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157. A swamp in the rainforest


It took us three days and nearly 100 kilometers through the rainforest.Finally, at dusk on the third day, I stepped into the swamp area, and the rainforest was full of dense mangroves and large banyan trees with close roots, and the swamp ran through it, and under many of the dead leaves was some bottomless quagmire that could swallow the whole giant elephant, and in this swampy woodland, if you accidentally stepped on it, the whole leg would be completely sunk in.In the quagmire full of foul smell, there is a poisonous scorpion with a giant turtle, and the black tail needle is highly poisonous, even if Luka, a minotaur with a strong physique, has a whole leg that is almost as swollen as an elephant's leg, if it weren't for Senior Sister Erica to configure the antidote in advance, I'm afraid that Ruka would be forced to return to Xinliu Valley because of his temporary mobility.The magic of this swampy area between the woodlands of the water walking has definitely helped me solve the biggest problem that the environment has brought us, and every member of the team has blessed the magic of water walking.So this muddy swamp is like solid land for us, and we can walk freely.This general-purpose magic, inherited from the orc tribe, is very magical to the guide of the team, Miss Amy.As it turned out, the young guide, Miss Amy, was far less experienced in the jungle than she said she was.She didn't even know that swamp crocodiles and forest bugs often lurked in the swamps, sinking between the rotten leaves of the swamps, and when things passed through the swamp with difficulty, the swamp crocodiles would flick their huge tails and gallop through the swamps, almost frantically catching up with them, and forcibly dragging them into the mud, which often suffocated to death when the swamp crocodiles fought, and of course some were directly bitten to death by the swamp crocodiles.Amy squatted under the tree, staring at a swamp giant crocodile more than eight meters long hanging on the big banyan tree opposite, its head was completely pierced by a black iron spear, nailed to the main trunk of the big banyan tree, the huge tail hung down into the muddy water, at this time it was still twitching, blood continued to flow down the banyan tree, dyeing the muddy water under the banyan tree purple.Justes clutched a skinning knife and expertly began to peel the head of the swamp crocodile, as if he had taken off a coat from the swamp crocodile, and the mottled and cracked crocodile skin was peeled off and tied up in a bloody ball, and Justes threw the leather at my feet with some disgust.I put this uncooked crocodile skin into a magic box, this is the twelfth crocodile skin I have hunted today.The woodland was a mess, littered with broken branches, and a huge crater appeared in the middle of the muddy water in the swamp, as if it had been blown over by a firescale bomb.The battle was not fierce, mainly because it failed to kill the giant crocodile directly, and when it was dying and struggling, it turned the swamp upside down, and finally it was Luka the Minotaur who pierced the skull of the giant crocodile with a black iron spear to kill it completely.In the stinking environment, everyone was really in no mood to eat roasted crocodile meat, and after priing open the crocodile's skull and removing the magic core hidden in the skull, this skinned swamp crocodile was abandoned by us in the woodland."

What's the matter, why are you looking at me like that?

First time venturing into the jungle with a group?

”I closed the lid of the box, sat on it, and asked the girl Amy with a smile.Amy shook her head vigorously and said to me seriously: "I used to follow a very famous adventure group in Strange Rock City to hunt in this jungle swamp, they didn't dare to step into this swamp easily, when they killed the swamp giant crocodile, they all asked a skilled ranger to lure the crocodile to the land, this kind of big guy is very fierce in the swamp, but running to the land is not so scary, but now I never knew that killing a swamp giant crocodile would be so simple, is this the power of magic?"

”"It's not the power of magic, or you can think of it as a team, everyone will do their job, everyone will work together perfectly, even without the help of magic, it won't be too difficult to kill this swamp crocodile."

I explained to the teenage girl, Amy.After a short rest, in the evening, when the temperature in the jungle cooled a little, we set off again.Although the marks left by the orcs were constantly found along the way, they did not even touch their tails.Across the narrow swamp in the shape of pea sprouts in the rainforest, as Amy said, there was a large banyan forest in front of us, and countless roots hung down from the canopy and dug deep into the silt, and if we wanted to pass through this banyan forest, we had to cut off these resilient roots and make a passage in the forest.Amy took a detour outside the Banyan Grove and pointed to an area with the most dense roots, and said to me, "Nathaniel hid him in the innermost part. ”The three Hierro natives cut off the roots of the banyan tree hanging down in front of them one by one, Amy walked in the front and led us into the depths of this banyan forest, she climbed a big banyan tree with her dexterity, I wanted to look back at our joke, but I didn't expect that the three Hiero natives actually used the roots of these banyan trees to weave a soft ladder, and Ying Li and I climbed up from under the tree without much effort.Surrounded by a swamp, this huge banyan tree, which covers an area of nearly one square kilometer, is a very secret place in this jungle, and on the top of this banyan tree is a very simple wooden house, which I think has no other function than to shelter from the rain, with two pieces of dried meat hanging from the walls, and a small bag of rice, a clay pot full of water, and a bed made of thin planks.However, there are only a few bird paw prints on the outside of this wooden house, and no one has been here in recent times.Standing in front of the wooden house, the girl Amy was in a depressed mood, and looked blankly at the furnishings of the house, she stayed in the house for a while, and then collected her mood, came out of the wooden house, and covered the bark door of the wooden house."

They're not here!"

Amy was in a low mood and lowered her head and whispered."

Then go to the next place to look for it, this is only one place, and it is normal to have no harvest."

I walked over and patted Amy on the shoulder, encouraging her, "But then again, Nathaniel is looking for a really good place, and I have a feeling that we're in the right direction." ”"I hope so."

After Amy finished speaking, she climbed down the big banyan tree.The Minotaur and Justus waited under the banyan tree, and for the Kraken Descendants and the Minotaur, neither of them liked to climb the tree very much, and when they saw us coming down from the tree empty-handed, they knew the result without asking.So the minotaur once again hung the Angus Yutath brothers on the black iron spear, and very casually carried the two of them on their shoulders, Angus had white bone spurs stuck in each joint, although most of the wounds had healed, but the place where the bone spurs touched had begun to fester, and Angus was often in a coma along the way, and only when Su gave him healing prayers, he would wake up for a short time.If you want to treat it, you need to pull out the bone spurs, remove the rotten flesh from the wound, and then let Su perform healing prayers to heal the wound."

Wait a minute, what the hell are you trying to do?"

Yutasi, who was hanging from the end of the black iron spear, shouted hoarsely.His tendons and tendons were broken by Katarina, and his body was trapped into a rice dumpling with ropes, which might soon be completely destroyed.The Minotaur Ruka swung his fist and slammed it into Yutath's stomach, instantly swallowing all his words back into his stomach, and he hung on the black iron spear in a cold sweat, but he couldn't make any sound.I stopped, stared coldly at the youngest and most powerful slave master in Strange Rock City, and didn't speak for a long time.After a while, he raised his head with difficulty, spat out a mouthful of blood, and said to me in a trembling voice: "You kidnapped me and Angus, probably just to take us around in circles in the swamp and rainforest here!"

”Listening to his situation, he was still going around the bend when he spoke, and I waved my hand at Ruka, motioning for him to continue walking.Seeing that I was about to cross Ruka and walk to the front of the group, Yutath finally couldn't help it and asked me loudly: "What do you need to do to let me go?"

”I looked at him like him, smiled coldly at him, and remained silent.Seeing that I didn't want to deal with him, he finally said in an almost pleading voice: "Wait a minute, Angus needs treatment, if he doesn't treat his wounds, he may die, how can we save Angus?"

”At this time, all of us in the team stopped, turned to look at Yutasi, and I calmly asked Yutasi, "Then tell me, how can I find those men of yours?"

”There was a hint of hesitation in Yutasi's eyes, but in the end he gritted his teeth and said strongly: "I don't know, and no one can know, no matter how many people a team has, once they walk into this swamp, don't try to find them unless they come out again." ”I walked back to him, and his wounds had healed, but he had suffered a lot in the past three days, and his spirit was a little sluggish."

Why, don't you want to say it yet?"

I asked him, "If I say it now, there may be a chance to survive, or when I find them, you will no longer be needed at that time, and maybe I will learn the ritual of the lizard tribe and hang your brothers on a tree and dry them into bacon jerky." ”A cruel smile appeared on Yutasi's face, and he said to me forcefully, "Try it, maybe you'll be the ones who turn into bacon jerky." ”The second negotiation between me and Yutath ended hastily in a tough manner, and Yutasi regarded those men lurking in the jungle swamp as the last hole card for him and Angus to survive, and he refused to say it easily, and I did not force it.I'm going to join up with the orc warbands of Karantso first, and then search Nathaniel's hideout provided by Guide Amy along the way, perhaps somewhere where Mentor Heidi and Morayal are hiding.Ruka, the Minotaur with a black iron spear on his shoulder, punched Yutath again, leaving him speechless.After we walked into the jungle swamp, the guide Amy's sense of direction became worse.She had no foreknowledge of danger.Amy was standing in a mahogany woodland, the water level in the woods was very low, and in many places the wet mud was almost exposed, and some barramundi were swinging around in the mud puddles, breathing with their mouths wide open, and it looked like it hadn't rained in a long time, and the swamp was almost dry.In my opinion, the climate in the rainforest is unique, this woodland is well ventilated, so the water evaporates quickly, and if it doesn't rain for a few days, the mud here will dry up.The mangrove forest was not too easy to walk, and the El Hierro natives intended to take a detour around the dead woods, but Amy, the guide, thought that we should go straight through the woods.As it turned out, Amy made the wrong choice.She stood in the woodland with a pale face, and the woodland was covered with the bones of all kinds of wild beasts, and she didn't know how many wild beasts were buried in this wood.This proves that there is some kind of beast lurking in the woods, and Amy wants to go back the way she came.Just as we hesitated to continue walking, or to go back the way we came, a dense patch of flower-legged blood mosquitoes suddenly gushed out from the depths of the forest.This kind of gadfly is larger than the gadfly, the temperament is fierce, they belong to the social creatures, our team in a rubber woodland encountered this kind of flower-legged poisonous mosquito attack, a large group of flower-legged blood mosquitoes enough to hundreds of thousands, covering the sky and the sun rushed out of the woodland, from a distance, these poisonous mosquitoes are like clouds falling from the sky.Without the high-level demonic beasts we guessed, the magic materials and magic crystals on the demonic beasts were all in vain, looking at these flower-legged blood mosquitoes, Ying Li was the first to lose his breath, and blasted a series of fireballs at the blood mosquito swarm.I saw that these flower-legged blood mosquitoes were burned by the fireballs in pieces, but the blood mosquitoes in the back instantly filled the space in front.We didn't even have time to get out of this woodland, and we were surrounded by these blood-legged mosquitoes.All the members of the team quickly gathered together, and the minotaur tried to use his ancient oath shield to drive away these flower-legged blood mosquitoes, but unfortunately these flower-legged blood mosquitoes were not afraid of death at all, and frantically pounced on Ruka, the minotaur was clumsy and couldn't stop them at all, many blood mosquitoes landed on the minotaur Ruka's body, and were slapped to death by the minotaur, but more blood mosquitoes were too late to drive away, and they frantically pumped the blood from the minotaur's body.The rest of the team is besieged by the Bloodmosquito.However, everyone leaned together, and the blood mosquitoes rushed up, almost all of them were burned to ashes by Ying Li's flame impact and Annie's fiery sword, and they barely survived for the time being, but the Minotaur Ruka was tall and couldn't huddle with us, so he suffered a little.Erica chanted an intricate spell, and then, a cool rain fell from the sky to drive away the blood mosquitoes, and we hurriedly withdrew from the woodland.We thought the environment in the rainforest would be difficult enough, but when we entered the swamp, we realized how comfortable the rainforest on the outskirts of Strange Rock City was.