Chapter 459 458. Jungle Hunter
The booster on the tail of the magic airship slowly went out, and after a long taxi, it finally reached the last landing point.
In the jungle on the northern outskirts of Wojmara City, it is rare to have such a gentle mountainous area exposed to the surface. The slopes are covered with lush green grass and low bushes, and the new trees growing from the surrounding jungles are constantly encroaching on this open space. The ring-shaped outline of the surrounding juvenile forest belt is clearly visible.
The captain introduced to Suldak that once an adventurous group found an ironwood forest here, and many loggers were hired to cut down all the ironwood forest, and even the roots were dug up by the team that rushed over. Clean, the hillside here is full of earth pits left after excavation in the past few years, and the weeds have grown up in the past few years, and this **** is considered to be covered.
The captain told Surdak the specific situation of this slope, the main reason is to pay attention to the road under your feet after disembarking, otherwise, if you accidentally step on the air, you may fall into these remaining tree pits.
Because there is no airport dock to moor the ship, the magic airship can only continue to slow down at low altitude. The two crew members lower the rope from the exit on the side of the ship, and the members of the Suldak combat team come to the side of the ship one after another. The first one grabs the rope and goes down. The first was Samira, the half-elf archer, and soon Samira walked to the end of the rope, and then let go of the rope with both hands, his body spread out in the air, curled up the moment it landed, and rolled a few times on the grass. Stand up steadily.
She didn't stop, and continued to chase the airship that kept moving forward. In the waist-deep grass, Samira was like a light deer, jumping a long distance every time she crossed.
The ogre Gulitam's method was even simpler. He didn't even grab the rope, and jumped directly between the two floating devices. His huge body was like a white shell, and it exploded. It landed on the hillside with a bang, and the air wave almost blasted the grass into a big crater.
Only Andrew and Suldak slid down the rope to the end step by step. Suldak found the right time to pounce on a dense bush, which was like a soft mattress, holding Suldak steady. It was held firmly in the center, but those thorns were also very resilient ropes. The moment Suldak's body fell, those thorns left a few bloodstains where Suldak's armor could not take care of.
The tree oil smell in the bush is very strong. This is a kind of bush that grows dark purple fingernail-sized berries. This kind of berry is very watery. If you accidentally touch those berries, the peel will burst open and flow out The sticky purple slurry looks a little disgusting, and there are some not sharp thorns all over the rattan, and the five-finger-shaped leaves exude a strong fragrance of tree oil.
Suldak struggled to stand up from the vine, and then the indigenous warrior Andrew jumped into the bushes. Seeing the berries all around him, Andrew cheered. He seemed to know that the berries would burst when he touched them, so he didn't reach out to touch them. , directly leaned down and stuck out his tongue to roll the berries hanging from the branches into his mouth, and then showed a very enjoyable expression.
But when he grinned and laughed at Suldak, his mouth was dyed blue. This kind of dark blue-toned berry is called blue burst fruit, which is very famous in Wojmara city. The biggest feature is that it cannot be picked.
Andrew used a hatchet to cut through the brambles and cut a path through the bushes.
Two people came out of the bushes, and Samira and Gulitham had already chased them up from behind. They were at the edge of the slope. According to the map, there are almost no hellhounds in this area, and it is for this reason that the magician investigation team gave up the investigation in this area.
The vegetation in the jungle is dense, and the forests are overgrown with bushes. The Nanai indigenous warrior Andrew held a machete to open the way in front of him, so he could barely walk through the jungle. Suldak had carried out patrol missions with the second team on Mount Gandarer in Warsaw's Handanal County for half a year, so he didn't find it difficult to pass through the jungle.
The ogre has been living in the jungle on the outskirts of Wojmara. Traveling through the jungle is the daily life of the ogre, so naturally it doesn't feel like anything.
Before the Hellhounds did not besiege the city, the half-elf archer Samira was the guide of Wojmara City. He usually accepted the employment of the adventure group, and walked in the jungle near Wojmara City, walking along the high mountain ridge. After a long time, there were no **** dogs, not only no **** dogs, but almost no other jungle beasts except some birds on the top of the trees.
The jungle was so quiet that it was scary. Andrew walked under a big banyan tree, smelled the pile of excrement between the roots, and carefully identified it. Then he frowned and said to Surdak: "We have now broken into the territory of a monster. The breath left behind shows that this monster is powerful enough to scare away other beasts in this area. We must leave here as soon as possible."
Samira looked around the jungle and said, "It should be a new migration..."
She jumped onto the big banyan tree, stood on the branch and looked around, saying: "This place was very safe before, otherwise there would be no adventure group developing that piece of ironwood forest here, I'll go check it out, what's going on .”
After speaking, she flew up to the top of the tree, and jumped to another tree through the dense branches, her body was flexible enough to face a monkey.
The team continued to walk north along the ridge, which ran in the opposite direction from the city of Wojmara. The shadow of the monster in the jungle had been hanging over everyone's hearts. The road on the ridge was not easy to walk, and there were no prey in the jungle. , which made the ogre act a little irritable.
Suldak kept making some records on the map in his hand. He found that his combat team had reached the edge of the map on the outskirts of Wojmara. As Samira said, the terrain between the mountains has become a bit complicated, and there is no sign of Hellhound activity here. If Samira hadn't returned to the team, Suldak even thought about giving up this project. Area search.
You can't see any hellhounds in this area. Since the investigation is on the Devil's Gate, there must be a large number of hellhounds.
Samila caught up with the combat team, and she jumped down from the tree with a strange look in her eyes.
"What did you find? Have you found the hellhound?" Suldak stopped and asked curiously when he saw Samira with a hint of excitement on his face.
Samira shook her head, pointed to the southeast and said, "I know exactly what monster is occupying this place. It's a wounded magic ape. I found its lair, which is in the cave opposite this ridge."
"..."
Suldak has seen the introduction about the magic ape in the Encyclopedia of Warcraft. This is a monster with a strength between two and three. The adult magic ape is full of strength and usually moves in dense forests. It is not only smart , and is also proficient in the magic of natural elements, and can manipulate trees.
Andrew is also very familiar with the magic ape, and asked Samira: "Isn't that thing supposed to build a nest on the top of a tree?"
"No wonder I can't see this guy's feces." Andrew said.
He found an excuse for not identifying what kind of monster the feces under the banyan tree belonged to.
Suldak thought that if he could hunt this devil ape, even if he didn't find the whereabouts of the hellhound, he would not have come in vain.
It’s just that he can’t understand that this place is not far from Wojmara City, only counted as the outer suburbs of Wojmara City, the nobles of Bena Province have managed so many in Wojmara City, how could there still be monsters here , this is a bit too unrealistic, those adventure groups in Vojmara City really do nothing, can't the monsters in the surrounding area be cleaned up? Or is this jungle resource too rich?
Thinking of this, Suldak said: "The competition among monsters in the Maca plane is so fierce...Does even the magic ape want to settle in the outskirts of Wojmara? This guy belongs to the category of second-level monsters. Magic materials can be sold for a price, and there must be a magic core hidden in the skull."
Samira also echoed: "In the past, many adventure groups went to the Maca plane to hunt the Great Demon Ape. There were times when the adventure groups sought guides to go deep into the Xindi Mountains. I have never been there, how can I guide them..."
"Captain, do you want to do this vote?" Andrew also asked a little excitedly.
"It's all here, how could it be possible to return empty-handed! Go and see..."
Suldak made a decision.
Only the ogre is not so willing. He has eaten monkeys before, which is one of the most unpalatable foods in the jungle.
He doesn't want to catch a monkey that's one size bigger if he doesn't have to.
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The team walked down the **** on one side of the ridge. In the overgrown jungle, the low space was filled with unknown shrubs. Fortunately, there were Nanai warriors opening the way ahead. Even so, we walked all the way It is also very hard, the terrain here is more complicated, and the road chosen is likely to reach a cliff after walking.
Even with Samira as a guide, the shortcut she chose had to climb two cliffs tens of meters high.
Climbing down from the cliff is not difficult for the team members, but it is undoubtedly a bit time-consuming to walk like this, and there are strange rocks under the cliff, so the ogre dare not jump directly.
The team arrived at the bottom of the valley after untold hardships, and in front of them was another endless river valley. This river was not too wide, but the water flow was fast.
The ogre jumped and jumped onto the rock on the other side of the river at the narrowest point of the valley. Samira crossed the valley directly from the top of the tree and pulled a rope from the river. Suldak and Andrew slid directly across rope.
Continue to walk forward and enter a muddy swamp, the swamp is full of mangroves with well-developed roots, the road here is even more difficult to walk, and this swamp is a breeding ground for poisonous insects and mosquitoes Ants live here, and a big banyan tree lives countless birds. It can be said that this mangrove forest breeds a large number of mosquitoes, and the large swarms of mosquitoes make this place a paradise for birds.
Fortunately, there were Samira and Nanai indigenous warriors, who were very familiar with the environment in the jungle, and found a kind of tree with branches and leaves with a faint smell, and weaved the branches and leaves of this tree into garlands to wrap around the neck and the top of the head. , It can effectively repel the most vicious mosquitoes.
Walking out of this mangrove forest, the jungle trees in front became taller, and from time to time, you could see a sky-watching tree, with countless vines hanging from the canopy. These vines spread all over the entire forest area, and the half-elf girl became To be more careful, Andrew also raised the hatchet with both hands, staring at the vines above his head.
Only the ogre followed behind without any scruples, suddenly a tree shadow sprang out from the top of the head, like a giant python wrapping around the arm of the ogre, the ogre also reacted extremely quickly, slamming it with one hand With a flick, he grabbed the vine with his backhand, and straightened the vine about the thickness of an adult's arm. Andrew, who was beside him, cut off the vine with a sharp eye and a quick hand. The vine was like a The living giant python rolled on the ground for a while before slowly ossifying into a curly vine.
"This kind of magic vine fruit is a very precious magical herb. Every autumn, there are always herbal dealers going to the city of Wojmara to buy magic vine fruit. There are not a few Nanai people who die because of collecting magic vine fruit every year..." Andrew He said with a sad expression.
With ogres in the team, the magic vines on the canopy would not choose to attack other people. Andrew reacted quickly, and every time an ogre was attacked, he would cut off the vines immediately and pass through the area. In the forest area, the ogre has been attacked more than 20 times. No wonder there are almost no birds living in the trees on the other side of the river valley, but not even a single bird can be seen in this jungle.
Passing through the woods with actively haunting magic vines, I found a cave halfway up a mountain wall. This cave was covered by dense bushes, and it was almost difficult to find it without going close. I didn't know that Samira was so In such a short period of time, how did I discover this place?
"I've been here before. This cave was originally the residence of a group of mane people. Later, the mane people here were hunted down by the adventure group. The cave here became the landing place of the adventure group. I also want to find a place to rest at night. I just wanted to take a look here, but I didn’t expect to meet a magic ape.” The half-elf archer pushed aside the bushes in front of him and explained while staring at the cave not far away.
"We have to block it in the hole. Once it escapes, as long as it jumps to the tree, almost no one can stop it if it wants to escape!" Andrew looked at the surrounding dense forest and said in a low voice.
"Gulitum, you and Samira are guarding the entrance of the cave, while Andrew and I go into the cave to hunt the demon ape..." Suldak said.
The ogre looked at the cave which was less than three meters high, and knew that even if he could barely get in with his head down, it would be difficult to deploy in the cave, so he nodded to Suldak.
Seeing Samira take out a branch full of greenery and put it on the forest bow, Suldak quickly said to Samira: "Unless it is necessary, try not to use your ability to shoot arrows, and keep them carefully." This arm may be able to recover..."
(end of this chapter)