I Received Messages From Future Self!
Chapter 402 - Chapter 402 Chapter 398 Chance Encounter

Chapter 402: Chapter 398: Chance Encounter Chapter 402: Chapter 398: Chance Encounter Fang Xiaocao glared at Taotie and said irritably, “Why are you scaring him?”

Taotie grinned, “It’s fun.”

Fang Xiaocao tactically spaced out.

The next second!

She got up and walked toward the tent, “Brainless and Unhappy don’t know Tom, you are on night watch with them tonight, so as to avoid accidentally hurting Tom.”

Hearing Fang Xiaocao’s command, Taotie’s expression immediately fell, “Please no, Princess Your Highness!”

Taotie put on a pitiful face.

Hoping Fang Xiaocao would reconsider.

However, Fang Xiaocao didn’t even glance at Taotie, just dismissively waved her hand behind her.

Leaving behind the words, “Keep a good watch.”

Then she ducked into the tent, leaving Taotie alone amid the swirling sands.

“Ah…”

“My life is really tough.”

Taotie sighed and turned his sorrow into appetite, viciously attacking the meat soup in the pot.

Fang Xiaocao returned to the tent, checked on Wen Shi’s condition, saw that Wen Shi was awake, and stuffed a piece of dried meat into his mouth.

She lifted Wen Shi and walked out of the tent.

Turning into Thousand Faces’ tent.

“Princess, Princess Your Highness?”

Seeing Fang Xiaocao, Thousand Faces was somewhat surprised.

“Take good care of them both.”

Fang Xiaocao placed Wen Shi on the ground.

Along with Liu Yishou, in a row.

“Don’t worry, Princess Your Highness.”

Thousand Faces quickly nodded in agreement.

“Right, get some rest early.”

Fang Xiaocao nodded her head and turned to leave the tent.

“Oh, that’s right!”

Fang Xiaocao suddenly remembered something.

She stopped outside the tent.

“Remember, you must not untie their ropes, otherwise if you fall asleep, you might never wake up again.”

Fang Xiaocao warned without turning back.

“Yes, I remember.”

Thousand Faces responded.

Fang Xiaocao nodded and headed straight back to her own tent.

Back in her tent, Fang Xiaocao sat with her knees hugged to her chest on the sleeping bag, wondering why Tom hadn’t arrived yet.

According to her schedule, on her first day entering the desert, Hot Noodles had notified Tom to meet her in the desert.

Based on the itinerary, Tom would have set out from Tang City at the earliest possibility, heading for New Province.

This journey required one day.

After reaching New Province, Tom would need to prepare the necessary supplies and equipment in the black market of New Province.

This would take one to two days.

Once the supplies and equipment were ready, Tom would definitely enter the desert non-stop, hurrying at his fastest pace to meet up with her.

That meant, Tom would be at most three to four days behind her in entering the desert.

Thinking this far, Fang Xiaocao furrowed her brows, muttering, “Strange, we were delayed by various matters on the road for more than just three or four days. By rights, Tom should have caught up already, right?”

“Could it be that Tom ran into trouble on the way?”

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In the deep night!

In the pitch-black desert, a raptor pickup truck raced across the yellow sands.

The windows of the raptor pickup were rolled down.

Revealing the handsome man driving.

It was none other than Tom.

Next to Tom, on the passenger seat sat a black-clad Hummingbird, holding a knife and resting with closed eyes.

“Hummingbird, check the navigation.”

Tom said to Hummingbird.

Hearing Tom’s words, Hummingbird opened his eyes and took out a terminal from his chest.

On the screen of the terminal, a few green dots appeared, one of which was quickly moving toward the other two.

“We’re not off course.”

Hummingbird pocketed the terminal and spoke.

“That’s good.”

Tom smiled and stepped on the accelerator.

The engine of the raptor pickup roared, and the speed surged again, even yielding a strong sense of pushing back.

Raptors sped by, their wheels kicking up handfuls of yellow sand.

Half an hour later!

Tom slammed his foot on the brake, and the Raptor pickup truck nailed itself in place. Hummingbird, who had been napping in the passenger seat, was instantly awakened, “What’s happening?”

Hummingbird asked in a deep voice.

At the same time, the knife in his arms was instantly unsheathed.

“Shh!”

Tom made a gesture to be quiet.

And pointed to the front left.

Hummingbird looked over, puzzled.

They saw near a sand dune on the left, a faint firelight flickering.

Hummingbird hesitated, displaying a puzzled expression.

“Is there someone?”

Hummingbird asked, puzzled.

Tom nodded.

“Check the locator, see how far we are from Princess Your Highness and the others.”

Tom whispered.

Hummingbird nodded, pulled out a terminal from his chest, and glanced at it, “Not far, according to our previous speed, we should get there in at most three hours.”

Tom blinked and appeared thoughtful, “Then the chances that the people in the front left are not our friends are very high. We’ll go and see.”

Saying this, Tom turned off the engine.

He pushed open the door and got out of the car, took a camouflage backpack from the back seat and slung it over his shoulder. Then, he grabbed a Bison Submachine Gun.

Seeing Tom’s actions, Hummingbird also quickly got out of the car, shouldered his backpack, and took out a sniper rifle with a scope.

“Let’s go!”

Tom said softly and quickly ran towards the sand dune flickering with firelight.

Hummingbird followed close behind.

Ten minutes later, they had reached the vicinity of the sand dune.

“Hummingbird, you take that high dune as a vantage point and provide me with long-range support.”

Tom surveyed the terrain and instructed Hummingbird.

Hummingbird nodded and immediately moved in the direction Tom had indicated.

Five minutes later, once Hummingbird had climbed to the top of the sand dune and set up his rifle, Tom continued towards the firelight.

Tom climbed the sand dune behind the firelight and looked down.

His eyes widened in shock.

“What the hell is this?”

Hummingbird’s shocked voice came through the earpiece.

Tom frowned and did not answer.

He tapped the earpiece a few times.

Using Morse code to reply, “Don’t know.”

What did Tom see?

Below the sand dune, a bonfire was burning.

A few Lizardmen were roasting a camel around the fire.

Nearby, an off-road vehicle was parked.

Three people, tightly bound, were thrown under the car.

Tom squinted, carefully identifying the three people by the off-road vehicle, and soon showed a look of surprise.

Tom tapped his earpiece and said in Morse code, “Among the bound ones, one is Ye Lingchen from the Ye Family of the Capital, a friend of Princess Your Highness. Let’s eliminate these creatures and rescue them.”

“Roger!”

Hummingbird’s voice came through the earpiece.

Click–

Tom gently pulled the bolt of his gun.

The muzzle targeted the Lizardmen below.

The next second!

Dada dada–

The distinctive sharp sound of the submachine gun ruptured the quiet of the desert.

Tom leaped up as he fired, holding the Bison Submachine Gun with a sixty-round drum, mercilessly spraying bullets at the Lizardmen below the dune.

Bang–

In between the sound of the submachine gun, a dull gunshot occasionally mixed in.

That was Hummingbird’s sniper rifle firing, targeting those Lizardmen.

The Lizardmen had thick, scaly armor which was hard to penetrate with a submachine gun, but could not withstand the high-caliber sniper rifle.

Hummingbird systematically took them down, one bullet per ‘cutie’.

Five Lizardmen were called out by her one by one.

Tom’s tally was somewhat pale in comparison.

A sixty-round drum, yet only three Lizardmen were turned into sieves.