Volume 3 Adventure in the Neutral Zone Chapter 18: Who Are You (6)
"Stop arguing. Ling Haoyun sighed weakly, "It's me who is not good, I'm sorry." After saying this, he clutched his chest and coughed again, his face was even whiter than Wang Shun.
"Let me explain. Ling Haoyun sat in the tent, "I drugged Uncle Fat before I came, and now that he is asleep, I will use my name to match him." β
"Thank you for your care. Although Yang Haohui said this, his hair color had already faintly begun to redden. At the same time, Feng Haogeng stood between him and Ling Haoyun, and even took out a light feather.
"Don't do that, it's our arrangement. Ling Haoyun smiled at Yang Haohui, coughed twice and said, "Ling Haoyun has told me about the actual combat class, but there are some details that I haven't explained to you. Teacher Yeyin specifically asked me to find a way to secretly increase the difficulty of the task, and recruiting the Earth Armor Beast is the way I thought of it, in order to allow you to receive more experience. He said this and suddenly turned bitter, "I didn't think that Senior Brother Yang was so smart and made a big oolong." β
"Teacher Yeyin arranged it?" Yang Haohui was stunned, and Mo Meng looked at one end and the other, but he felt that he couldn't understand anyone's words.
"Yes, this is an additional trial for you, so I can't tell you about it. Ling Haoyun handed over a communication snail, "This is also the reason why I was chosen to lead the team, if the commissioner's strength is too strong, this kind of trial will not be effective." Junior brother, if you don't believe it, you can ask yourself, this is my communication snail, and Teacher Yeyin will explain it to you. β
Everyone hesitated for a moment, and finally Han Shihao took the communication screw and put it to his ear, and after a while, he breathed a sigh of relief and returned the snail.
"It's the voice of Mr. Yeyin. Han Shihao nodded at Yang Haohui, "It's the same." β
Yang Haohui didn't respond, he just looked at Ling Haoyun who was sitting at the mouth of the tent with a face like gold paper, and didn't say a word.......
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The effect of the drug seems to be extraordinarily strong, and it was not until noon that the fat uncle woke up leisurely, and everyone started again.
Ling Haoyun was still not thrown behind after all, although he even took the initiative to propose that the ghost class give up on himself, but Feng Haogeng seemed to be angry and took the initiative to ask to carry him on the road. The Elemental Master's body was very strong, and Feng Haogeng had been training for another month, and it was not difficult to carry Ling Haoyun on his back, but his footsteps were somewhat slowed down.
The team was divided into four echelons, Fat Uncle and Wang Shun were still surrounded in the center as ordinary people, and the one who opened the way became Han Shihao, who had the best physical fitness, and it was not difficult to wield Ling Haoyun's sickle artificial Yuanwu; Ye Ruohua and Lan Borou were on both sides of Feng Haogeng and Ling Haoyun; Yang Haohui and Mo Meng were at the end of the team, and Yang Haohui's gaze did not leave Ling Haoyun for a moment from beginning to end.
After the morning conflict, the atmosphere in the team became a little weird. It's actually very simple to say it's weird, except for Mo Meng in this team, almost no one talks to Yang Haohui anymore. Although it is quite peaceful on the surface, in fact, there is always a more or less estrangement in the team because of Yang Haohui's unauthorized suspicion of Ling Haoyun's behavior.
The temporary expedition group, which was already large enough people, added a new member - Mo Meng, for the simple reason that the destination was the same. Mo Meng clearly explained that this time he came over to explode Yuan Dan, and the team had a good discussion, saying that he could talk about the distribution after he got it. But as an outsider, the fat uncle who led the team was unwilling to bring one more person, but after Yang Haohui agreed to increase the price in his personal name, he agreed scoldingly.
"Xiao Han, don't fucking chop, just open a road big enough to pass!"
"Xiaoye bypass it! the melon eggs! This is the vine of the 'vampire tree', if you want to die, step on it!"
"Stop, stop, there's the smell of 'red bear' urine, it's a sign of its territory, get out of the way!"
"Do you want to fucking see Xiheshen? Don't you want to? I don't want to slip away! β
The expedition group was advancing in the dense forest in absolute silence, except for the fat uncle who was still scolding. The tone is vulgar and a little hateful, but even so, the fat uncle doesn't scold loudly, and trying to be quiet is the first rule of forest exploration.
After the miasma cleared, everything around me became clear. During the day, the Forest of the End seems to have changed from a quiet girl to a hot young woman, and everything seems to come to life, contrary to the silence of the night.
The ears are full of birds, the warblers and swallows, the eyes are full of towering giant trees, the thick trunks have twisted snake-like lines, and many ladybugs or beetles climb to the top of the trees in a crooked and orderly line in the lines. The sunlight fell obliquely from the cracks in the canopy, and occasionally looked up, the green foliage shimmering with colorful broken light as people moved. The air is warm and humid, with a hint of mud and grass.
The sun is shining, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, if it is not a practical class, no one wants to take a slow walk here. However, this kind of hope is a pipe dream after all, not only because of the time constraints, but also because the bloody rules of survival are hidden beneath the fascinating exterior of the forest. On the way, everyone has seen some large primordial beasts fighting more than once, some of them are silver-white wolves tearing the flesh around the skin of a long-horned deer, and the blood on the grass is flowing like a winding stream; some is some unknown ant colony is densely covering a dead sparrow, like a locust transiting, the ant colony from gathering to scattering in a few seconds, the sparrow's body has turned into a pile of white bones; and some are not even animals, a certain seemingly lost horned sheep stepped on the rattan of the vampire tree, and the rattan wrapped up its prey like a tightened fishing net in the next moment, and the horned sheep turned into a dry corpse in the weakening struggleγ
There was even a chance expedition group, they did not shy away from splashing the minced flesh on their bodies, and used a short dagger to peel off the carapace of a certain anteater-like primordial beast that was still alive, and the primordial beast howled violently, and the eyes of the members of the group flashed with greed.
The law of the jungle is a matter of course. The law of the forest applies to the whole world as well.
While directing the advance of the team, the fat uncle drew a cross with a silver horn pen on the map from time to time. He draws a cross at a given point in the journey, a habit that veteran explorers will have. Each fork represents a place where you can camp or an area with a good view, which is a good way to prevent getting lost on the way back.
The crosses become denser and denser on the map until they form a clearly visible line. Under the command of Uncle Fat, the expedition group did not encounter any accidents. It wasn't until the sunset that the last fork finally stopped near its destination, and the Amethyst Cave was only one step away.
"Set up camp!" The fat uncle waved his hand and wiped a handful of hot sweat oozing from his head at the same time, because of time and Ling Haoyun's injury, they had been hurrying almost completely without rest. In addition, the destination was on the mountainside, and they were almost climbing the mountain all the way, and his physical body was really tired.
Wang Shun Lanbo and Ye Ruohua were still in charge of camping, but the task of making the "protective circle" was changed to Han Shihao and Feng Haogeng, Ling Haoyun rested due to injury, and the fire cooking was replaced by Yang Haohui and Mo Meng. When Feng Haogeng took the dragon dung, he glanced at Yang Haohui coldly from a distance, and deliberately walked to the raised bonfire and stepped on it, before leaving.
"There's something wrong!" Mo Meng was about to stand up and find Feng Haogeng's theory, but was stopped by Yang Haohui.
"No point, forget it. Yang Haohui rearranged the dry firewood that had been stepped on and re-ignited the fire mode.
"Brother Yang, your temper is too good. Mo Meng flattened her mouth, squatted next to him and looked at the bonfire quietly.
"The task is priority, your goal is also to explode the Yuan Dan, and now it is not good for you or us to put the gas in place. Yang Haohui said, "What he said is right, I don't have conclusive evidence, and Teacher Yeyin has also verified it." Second, I did hide my past, and I have no right to doubt my seniors. β
"Brother Yang, why don't you tell them?" Mo Meng turned his head to look at the ghost class that was doing its own thing, "Didn't you say that they were good people, or did you actually not trust them?"
"They're good people, I trust them, and I'm the only one I can trust here. Yang Haohui picked up a piece of firewood to stir up the flames, and a little spark burst out of the bonfire, "It's just scared." β
"Scared?"
"I'm afraid that they will know that I am not from here, but just an outsider who arrived in the Tian Yuan Realm by accident, and then they will show a frightened expression, and then point at me tremblingly and say that I am a monster....... It's the same as the heart rain. Yang Haohui looked at the night sky from afar, "People are afraid of monsters, and I learned this the night I came here with you." But even here, I seem to ....... Still a monster. β
The stunned tone flashed away, and after a while, Yang Haohui turned his head to look at Mo Meng with a smile on his face: "It's far away, let's cook rice first, do you have anything you want to eat?"
Sometimes a short sentence is far more hurtful than a blade, and Yang Haohui doesn't show it much. But Mo Meng could feel that Feng Haogeng's words really stabbed the boy in front of him fiercely.
Mo Meng stared at Yang Haohui's face quietly, he hadn't seen him for a long time, and the boy's smile was still familiar and faint, with familiar tiredness, just like the tiredness of that night.
"Is there an omelette, I want to eat an omelette. β
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The night was getting deeper, and the darkness once again covered the Forest of the End. After a simple dinner, everyone was about to enter the account to rest, but they didn't expect the fat uncle to announce a new instruction to the team.
"Listen up, all the melons! Enter the cave tonight!" the fat uncle called everyone to come and shouted a rough order.
"Now?" Han Shihao was a little stunned, "Then what are you doing camping?"
"Where the fuck are you going on so much?" the fat uncle shouted impatiently, but then he seemed to remember that the person who could help him explain was lying in the tent resting, and he still scratched his Mediterranean head angrily and began to explain, "Look at the sky." β
Everyone looked up at the fat uncle's words, and through the gap between the tree covers, the night sky, which was still very clear, was now overcast, and a few black ink-like clouds were flowing in the sky, and muffled thunder was heard from time to time.
"It's going to rain a lot. The fat uncle said, "Unlike the camp we set up at the foot of the mountain last year, our regiment is now halfway up the mountain." As the altitude increases, the climate of the forest becomes more and more variable. Just before the sky was clear, the next second the rainstorm poured was a common thing, and the faces of the children in the forest were all learned. β
"Isn't it good to hide in the tent, the tent used for the expedition is not waterproof?" Ye Ruohua disagreed.
"You know a fart, fat grandpa, am I afraid of the rain?" the fat uncle was shy, "The higher you go, the looser the soil in the forest will be, and the more rocks will be." Halfway up the mountain is the most prone to mudslides, and if you have a slight landslide, you'll see you!"
"So we're going to go into the hole and dodge, and by the way, we're going to do it directly....... Oh no, delegate. Han Shihao understood.
"Do you understand, why don't you go and close the camp?" yelled the fat uncle.
A few minutes later, the camp that had been set up with great difficulty instantly returned to its original appearance, which made people really depressed. However, Uncle Fat's adventure knowledge has been unanimously recognized by everyone, and no one complains about anything. After everything was cleaned up, the group set off again.
Not long after, as the fat uncle said, the downpour really fell from the sky, and the bean-sized raindrops rustled the branches and leaves. The fat uncle didn't use fluorite powder anymore but took out a shaking lamp, although it is the same "warm light" as the torch, but most of this kind of heavy rain Yuan beasts will return to the cave to take shelter from the rain. Veteran explorers always have to improvise, and everyone just feels like another lesson.
Yang Haohui took out the prepared rope, with the fat uncle as the axis, and everyone used the rope to link each other properly. Heavy rain made the already wet soil even more muddy, and every step was accompanied by a slight subsidence of the ground. Hiking boots don't do much in this case, and ropes are a good way to prevent someone from falling and falling behind.
"Hold on! Hold on! Go back to the bazaar to eat, drink, and drink, go fucking around the kiln! Take out the strength you used on the belly of the little girl!
This kind of vulgar and a little yellow encouragement came out of the fat uncle's roar, in fact, he didn't want to say this, not because there were girls in the expedition group, but because the rain was too heavy, and a mouthful of fishy rain would drift in if he opened his mouth slightly. But not to say no, speeding up the mountain in the face of heavy rain is a big challenge even for the elementalists, and in this case, he needs to boost the morale of the team.
When there were still three kilometers away from the destination, Ye Ruohua slipped, the rope led everyone back, Han Shihao stood firm and stopped the decline, Lan Borou hurriedly helped Ye Ruohua up, and put on the hood that almost slipped by the way.
Two kilometers from his destination, Feng Hao plunged into a swamp covered with grass. Everyone worked together to grab the rope and pull him and Ling Haoyun out of his back.
When there was still a kilometer away from the destination, a large nine-node insect entangled Wang Shun, and there was a type of insect type that could still move freely on a rainy night among the insect-like primordial beasts, and the knife in Mo Meng's hand flashed, and the nine-node insect fell to the ground in response.
The road was difficult, and the team walked slowly with the faint light of the shaking lamp, until a mound jutting out of the ground appeared in front of them, and a dark cavern.
"Get the out of here!" the fat uncle yelled as soon as he perked up.
Everyone almost crawled into the cave, and everyone sat on the ground gasping for breath, their clothes sticking to their bodies and falling heavily, and they were wet like chickens in soup.
Uncle Fat raised the rocking lamp in his hand, and the bright purple light reflected back from all directions. Even a rough man like Uncle Fat lost his mind for a moment in this moment of beauty.
The Amethyst Cave, the ultimate goal of the actual combat class, they have finally arrived.
To be continued......