"Let's build a hut, right here."
Millie pointed at the dry, hard land not far away after the Ship of Desert disappeared into the depths of the oasis.
Grimm was dressed like a native of the Sandstorm World. His entire body was wrapped in white gauze, revealing only a pair of eyes. He turned his hand to look at the thorny grass around him. Clang! The thorny grass was quite hard. The harsh and dry conditions of the desert had given these plants a very strong vitality.
"Here?"
Grimm asked in puzzlement, "Why don't we go inside the city walls? The living conditions here are too harsh for our current level of life."
Millie said, "We can build a house here, look for water, look for food, and do everything we can to survive. Using our limited life strength and the most basic knowledge of wizards, we can start from nothing and learn the way of life of the lowly creatures. We can feel the meaning of life of the lowly creatures."
Grimm looked at the thorns around him. With the hardness of these thorns, if they could be cut off one by one, it would be the best material to build a wooden hut. However, the thorns here were so hard that it would be a difficult task.
After thinking for a while, Grimm said, "There is an oasis in front of us, surrounded by desert. The temperature is higher than the desert, so it will form a high-pressure area in the Isurman area. Cold, humid wind will spread around, and the dry, high-temperature air will replenish the area at high altitude, forming a heat cycle. With our current power base, we can pry open the limited rules … "
Pretending to think, Grimm said, "In the morning, when the temperature is the lowest, we can collect water at a lower temperature against the cold and humid air. Water is the most influential universal currency in this world. We can use water as a starting point to trade with the humans in the city and complete the survival under the most difficult conditions in this world. "
Without magic, they no longer had extraordinary powers, and without the fulcrum of a sorcerer to pry open the law, all Grimm and Millie could do was make use of nature to its fullest extent.
Millie looked up at the sun in the sky, then avoided the hot wind with Grimm and came to the shadow of a thorny bush about three meters tall. With a satisfied look, she pointed at the bush and said, "Let's do it here. Maybe in 20 or 30 years, there will be a continuous bush in front of our door, and we can even build a village."
Milly thought to herself happily.
"You didn't become the Sanctum's Tower Lord, so you want to be a village chief to satisfy your cravings?"
Grimm joked.
…
Seven days later.
In the Sandstorm World, apart from water resources, the containers that stored water were also extremely precious resources. Although the containers could not generate water, they could make themselves invincible in times of drought when water was the most scarce and precious. The reason why the royalty of the various oasis civilizations became royalty was because they had the largest container, the lake!
Fortunately, they were currently in a drought period. The bag of water that Grimm and Millie had brought with them was truly pure water. Compared to the so-called "water" that the poor people used to quench their thirst with cactus juice or fern root juice, it was naturally much more precious.
There were only a few people on the street, and they were all listlessly enjoying the cool in the shade. The giant cactus was the most important plant in the city. This plant contained a large amount of water inside, and not only had its thorns been plucked clean, it was also filled with all kinds of holes, caused by people who had inserted tubes into it and sucked on it for a long time.
The shop owner was a skinny and shrewd old man wearing a grey hat. After pouring out a few drops of water from the water bag that Millie handed to him, he dipped a cotton swab in it and tasted it. Immediately after, he nodded his head with a very satisfied expression.
"Distilled and purified water, no magazines. Not bad. What do you want to exchange for?"
This bag of purified water was nothing to the rich merchants, but to the common people, it was a considerable amount of wealth. As he spoke, the old man took out a list of various goods.
"50 Buckthorn fruits, five kilograms of dried mutton, a hatchet, and three water gourds."
After Grimm chose the goods that he needed the most, the old man frowned and said, "This won't do, your water is not enough, unless you leave this cowhide bag here as well."
The cowhide bag was given to Millie by Drowning Tower. The workmanship was very fine, and there were double layers of security inside and outside. In comparison, Grimm's bag was much simpler, and the old man did not take a fancy to it.
Frowning, Grimm threw a red stone on the table with a "dang" sound, and said in a low voice, "I dug this up by accident. Although it's only the lowest grade of defective goods, it should be no problem to make up for the difference."
After a while, Grimm took the goods and was about to leave in satisfaction, but he was stopped by Millie.
"Since we're already here, wouldn't it be a loss if we don't go to the square of the palace?"
Every oasis was a relatively low-lying land in a region. That was why it could store enough water during the short rainy season in case of evaporation during the dry season, so that the oasis would not lose its water supply and be invaded by sandworms.
There was no concept of pollution in the Sandstorm World. Most of the factories and other handicrafts built by the Desert Boat were located within the boundaries of the palace and nobles' territories, which made it easier to manage and safer. Although the oasis city was relatively safe, it was not absolutely safe. Occasionally, some hungry sandworms would accidentally enter, causing casualties.
The population around Grimm and Millie gradually became denser, and the buildings changed from earthen structures to brick structures.
The two of them walked around and looked around, fully immersing themselves in the vision of the lower lifeforms in this world. From the rumbling factory, they could vaguely see shadows of people moving about. It was very dense, and most of them were children.
"Cheap labor. If this world's natural resources were a little more abundant, or if there was a cataclysm that caused a large-scale extinction of the sandworms, and the exchange of information completed a technological change, there might be a chance to unify the world. But now, although the sandworms are at the top of the food chain in this world, they can't go any further because of the lack of intelligence and evolution. "
Grimm was still looking at everything in this world with the eyes of a higher lifeform.
On the other side, Millie, who was walking and looking, suddenly stopped and looked up at a statue. She frowned and said, "Grimm, look at this statue. Don't you think it looks like someone?"
"Someone?"
Grimm looked at the statue that Millie pointed to a few more times, shook his head and said, "Who does it look like?"
"I think it looks a bit like a Four Rings Celestial Sorcerer, what do you think?"
Millie's words made Grimm stunned. When he looked closely, he found that the expression on the statue was indeed somewhat similar!
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