Chapter 33: Strange Creatures

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A team of ten people made their way through the Forest of Mist. The lines are not lined up in a row, as before, but in a very loose way. The guide Elard walks at the front of the team, five meters away from the main body of the team, responsible for pathfinding and early warning in front, the night owl with the most experience in jungle life is on the right side of the team, Pannis is on the left side of the team, and is responsible for guarding against danger from both flanks, and Catherine, who is the strongest in the encounter, is at the end of the team to be responsible for breaking the rear in case the team is attacked from the rear. The other six men are grouped together in the main part of the team, ensuring that they can move quickly and be ready to support possible attacks.

Everyone walked very carefully, because after changing the formation, they could not step on the footprints of their predecessors, and anyone could step on the mud trap under the dead leaves, and it was more likely to step on various poisonous insects and monsters sleeping in the shallow layer of the fallen leaves.

"Where are all the monsters in the Forest of Mist?" Lina asked curiously, "Why can't you touch one?" ”

"Have you ever seen a monster sleeping on the street?" Pennis rolled his eyes: "I will definitely choose a hidden place to build a nest, and I can't see it if I don't look closer." ”

"Say, how did such a thick fog appear?" Lina picked up a fallen leaf, stroked the water trail on the fallen leaf, and asked, "It is said that a little in the afternoon is the most unlikely time for fog to appear, but fog has been rising here since then." ”

"I don't know, but someone is said to have studied it. Pannis replied, "Ask Vivien, maybe she knows." ”

"I don't know. Under Catherine's strict prohibition, Vivien did not enter a trance-like state all the way, only occasionally distracted slightly, but soon returned to normal, when she heard Pannis's words and replied: "In the past two years, there have been two scholars who have devoted themselves to the topic of the origin of the Death Fog Sea, which has also triggered a great discussion in the natural academic circles, but in the end there is no conclusion. ”

"No conclusion?" Lina was stunned for a moment and asked, "Because the topic is too difficult?"

"No, because they're both dead, in the process of research. Vivien said lightly, as if it was normal for researchers to die in the study: "In the Flash Forest, I don't know exactly which sea of death fog it is, but the two adventurer teams they hired and the two of them only escaped in the end." I'm also familiar with those two people, I have had several academic exchanges, although they are only two silver-level mages in terms of strength, but they are still very talented academically, and there are so many unknowns waiting for them to explore and discover, and it is a pity that they actually died here. ”

"Hey, Phantom Fox, are you mages like this?" The gopher not far away leaned over to Phantom Fox and whispered, "People you know died in an accident, but it's a pity that they can't find out more unknowns?"

"Shut up, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand. The older and steady Phantom Fox glanced at Vivien with respectful eyes, and found that she did not have any dissatisfied expression, before he replied in a low voice, "For mages, knowledge is the most sacred thing in the world. Falling on the path of pursuing knowledge is one thing that will be respected by all mages, and the only regret is that they cannot pursue more knowledge. Only a mage who has this kind of thinking in his heart is a truly qualified mage. ”

"Incomprehensible. The gopher shook his head, tangled.

"Stop. Elad, who was leading the way at the front, suddenly raised his right hand and made a pre-agreed stop, and the whole team stopped in place without any confusion, and everyone entered a state of alert. Elad stood still, his neck stretched forward as if looking at something, but there were only two large trees in front of him, and there was a blank space between them. There was a faint sound at Pennis's feet, and he walked to Elad's side and focused his attention on the front, and the others knew that they didn't have as much experience as Pannis, so they simply stood guard and didn't come up to join in the fun.

After looking at it for a while, Pannis frowned, made a waiting gesture to Erad, walked quickly to Vivien's side and whispered, Vivian took out a small box from his pocket with a strange face, poured out a small bit of blue medicinal powder, and wrapped it into a packet and handed it to Pannis. Pannis returned to his previous position, motioned for Erad to step back, carefully opened the paper packet, inhaled deeply, and blew the paper packet, the blue powder turned into a cloud of blue smoke and drifted forward. Strangely, after the blue smoke, there were a few more thin blue lines of varying heights between the two trees, and Pannis pursed his lips and said helplessly to Elad: "No way, let's get around." ”

"I had to bypass it. Elad also sighed: "It's good that we are going fast enough, and there is still plenty of time." ”

"What did you find?" Because of Pannis's movements, except for the night owl who was in charge of guarding, the rest of the people came behind Pannis, and they all saw the changes before and after, Lina couldn't help but ask, "What is this?"

"Look closely. Pannis pointed to the depths of the dense forest in front of him: "Look at the place about eight meters above the ground. ”

It's daytime, it's a darker time in the forest, and the vision is very affected, and the position that Pannis is pointing to is thirty or forty meters away from everyone's position, no matter how carefully you look, it's hard to see what is in the distance, only Dora and Catherine, who have the best eyesight, can see some abnormalities vaguely.

"I see it...... Mass after mass of white stuff floated in the air. Catherine tentatively described: "A round lump, or it may be hanging from a tree." What's that? Hmm, I see. Catherine remembered the visible blue thread and suddenly realized, "That's a spider?"

"Fog spiders, dangerous predators. Elad didn't look back, panning sideways from tree to tree, until he walked sideways for about thirty meters before he began to walk forward again along the arc.

"Let's go, keep up, walk on his outside. Pannis said with a wave of his hand to everyone.

"What the hell is a fog spider?" everyone was full of curiosity, but it was Lina who was the first to ask, "I didn't find it in the Warcraft Illustrated Book at all." ”

"This is also the first time I've seen a variant of the woodland spider. "Because they live in fog all year round," replied Panis, "their whole body is white, their eyes have completely deteriorated, and they hunt entirely by sensing the vibrations of spider silk and the ground and the movement of air, and their movements are very fast and very poisonous. This spider does not have a fixed nest and can appear in every location in the Sea of Death Mist, and belongs to the nomadic type of magical beasts. When they slept, they would enclose a circular territory with transparent silk, as they do now, and when the silk was broken by an animal, they would wake up and attack with the thought that an intruder had invaded their territory. ”

"Isn't that hard to prevent? If you hadn't dyed it with the powder of the blue lotus, you wouldn't have seen it at all. Vivien's eyes widened and she said, "What if we meet again?"

"You can rest assured that it will never be. Pannis affirmed, "There will only be one group of fog spiders in a sea of death mist, led by the mother spiders. They sense each other, and all newborn fog spiders instinctively join the group, so there will never be two groups of fog spiders in an area. ”

"That's fine, it looks like there are at least forty or fifty of them, each more than a meter wide, and I don't want to fight that bunch. Wei Wei looked back at the spider habitat that had been thrown behind her, and turned her head and teased: "Lina, didn't you regret not seeing the monsters just now?

"Bang. Lina's Monster Illustrated Book was lightly placed on Vivien's head, "Then you're the appetizer for the ball." ”

"Don't make a noise, look to the left. Pannis pointed to his left: "See those trees?"

"See, it's ugly. Lina made a disgusted expression, and her hands quickly rubbed all over her body: "Why is there a dense small hole on it, is it eaten by insects?" ”

"It's not moth-eaten. Pannis said solemnly: "If you see such a tree in the forest, never stand in the direction of these holes for a long time. ”

"This is also a monster?" Although Lina said disgustingly, she couldn't help but look at it again after speaking, and immediately regretted wanting to gouge out her eyes, feeling that the skin was numb everywhere but there was nothing she could do: "I can't stand it anymore, I definitely don't want to look at it anymore." ”

Pannis shrugged, looking at Vivian, although she also looked bored and disgusted, she still seemed to inadvertently pause a step, blocking between Lina and the big tree full of holes, and couldn't help but show a smile, and said softly: "This is the arrow worm, a silver-level insect monster, only thirty centimeters long, usually curled up in these small holes, once you feel the air flow from the hole, it means that there are creatures passing through the hole, and all the arrow bugs will eject from the nest." Their heads are hard, shaped like arrows, and they bounce extremely quickly, probably close to the normal attacks of a mid-tier Silver Archer. Think about the number of holes, and if you shoot at close range with such a rain of arrows without warning, will you have time to open your shield? Even if you open your shield, will you be able to hold it?"

Hearing the number of holes, Lina once again remembered the dense patch, and the more she wanted to forget something immediately, the clearer it appeared in front of her, so that she couldn't help but punch Pannis angrily, causing Pannis to laugh bitterly. With a wry laugh, Pannis suddenly raised his voice: "Catherine, roll forward, Dora, side jump, right away." ”

Hearing Pannis's shout, Catherine did not pause, and after rolling forward a few times directly against the ground, she stood up with a dead leaf on her head, and the sword and shield had already appeared in her hand. And Dora didn't have their tacit understanding, she was stunned for a moment after hearing it, and then jumped away according to her words, and as she jumped, a black shadow smashed to the ground close to her thigh, and if she was a second late, she would be hit by the black shadow in the head.

(I really knelt down in this chapter, and I didn't sleep well all night.) You just see, I keep having that image in my head, I'm really phobic, Orz, I'm really cheap)