Alligator's Ark of Tomorrow

Upon hearing Laya's voice, Surtr, who was standing in the corner of the caravan, glanced over. He didn't turn back until Laya and Gard walked up to the other two caravan guards.

"Gald, you're still alive!"

When the caravan guard named Mukaka saw Gard, he immediately reached out and hugged him happily.

“After you left, the sacred mountain began to shake. We thought you had been buried in the ground by the sandstorm and had become one with Mother Earth.”

Mukaka looks very similar to Laya. Apart from some minor differences in skin and being a little taller, there is almost no difference between them.

He is Laya's older brother, who is two years older than her and just turned ten this year.

Children born in this fertile land learn to be independent early.

Despite being only ten years old, Mukaka is already as tall as Gard.

However, Gard did not recognize the lizardman next to him.

"she is?"

"She is my wife, Gagania."

When the lizard man brother introduced his wife, a happy smile appeared on his face.

Considering that the living environment here is different from the outside world, although Mukaka is definitely not an adult by the standards of the Terrans, Gard once saw a lizardman who was already a father of several children at the age of nine.

So Gard still reluctantly sent his blessings.

"congratulations."

After all, we are different races, I can understand that.

Then Mukakala whispered to him, "Uncle Gard, you're not young anymore. Have you thought about getting married and having children? You can't just wander around like this your whole life, can you?"

What do you mean "uncle"? He's only eighteen!

"Hehe, wait a little longer, no rush," Gard forced a smile. "Besides, I already have a fiancée. When I go home this time, I'll marry them."

"What?! You already have a wife?!"

Mukaka cried out, immediately drawing the attention of everyone around.

Especially Laya, whose eyes dimmed immediately after hearing her brother's words.

After seeing her younger sister run away in disappointment, Mukaka looked at Gard apologetically.

“I’m sorry, Uncle Gard, Laya likes you so much that I had to do this.”

Gard nodded, indicating that he understood.

How could I not understand?

Laya is only eight years old!

In this land, eight-year-old reptilians are considered adults and can get married.

But outside the hot land, even in the rainforest.

Would you dare marry an eight-year-old girl?

You *tiyaka* swearing, you've broken the law, do you know that?

Moreover, the reason why Mukaka calls Gard "Uncle" is because Gard is almost twice Mukaka's age.

In this fertile land, he can be Mukaka's father!

After meeting an acquaintance and exchanging a few words, Gard explained the purpose of his visit.

"Want a ride with some people? No problem!"

Mukaka patted his chest and said that his position in the caravan was obviously not low. Even if Gard did not offer anything for trade, it would not be a problem to arrange for a few people to come in.

Now that Gard is willing to exchange a treasure for a precious dragon corpse, he and the caravan have even less reason to refuse.

"Brothers, we've got work to do!"

Mukaka whistled, and a monster of unknown size slowly rose from the sand dunes, its enormous head gazing leisurely over as if asking a question.

Why did you call me?

Gard recognized it; it was a camel, but many times larger than the camels outside the hot land. From head to tail, its size was no less than the wyvern he had killed before, and it was even larger.

The lizardmen don't know how they tamed this giant camel, turning it into the La Xiao Rong Jian Bird R-class vehicle.

This shows that the lizard people's level of civilization is improving, and with their strong adaptability, they may one day reach out to the world outside their homeland.

“This kind of monster, we call it a camel. Just like its size, it eats a lot. Our tribe originally couldn’t afford to feed it. But later, after we merged with another tribe, we cleared a shrub forest to serve as its food.”

When Mukaka said this, he was a little proud because their tribe was becoming stronger. Once they became stronger, newborn children would not starve to death due to lack of food, and they would have more people to work and labor, and their lives would definitely become better.

Only Gard was not so optimistic, because he noticed that if he hadn't been in front of them this time, the caravan would likely have run into those mining robots.

The land is vast, and the activities of many ancient civilizations were confined to very small areas, where they did not interfere with the monsters that lived around it.

The hot land is very small, because if there were no environmental limitations, a sand car could cross the entire hot land in just a few days and reach the vast sea at the end.

When civilizations choose to expand, they will inevitably encounter all sorts of difficulties and obstacles.

He was just an outsider who happened to be passing through the lizardman civilization.

It's not like he actually looks like a lizardman. Gard is a lizardman, and he'd bet that he and lizardmen are absolutely reproductively isolated!

So, putting aesthetics aside for now, Gard will definitely not get involved with lizardmen.

But Laya didn't think so.

She was attracted to Gard from the first time she saw him as a child, because Gard was not only powerful, but also knew a great deal, which was fatal to a young girl just beginning to experience love.

However, Laya is a good girl and knows that forced relationships are never happy. Since her brother Gard already has a lizardman he likes, she can only wish them happiness.

Laya tried to become stronger until someone appeared in front of her.

"Is someone bullying you?"

Laya saw the short, thin girl she had picked up, who looked completely different from them, walking towards her, saying something she couldn't understand.

He's so much shorter than her and looks so weak; if I punched him, he'd cry for a long time.

However, the girl with short red hair still held her chin up and said with an inexplicable confidence and arrogance, "I'll teach him a lesson for you!"

Although Laya didn't understand what he said either.

……

Chapter 72: Shirter’s gratitude!

Surtr didn't know why she found herself in a desert. When she woke up, she was only wearing a tattered black dress and carrying a black greatsword that was taller than her.

Besides having no currency to trade with, and nothing to prove his identity, Surtr didn't even remember what ethnicity he belonged to or what country he came from.

The only thing he remembered was that his name was Surtr and the greatsword beside him was called Levantine.

The harsh living conditions of the hot land had no effect on Surtr; she was like an ordinary traveler who had wandered into the desert, walking for several hours in the hot land.

Tired, I found a place to rest.

A monstrous beast lurking beneath the sand suddenly leaped out, its two jaws, like sickles, seemingly capable of clamping down on Surtr's slender waist in two with a mere touch.

The sudden encounter caught Surtr off guard, and he instinctively gripped the longsword he always carried with him—because as soon as Surtr put down the sword, he realized that the surrounding temperature was incredibly hot.

Wow!

Flames rose, as if the longsword in her hand had been swung a thousand times. Surtr drew her sword, slashed upwards, and cleaved the calamity beast in two.

In the blink of an eye, a monstrous beast, whose body length, including its gills, exceeded three meters, died at Surtr's hands.

Surtr was completely unfazed by the effortless killing of the monstrous beast.

"Could it be that I'm actually incredibly strong!?"

Because she no longer has her memories, Surtr has to figure many things out on her own.

Of course, Surtr didn't forget some common sense about life; it's impossible for him to forget something as simple as taking off his pants before going to the toilet.

Holding his greatsword, Surtr walked for dozens of kilometers before stopping just as dark was falling.

Then Surtr came to a conclusion.

"I really am super strong!"

Along the way, they encountered more than one monstrous beast. Slender, solitary individuals like Surtr were a symbol of food in this hot land.

However, whenever Surtr wields her longsword, no matter how big or small, tall or short the enemy attacking her is, they are almost no match for her.

Only once did she encounter a swarm of monsters approaching double digits in number, nearly injuring her. Otherwise, Surtr's demeanor when facing the monsters can only be described as sweeping.

This made Surtr even more confident.

At first, Surtr was a little worried about whether she would encounter any danger while she was out alone, but later she completely relaxed.

As long as she doesn't provoke those monster-infested settlements, no one can defeat her in a one-on-one fight!

However, as the sun set, Surtr ran into trouble.

She's hungry!

Not only am I hungry, but I'm also thirsty!

Although she could easily kill wild beasts that were more than ten times her size, this power seemed unable to fill her stomach.

The sweltering heat gave Surtr an idea.

I really want to eat ice cream!

I had completely forgotten what ice cream was. I just felt that it was only natural to eat ice cream when it was hot, and even when it was cold, there seemed to be nothing wrong with eating ice cream.

But how could there be ice cream in the desert? Forget ice cream, after traveling such a long distance, Surtr couldn't even find a place where she could stop and drink water.

After casually killing a monster, Surtr wanted to try grilling it. She had some knowledge of it, but where were the grill and the wood?

Surtr simply placed several pieces of calamity beast meat on his sword, flames rising from the greatsword in his hand, and the calamity beast meat was quickly cooked.

But Surtr regretted it immediately after taking a bite.

The monster's flesh was sour, astringent, and slightly bitter. How could she possibly tolerate such a taste when she had no seasonings on her body?

Thinking that it was already dark, and that they would set off to find water and food tomorrow, they decided to endure it for today.

Wait until dawn.

It's raining.

The rainwater in the hot soil was undrinkable. When it dripped onto Surtr, he even thought his skin was burning. His already tattered clothes were further eroded and faded by the rainwater.

The next day, unable to find food due to the rain, Surtr waited until the rain stopped, and, enduring the nausea, roasted the carcass of a monster, forcing himself to swallow the monster's flesh.

The heavy rain arrived as expected on the third day, and Surtr didn't run around that day.

Because she caught a cold!

The heavy rain seemed to suppress the power of Surtr's greatsword, making Surtr's body weaker.

Surtr thought she would die in the desert, but her caravan passed by.

"Brother Gard said that life in this land is tough, which is why we should help each other even more!"

Surtr couldn't understand the lizardmen's language. She was moved to a caravan's wagon and slept for a day. Once her greatsword regained its luster, Surtr was fully recovered.

It was then that she realized that the one who had saved her was a lizard girl of a different race than her, but whose appearance was considered beautiful even among lizard people.

Hmm, you asked why Surtr could distinguish between the beauty and ugliness of the lizardmen?

How could Surtr possibly remember something like that?

All she knew in her memory was that anyone who looked like the lizard girl was either a handsome guy or a beautiful girl.

"Laya!"

This is the name of the lizard girl.

Surtr also gave his name, but because of their different races, he was unable to communicate with the lizard girl.

Her intention was simply to let the lizard girl find a place to put her down, and leave her some water and food.

However, due to the language barrier, the matter had to be dropped.

Surtr decided to follow the caravan to the town first, and then leave once they arrived.

Until then, she was in charge of protecting the lizard girl!