Chapter 288 Avio City
The huge city is built on a saline and alkaline land. The scale of the city is unprecedented. The whole city is completely a steel giant, and it can even pull out the long legs into the earth's crust.
This makes Zhou Xirui feel incredible. Although the Avi people riding the popular beasts use advanced laser guns, they don't seem to be much more civilized than the people on earth. What technology do these people use to extract so much metal to create such a high-tech city?
After entering the city, he found that the city was still half inserted into the soil. The Awi people always mined the nearby metal and opened it in another place. This result directly led to the loss of grass on the ground. No wonder the planet is so desolate that the energy has been nearly exhausted.
What surprised him more is that the food used by the Avi people to maintain their lives is only cultivated single-celled algae, which are not very demanding on the environment and can reproduce infinitely as long as there is groundwater.
However, when the Awei waiter brought a basin of green sticky **, the disgusting smell of stool still made Zhou Xirui feel a little desperate. He could not swallow such a thing anyway.
Princess Toyeta sensed the noble guest's attitude towards food and suddenly waved her hand and ordered the attendant to kill a beast, which was an unprecedented courtesy.
The number of beasts is very limited. With the singleness of food and the reduction of water sources, the reproductive ability of beasts is getting lower and lower, with an incubation rate of only about 10%.
In the square in the middle of the city, the Awi warriors lit a bonfire, and an aging beast was killed. The blood flowed in a huge basin and overflowed. The fishy smell attracted countless Awi people to surround them, and their desire for food made them crawl on the ground and lick the blood stuck to the sand.
The old man was trampled down, and the whole scene was chaotic. Princess Toyeta raised her hand and ordered the soldiers to pull away the civilians, and tears flowed down. Zhou Xirui looked at her with understanding. The living standard here was really bad.
The fattest part of the beast is considered to be the meat of the spine. It was picked out and sent to Zhou Xirui. Although it has some firewood to chew, it is many times more delicious than algae.
At this time, a waiter came to report that the cub had begun to hatch. Princess Toyeta got up and invited Zhou Xirui to watch together. The incubation room was at the bottom of the city, and there were sharp screams. They went down and found that it was full of basketball-sized eggs, and about one-tenth of them hatched, all of which were like fat. A fat bug-like cub.
"Your Highness, can you take me to Pyramid Hill?" Zhou Xirui bowed and asked, he was eager to leave here and return to his friends.
"Okay, warrior, please come with me," Princess Toyetta looked at him and said after thinking about it.
They came outside the city and sat on a beast leading the vast Avi army to the Pyramid Mountain. When they came not far from the mountain, Princess Toyeta asked Zhou Xirui to go down to the ground and said, "The pilgrims must be here, put down all their external things, and can only enter on foot."
As she walked, she smiled and said, "It also includes all the obsessions."
There were no guarded giant beasts at the door. Princess Toyeta said that these giant beasts could not find food because of the surrounding desertification, so they were scattered to find food.
They picked up the steps and entered the hole. Zhou Xirui went to the familiar big stone and put his hand on it. Immediately, the whole stone glowed brightly. Some strange words appeared in the air. The princess was surprised to see these words.
Zhou Xirui noticed Princess Toyeta's expression and quickly asked her what these words meant, but the princess shook her head and said she didn't know. He groped in the hole and still couldn't find a way back. Finally, he had to go back to Aviyo with the princess.
On the way, they encountered a rare storm when they walked through a desert and the edge of the Gobi. At first, they heard strange sounds behind them, like ghost crying and wolves, and like waves of the sea waves. In an instant, the wind was strong, wrapped in sand and dust, and the hot fire that lit up the planet. The ball turned to the back, and this side gradually fell into a boundless darkness, and the visibility was extremely low. Even Zhou Xirui, who had excellent vision in the dark, also felt blurred.
Although the princess covered her mouth with a headscarf, she still felt that countless sandstones were poured into her ears and nose. After the beast blindly ran a long distance, they gradually disoed. The cavalry scolded the beast for a long time to stop the beast. At this time, no one could hear anything. The cavalry made a few gestures, and Gather the frightened beasts together in a circle.
Zhou Xirui may mean that if they run any further, the beasts will be dispersed. Once the team disperse, no one will survive. Now they have to build an anti-sand wall in place. People hide in the middle of the beasts, and the only thing left is to do is to pray to the goddess.
The princess asked Zhou Xirui to wrap her in a blanket to avoid the sandstorm on the spot.
But Zhou Xirui saw that the cavalry were shoveling sand desperately. He also got up and placed the beast they were riding on. He also went to help. He built a simple sand wall around the beast, and then covered the beast's eyes with a blanket to prevent them from fleeing. Everyone was also wrapped in blankets. Together.
Zhou Xirui sighed secretly. Fortunately, he had left the eye of the wind. The sand on the edge of the sandstorm was so strong that it might tear people into pieces in the center of the eye.
The beasts have lived in the desert for a long time and are more experienced. At this time, they are no longer panicked. When they are buried in part by sand, they shake their bodies and move up a little so that they will not be completely buried by the sand.
It was not until the next morning that the sand gradually subsided. They kept digging sand walls all night and were already exhausted. Seeing that the sandstorm had passed, they dared to stand up and look out. They were surrounded by wave-like undulating sand dunes, and the yellow sand was blown out by the wind.
Zhou Xirui and the princess climbed to the top of the highest sand dune and were shocked. After the wind took away the sand, a city appeared in the distance, which looked old and dilapidated.