(Happy New Year, everyone, the first update of the new year.) ps, double more today)

The black shadow slammed into the ground with a dull crashing sound, stirring up countless dead leaves, flying all over the sky like scattered flowers. As Dora jumped away from the shadow, Catherine's shield was half-hidden in front of her and burst to the shadow's side, swinging her sword at the shadow.

The sound of "bang" was like the muffled sound of a bowstring breaking, and the one-handed sword in Catherine's hand was directly bounced away by the black shadow, and the strong recoil force made her take three or four steps backwards in a row before she regained her footing. The dead leaves fluttered and fell back to the ground, and people saw the original appearance of the black shadow.

It was a python more than ten meters long, with tan scales on its body, exactly the same color as the trunk of the tree, and the snake had been lying quietly on a thick horizontal branch, the same color that made it difficult to distinguish whether it was a branch or a snake. When the animal passes under the tree, the python will fall directly from the branch, entangle the prey or crush it to death, and then swallow it whole, but this time it failed to hunt and got nothing.

Catherine's sword attack didn't seem to have any effect on the python, the thick python didn't feel anything unusual at all, its tail still hanging on the high branch slowly exerted force, its body slowly contracted upward, its huge head rose little by little, and finally returned to the original branch, lying motionless, waiting for the next prey to pass again.

"Let's go. Pannis patted Catherine: "This is a tree python, the laziest python, if the attack fails, it will basically not attack again, don't worry about it." ”

"This bastard, scare me. Dora angrily roared at the python under the tree, but the python in the tree didn't even look at her, and seemed to be dozing off with its eyes closed, ignoring Dora's provocation.

"It's a three-dimensional world in the forest. Pannis whispered to everyone, "Pay attention not only to your surroundings and your feet, but also to the top of your head, which is no less dangerous than the surrounding one." Many dangerous predators hide in trees and wait for their prey to pass by, so be careful. For example, if you look to the right, the night owls, you lean over a little bit, you're too close there, but they're sleeping. ”

"Nothing, an empty clearing. Lina looked at it for a long time and said suspiciously, "What do you want to see?"

"Fallen leaves on the ground. Pannis pointed to the empty space in Lina's mouth and said, "Look carefully, look carefully." ”

"Hey, that's insidious. Lina finally saw it clearly, frowned and spat out, "What is this?" Hmm, I remember, this is the ...... That one...... By the way, Dead Leaf Dish?"

"Yes, that's them. Pannis nodded, "One of the least animal-like animals." ”

The Leaf Saucer is a flat, almost round, small social animal, and when viewed from above, the color is no different from the yellow leaves, and a large leaf saucer lies on the deciduous layer, making it difficult to distinguish whether it is the fallen leaves or them. They have very hard backs, and their flat, rounded bodies are flanked by a circle of finely serrated cuticles that are quite sharp. When the ground tremors and the prey approaches, the dead leaf saucer will jump on the spot, and after jumping, the body will rotate rapidly in the air, like a large flying circular saw, which can easily tear through the thick skin of large animals and cut off the hard bones. The mouth of this animal grows under the body, once the skin is cut, it will frantically gnaw at the muscles and tissues under the skin, even some gold-level magical beasts, if they don't pay attention, they will be easily killed and eaten by them.

Along the way, Pannis casually pointed out the animals that were hidden and sleeping in the places he passed, and a small number of them were endemic creatures in the sea of death fog, and Pannis did not know their names and habits. Everyone listened with great interest, and even Elad, who was at the forefront, devoted some of his energy to listening to Pannith's explanation, after all, there were several creatures that he hadn't even noticed, and he had only seen them clearly after being prompted by Pannis. Among all of them, Vivien listened the most, holding a notebook to write and draw while listening, all the special creatures that belonged to the sea of death fog, she would draw them one by one and record the characteristics, occasionally muttering to Lina for a while, and then writing again after getting an answer.

"What are you writing here?" Pannis probed over and found that there were more than a dozen pages of content recorded in the notebook, all kinds of graphics, all kinds of numbers, and all kinds of words, which were so dense that people would have a headache when they read it.

"Death Mist Overseas Siege Fog Forest Special Biological Research Record. Vivien didn't even bother to look up, she didn't even have time to drive Penis away, but her voice was full of excitement and fanaticism: "These are first-hand research materials, they must be recorded, and they may be used at any time." I didn't have the opportunity to study these before, but now that I finally have the opportunity, I must remember that these are the most valuable knowledge and treasures. ”

"Never underestimate a mage-scholar's craze for new knowledge. Catherine said leisurely: "This is a truth that the people of the capital of knowledge have summed up for hundreds of years. They can even throw away their lives for the sake of knowledge, let alone record such trivial things while hurrying. ”

"Shhhh As he listened, Elad did his duty as a guide, raising his hand to make the group instantly quiet.

No one spoke, and no one moved. There was silence in the forest, except for the rustle of the leaves as the breeze blew, which was particularly clear in the silence. In the silence, there was a noisy sound of trampling on fallen leaves in the distant forest, the sound was chaotic and violent, and the sound continued to sound. The sound of the dead leaves breaking lasted for five minutes before it gradually became smaller and disappeared into the distance, and Elad exhaled heavily and whispered, "Hunter frog, it's over, everyone go quickly." ”

The hunter frog is also a unique creature of the Sea of Death Mist, and is social in type, often with hundreds of hunter frogs living together in a colony. This kind of frog belongs to the terrestrial frog, and the biggest difference from ordinary frogs in appearance is that it has a sharp and sharp tooth, which can use the teeth to tear the skin and flesh and gnaw large creatures. The Hunter Frog has a very special attack style, and does not attack with its tongue like normal frogs, but has a unique long-range attack. When eating, they will intentionally swallow small pieces of bones, not in the stomach, but in a special organ for preservation. When hunting, the hunter frog will spit out a stored bone at the same time, and the power of the spit is very strong, equivalent to the strength of an attack of a professional of the same level, and the range can even reach a distance of fifty meters. Hundreds of hunter frogs spat out at the same time to form a covering rain of bullets, and even if a powerful gold-rank demonic beast encountered such a creature, it could only choose to avoid or die.

"Wait, what does the Hunter Frog look like. In order to record while hurrying, Vivien did not hesitate to waste magic to maintain the levitation technique for a long time, allowing herself to float on the surface of the fallen leaf layer so as to save time exploring the way: "Describe what are the characteristics. ”

In such a slightly relaxed atmosphere, the group continued to walk through the fog forest, gradually moving away.

Time flies quickly, the light in the dense forest is getting stronger and stronger, the temperature is gradually rising, and the smell of the leaves is slowly spreading under the transpiration of the temperature, filling the air of the dense forest. Short-lived insects chirp for the last of their lives in the dense forests of late autumn, and birds with normal routines on the treetops also fly around in the midday sun to prepare supplies for the winter. In the dense forest, a group of ten people had been advancing in the Fog Forest for nearly five hours, and according to Elard, they would have another fifty minutes at most to pass through this dangerous area safely. This news made everyone feel heartfelt excited, after all, in the past five hours, under the introduction of Pannis, everyone has seen too many dangerous creatures, although they are all asleep and are not in danger of being attacked, but passing by these creatures, the psychological pressure is also very strong.

"It's an exaggeration that there are so many species in such a forest. Lina looked back at a sloth that had just passed by: "And they are all so ferocious." ”

"Forests tend to be the places with the highest density of biological species. "Even more than the sea." It's okay here, if it's the other two forests, the creatures in them are more ferocious, and a lot of the time they die without knowing how. ”

"For example?" Lina asked curiously, "How cruel?"

"Well, once a Legendary-level professional entered the outskirts of the Death Forest, and encountered a small flesh worm thinner than his little finger, and he led the silk hanging down from the tree, and he waved the silk through his glove and walked over. Pannis said, "And then he died." ”

"Huh, how did you die?" asked Lina, surprised.

"Who knows. Pannis shrugged: "I don't know how to die, it's like this in that forest, and I may die at any time." ”

"Have you been?" asked Catherine in a whisper.

"Well, listen to my friends, after all, I know some elf friends, they told me. Pannis replied with a dry smile.

The three girls covered their mouths and snickered, laughing inexplicably at the mercenaries on the side, completely unaware of what the girls were laughing at. While laughing, Pannis suddenly waved his hand to stop everyone from making a sound, and at the same time, the guide Elad suddenly took a few steps back in a row, returning to the main body of the team, his face was a little ugly: "It's the hunter frog again, just passing by here, don't make a sound." ”

In the silence, the sound of dead leaves breaking came from a distance, louder and closer, and in the blink of an eye, Vivien finally got her wish to see the Hunter Frog.

This frog is large, with a body part larger than a home dinner plate, about half a meter in diameter, a grayish-brown body, and a much larger belly than the average frog, which can inhale more gas to spew out rapid bone bullets. Their mouths are full of fine, sharp teeth, and their two protruding eyes have faded and become smaller, and their interiors are gray, apparently completely useless. The hunter frogs were jumping and walking on the ground, not very bounced, and they were not moving very fast, but they still maintained a certain speed, and slowly passed by the ten people.

The line of the hunter frog is long and continuous. Everyone's face was ugly, because everyone found that the population of this hunter frog was quite large, not one or two hundred, but more than a thousand. Being surrounded by more than a thousand demonic beasts made everyone very nervous, but they still didn't dare to move.