Voyage of the Stars

The kobold Wei Shiba talked privately with the female kobold called Sanmei for a while, and then after Sanmei returned to Professor Amir, he said something to the kobold who called him Brother Shiba, Then he walked towards Professor Amir.

"I heard from Third Sister, Xiao Wei, do you still have the ability to survive in the wilderness?" As soon as Wei Shiba approached, he saw Professor Amir, whose hair was variegated, approaching him.

"I used to travel around a lot, so I know a little bit about it." Wei Shiba also greeted him with a smile, and pointed at the kobold who followed him: "Professor Amir, let's get acquainted again. This is my brother. His name is not important. You guys Just call him Gouerpang. The professor must have seen his ability when he came here."

The title "Gou Er Fat" is not a slur. If placed in a human language environment, it should be called "Ren Er Fat", which is a nickname.

"Well, he is honest and not afraid of hardships. He is also agile and has a good sense of safety. Our expedition team encountered danger several times. It was because of Erpang's timely reminder and hard work that no one was killed." Professor Amir looked kind. , affirming Gou Erpang’s ability.

In response, Gou Erpang was not complacent, but said to Professor Amir: "Don't worry, Professor, with my eighteenth brother here, it's just a desert. Even if you have to cross the entire continent, it will be no problem. Just like now In this environment, my 18th brother can easily make you eight kinds of food, and you will not starve to death. The skills of being a wilderness survival expert are just a minor thing here, so you can do it this time."

"cough!"

A slight cough interrupted Gou Erpang's voice. It was Wei Shiba, because he knew what this unrestrained Gou Erpang was going to say, 'More money.' He had just promised the wealthy third sister not to talk about more money. Naturally, he couldn't let Gou Erpang say it.

"Professor Amir, don't listen to Erpang's bragging. I really only know a little bit about survival in the wilderness. I can't guarantee that everyone will have three meals a day, but you can still survive without starving to death." Wei Shiba said.

"Okay, in that case, let's move on while it's still early." Upon hearing that Wei Shiba actually had this ability, Professor Amir instantly became energetic.

"Don't worry, Professor Amir. Traveling hungry is not a good habit."

With that said, Wei Shiba took out a bunch of pots and pans from his backpack, and then told Gou Erpang to prepare to light a fire, while he himself ran away without knowing where he was.

When he came back, he had a handful of strange purple plant roots in his hand.

Professor Amir and his two students were naturally surprised when they saw this, because they knew this thing was edible.

Watching Erpang Gou start cooking, the third kobold sister, who was swallowing her saliva, curiously asked about the origin of this thing, because she had seen the surrounding environment before and didn't see any plants at all.

Wei Shiba did not hide it, but directly faced Professor Amir and the three kobolds. He pointed at the root system of the plant that was being thrown into the pot by Fatty Gou and said: "Wisteria Lithospermum, a herbaceous drought-tolerant plant. , likes yin and hates yang, it is mostly found in shallow deserts and under dry stone crevices. It does not see the sun all year round and is a subsoil plant."

Wei Shiba briefly introduced the plant roots he had obtained, and then said to Professor Amir and the three kobolds: "The appearance of wisteria stone grass proves that we are not far from the water source. If I read it correctly, We have now arrived at the deserted area in the center of the continent. Through this desert, we should be able to find the Four Wearing Rivers. By then, if we follow that river, we will reach the highest mountain range in the center of the continent. "

"Although it is inaccessible and lacks animal and plant species, it is not completely lifeless. Our difficulty now is to cross this desert. After passing this desert, our food sources will not be so tight."

With that said, Wei Shiba stood up and motioned Professor Amir and the other three to look towards the sky. At the same time, he said: "Look at that star. It is called the Celestial Star. We are all familiar with it, but it is also very strange. Because every time we arrive at a certain It will appear in the sky at different times, so we are familiar with it, but many people don’t know what it means when it appears in different locations at different times.”

"Oh? Xiao Wei also knows stargazing?!" Professor Amir, who was dressed in mottled hair, stood up in surprise and followed Wei Shiba's gaze. He was a professor, yes, but he was only a professor in the field of history and archaeology. He was not interested in the sky. Not much is known about the stars.

So in his eyes, this star is just an ordinary relatively bright planet in the sky.

At this point in time, kobolds have entered industrial society, and things like glass and telescopes have been invented, so they have a certain understanding of the starry sky. The entire society has moved from ignorance to civilization.

However, this stage is not very developed. It belongs to an era when industry has just emerged. If we follow the development process of human civilization, it can be regarded as a period when the steam age moves into the fuel age.

In this era, no kobold country has mastered dog-made satellite technology, but radio technology has begun to appear in one of the most developed countries on the continent.

In other words, the kobold civilization already has their 'Faraday', their 'Gaglielmo Marconi', and the kobold's own 'Maxwell'.

It can be said that they have initially mastered electromagnetic technology.

And Wei Shiba came from the most developed country. He also had something like a PBX on his waistband, but here, this thing was of little use because it had no signal. He only had it on him to look at. Use time.

At this moment, he certainly wouldn't realize how important this thing was to their trip.

Since there is no satellite technology, in addition to the compass, this team, nominally called the expedition team, only has stargazing to determine the direction.

Of course, you cannot rely entirely on the compass, because there are many magnetic mountains on the Kobold planet, especially in the central mountains of Pangea. Therefore, if the compass fails, you want to find a way forward. direction, then you can only rely on stargazing.

It was for this reason that Professor Amir showed such surprise. Similarly, the area in the center of the continent is inaccessible for this reason. Many expedition teams have been there, but none of them have come out. At best, it's called mysterious disappearances; at worst, they all got lost and died.

"I know a little bit about it." Wei Shiba answered humbly.

He really only knew a little bit about stargazing, because his original job was actually tomb robbing, but he had stopped doing it many years ago. If Gouerpang hadn't asked him over and over again this time, he might not have come.

But in fact, he discovered after joining the expedition that he had been deceived by Gou Erpang. This trip was not about robbing tombs at all, but to find the legendary Tianmen.

Gou Erpang was interested in the price offered by the expedition team, and he felt that he didn't have much ability to attract the attention of the expedition team, so he roped in Wei Shiba.

Regarding the matter of deceiving himself, Gou Erpang had already confessed to him on the way to the expedition team, and Wei Shiba didn't care. After all, Gou Erpang was his best partner, and he had been traveling around the world with him for who knows how many years. He is his brother who shares weal and woe.

If it weren't for the pressure of life, he believed that Gou Erpang would not do this.

Of course, Wei Shiba was actually very interested in the so-called Tianmen legend, because he had visited the tombs of various princes and generals from the Bronze Age to modern times, but he had never entered the legendary burial of gods. land.

Well, it is indeed the burial place of God. On the kobold planet, there is more than one version of the legend about God. Some say that those who enter the Tianmen can live forever, some say that the Tianmen is actually the gate to the burial place of God, and some say that the Tianmen is The gateway to the ghost world.