Chapter 42: Infiltration
Another month had passed when Zhang Jin came to Xuedun Mountain again, the weather in March had begun to warm up, and the Welsh Green Dragon Reserve at the top of Xuedun Mountain had become warmer, as if it was about to enter summer.
After another month of preparation, Zhang Jin began to officially sneak in.
First of all, the invisibility cloak is a must, so once again thank Professor Dumbledore for his friendly patronage, so let's forget what this old man was hiding before, who made him stronger.
Dumbledore did come here when he was young, but at that time, Dumbledore had not yet obtained the Potter family's invisibility cloak, so he was not able to go deep into it at that time, and was forced to withdraw without even walking to the lake, which may have been quite embarrassing.
According to Dumbledore, most of the herbivores in this forest are in addition to the green dragon, such as warthogs, ironclad rhinoceros, bighorned sika deer, etc., but there should be a large number of carnivorous magical animals, guessing that it may be because the green dragon is subconsciously controlling the number of carnivorous magical animals, so as not to make the food supply insufficient, but these animals don't have to worry too much.
In addition to the green dragon, what should be paid more attention to is the plants and insects here, because it is a primeval forest, there are many dangerous magic plants here, such as devil vines, biting bananas, poisonous fangs, etc. are very common here, and more are some dangerous plants that cannot be named, many of them can recognize the invisibility spell and the illusion spell, probably because they are plants, and the way of perception is different from that of people.
Therefore, be careful when sneaking in, try not to approach unknown plants as much as possible, or take precautions in advance.
Because once they are discovered by these plants, it is difficult to get out, in addition to their own attack ability, there are also a large number of different kinds of insects living near each plant, most of these insects are poisonous or have powerful attack ability, they will attack the target according to the guidance of the plant, thus causing greater movement, until the target dies or is finally discovered by the Welsh green dragon.
And Dumbledore was discovered by a mandrake who changed the pit, and the mandrake's cry attracted a large number of vampire moths, which confused old Deng at that time, and finally, before being discovered by the green dragon, Dumbledore relied on Fawkes's ability to escape.
And when those moths flapped their wings, the toxins would spread, and these toxins had a very hallucinogenic effect, which is why Dumbledore almost broke here.
Therefore, Dumbledore's resistance to illusions is really average, which can also show that the impact of that incident on him is really too great.
And Zhang Jin's approach is to find a group of warthogs first, control the leader of this group of warthogs to explore the way in front, and he himself wears an invisibility cloak to apply various protective spells to follow behind, the warthogs can not only prevent being discovered by the Welsh green dragon, but also can be used as targets and traps to prevent Zhang Jin from encountering those dangerous plants.
In order to catch food, these plants have become masters of camouflage one by one, for example, Zhang Jin saw a devil vine that turned itself into an ordinary shrub, and when the warthog approached, he immediately wrapped it from all directions, and then pulled it away and disappeared, and the whole process was completed in less than two minutes.
Because of this, Zhang Jin walked more and more carefully in the forest.
It wasn't until they consumed fifteen warthogs that they finally came to the lake, and this was because these warthogs had been living in this forest for a long time, so there were some plants that these warthogs did not dare to approach from beginning to end, and those plants were certainly not as ordinary as they appeared.
If Zhang Jin were to come by himself, even if he had an invisibility cloak, he would definitely have to use magic, and once he used powerful magic here, it would inevitably attract the attention of other creatures in the forest, which would most likely lead to being besieged by fire dragons.
It is impossible to single-handedly take on more than 300 fire dragons, Zhang Jin is not crazy yet!
After Zhang Jin's careful exploration and the selflessness of the warthogs, the water vapor emitted by the lake can already be seen in front, but at this time the warthogs controlled by Zhang Jin are gone, and the last one just disappeared on the grass in front, and it was very unfortunate to fall into a meadow, ending its glorious mission.
Obviously, there was a swamp in front of him, which was also a common terrain by the lake in the primeval forest, and there was no time to pray for the warthog, so Zhang Jin could only find a way to walk through the last section by himself.
Zhang Jin was optimistic when he came in before, and now he should be closer to the lake on both sides, that is, the depression in the middle of the entire gourd.
Although you have to walk through a large forest, you can shorten the distance you can travel in the lake, and I believe that the danger in the lake is not less than in the forest.
However, probably because of the fact that it is located in the middle of the two lakes, the swamp area here is not small, and there are many trees growing in the swamp, but there are significantly fewer creatures, and some vines that prefer humid environments are more dense.
For example, the devil vine that Zhang Jin can recognize, five or six have been found at this moment, but it is too late to change directions, so he can only continue to move forward.
Then apply a light feather charm to yourself to prevent yourself from falling into a swamp, and then use Transfiguration to turn a piece of dead wood into another warthog to continue to explore, and the main body will naturally follow.
Soon, the warthog died again after just a few steps forward, it was definitely not a swamp at this time, Zhang Jin still remembered to cast magic on the warthog.
It was sacrificed to a crocodile-like creature with the body of a crocodile and a head more like a fish, which suddenly sprang out of the swamp and dragged the warthog into dead wood in one bite.
This is really not a place for ordinary wizards.
However, Zhang Jin is not too worried, and now he has entered the range shrouded in water vapor, although it is only the edge, but it is difficult to be discovered by those green dragons if he casts a spell here.
As long as the movement of the spell casting is smaller, this is not just doing whatever he wants, so Zhang Jin directly put a few iron armor spells on himself, and a few more deformed warthogs came around, and then continued to move forward, and soon came to the real lake.
From the junction, there is not much difference between the two sides of the lake, both are dark and bottomless, somewhat similar to the black lake of Hogwarts, only some black shadows can be seen in the lake, but you can know with your toes that there will definitely be some aquatic creatures that are not easy to mess with.
It's just that after being able to cast spells, it's not necessarily who is more difficult to mess with, after all, Severus. Snape was also not a vegetarian, so he took out the gill sac grass he had prepared in advance and swallowed it in one gulp.
Zhang Jin swears, no one would want to chew gill sac grass, that slimy feeling is really disgusting!
Enduring the tumbling of his stomach and the pain of his body deformation, Zhang Jin jumped directly into the lake.