The car had just stopped at the edge of the desert, and before everyone got out, Charles saw a yellow object moving on the sand dunes in the distance.
He couldn't help but feel excited, as this was the first time he saw a living thing on the surface.
Charles touched Lily's back with his hand, "It's time to get to work. Let your mouse friends check if there is any danger in the sand."
"I understand!" Lily nodded excitedly and quickly jumped onto the car window and started squeaking.
Soon a small group of colorful mice jumped out of the car and rushed towards the desert nearby.
After they turned around quickly, they quickly came to Lily to report the situation.
"Mr. Charles, there is no threat in this big beach, and there is no other smell, only the smell of soil."
At this time, the living creatures in the distance were smaller and almost invisible to the naked eye.
Time was running out. After a few seconds of brief thought, Charles opened the door and threw Dipper out. "Take the chef and the ship's doctor in the back of the car to other vehicles. Hurry up, don't dawdle!"
Dipper seemed to know what Charles was going to do, and quickly said, "Captain, let me lead the way."
"Don't talk nonsense. There is no water here. What use are you? I can fly. If there is any crisis, I can run away directly. Hurry up, this is the captain's order!"
Dipper reluctantly did as he was told, and soon he was the only one in Charles' car.
The car started again and drove directly into the desert covered with yellow sand. The tires swirled the sand everywhere, but the car did not get stuck. The car could run in the desert.
After Charles' car had driven 500 meters into the desert, the other three cars quickly followed.
They are separated from each other, which can effectively avoid possible dangers in the desert, although judging from the situation in the Gobi Desert, the possibility of danger here is not great.
The hanging compass kept shaking, and Charles stared through the windshield at the moving object in the distance that was becoming clear again.
Although he still doesn't know what that thing is, Charles doesn't want to give up. This is the only clue he can find.
No matter what is alive, Anna can extract its memory from its brain. Maybe it has seen the direction in which the darkness is drifting.
The speed of the car was obviously faster than that of the yellow thing, and the distance between the two was gradually closing.
The speeding car jumped high over a small sand dune and crashed heavily to the ground, bringing with it a lot of sand.
"This distance should be about right." Charles said to himself, loosened his arm holding the steering wheel and stretched it to the side. "Lily, telescope!"
The golden mouse quickly jumped out of his arms, held the monocular in its mouth, and rushed back quickly.
Soon the moving object in the distance appeared in front of Charles' camera.
The sandman with only the upper body was Charles' first impression of the thing.
It supported itself on the ground with its hands and moved slowly. Yellow sand kept sliding down from the gap in its abdomen and completely merged with the desert sand below.
Because his back was facing Charles, he didn't see what the ghost thing looked like.
Charles is not worried about how dangerous this thing is now. He is more worried about the fact that this thing does not seem to have any memory.
"No matter whether it exists or not, let's get closer first." As Charles stepped on the accelerator with his right foot, the car speeded up to the maximum.
Soon, the back of that thing appeared in front of everyone, and everyone saw the sand man moving unsteadily.
"Click." Charles grabbed the pager in front of him and said, "Put up your weapons and wait for my order before taking action."
"Roger that! Captain!"
Charles stared at the figure of the thing intently, but as he was watching, the body of the thing was slowly getting bigger.
At first Charles thought it was just because of the distance, but when the thing was more than two stories tall, he immediately realized something was wrong.
According to the current distance between the two sides, if it is now two stories high, then this thing is at least hundreds of meters tall.
"Stop!" The four cars braked suddenly and stopped on the spot.
Charles looked at the thing in the distance that was still moving slowly and didn't pay attention to this side.
"Captain, what's wrong? What happened?" The noisy voice of Second Mate Krona came from the pager.
Charles picked up the telescope again and looked towards the thing.
This time I could see it more clearly. I could even see the dark holes on its body, and golden sand was sliding from the holes to the ground.
"Don't get close to it. This thing looks a bit weird. It doesn't look ordinary." Charles said into the pager.
Charles' car began to move again, slowly approaching the thing at a speed of thirty yards.
But as the distance got closer, the thing began to grow larger again. This time it was almost as tall as a five-story building. If calculated based on the distance, the thing had grown several dozen meters taller.
As the distance got closer, the sand man was actually growing bigger. This phenomenon made Charles feel his hair stand on end.
"We can't go any further. If it notices us, we'll be in big trouble."
After quickly balancing the risks and rewards, Charles decisively chose to retreat. No matter what this thing was, the risk of continuing to approach it was too high.
What can't you find when searching for living things? Why do you have to choose the most dangerous one
Looking at the huge back of the thing, Charles took out his camera, pressed the shutter a few times, and then started to turn the steering wheel to retreat.
"Let's go and look for other clues." Charles' order was transmitted to all vehicles through the walkie-talkie, and soon the four vehicles began to retreat along the tire tracks on the sand.
Glancing at the rearview mirror, Charles saw that the sandman did not turn back and was still walking away. He let down his guard a little.
Facing the sky full of yellow sand, he felt a little discouraged. If there was anything more distressing than danger, it would be to gain nothing.
This exploration seems to have yielded nothing except for finding the body abandoned by the God of Light.
With the accelerator pressed to the floor, the four cars rushed rapidly in the distance. Just when they could see the flat Gobi Desert again, a huge shadow blocked the purple light above, completely enveloping the four cars, and continued to erode the desert in front.
Along with this darkness, there was a rhythmic trembling sound.
"Darkness? The darkness is back?" Charles' heart was suddenly startled.
He quickly stuck his head out of the car window and looked back. The next second, a chill rushed from his tailbone to the back of his head.
The darkness of the Earthsea has not returned. The thing that blocked the purple light in the sky was the Sandman, and the darkness was its shadow!!
Now it has become larger than the body of the God of Light, and as the distance between Charles and it gets farther and farther, its body is still getting bigger!
This thing will get bigger whether you get closer or farther away.
The sand on its body kept sliding down, forming sand dunes in the desert.
At this time, Charles had an inexplicable idea in his mind that this desert was formed by the sand leaked out of this thing!
(End of this chapter)