460. Danger lurks
As night fell, a strange starry sky appeared above Surdak's head, and seven stars divided the night sky into pieces. Perhaps it was the hustle and bustle of the city that overshadowed this beautiful night sky, and it was only outside the northern suburbs that Surdak noticed such a beautiful night view.
In the vast star field, the nearest star to the maca plane was the size of a pumpkin, the other three looked like oranges around a circle of qi, and the rest were countless stars.
A bonfire was lit in front of the collapsed cave, and the branches of the flax pine tree crackled in the fire, which was rich in oil, and the locals liked to make torches from this pine branch wrapped around the twine soaked in tree oil, and the fire set up a barbecue wooden rack, and the two stripped arms of the demon ape were placed on the wooden rack to barbecue, and the grease kept dripping into the charcoal fire, exuding a faint smell of meat.
Regular consumption of Warcraft flesh and blood can strengthen the physique, among the many Warcraft ingredients, dragon meat has always been a precious ingredient highly respected by the nobles of the Grimm Empire, but now few people can see real dragons, so most of the witchers can hunt are wurms, among which the domesticated dragon is a frequent customer in high-end restaurants, while the swamp poison dragon and the subspecies wyvern can only be eaten at the table of the Empire's top banquets.
Demon ape meat is also rare in the high-end restaurants of Warzhmara City, and the most essential part of the demon ape's body is outside the heart, naturally the arms are the most edible, in the past, these demon apes are usually hidden in the deep mountains and rivers, and it is not easy to hunt a demon ape.
Andrew, the indigenous warrior of the Nanai tribe, kept flipping the demon ape's flesh on the wooden shelf, and the temperature of the charcoal fire was a little high, so that the demon ape's arm was a little scorched, and he used a wooden stick to flick the carbon blocks in the fire outward to dispel the heat of the charcoal pile.
The ogre Gullitam sat next to Andrew, staring at the roast meat on the campfire, his hands on his knees as quiet as a child.
Surdak said to Samira, a half-elf archer who was sitting in the shadow of the mountain wall: "When I return to the city of Warjmara after this mission, I will check which attribute this 'Demon Pattern Spirit Bone' belongs to, if the Demon Pattern is explosive, strength and agility attribute direction, it depends on how much this spirit bone matches you, if the matching degree is up to standard, as long as you have enough carrying capacity, I will find a way to make this Demon Pattern Spirit Bone into a Demon Pattern Breeding Suit and colonize it in your right arm." ”
Pick up a charred stick and draw a sketch on the ground, but the symbols on it are a little messy.
In order to obtain the strongest strength, the Wizard of Innoyatila will almost cover the entire beast skin on the indigenous warriors, so that most of the tribal warriors can't stand the carrying capacity, and finally the strength of the indigenous warriors implanted in the colonization suit breaks through the physical limit and explodes to die.
Samira was nibbling on an unknown fruit, a green fruit that was somewhat sour.
"My arm bone is going to be replaced with this one?" Samira asked.
She looked at the messy lines on the ground, and couldn't understand what Surdak was drawing, so she fell on the huge demonic spirit bone beside Surdak, the demon ape's body is nearly four meters long, and the arm span is nearly five meters, and the demonic spirit bone belongs to the ulna on the demon ape's arm, just such a demonic spirit bone is nearly a meter long, and it is extremely thick, and it is impossible to completely implant such a spirit bone on Samira's arm.
Surdak rubbed his eyebrows with his fingers, shook his head and said to Samira: "No, the Demonic Pattern Costume is to strip the part with the Devil's Pattern from the spirit bone and colonize it into your arm, in a sense, the Colonization Costume is like a tattoo, but the Colonization Suit has very strict requirements for natural Devil's Pattern. ”
Samira, who was leaning against the shadow of the stone wall, breathed a sigh of relief and whispered, "That's good! I was really worried that my right arm would become as thick as that big guy in the future, and to be honest, I really couldn't accept this kind of arm. ”
After saying that, the half-elf archer ate the last bite of the green fruit.
Andrew spun the demon ape meat on the grill as he said, "I think this demon ape probably has the strength of a third-order demonic beast, if it hadn't been injured beforehand, maybe a few of us wouldn't be its opponents." ”
For the battle just now, although the demon ape has become food on the barbecue grill, everyone still has lingering palpitations. In terms of size and strength, the Demon Ape has an overwhelming advantage, and if it weren't for the Half-Elf Archer shooting a sharp arrow at a critical moment, it is likely that everyone's hunting operation would have ended in failure.
Surdak took off the arm of a roasted demon ape, handed it to the ogre, who was already a little impatient, and turned to Andrew and said, "Anyway, this time it was not in vain. ”
The ogre Gullitham was not afraid of the heat, so he took the hot barbecue and stuffed it into his mouth, and was so hot that he 'hissed' and inhaled.
"Captain, what do we do next?" Andrew slice a piece of roasted meat on the arm of another demon ape and handed it to Surdak on a silver plate.
Surdak took the plate, looked at the silent jungle outside, and said, "Since we have all come here, then follow the route planned before, walk around this area, and maybe there will be unexpected gains." ”
Andrew used a cleaver knife to cut off a piece of flesh with blood and threw it into his mouth, squinting his eyes to taste the deliciousness.
The ogre sat next to the collapsed cavern and quickly gnawed the ape's arm clean, and Andrew saw that the ogre refused to sleep until he had enough to eat, so he had to put another rib on the coal.
A makeshift tent was set up outside the cavern, but each member of the team had their own way of spending the night, with the half-elven archers choosing to hang their sleeping bags on the branches of the canopy, while the native warriors sat on the floor with ogres next to the campfire, and only Surdak slept in the tent.
Andrew, an indigenous warrior, offered to come on duty for the night......
In his sleep, he felt someone nudge him, Surdak opened his eyes, and just saw Samira squatting at the mouth of the tent, staring at him with light red eyes, Samira, put his hand between his lips, and motioned for Surdak to silence.
Surdak crawled out of his sleeping bag, it was pitch black outside, the campfire outside the tent had dimmed, and occasionally a trace of spark burst out of the ashes, the native warrior Andrew was dozing off in front of the fire with his big axe, the ogre was lying next to the native warrior, holding the ribs that had gnawed most of the half, and the ogre's mouth was wide open, as if he was eating a big meal in his dream.
I was about to ask Samira what had happened, when I saw a dozen pairs of green eyes suddenly appear in the surrounding woods, which were full of greed, suspicion, and irritability, and they seemed to have some kind of fear, and did not dare to approach the camp, but there were people who lingered around the camp, because it was dark and night, and the jungle was even darker, and their faces could not be seen clearly.
Samira half-crouched outside the tent, holding the forest bow in her hand and placing a feathered arrow on the bowstring, aiming at the green eyes of the forest.
"They are ghost monkeys on the maca plane, to be precise, they are supposed to eat everything, a group of cowardly, cunning and greedy guys, except that they are similar to us in terms of physical structure, and the civilization of the race is not even as good as the kobolds in the mines......"
As he spoke, Samira wanted to shoot these guys hiding in the darkness with a bow.
Surdak held her down with his hand, and every time she fired an arrow from her right arm was a new wound before her arm was completely healed.
Surdak reached out and threw the bones beside the campfire into the woods, and the jungle erupted with countless howls and fights.
Apparently the ghost monkeys were attracted by the smell of the bones with the meat scraps around the campfire, and Surdak did not let Samira shoot unnecessary bows and arrows, but kept throwing gnawed clean bones into the dark woods, and he felt that as long as the bones of the demon apes were fed, the ghost monkeys would disappear before their eyes when they were full, or until the next morning, when the sun shone through the jungle.
Surdak tossed the bones of the scrap of meat from the side of the campfire, and the ghost monkeys in the darkness were gone.
But the next morning, when Andrew was cooking porridge with his marching rations, the ghost monkeys reappeared in the woods, and this time they were even more daring, and they actually jumped up to the branches one after another, and looked at the battle squad in the jungle.
The dawn sun shines through the lush forest on the glades, and dappled spots of light appear on the meadows.
The ghost monkeys were holding blow arrows in their hands, just a few leaves hanging under their crotch, they were not tall, they looked like monkeys covered with fine fluff, cunning and sinister, full of greed and longing, one by one squatting on the branches, looking at the camp of the combat team, with a shrill cry from their mouths.
Samira half-crouched on the grass, pulled the forest bow in her hand again, and the arrow with white feathers turned into a flash of light, piercing a ghost monkey squatting on a horizontal branch, the ghost monkey squatting in the same place as she slept last night, it lay on the horizontal branch with its ugly nose, sticking to the branch and smelling the smell of it, and the obscene appearance finally made Samira can't help but shoot an arrow.
A group of ghost monkeys scattered on the tree, leaving only a ghost monkey with a feather arrow in his eyebrows, and a blow arrow in his hand.
Andrew said: "Don't pay attention to these guys, you can't kill them, these guys are territorial-minded, as long as we leave the territory of their activities, they won't dare to continue to follow us." ”
After breakfast, the battle team put away the tent at the entrance of the cave, and the ghost monkeys gathered again, this time there were more ghost monkeys.
The ogre complained to Surdak that these little ghost monkeys were not delicious at all, and that their stomachs hurt when they ate too much, and the ogre yelled at these ghost monkeys several times, but he could only drive them a little farther away, and could not scare them away.
The battle squad made their way through the jungle, and hundreds of ghost monkeys kept following in the trees behind the squad.
Until we came to the front of a river valley, which was not very deep, but the river was seven or eight meters wide, Andrew stepped into the river and said to Surdak with an excited face: "Captain, those ghost monkeys can't swim, let's cross the river quickly, and take advantage of this opportunity to get rid of them." ”
The group quickly flowed across the waist-deep river, and when the ghost monkeys saw the group crossing the river, they jumped down from the trees, and they stood impatiently on the gravel by the river, constantly making a wow-wow-wow.
Several ghost monkeys boldly jumped into the river, and the water quickly swept over their heads, and they were swept away by the river before they could even struggle in the water. The rest of the ghost monkeys did not dare to enter the water.
Surdak led the battle team into the dense jungle on the opposite side, and just walked into the jungle to find that something seemed to be moving outside the woods, and the silent gasp followed the wind into Surdak's ears, about a hundred meters away, like a hellhound roaring, and then the screeching sound of nails scraping wood.
After walking for so long, he finally met a hellhound in the jungle, and Surdak quickly rushed over with a combat team.
There was another eerie howl in the distance, melancholy and continuous, before it fell silent for a long time.
A 30-meter-tall croton tree fell, and its branches spread out in all directions like a huge house.
Andrew warns everyone to stay away from these foliage, which can irritate the skin. The native warrior then pushed the branch aside and squeezed it between the other branches.
After crossing a short distance of a few hundred meters, the landform here has actually undergone earth-shaking changes, the jungle is full of craggy strange rocks, following the sound of searching, through this strange stone area, several people were stunned by the scene in front of them.
It's covered in a plant with huge leaves, and it's like standing in a tomato garden after being shrunk twenty times.
Everywhere there were curly, thick leaves, exuding a numb and astringent smell, and the huge vegetation did not look like trees, like tomato vines, and hung on them a huge red fruit, each fruit could reach two meters in length, red hanging on the tree, and flickering and shining, and the surface of the peel was covered with honeycombs like beehives, and constantly wriggling.
The strange low roar came from here, but when everyone arrived, the sound quickly disappeared.
There was a strange atmosphere in the whole woodland, even Samira and Andrew didn't seem to have seen strange plants here, Andrew reached out to touch a thick green tree trunk, the tall plant with a diameter of about two meters actually moved slightly, as if he had a mind to avoid Andrew's hand, and the broad and thick leaves at the top of the plant curled up one after another, as if the whole plant withered in an instant.
"What kind of tree is this?" Surdak asked curiously at the indigenous warrior.
Andrew shook his head, and he set his gaze on Samira.
I didn't expect the half-elf archers to know each other either......