After the team crossed the Gray Wind Ridge, the Green Dragon Mountains blocked the southward rain clouds, and the sky began to clear up. Just after noon, Mr. Huiyan entered a valley. The rain stopped for a while, but the valley was still flooded with streams. It was extremely difficult to move forward in the mud. From time to time, everyone had to get out of the car to clear the way for the huge negative hill beast.
The vegetation in the valley is lush, with crystal water vapor still hanging on the curly ferns, and mushrooms of various colors growing in layers on the rotten tree trunks. After walking off the platform, Tianlan wanted to pick them excitedly, but Etila carried them back. .
The elf lady only picked some of them, and then told others how to distinguish the harmless ones. There are many more wild fungi in Aitaria than on the earth, and some are not only poisonous, but even contain weird... magic.
For example, a kind of oily yellow mushroom, whose bright color does not look like a good thing at first glance, is actually non-toxic and harmless. After eating it, it can temporarily increase a person's insight.
This thing can even be eaten raw. It tastes a bit astringent when eaten raw, but there is a refreshing taste after the dry astringency. In short, the experience is very strange, and Fang Plover does not want to try it a second time.
After taking a bite of this thing, he immediately felt that the scene around him became a little different.
There seemed to be countless strange textures between the trees, which were as strange as the faces of people. Some were sighing, some were smiling, and some were glaring, as if they were about to pounce at any time with their teeth and claws.
There are various birds hidden among the dense leaves, which are magnified to look exaggerated and grotesque, and appear to be extremely conspicuous as if their bodies are surrounded by a circle of red light.
He could even clearly see a Fenris gray-spotted longhorned beetle dozens of meters away. That kind of thing was smaller than ordinary longhorned longhorned beetles in other areas.
The movement in the surrounding grass caught his eye. Fang Plover turned his head and saw a young deer whose body was made of bones flashing past him. It stopped far away and even turned to look at him with its black hole-like eyes, which startled him.
However, the effect of this strange vision gradually faded away, and the surrounding trees returned to their original state.
Aitila looked at him narrowly, her pointed ears trembling slightly: "How is it?"
Fang Yu rubbed his eyes, and then he realized that the gentle elf lady can also play tricks on people. This thing does not add insight, but it clearly adds spiritual vision, okay?
"This kind of mushroom is called Orphen's Eye. It is a well-known psychic material in the Hill of Giant Trees. However, it does have the function of increasing insight. The correct way to use it is to mash it and apply it together with the magic solution. On the eyelids.”
"Besides, eating too much can cause hallucinations."
Fang Yu didn't feel any hallucinations, only felt a little dizzy.
Miss Aitila then came over to take a closer look, opened his eyelids with her hands, and asked with concern: "Is it okay?"
Fang Yu shook his head.
But just because he didn't have problems didn't mean that others didn't have problems. In the blink of an eye, Tianlan and Papalar disappeared.
Finally they found the two guys on the platform on the other side.
The Papalar man ate a crown-crested fluorescent mushroom, causing his chin to neck to glow, and his cheeks puffed out like a walking lamp.
At the same time, he yelled and told others: "Ah, I feel very uncomfortable, as if I have swallowed a light bulb. Am I going to die? By the way, where is the nearest Resurrection Temple? I don't want to be resurrected in Roman's Temple , her pastor has no humanity at all.”
"You can't die," Etila glanced at this guy angrily: "But you will feel uncomfortable for two to three hours. Don't worry, this mushroom is beneficial and harmless."
Parker opened his mouth wide and stuck out his glowing tongue, like a mutated anglerfish: "Really? Do I want to eat another one?"
"Then you're going to spend the night in this state?"
Rhett leaned on the railing and smoked his pipe contentedly, looking at the distance of the valley with his silver-grey eyes: "By the way, this is the territory of the night lizards. They are all skilled shooters, especially sensitive to light. You You know what I mean?"
Parker swallowed a gulp of saliva and quickly looked around.
"What should I do about Tian Lan?" Fang Pultru even had a headache.
The little French girl has completely disappeared.
Her clothes were scattered on the floor, including the magic furnace, Karn's harp and scattered small items. Only a young white cat remained among the clothes, tilting its head and staring at the big blue cat. Looking at several people.
"Meow--?"
"What's this?"
"Deformation mushroom, this thing is very rare." Jita frowned and said, "I don't know where Sister Fuli found it."
"How dare she eat it?" Fang Yu couldn't help but ask.
Luo Yu picked up the back of her neck with his hands and lifted her up. The kitten struggled hard and meowed sweetly.
"Luo Yu, put her down." Aitila said angrily.
Luo Yu turned to look at her belly curiously, and Tianlan was so angry that he scratched his arm with a claw, leaving a blood mark there. Luo Yu felt pain and let go. The kitten jumped three times and hid behind Sylvide's leather boots, looking at everyone in fear.
The noble lady touched her head tenderly, picked her up and held her in her arms.
Strangely enough, the kitten seemed to enjoy her touch. Its eyes narrowed into a line, its tail curled up in her arms, and it purred incomprehensibly.
Aitila glared at Luo Yu and looked at the blood marks on his hands: "You really asked for it, go and bandage it."
"Is this really Tianlan?" Fang Yu always felt that the kitten's behavior was very different from Tianlan.
"Deformed mushrooms will affect people's minds to a certain extent." Jita explained in a low voice.
"There won't be any side effects, right?"
The little girl shook her head: "The transformation effect only lasts for a period of time. The person involved will only remember some vague details. In theory, there will be no sequelae."
"She's stupid enough anyway, at least this thing won't make her stupider." The Papalar said with his glowing cheeks puffed out.
"Shut up, Parker," Attila said sternly: "Look at yourself, are you qualified to speak?"
The Papalar's symptoms became more and more serious, staring like a frog with glowing eyeballs: "Freedom of speech."
"I seem to see traces of the Night Lizard in the woods." Rhett put down his pipe and said.
Parker almost jumped up: "Wait, where is it?"
"Who knows?"
The former shivered and didn't dare to brag anymore, so he quickly covered his neck and returned to the car.
The series of events caused by the mushrooms passed quickly. Attila confiscated the fluorescent mushrooms and deformed mushrooms still on the two troublemakers and gave them to Fang Plover.
These two kinds of mushrooms are also rare species in the wild and are often used in potion preparation and alchemy raw materials. I don’t know how these two people won the lottery.
Fang Piao's current alchemy level has no idea how to use these mid-to-high-end materials, so he can only put them in glass bottles and put them in the dark compartment under the bed together with the raw materials of beta crystal.
On the other hand, the sequelae of accidentally eating mushrooms was that Parker completely turned into a light bulb. It is said that this state will last until the evening.
However, Tian Lan recovered her true form, but the little girl hid in the house with a red face and refused to come out to see anyone.
Aitila asked Luo Yu to apologize to her seriously, and Luo Yu nodded honestly.
It was just that Fang Yu saw this guy dazed at the door for a long time, as if considering his words, and then said sincerely: "Tianlan, you are actually quite handsome as a cat. You look a bit like a little cat I raised before. cat--"
"Go away!"
Tian Lan screamed, threw a book and hit him on the head, then slammed the door. After that, the little girl locked the door inside and refused to come out no matter who tried to persuade her.
This is really a pot that cannot be opened.
Fang Plover couldn't help but raise his forehead when he saw this.
After three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the sun finally broke out of the clouds, reflecting a rainbow on the vapor-filled valley.
The others took a short break - having afternoon tea together on the platform, except for Tianlan and Parker - and then returned to the work of paving roads and building bridges. This is a hard and tiring job. First, you have to cut down the surrounding trees, and then you have to laboriously carry them out to lay a road in the muddy water.
And if the negative hill beast accidentally falls into a mud pit, the trouble will be even greater.
Fang Yu, Luo Yu, and the big cat man were all covered in wet mud. The mud dried on their arms, necks, and legs, which made people itch and panic. When they were scratched with their hands, the mud and sand fell down in chunks, exposing their lower parts. Skin that is red due to allergies.
There are swarms of insects in the forest, and even burning rosin to drive them away is basically useless. Some palm-sized blood-sucking mosquitoes can even provide experience after killing them.
One can imagine how terrifying it is——
Luo Yu was bitten and almost immediately withdrew from the battle. Only the big cat man was content. He was a lion man with rough skin and thick flesh, and he also had a long tail that swept around to drive away mosquitoes.
But for Fang Plover himself, those insects seemed to avoid him intentionally. As soon as he stood there, the mosquitoes flew away.
The big cat man jokingly called him the King of Mosquitoes, but Fang Plover himself knew that it was the ring of golden flames on his body that was working.
The ring seemed to be exuding a faint aura of dragon to the surroundings all the time, making wild animals and insects afraid to approach it easily.
He did several experiments and came to this conclusion, but unfortunately its scope of action was limited and only affected the carrier. Seeing Luo Yu's miserable condition, Fang Yu couldn't help but look at the heavy golden ring in his hand and felt grateful that it was really a good thing.
When everyone crossed the river beach, they almost encountered danger. The beast fell into the quagmire due to its excessive weight and almost tipped over.
He and Red tried their best to recover the damage, but Mr. Gray Rock was inevitably injured.
The first day of the journey did not go as smoothly as expected. Flash floods seriously disrupted everyone's itinerary.
Although they arrived at Emerald Pass before the dusk began to rise, there was still a long way to go before the Andrita Falls, and the plan for the first day basically came to nothing.
After crossing the Emerald Pass, since the storm had not yet had time to attack the mountainous area behind, the mountain road became much easier here.
It took them an hour or two to walk about ten miles and entered a forest. Then the sun sinks behind the mountains and night falls.
Gloomy clouds obscured the sunset, and the harsh weather meant that before the sunset had time to dye half of the sky red, the surroundings seemed to suddenly dive into the gloomy night.
There are Gaelin crystals suspended in the forest. The original crystals of Fenris contain light elements and emit a faint fluorescence at night.
Far and near, shining like fireflies.
But the night was not peaceful.
As the lion man Rhett said, there are night lizards living in the Green Dragon Mountains. These natural hunters are light-hating creatures. They are nocturnal. They will lurk in underground caves during the day and return to the surface to hunt at night. .
Their eyes are sensitive to light, and the thin starlight allows them to see for miles at night. The low-light environment created by the light crystals in the Green Dragon Mountains is simply their natural hunting ground.
After Fang Plover solicited the opinions of others, he asked the negative hill beast to stop on a mesa behind the Gray Wind Ridge and a few miles south of the Emerald Pass.
But no one expected that they would be attacked by two groups of night lizards overnight. The first group of night lizards sneaked in under darkness at one or two o'clock in the morning. After triggering the alchemy trap set by Fang Plover on the outside of the camp, they turned to attack the platform.
There are about ten night lizards in this group. The night lizards are level fourteen creatures. This number does not pose much of a threat to the team. But the battle in the darkness brought big trouble to everyone. Although there were torches on the platform, the fire could not illuminate too far. However, the night lizards were surprisingly accurate with their bows and arrows in the darkness. At first, everyone wanted to use the newly installed ballistae on the platform to shoot at them, but as soon as they showed up, they were shot all over their heads.
Everyone could only retreat to the carriage, but it was unrealistic for the lion man to kill him with a torch. These monsters are naturally light-hating hunters, and they have a whole set of methods for dealing with light sources. The priests they accompanied actually had the ability to extinguish flames. The big cat man tried several times but failed because the torches were extinguished.
In the end, Fang Plover's Clockwork Fairy was able to capture the location of the Night Lizard sacrifice in the darkness, and then Fang Plover asked Parker to use an explosive shot to solve the problem.
After the only night lizard priest died, the remaining lizard people seemed to realize that the situation was over, so they retreated into the forest.
The second batch of night lizards did not seem to be from the same clan as the first batch of attackers. They arrived before dawn and did not learn the lessons of the former. They were killed in two seconds by Fang Plover using the same method at the beginning. A sacrifice.
It’s just that the scale of the second batch of attackers was much larger than the first batch. Under the light of the explosion and shooting, I saw that the forest was full of these dry lizard men with pale eyes, like pieces of dead wood. hunter.
The other party even brought a night lizard wizard, Fang Plover, these ghosts actually knew how to use a magic weapon, and almost blew up the carriages of Parker, Red and Luo Yu with a few fireballs.
The battle in the darkness was still miserable, and this time even the clockwork fairy couldn't be used. The opponent obviously became more vigilant after suffering a loss. After the first wave of attacks, Fang Plover almost lost two and a half clockwork goblins before finding the third sacrifice.
And there was nothing more to achieve after that.
Of course, they were called two and a half clockwork fairies because there was one clockwork fairy that Fang Plover gave up control of. In order to avoid being shot down, he let it fly directly into a tree hole.
I don't know if I can find it again.
The only good thing is that these attackers arrived relatively late. After the battle lasted for about half an hour, the sky brightened and the Golden Star appeared on the horizon.
Then the night lizards retreated like a tide and disappeared into the forest, as if they had never appeared.
"Where did these ghosts come from!" Parker yelled angrily - he was shot in the butt by an arrow during the battle and was still lying on the ground.
Looking at the lingering smoke and the scorched black platform, Fang Plover also shook his head.
This thing has just been repaired not long ago, and it is about to be overhauled again. Although the beast of burden platform is easy to use, its defense is too low.
When he saw Aitila walking down the first saddle bridge, he couldn't help but ask: "Is Mr. Huiyan injured?"
Miss Elf shook her head: "We are lucky, we only suffered some skin trauma, which is nothing to it. Just prepare some herbs later."
Fang Plover breathed a sigh of relief.
This is probably a blessing in misfortune.
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