The airship slowly descended from the clouds.
The sea of trees, which is as vast as a real ocean but surging with dark green waves, appears in the sight of the hunters.
The continuous rainfall in recent days has made the exaggeratedly lush vegetation in the sea of trees full of water, and even formed a thick white mist similar to clouds. Taking a deep breath, it feels like drinking water.
The heavily armed hunters gathered on the deck, waiting for the airship to land.
Gale scratched his black wavy hair that had become wet, then looked at the tiny water droplets on his exposed skin, and said distressedly:
"It's too humid. The humidity is comparable to the wetlands in the rainy season, right? I should have bought a waterproof cloak or brought a bottle of skin-dropping oil or something."
It's not that she suddenly became fond of taking care of her skin, but it's not a good thing to be active in an environment that is more like a rainforest than a dense forest. Exposing a large area of skin for a long time is not a good thing.
Mosquitoes and locusts will come to your door, and once a break appears on your skin, skin diseases such as eczema and ulcers will follow.
Wearing a priest-style visor, with only his eyes exposed, Anhil glanced sideways at Gale, walked to Lifeng, who had switched to a beast of burden, rummaged through the array, took out a bottle of ointment and threw it to her.
Gale subconsciously caught it, uncorked the bottle and smelled it, and said in shock: "Is this really skin-dropping oil? How come you even prepared this?"
Anhil didn't bother to answer this question.
After all, this guy was helping himself. Gale swallowed back the words he wanted to vomit, muttered "Thank you", poured out the ointment and started applying it.
After a while, the large area of her exposed skin became shiny, and coupled with her already messy mixed-match outfit, it looked indescribably weird.
But as a typical pragmatist, she didn't care.
This medicinal ointment extracted from the sebum of the skin dragon is very effective in preventing mosquito bites, treating skin diseases and burns. At least these days, you don’t have to worry about rainforest disease.
Gale corked the bottle and handed back the remaining half of the bottle.
An Xil dusted his hands in disgust, "You can keep it, I brought more than one bottle."
"..."
"I saw the ancient pagoda!" Feng Ying, who was standing on the bow of the ship, suddenly shouted.
Everyone looked at it.
Through the thick mist that shrouded the sea of trees, one could vaguely see the giant cylindrical object 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 pagoda, that's a withered giant tree with only part of its trunk left."
"...Huh?" Feng Ying opened her mouth wide, "You said that was a tree?"
"Huhu, yes." Hilda said with a smile: "I was surprised when I first learned about it. I don't know what it looked like when it was prosperous, but that was at least a thousand years ago. Nature is very Amazing, right?”
"That one is always 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 of the airship, an ancient giant tower deep into the clouds stood there. Although the tower body was damaged, the overall body was still as stable as a mountain, like a giant pillar holding up the sky.
"That's it." Hilda picked up the Horned King's Bow and said with a smile, "I hope the monsters we need to face live at the bottom of the tower instead of at the top. I can't climb so high, old aunt."
"Didn't you return the favor that time when you ambush Tian Hui Long?"
"Shut up! Don't say such unlucky things!" Hilda glared at Gordon, and then raised her voice to the airship pilot: "Find a place to land, put us down and wait for us at the camp. If after five days and nights If there is still no news from us, return to the guild headquarters to ask for help.”
The pilot who belonged to the guild nodded and controlled the airship to lower its height. It took a while to find an open space in the forest that could barely accommodate the airship's descent.
Even so, the continuous fog and rain, the web-like vines entangled in the tree trunks and crowns, and the various vegetation on the ground made it difficult for the airship to completely land.
It had no choice but to hover in mid-air ten meters above the ground and let the hunters land.
It's just that they suffered from the strong wind and amber. As tooth hounds, they have endured too many things that they should not have to bear.
After landing, Nanasi was the first to jump onto Amber's back.
Pork Chop Xianglan could understand the urgency and anxiety in its heart, and did not hesitate. An advance rescue and reconnaissance team consisting of three cats and one dog set off immediately.
With the speed and flexibility of the tooth hounds, they should be able to arrive near the ruins of the ancient tower within an hour. As long as Jean is still alive, they will definitely be able to find him quickly and carry out rescue and medical treatment as soon as possible.
The hunters also set off quickly. Due to the severely restricted vision in the dense forest, they formed a relatively compact triangular formation.
Gordon and Feng Ying took turns to open the way, with Hayata at the rear. The three shooters were protected in the center of the triangular formation to avoid sudden attacks by monsters lurking in the shadows of the trees, and to facilitate each other's support at any time.
The Fenglong area where Batubatum Sea of Trees is located is isolated overseas. It is an almost brand-new hunting ground for Gordon and others, and even the entire guild.
The distribution, population, and quantity of various monsters are all unknown. Even the camps were newly established not long ago, and it is impossible to predict when and where they may encounter monsters.
While on the airboat, I heard Hilda say that there were still scattered indigenous villages surviving in this vast and surprisingly large sea of trees.
They are almost completely disconnected from mainstream society, but they are not "primitives".
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 quite 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, and when they looked 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 rest for a while, 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 kind of invisible sharp blade. , making a harsh clang.
"Qiang!"
A faint blue shadow emerged from the mist under the moonlight, and the failed sneak attack made it scream in anger.
"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 natives 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 a 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
(End of chapter)
