Chapter Seventy-Eight: Through the Mire
With a muffled sound, the mud splashed, and the silence shield released by Zhang Heng shattered, and the quagmire around the person who fell was forced open by the explosion.
“1、2、3! Pull! ”
Xiao Fat and Da Zhuang grabbed the body of this person and shouted together, and the few people behind were holding the bodies of the two people and pulling back violently, because the explosion was the surrounding mire loosening, and they pulled suddenly, and the body of the person who fell was pulled up instantly, and when he was about to come out, several thick vines were still wrapped around his legs.
Seeing this, the abyss blade in his hand was instantly cut off, several vines were suddenly broken, and the remaining vines quickly retreated.
"Brother, are you alright?!" After being pulled up, several of his good brothers hurriedly asked.
"I didn't ...... It's okay, I just feel like my body is about to be pulled in half! He touched his waist that was about to break and said with a wry smile.
"Brother, you have a good rest first!" Zhang Heng patted the brother who was trapped and pulled back and said.
Then he came to the edge of the swamp, where the dirt was relatively loose and looked like normal grass on the surface, so it was no wonder that it was easy to get hit. Zhang Heng lifted a stone and put it on the swamp, and soon the stone sank, and after the stone fell, the place where he was just now returned to its original state.
"A normal swamp wouldn't be as realistic as it is here, but it's strange to see how quickly the swamp returns to its original state after the stone is sunk in!" After Guo Shenglan saw Zhang Heng throwing stones, she said with a strange expression.
"I'm afraid that the swamp here is related to the vines at the bottom just now, in order to catch the prey, these vines deliberately restore the terrain to its original state, and then as long as the prey is trapped, they can slowly devour the prey." Liu Pojun thought for a moment and said.
"I don't know how big this swamp is, the east side of the forest is the mountains, we are going to the northwest direction, now we can only see if we can bypass this swamp from the west!" Looking at the swamp like the meadow, Zhang Heng frowned slightly and said.
So, after planning in place, Zhang Heng led the team to the west to find a way around the road, each of them holding a long wooden stick in their hands while exploring the way while moving forward to prevent the trap from being quagmire. However, after walking west for nearly an hour, they suddenly found a cliff, and the plan to bypass the mire had clearly failed.
"Damn! I don't know how big this swamp is, can we just be stopped here? Fat threw a stone out, saw the stone gradually sinking, and said with a depressed face.
Zhang Heng looked at the mire, then pointed to the big tree dozens of meters away and said: "You see, there are no thick trees on the surface of this quagmire, which means that the big trees can't survive in it, I think the width of this swamp should be there!" ”
Everyone was in the direction that Zhang Heng pointed to, a large forest was dozens of meters away, and if they wanted to go through, they had to pass through this swamp, but it seemed to be very difficult. So, a team of people discussed beside the mire for a long time, but there was no way at all, this place is not like the cliff in front of it, one high and one low, you can jump over, and the distance is so far that no one can cross it.
"Since this is a swamp, it means that it is made of mud and water, so why don't we use wood to get there?" Just when everyone was at a loss, a man suddenly proposed.
The others thought about it and agreed, so they prepared to cut down trees to build wooden boats, but Zhang Heng cut out a large piece of tree trunk and threw it behind the mud for the sake of safety. Sure enough, the trunk of the tree floated on the ground, but soon, the trunk began to sink downward, and if you looked closely, Nima, it was these vines that pulled the trunk down.
As a result, Zhang Heng came to the conclusion that this quagmire would devour everything it touched, regardless of whether the object was a living thing or not. The main one is the vines beneath the mire, they devour everything they come into contact with, and these mires are definitely full of vines, and it's really not easy to get past them.
After reaching the conclusion, everyone was disappointed again, and could only sit dryly next to the mire and look at the big tree opposite and sigh.
There are also a lot of fierce beasts in the primeval forest, not that there are some weak fierce beasts, but they don't dare to approach when they see so many humans here. A huge rabbit came out of the woods behind Zhang Heng, and when he saw the human being sitting on the grass, he was so frightened that he quickly fled from Zhang Heng's group of people.
So, the huge rabbit ran to the swamp in the eyes of everyone, so the tragedy trapped the swamp, and then continued to struggle and slowly trap the swamp.
"This rabbit is really tragic, it's really painful to sink into it slowly, and it's suffocating to death." Chubby looked at the rabbit and shook his head.
Zhang Heng suddenly raised his eyebrows, then looked at Xiaopang and said with some surprise: "Xiaopang, what did you just say, I seem to have thought of something?" ”
"I said this rabbit is so pitiful!" Chubby touched his head inexplicably and said.
"Not this sentence, the latter sentence!" Zhang Heng interrupted Xiaopang and said.
"Uh...... I said that this rabbit must be in pain when it sinks slowly, and it will suffocate in the mire! ”
"Yes, yes! That's it, I thought of it! Brothers, as you have just seen, everything does not sink all at once after entering the mire, but slowly sinks, so no matter what sinks, there is a process, if some of us quickly throw tree trunks into the mire, and some of us quickly step on the wood, it should be no problem to rush over at a distance of tens of meters! Zhang Heng patted his leg and said in surprise.
When the others heard it, it really made sense. So they cut down a few pieces of wood for testing, and found that it took ten seconds for a one-meter piece of wood to be torn down by vines, as long as they stepped on another piece of wood in ten seconds, and carried it out in turn, it should be no problem to rush through. They discussed it for a while and decided to go with it.
"Good! Now we are ready to cut down the tree, cut it into each section of about one meter, and all the brothers with great strength will be responsible for throwing the wood, make sure that when he steps on the previous piece of wood, the next piece of wood must be thrown near him as soon as possible, remember, a piece of wood can only stay for a maximum of ten seconds, if you don't step on another piece of wood for ten seconds, you will definitely die! Also, I'll be the first to try later, and when I'm over, I'll help throw wood! ”
After saying that, everyone began to cut trees and wood, and soon the preparations were done. So Zhang Heng stood at the edge of the swamp, took a deep breath, and then said to Da Zhuang who was holding the wood next to him: "Okay, I'm ready, I can start!" ”
Da Zhuang nodded, threw the wood in his hand two meters away, Zhang Heng jumped up with a jump, and then Da Han: "Little fatty, the next piece!" ”
Xiaopang hurriedly threw out the wood in his hand, and the wood fell a few meters in front of Zhang Heng, and at the same time Zhang Heng jumped over, followed by another piece of wood in front of Zhang Heng, and in this way, Zhang Heng stepped on more than a dozen pieces of wood and was about to reach the opposite side. However, because the weight of the wood is not small, although the physical fitness of human beings has been greatly improved, it is not easy to throw the wood dozens of meters, and in the end, even two people carry it together and throw out a piece of wood.
It was almost a few meters away from the big tree opposite, and they really couldn't throw it that far, so Zhang Heng jumped over, jumped directly on the wood, and when he landed, he felt a softness under his feet, and quickly retracted his feet, and then turned his body forward a front flip, and finally fell to the solid ground.
Seeing that Zhang Heng finally passed safely, the person on the other side finally breathed a sigh of relief, and Zhang Heng was also relieved, you must know that Zhang Heng had been mentioning his throat just now, if he didn't pay attention to stepping into the air, he would always fall into the quagmire abyss.
After Zhang Heng came over, he also cut out a lot of wood, and then assisted in throwing wood when the people on the opposite side came, and after a group of people came, people on both sides assisted in throwing wood, and some slower auxiliary partners came in the middle, because it was safer for people on both sides to throw wood at the same time, so even if Lin Siyi's mobility was the weakest, he stepped over safely.
"Da Zhuang! You're the only one left, but we only have a limited distance to throw wood, so you need to run and rush out, be careful! Only Li Dazhuang was left on the other side, and Zhang Heng shouted at Dazhuang.
"It's okay, Boss Heng, just throw it!" Da Zhuang beckoned and shouted loudly.
So, Da Zhuang retreated more than ten meters and began to run quickly, Zhang Heng and Xiao Pang lifted a piece of wood, then counted down one, two, three, and then threw it out fiercely. The trunk of the tree flew to a distance of four or five meters from the swamp opposite, and Da Zhuang ran and jumped onto the log, shaking it a few times to stabilize his body.
Immediately afterwards, the other two people threw the wood out, and the distance behind them was closer, and Da Zhuang seemed to be a little more relaxed, and finally passed unharmed.
"Whew...... It's all here, and it's only taken a few hours to get through a swamp, and the journey looks really dangerous! Chubby said with trepidation as he watched the swamp swallow up all the wood.
"Look no further, hurry up!" Zhang Heng gave Xiaopang a slap and said.
Subsequently, the whole team began to move in the northwest direction, it took a day, everyone passed through this primeval forest, and encountered a lot of fierce beasts on the way, but now the run-in degree of the team is about the same, so it is much easier to deal with the fierce beasts, if you encounter the pangolin boss again, it will definitely be much easier than the last encounter.
After passing through the forest, I finally came to the hilly area, and it can be seen from some broken walls and ruins that this place used to be a town, but after the data, it became a ruin, and the corpses of some fierce beasts can be seen in the ruins, and it seems that there was a battle here not long ago.
"Boss Heng, there seem to be surviving humans here, you see the corpses of these fierce beasts, they were obviously killed by weapons, but there are no human corpses, presumably the corpses of humans are buried!" Seeing the scene of the ruins, Liu Pojun said to Zhang Heng.