Chapter 765 Running in the Sea of Trees
The airship slowly descended from the clouds.
The vast sea of trees, which was as vast as the real ocean but with dark green waves, appeared in the sight of the hunters.
The continuous rainfall in recent days has made the vegetation in the sea of trees lush and exaggerated full of water, and even formed a thick white mist similar to clouds. Taking a deep breath, it feels like drinking a mouthful of water.
The fully armed hunters gathered on the deck, waiting for the airship to land.
Gail scratched her wet black wavy hair, looked at the tiny water droplets on her exposed skin, and said distressedly:
"It's too humid, the humidity is comparable to the wetlands in the rainy season, right? I should have gotten a waterproof cloak or brought a bottle of skin oil."
It's not that she suddenly became fond of skin care, but it's not a good thing to be active in this environment that is more like a rainforest than a dense forest, exposing large areas of skin for a long time.
Mosquitoes and leeches will come to the door, and once there is a break on the skin, eczema, ulcers and other skin diseases will follow.
Wearing a priest-style mask, with only his eyes exposed, Anxier glanced at Gale, walked to Liefeng, who had changed his job as a pack animal, searched the formation, and took out a bottle of ointment and threw it to her.
Gale subconsciously took it, uncorked it and smelled it, and said in shock: "It's really weeping oil? How come you even prepared this?"
Anxier was too lazy to answer this question.
After all, this guy was helping her, Gale swallowed the spit, muttered "thank you", and poured out the ointment to rub it.
After a while, the large area of her exposed skin became shiny, and with her already messy mixed-style equipment, it looked indescribably weird.
But as a typical pragmatist, she didn't care.
This medicinal ointment extracted from the sebum of the dragonfly is very effective in preventing mosquito bites, treating skin diseases and burns. At least there is no need to worry about rainforest disease in the next few days.
Gail tightened the cork and handed back the remaining half of the bottle of dragonfly oil.
An Xier shook his hands in disdain, "You keep it, I brought more than one bottle."
"..."
"See the ancient tower!" Feng Ying, who was standing on the bow, suddenly shouted.
Everyone looked at it.
Through the thick water mist shrouding the sky above the sea of trees, you can vaguely see the cylindrical giant with a diameter of nearly 100 meters and a height of more than 200 meters thousands of meters away.
Hilda glanced over there and shook her head, "That's not an ancient tower, it's a withered giant tree with only part of the trunk left."
"...Ah?" Feng Ying opened her mouth wide, "You said it was a tree?"
"Huhu, yes." Hilda smiled and said, "I was also surprised when I first knew about it. I don't know what it looked like when it was flourishing, but that was at least a thousand years ago. Nature is amazing, right?"
"That must be an ancient tower, right?" Gordon put down the telescope, pointed in another direction, and said half-jokingly, "Don't tell me that's also a tree?"
In the direction where the airship was moving, an ancient giant tower deep into the clouds stood there. Although the tower body was broken, the whole was still as solid as a mountain, like a giant pillar supporting the sky.
"That's it." Hilda carried the Horned King Bow and said with a smile, "I hope the monster we need to face lives at the bottom of the tower, not at the top. I can't climb so high."
"Didn't you still..."
"Shut up! Don't say such an unlucky thing!" Hilda glared at Gordon, then raised her voice to the airship pilot: "Find a place to land, drop us off and wait for us at the camp. If there is still no news of us after five days and nights, return to the guild headquarters for help."
The pilot affiliated with the guild nodded, manipulated the airship to lower its altitude, and spent a lot of effort to find a clearing in the forest that could barely allow the airship to land.
Even so, the continuous fog and rain, the vines entangled between the tree trunks and canopies like a net, and the various vegetation on the ground made it difficult for the airship to land completely.
It had to hover in the air more than ten meters above the ground, allowing the hunters to land.
It was just hard for Liefeng and Amber. As fang hounds, they had to endure too many things that they shouldn't have to endure.
After landing, Nanasi was the first to jump onto Amber's back.
Zhu Chop Xianglan could understand its urgency and anxiety, and did not delay. The advance rescue reconnaissance team consisting of three cats and one dog set off immediately.
With the speed and flexibility of fang hounds, they should be able to reach the vicinity of the ancient tower ruins within an hour. As long as Gene is still alive, Zhu Chop and the others will definitely find him quickly and start rescue and medical treatment as soon as possible.
The hunters also set off quickly. Due to the severe limitation of vision in the dense forest, they formed a relatively compact triangle formation.
Gordon and Fengying took turns to lead the way, Hayata was the rear guard, and the three shooters were protected by them in the center of the triangle formation to prevent sudden attacks from monsters lurking in the shade of the trees, and to facilitate mutual support at any time.
The Fenglong area where the Batu Batum Sea of Trees is located is isolated overseas. For Gordon and others, and even the entire guild, it is an almost new hunting ground.
The distribution, population, and number of various monsters are all unknown. Even the camp was newly established not long ago, and it is impossible to predict when and where to encounter what monsters.
When I was on the airship, I heard Hilda say that there are still scattered indigenous villages in this astonishingly vast forest.
They are almost completely disconnected from mainstream society, but they are not "primitive people".
These residents of the Sea of Trees have mastered many special biotechnologies and alchemy techniques that are difficult for mainstream society to understand, and have even developed their own "hunter-like" combatants.
This made Gordon and others very curious.
Of course, it's just curiosity. The technology and life of the residents of the Sea of Trees have nothing to do with the purpose of the hunters' trip, so they naturally won't interfere with it.
Following the footprints and pathfinding information left by Pork Chop Amber and others, the hunters moved forward.
The overly lush vegetation among the sea of trees and the unpleasant mist and rain made this section of the road more difficult to walk than expected.
It took more than three and nearly four hours for the hunters to pass through this area of tree sea, which was no more than 10,000 meters away in a straight line, and arrive near the ruins of the ancient pagoda.
The humus soil, which was thick and soft and felt like a sponge when stepped on, gradually became flat and hard. Traces of man-made objects such as bricks and stones began to appear, and the vegetation became increasingly sparse.
After bypassing the last big tree, the hunters rushed out of the vast sea of trees.
The bright white moonlight shone on them. Looking up at the full moon that seemed to be hanging on the edge of the ancient pagoda, they suddenly realized.
The rain has stopped.
However, the mist that shrouded the ruins had no intention of dissipating. It still reflected the moonlight like a gauze, illuminating everything hazily.
Gordon, who was responsible for opening the way, slowed down and the entire team gradually came to a halt.
He planned to let everyone rest on the spot for ten minutes, eat and take a rest, and then go deep into the ruins and enter the ancient tower to explore.
At this moment, a vague but sharp sense of danger came to his mind.
"Something's wrong!" He turned around suddenly and loudly reminded his friends, but this seemed a little unnecessary.
He was not the only one who sensed the danger. Before he could say anything, three shooters with keen senses had already deployed their weapons.
Hayata, who was at the back of the team, suddenly turned around and unsheathed his sword. Using the power of his body rotation, the night sword [Moon Shadow] slashed down diagonally with his cassock, and collided with some invisible sharp blade. , making a harsh clang.
"Qiang!"
A blue swift shadow emerged from the mist under the moonlight, and it let out an angry scream when the sneak attack failed.
"Gah-!"
"You brought it here yourself?"
Gordon was about to draw his sword, but Hilda raised her hand to stop him, "This is our prey, and there are six of us, doesn't it feel too unlucky?"
Gordon grinned, "Okay, then I'll leave this place to you, Anxil, Feng Ying, let's go!"
In the menacing roar of Yue Xunlong.
Hayata drank a bottle of ghost medicine and swung the blade. Hilda put down the black gauze mask, her whole breath became uncertain. Gale smiled strangely and pulled the trigger. The astonishing roar of the ballistae filled the night sky.
"Chug, tug, tug, tug, tug, tug!"
Ps.
The so-called indigenous people living in the dense forest in this chapter actually refer to the early abolition of mh. They have not appeared in the main story, so please do not take it seriously.
But to be honest, some of the wild settings are really interesting. If you are interested, you can write two or three chapters later to enrich the world view 0v0
In fact, it can be seen from the setting book that the world view established in the early stages of the series is more primitive, and the technology is more biased towards biological applications. For example, the front end of the hollow fruit is cut off with a knife, gunpowder and warheads are loaded into the crossbow, and a lightning bug is inserted into the trap mechanism. It's a paralysis trap.
Since 4, it has been leaning towards the Industrial Revolution era, with various steam machinery and large airships.
mhr seems to be returning to "biotechnology", but the direction seems to be different? Mysterious hunting gear creature emmmm