Chapter 16: The Whispering Forest
The Whispering Forest, which occupies almost one-fifth of the entire continent, is the most desirable Taobao holy place for all human beings, and a large number of mercenaries hunt magical beasts in it every year to earn gold coins.
Of course, in addition to the countless magical beasts, there is something that attracts these people even more, that is-elves.
Elves - belong to the subhuman race, but they can also be considered another race. They have beautiful long hair of all colors, plump and slender figures, pointed ears, and peerless faces.
They are the darlings of the heavens, all beautiful and one. They are the guardians of the forest and spend their lives with flowers and trees. They are miserable dolls, because they are peace-loving and kind-hearted, so they are always deceived and captured by humans, and then sold to human society for fun.
The meanness of humanity has made the Avengers of the present, and the peace-loving prey has now become hunters, who will always silently wipe you out with bows and arrows under the cover of the forest, or use natural magic to summon vines to hang you from the trees.
So now humans and elves are almost an endless situation, humans want to capture more elves for people to enjoy, elves want to kill all the humans who entered the forest to avenge the captive brothers and sisters.
Twenty years ago, the Henin Empire, one of the three major empires on the mainland, launched an army of 500,000 and entered the Whispering Forest under the leadership of two law gods and a sword god, hoping to capture all the elves in one fell swoop.
Seeing that he was about to attack the Elven King City, he didn't want the Elven High Priest and the three elders to launch the forbidden spell "Guardian of the Elven Goddess". Suddenly, all the trees within a hundred miles of the Elven King City turned into the legendary ancient tree of war, and the 500,000 troops of the Rhine Empire were almost wiped out, one law god fell, and the other law god and sword god were seriously injured and fled.
The elves then abandoned the ruined royal city and were forced to retreat deeper into the forest.
Although the elves are now hidden, there will always be newborn elves who do not understand the dangers of the world and sneak out of the clansmen's gathering place to play and be caught by humans.
So the Whispering Forest is still the favorite adventure place of human beings, although there is some luck, but as long as you catch an elf, you don't have to worry about it for the rest of your life.
Of course, none of this has anything to do with Yang Fan, although he is also in the Whispering Forest now, but he didn't come here for exploration or catching elves, at least he wasn't greedy enough to be a human trafficker.
After breakfast, Yang Fan took Gate, 12 archers, and 11 peasants all the way into the Whispering Forest.
The Templar Castle was dozens of miles away from the edge of the forest, and everyone walked from morning to noon to reach their destination, leaving 6 archers to protect the farmers who were logging at the edge of the forest, and Yang Fan walked into the forest with Gate and the remaining 6 archers.
There is no paper in this world, and the writing is made of animal skins, so the forest is well protected. Looking at the towering trees in front of him, which were almost all hundreds of thousands of years old, Yang Fan was shocked in his heart.
It was the first time he had seen a big tree that could only be surrounded by more than a dozen people, and the thick trunk and the canopy that covered the sky gave people a huge sense of oppression.
Because it's on the outskirts of the woods, there aren't many magical beasts to see, and occasionally I see a low-level magical beast like a red-eared rabbit, which will be hunted by archers as soon as it appears.
Yang Fan hadn't seen it very well in the Bow and Arrow Tower before, but it wasn't until an archer had just split the body of a second-order swift antelope with one arrow that Yang Fan could see how terrifying the bow and arrow in their hands were.
Looking at the pile of rotten meat on the ground, Yang Fan sighed. He originally wanted to shoot some prey for a while so that he could bring it back for lunch, but he didn't know that the arrows shot by these archers one by one were so powerful, and he was embarrassed to blame them when he heard them say that they didn't master the strength well.
But fortunately, the red-eared rabbit before it is a meek and well-behaved monster surnamed G, as long as you don't frighten it when you catch it, even if you hold it in your arms, it won't resist.
So it is also honored to be rated as the most stupid monster on the mainland, but this kind of docile and cute animal is very popular with girls, and its meat is not delicious with a sour taste, and most people will not kill it when they encounter it, at most they will catch it back and give it to girls as pets.
Thinking that Catherine had cried this morning because of a mistake of mouth, in order to express her apologies, he had an extra red-eared rabbit in his arms. The rabbit was quite obedient, and it didn't struggle when Yang Fan held it in his arms, with a pair of long pink ears standing up, occasionally scratching his chin.
Since Yang Fan, who came to investigate, naturally did not rush back, let the two archers lead the way in front, Gate and himself walked in the middle, and the other four were on both sides and at the end of the team, so that everyone could not only effectively protect him, but also Gate could carry out magic blessings and assistance in time.
The further you go deeper into the forest, the more demonic beasts there are. In just one hour, everyone hunted and killed 7 demonic beasts, and there was even a fourth-order demonic beast among them.
"Master, I suggest that we go back first! If we encounter a more powerful demonic beast that launches a surprise attack on the master, I'm afraid I won't be able to react!" Gated said with some trepidation.
Hearing this, Yang Fan was also a little frightened when he remembered the scene just now, just now the group was walking well, how did he know that there was actually a 4th-order earth viper that suddenly hung upside down from the tree and almost bit Yang Fan's neck, if it wasn't for the archer Keith who reacted quickly enough to push him away, I'm afraid he would have been poisoned by now!
Thinking of that snake, Yang Fan couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly and sighed unlucky, the earth viper was a fourth-order demonic beast, and it was originally able to release magic. Who knew that he fell down directly and tried to bite himself, but instead of biting, he was shot into a honeycomb by the rest of the archers.
What made him most depressed was that the largest snake was only a wrist thick, and even if he could bite himself to death, it would be impossible to eat it, and he didn't know if the snake was stupid or what's going on, which reminded him of a saying "The human heart is not enough for a snake to swallow an elephant".
Shaking his head and throwing these messy thoughts out of his mind, Yang Fan turned around and prepared to go back. As Gatet said, there may be more dangers ahead of him, although he really wants to explore as many areas as possible, but he doesn't have enough strength in his hands now, and he doesn't have that ability yet.
Seeing that Yang Fan gave up and continued to walk forward, Gate breathed a sigh of relief and exchanged glances with Keith, asking them to protect Yang Fan in the middle as before, and then followed himself.
As soon as everyone walked more than ten meters, there was a wailing sound behind them, and the sound should be a large demonic beast.
Yang Fan, who was walking in the middle, suddenly stopped, turned around and looked at the depths of the forest with some curiosity and said, "Let's go, let's take a look." With that, he rushed in the direction from which the voice came.
Yang Fan's actions made Getter anxious, for fear that he would be in danger and hurriedly followed. As for the archers, they followed Yang Fan as soon as he turned around, so they were still surrounded and protected on his four sides when Yang Fan ran.
At this point, Yang Fan had to admire the tacit understanding of these archers, he suddenly rushed out, they were able to reflect and still maintain the formation when they protected themselves, such a perfect cooperation made Yang Fan, as their master, happy.