Versatile Mage: Undying Fire

Chapter 282 Moving forward
"The previous military post and the route to it have been buried for about eleven years. Except for the first section of the road that can still be traveled, the rest needs to be re-explored. We have previously drawn up a simulated route. This information was planned based on accurate intelligence obtained from old hunters who have been here." Lu Fang, who is in charge of the route, said very seriously.

When talking about the route, this middle-aged man who looks a bit sloppy becomes particularly serious, with a gleam in his eyes, which shows his confidence in his professionalism!

"This thing is a demon detector with a radius of ten miles. We will bury it when we arrive at this Dahuang Mountain. This will ensure that we will not be surrounded by demons in the next five kilometers." Wang Jiuming, who is in charge of the instrument, also said.

"Okay, then let's go to Dahuang Mountain first. After all, we have to walk one step at a time." Mo Fan said.

Mo Fan didn't have much experience in the desert. The only time he was in the Sahara, he almost got lost in it. So now Mo Fan and Jiang Shaoxu still have a little fear of the desert. Jiang Shaoxu seemed to have a particularly firm goal.

Mo Fan looked at Lin Ran who was not far away. This guy was being teased by Jiang Shaoxu. He seemed so relaxed.

Lin Ran noticed Mo Fan and asked, "What's wrong?"

Mo Fan shook his head.

They could only move forward on foot.

The supplies they carry are all managed by an earth mage. In such a desert, the earth mage can constantly use ground waves, so that he doesn't even have to walk and can also transport supplies at the same time.

Considering that this is a desert, the biggest fear is getting lost, so everyone brought a lot of things, mainly food, medicine and water.

Ling Ling was very weak, so she jumped onto Lin Ran's back and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

"fine."

Whenever she arrives in a wonderful environment, there is always a gleam in Lingling's eyes. It can be seen that she still has many places she wants to go, but the departure of someone has closed her curiosity and longing for the world.

"Is this people's route reliable?" Mo Fan walked over and asked Lingling in a low voice.

"Basically, there's no problem." Lingling said.

"So what's the matter with the post station?" Mo Fan asked.

"I'm not too sure. After all, I was only a few years old eleven years ago." Lingling said.

"..." Mo Fan couldn't help but roll his eyes. He had always believed that the knowledge in Lingling's little head was probably enough to surpass those old monsters who claimed to be professors and experts.

After reaching the desert area, the sand starts to become thicker. It feels soft at first, but then a very hard force drags your feet, and your legs are surrounded by the sand. This fine sand is actually very unfavorable for walking. Walking on it will consume a lot of physical strength. Coupled with the heat and dryness here, a normal person may feel tired within half an hour.

"Lao Tong, you just need to take us here. We can walk the rest of the way by ourselves." Suddenly Zhang Xiaohou patted an officer who had taken them all the way here.

"Um... can I go with you?" Tong Li said with an embarrassed look on his face.

"You want to go in too?" Zhang Xiaohou said with some surprise.

Tong Li is also a high-level mage, but his military achievements are not high. His military rank is only officer, which is a whole level lower than Zhang Xiaohou. He grew up in the west and knows a lot about the Tarim Basin and the Taklamakan Desert. When he knew that Zhang Xiaohou was coming here with the team, Tong Li took the initiative to lead everyone to prevent them from being unable to reach the expected desert entrance.

Because the desert migrates, if it was a standard desert entrance in the past, it will soon be buried by sand. This is one of the important reasons why the desert road map is very difficult to plan.

"It would definitely be a good thing if Officer Tong is along!" Ge Ming naturally welcomed it very much.

The other members of the Golden War Hunter Group would not have any objection. After all, Tong Li was a local and he knew this desert better than anyone else. Although their Golden War Hunter Group was ready to return, they also needed someone like this to help them avoid some problems.

Mo Fan looked at Tong Li carefully and found that he seemed to be hiding something, but Tong Li didn't say it, so Mo Fan didn't ask more.

"Hahaha." Lingling's laughter came.

Mo Fan looked over and found that Jiang Shaoxu was chasing Lin Ran and Lingling. Are they really here for vacation?

……

Everyone arrived at the entrance as expected, and as expected, the place was completely filled with sand, which was a little different from what everyone had expected.

If the starting point is deviated at the very beginning, how can we expect the accuracy of the entire route? Seeing this large row of old protective forests disappear, everyone's faces couldn't help but look a little ugly!
Some of the bad starts!!

"The sand is thinner here and thicker there, which shows that there were forest protectors here in the past. According to the monsoon here and the degree of sand cover, we expect the entrance to be about one kilometer ahead of us." Tong Li said confidently.

"Well, I'll go over and take a look first!" Zhang Xiaohou quickly raised a gust of light blue wind and disappeared from everyone's sight in the blink of an eye.

After a while, Zhang Xiaohou arrived at the place that Tong Li mentioned. He immediately pressed his palm into the sand, and then used his earth-based perception to explore the area under the sand dune.

"Tong Li is right. There are indeed plants under the sand, but they have begun to rot." Zhang Xiaohou said to the people who arrived later.

"You can calculate the buried forest just by the thickness of the sand layer and the monsoon. Tong Li, you are the expert. We are just showing off our skills!" Ge Ming praised without hesitation.

At this time, the others also looked at Tong Li with admiration. With him around, they could probably save a lot of trouble.

"Let's go. This area is not safe. We will see Dahuangshan if we keep walking in this direction." Tong Li said.

……

Dahuangshan was originally a tall mountain rising from the ground. Later, it became even larger due to the accumulation of sand layers. Some people went to dig sand in the past, hoping to touch the original mountain body of Dahuangshan, but it turned out that the sand layer covering the outside of Dahuangshan was at least fifty meters thick. This thickness was extremely exaggerated and scary. Who knows if there would be any terrible creatures hidden in the fifty-meter sand layer!
We arrived at Dahuang Mountain smoothly, but we still felt frustrated when we saw such a huge mountain blocking the way in the desert. This mountain is probably the boundary marker of the Taklimakan Desert. After crossing Dahuang Mountain, the next is the paradise of demons. No one has seen the world behind Dahuang Mountain for some years.

There is also a sand stone monster living in Dahuang Mountain. They are about the same size as a tribe. Originally, everyone would have to go through a battle to get here, otherwise there would be no way they could have climbed over Dahuang Mountain. However, when they climbed to the halfway point of the mountain, there was not a single sand stone monster to trouble them.

"I didn't expect that she is also a psychic mage. Mo Fan, your companion is quite powerful." Ge Ming said to Jiang Shaoxu.

"I told you we're not here for vacation." Mo Fan shrugged and couldn't help laughing.

Jiang Shaoxu is a very professional spiritual mage. With just one ripple of her spiritual power, elemental life within a kilometer radius will immediately become obedient.

If you are walking in the wild, you must avoid fights if you can. Unfortunately, Psychic Mages are polarized. Weak ones are almost ineffective and are nicknamed psychologists in the hunter team. Powerful Psychic Mages can sometimes drive a team even more crazy than healing mages. After all, there is no harm without fighting!
Jiang Shaoxu's psychic system was incredibly strong, so they were able to safely pass through the yellow sand of Dahuang Mountain and successfully enter the Taklamakan Desert.

After everyone got down from Dahuang Mountain, the golden desert appeared before their eyes. The quiet and solemn desert formed a sharp contrast with the pure, beautiful and blue sky, which also brought people a macro-world shock!

These endless stretches of sand and the boundless blue sky are the world they will be walking in for the next half month...

It's completely isolated from the world, it's mysterious and very scary!
"We need to be extremely cautious with every step we take from now on. Wang Jiuming, quickly go and choose a place to install the detection equipment." Ge Ming said seriously.

"Yes!" Wang Jiu Ming answered immediately.

"Wait a minute, how long will it take for your instrument to complete the collection?" Lingling asked.

"About an hour." Wang Jiu Ming said.

"Can you give me a specific time?"

"One hour and ten minutes." Wang Jiu Ming was stunned. He didn't expect this little Lolita to be so serious.

"Then help me connect to my machine, and I will make a distribution map next." Lingling immediately handed Wang Jiuming a tablet computer.

"Okay, everyone cheer up, we are about to face the battle!" said Ge Ming.

Whether it is an element detector or a demon density detector, they are both very practical things, but they also have a huge flaw, that is, the fluctuations they generate when they are running will immediately attract the surrounding demons. Although the range is not particularly wide, it is definitely not easy to deal with.

This attracted hatred, and even Jiang Shaoxu's psychic magic couldn't appease it. This behavior was like you installed a very noisy noise generator near someone else's demon community. The noise could keep the demons awake, and there was no reason for the grumpy demons not to come and check it out...

"Is there any movement nearby?" Zheng Tong looked around carefully. Although he appeared calm, the wandering look in his eyes betrayed him. He was very uneasy. After all, this was his first time in the desert.

"Not yet, it's been ten minutes." Wang Jiu Ming said.

"Isn't it better if there is nothing? Maybe we can get through this hour safely, and then our next five-kilometer route will be absolutely safe." Jiang Shaoxu said.

"What the instrument analyzes is just a trend, just a piece of data. Even if it detects that there is no demon nest within a five-kilometer radius, it is not 100% safe." Lingling emphasized.

"The little girl is right. The instruments are just auxiliary tools. The real route exploration still needs to be done on foot..." Wang Jiu Ming said with a smile, a bit of simplicity and honesty on his face.

Lin Ran and Mu Nujiao looked into the distance, and Lin Ran silently took Mu Nujiao's hand.

"Stop making trouble." Mu Nujiao couldn't help but say, then she withdrew her hand. She had to be extremely careful from now on.

"Oh." Lin Ran nodded.

"Speaking of which, where is your friend from the Military Control Commission? Why is he running around everywhere now? Isn't he afraid of being blocked by demons?" Lu Fang found that Zhang Xiaohou was missing, so he asked Mo Fan.

When walking in a place like the desert, everyone has to hold together tightly, for fear of getting lost accidentally. The chance of finding someone if you get lost in the desert is less than 10%, so no one would do that.

"Brother Lu Fang, you don't have to worry about General Zhang. He is a scout. Even if he accidentally runs into the demon tribe, he can escape safely. He can also lead the demon tribe in the opposite direction of the main team. As for getting lost, that's not the case. He has been leaving some continuously rotating small whirlwinds in the air. He can find our location by sensing these whirlwind airflows." Tong Li knew Zhang Xiaohou quite well.

"Oh, oh, that's good." Lu Fang nodded.

Mo Fan didn't care about Zhang Xiaohou at all. After all, this guy was much more reliable than Guan Yu and Li Kaifeng, who were in charge of reconnaissance in the national government team. His practical experience was also incomparable to these two. If any of them were surrounded by monsters, Zhang Xiaohou would not be surrounded, after all, he ran very fast!
"Strange, why haven't any demons come here yet? Could it be that there is no living creature in this area? That shouldn't be the case. The intelligence we collected said that there is a group of dead sandworms living under the Dahuang Mountain. Are they so dull that they can't detect the fluctuations in the instrument? Or is it that Wang Jiuming's instrument is not working?" Zheng Tong said.

"We are already collecting data." Lingling said at this time.

"This is strange... Wait, something seems to be coming!!" Zheng Tong looked forward, and then saw a flow of air without sand suddenly blowing towards here.

Zheng Tong's expression froze, and a star map was quickly drawn under his feet.

"Don't be nervous, this is Zhang Xiaohou." Mo Fan said with a smile.

This light blue airflow is Zhang Xiaohou's wind soul seed. Zhang Xiaohou is now the key training target of the military. Coupled with his outrageous achievements, what he has obtained is no less than that of the National Government, and may even be much more.

Mu Nujiao couldn't help but look at Zhang Xiaohou and said, "You were friends in high school, right?!"

Mu Nujiao felt that Zhang Xiaohou was still very powerful.

(End of this chapter)