Chapter 374: Uncanny Valley
Seeing that everyone had no objections, Captain Nick finally said: "From now on, we all have to cheer up and must not make any mistakes." Now, I would like to assign specific tasks and hope that everyone will be united. ”
According to the assignment of captain Nick, two melee cultivators took the position of striker, and these two people, one named Bennett and the other named Carl, were both tall and sturdy men.
Tang Chengxuan and Goodwell were placed in the position of guards, because Goodwell was a support-type cultivator and his combat ability was not very strong. As for Tang Chengxuan, when he first arrived, Nick and the others didn't know much about him. Although he was allowed to join the team, he was still in the stage of observation and testing, so he naturally would not be entrusted with a heavy task.
Of the remaining four people, Nick himself was a mage, and another man named Leonard, who was a swordsman. The two ladies, one named Esther, was also a mage, and the other, Merry, was a healer. The four of them, in the middle of the line, were responsible for the front and rear reception.
In this way, everyone is responsible for their own responsibilities, which can effectively increase the ability to adapt to changes, and when encountering problems, they will not rush to the top. Of course, a tacit cooperation of the expedition team is not formed overnight. The team members need long-term cooperation, and the most important point is to trust each other and be able to hand over their backs to their partners with confidence.
After picking up the two survivors aboard, Captain Jack continued on his way to his destination. Although the barge was not fast, and it was swimming against the current, it was still at the location indicated on the map before noon.
After a simple lunch, eight members of the expedition disembarked from the ship. Step into the unknown. As for Captain Jack and his assistants, as well as the two survivors, they all remained on board. Wait where you are.
This is also the condition agreed between Nick and Captain Jack before departure. Captain Jack was only responsible for taking them there. and waited in place for three days, and did not participate in any of the expedition's affairs. As long as the time comes, whether the expedition returns or not, he will return the same way.
Both sides are relatively satisfied with such conditions. As an ordinary person, Captain Jack is well aware of the dangers of the primeval jungle, and without enough benefits, he will never joke with his own life. As for the expedition members. I didn't want to bring a few oil bottles, so as not to get in the way, but also to protect their safety, and the two sides could be said to hit it off.
As soon as they entered the jungle and avoided the sight of everyone on board, the expedition members put their bags in the way into their storage equipment. And they took out their weapons one after another, some with greatswords, some with staffs. The most interesting thing is. Everyone had a few thermal weapons, such as pistols, automatic rifles, etc., which can be described as fully armed.
Everybody has storage gear anyway. You can carry a lot of supplies. In general, thermal weapons can also play a great role, the key is not to waste their true qi, to maintain the best condition, to deal with many crises.
In the process of wild exploration, all kinds of dangers can occur at any time, and if you are not careful, you will die. Although all of them are amazingly powerful. But the number of cultivators who die every year in various expeditionary missions is a very large number. It is the so-called risk and harvest preservation.
Seeing that everyone is like this, Tang Chengxuan naturally cannot be an exception. He did the same. He is now disguised as a Western swordsman, and he has also taken out a Western greatsword from the Star World as his main weapon. Some time ago, in the Somanian country of Africa, several other explorers were captured. In the warehouses of the Star World, there are several similar weapons.
Although Western swordsmen and cultivators of the Huaxia Kingdom both use swords as weapons, the difference between the two sides is still very huge, and they belong to two completely different cultivation systems. Fortunately, during the last adventure, Tang Chengxuan's *True Qi devoured some Western Sword Qi.
After returning to the Star World, Tang Chengxuan told the universal butler about this matter, mainly worried about what would go wrong. After the almighty housekeeper found out, he carefully examined Tang Chengxuan, but he didn't feel strange and told him that there was no problem.
It turned out that in the original world of the universal butler, there were also such monks who specialized in sword qi. Among the many cheats in the world of stars, there are still some preserved in this regard. After knowing these things, Tang Chengxuan asked the universal butler to find a secret book that was most suitable for him, called Meteor Sword Qi.
This Meteor Sword Qi is also a very advanced cultivation technique, and the most important point is that its inheritance is very complete. From the beginning of the Qi refining period to the Golden Immortal Period, nothing was missed.
What Tang Chengxuan was most interested in was that this kind of meteor sword qi could not only be emitted from the weapon. When you practice to a certain stage, you can even send it directly from the meridians, without the help of any weapons and equipment.
Such a feature reminded Tang Chengxuan of a novel he had read before. There was an invisible sword qi in it, called the Six Veins Divine Sword, which seemed to be somewhat similar to this sword qi. It's just that the power of the Meteor Sword Qi is even more amazing, and when practiced to the extreme, a single sword can split the entire planet in half. Of course, this requires the user himself to have an extremely advanced cultivation realm.
After that, Tang Chengxuan took a little time out of his cultivation and cultivated this meteor sword qi casually. At that time, he was just out of curiosity, because the power of this Meteor Sword Qi was very huge, and it might play an unexpected role on some special occasions. I didn't expect it to be taken out so quickly and pretend to be a Western swordsman.
In addition to this giant sword, Tang Chengxuan also took out several gunpowder weapons from the warehouse of the Star World. He took two pistols himself, an automatic rifle, and gave the rest to Goodwell. As for bullets or something, there is also a large amount of inventory in the warehouse of the Star World, so there is no need to worry about running out of them.
The members of these expeditions, armed to the teeth, were led by Bennett and Carl in a prearranged order. Among them, Bennett is a swordsman who wields a Western greatsword. But that Carl is very special. It turns out that he is a power-type mutant with a weapon of a giant axe.
At this moment, both of them were armed with machetes and took turns to clear the way in front. In the primeval jungle, there are hardly any roads to speak of, and there are dense plants everywhere, which makes it particularly difficult to walk. The two of them cut a path in front of them, so that the partners behind could easily pass through.
Because there are several mages behind, although they are masters of the foundation building period, their attack power is very amazing. However, compared to the swordsmen, there are some problems in the physical strength of the mages, who are usually relatively fragile, and they must be allowed to maintain sufficient physical strength.
If you underestimate these mages because of this, you would be very wrong. Mages are the main force of the attack, will use a variety of spells, and play an irreplaceable role in battle.
Following the road that everyone had walked in front, Tang Chengxuan walked at the back of the line. A team of eight people in total, in the reckless jungle, stretched out a length of dozens of meters. There is a distance of a few meters between everyone and their partners in front of them, so they can help each other without affecting each other.
As time passed, they descended deeper into the jungle. According to the map provided by the lucky man, the place where he found the drug was dozens of miles away from the riverbank. Although all the members of the expedition team have the ability to fly in the sky, under such complex and changeable terrain, it is difficult to find the marks made by that person on the ground when flying in the air.
The lucky guy who got that drug was a very smart person. He was also a fellow on a boat, following the shipowner and living in the area. During one of their voyages, their ship ran into trouble and dropped anchor nearby. There is no village in front of the village, there is no store in the back, and if there are no customers to hire, few people will come to this place.
In desperation, they disembarked and walked, wanting to return to the inhabited place. As a result, it can be imagined that as a group of ordinary people, it is very dangerous in this primeval jungle. Their fate was almost identical to that of the two survivors encountered by the expedition.
When I got off the boat, there were seven people in total, including the guests. In less than a night, for various reasons, only three people survived. The rest of the people were either eaten as snacks by the beasts or poisoned by all kinds of poisonous substances.
In a panic, they panicked and lost their way. Originally, they walked along the riverbank, after all, the proximity to the water source was very convenient for supplies, and if they were lucky, they could soon meet other boats. But they are convenient, and so are the beasts, and the places near the water source are usually the places where the beasts hunt.
While escaping from the beast, they ran into a ravine. It is very peculiar and has all kinds of strange plants, which are very different from the plants in the nearby jungle. They are all natives of Borneo, born and raised in this land, and they have never seen these strange plants.
It would be a mistake to think that the plant was not in danger, and shortly after entering, one of his companions became entangled in a vine. At first, they tried to save him, but soon the companion began to scream loudly, apparently in great pain. The remaining two people were so frightened that they had to stand far away, not daring to come closer.
Soon after, the cries of the companion gradually faded. What makes people feel extremely terrifying is that the flesh and blood on his body are disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye, but in a short time, he has become a skeleton frame, and he can't die anymore. (To be continued)