3: Chapter 3 Alert! Alert! Alert!!

Song Yiqing felt a bit puzzled. This kind of celestial phenomenon, which even he could see, was something no practitioner in the field could possibly miss.

However, he didn't give it much more thought. Whatever the official plan was had nothing to do with him. He immediately put the thought aside, bought some more food, and headed back to the hotel.

Compared to yesterday, the celestial signs today were undoubtedly clearer. The scope of this sandstorm's impact would be massive, with a high probability of directly affecting the border town.

...

Inside the Meteorology Department of the Taklamakan Forbidden Zone Exploration Base,

Tu Shu, the person in charge, was listening to the reports from various instruments.

"Hmm, not bad. It seems this time should be a relatively rare period of calm weather."

"Continue the report..."

While Tu Shu was listening to the report, a staff member responsible for handling website information quickly found him.

"Station Master Tu, we received a message yesterday. It looks like it was submitted by a Feng Shui Master from the field."

"Oh? A Feng Shui Master?"

Tu Shu nodded slightly. He didn't have any disrespect for such people; in fact, he admired them to some extent.

By using principles like celestial phenomena, they could directly calculate strange climates that were difficult for scientific instruments to detect.

This played a very important role in forbidden zone exploration.

"Tell me about it."

"Okay."

The staff member then quickly recounted the situation Song Yiqing had described.

The points regarding various Feng Shui orientations were clearly not something a meteorology graduate like him could understand.

Tu Shu told him to skip those parts and get straight to the point.

Hearing this, the staff member immediately nodded and said,

"According to this gentleman, he believes that around one o'clock this afternoon, there will be an unprecedented sandstorm!"

"?"

Tu Shu turned his head slowly toward her in surprise.

"What did you say? An unprecedented sandstorm?"

"Uh..."

The staff member was a bit surprised and found herself at a loss for words.

Tu Shu didn't rush to refute it directly. Instead, he asked the data staff on-site to provide a report.

"Air pressure is normal..."

"Gas content is normal..."

"Normal..."

"Normal..."

As the reports came in one after another,

Tu Shu finally looked back at her slowly.

"While metaphysics can be very useful sometimes, in a situation like this, science is clearly more accurate!!"

"It seems so,"

The staff member nodded slightly.

"But this person spoke very convincingly; he's quite good at fooling people."

"Hehehe, Feng Shui Masters are all like that."

Tu Shu then asked,

"The official website uses real-name registration, right? How old is this person?"

"Oh, it should be..."

As the staff member spoke, she immediately flipped through the data and took a quick look, then said in surprise,

"Eh?? How is he only 23 years old..."

"What??"

Tu Shu suddenly felt like he was about to explode.

"Don't tell me this set of terminology was generated by AI!!!"

...

On the Kuaidou streaming platform,

With the hot rise of forbidden zone exploration and the official reward condition being the requirement to live stream,

There were numerous live stream rooms of all sizes on the platform.

But the most popular ones were naturally the various official Archaeological Teams.

"Official Archaeological Team" didn't refer to one specific team, but was a general term.

In reality, there were many official Archaeological Teams.

However, their scientific research projects were clearly different, and thus their prefix names were also different.

One of them, called the Flying Tiger Archaeology Team, was the most popular official live stream room recently.

This was because this team had currently penetrated the furthest into the Taklamakan Desert.

Many other Archaeological Teams were branching out to explore in all directions based on their route.

Because of this, the Flying Tiger Archaeology Team was also known as the Pathfinders of the Taklamakan Desert.

At the same time, the celebrity promotion for this event was also within this team.

As soon as nine o'clock arrived, the forbidden zone restrictions were immediately lifted.

The massive gated fence, about ten meters wide and high, slowly opened to both sides.

One exploration team after another took the lead and entered,

As if there were treasures already waiting for them.

At this moment, Bai Yao looked at the azure sky and couldn't help but shake her head slightly.

"It looks like there won't be a sandstorm after all."

Her voice happened to carry into the live stream room. The viewers who had watched yesterday's pilot broadcast couldn't help but start spamming comments.

[No way? Bai Yao actually believed that little scammer from yesterday?]

[Hahaha! This is too funny. The little scammer saying there'd be a sandstorm is level 100 funny! Bai Yao believing him is level 1,000,000 funny!]

[Classic, absolutely classic. This whole thing is just too hilarious!]

[Bai Yao, you must never believe such deceitful lies. It's pure deception!]

[That's right, this kind of lie is as fake as it gets!]

Bai Yao ignored the comments being sent by the viewers.

Just as she wanted to take a few more steps forward,

A young man next to her wearing gold-rimmed glasses approached her.

He introduced himself as Xue Xingye, a top student who had been specially recruited and fast-tracked by the Kyoto University of Archaeology.

When mentioning his special recruitment, he raised his chin proudly, perfectly embodying the phrase "looking down one's nose at people."

However, Bai Yao wasn't very interested in his title. She was only slightly surprised and didn't pay him much more attention.

Xue Xingye, on the other hand, kept talking incessantly.

"Hehehe, when it comes to archaeological exploration, I can say I'm quite professional.

It's just a pity! Our journey will be very smooth. Otherwise, if we encountered any danger, I could protect you directly."

"..."

Bai Yao couldn't help but roll her eyes at him.

"Then let's just pray there isn't any danger."

She said as she took small, quick steps to run ahead. After creating some distance, she began to introduce the surroundings to the viewers in the live stream room in an orderly fashion.

Trekking through the desert was itself a marathon of endurance.

Although Bai Yao had been mentally prepared before coming, after several hours of trekking, she was still somewhat exhausted.

But in comparison, Xue Xingye over there was so tired he looked like he was about to collapse.

"Some top student... he looks way too frail."

Bai Yao murmured to herself, while the image of Song Yiqing from yesterday lingered in her mind.

She still felt that he didn't seem to be lying.

...

Inside the Meteorology Department of the Taklamakan Forbidden Zone Exploration Base,

Tu Shu was sitting in his office chair drinking coffee.

But the next second, an alarm startled him so much that his coffee cup slipped from his hand, hitting the ground with a 'shatter' and breaking into pieces.

The sound of the alarm showed no sign of stopping; in fact, it grew louder and louder.

This was the alert from the automatic sandstorm early warning device!

In an instant, Tu Shu felt a chilling sensation all over his body!

...