Chapter 21 Forest of Sand (1/2)

"Are you a girl?" Ashford looked at Ziyue and said. Although they look the same, Ziyue's voice makes it easy to identify her gender.

"Is there a boy as beautiful as me..." Ziyue originally wanted to say, is there a boy as beautiful as me, but she suddenly remembered that I am one. "Even if Ziri is a special case, under normal circumstances when you see me like this, you should think of girls first, right?"

"I'm sorry, I was rude!" Ashford apologized quickly. "Reintroducing me, I am Ashford, President of the Iron Cross."

"My name is Ziyue, deputy military commander of the Frost Rose Alliance."

After the introduction, Ashford looked towards a messy beach. "What's going on? Why did it hit so hard?"

"It's all the fault of that idiot Ziri. He asked people to refit the warship without checking it. In the end, he forgot to install the deceleration lever. We just drove all the way from China at super speed. We were still in China yesterday morning, and we arrived in just 24 hours. We’re in Europe, we’re about to catch the plane!”

Ashford was shocked when he heard this. "You guys just rush ashore and slow down?"

"Then what else can be done?"

"That's true." Ashford looked at the beach and said, "What to do with these fragments? What did you bring here? I'm afraid they will be smashed at such a speed!"

"The things we transported are in the carry-on space and have not been damaged. However, I still need your help to clean up the wreckage of the battleship. There are many technologies on the battleship that are shared by our two guilds, such as propeller technology. You don't want a third party Does the guild also get it?"

"Of course." Ashford quickly turned around and ordered his men to pick up the pieces. Ziyue and the others followed suit.

Back to one day ago, the Bi Ling had just left China.

The Bi Ling left the port, and we couldn't catch up with it at that speed. We knew there was a problem and we couldn't help, so we had to pray for them. According to the plan, I left Essinger with the rose and headed towards the northwest. Riding on Yeying, he pulled Rose up and sat across in front of me. Bailang followed us on the left, with Xiaochun and Jingjing riding on his back. Xiaoxue walked on the other side of us, and Ling and Amynis sat on it together. Xiaofeng turned into a dancing form and stood on my shoulders, while birds circled above our heads to conduct high-altitude reconnaissance. At the very back were 10 bell knights riding war horses following us. This lineup is quite large.

With such a team entering the teleportation array, our goal is a place called Luji City. Yesterday, when I was studying the map, I spent a long time looking for only this city that was relatively close to my destination. The game map also takes into account real-life situations. The distance between cities in the northwest region is relatively large, and there are only sporadic small cities in the desert area. This roadbed city is one of these cities. There are no cities around for hundreds of kilometers.

When we appeared in Luji City, Zhuo Shi made the surrounding players stunned for a moment. Such a glamorous team does not often appear in places like this. After walking out of the teleportation array, I discovered that the buildings here were all made of loess. There was more than an inch of yellow sand on the streets, which looked very dilapidated. A super-big sun was shining overhead, causing heat waves to billow all around. We had already brought enough dry food and drinking water before we came out this time, so we headed straight out of the city without replenishing anything.

Standing at the gate of the city, we were stunned.

"Did we go to the wrong place?" Rose asked.

I looked around and saw that outside the city was an endless desert. Even if I opened the Star Eyes, my field of vision was still full of yellow sand. "There can't be a forest in a place like this?"

"Look at the map."

I quickly raised my left hand and faced forward, and a holographic map appeared in front of us. "This is where we are now. The forest should be somewhere in front. There is nothing wrong!"

"Then let's take a walk and take a look. Maybe there's something like an illusion covering the forest."

"Excuse me, are you looking for the Forest of Sand?" A player wearing strange clothes appeared in front of us. Judging from his clothing, he is definitely not a warrior. If he is not an assassin, he should be a mage.

"Forest of Sand?" I opened the map again, which startled the guy. "Is this the Sand Forest you are talking about?" I pointed at the point on the map with the tip of my spear.

"It's here, but the road there is very difficult. Take me with you and I can save you some detours."

Rose said to me: "Shall we let him be our guide? He will always go the wrong way and it will be a headache."

"Then it's up to you." I raised my head and said to the player: "What reward do you need?"

"Five crystal coins." The guy said with his hands down.

"Deal. My name is Ziri, and this is Rose. What's your name?"

"My name is Flower Buryer."

"Do you have a mount?" Rose asked.

"Yes, I have a sand lizard."

"Sand lizard?"

The flower buryer immediately pulled out a monster from the alley next to it. This thing looked like a giant chameleon. Seeing our suspicious eyes, the flower buryer shouted: "Don't underestimate my sand lizards, they are much faster than those useless horses in the desert." As he said this, he looked at our mounts with contempt. .

Yeying neighed, and the sharp horn on his head immediately flashed with a compressed electric ball. I understood what Yeying meant: "I'm not a horse."

Unexpectedly, the flower burial man said: "It's all the same. Anyway, everything you encounter in quicksand is trash. Follow my footsteps and don't run outside. If you fall into the quicksand, you'll be finished."

"Just go ahead and don't worry about us."

"Okay, follow me."

The Flower Burial Man rode on the sand lizard and rushed out to the desert outside the city, and we immediately followed. The Flower Burial Man was very confident in his mount. It was only after we left the city that we found out that he was indeed confident. The sand lizard is simply flying above the yellow sand, and its speed is far faster than ordinary creatures. War horses that rely on four hooves to move forward are really at a disadvantage. The horses' hooves are too small and they will sink in when they step on the sand and cannot run at full speed. Finally we had to get off the ground and fly up and walk. The mounts of the Bell Knight were all equipped with the Dark Floating Cloud Technique by Ling, Bailang was given the Wings of Light, and Yeying and Xiaoxue were already able to fly.

Flower Burial Man was also surprised when he saw us all flying. He didn't expect that we could all fly. In fact, if I hadn't heard that there were a lot of monsters in the sand forest, I wouldn't have had to recruit such a large team to protect them.

The sand lizard was fast, and we were flying, so we didn’t waste much time on the road. While running, the sand lizard suddenly stopped, and the flower buryer jumped down from the sand lizard.

We followed the landing. "Why stop?"

"arrive."

"Are we here?" Rose and I looked around but saw nothing. "where?"

The flower buryer pointed to the ground. "We are now standing on top of the Sand Forest. The Sand Forest is a rare underground forest, right under your feet."

"What about the entrance?"

The Flower Buryer commanded his mount to sniff the ground for a while, and finally the sand lizard found a place and started digging. Within a few minutes, a huge stone slab appeared on the ground. "This is the entrance. Open the stone slab and you can go in. Our agreement was to send you to the Sand Forest. Now that we have arrived, can you pay me?"

I waved my hand forward, and Scot led several Ring Knights over, grabbed the buckle on the stone slab, and pulled it back violently. The entire stone slab flew up. It seemed that the stone slab was not as heavy as I thought. Ringtone The knight obviously exerted too much force. Scott stretched his head in, took a look and said, "There is a forest."

I took out the crystal coin and handed it to the flower buryer. "How big is the area inside?"

The flower buryer said: "I don't know how big it is exactly, but no one has ever walked it all. You'd better prepare a scroll to return to the city before going in. Getting lost is no joke. Or you can continue to hire me as a guide."

"Okay." I answered without hesitation.

"Let me say it first, the fee this time is 20 crystal coins."

"Why so many?"