Chapter 752: Explore
Wu Qi followed Hiram through the luminous forest for a while, and the surrounding scenery barely changed.
Wu Qi finally couldn't hold back his doubts, and he asked, "Lord Halleym, please tell Wu Qi what is the purpose of our trip?" ”
From entering the hunting party to start harvesting a series of information, to now following the sixth to make Hiram infiltrate the Lark Forest. Wu Qi already had a faint sense of Kazan's thoughts about the Tenth Throne, and it was definitely not a well-intentioned idea.
The hunting party is very careful to guard against spies sent by the Tenth Throne, and on the other hand, Kazan is sending spies to the territory of the Tenth Throne. This is also evidenced by the facts that are now in front of us.
Therefore, Wu Qi wanted to know what the purpose of Halleym's trip was, and once he knew the answer, he could assess the danger of this trip.
It took a second for Hiram to say, "Investigate, gather intelligence." ”
This is a standardized answer, Wu Qi can't say that he is wrong, but he always has a premonition in his heart that Hylam's trip is more than just an investigation.
"Talk less and look around. The Forest of Larks is a beautiful place, and the trees, shrubs, plants, grasses, and mosses you can see everywhere here are not ordinary life. If you are not careful, you can easily leave traces and be spotted by the surrounding aborigines. Hiram reminded.
"Yes, sir."
Hiram lifted the long sleeve wrapped around his "right arm", pointed to the fluorescent particles floating in the air, and said, "We are sneaking into the Lark Forest, so we must be careful not to expose our tracks at all times." Looking at the glowing particles floating in the air, they are actually the shells of a small creature called 'silver fireworms', because they are extremely light, they will fly up from the ground and the leaves of vegetation when the night breeze blows, and they can float for a long time with just a little air movement. ”
For the first time, Wu Qi knew the true face of these elf-like fluorescent particles, and he thought that these fluorescent particles were energy particles floating in the air.
"What about the 'Silver Firefly'?" Wu Qi asked.
"The glow of the silver fireworm is much more beautiful than the shell, bright white with a silver glow, and the trajectory of the flight is so obvious that you can see the difference the first time you see it. The most important thing is that the Silver Firebug is the small creature we need to avoid the most, as many high-level Natives can use it as a 'Scouting Eye'. When you see a swarm of silver fireflies, it means that you are also in the sight of the higher natives in the shadows. ”
Wu Qi firmly remembered the information that Hiram told him, and thought to himself: "It seems that it is not the first time that Hiram has infiltrated the Lark Forest, this time Kazan also transferred me from the hunting team, I am afraid that advancing the investigation is only the most peaceful mission stage, and a conflict and battle are probably inevitable." ”
A guess that surprised Wu Qi a little, but was reasonable, came to his mind.
"Could it be that the thirteen thrones of the apocalypse abyss are not peaceful, and there are also contradictions and competition? The Forest of Larks is so rich, but the Silver Sand Desert is scarce......"
Just as Wu Qi was thinking, Hiram's pace suddenly stopped. He turned to the side and said to Wu Qi, "Exploring the area ahead will be a practice for you to enter the Hundred Spirits Forest for the first time. ”
Wu Qi heard something from Hiram's words, he nodded, pressed his right hand on the handle of the long knife on his right waist, and moved forward at a uniform speed.
He spreads the perceptual net 360 degrees around him and condenses his spiritual energy in his ears and nose. With his ten years of experience as a hunter, hearing and smell are often more important than sight when surveying unknown areas, so that they can detect danger in the first place.
Wu Qi also discovered one thing, that is, when he spread out the perception network, there was no breath of Hiram in the range of the perception network. Even though he summoned his mental energy to perceive, Hiram remained as undetectable as if he existed in another world.
Wu Qi thought only for a moment, then returned his attention to exploring the unknown area. He had barely walked 20 steps when his ears suddenly moved sensitively.
Fifteen meters to the right in front of you, there was a series of extremely subtle movements in the verdant bushes, which were undoubtedly made by small animals, and the sound sounded like a four-legged crawling rodent with a slender tail.
A huge dark blue shadow suddenly rushed out from the depths of the bushes, and Wu Qi's precise dynamic vision saw its true body clearly in an instant. It was a giant forest rat with a fist high and long arms.
The blue rat smelled the human breath on Wu Qi's body, and the hunting desire for humans hidden in the depths of the plague species' instinct. Hope rushed to the top of his head at once. It rushed towards Wu Qi's right side of his body as fast as lightning, and its hind legs were about to use its strength to jump towards Wu Qi's neck with a super high spring.
Wu Qi's right hand rested almost reflexively on the hilt of the long knife, and at that moment, the blue rat, which was about to charge and jump, turned its body coldly and jumped into another bush.
The blue rat didn't want to dodge Wu Qi's attack, but it suddenly smelled a terrifying oppressive force from the front 0.1 seconds before it charged and jumped, and the more important sense of caution replaced the desire to attack, driving it to give up the attack and lurk instead.
From Wu Qi's point of view, the blue rat's action of attacking and fleeing at once seemed very blurry. Even if the other party was frightened away by his own breath, why did he rush up in the first place?
Wu Qi hadn't realized that after he had evolved his spiritual energy, crushing the spiritual energy of most of the wild creatures would naturally cover up the dangerous aura on his body, and would make other creatures subconsciously feel that he was a weak person. And only the moment he started to kill, the original hunter's murderous aura would unfold on a small scale, stimulating the instinct of the wild creatures, and silently repelling those weak creatures.
The blue rat was afraid of Wu Qi's aura lurking, but Wu Qi didn't plan to let go of the first fresh material sent to the door since entering the Bailing Forest. He pulled out an inch-long knife and controlled a blade to fly out of the blade, stabbing into the bushes where the blue rat had scurried in the blink of an eye.
Three seconds later, the large blue rat was pulled out of the bushes by the pull of the air. The blade stabbed the blue rat in the back of its neck, destroying its spinal nerves. Although the blue rat is still alive, it has become a corpse to be slaughtered.
Wu Qixin grabbed the tail of the blue rat with his hand, activated the revelation of the wilderness gods, and found out all the life information of the blue rat.
It turns out that this is a variant of the common forest rat. Blue rats live in groups, and their food is generally plants, seeds, and fruits. In fact, it is precisely because of the cold fruits that contain a large number of viruses growing nearby that the forest rat population that eats them from generation to generation will gradually mutate and evolve genes to resist cold and tooth cold poison.
Wu Qi digested the information he had discovered from the revelation of the wilderness gods and analyzed it slightly.
According to the information, the cold fruits that blue rats like to eat grow in the forest area not far ahead. At the same time, it is worth determining the reason why the blue rat population mostly lives in the forest areas on the periphery of the cold fruit land. Whether it's because they've evolved the ability to resist the cold and can't adapt to the temperatures of a cold place, or because the cold fruit has a natural predator that they fear.
It is not uncommon for a plant with a large amount of nutritional value to be found in nature, and the fruit of that plant is coveted by the most powerful wild animals in the vicinity. But other animals also covet the fruits of the powerful beast's "monopoly", so the game between the beast and the poacher will not stop.
After some speculation, Wu Qi became more interested in exploring the forest ahead. He was originally a hunter, and wherever the forest was induced, his instinct to explore would be aroused.
Wu Qi quickened his pace, and the perception network probed forward more nuancedly. He shuttled more than 200 meters through the bush-lined area, and felt the breath of no less than 20 blue rats on the way. He deliberately exuded some murderous aura, and as a result, none of the blue rats dared to come forward to trouble him.
The light at the end of the forest ahead suddenly brightened. Wu Qi's eyes are quite sensitive to changes in the intensity of light, let alone at night. He retracted his breath and moved lurkingly. 10 seconds, 20 seconds, a full minute passed.
At a certain moment, the scene in front of Wu Qi's eyes suddenly brightened. His eyes widened slightly, and his obsidian eyes refracted blue light all over the field.
As if it were a boundary line, the vegetation on his side was still an ordinary shrub, and the opposite side of the border directly became a hyacinth flower field with no end in sight. The hyacinths with ice-blue petals and violet rhizomes stood endlessly as far as his eyes could see, and countless hyacinths were slightly liquid with the gentle hand of the night breeze, like a beautiful picture of a beautiful flower.
No other plants grow between the ice-blue hyacinth flowers, and the light of the Arc of Heaven can reach Hyacinth without having to pass through the canopy. The height of this full hyacinth growth is also at least higher than Wu Qi's knees, in other words, in addition to crawling forward, as soon as he enters the ice blue hyacinth flower field, it is extremely easy to be spotted by other beings in the distance.
Wu Qi's skin keenly sensed the change in the temperature ahead of him. The ice-blue hyacinth flowers in front of you live up to its beautiful colors, and there is no place from the rhizome to the flower that does not exude an icy atmosphere. Countless ice blue hyacinths grow together and spread out evenly, and the cold air emitted together acts on the air above, and the temperature of the air is lowered to about minus 40 degrees.
The temperature is minus 40 degrees Celsius and the body surface is minus 40 degrees Celsius, Wu Qi can tolerate a period of minus 40 degrees Celsius, as long as the body temperature is slightly adjusted, he can easily walk in the environment of minus 40 degrees.
Wu Qi's gaze looked into the distance, passing through dozens of meters, hundreds of meters of flowers, and he finally saw a conspicuous ice-white strange tree that looked like a blue mouse's target.
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