The deeper you go into the jungle, the wetter the soil beneath your feet becomes, and the air becomes wetter than the outside.

Each tree here is tens or hundreds of meters high, towering into the sky, and you can't see the end at a glance. Some trees hang down many columnar roots from the air, and finally they become a single tree, and many small plants are epiphytic on them, and they bloom and bear fruit on the roots.

Of course, even small plants have leaves half the size of an adult's body. In addition to their large size, these vegetation seem to be affected by the mutation of the vine jungle and are full of aggression.

Along the way, in just ten minutes, Lucy witnessed a number of scenes of vegetation strangling each other for living space under his nose.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he and Rhodes both used [Jue], and the control of the two of them had already entered the room, and under the exquisite skills, their presence became almost non-existent, even if they went straight through the sea of cannibal flowers, they would not attract any attacks.

"I always feel that the annual hunter exam is a massacre, and with the strength of those candidates, if you rush in, you will suffer heavy casualties."

Lucy and the two of them walked through a vine hundreds of meters long hanging between the trees, and couldn't help but raise their eyebrows as they looked at the spiders and horses that could be seen crawling around the trees.

The deadliest of these jungles are insects and the like, and even in the outside world, these inconspicuous creatures can kill people with their venom, not to mention that they have increased in size.

His current area is still only small arboreal animals, and he has to walk into the valley of the jungle to see large beasts. One can imagine how exaggerated the size of those beasts will be.

Rod looked at the huge insects on the ground on the tree but showed a look of disgust, those insects were originally imperceptible in a small state of disgust, now they are clearly presented, if ordinary people are only afraid of it, they would have been unable to help but vomit.

Although Rod is not an ordinary person, looking at the mouthparts and limbs of those insects also makes her feel uncomfortable, she pulled Luci's sleeve, and her voice was a little out of tune:

"Now, Brother Hades, let's fly right over here, shall we?"

Lucy was relieved when he saw Rod's expression, and after saying a good word, he picked up the girl and spread his black wings to fly directly over the area.

During the flight, Rod unconsciously put his hands on Lucy's neck, and his head was buried deep in Lucy's arms, looking like a frightened little beast.

Lucy said with some amusement:

"Should you say that one thing descends another, you can laugh out loud when you kill people, but now you are afraid of these bugs?"

Rod closed his eyes tightly, and said to himself:

"It's not that I'm afraid! I just hate this stuff and don't want to see it......"

Lucy couldn't help but laugh and said, "How did I not know that you had this problem before, how can you go to the Dark Continent like this?" The creatures of that continent are even bigger. ”

This time, Rod didn't say anything for a long time, and only after a long time did he hear her whisper:

“…… I'll try to overcome it! ”

Black Wing's speed was fast, and with Lucie's full strength, it only took a few breaths to fly past the jungle front station and come to an open area.

Rod jumped out of Lucy's arms, and seeing the smiling expression on Lucy's face, Rod angrily peeled off a colorful candy and threw it into his mouth and chewed it with a clattering sound:

"To the left is the location of the temple, and the swamp people I want to see are there, do you want to go?"

Lucy made a gesture of please, and said with a smile:

"Then I'll have to ask Miss Rhodes to lead the way, but I've heard that there are usually a lot of leeches and mosquitoes in the swamp......

Rod's face turned pale at once, but immediately she shouted in annoyance:

"Lockhart, get out of here!"

A cloud of blood mist grew out of thin air, and the priest-like beast that Lucy had seen in his first exam reappeared. He first looked around vigilantly, and only breathed a sigh of relief when he found that he was not in the combat area, and then met Rod's cold eyes, which frightened a spirit, and quickly saluted Rod and Luci tremblingly:

"Master, what are your orders for calling me out?"

Lockhart subconsciously shuddered when he said this, for fear that Rod would ask him to use [Twelve] on whomever again.

It hasn't slowed down since the last backlash, and although it can be recreated even after it dies, it is a new personality at that time, and it is equivalent to death for Lockhart.

"You go ahead and find some disgusting bugs and smash their heads for me! If you let those disgusting things touch me, you can cut yourself! ”

Rod said unceremoniously that she could show her weak side in front of Lucy without scruples, but in the eyes of the residents of Wonderland, she was a violent queen who controlled life and death and seized power.

"Yes."

Lockhart wiped the sweat from his forehead, spread out a hand, palm up, the Book of a Thousand Laws opened, and the first few lines of mantras lit up.

Lucy and Rhodes walked slowly behind, while Lockhart nervously observed the anomaly ahead. As soon as he spotted the insect creatures, he waved his hand and cast various spells. Although these insects have increased in size, they are still vulnerable to telekinetic attacks, and they are blown apart before they can react.

With Lockhart in front of him to clear the insects, Rod's mood finally lifted, and as he walked, he introduced Lucy to some of the rare vegetation he passed along the way:

"Look at the shape of this should be manhalla grass, which is the only plant in the vine jungle that has not been mutated and grown, and its leaves are so sharp that it can easily cut through a steel plate. However, due to the scarcity of the number and the size of the body, a dozen leaves could not make a weapon, and Uncle Martyr only made a record and did not take it off. ”

"The water stains under those rattans are ayahuasca, and the reason for this name is that all the creatures that Uncle Martyr saw drinking these water sources collapsed to the ground within ten minutes, absorbed and digested by those rattans."

Lucy patiently listened to Rod's explanation, and suddenly his ears moved, and he vaguely heard something.

And Rod also said to him excitedly: "There is a swamp ahead, we have arrived!" ”

After Lockhart cleared the road in front of the swamp, the two slowly stepped forward.

"These are the swamp people? Kind of interesting......"

After seeing the vision clearly, Lucy couldn't help but sigh.

The endless expanse of blackened water was overgrown with sedges, and a species Lucy had never seen before was scattered on it in groups of four or five.

They are similar in size to humans, each four or five meters tall, but not strong. Large broad leaves cover them, making their faces invisible to Lucy. These strange creatures also have several dark gray wooden poles strapped to their slender legs, which allow them to stand on the surface of the swamp.

"Those bamboo poles seem to be cross-logs, each one is more than ten meters long, and the texture is hard, and they actually thought of using this method to walk in the swamp."

Rod leaned into Lucy's ear and whispered, since the two of them had always remained in a desperate state, and Lockhart was a beast of thought, the dozens or hundreds of swamp people here had not been able to discover their existence.

"Brother Hades, look, we're lucky to catch them hunting!"

Lucy squinted at the swamp people running around the swamp, not really because of the distance. Simply mobilized a trace of telekinesis to split a [Eye of Kierrog], and at the same time, a wisp of black mist turned into a screen, transmitting all the images witnessed by the [Eye of Kierrog] floating past.

In the 360-degree picture, Lucy finally saw what the swamp people were busy with.

Buried under the mud surrounded by most of the swamp people was a jellyfish creature more than 30 meters long and more than 10 meters wide, its whole body was dark, its body was flat, and it looked like a huge air cushion from a distance. Surrounded by a large number of swamp people at this moment, the swarthy jellyfish seemed to feel the danger, and the dorsal fin behind it kept beating the mud, and the sternum kept agitating, trying to escape from here.

"It's useless, it's shallow water, and I don't know how it got here."

Lucy controlled the [Eye of Kilrog] to soar upwards for a distance, and nodded abruptly after seeing the general appearance of the entire swamp.

Originally, he was still wondering, judging by the bamboo poles on the feet of those swamp people, how could such a behemoth of tens of meters appear in this swamp at most twenty meters deep. It turns out that the area where these swamp people are located is only the outermost part of the entire swamp, and in the depths of the swamp you can see huge black shadows floating under the water, thinking that this big jellyfish should also belong there, but I don't know why it fell to the edge of the swamp.

Seeing the swamp man approaching step by step with his weapon in hand, the jellyfish opened its mouth suddenly, and more than a dozen adult-sized thin-legged spiders quickly crawled out of its mouth, and these spiders had a layer of skin on their feet, and with the help of the scratching of the flesh web, they instantly jumped into the faces of the first few swamp people, and the swamp people suddenly let out a miserable cry.

However, there are too many swamp people here, those thin-legged spiders only attacked the first few swamp people, and they were surrounded by other swamp people, I don't know who gave the order, and the swamp people who rushed up raised their weapons and easily chopped these dozen spiders into meat sauce.

Seeing this scene, the swarthy jellyfish seemed to have lost its intention to resist, and gradually stopped, silently waiting for the next fate.

"Interestingly, those spiders seem to be parasitic in jellyfish, which provide them with shelter and release them to fight off enemies when they are in danger."

Watching a group of swamp people cheer and lift the giant jellyfish in an incomprehensible language, Lucy had something else on his mind.

These so-called swamp people, judging by the bamboo poles and weapons under their feet, and the communication with each other, seem to be intelligent creatures?

This is interesting, in my own cognition, in this world, except for humans and a small number of demonic beasts, there should be no such deformed intelligent race.

Even if there were, how could the Hunters' Guild turn a blind eye to the swamp people since they had already excavated the ruins in this swamp.

Unless......

Thinking of this, he turned his head to look at Rod

"Rod, are these swamp people any different from what the priest first saw?"

Rod bit his finger and gradually frowned: "I also think it's a little strange, according to Uncle Martyr's description, the swamp people he saw at that time didn't use tools and weapons like they do now, and they couldn't work in teams, they were the bottom of the food chain of this swamp, and they only lived on water and grass...... Why can you deal with silt jellyfish now? ”

"You say it took the priest ten years to walk through these places, right, that is, in just ten years, these swamp people have evolved intelligence, learned to make tools, made weapons, and possessed a language of their own race?"

"Do you know how long it took us humans to complete the series of steps described above?"

"It's ...... Artificial! ”

With these words, Lucy lifted the maintenance of [Jue], and the mental power in his body exploded, and the endless black mist passed through the layers of broad leaves, invading the entire swamp with an ominous aura.

The swamp people were celebrating the capture of such a large prey, but before they could react, they were surrounded by black fog, and their brains went blank under the distorted force field, forgetting what they should do next, and could only stand still in a daze.

Rod looked at Lucy in surprise, but also immediately withdrew from the state of [Absolute]:

"Brother Hades, what's wrong?"

Lucy narrowed his eyes, staring at the faintly burning figure at the end of the black mist, and his tone was unusually low:

"Rhodes, get ready, we've got a guest!"