The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

478: Entering the Desert Wasteland

Though the process could be slow, it would benefit the people once complete.
It was a pity the heroine contracted with the Heart of Wood in the original story.
Once contracted, the Heart couldn’t return to the desert wasteland, so the school’s plan couldn’t be realized.

But with so many variables this time, Ai Lin no longer believed the heroine’s halo would be as all powerful.

The students had rested after a simple dinner and went out the next day to shop for supplies.
They wouldn’t be able to replenish their daily necessities once they entered the desert so they had to buy everything they needed beforehand.

The people in town both hated and loved the sudden intrusion of outsiders.
It was great for the local economy but it was horrible for public safety.

Several fights had broken out and the girls were being openly molested.
The girls with higher status refused to go out and were hiding in their homes.
Only the ordinary girls dared walk outside for chores and errands, but even they didn’t dare visit each other.

Though the adventurers wouldn’t kill ordinary people on a whim, they didn’t think twice about taking advantage of and bullying the residents.
It was hard for the residents to think well of the adventurers.

The residents grew to quickly resent the visitors and were eager to be rid of them.
They hoped the adventurers wouldn’t return after entering the desert.

Rumor had it, strange treasures would appear in the world soon.
It was just speculation and no one could definitely confirm it, so though some adventurers had already entered the desert, most were just waiting and watching.
They planned on waiting for several more days in the hopes that confirmation would come, before heading into the desert themselves.

It didn’t matter what the adventurers planned; there were a lot of them in town and they were troubling the residents.
There was a certain amount of fear and dissatisfaction in the air.

This was why Feng Wu’s group asked if something had happened recently in town.
They had wanted to ask further, but decided against it.

They entered the desert wasteland on the third day after they finished shopping.

There was no sign of life in sight.
Anyone who wanted to enter the desert had to do so on foot as no living creature would set foot in the desert.
It was a mystery why, but it seemed like there was something terrible inside.

A few days ago, a soldier had wanted to ride in with his horse, but his horse refused to move forward.
It had a look of horror on its face.
No matter how much it was beat, it refused to move.
There were many such cases.
In the end, everyone had to walk.

The desert was filled with endless yellow sand and scorching heat.
There wasn’t a single monster anywhere.

The people in the group felt a suffocating pressure the moment they stepped into the desert.
A disturbing panic set in, it was as though they were all facing a man-eating monster and the monster was waiting to swallowing them whole.

Feng Wu looked at the endless sand then touched the bag that held Rui Baby.
A flicker of doubt flashed in her eyes.

“This place is strange.
The moment I walked in, it felt like I was entering hell.” Tang said.

“Yeah, it doesn’t feel like a good place.” Huozhou nodded in agreement.

“Be careful everyone.
This place isn’t as it seems.” Mogefei warned expressionlessly.

Their hearts grew solemn as they became aware how difficult their mission would be.
But upon reflection, the school created an extreme challenge just to pick who would go.
It would have been strange if it wasn’t a difficult mission.

“This place is full of evil aura, so much so there are clouds of it.
Everyone be careful not to disturb anything.” Yaoyue’s face was ugly as she looked off into the distance.

“Is it the undead?” Mogefei asked.

“It might be, or it might be something else.
We won’t know until we see it.”

Both Ai Lin and Zi Cheng looked at Yaoyue in admiration.
They thought she would only cause them trouble and put on airs as a senior.
Turns out she was actually capable! Although they were students in the same division, they had different teachers guiding them.

Yaoyue was one of the rare necromancers at school.
Necromancers were the most mysterious.
Yaoyue’s character was bad, but she was the strongest in the group of necromancers.
That was how she successfully got a spot amongst the top ten.

With Yaoyue’s reminder in mind, they all walked carefully toward the spot marked on the map they had been given before leaving campus.
The spot marked was the location of the Heart of Water.
All they had to do was get the Heart and bring it back to the vice principal.

It would take more than a couple or days to reach the sealed area with the Heart.
It was hard to know how big the wasteland was without having been in it before.
It was possible to not exit even after walking a couple of years.
The sealed area was also hidden inside the desert and would take a minimum of three months of walking to reach.

They couldn’t risk getting lost and losing time.

Days were long and hot while the nights were cold with temperatures below 10.
They felt like human popsicles when the wind blew on them.
Fortunately they weren’t in the arena and their abilities weren’t sealed.
Though they still needed heavy coats, it wasn’t unbearable because they had fighting qi and magic for protection.

They didn’t have to hunt or search for food because they brought plenty of provisions.
At night they camped and rested because they couldn’t hurry in the cold.