"Eh?"

Yu Nian couldn't quite understand; what kind of creatures could possibly live in this vast, scorching desert?

Bai Cheng and Leng Ningxue were equally puzzled.

But before they could even process the thought, the large expanse of desert ahead of the train suddenly collapsed with a rumble, and then countless grains of sand began to pour like water into the massive black hole that had formed on the ground.

Rumble!

Sand grains rose with the wind, forming a golden storm around them.

Before the three could react, the train had already broken through this golden mist, revealing that the tracks extended downwards, about to carry them into the ground!

"Holy cow, what's going on!"

The sudden downward slope made the train feel like a thrilling roller coaster. Yu Nian yelled while tightly gripping a nearby handrail.

In an instant, their train was buried along with the quicksand.

And in the center of the newly appeared large hole, a red beam of light shot into the sky, like a beacon guiding everyone here... At the same time, dozens of kilometers away, Wang Bian, Lin Shu, and Ye Liangchen, who were in battle, also saw the strange phenomenon in the nearby sky, causing their movements to suddenly freeze.

"What is that?"

"It's probably that woman using the shrine core. We can be sure she definitely won't come to help Ye Liangchen now!"

Wang Bian sneered when he heard this: "Heh heh, kid, you're finished!"

Both were truly enraged and clearly wouldn't let Ye Liangchen off easily.

At this moment, the young man's expression was calm, seemingly unafraid of their combined attack.

But after the shrine core was used, the changes in the Death Desert were clearly not limited to this.

While the three were in a melee, they discovered that the entire desert was surging like ocean waves, and then lizard-like monsters crawled out from deep within the sand layers and scattered.

At the same time, the sky grew dark, and strong winds began to rage.

Dark clouds obscured the sunlight like night, and the temperature plummeted.

The entire desert environment was rapidly becoming even more hostile than before.

And if someone were able to look down from the sky at this moment, they would find that all the creatures escaping from the desert were desperately fleeing towards that sand pit...

Soon, a sandstorm carrying thunder struck, the world lost its color, and sand tornadoes seemed to connect to the sky, mercilessly destroying everything in this terrain.

After the shrine core is used, it not only forms a coordinate but also causes abnormal conditions in the Death Desert. It is not attracting all creatures to the sand pit, but rather forcing all creatures to seek refuge within it.

Soon after, the Death Desert had completely become like the end of the world.

The rising sand grains furiously assaulted the train's armor, and alarms continuously popped up on its screens.

Leaving aside whether the train could withstand this disaster, the dust raised in the air alone was already making it impossible for normal creatures to breathe.

And Survivors who still ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) chose to remain on the upper level were undoubtedly awaiting a slow death.

At this moment, Ye Liangchen twirled his blade, shaking off all the blood clinging to it.

He glanced at the gradually desert-swallowed corpse and the opponent's train, then decisively returned to his own vehicle and quickly began to clear out the spoils.

After all this was done, the scene outside the window was already pitch black. Besides the howling wind, a mountain of sand had accumulated in front of the vehicle, completely blocking his path forward.

Ye Liangchen frowned. He knew that if this continued, he and his train would eventually be completely swallowed by the sandstorm.

And at this moment, he finally understood the purpose of the shrine core in his hand.

Opening a dungeon was secondary; this thing was for saving his life at critical moments!

When multiple people simultaneously hold a shrine core and enter the desert, once one of them uses it first, the others are left with only two ways to respond.

One is to quickly go to the coordinates and escape underground, and the other is that those who can't make it in time must use the shrine core in their own hands.

Because once the distance is too great, the sandstorm appears so quickly that the train cannot reach it at full speed.

The time originally allotted to Ye Liangchen was sufficient, but unfortunately, he was delayed by Wang Bian and Lin Shu.

But similarly, without a shrine core, those two would eventually die in this desert.

At this moment, Ye Liangchen frowned deeply, without a trace of reluctance in his eyes, and decisively used the shrine core in his hand.

The same situation occurred again; a huge pit began to appear in front of the train.

And the vortex formed within it easily absorbed all the sand piles blocking the way, and at the moment the red light emerged, this surrounding area was no longer eroded by the storm, thus forming a special safe zone.

Ye Liangchen immediately drove the train into it.

"No wonder the Death Desert only has a mileage of four thousand kilometers,"

"Without the shrine core, I'll have to hurry and leave this cursed place..."

Meanwhile, in various parts of the desert, Survivors who had also passed through Station #6 had just entered the desert and encountered this doomsday scenario before even understanding what was happening.

"Are you kidding me? Is this a place for humans to stay?"

"Desert? You're telling me this is a desert? I must be on Mars!!"

The tracks were submerged by sand, and the train soon completely lost power, causing the entire train to sink into the desert.

Everyone was stunned. The desert was burying the train extremely fast. At this rate, they feared they would be completely buried underground with mummies in less than two and a half minutes.

"Right!" one of them suddenly realized, "The shrine core, could it be related to this thing!"

"Damn it, who cares! We're all going to die anyway, what's with treasures or not? Just use it!"

The next second, a sand pit slowly appeared... At this time, although there were only a dozen trains of Survivors who had arrived in the desert, they all chose to use the shrine core, treating a dead horse as if it were alive.

And this led to all Survivors in the entire desert area now rushing into the unknown underground.