NOVEL NEXT Chapter 5 - Oasis
After the parachute opened automatically, Mai Dongzi began to observe the terrain around where she was about to land from the air.
After she saw the surrounding terrain clearly, she began to suspect that her license plate was manipulated by someone behind the scenes. Who asked the program team to give her a backdoor?
According to the information that the original owner had read, most of the land on the current Blue Water Star is densely forested, and less than 1% of the land is desert.
According to the information released by the Blue Black Empire military, most of the forests on the Blue Water Star are mutant trees.
The military only cleared the high-level beasts on the periphery of the forest. Even the military is not very clear about the situation in the deep forest. What is certain is that there are many dangers inside.
The desert is different. The living conditions are poor, and there is no vegetation. Even the types of mutant beasts are not many, and even if there are, they cannot escape the satellite’s scanning.
The most important thing is that the army has cleaned up the entire desert, and all the high-level beasts have been cleared.
Therefore, no matter from which aspect, the desert is safer than the forest.
Especially, the place where Mai Dongzi was dropped is still on the edge of the desert, and there is an oasis not far away. If you walk more than ten kilometers to the south, you can enter the forest.
This kind of terrain is very conducive to survival, and it can advance or retreat.
In particular, the information provided by the program team contains information about this oasis.
The information once mentioned that this oasis was not only cleared by the army but they were also stationed in it for nearly a year and were not withdrawn until last year.
Although it has been a year since the army withdrew, under normal circumstances, there must be no high-level beasts around the oasis.
With such a landing place, Mai Dongzi couldn’t help but suspect that the program team had operated behind the scenes and let her draw the number one card in order to open a small door for her.
In a place like the desert oasis where it is easy to get food, as long as she is not very unlucky and encounters a relatively high-level carnivorous beast as soon as she enters, it is easy for even Lucy Xi herself to survive for a while.
Mai Dongzi landed in the desert in a very standard posture. Although she had made sure that there was no danger in the air, she still did not dare be careless after landing. She first scanned the surroundings with her mental power and found no potential danger before unfastening the buckle of the parachute.
Mai Dongzi did not forget her new identity. She slowed down and put away the parachute. The parachute was a very important resource and must not be discarded.
“This fake daughter has played with an air parachute before. Her movements are as neat as those of famous adventurers.”
“She put away the air parachute very neatly, and she looked very skilled.”
“What’s this? It’s not strange that rich people have played with it.”
“Yes, before she was discovered to be a fake daughter, she was the daughter of the Xi family. I don’t know how much she enjoyed it.”
Mai Dongzi put away the parachute, put it in the space bag, and walked directly towards the oasis.
Not to mention the perspective when looking down from the air; even after Mai Dongzi landed, she could vaguely see the shadow of the oasis from afar.
The director said that since they jumped out of the landing ship, each of them had their own live broadcast room.
This allows the audience to freely choose the adventurer they are interested in, switch the adventurer’s perspective or God’s perspective, and watch the adventurer’s actions.
Mai Dongzi did not log in to the live broadcast room of the Star Network; she doesn’t know from which perspective the audience in the live broadcast room likes to watch their actions.
If she pretended not to see the oasis, it would make it easier for people to suspect whether there was any shady operation. Although she didn’t care about the audience, she didn’t want to have more black spots.
It’s better to walk over so openly and try to get to the oasis earlier so that others won’t easily get suspicious.
Mai Dongzi guessed correctly. The audience in the live broadcast room who chose to watch from her perspective had already discovered that the place where she landed was not only a desert, but there was also an oasis not far away.
This is too lucky—so lucky that it’s unbelievable. So a lot of people posted barrages saying that her luck was too good and suspected whether there was any shady operation.
However, because Mai Dongzi was one of the last few to draw lots, her expression at the time was normal. In addition to her current identity as a fake daughter, no one thought that the Xi family would bribe the program team for her, so this suspicion did not arouse too much attention and soon disappeared.
Mai Dongzi, who didn’t want to be in the entertainment industry, decided to ignore the live broadcast room and didn’t expect the audience’s rewards. After landing in the desert, she still didn’t open the live broadcast platform to watch, let alone interact with the audience, so she was criticized as arrogant.
Mai Dongzi didn’t think that the oasis was safe because of the homework done by the original owner.
You know, in a desert, the oasis is like a magnet, attracting all the surrounding animals, so the oasis is the most dangerous place in the desert. It was a year ago that the army cleared the high-level beasts in the desert. Who can guarantee that there are no high-level beasts in the desert now?
And even if there are no high-level beasts, there is a high possibility that there are mid-level beasts. With her current ability, she can’t deal with mid-level beasts at all without exposing her mental power.
But no matter how dangerous it is, she must go to the oasis. She needs to find water and food as soon as possible.
The daytime temperature in the desert of Shuilan Star is not only high but also very dry, and the water in the body is lost quickly. If she can’t replenish water, Mai Dongzi estimates that she can only live for two or three days at most.
Because the parachute will automatically adjust the landing location, Mai Dongzi’s landing place is very close to the oasis. She walked fast, and she walked near the oasis in less than 40 minutes.
The audience in the live broadcast room was shocked by Mai Dongzi’s walking speed and the fact that she walked for 40 minutes without any signs of fatigue under the hot and high temperature, which showed that she had excellent physical fitness, and it caused another wave of heated discussions.
If this was not a live broadcast room, the fake daughter would have been exposed to the camera from beginning to end, and some people would definitely suspect that this person was Lucy’s temporary substitute.
If Mai Dongzi had watched the topic about Lucy Xi on Star Net from beginning to end, she would have found that netizens’ views of her were gradually changing.
If someone hadn’t seized on the fact that she didn’t interact with the audience in the live broadcast room and said that she was pretending to be noble, I’m afraid this change would be even greater.
Before entering the oasis, Mai Dongzi first used her mental power to “scan” the entire oasis and found that there were indeed many mutant beasts in the oasis, the most powerful of which was a second-level mutant wolf.
This Level 2 mutant wolf should have finished drinking water and was walking towards the desert, and by chance, it came face to face with Mai Dongzi.
Mai Dongzi discovered the Level 2 mutant wolf a little late, and she was still in the desert, so she didn’t have time to hide her whereabouts without exposing her psychic abilities.
Before Mai Dongzi could figure out how to evade without making any noise, the mutant wolf in the oasis also discovered her.