After a simple communication to confirm goodwill, Ancier shut his mouth and did not communicate too much with the mysterious chrysalis man.
Even though the latter seems to have a lively and talkative personality.
After all, this is in a sea of trees that is full of dangers. Even under an inconspicuous fallen leaf, there may be venomous snakes and insects that can kill you. You must be very careful when walking among them.
However, what Ancil didn't know was that his caution was quite interesting in the eyes of the chrysalis.
It was like a little baby that had just learned how to walk, swaying.
"Hululu."
There was a sound of bubbles coming from the huge chrysalis. Anhil looked up at her, but he didn't realize that she was snickering.
They walked in the woods like this for a long time.
If you include the distance he was dragged when he was unconscious, Ancil can no longer tell how far he is from the ruins of the ancient tower and the camp.
Are Gordon and the others going crazy?
Unfortunately, the signal flare was on Li Feng and there was no way to send out a signal to notify his companions.
The chrysalis man walking in front suddenly stopped and waved his hand towards the heights. Anhil, who followed closely behind, had no choice but to temporarily put away his worries and look up.
On the top of the giant tree crown, which was forty to fifty meters high, a figure jumped down.
It was almost impossible for a human to survive a fall from such a height, but the man's hands and feet seemed to be able to stick to the trunk and branches of the tree. He slowed down several times, and finally hooked a long stick with a strange shape in his hand on a vine and swung lightly. fell in front of them.
Anhir narrowed his eyes slightly.
The person who came was obviously a companion of the guy in front of him. He thought he was another strange-looking chrysalis man, but he was not.
It was a fairly normal-looking young woman.
She was wearing, or rather wrapped in, a very strange set of light armor.
It's weird not because of the shape of the armor. Compared with the mash-up style of a certain cat-headed hunter, the style of the newcomer's armor is even pleasing to the eye.
The unusual thing is the material of the armor.
Except for the inner armor that is close to the skin and seems to be made of some kind of animal leather, the entire armor is made of various "creatures" in the sea of trees.
The main material of the wrist armor, helmet, skirt armor, and greaves seems to be some kind of special leaf. I don't know if it is strong or not, but at least it looks quite light.
The wrist armor and greaves were covered with thick white slime mold. The reason why she could use the nearly vertical tree trunk to slow down was probably due to the stickiness of these slime molds.
The breastplate is the strangest part. It can't even be called "armor", but a layer of honeycomb.
Many finger-long alien bees move in and out of the hive armor, seeming to have reached some kind of wonderful symbiotic relationship with the equipment owner.
While Anhil was looking at it, a bee landed on the woman's orange-red bangs. She raised her mouth and blew the bee away without caring.
Then she shook the long stick full of holes in her hand, and the bees flying around her suddenly seemed to have received some kind of signal, and they obediently got into the hive one after another.
Anhir raised his eyebrows, and the scene in front of him reminded him of an insect stick.
"A foreigner?" the young woman with dazzling orange hair asked.
Anhir nodded and did not deny it.
The young woman didn't have any special reaction to this. She raised her chin towards Ancier as a greeting, and then looked at the pupa man.
"It was a night with a full moon last night. Why didn't you emerge? Did you fail?"
"When we got to the tower, we encountered the angry mountain god Gulu. He didn't dare to climb out from the ground. He didn't get enough sunlight." After saying something dull, she pointed at Anxier again, "Gulu, he If he's unconscious there, just bring him back."
"A mountain god appeared? Are you angry?!" The young woman's eyes widened.
"Gulu, then I went back and Pulu, I was woken up. It was like, there was a rumble in the tower at night, it was noisy." The pupa man spread his hands.
Suddenly remembering something, the young woman looked at An Xil quickly, "Are you a hunter from a foreigner? Are you hunting the mountain god?!"
Due to the difference in grammar, the words of the two people sounded a bit confusing to Ancier, but it was not too difficult to understand.
The "mountain god" mentioned by the two people obviously refers to the floating dragon.
An Xil shook his head decisively, "Fu Yue Long, oh, he should be the mountain god you call him, that is not our goal.
We were invited by a mysterious person to hunt the Big Bang Dragon and Yue Xun Dragon. The hunt was successful, but the noise during the battle woke up the Fuyue Dragon. "
"Mysterious man? Big Banglong? Yue Xunlong?" The two of them were confused.
They understood Ancier's other words, but they didn't understand these terms.
Ancier briefly talked about the girls in ancient costumes, and then described the characteristics of the Big Bang Dragon and Yue Xun Dragon.
The girl in the chrysalis was a little excited after hearing this, "Can you deal with the beast that is invisible in the fog?! It's so awesome. You can go there to bask in the moon and become feathers!"
The young woman is more concerned about the "girl in ancient costumes", "Sounds like a divine servant. This news needs to be brought back to the forest. A powerful foreign hunter, can you come back with us?"
Anhil was helpless, "Everyone has been brought here. Just go. I hope it won't take too long. My companions should be looking for me."
"Okay, we can also send someone to help you find a companion." The young woman shook her head and motioned for Anxier to follow. Suddenly she remembered that she hadn't introduced herself yet, so she added, "By the way, Qian Cao, I Call."
"Ancier." Out of courtesy, Ancier also reported his name.
The girl wrapped in a huge chrysalis raised her hand, "Gulu, cocoon, coo!"
Although he knew that this guy was most likely announcing his name, the series of bubbles made it impossible for him to hear what the former said.
"Her cry is Xuanxu." Qian Cao introduced the girl who was speechless in the chrysalis.
After thinking for a while, she briefly explained, "You outsiders may not have seen it before. The parasites on the crickets are pupae, which take one or two years to mature.
After emerging, it will become a special symbiosis armor, but before emerging, it has no fighting ability and is often used to bask in the moon. "
The girl named Xuanxu gave Anxil a heart sign. Unfortunately, her disgusting chrysalis appearance made her actions not cute at all.
Anhir didn't know what expression to make.
"You guys really work hard."
Near the ruins of the ancient pagoda.
Fu Yuelong flew back to the ancient pagoda at dawn, perhaps because he had a full stomach, and went back to sleep.
Gordon and the others, who had been hiding in the dense forest among the trees for several hours, returned to the area of the devoured forest and searched bit by bit.
The main force of the search was Pork Chop and Pandan, who had a keen sense of smell. Nanasi was sent back to the camp by Gordon to deliver a message to prevent Feng Ying and Jean from running around without waiting for their news.
"Meow!"
Xianglan discovered something, ran a few steps over, lay down on a pile of floating soil and dug at it.
Gordon and the others also ran over quickly, and saw Xianglan dig out Ancier's "Shigure" from the mound.
An expectant expression froze on his face.
"Could he be buried further down?" Gordon's voice was dry.
Xianglan shook her head, "It's not possible, meow. The soil below is not floating soil, meow."
"Let's dig some more." Gordon seemed not to have heard, carrying Shigure behind his back, half-kneeling down, and continued digging.
Hayata nodded and dug in the dirt with Gordon.
"Then dig it, this is the only clue so far!" Gale also lifted up his slightly obstructive helmet and squatted down.
Hilda sighed and said nothing. She just stood aside with a bow and guarded them.
As the hole in the ground dug deeper and deeper, Gordon and the others' hearts became heavier and heavier.
"Meow! Come here meow! I've found you, meow!" Suddenly, Pig Chop's shout came from the distance.
Gordon jumped up and ran that way, and Hayata and the others quickly caught up.
"What did you find?!" Gordon yelled before he could even run to the pork chop.
There is also a big pit in front of the pork chop. The mouth of the pit may not be very wide, about one meter, but the pit is quite deep. An adult male may not be able to show his head if he jumps in.
Pig Chop lay on the left and right side of the pit, sniffing, "There's Anxil's scent in it, he should have been in the pit for a while, and there's another scent, it feels like some kind of insect?"
Hayata made a reasonable analysis, "An unknown giant insect lurking underground dragged Ansir into the pit and helped him avoid being swallowed by the Fuyue Dragon?"
"And the insect monster didn't attack him. There was no blood or signs of struggle in the pit." Gordon stared at the inner wall of the pit, his tone gradually getting excited.
Gael said in a faint and authentic tone: "I remember that the shadow spider would ambush its prey, use its poisonous claws to numb the prey and bring it back to the nest, store it as a hotbed for incubation, and pierce its genitals into the prey to lay eggs."
Gordon: "."
"Ahem, of course, it should. It's definitely not a shadow spider! Shadow spiders are not insects, right? Well, and the hole is too small, and the shadow spider can't get in!" Gale quickly made up for it.
Pig Chop's voice was a little trembling, "Ah, the smell is extending over there, meow, and there is this dragging mark, meow, that insect monster dragged Ancil away from here, and went deep into the sea of trees, meow!"
Gordon's face turned green, "Hurry up and chase!"
ps.Developer interview→
Butterfly wings, cute butterfly set (is it cute?)→
Let’s compare the original painting of the Easter egg chapter.
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