Now it is certain that these energy creatures are 100% not afraid of normal flames, but their resistance to Gu fire is quite poor.

It is for this reason that they are now able to help the Asian elephant herd break through the gap as quickly as possible.

I couldn't help but be amazed that they could act according to my thinking this time, and if their actions were controllable, it would mean that their role would be much greater than I expected.

As soon as the Asian elephants were rescued, Dawn's mental state recovered, and I hurriedly told him to try to keep the elephants together if possible, not only to prevent them from getting separated, but also to prevent them from hurting the members of the Salvation Army who are now scattered everywhere.

Next, I plan to repeat the old trick and use more energy creatures to rescue fires elsewhere, but it seems that I don't need to do anything more, because the twenty-odd or so big-headed dolls that were spawned earlier have already rushed towards the nearest fire point on their own.

I feel that the cyan energy aura emanating from these big-headed dolls has a strong extinguishing effect on ordinary flames, because I see that almost wherever they go, the flames will become smaller or even directly extinguished.

What surprised me even more was that this time these big-headed dolls stopped attacking other people, especially the Salvation Army, who were "innocent of all crimes".

It's weird, but I'm glad that these big-headed dolls are helping us a lot now.

The dolls lasted for about fifteen minutes, and then disappeared one by one, but it was enough, because the fires on all sides were almost completely extinguished, and all the elephants besieged by the flames were rescued.

Even so, more than a dozen elephants, most of them juveniles, were burned alive in the woods.

The Salvation Army's rich experience in field operations also allowed them to easily capture all the Taoyuan Island people here, after all, the Taoyuan Island people here are subjective logistics and transportation, not front-line combatants.

In the conflict, almost a third of the Taoyuan Islanders were killed, and the rest, including the wounded, were captured and gathered together.

Dawn immediately wanted to stab these people to death with a throwing spear, but I hurriedly stopped them, but fortunately, Dawn's sanity was still there, and after I explained the stakes to him, he stopped being angry, and switched to taking care of the elephants.

Looking at Chenxi's posture, eighty percent of these elephants will still listen to him, and I asked Zhou Qiqi to follow Chenxi and talk to Chenxi about my idea of controlling Asian elephants for us. Of course, we can't say it directly, at least we can't make Dawn think that we are using these elephants as tools, but we have to get along with these elephants in an equal way.

After Zhou Qiqi left, I began to count the Taoyuan Island people we caught, and found that there were a total of twenty-six people, plus the four guys we caught before, it was a full thirty Taoyuan Island people.

None of these people were fatally wounded, because as is customary for the Salvation Army, if an opponent is too badly wounded, they are usually killed by the Salvation Army......

After my inquiry, these men said that they all knew more or less about shipbuilding, and there were even a few experts among them, and I told them that if we could build more than three ships that could sail normally, they would be able to save their lives.

These people all looked grateful and nodded, indicating that they were willing to "submit".

Then they summoned them out of their hideout in the woods, and some of them asked me if I had seen Americans outside the mountain, and I told them the truth that the Americans had long since disappeared.

It seems that they were also beaten by these Americans, so that they did not dare to show up outside the southern foothills to investigate.

I asked Bai Ye to assign some Salvation Army personnel to watch over these guys, and then I picked two more people from among them and asked them to take us to the hiding place of these Taoyuan Island people, and the most important purpose was still to loot supplies.

I can see that these guys should have noticed that I can use energy normally, but they don't dare to talk much, the two Taoyuan Island people who led the way have been looking at me when they were on the road, and then I warned them to gouge out their eyeballs if they look again, and these two guys are honest.

The hideout of these Taoyuan Island people is actually not far from the cliffs and plank roads on the periphery, because they don't have the courage to go deeper into the area, and now a large number of Gu things have returned to normal after losing their Gu nature, although their physique has weakened, but it also means that they can no longer be controlled by Gu spells, which causes the aggressiveness of these creatures to be higher.

The Taoyuan Islanders, who had been driven into the woods by the Americans, had only set up camp at the edge of the shallowest forest, and it was for this reason that they were attacked by the Asian elephants, and they had been fighting with them for several days.

I asked them if they had seen any suspicious signs in the depths of the Nanlu Mountains during this period, but both of them said that there had been no movement in the Nanlu Mountains, and it was estimated that even the two-headed monsters that had been wreaking havoc in the Nanlu Mountains before were dead.

Well...... I remember the first time I went to the depths of the southern foothills, and found that in addition to the key information we were looking for, there were a lot of tools that were still very important to us. In addition, the southern foothills were occupied by a large number of two-headed monsters, and the bluebird company that made them was now long gone, does this mean that these materials are likely to be still in place?

The more I thought about it, the more I felt that this was possible, and I thought that under the current situation, we would not encounter any danger if we went to the depths of the Nanlu Mountain, after all, even these Taoyuan Island people did not see any other people entering the depths of the Nanlu Mountain, which means that my conjecture just now is very likely to be true.

......

When I arrived at the temporary shelter for the people of Taoyuan Island, I realized that it was nothing more than a small camp of caves and flatlands backed by mountain walls, and the level of dilapidation was comparable to the half-infected hideouts we had seen in Dongkou Province.

However, they still have a lot of food reserves, and we have taken them away.

In order to make these Taoyuan Island people completely dead, I simply burned this place to the ground.

After returning to our temporary camp on the outskirts of Nanlu Mountain with supplies, it was already dawning.

I gathered everyone together and discussed it, and decided to leave most of the personnel to cooperate with the Taoyuan Island people to speed up the construction of the ship, while I took a small group of elite personnel to the depths of the southern foothills to explore and search, and strive to bring back more supplies and tools.

During this period, we also tortured those Taoyuan Island people again, asking them what they were doing on Taoyuan Island, and the answers these people gave me were very disappointing, because they all said that they were only low-status workers, and they only joined those Taoyuan Island people because of the pressure of survival, and now their general leader is that Bao Ge, but no one knows what they are doing on the island, at least the people here are completely unaware.

Seeing that these guys didn't seem to be lying, I chose to believe them for the time being, and once again emphasized that I would build the ship wholeheartedly, and that I would conduct a trial voyage after it was built, so that they would not try to trick us.

In addition, I also discussed a few words with Chenxi. Zhou Qiqi had already told him some of my thoughts before, I thought that this Chenxi might oppose us using elephants as labor, but to my surprise, this time Chenxi actually agreed, he said that although the elephant herd is sacred, but this sacredness is based on the fact that the elephant herd can help us, so when our "labor" is completely reasonable.

I do recall that when I first met the Nikites, I did see them driving elephants to be used as means of transport.

Since Dawn is responsible for communicating and treating the surviving elephants, he was excluded from the list of team members who went to the depths of the southern foothills this time. In fact, if it weren't for this reason, Dawn, who is so familiar with the terrain of the southern foothills, would have been our number one guide.

Without further ado, we immediately began to split up that day, some of us took those Taoyuan Island people to the dock to collect materials first, and the other part temporarily stayed behind and hid near the temporary camp on the outskirts of the southern foothills.

I took Zhao Youkuang, Yue Ling, Amy, Zhou Qiqi, Lan Xing, Gechai, and ten other Burmese Gu masters to go deep into the southern foothills of the mountains to investigate.

The reason for bringing Zhao Youkuang and Yue Ling is very simple, I don't feel at ease with these two people and let them stay in the camp by themselves.

He Yunsong had to take on the command problem in my absence, so he couldn't go, and Amy, Zhou Qiqi, and Lan Xing were the ones with relatively high combat effectiveness among us.

Bring Gochai and the others to the Burmese Gu Masters because they, like the Niki people, are also accustomed to fighting in the woods, and there must be a lot of traces left by Gu in the depths of the southern foothills, with these Burmese Gu Masters here, maybe you can find more details.

After the personnel were determined, we agreed on a two-day time for the return date, and when the time came, we would return regardless of whether we had gained anything or not, and then we set off separately.

After setting off in the morning, we walked all the way through the boardwalk and the location where the fire had burned before, and then began to pass the hiding place of the Taoyuan Islanders, and began to really enter the inner area of the southern foothills.

It's not much different from when we came before, and I can even see traces of how Niki lived here before.

It's a pity that Dawn is the only one left among the Niki people now, which is really embarrassing to think about, and I even fantasize about whether I can meet the surviving Niki people in this forest, but it seems that it is just an extravagant hope.

Most of the Niki people left behind were their original thatched houses, and I thought that these dilapidated houses must have been wiped out long ago, but I didn't expect their "vitality" to be quite tenacious...... Of course, this is another reflection of the fact that since the Tanickees left the southern foothills with us, there have been basically no other people set foot here.

This suspicion became more certain as we went deeper into the interior of the southern foothills, as we saw hardly the slightest hint of a recent visit.

It seems that those Taoyuan Island people are not lying about the matter in the depths of the southern foot mountain, and there are indeed no people here.

However, we still haven't let our guard down, as those Taoyuan Island captives said, there were a large number of Gu things here before, if the loss of energy only brought them back to normal, but not made them die, it means that we have to pay more attention to the attacks of these animals.

However, when we walked to the back, we found that not only was there no human activity, but there were not even animals, because we still haven't heard even a bird call.

"It's a little wrong. Lan Xing said: "This is too quiet. ”

Amy also said, "There doesn't seem to be any living creature here other than us, there must be something that inhibits the existence of creature beings." ”

I said in my heart that now that the energy is gone, what else can there be?

At this time, Lan Xing suddenly said, "I have come here with the Salvation Army to carry out the mission of clearing the remnants of the Blue Bird Company...... At that time, I heard a story ......"

"Story?" I frowned, "What story?"

"It seems to mean that except for the native Niki here, no one else can stay here for a long time, or they will die. ”

I recalled my previous experience, and said that our first two operations in the southern foothills had always been here, and I didn't see any danger.

Lan Xing further added that the limit of time spent on the ground is three days, after which one must leave or die.

I nodded, judging from the level of knowledge we know about energy now, eighty percent of Lan Xing's "story" also involves energy, and we have indeed not stayed here for more than three days before.

But this still can't explain why there are still no other creatures in the current Nanlu Mountain, the only possibility is ...... There is still energy in the southern foothills!

However, neither we used the energy detector nor my own senses, but there was no sign of energy at all.

It is impossible for Lan Xing to lie, and from my previous memories of this place, I can also see that she is telling the truth.

For example, we had encountered some Salvation Army people in the southern foothills before, and those people were also wearing equipment similar to dust suits, I didn't know why at the time, but now it seems that these clothes are probably used to resist energy.

It took us about half a day to arrive at the secret building that we had been to at the depths of the southern foothills, half buried in the ground, at 10 o'clock in the afternoon, and I could see a lot of bones scattered around the building from a long distance.