This was one of the five great deserts of the Tutankhamun Empire, and it was also a place where mutated energy wreaked havoc. There were some extremely tenacious oases in the desert that could provide supplies, but there were also many deathly places that even Mu Zi found troublesome.
The surrounding sand became extremely hot under the sunlight. Occasionally, the wind that blew through the air carried a strong heat and the smell of sand, but most of the time, it was still calm. The whole world seemed to be dead silent. There was no wind or any sound. There was only the boundless desert and the vicious sunlight above their heads.
A young sand lizard was lying on the golden sand, leisurely enjoying the sun. Mutated creatures had a stronger ability to adapt than humans. Perhaps they still couldn't get rid of the need for water, but their living habits had completely adapted to the desert environment. The sand lizard's expression was quite relaxed. There were no other mutated creatures nearby, so it was quite safe. But suddenly, it felt something and turned over from the ground. It lay on all fours, and its small eyes darted around, vigilantly observing the surroundings.
Soon, it saw the shadow of a human coming from afar. Unlike ordinary desert travelers and travelers, he didn't wear a wide-brimmed hat or a mask that could block the wind and sand. He didn't have any extra equipment on him, and even his clothes were very thin. This was the Tutankhamun Empire's desert, and the temperature difference between day and night was quite large. Although the ground was hot during the day, it could freeze off a layer of skin at night. But this person didn't care at all. A thin shirt and a small backpack were all he had on him, but he didn't look like a refugee who had been robbed. He walked very steadily, and his speed was also very fast. When the sand lizard first saw him, he was still a few miles away, but in just a few seconds, he was only a few hundred meters away from it. The sand lizard was shocked, and it dug the sand under its feet and disappeared without a trace.
That figure was Wang Zhong. It was already the tenth day since he left Katchirda Village, and he had entered the central area of the Morradis Pink Desert.
This was the place that Mu Zi had recommended.
Carrying a small backpack and traveling alone, he didn't even bring his Skylink with him. It was as if he had returned to the silence of his childhood. Although the surrounding environment was very empty, his heart was very full.
Was the desert dead silent? In the past, this was what Wang Zhong thought. Even when he struggled with Gong Yi and the others in the desert for more than half a month, this view did not change.
However, when his heart calmed down and he walked in solitude for a few days, he slowly realized that this seemingly empty world was actually still full of vitality. Whether it was ordinary creatures or mutated creatures, or even desert plants, they all had tenacious vitality. Perhaps they were not easy to see on the surface of the desert, but they were hidden under the desert, behind the distant hills, and in some places that one could easily overlook. They were constantly blooming with the radiance of life.
The more he saw, the more he experienced. Just like what Mu Zi had said, this was a completely different feeling. Mu Zi had already traveled all over the Tutankhamun Empire, so he had obtained the power he had now.
It had only been ten days, but Wang Zhong was already unshaven and unkempt. His eyes, however, had become sharper. Everything around him had a different meaning. He was like a newborn baby, greedily breathing in the world's air, curiously looking at the colorful world around him, learning and memorizing everything here.
There was a lack of water in the desert, but it didn't mean that there was no water, especially after the environmental changes. The desert actually didn't change, but the vitality here had become stronger. This meant that the water would be gathered by plants, but ordinary people couldn't see it because it was controlled by some huge plant roots underground.
Therefore, it was very difficult for ordinary people to find water, but it was different for Wang Zhong. He had the Great 5 Elements Constitution and could feel the existence of various elements.
Through unremitting practice, as long as he carefully felt the flow of the power of water in the air, he would be able to find a water source. No matter how subtle it was, it would spread into the air, and his intuition would lead him to the resources that were entrenched under the sand.
However, although this method was feasible, it required a lot of practice. In the beginning, Wang Zhong had made a lot of errors in his judgment. Although he could feel the power of water in the air, he would often dig in the wrong place. The power of water was diffuse and drifted in the desert. He had to clearly distinguish its source and direction, and even the distance it spread to. The requirement for his comprehension of the five elements had reached an indescribably harsh level.
However, as he meticulously comprehended and practiced, Wang Zhong gradually felt that he had become one with the desert. He was more used to this place, and the feeling of distinguishing the water elements in the complex airflow became clearer. It was somewhat similar to the state of the Heart's Eye, but it wasn't. On a higher level, he could see through the environment and become one with it. This was the transformation from the active release of the Heart's Eye to passive perception, and it was rather natural.
Finding a water source was only one of the necessary conditions for survival in the desert. If you wanted to survive here and complete this journey, you would need more.
Food, endurance, and facing danger. The polarization of the mutant creatures in the desert was quite large. The weak ones were indeed very weak, while the small mutants such as sand scorpions and sand lizards were purely food for the new humans. They were at the bottom of the entire desert ecosystem. Not to mention powerful mutant creatures, even many mutant plants would eat them as food.
Wang Zhong was also observing and found a very interesting phenomenon. Perhaps the people in the desert had not thought of it this way, but this phenomenon did exist. These small mutants, such as sand lizards and sand scorpions, were at the bottom of the desert's food chain. The entire desert was their natural enemy, but they were the only ones that spread throughout the desert and flourished the most.
When nature evolved, although it created the most natural enemies for them, it also gave them other rather abnormal abilities. First of all, the fertility of these mutants far exceeded the normal state.
Take the mutant iguanas for example. Wang Zhong had learned about them in biology class. In the age of light, they could only lay eggs once a year, and each ovulation would produce about three to six eggs. However, after entering the Age of Darkness, their bodies had become larger, and they could lay eggs six times a year, which meant that they could lay eggs once every two months. Each time they laid eggs, they could lay 40 to 100 eggs. Moreover, their entire growth cycle had been greatly shortened, and they only needed one month to reach adulthood.
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