Chapter 2229

"You don't know that fairy tale? Alright, if there is time later, I would be very happy to share that story."

After Xia De nodded, the lady with light brown skin, who looked more and more like a dancer unique to the desert region, also said with a smile:

"Hello, Mr. Hamilton from afar. Please call me 'Ms. Mest', I am also here to find the Heart of the Oasis. My tribe needs this treasure, which is rumored to be able to keep any barren land alive forever, to maintain the oasis that is about to decay."

The fabric on her body was indeed pitifully little, and from the surface, this was an eleventh-tier witch.

The last one was the ordinary female knight. Although her face was not as beautiful as the three witches, she could be considered beautiful among ordinary people. Although her hair was gray-white, judging from her face, her age should be around thirty.

"Hello, I am Sherry Knight from the Principality of Vlad in the Eastern Continent. Our country is cursed by demons, and the Queen seeks help from witches. The witch gave the Queen the method to find the 'Heart of the Oasis'. Out of a team of 45 people, I am the only one left who walked here."

She performed a standard knight etiquette to Xia De. Xia De, who also had a "knight" identity, returned the etiquette to her not very skillfully:

"Miss Knight, you are really brave."

Up to this point, the basic situation of the companions this time could be considered fully understood. So Grandmother Synode greeted everyone to sit on the chairs and talk, don't keep standing there:

"Mr. Hamilton, do you need food and water? We have some here, we can share with you. It's no problem to be hungry in this desert, but you absolutely cannot lack water. Even if you are not thirsty yourself, you cannot lack water. Lack of water will lead to further memory confusion and loss of control of ether, until finally the human body turns into a pile of sand or melts in the light."

For the old elf to distribute everyone's supplies to Xia De, an outsider, the other three didn't have any objection. This elderly old elf had clearly mastered the leadership of the team.

And when she mentioned the end of not drinking water, except for Ms. Mest with brown skin and the mermaid Ms. Sander, the old elf herself and Ms. Knight showed complex expressions. Clearly, more than one person had died before their eyes.

"It's okay, don't worry about me, I also have a lot of supplies here."

Saying this, Xia De took toys out of his pocket and turned them into real objects one by one. The supplies Xia De carried the most were food and water. Although in most cases he didn't need them himself, ancient witches and ordinary people in time exploration usually needed them very much.

Seeing that Xia De was also happy to share, the four ladies had a better impression of him. So everyone helped pack these supplies, and Xia De asked how they came here.

The blue-haired mermaid Ms. Sander introduced the situation for him:

"The four of us didn't come here together. After successfully arriving in this desert by accident, I appeared in a cave, but probably because of my race, I couldn't touch the sun here. If I touched it for more than half a minute, I would faint."

"I can't even last ten seconds."

The female knight said on the side, moving the water bottle to the corner of the wall, and then covering it with a piece of canvas. They originally had an old water tank and several water bottles, which were filled with yellow liquid... muddy water mixed with sand. There seemed to be a water source in this dilapidated temple, but the water quality was clearly not good.

"I could walk for five minutes, but I'm old. If I really let myself be exposed to the sun for so long, I would probably go see the Tree Father."

The old elf also said so. As for Ms. Mest, she thought she could walk for three or four minutes in the current sunlight outside. Of course, these were all without protection.

Looking at it this way, Xia De, who thought he could persist for ten minutes, was indeed very unusual. This of course had the reason for his extremely powerful physical fitness, but also had the reason that Xia De was very adaptable to the power of the "sun".

"I stayed in that cave where water seeped from the rock crevice for a long, long time after I woke up, so long that I forgot the time myself."

The mermaid girl shook her head violently, as if chasing away invisible flies:

"Until one day, I knew I couldn't stay there anymore. Otherwise, even if my body was still alive, my soul would wither."

So in the gap between the day and night of the desert, I rushed out of the cave, and later collapsed in the cold night, and was already saved by the grandmother when I woke up."

Grandmother Synode explained on the side:

"It's not always daytime here. Because of the confusion of time, we can't know the specific day and night conversion rules. But before night truly comes and retreats, there will be a special period of time when the temperature returns to normal. These two periods are the only opportunities to move normally in the desert. The heat of the day and the cold of the night will destroy our lives."

The gray-white haired knight lady also said:

"The cold of the night is easier to endure than the heat of the day. After all my companions sacrificed, I set off alone in a night and walked for twenty minutes before collapsing. Ms. Mest saved me and brought me to meet Grandmother Synode and Ms. Sander."

After a pause, she added:

"Time cannot be distinguished, but at least from the physical feeling, the length of the night is far shorter than the day. The day is almost eternal, and the night is just a flash. Dusk and dawn, even ordinary people like me can move in the desert for a long time."

"Then have you been staying here for a long time?"

Xia De asked again, distributing jam bread to the five people. Ms. Sander took a bite of the bread and looked like she was about to cry.

"I see there seems to be a water source here, and it can also avoid the light."

Grandmother Synode was the last to take the bread Xia De handed over:

"We have stayed in this dilapidated temple for a long, long time. In my cognition, it is longer than all the other time we have spent since entering this desert added together."

"Why not leave and continue to look for the Heart of the Oasis?"

Xia De asked curiously, Ms. Mest answered with a smile, she had always had this relaxed expression:

"Because it is impossible to determine where the next building or cave that can stay is.

We gathered in this temple of the old days because of various coincidences, but if we go out during the next dusk, night, and dawn, because we don't know when the day will come again, we can't determine whether we can return here."

"We can only explore outward briefly when we encounter dusk, and then seize the time to return before the night ends. We cannot go out at dawn, because after the short dawn is the day. Up to now, we have gone out..."

Grandmother Synode's eyes showed some confusion, so she looked at the blue-haired mermaid, Ms. Sander took out a notebook:

"13 times, but never found the next building that can be temporarily lived in. Although some places to avoid light have been found, either there is no water source, or there are other shortcomings. The walls of this temple will seep water intermittently, and the space is not small, so it is relatively the most comfortable, so we can survive."

Simply put, the four of them have been completely trapped here. Although they can live here for a long time in the short term, they will eventually get lost in this sand sea.

"Then do you know how to leave this desert?"

Xia De asked again, and all four shook their heads:

"Maybe we will know after finding the Heart of the Oasis. The data does not record the method of leaving here. Each of us came here with the determination to die."

Xia De nodded in surprise, so in this way, the purpose of the mermaid's coming here seems to be...

"Fortunately, the Sun God protected us."

Knight Ms. Knight's words interrupted Xia De's thoughts, Xia De was startled:

"Sun God? Wait, you mean, the building we are in now is the temple of that ancient Sun God - 【The Supreme Binder of the Sun】?"

He stood up from the long chair, looked around in surprise, and Grandmother Synode, who was eating bread, nodded:

"A part of the murals on the wall still remains, this is the story of that ancient Sun God. Although there is no holy emblem here, the patterns of the altar under the wall where the holy emblem is hung only belong to that oldest Sun God."

The altar described by the old elf was placed crookedly under the wall, one-third in the sun and two-thirds in the shade. The ladies were eating, and Xia De walked forward alone to check.

The black stone altar was not large, and it looked like it was carved from a whole piece of giant stone. Xia De didn't really understand the patterns of that ancient Sun God, he just looked at it curiously, and then pressed his hand on the surface of the altar located in the shade.

A warm feeling came from his palm, but nothing else happened, not even the elements were felt.

After hesitating for a moment, Xia De put his hand into the scorching sun and pressed it on the surface of the altar in the sun.

In an instant, he almost thought his hand was about to be roasted. While the needle-like pain came, "She" whispered in his ear:

【Outlander, you have felt a miracle.】

The patterns on the outside of the altar emitted a faint light that was almost invisible to the naked eye, and a little spirit poured into Xia De's body to replenish his not-so-large loss, then "She" continued:

【Outlander, your strange art "Praise the Sun" has been enhanced.】

The strange art "Praise the Sun" comes from the 【Arrogance】 spiritual rune. The effect is to praise the sun in the sun once a day, and one's own physical strength and spirit recovery speed will be slightly increased, and the power related to the sun will also be enhanced.

Feeling the enhancement effect of the strange art, Xia De had a sudden inspiration:

"I climbed onto this altar, do you think it counts as blasphemy?"

"Should not be."

"She" said gently, so the ladies who were eating bread all saw Xia De turn into a group of butterflies, and then restored to human form on the altar.