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Chapter 10 The Whispering Swamp

The Whispering Swamp is also located in the southeast of the mainland. It is a large swamp covering an area of ​​150,000 square kilometers. It is surrounded by the Perfect Ice Field, the Sigh Desert and the Mage Country Bute. It is on the same plateau as the Perfect Ice Field and Bute, so it can be interconnected. As for the side near the Sigh Desert in the west, there are long and steep slopes. It may cost a huge price to enter the Whispering Swamp from the Sigh Desert.

According to the original plan, after leaving the Permafrost Icefield, I bought a carriage and headed south, detoured the territory of the Faral Empire, then turned west, and finally returned to the Western Palace, the capital of Knowledge. However, due to Garantis' invitation, everyone decided to change the plan and walked directly along the border between the Permafrost Icefield and the Land of the Wizard until they entered the Whispering Swamp. The reason for walking like this is actually very simple. For the hot Country of the Wizard, the border with the Icefield is the coolest. Walking on this narrow border is much more comfortable than passing through the Land of the Wizard.

The border area is a relatively desolate place in the Kingdom of Mages. The land here is barren, the ground is mostly stone, and it is completely impossible to cultivate. There are almost no wizard lords to manage in this area, and there are no towns. There are only one or two extremely small villages. The villages seem extremely closed and are not friendly to outsiders. It is said that these villages have existed long before the Kingdom of Mages appeared. They are a group of indigenous people on the plateau and are unwilling to be assimilated by the Kingdom of Mages. So they live in the barren border areas, living here for generations, slowly being forgotten by the world, and becoming a group of people that no one remembers.

However, even if these forgotten villagers live here for generations, they dare not enter the whispering swamp. For ordinary people and low-level professions, the whispering swamp is really not suitable for human survival and may die in the storm at any time. Only high-level professions who are far stronger than ordinary people can enter and move freely without encountering too much danger.

Entering the whispering swamp, it is like entering another world. The outside environment has nothing to do with everyone. This is a world that belongs to the swamp. As soon as you step into the swamp range, the ground under your feet turns purple-red, and a large number of Sougu wood grows from the wet and soft ground of the swamp. Sougu wood is a tree unique to swamps. The wood can last for thousands of years, with a tall and thick trunk, and a very dense crown. A Sougu wood that is ten years old can reach forty or fifty meters in height, with a radius of about twenty meters, and the crown can almost cover a range of 500 meters. These Sougu wood grow in the swamp, spread throughout the swamp, and brown leaves almost cover the entire swamp. If you look down at the swamp from the sky, you can find that the swamp range does not look purple-red but brown. This color is enough to indicate the coverage area of ​​Sougu wood.

Therefore, the girls were still far away and saw dense plants covering the sky and the sun. There was also a faint mist floating out from the gaps of the plants. Walking forward, I found that the trees were getting taller and taller, and I could vaguely smell the soft and sweet fragrance of Sougu wood. The smell of this fragrance was very strange, somewhat similar to the smell of Pastry, but it was mixed with some slight sour smell. When humans smelled it, they might feel good when they smelled it, but they would feel too sweet over time. However, for lizard people, this smell made them very popular. According to Garantis, they could not smell the smell of Sougu wood, and they would feel uncomfortable even when they were sleeping at night. Therefore, every lizard people who left the swamp would carry a section of Sougu wood. Only by smelling the sweet fragrance from Sougu wood, the lizard people would not miss their hometown too much.

Drawing into the covered swamp, looking up, you can't see the sky at all. Because the coverage of Suogu wood is too large, the branches and leaves of several Suogu wood often grow together, forming a very strong mesh barrier, which can hardly cause damage to the branch net unless you use a sharp weapon to continuously cut. Although Suogu wood is very light, it is very tough and has a rough and soft bark. Even if you accidentally hit it, you often don't feel pain as long as the power is not too great. A large amount of vines are wrapped around the outer layer of Suogu wood, which symbiotically coexist with Suogu wood. Suogu wood provides vines with nutrients to maintain life, while the vines emit a strange smell that is difficult for humans to feel. These smells can dispel insects and plant-feeding animals and provide the best environment for Suogu wood to grow healthy.

If you move your attention away from the top of your head and turn to the ground, you can find that the ground is as soft as a velvet blanket when you step on it. Although it is soft, it is not as muddy as you imagined. It is just that it is relatively wet. Since the ground does not see sunlight for many years, the plants in the swamp are not the green they usually see, but have a purple-red red that is very close to the ground. Although you don’t understand how the plants without sunlight grow, there are indeed a large number of swamp plants growing densely in the swamp. Most of these plants are herbs and shrubs. Due to the warmth and humidity, the plants are full of flowers, but all plants are often only two or three meters high, and the higher space is already covered with branches and leaves that are not dense in the lower half of the Soguki.

"This place is different from what I imagined." Vivian habitually took out her notebook and began to record the characteristics of the swamp and her feelings. Her body healing did not affect her habit. Instead, it was because she did not need to separate some consciousness to control her limbs, so that she could record more intriguedly: "In my imagination, there should be puddles with green bubbles and biogas everywhere. Every step on it will silt to cover the calves. The air is filled with the smell of wood and corpses rotting. Deadly monsters may pop up in the mud pond beside her at any time. This environment can match the rumored whispering swamp."

"Shit, we can't live here, hiss." Garantis whipped the bushes beside him with his tail, and said laughing and crying: "This is our home, hiss, how could it be so disgusting? Hiss, I have said that my home is actually very beautiful, why don't you believe it, hiss?"
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