Time passed quickly. Night gradually fell.
The scarlet fog gradually appeared in the air. However, since the surrounding scarlet lords had been destroyed, no new monsters were born.
Not long after, Zhou Zhou, who was practicing his spear skill in the lord's wooden house, suddenly received a report from a Sun Can.
Bai Yung, Lu Chong, Nezario, Man Nao and Wu Tu had returned back to the territory.
And Man Nao and Wu Tu had acquired information about the surrounding environment around the territory.
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In the Lord's wooden house; the living room.
"My lord, this is a map drawn by Wu Tu after exploring the Blazing Sun Desert today. It is a complete map of the Blazing Sun Desert area!" Man Nao smiled at Wu Tu after giving his report.
Wu Tu looked nervous.
He walked towards Zhou Zhou and handed him the map with both hands upon hearing Man Nao's words.
Zhou Zhou took it and immediately started studying it.
An item notification appeared in front of him.
[Area Map Name: Blazing Sun Desert Map (Current Exploration Rate: 59%)]
[Map Quality: Black iron-tier]
[Total area: 523 square kilometers]
[Map Introduction: This map depicts the general terrain of the Blazing Sun Desert and the related map information! It includes the area, geographical scale, desert terrain distribution, the range and location of your own territory, the coverage of desert vegetation-type resource points, the range and activity of scattered monsters, the range and location of the scarlet lord's territory, and the territory and location of the Lord of all races.]
"There's actually an item notification!"
"Is this acknowledged by the Supreme Will?"
Zhou Zhou looked at the map even more seriously, surprised at this development.
It was a one-meter-long by half-meter-wide yellowish-brown papyrus map which depicted an irregularly long and narrow desert terrain.
It looked remarkably lifelike with very vivid markings in many places.
For example, the location of Blazing Sun City was marked with a small sun.
There were also the ruins of the desert fog lizard territory and the ruins of the black-tailed fog scorpion territory.
The two places that Zhou Zhou Zhou had captured had also been marked with the simple image of the desert fog lizard and the image of the black-tailed fog scorpion.
In addition, Zhou Zhou also saw a specific scale in the bottom left corner of the map, as well as some marks of desert vegetation, quicksand, and scattered monsters.
Other than that, he also saw two red highlights.
One was a simple human face marked as the territory of an unfamiliar human lord about 30 kilometers northeast of Blazing Sun City.
There was a special label beside it: There were no more than 50 people inside this territory according to a preliminary assessment!
The other was the mark of a scarlet lord. Its specific label was region-level scarlet lord — Sandman lord's territory!
It was about 35 kilometers to the east of Blazing Sun City, and according to preliminary assessment, there were about 1,000 sandmen and fog monsters in it!
Zhou Zhou looked at the map in surprise.
Fear came from the unknown, and courage came from preparation.
Originally, he did not know much about the overall environment of the Blazing Sun Desert.
Therefore, he couldn't make preparation for his conquest in order to avoid his extermination.
However, the rich information on this map immediately made him feel much more at ease.
He could begin making plans to acquire the promotion energy of the competitors closest to him.
This was the importance of information!
He could not help but look at Wu Tu.
What an impressive talent!
"Nice map. I love it." Zhou Zhou said.
When Wu Tu heard this, joy immediately appeared on his originally anxious expression.
"Starting today, you're the vice-captain of your scout team. In addition, the mechanostrider belongs to you now." Zhou Zhou said.
He continued.
"Also, take this," taking out the skill book containing the 'dead state' skill, he handed it over to Wu Tu.
"Do your best in retrieving more information for me."
Wu Tu was stunned at what was happening.
The lord actually gave him such a huge reward for completing his first mission?
Not only did he become the vice-captain of the scout team and come to possess a mechanostrider, he also received a skill at the Green bronze-tier!
When he thought of this, he could not help but feel a little dazed.
No matter how perfectly he completed the task of drawing the map in the army previously, his higher-ups would only pay lip service without promoting him because he was still a child.
They were worried about handing over a higher position to him.
He had only joined this place for less than a day but he already obtained what he had always wanted.
It was not a higher position, not a mechanostrider, and not even a skill book… But trust!
His lordship was really different…
"You should accept it. I've seen your ability, and as your lord, it's my duty to bring out the full potential of your ability." Zhou Zhou smiled at Wu Tu.
"And always listen to the opinion of your captain. He's likely to see things from a different perspective than you do."
"Thank you, my lord! Wu Tu will definitely listen to the captain!" Wu Tu's face flushed red with excitement.
"Good. Now, tell me in detail about these two territories." Zhou Zhou looked at Man Nao.
Man Nao smiled and took a step forward.
"Yes, my lord. The standard 'unknown human lord's territory' on this map was first discovered by us during our exploration."
"We encountered a team of 8 human soldiers; 4 sword shield soldiers, 3 spearmen, and 1 bowman! They look similar to us humans."
"I don't know if I'm overthinking it but they were protecting the bowman behind them. I feel that his speech and accent is very similar to the lord's."
Zhou Zhou raised his eyebrows when he heard this.
Did they meet another cerulean planet lord?
He did not say anything and continued to listen to Man Nao.
"Subsequently, I followed them secretly and found their territory. I realized that their territory is also protected by the novice lord's protective barrier."
"I didn't act rashly. I asked Wu Tu to record the location. After observing for a while, I continued to explore in the distance."
"That's where we found the territory of this regional lord, the sandman lord. He is a White silver-tier elementary grade regional scarlet lord and he has about 1,000 sandmen under his command."
"He is very powerful, so I didn't approach rashly, but I did kill a lone sandman nearby and brought its corpse back."
"The body of the sandman is at the door now." Man Nao said.
"Let's go take a look!" Zhou Zhou immediately stood up.
Man Nao and Wu Tu naturally had no objections.
The three of them walked out of the room.
Zhou Zhou ignored Bai Yung, Hui Teng and Nezario waiting close to the door as he caught sight of the corpse of the sandman.
He was stunned at first glance.
This was because he realized that this sandman's corpse was very similar to the sand soldiers he had summoned with the Emperor of sand's spatial ring.
However, they did not have the standard equipment and weapons of the sand soldiers.
[Monster Name: Sandman]
[Strength Level: Black iron-tier elementary grade]
[Monster Description: A monster from the Blazing Desert, born in the scarlet fog. It was once a subject of the Emperor of the sand. After the Emperor of the sand fell, it was converted by the scarlet lord to become his subject.]
[Loot: 4 black iron-tier mist cores, 1 kg dark iron sand crystal, 1 black iron-tier elementary grade sandification skill book, 1 black iron-tier elementary grade sandman summoning skill book]
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