Chapter 136: Shuosen Island
Autumn rain doesn't come and go like summer thundershowers.
The rain in the sea area where Qianhe Island is located not only did not decrease the next day, but even had a tendency to expand faintly.
However, the rain obviously failed to extinguish the enthusiasm of the demon hunters, and the action of the demon hunting conference began as scheduled.
I have to admit that the government-led demon hunting conference is quite efficient in terms of preparation.
It was only last night that the number of participants and the small and medium-sized boats needed were counted, and the next morning all kinds of ships were already in place, in addition to the warships provided by the government, a considerable part of them obviously requisitioned all kinds of civilian ships on Qianhe Island, including the shipyard, in the name of the government, which can be seen from their hulls of different sizes and the flags that have not yet been taken off on them.
In any case, Lu Jing's fleet, which he thought would not set sail until noon the next day, unexpectedly set off for Shuosen Island two hours early.
The Tide Stream followed the rear of the fleet, keeping a certain distance while ensuring that it did not deviate from course.
There were no accidents along the way, and I bumped into a pirate ship from a distance halfway, but the other party turned around and left after discovering the size of the fleet here.
The destination is not far from Qianhe Island, and when the time comes to about one o'clock in the afternoon, Shuosen Island gradually reveals itself in the fleet's field of vision.
Lead-gray clouds spread all over the sky, and in the dim light of the sky, Shuosen Island lived up to its reputation.
Even with a distance of several kilometers and a cascading rain curtain, the lush dark green sea forest still catches everyone's eyes with an irresistible attitude.
Due to the growth of trees higher and higher in the core area, the entire island of Shuosen looked like a green castle in a way, and everyone knew what awaited them in the center of the fortress.
When a fleet of this size entered Shuosen Island, it was conceivable that some sea beasts would be scared away like the pirate ships they had encountered before, and at the same time, Lu Jing would almost certainly have more powerful sea beasts or fierce beasts living on Shuosen Island targeting them.
In their eyes, this fleet is probably similar to canned meat, as long as the lid is lifted, the minced meat in it is not what they want?
Such a good target to attract firepower, Lu Jing will not miss it.
"Xu Chu, ready to completely break away from the fleet, we landed on the island from the other direction. ”
Wearing the bamboo hat he bought last night, Lu Jing sat on the bow of the boat wearing a cangyue robe, the pseudo-strange level robe was naturally not affected by the rain, and it didn't even need Lu Jing to deliberately activate it, and when the surrounding wind and rain approached the cangyue robe, it would be blocked by the silver-gray light on the periphery.
"Fu Ju, the yacht and the motorcycle will be handed over to you, and the final inspection will be done, in addition, you will take the yacht with Gorman later, your iron sand puppet is too heavy, and it is not convenient to use it in Shuosen Island, Gorman can help you deal with some emergencies." ”
This arrangement was decided by Lu Jing after careful consideration, and the environment of Shuosen Island was destined to inevitably affect the battle in it.
As a gunsmith, Xu Ju must seize a suitable position at the first time of the war to output, and he must assign a motorcycle to him, and although Fu Ju has been exercising for a while, it is obviously impossible to expect her to go to melee combat, and the sand iron puppet and some recently made mechanical devices are where her combat power lies, so Lu Jing left her with the speedboat that can store items.
For the remaining two, Lu Jing's fighting style makes him have a better space to play than Gorman on Shuosen Island, and because of this, Gorman was left in the speedboat to act as a free man, ensuring that he could support the other three at any time.
"Hey, can you hear me?"
Putting down the binoculars, Lu Jing picked up the transsonic conch instead, and tried to contact Tang Tuan, this is his real name, but Lu Jing used Taiyi Zhenren to deceive him before, so he temporarily used his own name to give him the title of "sweet and sour real person".
"Is it Taiyi Zhenren, why didn't I find you in the fleet?"
"Lu Jing, it's okay if you call me Lu Jing...... We're sheltering from the rain in the cabin at the back, how are you doing there, and when are you going to enter Shuosen Island?"
Pressing the glass that poked his head out of his arms under the cangyue robe, Lu Jing asked.
"They weren't going to stop, they were going to rush in...... The three official ships at the front gave way to the position, as if to let us go first. ”
"Your position is ahead of us, if you encounter any unexpected situation later, remember to tell us. ”
Lu Jing finally confessed and hung up the conch.
"Sure enough, they plan to use bounty hunters as cannon fodder. ”
Gorman, who was standing on the side, also heard the voice coming from the conch of sound transmission and couldn't help but say.
"Who can stop you from what you want me to do?"
Holding the side of the ship with one hand and falling back to the deck, Lu Jing raised his hand to press down the bamboo hat and walked to the cabin.
"Let's go, it's time to get to work!"
......
Duh~
The pink tongue pierced through the rain curtain, sticking to a flying insect the size of a palm, dragging it back into its mouthparts that were wide open between the branches.
The nearly a meter-long, angular chameleon slowly walked along the trunk of the tree, its two huge eyeballs turning constantly, searching for everything around it that might be its food, and finally turned to the three things that had just passed under the roots of a tree that was lying across the water, making strange noises.
The chameleon gave up the prey after a short thought, and the skin gradually changed color, ready to go to the next feeding ground.
Phew!
With a sharp hiss, two sharp claws pierced the chameleon's chest, abdomen and head, and the sea eagle, whose wingspan was more than five meters, lowered its head and began to feast on its prey.
"It's not a transcendent creature, it's the same as the one we encountered before, it's just a relatively large bird of prey. ”
Xu Chu put down the wheel of life and shook his head again.
"What's the situation with this island, where the trees are exaggerated and the animals are swelling?"
Restarting the motorcycle, Lu Jing, who was carrying the purple thorn on his back, retracted his gaze and muttered.
It has been nearly half an hour since he left the Tide Stream and entered Shuosen Island, and Lu Jing found that most of the creatures on this island have undergone certain mutations, palm-sized insects can be seen everywhere, and not long ago he even saw a mantis with the thickness of an arm......
"There is a special energy at the bottom of the ocean in this area, most likely the graveyard of one or more giant sea beasts, and the energy that overflows from the death of these extraordinary creatures is absorbed by the trees and then transferred through the food chain to most of the organisms living on the island...... I've seen similar descriptions in books, giant sea beasts in the depths of the infinite sea can easily change the ecology of a certain area, just like the guy we saw before who can summon a blizzard, it is said that in the kingdom of Drumba there are even islands built on the backs of giant sea beasts, through the domestication and control of sea beasts, to achieve the migration of the entire island. ”
There are so many strange islands in the Infinite Sea, and it is not surprising that such an island as Shuosen Island is just "expanded".
"There's no way to find it this way, the environment on Shuosen Island is too complicated, we can't stop and observe every time we see something, it's too much time to do so. ”
Fu Ju, who was sitting in the speedboat, said while debugging the machine.
In the absence of an exact location, Lu Jing's plan was to capture alive a transcendent creature on Shuosen Island to perform a magic spell, and then use it to determine the approximate location of the Mori Python.
Therefore, from the very beginning of entering Shuosen Island, Lu Jing and his party paid attention to the creatures around them while moving closer to the core area, but the reality was not satisfactory.
"I agree with Fu Ju, not only do we have to capture the transcendent creatures alive, but we also have to use psychic techniques to obtain information, and this is based on the premise that it knows the information, we don't have that much time to go around here, Captain, I propose to use the backup method I said last night. ”
Xu Chu turned sideways and took out a glass bottle from the satchel on his waist, which contained half a bottle of blood, which he had prepared earlier.
Don't forget, Xu Chu's blood has a strong attraction to transcendent beings!
Using blood as bait to attract transcendent creatures to come, this is the backup method that Xu Chu said, Lu Jing originally disagreed, because no one knew if there would be other terrifying creatures lurking in this Shuosen Island in addition to the forest worms, in case of attracting a powerful transcendent creature, it would undoubtedly be asking for trouble for himself.
It's just that the situation doesn't care so much now.
"Give me the bottle, and you guys will find a tree root to land on first, and then you can solve it quickly. ”
Since the normal method was difficult to achieve, Lu Jing had to take some risks, reached out and took the blood vial from Xu Qi, looked left and right, and jumped directly onto the nearest tree root.
Although there is no land on Shuosen Island, the exposed roots of these towering trees on the sea surface are very wide, and it is not a problem for a few people to stand on them.
Of course, Lu Jing didn't plan to directly sprinkle the blood vial into the sea, after all, the forest snake he was looking for should be active in the middle and upper forests of Shuosen Island most of the time.
"Captain, do you need to lock it with my hook?"
Glancing at the mossy trunk, Fu Ju said as he removed the mechanism from his waist, a modified version of the one used on Sand Blowing Island, designed for climbing.
"No, it's just the opportunity to try out my new abilities. ”
Squinting at the situation above his head, Lu Jing's palm condensed a new core card, Radiance Hunter.
As several rays of light merged into his body, the feeling of being at home on the surface of the sea gradually faded, and was replaced by a strange colored light that suddenly rose in Lu Jing's eyes.
His backhand pressed on the trunk of the tree beside him, and in the next second, several black lines outlined a compound eye between the wrinkled bark.
The next second.
More than a dozen vines grew wildly from the cracked ravine of the bark!
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