Unknown Knight

The reason why the Death Desert is named Death is not just because it is boundlessly large, but mainly because there are almost no living things in this entire desert, not even the cacti that are most resistant to heat and drought.

The hot wind blew away all the moisture and all life, turning this place into a truly barren land. No living creature could stay here for long, including Aix and his party.

After much discussion, Aix and the others finally decided to cross the Death Desert. Since the distance was similar, rather than facing the pursuit and blockade of a large number of enemies, everyone would rather leave their fate to an unfamiliar journey.

But now it is estimated that few people agree with the original idea. The scorching heat and unbearable thirst have completely changed everyone's laziness and fear of difficulties. But it is too late to regret now. We have been walking in this desert for two days. Whether it is a blessing or a curse, we can only go all the way to the end.

However, the group walked for another two days based on their intuition, but still could not find the legendary coastline.

During this period, not only did everyone use up all the water, but they also ate up all the food. Velen saw information from somewhere that drinking horse blood could satisfy hunger and quench thirst, so everyone began to bleed their horses. As a result, except for Bestur and Niza, who cherished their horses as if they were their own lives, the horses of everyone else died.

Now the food problem was solved, but everyone became more and more thirsty as they ate raw horse meat. As a result, the oldest person, Velen, couldn't bear it anymore and fainted from dehydration.

Aix hurriedly used Nana to treat him, but after an examination, he found that Velen's dehydration rate had reached 11%, seriously exceeding the warning line of 8%. If he did not replenish water, his life would be in danger.

This left everyone at a loss as to what to do. While hesitating, Aix muttered to himself:

"Where can I find water?"

His words were heard by Nana who was in the activated state, and she replied:

"Received order to search for water source, conducting search scan."

Then a green light like the one used to scan patients during treatment shone out, and after scanning the surroundings, Nana continued:

"The surrounding air humidity is 1.5%, which is a severely drought area. Through analysis of the maximum scanning range, within the surrounding two kilometers, the humidity is only 3.2% in the direction about 10 degrees northeast. Please search in this direction. There is a high probability that you will find a water source."

When Aix heard this, he thought it was a good idea. He had always thought that Nana was just a nanorobot mother machine for medical use. He didn't expect it to have such a function. He didn't care about being surprised and hurriedly led everyone to search in the direction about ten degrees northeast.

As a result, we advanced for more than ten kilometers and found dozens of Welwitschia plants and several cacti in a low-lying area with a humidity of 12%. There was no doubt that there must be a water source under this depression.

Everyone came to the lowest point and used the shields and weapons they carried to dig at the sand. Everyone took turns and dug exhaustedly more than two meters deep before they managed to squeeze out two handfuls of muddy water from the moist sand.

But everyone now did not reject this life-saving stuff. They each drank a handful of it, and gave another handful to Velen who had just woken up. Finally, they saved his life as he was about to die of thirst.

So everyone set up tents in this depression, prepared to rest here for a while, and ate some slate horse meat and cactus cold dish.

This is a desert dish invented by James. The stove is made of stone slabs that can be found everywhere in the desert. These stone slabs have been polished by sand over the years, and the surface is very smooth. You just need to put the stone slabs in the sun for a while, then cut the horse meat into thin slices and put them on the stone slabs. In a short while, you can get horse meat that is 70% to 80% cooked. Sprinkle some salt on it to make it taste different.

Then it was paired with cactus that Nana had scanned and identified as edible. This combination of meat and vegetables was very salty and healthy, and it was the most decent meal everyone had had in the past few days.

The group stayed here until night and had collected enough muddy water. The water here was bitter and slightly salty and not very good, but it was enough to quench thirst and save lives. So how could anyone dislike it and filled up all the water bags they could?

Aix also had everyone reinforce the edge of the well with stones and cover it with stone slabs to prevent evaporation. It was considered a simple well. He also made eye-catching marks around it to bring some humanity to this uninhabited desert and give people who might pass by here in the future a better chance of survival.

In this way, with Nana who unlocked the new function as a guide, Aix and his crew traveled all night and finally found the coastline by relying on the difference in humidity when it was dawn.

But the coastline here disappointed Axe. As a social animal in the original world, he had neither money nor time to go to the beach. He could only scroll through his phone while fantasizing about going to the beach. The beach in his imagination was a beautiful landscape with sunshine, beaches, and bikini beauties. But here there was only sunshine and beaches, no bikini beauties.

The monotonous coastline has no living creatures except for a few scattered coconut trees. Even seabirds flying in the sky are rarely seen. It feels like the Death Desert has plunged into the sea, bringing its death attributes here, making the coastline that should have been thriving appear lifeless.

However, other people did not have Aix's unique aesthetic sense. Such a clear sea was beautiful in their eyes. The sound of the waves awakened their affinity for water, making them cheer after enduring nearly ten days of thirst in the desert, and they jumped into the waves with roars and shouts.

After a whole morning of playing and washing, everyone finally calmed down. The refreshing sea water removed the heat from everyone's body, making everyone regain their previous moisture like a sponge that has absorbed water.

Especially the three girls, Ai Su, Ran Ying and Zhen Zhen, even though everyone else had gone ashore to rest, they were still soaking in the sea water and refused to come out.

Mathilde, who lives by the sea and has experience in sea fishing, led everyone to dig out many clams and clams from the beach where there were few shells. She also caught many crabs in the puddles and picked up some edible kelp and seaweed.

Bestur, who is good at climbing trees, also brought surprises to everyone. He climbed all the only five or six coconut trees nearby and twisted off dozens of coconuts on them, making everyone's mouths, which were bitter from drinking bitter water, become sweet.

At lunch time, everyone gathered all the food they had collected and made the most sumptuous lunch they had had in days.

Just as everyone was preparing to start eating, Aix saw a few strange-shaped crabs in the food and suddenly became alert. He vaguely remembered that many strange seafood contained toxins, so he took Nana and said to these strange-shaped crabs:

"Nana, scan all the food to see if there are any toxic substances that cannot be eaten."

As a result, the scan did yield some results. Those fiddler crabs, one large and one small in size, contained a complex of highly toxic substances. If eaten, they would cause diarrhea and vomiting at the very least, and could be life-threatening at the worst. Mathilde lived by the frigid sea, where crabs were almost non-toxic. She had never seen the powerful crabs on the tropical coast, and habitually thought that all crabs were edible, so it was no wonder that she couldn't tell the difference.

Not only are the animals poisonous, but there is also a kind of fleshy seaweed that is inedible. Its seemingly thick and juicy leaves are home to a large number of harmful bacteria. Eating them may not be fatal, but they are bound to cause diarrhea and enteritis.

Fortunately, Aix accidentally unlocked Nana's new function, which saved everyone from an unnecessary disaster.