National Survival: I Supported the Dragon Nation by Hunting Dinosaurs

Zhang Li sat on the broad, dark gray back armor of the guard.

The sea breeze blew in unhindered, carrying a strong, salty smell.

The sunlight was blinding, shining down relentlessly on his newly grown pink skin, causing a sharp, stinging sensation.

He was very weak.

The energy of the Star Essence Elixir was completely depleted during the body repair process in the deep sea.

Right now, his stomach is empty, his lips are dry and cracked, and his throat feels like it's stuffed with sand.

No fresh water, no food...

But he didn't immediately let the guards fly around.

Wandering aimlessly on the vast ocean is tantamount to slow suicide.

Zhang Li pulled out his military knife from the storage space and stuck it straight into the gap in the guard's back armor.

The sun was in the eastern sky. The saber cast a clear, slanted shadow on the armor.

I roughly estimated the time...

Zhang Li stared at the shadow, his mind racing with scientific knowledge.

"The ratio of shadow length to blade length is about 1:1.7, and the sun's altitude angle is about 30 degrees," he calculated in his mind.

The All-Seeing Eye is activated, and the dark gold halo rotates.

[Target: Surface seawater. Salinity: 34.8‰. Current direction: East to West. Water temperature: 26.5℃.]

The equatorial warm current.

Zhang Li looked up at the sun's position and, combining this with the geomagnetic declination and ocean current direction, had a general idea of ​​what was going on.

"Southern Hemisphere, low latitude region. It's at least half an ocean away from the continental plate where the Dragon Kingdom's camp is located."

Zhang Li drew his military knife and retracted it into his spatial storage.

His brows were furrowed.

He fell from the Carboniferous Abyss into the deep sea, survived for three days in the Ark of Annihilation, and then traveled tens of thousands of kilometers after emerging...

At the same time, on Blue Star, in the official live stream room of the Dragon Kingdom.

The large screen clearly showed Zhang Li using a military knife to measure the shadow length.

"Mr. Ma, what is Zhang Li doing?" He Jiong looked at the screen, his face full of doubt.

Academician Ma's eyes revealed undisguised admiration.

"He's locating the location."

"Under these extreme conditions, without any instruments, he used the most primitive method of measuring shadows, combined with the system time, to calculate his own latitude and longitude."

"Have you figured it out yet?" Coach Xu asked in a deep voice from the side.

"I've roughly figured it out."

"Based on the local solar altitude angle, his current location is at least 7,500 kilometers away from the Dragon Kingdom camp."

The live stream chat froze for a moment, then exploded like a geyser.

"Seven thousand five hundred kilometers?! Are you kidding me!"

"Wasn't he fighting bugs in the deep underground abyss? How did he suddenly end up in the middle of the ocean?"

"Was this directly teleported there by the system?"

On the sea.

Zhang Li has already decided on his direction.

The Dragon Kingdom camp is to the west.

"Let's go, fly west." Zhang Li reached out and patted the back armor of the guard.

The energy symbiotic link instantly transmits the command.

The guardian's six enormous membranous wings trembled simultaneously, and faint blue geometric patterns lit up on its dark gray carapace.

There was no running start, and no wind field.

Its massive 20-ton body rose directly from the ground, hovered in mid-air, and then surged forward.

The wind pressure increased instantly.

Zhang Li crouched down, his hands gripping the horny bumps on his carapace tightly.

The guardian's flight attitude was extremely stable.

It doesn't have the terrifying explosive power of the Azure Feather, which can reach supersonic speeds at any time. Its wings flap at a low frequency, and its huge body steadily propels it forward.

The All-Knowing Eye provides the data: current speed, 350 kilometers per hour.

Not fast. In fact, it's rather slow for a fourth-tier behemoth.

"That guy Cang Yu can break the sound barrier with just one acceleration," Zhang Li muttered to himself, licking his chapped lips.

However, the Guardian has its advantages.

With its defense maxed out, its endurance is incredibly terrifying.

Azure Feather needs to find a place to eat and replenish its strength every two hours, but the energy circuit within the Guardian's body is like a perpetual motion machine; as long as the geometric patterns remain, it can keep flying...

Zhang Li lay prone on the carapace, closed his eyes, and tried to minimize his physical exertion.

Time passed hour by hour.

The sea breeze kept taking away the moisture from his body, and a layer of white salt frost formed on his clothes.

Four hours later.

Zhang Li opened his eyes and looked up at the sky.

The sun was still hanging in the west, its glaring rays baking him relentlessly.

He frowned.

Eight hours later.

Zhang Li opened his eyes again. His throat was so dry it felt like it was on fire, and his vision was starting to blur slightly due to extreme dehydration.

He looked up again.

The sun is still in the same position.

There was almost no trace of whereabouts.

"How long have we been flying...?"

Zhang Li's voice was hoarse, like two pieces of sandpaper rubbing together, "Why isn't it dark yet?"

Viewers in the live stream also noticed this strange phenomenon.

"This doesn't make sense! I've been watching from morning till now, how come it's been broad daylight over Zhang Li's side all this time?"

"Yeah, logically speaking, after flying for so long, it should be dark by now, right?"

"Does that area of ​​the sea experience polar day?" He Jiong couldn't help but ask.

Academician Ma looked at the screen and shook his head.

"It's not the midnight sun."

Academician Ma pulled up a model of Earth's rotation, exclaiming, "This is 'sun-chasing flight' in physics!"

"Sun-chasing flight?"

"Yes!" Academician Ma explained, pointing to the model.

"The Earth rotates from west to east. Zhang Li is currently riding the Guardian Body, flying from east to west at a speed of 400 kilometers per hour. His flight direction is exactly opposite to the Earth's rotation direction!"

"Although the speed of the guardian is not enough to completely offset the linear velocity of the Earth's rotation, and cannot make the sun absolutely stand still in the sky, this pursuit in the same direction greatly lengthens the daytime in his location."

"As long as he keeps flying west, the speed at which the sun sets will be slowed down infinitely. What might be a day for an ordinary person could feel like thirty or forty hours of daylight to him!"

The comments section erupted in uproar.

"Holy crap! It's chasing the sun!"

"The story of Kuafu chasing the sun has become a reality!"

"Romantic is romantic, but doesn't he get sunburned standing up?"

Zhang Li was indeed suffering from the sun...

"We can't keep flying like this."

Zhang Li patted the back armor of the guard.

"Raise the altitude. Push it to the limit and find land."

The instruction has been issued.

The guardian's six wings pressed down sharply.

The wind howled.

One kilometer.

Three thousand meters.

Five thousand meters.

The air at high altitudes became thinner, and the temperature plummeted. But for Zhang Li, with his deep-sea-resistant body and amphibious gills, air pressure and lack of oxygen were not problems. On the contrary, the low temperature at high altitudes provided some relief for his burning skin.

8,000 meters!

The guard body stopped climbing.

This is the current maximum altitude at which it can maintain stable flight.

Zhang Li stood up, facing the fierce winds at an altitude of eight thousand meters, his eyes slightly narrowed. He poured his spiritual power into the All-Knowing Eye without reservation.

The curvature of the sea level appears at the edge of the field of vision.

A vast expanse of blue.

Just as Zhang Li thought he was going to fail again and was preparing to have the guards land on the sea to catch some fish to eat raw to replenish their water,

Due west, at the very edge of the field of vision, where the horizon meets the sea, a different color appears.

It is a deep, vibrant dark green.

"The land... is an island!"

"Go there," Zhang Li pointed in that direction.

The guardian emitted a buzzing sound, adjusted the angle of its wings, and its massive body drew a dark gray parabola in the sky as it swooped down at full speed toward the unknown island.

As they drew closer, the island's outline gradually became clearer in Zhang Li's eyes.