Chapter 34: Save the Seed and Go Deep into the Wilderness
According to a rough map left by Antonio, his homeland is a peaceful coastal village on the border of the giants' realm, adjacent to the elven-ruled sea.
Before taking the urn and setting off, Su Mo met with His Royal Highness of the Blood Clan under the recommendation of Ed.
When summoning Sumer, His Highness was working on art.
Ed led Summer to his studio, which was so large and spectacular that it was more of a dedicated art gallery than a studio.
White stood in front of the easel, concentrating on creating an oil painting, and Ed led Sumer into the room without distraction, immersed in his own world and wielding his brush.
The progress of the creation was nearing the end, and Su Mo did not wait long, and in less than twenty minutes, White put down the last stroke with satisfaction, and put aside the painting tools at hand.
Then He turned and looked.
White is handsome, well-proportioned, and his personality is indeed as unusual as rumored, and after Su Mo introduces himself, he happily invites him to admire the work he has just completed.
After years of cultivation by the former "artist" Blake, Su Mo also has a unique understanding of art appreciation, and the two sides chatted very happily.
White was highly accomplished in the arts, and in addition to painting, he was also very good at music, and it is said that he made many musical instruments by himself.
His reputation spread widely among the low-to-mid-rank Bloodline, and many of them worshipped him, and followed his style, leading the artistic fashion of the Bloodline with their own strength.
Isn't this a kind of anchor...... Su Mo couldn't help but think.
However, for him, His Highness's greatest contribution is to promote the development of paper, after all, after the formation of a fashion, painting needs to consume a large amount of paper, with business opportunities, naturally someone will ponder the improvement of papermaking technology.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have to worry about how to keep paper archives now, because he can't afford to consume so many parchment scrolls for writing.
After appreciating the paintings, Su Mo put forward his intentions in a respectful tone in a timely manner.
He had come to ask His Highness White to help......
Helps keep crop seeds alive and prolongs their storage time.
These seeds can normally be stored for one to three years, but this is the first time Su Mo has gone far away, and he can't figure out the specific time it will take on the road, so for the sake of caution, it is better to give his most precious treasure an extra layer of insurance.
White, who had a pleasant conversation, readily agreed.
On the one hand, it is a trivial matter for the "creators" who have mastered the "power of creation" and can make the surrounding life feel the joy of the growth of all things and the advent of new life......
Su Mo pressed his hand to his chest, bowed, and expressed his gratitude from the bottom of his heart.
At the same time, he silently recited: The rumors are honest and do not deceive me......
One of the reasons why His Royal Highness has many admirers is that he is more easy-going, and if he is opportunistic, he can even talk to a newly grown bloodline......
After entrusting the sealed seeds and archives to Ed, Su Mo also had no worries at all and could go out with peace of mind.
He took his prepared luggage and arrived at the second northern gate of Pompeii.
Just like the original guard mission when he went out of the city to collect plants, Nornes still stood there early and waited.
Su Mo walked up to him and said directly, "Let's go." ”
Nornes nodded silently, as if he had entered a state of alert in advance.
At the gates of the city stood silently with guards wrapped in sturdy gray-black armor, armed with the mighty Sanglaeba Version.
Summer and Nonns stepped past the guards and stepped out of the open gates, gray-brown dirt creaking beneath their feet.
Unlike the lush vegetation and life around Williams, the north gate of Pompeii is a wide, flat land.
Spreading the Wings of Darkness, the two flew straight for a long distance to a new territory.
To the west, a cloud of red smoke could be seen, a lake of fire boiling in the valley, and on the road facing east, Su Mo could see the outline of a gray sand dune in the distance.
It's an area with low terrain --
Nornes in a nutshell:
"That area is inhabited by a thin, long-legged wilderness creature with an iron hook in its beak, like a featherless bird."
Su Mo looked down at the map of Olga's territory obtained from Olmer in his left hand, and compared it with the simple hand-drawn map with rough lines in his right hand, closed his eyes and thought for a moment, opened his eyes and said with certainty: "Just take this road." ”
Nornes bowed, "Okay." ”
They spend most of their time flying at low altitudes using Dark Wings, occasionally landing to feed or rest, but once they go deep into the wilderness, they are attacked by various wilderness creatures every time they land.
At one point, it was a giant Night Hound that swooped out from the shadows of the night, and Su Mo dodged the attack by "moonlighting" his body, and then used several "Corrosive Claws" to cut off its neck, and the Night Hound fell to the ground with a spasm of its huge limbs.
At one point it was a rotting humanoid creature that roamed in groups, but it was easy to deal with, killing only three or four of them, and the rest of the decaying humanoids would stop the chase and turn to feast on their fallen companions.
On another occasion, a dimly blurred spirit tried to trap the two into its misty embrace, and without hesitation, Nornes launched the "dark gaze", gouging out and holding one of his own eyeballs, and a deep, frozen darkness emerged around the soul, bound in place, and the scene seemed to freeze.
Then Nornes decisively crushed his eyeballs, and the brewing screams of the invisible creature were forcibly interrupted, and they dissipated unwillingly and quickly in place.
But this was not the end, as a thick black mist slowly emerged from the place where the soul had dissipated, clenching together like clouds, and the whispers that sprouted from it called out the names of the two men, cursing them silently......
However, as early as when the invisible soul first began to dissipate, Su Mo and Nornes didn't even need to communicate, and they both used "flash" to quickly run away.
Flash, within a certain range of the moonlight, gains the ability to teleport.
After a hundred flashes in a row, there was a slight surprise in the rest of Noanns' eyes.
He had stayed at that stage for hundreds of years, had experienced countless battles, and knew very well the abilities and limits of the Crimson Scholar......
Eli ...... No, Sue, not long after you were promoted, is the flash distance and endurance you showed a little exaggerated?
Fleeing all the way to relative safety, the two stood on the top of a tall tree to rest for a while.
Summer looked at Nornes' empty eyes and asked him, "How long will it take to grow back?" ”
Nornes replied, "About forty minutes." ”
"What was that?" Su Mo's expression was solemn, "I felt an instinctive horror ......"
"It's supposed to be a high-level xenomorph, but it seems to be in poor condition." Nornes said in a deep voice.
Xenogeneous ......
Su Mo fell into deep thought.
Why do high-order xenomorphs appear in the Bloodline's territory?
However, according to the map, the area ruled by the Xeno-king Kvahithun does border the Blood's territory, and most of the border is in the Olga territory......
"You seem familiar with xenomorphs?" He asked again.
Nornes' response just now was too decisive, and it can be said that without thinking, he launched the "dark gaze" move as soon as he came up......
Noans glanced at him calmly with his remaining right eye.
"It's familiar." "I used to be a scout patrolling Olga's borders," he said. ”