Whip, gun, stick, Miao sword, axe, shield, armor, chains...

Jade Light flickered in Li Changzhou's hands, morphing into various weapons like modeling clay.

"It's been a month, when will I finally get the weapon I want?" Just watching, Li Qianxia felt tired.

"The odds are about the same as winning the grand prize in a lottery, I guess," Li Changzhou roughly estimated.

"So you're saying there's no hope?"

"Not no hope, actually. As long as you keep buying, a lottery ticket is bound to win the grand prize eventually. It's an inevitability. Similarly, as long as one lives long enough and doesn't give up, getting the desired weapon is also inevitable."

"Heh heh," Li Qianxia laughed with a 'give me a break' attitude, quite dismissively.

"Plus, you can check out the introductions to different weapons, who knows, maybe the next enemy we meet will be using one of the weapons I've obtained." Li Changzhou checked the weapon named 'Forbidden Sky Flag' in his hand.

'Forbidden Sky Flag': Within a sphere with a three thousand meter radius with the flag at the center, all flying skills are prohibited.

Note: Do airplanes... count as flying skills? (This item was created before the invention of airplanes)

Many weapons are like this, desirable but not quite good enough, the flag transformed into an umbrella.

Before he had time to examine it further, Little Radish suddenly stood up, stepping on Li Changzhou's shoulder: "There's danger ahead!"

"Stop." Li Changzhou spoke, and Turquoise Pool had already halted Cloud Platform.

"How dangerous?" Yang Qinglan asked Little Radish.

"Um--" Little Radish scratched her left side with her right hand, "This dangerous!"

She gestured with her thumb and index finger, leaving only a tiny space between the tips of the two fingers.

Then why react so dramatically, and yell so loudly...

"Let's go take a look." Turquoise Pool said, and Cloud Platform ascended, rising from one hundred to over five hundred meters.

After flying for about half a minute, Yang Qinglan was the first to sense a presence, then after another half minute, they could see the target with the naked eye.

Three creatures resembling camels and elephants, gigantic in size, standing over thirty meters tall.

The backs and sides of these massive creatures were adorned with houses, which seemed not to be built for transportation but rather for long-term living.

The three behemoths, trapped in place, let out restless roars.

Over a hundred figures skated across the sand, emitting taunting, cruel shrieks, and battle cries from their mouths.

Clearing away some of the clouds with her hand, Turquoise Pool allowed everyone to see a bit more clearly. On these people's feet were snowboard-like objects. Unlike snowboards, however, these had their front and rear tips curved upward, resembling bamboo baskets or small boats.

Brandishing spears taller than humans, they used the poles like punts in the sand, propelling themselves far with each push.

"Wahoo!" A figure rushed past the underbelly of one of the giant creatures, leaving a wound along its pillar-like legs with a spear.

Li Changzhou's gaze followed, and he saw the legs of the giant creatures, already lacerated, swarming with sand creatures siphoning blood. Even when squished, they couldn't resist this "water source" in the desert.

It seemed this desert wasn't as harmless as players thought.

A regular person would be devoured alive by these yellow sand creatures as soon as they were injured.

"Woo!" One of the great beasts wailed, its wounded legs failing to support its weight, it collapsed to the ground, raising a mist of sand.

"Ah!!" The sand people living upon the great creature screamed, adults tightly clutching children.

"Kill!" The bandits, on their 'sand boards,' swooped in like bloodthirsty sharks toward the fallen giant, leaving trails in the sand.

Li Qianxia pursed her lips, eyes fixed on the scene unfolding before her.

"What's their combat strength?" Turquoise Pool asked.

Little Five dug a hole in the cloud, peeking through it like a spyhole the size of a fist.

"Bandits average 11 points, with one at 19 points, and another at 30 points; the robbed ones average 10 points, with one at 21 points, one at 15 points, and one at 14 points."

"That weak?" Crackers couldn't help but say.

"Quite strong," Little Five continued observing in case someone was overlooked, "If these people are just ordinary people from this planet, they average 5 points higher than Earthlings."

"Then why do players from this planet seem weaker than those from Earth? They had a higher starting point, shouldn't they be stronger than us?" Crackers asked again.

"Probably because of instinct," Yang Qinglan, cradling Ruyi like a fairy in a painting, said, "The people of this planet, with undeveloped technology, are mostly lacking in imagination and have basic desires for food and warmth, leading to dormant instincts."

"So that's why!" Crackers admired her insight.

"What do we do?" Li Qianxia asked.

Li Changzhou glanced at her, understanding her thoughts, and said, "We can't let the first people we meet die; we can interrogate the bandits, and by saving those being robbed, we can also get some information."

"Then I—"

Li Qianxia was about to move, but Turquoise Pool held her back.

"If you go now, those being robbed will at most give you a bit of water, food, money. Wait until their three strongest are dead and they're in despair, then if you help them, you'll be their only hope."

"...Right." Li Qianxia also understood the priorities.

She wanted to find a way to complete the mission without battling, but if she couldn't find one, she'd have to comply with the game's arrangement.

On the sands, the bandits stopped harming the behemoths, aiming their long spears at the sand people.

A man standing on a balcony-like structure on a giant's belly wielded a long stick made of bone, striking at a bandit.

The bandit curled up, dodging the stick, and blindly thrust the spear upward with closed eyes.

Hisss!

The man's shoulder was slashed with a small cut.

The sound of sand sliding beneath the bandit's board echoed as he swept three to four meters away.

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