Lord of the Desert

Chapter 508 Door

The next night was filled with terrible wind and rain.

Hong Fan used a sand knife to dig out a small coffin-like room on the thick branches at the top of the tree, but even if he took a rest like this, he still had the illusion that the atmosphere was spinning and rolling in a washing machine.

The next day, when the ice-blue planet passed over the zenith for the eighth time, things changed.

The water level under the giant tree continued to rise, rising by more than 200 meters in half a day. The water surface had a visibly tilted incline, and the bottom was glowing with a faint purple light.

Facing Hong Fan's question, Hu Lumen only had one answer: "wait".

During this whole day, all the members of the Bai Ri Zhang Wu Academy spoke very few words, as if everyone was afraid of leaking their anger once they opened their mouths. The only good news was that Jia Yuchen's injuries were completely stable and he could walk on his own with the help of crutches.

On the eighth night, the raindrops swelled to the size of fists, and the sound of them hitting the wood was like hammering.

Hong Fan huddled in the "wooden coffin" and thought for half the night, privately speculating that the thin atmosphere reduced the air resistance, while the strong updrafts gave the condensation nuclei a longer hold time, allowing them to merge with more water droplets.

But he couldn't find anyone to share this theory with.

Early in the morning of the ninth day, Xu Ziang discovered during his inspection that one of his subordinates had died silently in the rainy night, with a blue face.

After the autopsy, Hu Lumen determined that the cause of death was poisoning, and the source of the toxin was the wine he secretly drank.

Hong Fan thought this way of dying was ridiculous.

What's even more ridiculous is that no one, including himself, asked why Hu Lumen brought poisoned wine.

The ninth star crossing at the Zenith.

The waves in the distance were still converging here. In the afternoon, the water level had risen to 600 meters. Visually, it looked like a giant liquid mountain range that was low in the west and high in the east, filled with purple luminous tissue.

tenth day.

Hong Fan listened to the sound of the rain all night and finally fell asleep for an hour at sunrise.

When the two star rings rose one after another, he walked out of the coffin house and found that the raindrops falling on his body were heavier and even a little painful.

The atmosphere is getting thinner.

The decrease in oxygen content made people drowsy, and it was not until noon that everyone gathered for the first time to eat - because among the seventeen people, except Hong Fan, there was only one fire warrior, and the dry food biscuits distributed were extremely unpalatable if not heated.

The sea level has risen to a thousand meters, with mountains and hills rising and falling above the water and purple wrist-like limbs of astonishing size stretching out beneath the water.

The treetops with a diameter of 100 meters are like isolated islands.

Seeing this scene, Hong Fan took the first bite of the dry biscuit.

Hu Lumen stood side by side with him. His originally smooth chin was now covered with curly beard, and the purple birthmark was the only place where there was no hair. He looked very strange.

Under the giant tree, the corpse of a giant worm over 800 meters long was floating by. Even though it had been dead for several days, the petal-like guillotine teeth on its mouth were still as terrifying as ever.

"I don't know what this thing tastes like."

Hu Lumen stared at the insect corpse and suddenly threw the empty wine jug far away.

About seventeen seconds later, the sound of someone falling into the water was heard.

At the same time, a complete Dragon Soul Fruit grew on Hong Fan's spiritual platform, replenishing his almost lost confidence.

After eating two dry biscuits, the raindrops began to fall on my head and became bigger, as if they were going to drive me back to the coffin.

Suddenly, curses were heard in the camp.

First he cursed the sky, then the earth, then his own life, and finally the rain.

"If you want to curse, why not curse the martial arts academy? Why curse the innocent rain?"

Hu Lumen paced back and said.

"The life of rain can be easily summarized. It is born in the clouds, falls in the sky, and dies on the ground. Isn't it similar to humans?"

His tone was obviously happier than the previous two days. He probably meant it as a joke, but everyone was struck by the deeper dejection hidden behind the joke. The person who was cursing was even on the verge of falling.

The water falls into rain, splashing out invisible sorrow.

Until Hong Fan spoke in silence.

“Don’t underestimate the rain.”

"The process of its evaporation, flow, condensation and falling is the basis of the great way of heaven and earth..."

He reached out and caught the rain, watching it form miniature lakes in his palms.

“Although a drop of rain is tiny, it contains the rivers and oceans of the entire world!”

Hu Lumen was stunned when he heard this. After a while, he looked at Hong Fan seriously like a child: "Is it really like that?"

Hong Fan nodded solemnly.

For some reason, the wind and rain subsided shortly after he made this heroic speech.

On the twelfth day, the weather was fine. Hong Fan sat at the top of the tree and took off his boots to dry his toes.

The team is running low on dry food.

Xu Ziang led his men down from the trees when it was just light, and found a number of wild fruits that looked like figs that had been blown up by the water. After Hong Fan took the lead in trying them and confirmed that they were slightly sweet and non-toxic, everyone ate to their heart's content.

Among the crowd, only Hu Lumen obviously avoided this thing and just sat on the tree branch looking at the sea and the sky.

As an "experienced guide", he could only say "wait" for many days, so no one was willing to take care of him.

Unexpectedly, after all the fruits were eaten, this man suddenly said something shocking.

"I know where the exit is."

As soon as these words were spoken, all around fell silent, and everyone looked over at the same time.

"Please give us some advice, Governor Hu."

Xu Ziang threw away the wild fruit, stood up suddenly, and asked in an unprecedentedly respectful tone.

"Actually, there is nothing much to teach you. The contents of Zi Wuchang are the memories of the Thousand-Eyed Demon God, and the exit is the place it once wanted to reach and finally arrived at."

Hu Lumen said.

"At this point, the answer is self-evident."

He looked at the great outlines of the planets in the sky.

"You mean..."

Hong Fan's tone was dry.

"Yes, the purple in the Water Mountain Range is probably the limb of the Thousand-Eyed Demon God, and His destination must be the world beyond that."

Hu Lumen nodded.

Everyone was originally excited, but after hearing this, they were all confused and unable to respond for a long time.

"How is this going to go?"

Lai Huazang laughed bitterly.

"I have been keeping an eye on it for the past two days, and I seem to have seen a flying beast passing by."

Hu Lumen scratched his cheek.

"Is the pacification envoy sure?"

Xu Ziang looked difficult.

"Not sure, maybe I saw it wrong."

Hu Lumen came back single and seemed to not care about life or death at all.

Xu Ziang took a deep breath, obviously irritated by his attitude.

"You don't have to despair. There is a way to deal with this."

Hu Lumen chuckled upon seeing this.

"I said, the exit is where the Thousand-Eyed Demon God once wanted to reach and finally arrived, so those limbs soaked in the sea must have finally made it there - in that case, we might as well take a ride."

He waved his hand.

Where he pointed, a mountain-sized bulge was slowly rising on the water. It was filled with purple and vaguely visible creatures of unimaginable size were gnawing on dead sandworms.

Seeing this scene, even Hong Fan's hair stood on end.

"Everyone, this is the only way to survive."

Hu Lumen's voice became serious.

"The water level has continued to rise in the past few days, and our big tree will be submerged soon."

This is absolutely true.

After a short ten-minute meeting, everyone took responsibility.

In an afternoon and half a night, Lai Huazang and his men collected all the plants and fruits that looked edible, and even went deep into the heart of the tree to kill the last few animals that took refuge there. Hong Fan and Hu Lumen personally cut down trees and built boats.

The narrow treetop came alive with everyone's busyness, except for Jia Yuchen, who had only one leg left, who sat there with boredom.

He hardly ate anything in the past two days. Occasionally he cried silently or laughed inexplicably, but most of the time he was immersed in a hideous calm.

And so, another night passed.

(End of this chapter)