Gaiden Chapter 3: Secrets in the Jungle (3)

The soft green grass, the dappled sunlight that casts through the cracks in the canopy, the fresh air, the chirping of insects and birds, and the occasional squirrel shuttling between the branches.

Stop daydreaming! You can only see the above scenes in the forest park!

The muddy ground, the shrubs and vines, the thickness of the dense tropical trees, the smell of humus mixed with the rancid stench of a corpse that has not yet been eaten, make people want to block out all sense of smell, echoing in the ears is the roar of the jungle animals asserting their territory, the squirrels shuttling between the branches are not at all, but the black-haired gorillas can often be seen clutching thick vines and floating between the canopy.

The primeval forest is divided into several levels according to height, with the sturdy tropical tiger dominating the ground, the jungle cheetah shuttling between the lower trunks, and the canopy dominated by a variety of muscular tropical orangutans, primates that stand taller than a human in groups wander between the canopy, occasionally blasting down from the upper areas of the primeval forest, turning a hapless egg into a pile of meat sauce to be used as a snack for themselves.

This is the real tropical forest, full of dangers and unfathomable! It stubbornly rejects the invasion of civilization and progress, and protects its territory with barbarism and ignorance.

The only people who can come and go here freely are the forest trolls with green skin, who are over two and a half meters tall and look significantly more terrifying than the sand trolls, the green skin gives them a natural protective color in the forest, and the strong resilience can even allow the forest trolls to regrow a limb in less than a day.

They are the true rulers of this primeval forest, relying on the countless relics left behind by the Gulabash Empire, the forest trolls are distributed throughout the primeval forest in clans, rejecting all outsiders, whether they are from the Orderly or Chaos camp.

In fact, the chaos camp looks more like a loose alliance of a bunch of lone wanderers forced to do so than the unity of the orderly camp. Taking trolls as an example, the number of existing trolls in the entire continent of Entagre is at least not much less than that of humans, and the area is also spread over the entire world, but in fact, less than one-tenth of the trolls are actually willing to obey orders and contribute to the chaos camp.

As he continued to go deeper, Charlie's spirit was completely tense. He knew very well how dangerous it could be to rush into the jungle. This kind of behavior is usually only done by the big guilds, who will gather a group of strong members, usually no less than thirty people, with enough supplies and equipment, and slowly advance along the route detected by the pioneers on the outskirts of the jungle, and face all kinds of sudden dangers at any time.

Even so, every time the big guilds organized an exploration of the jungle, they would pay a heavy price, less than a third of them could come out of it alive, and the vast majority died under the claws of those dangerous jungle animals, and the unlucky ones even ran into trolls who came out to hunt.

An adult forest troll has at least a fifth-order strength, and in an environment like the jungle, even if the players have good cooperation with each other, it will take at least ten people to deal with a troll. The cunning forest trolls, on the other hand, quickly learn to use a variety of poisons and traps against the player after suffering a few losses at first.

After entering the jungle, Alan and the past took off the wide cloak with the wind, revealing the body hidden under the cloak, unlike Charlie, the equipment on the two undead was not ordinary at first glance, especially Alan, Charlie was sure that even the best green leather armor equipment in Treasure Bay could not emit fire-like blue light spots like the leather armor worn by this undead assassin.

"Well, don't we have to find a safe place to rest first?" It was already past noon when they set off, and according to the rules that the big guilds had figured out, the jungle was more dangerous at night, and most predators would take advantage of the cooler temperatures to hunt, and the player's vision and perception range at night was much lower than usual, which made them have to make sure they found a camp safe enough to survive the night before the sun went down.

"No, we are undead and don't need to rest! If your soul energy is too much to consume, it's best to let us know an hour in advance. The past turned back to Charlie and smiled, "When the time comes, I'll tie you to that big bag with a rope and drag you on!" Rest assured, I won't leave you alone. ”

Charlie didn't know where the confidence of the two men came from, he admitted that their strength may be strong, and the past alone is enough to crush the group of players at the city gate, and the other guy who calls himself Alan may be stronger. But no matter how powerful they are, can they still rely on two people to deal with those terrible forest trolls? That's a powerful monster that would take up to ten elite players!

Or did they trust the bottles too much? Thinking that smearing the sweat of a troll on yourself would make those terrible forest deaths unable to find them? But the problem is that the equipment on their bodies is so conspicuous, and the black leather armor from head to tail is like a guiding light in the forest.

"You just have to do your job as a guide! You don't have to worry about the rest! Alan didn't look back, but he didn't stop under his feet, and he didn't seem to have any intention of letting Charlie lead the way.

Charlie sighed and had to silently follow. At first, he thought that these two undead players were looking for a guide because they didn't know the direction, after all, the jungle of the Valley of Thorns is no better than other places, here, you can't find any references, and the players don't have a so-called mini-map in the world of Entagre, if they don't have a strong enough sense of direction and the ability to confirm their direction, all that awaits them is getting lost and dying.

But Ailan has been following Yu Bin for so long, and he doesn't know how many areas he has walked through, and his ability to identify the direction is not as bad as Yu Bin's veteran, at least it will not be too bad. There is no need to worry about getting lost in the jungle.

So Charlie finally determined that the only reason why the other party wanted to bring him was so that he could provide information about those jungle creatures at any time. This information is only known to players who have been in Booty Bay for a long time, and they can quickly determine whether the creature in front of them is dangerous, what characteristics they have, and which parts can be sold or used as raw materials.

Charlie is not so much a guide as a living dictionary, and even if this dictionary can only contain information about a small number of jungle creatures, it is a very important tool for Elan and them.

It's hard to pinpoint exactly what time is inside the jungle, and many times, the canopy overhead will completely block out the sunlight, causing the ground to be dark, so players tend to avoid this area when exploring the jungle. But Alan and the past are looking for such a place to move forward, as if they are looking for something on purpose.

"Shadow Leopard, have you heard of it?" As if seeing Charlie's doubts, the past said as the wind cut off a vine in front of him with a dagger. The dagger was so sharp that it took almost no effort to cut the arm-thick vine in two, and the cut was smooth, and Charlie estimated that the sharpness was at least 6 or more.

"Shadow Leopard?" Charlie shook his head, the players' exploration of the Valley of Thorns was still in its early stages at this stage, and just those ordinary jungle animals had already made them anxious, let alone encountering this extremely rare monster, "I have only heard of the Black Panther, which is said to be an elite breed of Jungle Cheetah, from those players in the Grand Guild. ”

Alan untied a fluted whetstone from his belt, and Charlie found that these two undead players were very careful to take care of their equipment, and they would definitely use a whetstone to polish each dagger three or four times, unlike those ordinary players, who never cared about a weapon from the moment they got it, and when the blade was dull or rusty, they would throw it to the blacksmith to re-polish it, and then continue to use it.

While sharpening the blade with a whetstone, he answered Charlie's questions. The moisture in the jungle and the sap flowing from the vine cuts will slowly corrode all kinds of iron weapons, and there may be no effect in the short term, but over time, the sharpness will decrease significantly. Alan doesn't want to find that his weapon can't even cut through the enemy's skin when he needs to fight!

"Jungle cheetahs are ordinary monsters, and their strength is between the second and third orders. Some of them will break through this limit for various reasons and become a dense forest black panther, and their strength will be at least the third order, and they can even reach the fourth order. If it can go further, it will be called a deep-throated cheetah, which is larger in size and will reach the fifth order. "This information was told to them by Yu Bin in advance, in addition to trolls, chimpanzees, jungle tigers and cheetahs are even the most common high-level monsters in the Valley of Thorns, of course, there are crocodiles in some rivers, but ghost leopards rarely live near rivers, so they can be ignored.

"As for the Phantom Leopard, well, it's actually an alienated variant of the cheetah. They had awakened a certain talent when they were cubs, and they were able to make their fur as imperceptible as shadows, and the adult Shadow Leopard also possessed at least sixth-order strength! ”

Charlie's mouth opened wide, what did he hear? Just kidding, right? Could it be that these two undead players thought that the two of them alone could hunt a sixth-order monster? Even the most powerful warrior in Booty Bay, Mogberg, the leader of the Garcia Guild, probably wouldn't have such a fantastical daydream!

"He's terrified!" The past shrugged his shoulders with the wind.

"As long as he can come in handy when necessary!" Alan didn't care.

Maybe in Charlie's eyes, sixth-order monsters are so unattainable, but for Ailan, they don't know how many monsters they have killed with Yu Bin, and there are many fifth-order and sixth-order monsters. If you're targeting undead creatures like skeletons or zombies, that might be a bit of a problem. But no matter how you say it, the Phantom Leopard is also a living animal, not to mention the sixth order, even if it is the seventh order, if it has its throat cut, it will still die.

That's the difference between advanced players and average players. Ordinary players will only fight in the dumbest way, killing the target by using a little bit of the enemy's health. And advanced players like Yu Bin and Ailan are completely free from that clumsy way, as long as they find the enemy's weakness, it is not impossible to kill with one hit.

"There is a situation!" The past said in a low voice with the wind, and the body instantly entered a ghostly state, blending into the surrounding air, and a few seconds later, the past that had completed the reconnaissance reappeared in front of Charlie and Alan with the wind, "It's a jungle python, sleeping under the shade of the tree in front." ”

"I don't want to waste my time on this kind of thing."

This is not the first time, and it is certainly not the last, the ability of the past with the wind to detect has to be said to be very suitable, as long as the ghost of the past with the wind does not take the initiative to appear, even if they stand in front of those monsters, they can't find it, of course, in the face of the ghost leopard, which has broken away from ordinary creatures and entered the level of magical creatures, the past with the wind can't be so big.

Charlie followed the two of them in surprise, changing direction and bypassing the area. He knew very well that it wasn't that Ailan couldn't defeat that monster, not to mention a third-order jungle python, even if it was a colorful tiger known as the king of the jungle, Charlie had also seen Ailan, an undead assassin, cut each other's throats and stomachs with those two daggers in less than a minute, and when he turned into a corpse, he skillfully peeled off a small piece of soft skin of the best quality.

It was the first time he had ever seen someone play with daggers, and those two daggers flew up and down like embroidery needles in Alan's hands with a terrible beauty.

"You're going to just look for it? With just the two of us, even if it takes a few months, I am afraid that we will not be able to search one percent of this primeval forest. The past casually asked, "The boss can't wait a few months, right?" ”

Although Yu Bin did not limit the specific time, but the past with the wind did not believe that Ailan would wander in this primeval forest so aimlessly for a few months, he originally thought that Ailan would find a way to hire a group of players, and even aborigines, in the treasure bay to search for the traces of the ghost leopard together, but he didn't expect that he only bought a map and a few bottles of potions in that tavern.

"Don't worry, someone will come to our aid!" has been messing around with Yu Bin for a long time, and Ailan has inevitably contracted some bad habits, such as secretly calculating others.

The past glanced at Charlie with the wind: "I think, it can't be him, right?" ”

"Didn't you kill a group at the gate of the city? If they want revenge, they will follow us into the jungle, or they won't get anything when we die. ”

"What if they don't dare to come? They all look like a bunch of cowards, maybe they're scared! ”

"Those big guilds won't give up on a master like you."

"What if you don't like me?"

"You've learned to lift the bar! Well, if those players are soft-boozes, then I'm going to have to go find the real snake here. ”

"Who?"

Alan pointed to the depths of the jungle, "Trolls! Who else knows this jungle better than those forest trolls? Maybe they have what we want? Of course, I'd rather hunt it myself, the smell of the trolls is just too bad. ”

"How do you get involved with those trolls? According to the tavernkeeper, the forest trolls here don't care if you're from the chaos camp or not! ”

"So I brought them a welcome gift!" Alan secretly pointed to Charlie, who was not far behind him, "If this meeting gift can't satisfy those guys, then I have to use the guys in my hand to talk to them." ”