There is no clear boundary between the second-level and third-level areas. The main basis for the division is the degree of danger, which is highly subjective and artificial. There is no clear dividing line in a factual sense.
Chu Jungui stopped at the foot of a hillside. This was a relatively small high slope, with endless foothills and forests in the distance. There was a stream not far away, flowing out from the mountain, extending all the way into the distance, and finally gathered several other streams. The stream then turned into a small river.
The current location is almost 110 kilometers away from the previous camp. In terms of hiking, it is considered to have spanned a quite remote area. Perhaps because we were close to a mountainous area, the temperature was much lower than at the previous camp. There was a bit of biting chill in the wind, and even the leather clothing on our bodies was a bit unbearable.
"Just here." Chu Jungui placed his backpack on the small slope. It is 10 meters higher than the stream, so it has a good view. Forests meant danger, but also fuel, meat, and furs. Needless to say about the stream, a cliff not far away has a colorful section. It looks like several mineral veins are compounded together and cut open with a knife, just like sliced tiramisu.
Chu Jungui was quite satisfied with this place. As for the degree of danger, he would not know until he was attacked. However, according to dynasty information, a place so close to the mountainous forest area is at least the transition zone between the second and third levels. Based on past experience, there will be a vague zone between the second and third level areas, which is also the first choice for explorers to advance to the camp. The dangers encountered in this zone are not that high. You can rest and replenish yourself. It is also very convenient to explore the third-level area without consuming precious energy on the road.
How to identify this middle ground is the watershed that distinguishes excellent explorers from ordinary explorers.
However, Chu Jungui didn't care whether the surrounding area was level two, level three, or in the middle. Anyway, according to past records, it was not very dangerous to him.
Chu Jungui looked up at the sky. It would be dark in three hours. There was still plenty to do before dark.
He opened his backpack and put all the tools into categories. Then, two big trees roared down at the edge of the forest. The branches fell automatically and turned into two logs in the blink of an eye.
Chu Jungui went over and carried the two logs, which together weighed two to three tons, and walked steadily back to the small highland. After installing the biological engine, Chu Jungui's strength directly increased by 20%. His base is already high, and adding another 20% would be quite impressive.
During the transportation process, a neat grid began to appear on the surface of the logs. When they were placed on the ground at the camp, they were immediately dispersed into neat logs. The specifications were different, including thin boards and thick boards, lumber and firewood, and the processing was completed in one step. .
Chu Jungui inserted a circle of sharpened wooden thorns around the small high ground to form the most basic defense. There is a gap of about half a meter between the wooden spines, which can effectively reduce the speed of wild animals. In fact, it doesn't make any difference to Chu Jungui whether he slows down or not, but why not if it's more convenient?
After arranging the peripheral defense, Chu Jungui picked up a shovel, shoveled out a small piece of flat land in the center of the high ground, picked up a wooden stake and inserted it into the ground, then picked up a 300 kilogram stone and smashed it down, and the wooden stake immediately sank into the ground. By laying down multiple wooden piles in this way and laying wooden boards on top, it will be a very luxurious foundation. Chu Jungui then picked up four 2-meter-long pieces of wood and stood them at the four corners. Then he used planks to build the roof, and then added the walls, and a small wooden house was completed.
The wooden house has windows on three sides and a door on one, so it can be said that air leaks from all sides. However, after a bonfire was lit in the center, the cold wind that could penetrate the bone marrow was weakened to the point that it could be ignored.
Looking at Kaitian who turned into a mist and was busy with his business, Chu Jungui suddenly thought about why he had such a strong body and microscopic control down to the muscle fiber level, but he was still almost frozen by the wind here. Degree? But Kaitian is not afraid at all.
Is it a unique setting of this world? Chu Jungui did think so at first. To a certain extent, real dreams are like a large-scale simulation game, but the details and realism can put the top games out by a few blocks.
But such a huge world is just for a group of humans to play a survival game?
From the first day, Chu Jungui discovered that the physical rules in real dreams are quite rigorous and self-consistent. The strength of the material structure here is generally higher than that in the real world, which is reflected in higher melting points, higher energy density, and Stronger structure. If you have an atomic microscope and an instrument capable of measuring proton and electron levels, you should find that there are corresponding differences in the basic forces. Maybe in real dreams, the speed of light is different.
However, there are also many things here that violate the knowledge of physics, such as the wind that can blow through the bones. Dr. Zero's point of view on this is that we think it goes against common sense, maybe because common sense is wrong.
Compared with Kaitian, Chu Jungui suddenly thought of something, is this world encouraging life to evolve in the direction of increasing cell strength? In biology, this is not evolution, but regression, right?
Even for Chu Jungui, comprehensively improving the strength of the cells inside the body is a huge project, and it is not necessary at all. He is not a Mist tribe and does not need to disperse the body into a cellular state. Moreover, in a sense, the Mist Clan is not a single life, but a collection of countless tiny lives.
Chu Jungui picked up a stone and smashed it open on the brought pebbles. He saw the familiar yellow-green color inside and the copper content was very satisfying. Just looking at it from a piece of ore, this world is extremely real, so real that it makes people doubtful.
Chu Jungui set up a thermal power furnace, filled it with a few pieces of prepared charcoal, then lit the electric furnace and continued processing metal.
It was completely dark. Thick clouds blocked the light reflected from the planet. It was almost impossible to see anything around. Only the firelight of the campfire in the wooden house and the light from the thermal power furnace added a touch of warmth to the camp.
Chu Jungui, who was observing the temperature of the electric smelting furnace, suddenly raised his head and felt a vague danger!
"Be careful!" Kaitian also warned.
A thin black shadow flew from the direction of the forest, drew an arc in the air, and shot toward Chu Jungui. Chu Jungui turned sideways and gave way, and then saw a long arrow stuck on the ground, the arrow shaft still trembling slightly.
An arrow!
Chu Jungui leaned over and pulled out the arrow. It was an arrow nearly one meter long. The tip of the arrow was ground from animal bones. The shaft was made of high-quality wood and had no tail feathers. The forest is 300 meters away from the camp. To be able to shoot a bone arrow from such a long distance and accurately point it at Chu Jungui, the opponent's archery skills are excellent.
"Explorers? Don't they all use muskets?" Kaitian said.
Chu Jungui frowned slightly, waved his hand to extinguish the bonfire, hid in the wooden house, and picked up the short bow. The force of the bone arrow was not enough to penetrate the wooden board. The wooden house with thick boards as walls had quite good defense. The bone arrows were obviously poisonous. Originally, Chu Jungui was not afraid of poisons in general, but in the real dream, a gust of wind could freeze him. Maybe there would be some unstoppable poison attached to the bone arrows.
But after one arrow, there was no more movement in the forest.
The sky turned into mist, and he flew into the forest under the cover of night. After a full search, he found nothing. Except for a few bushes with signs of lodging, no clues could be found.
Chu Jungui picked up the bone arrow and studied it. From the spectral perspective, it appeared that the tip of the arrow was coated with some kind of biological toxin. The workmanship of the entire arrow is not rough, the tip of the arrow is polished very sharp, the shaft is cut smoothly, the center of gravity is quite reasonable, and the surface is also coated with a layer of grease.
"Master, nothing was found." Kaitian returned from searching and found nothing.
Chu Jungui handed the bone arrow to Kai Tian and said, "It's not an explorer, it should be some kind of creature in a real dream."
"They know how to use bows and arrows? Doesn't that mean they already have some intelligence?"
"According to past records, intelligent races have never appeared in real dreams, but ruins are occasionally found. This time, is it caused by changes in the world?" Chu Jungui thought, and then said: "We will set out at dawn and search the forest thoroughly. direction!"
Kaitian rose into the sky and said, "Okay, I'll draw the terrain map first."
At dawn, the sky was still overcast, and there was a biting chill in the wind.
Chu Jungui had to knit another pair of gloves and a mask, covering himself until only his eyes were exposed. The material of the real dream has a good windproof effect, but Chu Jungui's skin and body tissue have almost zero protection in this regard.
At this moment, Kaitian has drawn an aerial terrain map with a radius of 50 kilometers, and Chu Jungui is planning a search route based on the terrain map.
According to the standards of human civilization, the level of this bone arrow has surpassed that of the Stone Age, and is roughly between the level of bronze and iron. In other words, pretty original. The highest technology of a civilization is basically reflected in weapons, so no matter who shoots arrows, the level of civilization is generally at this level. They probably don't have transportation tools yet and can only rely on their own physical strength to walk in the forest.
Hunting has a radius of activity, and you must maintain sufficient physical strength. Therefore, according to normal human standards, the attacker's camp should be less than 30 kilometers away from Chu Jungui's camp. Considering the particularity of the real dream, it is very possible to find them if it is expanded to 50 kilometers.
"Let's go." After planning the route, Chu Jungui did not delay, and took Kaitian to the forest to start his first in-depth exploration.
In the forest, the range of normal human perception will be greatly reduced. Generally, it can only detect a few tens of meters around, and the area for visual observation is even smaller. However, with Kaitian Hou, the exploration radius will suddenly expand to several hundred meters, greatly improving the efficiency.
The forest was dark, damp and cold, with shrill chirping of birds and beasts from time to time, and the wind whistling through the trees was particularly eerie.
Chu Jungui marched like a ghost, leaving no traces along the way. When he walked around a giant tree, a clearing suddenly appeared in front of him. In the clearing, there was a small village!
(End of chapter)
