Fine yellow sand flew everywhere with the breeze. Although the temperature in the desert was not high, the air was very dry.
Lily was still a little thirsty. She licked the corner of her mouth with her tongue but did not ask Mr. Charles for fresh water.
There is no supply point here, and we have to keep some fresh water to take back.
Suddenly, a small bottle of water was brought to Lily. "Drink it. You can still feed a mouse."
Lily held the bottle cap in both hands and said with a smile: "Thank you, Mr. Charles."
After saying that, she put her mouth to the bottle cap and started drinking in big and small sips.
After a while, the bottle cap was empty, Lily exhaled loudly, and Dara's ears perked up. "It's so refreshing to drink!"
Charles touched her head with his hand. "Once the Narwhal is completely remodeled, we won't have to be so frugal."
"And our ship will become like the one that can go directly on land? That's really interesting." As Lily asked, her long tail swept across Charles' fingertips.
"The rest doesn't matter, the main thing is the space. This car is too small. The Narwhal is 65 meters long, 10 meters wide, and has a draft of 6 meters. With it as a vehicle, we can go deeper into the surface and better search for darkness."
"If the darkness was snatched away by something, it's likely not just nearby."
Charles' fingers tapped rhythmically on the windshield. He was very dissatisfied with the load of the truck.
"As long as the Narwhal can come up, I can control the turret again. After all, I'm a gunner. How can I be called a gunner without a deck gun?" Lily said excitedly.
Charles glanced at the still barren desert outside the window, and grabbed a small box that Lily had placed at her feet. "Go check on the bandages inside and see how they are doing."
Lily said as she bent down and got into the simply spliced wooden box.
After a while, Lily came out. "The first mate said they were fine, and the food and water were good. A biscuit was enough for them to eat for several months. But they felt a little bumpy."
"That's good. Let Bandage calm the other four people in the car. We are looking for the 'mirror' now. Once we find it, he will be able to recover immediately."
Lily went back into the box, but this time she came back with another message for the bandage.
"Mr. Charles, the first mate said that if we can't find it, he told us to go back first and it doesn't matter to him." Lily looked up at Charles.
"I know what's going on. There's no need for him to remind me. Just let him wait patiently."
Although Charles said this, he was actually a little embarrassed about his current situation.
We have been searching for so many days and have almost searched all over the desert, but we still haven't found the Sand Man. I guess we have lost him completely. The chances of finding him if we continue to search in the desert are getting smaller and smaller.
Charles glanced at Dipper, who was tiredly holding the steering wheel, and made a decision in his heart. "Let's look for another two days."
Five of us died during the first exploration, which was really hard to accept.
As time passed, the scenery outside began to change again.
The sand dunes gradually became smaller and disappeared, and the ground became flat again. They had crossed the entire desert and came to the Gobi Desert again. This was not the Gobi Desert they had been to before, but the Gobi Desert on the other side of the desert.
Before Charles could take out the map to check again, something in the distance suddenly made him shudder.
With the help of a telescope, Charles saw the slowly moving object.
But this time it was facing Charles and the others. Through the lens of the telescope, he could clearly see stones falling from its face to the ground.
This "mirror" is known to replicate the surrounding terrain, with the front side being the surface and the back side being the reverse.
"Go! Get close to it, but don't go too fast." Charles, tense all over, quickly took over the driving of the car and drove towards something in the distance.
He held his breath and stared at the "mirror" in the distance.
Every change in the size of that thing makes everyone extremely nervous.
Although they have dealt with it once before, facing something that is beyond common sense, no one dares to say that they fully understand it.
You have to know that this thing does more than just copy the environment. If you get too close, any living thing will also be projected onto it.
Charles was approaching the "mirror", and the "mirror" was also approaching him, but the mutual approach seemed to have reached a certain balance. The "mirror" in the distance did not become bigger, but was gradually shrinking.
"Captain, I think it must have something to do with the position. Before, we were behind him, but now he is in front of him."
Charles originally thought that he had figured out the ins and outs of this thing, but the abnormal things on the surface are always so unexpected.
The car slowly stopped, waiting for the other party to approach. However, this time, the other party was still shrinking, but the speed had decreased a little.
"No, the front of this 'mirror' is the opposite of the other side. Since the front and back are shrinking, the left and right are getting bigger. Let's go to the right."
The three cars slowly began to move around the "mirror". Charles' method worked and the "mirror" was really getting bigger.
When he felt it was about time, Charles stepped hard on the brakes and put the finger-sized car on the Gobi Desert.
"Bandage! Go due west, keep going due west, don't deviate, otherwise you won't be able to come back." Charles said nervously into the pager.
"I see..." Just like a children's toy car, it uses the "mirror" in the distance as an anchor point and moves rapidly to the left around it.
Charles' palms were sweating at this time. He followed the other crew members and looked at the bandaged car nervously.
As they stopped moving, the "mirror" in the distance began to shrink again, but the bandaged car not far away began to slowly grow larger.
Charles couldn't help but clench his fists. "Success!"
The bandaged car changed from the size of a matchbox to the size of a shoebox, and slowly transformed into normal specifications.
"Bandage, in the next thirty seconds start moving south to get rid of the influence of the 'mirror'." Charles reminded nervously.
This kind of weird thing must be timed well. Otherwise, the small bandage will turn into a big bandage, and then there will be some fun.
"clear… "
The bandage was still getting bigger, but on Charles' side, the "mirror" could no longer be seen. It disappeared into the purple mist in the distance.
(End of this chapter)