Chu Tian's divine sense detected no immediate danger within a five-kilometer radius.
He truly didn't want to set out under nine suns.
If he had to leave, he would choose the night.
With divine sense, the night posed no threat to him.
Chu Tian asked Nie Yun this way.
Yang Kai looked at her with the same expression.
Nie Yun hesitated for a moment.
Dian Dian, seeing her mother being questioned, stood up and said more, "Big brother, Uncle Yang, my mom isn't lying!"
"Departing from here, travel west for seven days, passing through four safe points."
"The route passes through areas frequented by sand scorpions, hellfire lizards, and earthfire rats."
"If you want to be safer, you'll need to travel south for two days on the third day, then turn back northwest..."
Dian Dian, acting like a little adult, gestured with her small hands as she spoke.
Nie Yun, standing by, didn't interrupt her; instead, she smiled and nodded.
"This... Dian Dian, how do you know this?" Old Yang was dumbfounded.
Dian Dian tilted her head up and looked at Nie Yun.
Nie Yun nodded and said, "Take it out!"
Dian Dian reached into her embrace and rummaged for a long time.
She pulled out a small bellyband.
Then, from the interlayer of the bellyband, she rummaged for a long time.
A thin, white, leather-like object, folded to the size of a palm, of an unknown material, appeared before everyone.
"Here you go..." Dian Dian handed the item to Chu Tian.
[Ding... System Notification: Incomplete 'Sea of Death' map detected. Would you like to copy it? After copying, the map system will be activated.]
"Copy..." Chu Tian's heart rejoiced, and he quickly sent the command.
[Ding... System Notification: Copy complete. Map system activated.]
When Chu Tian's hand touched the item,
He already knew what it was.
At the same time, the mini-map in the upper right corner suddenly lit up.
Chu Tian carefully unfolded the map bit by bit.
Spreading it out on the table.
It detailed safe routes, dangerous areas, and the locations of the four main cities.
Such a detailed map, yet the system rated it as incomplete.
"Where are we now?" Yang Kai peered at the map for a long time.
"This..." Nie Yun lightly tapped her finger.
The spot she indicated had a slight deviation from the current location Chu Tian saw in the system.
However, the deviation was not significant.
Chu Tian looked up and asked curiously, "Sister Yun, how do you locate yourself?"
Everyone knew that a map alone was useless without positioning; without knowing one's current location, a map in the desert was just a decoration.
Without knowing one's location, in the desert, maps were merely decorative.
A gust of wind could change the entire desert overnight.
A positioning system was necessary to accurately find one's way in the desert.
"Season, wind direction, sun, shadows, time..." Nie Yun said slowly.
"Mhm... Mom said this is the Nie family's Wind Listening Positioning Technique. Dian Dian secretly learned it when no one was around!"
"Mom said that Dian Dian must remember it, because because of this, Dian Dian has often gone hungry and been beaten!"
As she spoke, she sniffled.
Nie Yun smiled and lowered her head to rub her head.
Chu Tian felt that she smiled much more often after leaving the Tu Clan.
"I've heard of the Nie family's Wind Listening Positioning Technique... it is indeed remarkable," Old Yang nodded!
"I didn't expect you to have mastered this technique!"
"Chu Tian, let's depart!"
Old Yang's gaze was burning as he stared at the dazed Chu Tian.
Chu Tian was currently looking at the system map.
He switched it to the holographic display.
Seeing the scale provided by the system, Chu Tian finally understood how vast the Sea of Death was.
It was as large as 153,392,551 square kilometers.
It was so vast...
Larger than the total land area of Blue Star by over ten million square kilometers.
And this was only the Sea of Death.
Then... how big was this world?
Chu Tian, lost in thought, nodded involuntarily when called by Old Yang.
"Okay... let's depart... after we've eaten!"
Chu Tian snapped back to reality and added a sentence.
He wanted to stall for more time; it was too hot outside.
Chu Tian even considered abandoning the mission, thinking, "What God-Tier Undying? I don't want it anymore."
He would go out for three days, and when the mission's time limit expired, he would return.
That Blood King had said that as soon as the three-day limit was up, he would be forcibly teleported out.
However, he discovered that he was faced with the problem of being unable to exit the game.
A delicious meal of instant noodles with giant scorpion meat, which Yang Kai and the others had never tasted before, was finished.
Yang Kai jokingly said, "Chu Tian, if you keep this up, you'll spoil our taste buds."
"After we part ways with you, how will we survive in this Sea of Death?"
His words startled Chu Tian.
Unintentional words, but they struck a chord. Chu Tian felt a surge of emotion.
Just a packet of instant noodles, and Old Yang had elevated it to such a degree.
Seeing Old Yang had already opened the tent and gone outside, he knew there was no way to delay any longer and had to announce their departure.
Everyone exited the enclosed tent.
Instantly, they felt the scorching heat.
There was a suffocating sensation.
Chu Tian took a moment to breathe, and his breathing felt much smoother.
Turning around, he saw that Old Yang and the other two were also clutching their chests.
Chu Tian thought to himself, it seems it's better to spend less time in air-conditioned rooms.
On this scorching desert, catching a cold would be disastrous.
Old Yang walked ahead, with Nie Yun and Dian Dian in the middle.
As they walked until the first sun began to set, Nie Yun suddenly stopped.
Dian Dian, who was on her back, suddenly began to vomit.
Chu Tian quickly hurried over and, seeing Dian Dian's condition, thought: it's true, what you fear will come to pass.
He quickly called out to Old Yang and retrieved the tent and other items from his spatial storage.
Dian Dian, lying on the bed, was pale.
Accompanied by bouts of vomiting.
She also exhibited symptoms of diarrhea.
Her body temperature also began to rise sharply.
Chu Tian activated his Ancient Tree form and used all his healing spells, even his dispelling skills.
None of them could cure Dian Dian's affliction.
On the surface, it appeared to be heatstroke.
Chu Tian blamed himself, regretting giving her chilled watermelon and letting her stay in the air conditioning.
She had just experienced a scare the night before, and then ate something cold.
After staying in the air conditioning, she came back out.
The alternating cold and heat was too much for a five-year-old child to bear.
What could be done?
There were many supplies in the divine platform, but only...
Chu Tian had forgotten to pack some medicine.
Time ticked by, and the three adults became increasingly anxious.
It had already grown dark.
Chu Tian took out plenty of clean water and asked Nie Yun to wipe Dian Dian's body.
This would help to lower her temperature.
Nie Yun no longer cared about the preciousness of the clean water at this moment.
Tears flowing, she continuously wiped Dian Dian.
Dian Dian, who had fallen unconscious, kept calling out for "Daddy... Daddy..."
Chu Tian's heart ached at the sound. He walked out of the tent.
Old Yang was sitting outside, his expression also not good.
Seeing Chu Tian emerge, he made space for him.
"Chu Tian... Dian Dian might not make it!"
He said in a low voice.
Chu Tian was stunned.
He thought: it's just heatstroke, not a terminal illness. She shouldn't die, right?
This kind of illness was very common on Blue Star.
"Heatstroke... in the Sea of Death, it's known to claim so many lives!"
"If my son were alive, he would be ten years old this year..."
After he finished speaking, his expression became even more grim.
Chu Tian was taken aback and suddenly remembered.
In ancient times on Blue Star, even a common cold or heatstroke was equivalent to a modern-day terminal illness.
Later, something called a flu vaccine appeared.
Children needed to be vaccinated when they were young.
Here...
Perhaps there was no such thing as vaccination.
With this thought, Chu Tian glanced at the tent and instantly became worried.
[Ding... System Prompt: Fatal microorganisms detected in the protagonist's body have begun to activate. Please expel them quickly!]
Suddenly, the system's prompt appeared, and the next second,
Chu Tian's face changed, and a sharp pain began to grip his stomach.
An indescribable discomfort pushed upwards and downwards.
Ugh... Pfft...
Chu Tian tilted his head and began to vomit.
Then, he darted out as if flying, found a spot, took off his pants, and squatted down.
Old Yang was stunned by his appearance!
His face turned extremely grim, thinking: has Chu Tian fallen ill too?
Meanwhile, Chu Tian, squatting in the distance, had finished evacuating.
He found that his symptoms were exactly the same as Dian Dian's.
This reminded him of last night at the Tu Clan's camp.
The system had previously alerted him that fatal microorganisms had entered his body.
Holding his stomach, he walked back unsteadily and saw Old Yang looking at him nervously.
"Old Yang... why were you guys wearing masks last night?"
As Chu Tian asked this, Old Yang's eyes widened!