Chapter 300: Exploration
After a long day of exploring, the pirates returned to the campfire camp on the west bank and reported what happened to Bucky.
They didn't see anyone on the island, but almost all of them encountered a strange insect that resembled locusts, but the insects encountered by different teams were of different colors, some encountered this insect with a pink shell, some encountered a blue-brown shell, some encountered a turquoise shell, and some encountered a light white shell.
This insect is very aggressive, and it stings people when they see it, but fortunately, there are not many of them, only a few of them, and the pirates of several teams worked together to solve it, and the pirates who were stung were also immediately sent to Keya for treatment, and it was not life-threatening.
In addition to this insect, there are also some pirates who encounter crab-like creatures in the shallows, which are also extremely aggressive, appearing in swarms and in large numbers.
Two wooden watchtowers were found in an uninhabited plain, less than seven kilometers southwest of the island, but no patrols were seen.
Listening to the report, Bucky nodded, and didn't feel anything wrong with the strange creatures, after all, this is a new world, the most dangerous and difficult sea area.
He planned to continue exploring the island tomorrow, using the two watchtowers as a clue to grope his way towards the center of the island.
After dinner, everyone rested around the campfire, and the entire forest on the west bank was lit one after another.
It was about late at night, and the flames of the campfire had faded considerably.
There was a slight noise behind the tree, and a shadow that seemed to be there flashed away.
Gradually, a covetous gaze crept out, looking at the campfire in the forest and at the resting people.
The moment the figure moved back to his gaze, he suddenly felt something, and hurriedly pulled out the arc scimitar on his waist and held it on his side to resist.
Boom!
A delicate thin line crossed the air, and the arc scimitar broke in response.
Kabaji turned his back to the man, holding in his hand the cherry blossom snow that shone in the faint light, and said indifferently, "Tonight...... It's me who keeps vigil. ”
The man was silent, and after taking a small breath, he fled in a panic into the depths of the woods.
……
The dark clouds on the horizon dispersed, and the clear moonlight poured down.
With the countless birds startled in the forest, Kabaji's figure slowly paced out of the dark forest, flung the figure in his hand to the campfire, and waited for Bucky's disposal.
Bucky had long been alarmed, and could see the man's appearance in the moonlight and firelight.
He wore a wooden mask with a mutilated corner on his face, his upper body was bare, and his lower body was wearing plain dark blue shorts, blue and black stockings that were pulled up to his knees, and three somewhat hard feathers hung around his waist, like special tokens.
"Take your mask off." Bucky looked at each other.
The man turned his head slightly, looked at the huge number of people around him, hesitated for half a second, knew that there was no hope of escape, and took off his mask.
It is a very ordinary middle-aged uncle's face, with a somewhat dark complexion, and thick eyebrows raised towards the temples, which will look very strange at first glance, but after looking at it for a long time, it becomes a little pleasing to the eye.
"Who are you?" Instead, he asked rhetorically first.
"We're pirates who just came to the New World......"
Bucky didn't hide it, and looked at the other party calmly, "What about you, are you the natives of this island?" ”
"Pirates...... It turns out that you are pirates. ”
This person could probably know what kind of identity this was, although his face did not show uneasiness, but he was forced by his situation, so he had to answer, "My name is Onli Feng Bo, and I am a third-level sentry stationed in Amber Village......
As he spoke, he persuaded in a deep voice, "It's dangerous here, I advise you to leave this island as soon as possible." ”
Bucky ignored it for a moment and continued to ask, "How many people are in your village?" ”
"I said it, this island is dangerous......" Anli Feng Bo repeated, but seeing that the people in front of him were indifferent, he swallowed back what he wanted to say next, and exhaled, "Less than a thousand." ”
"How many similar villages are there on the island?"
"Twenty-one." He glanced at Bucky, who was calm, and answered truthfully.
"Is there anything other than the village?"
"Hmm...... There is also a ...... of the Sacrifice House."
"What is the Sacrificial House?"
"It's a big town in the middle of the island."
Bucky smiled slightly, "You know the times very well. ”
Onlly Feng Bo sighed with a sad face.
Bucky didn't ask for the other party's opinion, and said in an irrefutable tone, "Stay and be my guide, I still have some things to ask you." ”
Onli Feng Bo hesitated for a moment and asked, "...... you guys When will I be let go back? ”
"Tomorrow."
"Really?!"
Bucky said, "Lie to you. ”
The surprise on Onlly Feng Bo's face disappeared suddenly, and the sorrow in his eyes was like an ocean, bottomless.
"Kabaji, keep an eye on him."
After Bucky instructed Kabaji, who was keeping vigil, he leaned against the tree by the campfire to regain his energy after a hard day's work.
The next morning, everyone woke up one after another, the climate of this island was very warm, even if the bonfire had long been extinguished, it was not cold at all, but a little hot.
Compared to the refreshed spirit of Bucky and the others after waking up, Onli Feng Bo's eyes were bloodshot and his face was tired, and it looked like he hadn't slept all night.
Shuma got up early and diligently prepared everyone's breakfast, and the cooking equipment he used was a cauldron brought from Kumamate Island and a makeshift grill, which was very efficient, even for hundreds of people, and he had a special logistics pirate to carry fresh ingredients from the pirate ship, so he didn't have to worry about the lack of ingredients and some people would go hungry.
Bucky ate the freshly pancakes and asked one of the pirates to wrap them in leaves and hand them to Onli Fengbo, who was stunned, took it gratefully, and devoured it all in just a few blinks.
Seeing that the other party was still unsatisfied, Bucky asked someone to hand over another piece, and this time Onlly Feng Bo didn't eat it again, but carefully wrapped the leaves and put them in his trouser pocket.
Looking at the other party's strange behavior, Bucky asked, "Don't you eat it?" ”
Anli Feng Bo was grateful, and his tone was much more sincere, "It's delicious, so I want to bring it to my daughter to taste." ”
"Oh......"
Bucky followed the other man's movements, his gaze resting on his waist, "What do these three feathers mean?" ”
"This is a painted insect feather, which is made of the hind wings of the colored insect, symbolizing courage, one represents a rank, I am a third-level sentry, so I can wear three."
"What is the highest level?"
"Ninth level, [National Sacrifice] can be equipped with Nine Feathers."
"Is it still divided according to your strength?"
"Hmm...... Yes. ”
Onli Feng Bo was very cooperative, basically answering all questions, and did not hide the slightest, probably because he knew that it was a meaningless thing to resist in front of the group of foreign pirates in front of him, or the relationship between the small favors that Bucky had just exerted.
Since he had Onli Fengbo as his guide, there was no need to go to the watchtower with the preset route, and he would go directly to his village as a guide, and he himself seemed to be willing to go back quickly, as could be seen from his hurried steps.
Bucky probably brought a hundred pirates with him, and the rest continued to explore the island, camping and advancing, so as to take care of it at any time to prevent any accidents.
As he made his way to the interior of the island, Bucky inquired about the recent events on the island.
It was a large-scale riot of colored insects, and it should be the kind of insect that attacked his men yesterday, which itself is highly poisonous.
After stinging with rodents, the toxin will seep into the blood, and after a while, the injured person will be swollen all over the body, and the blood on the body will gradually turn into pus, if not rescued in time, he will be killed on the spot, and when he dies, his head is swollen, his limbs are shriveled, and his death is very miserable.
Although these colored insects are dangerous, they have never taken the initiative to attack humans before, until recently, the activities of colored insects have become more and more frequent, and they will attack when they see people, and nearly ten villages have suffered, and even the big town [Sacrifice House] in the center of the island has injured many people, and the number of dead and injured on the entire island has almost reached thousands!
The village of Amber where Anli Fengbo is located belongs to a more miserable village, there is no fence around the village, even if it is made of traps and antlers, and hung with sharp wires, it is difficult to resist the invasion of painted insects, this kind of insect bounces amazingly, can easily jump over the guardrail, and the hard shell on the body is difficult to hurt even ordinary iron tools, only the eyes are fast, and it can only be killed by stabbing it in the head.
However, it is better to face a colored insect, and everyone can kill it if they work together, but hundreds of colorful insects are coming, and everyone can only flee and wait for the fate of death.
Fortunately, this insect is very afraid of fire, so the villagers still have a way to take precautions, but just yesterday, a few colored insects rushed into the village regardless of the flames, but fortunately, there were not many of them, and they were all killed on the spot after injuring two people.
However, the villagers are also deeply worried, they know that the effect of the flames on the painted insects has gradually weakened, and sooner or later, the whole village will die at the hands of this terrible insect.
After dark, Anli Fengbo saw the light of the bonfire in the depths of the forest, and was sent out to find out the situation during the discussion of the village sentinel team, but was unexpectedly discovered and captured by Kabaji.
In the face of the fact that the whole village will be destroyed at any time, Bucky and his party are not a threat at all, so he will tell everything truthfully, and he is afraid that if he doesn't say it, Bucky has been detaining himself on the shore, he is not afraid that he will die, but he still has a family to worry about.
"So, what about the [Sacrificial House] in the middle of the island?" Bucky asked, "There's no one inside who has stepped in to solve this?" ”
Onli Feng Bo shook his head, the disappointment in his eyes loomed, and his tone was heavy, "No." ”
"Since there hasn't been a riot in the swarm before, why did you suddenly find out about this kind of thing?"
"I don't know."
Bucky continued to ask Onli Feng Bo if there were any rules for dividing each level of Ling Yu, but the latter was not very clear, but he probably knew that strength and status were the criteria for judging, and the higher the level, the more people would pay attention to what he said.
Bucky then asked if there was any special industry on the island, and Onlly von Bo said that there was a vein on the island that had been dug for hundreds of years.
……
Walking towards the island, there was finally a color insect that Anli Feng Bo said, the body of the color insect is very eye-catching, it can be seen from the surrounding environment at a glance, three or five surrounded by the shadow of the tree, roughly counting thirty or forty.
"Oh no, let's go!!"
Seeing so many colored insects, Onli Feng Bo only felt that his scalp was numb, if he was surrounded by this insect in the center, he would definitely die completely, and he was immediately pulled back by Moqi before he could take a step.
Without saying a word, Bucky raised his right foot and sent out four slaps in a row, sweeping away the insects in front of him.
The colored insects ate the oncoming slashing airflow, and were immediately knocked out, and several disgusting yellow liquids splashed in the air, and a few colored insects were hit by the vital point and killed immediately, while more colored insects were hit on the hard shell of the body, or the thin wings behind them were sharded.
Buzz Buzz –
They flew low at Bucky from all directions, their wings flapping at a harsh sound.
"Let's go, let's go!"
Onli Feng Bo shouted excitedly, this aboriginal who has been right with the color worm for so many years naturally knows what is powerful, he doesn't want to die here like this, but there is no way to be restrained by Moqi's powerful power.
If it weren't for the scimitar on his body that had been confiscated a long time ago, he would have injured Mochi and fled desperately.
"It's dangerous......"
Bucky's eyes narrowed slightly, and he used the power of life return to suddenly expand his body in a circle, and instantly entered the fragmentation mode of tens of thousands of fragments that continued to oscillate, and the ten fingers of his hands bowed on his abdomen slowly bent, suddenly clenched, and blasted forward.
A somewhat transparent pure white energy burst out from his granular hand, like a tornado circling forward, and where the pure white tornado passed, the surrounding area was like a chain reaction that produced an increasingly violent explosion, swallowing all the colored insects in front of him, and a radius of dozens of meters was shrouded in it!!
The surrounding trees were swept away by a tremendous amount of energy, snapping off in both directions, and everything in sight was ploughed to level the ground.
The air was filled with a fishy stench, and yellow liquid was splashing everywhere.
When the line of sight became clear and everything returned to calm, all that remained on the ground was the corpses of painted insects.
Onli Feng Bo was dumbfounded, unable to come back to his senses for a long time, "This ...... Is this true? ”
Bucky returned to his normal state and glanced at Onli Fengbo unconcernedly, "Go ahead and lead the way." ”
"Yes...... There is salvation! ”
Onlly Fengbo is talking about the village.