boyutpedia Chapter 172: 1-mile Migration Journey (21)
Chapter 172: 1-mile Migration Journey (21)
Shekh said nothing, tightened the chain, and took the life of the man with round-frame glasses.
Items fell from him with a crackling sound, and the last thing that fell out was a skill card.
Skill Card: [Mechanical Transformation]
Skill Effect: Can change the structure of mechanical items. The degree of deformation depends on the player's level of understanding. The deeper the understanding, the smoother the deformation.
"It's a good thing." Shi Jinzhe took the skill card. He would not sell this card. He would study the Mecha Gundam Autobots after he released the game.
When he was in junior high school, he was not allowed to play because people said that playing with things would lead to a loss of ambition. Now he finally has a legitimate chance.
It would be great if we could create a giant steel structure.
Other props include a dozen corn bombs, several guns, and luckily, a lot of bullets.
Including the three people who hammered the car at the beginning, there were eight guns, more than two hundred bullets, a prop chain, and a special ring.
Props: [Love Ring]
Effect: It can be used once a day, and the target is the natives of the dungeon world. Within five minutes, the player's favorability will be increased to 100%, which is a good help in obtaining real intelligence. (It cannot be used in the original world)
Shi Jinzhe: "This is not bad either. It is very useful in decryption dungeons."
"It's great that we don't have to sort out the authenticity of the information for the second time." Sheh searched the deformed SUV. There was still some food left, but no water.
She took out four golden cocoons, took out the car from the space ring, and put it together with the other two wooden boxes.
Including the metalized one used to guide the way, they now have a total of seven golden cocoons.
Shi Jinzhe, who was standing by, picked up all the props and said, "Let's go to another place to rest tonight, farther away from here."
"It will be all right."
Shekh sat back in the car and checked the condition of the golden cocoons in each wooden box.
Shi Jinzhe drove the car with one hand and traveled more than fifty miles before parking the car under a large rock with a dent in it caused by weathering.
"Time has come, look at these cocoons."
There were two wooden boxes placed side by side on Shekh's legs, each containing a golden cocoon.
One is soft, translucent and looks fragile, while the other is shiny, with a metalized cocoon shell that is tough and flexible.
"This is the hard stuff we got about ten days ago, and this is the soft stuff from the people I just looted."
Holding up the golden cocoon she had been using to look at maps every day, she said, "Look at this one. This is the one the system distributed to us. Its shell is very solid, and it is different from these two. You have affected the growth of these golden cocoons."
"Everything that follows us has become stronger."
"Yes, and this one." Sheh took out another map. "This is the map I searched in the car just now. I found that the map is different when illuminated by different golden cocoons."
"The routes are different?" Shi Jin leaned closer, "Isn't it possible that the destination of each golden cocoon is not the same place?"
"The path is different in each stage." Sheh demonstrated it to him.
The same map is illuminated by the softest and hardest golden cocoons. The hard golden cocoon shows a shorter distance.
"Our golden cocoon saves us the journey"
Sheh tried each of the five maps. "You see, they are not walking through a rainforest, but a very large stone forest. Although you can drive through it, it is very winding inside."
Thinking about the four people and the dusty car, Shi Jinzhe said, "Maybe it's not just about saving us the road, it also involves providing us with water and food."
The rainforest is rich in resources, and you won’t starve to death as long as you are not too lazy.
Although you need to walk to get there, you can find a lot of necessities, which is much better than the bare stone forest.
"Our golden cocoon is smarter," Sheh concluded.
"Passive evolution, this is probably the difference between an eight-year-old and a three-year-old." Shi Jinzhe patted the wooden box in his hand: "Ours is more mature, so it can give clearer directions, know how to choose places, and can warn of dangers."
Shekh touched the wooden box twice and said, "Good boy."
The energy she consumed was not wasted, but she no longer wants to hike in the rainforest for ten days. Don't torture her like that next time.
The golden cocoon vibrated its metal shell, which made a sound when tapped by fingernails, as a response to Shekh.
The vibrations reached Sheh's hands, and she was curious: "Can you understand?"
The golden cocoon shook.
Sheh found it interesting and started talking to the golden cocoon.
Shi Jinzhe listened to two sentences and said: "It's better for you to talk to me than to it. I can give more feedback."
"I can talk to you every day, but I can't talk to butterflies."
"alright."
When the time is up, admit defeat.
On a whim, Sheh started chatting with the group of butterflies. He sat beside them and watched for a long time, but he didn't feel bored.
"Can you fan a storm?"
The golden cocoon shook.
"What did you look like before you emerged from your cocoon? A caterpillar?"
The golden cocoon shook twice.
"The flowers here are so small, is the nectar sweet? Is it enough for you to eat..."
After chatting until twelve o'clock, the two fell asleep with a fruitful night's sleep.
Day 21 of the game.
Due to the unexpected situation last night, I set the alarm for 8 o'clock and slept two hours more than usual.
After breakfast, the car set off at 8:40.
Shehe didn't sleep like she did yesterday. She would occasionally talk to Jin Jian, such as, "Were there a lot of flowers here before?"
It's okay for flowers to grow naturally in the snow, but it's a bit strange that a field of flowers can grow in a place like this.
The golden cocoon vibrated twice, and after Shekh finished asking the question, it suddenly changed its route.
"At the end of the road, turn right at the fork ahead. Don't go straight. Go along the redder hill."
"Is there danger again?" Shi Jinzhe sped up the car.
"Not sure, the butterfly didn't flash, it just simply changed its route."
Shi Jinzhe didn't dare to relax. There were too few animals here and no extra abnormal phenomena for him to refer to.
After driving cautiously along the red hill for two hours, the two found a large area of …
honeycomb.
A huge beehive hangs above, surrounded by swarms of bees.
The golden honey drips down, and the choking sweet fragrance is sent into the nasal cavity, mellow and tempting.
Shi Jinzhe got out of the car and looked up at the wall of syrup. "Honey is a good thing. It must like you very much."
"Maybe it wants something sweet, too."
“But the question is, how do we collect honey?”
The rock bees up there were too big. A group of bees were buzzing there together, and Shi Jinzhe's head was about to explode. It was really difficult to collect honey without hurting the bees and the hive.
"…You are very attractive."
Shi Jinzhe looked over slowly: "So...?"
"So you go and attract the bees' attention, and I'll collect the honey."
Shekh wiped his face with his finger, leaving a purple mark, "This will protect you."
Shi Jinzhe touched the mark on the side of his face and asked, "What is this?"
"It might be my blood. These bees are different from the low-intelligence creatures that bite you in the rain forest. They have a sense of community, and you have no ability to intimidate them. This can help you disrupt the cognition of those bees for a short period of time, and you won't be stung if you get in close contact."
Being stung by these fist-sized bees is no different from having a barbed steel needle pierced into the flesh. Even if the sting can heal on its own, it will still hurt.
"Blood?"
Shi Jinzhe grabbed her hand and asked, "Are you hurt?"
"I'm not hurt." Sheh opened his fingers, and a little purple condensed on his fingertips.
“It’s like I can share energy this way.”
Shi Jinzhe frowned and said, "So this purple mist is all your blood?"
Now that he had said that, he realized that he had indeed never seen Shekh injured or bleeding.
"I can't explain it. I just remembered it when I took the bouquet from your hand yesterday." Sheh took back the purple liquid on his fingertips: "You can take it back. I won't hurt myself."
"…Then do you want to drink some blood to replenish yourself?"
"No." Sheh took a step back. The aftereffects of drinking blood were too strong, so he declined.
And she wasn't sure if it was blood. She said it might be blood only because it came from inside the body.
"Just give me some honey, not too much."
"Just some honey?"
"Yeah, a little bit."
At the end of each copy, the contents of the ring will be emptied to prevent the player from being carried into the next world. If too much honey is taken and not eaten, the hard work of these little bees will be wasted.
Shi Jinzhe said, "Then hold the can and catch it from below."
The hanging beehive was more than four meters above the ground, so he had to get a ladder.
He took out three tree trunks collected from the rainforest from the space ring, broke one of them into several sections, and made a simple wooden ladder.
Leaning the ladder against the stone wall, he shielded his face and arms, waved his hands to disperse the bees perched on the hive, and then cut off a piece with a knife.
The sticky honey drips down the incision. When you fold and pinch the skin, the honey is so rich that it is almost impossible to hold it back. It overflows with a slight pressure of your fingers.
He threw the cut part into Sheh's bucket and then went to cut the second piece.
There was a large amount of honey, and Sheh shook the jar and said from the bottom that it was enough and there was no need to cut any more.
After wiping off the honey that had rubbed against her mouth, she licked her fingers and said to Shi Jinzhe, "This honey tastes great, not greasy or watery."
"Then I'll cut two more pieces?"
"No, these are enough."
Shi Jinzhe came down from the ladder and made all the flowers near the rock bloom.
Sheh stared at the flowers. "There's no vegetation around here. I wonder where they get the honey from."
Shi Jinzhe: "They went far, or they haven't finished eating what they left."
"Then there must have been a lot of flowers growing here. However, the flowers in this world are not sized to match the bees. These bees must suck a lot of nectar to feed themselves, right?"
"Well, they need to fill their stomachs too." Shi Jinzhe took the jar, "It's sticky, let me hold it. I need to go back and filter it a few times."
"It's quite clingy. Here you go."
Back in the car, Shi Jinzhe cut off a small piece and put it in his mouth. "It's so sweet that it chokes my throat, but it's very fragrant."
Using gauze to filter out impurities from the honey, he peeled and sliced the thick-skinned and less-fleshed wild lemons, then boiled them into syrup.
Shekh dipped his chopsticks into the syrup every once in a while: "When can I drink it?"
"Soon. Do you want a cold drink? If so, I'll freeze it in ice water."
"Yes, the ground outside has been deformed by the sun. It's very hot."
"Then I'll put it on ice and you can drink it on the way."
After doing all this, Shi Jinzhe set off again in the afternoon.
For five days, the two drove among the colorful stone hills.
Day 26 of the game.
By the end of the time, the total distance traveled was 6400 miles.
The air temperature rises further, reaching 43°C.
On the twenty-seventh day of the game, the colorful stone hills gradually disappeared, and the dry and twisted trunks of poplar trees appeared in sight.
On the 50th day of the game, the daytime temperature exceeded degrees Celsius, and a barren desert appeared.
High temperatures and sandy roads have become the biggest challenges for cars on the road.
Shi Jinzhe looked at the desert and adjusted the tire pressure: "The temperature during the day is too unfriendly, we have to change the journey to night."
With this temperature during the day, the car will be broken in less than two days. At night, it just drives slower, which is much better than having no car at all.
"I don't understand. You can handle it yourself." Sheh held a glass of ice water in his arms, and he looked wilted and almost dried like a snake.
The air conditioner can't save the sunlight that shines directly through the windshield. It's too harsh. Just sitting here is a torture.
She turned her head and looked at him: "Aren't you going to tan?"
"Sun, I suggest you comb your hair up, it should make you feel better."
"I can't." Sheh said expressionlessly.
"If you're not afraid of getting ugly, I can give it a try."
Sheh answered without thinking, "I'm afraid."
Seeing her gathering her hair from the left to the right and then putting it back, Shi Jinzhe was hesitant to say anything and really wanted to let him try.
I finally made it to the evening and the temperature finally dropped.
Shekh returned to the carriage and breathed a sigh of relief, "The sun has finally gone."
Shi Jinzhe unbuttoned his collar and said, "Let's take a rest tomorrow and travel at night. I can read the map myself, so you don't have to accompany me."
"I'm afraid no one will talk to the butterfly, it will be too lonely."
“I talk to it.”
"I want to listen."
"What are you listening to? I won't say anything bad about you." He stood behind Shehe and helped her smooth her hair.
After combing her hair, his hands were not idle either. He moved them back and forth in her hair, trying to figure out how to tie her hair up.
Her restless fingers accidentally touched the black ribbon behind Sheh's head. She immediately turned around and protected the ribbon, "Don't touch it."
Glancing at the upper half of her face, Shi Jinzhe asked, "Is it true that no one can loosen this ribbon except you who took it off on your own initiative?"
Shekh held down the ribbon: "Yes, no one else can take it off."
"Why did the ribbon turn into black scales after you turned into a snake? Is it a part of your body?"
"No." Sheh lowered his head and tried to recall the past.
"As far as I can remember, I hadn't put this thing on me yet. Someone put it on me later, but I forgot who it was."
A blurry figure flashed through my mind, it seemed to be a person with long hair...
Shekh wanted to see more clearly, but he only saw a long black hair, hanging on the ground like silk.
Her nerves suddenly throbbed, and her head felt as if pierced by a sharp sword, and the piercing pain came over her instantly.
Shi Jinzhe quickly held her shoulders and said, "If you can't remember, forget it."
Letting Sheh lean on his shoulder, he stroked her eyes through a layer of ribbon and swallowed back the words "I really want to see it".