Chapter 566: Devil's Oasis
The soldiers of the Vanguard Squad were now extremely glad that they had heeded the warning of the Brain. From the movements of those branches and vines in the oasis just now when they caught the sentry machine, they could see the attack power of that thing, even if they entered it with a whole team, it would be very dangerous!
The soldiers of the vanguard team were now about thirty meters outside the edge of the oasis, and the woods inside the oasis seemed to have been awakened after preying on a flock of small birds from the sentry team.
They must have discovered through some unknown perception that there was something more delicious than the Sentinel Team outside, and they were constantly waving branches and vines in the direction of the Vanguard Squad soldiers. Unfortunately, because the distance was not enough, at most more than ten meters out of the edge of the oasis had to stop.
After a few futile swings, but finding that they could not touch their prey, the branches and vines shrank back one after another, and in a short time the whole oasis was calm again.
It was only then that the soldiers finally noticed an obvious anomaly - the oasis ahead was too quiet, and there was hardly any sound of the animals perched except for the grinding of the wind through the branches and the slight flow of surface water!
Looking at the quiet jungle, the soldiers of the vanguard team glanced at each other and asked Zhi Brain for instructions on what to do next. As a result, an order was given to temporarily return to the queue for standby.
The danger level of that oasis is obviously not something that these ordinary soldiers can deal with, even for Jiang Yan, the training cost of a qualified soldier is not the price of a cabbage, there is no need to let them go to explore the path when they know that they can't do it.
After all, the brain has better tentative options.
First of all, the brain needs to confirm how many dangerous creatures there are in this oasis, and how much of an area is occupied in the oasis by mutant plants like the one just now!
Jiang Yan wanted to use the oasis as a base to establish his first stronghold in the Great Desert of the Nedryles, and the oasis in front of him was also a rare place of vitality in this desolate land, which was the most suitable for establishing a town. But this is provided that there is nothing wrong with the oasis itself.
If the plants in the entire oasis were all as dangerous mutant species as they were, it would be a bit of a problem.
According to the scanning feedback of the remote spirit waves, the brain did not detect many life reactions other than plants in that oasis, which is obviously wrong. But what the specific situation is, we have to actually enter and investigate.
The creatures inhabiting this great Niederless Desert basically have the "magic energy factor", and they are still active, naturally, there is also a special energy of "magic energy particles" in the environment of this land, although the amount occupied is very small, it is almost negligible to normal people, and it is the level to which it will not be affected as long as it does not inhabit here for generations.
However, it is important to mention that the nature of the energy of "magic energy" is much more active than ordinary energy attributes, and this high activity will cause them to interfere with some unfamiliar perception methods when they are scattered in the environment.
Therefore, the remote large-scale scanning perception of the intelligent brain is inevitably affected by some interference in this land. It's fine at close range, but as long as it's beyond a certain range, long-range perception won't work perfectly.
And in that oasis, Zhi Brain found that the concentration of magic energy particles was obviously higher than that of other places along the way, and the interference impact on its long-range wide-area scanning perception ability was even greater.
Therefore, it is still necessary to actually send a sentinel into the oasis to investigate.
The interference effect of highly active magic particles on perception means may be tricky for the psychic wave detection methods used by other normal forces in this world, and if you first disperse a certain amount of magic particles on the battlefield in a war, it is almost equivalent to putting a layer of 'war fog' on your side, allowing the side that is good at using magic particles to occupy a lot of intelligence advantage.
In the joint war between the major forces of the continent against the Demon Guide Civilization a thousand years ago, they did not suffer any less losses in this regard.
But for the brain, the effect of this interference perception is not so easy to use, the brain is very casual to autonomously carry out its own detection wave 'frequency' ultra-high-precision adjustment, just like different frequencies of electromagnetic waves will have different permeation and diffusion effects, the brain can easily calculate in this way which degree of detection wave frequency band is just suitable for infiltrating the environment full of highly active magic particles interference factors.
Therefore, as long as the brain is given enough opportunities for calculations and experiments, the effect of this interference is very limited, and the detection ability of the brain in other areas of the Nederles has not been affected much along the way.
However, in the face of this oasis, the brain encountered some unexpected obstacles.
It seems that not only is the higher concentration of magic energy particles interfering with the detection of the brain, but there is also something strange like a 'geomagnetic field' in this oasis itself, which suppresses all the means of wide-area detection in the outside world.
Not only detection, but also the attacks of some energy systems with a long range will also have problems after being interfered by this 'magnetic field', and if they can't hold on to the maximum ideal range, they will automatically collapse and dissipate halfway!
The reason why this conclusion was reached was because in order to test it, Zhi Brain deliberately let a team of magicians jointly launch a legion-level long-range strike technique outside the edge of the oasis, but it was only able to hit the attack technique into a hundred meters of the oasis, and then the attack technique was dissolved by some invisible force.
You know, the ideal attack range of that combined long-range strike technique is enough for thousands of meters, and it can still be artificially controlled to adjust the movement trajectory in the middle of the attack!
But in this strange oasis, the effect has been suppressed to only one-tenth of the original!
The sorcerers in charge of casting spells felt that the farther away they were from the caster after entering the oasis, the more difficult it would be to accurately control them.
There seemed to be some invisible force interfering with the mental power they used to control their attack techniques from a distance. This is basically the same as interference with wide-area long-range psychic detection.
The reason is roughly that some of them have been detected, so Zhi Brain changed its strategy and planned to use the sentinel as a springboard to conduct 'close-up' exploration.
I just don't know, the unknown interference ability within the oasis will also achieve the same interference effect on the unique link function of the slave network itself?
At this point, it is necessary to give it a try.
The "whistle machines" used by Zhi Brain are basically small ordinary animals, snakes (heat sensing), rats and wild cats (night vision), bats (ultrasound), and small birds such as sparrows and crows (aerial vision). In particular, birds, because of their flight advantages and the ease of artificial breeding and breeding, are the most commonly used detection sentinel choices for the brain.
With the soul strength of the wisdom brain, and with a variety of spiritual skill software, it is very easy to forcibly tame such ordinary small animals that have some spiritual intelligence, but they are generally not high, and after subduing, they will directly become the bottom members of the submachine network. With the help of the superior authority of the network, the intelligent brain can easily command it, and the ability to be distracted and multi-purpose allows it to take into account the action orders of each sentinel machine.
This is a natural advantage that even humans who have also learned similar taming techniques cannot match. After all, normal humans can't do it to the point where the brain can perfectly function every tamed critter with such precision and accuracy.
Everyone only waited for half a minute, and Zhi Brain completed the gathering of a large group of small birds that had been subdued locally.
Soon the soldiers heard the flapping of their wings coming from the sky, and when they looked back, they saw a 'dark cloud' of at least seven or eight thousand small birds approaching.
When they were about to get close to everyone, this black cloud composed of dense birds suddenly dispersed, and the scattered flock of birds obscured a large amount of light, almost darkening the sky above everyone's heads.
When the birds disperse completely, the flocks spread across a straight line of several kilometers in the sky, with an average of one or two small birds occupying positions for every square meter of airspace.
This scene, when viewed from the ground, is quite spectacular. At least the three girls in Jiang Yan's armored car opened the windows one after another at this time, and their little heads were leaned out with shining eyes to look at the strange scene of thousands of birds gathering in front of them.
"Wow——! it's the first time I've seen so many birds!" Lena said excitedly, shaking Gina's shoulder.
"Lena, be quiet!" Gina reluctantly pressed Lena's head.
"Sparrows, swallows, crows, cuckoos...... ......"Lilyluka unconsciously began to recognize the species of birds in the sky, but if she listened closely, she would see that she didn't recognize one, and would comment in a voice that was almost only audible to herself: "This kind of ...... Eaten, this ...... Like、Haven't you tried it?"
Jiang Yan watched the behavior of the three girls, opened his mouth, and finally let them go.
After all, even those guards who had received formal military training, many of them unconsciously looked up at this moment.
They should be glad that this flock of birds was summoned by Zhi Brain, so they will be under the command and control of Zhi Brain, so that something bad will not happen.
Otherwise, even if you're lucky enough to see the same natural wonder in the wild, it probably won't be a great thing – because you'll never wonder when a bunch of excrement dropped by an unknown bird will suddenly fall on your head......
Zhi Brain's command efficiency was very fast, and after completely lining up the birds in a few seconds without a few seconds, he let them fly towards the oasis in front of them in an orderly manner from various directions, and finally rushed into the leafy jungle without hesitation.
The reason why the birds are deliberately scattered into the flock is because the brain wants to test the danger of the entire oasis, and naturally it will not detect that the birds are all consumed in the same direction.
In the face of this wave of sacrificial charges launched by a huge flock of birds, the whole oasis is like a beast that has been awakened. Almost all the plants that came to life seemed to come to life, with endless branches, vines, blades of grass, and roots...... All the plants stretched out their tentacles like demons and waved wildly, sweeping in the blink of an eye all the alien creatures that dared to step into their territory!
"Tsk!"
"Ga ——!"
The frightened cries of all kinds of birds sounded one after another, and they became an extremely noisy theme song, which made everyone feel a little stressed, but after a while, these sorrowful cries fell silent.
Under the arrangement of Zhi Brain, the scattered flock of birds rushed into the oasis almost at the same time, however, these nearly 10,000 birds were all swallowed up by the oasis after only holding on for more than ten seconds, not even a single broken feather was left, and all traces were buried under the lush vegetation.
What is more exaggerated is that it seems that in order to compete for prey, many bird sentry planes are attacked by several mutant plants at the same time, and they are often directly caught by branches and vines in mid-air and shredded directly.
The corpses left behind were either dragged directly into some organs such as pitcher plants or man-eating flowers and digested, or they were simply crushed on the spot and buried directly in the soil as fertilizer. The neat way it is handled makes these plants look like skilled butchers.
Some of the soldiers who were closer to the oasis looked at the sight of the huge jungle that occupied almost the entire horizon coming to life at this moment, their faces turned a little blue, if it weren't for the good military discipline, I am afraid they would not be able to help but retreat at this time.
"Shhh...... Actually, it's all of them?!"
As far as the eye can see, every grass, every shrub, and every big tree in this oasis is actually the kind of dangerous mutant species that can eat people!
You know, this oasis is an area of hundreds of square kilometers, and that's enough to build a town that can accommodate millions of people......! It was hard to imagine what it would be like for them to fall into it.
Jiang Yan and others, who were located in the rear of the security, clearly witnessed all the scenes happening in the oasis in front of them from a light screen broadcast by the live video projected by Zhizhi Brain in the armored car.
"Heh, it's really eating people without spitting out bones...... Jiang Yan raised his eyebrows: "With so many dangerous plants in patches, it's no wonder that these local creatures, including mutated desert giant insects, are so afraid of this oasis." ”
"Lord, what should I do?" Angus asked, looking at the oasis in the distance, his brow furrowed.
"Before, did the empire know anything about this oasis?" Jiang Yan asked him.
"Yes, the reason why the Great Desert of Nederis is called the land of the devil is that this oasis actually occupies a great credit. It is known as the Devil's Oasis by the outside world. Angus said with a solemn face: "Actually, this is the first time I have actually seen this devil's oasis, but I have indeed heard some information about it before. Honestly, Lord, I really don't recommend you to choose this as your home. "I want to talk to more like-minded people about "{?$article_title?} ", WeChat pays attention to "excellent reading literature", chatting about life, looking for confidants~