but judging from the middle-aged man's movements, the temperature there seemed to be very low.

The middle-aged man gestured the distance and shook his head, meaning that it was completely unrealistic for them to cross this distance.

Han Zu thought for a while, took out his mobile phone which couldn't be turned on for some reason, made a communication gesture, and pointed at the middle-aged man. The middle-aged man understood what he meant, stood up, and took out a device similar to a satellite phone from a crate not far away, but it was round.

I showed it to Han Zu. Although it was usable, the sign on it seemed to say that there was no signal.

Han Zu made a walking motion with his fingers, then took the communication device from the middle-aged man and shook it, meaning, why didn't they send some people outside to see if they could find a signal. The middle-aged man said that they had sent people out, but the two teams sent out have not returned yet, and given the danger here, they are most likely in danger.

After thinking for a while, Han Zu took the communication device in his hand, pointed at himself, and then pointed at the map, meaning that he could go out and find a signal for these people. However, Han Zu pointed at the communication device, indicating that someone needed to go with him, because he did not know their language, and even if he found a signal, it would be useless.

The middle-aged man thought for a long time, pointed at himself, then stood up, called everyone around him over, gathered them together, and talked to them about something, probably explaining what to do after he left.

The middle-aged man seemed to have a high prestige among the crowd, and the crowd loved him very much, so they couldn't help but feel a little worried, but the middle-aged man was very firm in his ideas and would not tolerate rejection.

After handing over the leadership to a man of about his age, the middle-aged man changed into combat uniform, took up his weapon, put on a backpack full of food and water, saluted the crowd, and then returned to Han Zu. He seemed to want to set off right away, and it was obvious that he was very anxious.

After a simple packing, Han Zu, Lu An, the two hunting dogs, and the middle-aged man left the gathering place. The crowd surrounded them and accompanied them for a distance. Only under the middle-aged man's mandatory request and order did they return to the village.

Lu An took some food and water, but Han Zu took nothing.

There is also a forest outside the village, but the forest is not very big and there are not many deadly places. However, there are still many wild animals. They all look very strange. The beasts killed by the Death Hounds before seem to be one of the predators in this small forest.

The hounds led the way, and most of the wild animals in the forest avoided them. Except for some birds and completely non-aggressive herbivores, almost all creatures were very afraid of them.

The forest was not big, and the group soon left it. The outskirts of the forest gradually became desertified, and not long after they walked, the group saw an endless desert.

The group stood at the edge of the desert. The middle-aged man took out the communication device, looked at it carefully, and with some excitement, he held the communicator in front of Han Zu.

The signal from the communication equipment was intermittent and very discontinuous, but there was finally movement. It seemed that as long as we kept moving forward, we might soon find a place where the signal was stable.

The group did not hesitate and walked into the desert according to the map Han Zu drew from memory.

It was now almost noon, so everyone could feel the heat wave coming from the desert. The middle-aged man and Lu An were sweating all over, their endurance decreased due to the high temperature, and their steps became slower. The middle-aged man was fine, after all, he was a soldier, he took off his bulletproof vest and put it on his head to block the sunlight.

Lu An was struggling, but in order not to add burden to the team, he wrapped his coat around his head and walked with difficulty, gritting his teeth and enduring the scorching sun like an Arab.

After walking for about two hours, Lu An finally couldn't hold on any longer and stumbled to the ground, but was quickly bounced up by the hot sand.

I took out a bottle of water from my backpack and took a big sip. The water had turned warm due to the high temperature. A few drops accidentally fell on the ground and quickly evaporated.

Strangely, Han Zu didn't seem to be affected much. He was just very hot, and the hounds were the same, sticking out their tongues to cool down.

Han Zu saw Lu An, who was about to fall behind, and stood at the front of the team. His tall body approached Lu An and the middle-aged man, shielding them from the sun. Han Zu waved his hand, signaling the two to rest for a while. Hiding in Han Zu's shadow, the two took out food and water to recover their strength.

The two hounds were taken back into Han Zu's body, which surprised the middle-aged man for a moment. However, soon, some wild animals appeared in the desert and diverted his attention.

They were tall creatures, slightly larger than two hounds, and looked very much like camels, but they had eight hooves, no tails, and three humps.

The animals were eating a giant plant that grows in the desert and looks like a cross between a cactus and an aloe vera.

These animals were not very afraid of people, probably because they had rarely seen these strange creatures walking on two legs. Even when a group of people approached them, they did not run away and continued to eat.

Walking up to them, Han Zu reached out his hand and stroked the necks of these creatures. They were unexpectedly docile, and their personalities might be similar to those of docile horses. Han Zu placed Lu An and the middle-aged man, each on the back of a creature, and used the rope in the middle-aged man's backpack to make two simple reins for them. After they finished eating, Han Zu led the two creatures, carrying Lu An and the middle-aged man, and continued to walk deeper into the desert.

With the mounts, they moved much faster. As time passed, the sun slowly set and the temperature in the desert slowly dropped. Now it is a relatively comfortable temperature.

The middle-aged man took out his communication device. The signal was a little better, but it was still intermittent and could not be used normally. It seemed that we had to keep moving forward.

Han Zu observed his surroundings. His vision was now very far, even to an absurd degree. In addition, the desert had relatively little obstruction, so Han Zu could clearly see the situation several kilometers away. However, there was nothing but sand, and occasionally some slightly larger lizards would pass by.

An hour later, the sun gradually set, and it was dusk. The desert became dark, and the stars and the moon gradually appeared. The temperature in the desert was dropping rapidly, and it was even getting a little cold.

The dim light did not have any actual effect on Han Zu's vision. Through observation, Han Zu found that a huge sandstorm was slowly forming a few kilometers away and sweeping towards them.

After a few simple gestures to explain what he had seen, the group found the back slope of a sand dune and used the clothes they carried and Han Zu's body to temporarily build a simple shelter. The two creatures seemed to be very sensitive to sandstorms and lay down with their eyes closed.

Not long after we took shelter, a huge sandstorm swept in. For some reason, although it was almost night, the temperature of the sandstorm was very high, and the sand and gravel blown up in the air were a little hot to the touch.

The noisy sounds of wind and sand rubbing against each other in the sandstorm filled the area around the group. They could hear nothing else. The sandstorm was so large that it trapped them for nearly an hour before it passed them and swept away into the distance.

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