After a full 10 minutes, the Sandworm finally stopped struggling. Blood-colored flowers and thorny vines burrowed out of its mouth. Then, the vines withered rapidly.
The Sandworm didn't seem to have changed, but its body was empty. Its blood and everything else had become nutrients for the Vampiric Vine. Once the nutrients were used up, the Vampiric Vine would begin to wither. In this place, the Vampiric Vine would wither even faster. In a few seconds, it would turn into ashes and dissipate.
Lin Yun passed the Sandworm's corpse and sped up. The sky was already turning dark.
Today was considered a good day. During the day, there were only a few visible tornadoes. As long as they avoided them, there wouldn't be any problems. The only dangers were the quicksand and the Sandworms.
But at night, apart from the Sandworms, no other creatures could survive in the desert. The Sandworms had a thick layer of rocky skin to resist the harsh environment at night.
In order to increase his speed, Lin Yun released a Haste spell that consumed a quarter of his mana. He also released a Keen Perception spell to guard against any possible dangers in the surroundings.
After running for half an hour, the brilliance of the Shelter Tower could be seen from afar. The top of the Shelter Tower could be seen from here. The top of the Shelter Tower, which was thousands of meters high, exuded the brilliance of sunset. It was like a lighthouse in the dark.
Even if it was dying and weak, it was still the last hope of the apocalypse.
The sky turned dark very quickly, and the fiery smell in the air quickly dissipated. It seemed that at this moment, the temperature had returned to normal, and the air had lost its fiery smell. However, in less than three minutes, the air began to appear gloomy and cold. It seemed that every breath felt like there was ice swirling in the throat.
As time passed, the cold and gloomy aura became stronger and stronger. Lin Yun knew that in at most fifteen minutes, it would be impossible to stay outside Heiss City. After fifteen minutes, those who hadn't returned to Heiss City would be frozen to death outside the city, even if they weren't killed by the Sandworms.
In the post-apocalyptic world, an official mage was considered a top powerhouse. Especially when Lin Yun was in the last phase of the apocalypse, the number of people who could become an apprentice mage was pitifully small. The population of Heiss City had also plummeted to the point where it could be easily calculated.
By the time the apocalypse arrived, Heiss City had become very bleak. Not many people were still alive, and those who were still alive had no desire to live.
In an era where true mages could be considered top-notch powerhouses, the low temperature outside could easily freeze people to death. The lowest temperature in the middle of the night was comparable to some extreme environments in the Frost Elemental Plane.
This temperature wasn't something a mage apprentice or apprentice could withstand. Moreover, there were still Sandworms outside. Before the sky turned completely dark, anyone who was still outside the city would be sure to be dead, or about to die …
Lin Yun increased his speed as he madly ran towards Heiss City. The surrounding air was getting colder and colder. This kind of gloomy aura wasn't like the void where there was no warmth at all. It was more like an icy maw that wanted to devour all life.
By the time he saw Heiss City, a thin youth covered in blood and as pale as paper was frantically running towards Heiss City. Behind him was a ten-meter-long Sandworm, unwilling to give up.
They were less than three kilometers away from Heiss City, but the sandworms were about to catch up to the young man. Even if he didn't die in the mouths of the sandworms, he would lose a lot of time and would be greatly weakened by the icy aura of the night. In the end, he would still die in the mouths of the sandworms.
When the youth saw Lin Yun, it was as if he had seen a life-saving straw.
"Lin Yun, save me, help me …" The youth was panic-stricken and pleading.
The young man's face was full of fear and pleading. Even though he was injured, he didn't throw away the piece of flesh on his back that was covered in blood. That was the result of his hunt today. It wasn't easy for him to find half of the body of a sandworm that had died in a fight. It was the only edible piece of flesh that he had dug out. This piece of flesh might be able to sustain him for many more days, allowing him to practice magic peacefully for a week and improve his strength.
With strength, he would be able to catch prey more easily and save more time. He would have more time to increase his strength and absorb mana from the Netherstorm.
Lin Yun indifferently looked at the youth and subconsciously touched the left side of his neck. He then quickly chanted an incantation and threw a quicksand trap in front of the youth.
How could the youth have thought of that? By the time he realized it, it was already too late. One of his feet had already stepped into the quicksand trap. The quicksand trap was at most half a meter deep and simply couldn't bury a person. However, Lin Yun had increased the range of this trap by three times, covering a full ten meters. The youth was doomed to have no way of dodging.
After stepping into the quicksand trap, all the hope on the young man's face dissipated. In just a second or two, the sandworm behind him had already caught up and bit off one of his legs. Blood sprayed out, and before it could fall to the ground, it had already solidified into blood-colored ice particles.
"Lin Yun, I curse you! I curse you to wait until the end of the world arrives! I curse you to be destroyed in the flames of the apocalypse … Ah …"
Lin Yun quickly finished the last part of his journey and entered Heiss City. After entering, the radiance of the Shelter Tower had already enveloped him. The cold and gloomy outside didn't seem to have anything to do with Heiss City. When he turned around and saw the youth being swallowed by the Sandworm, Lin Yun's expression didn't look too good.
Lin Yun still remembered that guy's name, George. He was someone he had met two years after arriving at the end of the Magic Era. He was a 5th Rank Apprentice Mage, which was already considered above the lowest level in Heiss City. At that time, Lin Yun had only been a 3rd Rank Apprentice Mage.
After the initial difficulties, he had become an Apprentice Mage with great difficulty. Every day, he would take advantage of the precious three minutes of peace between day and night to absorb the mana rushing out of the Netherstorm. That smell was simply unbearable.
No one knew how many people in Heiss City gave up because they couldn't bear that kind of pain. The mana within the Netherstorm was irascible and chaotic. After being swallowed, it would be like a small knife rampaging through one's body before being tamed.
Lin Yun transmigrated, but no one cared about how Lin Yun came to be, nor did they care about Lin Yun's completely different appearance. No one cared about whether Lin Yun was human or not.
At the end of Noscent's Magic Era, even the Imps with the lowest status in the Abyss were unwilling to come to Noscent. The Undead weren't willing to appear in Noscent, so who would care about anything else?
This George was someone Lin Yun had met when he reached the peak of the 3rd Rank Apprentice Mage realm, and they had formed a hunting team to go hunting.
Lin Yun had been picking up spare parts outside Heiss City in order to see if he could make some simple tools. Even if he couldn't make puppets, it would be good if he could make some tools that could be operated by humans.
At the same time, in the same quiet place, George was injured, carrying a piece of edible flesh on his back, chased by a Sandworm, and the sky was already turning dark.
He looked for Lin Yun 'help, but in the end, he tricked Lin Yun and almost made Lin Yun die less than a kilometer outside the city. He didn't have the opportunity to retaliate before George left Heiss City and never returned.
The same thing happened again, and Lin Yun naturally tricked that guy.
There were some things that couldn't be endured, even if he knew that this world was fake. Most importantly, he only had the power of a Mage in this place. If he died here, he would truly die.
When he had transmigrated to Noscent, he had been an ordinary person. It was a lot more difficult for an ordinary person to survive in this place than in the endless desert. Lin Yun didn't want to recall how much suffering he had suffered and how many difficulties he had to go through.
He had spent all his time reading magic books and learning the language of this place because in the world of magic, knowledge was power. That was how he barely managed to survive. Then, he breathed in the spicy air and used the Void Forge to devour those glass-like fragments of mana.
The first time he was almost tricked to death by a human after becoming a Mage Apprentice was here.
Lin Yun entered Heiss City and turned to look at George, whose body had been bitten to pieces by a Sandworm and was on his last breath. His expression was very calm.
Those curses were exactly the same as what he had heard before, but the results were completely different.
This was a world formed from Lin Yun's Heart Imagery. Everything was based on Lin Yun's memories, but it wasn't necessarily based on his memories. His Heart Imagery was only the foundation. Most of the developments were the same as in his memories, but they weren't necessarily the same as in his memories.
Lin Yun had seen it before, but he wasn't too clear about it. But it didn't matter, because this was Heiss City!
After entering Heiss City, everything was the same as he remembered. Most of the people who appeared on the streets had numb expressions on their faces. Those who had just returned to Heiss City all had a look of joy on their faces. They were glad that they had returned to the city at the last moment.
When he looked beyond the walls of Heiss City, it was already covered in black ice and snow. Black snowflakes the size of a human's palm fell from the sky like ice blades, and the whooshing sounds of the snowflakes tearing through the air formed a mournful symphony.
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