The dazzling light stimulated the boy's vision through his eyelids, and the hot wind blew across his face. He opened his eyes and looked directly at the sun high in the sky.
Strange, it seems that the sun is not as dazzling as before. The young man secretly said, then straightened up and did it, fine sand rustled from his body, some fell back to the sand, and some gathered in a pile at the folds of his robes.
It's the same desert as before, but it doesn't seem to be exactly where it was. Judging from where the sun hangs in the sky, time does not seem to have passed very long. As for how he left that mysterious secret room and came here, the teenager has no clue. I just remembered that I pushed the door open, and I fell into a sudden darkness, and a nightmare that seemed to be incomparably long and filled with fear without a body. Weird characters appeared in the dream, the characters seemed to flow freely, and an inaudible but lingering blasphemous aura flowed out from every character, every line of text, and every paragraph.
Words that have never been seen, write secrets that no one knows.
Then, the flowing chapter was imprinted in his mind, but mysteriously disappeared. Then, as if suddenly, he regained consciousness and returned to the surface, lying on the sand with his eyes closed.
The teenager thought about it for a while, and found that he really had no clue, and the more he tried to recall, the more he felt a strange headache, and it was okay. The most urgent task now is to survive in this unknown world. But the strange thing is that now his condition has magically improved a lot, the sun does not feel so vicious, the high temperature has become less unbearable, and even the flames in his throat have temporarily subsided a lot. His body seems to have become stronger and stronger. Although it is the body of a fourteen- or fifteen-year-old boy, his limbs seem to be full of energy that seems to be wasted. With a single jump, you can jump very far, at least fifteen feet. It's a little stronger than the adult body he used to have. Even more bizarre, the teenager found that he was no longer sweating. Although he could still feel the heat of the desert, his body did not experience any discomfort, as if he was in a cool room.
And there is a strange feeling, elusive and erratic. There seems to be a force wandering in my mind, quietly waiting to be awakened.
The boy stretched out his hand subconsciously, his palm facing the sand under his feet. As if responding to the repeated echoing call in his heart, the young man felt as if a thin string was tightened in his mind, and a warm current burst out from the inside of his body, slowly transmitted to his outstretched arm with the guidance of his will, and converged. in the palm of your hand.
There was an inaudible sound, and then, he clearly saw that on the sand, there was a stream of fine sand, which was moving slowly against the wind, like a snake.
Mind moving! This was the only thought left in the boy's shocked mind.
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When the night of this day was coming, the boy had already walked a long way, and the sunlight cast a long shadow behind him.
The sand on the surface is no longer as fine, which is a good sign and means that it is now at least a little further away from the center of the desert
After obtaining the power to move objects in the mind, the teenager has repeatedly tested and found that this strange ability to move objects is actually very weak, and objects that are too heavy will not move at all. And after repeated use, the brain will become groggy, and it takes a long time to sit and calm down to recover. Such a weak force seems to be completely unhelpful to get rid of this endless desert at present.
Perhaps after development and exercise, it can become a significant force. But first, one must survive this desert.
live. The boy's mechanical steps.
It's hard to tell the direction here, but since the mysterious black room came out, the boy has a strange intuition. There must be nothing wrong with knowing this direction, as if there is some kind of guidance somewhere.
Continue walking until your legs seem to be filled with lead and your feet are numb to the point of unconsciousness. Then, keep walking.
The surrounding scenery seemed to remain unchanged, but the boy noticed that there were sporadic weeds on the sand, the leaves fell on the ground, and the trunk stood upright. Small and lifeless.
In any case, the presence of vegetation is a good thing, which should represent moisture, and more importantly, it means that this place has an ecological structure similar to the earth, with green plants capable of photosynthesis. Seeing this barren desert just now, the young man suspected that this was the Arakis described by Frank Herbert, a complete desert planet. The ecosystems there are built on spice fungi that use geothermal energy to fix organic matter, rather than green plants like the Earth. In that case, the social structure derived from this world must be very different from the earth, and I don't know if it can adapt.
It would be even better if you could find a plant similar to the barrel cactus on Earth that would quench your thirst with its sap, even if it disrupted the electrolyte balance in your body. The teenager licked the corners of his mouth and was already showing symptoms of dehydration. Even though his body seemed to have adapted to the current environment inexplicably, it seemed that he couldn't stop hydrating at all.
I hope someone passes by here, so that I can get rid of the pain of this trek, the young man continued to think. But this is most likely just wishful thinking. In this unfamiliar place, there are no roads and no traces left by livestock. Maybe people may not pass by for thousands of years.
After a while, the vegetation gradually became more and more, and dwarf trees began to appear all around, thin and twisted, less than ten feet tall, its branches and branches stretched like umbrellas, but not a single leaf. Some of these dwarf trees have fallen, the roots seem to have been parked by something, and there are many hollows the size of fists. But even so, it can be seen that this plant has a huge root system that can extend far and wide.
There is a skeleton not far away, the white one is afraid of people, and the big one is surprisingly large. The young man paced forward, touching the rough surface of the skeleton with his hands, thoughtfully. The gigantic skeleton was over 70 feet long and had a structure so unlike anything that had ever existed on Earth, it was surprisingly familiar.
No matter how you look at this skeleton, it looks like the skeleton of a legendary dragon.
A huge skull like an enlarged crocodile, with sharp teeth at the front as high as an adult, huge eye sockets larger than a round table, and staring at the sky empty. The spine and ribs are thick and long, the bones in the wings are a little weak, and the broken parts are hollow. At least half of the gigantic corpse was buried in sand, but even the exposed part was enough to be awe-inspiring.
The young man suppressed the stormy waves in his heart, and now is not the time to be curious, he reminded himself. Then continued the difficult trek, and night fell quickly and unknowingly. The brazier-like sun went down, and two strange moons hung high in the sky. They're bigger and brighter than Earth's moon, and they're not grey-white, they're yellow-green in color, with distinct rings, like Saturn's rings. Hanging on the dark night with few stars, the two moons are especially scary.
Are you reaching the limit? The young man's mind circled this idea more than once, but he didn't stop, still walking mechanically, until he stumbled and fell to the sand.