These trees are not redwoods, but they are more than 100 meters tall and have a diameter of up to ten meters.
The dense crowns of each giant tree are so close together that no ray of sunlight can penetrate.
If you look down from the mountains in the distance, the spreading canopy of this forest will give people the illusion of walking on flat ground.
Therefore, it is difficult to see sunlight inside the forest all day long, there is a cold chill in the air, and the ground covered with fallen leaves and branches is damp and smelly.
Walking in such a dark and cold environment, there seems to be something ready to move in every darkness that can be seen.
Even the air that is everywhere...
He is also releasing every trace of pressure on everyone.
Whether the way forward is right or wrong is yet to be determined.
But it is obviously not easy to walk through this forest now.
Everyone in the team tensed up their nerves, always alert to the dangers around them.
After all, this is a part of the Dark Continent. Even if it is just an inconspicuous corner, an unreasonable and strange thing may pop up.
In comparison, the behemoths Nitro once described are easier to deal with.
After all, those existences are visible to the naked eye...
Unlike the black shadow bugs we encountered before, although they are fragile enough to be easily eliminated with a small teleportation bullet, they are hard to find and have weird attack capabilities.
Moyu even doubted that those black shadow insects had the ability to kill behemoths.
An ant killed an elephant.
Just thinking about this kind of thing feels weird.
But in a place like the Dark Continent, it doesn't seem strange at all.
The team walked through the damp and cold forest, and the marching formation was still the same as before. Siso Benso was responsible for the demining task, exploring the road ahead and eliminating potential threats.
However, due to the forest terrain and various threats that may be encountered along the way, the team's travel speed is not very fast.
Compared with the initial speed of crossing the white land and black hills, it is simply a day and a day.
"If we continue like this, I don't know how long it will take to get through this forest."
Moyu was always paying attention to the vision picture transmitted back in real time from Xisuo Bensuo, his brows were furrowed, and there was a trace of sadness floating in it.
White land, black hills, giant grasslands...
When coming from these places, traveling thousands of miles in a day is nothing.
But in this forest right now, it would be pretty good to be able to travel three hundred miles in one day.
Not to mention the problem of vision, we have encountered many very aggressive creatures along the way.
Most of the creatures were taken care of by them, but a few creatures were afraid of Moyu's "all-out" aura and fled without fighting as soon as they appeared.
This is the fundamental reason why the team is moving too slowly.
If the creatures encountered could barely be classified into the normal category, I'm afraid the traveling speed would be even slower.
Moyu thought that by moving forward from above the tree canopy, he might be able to avoid various creatures in the forest and thus greatly increase his traveling speed.
However, this plan was immediately aborted.
Sisobensuo, who was sent by him to the top of the tree, was torn into pieces by a group of arrow-shaped flying creatures before he could stand still.
Judging from the visual field of view before Hisoka Bensuo collapsed, the attacker was about the size of a mobile phone, and his flying state was quite similar to that of a dragonfly, but his head had arrow-like sharp angles and there were a large number of them.
They usually seem to inhabit the dense canopy of trees, and will come out in full force when they hear the slightest movement.
It was in that situation that Siso Bensuo was torn into pieces in an instant.
Logically speaking, the mental energy lingering on the body surface should allow Hisoka Bensuo to persist for a while.
But the fact is that the group of flying creatures destroyed Siso Bensuo in one encounter.
When they launch an attack, they seem to be driven by some kind of program. Even though there are many in number, they can attack every corner of Siso Bensuo's body in order.
It was precisely this tightly coordinated group attack method that could tear Hisoka Bensuo into pieces all over the sky within a second or two.
Moyu thought at first that they were unlucky and accidentally entered the territory of this group of flying creatures, so he changed the place and started the experiment.
As a result, we still encountered this dragonfly-like flying creature.
After that, I changed the position several times, but the result was no change.
No matter where you climb the tree canopy, you will be attacked by these flying creatures in a short period of time.
This result made Moyo give up the idea of traveling above the tree canopy, and could only walk honestly through the forest.
After all, other creatures encountered in the forest are easier to deal with than flying creatures that are as dense as ant colonies.
In this way, Moyo's team gradually explored forward while ensuring safety.
During this period, it is inevitable to raise the butcher knife high and kill all incoming creatures.
Fortunately, during this period of time, we have never encountered anything as troublesome as the black shadow bug.
Sometimes you will encounter some kind-hearted creatures.
Their aggressiveness is very weak, and they don't have the kind of viciousness that lingers in the smell of blood.
Perhaps because of this, Moyu's "affinity +2" attribute can attract the goodwill of this group of creatures.
It is a pity that these creatures do not have the potential to communicate.
Otherwise, Pyorn can be asked to build a communication bridge as before, so as to collect intelligence that can speed up the movement and reduce the threat of movement.
finally--
It took the team twenty days to get out of the forest.
The whole journey was a success without any danger.
It was Xiaodi who was infected with some unknown virus. He had a high fever for a day and a night and almost died.
Fortunately, Sambika was there and snatched Xiaodi away from the God of Death at the last moment.
According to Sambika's judgment, the source of the virus that infects droplets is most likely from those creatures attracted by Moyu's affinity.
Therefore, after this incident, the team will no longer rashly contact these creatures that come with good intentions, and will disperse them as soon as possible every time.
Walking out of this forest, which is called a paradise for creature hunters, the scene ahead suddenly changes.
The uneven white rocky land extends from the feet into the distance, and up the slope, is followed by a large hollowed-out giant rock block of various shapes. From a distance, it looks like a super-large coral reef appearing on land.
And on the middle line between the end of the hillside and the coral reef-like rocks, there is a light brown strip with a diameter of more than three meters across the ground.
Its length is endless, as if it were a dividing line drawn by the Creator himself...
"Looks like tree roots..."
Moyu glanced left and right.
Then, as usual, he threw the shadow clone high into the sky and looked down at the field of view, and found that the light brown thing that looked like a tree root indeed stretched across the earth like a boundary line, separating the hillside and the coral reef-like rock area.
Everyone looked at the tree root-like object lying on the hillside.
Even when Moyu said that the object was so long that there was no end in sight, they didn't have much reaction.
It has been more than two months since I came to the Dark Continent, and I have seen too many incredible things on the way.
Now it's just a tree root-like thing with an astonishing length, so there's no need to make a fuss about it.
"What do you mean, the old rules?"
Kang Zai looked at Moyu and asked.
Things like pathfinding or trial and error should be done by the reinforcement system.
But since the team has the ability of "Soul Echo", it is naturally not Kang Jae's turn to sacrifice his life.
Otherwise, even if he has the super self-healing ability of "tiger stripes", no matter how many lives he has, it won't be enough in the face of that weird thing full of unknown abilities.
"certainly."
Moyu nodded, looking up at the many coral-like rocks standing high up, a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes.
After traveling for nearly three months, everything I saw on the way was inconsistent with the content in the "Journey to the New World"...
Does this mean that they were transported by ancient channels to a place that is completely out of reach of Nitolomi?
If we had known this would happen earlier, we might not have rushed to use ancient pipelines to reach the Dark Continent.
But if you don't do this...
The matter of smuggling alone is also far away.
Ultimately, it’s because there are so few choices.
But there is no point in thinking about this now. We can only think of ways to find an opportunity to obtain information as soon as possible.
I just hope that I can encounter intelligent creatures with the possibility of communication on the unknown road ahead.
In this way, it doesn't matter even if a few monsters and monsters come.
Moyu suppressed his emotions, and then controlled Xisuo Bensuo to slowly walk towards the tree root-like thing that separated the two lands.
Their team has been able to reach this point unscathed, of course because the "Shadow Space" can carry sufficient survival supplies and provide a safe haven in times of crisis.
But it’s more because of the countless trial and error opportunities that the shadow clones have brought to the entire team.
It is it that infinitely increases the error tolerance rate when exploring the road.
Xisuo Bensuo came closer slowly, and immediately under the close attention of everyone, he stepped over the tree root-like thing on the ground.
But at this moment, the originally lifeless tree root-like object suddenly boiled like a liquid, and then densely packed sea anemone-like tentacles were instantly derived.
Immediately afterwards, these tentacles were like rapidly closing vertical and horizontal sharp teeth, wrapping Sisu Bensuo within them.
The next moment, these tentacles retracted quickly and returned to their original root-like form at a speed visible to the naked eye.
It's just that Sisu Bensuo, who was wrapped by them, disappeared out of thin air.
at the same time.
Moyu received the feedback of pain.
It was like there were countless red-hot iron rods piercing his body. Even though he had a strong pain tolerance, he couldn't help but frown at this moment, silently enduring the pain that was indescribable in words.
It can be said that the shadow clone did play a vital role in the path of exploration, but the price was that Moyu had to endure all kinds of pain.
Fortunately, Moyu had started to hone his pain tolerance a long time ago, otherwise he might have been broken down by all kinds of pain and suffered a mental breakdown.
"Good guy!"
Kang Zai's expression changed when he saw the tree-root-like thing transforming into many tentacles and swallowing Xisu Bensuo.
But even if he has a simple mind, he can't help but wonder why this tree root-like thing is laid on the ground so openly.
Since it is trap hunting, it should be hidden even more.
Instead, Xiaodi and Menqi's focus was on Moyou.
They noticed Mo Yu's frowning expression of pain.
In their impression, it seemed that this was the first time they saw Moyu showing such an obvious reaction.
"Moyou..."
Pyoern took two steps closer and asked softly: "Does it hurt?"
The rest of the team also looked at Moyu.
Facing the caring looks from everyone, Moyu didn't hide it, nodded and said: "It hurts a lot. In terms of grade, it's at least an 'A-' level."
"so smart?"
Bisji raised his eyebrows.
What she just saw was Sisu Bensuo being swallowed up in an instant.
I thought that such a simple way of death would not cause any pain, but I did not expect that the opposite was true.
Moyu nodded again, and then materialized a new Hisoka Bensuo.
"As long as we test the attack height of this thing, we should be able to get through it."
As he spoke, Moyu controlled Sisu Bensuo to jump ten meters into the air, trying to get over the tree root-like objects on the ground in this way.
However, just as Hisoka Bensuo passed by the sky, the tree root-like thing boiled like a liquid again, and then derived dense anemone-like tentacles, and the attack speed became several times faster...
Everyone's eyes changed, and they could barely see clearly that those tentacles were like whales leaping out of the sea, opening their bloody mouths and swallowing Hisoka Bensuo into them.
Only a breath of time.
The tree root-like thing that swallowed Hisoka Benso returned to its original shape again.
Seeing this scene, everyone couldn't help but fell silent and looked at Moyu one after another.
All I could see was Moyu frowning, silently enduring the pain that came back.
When the pain dissipated, Moyu materialized as Hisoka Benso again.
This time, the height of the vertical jump was thirty meters, and Siso Benso showed his fastest speed.
Unfortunately, it was swallowed up by countless anemone-like tentacles in an instant.
"It doesn't seem to work. This thing seems to be able to adjust the height and speed of the attack according to the situation."
After several experiments, Moyu realized this.
Bisji and others saw the test process and naturally had the same views as Moyu.
"Wouldn't it be impossible to get through?"
Kang Zai stared at the tree root-like thing lying in front of him.
Who would have thought that this seemingly ordinary thing could have such perverted predatory abilities.
"We still have a rat baby."
With that said, Moyou raised his finger and tapped the bead necklace.
The bead glowed with white light, and then turned into a rat treasure.
"Jiji!"
Shubao looked up at Moyu, then patted his chest with his short hand, indicating that there was no problem at all.
Moyu smiled, but was not too happy.
Because judging from the test results, it is still unclear whether the tree root-like object will only attack people who are crossing the boundary, or whether it will also attack people who cross the boundary.
If you attack even those who cross the boundary, then the ability of the rat treasure is meaningless.
Anyway, give it a try.
Anyway, you can test it with Sisobensuo first.
After thinking about this, Moyu gave up his worries.
"Jiji!"
The rat treasure inspired bursts of telekinesis and soon created a straight passage.
Everyone then jumped into the passage.
After a while.
A pitch-black circle with green light on the edge appeared on the surface of a coral-like rock dozens of meters away from the tree root-like object.
Then Sisu Bensuo walked out of the dark circle and faced the tree root-like thing lying on the ground.
This time, the tree root-like object showed no reaction.
Seeing this result, Moyu breathed a sigh of relief.
Afterwards, everyone came out of the "Accelerator" passage one after another and successfully crossed the boundary line set up by the tree root-like object.
Now--
Then keep moving forward.
A few days later.
Dong Fulis followed the traces and came here.
"It's really remarkable that the obstruction of the 'boundary-guarding plants' has been solved so quickly."
After confirming that Moyu and his party had passed through the root-like thing called the boundary-guarding plant, Dong Fulis's interest suddenly became more intense.
He hasn't seen a human being for a long, long time.
Moreover, they are a group of humans with outstanding abilities that can solve various dangers in the dark continent.