The King of Black Fog

"If the temperature of the sand is 70 degrees Celsius, then just one centimeter above the surface of the sand, the temperature is only 60 degrees Celsius. Some animals will lift their feet to reduce contact with the surface of the sand."

"That's why I said we should walk on our tiptoes!"

"But 20 centimeters below the surface, the temperature is just 30 degrees Celsius. Spiders, beetles, moles, and other animals will hide under the sand."

As they walked, Zheng Qing shared his knowledge about the desert with the three of them.

Right now, Li Changzhou didn't want to hear any knowledge; the heat was so intense that he was irritated by the sound of voices and just wanted a drink of water.

Later, Zheng Qing also closed his mouth, and they started climbing a sand dune that appeared to be over a hundred meters tall.

When they were halfway up, a sudden explosion roared above their heads.

The dune trembled, and the quicksand made it impossible for the three of them to stand steadily. All four of them fell down onto the sandy ground.

"What's happening?" Li Qianxia gripped her steel gun and nervously licked her cracked lips.

"There's a battle going on above us!" Zheng Qing laid down on the sand and said calmly.

The sand rustled, and the wind full of grit brushed everyone's faces.

"Should we go up?" Li Changzhou asked Yang Qinglan, holding an AK, his voice a bit hoarse.

"We can't keep wandering aimlessly. We must end the game quickly to ensure we have the strength to walk back to the station!"

Yang Qinglan didn't say whether they should go up, but his meaning was crystal clear.

"I'll go take a look at the situation first!" Li Changzhou stood up, sand sliding off his body as he bent over and made his way toward the ridge.

Before he had gone far, a figure appeared on the ridge.

"Hahaha!" The man burst into wild laughter. Amidst the storm of desert sand, the scene had the essence of a martial arts movie, "Bet you didn't expect this! This is my escape route!"

With that, the man tucked his head toward his navel, curled into a ball, and rolled down the ridge.

He moved with the speed of lightning and yet appeared slow, reminding Li Changzhou of a Lamborghini's tires.

"Invincible Wind Fire Wheel!" Li Qianxia shouted out, extremely surprised.

"It's the 'Golden Wheel Spider Style·Rolling'!" Zheng Qing corrected loudly. "The Golden Wheel Spider uses this move to escape from the hunts of spiders and wasps!"

"This guy must be a good person!" Li Changzhou also shouted.

They couldn't help but shout.

Above the ridge, a giant python over ten meters long emitted a piercing scream of fury.

"A good person? What proof do you have?" Yang Qinglan asked Li Changzhou.

"Anyone who likes anime can't be bad!"

The 'Invincible Wind Fire Wheel,' having rolled down the slope, reshaped into a human, turned back to look at them, and lifted his hand, a glint of cold light twinkling on his arm.

Whoosh! An arrow, swift as the wind, shot at Zheng Qing.

Zheng Qing propped himself up on his arm in the sand, twisted his body, and narrowly avoided it.

As the crossbow bolt struck the sand, the 'Invincible Wind Fire Wheel' suddenly pulled forward violently.

7.62mm bullets rained down as the AK-47's muzzle, like a wild horse without reins, kicked up but was firmly controlled by Li Changzhou.

The 'Invincible Wind Fire Wheel' let out a yell as his shoulder was hit by a bullet, and he fled in a panic.

As the giant python opened its massive mouth and rushed down, Yang Qinglan turned back to gaze at it, and the python uncontrollably withdrew back to the ridge.

The giant python's huge eyes, as tall as a person, shrank and straightened like lens focusing, piercingly staring at the four people without rushing to attack.

Li Changzhou didn't continue shooting.

At such a distance, it was no longer a matter of pure skill whether he could hit the target; the precision of the firearm itself was crucial.

He spread his hands, gasping for air, and said to himself, "Be careful with anime, Li Changzhou."

After five heartbeats, a 'M95 Sniper Rifle' appeared in his hands.

"Kill him! We'll deal with the monster above," he said, tossing the sniper rifle to Zheng Qing.

Without a word, Zheng Qing supported himself with an arm in the sand and moved into a prone position.

Rotating the bolt, he chambered a round, and the rifle's scope locked onto the 'Invincible Wind Fire Wheel.'

The 'Invincible Wind Fire Wheel's' Golden Wheel Spider Skill couldn't be used on flat ground. Clutching his wounded right shoulder, he alternated between running in a straight line and an S-shaped pattern as he fled.

"Mosquito!" Li Changzhou called out to Li Qianxia.

Li Qianxia lifted her delicate, pale neck and let out a wolf howl, its echoes swallowed by the expanse of the desert.

The giant python's flat head lowered, showing no fear, but becoming more alert, its forked tongue hissing as it darted in and out of its mouth.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" The AK thundered, and bullets were fired towards the python's eyes.

The giant python, experiencing the blows of modern civilization for the first time, shook its head in fury, and blood spurted from its left eye like an arrow.

The recoil pushed Li Changzhou back as his legs sunk inch by inch into the sand.

Li Qianxia, her speed enhanced to 10, bent her knees and leaned forward, sprinting across the sand with the Blood-colored Steel Spear in hand, fast as a gale.

The python's tail made an explosive sweep, shaking the sand dune with its impact, but the formidable force didn't even touch Li Qianxia's shadow.

The 'Mosquito Style Blood-sucking Gun' stabbed through the snake's skin and into its flesh like a blood snake, fiercely biting into the great beast.

Blood surged into the gun, and a red line flowed into Li Qianxia's body.

"Ah~ So refreshing! Feels great!" she couldn't help moaning.

The giant python turned its head to roar in anger as its bloody mouth lunged down like a bucket, with a foul wind rushing towards her.

Li Qianxia uncontrollably stepped back to dodge the strike.

She ran, and the python's single eye closely followed her, preventing her from finding an opportunity to fire again. The scenario resembled a mosquito irritating a giant python.

Li Changzhou reloaded the magazine and aimed at the python's body: "Move!"

Li Qianxia ran as the python twisted its body, about to pursue, but its body uncontrollably slid back on the sand again.

"Bang bang bang!"

Amid the gunfire of the AK and another thunderous boom echoing in the distance, the 'Invincible Wind Fire Wheel,' running away, had his head burst open like a watermelon, splattering blood all over the ground.

The dead body continued to move a few paces forward before collapsing onto the sand as if the power had been cut off.

Without looking, Zheng Qing quickly reversed his rifle while rotating the bolt, chambering another round and aiming the muzzle at the giant python that was dancing in the AK's barrage.

Just as she locked the crosshair on the snake's head, the giant python suddenly opened its mouth.

Her heart skipped a beat, and she shouted, "Run!"

Li Changzhou, who had been continuously shooting at the strange snake, also sensed something was amiss.

He kicked Zheng Qing, who was lying on the ground, sending her rolling away like a bucket.

At the same time, he lunged backward towards Yang Qinglan, grabbed her, and they both rolled down the sandy slope.

A streak of purple venom spewed from the snake's mouth. It started as a small drop but quickly enlarged in the air, spreading open like a fishing net.

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle~", the scorching sand hissed, emitting blue smoke, melting like salt.

Li Qianxia took the opportunity to charge forward, gripping her gun with both hands as if to drive a stick into the ground, she stabbed viciously towards the snake's body.

"Hiss—", the steel spear sank deeply into the sand.

The giant python, which had seemed monstrously huge just moments before, had somehow shrunk to only a meter in length, about as thick as a girl's wrist.

The slender snake, with its bleeding left eye shut, burrowed fiercely into the sand.

Li Qianxia pulled out her blood-sucking gun, turned her head, and saw the sand continuously heaving. In the blink of an eye, the slender snake had disappeared into the vast desert like an eel slipping away.

In the distance, they could still see the canyon they had been unable to locate for so long.

"Brother! Qing Lan!" She lay on the top of the sand slope and slid down.

"I'm fine." Yang Qinglan stood up, brushing the sand off her body.

It's harder to ascend and easier to descend; Li Qianxia quickly reached the bottom of the dune.

"Brother!" She and Yang Qinglan looked together towards Li Changzhou, who had served as Yang Qinglan's cushion.

"The gun! The gun!" Li Changzhou was in agony.

"What's wrong with the gun?" Li Qianxia asked loudly.

"The gun... it's pressing against my back!"

The strap of the AK-47 was awkwardly tangled around him, and from the marks left by the strap, it seemed the gun had ended up behind him during the tumble.

"You wouldn't have twisted the gun to your back on purpose to take advantage of Qing Lan, right?" Li Qianxia asked while pulling him up.

"According to Article 246 of the Daxia Criminal Law, libel is defined as..."

"Qian Xia, let's go check on Zheng Qing."

"Okay."

"You two wait for me..... hiss—, ah, it hurts so much!" Li Changzhou supported his waist and staggered after the two.

They had not walked far when Yang Qinglan turned around.

"Go collect your 'two-dimensional' equipment." She was angry.

Because he had made an unwarranted comment—people who like two-dimensional stuff can't be bad.

Li Changzhou turned to glance at the headless corpse, nodded his head, and limped in that direction.

"Remember to fire a few shots into the corpse, if I'm not mistaken, some animals can live without a head... just like you," Yang Qinglan reminded from behind.

"I can't live without a head."

"Then verify if the identity card appears to make sure it's dead before going up."

"Understood."

It was too painful; Li Changzhou lifted his clothes and looked at his waist. Nothing seemed wrong on the surface, but it just hurt.

If not for having one more magazine, he would have smashed the AK-47 to vent his anger.

But on second thought, Yang Qinglan appeared slender and shapely. Holding her felt even more delicate than she looked, and she was so fragrant, so soft.

He liked it.

Twenty meters away from 'Invincible Wind Fire Wheel', he raised his gun.

"Farewell, two-dimensional world."

Bang! Bang! Bang!

If the body, now like a ragdoll, could still come back to life and counterattack, Li Changzhou would acknowledge his bad luck.

Ten meters ahead, he searched and saw the black 'identity card' amidst a pool of blood, only then did he finish the last ten meters.

Bending down, he picked up the 'identity card', spotless and without a trace of blood.

[Nickname: Demoness KISS]

[Name: Zhou Hang]

[Value: 0]

[Instinct: Control Dopamine]

[Skills: 'Golden Wheel Spider Style·Rolling' (F), 'Unlearned', 'Unlearned', 'Unlearned', 'Unlearned', 'Unlearned']

Li Changzhou looked up, and the humanoid black mist stood beside him, ready to get to work.

Its two-meter-tall figure, with the mist flowing slowly, exuded a strong sense of oppression.

(Watch carefully, I only want 'Control Dopamine')

The humanoid black mist lifted its fingerless "right hand", the "fingertip" mist narrowed, extending into the black 'identity card' like tree roots.

The flames that formed the words 'Control Dopamine' detached from the 'identity card' and hovered in mid-air.

The mist "hand" pinched, extinguishing the fiery words.

Simultaneously, on Li Changzhou's white 'identity card', flames began to inscribe characters.

[Skills: 'Concentration' (E-grade), 'Control Dopamine' (B-grade), 'Unlearned', 'Unlearned', 'Unlearned', 'Unlearned']

B-grade?

[B-grade Control Dopamine: Once 'Control Dopamine' is activated, it suppresses brain 'norepinephrine']

[Control Dopamine: Forces rationality, consuming 2 points of intelligence every minute]

No wonder 'Invincible Wind Fire Wheel', while being chased by the giant python, could still calmly shout, "This is my escape route," and after rolling down the sand dune, immediately shoot at the four of them.

His target was also Zheng Qing, who had an injured leg.

If this guy hadn't been too rational, choosing the well-trained Zheng Qing, he might have truly managed to kill one and run away, leaving them for his enemy to cover the rear.