Chapter 42 Native Americans
The entrance to the Thunderbird Sanctuary is a Baroque-style building leaning against the mountain. Its appearance is simple and elegant, and the overall dark red color is in harmony with the natural environment.
But the walls are covered with Thunderbird guano, like a thick blanket.
Rolf has only been here once, many years ago, and he doesn't have a deep impression of the sanctuary. However, Margaret has been here frequently recently, often visiting Newt and Tina.
Therefore, she handled various procedures with ease, without Rolf worrying about it at all, and finally rented a jeep.
When the jeep plunged into the vast desert, Rolf soon understood why Margaret wanted to rent a car instead of riding a flying broom.
It's too hot!
Arizona has a subtropical continental dry and semi-arid climate, surrounded by deserts, and the highest temperature can reach nearly 50 degrees... It's like a big furnace!
Even if you sit in the car, the heat wave still hits you fiercely. It feels like being hugged by a runner who is radiating heat all over his body... It's very hot and sticky.
In this environment, let alone riding a flying broom, standing outside for a few minutes will probably cause dehydration.
The wizards at the entrance of the reserve also know this situation, so they will provide visitors with Muggle transportation.
However, with Rolf here, there is no need to worry about the heat problem. He has the magic "Frost Power" from the Cabro Dragon, which can reduce the temperature in the car by consuming magic power.
It can be said that Rolf is currently a walking air conditioner.
The heat problem has been solved, but you still have to pay attention to sun protection. With such strong ultraviolet radiation, if you don't pay attention to sun protection, you will become an African in a few days.
Margaret is experienced in this regard. She sat in the co-pilot, poured some sunscreen on her fingertips, and gently applied it on her slender legs.
From thighs to calves, even the white and tender feet, she didn't let go.
After Margaret finished applying, she handed the bottle over and said in a sweet voice: "Rolf, help me apply sunscreen, I can't reach my back."
"You are wearing clothes, why are you applying sunscreen on your back?" Rolf said speechlessly: "No matter how strong the ultraviolet rays are, can they still get on your back?"
"I have obsessive-compulsive disorder, don't you know?" Margaret smiled and said: "If you want to apply sunscreen, you must apply it all over your body."
"..."
For some reason, under Rolf's control, the temperature in the car was obviously very low, but he still felt a little hot.
Merlin, damn the weather, if you have the ability to make it hotter!
The weather was too hot, not only Rolf was irritable, but even the magical creatures hid. The boy drove for half an hour and didn't see a single animal.
At a glance, there was only a vast desert Gobi in the field of vision, and the narrow road was like a yellow turbid stream winding in the desert, and the jeep was a lonely boat.
Rove stopped the car and walked towards the group of tall cacti until he came across a stretch of cactus forest.
The most common plant in the desert is the cactus, but the cactus in front of him is not an ordinary variety.
They are called "giant columns", as the name suggests, a giant cactus tree, up to 20 meters high... Among cacti, it can be called a towering tree.
When the giant column grows to a certain age, it will grow branches, like arms raised upward, forming a huge candlestick shape with the main trunk.
Many huge green thorny column branches stand in the desert wilderness, stretching thousands of giant arms to the sky... The scene looks extremely shocking.
The giant column is also a unique plant in Arizona, and even Professor Sprout's greenhouse does not plant it.
Margaret also got out of the car. She was wrapped in a sunscreen jacket and came with an umbrella, blocking most of the umbrella above Rove's head.
Seeing the boy shoveling up the cactus, she asked curiously:
"Are you going to transplant it into the box?"
"Yes." Rolf nodded.
"When did you become interested in plants?" Margaret raised her beautiful eyebrows and said, "I thought you were only interested in animals."
"I can control the growth of plants." Rolf explained, "It's pretty good to fight with others with these giant columns."
When the giant cactus rises, the row of spikes will shoot out again, shooting the opponent into a hedgehog... It's exciting to think about it.
It's not easy to come to the Thunderbird Sanctuary. Rolf plans to transplant more giant columns and give Neville a few.
Margaret waved her wand, and the parasol floated in the air. She also squatted down, put on dragon leather gloves, and started to help dig cacti.
Margaret dug a big stone and suddenly said in surprise: "Hey, a petrified lizard."
Rolf turned his head and saw a huge lizard, its body covered with strange black scales, and its body curled up into a ball.
But it fainted. Margaret poked the lizard with a stick and laughed:
"Rolf, this little guy has heatstroke."
Rolf looked at the petrified lizard, and suddenly there was a "ding" sound in his brain.
[A petrified lizard with heat radiation sickness was detected, triggering side quest 1:]
Help the petrified lizard to treat heat radiation sickness, reward magic:
[Touch objects to stone]
[Consume magic to petrify any object]
[Side quest 2]
Complete 100% taming of the petrified lizard, reward magic:
[Solid as a rock]
[Make the body as hard as stone (Note: can make part of the body's organs as hard as stone)]
"..."
The petrification of a petrified lizard is different from that of a basilisk. The petrification of a basilisk only makes the wizard's body stiff, but it is still the same body.
The petrification of a petrified lizard really turns an object into stone.
Of course, the magic of "hard as a rock" does not really turn it into stone, but it has the hardness of stone.
Rolf picked up the petrified lizard that had suffered from heatstroke and prepared to take it back to the car to give it anti-heat medicine.
In any case, the second skill must be learned.
The bird snake only gave him extraordinary length, but length does not mean hardness. Now he finally made up for the shortcoming.
Rolf and Margaret returned to the jeep and continued to drive forward. He suddenly saw a girl standing on the side of the road, waving at them vigorously.
The girl's clothes were very strange. A whole piece of light-colored deerskin was draped over her shoulders, draped like a cloak, and a rectangular piece of tanned leather was wrapped around her lower body, forming a leather skirt.
The girl was wearing tanned leather boots and leggings, which hung down to her knees and buckled onto the tanned leather boots.
"They are North American natives," Margaret frowned.
Among the North American natives, there are Muggles and some wizard-like beings, and the relationship between them and wizards is very complicated.
Rolf didn't want to cause trouble, so he turned the steering wheel and prepared to bypass the girl.
But the girl suddenly knelt on the ground and kowtowed hard to the jeep.
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