Sword and Magic and Taxi

Management and governance are not Zhao Mai's strengths, but transforming the environment and farming are. The group of people walked around the large alluvial sand wasteland. When they returned to the first hard ground area, Z-worms and soil had grown, covering the sand dunes with a radius of 100 meters, appearing in front of everyone.

The purple soil clings tenaciously to the sand, forming a solid patch of land along the dunes. Apart from the differences in water content and humus, sand and soil are actually both rock fragments. The soil plus the Z-worm's refining chamber basically ignores the physical properties of the sand and focuses on utilizing the material components inside, so it can continue to grow.

Relying on the water transformed by Zhao Mai, an incubation room and the first refining room have been built here. Two worker insects are busy using the silicate bricks made in the refining room to build walls to prevent the incubation room from being buried by wind and sand. This small stronghold has only initially established a firm foothold, and it has already left Satiri and Butcher speechless in shock. But Zhao Mai believes that the Z-worm's movement speed is still a bit slow.

It seems that the lack of water has slowed down their speed. I originally expected it to be about three or four times as fast as it is now. Zhao Mai squatted down and dug out the soil with his hands to see where it was connected to the sand.

Look, it's very loose, which means that the soil only uses sand as a raw material. This speed will definitely be much slower than in the soil environment. Maybe the big pit where the sand thieves are buried will develop faster than here.

Regardless of whether they understood or not, everyone gathered around. After watching it for a while, Duojian put his hand on his forehead, seemingly communicating with the neural auxiliary network. Satiri felt that looking at the sand was boring, so she jumped on the soil, ran around on it, and even rolled on it.

Butcher was very interested in the busy workers. He walked over cautiously and grabbed the long, twisting tail of the workers. The worker insect immediately twisted around and waved its huge pincers threateningly. Butcher smiled and let go of his hand. The worker looked at Butcher, backed away slowly, and then continued working.

This bug is so stupid, hahaha. Butcher didn't know why he was so happy. He squeezed the soil hard with his hands and even tasted a little of it in his mouth: Mike, this soil tastes very good and can be used to grow food!

Of course, this is exactly what the soil is used for. Flowers, plants, trees, food and vegetables can all grow on the soil. However, the current rate is lower than expected. I am worried that the situation will repeat.

Water will not disappear out of thin air. Dorjian said: No one in Atas has ever had the ability to transform one substance into another, nor has it been plundered by other worlds for resources. Therefore, the water must still be there. The key is to find it.

Zhao Mai glanced at Duojian and immediately understood what she was thinking. Get in the car, everyone, get in the car, let's go find water!

The disappearance of the sea is no secret in Athas, and the initiator of it all is the halfling. Their experiments in modifying the environment turned the sea brown and horribly poisonous, killing all living things that came in contact with it. In order to get rid of this toxicity, they used magic to transform the sun, collecting the power of the sun to restore the sea water.

But in Athas, the sun is not a planet, but an existence called the solar plane. Thousands of planets in the universe need to absorb energy from the sun plane, and then send the energy to the dark plane after silence, forming a cycle in the universe. The sun in the sky is nothing but an energy projection from the solar plane, a concrete manifestation of a space channel. The halfling's spell changed the space passage, thereby also changing Atas's space state.

That's when the seawater disappeared.

Zhao Mai drove THE·CHE downwards and toward the deepest part of the earth. It passed over thick layers of sand, then solid rock, before hitting a layer of magma. There is obviously no water here. Satiri has learned to read the scanning radar, and the boiling red magma outside the car window is even more obvious.

But Zhao Mai didn't say a word, he had other thoughts in his mind. Therefore, he decided to continue searching and found a cave hole according to the map's instructions and parked the car here. He cast a Druid spell to sustain the bubble so everyone could breathe safely, and then opened the car windows to actually get in touch with the outside environment.

Strong winds roared in, and the inside was filled with highly toxic chemical gases released after melting rocks. However, with the protection of the life-sustaining bubbles, everyone was only slightly frightened and calmed down after finding that they had no problem breathing.

Zhao Mai stuck his head out and sniffed the air outside with his nose. He doesn't need life-sustaining bubbles, and the mere natural mineral toxins can't harm him. However, he didn't care about the gas composition here, but felt the territorial awareness here.

After twelve years in the Doomsday Volcano, Zhao Mai has already adapted to the lava environment, so he can quickly detect any abnormalities. It is true that the lava belt of Atas cannot be compared with the destructive Doomsday volcano, but it also seems too weak. There is something wrong with the lava. It should be suppressed in some way, and the most likely thing is suppressing the flame...

There is a problem, we have to keep going down! Zhao Mai rolled up the car window, tested the tightness, and then stepped on the accelerator and rushed into the lava.

Seeing lava covering every corner outside the car window, but unable to cause any damage due to the characteristics of the car, both Satiri and Butcher were dumbfounded - this kind of experience is not common. Although the surrounding red is monotonous, the lava is rolling, and the color, light and shade remain unchanged due to temperature and composition. The various constantly changing patterns presented are also a unique scenery. The flowing clouds in the sky and the sea of ​​​​fire underground are evenly matched in this respect.

The car's air conditioner continued to release a fresh and refreshing natural force atmosphere, which seemed to be hinting at something. According to Zhao Mai's feeling, the car continued to sink in the lava. If you don't look at the scanner, no one knows how deep you are.

The red disappeared and they drilled into solid rock again. Half of the rock here is solidified igneous rock, and the other half is solid granite. Solidification means that the temperature has dropped, and this is the phenomenon that Zhao Mai has been looking forward to for a long time.

Smart people all realize what this change means, Duojian has put on a smile, and Satiri tried hard to suppress her excitement. Suddenly, the car suddenly sank and fell from the rock formation.

The car lights cut through the dark space, sparkling as far as the eye can see. It is undisturbed, as quiet as a tomb, but full of the source of life: water. For thousands of years, the water of the halfling era has been sealed here, like a cage. How they got here may never be guessed.

Sealed rock and flowing lava envelop the place, preventing water from leaving and people from entering. Various shouts echoed in the car. Satiri threw herself into Dojian's arms and cried bitterly, while Xiaohua ran around in the car holding up the food reserves. Butcher laughed and couldn't stop. Zhao Mai rolled his eyes and concentrated on controlling the speed and angle of the car's flight and landing.

With a pop, the car fell into the water and splashed with waves. Sound travels very far, and so do waves.