Chapter 188: Into the Mountain "Damn it" Muttering a curse, Sharpa barely pulled his left foot back.
In this damn mountain forest, everywhere you go, the ground is covered with a thick layer of fallen leaves, these leaves are covered layer by layer for many years, except for the top layer, the bottom has already rotted, if you step on it, the rotten leaves under your feet and the mud below have already mixed together, trampling on it will feel a disgusting feeling of sparse and soft feeling, often a foot into it, the rotten mud can not reach the ankles.
Sharpa struggled to pull out his legs, not bothering to wipe the mud off his boots, but just glanced up.
Not far in front of him, Char looked calm, stepping on the sparse ground, but his steps were much lighter.
If you haven't really walked into this kind of deep mountain and old forest world, you will never be able to imagine what kind of place this is here, so the first thing you have to do well is to say goodbye to the civilized world outside Walking in the forest, looking up, the tall canopy, like a densely connected umbrella, blocked the sky tightly, even if it was a sunny day, but in the dense branches and leaves, it could only barely reveal a little light.
The silence in the forest was a little frightening, except for a few bird chirps, but other than that, it seemed like a silent world.
The air was uncomfortably humid, and after walking for a while, my chest felt a little stuffy, and I was covered in sticky sweat, as if it had been contaminated with my skin, and I couldn't wipe off the sticky and wet feeling.
The air is filled with the unpleasant smell of rotten leaves, even if there is a wet cloth on the mouth and nose, it can't be stopped, and the thick smell of decay seems to be able to penetrate your mouth and nose desperately through the wet cloth, and then penetrate into your body, corroding your body little by little Yes, this is this vast mountain forest.
It is like an ancient giant, seemingly mighty and silent, not inconspicuous, but as long as you take the first step into this world, then, this mountain and forest, all the time, with everything, declare its "existence" to you.
Smells, humidity, sights, hearings, touches all come in a constant reminder that you are in a world of isolation.
It's not that Sharpa hasn't entered the mountains, but in the first two days of walking into this mountain forest, he doesn't seem to have too many special feelings, he is still the same as before, collecting firewood and making a fire when he rests, carefully maintaining the fire, and when he moves forward, he takes an axe to chop the way to the back, not only Sharpa, all the humans in the team, except for the turtle, everyone feels as if they are lost in this mountain, to be precise, as if they have been swallowed by this mountain forest.
The surrounding plants are becoming more and more unfamiliar, and most of the flowers and plants are like they have never seen before: those flowers that are bright and beautiful and people can't help but touch them, and the shrubs that are connected together, and the branches are covered with sharp thorns: the spikes on those shrubs are extremely hard, and if you dare to run hard, you are guaranteed to pull a large piece of flesh from you in three or four steps at most For the mercenaries, this is obviously a completely strange world.
Along the way, the Zakutus gazed at the apparently lame group of human mercenaries with almost gloating eyes, as if waiting for them to suffer: and in fact, they did suffer a lot.
The insects in the forest are many times larger than the ones commonly seen outside, and the mosquitoes at night are really scary, and the mosquitoes fly and hover, just like a group of hummingbirds, their long beaks are sharp, and they look very scary, and when they see such a big mosquito at first sight, the mercenaries even suspect that if they are bitten by this kind of thing, they can suck one of their arms into jerky.
In fact, this speculation was wrong, and it was soon confirmed: a mercenary rolled out of a thick leather sleeping bag at night, only to be bitten by a mosquito in a scream that almost broke his throat, one arm was swollen like a pig's trotter, and every finger became like a turnip.
The danger is not only in these nasty mosquitoes: in this mountain forest, there are almost everywhere things that can kill people: the trunk next to it is full of some green old vines, tactfully entangled, layer by layer, but occasionally when people walk by, hidden in the vines, maybe there will suddenly be a green snake everywhere This snake is not large, only about the thickness of an egg, but the strength is not small, there is a mercenary accidentally entangled in the snake, the snake body is tightly strangled, Shengsheng strangled a piece of cowhide armor and deformed it, if it wasn't for Char's immediate rescue, I am afraid that the mercenary's bones would have been broken.
Compared to those clumsy mercenaries, Char behaved more like natives than those Zaku natives when walking in this forest.
A huge sturdy body, walking in the forest, his steps were as light as a raccoon, and he carried an axe to undertake the task of opening the way.
Walking at the front of the mercenary team, occasionally bending down at will, you can catch a snake from the bushes, those snakes naturally have the color of the skin of cover, mixed with the bushes, when they don't move, they are like a branch and vine, they can't see it at all, and they don't know why the eyes of this turtle are so poisonous, catch it casually, and catch one lurking in the dark lightly and skillfully, and then pinch the snake's tail and shake it, the movement is neat, and the snake bone is shaken away, two fingers are stretched out, and the nails are scratched on the snake's belly, and the flesh is cut, two fingers lightly pulled out a snake gall from it, opened its mouth and swallowed it bloodily, and then babbled, as if enjoying the taste.
The taste of swallowing snake gall is something that other mercenaries have tasted, in the past few days, Char has caught snakes all the way, and almost every mercenary has eaten a snake gall, the taste is like a nightmare, the bitter taste seems to stick to the tongue, and it can't be eliminated for a few days, but the miraculous thing is that since swallowing snake gall bladder, when I sleep at night, the mosquitoes around me rarely come to bite.
Walking deep in the forest, Char also ordered that everyone should not be allowed to renew the fire, and only ate some cold and hard dry food every day, but he didn't know which bush he pulled out a bunch of strangely shaped plants with fat leaves, squeezed and crushed them in his hands, and squeezed out a ball of green juice, the taste was pungent and several times stronger than onions, Char ordered each mercenary to apply these juices on the face, neck, arms, legs and feet: all the skin exposed on the outside of the clothes must be smeared.
As a result, each of the mercenaries had red eyes and tears on their faces due to the pungent smell.
It's uncomfortable, but since I applied these strange juices, let alone mosquitoes, I haven't even been attacked by snakes.
Just last night, Char stopped a human mercenary who had gone in the wrong direction, and the fellow, probably greedy for the flatness of the terrain, ran more than ten steps to the side of the direction: there was a flat and hard-looking land.
As a result, Char immediately jumped over and pulled the man back.
Then Char blackened his face, in front of everyone, snatched the mercenary's sword and threw it far away to the dry land, which was covered with some small lumps that didn't look deep and strange, but as a result, after Char threw the long sword and smashed a lump, in the exclamations of the surrounding mercenaries, a large swarm of ants suddenly poured out of the lump like a tide, and those ants were red, crawling on the sword, but it was just a moment's effort, the sword that was originally quite sharp, the blade of the sword was corroded to rust, It is also full of mutilated gaps "If you had accidentally walked there just now, you would have been corroded into a skeleton by those ants."
Char coldly warned the mercenary: "If you don't want to die, just do as I say, don't disobey at all, remember, everything here is far more dangerous than what you see." ” This warning had an immediate effect, and the mercenaries were shocked and became much more honest, and almost all walked behind Char, eager to step on the footprints left by Char at every step, most obviously Todora, who almost followed Char's back all the way.
All of Char's actions, those Zaku natives saw in their eyes, and gradually, in the eyes of these natives, the previous schadenfreude waiting to see the lively spirit disappeared little by little, and gradually occasionally swept into Char's eyes, and there was some recognition.
This human leader, I heard that he is still a great official in some army, but he is different from the human caravans that the natives have seen, this guy is like a human official, he is even better than the old hunters who have lived in the mountains and forests all their lives among the natives.
"You really don't look like a human being."
When the Zaku native named Azuo stopped to rest, Char sighed again: "Put on a beast skin coat for you, and put some oil paint on your face, and you will be a living Zaku." ” For this kind of words that seem to be approving words, Char just blackened his face and looked at this Ah Zuo coldly, the aura in his eyes made Ah Zuo can't help but feel numb, the kind of eyes that Char stared at himself made Ah Zuo think of the first time he hunted alone when he was young, and accidentally fell into the web of a highly poisonous giant tooth spider, when the behemoth spider slowly crawled towards him on the web, the look in his eyes was almost the same as that of this human named Char He still vividly remembered the fierce light of the poisonous object the size of a human being staring at him, and he struggled desperately at that time, and finally luckily broke through the solid cobweb, but the monster's huge fangs still pierced his body, leaving a scar on his stomach that has not disappeared to this day.
That time, I lay down for two months before recovering.
At this moment, this Char looked at him with an undisguised evil spirit.
Stared at by this sharp eye, Ah Zuo's words couldn't be spoken, and he seemed to have a feeling of being spied on.
"I'm not a fool."
Char suddenly said abruptly: "But I am willing to show the sincerity of cooperation, so I endured it until today." ” The turtle's eyes were fierce: "I know, just before we entered the mountain, you quietly sent two of your men to leave first and go back to your tribe to report the news, and in order to ensure that the news is delivered to your tribe first, so although we are in a hurry every day in the past few days, but in the direction of progress, you have played a little trick, I calculated it myself, we walked for four days, but at least one and a half of them were deliberately walking around the wrong road." ” Ah Zuo was speechless for a moment, and looked at Char with an embarrassed face.
Char suddenly sneered: "I'm not angry, after all, you have to be on guard, you have to despise the leader of the clan first, if you change me, you will also think of keeping a hand."
But two days.
Char raised two fingers: "I've endured it for two days, it's already my limit, if you still want to continue to take me around in circles, I tell you, there's no need."
Two days is enough time for the people you sent back to arrive early. ” Ah Zuo was still speechless.
"And since we are in a cooperative relationship now, then, as we go all the way, please you and your people, don't come to see me with the attitude of waiting to see our jokes."
Char grimaced and shook his head slowly: "I don't like to be looked at like this, and I don't like it very much, if you just sit back and wait to see my people are unlucky in this mountain forest, then I can tell you that I will immediately take my people back and our cooperation ends here."
If you're really sincere, then show it to me."
Char snorted and sneered: "Stop hiding your armpits" "What are you hiding," Ah Zuo forced a smile.
"You're taking me for a fool."
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Char shook his head: "From the red wilderness to your tribe, you have to walk through such a large wilderness, and through such a big hellish deep mountain and old forest, do you think I will believe that you natives themselves walk on their legs If you just walk on your legs, then it will take at least two months to walk back and forth, do you think I will believe that every time you go to the goblin tribe to trade, it will take you two months on the road, you must have some other way to make the journey faster, so, my warning is, I've reached the limit of my patience to this day, if you don't show a little sincerity."
Ah Zuo looked at Char for a while, and saw a resoluteness in Char's eyes, he finally sighed and nodded: "Okay, I promise." ” The indigenous people of Zaku were soon in action.
Ah Zuo said something to those natives, and each of these natives took off a small trumpet on their waists, and soon, dozens of trumpets sounded, and a sharp whistling sound suddenly spread out in the mountains and forests.
Almost an instant ago, there was a whistling response sound in the distance, listening to that sound, Char's heart moved, the howling sound was sharp and long, like some kind of animal in the woods, and soon there was a barking sound in the distance, everyone waited in place for a while, and a gray and black shadow ran out of the forest quickly, and when they ran closer, they saw that it was actually a group of wolves A group of giant wolves with gray fur and black fur, all of which were more than twice the size of ordinary wolves, and their drive was thick and strong, and they appeared to be very powerful.
These brutes were obviously tamed by the Zaku Tu, and when a group of wolves ran over, they made the mercenaries nervous for a while, but soon discovered the difference between the brutes, and these wolves ran over, and immediately rushed to the side of each Zaku Tu, shaking their heads and tails, looking very intimate.
"These are our mounts."
When Ah Zuo introduced, his tone was very proud: "These subordinates of mine are the outstanding wolf riders of the Zaku tribe."
Char looked at the giant wolves intently, and sure enough, he saw that the mane on the back of each wolf obviously had flattened marks, obviously left by being ridden for a long time.
But he looked up at this Ah Zuo, this Zaku native master did not have his wolf mount beside him: "What about you?"
"My mount is not a wolf."
Ah Zuo smiled mysteriously, and he blew his trumpet.
Soon, his mount was summoned, and in a moment the bushes in the woods shook, and to the exclamations of the mercenaries, a huge creeper larger than a lynx escaped This thing has a slender body, and when it crawls on the ground, its leather looks very hard, and on its stubby neck, there is a ball of air sacs that bulge high, and as it breathes, it keeps undulating.
This thing is a lizard A giant shrill lizard Char had heard of this kind of thing, this is a kind of magical beast, in addition to its relatively large body and amazing strength, it also has a skill of screaming, and the sharp whistling has a certain damage ability, which can cause the enemy to be stunned or confused.
The lizard pounced out, looking at the skin as hard as cowhide covered with, and there were many sharp spines protruding from it, but Ah Zuo was very relaxed, quickly touched the lizard's head, and turned over and sat down.
"In the woods, not counting the winged things, my mount is one of the fastest runners."
Ah Zuo said, pointing to the group of wolves, and some wolves that were not ridden by natives, and he didn't know how these Zaku natives had tamed this beast.
"Char, each of your people should pick a wolf to ride, although the first time you ride it will feel a little strange and a little bumpy, but believe me, it won't be much more difficult than learning to ride a horse."
As he spoke, Ah Zuo shouted, and slapped the screaming lizard under him, and the lizard suddenly jumped up, and its body quickly jumped to the branch of a tree, and then pounced forward, and landed a few meters away Okay, now let's rewind the conversation we had a few days ago on that dirt tower in the goblin tribe.
The shocking feeling that that conversation brought to Char did not fade until a few days later The snake girl said some unbelievable things to Char in that somewhat creepy "snake language", which Char really couldn't believe her ears when she heard it for the first time The conversation at the time went like this: "I don't understand what the hell you're asking me to do."
The snake girl's eyes were a little frightened and a little nervous, but in the end she still spoke up.
She naturally speaks snake language, it's not that she can't say anything else, she can also speak the words of the Zaku native, but it seems to be a snake language on purpose, probably to hide the content of the conversation from the natives named Azuo around her.
The snake girl's concealment also has a special reason I remember that at that time, in the face of Char's question, the snake girl's eyes were red, and then she whispered in a weak voice: "Please help us get rid of this scourge of our whole clan."
Scourge got rid of Char didn't understand it for a while, and misunderstood the meaning of this snake girl, but unfortunately his mastery of snake language could only listen to it and not speak, and he had doubts in his heart, so he couldn't help but look at Ah Zuo.
"No, it's not Ah Zuo, it's not him."
The snake girl's next sentence almost made Char petrified there on the spot The snake girl pointed to the giant yellow serpent Damandras beside her, "It is it, please help us to get rid of this scourge" Get rid of Damandras and get rid of their own holy serpent Char was really dumbfounded.
"You don't understand."
The snake girl's voice was a little anxious, and there was a desolate taste that was difficult to dissipate: "This big snake, although it is a sacred relic of our tribe, but in fact, it has always been a huge shackle that plagues our tribe, and almost all of them are slaves and slaves who serve it."
The little snake girl's expression was very miserable, but she didn't think she dared to be too excited and alerted the big snake beside her, but could only use a restrained and slow voice to tell Char slowly.
"You may not understand how these holy snakes bless our tribe" Immediately, the snake girl told Char several things.
First of all, Char knew how such a thing as Damandera appeared in the tribe of the Zaku natives.
It is said that a long, long time ago, I don't know how many years there were, in short, it was a certain era a long time ago, at that time, the Zaku tribe already existed, but there was no so-called tribal holy relic, holy snake and the like, but at that time, the place where the Zaku tribe lived, legend has it that in the south, there was a group of extremely powerful and terrifying monsters, and in order to resist the attack of those monsters, the Zaku people had suffered losses and suffering.
Later, I don't know when, a large snake of Damandras appeared in the territory of the Zakutu, this powerful snake quickly won the awe of the Zakutu, and finally this Damandras helped the Zakudras to resist the powerful monsters in the south of the tribe, and after completely driving those monsters away, Damandras became the patron saint of the Zakudras tribe.
But the excitement of that year soon turned into a nightmare for the Zaku people.
After driving away the monsters in the south, the Zaku tribe soon felt that this Damandera snake was more harmful to them than the monsters before them.
"I'm a snake girl selected to serve the Holy Serpent."
When the girl said this, her tone was miserable: "But do you know how a snake girl like me was selected?"
Char made a puzzled look.
"Every once in a while, a group of young girls would be selected from the tribe, ranging from a few dozen to a hundred at a time.
Then, these selected girls will all be brought to the Holy Snake, let the Holy Snake choose the right girl, but the selection process is a group of young girls, driven into the cave where the Holy Snake lives, the Holy Snake will communicate with us in a strange way, only qualified girls can hear the Holy Snake's spiritual communication with us, if you can't hear the Holy Snake's call in the heart, then even if you are eliminated from the young girl, will be eaten by the holy snake in the cave as all of them, but, you know that such a selection, dozens or hundreds of people at a time, the most poisonous can have three or four qualified, and sometimes there will even be dozens of people who are eaten collectively, and none of them are satisfied with the snake woman. ” Hearing this, Char's face couldn't help but be moved, and he heard Dora's cold voice in his mind: "Obviously, Damandhras is using this magic of psychic communication to select children with mental talents, and only girls with excellent mental talents can learn snake language through psychic communication.
As for picking out a batch every once in a while," Dora said this, thinking for a while, before suddenly shouting in Char's mind: "I understand that in these Zaku tribes, Damandras is a female snake, she must lay eggs every once in a while, and every time she lays eggs, she needs to select some snake girls to take care of the eggs she lays, and then slowly hatch into young snakes."
Sure enough, the snake girl's later words proved Dora's guess right.
"Every time the holy snake chooses the snake girl, it will need to lay eggs, and then it needs to enter a period of dormancy, during the dormant period, the snake girl is responsible for taking care of those snake eggs to ensure the hatching of the snake eggs, and become a small holy snake one by one, such as this one around me, which I take care of and hatch with my own hands."
"It's just that I don't know for what reason, every time the baby snake hatches, in the process of growing up, it can't become a powerful existence like the female snake in the end" The snake girl said this, and her body shook: "However, as our snake girl, the tragic fate has been doomed because we take care of these hatched snakes with our own hands, and they will eat us as soon as they become adults."
It seems that they use us as the best tonic. ” "It's a good tonic indeed."
Dora Shaya sighed in her mind: "These selected snake girls are all humans with strong mental power, and with Damandras's innate ability, they can be replenished by devouring these creatures with strong spiritual power."
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After a pause, Dora continued: "I probably understand that there is a real Damandras female snake in their tribe, and that is a real full-fledged Damandras, but every time Damandras lays eggs, it consumes a huge amount of mana, so if it needs to replenish its mana, it needs the magic flame grass produced here by the goblin tribe."
The snake girl's voice trembled with fear: "And the most terrifying thing is that the holy snake, every time it will bite all the little snakes it gives birth to when they become adults, it seems that they are not satisfied with the ability of these little snakes born, none of them can reach its level, so to speak, these little snakes that our snake girl is responsible for taking care of, each of them cannot have the wisdom of the holy snake, they are closer to ordinary snakes with no wisdom, but they are larger and stronger, and they also have some special skills, But there has never been a holy snake with real wisdom, so the holy snake can only lay eggs every once in a while, and select snake girls to help it hatch, and this monster, it has been entrenched in our tribe, enslaving us Zaku people, for it to drive, for it to eat, and to help it find those poisonous mushrooms, the food we have worked so hard to produce, all of which will be exchanged for these goblins for my people, generations, and I don't know how many girls like me, have been buried under the mouth of this monster, It's not the guardian of our Zaku clan at all, it's a demon that enslaves us and sucks our flesh and blood."
As she spoke, the snake girl wept and sobbed quietly, and the big snake next to her really didn't have any wisdom, but kept rolling around with her body irritably, and seemed to be very impatient with the voice of the snake girl who served her.
Char frowned and pointed at herself, her face full of doubt, meaning: Why did you ask me for help Then he pointed to that Ah Zuo, which means: There should be powerful warriors in your clan, such as this Ah Zuo, his strength is not weak, gather the warriors in your clan and kill the holy snake.
"It's no match for it."
The snake girl's pale face was full of fear, and her eyes dodged: "It's not that my ancestors didn't think of a way, but they angered the holy snake twice, and it ate a few warriors.
The Holy Serpent is so powerful that we are no match for it, and we have thought of other ways, but it is too powerful for us to know, and its only weakness is that it sleeps for a while after each egg.
But even when it is dormant, it is also extremely alert, as long as any of my people get close to its cave, it will wake up immediately, and the only one who can get close to the holy snake without being attacked by it is only us snake girls, but we snake women are too weak, even if we can get close to it while it is sleeping, there is no way to cause it the slightest damage.
And our Great Chief, although he has obtained the treasure given by the Holy Serpent, can not be attacked by them, but as long as he gets close to the Holy Serpent, no matter when, he will be found that as long as it is awake, we will never be able to fight, and the only way is to sneak attack. ” The snake girl looked at Char with anticipation, and her eyes showed a pleading look: "You actually know snake language, and what is even more rare is that you will be considered by the big snake to be the same kind Then I think, this may be an opportunity When the holy snake is sleeping, people like you are close to it, maybe it will not be noticed, then" "Understood."
Char smiled bitterly and sighed bitterly, thinking: This poor girl, thinking that I am a person who can avoid the other party's vigilance, so I want to ask me to help you, while the beast was sleeping, Ah Zuo, who sneaked up and assassinated the thing, obviously didn't understand what the two said, the communication between the two was basically the snake girl telling in snake language, and Char just used gestures to gesture and point, Ah Zuo didn't understand snake language at all, only saw Char gesturing and gesturing, and his face became more and more confused.
"Dear sir, I can't tell other clansmen about this matter, because the holy snake is very powerful, over the years, my clansmen have developed a deep-rooted fear and submission to it, and the previous few failed to challenge it have attracted a bloody revenge, and gradually now no one dares to resist anymore, so, I can't let the clansmen know about this matter, once they know, it may cause panic and infighting.
And the only one who wants to rid of this scourge is our Great Chief, so I beg you, my dear sir, to go to our tribe and meet our Chief face to face."
Char's brows tightened, and then he suddenly spoke: "Demon Kiss Taro." ” He spoke Byzantine and then looked at Azuo: "Translate it to her." ” Ah Zuo was confused, so he could only say it in Zaku language.
When the snake girl heard this, she immediately nodded: "If this is the reward you need, there is no problem at all, if you can help us, the whole clan of our Zaku tribe will repay you with the greatest gratitude."
Immediately, the snake woman added: "I know, you humans love gold, we have a lot of gold there, if the Great Chief will be willing to exchange all our gold for the freedom of our tribe" Gold "all" gold It was this last sentence that made Char's mind, which was still a little hesitant, immediately settled "Go and challenge a full-fledged Damandras" In her mind, Dora's tone was very annoyed: "You're committing suicide, stupid, I don't care about your life or death, but you haven't finished what you promised me, I need you to send me back to the dragon graveyard, you can't go to death now" Char snorted: "Please, I didn't go to slaughter you at the beginning, but it turned out to be man-made, if you don't try it, who said that there must be no chance" After a pause, the cunning surname of the turtle was exposed: "Besides, if it really doesn't work, Lao Tzu can't beat it, and he won't run away, even if he doesn't kill that damandras, he will always have to run this trip for the sake of the magic kiss taro." ” To be continued 〗Hanyu Pinyin "" is simple and easy to remember: