Chapter Eighty-Four: The Dark Forest
No matter what happened in this world, it was a thing of the past, and Yang Fan and the others finally left here and headed towards the Ancient Island.
It's really amazing to be on the surface again, and it's a feeling of being reborn from the bottom of the sea to the surface.
In everyone's description, the extremely terrifying Black Sea seems to be extremely calm, and Yang Fan doesn't understand why the Black Sea is rumored to be the most terrifying sea.
To Yang Fan's question, Oster looked dismissive, "What do you think horror is?" The unknown is the real horror, the Black Sea is the most difficult sea to reach in the Seven Seas, and even after successfully reaching here, almost no one has a chance to leave, so it is called horror, because few people who have traveled the sea for generations can leave here! ”
"Moreover, your knowledge is too little, you have only been in the Black Sea for a few days, and your knowledge of this sea area is still in the rudimentary stage, and soon you will recognize a real Black Sea!"
There are two ways to get to the Black Sea from other places, the first is to reach the Black Sea by diving into the depths of the sea like Yang Fan, there are many such passages above the sea, and the second is through the world's largest abyss waterfall, which can go straight to the bottom of the sea.
But both of these methods were too dangerous, and very few people could pass through them, so Yang Fan had to stay in the Black Sea for the time being.
As for the true face of the Black Sea, whenever he asked the others, the others were mysterious, "You'll find out soon." ”
The Black Sea didn't know how big it was, Yang Fan They had sailed in the sea for more than ten days and hadn't reached the Ancient Island, they first arrived at a strange place.
"Everyone, be careful to cover all the lights!" Under Teynal's command, everyone covered the ship's lights with a black cloth to prevent the glowing insects from shining.
"Why do you want to put out all the light?" This kind of behavior is undoubtedly a difficult thing to understand, and Yang Fan adheres to the spirit of asking if you don't understand.
"Ahead is the dark forest in the Black Sea, it will be too conspicuous here if you don't turn off the lights, you are really useless, why don't you even understand this." Alice wants to show that she is different whenever she has time.
"The Dark Forest? Will there be a forest in the sea? Yang Fan was very puzzled by this.
After sailing in the darkness for a short time, Yang Fan finally saw the outline of the so-called forest in front of him through the sparse light outside.
There is actually a forest here, and these plants stretch from the water to the sky, and there is no end in sight.
"Is the level of the sea here very low? These plants can grow! Yang Fan was afraid of the little girl Alice, and this time he found his daughter who was in the united front with him.
"Naturally not, none of these plants grow from the bottom of the sea." Qianjin first denied one of Yang Fan's guesses.
"Aren't they rootless trees, drifting with the flow? How did you determine the extent of this forest? ”
Qianjin's attitude was relatively good, he pointed to the top of his head with his finger, "It's not that the sea water level is low here, but the top is low, and many plant roots are on it, and they grow down, and finally all grow into the water." ”
This answer was too unexpected for Yang Fan, he didn't expect these plants to grow from above to below.
Between questions and answers, they had reached the edge of the forest, and Yang Fan could finally see the plants clearly.
Although he just got the hint of Qianjin, Yang Fan still can't see whether these plants grow from below or from above, their peculiarity is that the main trunk can't see the thickness between the top and bottom at all, of course, the reason for this is that these trees are too long, and the thickness changes between short distances are too small.
"Why do we have to turn off the lights when we get here?" Yang Fan continued to ask at Qianjin at this time.
"That's because there are too many dangerous creatures here, and if you don't pay attention, you will be attacked, and the light source is as obvious here as the target." A crew member named Farr on the ship explained as he approached Yang Fan.
After the other party finished speaking, he stretched out his hand and was about to pat Yang Fan's shoulder.
"Be careful!" The daughter next to her suddenly grabbed the other party's hand at this time, and with a force, the other party's hand was pinched and deformed.
"Hey, hey, what's going on?" Yang Fan was about to persuade the other party to say a few words, but who knew that the daughter stepped forward and grabbed the other party directly, and tore him in half with both hands.
"Are you crazy?" Yang Fan was stunned by this scene, is the daughter crazy, and her teammates are all killed?
"I'm not crazy, you have to be careful, this is a dark forest, a place with a very high risk factor."
The body in Qianjin's hand changed dramatically at this time, and the original appearance of Farr suddenly changed into a strange creature, he asked Yang Fan to look at this creature, and then casually threw the other party to the branch next to him.
"This is an extremely common Thousand-Faced Beast, it will transform into a ship's crew to carry out a sneak attack, you have to be careful, someone may not save you next time!"
At this time, there was a chewing sound from the place where the corpse of the Thousand-Faced Beast was discarded just now, and Yang Fan turned his head to see only a pair of green eyes.
Qianjin patted Yang Fan on the shoulder, "You see, this is the dark forest, there are many dangerous creatures, in fact, I heard that other seas do not have a huge landmass, so they will not form a forest of this scale at all, which is one of the reasons why they say that the Black Sea is dangerous and terrifying!" ”
Yang Fan didn't expect to encounter such a thing just after entering the Dark Forest, it seemed that he had to be vigilant, "By the way, how big is this Dark Forest?" How long are we going to sail here? ”
"It will take more than ten days to sail, let's go straight to it!"
As soon as the daughter said this, Yang Fan knew why they chose to walk through this forest instead of detouring, it would take more than ten days to cross, the scope of this forest can be imagined, once it is circumambulated, it may take more than five times as long as it is circumambulated.
"This forest is so dangerous, why don't you go to the bottom of the sea?" Yang Fan has not forgotten that this ship can be used as a submarine.
"Under the sea? That place is even more dangerous than here! ”
"Why is it so dangerous here? I mean, the Black Sea is so large, why is it that most of the places are so calm, and yet it's so dangerous, that it feels like all the creatures are concentrated here? ”
"I'll answer that question!" Oster walked over at some point.
Yang Fan's first reaction when he saw him was to put on a defensive posture first, and the lesson just now was still vivid.
"Hmph, friend or foe." Oster said as he dropped a ring.
As soon as he caught it, Yang Fan looked at Oster with some confusion.
"The strange creatures here will cause people to distrust each other, so I specially made this kind of ring, as long as it is the same ring, you can feel it from each other." Oster motioned for Yang Fan to put on the ring and give it a try, while he tossed another ring to Qianjin.
After seeing that the daughter also wore the ring, Yang Fan put it on. Sure enough, after wearing it, there will be a faint sense of induction between each other.
"Well, let me explain to you why there are so many dangerous creatures here."
"Actually, this is the need of the food chain, the more ferocious the creatures, the more they are at the top of the food chain, and at the same time, the greater the amount of food they need to eat."
"Elsewhere in the Black Sea, there are a variety of fish species, but the density of those fish is too small to meet the predatory needs of large, ferocious creatures."
"And the dark forests of the Black Sea are the most lush places in the world, even those underwater forests under the sea can't reach here."
"The more plants there are, the more creatures that feed on them, and the more large, ferocious creatures that feed on them, so you feel as if all the creatures are gathered here, because there is the most food and the most abundant resources!"
Oster's explanation was very clear, and before leaving, he said to the two of them: "Be careful yourself, there will be more and more creatures in the future, and Tenamir will ask those non-aggressive personnel to retreat into the cabin, and when the time comes, you will also need to guard the hatch and watch your own safety in the meantime." ”
Oster finished speaking and walked towards the hatch, apparently he was also a non-combatant.
At this moment, a dark shadow suddenly swept down from the nearby tree and attacked Oster.
Yang Fan instantly took out his sword, and after a sword light, the creature that sneaked up on Oster was cut in half by Yang Fan.
Oster behaved calmly, he didn't even look back at what was attacking him, "There is progress, good job." But don't forget to throw this guy out and clean the deck by the way. ”
"This guy!" Yang Fan smiled and shook his head.
Throwing the snake sword, all the blood stained on it was thrown out, and the sword body immediately became bright again, it really deserved to be a good sword, since he got it, Yang Fan has been carrying it with him.
Squatted down and flipped over the body of this beast with its scabbard to take a look, this is a large beast of the feline family, giving Yang Fan the feeling of a bit like a bobcat, but its size is larger and more ferocious, fortunately, this is just a fierce beast and does not have any special abilities.
As soon as the scabbard was raised, the body that was turned in half was pulled out of the boat by Yang Fan, as for the bloodstains, Yang Fan and Qianjin glanced at each other, neither of these two guys was going to do this, so let's wait for others to come.
So, the two of them also walked towards the hatch with a haha, they knew that they would soon enter the interior of the dark forest, and there might be a short meeting at that time, and there would be no good scenery outside at this time, so it was better to go and sit inside.