Chapter 288: Life on the Island
With that, Natasha first reported on the fact that she and Sasha had gone to the chocolate chip cookie bird's nest.
"As Sasha said, the chocolate chip cookie bird isn't actually too aggressive. If you compare it horizontally, it is probably only a little higher than the average long-billed finch, but there are many of them, so in terms of danger, it is still very high. Natasha began to explain.
"Yes!" Smoking a cigarette, Sasha continued: "Because of the oppressive environment here." It's like the hunter exam, where the ability to read is suppressed and forced into a state of absoluteness. You can only rely on physical fitness, so ......" Speaking of this, Sasha looked at Tony: "I'm going to give you some special training!" β
"Special training for what?" Tony didn't figure it out for a moment.
"Of course, it's special training for fighting and dodging." Sasha replied as a matter of course: "Although you belong to the Hunters' Guild, you yourself should know how many back doors you have passed. As a hunter, a strong body and a strong mind are essential. β
"Are you going to let me train here?" Tony said in surprise: "Please, are we going to take it here for the rest of our lives?" Train me to be able to dodge the chocolate chip cookie bird? No kidding. β
"......" Hearing Tony's words, Sasha looked at Tony with an obvious mocking look on her face.
"It seems that Iron Man really only uses the identity of a professional hunter of the Hunter Association as a ticket to the dark blind date banquet. Or rather, your steel armor has given you too much confidence. As she spoke, she gestured and took a stone in her hand, and then pinched it.
"Once a creature has opened the sperm hole and has the ability to telepathize, this unique life field will change the basic physical qualities of the creature and develop its potential. So even if you don't have the ability to read, professional hunters are still able to be a hundred. She opened her hand and showed Tony the powdered stone.
ββ¦β¦ Well, when are we going to start. Seeing Sasha like this, Tony also knew that he had no way to refuse.
"Don't worry, just give me a few days, and I will definitely train you well." Sasha smiled and spoke, her face seemed to have the brilliance of the Virgin: "You know, this is also for your good, the group of people who participated in the dark blind date banquet are not easy to get along with." Let me tell you this, with your current strength to participate, let alone win, and officially become the fiancΓ© of Pepper, the daughter of the unicorn. It is possible to die in it if you are directly brushed down. β
"Good, good. You're right! Pouting, Tony didn't take Sasha's hauler to heart. After all, in his heart, his most powerful power will always be his brain.
"Then Sister Sasha is going to train Tony, Sister Natasha and I are going to take a look around. Look for food, and by the way, continue to check out the island. Brother Haier also assigned himself a task: "Brother Haier hasn't been found yet, and I'm still a little worried." However, I had a feeling with him, and it seemed that Haierdi was not in any danger. β
"Of course no problem!" Sasha smiled and nodded to Brother Haier: "Then we will separate during the day and meet at night." β
A few more people discussed the details, and before the time came to night, they each said goodnight, added enough wood to the matchstick, and went to sleep.
In the morning, the weather was overcast and a southeast wind was blowing. Sasha and Tony skirted the bend in the grotto, with wisps of smoke rising from the grotto, toward the left bank of the river.
When she entered the woods, Sasha first pulled down two large thick branches from a tree and made them into sticks, and Brother Hale sharpened the ends of the sticks on the stones.
Although in Tony's opinion, they are not without steel knives, and they do not use steel weapons, and then use wooden sticks, which is simply a fool, but he still has a strong desire to survive and does not say it.
The two men walked forward in the deep grass along the riverbank.
Since Tony hadn't walked this way before, he had to look around with interest.
The brook turned a bend and flowed southwest, and the stream narrowed upward, with high banks and branches on top of it joining together to form an arch. The left bank of the river is flat and swampy, and gradually rises gently inland. From here it looks like a network of water, which undoubtedly leads from underground springs to streams or rivers. Some of the bushes also have small streams that can be crossed without much effort. In order not to get lost, Tony and Sasha both decide to follow the direction of the current so that they can return to their starting point at any time.
Coming to a small stream, the terrain is very interesting, and there are many obstacles on the bank. In some places, pliable branches shimmer low on the water. Sasha took out all the sharp knives in her bag, and then, under Tony's stunned gaze, she was as dexterous as a kitten, and disappeared in the bushes. After a while, I came back.
"So......" Sasha handed Tony the twig and said, "The rest of the training begins." Walk along the creek and remember not to get touched by the branches. The branches have been modified by me, and they are very sharp. With that, he stood behind Tony.
"What kind of training is this?" Taking the stick, Tony complained, but still resigned himself to his fate. After all, Tony also knew that Sasha was doing it for Tony's good. Whether that's because you don't want him to hold him back, or whatever.
As soon as he started walking, Tony discovered the difficulty of training. There are too many obstacles on the shore. In some places the pliable branches brushed low on the water, in other places he had to use a stick to make a way between the thorns and the climbing vines, and occasionally a sharp touch would slash from between the stumps, and with the flexibility of the branches, it would slash Tony's body, and some of them would make a hole in Tony's body without noticing.
"Wow! It's too dangerous, isn't it? With a bang, a hole was made in the reserve, which directly cut through his clothes behind him. Tony said loudly to Sasha, "If it weren't for my thick clothes, I would have been injured by now." β
"Aren't you unhurt now?" Sasha said nonchalantly, "Attention." Those knives will cause a series of positional deformations with your movements. Now even I don't know they're going to come from there. β
"I'm a scientist, not a super soldier. Shouldn't that kind of thing be done by that old Captain America antique? "Tony Spit the Spitter. But he began to pay attention to the wind and the terrain around him.
But his concentration didn't help. Because the further you go inside, the more rugged the land becomes. Because the area where the water flows is extremely soft, and there are layers of trees everywhere that block the view like a curtain. It was very difficult for Tony to walk on the riverbank, and because of the steep terrain, the trees that bent towards the water were all pulled by their roots. So just as Sasha said, every step of Tony's reflection would be a deformation of the terrain near him, and in turn, the position of the plants next to him would change.
So gradually, he began to subconsciously pay attention to where he needed to be next. Even Sasha, who was not far from her behind, did it, and sometimes it was counted in it.
Sasha, who was on the side of the "......", watched Tony's movements in front of her and had to be shocked by Tony's talent. But think about it, although the vast majority of his power comes from the Iron Warframe, and even most of the weapons in the Iron Warframe come from the control of intelligent systems. But after all, it's still Tony's own control. If you don't have a lot of fighting talent and reflexes, you can't say anything. After all, not everyone can become Iron Man by wearing steel armor.
On this side, Tony was struggling to dodge training. On the other side, Natasha and the Hale brothers also looked at the island along the side of the forest and the sea. By the way, I also look for the missing Haierdi.
Needless to say, the forest was full of trees, just like the coast they had already inspected. Natasha only found the footprints of beasts, the newly left footprints of animals, but he didn't know what they were, in Natasha's thoughts, some of them must have been left behind by ferocious beasts, after all, these beasts might be tricky in the eyes of ordinary people. But in the eyes of these transcendents, they are like small animals.
Of course, these beasts may cause some trouble, but at the same time, Natasha found no signs of axes in the trees, let alone human footprints. It doesn't look like any creature has ever been there. After all, things in the dimension are too strange. Natasha felt that even if One Piece hadn't died, Natasha wouldn't be surprised if he suddenly appeared to say hello to them.
Because they had chosen a very difficult path to walk, they barely walked two kilometers an hour later. So far, they have not gained a bit. No food was found, and no trace of Heldi was found. Fortunately, there were small birds flying around among the branches, and they seemed very timid, as if they had seen people, and they knew how to be afraid. In a swampy part of the forest, Natasha saw another strange bird, with a long, pointed beak, but its feathers were metallic and even smoking.
"Wow!" Natasha was surprised, then planned to get closer to observe the bird.
"That's a rarity." Brother Haier also saw the bird: "It's an iron plate braised bird." β
"Teppanyaki braised bird?"
"yes, it's also a no-nonsense monster, but its hunting level is higher than the previous chocolate chip cookie bird, but it's not that high. If I'm not mistaken, the teppanyaki braised bird is either level 2 or level 3. Haha, this time I have a chance to taste the meat of the braised bird," said Brother Haier, "and see if it wants us to taste it!" β
As he spoke, Brother Haier skillfully threw a stone and hit the wings of the teppanyaki bird, but it did not knock it down, the stone seemed to hit the metal, and then the teppanyaki bird screamed, and in a blink of an eye it fled without a trace.
"I'm sorry, I'm so good!" Brother Haier was a little embarrassed.
"It's okay, you threw it accurately." Natasha encouraged Brother Haier: "Since we can meet the first one, then we will meet again sooner or later, don't be discouraged!" With that, the two of them continued to walk forward.
Yesterday's exploration of the terrain, they just roughly looked around the cliffs and forests to see if there were any other roads leading to the snowy mountains. But this is the first time such a careful and in-depth investigation has been conducted.
As Brother Haier and Natasha walked, the trees became more and more thin, and there were many trees that looked beautiful, but even Brother Haier didn't know the fruit, so he didn't know if he could eat it. Although Natasha has the heart to pick a few and keep them. But after thinking about it for a while, he secretly wrote down the location and continued to investigate with Brother Haier.
Suddenly, a group of beautiful poultry creatures roared away from the eyes of the two men. They had long glorious tails, and they stopped on the branches of the trees, and their feathers fell one after another with a shake of their bodies, and the ground seemed to be covered with a layer of fine duck down, but if you looked at it, you would see that it was not duck down, but flocculent like cotton candy.
Brother Hale picked up a few feathers, looked at them, and said, "This is the Marshmallow Chicken, which, like the Chocolate Chip Cookie Bird, is a food creature with a hunting rank of one. It's a little more dangerous than the chocolate chip cookie bird, but not much more either. β
After a pause, Brother Haier continued: "The first time I saw real marshmallow chickens, I heard that they were delicious, their meat was very tender, and even the feathers were edible marshmallows. β
After thinking for a moment, Brother Hale continued: "Also, if I am not mistaken, this bird is not afraid of other creatures, and we can get closer and catch them." β
The two men looked at each other, then Natasha motioned for her to go up first, and Natasha crouched out of the grass and walked under a tree with a marshmallow chicken resting on a branch near the ground. It waits to eat crawling insects, because it lives by eating small insects. I saw the hairy claws of the marshmallow chicken climbing the small branch and stopping on the tree. Then he kept scanning the ground.
Natasha quickly stood up, grabbed a stick in her hand and whistled towards the marshmallow chickens like playing baseball, looking as if she wanted to knock them off the tree, but seeing Natasha's attack, the marshmallow chickens didn't want to fly away at all, and let the sticks whizz at its body.
The stick is in the middle!
But the marshmallow chicken acted as if nothing had happened, and the chicken turned its head and glanced at Natasha.
Natasha saw that the blow could not be struck, and immediately picked up the stick again and beckoned to its head again. But the same as the first one is useless.
The marshmallow chicken clucked, as if mocking Natasha. Without giving her a third chance to attack, she flapped her wings and flew away.