Compared to Yue Jinghua, it's as if she ca to appreciate the scenery of the Gobi desert, carrying nothing at all.
Seeing that Yue Jinghua didn't even prepare basic protective gear, Zack suddenly felt a headache.
Luckily, Zack was also the kind of person who would go with the flow, and he knew that more talk was useless, just waiting to make plans after entering the Gobi desert.
The Tak Gobi desert was vast, and few dared to venture deep into its belly, with surprisingly similar landmarks along the way. As Zack walked, he would leave marks on stones every five hundred ters, all things he had heard from his father and himself in the past. This ti, he finally had an opportunity to put it into practice.
Before nightfall, the two had already traveled several miles, and after passing through a forest next to a patch of sand willows, the ground turned into a mixed area filled with rocks and sand.
"Poison Bee Scorpions prefer darkness and like to nestle in rocks, shaded areas, and beside tombs. They only co out at night. We'll stop in this area tonight," After entering the Gobi desert, Zack consciously took on the role of the team leader.
Thin dusk clouds rose in the west, and the Tak Gobi desert at night was much more dangerous than during the day. Even experienced rcenaries wouldn't dare cross the desert at night.
"I'll keep watch during the night, and I'll wake you up later," Zack, who had never spent the night alone with a woman before, spoke with so embarrassnt.
Yue Jinghua took the luggage without expressing any opinion.
The nights in the Gobi desert are cold enough to freeze a person to death. There wasn't much vegetation around, and even fewer trees suitable for starting a fire. Zack struggled several tis to ignite the chopped sand willow branches, but they wouldn't catch fire.
Yue Jinghua walked to the side of the firewood, and without even taking out the flint, a faint fla leapt up from the branches with a "sizzle."
The fla was particularly unusual, with a blue core that looked like a budding lotus flower.
With the fire ignited, the night beca much more bearable.
In the dead of night, Zack was vigilant of his surroundings. Around midnight, he picked up the set of tools for catching scorpions and glanced back at Yue Jinghua, who was sleeping comfortably by the fire, and sighed softly.
At the mont Zack turned around, Yue Jinghua, who seed to be asleep, opened her eyes.
"Look at the rookie you found. I bet he won't even be able to catch a single Poison Bee Scorpion," Qing Pu stood by the fire, and Yue Jinghua curled her lips: "Who said we are here to -- catch -- scorpions."
That said, she stood up and walked in the opposite direction of where Zack was hunting for scorpions.
Poison Bee Scorpions are a kind of mutant Third-rank Dark Beast. They are very agile and will shoot out a Poison Stinger from their tail when facing a formidable enemy. It is said, "a sting from the tail of a wasp," that one sting is enough to bring down a large Dark Turtle Elephant.
Zack did not expect Poison Bee Scorpions to be so difficult to catch. Throughout the night, as the sky began to grow light, he had only caught one Poison Bee Scorpion.
"At this rate, the mission will definitely fail," Zack thought pessimistically.
As daylight broke, Zack, carrying an empty bag, returned to the campfire disheartened.
The fire was still burning, and Yue Jinghua, the novice rcenary, sat next to the campfire, with a Gobi Hawk, plucked clean of its feathers, lying beside her.
"You still have the mood to eat, I've been busy all night and only caught one Poison Bee Scorpion. Do you even plan on completing this mission?" Zack couldn't help but complain.
"Here, for you," Yue Jinghua shrugged and tossed the Gobi Hawk to Zack, "I don't understand, why do we have to catch Poison Bee Scorpions?"
"Without catching them, how would we get poison needles? Do you really think the needles will deliver themselves to us?" Zack grew more exasperated and took the dark Blue Hawk, "I told you before entering the Gobi desert that the Dark Beasts in here are poisonous. The Fourth-stage Dark Beast Sand Hawks are no exception, hence they're inedible."
Zack stopped mid-sentence. A Fourth-stage Dark Beast Sand Hawk, how did she catch it. He looked down and saw that the Sand Hawk's feathers had been plucked clean, and its surface was covered with black spots. On closer inspection, those black flecks were all needles, Poison Bee Scorpion stingers.
An entire Sand Hawk was covered with various poison needles.
"We want the Poison Scorpion's needles, why go through all that trouble to catch Poison Bee Scorpions? When attacked by their natural enemy Sand Hawks, Poison Bee Scorpion swarms will shoot out poison stingers from their tails. Clean it up and see how many poison needles there are; if it's not enough, we'll use a few Sand Hawks as bait tonight," Yue Jinghua explained nonchalantly.
Zack felt like he had been struck by lightning and after a while, he said: "Had you already planned to obtain Poison Scorpion needles this way?"
"Not doing pointless work, that's my personal rcenary principle," Yue Jinghua shrugged.
In that mont, Zack felt like his brain was thundering. The rcenary ethos of hard work and perseverance instilled by his father completely collapsed then and there.
He looked at the Sand Hawk in his hand for a long ti without speaking.
Suddenly, sothing flashed through his mind.
The kind face of his mother and her gentle voice still sounded in his ear.
"Zack, you must rember. You cannot judge a person by appearance or first impressions. So people, you think are just toads, are, in reality, beautiful swans. If you encounter such a person in the future, cherish such an opportunity and follow them closely," she said.
Without a doubt, Yue Jinghua was such a person.
Only by standing by her side did Zack realize that this young female rcenary, who appeared only slightly older than his sister, was very beautiful. As a newly minted One-star rcenary and a foreigner, she was beautiful.
Her beauty did not lie in her eyes brighter than the morning stars, nor her straight nose, but in a natural grace that seed to seep out from her bones.
This kind of beauty stemd from self-confidence.
The next day, at the crack of dawn, Yue Jinghua and Zack left the Tak Gobi desert. Only this ti, Zack followed her from start to finish, like the most devoted follower.
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