Chapter 63: Maps
After stepping into the entrance of the invisible secret realm, they were greeted by a beautiful scenery of water vapor - under the sunlight, many aquatic plants grew freely in the water and on the rolling hills above the water, and some aquatic tree species that Zhou Zhongmou called mangroves on the earth were also in this half-water, half-shore environment. Zhou Zhongmou, who was standing on the high bank of the entrance, looked out as far as his eye could see, and instead of the so-called swamp made of black silt as ordinary people imagined, clear pools, slow-flowing rivers and hilly heights covered with grass and trees occupied the space within sight.
"Hmm, isn't this what a typical wetland delta looks like? Sure enough, it's called a big wetland, but those places with a lot of trees in the distance can't be the type of tropical rainforest in the Amazon basin?" Zhou Zhongmou said as he looked at the rainforest looming in the distance, and at this time Rezenov had already let Natasha jump off the ground first, walking all the way inside from the rolling hills that were outcropping out of the water.
Although it is said to be a secret realm, and I have seen a lot of creatures with magical power, but one of the monsters has not yet appeared, basically some fish and amphibians infected with the strong magic here, and some reptile small lizards, of course, there are more insects to talk about monsters, but the magic frog is a lot of things outside the entrance, but after coming in, I didn't see any of them.
Walking all the way in, Natasha walked in front with a specially customized parchment, which is a magic prop provided by the guild to automatically outline the map, since Zhou Zhongmou has no magic power here and Rezenov is not an agile warrior, so this task can only be given to Natasha. Now, according to Rezenov's plan, they are going all the way along the hills, and they are done with the outer wetlands of this secret place - as for the rainforest inside, Rezenov has no intention of going into it. Of course, it would be better if you collected some herbs and magic materials while walking in circles, and if possible, getting some specimens of monsters was also an additional income.
The days in the Great Wetland are uneventful, and the pace here is completely different from the Labyrinth City, and the pace can be said to be slow. The abundance of aquatic products and clear water make food not a problem, and even vegetables can be obtained by digging the rhizomes of aquatic plants. If you want to say that the best food here, in addition to all kinds of freshwater fish, is the leg of the magic frog - Zhou Zhongmou doesn't like to eat freshwater fish, but the leg of the magic frog is very much to his taste, and the key is that the portion is very large. A magic frog, the smallest of which is one meter in diameter, is almost two meters long when it is pulled apart, and weighs about fifty kilograms, but its two thighs weigh about ten kilograms. The Demon Frog's combat power is also very scumbag - after all, according to the level of the monster lair, this thing is just the black iron median, if it weren't for the large number of ordinary wild animals in this wetland as the lower level of the food chain, then the magic frog is the food of all kinds of monsters.
The only trouble with the magic frog is that it contains poison, and the poison sacs located on its cheeks are only one of them, and the number of poison sacs in each magic frog is different, and even the specific location will vary - fortunately, these poison sacs are basically in the upper half of the body. The solution is simple, just cut off half of the frog - Rezenov tried to taste the first half of the frog, but when he was killed by the demon frog, he gave up eating the first half of the frog after the poisonous meat was knocked down several times. However, his move made Zhou Zhongmou find the delicacy of this magic frog again-that is, the belly full of yellow fat after peeling off the skin here, you can't eat more, you will get tired of eating too much, but adding salt after a small amount of boiling is extremely delicious-"It's a pity that this thing is small in quantity, and it is slightly poisonous." Then you won't have a chance to eat more, poor Rezenov. ”
There are a lot of demon frogs, so there are many fat thighs, but not many of them are big enough - at least the huge frog that Zhou Zhong murdered has never been seen again, and these frogs will change their appearance and predation methods as they grow in size. When they are very young, they look like field pheasants, and they also rely on spitting to paralyze their prey and swallow them alive, and their prey is those small animals. As they begin to grow in size, they change to the horned frog, the box frog and the toad, and the predation method changes to curl with a powerful tongue - the magic frog is the most delicious at this time.
Under the threat of Zhou Zhongmou's magic sword, low-level monsters did not dare to appear at all - this also allowed Natasha to draw maps accurately and without pressure, if there were any other gains, it would be only a few specimens of demon frogs except for a large handful of aquatic herbs - in fact, it was a corpse, the skill of making specimens was not low, and there were suitable tools, and in the end, it was actually the complete skeleton of the demon frog that was thrown into the space ring. However, they encountered a second monster during this time, which was a piranha with sharp teeth in the water. "It's not small! It's at least two meters long! There's no piranha that big on earth. But--this thing doesn't have any innate magic, but it's a monster. "Zhou Zhongmou and the others are now in a relatively deep area, which is close to the rainforest area, and the water depth has reached about ten meters, which is enough for these large piranhas to move freely.
Actually, there are monsters among the birds flying in the sky, but the problem is that the place where these monsters land and gather seems to be on the other side of the rainforest, which is where Rezenov does not want to go at all, so the investigation of birds and monsters is abandoned. As long as you don't go into the water, but you don't get too close to the surface, there is no threat - it is easy for Zhou Zhongmou, Rezenov and Natasha to kill these monsters with only a handful of strength, but it is a little more difficult to distinguish them from the bottom of the water. In this regard, Natasha has a great advantage, and Zhou Zhongmou seems to her to be similar to the female archers in the United States who shoot Chinese carp flooded with bows and arrows in the Great Lakes basin. Natasha lured the piranhas into leaping high, and then very simply, with an arrow through them, although they were tenacious, they were just like that in front of Rezenov's axe.
In this way, they drew a complete map of the outer ten kilometers and then they encountered the real difficult monsters in this secret realm—large carnivorous lizards, giant crocodiles, monsters like hippos that Zhou Zhongmou had ever seen, and intelligent lizardmen