Chapter 3: The Shadow Forest
In fact, after this conversation, Cora only had time to popularize the origin of the name Lower Shadow Forest to Mu Yan, as well as the animals or monsters in the Shadow Forest that could not be messed with.
The children in the village will not know these things, because they don't want them to live in despair since they were young, after all, they were born in the Shadow Forest, and they are destined to live here for the rest of their lives.
It was known as the Shadow Forest for a long time, as it was once home to the Shadow Wizards Church, and the entire forest, as well as everything in the forest, including humans and various other animals, was their private property. It doesn't matter if others see it that way, but at least that's what they think.
The Shadow Wizards were undeniably powerful, they rose rapidly and soon reached the peak, relying on their own strength, they recklessly captured the creatures of all races to carry out all kinds of inhumane experiments, and during that time, the name of the Shadow Wizards was stinky to the same height as their strength.
This was the peak of the Shadow Wizards, and their power had infiltrated almost every race! Their fame has made countless people tremble. It's not that no one wants to destroy this evil organization, on the contrary, people who want to do it catch a lot of people, but no one dares to do this, on the one hand, the major races are constantly fighting and restraining each other, and on the other hand, it is because the shadow wizards are indeed very powerful and talented!
In that period of war, countless nations rose and countless races disappeared, but only the shadow wizards stood still. Many people thought that they would continue to prosper like this until one day they destroyed a small country!
The reason is simply because I want to study the curse-resistant nature of that country's special bloodline! But it was too troublesome to catch one by one, so several powerful shadow wizards teamed up to cast a super-compound curse in that country, which lasted for three days and three nights! Turned that country into a ghost! This cruel method and the concept of using all things as experimental objects finally broke the bottom line in the hearts of the major races, and thanks to them, the major races were finally forced to put aside their grudges against each other and unite to march into the Shadow Forest together.
The battle was fought in a terrible way, it was run by the shadow wizards for hundreds of years, the vast shadow forest has long been turned into a death swamp, and the allied forces of various races often have to pay hundreds of troops to advance a little, and it can be said that every step they go to is pieced together with corpses.
But in the end, the Shadow Wizards were defeated, because their numbers were too small, but the countries were also greatly damaged by this, and the Shadow Wizards, who were unwilling to lose, integrated the power of all the remaining wizards and cursed the entire Shadow Forest with their lives, so that the coalition troops who had not had time to withdraw were almost instantly killed!
Since then, the indigenous creatures in the forest have begun to mutate to varying degrees, and some strange and terrifying monsters have begun to appear, they are powerful, physically strong, and have a variety of strange abilities, but fortunately, those monsters are not many and have low intelligence, almost only instinct, and each has its own territory, can only act at night, otherwise the entire forest would have been destroyed by them many times.
Because as long as you enter the forest, you will be cursed, so the major races are almost isolated from here, and the creatures in the forest cannot appear in the outside world at will, as long as they stay in the outside world for a long time, they will turn into puddles of pus! So now the creatures in the forest are all in a situation where their mothers don't hurt and their fathers don't love them, and they used to explore the ruins of various shadow wizards to exchange for supplies with the outside world, but now, this relationship has basically been severed.
The inside of the forest and the outside of the forest are now almost two races!
Until now, the Shadow Forest is still as vast as it was thousands of years ago, with countless creatures in it, almost a world of its own, and the three most powerful forces in the forest are now the Terrans, Werewolves, and Boar People! The others are all small alliances attached to the three races, and the relationship between the three races is near and far, maybe not too good, but compared to the werewolves, the relationship between the human race and the wild boar people is much better, I heard that they have recently started to trade!
Hearing the wild boar people, Mu Yan's eyes lit up, could it be that the pigs in "The Three Little Pigs" were referring to them?
Boar people? But judging by Cora's horrific description of the forest, it's possible!
Thinking that he could only play a supporting role for pigs, Mu Yan suddenly had a feeling of tears.
Kora observed Mu Yan's expression as he spoke, he had seen many promising young people who had become depressed since then after knowing the truth of the facts, and even more so they couldn't bear to commit suicide directly, so he deliberately stopped when mentioning this terrible curse, carefully observing Mu Yan's expression, and he didn't want this old friend's son to lose his vision for the future like this.
But this is a fact, when he decided to follow the path of the hunter, he had already decided that he had to know these truths, and when he knew these truths, he also had half a year of decadence before he recovered.
There are a lot of hunters around watching here, a familiar scene! They had also heard the story, but now they were old enough to tell it to the next generation.
They know how cruel the reality is, and how much they wish they could bear this curse themselves, so that future generations can live a life where at least hope can be seen, but this is not destined to work, every creature in this forest will face this cruel reality one day, they were born to be spurned by God!
However, when they looked at it, all they saw was a calm face.
Look again!
Or calm......
Cora frowned and repeated, "We were born to live in this curse, and when we get outside, we will turn into puddles of pus!" ”
Mu Yan: "Well, you've already said it again. ”
All:......
It seems to be interesting, and everyone is resting, while watching this side, from time to time there will be two sentences missing, adding two sentences.
When everyone saw that when Cora talked about the wild boar man, the kid was happy and melancholy, and they shook their heads and smiled bitterly, and they could only sigh that this kid was heartless.
However, after this conversation, many people have a different degree of affection for him, and in their opinion, this kind of young man who can face such a dark future with a smile is definitely the most important pillar of the future town!
But they didn't know that what Mu Yan really thought in his heart was,
Hurry up after completing the task, this place is so scary......
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On the other side, Captain Bell had already negotiated the route with a few people over there, and rolled up the map made of animal skins. Everyone agreed that they should decide to take a detour first to see if they could go back, because it was getting farther and farther away from the town, and it would be even harder to go back without trying.
Of course, if this plan doesn't work, you can only keep moving forward, Bell estimates that going further is the territory of the boar people, because it is the relationship between the captain, Bell has still fought with the boar people a few times, although everyone is not very familiar with each other, but it should still be possible to take refuge under the threat of the enemy.
By this time Frio and Dicker had returned, and were now lying down to rest, and Bell had called the other two, and Parr and Sander had gone to explore the way, and when they returned, the hunting party should set off.
Taking advantage of this time, Cora told Mu Yan about the basic arrangement of traps, the specific operations, and the preparation methods of some basic herbs, and he planned to let Mu Yan try it slowly on the way.
Mu Yan was also happy, anyway, he didn't know that he had talked too much about these things, so it was better to go directly to the actual battle.
When Cora was observing Mu Yan, Mu Yan was actually observing Cora, to say that Korra was different from other hunters, not only his figure, but also a knife on both sides of his waist than others, and look at the shotgun he stuffed into his waist, it was a short-barreled shotgun, the kind with a very short range but great power, all signs show that Korra is definitely a good melee hand! And especially good at using knives!
Thinking about it, Mu Yan also planned to learn how to use a knife from Kora, but when he heard the hurried footsteps at the entrance of the cave, he still gave up the idea in his heart, it was time to go!
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The sky was faintly bright, and before the soft sunlight could warm the earth, a thick mist had already rolled up from the mountains and swept through the shadow forest.
A group of eight hunters walked through the still dimly lit jungle, their faces painted with green and white paint, which smelled faintly pungent, and the main purpose of this paint was to hide the hunter's scent, so that they would not be spotted by those who had a nose more than a dog.
In fact, there are many creatures in this forest with a nose more intelligent than dogs, but most of them are weak little animals, even if they smell the hunters, they will only run to the side and watch from a distance, and the hunters will not trouble them, even if they are lucky, how dare they provoke the hunters.
But the most annoying thing is this, you say you can't provoke you, don't come, it's okay to come, you just watch quietly, but these little things come and like to tear their throats and call friends everywhere......
This is not the most hateful, the most hateful thing is that some big guys with simple minds and developed limbs, such as mountain bears, like to join in this kind of fun! Every time I hear this kind of cry, "Whew! "It's coming this way, this kind of big guy with thick skin and thick meat, the hunting team generally won't provoke if they don't do a good trap, so every time the hunting team can't hunt things, they will be chased around.
After suffering countless losses, this kind of paint came out, fortunately, the blending process of this paint is not complicated, and the materials are everywhere in the forest, so every hunter can easily deploy it, just for the sake of technical secrecy, only the people of the hunting team know.
Mu Yan's face was painted by himself, just out of the cave, Cora picked from east to west, and then taught how to mix on the spot, including how to find these plants to apply the technique, one-stop service, Mu Yan couldn't help but want to like it.
The whole process is not complicated, Mu Yan will be able to read it once, and soon make a lump of it himself, and then ask Cora to help him paint it.
However, I don't know if the ratio of my own blending is not quite right, after inhaling this taste, Mu Yan always feels spicy in his nasal cavity. However, thinking that Cora was watching from the side during the entire blending process, since he didn't say anything, it was probably not a big problem.
Ignoring this little problem, taking advantage of the thick fog, everyone didn't pay attention to him, Mu Yan put his hand in his pocket, touched it, and took out a ...... Capsule!
Yes, this is a real capsule! Blue top and white background!
This is what Mu Yan took out of the mark on his arm, which he found when he took advantage of the time to sort out the formation and explored the mark for the second time, the first time he was probably attracted by the main quest, and he didn't find that there was a space about a cubic meter in the mark! I discovered this space during my second exploration, and found such a capsule inside!
Mu Yan knew that this was probably the legendary newbie package, but this paradise was too unkind, and he didn't give a hint for such an important thing!
Without hesitation, Mu Yan immediately took it out and put it in his pocket, but everyone cared about him along the way, so he never had a chance to take it out to check, and his heart itched all the way, and he couldn't wait to take it out until he had a chance now.