Desert Town

Several seconds later, the white light gradually faded, and everyone's vision gradually returned. Instantly, a wave of heat hit them head-on, and Long Ming narrowed his eyes as he looked around. Countless ruined walls and rubble came into view. Most of these ruins were earth-and-stone structures, eroded beyond recognition by wind and sand. The ground was covered in yellow sand, though some dilapidated buildings still retained their main structures. "Wow, what place is this!" "I don't know, it feels really hot!" "Looks like a desert?" "Damn, we couldn't be that unlucky, could we? They dumped us in a desert." "What do we do next?" "I don't know!" Numerous players looked around, bewildered. Long Ming instead lowered his head to check his wristband for any prompts. As it turned out, his mission log had updated. Mission: Survive! Requirement: Survive in the Wabija world for more than 12 hours and withdraw safely. Reward: 500 one-dimensional coins Note: Only the living are qualified to discuss anything. Tip: Since you are using a game helmet, the maximum play time is 24 hours. Overtime will be automatically ruled as death, forcing you offline. After reading the mission, Long Ming found that the wristband interface had also updated the map. He immediately opened the map full of anticipation, only to find it almost entirely black, with only his current area displayed. If he wasn't mistaken, the map had to be explored and unlocked by himself. However, on the completely black map, green dots were displayed, and these green dots were withdrawal points. There were still quite a few withdrawal points, and several were not far from his position. Judging by appearances, withdrawing wouldn't be very difficult. Long Ming then closed the wristband interface, raised his head, and surveyed the ruins around him. From the distribution of remaining building ruins, he could faintly make out that this was a town ruin, though it was too severely damaged; many houses had only one or two earth-and-stone walls left. Long Ming immediately set off to explore. As he walked, he carefully examined the ruined buildings around him, hoping to find something valuable. Unfortunately, as he went along, apart from gravel there was only gravel; he could hardly see anything valuable. However, Long Ming still patiently continued searching. More than ten minutes later, Long Ming finally found a house ruin that was relatively intact, though it had only three walls and the roof had collapsed. He walked in cautiously, only to see numerous broken stones and gravel scattered inside. At first glance, there was nothing valuable. However, at this moment Long Ming keenly noticed that something seemed to be covered up in the corner of the wall. He walked over, squatted down, and gently brushed away the surface gravel, only to see a section of metal chain revealed. Long Ming tried pulling it, and suddenly drew out a three-meter-long thin iron chain. Long Ming raised his wristband and scanned it, only to see information displayed on the screen. Metal Chain Grade: White Material: Iron Value: Extremely low Weight: 3kg Long Ming looked at the information displayed on the wristband, hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to put it into his backpack. Although its value was very low, after all, it was better than returning empty-handed. However, after the metal chain was put into the backpack, Long Ming clearly felt the backpack become heavier. It was still within his tolerance, so the impact wasn't obvious. Long Ming looked around, confirmed nothing was missed, then left, preparing to search other building ruins. As it turned out, players searching were everywhere outside, so he hurriedly quickened his pace to search forward. Half an hour later, Long Ming arrived at the center area of the ruins empty-handed, only to see numerous players gathered in groups here chatting. "Did you find anything valuable?" "Find anything worth anything? There's nothing here but sand." "Sigh, I didn't find anything either." At this moment, in the crowd, a girl with fair, tender skin and twin tails kept fanning her cheeks with her hand, while endlessly complaining. "It's so hot, I really can't stand it." Unfortunately, the air here was all hot, so the wind she fanned was naturally hot too, having no effect at all. So she reached out and unbuttoned her collar, exposing a large expanse of snow-white skin. The surrounding players were instantly attracted by her behavior, all looking over, and many swallowed hard. At this moment, a man who looked quite lewd, with eyes darting around, wore a smirk on his face and said to a man beside him wearing a black tank top with a shallow scar on his forehead. "Cao Heng, how's that little chick?" "She's tender!" "You say this world is so realistic; who knows what it feels like to play with her." "Zheng Bin, what do you mean?" "Hehe!" Zheng Bin showed a smirk to Cao Heng. Cao Heng instantly also showed a knowing smile. The two walked up to the girl tacitly and smiled as they spoke. "Miss, I see you playing alone. How about teaming up together?" Lin Yue saw that Cao Heng and the other man were so lewd, their eyes always on her chest, instantly understood they had ill intentions, and refused. "No need!" "No need to be shy; we'll take care of you." Cao Heng shamelessly edged up beside the girl. Lin Yue instinctively and uneasily retreated a few steps, asking somewhat nervously. "What do you want to do?" "Nothing, just want to team up and play with you." Zheng Bin didn't care at all whether she was willing, and extended his hand toward the girl with a smirk. Surrounding players seeing this scene, although many showed disgusted expressions, no one stepped forward to stop them. Long Ming just glanced at it, then placed his gaze on observing the surroundings and the crowd. After all, others came in for entertainment, while he came in to find a way to survive. At this moment, a shout of rebuke rang out. "Stop!" Zheng Bin's hand instantly froze, and he turned his head somewhat irritably to look. Only to see a young man wearing a white shirt, tall, with handsome features and sharp eyes, walk over. Zheng Bin looked at that young man and warned in an unfriendly tone. "Kid, this is none of your business. Don't meddle." "I just can't stand it; I like to meddle. What's it to you?" The young man was not afraid at all. Lin Yue hurriedly hid behind the young man. Zheng Bin and Cao Heng instantly felt they had lost all face. They were just about to cause trouble when four players walked over and asked. "Qin Yan, what's wrong?" "Nothing, just two lowlifes from the City of Sin." Qin Yan twisted his neck, in a posture ready to fight. "Haha, just kidding. Let's go." Zheng Bin saw that Qin Yan also had companions, so he changed his tune, directly backed down, and left with Cao Heng. Qin Yan saw the two leave, turned his head and said to Lin Yue. "It's nothing." "Thank you." Lin Yue looked at the tall, handsome Qin Yan, her cheeks slightly flushed as she said gratefully. At this time, other players, seeing there was no more excitement to watch, continued their discussion. "What a fucking game; searched for half a day and found nothing." "Right, and it's super hot!" "I'm starting to get thirsty." "Are we here to play a game, or here to suffer?" "So what should we do next?" "Who knows; probably have to leave here and search elsewhere." "Will it be very dangerous outside?" "Definitely." "So what do we do? Who can take me along?" Long Ming listened to everyone's complaints and could roughly judge that there was nothing valuable here, then turned and left. (End of chapter)