Chapter 18: Out of the Forest
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"I've been busy for a long time, and I hung up once, but I only got a green outfit, and now it's really a big loss!" Fei Yun stared blankly at the crutches he had identified three times, and the approximate weight of the crutches exceeded the imagination of ordinary people. biquge.info The two-meter-tall crutches weigh more than 150 kilograms alone, and the thick and thin ends make it difficult for ordinary people to use this crutches. In Chen Kai's opinion, the appearance of this crutch is much different from that used by the elderly in reality, it is more similar to the mage's staff. It's just that it is estimated that no mage can afford to lift such a heavy staff, and the most important thing is that the surface of this staff is not inlaid with any magic crystals, and there is only a tender green twig.
"That's it! Put things away! It's time for us to go! Chen Kai looked at the staff of the ancient tree standing on the ground, and felt depressed for a while, of course, he also felt very strange. It stands to reason that a weapon that can still maintain its original shape under such a terrifying lightning attack must be of blue quality, but this crutch is identified as a green one. Although the glow it emitted was a bit weird, it was not the faint green of ordinary green weapons, but an extremely deep dark green. But no amount of green can change the definition of a weapon at the good level, at least in Chen Kai's opinion. At the same time, what made Chen Kai sigh was that none of the other attributes of this weapon were identified except for the identified weight, although this may be due to Fei Yun's identification skill level being too low or too little information, but it may also be that this thing is just a special strange thing and not a weapon. In other words, it only has a strange ornamental or use value, but it has no possibility of becoming a weapon.
Chen Kai and they didn't see a lot of this kind of thing, for example, the two wooden buckets and water scoops that the leader of the tree people once took out belonged to this category. According to their grade, barrels and water scoops are considered holy creations, but they do not have any attributes and cannot be used as equipment or weapons, but they only have strange item effects, so they are also classified as strange items. It's a pity that Chen Kai and the others searched all the ashes of the tree people and didn't find any traces of spatial equipment, obviously those few artifacts should have been left in the tree people's territory. For these three purple strange items, although Chen Kai coveted them extremely much, they didn't have the courage to run to the tree man's territory to grab them. Just the appearance of four tree people wiped them all out once, and if it weren't for the fact that there is no resurrection point around the system that can only resurrect them in place, God knows which corner they will be resurrected to at random.
As for facing Luo Xin'an Shuren again, Chen Kai found that he had no courage now. Even though he knew that not everyone among those treants might be able to unleash this terrifying lightning, it only took one treant to master such a skill and wipe them out in an instant. The most important tree people are not just mastering this skill to kill Chen Kai and them, their strength is not low, but their mobility and attack speed are very slow. One or two, or even four or five Treants weren't scary, what was scary was their ability to summon Deadwood Treants and their sheer numbers. In the territory of the Luo Xin'an Tree People, Chen Kai and the others knew no less than fifty tree people, which were already awakened and partially rejuvenated, and with the passage of time and the lake water gradually distributed to the bodies of each tree people, there would be more awakened tree people.
For Chen Kai, the best thing to do now is to leave the forest quickly, and of course they want to go to the lake to get some more water before leaving. Although this seemed a bit greedy, after seeing the terrifying and powerful effects of the lake, Chen Kai felt that if they wanted to survive in this plane, those lakes were necessary. It's just that Chen Kai and the others didn't know that the area around the lake had become very dangerous now, especially the wooden pipe they used to draw water from the lake, where many fire creatures from the forest were gathered at the moment. The creatures fought over the remaining water in the woodpipes, eventually attracting the lake's guardians just as Chen Kai and the others approached the lake.
The moment the giant platinum crocodile leaped out of the lake, the sky was obscured by its massive body. Looking at the huge body with a length of more than 100 meters and a width of more than 10 meters, Chen Kai, who had not yet approached the lake, directly threw himself on the ground with a posture of eating. Because they were only less than two hundred meters away from the lake at the moment, the other party might just need to pull down their limbs slightly to rush to their side and swallow everyone in one bite.
Looking at the hideous and terrifying body not far away, the idea of going to the lake on the hour in the hearts of several people disappeared in an instant. Getting water from such a terrible creature under its nose is like gambling. Chen Kai and the others wondered if they had successfully obtained the water from the lake a few days ago because the other party had eaten enough and took a nap, otherwise how could they have stolen the water source in the lake so smoothly that time. Looking at the only remaining lakes in his backpack, Chen Kai decided that he would never use them unless he had to, because these lakes were too precious.
"Boss! Are we still going to the lake? Listening to the barely chewing sound coming from the lake, Fei Yun's face was almost as green as the leader of the treants he had hung up a few hours earlier. He hardly dared to make a sound, and even that sentence was transmitted in the lowest voice in the team channel, for fear that the other party would hear a trace of noise in the team channel that was isolated from the outside world and invite disaster.
"Going to you! I'm not going to go again, this guy is terrifying! It swallowed a dozen flame goblins in one gulp, and it also came with five or six flame brown bears and fire wolves! Chen Kai swallowed the dry foam in his mouth, don't look at his body is the largest in the team, but now he presses his body lower than anyone else, for fear that his huge size will be discovered by the huge crocodile first.
"Then let's bypass the lake and go straight to the south side of the forest!" Zhao Tiezhu saw a huge brown bear covered in flames release a huge fireball, which was larger than a basin. It's a pity that such a fireball hit the skin of the giant crocodile without even splashing a little spark, and disappeared completely after a little green smoke.
"Is it south? Haven't we been going north all the time? Xu Fei felt very strange when he heard Zhao Tiezhu's words, and in his feeling that they should be walking towards the north of the lake.
"North? Dumbo, you're not mistaken! Didn't we just come from the north? Chen Kai was very surprised when he heard Xu Fei's words, in his senses, they should be going from north to south as Zhao Tiezhu said.
"Wait! What are you talking about? Didn't we come from the west? How can it be that it is going to be between the north and the south?" Chen Yi's voice suddenly interjected, but what she said made the group even more confused, originally at most they couldn't figure out the north and south, but now if they add a west, they may not even be able to figure out the east-west direction.
"It's over! We seem to be really lost! Fei Yun heard Chen Kai's argument, and quickly leaned forward to determine the location with the help of the water pipes remaining by the lake. But when he looked at the lake, the wooden pipes had been completely burned by the flame monsters, and the charcoal left behind was directly mixed with the black lake mud in the battle. He only looked up for a moment to see the terrifying giant crocodile glance at their location with their amber eyes, and then everyone felt a terrifying coercion covering their bodies, as if the little mouse had seen a big bobcat. Chen Kai and the others are the kind of little mice that are about to be preyed, and the giant crocodile is a big lynx playing with the little mice.
"It's over!!" This was the only thought on everyone's mind, because the source of this coercion was very clear, and there would be no one but the terrifying and huge crocodile two hundred meters away. This kind of terrifying coercion from a predator made Chen Kai and them feel extremely frightened, and in less than three seconds, there was a trace of bleeding in their bodies, and a large number of capillaries were directly ruptured under the action of this pressure, and in less than ten seconds, nearly 100 points of health flowed out of the bodies of Chen Kai and several of them.
But this coercion only lasted less than twenty seconds, and when Chen Kai and the others thought they were dead, the huge and terrifying crocodile slowly stepped into the lake. Every step of the giant crocodile made a smiling earthquake on the ground, but what was shocking and shocking was that when it stepped on it, there were no footprints left along the shores of the lake. Of course, the sound of walking down the lake is much softer now than when it rushes in, and you must know that the moment it hit the shore not long ago it was like a magnitude 7 earthquake. The huge tremor seemed to collapse the entire shore of the lake, but the same shock wave left no trace except for the shock wave when it collapsed, which was a strange feeling.
However, no matter how weird it is, it can't hide the fact that it spared Chen Kai and them, Chen Kai and they don't know why this is at all, but it doesn't prevent them from glad that they escaped. It's just that this euphoria was quickly replaced by another question, and that was where they really are.
Although from the map they are supposed to be below the lake, the problem is that this is not a direction. Because the direction of the magnetic needle in their hand is the lake, that is to say, there is a huge magnetic field in the lake that interferes with the operation of the magnetic needle. What makes them most depressed is that because their map is temporarily bound together by magnetic needles, how the magnetic needles rotate the map will naturally rotate. As they walk along the lake, the map rotates and the lake stays in the map. It was a very devastating thing, and at the end of the day they didn't know where they were.
Originally, they could also use the coordinates left by the treemen to determine the direction, but now due to Chen Kai and the treemen, the original good icon on the map has completely disappeared. This disappearance was completed after Chen Kai and the others stepped into the lake area again, and Chen Kai and the others had no idea that the coordinates of the tree people would disappear. By the time they thought of determining the direction with the help of the treeman's coordinates, that coordinate was gone, and at this time, Chen Kai and the others had no other way than to scold the system for cheating.
"What now?" The group of people gathered together stared at each other blankly, although there was no trace when the giant crocodile fell, it did not mean that it would not cause an impact when it landed. On the shore of the lake, Chen Kai's traces of the wood they had once cut were completely destroyed by the shock wave, and the collapsed trees and broken stumps were everywhere.
"Guess! If you guess right, you will have a prize, and if you guess wrong, we will be unlucky! Chen Kai carefully looked at the map, constantly zooming in and out, trying to find any traces that he had ever walked. However, the forest trails they had walked before could not be displayed on the map, because the forest trail bases were covered with decayed wood, and at the same time, Chen Kai's system map was greatly suppressed in this plane. The display range is much smaller than that of the original continent, and the range is only ten kilometers in radius, which is similar to when it first entered the game. Such a map area does not even see the boundaries of the forest, let alone anything else.
"But let's untie the map from the magnetic needle first, or we'll keep circling around this lake, and if that crocodile comes out for supper again, we'll be doomed!" Luckily, it had just gone berserk, and those flame monsters shouldn't dare to come here again anytime soon, and the shore of the lake should be the safest place for us! Xu Fei took out a hand-drawn map from Fei Yun's hand, and constantly searched for the coordinates of the attributes against his system map. It's a pity that Fei Yun's hand-drawn map is too simple, so simple that Xu Fei searched for a long time before finding two slightly similar markers, but these two markers are very close to each other on the simple map, but they are at least a few kilometers different from the system map. If it's not that Fei Yun's map is wrong, it's that the markers of these two system maps are not the two that Fei Yun drawn.
"Why don't we take a walk around the lake and see if there are any forest trails! Finding the forest trail can probably determine the location of the Losingan Treemen, and most importantly, the only place where the giant crocodiles are infested is on one side of the lake. It's easy to tell, and it's much easier to find markers than a map of guò. Zhao Tiezhu's words instantly reminded everyone, but several people looked at each other and suddenly realized that they had forgotten that the crocodile was raging on the other side of the lake just now. The entire shore of the lake seems to be carved out of a mold, and it looks exactly like the past at a glance. They could have figured out where the crocodile had just returned to the lake, but at the time they were panicking, and when the crocodile was gone, they were busy healing and fleeing the lake. After the qiē subsided, they completely forgot their position, and now in retrospect, it seems that the location of the giant crocodile is here, but if they really want to point out, it is estimated that Chen Kai and they will definitely not point to the same place.
"What now? I can't find a marker to judge the direction, is it really a guess? Several people glanced at each other, and found that no matter how much they recalled, they felt that the shore of the lake was almost identical, and there was no special sign at all.
"Smack!!" Just when the group had nothing to do, Fei Yun suddenly slapped his thigh fiercely, and at the same time quickly rushed towards a big tree on the side. The dagger in his hand swept fiercely, and the blade attached to the fighting spirit directly cut off the ten-centimeter-thick decayed tree, and he flew up and kicked at the tree directly, revealing the tree pole that had been cut out. Watching Fei Yun's movements, everyone quickly remembered that they could judge the direction by the annual rings of the guò tree. Although the trees have withered for thousands of years, they still grew a thousand years ago, most importantly when the Losingan Treemen pointed out that there was a city to the south of the forest. Although the city was very far away, it was at least certain that it was in the south, and now you can find the general direction by judging the north and south. It's not hard to get out of the forest this way, and it's definitely much safer than if they were looking for it.
"That's right! What is the name of that city, are you sure it's in the south? Why don't I remember that damn dryad mentioning the word South? With the help of the tree's annual rings, Chen Kai and the others judged the general direction. Although the sparse growth rings of the trees are uneven, they can still roughly determine the direction, but fortunately, the trees were not tropical when they first grew, and not only Chen Kai and they had no way to determine the location.
"It's called Khedira! It doesn't mention the south, but it's just a forest trail! You know, we came from the north, yes! It should be considered the North! Chen Kai, who was walking through the forest, whispered to each other, but the more they recalled the words they had with the leader of the tree people, the bigger the problem became. First of all, the leader of the treants did not say that the city was in the south, secondly, it did not say that the sun rose in that direction, and finally it did not mention the north and south of the forest. This is definitely not good news for Chen Kai and them, but in the absence of a way, they can only guess the road according to this most primitive method.
Fortunately, in the end, Lady Luck finally stood behind the buttocks of the unlucky Chen Kai and several people, and stroked the heads of several people with her palm, temporarily making their luck better. After seventeen days of walking through the red forest, they came to the edge of the forest. For the past 17 days, they had to walk at least 20 kilometers a day, and because there were no horses to walk, the group could only walk on two legs. In the past ten days, the soles of their feet have been watery, and since this plane basically does not store in the dark, they are even more tired when walking. If it weren't for the system time as a reference, it is estimated that their biological clock would be completely destroyed, and they would fall into madness during the long walking days.
Although the tree rings make it possible for them not to worry about getting lost, it is still very dangerous to walk in the red forest. In the past ten days, they have been chased and killed by at least four or five hundred waves of monsters, and at the same time, countless flame monsters have also been killed. When they walked out of the forest, the level of the group had all increased by one level, and Chen Kai's survivability at level 52 was slightly stronger than when he had just fallen into the plane, of course, what they gained the most during their long journey was the bones in their backpacks that exuded fire element energy. It's just that once the number of bones is too much, it will make people feel that it is not very valuable, originally they only put away the bones that emit red light, and in the back, due to the lack of space in the backpack, they can only be selectively retained.
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