Chapter 325: Wayfinding and Suicide
The biggest problem with getting lost in a place like a grassland or a sea of sand with no obvious markers is not the loss itself, but the feeling of loneliness and fear that forces you to keep walking and moving. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ The more you move agitatedly, the more tired and lost you will be, and eventually you will die of fear and hunger after exhausting all your supplies.
"Hey, it's still in the territory of the water beast...... "Black Carbon lowered his body and crushed a handful of feces on the ground.
"Is that all? No other way? Feng Chen sat down dejectedly, the boy still had injuries on his body, and he was almost at the limit now.
Hours had passed since the team realized they had lost their way, and it was already getting dark. The team circled around the territory of the water beasts, and every time they thought they were going to go out, a piece of monster excrement would appear in front of everyone's eyes like a demonstration.
The teenagers tried to let Black Tan and the cat lead the way with a weak sense of direction, and Qin Shuiyu also took out a magnetic needle for a guide, but Ailu's talent completely lost its accuracy, and the magnetic needle shook violently and couldn't stop. Feng Chen even started to communicate, pinning his hopes on Dajin, but the golden giant ape failed to bring any good luck to everyone.
Fortunately, the two Ailu cats in the team are veterans who have been through the storm for a long time, not to mention the black charcoal, and the cats also show a competence that is not commensurate with Meimeng's appearance. There were two old boatmen pressing the formation, and the team did not waste their physical strength indiscriminately, and the speed of moving forward and the frequency of rest were within a controllable range, so that everyone's energy was consumed as slowly as possible. But this is just a drink to quench thirst, and before the essence of the vision in front of you is understood, every waste of energy is destined to be nothing but a bamboo basket to fetch water, and it is impossible to get anything in return.
"The fog looks like it's trying to trap us here." Jia Xiao sat on Dajin's back, his face becoming more and more gloomy as the team tried again and again in vain.
"It wasn't specifically aimed at us, but with the fog, the nearby magnetic field was also disturbed." The cat sniffed the smell around and confirmed that there were no monsters next to her, so she sat down to rest with peace of mind.
"Cat, you have a way, right?" The girl did not wait for the attendant to sit down, so she grabbed it and hugged it in front of her, and little Ailu twisted her body, and gave up as if she were nesting in the arms of the little master, as if doing so would bring her a sense of security.
In places such as grasslands and deserts, hunters in the past have long summed up a set of ways to identify directions, maintain physical strength, and contact the outside world to save themselves and call for help. But in the sea of swampy fog, most of these lost their meaning. There is no sun or moon in the sky, and the distress signal sent out is not clear from a distance of 100 meters, and even stupid methods such as leaving markers are hardly effective - in the thick fog, pedestrians may even pass by their own markers.
"Otherwise, let's just not leave." Feng Chen proposed, "The fog will always disperse, so don't you just wait until the evening to hurry?" β
"Are you tired and crazy?" Black Carbon replied impatiently, "This is a swamp, and the night is when monsters are most active. Last night thanks to the Golden Retriever for finding a safe place, otherwise we would have fed the beast a long time ago, and it would be difficult to have the good fortune of yesterday if we did it again. β
"What's more, the main problem is not the fog, but the lack of direction...... We have circled around this place several times, and we have completely lost sight of things, and even if we can survive the night safely, even if the fog clears tomorrow morning, as long as the chaotic magnetic field does not recover, our situation will still be no different from what we are now. β
The Swamp was flat and the landscape was identical for hundreds of miles, and the team was able to identify the direction at first, relying on the territory of the large predators that dotted it. Connected to each other, they became a rough reference for hunters when they traveled. But now that the swamp has changed, the location and shape of these territories have also changed, and it is impossible to discern the direction unless a large number of explorers are scattered and put together into a new map.
"Phew, if it's really fierce, there is no way for us to live." Feng Chen sat down, and the golden retriever also followed the example of a young man, and sat down on the ground dejectedly, scratching his ears and cheeks at a loss, looking very cute, but no hunter could laugh at the moment.
"Speaking of which, we've been wandering here for a long time, and we haven't seen a monster yet, where are all the water beasts in this territory?" Jia Xiao said suspiciously to himself.
"The way we look now, are we still looking forward to meeting monsters?" Black Charcoal licked his flesh and reached out to feel the direction of the wind.
"No, there will be at least dozens of small monsters in the territory of the water beasts, and the beasts are even more restless in the fog than hunters." Jia Xiao patted Dajin's back, the latter's wound was torn open by his own claw, Feng Chenzheng took some dragon sprouts on the spot and helped him apply it to heal, "For such a long time, we can't not hear the slightest sound, the silence in this thick fog is really terrifying." β
"I haven't heard anything." Black Tan replied without a match, and raised his arms in all directions, "Alas, the direction of the wind has changed again, where is this fog going to drift?" β
"Black charcoal!" The cat was half-squinting and pretending to sleep, but when it arrived, it was like she had been stepped on by her tail and broke out of the girl's arms. The tip of the female Ailu's nose twitched twice in the wind, "It's the smell of blood." β
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In the Lost Realm, there is no goal more terrifying than a battle. Even though they knew that nothing good awaited the source of the blood, both the Hunter and Eru agreed to go with this goalβat least after all this time, they could finally walk in a straight line.
The source of the smell was only a kilometer away from the place where Fang had just rested, and it took ten minutes to walk there under the leadership of Ailu. Two hundred meters away, even human noses can smell the smell of blood, but everyone has been devastated by the body odor of the golden retriever for a long time, and this tolerance is still there.
The pace of the whole team slowed down, and the two cats who were still fighting took out their weapons and guarded the wounded in the center. Under the communication of Feng Chen, Daikin also slowed down and lightened his breathing. After walking for more than 100 meters in this way, the expected monster attack did not appear, and the black charcoal stood still somewhere, and the weapon was retracted on his back: "This is it, this piece has the strongest smell." β
"Black Charcoal Brother, Aquatic Beast...... It's all aquatic beasts! Little Orion's eyes widened, and he pointed to a certain clearing.
Everyone broke through the fog, and there were monster corpses everywhere, each of the water snake-like aquatic beasts was only more than two meters long, and there were more than twenty piled on the ground. Almost all of them were bleeding and dying of bruises, covered in tooth marks and bruises from impacts.
The cat crouched down and examined the monster's corpse, "The muscles are stiff, and it's been dead for a long time." β
"Maybe I'm too careful, but ...... The wounds of these aquatic beasts," Jia Xiao slowly moved down from Dajin's back, "as if they were inflicted themselves, you see, the jagged bite marks are exactly the same as their fangs." β
"The aquatic beasts got together on their own, and then bit each other, and then they committed suicide in a team?" Qin Shuiyu tilted her head, and with her shallow hunting qualifications, she couldn't judge the current situation.
"Indeed!" Feng Chen took two steps away, "Look at this one, until it dies, its mouth is still biting on the body of its companion." Little Orion poked the monster's corpse with the edge of his shield, and with a slight force on his arm, he actually sank into the skin of the aquatic beast.
"Watch out, Dust Boy, that one is still alive!" Jia Xiao shouted.