"Wealth, fame, power..." "Everything is in the sea of sand!" "Go find it!" "The era of treasure hunting has begun!" The sun was blazing, the sea of sand was churning, and countless sand boats that had been modified in various ways were suspended above the sea of sand, ready to go! The annual sand boat gold rush competition kicked off. Lin Yi and the other four people sat on an extremely simple sand boat that was also the smallest in the venue. After putting it into the sea of sand behind him, Lin Yi picked up the pale yellow Xisha. When these sands were rubbed in his hands, they did feel like sand. But when mixed with other gravel, they were like sea water, which could make the sand boat generate buoyancy.
The universe is so big that it is not surprising that any magical planet was born. "You... stop shaking." "This is just a copy..." Lin Yi looked at Ke Mengyuan and the other three ultimate social phobias who were shaking non-stop on the sand boat, feeling a little helpless. "There are... too many people here." Ke Mengyuan stuttered. Lin Yi looked over and saw that the entire sand boat racing venue spanned nearly 500 kilometers from north to south. There were countless sand boats and people on the sand sea. Various alien languages were heard from time to time, and the famous sayings of the sand bandit king Roger were played in a loop on the loudspeakers in the venue. The whole venue was very lively. It is indeed not an exaggeration to say that this is a social phobia hell. "Gold diggers from afar!" "Hello!" "No matter which planet or universe you come from--" "Welcome to the annual Sand Sea Gold Rush in Kassanis!" "The competition will officially start in 5 minutes! All teams please be ready!" "Before the competition starts, I will read out a few rules of the competition. Please compete in a civilized manner according to the rules. Delegations that violate the rules will be disqualified and punished depending on the severity of the situation!" "First, the competition will start after the referee's gunshot. All behaviors of starting early and igniting the sand boat in advance will be considered violations!" "Second, during the first round of the speed competition, it is strictly forbidden for members of each delegation to fight each other, and it is strictly forbidden for members of each delegation to destroy the sand boats of other delegations." "Third, like the previous competition, there are hidden shortcuts on our competition track. The sand boat teams that can find shortcuts will reach the end of the track in a shorter path. Remember, only the first 100 teams that reach the end can enter the ruins area!"
Ke Mengyuan looked at Lin Yi and gave him a thumbs up. This was the code they agreed upon when they entered the dungeon. It meant that everything was going according to plan. Lin Yi was a little worried that Ke Mengyuan's plan would be judged by the organizer as cheating or interfering with the progress of the game. But after saying the three rules on the loudspeaker, Lin Yi found that he froze the sand sea. He was completely changing the venue of the game. He did not attack other sand boat teams. He did not destroy other sand boats. It can be said that he took advantage of the loopholes in the rules. "Ahoy! Ahoy!" "Captain! Look, there seems to be a group of brainless idiots next to us!" "Hey! You want to come to pan for gold without preparing sand boats?" "Hahaha, Captain, when we start the boat later, be careful not to run over their heads, or we will be judged as fouls!" Lin Yi heard a few whistles. Then he saw that on the right side of the boat he was in, on the side of the giant sand boat parked, several people in sailor uniforms were laughing. The bearded man at the head also laughed and said, "The rest, I advise you to withdraw from the competition!" "My White Whale wants to eat you alive, hahaha!" The bearded man was the captain of the White Whale. His ship was almost in the top 100 in the past few years. This year, he was full of ambition and must get the qualification to enter the ruins! Lin Yi didn't take the ridicule of the captain and crew of the White Whale to heart. How many of those who can come to be sand pirates are good people. "Captain... Captain!" "Why don't we also give... our sand boat a name?" "Otherwise, even if we win the championship later, we don't know what our boat is called..." Ke Mengyuan looked at Lin Yi at this time and suddenly spoke. Lin Yi pondered for a moment. He felt that what Ke Mengyuan said was indeed reasonable. Although this is a free sand boat provided by the event organizer, it must have a name. "Let's call it... Go Forward Merry."
Lin Yi is a bad namer. After thinking for a long time, he could only think of the name of the first ship of the protagonist group in an anime he had watched in his previous life. Lin Yi remembered that he cried a lot when the ship was burned at sea. In that world, the Merry could not follow the protagonist group to the end. Then here, he would take it to the end. It can be regarded as making up for the little regret in his heart. Ke Mengyuan didn't understand why Lin Yi would choose such a strange name, but who made him the captain? The name was decided. While several people were discussing, the five-minute countdown ended. As the referee's gun sounded, countless sand boats that had already been in place sounded the ship's whistle and the engine roared! Then they began to accelerate and move forward. Countless people cheered and screamed, and the scene was very lively. Suddenly, tens of thousands of people in the entire venue shuddered. The atmosphere that had just been heated up seemed to suddenly drop to freezing point. "Captain! Why is it so cold all of a sudden!" "The desert planet of Kassanis has a temperature of 40 degrees all year round during the day, and the sun hasn't set yet!" On the White Whale, countless sailors had goose bumps on their bodies. As they talked, there were even streams of white air spewing out, which showed how low the temperature of their surroundings was at the moment. "Look at what that person has in his hand!" "The cold air is coming from there." Everyone looked in the direction of the person's finger. They saw that among the group of people they had been laughing at before, the young man sitting at the bow had a piece of ink-colored crystal suspended in his hand. It was a piece of ice crystal that was so black that no light could melt into it. The moment the black ice appeared, the temperature of the entire venue began to drop suddenly. Ke Mengyuan and the other three people all shuddered. It was too scary! They just stared at the black ice in Lin Yi's palm, and it seemed that even their thoughts were frozen! Lin Yi saw that the moment the black ice was summoned, several sand boats around him were coated with a layer of frost, and he was also shocked by the amazing effect of this alien version of the eighth-level ice system.
Lin Yi flipped his right hand and buried the tiny black ice in the rolling sand sea. Crack... Crack... This is the sound of countless ice crystals condensing. In just a moment, Lin Yi found that the yellow sand sea under his sand boat was stained with a deep black. Then, this black began to expand at an extremely fast speed!
