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Chapter 782: Chapter 786: The Third Test 19
With a layer of sand as insulation, the temperature in the "cave" instantly dropped by a few degrees. Lying inside hit the spot just right.
Leaving Yadang alone on watch, everyone else retreated into the cave to rest and recuperate.
Using this as a cover, Su Tang took out a lot of fruits from her space pouch for everyone to moisten their throats.
...
Atop the sand dunes.
Constant droplets of sweat slid down the forehead of the leading beast soldier before rapidly diffusing into the sand.
The same bleak picture was painted on beast soldier A with his lips parched and peeling off, periodically he would take a couple of white beads from the beast skin pouch tied to his waist and shove them into his mouth.
Observing Su Tang and her team retreat into the "cave" and not coming out— leaving just one beastman on lookout— perplexed him.
The blazing sun relentlessly licked the backs of the beast soldiers. Since their traditional beast skin clothes were being used to secure the white beads, their skin was in direct, intimate contact with the sunlight.
Within no time, their bare backs started to redden and grew unbearably hot and itchy.
Gradually, he couldn’t bear it anymore.
He scratched his back again and turned to the leading beast soldier and asked, "Boss, it looks like they’re sleeping in there, do we still need to keep watch over them?"
There was a trace of unwillingness in the leader’s eyes.
But considering their limited field of vision, they could only see a shallow entrance, what was happening inside was beyond their sight, let alone their hearing.
But he was not willing to leave empty-handed.
The lead beast soldier muttered under his breath, "Of course we have to keep an eye on them, who knows if they’re actually sleeping or not?"
Beast soldier A shifted his attention away, not daring to say anything further.
So, the two of them stayed atop the sand dune, under the blazing sun, convinced they were monitoring Su Tang and her troop’s every move.
They had been at it for exactly three hours.
The leading beast soldier kept on believing that Su Tang and her group were not sleeping but were creating a diversion.
So, even when other beast soldiers came to take over, he was unwilling to leave.
After sitting under the sun for over three hours, the back of the leading beast soldier had started peeling off.
In the end, when he became dizzy from the intense heat, he was carried away to rest by a few other beast soldiers.
Su Tang was oblivious to all of this.
Once everyone was back in shape, a meeting was held about how they could maximize water collection from the white beads. n𝚘𝚟pub.𝚌o𝚖
Yadang spoke leisurely, "Why not use the big vat that Gaiyin conjured up last time? Wasn’t that working pretty well?"
Qiu Mo agreed and shook his head, "Right, and it can hold a lot."
"That’s not wrong, but it wouldn’t be practical to have just one." Su Tang pondered out loud.
"Think about it, while it’ll be fine at first, what happens when we’ve collected all of the beads near the vat and some are left quite far off from it? Wouldn’t that be inconvenient? And us running back and forth would just be outright tiring. Why not just wait for things to come to us instead?"
Everyone nodded in agreement, it did make sense to them.
"So, what do you suggest?"
They had a number of solutions to the first problem, like producing several other small or big vats.
But her last point, about waiting for objects to come to them, left them confused.
Su Tang grinned mysteriously, "Follow me."
Saying so, she pulled Gaiyin out to the sandy ground outside the cave, flattened the surface, and began to draw on it.
"Shape this according to my drawing using your superpower. Don’t make it too big, just this size will do."
