Chapter 115: Dangerous Path
Removing the water from her words, in short, it means that China, as one of the two major project hosts in the virtual world, coupled with the international influence accumulated before, can greatly strengthen the ties between the participating countries, break down the barriers of race and culture, and unite into a huge and solid alliance, and China has an absolute dominant position in this alliance.
Since most of the U.S. projects are in developed countries, and the relationship between the countries is relatively equal and loose, the U.S. does not have an absolute dominant position, and in addition to most of the countries with Christian culture, the countries that join Japan and South Korea have completely different cultures, so the political and cultural integration is not significant, but rather a little confusing.
The rest of the night passed in cultivation and sleep. As soon as the day dawned, everyone had already packed up and was ready to continue marching.
As soon as he got out of the hole, Fu Bin first felt that the temperature was higher than the day before, a little stuffy, and the weather outside was not very good, and it would rain at any time. But even if it was raining, they had to leave, because the weather would only get worse in the future, and if they didn't go, they wouldn't be able to walk, so everyone didn't stop there.
On this day, I didn't encounter anything special, the rain fell and stopped, but it was not very big, but there was occasional thunder and lightning. There were also more creatures encountered than the day before, but as long as they were not dense enough or too dense, the team did not make a move, and at the end of the day, they only hunted three times, each time with nearly a thousand contribution points.
During the period, I encountered two creatures of the same level as the emperor insect, one was a reptilian chameleon dragon, it did not attack the team, on the contrary, as soon as it saw Fu Bin and others, it took the initiative to avoid it, and once it was a giant crab more than three meters long, this guy is not as easy to kill as the king insect, and he stayed in the water when he was full and did not go ashore.
In addition, everyone in the team now has a lot of spars in their bags, and because they are too heavy, most of them are stored in the entropy array, and now they don't care about the amount of volatilization and loss.
Of course, most of the spars of Ge Fan and the others were collected to pay off their debts, but some of the poor quality and purity were still converted into their entropy arrays, so that they would not have to cultivate when they rested at night.
At this time, the debts of the four of them had been almost repaid, and their mood seemed to be a lot more relaxed, and they occasionally began to giggle on the road, and the communication between the two sides was not limited to Banqu Xiang, and Ge Fan sometimes exchanged opinions with Fu Bin in person.
And so another day passed safely, and the distance was about 25 kilometers, and it was less than 20 kilometers to reach the rift passage.
March 35 is supposed to be the last day in the Great Rift Valley and the first day of the summer. The seasonal cycle of this world is short, the climate changes are very significant, and the division of the two solar terms is simply clear.
Since the early hours of the morning, there has been torrential rain and thunder, and the water level at the bottom of the canyon has risen rapidly, which has become the biggest concern in everyone's minds. Fortunately, dense thunder and lightning can rarely affect the valley bottom, otherwise Fu Bin can only use entropy to fight the climate with all his might.
The incessant heavy rain caused the water level to rise, which not only narrowed the route that could be taken, but also reduced the space for the team to move, and at the same time there were many fewer creatures on land, and the creatures in the water became more and more dense.
Even if Fu Bin is now superior in combat power, he can't use it in the turbulent water, and the creatures hidden in the turbid water are not easy to find and deal with, not to mention, even if he kills them, they will be washed away by the water, so the hunting efficiency is extremely low.
No one expected this to be the case on the third day, and since that was the case, the group decided to concentrate on the journey and stop hunting. However, the team immediately encountered a group of amphibian fish, which, unlike the catfish, preferred to live in the water and only come ashore to attack their prey when hunting.
This fish is not large, the largest is only half a meter long, the average weight is less than ten kilograms, they have fine scales on their bodies, the fins are thick, they can be used as limbs, a sharp teeth protrude out of the mouth, when someone passes by, suddenly jump out of the water, bite hard.
Although this amphibious piranha can be killed easily, they are very ferocious and brainless, such as the reincarnation of a starving ghost, as long as it can be eaten, it will desperately bite it, and there are a lot of them, so it is a headache. In two hours, the group only trekked 3 kilometers, although the actual detour was at least 10 kilometers, and almost everyone was accidentally bitten by amphibious piranhas in the process.
Fortunately, the amphibious piranha's attack was not too deadly, and usually only bit people's feet, so everyone's trouser legs were more or less broken, and even some skin trauma, causing the team to stop and find a cave to treat the wounds on their legs.
Later, according to the method provided by Gofan, everyone used bandages from the knees to the ankles, and some bark in the middle, so that this difficult problem was solved, and then the amphibious piranha bit the leg with little effect.
In addition to this annoying fish, everyone also saw other creatures, including many creatures marked as terrifying on the biological map, such as a giant gecko crawling on a rock wall, and a "pterosaur" with a wing membrane that glided over the canyon.
There are even a few giant lizards that are very similar to dinosaurs - thunder monitor lizards, which are social entropy creatures with terrifying combat power, but fortunately they are vegetarians like elephants, as long as they don't take the initiative to provoke them, unless they happen to be in estrus, there is no high danger.
However, the weather was not so kind, and the rain suddenly became heavier, and the water level in the canyon soared, and there was no way to go this way.
Fu Bin had to consume a "magic core" again, and built an ice boat on the spot, in order to reduce the entropy energy consumption and increase the load at the same time, everyone randomly collected a lot of floating objects such as branches and leaves, and let Fu Bin freeze them together to form a hollow hull.
Due to the warm weather and the erosion of flowing water, Fu Bin's maintenance of the shape of the iceboat is a huge consumption. This time, he almost overdrew all the entropy energy, and only then did he narrowly let the iceboat drift down the river for a few kilometers, through this relatively narrow rift, and sent everyone to land just before the iceboat collapsed.
In the next half day, everyone finally braved the rain to advance 13 kilometers, and finally crossed the most dangerous distance and reached the rift passage. Except for the brain-dead piranha, there are not many creatures that actively attack people.
In fact, in general, a team of about ten people, ordinary creatures will not come to provoke, and there are not many brainless creatures like the emperor worm that are easy to kill. It's just that the rising torrent still brings a lot of urgency, during which Banqu Xiang and Fengyu Life both almost fell into the water and were washed away, and were rescued by everyone very thrillingly.
The so-called rift channel is a small branch of this geological fissure, except that this fissure rises gently and leads directly to the plain on the southern bank of the rift, which is about six kilometers long. Due to the rain, there is also a stream of water in the middle, but it is relatively clean.
It is also the upper reaches of the Great Rift Valley, less than 200 meters from the ground, while the section near Base A is more than 500 meters deep, and it is said that the depth of the downstream is more than 3,000 meters, leading directly to the sea, turning into a strait or even a trench.
There were also many creatures in the canyon passage, and most of them ignored the crowd and ran to the shore as if fleeing for their lives. Halfway through the team, they finally couldn't hold it back, and they all said that they would stop and do a big job.
Because after going up to the south bank, it is beyond the range of the drone, and at this time the team has a way to retreat, even if the canyon is flooded, it can be withdrawn at any time, so this last opportunity should be seized to hunt here. Although Fu Bin didn't care too much about contributing points, he couldn't go against everyone's will, so he could only agree to this proposal, but because he had consumed too much before, he could only rest and watch the battle on the sidelines.
In order to save time, they called the drone at the beginning, and this last madness made everyone in the team excited, and when the drone arrived two hours later, it had hunted more than thirty creatures of all kinds, totaling nearly two thousand contribution points.
This time, the debts of Gofan and the others were finally paid off, and there was a slight surplus. Although the four of them have been working almost for nothing in the past few days, it can be regarded as a thing.
Another night passed not far from the exit of the canyon pass, and the next morning, the team set foot on the plain of screaming winds. Although the name of the Screaming Plains is the Plains, there are countless natural ditches that crisscross the ground.
These ditches of various depths are responsible for the unique sound of the wind here, and they also cause a lot of trouble for pedestrians. Nothing to do with the Great Rift Valley, these ditches are the result of extreme weather conditions such as heavy rains, severe cold, and violent winds.
When he came here, Fu Bin saw what a real storm is, the wind here can really blow people away, and everyone can only stand by holding hands. And the rainfall is even heavier than any rainstorm on earth, like a basin filled with a lake of water poured down, and the originally slightly arid plain has almost instantly become a water town with streams flowing horizontally and waterfalls flowing vertically.
They are also not badly lucky, otherwise they will be directly drenched by that large cloud of rain like a large waterfall, and they will drown if they are not washed away.
A large amount of water poured into the Great Rift Valley, causing the water level at the bottom of the valley to rise rapidly, and in the most of the days when the team was sheltering from the rain, this section of the rift valley had become a river, which made Fu Bin and the others afraid for a while, if they came out half a day late, it would definitely be the end of the entire army.
Fortunately, the storm here is not continuous, but the strength of the ups and downs, and more regular, the strength of the storm is also closely related to the wind, everyone can take the opportunity to hurry when the wind is small, and when the wind and rain become stronger, find a cave or leeward place to take refuge.
There are usually creatures in the caves, but they can't be used as contribution points, only food, so the party has no interest in provoking other creatures unless necessary.
The storm lasted intermittently for more than a day before it gradually subsided, and the screaming plain ushered in another scene, turning into a paradise of aquatic and grassy creatures, these creatures did not know where to suddenly appeared, the density is very large, and there are many species, among which the proportion of mammals is much higher, and groups of large and medium-sized herbivores with strange looks eat and mate in the wind and rain.