Chapter 4: Dragons
At present, Xindongyang is divided into four major divisions: east, west, north and south. Except for the North Zone, which is dominated by the remnants of the East, the other three areas have been occupied by countless monsters.
Nine days have passed in the blink of an eye, and Claudia and her party have gotten closer and closer to West 69. At this time, the number of people in the team was five fewer than before. And almost every one of the rest was tired, dusty, and didn't look much better than a refugee.
In the center of the line, Claudia also looked haggard, with chapped lips and earthy hair on her hair. She never imagined that there would be such a dangerous place in the world.
You must know that half of their team can be capable. The leader of the team, Tares, is a level 4 ability, and he has many years of adventure experience. But even so, they still lost six people along the way, and their mental and physical strength were almost to the limit.
Along the way, Claudia and the others have encountered cheetahs that can become invisible, praying mantis larger than people, monsters that can spew lava, hundreds of square meters of woods, and trees that can move and hunt.
All kinds of monsters make the team members physically and mentally exhausted. Only Tarres is still in good spirits all day, and each day looks like the first day of departure.
At this time, the team had reached West 68 District. In front of them, there was an endless scorched earth, without trees or flowers, like a desert of life, and there was no sign of life in sight.
In the distance of the scorched earth, there is a volcano that constantly smokes, and occasionally erupts sporadic magma. Waves of tremors were heard in the earth, making people wonder if the next moment the volcano would erupt in full force.
One of the team members said, "There are no monsters here, right?" ”
Another said, "Is it okay for us to go this way, the volcano looks like it's going to erupt at any moment." ”
Tarres smiled and didn't speak. But Claudia on the side had already seen the other party's abilities in the past few days, and when she saw Tarres's expression at this time, she couldn't help but ask, "What." Are they not right? ”
Tarres shook his head, "Do you know the way?" In nature, powerful creatures have their own territory, and other species are very rare in their territory. ”
A big man heard Tarres's statement and asked, "Are you saying that the place we are in now is the territory of some powerful creature?" ”
Tarres nodded and replied, "The entire West 68 District is the territory of the Golden Three-Headed Dragon. This monster is more than a hundred meters long, weighs tens of thousands of tons, and has the ability to manipulate gravity. When I first found him. Hundreds of soldiers were directly sacrificed. ”
When a young man next to him heard Tares's introduction, he immediately became afraid: "Then what are we going to do here, in case we are discovered by this monster, we are not finished?" ”
The others also looked at Tareth in puzzlement, but after a few days of getting along, they all knew Tares's ability, and the other party was by no means a brainless death-seeker, so they were all waiting for his explanation.
Tarres didn't disappoint the crowd either, and explained, "Although the golden three-headed dragon is very powerful. But compared to the other monsters, he was already very gentle, as he slept in that volcano for most of the month. ”
He pointed to the volcano in the distance that was constantly emitting smoke and said, "This monster usually absorbs the energy of the volcano in it, so this volcano seems to be very active. But in fact, it will not explode. As long as we pass quietly and don't wake him, the route is very safe. ”
The next group ran in the direction of the volcano, according to Tares. Just climb over this volcano to reach the destination of this trip, West 69.
But along the way. Everyone was reminded by Tares, and they behaved cautiously, and they didn't dare to make a loud noise, and if they had anything to say, they all lowered their voices, for fear of waking up the golden three-headed dragon in the volcano.
Two hours later, they had climbed halfway up the mountain, the temperature around them was getting warmer, and the smell of sulfur was in the air.
However, no one complained at this time, and the nine-day journey has made everyone in the team understand that Xindongyang is definitely not a good place for vacation, and any carelessness or mistake may kill people.
At this moment, on Tarres's shoulder, the little thing like a ferret suddenly squeaked a few times, and Tarres looked in the direction of the little thing, and he could see a strange flower blooming under a cliff.
"Wait for me." As he spoke, he put down his backpack, took out his tools, and ran in the direction of the flower.
The people in the same team are no longer surprised, the little thing on Tares's shoulder is also a species discovered by Xindongyang, named the money rat, which has a strong sense of smell and vision, and is always able to find some more valuable animals and plants.
It is thanks to this money rat that Tarres has been able to discover many things of special value and avoid deadly crises again and again. In fact, when many powerful people are exploring in New Dongyang, they will find a way to subdue one or two useful creatures to help the exploration.
Because the Great Xia government does not allow too dangerous creatures to grow out of Xindongyang, they often choose creatures that are not strong in combat but have special skills, such as the Money Rat.
Everyone couldn't help but look envious as Tares carefully dug up the flowers from the cliff and stuffed them into a fur pocket on his belt.
It was a pocket made of the skin of a type called the Void Dragon, which was very weak, about the size of an ordinary person's arm, but it possessed a strange space bag ability, which could hide in the space bag when encountering danger. A pocket made of his leather has a chance to become a space pocket.
I heard that there are only more than 100 similar pockets produced so far, and 80% of them have been taken away by the Great Xia government. Because this kind of space pocket has aroused great interest from a certain director in the Eighth Research Institute, he is fully deciphering the principle of it.
After placing the flowers in the space pocket, a satisfied smile appeared on Tares' face.
His pockets are not large, and they are all used to store everything that is not easy to keep, or that is particularly precious, so he still has to carry a backpack.
"Alright, let's go." With Tarres saying this, the group set out on their journey again, heading towards the top of the volcano.
But they walked for more than ten minutes. Suddenly, there was a loud beast roar in the sky.
With the roar of this beast, the entire volcanic area seemed to be lively, and many strange-shaped insects crawled out of the rocks, like the end of the world, running in all directions.
Just as everyone was panicking, the second beast roar came from the sky again, accompanied by a sonic boom, and a palpitating feeling pressed down on everyone's hearts.
It is the most primitive fear of human beings, like a frog encountering a snake, a sheep encountering a wolf. There was a look of fear in everyone's eyes. There are even a few people who directly have weak legs. I almost sat down on the floor.
"Damn, it's Long Wei!"
Tarres looked into the sky, only to see a dark shadow in mid-air, and in an instant, he was above the volcano.
Pitch-black scale armor, thick limbs, and wings more than 200 meters wide. What flew in the sky was a black dragon that only existed in myths and legends.
Everyone present looked at the black dragon hovering in the sky with ugly faces, and an angry dragon roar came out of the black dragon's mouth. Even a stupid person can see that he is provocative.
Tarres's face turned pale, and he said incredulously, "What's going on." Why would the black dragon come here? Why did he provoke the golden three-headed dragon? ”
However, in the eyes of these behemoths, there is clearly no place for Tarres. With the black dragon's roar again and again, the entire volcano began to shake violently, and a golden-colored dragon head emerged from the crater. There were still bits and pieces of magma left on the dragon's head, and there was a series of sizzling sounds from the dragon's mouth to the volcanic rock.
Then he saw the golden-colored dragon head aiming at the sky, and also let out a terrifying roar. The audible sound waves spread in all directions, and the entire volcano shuddered violently, and large chunks of corpses fell.
And in the ranks. Most of the people were staggered by the beast's roar, and the terrible sound waves even made them all ringing in their ears, and they couldn't hear anything.
Tarres' face sank, he grabbed Claudia on the side, and shouted loudly: "Hurry up!" Come on! They're fighting for turf! Hurry up and get away before they go to war! ”
Several of the stronger ones followed directly behind Tarres, and some of the weaker ones also staggered to their feet.
As he ran, Tarres turned his head with an ugly face, and saw that in the crater, three huge golden dragon heads had all emerged, and with a terrible beast roar, countless rocks began to shatter, and the black dragon in the sky also fell towards the crater.
'It's a gravitational field!' The power of the golden three-headed dragon! Damn it! Seeing this, Tarres realized that the golden three-headed dragon had used his ability to increase the gravitational field near him, a move that had crushed a special forces into meat sauce in an instant.
Now he turned his head to look, and saw that where they had been standing, the team members who had walked a few steps later had all been pressed to the ground, squeezed and deformed little by little.
In the crater, with the impact of the black dragon, the two behemoths all rolled and fell towards the depths of the volcano, and Tarres could only hear an angry beast roar, and felt the whole ground shake under his feet.
Just like that, he could feel how fierce the battle between the two terrifying monsters was, if it was on the Eastern Continent, the battle between the two might directly destroy a city.
At this time, he was not impressed, what method did the high-level of Great Xia use to restrain all these dangerous monsters on Dongyang Island.
Then Tarres thought again: "But what is going on, why did the black dragon come back to provoke, is it to fight for territory?" But I remember that the black dragon has its own territory, right? ”
Tarres thought as he quickly ran down the hill with the rest of the team, everyone behind him, including Claudia, pale and frightened. At this time, no one is thinking about West 69, and getting away from these two monsters is the highest priority.
But fortunately, the two monsters only had each other in their eyes, and they didn't have time to care about Tarres and their little bugs, so half an hour later, the group finally escaped safely to the foot of the volcano, and all looked at the direction of the crater with palpitations, and there were still bursts of beast roars.
Just as the group began to think about what to do next, waves of unsettled waves rose again, and another sound came from the sky.
This time it was no longer the dragon's roar before, but a loud thunderous sound.
A big man looked at the sky in confusion and muttered, "Thunder? It's going to rain? ”
But as the sound of thunder sounded, the next moment, something happened that stunned everyone, the black dragon and the golden three-headed dragon crawled out of the crater at the same time, they looked like dog men and women who were caught and raped in bed after fornication. Even Tarres and the others could see the panic in their movements.
I watched the two giant beasts crawl out of the crater, and they didn't dare to roar, and they didn't fight, but they picked two opposite directions and flew out like lost dogs.
Tarres was amazed, "They? Is it on the run? (To be continued......)