Chapter Forty-Three: The Jungle of Hexi (I)
"Further ahead is the Fish Dragon Gorge, and after the Fish Dragon Gorge, it is Hexi Forest. After the river, Xilin is Xilin Town. Sitting on the bow of the boat, the captain pointed ahead.
"Hexi Forest?is it the ancient dense forest that is said to have existed since ancient times, and it is said that there are still many ancient relics and rare materials in it, but it is cursed and outsiders are not allowed to enter easily?" Standing at the bow of the boat, Su Shen asked.
After most of the day's travel, the passenger boat was already far away from Qinghe, and Su Shen also ended his sea perception casting mold, and finally pulled his consciousness back to reality.
"That's right, that's it!" "That place is very tight, and every year many people want to go in to explore and find resources, but few people can come back alive." ”
"There are still people who are few?" Su Shen said.
"Oh, guest officer, don't think so, it's too risky. In this dense forest in Hexi, there are indeed people who have come back alive, but those who have come back alive have never gone deep into the dense forest. Even so, there are still many people who come back with a curse. There is a family, and the whole family even died tragically because of it!"
Su Shen smiled: "This curse is still contagious?"
"It's not, that's scary. ”
"But I've heard that there are people in this Hexi forest who can survive?" said the young Confucian scholar.
"It's all local natives, some savages. These people grow in the dense forests of Hexi, so they are not affected. But they also can't get out of the dense forest, and it is said that if they leave the forest for too long, they will die. It's really that the people inside can't get out, and the people outside can't get in, and it's a big cage to get out. The boat boss shook his head and said.
"No wonder I heard that although the output of the Hexi Jungle is good, the resources are controlled by the ten nobles of Qinghe. Su Shen muttered.
"Not really. That's a big source of income for them. They received a large amount of precious materials from the local natives at a low price, and sold them at a hundred times higher prices, making a lot of money. Gangyan next to him said: "I heard that the relationship between the city lord and the ten nobles is not good, and a big reason is here." The lord of Ancheng has always wanted to collect taxes in this regard, but those bloodline nobles have always shirked and refused to report the actual price. The resources produced by the Hexi Jungle are tens of millions of source stones every year, but the lord of Ancheng can't even collect a single red gold tax. Can he not be in a hurry?"
Su Shen snorted: "So, these big families can only suck blood, but they don't contribute, they really deserve to die."
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The nobles of the family are strong in the local area, and the few shipmen next to them were startled when they heard Su Shen say this, and they didn't dare to speak to him anymore.
Su Shen already said: "Boatman, I have changed my mind, let's go ashore in Hexilin." ”
Originally, Su Shen wanted to go to Xiling, which was farther away, to hunt fierce beasts, but now he planned to solve it nearby.
When the boss of the boat heard that Su Shen was going to go ashore in the west of the river, he was so frightened that he hurriedly dissuaded him, but Su Shen couldn't stop living and couldn't stop but submit.
After another half a day, the passenger boat finally crossed the Yulong Gorge and came to the dense forest in the west of the river.
After the boat docked, Su Shen and Gangyan went ashore.
Seeing the two of them entering the forest, the boat boss shook his head and sighed: "Two more are going to die." ”
But they already regarded the two as dead people.
On the shore, the two of them headed all the way to the dense forest.
The jungle here is quiet and deep, and the further you go inside, the darker it becomes.
When you go deeper, you will find that the tree grows higher and higher, but the roots are more and more protruding, and the protruding roots are intertwined all the way, and it looks like a green snake all over the ground from a distance.
A large number of stems and whiskers are also swept down from the treetops, and occasionally there are real green snakes mixed in, which will surprise people as they pass by.
"Pounce!"
Su Shen raised his hand, clamped the snake's head between his two fingers, and then his head was tilted, and a stream of venom flew past his ears.
His fingers clamped the snake's head like pliers, stretched it as wide as he could, and after looking at it closely, he took some venom and let the snake out of his mouth.
At the moment, the secret of Venom is clear at a glance.
Su Shen quickly analyzed the composition of this venom, which was not very powerful, but it could refine a toxic essentia. If it is combined with the toxic essentia that Su Shen has mastered before, it may be able to refine a powerful toxin.
Su Shen suddenly came up with more than ten plans in his mind.
Poison is not Su Ku's research direction, but even so, as long as he is willing, he can become a poison master in minutes.
Throwing away the snake, Su Shen and Gangyan continued to move forward, and soon encountered a jungle flower python. This python is a fierce beast, although it is only a lower grade, but at least it can provide source power after killing.
The master and servant were not polite, and directly chopped and absorbed the source power.
However, the effect of this source force absorption on the steel rock is obviously greater than that on the sedimentation.
The Boiling Blood Realm is marked by the Blue Star, and the source power required to improve it is much higher than that of the Kaiyang Realm. A
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The improvement that the inferior fierce beast can bring to Su Shen is already there. It's like a person who has been promoted, and the experience required to improve again is much higher, and killing a mob also reduces experience.
So the two of them will not stop moving forward, but continue to go deeper inward.
After walking for a while, Su Shen suddenly signaled to stop.
In front of Gangyan's eyes was empty, there was nothing, but in front of Su Shen's eyes, above the clearing not far away, there were large dense red dots floating.
"There's something ahead?" Steelstone asked, realizing something.
"Well, a life that is about the size of a micromass, let's call it a microorganism, you can see it with your spiritual eyes. ”
Ever since he discovered the kind of substance in the metal cube that is composed of multiple essentia and has a specific effect, which is also imperceptible to the naked eye, Su Shen has called this kind of existence micro-matter.
Micromatter, essentia, and particles thus became the three levels of the microscopic world in Su Shen's eyes.
Although the microscopic matter is difficult to detect with the naked eye, the spiritual eye source technique can still see some clues, but it cannot observe carefully and see through the essence like the microscopic eye.
Gangyan replied with a bitter face: "I think it's too troublesome, and I haven't practiced much." ”
Su Shen's face sank: "The Yan Clan just has a special physique, and it can't use the source power like the Terran, but it doesn't mean that the Yan Clan is born stupid, and it doesn't mean that the Yan Clan can only do brainless work." Steel Rock, if you position yourself as a rock clan that only needs to fight and kill and never need to use your brain, then no matter how others help you, your future will not have a future. ”
Gangyan bowed his head wordlessly: "I know, I'll practice hard when I go back." ”
Only then did Su Shen turn his head to look back at those tiny microorganisms, and then he walked over.
When he entered the clearing, these microbes rushed towards Su Shen like a riot.
At the macro level, a gust of fishy wind emerged, as if some beast was approaching, but there was no presence in sight, only a very strange and eerie feeling.
If you look with the spiritual eye, you can see that patches of red smoke are filling everywhere, like smoke and dust.
In the pure microcosm, these microorganisms have entered from Su Shen's eyes, ears, mouth, nose, pores, etc., like waves, and poured into his body one after another, taking root in his body, and at the same time, they are also ...... Eat away at his life.
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