The Locust-Plus Mushroom-Bug Sword raised high, the Four-Armed Vajra followed a locust deeper into the oasis. The locust's mouthparts had been cut off, and it was tied up with a rope the Four-Armed Vajra had stretched out of its own material.

Only locusts knew where the ancient locusts were.

"Little Four, you stay here with Yellow Great-Immortal and guard my module components. I'll be right back." Before he left, Shen Cong stashed the monster truck and the pyramid battle-truck in a hidden spot.

He might be heading into a full-scale fight with the swarm, and Yellow Great-Immortal and the monster truck wouldn't be much use there.

The four-legged dragon sprawled on the monster truck with its head held high and answered smugly, "Little Four's watching... nobody'll dare touch... Bobo, go do your stuff."

Shen Cong shot a glance at Yellow Great-Immortal and told the four-legged dragon, "And keep an eye on Yellow Great-Immortal while you're at it. Don't let it wander off."

"It wouldn't dare. Little Four'll beat it up!"

"Heh." Shen Cong gave a dry laugh and drove off.

The mountains the oasis covered belonged to the Dabie range, an old revolutionary base area, and Huoshan was only its central scenic area. The Dabie Mountains lie across the borders of Hubei, Henan and Anhui and form the Jianghuai watershed. Water off the northern slopes flows into the Huai River; water off the southern slopes flows into the Yangtze. The scenery is lovely and endlessly varied.

When the historian Sima Qian traveled through the range, he saw mountain flowers in full bloom on the southern side and white snow blanketing the northern side, and exclaimed, "This mountain stands dabie—greatly apart—from every other!"

So the mountains here came to be called the Dabie Mountains.

Of course, the Dabie Mountains looked different now. There were barrier lakes and great rifts everywhere. The range had plainly taken a heavy blow from the movement of the crustal plates.

Twisting and turning.

After a day and a night of hard going over peak and ridge, Shen Cong finally brought the Four-Armed Vajra to the place…