Chapter 120 [Conditions] (1)
"Barossa."
After walking in the woods for a while, Chen Daolin pulled the elf girl to his side, looked around, lowered his voice and said, "Do you feel anything unusual?"
The elf girl seemed to have a strange eyebrows. After hearing Chen Daolin's question, she nodded indeed, with a little confused tone: "This wood... I can't communicate with them."
Barossa is the best among the vegetarians. Although she is still young, she already has the rare racial talent skill "Call of Nature". As a vegetarian, this racial talent is that they can communicate with plants in nature.
Logically speaking, in this forest anywhere in the world, as long as there are trees, flowers and plants, it is the natural "home court" of the elves.
But at this moment, Barossa's expression was particularly strange.
After walking into the woods, Barossa habitually unfolded the breath of her veil and tried to communicate with the woods with natural call.
But the result shocked the young elf girl.
Her "natural call" didn't get any response!
In this forest, it seems...a dead body!
"Deadly?" Chen Daolin was stunned when he heard Barossa's words.
The forest in front of me is full of greenness, and even the air is filled with a pleasant and rich atmosphere of nature. The faint fragrance of plants and trees walking in the woods is revealed, and the feeling of vitality makes people feel relaxed and happy!
How come the saying "lifeless" comes from?
But Chen Daolin knew the elf girl, and with Barossa's temperament, he would never talk nonsense. Since she said that, there was naturally her reason.
"This forest is very strange." Barossa frowned, leaned against Chen Daolin and walked slowly, whispering: "Our elves are the most sensitive to the breath of flowers, plants and trees, and are also the best at communicating with the surrounding trees. For example, in the frozen forest, the trees and plants around our tribe seem to be friends and family like us. We don't even have to send people to patrol the surroundings. Every day, we only need to pass the wind in the forest, and the trees will convey what happened in the surrounding trees to us. We can all receive them clearly, kindly and hostilely."
After a pause, she showed a confused expression on her face: "We have also been to some strange woods, but even when we go to the strange woods, we can always get some feedback when we use the 'Natural Call' call. Even if the surrounding trees are strangers to us, we can at least get their breath, knowing whether they are happy or unhappy, whether they welcome us or reject us, just like... it's like walking into a group of strangers or people who are hostile to us. But no matter what, there will always be a reaction."
Chen Daolin roughly understood what Barossa meant and asked, "What about here? No reaction at all?"
"No." Barossa shook her head, and the elf girl smiled bitterly: "I have never encountered this situation. The woods here seem to have no reaction at all. I think that even if the trees here are different from those on the mainland and the environment here excludes us, even if that is the case, I can communicate with the trees to know their hostility or disgust... But now, there is no reaction at all."
After a pause, the elf girl thought for a while, her eyes were confused: "If I hadn't opened my eyes and looked at the woods right in front of me... If I had closed my eyes, I would have thought I was walking in a desert! I would not have felt the existence of green life around me."
"Can it be... it's because of the ban on demons here?" Chen Daolin asked a question.
"..." Barossa thought for a while, shook her head and said, "It shouldn't be that our elves' natural call is a racial talent, not magic or driven by magic elements. It is our natural insight and communication about natural creatures, and it has nothing to do with magic."
Chen Daolin's eyes flashed, and he didn't know what he was thinking. He suddenly reached out and climbed over a shrub beside him, picked a green leaf and sent it into his mouth, chewed it hard for a few times, and then spit out all the chewed leaves mixed with saliva and the juice of the leaves.
"This is strange...it doesn't seem fake." Chen Daolin frowned, and he took a deep breath: "No matter what, be careful."
The pirates in front opened the way with machetes, splitting the branches and shrubs, and setting out a road. Chen Daolin brought all three girls by his side and followed closely behind.
The group walked slowly into the woods. The deeper they went to, Chen Daolin felt that the strange sensitivity in his body became stronger and stronger.
This feeling is like standing naked in the woods, and there seems to be some kind of "power" in secret to make the people clearly see through it.
After walking for about two hours, the team stopped to rest.
Barossa's face became less and less beautiful.
For elves, this is a situation that has never happened before. As the best among the vegetarians, she is an excellent young elves with rare racial talents. In this wood, it should have been her natural home ground, but at this moment, she cannot feel any natural breath in this wood.
This feeling is like being blindfolded, sealing your ears, and blocking your nose: you can’t see, hear, smell, and not smell!
For elves, this feeling is really harder to accept than anything else.
"Stop calling with nature." Chen Daolin patted Barossa on the shoulder and whispered: "Save your strength, if anything happens, you are our greatest combat power now."
Chen Daolin only told Barossa about the ban on demons. Others did not know that magic could not be used here at all. Otherwise, if the pirate sailors learned about it, they would rebel immediately.
The four pirate sailors were still very honest for the time being. They sat there obediently while resting and drank water to restore their strength. They did not speak and talked, and also maintained awe-in-comfortable look at Chen Daolin.
Only the daughter of Lodell, the daughter of the daughter, still did not notice anything unusual at this moment. The young lady smiled heartlessly and refused to sit down honestly when she was resting. Instead, she ran around, cheering, as if everything was fresh.
She has good physical strength, but she has made the poor little maid Xia Xia suffer.
Xia Xia, the young follower, has completely become Miss Lodell's exclusive maid. Lodell is sent to run around with her, handing her water, wiping her sweat, and getting her food, and helping her pick flowers in the grass...
Even so, Lodell still felt deficient. Looking at this lush forest, he couldn't help but sigh: "This is the first time I have seen such a big forest... In previous years, the family held hunting activities, and those men refused to let women participate. Occasionally, women were allowed to follow, and women did not allow women to enter the hunting grounds and forest farms. Instead, we women were asked to make tents and prepare food outside the forest. Humph! I thought for a long time that if I grow up in the future, I must enjoy the fun of hunting! Hahaha... It's a pity, why didn't I see any animals along the way? Well... When I get off the boat, I should bring a pair of bows and arrows!"
As she said that, she turned her big eyes and looked at Barossa - the elf girl was carrying the elf's special longbow behind her.
Chen Daolin originally thought that the young lady was talking in air, but after hearing it, she suddenly felt aroused her heart! She suddenly woke up!
He immediately jumped up and walked to Lodell: "What did you say just now?"
Lodell glanced at him: "I said I wanted to hunt, what's wrong? Can't it?"
Chen Daolin frowned, his eyes were a little wrong.
Lodell sighed: "Do you care about me again? You are really... I'm not a fool without any restraint! I know very well. I have read books. On such a small island on the sea, I thought that there would be no large and dangerous beasts in the geographical environment! Because such an island, such a small world, isolated from the outside world, large and ferocious animals cannot reproduce in this small place! So there will be no danger in the woods here, at most, some harmless animals that eat herbs, there will be no danger. What are you afraid of?"
Chen Daolin's eyes flashed and suddenly shouted to Barossa: "Come on!"
"What?" Barossa stood up.
"Our young lady is bored." Chen Daolin seemed to smile relaxed: "She wants to hunt, just satisfy her once. See if there are any prey, pheasants, rabbits, etc. around... It really doesn't work, see if you can find any bird nests."
Barossa was stunned.
Although the elves are races in the forest, the elves have always loved peace and disliked killing, so even if they survive in the woods, they rarely hunt animals in the forest. Barossa couldn't help but feel a little surprised when she heard Chen Daolin's paintings, but then she saw Chen Daolin's eyes thrown at her, and she became impressed. After all, she had been in the frozen forest with Chen Daolin for so many days, and she had a tacit understanding. She didn't ask much at this moment, only knowing that Chen Daolin had his own reason to let him do this.
Barossa immediately found a big tree and climbed up. Her nimble skills soon climbed to the high trunk. She looked out from the trunk, searching around with a keen eye, and listening carefully.
After a moment, Barossa jumped out of the tree and frowned, "It's strange... there's nothing here."
"No?" Lodell was stunned: "No, right? There is not even a rabbit?"
Barossa shook her head: "There is no movement at all. There is no movement in the woods... It's strange that I didn't see any birds, nor did I hear any singing."
At this time, Chen Daolin also crawled out of the grass. His hands were covered with mud. He held the dagger in one hand and slowly put it away. He clapped his hands. Brother Daling's expression was also a little gloomy.
"Stop looking." Chen Daolin sighed: "My guess seems right. Here... let alone birds, I flipped over the soil. There were no ant or insects in the grass and soil on the ground!"
There are no birds in the sky, no animals in the forest, and no insects and ants in the soil!!
At this time, even if the person who reacts slowly, he should notice something is wrong.
Lodele stopped making trouble. She stood quietly beside Chen Daolin. The girl showed a hint of nervousness on her face. She looked at her left hand and lowered her voice: "...Is there something strange here?"
Chen Daolin pondered for a while: "There should be no danger. After all..."
He didn't continue to say the following words.
After all, this is the treasure left by Du Wei, and it was also the magic image he left with him to guide later people to find it. The first Duke of Tulip, for no reason, had no reason to deliberately set up a murder trap, and then guided the later time travelers to deliberately come to the door to die, right?
Although this forest is very strange, Chen Daolin has no excessive worries yet.
He was just curious... how did this woods come up with so weird?
After enough rest, the group continued to walk deep into the forest.
In the afternoon, I found a source of water in the woods.
This is a small pool, and a small stream extends from a forest. From the location, it seems to be coming from the mountain. The stream flows into the low-lying area here, forming a pool.
It’s just a pity that the stream has dried up, leaving only a dry river channel. However, there is still a lot of water in the pool.
Seeing the clear water in the pool, a pirate sailor tasted the water and laughed loudly, "It's Tamsui!"
After walking for a long time, the water on them was consumed a lot. They confirmed that it was fresh water and filled them with water bags.
"It should have been raining a few days ago, and the water flowed down from a high place and accumulated here." A pirate sailor looked at the surrounding environment and sighed: "It's a pity that there are no fish in the water. I always eat sea fish on the sea these days, and I'm almost vomiting. If I can have two freshwater fish to eat, that's what I'm happy."
Chen Daolin sighed in his heart: There are not even insects and birds on this island, so how can there be fish in the water?
Sure enough, Barossa carefully checked around the pool, but still found no trace of animals.
Logically speaking, this is the freshwater source in the forest. If there are animals in this forest, you will definitely come to this pool to drink water, and you will definitely leave footprints or other traces around.
Just as Chen Daolin was drinking water, Barossa suddenly stood up, with a hint of alertness in her eyes, gently shook her nose, sniffed in the air, and then took off the longbow!
Chen Daolin believed in Barossa's observation skills the most in the woods. When he saw Barossa's movements, he immediately jumped up and quickly pulled out the sword and held it in his hand: "What's wrong?"
"Someone! I smell the air!" Barossa's tone was very certain, and she bent her bow and arrow, pointing in a certain direction in the woods: "It's right there! Someone is coming here!"
Chapter completed!