After getting rid of the giant worm that was raging in the quicksand, Pangu continued his journey alone. According to the task prompt, he was searching for the whereabouts of Hongjun locally.
When the game reaches this point, it is obvious that it has entered a new stage. Previously, the overall landscape of the map was a savanna, but now it has turned into a brand new desert landscape.
For games, the so-called holographic landscape means a new template. The giant beasts active in the desert are different from the savanna in terms of template, so players can get a different experience.
In this endless yellow sand, the difficulty of survival has greatly increased. Because the number of prey has decreased, the level of hunting for players has increased.
For the first time in the desert, Ge Zhaodu couldn't find any prey, so he starved to death in the yellow sand. It was an extremely miserable death.
After all, now that there is no guidance from Hongjun, everything has to be searched by the players themselves, and the chance of overturning is much higher. Sometimes they can't find the prey after searching for a long time, and sometimes they finally find the prey, which is either too small or too strong.
In addition to the food problem, the water source problem was also a major obstacle. It took Ge Zhaodu a lot of effort to figure out that there was no hope of finding water here. The only way to quench his thirst was to suck the juice of his prey.
It can be said that whether it is food or water issues, the living environment in the desert is too harsh, and the difficulty is far more difficult than that in the savanna.
Unfortunately, the active giant beasts in the savanna include wolves and white deer, giant apes and dwarf monkeys. However, in this desert, there are all kinds of arthropods.
Ge Zhaodu has also seen arthropods on the savanna, but the arthropods there are generally not large, and without meat, it is basically impossible to hunt, but here either no prey can be found, or all he can find are arthropods.
As we all know, arthropods generally have little meat, and there are even more giant insects here that wish they could only have bones.
The most convenient place to collect meat is the tunnel worms under the sand. However, with Pangu's current strength, the only way to defeat the opponent is to enter the belly of the tunnel worms, but this is simply a test of operation.
In addition, there is another big problem with local arthropods, which Ge Zhaodu can clearly detect, that kind of weirdness that is indescribable but very perceptible.
They are even more ferocious and will destroy any object they see, constantly biting and devouring it, so much so that Ge Zhaodu even doubts that the desert came here because of their eating.
And compared with similar arthropods in the savanna area, there seems to be no habitual gathering here, because when two creatures come into contact, they will fight each other until the winner is determined.
Therefore, it can be said that no matter how violent the battle in the savanna is, it is still less than one percent of that in the desert. This kind of violence is a violence that seems to tear the world apart.
After staying here for a while, Ge Zhaodu became vaguely curious. Given the intensity of the battle, how did the local creatures multiply and maintain their survival?
In short, in this more desperate, desolate and crazy desert, Ge Zhaodu controlled Pangu and struggled here for a long time. Based on the game time, he barely survived for a week.
So the game entered the next stage. After a game CG, Pangu unfortunately encountered a large number of scorpions and was targeted by them.
Didn’t I say before that desert creatures generally don’t gather in groups? This is a general situation, but what Ge Zhaodu encountered was a special group situation.
If a creature of the same type discovers prey, it will immediately launch an attack. If both parties cannot do anything to each other, more and more creatures of the same type will gather together.
Generally speaking, when encountering this kind of situation, Ge Zhaodu will quickly run away, but isn't this a direct game CG? Without Ge Zhaodu's control, Pangu has been surrounded by scorpions.
"Damn! What the hell is this AI? Its operation skills are worse than mine!"
When Pangu is halfway through the battle with the scorpions, Hongjun, who has been missing for a long time, will suddenly appear. For a skilled player like Xue Xunyu, this means the icing on the cake, but for Ge Zhaodu, who is about to be defeated, it is simply a timely help.
The battle between scorpions is not a losing battle. Players with good operation can even eliminate the Scorpion King. The Scorpion King's poison pills are very valuable materials.
But Ge Zhaodu couldn't do this. He could only barely escape the siege of the scorpions and passed this trial with Hongjun's cooperation and cover.
Now that Hongjun has been found, he can use his Kanyu skills to search for where the materials that were urgently thrown out by Pangu are scattered now.
As the two walked forward, they unconsciously talked about the desert beneath their feet. After all, Pangu, who was born in the savanna, had never seen such a harsh ecological environment so far.
"Do you know how this desert was formed?" Seeing Pangu's interest, Hongjun simply chatted with him about the past of the desert.
Pangu naturally didn't know, but the explanation given by Hongjun was somewhat beyond Ge Zhaodu's expectation: "This is not a real desert. This should be the ruins of the world, or the future of the world."
"Why should I end the Age of Behemoths? If the Age of Behemoths is not ended and continues to be delayed, this is the future of the entire world."
Ah, isn’t the geographical type of desert related to climate, rainfall, etc.? Why is there such a mysterious name as World Ruin?
But Kang Youguo soon figured out that this "Hongmeng Shi" is not a fairy tale game, so it is understandable that it is so different from the common sense of the real world.
"At first, the scope of the desert was very small, and it only appeared at the edge of the world. However, with the successive eras of giant beasts, its scope began to slowly expand, and now it has spread here."
What is round after round? Ge Zhaodu subconsciously felt that the quantifier Hongjun was used very strangely in the conversation. After thinking about it, it seemed that it should refer to one generation after another.
In an enhanced discussion thread on the forum, the poster put forward the following views on the plot design of "Hongmeng Begins":
There are two main lines in the game "Hongmeng", one bright and one dark. The bright line is the main line that everyone can see, that is, the adventure of Pangu and Hongjun.
As for the hidden thread, I think it is what the two protagonists saw and heard along the way, or what Pangu, the giant, saw and heard along the way.
After all, Hongjun had a mysterious origin and had a mature mind, but Pangu, a giant, obviously gained greater feelings during his journey.
The broken earth and barren desert prove that in the Age of Behemoths, this is a world without a future, a world full of despair.
Perhaps it was precisely because of what he saw and heard that in the final battle of the game, Pangu, who was in a dilemma, still firmly chose to end the era of giant beasts without the guidance of Hongjun. I think this stems from what he saw and heard along the way. touch.
