"I have met many dying strangers in the Outlands before, and let their companions bring them home, but often after the death of a person, those entrusted to them have looted them and abandoned them in the wilderness, and finally the corpses are eaten by birds and animals, and there are very few who can help them dig up the earth for burial, or bring back some personal belongings, let alone bring back all the bones like you. Helsing fiddled with his fingers and said casually.

Lin Ziyue was silent for a moment: "Maybe they have other concerns, so they can't bring the remains back, but since we came to the Western Rift Valley and happened to meet these two, bringing their bones back to Huayu is just a way, and it won't get in the way." ”

Helsing shrugged his shoulders, it was almost noon at the moment, and although the castle tower and his party did not fly, they moved and jumped on the dragon's blood tree, and it took a whole morning to pass through dozens of kilometers of land.

It is not difficult for them to travel through this area for dozens of kilometers without finding any water source and food, this is based on the fact that the average strength of everyone has reached C-level, if it is an ordinary E-level and D-level mixed alien team, it will take at least two to three days.

Connecting the wasteland is a tidal wetland, the distance between the two sides of the rock wall is only less than two kilometers, everyone can see the end of the east and west sides at a glance, for them who have just walked out of the dragon's blood giant tree wasteland with an open line of sight, and because the rock walls on both sides block the sun, even in the afternoon, but the wetland looks a little gloomy.

Upon entering the wetland, the speed of the group slowed down, and the ground beneath their feet was covered in a thick layer of humus moss and ferns, and it was full of potholes, and if you were not careful, you would step into waist-high puddles or swamps that were difficult to break free from.

However, the wetland was full of life, and the castle tower and his party found a lot of birds, beasts, fish, and insects growing here as they went, and they were not afraid of the humans who suddenly appeared here, thinking that they were just slightly larger apes, and even some daring birds were hovering within a few meters of everyone.

Since there are beasts here, the possibility of the existence of strange beasts is much greater, so everyone is more vigilant in the process, and even Lin Ziyue deliberately entered the second field of vision to take a look.

If you don't know it, although this is a wetland, in addition to the three elements of boiling water, wood, and earth, the fire attribute elements here are also abnormally abundant, and even the shallow water of the wetland under your feet has a large number of fire elements.

However, this is also what makes the forest more and more strange, according to the concentration of fire elements in the shallow water under their feet, the water temperature will be at least 30 degrees or more, but despite the ability isolation, everyone can clearly feel that the shallow water under their feet is cold.

Just as the Tianshou and his party continued to move forward, there were some footprints left by beasts in the wetland, and after a little comparison, Lin Ziyue and Hai Xin were surprised to find that these beasts were all huge.

Just as they were comparing a footprint the size of two human palms, the water suddenly trembled more than ten meters away from them, and then a behemoth swept across the water.

Everyone looked at it, and it was actually a water anaconda with a length of ten meters and the thickness of an adult's waist, but no one, including Hai Xin, sensed the slightest from it

The aura of the ability, and finally waited until it slid far away from the surface of the water before everyone came to a conclusion, this is just an ordinary anaconda and not an alien beast.

"Can a anaconda grow to such a big size?" Seeing such a huge anaconda for the first time, the Xiao family sisters, who were naturally disgusted by snakes, insects, rats and ants, only felt a little disgusted.

Lin Ziyue was also puzzled, but then he thought of something, looked around, and then found a pool of water that looked slightly clearer, leaned over to disperse the ability barrier in his hand, stretched out a finger and dipped a little of the water in the wetland under his feet to carefully identify: " The average anaconda should not be more than seven meters long, but the fire element contained in the water of this wetland is somehow not manifested in temperature, but in the property of speeding up the metabolism of organisms, so the size of the animals living here should be more than twice as large as outside. ”

"No, why are the birds in the first place normal?" Xiao Yufei thought of the group of birds that didn't know if they were birds or chaffinchs when they first entered the wetland.

"Probably because most of the water sources of the winged people come from food, and the amount of water they drink alone is very small. Anna saw Lin Ziyue shaking her head, so she helped him explain.

Hearing Anna's explanation, the others could barely accept it, but after the water anaconda swam into the distance, fog gradually began to rise on the wetland, and they could still look at the road ahead by looking at it, but now the front was already hazy.

"There are still nearly 200 kilometers to the mining area, and the speed of the advance should be affected after the fog, and it is not so safe, and it may be in the middle of the night when you reach the mining area through the wetland, and if you have to rush back early tomorrow morning, it may be a little tight. Lin Ziyue looked at the blur around him, and then said to the people around him.

"I also don't recommend walking through the wetlands and entering the mining area, after all, we are not familiar with the environment there, and it will be very troublesome if we encounter strange beasts as soon as we enter. Hai Xin nodded, even if Lin Ziyue didn't say it, he would bring it up.

The others naturally had no opinion, but they didn't plan to go back the way they came, after all, they would go back at this time, and when they arrived on the wasteland, it would probably be night again, and everyone walked towards the rock wall on the east side, and when they reached the foot of the rock wall, they climbed up the rock wall.

The rock wall was covered with moss, and although it was a little rugged, it was so slippery that there was no way to use it, so everyone had to rely on their abilities to ride the wind.

Muji and Monette flew at the front, and after Muji, who had an affinity for the wind, broke through to the C rank, the people in the castle tower were no faster than him in the wind flight, and not only the speed, but also the durability and flexibility were quite good, and at this moment he took the lead in flying at the forefront to open the way for everyone.

Lin Ziyue took Bai Shaoqin to fly in the middle of the team, behind Hai Xin and Anna, ten people were rapidly climbing in height, and the fog only covered a range of less than three hundred meters, and when everyone broke through the fog, they found that the shadow of the mining area could already be vaguely seen in the deep valley in the distance.

Although it was a pity that they couldn't go to the crystal mine area in advance before joining the exploration team, because of those corpses, everyone was actually a little worried in their hearts.

The difficulty of flying upwards increases with altitude, and of course the ability cost increases dramatically, with every 100 meters after breaking through 500 meters

Abilities cost twice as much distance.

However, before deciding, Lin Ziyue had already calculated that the average rift valley with a depth of 1,700 meters, the deepest part should not exceed two thousand meters, and the consumption of everyone's upward flight was only about half of the abnormal energy of several other people, and although Lin Ziyue needed to bring Bai Shaoqin, who could not fly without the ability, but because he did not need to consume the ability in his body, he could barely bear it with his mental power.

When they climbed to a height of about 500 meters, there were a lot of flying beasts in the originally empty sky, and although they were a little surprised by the sudden appearance of the castle tower, most of the Wing Clan were vigilant by nature, so they did not rashly attack them, and the castle tower and his party could survive safely.

The end of the rock wall was already at the end of the cliff, and there were less than 400 meters to leave the rift area, but as the height rose, the moss on the rock wall gradually disappeared, and instead some dry branches of different shapes stretched out from the rock wall.

While climbing, Lin Ziyue easily folded off a section, and then found that these branches seemed to be dry, but they were actually full of vitality, and there were a lot of fire element molecules in them, which also caused these seemingly dry and cracked branches with dry bark to be much harder in texture than ordinary stone trees.

"Is there a mutation of species caused by the concentration of elements? It seems that there will be a chance to go to other Jedi in the future. Lin Ziyue took the broken wooden branch back into the bracelet and thought to himself.

At the same time, in the air about 100 meters away from everyone, two strange birds with dark bodies and wingspans of about four meters were carrying two centipedes more than one meter long and landed in their nests on the rock wall.

If anyone could see the centipedes they brought back, they would be surprised to find that although these two centipede beasts that had died at the moment only had E-level strength, their size and the alien energy contained in the beast crystals in their bodies were enough to be comparable to other D-rank beasts. Moreover, the two centipedes are crystal clear all over, the carapace outside the body is dark red, and the light on them flashes, even if they are dead, they are as magnificent as a work of art.

The sharp beak easily broke open the centipede's carapace, and then began to devour the delicious flesh and blood in its body, and as it ate, their originally dark eyes became brighter and brighter.

After a while, the two centipedes were eaten away, and only a dark red carapace was left in the nest, and the two strange birds let out a few owl calls and then spread their wings and flew away from the nest again, the hard carapace of the dark red centipede was nothing in front of their sharp beaks, and the poison on the centipede's feet and tails could not break through the tight cuticles of the strange birds' legs.

The so-called mining area is actually in a section of the rift valley where the boulders are all over the area, there are no hundreds of tons of boulders overlapping at the bottom of the valley, and many boulders have also cracked on the rock walls on both sides, revealing the red crystal ore mixed in it.

However, apart from these two swarthy birds, the other winged people living in the rift do not seem to be interested in the centipedes in the mining area, and the two strange birds hover over the mine like the natural enemies of these centipedes, and after finding their target, they swoop down and grab one from the cliff wall with one claw and take it away and eat it.

Even if their grade is not more than D-grade, there is nothing they can do about the huge number of C-grade centipedes on the valley floor and mountain cliffs.