Why didn't anyone tell me this is a parallel world?

The oasis is not large, or rather, the remaining area is not large, only less than the size of a football field.

Walking around the edge, you can see many dead plants that have been buried in the yellow sand.

The existing plants only have a layer of green on the surface. If you get closer, you will find that they exude a withered smell from the inside out.

There are many reasons for the disappearance of an oasis. The most common one is probably the change in the flow of an underground river. Without the support of a steady supply of water, the oasis will naturally disappear.

The water hole is located on one side of the entire oasis, not in the center, and most of the animals only gather around the water hole.

Xia Liuying watched from afar and did not go near. If it was a normal oasis and the water in the puddle was clean, she might go and fetch some water.

But now it looks turbid and there are many unknown things floating on it, so I don’t want to get close to it.

Xia Liuying found a few of the oldest-looking trees on the other side of the oasis, cleared a space next to the trees, and set up a tent.

He picked up some dry branches and built a large fire next to the tent.

In the past, summer fireflies did not make fires when camping. It was inconvenient and time-consuming to find firewood in the desert. Moreover, with tents and sleeping bags, they would not be affected by the low temperatures in the desert at night, so there was no need to make fires.

There are also more convenient technological products available for cooking and other things.

But it is different in the oasis. There are too many animals coming and going here, and the smells are mixed. The breath of Xia Liuying after she has transformed into a beast cannot scare away all the animals. Starting a fire can prevent those animals from approaching.

Moreover, there are dead or dying trees everywhere, so it is not difficult to find firewood.

Another thing is... you can make a fire and use it to barbecue.

As for where the meat came from, there was plenty of it next to the puddle!

Xia Liuying skillfully bleeds, skins, and cuts the non-protected animals she captures into pieces. Finally, she strings them together on a few sturdy branches, applies a little oil, and roasts them over the fire.

While waiting for the barbecue to be cooked, Xia Liuying changed her clothes, took off the clothes she had worn for the past few days, and simply washed them in water.

Enlarge the nunchaku you bought as a supernatural weapon and stick it into the ground, and it becomes a simple clothes drying rack. Put it next to the fire and the clothes will be dried in no time.

Summer fireflies only do this in an oasis. Although most plants are about to die, at least they are not completely dead and can still block the wind and sand.

Otherwise, if you wash clothes in the desert, they will be covered with sand before they are dry.

I don’t know what the clothes hanging there looked like, but they actually attracted two birds that were not in the protected area to fly over. They rushed towards the clothes very fiercely, enriching Xia Liuying’s dinner options.

However, the amount of barbecue Xia Liuying prepared was enough for dinner, and she was too lazy to prepare the two birds separately, so she simply dug some soil from the puddle and buried the whole bird under the fire to roast it.

Made a simple version of "Beggar's Chicken".

It can also be stored for a longer period of time. When you want to eat it, just break off the layer of mud on the outside.

After working for a long time, the grilled skewers on the fire were almost cooked, with fat dripping down from them. The golden color looked very appetizing.

After sprinkling a layer of salt and some seasoning on it, Xia Liuying picked up a skewer of barbecue and started eating.

Maybe it was because he hadn't eaten such real meat for more than a week, instead of those compressed dried meats. After taking a bite, Xia Liuying felt that the taste was terribly delicious.

There were sounds of satisfaction coming from all over the body.

After finishing eating all the skewers, Xia Liuying touched her extremely full stomach and stood up to clean up the leftovers.

Throw the bloody fur, internal organs, bones and other parts to the side of a puddle, and carnivorous animals will quickly come over and eat them up, leaving no trace.

Xia Liuying watched for a while, feeling the unspeakable cruelty of nature. Even though she had seen it many times, she still felt shocked from the bottom of her heart every time.

The sound of approaching footsteps startled Xia Liuying. She looked up and saw a group of wild camels walking towards her with their distinctive steps.

Wild camels and common domestic camels look similar, but they are not the same species.

First of all, it is smaller and thinner, and more agile. Secondly, its hump is relatively smaller, and the fur on its body is much thinner.

According to the information Xia Liuying has checked, the wild camel population is already in a level 1 endangered status, and there are only a few thousand left in the world. This is because there are not many human traces in the Tulum Desert, so they can only be seen here.

This group of wild camels had more than a dozen members and looked like a relatively large group. They quickly occupied a relatively large area around the water hole and scared away many small animals.

Xia Liuying did not disturb them. She watched the wild camels drinking water and eating grass for a while, then turned around and went back towards the tent.

It was late when Xia Liuying started washing the clothes. She touched them and they were still a little damp, so she sat in front of the fire and added some branches to the fire, continuing to warm herself until the clothes were dry before putting them away.

During the day, I always feel that the sun moves very slowly. But at night, I can still see things one second ago, but the world suddenly becomes dark the next second.

Only the flames were swaying slightly, and the shadows were swaying with the flames.

"Rustle" sound of plant branches and leaves rubbing against each other came from not far away. Xia Liuying turned her head and saw a slightly younger sub-adult wild camel's head sticking out from among the plants.

The funny face was still chewing a bunch of leaves, and its eyes met with Xia Liuying's who had turned her head away.

In the inexplicable silence, the sub-adult wild camel calmly withdrew its gaze, turned its head to bite the plants on the other side, and continued chewing.

Xia Liuying had a strange expression on her face, and she didn't know what to say for a moment. She could only watch silently as the sub-adult wild camel ate from here to there, treating her, a living person, as nothing.

From the actions of the sub-adult wild camel as it walked around the fire, it was certain that it knew there was a fire and that it couldn't get close to it. But I didn't understand why it didn't react to Xia Liuying.

Even if Xia Liuying put away all the dried clothes in front of it, it didn't react at all.

When they had almost finished eating, they heard the call of another wild camel in the distance, and the sub-adult wild camel slowly walked back.