Chapter 10: The Whispering Swamp
The Whispering Swamp, also located in the southeastern part of the continent, is a large swamp covering an area of 150,000 square kilometers, surrounded by permafrost ice fields, the Desert of Sighs, and the country of mages. It is on the same plateau as the permafrost and the bute, so it can communicate with each other, and the west side near the Sigh Desert has a long and steep slope, and it will be very costly to enter the Whispering Swamp from the Sigh Desert.
Originally, according to the original plan, after leaving the permafrost ice field, he bought a carriage and went all the way south, detoured through the territory of the Farrar Empire, and then turned west, and finally returned to the foreign pavilion where the capital of knowledge was stationed. However, due to Galantis's invitation, they decided to change their plans and go straight to the border between the permafrost and the land of mages until they entered the Whispering Swamp. As for the reason for walking this way, it is actually very simple, for the hot mage country, the border with the ice field is the coolest, and walking on this narrow border is far more comfortable than walking through the interior of the mage country.
The border area is a relatively inhospitable place in the country of mages, where the land is barren and the ground is mostly stony, which is completely unreclaimable. There are almost no mage lords to govern this area, and there are no towns, only one or two very small villages, the villages are extremely closed and unfriendly to outsiders, it is said that these villages existed long before the emergence of the mage country, they are a group of natives on the plateau, and they do not want to be assimilated by the mage country, so they live in the barren border land, living here for generations, slowly forgotten by the world, and turned into a group of people that no one remembers.
However, even if these forgotten villagers have lived here for generations, they do not dare to enter the Whispering Swamp, for ordinary people and low-level professionals, the Whispering Swamp is really not suitable for human survival, and they may die in the swamp at any time, so only high-level professionals who are far stronger than ordinary people can enter it and move freely without encountering too much danger.
Entering the Whispering Swamp is like entering another world, and the outside environment has nothing to do with everyone. This is a swampy world alone. As soon as you step into the swamp's range, the ground beneath your feet turns purple-red, and a large number of Sogok trees, a tree unique to swamps, grow from the moist and soft ground of the swamp. The tree can be up to 1,000 years old, the wood is very light, the trunk is tall and stout, the crown is very thick, and it is a ten-year-old sogu tree. The height of the trunk can reach forty or fifty meters, the radius is about twenty meters, and the canopy can cover almost the range of a radius of five hundred meters. If you look at the swamp from the sky, you can see that the range of the swamp does not look purplish-red but brown, which is enough to indicate the area covered by the sogu wood.
Therefore, the girls were still far away, and they saw the dense plants that covered the sky and the sun in the distance. There is also a faint mist wafting from the cracks in the plants. Walking further, I found that the trees are getting taller and higher, and I can vaguely smell the unique soft and sweet fragrance of Suogu wood, the taste of this aroma is very strange, some similar to the smell of Pasi fruit, but mixed with some slight sour smell, when humans smell it, they may feel good when they smell it, but they will feel too sweet after a long time. But for the lizardmen, the taste is something they love. According to Galantis, he can't smell the suckwood, and he feels uncomfortable sleeping at night, so every lizardman who leaves the swamp. They will carry a piece of Suogu wood, and only by smelling the sweet fragrance from Suogumu will the lizard people not miss their hometown too much.
Dig into the sheltered swamp and look up at the sky. Due to the large coverage area, it is common for several trees to grow together with their branches and leaves. It forms a very strong mesh barrier that can hardly damage the twig web unless it is cut continuously with a sharp object. Although the wood is very light, it is very tough, and the bark is rough and soft, and even if you accidentally hit it, as long as the force is not too great, you often do not feel pain. There are a large number of vines wrapped around the outer layer of the Suogu tree, which is symbiotic with the Suogu tree, which provides life-sustaining nutrients for the vines, and the vines emit a strange smell that is difficult for humans to feel, and these smells can disperse insects and herbivorous animals for the Suogu wood, providing the best environment for the healthy growth of the Suogu tree.
If you take your attention off your head and turn to the ground, you will find that the ground is as soft as a velvet blanket. Although it is soft, it is not as muddy as you would have imagined, and water seeps out when you step on it, but it is just more moist. Because the ground does not see sunlight all year round, the plants in the swamp are not the green that is usually seen, but the whole body has a purple-red color that is very close to the ground, although I don't understand how the plants grow without sunlight, but the swamp does grow densely A large number of swamp plants, most of these plants are herbaceous and shrubs, due to the warmth and humidity, the plants are full of flowers, but all the plants are often only two or three meters high, and the higher space has been covered with not dense branches and leaves in the lower half of the Suogu wood.
"It's not what I thought it would be. Vivien habitually took out her notebook and began to record the characteristics of the swamp and her own feelings, and the healing of her body did not affect her habit, but because she did not need to separate a part of her consciousness to control her limbs, so that she could record more devotedly:" In my imagination, this place should be full of puddles of green bubbles and swamp gas, the mud will reach your calves with every step you step on, the air will be filled with the smell of wood and rotting corpses, and the mud pond next to it can jump out of the deadly monster at any time, so that the environment can match the rumored whispering swamp. ”
"Hiss, then we won't be able to live here, hiss. Galantis slapped the bushes beside him with his tail, and said with a smile: "This is our home, hiss, how can it be so disgusting, hiss, I have already said it, my home is actually very beautiful, why don't you believe it, hiss." ”
"Because it's hard to imagine how beautiful the swamp is. Catherine smiled bitterly, her imagination was actually similar to Vivien's, so she was also taken aback by this beautiful swamp: "Moreover, the danger level of the Whispering Swamp is also very high in the guild's explanation, how can you believe that it is such a beautiful space." (To be continued.) )
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