As soon as it was dawn, Ji Xinghuo got up.

Jiangnan Caiyi got up earlier and made breakfast for everyone.

After breakfast, everyone picked up the bags they had packed last night and walked out of the villa.

Ike Scales was at the front, changing into a retractable elastic suit, a lava gun on his shoulder, and a large marching bag.

The marching backpack contained the whole team's tents, sleeping bags, inflatable rafts for crossing the river, several bundles of nanoropes with a total length of more than a thousand meters, 500 arrows newly purchased by Ji Xinghuo, and other supplies and tools, weighing more than 60 kilograms, almost as heavy as his spear.

As the only power-type Inhuman in the team, he can only be tasked with carrying his bags.

The scales in the pond have long been used to it.

Ji Xinghuo and Ren Mian walked in the middle of the team.

Ren Mian put on the hat again, covered her face with a scarf, and was still wearing a women's battle skirt, with a multi-functional belt tied around her waist more than usual, and a row of checkered pockets on it, each of which contained plant samples.

Each plant witch has one of these versatile belts, and when it's time to fight, take a sample of a plant from it to unleash its abilities.

Ji Xinghuo is also fully armed.

He put on composite terracotta armor, wore wind boots on his feet, Lei Chi hung from his waist, and carried a compound hunting bow and quiver, and others knew that he was a ranger at a glance.

Jiangnan Caiyi walked at the back, a few steps behind Ji Xinghuo and Ren Mian.

She is also masked in a black scarf, only her eyes are exposed, her black armor fits her whole body, and there are two knives, one long and one short, hanging from her waist.

The four of them were silent all the way.

Out of the villa area, get on a steam bus.

When the passengers in the car saw their appearance, they knew that this was a hunting party that was going out of the city, and they were a little farther away, intentionally or unintentionally.

Moments later, the four of them got out of the car at the airship take-off and landing field in the east of the city.

"We're going to take an airship?" Ji Xinghuo looked at the steam airship slowly rising above his head and asked with some surprise.

"Hmm."

Ren Mian nodded slightly, "The perimeter of Olympia City has been almost cleaned up, there are not many valuable prey, we have to leave the range of human exploration." ”

Ji Xinghuo asked, "Where to go?" ”

"Free City." Ren Mian replied: "Go to the Free City first, and then go west." ”

Ten minutes later, the whole team boarded the airship.

The length of this passenger airship is more than 200 meters, the largest part is the huge airbag overhead, and the cabin hanging under it is only more than 30 meters long, and the lightest material is used from the four walls to the floor, like a thin leather bus, which carries hundreds of passengers.

"It's too unsafe."

Ji Xinghuo complained in his heart, although the interior decoration of the airship cabin was quite luxurious, it revealed potential safety hazards everywhere.

The biggest hidden danger is the airbag on the head.

Although the interior of the airbag is also designed to be divided into compartments, it will not burst open with a hole, but such a large target flying in the sky, the protection is too weak, if you encounter a group of flying creatures or powerful monsters from the ground, you may have to crash.

Ren Mian sat next to Ji Xinghuo, seemed to see his worry, and said with a smile: "Within the scope of human control, the safety of the airship is still guaranteed." ”

Ji Xinghuo nodded.

"I suggest taking the train in the future, it's a little slower, but it's safer." The scales in the front row turned around and said.

Ren Mian didn't listen, "I'll talk about it next time." ”

Ji Xinghuo vaguely guessed something, she should have a way to ensure that even if the airship falls, the whole team can land safely.

The airship was soon lifted into the air, propelled by a steam-powered propeller, heading west.

For the first time, Ji Xinghuo overlooked the whole of Olympia from a high altitude, and truly realized how big the city was, the speed of the airship was about 100 kilometers per hour, and it flew for half an hour before flying from east to west, and then crossed the city wall and left the city.

Just outside Olympia is a vast forest where two meandering rivers meet, and the rushing water provides ample water for the city.

Several roads have been carved out in the human forest that lead to other cities.

On both sides of the road are towering trees, trees tens of meters tall can be seen everywhere, more than 100 meters are not uncommon, but the types of trees are not the same as on earth.

The farther away from Olympia, the more inaccessible it becomes.

Ji Xinghuo's eyesight can see clearly thousands of meters away, and he can see more things than others.

In just a few minutes, he found at least twenty different species of beasts and birds in the forest, and the ecology was much larger and more complex than on Earth.

A rift appeared in the land ahead, splitting the forest in half.

When the airship flew over from above, Ji Xinghuo looked into the rift valley but didn't see the end, it was dim inside, filled with mist, like a maze.

There is an arch bridge built over the rift valley, and at this time there is a train passing over the bridge, as if flying over the moat.

Ji Xinghuo muttered: "It doesn't seem safe to take the train. ”

Astral is not Earth, not only are natural disasters more frequent, but the biggest insecurity factor is the astral creatures, which are no less destructive than natural disasters, and it is not very difficult for them to destroy an arch bridge or train tracks.

He looked up into the distance, and could not see the end of the rift, which was estimated to be hundreds of kilometers long.

The train tracks simply can't be bypassed.

There were six cities west of Ocipia, most of which belonged to the member states of the "Western League", and after more than four hours, the airship passed through two cities and arrived at the city of Freedom, more than 300 kilometers away.

The City of Liberty was built in a valley and was only one-fifth the size of Olympia.

As the most important stronghold of the Western Alliance in the astral plane, the population of Free City is more than three million, and it is definitely a big city.

Ji Xinghuo and the four of them came down from the airship, and most of the strangers around them were blonde and blue-eyed, and they were citizens of Ximeng.

However, there are also a lot of strangers from other countries, so they are not eye-catching.

Except for Ji Xinghuo, the other three had been to Freedom City many times, and did not stay in the city, and soon left the city through the west gate and left Freedom City.

All the way to the west.

At first, they were still walking on the avenue, and the speed of the procession accelerated, and by dusk, they had already left the city of Liberty more than a hundred kilometers.

On the way, I met a lot of teams, all of them were out hunting, and the teams would keep some distance from each other to avoid misunderstandings.

Hunting teams left the road in different locations and entered the endless primeval forest.

As we get farther and farther away from the Free City, the roads get narrower, the traces of civilization are decreasing, and there are no other teams around.

Starry night falls.

The whole team just took a short break to eat, and then moved on.

The day of the astral boundary is too long, it is impossible to camp in the dark, and the "silver yao" and the reflection of the galaxy in the sky during the starry night provide enough light to not affect the progress of the aliens.

Of course, a starry night is definitely a bit more dangerous than a daytime.

But Inhumans go out to hunt, and in a way, they need the opportunity of danger to get their prey to their doors.

After walking for more than an hour in the starry night, the path that humans had cut had completely disappeared.

Ahead lies an unknown area.

"Starfire."

Ren Mian reminded: "Next, you have to improve your attention throughout the whole process." ”

"Understood." Ji Xinghuo nodded slightly.

The role of the shooter in the team is mainly divided into two parts, one is to provide long-range attacks in battle, and the other is to act as the "eyes" of the team, detecting dangers around the team and warning teammates in advance.

In many cases, reconnaissance is more important than a long-range attack.

The team lacks long-range attack ability, and can also make up for it in close combat, but if the reconnaissance ability is insufficient, it will always lose the first move, passively attacked, and sometimes the big enemy is close or even surrounded without knowing it, and the whole team will be wiped out if one move is not careful.

A team can do without shooters, but not without "eyes".

There are many types of detection techniques, usually various types of perception.

The Stalker's Eagle Eye and Elephant Trunk, the Evil Winder's Airflow Perception, the Earthwalker's Touch of the Ground, and more.

There are also some other professions that have unique means.

To be on the safe side, many teams have at least two or even three of the senses of sight, hearing, smell, and touch, and cross-detection is safer.

Ren Mian took out a transparent juice and distributed it to the team.

Ji Xinghuo learned that they applied the juice under their noses.

Suddenly, a pungent and strange aura rushed into his brain, as if it was pressed by some kind of plant.

After a few seconds, he noticed that his sense of smell had become acute.

Odors can be smelled from tens of meters away, and the source of the smell can be roughly distinguished, whether the source is moving or not.

"In the past, we used to sense the location of our prey by the sap of this 'sniffing flyweed'." Ren Mian introduced, "This olfactory juice has to be replenished every three hours, and it doesn't smell good, but it can barely be used." ”

Chi Zhongliang said in a muffled voice: "I smell this smell." ”

Jiang Nan Caiyi also covered her nose and frowned slightly.

"It's up to you, Starfire." Ren Mian chuckled, "If your perception is strong enough, we don't need to apply such an unpleasant thing." ”

"We're counting on you!" Pond scales looked expectant.

Ji Xinghuo looked at his teammates, and suddenly said, "This sniffing fly grass juice is really not easy to use......

"What's wrong?" There is something strange about the scales in the pool.

Ren Mian's face changed.

Ji Xinghuo had already quickly taken off the compound hunting bow, pulled out a few arrows and pinched them in the palm of his hand, and one arrow had already been drawn on the bow and aimed in the direction above the left side.

"There's a monster coming."

"A lot."

"It's a big swarm of spiders, 25, 28, 35, and counting......"

When he quickly reported the number to remind his teammates, Chi Zhongliang had already untied his backpack and put it to the side, holding a spear in front of the team, and his body swelled into a combat state.

Jiang Nan Caiyi pulled out his double knives, and his figure became transparent, disappearing in an instant.

Ren Mian pressed her right hand lightly on her chest, and suddenly, her voice sounded in the minds of Ji Xinghuo and the three of them: "Xinghuo, don't make a sound, if there is any information to tell us directly through the thinking link." ”

"Okay."

Ji Xinghuo nodded, he quickly adapted to this kind of psychic communication, and said in his mind: "It should be a latent roaming spider." ”

He had seen the information of this spider monster before, and he quickly recognized it.

"Understood."

Ren Mian responded immediately, took out a sapling from his belt and threw it to his feet, the small sapling, which was originally only a finger long, grew to four or five meters tall in a few seconds, the trunk was as thick as a thigh, the whole body was silvery white, and hundreds of leaves burned like magnesium blocks, dispelling the darkness in the woods, as bright as day.

Ji Xinghuo was not distracted by this.

Through the bright white light of the "Fire Tree Silver Flower", he saw a huge spider exposed in his field of vision. It leaped out of the shadow behind one large tree and leaped silently towards another.

Sou!

Ji Xinghuo's arrow shot out.