After a brief communication to confirm the good intentions, Anhill kept his mouth shut, not communicating much with the mysterious chrysalis.

Even if the latter's personality seems to be quite lively and talkative.

After all, this is in the middle of a sea of trees full of dangers, and even under the inconspicuous fallen leaves, there may be poisonous snakes and poisonous insects that can kill them, so you must be careful when walking during them.

Unbeknownst to Anhil, however, his caution was quite interesting in the eyes of the chrysalis.

It's like a little baby who has just learned how to walk, wobbly.

"Purr."

There was a bubble sound from inside the huge chrysalis, and Anhill looked up at her, not realizing that she was snickering.

They walked like this for a long time in the woods.

If you count the distance she was dragged along when she was unconscious, Anhill couldn't tell how far she was from the ruins of the ancient tower and the camp.

Gordon: I'm afraid they're going crazy, right?

It's a pity that the signal flare is on Gale Wind, and there is no way to send a signal to notify his companions.

The chrysalis who was walking in front suddenly stopped and waved his hand towards the height, and Anhill, who was close behind, had to temporarily put away the worries in his heart and looked up.

On the top of the canopy of a huge tree forty or fifty meters high, a figure jumped down.

It was almost impossible for a human to survive a fall of this height, but the man's hands and feet seemed to be able to stick to the trunk and branches, slowed down several times, and finally hooked the vine with a strangely shaped long stick in his hand, and landed lightly in front of them.

Anhill's eyes narrowed slightly.

The visitor was apparently a companion of the guy in front of him, who he thought was another strange-looking chrysalis, but it wasn't.

It was a fairly normal-looking young woman.

She was wearing, or rather wrapped, in a very strange suit of light armor.

It's weird, not because the shape of the armor is even pleasing to the eye compared to the mix and match style of a certain cat head hunter.

The anomaly lies in the material of the armor.

With the exception of the inner armor, which clings to the skin, which appears to be made of some kind of animal leather, the entire armor is made of various "creatures" between the sea of trees.

The main material of wrist armor, helmet, skirt armor, and shin armor seems to be some kind of special leaves, which I don't know if it is strong or not, at least it looks light.

The outer part of the wrist armor and shin armor were covered with thick white slime molds, and the reason why she was able to borrow the nearly vertical trunk to slow down was probably to take advantage of the stickiness of these slime molds.

The breastplate is the strangest, it can't even be called a "nail", but a honeycomb on top of each other.

Many finger-sized xenobees move in and out of the hive armor, seemingly in some kind of strange symbiotic relationship with the owner of the equipment.

While Anhill was looking, a bee stopped on the woman's orange-red bangs, and she pursed her lips and blew the bee away.

Then, with a flick of the long stick full of holes in her hand, the bees flying around her suddenly seemed to have received some kind of signal, and obediently burrowed into the hive.

Anhill raised an eyebrow, the scene in front of him reminded him of a bug stick.

"Outlander?" A young woman with dazzling orange hair asked.

Anhill nodded, not denying it.

The young woman didn't react in any particular way, and raised her chin to Anhill to say hello, then looked at the chrysalis.

"The night of the full moon was last night, why didn't it feather? Failed? ”

"When I went to the tower, I met the mountain god and grunted angrily, but I didn't dare to climb out of the ground, and I didn't get enough sun to puff the moon." After a sullen speech, she pointed at Anhill again, "Gollum he's unconscious there, just bring him back." ”

"The mountain god appeared? Angry or still?! The young woman's eyes widened.

"Gollum, then went back to Gollum, was woken up like, at night Tari rumbled, noisy." Chrysalis spread their hands.

Suddenly remembering something, the young woman looked at Anhill with a sly look, "Are you the hunter of the Outlander?" Hunting the mountain gods you guys?! ”

Due to the difference in grammar, the words of the two sounded a little upside down to Anhill, but they were not too difficult to understand.

The "mountain god" in the mouths of the two obviously refers to the floating dragon.

Anhir shook his head decisively, "Fuyue Dragon, oh, it should be the mountain god in your mouth, that's not our goal."

We were invited by a mysterious person to hunt the Great Boom Dragon and the Moon Thunder Dragon, and the hunt was successful, but the movement during the battle woke up the Floating Dragon. ”

"Mystery man? Big Boom Dragon? Moon Dragon? The two were confused.

They understood Anhill's other words, but they didn't understand these terms.

Anhill briefly talked about the girl in ancient costumes, and described the characteristics of the Great Boom Dragon and the Moon Swift Dragon.

The girl in the chrysalis was a little excited when she heard this, "You can get rid of the beasts that can't be seen in the fog?!" It's really awesome, you can go there with peace of mind to bask in the moon feather puff! ”

The young woman was more concerned about the "girl in ancient costumes", "It sounds like a god, this news needs to be brought back to the woodland, a great foreign hunter, can you go back with us?" ”

Anhill was helpless, "It's all already taken here, just go, I hope it won't take too long, my companions should be looking for me." ”

"Okay, we can send someone to help you find a companion." The young woman shook her head and motioned for Anhill to follow, suddenly remembering that she hadn't introduced herself yet, so she added, "By the way, my name is Madder." ”

"Anhill." Out of politeness, Anhill also gave his name.

The girl wrapped in a huge chrysalis raised her hand, "Gollum Purr!" ”

Although he knew that this guy was most likely reporting his name, the series of bubbles made him unable to hear what the former said.

"She called." Madder introduced the girl who couldn't speak clearly in the chrysalis.

After thinking about it, she explained briefly, "You people outside may not have seen it, but the worm is a parasite pupa on its body, and it needs to mature for a year or two."

After feathering, it will become a special symbiotic armor, but before feathering, it has no combat ability, and the worm often needs to bask in the moon. ”

The girl named Nymph looked at Anhill, but unfortunately, the disgusting appearance of the chrysalis made her movements completely uncute.

Anhill didn't know what to do for a moment.

"You're really hardworking."

Near the ruins of the ancient tower.

The dragon flew back to the ancient tower at dawn, perhaps having eaten his fill, and went back to sleep again.

The Gordons, who had been hiding in the dense forest of the sea of trees for several hours, also returned to the area around the devoured woodland, searching little by little.

The main force of the search is the olfactory pork chop and pandan, and Nanasi is sent back to the camp by Gordon to deliver the news, so that Feng Ying and Jean don't wait for their news to run away.

"Meow!"

Xianglan noticed something, ran a few steps over, and lay on a pile of floating dirt and pulled.

Gordon and the others also hurriedly ran over, and saw Xianglan digging out Anhill's fierce carving [Shiyu] from the mound.

The expression of anticipation froze on his face.

"Will he be buried further down?" Gordon's voice was a little dry.

Xianglan shook her head, "It's unlikely that meow, the soil below is not floating meow." ”

"Let's dig a little deeper." As if he hadn't heard, Gordon carried the murderous moment [Shi Yu] behind him, half-knelt down, and continued to dig.

Hayatta nodded, and followed Gordon in digging the earth.

"Then dig the, that's the only clue so far!" Gale also lifted his slightly obstructive helmet and crouched down.

Hilda sighed and didn't say anything, just stood aside with her bow in hand, guarding them.

As the pit in the ground dug deeper and deeper, Gordon's heart sank deeper and deeper.

"Meow! Come over here, meow! There's a discovery meow! Suddenly, there was a scream of pork chops in the distance.

Gordon jumped up and ran in that direction, and the Hayatta and the others hurriedly caught up.

"What did you find?!" Before he could get to the pork chop, Gordon yelled.

There is also a big pit in front of the pork chop, the mouth of the pit may not be very wide, about one meter, but the pit is quite deep, and an adult male may not be able to show his head when he jumps in.

The pork chop was lying on his stomach at the mouth of the pit and sniffing left and right, "There is an Anhill smell meow in it, he should have been in the pit for a while, there is another smell meow, it feels, it feels like some kind of insect meow?" ”

Hayatta reasonably, "There was an unknown giant insect lurking underground, dragging Anhir into the pit and helping him avoid the swallowing of the Ukigaku Dragon? ”

"And the insect monster didn't attack him, there was no blood in the pit, and there was no trace of struggle." Gordon stared at the inner wall of the pit, his tone becoming agitated.

"I remember that the Shadow Spider would ambush its prey, turn it over with a poisonous crow and bring it back to its nest, store it as a breeding ground for hatching, and pierce its genitals into the prey to lay eggs."

Gordon: "."

"Ahem, of course, it should. It's definitely not a shadow spider! Shadow spiders aren't insects either, are they? Well, and the pit is too small for the shadow spider to get into! Gail hastened to remedy.

The voice of the pork chop trembled a little, "Gas, the smell is extending over there, and there are traces of this drag, the insect monster dragged Anhill out of here and went to the depths of the sea of trees!" ”

Gordon's face turned green, "Chase!" ”

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