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But his current appearance is completely different from how he looked when he left home refreshed this morning:

Its entire body was grayish, covered in golden sand—

Even on my hair.

It looked like he had just rolled around on a golden beach.

"Boss, did you go to Miami or become a gold miner?" Ivan asked curiously.

Renyi silently shook his trouser leg.

Two streams of fine sand flowed from his trouser legs, accumulating into a small pile next to his shoes.

Everyone: "?"

Soon, Xiao Jiu's tiny blue head popped out from above the collar.

The little guy looked listless, and even his usually glossy skin had become matte.

It shook its head.

Then, under the astonished gazes of everyone, his body slightly bulged—

"puff!"

It was also a small stream of fine sand that came out.

"hot."

Xiao Jiu waved its tentacles weakly. "Sand, it doesn't taste good."

Of course, no one could understand Xiao Jiu's complaints, so they could only surround Ren Yi.

Faced with the curious gazes of his teammates, he casually raised his hand and wiped his face, causing more sand to fall.

Today's experiences are replaying in my mind.

......

When you squeeze through that narrow crevice by turning to the side,

The heatwave made him tilt his head to one side.

The slight coolness they had just brought out from the cave was instantly dispelled; the scorching, dry air felt like a completely different world from what they had just stepped into.

This is not some underground river or water cave you might imagine...

The enormous sun hung in the sky.

Every grain of sand was scorching hot, and every step I took soaked into my shoes. This was an endless desert!

[Fishing? Where's the water?]

[Chief of Dala Bengba, did you lead us the wrong way?]

[I can feel the heat even through the screen... Go back quickly, don't get heatstroke.]

Just as he was hesitating, Dala Bengba finally managed to squeeze out.

It fanned its face a few times with its long arms.

"Hmm...hohoヾ|≧_≦|〃"

Brother, you know it's hot?

However, it soon couldn't contain its excitement and patted Renyi's arm, then charged ahead towards a distant sand dune, leaving Renyi no choice but to follow.

Standing atop the sand dune, the view suddenly opened up.

Look down along the claws of Dala Bengba—

It was a huge, funnel-shaped sand pit.

The surface of the sandpit was relatively calm, but upon closer inspection, one could see that the sand inside was finer than the sand beneath their feet, and that the sand was swirling towards the center at a very, very slow speed.

"Gururu wawaha!"

Dala Bengba, oblivious to the danger, pointed at the sandpit and gestured to Renyi with a forceful swing and reel-in motion.

The meaning is clear: Let's go fishing.

Arbitrary: O__O "…

Fishing in the desert? With a fishing rod?

But looking at its genuinely ugly face, Ren Yi suppressed the urge to turn around and leave.

After all, we went to the 'fishing spot' recommended by the indigenous people.

Since I'm already here, as a seasoned angler, I have to try my luck fishing even with a graveyard behind me!

Seeing that Ren Yi remained motionless,

Dala Bengba thought he was afraid of the heat, so he found a feng shui spot that he thought was good (in fact, all the spots were the same), and under the watchful eyes of hundreds of millions of people, he took off the animal skin he was wearing and spread it out in a few quick movements.

By inserting two branches tucked into his waistband into the sand, he skillfully secured the two horns of the animal hide to the top, creating a simple but effective sunshade.

Dala Bengba squeezed inside with satisfaction, patting the empty seat next to him as if to say:

I've saved a seat for you!

All right......

I'll trust you this once.

After randomly lifting the "Pudu" (a type of divination stick), I was faced with another dilemma: should I attach bait to it?

He pulled a purple berry he'd picked along the way out of his pocket and tossed it into the sandpit.

With a soft "plop," the purple berries didn't sink to the bottom like they would when they fell into water; instead, they stayed on the surface of the fine sand, slowly swirling with the current.

One second, two seconds...

Several threads of yarn quietly rose up and quickly converged from all sides towards the berries.

Immediately afterwards, the berry began to tremble violently, as if it were being torn apart by a school of fish beneath the sand.

The shaking lasted for less than three seconds.

The berry sank down suddenly, and the sandpit returned to calm.

[Holy crap! There's something there!]

[I have done sand fishing before, but that was on a beach, not in the desert!!]

[Sand...shark? Is this even a proper fish? Is it considered seafood or a local specialty?]

Wow, watching this makes me so itchy to fish in the desert!

Dala Bengba poked his head out from under the shade of the canopy, pointed at the sandpit and cried out "Wala wala," as if to say:

See? I wasn't lying to you!

That's interesting, isn't it?

Ren Yi's eyes became much more eager, and he no longer hesitated to raise the "Pudu" (a type of divination stick), hanging the same purple berries on it as bait.

Everything is ready.

Take two steps back at will, and the tip of the [Pudu] pole will swing in the air in a beautiful arc.

call out--

It landed with a "thud" where the berry had just disappeared.

After doing all this, Renyi sat down on the sand dune, holding the fishing rod firmly in both hands, his expression calm.

Dala Bengba craned his neck, staring intently at the sandpit without blinking, even more nervous than Renyi himself.

Not long after, the rod tip jerked twice.

The movement was slight, without even a test; a strong force simply traveled down the fishing line.

"Black market drifting".

He's not very big, but he looks a bit fierce.

After a two-second pause, waiting for the fish to bite the hook and kill it—

"rise!"

There was no splashing water, only endless yellow sand.

It was like a small firecracker went off in the sandpit, blasting out a small column of sand. The lucky one who had swallowed the purple berry was forcibly pulled out of the sand, its six short legs flailing awkwardly in mid-air before it fell to Renyi's feet.

[Wow! What a huge scorpion!]

[This color scheme...did they grow up eating rainbows?]

[This kind of brightly colored, flashy thing usually means: I'm extremely poisonous.]

Its size is indeed not large.

Roughly the length of a forearm, its brilliant, translucent black carapace reflects a golden-red light under the sun. Each section of its back is inlaid with crystals like cat's-eye stones, and it has palm-sized pincers and a tail stinger that look like they've been plated with gold.

Without even setting down his fishing rod, Renyi stepped on the beautiful scorpion as it rushed towards him, landing squarely on the carapace.

"!"

The scorpion was half-buried in the relatively hard sand, its six legs thrashing helplessly, unable to move. The cat's eye stone on the scorpion's back suddenly shone brightly and began to get scalding hot!

Without hesitation, he reached out with his right hand and firmly grasped the tail.

"The shell is quite hard, how do you get calcium from it?"

With a flick of his left hand across the golden arm guard on his wrist, the Raven instantly slid into his palm.

puff.

A simple, unadorned stab.

The sharp blade pierced the scorpion's head carapace without any hesitation.

The fierce little guy twitched once and then lay completely still, while Renyi happily examined the Raven's Bloodthirst trait:

[Trait 3: Bloodthirst. Gains one boost for every ten new species' blood consumed. Current consumption: 0/10.]

Ok?

Why is it still 0/10?

Goodness, he's definitely a picky eater...

A random hand was placed on the still-hot scorpion corpse.

[Decomposition successful!]

[Rewards: Scorpion Meat*5, Crystallized Carapace*1, Venomous Stinger*1, Fire Crystal*5]

[Already stored in the warehouse.]

The giant scorpion carcass turned into white light and disappeared.

It seems this place, though a bit hot, has high-quality local products. The carapace and stones will be taken back for Klaus to play with, and the poisonous stinger will replenish the [Dead Thorn Spear]'s ammunition. As for whether the meat is edible...

Go back and let Xiao Jiu try it.

He hung another berry on the hook and cast his line into the pit again.

"It would be a shame to miss such a good spot."

He turned around and smiled at Dala Bengba, who was looking at him with admiration. "You agree, right?"