Chapter 38: The Gray Forest
"Alright, RED brothers, the Grey Forest has arrived!"
Tang Long looked around, only to see a hundred meters in front of him, a black and pressed tree, these trees have the usual characteristics of subtropical forests, tall, stout, and luxuriant, but the strange thing is that the branches and leaves are all gray, as if they were filled with copper cast iron, and there is a burning smell of sulfur, which is very smelly.
"Everyone, please look up, the big mountain a few miles away is the origin of the volcanic island, the name of the mountain is diable, this is a French noun, translated, it is the devil, why is it called so, because in the middle of the 19th century, there was a port established by the French, as an outpost in the Far East, at that time, the volcano once erupted, burned dozens of people, so it was abandoned, and later developed by the country as a tourist attraction, this tree in front of you, It is the black smoke and fly ash pollution of the crater that has created this gray wonder. ”
"Having said all this, just to be careful, there may be the ghosts of French GIs here!" The Guardian had a frightened look on his face.
Seeing a few people looking at him expressionlessly, he coughed twice and said, "The mission begins, you can go." ”
"Boss Guardian, what about the other teams?" Feng Hong asked curiously.
"Of course, I took you to the other entrances, and let you meet at the beginning, how can this game continue."
Several members of the red team looked at each other a few times, and as soon as they turned around, the guardian disappeared, as if they had never been here, which was a little scary, "Since they are all here, let's go in," Xia Min shrugged his shoulders and took the lead into the forest.
The gray forest is dense, and there are especially many rotten leaves underground, and there are so thick feet that there is a warm feeling when you step on it, which makes people feel very strange; Several people carried a large bag on their backs, which contained water and compressed biscuits, this was still Officer Xia's reminder, otherwise a few rookies with zero wild experience really planned to come empty-handed.
"Watch out for the underground, be careful of the traps, and don't forget to look for spades, especially in places with dense foliage."
"Boss Xia, we only have one pair of eyes, how can we look both above and below?" Tang Long couldn't help but complain.
"Isn't that enough for two eyes!" Xia Min snorted and retorted.
"Stop bickering, Officer Xia, Brother Bayonet, one of the two of you is trained, the other is a sniper, and your eyes are better, please check the traps, and the others will look for fruit, what do you think?"
No one has any objections, in fact, the composition of the red team is rather strange, logically speaking, it should be the first to elect a captain, and the captain will give instructions; But first of all, Tang Long's five people are all rookies who have only experienced one formal mission, except for Feng Hong, each has its own advantages, such as Wang Haishan's analysis, Xia Min's strong firepower, Tang Long's melee fierceness, and Hu Die's treatment, but the biggest and common shortcomings are that they are all inexperienced, as for the two veterans of bayonet and beard, although they have experience, they are not the top ones, and their strength is not so crushing, and the five people in the discussion group don't want to give instructions from outsiders; Therefore, on the premise that each has a tacit understanding, whoever has a good idea will listen to whomever he wants.
I just walked and looked, time flowed slowly, and an hour passed.
"Look over there!" Tang Long's eyes swept to a big tree not far away, between the two branches, in an inconspicuous place, a gray fruit hung on the treetops.
"Damn, damn it, it's not easy to find a fruit!" Feng Hong scolded and scolded, so he was about to step forward to pick it, but he didn't notice that there seemed to be something on the tree!
"Don't move!" Tang Long and Xia Min shouted at the same time.
"What the hell?" Feng Hong looked back, and saw several people looking at him nervously, turned his head, his eyes shrank violently, and a black-skinned snake was hanging on a branch, more than a meter long, only a foot away from himself, motionless, not paying attention, just like a branch, black eyes staring straight at him, and sweat flowed out all of a sudden.
"Hey, hey, help, who's going to save me?" Feng Hong didn't dare to move at all, and shouted in a low voice, for fear that the snake would pounce violently.
"You use spells, don't you know how to use demonic spells?" Tang Long suddenly spoke, he just wanted to know if this guy was really stupid or fake.
"Spells are to chant spells, how dare I speak out loud now!" Feng Hong's expression didn't seem to be fake, and he was about to cry.
"I'll come," the bearded man said, picked up a branch on the ground, and slowly walked to the tree, the branch circled regularly, slowly put on the jaw of the black snake, rubbed gently, and for some reason, the snake actually slowly wrapped itself around the branch, swam forward, the bearded man walked a few steps, put the branch on the ground, and then strode away.
"In the northeast of my hometown, there are a lot of deep mountains and old forests, and the methods passed down by the elders are particularly effective in dealing with this kind of long snake."
Before the bearded man could speak, Feng Hong sat down on the ground, and after a long time, he said, "Damn!" ”
"This is spades?" Tang Long picked the fruit from the tree, looked at it carefully, except that the skin was black, he couldn't see the difference from other peaches, and handed it over to the others to see.
"This can't be done, the yield of this spade is too small, there is only one on dozens of trees, we only find one in an hour, even if we don't sleep for three days, seven people, seventy, it is also hanging, this is too inefficient!" Xia Min shook his head.
"This kind of environment forces us to act separately, which is probably the intention of the Guardians." Boss Wang sighed, "It's too dangerous to act alone, study it, how to form a team." ”
After discussing for a while, several people decided to divide into three groups, Tang Long and Xia Min in one group, bayonet and bearded in group, and other three people in group, "Just make a mark on this tree, as a joint location, if any of your groups of fruits are picked, or if there is any danger, write it down and put it in this branch, and the people who come back will deal with it as appropriate, and help if they can......"
determined the time and mark of the joint, and several people began to act separately, Tang Long and the two of them were responsible for finding and the other was responsible for detecting traps, but they also cooperated tacitly, and within two hours, they found three spades and decided to stop and rest.
"You look like you're on your mind?" Xia Min saw that his partner was preoccupied, and couldn't help but ask.
"Well, that's ......" Tang Long said what Chu Nan said last night, plus the strange phenomenon of discovering Feng Hong.
"Why didn't you say this kind of thing earlier!" Xia Min exclaimed: "The rest of the team doesn't know? ”
"You were the first to know," Tang Long was silent for a moment, and said, "I always feel that this matter has been strange so far. ”
"Could this guy named Chu Nan have anything to do with someone on our team?"
"It's unlikely, even if it's related, why look for me, wouldn't it be safer to go directly to the person he knows?"
"Yes," Xia Min thought for a while: "This matter can be put down first, anyway, there is no harm, let's talk about another thing, Feng Hong, this kid is really like you said, his arm is intact?" ”
"I can see it clearly."
"How is it possible to be so resilient? Could it be that this kid even bought the bloodline? Pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger? When Xia Min said this, he didn't even believe it: "This guy is a pig, how can he pretend to be a tiger." ”
"Doesn't he know how to use dark spells, will he heal himself?" Tang Long guessed.
"Even Hu Die's healing technique has left a scar, how can the effect of his dark spell be so good? And I talked to the veterans in the group, all dark spells are more aggressive, where do they get to repair attributes. ”
The two thought about it for a long time, but they didn't understand, so they had to give up and continue to look for peaches, and just after walking a few steps, they were held down by Xia Min, "There is something in front!" ”
Carefully turned over the rotten leaf layer on the ground, and three beast traps the size of a water tank were buried in it, and he immediately took a breath of cold air: "So big?!" ”
"If you step on it, you're ready to amputate!" Xia Min was also a little lucky, if he hadn't paid attention just now, at least one person would have suffered.
"Keep walking?"
"Wait a minute," Xia Min moved the three clips to a few conspicuous places, marked them, and covered them with branches, "maybe they will be used in the future." ”
After walking a hundred steps, there was a faint roar of beasts in the south, and the two looked at each other, and with the same thought, they quietly touched over there.
The gray forest was dark, and the little light was blocked by dense branches and leaves, and when the wind blew, the sound of Ulala sounded, and from time to time there were black shadows that flashed and disappeared, and the nerves of both of them were tense.
"It's nothing, let's go back," Tang Long just turned around, his eyes were open, it turned out that at some point, there was a giant beast behind him, this monster looked like a tiger, but it was several times bigger than a tiger, like a bear-like body, with knotted muscles, two knife-like fangs on his mouth, and the amber beast eyes swept over the two from time to time, and the thick beast paws stepped on the leaves, but there was no sound.
"I rub, isn't this a saber-toothed tiger? It's not the same age as the dinosaurs! Why is there still this year? ”
"Xia Wu, you are a martial arts practitioner, you should be able to do it, right? Back then, Wu Song Jingyanggang fought the tiger, you can too! Xia Min swallowed and foamed at the mouth and whispered.
"Is this a tiger? This is a prehistoric beast! There is a kind of you asked Wu Song to play a dinosaur for me!! ”
(Thanks to Longquan Thirteen Youths for the reward)