Sun Hang stamped on the sand beneath his feet. Compared with the deserts he remembered, the sand here was highly fluid—calling it quicksand would not have been an exaggeration. The moment someone stepped on it, they would immediately sink deep into it. No wonder Professor Ouyang's team had been stymied by this technical challenge.
A person weighing over 130 jin, Sun Hang could feel his feet and legs constantly sinking as he stood atop these shifting dunes. He had to use mycelium to construct a "net" around his feet, one hundreds of times larger than the soles of his shoes, in order to reduce the pressure enough to avoid sinking into the quicksand.
The return rocket weighed over a hundred tons. Under such limited conditions, it would be difficult to find a sufficiently stable support point on this terrain.
More than ninety percent of Egypt's territory was desert, but Cairo was not.
The Nile River was called Egypt's mother river because this former longest river in the world had truly birthed and nurtured the human civilizations along both its banks as a "source of life."
The lands along the Nile River could be called the most fertile in all of North Africa, while Cairo, situated in the delta at the river's mouth, had been the most dazzling pearl upon that fertile land.
Unfortunately, the pearl had now become a handful of yellow sand, and the mother river had long since dried up, even its valley completely buried.
Sun Hang bent down and scooped up a handful of sand. As he tilted his palm, the sand rapidly slipped away, and not even grains caught in the creases of his palm remained on his hand.
Clearly, this sand was different from ordinary sand.
"This sand was not naturally formed. Strictly speaking, it