The airboat slowly descended the clouds.

A sea of trees as vast as a real ocean, but with dark green waves, appears in the hunters' sight.

The continuous rainfall in recent days has filled the exaggerated vegetation in the sea of trees with water, and even formed a thick white mist that resembles clouds, and taking a deep breath feels like drinking water.

Hunters in full gear gathered on deck, waiting for the airship to land.

Gale scratched at his wet black wavy hair, looked at the tiny droplets of water on his bare skin, and said in distress:

"It's too damp, and the humidity is comparable to a wetland in the rainy season, right? I knew I should have gotten a waterproof cloak, or a bottle of drooping oil or something. ”

It's not that she's suddenly becoming more skin-friendly, it's that in an environment where she's more of a rainforest than a dense forest, it's not a good thing to leave large areas of skin exposed for long periods of time.

Mosquitoes and locusts will come to the door, and once there is a tear on the skin, eczema, ulcers and other skin diseases will follow.

Wearing a priest-style visor, Anhil, who only had his eyes exposed, glanced at Gail, walked over to Gale Gale, who had turned into a pack beast, rummaged through it, and took out a bottle of ointment and threw it to her.

Gail subconsciously caught it, uncorked it and sniffed it, and said in shock: "It's really drooping oil?" How did you even have this ready? ”

Anhill didn't bother to answer the question.

Anyway, this guy is helping himself, Gail swallowed back the groove he wanted to vomit, muttered "thank you", poured out the ointment and wiped it.

In a few moments, large swaths of her exposed skin became shiny, and her already messy mix-and-match gear looked indescribably weird.

But as a typical pragmatist, she doesn't care.

This medicated ointment is made from the sebum of the weeping dragon to prevent mosquito bites, treat skin diseases and burns, and at least for a few days without worrying about rainforest disease.

Gel tightened the cork and handed back the remaining half of the bottle of drooping oil.

Anhill dusted his hands in disgust, "You can keep it, I brought more than one bottle." ”

“……”

"I saw the ancient tower!" Feng Ying, who was standing at the bow of the boat, suddenly screamed.

Everyone looked at each other.

Through the thick mist of water that shrouded the sea of trees, a cylindrical giant with a diameter of nearly 100 meters and a height of more than 200 meters could be faintly seen thousands of meters away.

Hilda glanced over there and shook her head, "That's not the Ancient Tower, it's a withered giant tree with only a part of its trunk left. ”

“…… Yes? Feng Ying's mouth was wide open, "You said it was a tree?" ”

"Whew, yes." Hilda laughed, "I was surprised when I first found out, and I don't know what it looked like when it flourished, but that was at least a thousand years ago, nature is amazing, right?" ”

"It's always Guta, right?" Gordon put down his binoculars, pointed in the other direction, and half-jokingly said, "Don't tell me it's a tree too?" ”

In the direction of the airship's advance, an ancient tower that penetrated deep into the clouds stood there, and although the body of the tower was broken, the whole was still as stable as a mountain, like a giant pillar holding up the sky.

"That's it." Hilda took the Horned King's bow on her back and said with a smile, "I hope the monster we need to face lives at the bottom of the tower, not at the top of the tower, old aunt, I can't climb so high." ”

"Didn't you ambush Tianhuilong that time?"

"Shut up! Don't say such an unlucky thing! Hilda glared at Gordon, then raised her voice to the airship pilot, "Find a place to land, put us down and wait for us at the camp, and if there is no news of us after five days and nights, return to the guild headquarters for help." ”

The guild pilot nodded, maneuvered the airboat to lower the altitude, and it took a lot of effort to find a clearing in the forest that could barely be used for the airboat to descend.

Even so, the continuous fog and rain, the web-like vines entangled in the trunks and canopies, and the variety of vegetation on the ground made it difficult for the airship to fully land.

had to hover in mid-air more than ten meters above the ground and let the hunters land on the ground.

It's just that Gale and Amber suffer, and as tooth hounds, they have endured too much that they shouldn't have to bear

After landing, Nanasi was the first to jump onto Amber's back.

Pork Chop Xianglan could understand the urgency and anxiety in its heart, and did not hesitate, and the advance rescue and reconnaissance team composed of three cats and one dog set off immediately.

With the speed and agility of the toothhounds, they should be able to reach the ruins of the ancient tower within an hour, and as long as Jean is still alive, they will surely find him quickly and start medical treatment as soon as possible.

The hunters also set off quickly, forming a relatively tight triangular formation due to the severe limitation of sight in the dense forest.

Gordon and Feng Ying took turns to open the way, and behind the Hayatta Palace, the three archers were protected by them in the center of the triangle formation, so as to prevent a sudden attack from the monsters lurking in the shadows of the trees and trees, and to support each other at any time.

The Fenglong region where the Batu Batem Tree Sea is located is isolated from the sea, and it is an almost new hunting ground for Gordon and the others, and even the entire guild.

The distribution, population, and number of various monsters are unknown, and even the camp was newly established not long ago, so it is impossible to predict when and where you may encounter what monsters.

While on the airboat, Hilda told her that there were still scattered indigenous villages in this astonishing expanse of trees.

They are almost completely decoupled from mainstream society, but they are not "primitives".

These Jukai residents have mastered many special biotechnology and alchemy technologies that are difficult for mainstream society to understand, and have even developed their own "hunter-like" fighters.

This made Gordon and the others quite curious.

Of course, it was just curiosity, and the skills and lives of the inhabitants of Jukai had nothing to do with the purpose of the hunters' trip, and they naturally did not bother with it.

Following the footprints and pathfinders left behind by the pork chops and amber, the hunters made their way all the way.

The overabundance of vegetation and unpleasant rain and fog between the sea of trees made this section of the road more difficult than expected.

It took more than three and nearly four hours for the hunters to cross this area of the sea of trees that was no more than 10,000 meters away in a straight line and came to the vicinity of the ruins of the ancient tower.

The thick, soft, sponge-like humus gradually becomes flat and hard, traces of man-made objects such as masonry begin to appear, and vegetation becomes more and more sparse.

Bypassing the last tree, the hunters rushed out of the vast sea of trees.

The white moonlight shone on them, and when they looked up at the full moon that seemed to hang over the edge of the ancient pagoda, they suddenly realized.

The rain has stopped.

However, the mist that shrouded the ruins did not mean to dissipate, and still reflected the moonlight like a veil, reflecting everything hazy.

Gordon, who was in charge of opening the way, slowed down, and the whole team gradually stopped.

He planned to let everyone rest in place for ten minutes, eat and recuperate, and then venture deeper into the ruins and into the ancient tower to explore.

At this moment, a vague but sharp sense of danger came to his mind.

"Something is wrong!" He jerked around and shouted a reminder to his friends, but it seemed a little redundant.

He wasn't the only one who sensed the danger, and before he could say anything, the three perceptive shooters had already unleashed their weapons.

Hayata, who was at the back of the line, also suddenly turned around and drew his sword out of its sheath, and with the force of its body rotation, the night knife [Moon Shadow] slashed diagonally down with its robe, and slammed into some invisible blade, emitting a piercing sound.

"Boom!"

A faint blue shadow emerged from the moonlit mist, and the failure of the sneak attack sent it a whole scream of rage.

"Quack ——!"

"This is going to be delivered yourself?"

Gordon was about to draw his big sword, but Hilda raised his hand to stop him, "This is our prey, and there are six of us, don't you think it's too unlucky?" ”

Gordon grinned, "Okay, then I'll leave it to you here, Anhil, Fengying, let's go!" ”

In the menacing roar of the Moon Swift Dragon.

Hayatta poured a bottle of ghost medicine and swung her blade forward, Hilda lowered the black veil of her face, and the breath of the whole person became uncertain, Gael pulled the trigger with a strange smile, and it was so rapid that the terrifying roar of ballistas resounded through the night sky.

"Bump Bump!"

Ps.

The so-called natives living in the jungle in this chapter refer to the early abolition of MH, and they do not appear in the main biography, so please don't take it seriously.

But to be honest, some of the whimsical settings are really interesting, if you're interested, you can also write two or three chapters later to enrich the world view 0v0

In fact, it can be seen from the setting book that the worldview laid down in the early stage of the series is more primitive, and the technology is more biased towards biological applications, such as the hollow fruit is cut off with a knife, and the gunpowder and warhead are used to make a crossbow, and a thunder insect is a paralysis trap in the trap.

Since 4, it has been leaning towards the era of the Industrial Revolution, all kinds of steam machinery, large airships

MHR kind of reverts to the meaning of "biotechnology" but it seems. Not in the same direction? Mysterious hunting tool creature emmmm

(End of chapter)