The wind howled in, carrying wave after wave of heat.
A strange sight lay before them.
Yellow sand met crimson hard earth in a sharp divide, the terrain changing abruptly here. The traces of human intervention were unmistakable.
Zhen Jin and the others stood in the desert, yet not far from them lay a stretch of red land without a single grain of yellow sand.
"This looks like the aftermath of a volcanic eruption," Cang Xu marveled.
Zi Di twitched her delicate nose. "The air is full of the smell of sulfur too."
Pssh...
Suddenly, grayish-white smoke billowed from the black ground some distance away. Then a stream of crimson magma burst forth like a fountain.
Like molten iron, the magma splashed across the surroundings, raising huge clouds of thick smoke.
Everyone frowned.
The sulfur stench in the air grew even stronger, fiercely irritating their nostrils.
"If we got splashed by that magma, wouldn't that mean certain death?"
Including Zhen Jin, everyone's faces turned grave.
"I thought the desert was already the most perilous place. I never expected this island to have such a death zone as well. Compared to this, the desert feels far more acceptable."
"Sir Zhen Jin, what do we do next?"
At a complete loss, the group looked to the Young Knight, who had always been their pillar.
Their original plan had been to leave the desert.
Though they had achieved that objective, the outcome seemed to have become even worse.
The direction was correct; there should have been no mistake. Earlier, the Exploration Team had been trapped in the desert, yet by persisting in this direction, they had eventually made their way out.
"It seems the starting position where we arrived by teleportation differed far more from what we imagined. Around the desert terrain lie