After taking his subordinates around the mouth of the river, Lin Xiao finally decided to put his new home on the beach about a mile or so on the north bank of the river, facing the black water swamp on the south bank of the river.

According to the map shared by the artifact platform, a little further down the mouth of this great river, about forty kilometers to the east, there is a large mermaid city, which is also the core area of the mermaid empire's rule in the nearby seas.

Needless to say, the Blackwater Swamp has frogmen, snake people, and fish people in it, as well as a large number of swamp creatures, including fierce predators such as ferocious crocodiles, and dragons and snakes are mixed, and he does not dare to put his home in it.

Compared to the previous mission, the Blackwater Swamp side is much more complicated, even if there is more cannon fodder available now, he didn't dare to act rashly, just let the fish-man slaves he brought with him cut down trees and carry stones to build a nest first, and he took dozens of Naga out for a walk.

He first went to the vicinity of the alluvial island at the mouth of the river, and as soon as he got close to that area, he saw a fat and strong bluetip shark rushing towards him with its mouth wide open.

This guy is very fat, and his whole body is round, but when he opened his mouth and shook his body and rushed over, for some reason Lin Xiao remembered a certain emoji picture, and he felt an inexplicable sense of joy.

But joy is joy, and he will not show mercy.

With a wave of his hand, dozens of Naga swarmed up and stabbed them to death, and the corpses were naturally eaten on the spot as their snacks.

When they left, they left only a pile of uneaten wreckage, attracting a large group of small fish to fight for the scraps.

They then circled the alluvial islands, encountering no less than thirty battles, and there were more predators in the sea than expected.

Fortunately, their current strength is quite strong, and the strength of the second and third levels is considered to be the middle and upper level combat power in the shallow sea area, dozens of them go together, and there are not many sea beasts near the shallow sea that can beat them.

Skirt the alluvial islet and head south along the junction of the Blackwater Marsh and the sea, which is right on the seashore and has no separation line from the sea, allowing you to enter the swamp directly from the sea.

Of course, although there is no separation line between the black water swamp and the sea, there is a clear distinguishing line, that is, the water in the black water swamp is exceptionally black, and when you see the black and white color at the junction of the two, you know that this is the junction of the two.

He did not enter the Blackwater Swamp, but continued southward along the junction of black and white, swimming for almost a day, and it was estimated that he swam sixty or seventy kilometers before he saw the end of the Blackwater Swamp.

"This swamp is a bit big!"

He remembered that the terrain of the Blackwater Swamp marked on the map was a rectangle, with the width on the sea side and the length on the land side, and the length was about twice and three times the width from the topographic map, that is to say, the Blackwater Swamp was sixty or seventy kilometers wide and nearly two hundred kilometers long, and the largest swamp in this plane occupied a considerable area even if it was placed on the mainland.

At this point, Lin Xiao didn't continue to move forward, and was about to turn around, when he suddenly saw a large group of kobolds suddenly emerging at the edge of the edge of the swamp near the sea.

It's not surprising that there are kobolds in this plane, but this group of kobolds is well-disciplined and equipped with small shield weapons, which is obviously not a native of this plane, but a student.

He immediately became interested, turned and swam over.

When he swam ashore from the sea, the kobold on the barren slope by the sea also spotted him, and after observing for a while, the kobold phalanx separated, and a group of heavily armed kobolds surrounded an exceptionally tall kobold approached, and beckoned in the lingua franca from a distance:

"Which classmate is it?"

Lin Xiao also replied in lingua franca:

"Three classes a year, Lin Xiao!"

The other side was obviously stunned for a moment, and the dog's face showed a look of surprise, and said:

"I'm Meng Hui!"

Lin Xiao was not surprised, because when he saw this heavily armed kobold, he had a slight guess in his heart, after all, there were only one or two people in the whole school who chose kobolds as the initial family and developed to this point, and Meng Hui in the same class was one of them.

"Is your mission here?"

"yes, you too?"

"Yes, I have two missions in this Blackwater Swamp."

"That's a coincidence."

"yes."

The two said unnutritious words in a flat tone, and during the chat, Meng Hui couldn't stop glancing at Naga behind him, and he looked like he wanted to ask but was embarrassed to ask.

After chatting for a while, he finally couldn't help but ask:

"Is your race Naga?"

Lin Xiao shook his head with a smile:

"It's not the Naga, it's a new race that I created to look like the Naga."

Meng Hui's eyes immediately widened, and his face was uncontrollable surprise:

"A new race of your own making?"

"yes, it's still an intermediate species."

"That's ......."

"Yes, I have already condensed the creation priesthood in advance, and I can obtain it just by becoming a demigod."

Meng Hui: .........

The shock and envy on his face were almost overflowing, and it took a while to squeeze out two words:

"Congratulations!"

"Hey, good luck."

.........

On this day, we couldn't talk anymore.

After a few words, Meng Hui found an excuse and ran away, he was afraid that if he stayed any longer, he would show envy, jealousy and hatred that he couldn't help but remove.

Seeing him leave, Lin Xiao just smiled.

Although they have been in the same class for a year, they haven't said a few words in a year, Meng Hui, who used to be the top five in the class, looked down on him, but now he has stronger strength and potential, and he needs to look up.

The vignette was quickly forgotten by him, and their tasks did not conflict anyway.

Returning the same way back to the mouth of the Blackwater River, he was about to cross the valley when he suddenly saw a small group of frogmen hunting another large group of fishmen at the junction of the swamp and the sea.

Obviously the number is less than the fishman, but the fishman is pressed.

The frogman, also known as the swamp man, is a humanoid creature that looks like a frog or toad, with a fat body, webbed hands and feet, large eyes, an extremely wide mouth, and a long flexible tongue that can stick out its tongue and stick to its target like a green snake.

Frogmen like to make their home in large rivers or swamps, and they build small villages and breeding ponds on the banks of rivers or on swampy floating islands to lay eggs, that is, tadpoles, until the tadpoles grow nearly a meter or so of their hands and feet.

Young frogmen must successfully kill a prey before they can be accepted by the clan, and the loser will be exiled from the clan.

This group of young frogmen hunting this group of fishmen should be their rite of passage.

Lin Xiao didn't interfere with their coming-of-age ceremony, but just observed their fighting style outside, which was just right to study the frogman's ability, and it would be better to deal with it when the time came.

Frogmen have a primitive way of fighting, generally using bone sticks or wooden sticks, or even directly using stone sticks or stones as weapons, they can speak simple swamp language, and generally prefer to move in groups between three and twelve.