Chapter 48: Strange Beasts
"Tell me honestly, what is that thing of you? What if I miss and throw myself into the crowd? The tooth finch ran into the woods, and kept asking Amdor. She is still afraid that such a small thing can make such a big move. The crater it blew up must be at least two meters long! "You've got these on you." Andor did not answer her question. But from the bag behind him, he took out more round 'black balls' and stuffed them into the tooth finch's hand.
"You put it on the ground!" When the tooth finch saw Amdo's outstretched hand, he didn't even dare to touch it. Taking a step back, he yelled at Andor in horror. "You're so small?" Andor laughed. "You tell me clearly!" The tooth finch does not give up. "Hey, this thing won't be fine if it doesn't bounce!" Andor grabbed a 'black ball' and pounded it vigorously on the ground. But it drew a scream from the tooth finch. Although he didn't fall to the ground, his legs were shaking slightly. "Are you alright?" Andor was still shaking the things in his hands without hesitation. After a long time, seeing that there was indeed nothing terrible, the tooth finch cautiously leaned over.
"Why haven't I seen you try this?" The tooth finch's attention finally shifted. "It's too much movement, how can you try it? But it seems to be working well. "Andor is a little proud. No one among the students was more worried about going into the mountains than he was. He began to receive various blows from Yuki a year ago. So he started early, exhausting all means to save his life.
There were some things he didn't even tell the tooth finch. It's not that I'm afraid of her leaking secrets or scared, it's just that Amdo thinks this place is too weird. What he saw in his notes, even Andor didn't fully understand. For example, the shadow woman Duoduo who already existed in his head. For example, the imaginary spaces and scenes in the Jiazi Hall are constructed with the blueprint language 'code recognition'. It's all incredible.
"Wait, where are we?" Although the tooth sparrow does not have the talent to be a good conductor, most of them have. But her sense of direction is still excellent. She clearly remembered that the mountain directly opposite the east gate was Xia Ye Mountain. It is a hill covered with bamboo forests. Andor came back to his senses and realized that the situation around him was very strange. "Is there a bamboo forest with red leaves?" "I haven't seen it." The tooth sparrow replied unconsciously.
"Watch your step." Amdo's sea of consciousness was stirred by a strange frequency, which stirred his mind unusually disturbed. He always felt like he had fallen into something. The tooth finch became even more nervous after Andor's reminder. She climbed onto a bamboo in three or two steps. They are so much like bamboo, except for the red leaves. "What do you see?" Andor asked, seeing the Tooth Sparrow looking around on it. "See nothing! In addition to the blue sky, there are red leaves everywhere! Tooth Sparrow shouted loudly. Impossible? We've been out for less than an hour! This way is all uphill, and you will definitely be able to see the walls of the academy. Take a closer look around you! ”
"See for yourself!" Andor saw a hint of panic in the look in the Tooth Sparrow's eyes. This immediately made Andor feel bad. He immediately climbed up another tree beside the tooth finch. What he saw in his eyes shocked Amdo deeply. He hugged the bamboo and did not make any movement in the air for half a day. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. Under the blue sky was a sea of crimson, and there was no other color. "Tooth Sparrow, the bamboo on our way here should also be green, right?" Amdo shuddered as he asked the tooth finch.
"It should be!" In retrospect, the toothed finch did not notice the color of the bamboo forest at all. As she rushed out of the city gate, she paid attention to the scenery in front of her. But when she rushed into the woods, she really didn't pay much attention. "When we came in, I remember it was green!" As if seeking support from others, Andor shouted.
"When I came in, it was indeed green." Tooth Sparrow affirmed. "I didn't pay attention to when it turned red, though." The face of the toothed finch is also ugly. The two of them couldn't distinguish their own direction when they just came in, which was indeed a bit scary. "There's nothing special about this leaf, isn't there?" Andor slowly rubbed the red bamboo leaves in his hands, feeling them seriously. "Shall we go back?" The toothed finch looked a little unsettled. Andor didn't speak, nodding slightly. The Tooth Sparrow got up and walked to his left. He had just taken two steps before he was stopped by Andor.
"Where are you going?" Andor looked at her quizzically. "Go back!" The tooth sparrow replied puzzled. "Is that the way back?" "Yes! I remember it well. Don't you think we stepped on these places? The tooth finch casually pointed to the ground in front of him. Stepping out? What to step on? Andor walked over and looked at the ground that the tooth finch's finger was pointing to. Except for a few grasses growing there, there was nothing else. Not to mention footprints, even on the grass branches and vines, there is not a trace of rubbing.
"Can't you see it?" The fanged finch's fingers pointed fiercely in the air in front of Andor. It seems that he is a little angry, and at this time Andor deliberately came to find trouble. But Andor saw nothing in that place, except for the fanged finches' wagging arms. "You're not kidding." A wry smile appeared on Andor's face. "Say what? I'm in the mood to joke with you! The fanged finch's hand stretched out, tugging at what seemed to Amdo to be an empty place. In that empty place, when the hand of the tooth finch reached out. Suddenly his appearance changed in Amdo's eyes. Andor saw a few blood-red branches and leaves swaying in front of him. They soon reached the hands of the toothed finch.
"Don't move!" Amdo shouted. "What's wrong?" A look of panic flashed across the Tooth Sparrow's face. "It's okay, don't move. Keep this moving. Andor carefully drew a pair of footprints around his feet on the ground where he was standing. Then he slowly walked to the place where the tooth finch stood. Look around, left and right, back and forth. Just as Andor turned in front of the tooth sparrow, Andor froze for a moment. He saw the patch in front of him, and a few grasses that had been trampled on had fallen to the ground. "Too weird?" "Can you stop playing like this?" The tooth finch originally looked vigilant, but when he saw Andor like this, he immediately relaxed. A few grass branches in her hand were angrily thrown at Amdo.
"Don't be in a hurry. Take a look at where I just stood? Andor immediately retreated to where she had just stood as the tooth finch walked. Are you finished? Tooth Grumbled angrily. Please, please! Andor didn't explain what he was seeing. Just giggling and pleading with the tooth sparrow. The Tooth Sparrow was unhappy to stand where Amdo had drawn two footprints. When she looked up ahead, the resentment on her face instantly dissipated. A stunned face, stunned until Andor patted her shoulder a few times before relaxing. "What's going on?" She was really scared. When he woke up, he kept looking at where he had just stood and where Andor had drawn.
"What's going on?" She kept asking. "Could this be what the old man is afraid of?" Andor has recovered from the shock. In terms of the final effect alone. Andor knew several ways to do this. However, regardless of the effect of optical occlusion or the transfer of optical projection, it is possible to have this ability to change the image at a small angle at close range. But they need a huge system to do it all.
But Andor couldn't find them on the side. Is there more advanced technology than the stars in the domain? Andor thought back to himself repeatedly, and what he had encountered here felt unlikely. "What's going on?" The toothed finch was still immersed in incredible shock. Her footsteps were still moving in both positions. Completely devoid of her usual calmness. "Okay, stop playing!" "What's going on?" The tooth finch didn't seem to hear Amdor's teasing. She grabbed Andor in front of her. Asked out loud.
"Magic." Andor said without a sense of responsibility. "But what about magicians?" The Tooth Sparrow tugged at Amdor's head, which was in front of him, looking for someone who might be in front of him. "I'm done with the change and gone." Andor laughed. He didn't know how to explain all this to the Tooth Sparrow. "Get out!" The tooth sparrow, who had eased his spirit, immediately understood, and he was tricked by Andor again. In fact, Amdo himself couldn't figure out what was going on here. Is it really artificial?
"Let's rest here today." Andor looked frustrated. "It's still early!" The toothed finch looked up at the blue sky above the bamboo forest. "What we didn't see this time was a few grasses. What if the next time we don't see a cliff? Amdo persuaded. We've got to get this out of the way before we can move on. The tooth finch nodded reluctantly.
Andor put his backpack down. He pulled out the tent and blanket from the tooth finch's backpack. Soon a nest was built under the bamboo forest. During this process, the interest of the tooth finch has been low. Amdo didn't assign, and she stood still. After cutting a few bamboos, the tent was finally set up.
These tasks were almost all done by Amdo alone. Thanks to the training over the past few months. In the past, just cutting down a bamboo tree would have exhausted Amdo. "Something to eat?" Andor sat on the blanket and asked the tooth finch. "No appetite." The tooth sparrow was distraught. "Take a break?" "Are we all resting here?" The toothed finch looked at the tent with a little disgust, which was made of fur and fabric. It uses five or six kinds of colors alone, and the key is that it says it is square or not square, and it is not round. The Tooth Sparrow was eager to ask Andor if he could make it more ugly. "That ......, we're going to be on duty separately." Andor replied with a blushing face. The Tooth Sparrow ignored him and went straight into the tent.
Seeing that the toothed finch had fallen asleep, Andor breathed a long sigh of relief. The situation here is even worse than what Andor saw in his notes, it was only the first day that something so weird had happened. He focused his attention on his own mental domain. Just after looking at the pixel map, Andor was stupid. There was a red light in the whole picture, and nothing else could be seen. Even the perceptual sensing image above was pulsating with countless rays of light. Andor couldn't see what the lines meant.
Only the last image above is usually black, and Amdo looks a bit like a bamboo forest. Looking at it, Andor could now count the beating black dots running towards him. Andor's attention suddenly withdrew from his mind. When I opened my eyes, there was nothing unusual. He was feeling that the last picture he had given him high expectations was too boring. "Something's coming!" Suddenly there was a loud shout from the tent behind him.
"What's wrong?" "Hurry up and pack up, I hear something running towards us." As soon as the tooth finch got up, it began to pull the tent roughly. Quickly stuffed it into his backpack. Amdo kept changing his position and looked around, but saw nothing but the red bamboo leaves. Just as he was feeling strange, he heard a roar in the distance. But there is still no foreign object in the eye.
"What to do? How do we walk? Andor heard the roar and seemed more anxious than the tooth finch. Hearing Andor's question, the tooth finch looked around and didn't know what to do. The roars around were getting closer and louder. But the two of them didn't see anything out of the ordinary. When it seemed like the sound was about to ring in my ears. "Up the tree!" Andor shouted and rushed towards the bamboo.
"It tastes so good!" The two of them could already see the violently shaking branches and leaves under the bamboo forest not far away. and the 'whine' of the connection. Andor even smelled the fishy stench coming from all around. "Crowds." The toothed finch's face turned a little pale.
At this time, they finally saw groups of blood-red fur stuff and emerged from the woods. Groups came in groups, circling around the tree that the two had climbed, round and round. Amdo saw a pair of dazzling eyes, and they all looked up with their heads held high. He whispered at the two men in the tree with his mouth ajar. "What is this?" I watched the trees gather more and more, and looked at something that looked like a dog but was more than twice as tall as a dog. Amdo's heart was furious.
"Dire wolf, huh?" The toothed finch doesn't look much better than Andor. She didn't even dare to look closely at the swarms gathered under the trees. "Doesn't the dire wolf have a good nose?" The only so-called dire wolf that Amdo has ever seen is the one he encountered when the Taoqiu family chased him. "That's the long-nosed dire! It would be nice if that thing were that. How does this guy look like a black-tailed dire wolf. However, it is red, especially the tail is redder. The tooth finch looked down for a moment, then raised its head to the sky. It was as if the wolves would be able to pounce on her and bite her after watching it for a long time.
"What should I do? There must be thousands of them! Andor looked into the distance, until the end of his vision was all red, so red that he could no longer distinguish the other colors. You can also see red shadows at different depths shaking violently. I wonder if there are more wolves hiding there.
Andor looked at the wolves under the bamboo forest, his eyes glowing red. I thought of a situation mentioned in the "Illustrated Guide to Alien Beasts". When the fog came, their eyes glowed red. When he saw this sentence, Amdo was still laughing at the person who wrote such a sentence. How strong is the intent to tell a story in your heart? Writing this kind of information album also uses the technique of suspense. But now that he was surrounded by a red halo, Andor immediately thought that this might be what the people who wrote the book called 'fog', right?
But what the hell is this thing? Andok wouldn't believe it was just a 'fog' that had changed color. Just think about what is written in the "Illustrated Book of Strange Beasts", when this situation comes, the changes in the animals in the forest. Andor knew that the source of the weirdness must be this kind of thing. But why it caused such a situation, Amdo was still confused. But if you don't know this situation, it's really hard to move around in the woods with confidence. You must know that the mutants in the "Illustrated Book of Alien Beasts" are not just the wolves below.
There's so much more to be feared! This type of wolf is only the most common, and even packs of wolves are not the greatest threat. The Illustrated Book of Alien Beasts refers to this mutated dire wolf as the red-tailed wolf, and its most powerful attack weapon is its mouth. Teeth can easily bite through ordinary weapons, and even long armor can be torn apart. In the tactics mentioned by Yuki, deal with such hordes of guys. It is best to use trenches and wooden poles to make it lose its attack. If you let them attack in a group with a charging stance. Even the shallow mountain black cavalry of Shuliu City will find it difficult to defeat them in a head-on hedge. Not only do they have excellent strength, but they also have a degree of skill and dexterity that is difficult for human cavalry to match.
But at this moment, where did Amdo go to make trenches and wooden battles. Even if he got these things, he didn't have a team of heavily armed foot troops to defend. If you really want to play with your wishes, isn't it possible for Andor to come up with a heavy mecha and solve it? But this is obviously not something that can be done by thinking about it. "Do you have a solution?" The tooth sparrow's words interrupted Andor's musings. She looked terrible. "Nothing good for now. If you really can't do it, you can only rush hard! Amdo said viciously.
"Hard rush?" The tooth finch was puzzled. "It's just killed." Andor patted the 'Da Shen Eagle Dao' behind him. "I didn't want to show my strength so early. Who knows what else will come next? But I didn't expect to be so unlucky, and I encountered such a tricky thing on the first day. ”
"Is that thing reliable? Don't be fenced off when it doesn't work? "I've seen that thing many times in experiments. The Tooth Sparrow was clearly unable to fully trust the strange creature at a critical moment. "It's more than enough to deal with them. I'm just worried that there's something even more terrible to come. "Andor wasn't happy that he could deal with the wolves below.
"Something more terrible?" The tooth finch felt that it was bad enough at the moment. She couldn't think of anything more difficult to cope with at the thought that she might be torn to pieces by the animals, and even watch them eat themselves into their stomachs. "You've also seen the "Illustrated Book of Alien Beasts", this thing is not terrifying in it." Amdo reminded.
"Is that true?" The tooth finch couldn't believe it. She's always been a monster looking at those things. "This guy has appeared, and the others can only be treated as real." Amdo smiled wryly and shook his head. "I shouldn't have forced you to come here." The Tooth Sparrow looked down and sighed. "Hey, what are you talking about at this time? Wait and see if there will be any changes. Andor slowly narrowed his eyes, his ears bracing his attention to every movement under the tree.
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