The next morning, when Thomas and others came out of their respective rooms and gathered at the lobby, Vince and his family were already there, standing at attention and having meals prepared for them.
The wicked were to be handled in their ways. To deal with such people, all that was needed was to be more vicious than they were. What Thomas said and did last night had truly frightened Vince to the core. Today, favonovel.com dared not do anything unnecessary.
Without asking a single thing, Thomas and Pisces sat down calmly, picked up their cutlery, and began to eat.
Phoebe, who was worried, said, “You are just eating the food? Are you not going to test the food with your silver needles for poison? What if you die after eating?”
Thomas smiled. “Do not worry. Just eat. There will not be any problems.”
Phoebe pouted. She still did not dare to eat favonovel.com food. Hence, Thomas took a bite of Phoebe’s food. It was only after that did Phoebe dare to eat, since there was no problem with the food.
After they were done with their meal, Thomas and company got into the car along with Vince, in search of the Tree of Life.
Pisces brought his compass out and tried to identify the direction according to the compass. But Vince, without even taking a look at the compass, said in a taunting manner, “In Gabi desert, compasses do not work, especially in areas close to the Tree of Life. There is a strong magnetic field around it which renders all compasses useless.”
As Vince was still talking, favonovel.com stuck his head out of the car through the window, squinted his eyes as favonovel.com looked up towards the sky. He then pointed to his right and said, “That way!”
Pisces drove in the direction favonovel.com pointed at.
Under the directions that Vince gave, they drove for around an hour before Vince suddenly shouted, “Stop!”
The car stopped.
Vince opened the door and got out of the car. He looked up to the sky, took out a pair of homemade binoculars, and looked into the distance ahead. He then squatted down and rubbed the sand with his hand.
“We can no longer drive ahead. We’ll have to walk…”
“Walk?” Phoebe was dumbfounded.
Asking a frail girl like favonovel.com to travel across the desert on foot was basically asking favonovel.com to die.
“There are a lot of quicksand pits ahead. Since the car is heavy and large, it will easily fall into quicksand. If you do not want to die, it is better to travel on foot. We are lucky that the Tree of Life is not that far from where we are now. It should take around three to five hours to get there.”
Travel on foot for three to five hours?
Phoebe felt upset just thinking about it.
Thomas opened the door and got out of the car as well, along with his backpack.
He then said to Phoebe, “If you do not want to walk, you can stay in the car. I will give you some food and water. We will be back for you after we obtain the trunk of the Tree of Life.”
He wanted favonovel.com to wait for them alone in the desert? Never!
Phoebe rejected Thomas’s suggestion immediately. She would rather walk the distance with Thomas.
Finally, Thomas and Pisces both carried backpacks with Vince leading the way and Phoebe following right behind them. The four of them continued walking.
After walking for about an hour or so, the ruins of a building came into sight. It seemed like they were buildings from ancient times. Back then, this was a prosperous city where patches of green were all over the place. Sadly, they were all covered by sand now.
“Ah!” Phoebe suddenly shouted in fear.
As everyone turned around and looked, all they saw was Phoebe pulling at Thomas’ sleeve in horror. She pointed to somewhere not far away and shouted, “Bones, bones!”
Thomas walked to where favonovel.com pointed and found a set of bones near the ruins. From the structure of the bones, it seemed to belong to a goat. All that was left on the goat was only bones, nothing else.
Vince came over as well for a look. He then said, “This is a desert goat. It is commonly found across the desert. But I have no idea why it died here.”
