……

"You know the art of balance?"

Matthew looked at Lao Jitou with some surprise.

Lao Jitou patted the branches on his body and walked out of the bushes:

"I've had several encounters with an Emissary of Equalization, and he's saved my life twice, and that's a ...... Very great people. ”

Matthew hurriedly asked:

"Where is the Emissary of Equilibrium now? Is it convenient to reveal more? ”

Lao Jitou said regretfully:

"I don't know where he went, and in fact I only know a little about the way of equilibrium, except that it was a way that the Sioux people further south had invented.

About a hundred years ago, when the Sioux and Jango were still in their honeymoon phase, the Shamans of the Jango and the elders of the Sioux had an in-depth exchange of knowledge.

At that time, the two sides built a lot of houses on the Gold Coast, and they were very close to each other.

It is said that the Sioux were also encouraging the Jango to work with them to build a ship that would cross the sea, claiming that once they built the ship, they would bring back the wealth hidden in the depths of the sea to share with the Jango.

Many of the Jango people were moved, and the superb skills mastered by the Sioux also made them yearn for it, and the cooperation between the two sides became closer and closer, and the way of equilibrium was probably a product of that time.

But then Quetzalcoatl became angry, and the Jango had to take the initiative to cut off contact with the Sioux people.

Later, there were no more practitioners of equilibrium in the rainforest.

I've heard that the Sioux themselves have lost the full heritage of the way of equilibrium.

The one I met when I was younger was probably the last Sioux equalization emissary.

His final destination seems to be the sea, I'm not sure. ”

Matthew's expression was slightly disappointed when he heard this.

"So, you're here for the way of equilibrium?"

Lao Jitou unconsciously rubbed the tobacco leaves.

Matthew nodded.

"Then I advise you to lower your expectations."

Lao Jitou sighed and said:

"The Sioux population is so devastated that a significant number of Sioux people are only willing to believe that the other side of the sea is their destination, and they do not want to integrate into the life of this continent.

The final destination of these people is the sea.

And the few Sioux who were willing to integrate here also lost the skills of their ancestors and became island natives, not much stronger than the Jango. ”

Matthew quickly adjusted his mentality:

"Thank you for the reminder, but since I'm all here, I should keep trying."

Lao Jitou didn't say anything more.

Luo Lan next to him asked curiously:

What does it mean that "the final destination is the sea"? They became Naga? ”

Lao Jitou coughed twice, he didn't want to answer, but seeing that Matthew also looked curious, he said:

"It was a secret ritual of the Sioux people, who believed that the spirits of their ancestors on the other side of the sea would guide their way home, so before they died, or when they felt some kind of strong calling, they would step into the sea empty-handed."

Luo Lan was shocked: "Isn't that just sending you to death?" ”

Lao Jitou frowned and said: "In our opinion, this is no different from sending them to death, but it means a lot to them, they consider themselves wanderers abandoned by their homeland, in order to return to their homeland, they are willing to do anything, in this regard, the Sioux people have a particularly strong obsession." ”

Luo Lan was surprised: "There is still this obsession? It's puzzling. ”

Lao Jitou immediately warned:

"In any case, when it comes to foreign territory, respecting their customs and habits is the most basic politeness and survival rule, and this is the case for the Jango people, and the same is true for the Sioux people. It's nothing to talk about behind our backs now, and we can't talk nonsense in front of them. ”

Loren pouted, but soon he was happy again, as if because of the new material.

"Let's hit the road."

Matthew reminded me:

"This rainforest shouldn't be in trouble with us going forward."

As he spoke, as if to confirm this, he walked towards the two cannibal flowers next to him who had been fighting.

"Be careful!"

Lao Jitou shouted.

"It doesn't matter."

Matthew replied lightly.

Then Lao Jitou and Luo Lan were surprised to see Matthew walking to the cannibal lace unharmed.

As soon as he got closer, the two man-eating flowers actually stopped fighting!

And they didn't attack Matthew, but kept shaking their bodies, as if they were hungry for something.

"Didn't you say the rainforest hates you?"

Loraine had a hellish look on her face.

"I guess she probably doesn't hate me that much now, does she?"

Matthew smiled and stretched out his hand, and two man-eating flowers frantically rubbed the back of Matthew's hand with their buds, like pets that had been domesticated for many years.

This scene is too terrifying and bizarre.

So much so that Lao Jitou almost didn't hold the cigarette gun in his hand!

"Magic, you must have used magic!"

Luo Lan even shouted:

"Why don't you get out of the way and let me try too?"

Matthew took a half-step back.

Before Luo Lan stepped forward, the two man-eating flowers suddenly turned red when they saw each other, and pinched them frantically!

One of them shook in a big circle because of the excessive scuffle, and slammed past Loren's trouser legs, and the jagged teeth on the edge of the bud suddenly stretched, scraping off a few pieces of fabric on his body.

"Matthew! The duration of your magic is too short! ”

Lorain jumped to his feet and shouted.

But at this moment Matthew turned and walked into another bush, and he could feel himself entering a strange state-

Before he could step into it, the bushes parted to the sides.

A pit viper grovels to him, and two burrowing owls greet him.

For some reason, a little flying squirrel that looked a little blue and swollen raised a few berries to him.

He could clearly feel where he was going, and all the way would be unimpeded.

After that, even without Lao Jitou as a guide, Matthew was able to successfully cross the rainforest.

"Suya's pleasure" is really pleasant."

Matthew thought.

Recalling the encounter in Hei Rong's dream, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile a little:

"Mistakes? Forget? Who believes! ”

The process of transferring the advanced ritual that originally belonged to a fourth-order macho man to a second-order mage was like forcibly stuffing a telephone pole into a Coke bottle.

The process was brutal.

It couldn't be a work mistake, it was definitely Su Ya's intention.

The Rainforest Spirit's temperament is unpredictable, but Matthew guesses that it has something to do with his high natural affinity.

In the Black Banyan dream.

Although Su Ya's attitude towards him was very bad, scolding and fierce, her eyes never left Matthew from beginning to end, not even for a moment.

That kind of look, Matthew understands it too well.

In a word, boys are out there alone, so they have to protect themselves!

He knew that once he established a connection with the souls of nature and the spirit creatures, they couldn't help but want to get close to him.

Salted fish like Lulu and Ella are just fine.

But Suya, the soul of the rainforest, is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and her possessive tendencies are more obvious.

Conquering the Soul of the Rainforest was never an easy task, and Matthew hadn't swelled to that extent, so he preferred to believe that Su Ya was acting.

"The natural affinity is too high, and sometimes it's quite troublesome."

But when he thought about it, high is better than low, isn't it?

People with low affinity don't know how much effort it takes to communicate with the soul of the rainforest.

Thinking so, Matthew turned around and urged:

"Let's go."

The two of them, who were stunned by the incredible sights in front of them, came back to their senses.

"The practitioners of the way of equilibrium are indeed born outliers."

Lao Jitou sighed, and then silently followed Matthew's pace.

Loren spread his hands:

"So, should I change the title of my work?"

"Matthew the Equalizer huh?"

……

Two and a half days later.

The group walked through layers of rainforest and came to the shore of a large lake with no end in sight.

"This is the 'Great Dragon Lake', and there are often plesiosaurs around the lake, and some people have seen prehistoric brontosaurus in the middle of the lake, but that is a legend from a long time ago."

"The ecology here is self-contained, it's a little different from the rainforest, do you notice? The temperature around the lake is very low, and the further you go to the center of the lake, the cooler it becomes. ”

Lao Jitou introduced in a leisurely manner:

"But we won't stay too long on the shores of Da Long Lake, and then we will walk all the way along the rainforest on the east shore of the lake, and we will be able to leave the rainforest in two and a half days at most and reach the Gold Coast, the destination of this trip."

In the past two days, he has done a very easy job as a guide.

The soul of the rainforest is fond of Matthew, and the fool can see that where he is, no rainforest creature dares to come and offend.

Lao Jitou just needs to lead the way with peace of mind.

The only one who was dissatisfied was Luo Lan, who bluntly said that there was a lot less fun, but when Lao Jitou proposed that he take him on another path, he immediately stopped squeaking, and after a while, he said that he would fight side by side with Matthew to the end, and would never give up his companion Yunyun.

The group was resting by the Dalong Lake, taking fresh water and enjoying the beautiful scenery.

It was evening.

The open surface of the lake is sparkling.

Matthew observed that quite a few animals were drinking from the lake.

Wolves, honey badgers, bears, foxes, monkeys, rabbits......

The animals seem to be completely ignoring each other as they drink, and the picture is very peaceful at one point.

Can be fast.

The serenity was shattered.

A plesiosaur suddenly jumped up from the bottom of the lake, and countless splashes were made, and many animals were frightened away.

Right now.

A dark shadow suddenly emerged from behind a rock on the shore.

He was as fast as a cheetah, and in the blink of an eye, he rushed to the shore, and then with a vertical leap, he actually rode directly to the neck of the plesiosaur!

"Shhh

The plesiosaur roared angrily.

But soon the roar turned into a wail.

Matthew could see that the Jango native, who was shirtless and had a few blowguns around his waist, grabbed the plesiosaur's neck violently, and as the latter struggled, he suddenly slapped the plesiosaur's neck with the palm of his right hand!

Syllable! Syllable! Syllable!

The speed of the indigenous palm slap is extremely fast, about three breaths, and hundreds of strokes!

Followed by.

The three of them saw that the plesiosaur's neck seemed to have lost its support, and it fell weakly to the shore!

The beasts on the shore were frightened away, and the sand and dust were flying.

As the trio made their way through the sand and approached the shore, they found the strong, somewhat over-the-top native dragging the plesiosaur's neck toward the rainforest.

The plesiosaur is dead.

Not to mention Matthew and Lorain, even Lao Jitou seems to have never seen such a strange and effective dragon hunting technique.

"He's a blower, but he doesn't use it, and his strength is amazing."

Lao Jitou speculated:

"It's also possible that a monster of this level isn't worth his weapon."

Easily kill a plesiosaur of at least level 13 with his bare hands, this person's strength is too strong!

The three of them looked at the native with some wariness.

On the contrary, the latter greeted them generously:

"Hey, outsider! You'd better not stay on the shore of the lake for too long, there is a nest of plesiosaurs, they are very vindictive, but they often don't recognize humans, so they will attack you indiscriminately. Get out of here. ”

Lao Jitou took a few steps forward:

"Hello, Son of the Rainforest, may I ask which tribe you are a warrior of?"

The man smiled: "Hello, my name is Lumière, from the Black Banyan tribe, but don't worry, I'm not like them, I'm not as xenophobic as the old guys in the tribe, I'm a man who wants to be the king of the rainforest, I know how to be aggressive, and I want to see the outside world when I have the chance!" ”

Seeing that he had a good attitude, Luo Lan also leaned over and asked curiously:

"What are you doing here?"

Lumière patiently explained, "I'm pleasing the Spirit of the Rainforest and asking her to help me with an advanced ritual. ”

Luo Lan suddenly became interested: "Advanced ritual? Can we sit on the sidelines? I haven't seen the progression of the Rainforest Warriors yet. ”

Lumière smiled embarrassedly:

"That's not okay, it's not that I'm xenophobic, but it's a tradition of our tribe, it's not very convenient for outsiders to visit, and for your safety, let's hurry up! Although most of the adventurers who can break into the depths of the rainforest have some skills, Dalong Lake is different, it has a very different ecology from the rainforest, and even the soul of the rainforest can't control it here, so be careful! ”

Lao Jitou nodded, indicating that he would leave as soon as possible.

Seeing that the other party was sincere, Luo Lan was embarrassed to continue to stalk.

Only Matthew's eyes were very complicated.

At this moment, he had already guessed that the native in front of him was the unlucky guy who prayed to Su Ya for an advanced ritual.

Although this incident has nothing to do with Matthew, and even he himself is a victim, he still wants to get as much help as possible from Lumière.

So he asked, "How many high-level monsters have you hunted?" ”

Lumière thought for a moment: "Twenty-one bipedal dragons, thirteen piebald crocodiles, two jungle leopards, and some miscellaneous prey—the rainforest in the north of Dalong Lake is almost swept away by me, and I am forced to come to hunt on the shores of Dalong Lake." ”

Matthew secretly said in his heart that this was indeed the case.

That guy Su Ya doesn't have the heart to hold an advanced ceremony for others at all now!

The thought that the soul of the rainforest has been watching him obsessively for the past few days gives Matthew a creepy feeling.

He wanted to help Lumière even more.

Matthew spoke:

"How can you be sure that you can impress the soul of the rainforest in this way? Don't you think there's something wrong with you've killed so many beasts and she's still indifferent? ”

Lumière was stunned for a moment, and for the first time an unhappy expression appeared on his face:

"Do you know the soul of the rainforest better than I do?

Outsider, I grew up here, and I know her better than you do!

I'm pretty sure that killing is the only way to please the soul of the rainforest! ”

Matthew smiled and said, "Maybe you're right, but you might as well change your thinking, in the past, it was a person who held a sacrifice ceremony, right?" You're still hunting plesiosaurs, which means that the Spirit of the Rainforest hasn't responded to you, so why don't you let the three of us come along this time, maybe you can bring good luck?" ”

Hearing this, Luo Lan also opened his mouth to persuade and said:

"What he said is not unreasonable, maybe it's just a little bit of luck, it just so happens that I am called the "Poet of Good Luck" by the Cloud Elves in Cloud City, with my watch, maybe your Rainforest Soul will take care of you."

Lao Jitou frowned, he wanted to stop the reckless actions of the two, but thinking of the peculiarity of Matthew, he swallowed the words that came to his mouth again.

Lumière looked hesitant.

Matthew strikes while the iron is hot:

"Tradition is meant to be broken! If you agree with us to watch, then one day if you leave the rainforest and can't integrate into human civilization all at once, you can come to me in Rolling Stone, and I will give you some help. ”

Luo Lan waved his hand even more: "Whatever city you go to, as long as you report Luo Lan's name, you will have a lot of friends...... Well, it may be a little troublesome, there will be a lot of women coming to you, you just have to tell them that Loren has died in the sea. ”

Lumière looked at the two in front of him hesitantly.

After a while.

He finally relented and agreed:

"Okay, I do need to change my luck, but you can't make any noise during the ritual, you can't offend the spirit of the rainforest, she's my goddess!"

The two nodded in agreement.

Lumière was resolute, and in a short time led them to the place where his sacrifice was held, in a damp crypt.

The crypt was littered with the corpses of Wyverns and other creatures, some of which were rotting and stinking.

The sacrificial rite was fairly simple.

Lumière was ready in a few moments.

He used three stakes to insert the plesiosaur's head from three angles each.

Then he himself lay on the body of the plesiosaur and gnawed hard, followed by a long chant in the Jango language that outsiders could not understand.

A few minutes later.

Lumière spat out the scales in his mouth.

There was a look of disappointment in his eyes:

"Sure enough, it still doesn't work?"

Matthew walked over and gently stroked the plesiosaur's corpse.

Suddenly.

A dark red light emerged from the corpse.

Seeing this, Matthew pulled his legs and ran.

Lumière pounced with joy!

Whoosh.

The red light sank into Lumière's chest.

Distant shivers began to tremble violently in the rainforest.

"I feel it, I feel it, the spirit of the rainforest gives me a response!"

He knelt on the ground with tears in his eyes:

"I knew that my piety could move my goddess!"

"I'm going to hunt that dinosaur now, kill him, and I'll be the true king of the rainforest!"

Rejoicing.

Lumière's afterglow saw that Ma Xiu was flying and fled.

He couldn't help but shout:

"Hey, Outlander, I don't know your name yet!"

"Matthew, my name is Matthew! Remember, Matthew of Rolling Stone! ”

The sound came through the thick foliage of the rainforest.

Lumière silently read the name in his mind.

Then he stood up with a determined look in his eyes.

In the direction of the source of the earthquake, he roared and ran wildly.

"The world out there, I'll see it when I conquer the rainforest!"

"Tremble, Dinosaurus, the King of the Rainforest is here!"

Even if you run far away in one go.

The three of Matthew also heard Lumière's long whistle.

"King of the Rainforest, huh?"

Loren doesn't seem to be very interested in this appellation:

"It still smells of barbarism."

Matthew smiled appreciatively:

"I like him."

"After all, who doesn't love a confident man?"

……

Two days later.

The group finally left the rainforest.

The lush sights along the way were left behind by them.

The sea breeze with a salty smell greeted you.

On the endless sea, small islands loom in the sky.

Waves crash against the golden sand, shells, coconut, fish and shrimp can be seen everywhere.

Matthew bathed in the sea breeze along the coast, and a strange vibes welled up in his heart.

……

"Hint: You've discovered the Arune/Gold Coast.

You perceive the field of the realm: equilibrium."

……

(End of chapter)