31. Lost

Running from morning to noon, Zuo Lin had already rushed to the vicinity of the Wolong Giant Panda Research Center. He hadn't done his homework beforehand, so he naturally didn't know how the habitat of the giant pandas was distributed, and the digital map in the PDA would not have this data. In fact, there are only two places on the map that are related to giant pandas, one is the giant panda breeding center in Chengdu, and the other is the giant panda research center here.

The research center occupies a large area, and Zuo Lin walked around the periphery. Because I didn't want to be discovered, and I wanted to see as many things as possible, this circle was very large, and it took more than an hour. Unlike other companies, animal ecology research centers have nominal commuting and lunch breaks, but the animals don't decide what to do or not to do based on that time.

Intellectually, he was very disgusted with this kind of institution that studied a single animal. The natural operation has its own basis, and the survival of the fittest has its own choice. It is true that humans are gradually encroaching on nature and threatening these animals, especially pandas, which are highly dependent on certain natural conditions, but now that nature reserves have been established, the impact of humans on these creatures has been minimized. If, under these conditions, the panda as a species still disappears, it can only be said that it is natural selection. Taking this somewhat overkill attitude of protection because of the cuteness and rarity of pandas is not fair to other animals and plants that are rare or even rarer. However, this can not be helped, ordinary human beings often use their own feelings and emotions as the basis for their own judgments. Over the years, this somewhat excessive protection of pandas has become more and more excessive as pandas have become a tool of great goodwill, and with the pooling of funds allocated annually by zoos around the world under cooperative terms for the conservation and breeding of pandas.

The researchers in the research center don't need any cages to take pandas from one building to another, and they don't even have any protective measures, and the seemingly honest pandas will naturally obediently follow the researchers who are very familiar with them, and they are as well-behaved as pet dogs at home. As for the little ones who are only 2 or 3 months old, they don't even have to work so hard, and their position is often transferred from one arms to another.

Observations from a distance showed no clues. Just as Zolin was about to leave, a jeep with an extremely exaggerated radio antenna set was installed. The entire rear compartment of the jeep has no windows, and the windows are placed with metal plates, except for a small window in the middle that can be opened outward, similar to the shooting holes of infantry fighting vehicles. I don't know what the theoretical basis for this design is, probably for the equipment in the back of the car. However, when a window opened, and a person's face swept past the small window, Zuo Lin immediately paid attention to the car. He was pretty sure the face was in those pictures, he just didn't know what the guy's name was.

Zuo Lin would not be naïve enough to think that it was some kind of coincidence. The photos that Chen Jianzong almost bought with his life are undoubtedly worthy of attention. On the other hand, apart from this accidental person, Zuo Lin couldn't find any other clues to track down for the time being. Although, now that he has returned to Chengdu or Dujiangyan City, he will definitely be able to rendezvous with the joint reconnaissance group that is already actively deployed, but after the rendezvous, his ability as a more combat-ready druid will be completely limited.

Tracking the jeep is not particularly difficult for Zuolin, but it is only a little hard. There is only one provincial highway running through the entire nature reserve, and the other roads are not well built, anyway, as a nature reserve, there is no need for any decent roads. Zuo Lin followed a few hundred meters behind the jeep, running and jumping hard, trying to keep up with the rapid rolling of the four wheels.

The jeep turned an intersection, and when Zuo Lin was about to climb over the roadside hill to take a shortcut to get a little closer, he suddenly lost track of the jeep.

In this kind of bends and bumps, maybe this is quite normal. The sound of the jeep came intermittently. The jeeps used to traverse nature reserves have been modified to enhance off-road capabilities and reduce noise, as if to not disturb the wildlife. The dense woods and the high and low terrain are also the reasons why the sound cannot be heard far. If you don't pay attention to it, you may lose it, and this understanding of the facts made Zuo Lin immediately speed up his pace.

The sound still came intermittently, but after running for almost half an hour, Zuo Lin had realized that the situation didn't seem to be quite normal. The sound of the jeep was always not far away, but no matter how high or low the terrain Zuo Lin was, he could no longer take the jeep into his sight. This is absolutely not normal.

Zuo Lin stopped. The muffled frequencies of the Jeep's engine seemed to be getting farther and farther away, but it always left a faint but absolutely catchable line of sound wafting in. At this time, Zuo Lin was almost certain that he had encountered a certain type of person, and that he had fallen into something that could probably be called "illusion", "enchantment" or something like that. This kind of large-scale skill is very rare in the druid community, and only a few druids, especially those with strong spell talents, can master this kind of skill, especially the druids who are more plant-oriented, and can also use some plants that can emit psychedelic aromas or pollen to enhance the effect of this spell. It's annoying for any druid to come across something like this.

The surroundings also seem to be suitable for this type of spell casting. If you look around, the surrounding scenery is almost the same, all of them are green woods. In the game place, some bamboo is planted. This is the case in many parts of the reserve, on the one hand, the area of the reserve is expanding year by year, and on the other hand, the reserve is no longer a complete primitive ecological forest belt. In order to increase the number of pandas that can be accommodated in the reserve and allow more giant pandas to return to their "wildness", bamboo is the most important species of plant replanting in the reserve. It is precisely because of this that the natural energy in the entire reserve is a little chaotic, otherwise, relying on the perceiving of the natural energy of the primary forest belt running through the whole, Zuo Lin will not fall into this embarrassing situation anyway.

And now, when he was sure that he had fallen into some illusion or something, and the natural energy around him was chaotic enough for him to perceive, Zuo Lin had no choice but to use a more alternative and more consuming method of natural power.

Unloading the backpack from his back and carrying the bow and quiver on his back, Zolin prepared himself for the upcoming battle. Since the other party has the ability to cast this illusion, he will naturally have the ability to cause damage to himself, and the best time to attack is the moment when he casts a spell to break the illusion.

Defense, which every plant druid is extremely good at, and Zuo Lin is no exception. I was running in the woods just now, and there were a lot of fallen leaves, pollen and other debris on my body, and when the force of nature slowly changed my body, these inconspicuous things immediately changed violently.

Little by little, the leaves and grass clippings grew up and turned into pieces that looked like glass, and when the change in shape stopped, Zuo Lin was already covered with a layer of green, brilliant armor. Psitron is a compulsory course for plant-based druids to move from the beginner stage to the intermediate stage, and it is also one of the few spells that plant-based druids can be very useful in melee combat. Due to the development of modern firearms, light weapons have become more and more popular, and the practical degree of spiritual armor has become higher and higher. While each piece of the bladed armor shatters when hit by a bullet, it can be replenished almost instantaneously as long as the force of nature is not depleted. If at the time when this spell was developed, it was only a spell that the plant-based druids had to enter into melee combat to survive, then in modern society, the spiritual armor technique is countless times more practical.

After defending himself, Zuo Lin once again pressed his right hand to a tree. In this mountain forest, although there are many trees that are replanted to interfere with the overall sense of the entire forest belt, tall trees that are decades, hundreds of years old, or even longer can still be seen everywhere. Zuo Lin poured the power of nature into the trunk of the tree before he began to chant a spell. A spell with 3 overlapping letters is already very complex in the druid's spell system. As the incantation was completed, the entire tree was surrounded by a green light that made it impossible to open your eyes, and the sky seemed to darken all at once. The green light condensed into a beam of green lightning and leaped in all directions.

The green light jumped from tree to tree, and although it was only a brief contact, it immediately caused the hit tree to also begin to emit a green glow. The green light jumped a dozen times before disappearing, and the dozen or so trees that had been struck by lightning chains formed by the pure and powerful power of nature were distributed into an oval-shaped space. Under the faint green light, the shrubs, blades of grass, and moss scattered on the ground seem to be alive in the relatively short trees that are not noticed by the green light...... This entire stretch of ground, covered by the forces of nature, actually forms a small barrier within which nothing unnatural can stay. When Zuo Lin stood in the center of the ground, the surrounding scenery seemed to tremble slightly, and the sound of the jeep disappeared. At this time, Zuo Lin knew that this illusion was cracked.

Spiritual Enlightenment...... Also known as activation. Casting it once almost requires using about half of the natural power in Zuo Lin's body now, and the consumption is too great. Plants that have been activated by the force of nature will naturally adjust their state to the best in a short period of time, so that the entire plant will resonate with the caster of the force of nature, and the force of nature will destroy harmful things in the plant's body, adjust the growth state of the plant, and also inform the caster of the state and perception of the plant. As a result, all the plants on this entire ground have become the eyes and ears of Zuo Lin. Usually, this spell is used to save plants that are on the verge of dying due to some sudden environmental change, or to purify a small area of polluted environment, and when used in battle, it is usually used by the force of nature to accumulate deep plant druids to improve the surrounding environment, and the plants activated by the force of nature are operated in battle and can exert greater combat effectiveness. Of course, these are just generalities.

There are very few powerful illusions in the Western world, and druids are the type of people who are not easy to fall for illusions. When encountering illusions, especially animal druids, they can often be solved by relying on their own senses. The sounds and images created by illusion cannot deceive the extraordinary sense of hearing and sight, and it is even easier to meet a druid who uses his sense of smell as a tracking method. This is not the case in the East, where almost every special power system has powerful illusions, and it was in the process of fighting all kinds of powerful people that Sun Lao discovered many other uses of spells. Spiritual Enlightenment is one of them, although it consumes a lot of natural power, but for a long time, the entire land is its ally, and it is still very cost-effective to use it to crack the illusion and consolidate its own defensive advantage.

Zuo Lin breathed a long sigh of relief, although he cracked the illusion, the person who cast the spell did not appear. The crisis is still not in the past. And that jeep can only be tracked by wheel rut tracks.

Zuo Lin took the bow in his hand and mounted the arrow, and the instinct of his body told him that danger was coming.

Two fireballs shot diagonally from above, and Zuo Lin took a closer look and found that the core of the fireball's burning was actually two rectangular yellow rune papers. Did you really meet a Taoist priest who is a bit of cultivation?

Zuo Lin didn't have time to think about it, and the arrow had already shot out quickly. Zuo Lin didn't have time to shoot an arrow, and there was no need for that. As soon as the arrow left the bowstring, a puff of pollen was immediately released, and when the fireball and the arrow staggered, the pollen immediately attached to the fireball, and the two fireballs that were originally burning and full of momentum immediately went out, and the charred rune paper lost the momentum of the flame, and fluttered to the ground a few meters in front of Zuo Lin's body.

Arrows will not be thwarted, and this is the benefit of a more weighty ranged weapon. The arrow shot did not empty, but it seemed to suddenly stop in the air, which was very strange. A figure emerged from around the arrow that was parked in the air, he was firmly standing on the branch, and the arrow was firmly held in his hand, and the face of this man turned out to be the guy sitting behind the jeep.

"There are not many people who can break through my maze over the years, so report your name. The guy in the treetops said loudly.

"I'm sorry, I don't have this hobby, and there's no need to ramble with a guy like you who smuggles pandas. Zuo Lin muttered casually, and another arrow was fired.

"Hehe, I think you know. Zuo Lin's extremely slight self-talk was actually heard clearly.

Zuo Lin's heart flickered, and in the blink of an eye, the guy who was still on the treetops just now had appeared less than two meters in front of him, and a white sword light slashed towards Zuo Lin's head......