Chapter 126 - Night (1/2)
After taking a few minutes to let the wounds on his foot close up, he chose the south-east direction and once again continued the journey.
It was about 1 p.m and the weather was so cloudy that unless you had a watch, it wasn't even possible to differentiate between day or night.
Hao Xuan was quite surprised when he found out that there was no summer in the Mei Kingdom. Nine to ten months out of the year it would be winter, and the rest autumn with a few weeks of spring if they were lucky.
That was why it was mostly chilly since he got here. Fortunately, he loved the cold. He always used to say that he'd rather freeze to death than stay in hot weather.
He didn't have a specific location in mind this time and just wanted to check out a few places before meeting up with the committee the military had chosen. They selected several people that had some experience in this area and were experts in their own fields. Hao Xuan was to meet with them once he had either found a suitable place or given up and needed their assistance.
He chose to stick to the less traveled roads. For three days he traversed the many forested areas filled with beasts of all kinds. More often than not he had to take a detour to avoid large beast packs and ended up going way off track.
You would think there would some sort of a GPS in these so-called ”spirit Bands” but there was no such function. After about another day or two, he was totally lost. Autumn was more or less over and the winter chill was coming back in. The sun would be out less and less and the nights were getting longer while the days barely lasted five-to-six hours.
Right now it was day sixth of him being on the road. It was around 7 p.m and the sun had already set so he decided to find a secluded spot for the night.
”God damn it, it was so nice just a week ago, how the hell did it change so fast?!” Hao Xuan mumbled while trying to warm his hands over the small campfire. Unlike the big cities which had gigantic protective formations to keep the temperature within a specific range, no such thing existed in the wilderness.
Here, the cold was infused with the spiritual energy from the surroundings and people under profound realm had no way to protect themselves from it other than using fire and similar methods to warm themselves during the night.
Lex had come through in the end and made the portable camp Hao Xuan so dearly wanted. It alone cost more than 100 million gold and if not for the discount Li Ming had given out, it would not have been affordable.
In its closed state, it looked like a metal ball the size of an orange. It was made with the same materials used for the storage rings with some other precious materials added in.
Once activated it would expand and cover an area of 20 square meters. A small wooden cabin, a bathroom, a campfire etc where just some of the things that would be set up automatically as soon as he turned the device on and threw it on the ground. There were also a lot of defensive formations, some warning formations, and a high-grade illusionary formation set around the boundaries of the camp.