Volume 2: The Loose World Chapter 164: Retest (66) Crossing the Thorn Forest
The mighty army of 8,000 rushed to the outside of the thorn forest, hundreds of zhang high thorn bushes, no matter how many times I saw it, the shock from the bottom of my heart was still difficult to reduce, making people sigh at the great power of nature.
In the area of a few miles around the thorns, the scene is relatively open, the soil is poor, the vegetation is sparse, and it is no wonder that the nutrients in the soil are sucked away by the thorns, and other plants survive in the cracks, so naturally there is not much left.
It also saved the tribal army, and then opened up the field, the warriors began to camp and rest, and the other normal warriors followed the old witch and others on the chariot and began to circle the dense forest to conduct field surveys.
The thorn forest is very wide, but there are no trees to block the way, the three wolf chariots are very fast, and more than a dozen ability warriors follow behind, not falling behind at all, while looking for it, while talking, the old witch asked: "Can you attack with fire?"
Flame shook his head and replied: "Thorns are fire-resistant, have a lot of water, and are not easy to burn, and can be burned with tung oil, but they are very slow and grow quickly." ”
"How's it going underground?" he asked again.
When Mu Mang heard this, he escaped into the ground, and after a while, when he saw him return again, he shook his head: "The bottom of the thorns is full of roots, and it doesn't work until the rock formations below. ”
Neither path worked, one was to cut the grass and the other to dig a hole in the ground, so the old witch had to look at Mu Yu and ask, "Can you control these thorns?"
Mu Yu closed his eyes, felt it for a moment, opened his eyes, shook his head at him, and said, "These thorns are alive, self-aware, and uncontrollable. ”
"Alive?" everyone's faces changed greatly, and they subconsciously wanted to stay away, Lin Tuo asked him: "Is it a different plant?"
"It's not. Mu Yu still shook his head and replied: "There is no fierce energy, and the consciousness is not strong, it is very weak, after reaching the late stage, you may be able to try to control it." ”
"Just like a totem tree?" Lin Lin was curious.
After thinking about it, Mu Yu nodded: "Somewhat similar." ”
The totem tree is a strange thing, and the strange thing also belongs to the spirit plant, but the effect is more unique, and there is a weak sense of self, everyone fell silent, and the old witch asked again: "Have you tried to climb?" ”
"Haven't tried. Everyone shook their heads, but only the leader couldn't help but speak: "No, no, you can only find a late-stage soldier and fight directly." ”
"Have you tried?" asked the old witch.
"Nope. The leader shook his head.
The old witch ignored him and said to the others, "When you return to the camp later, try the warriors." ”
"Yes!" Mu You and the others nodded, and the leader was a little angry, but he didn't speak again.
He could naturally see that this dying old man was the leader of the Hou Ministry, and the one wearing a bark mask beside him was Lin Wu of the Hou Ministry, as an old opponent, they also knew something about the Lin Hou Ministry.
Knowing that Lin Houbu likes to pretend, there is no difference between generations of Lin Wu, but they are different people, even Lin Wu is obedient to the old man, could it be that he is the Lin Wu of the previous generation?
It took five days for the survey team to return, the thorn forest was dense and impermeable, and no gaps were found, and when they returned, the camp had been arranged, and one by one the tarpaulin tents sheltered from the wind and rain appeared in the open space.
The apparatus soldiers are assembling the catapult, preparing to test the defense of the thorns, and in terms of the degree of destruction, the slings are far greater than the giant crossbows, and Mu Yu also chooses the nimble warriors to start preparing and try to climb from above.
After explaining the work, Mu You also followed the instructions of the old witch, controlled the air current, rose to the sky, and checked the situation above.
But he also has limitations, the higher he is from the ground, the stronger the wind pressure, and the consumption of his ability is getting bigger and bigger, the thorn forest of hundreds of zhang is almost to his limit, if it is not for the breakthrough of the middle stage, it really can't go up.
Under intense pressure, Mu Yu began to cross the thorns, and the top of the thorn bushes, like the ground, was uneven, but the undulations were low, and the difficulty of climbing was not high, and after crossing fifty miles, he finally crossed the forest.
The scene inside is unobstructed, jungles, grasses, meadows, lakes, all presented in front of you, evenly distributed, pleasant scenery, make people feel at peace of mind, if you are an old witch, you can't help but feel emotional.
But Mu You is not an old witch, there is no art bacteria, after a little shock, he took out a pen and paper, sketched the map inside, and when he was done, in order to avoid being discovered, he left straight away and came down from the top of the thorns.
Unfortunately, even he didn't notice that not long after he left the top, the thorny mountains below also changed.
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Three days later, the preparation was completed, and everyone came to the front of the formation, first to check the power of the stone, in the most effective range, the rolling stone can be smashed into the thorns ten feet away, but unfortunately the scope of destruction is not large, only a hole can be smashed.
The number of catapults is too small, if there are hundreds, attack at the same time, ensure that there are enough rolling stones, there is hope to enter it, but the tribe's throwing stones are far from enough.
Beside it, there were a hundred warriors, dressed in special clothes, armed from head to toe, with thick animal skins inside, covered with bronze plates, and even outside the eyes, there were also layers of bronze grids, ready to attack.
A warrior carried a wooden spear, and with the order was given, he threw the wooden spear into it, shooting five hundred at a time, and after five times, the thorny wall was already filled with dense wooden stakes for the warriors to climb.
The ballista cart is not good, nor is the bronze spear, it is easy to insert all of them into the wall, and a hundred warriors in full armor began to climb on a wooden stake, with two scimitars pinned to their waists, and where there were no stakes, they used scimitars to borrow strength.
The strength of the flesh and bone warriors is very strong, and the tools are good, it is not difficult to climb, seeing that everyone is getting higher and higher, it didn't take long for them to come to the top, and Mu You followed in mid-air to avoid accidents to them.
Two hours later, the first warrior, the first of whom had climbed the thorn bushes, waved at the tribe below, flying like a victor, but when he turned his head, his smile instantly stiffened under his mask.
One by one, the huge heads poked out from the thorn bushes, the mountains and rivers at the top changed, Shure became flat, and one by one the heads were raised, and the vertical pupils flashed with a ghostly light, staring at the strange visitors without emotion.
Before the words of "You......" were finished, the dense monsters attacked him, like a green ocean, completely submerging him, and even the remaining words were swallowed by the waves and scattered by the waves.
The warrior below was still climbing, not hearing the warning of the first comer, only thinking about the second person who was striving to reach it, but Mu You faintly heard the voice, and saw that his body suddenly disappeared, his face changed drastically, and he hurriedly rose.
Then, he saw a different scene that he had not seen the last time he came, on the top of the thorns, a giant python shaped like thorns, entangled in the cracks of the thorns, awakened by the sound of climbing, and woke up from its deep sleep.
The thinnest ones also have thick arms, and the thickest ones, like clay jars filled with water, densely packed, thousands, and thorn bushes are integrated, if there is no movement, it is difficult to find that there are such living creatures!
The soldier just now had been swallowed by one of them, and countless heads and countless eyes stared at him, making him involuntarily, with a sense of horror and trembling, and sent a warning roar: "There is danger!
The climbing warrior was wearing a helmet, his hearing was affected, only his voice was heard, and before he could react, what was he talking about, several fighters who followed behind had already climbed to the top one after another.
Looking at the dense green python, several warriors' scalps were numb, and they were so frightened that they were bloodless, and they hurriedly took a few steps back, and also retreated from below, shouting while retreating: "There is a threat from above, don't come up!"
The trees that flew too high were out of their reach, but the warriors outside the thorns were no match for them, smelling the tempting blood, and the pythons surged wildly and attacked the warriors who were climbing.
Mu You's eyes were cracked, and he secretly hated his carelessness when he investigated, so that the warrior encountered such a danger, and several wind blades swept by in a row, and under each wind blade, more than a dozen green pythons were disconnected, and green poisonous blood flew everywhere.
But the number of pythons was too much, and more green pythons rushed to the front of the warriors, opened their bloody mouths, and the shouts and screams of the warriors completely woke up the warriors below, and they hurriedly began to retreat down.
Set off a large area of strong wind, forcing a large number of pythons to retreat, Mu You hurriedly lowered the air and roared at the soldiers: "All let go, jump down directly!"
Out of trust in the leader, most of the people let go directly, the green python bit the air, and a small number of people hesitated a little, and failed to evacuate in time, they were entangled and drowned by the python swarm, and lost their lives in the screams.
The crowd fell like dumplings, Mu You tried his best, puffed up a flexible whirlwind, greatly slowed down the landing, more than eighty people landed, although there was some pain, but there was no big problem, panicked away from the thorns.
The green pythons screamed above the thorns, and the catapults, ballistas, and a large number of warriors below launched a stormy attack, killing hundreds of pythons, and finally killing them back.
The position under the thorns was too dense, and their bodies could not shuttle, so they could only stay on the top, stretching their heads and being beaten, and everyone finally put their minds at ease, not worrying about the threat, but their faces became more ugly.
The old witch waved his hand, told the warrior to rest and reorganize, and also patted Mu You's shoulder, telling him not to be discouraged and blame himself, and to recover well, while he was silent, looking at the thorn forest hidden in the sky, thoughtful.
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Five days later, the warrior recovered, Mu Yu also regained his ability, and the old witch commanded them and tried again, this time there were only two of them, Mu You and Mu Yu, Mu You with Mu Yu, and Mu Yu with Black Iron Wood.
The hundred-year-old ironwood is thirty zhang high, and the ten hundred-year-old ironwood are stacked, and the roots are entangled and turned into a wooden pillar, which has exceeded the thorn bush, and the twenty ironwood, separated by ten zhang, have turned into two giant pillars.
Standing on the head of the tree soldier at the top, there are layers of tough cables tied, ordinary hemp ropes are not enough, it must be a cable made of sisal, which is thigh-thick, even the ability warriors in the later stage, don't want to break.
The huge pillar composed of twenty tree soldiers was also tied to each other with thick cables, but only arm-thick, much thinner than the two giant cables, from the ground to the sky, forming a fine net ladder.
Lin Lin, Mu Yuan, and Lin Sheng, the three of them joined forces and gave birth to the giant pillar of the tree soldiers, and the giant pillar slowly began to grow, and its waist swelled at a speed visible to the naked eye, going deep into the ground, becoming extremely solid and unshakable.
The other two ends of the thick cable were tied to the body of the other two hundred-year-old ironwoods, and the remaining nearly 100 hundred-year-old ironwoods began to climb towards the thorny high wall, and they marched slowly in groups, pulling the cables.
The group of pythons on the top was disturbed and stubbornly entangled the running tree soldiers, but the tree soldiers remained unmoved, and continued to move forward, with more and more giant pythons hanging on their bodies, until they were completely overwhelmed by the group of pythons.
The tree soldiers behind took the cable, tied it to their bodies, and continued to drag forward, constantly relaying, and the python group also moved with the tree soldiers, until all the tree soldiers were overwhelmed by the python swarm and could not move.
The first few tree soldiers had already escaped from the group of pythons, and then pulled the cable and headed towards the opposite bank, there were also green pythons wrapped around the cable, but the tree soldiers were strengthened and became infinitely powerful.
Let the green python be entangled, still pulling the cable, but the speed is getting slower and slower, until it can't be dragged at all, then turn around, and launch a strong attack on the green python on the rope, dragging while fighting, very strong.
The range of control of the mid-term warriors was only ten miles in radius, and the battle line was too long, so Mu You had to pull Mu Yu and run back and forth on both sides of the thorns, and it took three full hours for the cable to be successfully delivered to the opposite bank.