Walking among the ancient trees that are nearly 100 meters high, Oberen can't help but sigh at the magic of the world. Tall old trees can be seen everywhere, and beneath them are verdant shrubs and large patches of various colors of mushrooms the size of plates. Thick vines were wrapped around the trunk of the ancient tree several meters thick like a snake, layer upon layer, all the way up, and I don't know how high it would stretch.

Looking up, through the faint mist that lingers in the forest, you can see that at an altitude of tens of meters, vines crisscross each other, as if weaving a three-dimensional net, connecting ancient trees together.

The canopy of the ancient trees was tall and broad, and even a few of the thickest and most upright trees extended their canopies directly into the low-hanging radiant clouds!

The sky is always overcast, just as thick clouds of radiation never dissipate. A faint halo lit up around Oberen's surroundings, illuminating his surroundings a little, a luminous glow from the intense radiation onslaught on his defensive field. If someone from the Dragoon Headquarters saw this scene, they would be surprised that this was still not the Oberen they knew.

Until now, most people at the headquarters have the impression that Oberen is the big boy who is a little shy, detached, talented, and has unique hobbies. No one doubts his future, and there is even private speculation about whether there will be a second general in the Arthur family in ten years, but Oberen's identity is too young after all, and his identity does not allow him to take too many adventures to accumulate enough evolution points.

There are also many women in the Dragoon Headquarters, and they don't want the good-looking Oberion to take risks, and in their hearts, Oberion is the best person to protect people. He loves art, and anyone who likes art yearns for sincere love, doesn't he? Although love and art are also rare in this era, it is only this that shows the uniqueness of Oberen. Taking a step back, even if he can't be Oberen's beloved, it's not bad to be a plaything he likes.

Anyway, if you only look at ability, then in the dragoon headquarters where the school officers are scurrying around, Oberen, who is only a second lieutenant, is so inconspicuous, how can he easily support the fifth-order elemental defense force field like now, as if he will not be tired at all?

The forest is not dark, and the mushroom umbrellas scattered everywhere emit a variety of glowing colors, illuminating the lower part of the forest into a glorious world. Lots of fresh plants are trying to grow, swaying their purple and green branches and leaves in the wind. It looks like a legendary rainforest.

However, Oberen was not fooled by the sight in front of him, and the feeling on his skin told him that the actual temperature was now minus 35.7 degrees. At such temperatures, there should be no plants that can thrive according to common sense, let alone be so vibrant.

A light blue glow slowly floated in front of Oberen, and it looked so thin that it could flutter around with the gentlest wind, and it was as beautiful as a dream. Oberen's defensive field also shone with the blue brilliance of this empty flower, and it complemented each other.

Oberen reached out and tried to touch the floating flower, and as soon as his hand touched it, the almost transparent petals retracted as if frightened. However, Oberen's fingertips turned black at a rate visible to the naked eye, and wisps of smoke came out.

Oberen smiled and waved his hand slightly, and a gentle air flow carried the brilliant floating flower upward, slowly rising among the intertwined vines.

Perhaps it was a sign of interest in the floating flower, and a low roar suddenly sounded in the forest, and a black shadow passed through the vines tens of meters high with unimaginable agility, swallowing the floating flower in one gulp. It sped along the vines like lightning, and only stopped at the other end of the tree, its turquoise eyes staring at Oberen on the ground with wariness and hostility.

It was a mutant beast with gray-black fur that resembled a cheetah, but with six sharp claws, and a long tail with a palpitating hook at the tip. It grinned wide, growling low at Oberen, and from the four long sharp teeth, one of the remaining petals of the floating flower could be seen, still radiating a glow.

Roar! The beast roared more menacingly at Oberen, adjusting its body. Supported by six powerful claws, the straight trunk was no different from peace. It was a little restless, and it looked pretty--the floating flower didn't satisfy its appetite at all, and now it felt even more burning in its belly, and it seemed that the creature called the human below was more palatable. It was reluctant to attack people, for the elders of the clan had said that humans who would come to this area alone were dangerous, more dangerous than any beast of prey.

Oberen looked up at the beast overhead and shook his head, as if in pity and in mockery.

The alien beast entrenched on the trunk of the tree suddenly whimpered, its body twitched involuntarily, and its six claws kept scratching the trunk and vines, but the sudden weakness made it unable to support its heavy body, and finally fell from a height of tens of meters.

Oberen watched as the beast fell, hanging up as many vines as it went, before slamming into the ground, splattering countless mushroom fragments and bush branches. Judging by the momentum of the fall, this strange beast weighed at least more than a hundred kilograms, and judging by the way it was running among the vines just now, one could imagine how powerful its body would be. Its six claws have a good chance of tearing through thin steel plates.

Behind Oberion came a servant wrapped in light combat armor, holding a delicate instrument in his hand, and said while looking at the readings: "Your Excellency, the analysis number has come out." The radiation intensity of that flower is very high, not much different from nuclear waste. It can kill weak creatures that have come into contact with it within a minute, or cause creatures that approach it to die in a short period of time. ”

Oberen twled his somewhat blackened middle finger, looked at the corpse of the alien beast not far away, and said with a smile: "It seems that I just touched the nuclear waste." ”

"Yes, Your Excellency." Hu Cong replied, although he couldn't see the expression behind the helmet closely, but his admiration could be heard from his voice.

Unlike his heavily armed guards, Oberen dressed casually, with no protection against all sorts of harmful environments, and no armor against bullets. Along the way, this young family master, who was still a little immature in his face, maintained a defensive force field throughout the whole process, and used it to resist a qiē. Compared to this, touching nuclear waste is nothing at all.

It was already dark, but flowers began to appear, drifting in the wind among the ancient trees, illuminating the forest even brighter. These gorgeous killers adorn the forest in a myriad of colors, but behind the beauty, there are deadly traps.

Oberen looked at this gorgeous scene, feeling the magic of the world in his heart, while gently rubbing his blackened middle finger. Slices of charred flesh peel off the fingertips, revealing fresh pink flesh underneath. It won't be long before a new layer of skin will emerge.

Although there was a pinprick pain on his fingertips, Oberen didn't care, but felt the pain with his heart. The pain of strong radiation injury is different, originally the floating flower also has the element of anesthesia, but Oberen's perception mode at the moment is different, as long as it is a change in his body, it will cause different pains, so the anesthesia used on his body will increase the pain. For Oberen, the switch of perception mode has brought him a whole new world, and he has more ways to peek into the mysteries of the world.

This ability is one of the secret inheritances of Arthur's family, and only those with Arthur's direct blood can inherit this ability. As for where the genetic secret code that activates this ability is, it is still a mystery, and even today, when human beings have studied genes so deeply, there is no way to crack this secret.

In addition to perceptual mode switching, the Arthur family has many powerful abilities that are not on the list, and more recipes are being studied in the three real chambers with top-of-the-line equipment and personnel. As one of the three wealthy families, the Arthur family not only has rich material reserves and complete industries, but also has a complete set of ability formulas suitable for the family lineage. As for the financial resources to purchase top-of-the-line equipment, the Arthur family will not be worse than any other family. This is the depth of the multi-year heritage, and it is by no means something that an upstart family like Fabregas can make up for in a few years.

Oberen doesn't mind having the family's financial and technological backing, and unlike some pretentious fools, he's seriously researching and comparing what he can get from his family to improve his strength. In order to grasp the family's strength more comprehensively, Oberyen even began to fully intervene in the budget allocation of the family's technology system, which in the eyes of most of the family's younger children is completely boring, boring, and simply a waste of time.

A celebrity kept appearing, busy nervously and orderly. Several personnel in full protective gear began to get busy around the beast that had fallen to its death, and they set up simple practical platforms and many portable instruments. Under their skill, the beasts were quickly dismembered, turned into thousands of photographs and specimens, and collected in separate categories. A large number of jù is also stored in the brain that you carry with you through various devices.

Others were busy picking samples of various plants, and one guy assembled a drill rig more than two meters long and drilled into the trunk of an ancient tree next to him to take samples. This strange forest is an open treasure trove for these technocrats!

Around the technicians, there were many capable and sturdy guys, who had much less protection than the technicians, and some of them even wore the same combat suits as Oberen, which had no protective functions. Their clothes are generally thin, and the bitter cold of winter is not a problem for them at all. Most of them will have an inconspicuous trident emblem on their bodies, which is the symbol of the Arthur family's armed Neptune Trident.

When it comes to dealing with the family's armament, Oberen's thinking is slightly different from that of Persephone. The tridents of the Persephone era were all cultivated by the family itself, and Oberen did not refuse to recruit powerful mercenaries from outside the family, of course, through a strict and lengthy review process. At the same time, he will absorb the good and loyal personnel of the Trident as his subordinates, and it must be said that this system is much stronger than the motivation of the Persephone era, and as for the resulting impurity of the troops, Oberion did not take it to heart. He believes that a strong leader who is still growing rapidly can discourage those with bad intentions from acting rashly. And he thinks he is just such a leader.

The technical director walked up to Oberen's side, "Your Excellency, you have obtained the basic number of this mutant beast. Surprisingly, judging by its brain structure and activity, it should already have the intelligence of a seven-year-old human child. This means that they may already have had a simple social formation within their ethnic group, and may have had their own primitive language. ”

"Put it away and ship it back. We shouldn't have a second head. Oberyen gave a simple order. It was a rare sapient mutant creature of great research value, but Oberion wasn't as excited as the tech director, he just raised his head and stared at the thousands of floating flowers in the air, pondering something.

"Your Excellency, are we going to go any further? The forest seems to be very dangerous. The technical director cautiously asked. The number of instruments on his body has almost jumped to a critical point, and the red number is very dazzling. In this forest immersed in gorgeous scenery, in fact, it is full of strong radiation, and if the protective clothing on his body is slightly damaged, it will stay here forever and become the nourishment of the forest. Only those who have reached a certain level of combat ability, or who can easily spread a protective force field for a whole day like Oberen, are eligible to do without any protective equipment here.

Oberen casually put his hands in his pockets and said lightly, "Of course you have to go inside." I have a hunch that there should be highly intelligent beings in this forest. The purpose of our trip is to catch at least one of them, preferably alive. ”

The technical director's face was a little pale, but he certainly couldn't question Oberen's decision. In his eyes, those gorgeous floating flowers are tantamount to powerful bombs. As you can see from the alien creatures that fell to the ground, this forest may be a trap for all creatures except the intelligent creatures in Oberen's mouth.

Once the beast's corpse had been disposed of, the team regrouped behind Oberen, waiting for him to give the order to advance.

Oberen suddenly smiled and said, "It seems that our luck is not bad, we don't have to go that far." As he said this, the four fierce fellows in the Sea Emperor's Trident also seemed to be aware of it, and looked up at the deep branches and vines that shone with all kinds of brilliance.

It seemed that the forest was no different from what it had just been, but even those who did not perceive the enemy's presence felt their hearts faintly pressed against the heavy gravel, and it was a little difficult to breathe.

There was a soft beep, followed by a whistling sound of energy levels rising. Almost all of the servants knew that it was a sign that someone's cannon was starting to refill with energy. The elite detachment of the Neptune Trident carries five experimental rapid-fire cannons, 20 caliber is not large, but with magnetic force and energy field to assist in heat dissipation and correction of cannon body vibration, the power is increased by more than 40 compared to ordinary rapid-fire cannons, and it is also a sharp weapon used to deal with a qiē mutated creature.

Although surrounded by unknown enemies, Oberen still had a faint smile on his face. He spread out his right hand, and a few fine ice crystals floated in his palm, shining in various colors in the glow of the forest. The ice crystals floated up in the air, flying faster and faster, and disappeared in an endless halo in the blink of an eye.

After a few clicks in a row, there were suddenly five huge blocks of ice between the staggered branches and vines! The heavy ice immediately tore through the supporting vines and fell to the ground with a thud. During the fall, one of the pieces of ice suddenly cracked, then exploded, and a gray-blue figure jumped out of it, quickly disappearing among the branches and leaves. The remaining four pieces of ice fell, slamming heavily into the ground in front of Oberen, shattering, and four gray-blue skinned humanoids fell out of it. First they were frozen and frozen, and then they all fell to the ground, and they all looked like they were not lightly injured.

The servants were already familiar with the corresponding procedures, and they didn't have to wait for Oberen's orders, they had already rushed over, suppressed, shackled, photographed, shocked, anesthetized, and orderly, simply and quickly.

Angry shouts and roars rang out in the forest, mingled with shouts in an unknown language. The vines flickered, and a gray-blue shadow leaped like an arrow, quickly closing in on Oberen's ranks. These people are even more agile and agile than the newly dismembered alien beasts, and the gray-blue body color allows them to blend almost completely into their surroundings when they leap, and only through a special spectrum of eyepieces can they catch their movements.

The two cannons roared suddenly, and the fiery metal jets cut through vines and branches like the devil's whip, slamming into the approaching figures with near-accuracy and tearing them apart in the air. A sharp whistling rang out in the air, and sharp metal edges pierced through the air, shooting at Oberion and his team at a speed barely inferior to bullets. These twenty-centimeter-long metal spikes are extremely powerful, and they have no problem piercing the medium-quality light alloy armor of the servants.

Oberen's hands stretched forward, his ten fingers spread, his short gray hair fluttered suddenly, and an invisible force field expanded around him, with a radius of ten meters!

All metal spikes that fell into the force field slowed down rapidly, and the tips of the edges began to reddened from the heat! Oberen's protective force field is fundamentally different from when he first blocked Sue's sniping, and is no longer a hard drain of the Spike's kinetic energy with energy. All of the spikes deflected after deceleration, drawing arcs and arcs, and by the time they flew out of the force field, they were already tilting upward. As soon as it was out of the range of the force field, the spike regained its speed and shot aimlessly into the depths of the forest at an inclination of 40 degrees.

The two cannons were still roaring, and the long metal whips tore apart the figures trying to get closer. The Arthur family's experimental cannon is in the hands of someone who has at least the ability to control weapons at least Tier 5, and its power is by no means a simple stack. Each of the two shooters has a not-so-burly man next to him, supporting the protective force field like Oberen, guarding the shooter and the bombardier.

Seeing that the natives of the forest were still rushing from all directions, the shrill sound of refill energy continued to sound, and the other three cannons also began to recharge, and when the 10-second recharge time was over, they would become the nightmare of the natives again. Of course, the cannon was not enough to stop all the natives, but the four strong men who were aware of the natives at the same time as Oberenn were standing with their hands on their sleeves, not moving.

In a dozen seconds, dozens of aborigines were torn apart in the rain of machine gun shells, and they didn't even have a chance to fall in front of the extremely lethal machine gun shells.

A long howl full of pathos sounded in the depths of the forest, and the natives who were jumping quickly heard the whistle, immediately stopped the sprint that was no different from suicide, and fled into the depths of the forest.

At this time, the other three cannons had been fully charged, and the three shooters grinned, and their sharp eyes locked on the speedy figures through the multi-functional sights. This group of natives has commendable courage and limited wisdom, and no matter how fast they escape, they can't get faster than the jet of the cannon.

Oberen raised his left hand and said, "That's enough." ”

The shooters, who were already a little red-eyed, regretfully released the trigger, and if they were given three more seconds, at least ten natives could be left. But Oberen's orders could not be disobeyed, and the young new head of the house had not been in office for long, but his majesty had been established. Unlike most dragoons, Oberen doesn't like to kill. Therefore, the shooters can only hope that the aborigines will come back again, so that they will have enough reason to continue to practice.

Oberen walked over to the four captured natives and took a closer look. They are very similar to humans, except that several parts of their bodies are covered in thick, long, blue-gray hair. They have long hands and feet, and they have amazing strength in their bodies, but they are surprisingly lightweight, and the strongest men who seem to be only fifty kilograms. The captured were two men and two women, both of whom were supposed to be young and worthy warriors. In addition to primitive machetes and stabs, their weapons consist of a somewhat strange metal tube with several crystalline ores embedded in mysterious patterns, connected by something like vines.

Oberen took out a metal prick from the back pocket of the Aboriginal waist and found that it could be filled in just as long as one end of the metal pipe could be filled. After filling, he fiddled back and forth with the metal pipe a few times, trying to apply a force field on it, and after changing the force field properties a few times, suddenly the ore inlaid on the metal long tube lit up one by one, and the veins around the pipe body also emitted a glowing light. When the metal pipe shook, the spikes erupted from the other end, sinking deep into the trunk of an ancient tree.

"Electromagnetic kinetic weapons, this technology is more advanced than ours......" Oberyen said, throwing the long metal tube that was not very workmanlike to the technical director with a shocked face.

Looking at the four natives on the ground again, Oberen pointed to one of the men and one of the women, and said, "Take them away, and let the other two go." ”

A doctor who was examining the bodies of the Aboriginal people looked up, pointed to the female aborigines whom Oberyen had released by name, and said, "Your Excellency, she is pregnant, and this is of great value to our research. ”

"Let her go." Oberen said calmly, "Now that the goal has been achieved, there is no need to embarrass a mother and her unborn child. Killing is not our goal. ”

"But......" The doctor hesitated, for him, as a technology fanatic, this opportunity to completely capture a highly intelligent mutant creature was too rare. From his professional point of view, this race should be very far from humans, only somewhat similar in appearance, and the blood distance may be as far away as a dog and a tortoise.

Instead of being angry at this insistent subordinate, Oberen smiled and said, "I know that they are not human, and they may be far from human blood. But as there is more and more intelligent life today, perhaps we should reap the pride of the world rulers that originated in the old era. It is likely that in the near future, we will have to look at another race of equal intelligence that shares our own intelligence. ”

Such philosophical words should not seem to come from the mouth of Oberen, who is not yet 20 years old, and the doctor does not agree with the content of the statement. In his view, although the rate of change and evolution of species in recent decades has even exceeded the tens of thousands of years of the old era, in terms of physiological structure, it is not that having a high-capacity brain means having intelligence. Knowledge needs to be accumulated, wisdom needs to be passed on, and this is not something that can be possessed in just a few decades.

This is not common sense.

But common sense and experience told Sù, the chief physician and biologist, that it was very unwise to argue with his master over trivial matters, so he wisely chose to keep his mouth shut.

The servants put the two aborigines who were unfortunately selected into a portable transport box, fixed it, closed the lid of the box, and injected anesthetic gas. The containers can be large or small, with anaesthesia, cryonics, and life-sustaining facilities dedicated to storing large living specimens of mutant organisms. As for transportation, it is mainly carried on the back of a servant who has specially strengthened his strength and body. In this strange and uncharted environment, dirt bikes are unreliable.

Two lucky natives were left in place, believing that their people would come to their rescue after the expedition team left. In another two or three days, the anesthetic injected into their bodies will gradually wear off.

While his men thoroughly inspect the battlefield, Oberen unleashes his small portable brain. It is more than 700 kilometers from Dragon City and more than 550 kilometers from the base camp of the Arthur family, and it is no longer possible to connect to the network of dragon riders. The map on Zhi's brain showed that this should be a wide valley, and if there were such forests growing in the entire valley, then this forest would cover an area of more than 1,000 square kilometers, and the direction he was in now was only the edge of the forest.

The vast forest, the thousands of scattered floating flowers, the strange forest world full of life, a group of inhabitants who seem to be primitive, but can actually use energy weapons...... This piece of forest is infinitely valuable!

However, Oberen intends to stop there, as more than a month of exploration has left his team fed up and - all of them are starting to bottom out, and he himself has a lot of evolution points that need to be converted into more powerful abilities. So he decided to return with plenty of loot, and the forest, no matter how earth-shattering secrets it contained, would be his.

Oberyen is very patient, and he knows that the competition with Sue will be long and tough, but he is confident that he will have the last laugh in this long run. Another reason is that it is Persephone's birthday in half a month, and the stunning general, who has been the focus of a series of recent turmoil, decided to hold a grand birthday party for himself in Dragon City.

There are so many reasons why Oberen doesn't want to miss the event.