12. The first battle
Wildfire is Shanghai's only supermarket-style outdoor store, where you'll find everything from basic outdoor gear to assaulting 8,000-meter-high mountain peaks. Although he has never used these luxuries, he can live a very nourishing life in the mountains and wilderness by instinct, but if there are more convenient tools, Zuo Lin will not object.
Because I am so familiar with life in the wild, most of the things are basically what I do at a glance. Thinking that he might need to go to a lot of places in the future, and it would not hurt to prepare more, Zuo Lin was almost sweeping the purchase.
People who like outdoor activities are not too bad, and the boss of the business thinks that rich outdoor enthusiasts are spending money in vain, so he came up and admonished him, and introduced Zuo Lin to the different equipment needed for various environments. However, I didn't expect that for these Zuo Lin Ke connoisseurs, he took care of a set of basic equipment while listening to the boss's introduction. Looking at Zuo Lin's choices from backpacks, tents, cooking utensils, daggers and mountain knives to the smallest pieces of quick hanging, none of them did not choose those things with the best performance but not the most expensive price, and the boss suddenly realized: It turned out that he was not a layman but a master in the road.
Before he knew it, Zuo Lin threw tens of thousands of dollars in the wildfire. However, compared to the prize money of the competition these days, Zuo Lin didn't feel very distressed.
WildfireFor some travelers in Shanghai, another convenient service is that you can directly entrust the store to help you deliver things to the place when you buy something. It is inevitable that there are controlled knives in outdoor products, and even sometimes there are solid alcohol for picnics, incendiary blocks and small canisters of liquefied gas, etc., which cannot be carried by planes and trains, and some things, especially knives, must not be changed casually, and not everything can be bought locally. The owner of Wildfire has the ability to guarantee that the package will be delivered to any part of the country within a week, and this service is very famous in Shanghai's circles. And Zuo Lin, with this service, asked the boss to directly send the package in the store to Kunming.
Originally, as soon as the off-season arrived, according to the arrangement of the national team, the squad was announced on the third day, and the concentration began on the fifth day. On the first day of the truce, Zuo Lin took a plane and flew directly to Kunming, then turned off his mobile phone and never turned it on again. Although he was on the training list this time, because he could not be contacted, the club had to give up after being anxious for a long time. Who asked the national team not to say hello in advance? Now that no one can be found, no one is to blame, the first week of the break was supposed to be a day off for the players.
After Zuo Lin arrived in Kunming, he packed his bags and replenished his consumables before setting off again. There he saw further instructions from Insula. Perhaps for the sake of secrecy, the instructions this time were all written in mantra terms, and the transliterated place name made Zuo Lin grope on the map for a long time, only to find out that it was a small village on the border between China and Myanmar.
It's been too long since I've walked in a forest full of aura, and Zuo Lin is a little excited. After transferring to a long-distance train from Kunming and tossing for almost a day to reach Baoshan, he set off on foot towards the small village on the border with his bags on his back. Instead of following the road or dirt road, Zolin headed straight towards the place called Naiva Village. It's nice to be running through the mountains, and it's not like the city is full of people, and the slightest bit of an extraordinary move can attract a lot of curious people. Zuo Lin is running at a speed of almost 30 kilometers per hour, which is a high speed that ordinary people can only achieve by sprinting on the track and field, and for Zuo Lin, it is just a speed that saves physical strength in the field.
Although the bag contained some food such as beef strips, energy bars, and compressed biscuits, he didn't think about them when the night gradually fell and Zuo Lin felt a little hungry. For him, the surrounding woods, the various animals and plants in the woods, can be food. I found some mushrooms a little, dug up a few rhizomes, peeled and sliced them, picked some wild fruits with a strong flavor for seasoning, added a little salt, and a pot of delicious soup came out.
Just as Zuo Lin picked up the small stainless steel pot and was about to enjoy dinner, he suddenly felt a trace of alertness, about 800 meters behind him. Druids have always been very alert. The range of their feelings grows as their abilities grow, but more importantly, they feel things differently. Others' alertness may be due to experience and physical and mental habits, but druids' alertness is innate. Once in their perceptual range, anything that is out of harmony with their surroundings will be perceived. And now, Zuo Lin clearly felt that someone was paying attention to him, with a faint murderous intent.
The guy hiding in the bushes and wearing a camouflage net had a sniper rifle in his hand, and when he saw Zuo Lin's back straightened slightly, he immediately pulled the trigger. Straightening his back and relaxing his shoulders were the easiest and most alarming movements to make unconsciously, and they were all too familiar to him.
The speed of the bullet was much faster than the sound, and when Zuo Lin dodged the bullet because he was startled and turned sideways in advance, and saw the bullet embedded in the trunk of the tree, he heard a soft gunshot.
Why would someone in such a place want to kill him? Is it for himself? Zuo Lin was in a state of confusion, but he lost the trace of the assassin.
Masters. 800 meters is already the limit distance of Zuo Lin's vigilance, although he can detect it, but he can't track it. The other party seemed to expect this, or the range of the opponent's sniper rifle was more than 800 meters, and he immediately retreated after missing a hit.
After all, you can't eat or sleep just because someone is staring at you. While secretly vigilant, Zuo Lin enjoyed dinner by himself, blew up the tent, and hung up the tent lamp. These outdoor items that have just arrived are used very skillfully in Zuo Lin's hands.
Before entering the tent, Zuo Lin took out a handful of grass seeds from his pocket, and the green light on his hand flashed, and then scattered the grass seeds around the tent. As soon as the grass seeds touched the soil, they immediately took root and sprouted at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in less than 10 minutes, a circle of lush one-meter-tall plants grew around the tent. Then, one by one, the buds bloomed, and the flowers shaped like white chrysanthemums emitted a faint fragrance, which permeated the entire space. A gun can't pierce this pretty flower, for the leaves and stems are tougher than steel. It's not a problem for someone to get close, these floral scents are not poisonous, but they are very effective mood catalysts. Once it enters the range of floral fragrance and allows the fragrance to enter the body, any emotional fluctuations in the heart will be magnified tenfold and hundredfold, and just relying on these amplified emotional fluctuations is enough for Zuo Lin to warn. This plant, which is transformed by the power of nature, is considered a compulsory program for any druid to learn the skills of the botanical department, and it has a very simple name: Soldier Chrysanthemum.
Before setting off, Zuo Lin made relatively adequate preparations and deliberately collected quite a lot of grass seeds and seeds of various types of other plants. As long as he has plant seeds in his hands, he can use his natural power to transform these seeds into any plant he wants. These plants can be used in combat, for vigilance, for guarding, and so on. Soldier chrysanthemum is one of them. The Transforming Seeds and the growth of the Breeding Chrysanthemum consumed some of the power of nature slightly, but these would be restored with a good quality of sleep.
Although the guards of the soldier chariot chrysanthemum were not enough for Zuo Lin to go to sleep with complete peace of mind, it was enough to rest for a night with a little attention.
The next morning, after packing up the tent and stove, Zuo Lin picked a few wild fruits for breakfast and set off. Considering the unknown enemy, he slowed down a little, allowing himself to have more energy to deal with all kinds of situations at any time. His attention also struggled to expand, monitoring his surroundings.
However, the unexpected situation still happened. When Zuo Lin jumped over a mountain stream more than 3 meters wide with speed, the moment before Zuo Lin landed, a snowy knife light shot out from the trees on the side. At the same time, a masked figure in camouflage tights fell from the sky, holding a large knife in both hands, and slashed head-on.
Zuo Lin was taken aback. He had raised his vigilance to a high level, but he still didn't notice that there was anyone here. It must have been the person who sniped at himself with a gun yesterday, but how to use a knife now.
Before he had time to think about it, Zuo Lin's body shrank, and he landed first, and he rolled around, flashing between the knife that shot out from the side and the big knife that was split from the top. When Zuo Lin rolled up, the buckle of his backpack had already been unfastened. An oversized 80-liter hiking bag was thrown to the ground.
The attacker didn't give Zuo Lin any chance to hesitate, and after he landed, he slammed and swept over with a horizontal knife. Zuo Lin took a step back on his toes and put his hands together in the bushes within reach, and when he stood still, his hands were clenched into fists, and a leaf was between his fingertips. The faint green light on his hand flashed, and when he brushed the ground, the six leaves between his fingers turned into six emerald green, which at first glance looked like a long blade with an emerald texture. When the attacker's broadsword came to him again, Zuo Lin made a mistake with both hands and twisted the broadsword with these six long blades. The emerald green, blade-catalyzed blade and metal broadsword intersected, making a sonorous sound with a distinct metal impact.
Probably because the attacker was unwilling to fall into passivity and stalemate, he actually let go of the big knife, and grabbed his right hand into a claw towards Zuo Lin's chest. Zuo Lin saw that it was not a human hand, but an animal's claw, and the sharp claw tips shone with a chilling light.
"Insula?" Seeing this "claw", Zuo Lin guessed that this guy must be the examiner Insula. Only an animal druid can use some of the transformations he is so proficient, and as for hiding his whereabouts and launching a surprise attack, it is no problem for any druid. However, is it really necessary for Sulla to use such a drastic examination method? Zuo Lin, who was confused for a while, knew that now was not the time to consider the identity of the other party and leave his hand. Naturally, you can become an examiner, and dare to use this means, and your ability should be very strong. Zuolin, on the other hand, lacks combat experience with the druids.
Zuo Lin casually threw away the long blade between his fingers, grabbed Insula's right wrist with his left hand, twisted it inwards forcefully and then let go. This is not the ability of the druid, but one of a series of TCM skills that Sun Lao taught him: orthopedics. This technique is used in reverse, although it may not be as powerful as the legendary Broken Bone Hand, which is simpler and more practical.
Insula didn't expect that Zuo Lin's physical fighting skills were also quite good, and he was actually forced to take a step away by him with a twist and a flick. And it was this step that gave Zuo Lin the opportunity to finally incorporate combat into his trajectory. While Zuo Lin released Insula with his left hand, he grabbed a small handful of seeds with his right hand, transformed them into thorns with the power of nature, and threw them out one after another. As soon as the thorns touched the ground, they immediately turned into a long knife that rushed out in all directions, and the edges of each leaf were dangerously inverted. As long as it is hung by a knife thorn, it is immediately a wound.
As an experienced old druid, Insula naturally knows what kind of dangerous plant the spurt is. As soon as he turned around, he almost moved a full meter sideways in the air with his strong athletic ability, and his hands became claws and grabbed towards Zuo Lin.
What Insula didn't expect was that Zuo Lin's left hand was placed on the route of his two-claw attack, and a knife thorn in his palm sprouted and grew at once. While Zolin left a wound on his left hand, he made no less than 7 or 8 wounds on Insula's hands.
Insula wailed and took a few steps back. However, he found that Zuo Lin had left one thorn seed after another on the ground, forcing Insula to take another step back, and then take another step back.
Before Sulla could hold back his footsteps, Zolin had already scattered a circle of thorns around him. It took a lot of strength, but it calmed down the situation.
At this point, the raid was a complete failure, and Insula roared in anger and began to change in shape. His clothes were torn to pieces by his growing body, and Insula turned into a giant black bear.
Transfiguration, one of the strongest fighting methods of animal druids. And this transformation of the bear is the most powerful attack ability among the various transformations. It may not have the speed and burst of cats like tigers and leopards, and it may not be as capable of flying and diving angles as bird-like, but the sheer strength and thick body make the bear's form the current choice for Insula.
When Insula began to deform, Zolin immediately began to replenish his defenses. After throwing a seed at his feet, a four-syllable mantra was clearly chanted from Zuo Lin's mouth, and a towering tree rose from the ground, and the thick trunk wrapped half of Zuo Lin's body inside. The canopy of the trees spread rapidly, and the soft branches hung down. Shoots that fall to the ground take root quickly...... Although this "Vajra Banyan Tree" will consume two-thirds of Zuolin's weak natural power, as one of the strongest defensive means of botanical druids, it basically guarantees that it will never be attacked in a short period of time. Fortunately, this is the south with abundant rainfall and a warm climate, and once the Vajra banyan tree grows on the ground, it will not be left to worry after it has grown to a certain scale with the power of nature. Otherwise, just by continuing to maintain a Vajra banyan tree of this scale, the consumption of the power of nature will be very large.
The botanical druids were never afraid of this situation. As long as it is not the first time to be killed, or the strength is not far apart, the druid of the plant department is a super protracted battle master, and there will probably be no problem for both sides to fight for a day or two, and it is not a problem for the druid of the plant department to fight for ten days and half a month, the longer the time, the greater the advantage. The druids of the plant department have the ability to drag the sneak attack into a protracted war, and the defense is stronger than anything else. In the past, there was a record of his predecessor Drew relying on the Vajra Banyan and other plants to grind in the rainforest for a whole year, and he relied on the continuous birth of the Vajra Banyan Tree to turn the entire area into a solid form formed by hanging branches, starving his opponents to death. Although Zuo Lin does not have such a strong force of nature, he has no problem protecting himself. With the Vajra Banyan Tree and these thorns, it is enough for the current Insula to grind for more than a day. And after a day of recuperation, Zuo Lin and Insula, who were able to recover at least half of the power of nature, continued to fight, and the situation was different.