Chapter 14: The Bird's Nest

In the thick forest, Ah Fu placed his palm on the head of the dung beetle, and thin threads continued to gush out, gradually spreading from the skull through the veins to the hundreds of corpses around the body, and finally into the heart.

It didn't take three hours, just an hour and a half passed, Ah Fu completed the puppetization of the whole dung beetle, and after he withdrew his palm, a vivid dung beetle puppet had appeared in front of the two, and the puppet was still slowly shrinking, until it became the size of a palm, and then stopped changing.

Picking up the small puppet below, Ah Fu threw it at will, the puppet fell to the ground and quickly activated and enlarged, and the giant dung beetle giant insect reappeared, but the temperament was completely different from a few hours ago, and the eyes that looked at Xu Yue and Ah Fu were full of fanaticism.

Once successfully puppeted, the creature's body and mind will be completely manipulated by Ah Fu, which is a rather terrifying ability.

Last night, when Ah Fu was puppeting a squirrel, Xu Yue was busy cooking food on the side, so he didn't pay too much attention, but now he carefully witnessed the whole process, especially after seeing the huge difference between the dung beetles before and after the puppeting, he looked at Ah Fu with a little more strange in his eyes.

"Ah Fu, is there a limit to the number of puppets?"

Hearing this, Ah Fu closed his eyes and sensed the spiritual connection between himself and the three puppets, and replied with some uncertainty:

"There's no limit, the creature won't load my mind after being puppeted, and it seems to make it more active?"

Ah Fu has not been born for a long time, and the puppetization is only the third time, so I don't know too much about the various mysteries.

"It's just that puppetization consumes a lot of mana, and now my mana has basically bottomed out, and if you want to puppetize creatures of this attribute again, it will take at least one day to recover your mana."

After hearing Ah Fu's first half of the words, Xu Yue had already imagined the image of the puppet army pushing the mysterious island in his mind, but soon the second sentence pulled him back to reality.

Well, Ah Fu's abilities have not been exaggerated to the extent that he can make his subordinates in batches like the undead, and the dream of a puppet army is in vain, but it is still necessary to capture a few good puppet helpers.

Looking at Ah Fu who was testing the dung beetle's abilities in front of him, Xu Yue's mind began to appear uncontrollably that Queen Nitya, who commanded thousands of puppet armies to attack the city, seemed to see the figure of the other party in Ah Fu's body.

"Let's go, it's time to leave, we'll find the right food and water sources first, and then we'll hunt down tough enough puppeteers for you."

"Yes, sir."

Ah Fu answered, and summoned the dung beetle that was demonstrating its ability to dig into the ground, and after transforming it into a small puppet form, he wrapped the puppet with leaves to isolate the faint stench that lingered, and then stepped on the back of the squirrel waiting on the neck.

After giving the squirrel an order to find the nearest water source, the two and the rat returned to the top of the woods, and leaped in the direction of the squirrel's guidance.

The upper layers of the forest are significantly safer and faster than the treacherous ground, so they naturally choose the safest and fastest path, so why should they seek water in the first place?

On the one hand, in order to clean the dung beetles that had just been subdued, and on the other hand, in order to find out the reason for the deliberate indication of 'staying away from the sea and rivers' in the survival mission, in order to survive on this island for ten days, he must find out the corresponding information on the island, especially the specific information of the major danger sources.

He had seen the endless flock of starlings in the sky, but he had not yet understood the dangers of the sea and the river, and the trial of survival could not be survived by hiding, and with the nature of paradise, the contractor with this fear and negative attitude would definitely die a miserable death in the last few days of the trial.

Paradise never needs cowards who are lucky, this truth Xu Yue has deeply experienced as early as the trial mission, and most of the civilizations live with water, since there is a temple in the central area of the mysterious island, there must be civilization, and he needs the information in the hands of these local civilizations.

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Time flies by as he travels, and along the way, he gets to know the biodiversity of this mysterious island, especially the variety of birds.

Swifts, magpies, turtledoves,, jays, thrushes......

Those who can recognize the shape and the names that cannot be named, various styles of birds emerge in an endless stream, soaring between the sky and the forest, and under the effect of the mysterious factor, these birds that should be petite and cute have now become extremely large.

Birds with a wingspan of four or five meters abound, and he even saw a black raven with a wingspan of more than twenty meters passing over the top of the dense forest, casting a large shadow that made all the creatures below fall into a deathly silence, Xu Yue also honestly restrained his whole body breath, and hid in the green leaves of the canopy with the squirrels accompanying him, waiting for the sky overlord to leave.

Ravens have a short temperament and high intelligence, and have many nicknames such as 'Bandit Leader among Birds', 'Wise Man among Birds', 'Bird Killer', etc., even if it is a raven in a normal state, it has the combat power to compete with birds of prey such as eagles.

What's more, the current state of being magnified by more than ten times in size, the increase in combat power brought by it is even more terrifying, at least Xu Yue feels a strong threat on it.

Looking up at the giant wings glowing with blue-purple luster in the sky, although his mind was full of strong desire to hunt, Xu Yue still did not act rashly after all, the first task now was not hunting, and if he remembered correctly, the raven should be a social animal, and he could not attack blindly, he still had a long stay on this island.

After the ravens in the sky were completely away, the two of them walked out of their hiding places and continued to march.

A few minutes later, the squirrel leading the way suddenly stopped, its furry head raised, its nose began to flutter incessantly, and its slender whiskers trembled slightly.

After sniffing for a few breaths, the squirrel lifted its forelimbs, pointed to a large tree with leafy foliage to the southeast, and squeaked softly.

Behind, looking at the strange movements of the squirrel, Xu Yue, who also stopped, asked Ah Fu, he couldn't understand the squeaky rat language of the squirrel.

"Ah Fu, what's wrong?"

Although Ah Fu has not studied the beast language, he has a certain spiritual connection with the puppeteerized creatures, through which he can roughly perceive the emotions and will of the other party, and combined with the squirrel's movements, he can still roughly judge the meaning that the squirrel wants to express.

"Sir, the squirrel said it smelled a strong aroma of food in the canopy of that big tree."

"Food?"

The squirrel's sense of smell is more than 50 times that of humans, and it can smell the aroma of food at such a distance, Xu Yue is not surprised, but the tall tree in the distance obviously does not produce fruit, if the food is hidden in the canopy, then there are only two possibilities.

One is that there is a bird's nest inside, and the squirrel smells the smell of birds' eggs, and the second is that there are trialists like him hidden inside.

But no matter which of the above possibilities is worth exploring for Xu Yue, he needs food, and he also needs the materials on the trialist's body.

"Let's go, let's take a look."

With Xu Yue's approval, Ah Fu gently patted the head of the squirrel under him, and the squirrel, who had long been impatient, quickly jumped out, followed by Xu Yue.

Although the speed of the rat and the man were extremely fast, the range of movement was extremely slight, and the leap did not even cause the branches and leaves under their feet to tremble, and after a while, they all reached the trunk of the tree where the target was.

In order to prevent disturbing possible targets, they did not choose to invade directly into the trunk, but climbed up through the thick trunk and approached in stealth.

Following the footsteps of the squirrel, through the layers of wide leaves, the two of them quietly sneaked into the inside of the canopy after a while, and their eyes moved up, only to see a giant bird's nest with a height of about two meters at the height of the canopy suddenly appeared in front of Xu Yue's eyes.

(End of chapter)