"Ha!" Xiduo laughed. "That makes us fellow sufferers."
"Why don't we travel together? We can watch each other's backs, so if we run into danger, neither of us will be left without help."
Xu Huo agreed. After resting a while, the two continued on their way.
Since they couldn't get close to the Main City anyway, they gave up walking this time and took out a vehicle. As Xiduo put it, going fast or slow made no difference, so they might as well do whatever they felt like.
"You have an RV this big and don't keep any food in it?" Xu Huo looked around the Fully Automated Tour RV. Not only was there no food, there wasn't even a bottle of water.
"The game gave it to me. It's too slow for my liking, so I never use it," Xiduo said. "I was planning to sell it. I never stocked anything inside."
"A desert road trip isn't bad either." He propped one foot on a seat and spread his arms toward the window. "Blow my way, scorching wind!"
A gust of hot wind duly blew in, throwing a mouthful of sand and dust at him.
"Ptooey! Ptooey!" Xiduo coughed twice and hastily shut the window. After spitting out all the sand and dust, he added, "Getting whatever you ask for is a kind of luck too."
Xu Huo watched him with a smile.
Humming a tune, Xiduo looked away and rummaged through the vehicle. In the end, all he found was a manual. After reading a few pages, he tapped the page. "This thing has weapons too. Let me try them."
He ran to the front and fiddled with the controls. Two cannon barrels extended from the vehicle's nose, and less than a second later, two energy rounds tore