Chapter 765 Running in the sea of trees
The airship slowly descended from the clouds.
A sea of trees that is as vast as a real ocean but surging with dark green waves appears in the sight of the hunters.
The continuous rainfall in recent days has filled the exaggeratedly lush vegetation in the sea of trees with water, and even formed a thick white mist that resembles clouds. Taking a deep breath, it feels like drinking water.
Heavily armed hunters gathered on the deck, waiting for the airship to land.
Gail scratched his black wavy hair that had become wet, then looked at the tiny water droplets on his exposed skin, and said distressedly:
"This is too humid. The humidity is comparable to the wetlands in the rainy season, right? I should have bought a waterproof cloak or brought a bottle of skin-drop oil or something."
It’s not that she suddenly became interested in taking care of her skin, but that it’s not a good thing to be active in an environment that is more like a rainforest than a dense forest. Exposing a large area of skin for a long time is not a good thing.
Mosquitoes and locusts will come to your door, and once a break appears on your skin, skin diseases such as eczema and ulcers will follow.
Wearing a priest-style visor, with only his eyes exposed, Anhil glanced sideways at Gale, walked to Lifeng, who had been transferred to a beast of burden, rummaged through the array, took out a bottle of ointment and threw it to her.
Gail subconsciously caught it, uncorked the bottle and smelled it, and said in shock: "Is this really skin-dripping oil? How come you even prepared this?"
Ancil was too lazy to answer this question.
After all, this guy was helping himself. Gale swallowed back what he wanted to vomit, muttered "Thank you", poured out the ointment and started to apply it.
After a while, the large area of her exposed skin became shiny, and coupled with her already messy mixed-style equipment, it looked indescribably weird.
But as a typical pragmatist, she didn't care.
This medicinal ointment extracted from the sebum of the skin dragon is very effective in preventing mosquito bites, treating skin diseases and burns. At least these days, you don’t have to worry about rainforest disease.
Gail corked the bottle tightly and handed back the remaining half of the bottle of skin-dropping oil.
Anhil dusted his hands in disgust, "You can keep it, I brought more than one bottle."
…”
“I saw the ancient pagoda!” Feng Ying, who was standing on the bow of the ship, suddenly shouted.
Everyone looked at it together.
Through the thick mist that shrouded the sea of trees, one could vaguely see the giant cylindrical object with a diameter of nearly 100 meters and a height of more than 200 meters thousands of meters away.
Hilda glanced over there and shook her head, "That's not an ancient pagoda. It's a withered giant tree with only part of its trunk left."
“…Huh?” Feng Ying opened her mouth wide, “You said that was a tree?”
"Huhu, yes." Hilda said with a smile: "I was surprised when I first learned about it. I don't know what it looked like when it was prosperous, but that was at least a thousand years ago. Nature is very Amazing, right?”
“That one is always an ancient tower, right?” Gordon put down the telescope, pointed in another direction, and said half-jokingly: “Don’t tell me that’s also a tree?”
In the direction of the airship, an ancient giant tower deep into the clouds stands there. Although the tower body is damaged, the overall body is still as stable as a mountain, like a giant pillar holding up the sky.
“That’s it.” Hilda picked up the Horned King Bow and said with a smile, “I hope the monsters we need to face live at the bottom of the tower instead of at the top. I can’t climb this high, old aunt.”
“Didn’t you return the favor that time when I ambushed Tian Hui Long?”
"Shut up! Don't say such unlucky things!" Hilda glared at Gordon, then raised her voice to the airship pilot: "Find a place to land, put us down and wait for us at the camp. If after five days and nights If there is still no news from us, return to the guild headquarters to ask for help.”
The pilot belonging to the guild nodded and controlled the airship to lower its height. After a lot of effort, he found an open space in the forest that was barely suitable for the airship to descend.
Even so, the continuous fog and rain, the web-like vines entangled in the tree trunks and crowns, and the various vegetation on the ground made it difficult for the airship to completely land.
Having no choice but to hover in mid-air ten meters above the ground, let the hunters descend to the ground.
It’s just that they suffered from the strong wind and amber. As tooth hounds, they have endured too many things that they should not have to endure.
After landing, Nanasi was the first to jump onto Amber's back.
Pork Chop Pandan could understand the urgency and anxiety in its heart, and did not hesitate. An advance rescue and reconnaissance team consisting of three cats and one dog set off immediately.
With the speed and flexibility of the fang hounds, they should be able to arrive near the ruins of the ancient tower within an hour. As long as Jean is still alive, they will definitely be able to find him quickly and carry out rescue and medical treatment as soon as possible.
Gordon and Feng Ying took turns to open the way, with Hayata at the rear. They protected the three shooters in the center of the triangular formation to avoid sudden attacks by monsters lurking in the shadows of the trees, and to facilitate each other's support at any time.
The Honglong area where the Batubotum Sea of Trees is located is isolated offshore. It is an almost brand-new hunting ground for Gordon and others, and even the entire guild.
The distribution, population, and quantity of various monsters are all unknown. Even the camps were newly established not long ago, and it is impossible to predict when and where we may encounter any monsters.
While on the airboat, I heard Hilda say that there are still scattered indigenous villages surviving in this surprisingly vast sea of trees.
They are almost completely decoupled from mainstream society, but they are not "primitives".
These residents of the Sea of Trees have mastered many special biotechnology and alchemy technologies that are difficult to understand in mainstream society, and have even developed their own "hunter-like" combatants.
This makes Gordon and others very curious.
Of course, it is just curiosity. The technology and life of the residents of the Sea of Trees have nothing to do with the purpose of the hunters' trip, and they naturally will not make extraneous matters.
Following the footprints and pathfinding information left by the Pork Chop Amber, the hunters moved forward.
The overly lush vegetation among the trees and the unpleasant mist made this section of the road more difficult to walk than expected.
It took more than three and nearly four hours for the hunters to pass through this area of tree sea, which was no more than 10,000 meters away in a straight line, and arrive near the ruins of the ancient pagoda.
The humus soil, which is thick and soft and feels like a sponge when stepped on, gradually becomes flat and hard. Traces of man-made objects such as bricks and stones begin to appear, and the vegetation becomes increasingly sparse.
Going around the last big tree, the hunters rushed out of the vast sea of trees.
The bright white moonlight shone on them. Looking up at the full moon that seemed to be hanging on the edge of the ancient tower, they suddenly realized.
The rain has stopped.
However, the mist covering the ruins has no intention of dissipating. It still reflects the moonlight like a gauze, reflecting everything hazily.
Gordon, who was responsible for opening the way, slowed down and the entire team gradually came to a halt.
He planned to let everyone rest on the spot for ten minutes, eat and rest for a while, and then go deep into the ruins and enter the ancient tower to explore.
At this moment, a vague but sharp sense of danger came to his mind.
“Something’s wrong!” He turned around suddenly and reminded his companions loudly, but this seemed a little unnecessary.
He was not the only one who sensed the danger. Before he uttered a word, three shooters with keen senses had already deployed their weapons.
Hayata, who was at the back of the team, suddenly turned around and unsheathed his sword. Using the power of his body rotation, the night sword [Moon Shadow] slashed down diagonally with his cassock, colliding with some kind of invisible sharp blade. , making a harsh clang.
“锵!”
A blue swift shadow emerged from the mist under the moonlight, and it let out an angry scream when the sneak attack failed.
“Gah-!”
“You brought it here by yourself?”
Gordon was about to pull out his sword, but Hilda raised her hand to stop him, "This is our prey, and there are six of us. Don't you think it's too unlucky?"
Gordon grinned, "Okay, then I'll leave this place to you, Anxil, Feng Ying, let's go!"
In the menacing roar of the Moon Swift Dragon.
Hayata drank a bottle of ghost medicine and swung the blade. Hilda put down the black gauze mask, her whole breath became uncertain. Gale smiled strangely and pulled the trigger. The astonishing roar of the ballistae filled the night sky.
“Chug, chu, chu, chu, chu, chu!”
ˆPs.
The so-called indigenous people living in the dense forest in this chapter actually refer to the early abolition of mh. They have not appeared in the main story, so please do not take it seriously.
But to be honest, some of the wild settings are really interesting. If you are interested, you can write two or three chapters later to enrich the world view 0v0
In fact, it can be seen from the setting book that the world view established in the early stages of the series is more primitive, and the technology is more biased towards biological applications. For example, the front end of the hollow fruit is cut off with a knife, gunpowder and warheads are loaded into the crossbow bomb, and a lightning bug is stuffed into the trap mechanism. It's a paralysis trap.
Since 4, it has been closer to the Industrial Revolution era, with various steam machinery and large airships
mhr has the meaning of returning to "biotechnology", but it seems that the direction is different? Mysterious hunting gear creature emmmm
(End of this chapter)