"I was rescued by Yao,"
Dai Xiaomei told Zhou Niannian that she had been trapped in a snowdrift at the time.
Fortunately, Yao dug tirelessly through the snow and saved her.
Before she finished speaking, the onlookers beside her buzzed in protest.
The onlookers had put in a lot of effort, yet Dai Xiaomei hadn't mentioned them at all.
In the live stream, the viewers burst into laughter.
"This is the first time I've seen bystanders with emotions."
"This, this shouldn't be remote control, it's self-aware AI, right?"
"Can AI simulate human emotions? That's incredibly advanced."
"It seems the onlookers are also developing humanity."
"The onlookers really did a lot of heavy lifting in this rescue."
Dai Xiaomei glanced at the onlookers and added,
"The onlookers also helped a bit. Later, Yao led me across the snowy mountains."
"Yao is amazing. Without him, I would have died in the snowy mountains. How did you guys get here?"
Zhou Niannian and Jiang Fan exchanged glances, and they started to explain one after another.
"I was almost buried by an avalanche at the time, and Jiang Fan saved me, even getting injured."
"Zhou Niannian led me to a hot spring and found food, otherwise I wouldn't have lasted long. Niannian saved me."
"Forget it, without you, I wouldn't even be able to start a fire. It was you who led me out of the snowy mountains later."
Dai Xiaomei was stunned.
"Stop being so modest to each other. By the way, what's with the hot spring in the snowy mountains?"
"Not only is there a hot spring, but there are also very strange-looking, large, and timid birds."
After speaking, Zhou Niannian detailed how she accidentally found the hot spring, then encountered the strange birds, and snatched their eggs.
As there was one egg left, Zhou Niannian took it out of her bag and showed it to Dai Xiaomei.
Dai Xiaomei's eyes widened at the sight of the flawless white egg, larger than an ostrich egg.
"A hot spring in the snowy mountains. If we weren't descending the mountain, I'd really love to take a dip."
Dai Xiaomei's eyes twinkled like stars, full of longing.
"Don't think too much about it. Let's focus on how to get through this level."
Jiang Fan became serious. Next, they would face a scorching desert environment.
Zhou Niannian pouted. It was supposed to be a dense forest, and she had thought it would be a safe level to replenish food and water, but it had suddenly turned into a desert.
In the desert, forget about finding food and water, it would be incredibly draining.
"Honestly, is this really the tomb of Chi You? It's just too big."
Deep anxiety appeared in Dai Xiaomei's eyes.
Jiang Fan also shook his head. He felt that this so-called Chi You's tomb was almost the size of a planet.
This tomb was practically boundless. Even if Chi You had unified the Earth, he couldn't have achieved this.
"I have an idea. Maybe we're not on Earth anymore, but on an alien planet."
"The entire planet is divided into two layers, an upper world and a lower world."
"Think about it, didn't we fall from the sea of clouds in the sky at the beginning?"
Zhou Niannian suddenly had a thought and said with a smile to Jiang Fan and the others.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Fan nodded. He thought Zhou Niannian's idea wasn't impossible.
Ancient legends spoke of the great battle between Chi You and the Yellow Emperor, but strangely,
On the ground, very few relics of either side have been found, nor any traces of the battle.
For example, this battle was said to have resulted in tens of thousands to over a hundred thousand deaths.
Historical battles with tens of thousands to over a hundred thousand casualties have always revealed large mass graves.
For instance, the famous Battle of Changping in history uncovered several mass graves filled with bodies wearing Zhao army uniforms.
Yet, no large tombs have been discovered, leading the international archaeological community to consider the legends of Chi You and Yan-Huang as false.
What if the myths didn't happen in the real world, but underground?
The entire underground, not just Chi You's tomb, but the world Chi You once lived in?
In Jiang Fan's opinion, this was a highly plausible scenario.
Jiang Fan shook his head, deciding to prepare for entering the desert first.
"Let's dismantle the animal skin coats first. We'll need them for something else."
In the current scorching environment, the animal skin coats were no longer needed.
Jiang Fan dismantled them all, packing the animal skins away in case they were needed later.
To prevent sunburn, Jiang Fan soaked the lining of the animal skin coats in snow water and wrapped them around his head.
"Haha, don't I look like an Arab?"
Dai Xiaomei wrapped a headscarf around her head and burst into laughter.
"I am the princess of Arabia."
Zhou Niannian even swayed her hips and performed a dance.
"You are the princesses of Arabia, and I am Lawrence of Arabia."
Jiang Fan joked with them while trying to soak all his clothes with snow water.
"Then what about Yao? What is he in Arabia? Aladdin of Arabia?"
Dai Xiaomei pointed at Yao.
"He's Aladdin of Arabia, the Arabian Prince."
Jiang Fan said, as he wrapped a headscarf soaked in ice water around Yao's head.
Now that they were only a hair's breadth away from the snowy mountains, Jiang Fan could repeatedly enter the snowy mountains to fetch water.
The problem was, there were no containers to store the water.
"What a pity, we don't have many containers to hold water, nor much food to store."
Jiang Fan murmured to himself. His bamboo tubes had been lost midway.
Yao and Dai Xiaomei's backpacks only contained two canteens.
As for bottles that held other things, who would dare to use them for water?
Suddenly, the reptiles that Dai Xiaomei had kicked away reappeared in swarms.
The leading few colorful lizards carried a lizard that had been dried by the sun.
Behind them, several frogs carried the skulls of dead people.
"My god, are these animals possessed? What are they carrying?"
Dai Xiaomei felt a chill down her spine.
"No way, this couldn't be food and containers for water, could it?"
Jiang Fan was stunned at first, then he considered this possibility.
The frogs croaked and hopped, indicating that what he said was correct.
These are our treasured possessions, offered to the guests who have traveled from afar.
"I thank you!"
Jiang Fan had no interest in such strange treasures.
The frogs desperately patted their bellies, proclaiming these treasures to be excellent.
"Go, go!"
Jiang Fan, being a little gentler than Dai Xiaomei, simply shooed away the annoying reptiles without kicking them.
The frogs, with great disappointment, carried away the skulls.
"This secret realm is unreliable. It's cold one moment, hot the next, with no pattern."
Zhou Niannian desperately doused herself with snow water, grumbling.
"I guess this is a turntable!"
Jiang Fan said, stroking his chin.