Absolute Death Game-Chapter 474 - 50: Paradise Island
Xiao Buli turned misfortune into fortune. His already powerful pet, the Lava Giant Python, was strengthened into a Giant Dragon after obtaining the body of the Demon Star. Once its True Origin Points fully recovered, Xiao Buli set off on his journey again.
The rest of the road was not much different than before, but this time, with the Lava Giant Dragon, Xiao Buli would summon it every time they encountered monsters in order to understand its skills and attributes. For one, the frequent contact between the man and dragon would foster their bond, and secondly, it provided an opportunity to evaluate the dragon's strength. After several encounters, Xiao Buli was almost certain he had acquired a treasure. Monsters in the Barbaric Wastelands almost only had the option to flee upon seeing the Giant Dragon. Occasionally, one or two stronger ones would barely manage to fight it, but they wouldn't last more than a minute before ending up in the dragon's stomach.
After traveling for about three or four more days, the situation remained under Xiao Buli's control. However, he started to feel that the Barbaric Wastelands seemed to be getting hotter, and as the temperature rose, the lush plants in front of him gradually thinned. After walking for another day, the fog and poisonous mist in the sky had completely disappeared. Xiao Buli summoned the Immortal Crane and flew up, "Phew, I can finally fly!" Xiao Buli rode the Immortal Crane, soaring in the vast blue sky. Looking back, the cloud-wrapped airspace was far behind him.
The flight distance of the Immortal Crane was limited by Physical Strength, so after flying for a while, they had to rest. By flying and resting intermittently for another five days, Xiao Buli finally left the area covered by the Barbaric Forest. The sky ahead was clear and empty, "I shouldn't need to walk anymore, right? The map of the jungle is really hard to navigate."
While thinking this, Xiao Buli looked down and was shocked. The green extended forward for a while, but then gradually faded, turning into a wilderness of yellow and green sand. This sandy wilderness didn't extend far either. Further ahead, only the dim yellow color of the desert remained. Behind this stretch of Barbaric Forest was an endless expanse of vast desert. It caught Xiao Buli by surprise; no wonder the clouds and mist had disappeared. Over a desert where not even grass grew, it would be strange to find any clouds or fog.
Flying along, Xiao Buli soon came to the edge of the jungle, but by this time, the Immortal Crane was at the end of its Physical Strength and had to stop there. Xiao Buli sat in the shade of the forest trees to recover his Physical Strength and cool off.
Xiao Buli found an amusing place: here, the tropical jungle and the desert were as distinct as water from oil, as if the two regions were neatly separated by a straight cut. On one side of the forest, it was unbearably humid and hot, and as soon as Xiao Buli stepped onto the desert side, a wave of dry heat immediately swept over him. With the land beneath his feet as the boundary, the two sides each had distinct temperatures and humidity due to their different maps. This bizarre scene, which would not occur in reality, was now vividly presented before him.
System notification: You have discovered the "Endless Desert."
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Oh crap, could this be the boundary of the map? Xiao Buli was somewhat speechless, thinking that this was too far-fetched. After all, though the skills and settings in most games are detached from reality, the environments within them always strive for realism. Especially in 3D games, whether it be grasslands or seas, such abrupt separations would not occur.
But why did such terrain appear in a game that could be mistaken for reality? Does this kind of map have some deeper meaning? Xiao Buli sat in the shade on this side, staring blankly at the yellow sand in front of him. Occasionally a whirlwind would blow by, kicking up a lot of sand to form a tiny vortex, yet it would stop as if it hit an invisible wall at the edge of the forest.
Xiao Buli did not immediately move on, because the size of this desert was indeterminable, and based on the name "Endless Desert", it was definitely not small. Inside the desert, it wasn't the same as in the jungle where Xiao Buli didn't need to worry about food. Xiao Buli was currently entering the game with his Spirit, and if there were no food to eat inside the game, it wasn't just about running out of Physical Strength, there was also hunger to contend with.
Xiao Buli took stock of his backpack, which still had a decent amount of food left, but faced with the endless consumption of the desert, it didn't seem very optimistic. He felt it would be better to take precautions and resupply in advance.
As for this crappy Barbaric Forest, Xiao Buli naturally didn't expect to run into an NPC selling food. However, luckily his dissection and gathering skills had both reached LV10, so collecting food in the rainforest wasn't an issue, let alone now that he had a storage bracelet. With it, he could stock up on food, and getting through the desert shouldn't be too difficult.
Having made his decision, Xiao Buli stood up and returned to the depths of the jungle, believing that there would be more food there. However, this meant wasting a lot of time, and until now he had been moving longitudinally through the jungle. Now, Xiao Buli was quite interested in traversing it laterally to see if he could find other discoveries. With this in mind, he walked along the edge of the desert and jungle toward the east to see if he could find a good gathering spot or something else.
Although this area was the junction of desert and forest, there were still many small animals. However, animals in the Barbarian Wilderness had been irradiated by the Demon Star, so most had mutated. Although it was all happening inside the game, Xiao Buli, after all, was a normal human and had no desire to eat giant rats or huge beetles resembling cockroaches, so being selective with food was also a test of patience.
