Volume 19 Chapter 257 Changes in the Sea

Just as the guy finished saying this, I turned around and looked at him coldly and asked in a cold tone: "Are you talking to me?"

"You..." The guy originally planned to say a few harsh words, but I swallowed the rest of the sentence at a glance. His face turned red and he coughed desperately.

"You idiot, if you can't speak human words, just shut up your stupid mouth." A very mature soldier came out and pulled the guy aside, then turned around and said to me with a smiling face. : "I'm sorry, President Ziri, this guy is just a bitch, don't worry about it, just treat him as a stinky fart and leave him alone."

I glanced coldly at the guy who was talking, didn't even bother to pay attention to him, turned around and walked forward. The guy behind me couldn't help it if I ignored him, but when I moved, the safe zone moved with me. With no other choice, these guys had no choice but to move with me. I didn't care at all about the guys following me. Anyway, as long as they didn't affect me, I didn't bother to care about them.

Moving forward in the original direction, I soon entered a denser primitive jungle. Different from the place we walked before, the density of trees in this area is obviously much higher than outside, and the size of various plants is also many times larger than the plants outside. Of course, in addition to the plants becoming denser, the monsters here also began to change. At first, the group of mandrills followed me relentlessly, hoping that the group of people would come out of the safe zone around me. But as we continued to go deeper into the forest, the mandrills began to hesitate. Finally, when we crossed a ravine, the mandrills finally gave up tracking after hesitating for a while. Following the whistle of the leading mandrill in the team, the group of mandrills surrounding us immediately disappeared with a roar.

"Phew, finally gone. These damn things!" The guy who couldn't speak before suddenly said this again.

The soldier who had been walking beside him for fear that this guy's bad mouth disease would show up again quickly patted him and said: "What do you mean by 'ran'? Do you think we are safe without those mandrills?"

"What? If the mandrill runs away, can't we leave?" This guy whose intelligence was obviously underdeveloped was still asking stupidly.

Before the soldiers next to him could speak, an archer began to lecture him: "How many times have I told you that if you are stupid, you should talk less and listen more, but you have more fucking nonsense than farts. Do you think those mandrills Will we be safe if we leave? Don't you see why they left?"

"Huh? Why?" This guy really has an intellectual problem, and he still wants to ask such an obvious question.

A soldier next to him couldn't stand it anymore and reminded him: "Look at the surrounding environment and compare it with the monster identification manual handed out in the meeting."

When the fool heard this, he actually took out a small book and started flipping through it. Then he suddenly turned to one of the pages and compared the plants nearby, and then exclaimed: "My dear mother! Here is the place. Is it the 2,000-level monster area?”

Hearing this guy yelling, the two soldiers next to him rushed forward and pushed him to the ground. The archer slapped his face and shook his head helplessly and said: "Brother, sister-in-law." They are all famous human beings, how could they give birth to a son as stupid as you? Oh my God in heaven! When your sister-in-law gave birth to a child, did you make the mistake of bringing someone else’s child back? "

I didn't really care about the behavior of those people. Anyway, it wasn't me who caused the monsters to die by shouting. Even if this is a level 2,000 monster area, I can still walk sideways with my strength. However, now I am curious about the little book in the fool's hand. There has never been such a thing as a monster area identification manual in "Zero". The monster areas divided into the game are all marked on the map by players through long-term exploration, and they are not assigned to these monsters by the system. The area is marked. Moreover, in fact, there is often no clear boundary between high-level monster areas and low-level monster areas. It does not mean that you will definitely not encounter high-level monsters in low-level areas. It is just that the probability of high-level monsters entering low-level areas is relatively low.

Because the system does not divide monster areas, information that can identify monster areas is very valuable, especially for people like me who often need to enter and exit some high-level monster areas that no one has explored. If you can confirm it in advance The hazard level of an area can often save a lot of things, and safety is much more guaranteed.

The idiot-like guy just took a notebook and flipped through it a few times before confirming that this was a level 2,000 monster area. This effect surprised me very much. Judging from the speed at which he checked just now, the records in this book should be able to easily compare the levels of surrounding monsters. This shows that what is recorded in this book is a very simple method for identifying the levels of monster areas. How could I let go of something so important?

"Can you lend me that thing?"

The two soldiers who were desperately suppressing the idiot and the archer next to them were stunned for a moment, and then they immediately reacted, but their reactions were completely different. The first thing to react was not the two warriors and the archer, but the fool who was suppressed below. I saw him suddenly raise his head from the crowd, and then shouted at me: "Why should we give our things to..."

Before he could finish his words, Archer kicked his head back to the ground. Then I saw Archer quickly snatched the guy's notebook and ran over to me, handing the notebook over with both hands.

"Look, President Ziri, if you like it, you don't have to return it. Anyway, we have a lot of this thing in the club."

I thanked him, took the book, opened it, and flipped through it. I found that the content in the book was actually expressed using a mixture of pictures and text. I just flipped through two pages and discovered that the content of this book seemed to distinguish monster areas based on the characteristics of plants. According to the description above, the density and size of plants in different monster areas and the proportions of various plants There will be a specific rule, and based on these rules, the level of monsters in the area can be determined.

Although I feel good about this analysis method, I quickly discovered the problem, that is, the scope of application of this thing is a bit narrow. Looking at the records above, this thing should be exclusive to China and not suitable for the southern region. Most of the plants mentioned in the records in the book are temperate or cold zone plants. If you use this thing in the tropical rain forest, it will be completely useless. Moreover, not all monster areas are in the forest. Although most of the monster areas are mountainous and woodland, there are still many monster areas with special terrain. Therefore, this thing is only suitable for ordinary players to use in the woodlands of certain mid- and high-latitude areas. If it is used in other places, it will be completely useless.

"How did you get this?" I asked as I closed the book and handed it back to the archer.

The archer took the book and before he could answer, the idiot behind him suddenly opened it and the two soldiers got up and said, "This is written by my mother. How do you like it? Isn't it awesome?"

Hearing this, I turned my gaze back to the archer in front of me, and then asked, "Is she here?"

The archer shook his head and said: "She is a logistics staff member of our guild. She is not a combat professional, but she used to be engaged in environmental protection, so she has done some research on plants and other things. She made this thing up for this silly son, but later Our boss thought this thing would be useful to everyone, so he printed a lot of copies and gave each person one copy.”

I nodded and said: "Can you tell me the name and address of your guild? I want to visit the author of this book. You have obviously ignored the value of this thing. I think I can help you explore its value. Come out, but I hope that guy’s mother can help us, the Frost Rose Alliance, compile a large-scale monster area identification manual. The scope of application of this book is too small.”

The archer immediately nodded and said: "Our guild is called Dream Valley, and it is a very small guild. The headquarters of our guild is built in Willow Leaf City, but Willow Leaf City is the city of the Frost Society, and we only established it there. The headquarters, the city is not ours.”

I nodded and said, "Okay, I will come find you when I have time." After I finished speaking, I asked, "Who is the leader here?"

"I am." A soldier who had suppressed the idiot before ran over and said.

I looked at this relatively calm guy and said: "This is a high-level monster area. Those things are not comparable to mandrills. Although they may not dare to attack me, they will not stop fifty meters away from me like mandrills." . If you continue to follow me like this, you will only end up being wiped out. But because I am very interested in the author of this booklet, I can sell you a favor." I said, clapped my hands, and rattled a pile of scrolls. It fell directly to the ground in front of me. "These are the lowest-end city-returning scrolls, which can be automatically teleported to the nearest neutral city in areas without teleportation restrictions. But I only have thirty-six of them. There are too many of you, so I can only let you send some of them away first. The rest The people below can stay and follow me, I will try my best to ensure your safety and escort you to a safe area when I leave."

Hearing what I said, the warrior and the archer next to him quickly picked up the scrolls and kept thanking me for my help. After getting the scrolls, the two of them immediately called the remaining personnel together and announced the good news to them. The next step, of course, is to allocate teleportation scrolls. However, there are fifty-four of them now, but there are only thirty-six scrolls, so eighteen of them cannot leave.

As the saying goes, there is no need to worry about inequality of poverty. Who should assign this scroll to? Fortunately, this is a small guild, and the people in the guild are basically familiar with each other, so everyone has a lot of brotherhood and loyalty. There was no scrambling. First of all, as the leaders here, the warrior and archer as the leader, as well as the warriors who helped the warrior suppress the fool before, all announced that they would not participate in the distribution. This saved three scrolls. Although it was still not enough, at least it was good. a lot of.

After three people announced that they would not participate in the distribution, five more people took the initiative to stay. However, the reason why they stayed was not because they were leaders and needed to set an example, but because these five people all admired me. That's right. They are all people who often pay attention to the combat power list, and they also like to hang out in forums and so on. According to them, being able to follow me and watch my fighting process up close is a rare opportunity. Naturally, they couldn't let go of such a good opportunity, so these five people directly chose to stay. Although they might die if they stayed, they felt that the survival rate was still very high out of their confidence in me. Besides, if they could see me fighting, it wouldn't be a loss if I died once.

After these five guys and the other three withdrew, the fool also shouted that his father was the president, so he had to set an example, so he also withdrew from the allocation. In this way, a total of nine people will not participate in the distribution. After nine people were missing, the scene became forty-five people divided into thirty-six scrolls. There were still nine people who were forced to stay together with the nine people who gave up voluntarily. Taking into account fairness factors, the last warrior decided to let the forty-five people draw lots to decide who left and who stayed.

Their way of drawing lots was very special. The warrior directly took out nine scrolls from a piece of space equipment on his body, and then put them all into the pile of scrolls in front of those people. Since the appearance of the low-level scrolls provided by the system is exactly the same, as long as you don't read the words on the scroll seal, you won't know the functions of the low-level scrolls. The ones I gave them were all the most basic scrolls for returning to the city. They were all equipment that I had accidentally discovered before. They had been piled up in the Phoenix Dragon Space like garbage. I didn’t expect that they would come in handy this time. As for the scrolls that the soldier took out, they were probably all low-level scrolls such as lighting techniques. Anyway, they must be the basic scrolls sold in the system store, because only these scrolls have the same appearance and make it difficult to tell them apart.

Let those who participated in the drawing of lots turn around, and then the warrior and a few others who did not draw lots placed all the scrolls on the ground, and then covered the middle part of the scroll with leaves, leaving only the decorative handles at both ends. I can't tell which scroll is which. After placing the scrolls, the warrior called those people back and asked each of them to pick a scroll, but he was not allowed to touch it. After choosing, he would go over and help the other party get the scroll to prevent anyone from cheating. In this way, after the scrolls are divided, the person who got the teleportation scroll can leave directly, and the rest can only admit that they are unlucky. Who said you are unlucky?

I was not idle when the group of people were distributing the scrolls. At this time, I was standing on the top of a big tree and looking into the distance. To be honest, the terrain here is completely different from the terrain Yosfat pointed out to me. No, I can't say it's completely different. If you want to say that this is the location that Yosifat said, the strange thing is that you can't find the river. And if you say this is not the location, the surrounding environment is vaguely similar to what Yosifat said.

I looked around helplessly on the tree and found that I still couldn't find the target. I simply released the bird and let it fly around in the sky. After the bird came down, the answer it gave me was that there were no targets within a hundred kilometers around it. There is no river in sight. But he discovered that there was a river far away that entered the forest, but the tree crown blocked the ground, so he could not see the direction of the river in the sky. But according to him, if the river didn't turn around in the middle, it would indeed flow near us.

"What a hell!" I came down from the tree depressedly and took out the map to look through it.

After distributing the scrolls and sending those people away, the remaining eighteen people gathered around me. The soldier saw me looking at the map, so he came over and asked, "Is President Ziri looking for something?"

I was looking at the map and didn't pay attention to what he said, so I said directly: "Yes, I am looking for a river. Someone told me that there should be a river here, but my demon pet can see the upper reaches of the river from the sky, but it is Can’t find where the middle part of the river is.”

"River?" The senior soldier who took the initiative to stay suddenly interrupted: "President Ziri, you are not talking about the Bugui River, are you?"

"The River of No Return?" I looked up at him in confusion and said, "I don't know the name of that river."

As soon as the soldier heard this, he immediately said: "Then I have nothing to do. All I know is the River of No Return, and I don't know if it is the one you mentioned."

"How many rivers are there in this forest?" I asked with a frown.

The archer next to him replied: "As far as I know, there seem to be six, but I have only seen one of them."

"You have only seen one?" I turned around and asked.

The soldier who told the story of the River of No Return said: "I have seen Sanjo. I have done a very difficult task here before. Although I failed afterwards, I have also gone deep into the forest. At that time, in addition to the surrounding areas of the forest, Two rivers away, I walked across the River of No Return.”

I thought for a while and asked, "If you were to see the upper reaches of the river, would you be able to identify whether that river is the River of No Return?"

The guy shook his head and said, "I can't help it. The rivers in the forest all look like that. I can't tell which river is which unless I go to the river myself."

Hearing this, I could only ask helplessly: "Then where is the River of No Return that you know?"

The soldier pointed to the right and said: "That way."

I took a look at that direction, and it was a lot different from my original direction. But now I couldn't find the way anyway, so I had to go and see the River of No Return first.

"Take me to see it first."

"OK."

With a general direction, it will be much easier to move forward. Because the guy remembered the distance, we didn't even have to worry about overrunning, we just kept moving forward quickly. As we ran, we soon discovered the river, but this river was obviously not the same river as Yosfat said. The main reason was that the river was too big.

"Isn't this the river you're looking for?"

I looked at the river in front of me, which was five or six meters wide, and said, "What I'm looking for is a creek-like river, no more than two meters wide. This one is too big."

"Two meters wide at most?" The soldier suddenly looked at me in confusion and asked, "President Ziri, when did the person who told you this address come last?"

I didn't pay attention at first, but when this guy asked me, I suddenly realized it. How many years has that guy Yosfat been in Ryan's laboratory? Although mountains and rivers can be regarded as landmarks for most people, once your life span exceeds thousands of years, rivers and mountain peaks cannot be treated simply as dead objects. After all, mountains can collapse or grow, and rivers can change their course. It's been thousands of years since that guy Yosfat came here last time. A mountain may not change much over thousands of years, but the same cannot be said for a river. Rivers can change course much faster than mountains.

"It seems that my information is a bit out of date." I said, "Wait a moment, I'll take a look at the conditions upstream and downstream of the river." As I said that, I reached out and summoned the dart, and then asked him to go first. Go downstream and explore. At the speed of Fei Dart, he only went there for a few minutes and then came back. As a result, Fei Dart said that he ran out of the forest along the river and didn't see any waterfalls, lakes or caves. I nodded and let the dart continue to explore upstream. As a result, the dart was so fast this time that I ran back in a few seconds and said that I had discovered a large lake upstream.

After I heard that I had found the lake, I immediately started searching upstream. Sure enough, I found the lake very quickly. However, this lake was obviously much larger than the lake that Yosfat mentioned. Moreover, Yosfat said that the lake was only A creek flows in, and the upper reaches of the creek is the waterfall, and the upper reaches of the waterfall is the river that serves as the landmark. Although the lake we see now is still a lake, there are three streams flowing into it, and one of them is considered a river rather than a creek.

"Is this the place you are looking for?" the soldier asked.

I shook my head and said, "I don't know. It feels a bit similar, but it doesn't look like it if you look closely." As I said that, I released the dart again, and then asked him to inquire about the upstream conditions of the three converging rivers. According to Yosfat, one kilometer upstream of the stream that merges into Nahe Lake is the location of the small waterfall, so I asked Dart to explore ten kilometers along all three rivers. It only took less than a minute to explore this area at the speed of the dart. Not to mention the result, I actually found a waterfall. However, according to the dart, that waterfall is not actually a waterfall because it is divided into two parts. It has reached more than ten levels and gradually falls downwards, and the difference between the highest point and the lowest point is only a little more than four meters. It is divided into so many levels and stretches for nearly half a kilometer. As a result, this waterfall does not look like a waterfall at all. , it looks like a relatively steep river channel.

Although the river has changed drastically, I still judged that this is probably the lake Yosfat mentioned. So now that the lake has been found, the cave must be nearby. According to Yosfat's description, the cave is located on a hillside. Because the forest near the lake is not dense, I easily confirmed that there are hillsides in only two directions nearby, and the other directions are flat. Compared with rivers, mountains change much slower, so this hillside should be relatively reliable.

With a snap of my fingers, hundreds of Death Guards suddenly appeared by the lake. I pointed directly at the hillsides on both sides and said: "Half of us go over there, and the other half over there, let me search them carefully. The target is a cave, the entrance is relatively hidden, but there is an artificially carved plaque."

After receiving the order, the Death Guards immediately divided into two teams and ran towards the hillsides on both sides. Just after the Death Guards separated, there was a sudden explosion in the lake in front of them, followed by a large splash of water. A huge proboscis emerged from the water and jumped towards us.

The group of people following me were all scared to death when they saw this sudden appearance of the monster, because according to their observation, this place was clearly a level 2,200 monster zone. Encountering monsters in such a place is definitely not something they can handle. However, just as they were retreating in panic, they suddenly discovered that a bigger mouth suddenly appeared and bit the head, then with a fierce flick, it was pulled out of the lake and thrown into the forest next to it. Inside, I saw the huge black shadow pounced directly into the forest, biting the white monster that was pulled out, and swallowed it into its stomach.

Looking at Hei Yan's huge body, the mouths of the people present were so wide they could fit a fist into them. Of course, I didn't pay much attention to this because I was waiting for the report from the Death Guards.

Shortly after the group of people reacted, the Death Guards finally ran back. Nothing was found on the mountain on the left, and the same on the mountain on the right.

"Neither on either side?"

"Report, it is true that nothing was found." The death guard leading the team reported with certainty.

As magical creatures, there is no such thing as inactivity in the Death Guard, so if they say there is none, it must mean that they really haven't found it.

After thinking for a while, I suddenly waved my hand to summon the pioneers and rose vines, and then pointed at the hillsides on both sides. "To the left of the pioneers and to the right of the rose vines, go and see if there are any plants buried under the hillside that shouldn't be growing underground."

Although theoretically a mountain will not change much between one and two thousand years, there is one situation that may change the appearance of a mountain in an instant, and that is a landslide. The mountains on both sides are very steep. If there is a landslide, it is possible that the original cave entrance will be buried instantly. However, I don’t dare to confirm this idea myself. After all, I am here to find an expert, not to dig graves. Since the opponent can be called a master by Yosfat, he must be a very strong existence. If his old lair has been buried, then how can he not come out through another exit? However, if there really is an exit, there is no reason why the Death Guards would not be able to find it.

While I was struggling, the rose vine suddenly sent a message back saying that it had found some plants that should not appear in the mountain, so I immediately ran over with people. At my request, the rose vine dug out a big tree directly from the mountain. Although the wood was almost rotten, I could confirm that it was indeed a big tree. Although tree roots grow in the soil, tree trunks and other things should not be under the soil. And according to Rose Vine's findings, there are actually many such big trees under the ground nearby. This can only mean one thing, that is, a landslide occurred here and buried the large trees that originally grew on the surface underground. If that's the case, the cave is probably here.

"Dig, dig up this area for me and see if there is a cave underneath."