Wilderness Survival with Druid System

Chapter 735 - 77: Explosion

Outside the camp, Chen Wen lifted the transformation effect.He coiled a Taipan Snake around his neck, held a medical pack, and casually tucked his pistol into his pocket as he walked towards the camp.

Not far along, the Hunting Owl came swooping down, landing on Chen Wen’s shoulder.

"Where have you been?"

Seeing the Hunting Owl return a bit late, Chen Wen couldn’t help but ask.

The Hunting Owl was just about to speak.

From not far away, accompanied by a thunderous explosion, Chen Wen was startled and instinctively looked in that direction.

The distant sky, with this explosion, seemed to be stained orange.

"Damn, what’s going on?"

Chen Wen couldn’t help but widen his eyes and looked over.

The Hunting Owl was also a bit surprised, and simultaneously had a guilty fear as if it had caused trouble.

Seeing the Hunting Owl’s expression, Chen Wen quickly guessed the situation.

He asked, "Did you do this?"

The Hunting Owl hesitated and nodded: "I took a bit of their fire and threw it on their house."

Hearing this, Chen Wen’s mouth twitched.

Goodness, it set fire to the camp and then ignited the car?

Chen Wen thought for a moment but didn’t feel the need to go over and check right away.

Instead, he quickly walked back to the camp.

In the camp, the noise hadn’t woken the sleepers, but Hua Yun stood up, worriedly looking towards the direction the firelight was coming from.

What happened over there?

Could it be that Chen Wen was in danger?

Just as Hua Yun was getting anxious, Chen Wen slowly walked out of the shadows.

"You..."

Hua Yun was about to ask when she saw what Chen Wen was holding.

Chen Wen nodded slightly, saying: "I succeeded, but this wasn’t my doing, I was already on my way back."

As he spoke, Chen Wen handed the medical pack to Hua Yun: "Find a place to store it; it’ll be very useful in critical moments."

Hua Yun nodded and immediately put it away.

The two of them talked briefly while looking at the firelight, but Chen Wen didn’t bring up what he had done.

He just reminded Hua Yun with a single remark: "Once we get to the Kimberley Plateau, we need to be ready to split up at any moment."

Hua Yun worriedly asked, "Is the problem not resolved yet?"

"It’s not completely resolved; there’s more than one poaching team looking for trouble with me."

Chen Wen didn’t say much more, just asked Hua Yun to remember this matter.

...

The next morning.

After everyone woke up, Chen Wen acted like nothing had happened, continuing with his usual work.

He even joked around with Dennis.

There was not a hint of anything unusual.

Watching this scene, Hua Yun even began to doubt whether her conversation with Chen Wen last night was a dream or reality.

However, looking at the camel-skin-wrapped medical pack, she knew that last night was real.

As Chen Wen and his group continued onward,

the indigenous people near the second oasis gathered together and headed to the second oasis to investigate the situation.

The explosion last night had shocked them greatly.

But the night was not a good time to come out, so they had to wait until today to come.

Upon reaching the second oasis,

the indigenous people noticed that a small part of the oasis had been burned down.

With surprise in their eyes, they approached the burned patch of oasis.

After a careful search, they found a large number of iron cages and charred animal carcasses, along with the almost carbonized members of the Hunting Owl.

Through identifying the remnants, the indigenous people angrily realized that the group burned to death were poachers!

And the off-road vehicle of these poachers was the source of the explosion.

Angrily, the indigenous people dragged the off-road vehicle out of the oasis and discarded it in the desert.

As for those high-quality iron cages, they took them away.

Regarding these members of the Hunting Owl, the indigenous people had no intention of burying them or reporting the event.

The poachers damaged the interests of the indigenous people, who regarded what happened here as divine retribution for the poachers.

They didn’t take it to heart at all.

...

As for Chen Wen.

What happened that night didn’t affect him.

Dealing with a few poachers was like dealing with beetles in a pine forest for him now, without any psychological burden.

After resupplying at other small oases,

Chen Wen’s team picked up their speed.

Outside, according to the positions provided by the Australian Association,

Chen Wen and his team had already surpassed the team of Elvin and Xu Qiang.

And they were continually closing in on the Japanese team.

After marching for about ten days,

the third oasis was also close at hand.

"Chen Wen, we’re less than five days away from reaching the third oasis."

Dennis looked at the map, excitedly saying.

Having come this far without serious incident, they had less than fifty percent of the progress bar left to push towards victory.

After all, while the Kimberley Plateau was challenging, the overall route wasn’t very long.

"Calculating the time, we’re still near the average."

Fred, responsible for tracking time, said: "If everything goes smoothly, on the eightieth day, we’ll successfully cross the Great Sand Desert!"

Upon hearing this news, Adam was also very excited.

He couldn’t help but boast: "The legendary Eight Extremes Challenge isn’t that hard after all!"

There was a sense of satisfaction in Hua Yun’s tired eyes.

The Desert Extreme Challenge, if it were a great mountain, they were already halfway up.

If they continued bravely, they could reach the summit!

But unlike the four excited people,

Chen Wen was slightly frowning, looking at the distant sky.

Noticing Chen Wen’s gaze, Dennis also looked over.

"The sky in the distance seems a bit dark!"

Dennis couldn’t help but remark.

Chen Wen nodded slightly: "I can smell sand in the wind! Though it’s not very strong."

The smell of sand!

This statement helped the overly excited group calm down.

"Are you saying... there might be a sandstorm ahead?"

Hua Yun asked somewhat skeptically.

She couldn’t tell, thinking the sky in the distance seemed normal even though it was somewhat dim.

Dennis shook his head and said: "I think we should change ’might’ to ’definitely’, there must be a sandstorm ahead, but it’s far, far away, and may not affect us."

Chen Wen nodded: "Yes, but to be cautious, let’s travel a bit more tonight to hide in a nearby oasis; we have enough time, so we should be careful."

"No problem with that, I also think it’s safer this way."

Dennis agreed.

Seeing both the team leader and the local agree, the others had no objections; everyone sped up, heading to the more forward oasis to take shelter.

Meanwhile,

many others noticed the strange phenomenon in the distant sky.

The team of Xu Qiang and Elvin were especially alert.

After some discussion, they opted for the same safety measure as Chen Wen’s team, finding an oasis for rest and shelter.

Given their current progress, the Russia and France teams, and the US and UK teams could clearly see it. Oleg and Hope both realized it might be a sizable sandstorm.

Both teams hurriedly searched for a refuge.