Chapter 120
On the third day after entering Umatak Meadow, the disadvantage of hasty diversion appeared.
There is a reason why Umatak meadows can become an unmanned land this season, it is so lack of water.
The horse team has been cut off to this day.
At present, all water needs to be given priority to horses. People can rely on a small amount of water that is condensed by water system awakened people to consume physical energy and source energy to survive, but the extraordinary people in the team cannot condense enough water for more than fifty horses to drink.
The horse team marched on the grassland. In the dry season, the main color is yellow, the grass is dry, the ground is dry, and the wind is dry. The whole grassland is waiting for a rain to save it, but I don’t know how many creatures can wait until that day.
Jacques and his group saw many dead animals along the way, most of which had turned into bones. Most of them had migrated to the south where rain was richer and water sources were more abundant. What remained was either lacking the ability to move long distances or having developed a complete set of methods to resist drought.
Tonight's dinner was grilled fish, the meat was tender and tender, which seemed to relieve the lack of water.
It is hard for Jacques to imagine getting fish on such a land. When riding a horse here, you must be careful to hurt your feet on the ground, which is caused by excessive drought.
Until Duane dug out the ground, dig out many mud balls from the ground, and then smashed the mud balls' shells to find the fish curled up.
At night, the temperature on the meadow dropped sharply. One of the seven unknown brothers, squinted Chandler, put on another piece of felt outside the cotton coat, shrank his neck, and replaced Jacques who was on duty by the bonfire.
Jacques finished his duty and returned to the tent. Lily was still sleeping soundly, her lips slightly open and her fucked a little white.
Jacques pulled out the iron kettle that replaced the pillow from under the blanket, unscrewed the lid, and carefully poured some water on the lid.
He slowly moved to Lily with one hand, held the lid firmly with the other hand, gently approached Lily's lips, poured out a few drops of water on her dry lips, and waited for the water to spread, and then dripped a few drops.
Until the water drips, Lily's lips returned to some luster and blood.
Jacques poured water into the lid of the pot. This time the iron kettle contributed its entire stock, and it seemed that it had not been more than one lid.
He put the lid of the pot close to his mouth, dipped it with his dry and bleeding lips, and the wound was soaked that it made Jacques, the extraordinary man, frowned.
The last bit of water in the pot was gone. Jacques bent down and slowly poured the water from the lid into Lily's mouth, then twisted the lid, stuffed the iron kettle onto the felt pad, lowered it, put his head on, and soon made a slight snoring sound.
A tear fell from the corner of Lily's eyes. Before the teardrop could pass through the bridge of her nose and fell to the ground, it was caught by a slender finger and applied to her moist lips.
Morning, the team was packed and ready to set off.
The direction to go is the undead spring in the impression of Sanders, one of the seven unknown brothers.
More than ten years ago, when Sanders was a freshman and was an apprentice in the caravan, he had traveled through the Umataq meadow, and at that time he passed through the undead springs that were said to not dry up.
If we cannot find the undead spring today, there will be horses dying of thirst. Even if the two water awakened people in the team use all their physical strength and source energy to condense water, they will not be able to supply so many horses and personnel.
One morning, the team walked for more than forty miles. Sanders judged that he was about to approach the Bukuro Spring, and Fat Ju also found strange beasts gathering in front of him.
Sure enough, in this case, it is really not easy to get some water.
When you get close to the Budden Spring, you find that the so-called spring is just a small pool of yellow mud.
The pool has a maximum area of two or three hectares. Animals continue to come to the pool to drink water in groups and then leave. Many animals are wandering around.
Fatty orange judged that more than half of them were alien beasts, and there were no less than a thousand of them. Although most of them were breeds that did not threaten humans, there were dozens of lions, hundreds of hyenas and several crocodiles among them.
The horse team stopped at a distance of 500 meters from the pool and discussed whether to continue to go to the pool.
"Is this the case for your caravan to come here in the past? So many strange beasts?" Wuming asked Sanders.
Sanders was completely confused and said, "When we came back then, there were not so many strange beasts, there was only one group of lions, so we drove away easily."
Lily analyzed: "When you came, it was not the end of the dry season like now, but it was about the middle of the dry season. There was not that drought, and there were not so many strange beasts guarding here.
What should we do now? If we don’t fill water and don’t drink horses, we can only walk out by relying on the awakened people of the water system to condense water droplets, and the horses will definitely not be able to hold on.
Either take a chance or we turn around and leave now.”
"Or give a few horses to the strange beasts, and we take the opportunity to load water to drink the horses." Wuming said with an idea.
"I'm afraid they won't let us drink horses if they get the cheaper." Lily didn't think this was a good idea.
Fat Ju also gave Jacques an idea: "I didn't feel a particularly powerful existence from them. Maybe I can try to release my momentum and force myself to get close to the pool."
Jacques then said, "Maybe we can let go of our momentum and go directly to Tanbian to drink horses. They can get along here safely, probably because they are afraid of each other's strength. If we can make them afraid enough, they will feel that it will be more than worth the cost of provoking us, and they will not be able to fight."
"Jacques said something, if you didn't give it a try?" Lily agreed.
There is really no other way, so everyone decided to give it a try and run again if it doesn’t work.
Jacques also summoned the war horse, with one more energy-shaping level and one more deterrent force.
Not long after, a circular formation gathered, and the outer circle was an extraordinary person riding a bloody war horse in a strange beast, and the inner circle was nine ordinary people and ordinary war horses.
The round horse formation moved towards the edge of the pool, and the animals in front made way one after another.
As they approached the pool, several lions ran along the pool, and the leading lion was scattered in front of the horse formation, roaring warningly.
"It lets us leave, and only those who are allowed can drink the pond water!" Fatty Ju understood.
Jacques hurriedly signaled the team to stop and told Lily and Wuming who were walking in front of the team.
Wuming was a little confused, "Can you understand what they mean? Natural systems can't do it, right?"
"Don't worry about these details!" Jacques said anxiously: "They mean that they must be allowed to drink water. Otherwise, these strange beasts will attack us."
“Meow~~~”
Fatty orange squatted on the horse's head and shouted at the huge lion.
The lion retreated, and then the beasts left a clearing area.
Wuming said in surprise: "Why did they go?"
Chapter completed!