Chapter 637: Bone Swamp
After confirming that Heipeng had escaped from his village quarters first, the quick arrest was a failure. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
In the absence of new clues, although they were extremely powerful, they had no use at all, and in desperation, the commander-in-chief, the national teacher, and a white elf elder had no choice but to ask the dragons to send them back again, and then each brought the army in the Wang Ting army that was now idle and renovated in the border of the eight southeastern counties and the warriors of the white elf clan to this area, preparing to focus on the surrounding areas and outskirts of this village to carry out search work.
They are also gambling, although from the perspective of common sense, after Hei Peng's hiding place is discovered, he should immediately go away and fly away, but considering the news that those scouts who died before their deaths and passed it back, everyone really can't ignore the possibility that Hei Peng will continue to stay in this area.
The reason is very simple, this place is not far from the boundary of the Wulin Mountain, and Heipeng quietly lived in this village incognito, which is exactly the day after the fall of the Wulin Mountain. More than half a month has passed since then, and judging from the testimonies of the villagers, Heipeng has indeed lived here in a simple way for this time.
But the problem is that Hei Peng wouldn't know that Wulin Mountain has been conquered, and now that all the forces on the surface of the Four Holy Sects have been uprooted, he, the original sect leader and a seventh-order master who has never fought to the death with the royal court, has become the biggest thorn in the side of the royal court and the object to be eliminated. But in this case, he still lived in this small village safely for so long until he was found by Wang Tingjun's eyeliner, which is worth scrutinizing.
Whether it was wanting to escape from Wang Tingjun's pursuit and temporarily avoid the limelight, or if you were really disheartened by this incident and wanted to remain incognito, this small village, which was not far from Wulin Mountain and the location of Wang Tingjun and the Dragon Clan's White Elves near Wulin Mountain, was definitely not the most suitable location. The events of most of the month were theoretically enough for Hei Peng, even without the help of any of the organizational forces secretly left behind by the Four Holy Sects, a person who relied on the ability of a seventh-order powerhouse could stay away from the eight southeastern counties to the territory of the shadow princes who could not reach the other royal court troops, but he had just stayed in this dangerous place where once his deeds were exposed, with the abilities of the dragons, he could rush over in half a day like today.
You know, although it is often said that "the most dangerous place is the safest", but most of this statement is only in some specific crisis when there is nothing to be done about it will be taken out for self-psychological construction.
...... Unless, his purpose is not simply to escape, but there are also motives and reasons why he must stay in the territory of the eight southeastern counties even at the risk of risk, such as...... Unwilling to fail, he secretly used the "underground power" of the Four Holy Sects to do something.
Of course, despite that, these are at best speculations on their side, and there is no more powerful and actual evidence to support these speculations, other than that Heipeng has been inexplicably staying in this small village. However, since there were indeed no other more reliable clues to rely on now, Selman and the two White Elf Elders could only rely on this speculation, and use this as a main line of search, so that the Phoenix Royal Court could carefully investigate whether there were some important secret forces of the Four Holy Sects that could be driven by Hei Peng near this small village and even in the boundaries of this county town
In fact, the crowd has not forgotten the other possibility. According to the elders of the Four Holy Sects who were captured, the origin and body of the Chaos Monsters known as Dharma Protector Beasts within the Four Holy Sects were all known only to Sect Leader Hei Peng. And although those chaos monsters have been polluted into fallen creatures when they appeared on the battlefield, before they fell, there is no doubt that these monsters were all ordinary monsters.
The small village where Hei Peng hid incognito during this time happened to be on the edge of the Bone Swamp, the largest and most famous gathering place of demonic beasts in the Eastern Continent, and it was not difficult to make people doubt Hei Peng's motives for choosing such a small village close to the Bone Swamp as his hiding place during this time.
Could it be that the source of those Dharma Protector Beasts in the Four Holy Sects, the so-called "Holy Land", is in the Bone Swamp? Or could it be that Hei Peng had already been to the "Holy Land" and brought out some method or prop there that could transform ordinary Demon Beasts into Chaos Monsters, and then wanted to secretly create a new army of Chaos Monsters in the Bone Swamp?
Although this was only a possible guess, it was enough to gain the attention of the dragons and white elves, and even Wang Tingjun showed an extremely cautious attitude towards it - after all, if Hei Peng really did this, then the first target of his nascent Chaos Monster army would definitely be the Phoenix Royal Court - and this matter was quite tricky to investigate.
As the second most famous Warcraft gathering place on the continent (although the Southwest Desert and the Northwest Snow Field are also known for the infestation of many Warcraft races, these two places are both extensive and not simply the places where the Warcraft group lives and inhabits, so the nature of the Warcraft Forest and the Bone Swamp is also different), the Bone Swamp is definitely an extremely dangerous forbidden area for humans, and more importantly, it is also a zone of great significance for the Eastern Continent and the Phoenix Court, because the symbol of the royal family and the country of the Phoenix Royal Court, the legendary strongest fire Warcraft Phoenix clan inhabits here。
The so-called Bone Swamp is just a general term, just as there are hills and valleys in the Warcraft Forest, there are also hills and valleys, and the Bone Swamp is not full of dangerous swamps that ordinary creatures cannot tread. Generally speaking, this area, which is collectively known as the Bone Marsh, can be divided into three areas: the Sycamore Hill, the Sacred Plains, and the Bone Basin. In the northern part of the Bone Marsh, there is a large area of sycamore forest, which is therefore named Sycamore Hill, which is where the Phoenix family has lived and inhabited for generations.
The Bone Basin is a slightly narrow strip of land a little south of the center of the Bone Swamp, and as the name suggests, this narrow basin is full of death swamps where ordinary people will bury their bones a few minutes after stepping into it. The existence of the bone basin in the bone swamp area is also quite similar to the core area of the Warcraft Forest, and the Warcraft living here are the most dangerous existences in the bone swamp, but the difference is that the bone basin is not like the core of the Warcraft Forest, only the top Warcraft survive, but there are also many Warcraft groups, and the area of the bone basin is also larger than the core area of the Warcraft Forest, almost completely occupying one-third of the middle of the Bone Swamp area.
As for the remaining areas on both sides, they are collectively called the Divine Plain, although these places are also distributed with a large number of swampy areas of different sizes, but they are not completely connected like the buried basin but scattered, but for some reason, this area is perennially filled with a thick fog, and when the fog is severe, it can reach the point where you can't see your fingers. One can imagine that in the midst of such fog, walking on this plain where you could step on the trap of the Death Swamp at any moment, plus the monsters that infested here, although not as strong as their counterparts in the Bone Basin, were terrifying enough...... It's somewhat understandable why it's counted as a peripheral area of the Bone Swamp and is also named "Shin-Yin".
This kind of place is obviously different from other wilderness, and it is not possible to rely on ordinary soldiers and military scouts to carry out a deep search at all, but in order to prevent Heipeng from really doing such a crazy and evil thing as developing an army of chaos monsters in the Bone Swamp, someone must go in to find out the situation.
The powerful dragon clan is naturally the first choice, and the dragon clan that has recovered its dragon form collectively swept low over the bone swamp, although there is fog, the general situation below can still be seen clearly, and the dragon power that is superimposed layer by layer, even those seventh-order demonic beasts in the depths of the swamp will not be willing to provoke easily.
However, such a perfect plan could not be implemented due to the existence of the Phoenix Clan. The Phoenixes are notoriously arrogant and eccentric, and while the haughty Phoenixes who usually live in the Sycamore Hill at the northern end of the swamp have never disdained to be in the company of other monsters in the swamp, if someone is arrogant enough to do something in the Bone Swamp - such as a group of dragons parading around the swamp with their dragon power - If you say, these phoenixes who usually can't want to divide the Wutong Hill from the Bone Burial Swamp will definitely behave more excited and angry than the actual Swamp Demon Beast Lords in the Bone Basin, no matter how the whole clan goes out, no matter how many of them dare to spread wild on "their territory", these phoenixes will definitely do it, even if the other party is a dragon and a white elf or an ally of the Phoenix Royal Court, it is useless.
Therefore, in the end, everyone had to take a step back and adopt a more appropriate plan: the royal court was responsible for the search of villages, towns, cities and wilderness areas outside the Bone Swamp, while the warriors of the White Elf Clan were responsible for the Bone Swamp. Although it is not as good as enjoying the home field advantage in the forest, but in addition to the core of the bone basin, there is still some vegetation that can be used by the life magic of the white elves, so the influence of the fog there on the white elves is much smaller than that of ordinary humans, and the search can be more efficient.
Of course, for the sake of safety, although the average strength of the warriors of the White Elf Clan is around the fourth order, when entering the swamp, everyone thinks that it is better to try to assign a human form dragon to each team just in case, although not all dragons are seventh-order masters, but the dragon clan's natural dragon power is the best weapon to deal with those ordinary magical beasts.
The four of them were also eager to join the search team of the Bone Forest, but it was a pity that Selman, who was possessed by Yan Father, noticed their careful thinking for a while, and then told the dragon clan below and the white elves not to accept these four little girls into the team at that time, and dispelled their careful thoughts early.
So in the days that followed, the dragons and Cheruth seemed to have returned to the boring days at the beginning after the Battle of Ulin Mountain. They had a dragon to fly here in half a day, but the royal army and the white elves had to come on foot, to say the least, it would take a few or three days or so. The search could not be carried out for the time being, and the small village here was not as prosperous as the previous medium-sized town, so barren that there were no inns or decent taverns and nothing to do, so everyone had to stay in the natural log cabin that the White Elf Elder had improvised with life magic every day.
It doesn't matter if Grey Wind and Nanoha are the two girls who have become cultivators during this time, it doesn't matter if they have their daughter with them (actually he is with her?), and it doesn't matter if they have a daughter with them (actually he is with her?), and it doesn't matter if Cerus and Sekaria, who have been honing their magic skills during this time...... It's just that those dragon youths who are used to following behind the white elf sister paper every day have to take turns to take on the duties of patrol captains every day......
But all in all, I've been waiting for more than half a month anyway, and it's not bad for a few days, and compared to the previous clueless just blindly waiting for news, this time I finally have some confidence and hope to wait because I have caught the traces of Heipeng, and once any of their previous speculations are guessed, although it means that there will be a lot of trouble behind it, it will definitely become a good opportunity for them to successfully arrest Heipeng, the culprit of a series of incidents.
And purely as far as Cheruth is concerned, things have developed so far, and the wolf girl has not seen any signs of those people on Tafel's side participating in the incident, and all the clues they have collected point to Hei Peng alone, which means that maybe this incident really has nothing to do with Tafel's people, but the organization of the Four Holy Sects itself is indeed unclean and involved in the ancient chaos, which is undoubtedly good news for the wolf girl who is now very vigilant about Tafel's every move。
Because of this, the wolf girl's depression, which has been obvious to the extent that Sekaria is worried these days, has finally eased a lot.
Three days later, the white elves, who had a faster footpath, and the more mobile advance cavalry units in the royal court's army, respectively, rushed to the area where Selman and the national master of the Phoenix Royal Court had left, respectively.