648 Hat City (1/2)

Oh no! Zhou Wen immediately reacted. These notebooks should have long been destroyed with Chu He's death. What Chu He had given him couldn't be kept in the living world.

Before the notebook was completely reduced to ashes, Zhou Wen flipped through a few pages, but he didn't see much content before the information was reduced to ashes. The desert wind blew, leaving no traces behind.

”It's really like a dream. I never expected that I, Liu Yun, would make a trip to the netherworld and come back alive. What great luck,” Liu Yun said with lingering fear.

”Don't think about that for now. Just take a look and see if you can tell where we are. Can you still find the way to the Endless Sea of Stars?” Zhou Wen perked up and sized up his surroundings.

There was yellow sand all around them. All he could see was a boundless desert with no end in sight. Zhou Wen couldn't even work out his bearings.

”No problem. Leave it to me. However, do you really want to go to the Endless Sea of Stars? We seem to be a little unlucky. I'm afraid something will happen again…” Liu Yun glanced at the Bamboo Blade on Zhou Wen's waist before throwing the Orchid Blade back to him. He didn't want to carry this with him for even an additional moment.

”Does being unlucky mean that we should stay at home all day? What's the point of living like that?” Zhou Wen took the Orchid Blade and said.

”That's true. Alright, let's continue.” Liu Yun didn't say anything else. He looked around and summoned his Companion Beast to dig a deep hole as though he was observing the sand or something else.

Zhou Wen did not know how Liu Yun figured out his bearings. As he led the way, he observed the plants and sand in the desert before slowly adjusting his direction.

The desert was already boundless. After the dimensional storms, it had become even wider. Even Epic experts would probably be trapped to death if they got lost.

Thankfully, Zhou Wen had brought plenty of water and food. He didn't have to be afraid of being trapped in the desert.

After repeatedly walking and stopping, on the fourth day, an oasis appeared in front of them.

”We're here.” Liu Yun pointed at the oasis and shouted in joy.

”Is that oasis the Endless Sea of Stars?” Zhou Wen asked in surprise.

”No, that oasis is where I usually replenish my water. However, we aren't far from the Endless Sea of Stars once we reach here. It'll take another two days at most,” said Liu Yun.

Zhou Wen didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He had plenty of pure water in his chaos space, so he didn't need an oasis to replenish it.

This oasis grew much vegetation that Zhou Wen didn't recognize. There was a tree, but it looked like grass with thick roots. It looked very strange.

What surprised Zhou Wen was that there was actually a city in the oasis.

However, the city was very simple. The city walls were made of clay and looked like crude concrete.

”This is Hat City. Legend has it that it was built by the residents of the desert in the past. Back then, there was plenty of water here, but as the water source decreased, many residents left Hat City, causing it to gradually become abandoned. According to the elders in the desert, Hat City could accommodate tens of thousands of people during its golden years. However, due to the depletion of the water source, the area around the oasis shrank. Most of the buildings have been buried under the yellow sand. Together with the arrival of the dimensional storms, there's no one here. Apart from some guides in the desert who occasionally come here to replenish their water, you usually wouldn't even see a soul.”

As he spoke, Liu Yun had already led Zhou Wen into Hat City.

As Liu Yun had said, many of the buildings here were half-buried in the sand.