Beneath the Celestial Screen, commoners in certain planes still had no idea what a camel was.
Take the Qin dynasty in the mythological plane, for instance; after all, camels did not enter the Central Plains via the Silk Road until the Han dynasty.
"Why are the questions on the Celestial Screen today so hard to fathom?"
"I love it, I really love it. The high emotional intelligence one—I actually learned something from it."
"What did you learn? I didn't learn a thing. Tell me."
"If you two want to talk about it, go whisper in private. Shut up now and don't disturb my viewing of the Celestial Screen."
[When you encounter a camel that has died of thirst in the desert, you are basically done for. Do you know what this means? It means there is no water source within a radius of a hundred kilometers. This camel walked goodness knows how long and how far through the desert without finding a single drop of water. Even the water stored in its humps was completely exhausted, and it died of sheer thirst. Therefore, you... are about to walk down its path to death.]
Across various planes, gasps of astonishment rose in waves.
Whether they knew what a camel was or not, at this moment everyone regarded a camel that had died of thirst as an ominous omen.
"Terrifying. I never expected it would turn out like this. I knew it looked so bizarre—seeing one means you are about to die. Truly an ominous creature."
"Does 'desert' refer to the great expanse beyond the northern frontier?"
"I've heard m…
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