The surroundings are full of dead leaves, and there are no traces of biological movement. The light here appears dimmer. I don’t know why, but with a little comparison, I can keenly notice that the growth of trees in a small area is worse than that not far away.
Much better.
The branches and leaves of the ancient trees are more lush, and the dark green color still has a bright luster as if it had been washed by heavy rain. The thick trunks of the ancient trees even have fresh bark that grows out of the old bark. The deep forests in the south have existed for a long time.
It is like an unchanging recorder left in time. Unless it is in the core area, the ancient tree has already reached the growth limit of its long life in history. There is also a limit to the height that can break through the laws of nature. When it is not in the core area
When trees come close to this limit, their growth is just to maintain life.
In an irregular circular area with a radius of about several hundred meters, not every ancient tree can break through the old bark and grow again in the second spring. On the thick bark full of irregular cracks, the growth again
There are crooked symbols on the trunks of the ancient trees, like the graffiti of a child who has never learned to write.
With a point as the center, the ancient trees scattered around have more or less distorted symbols with unknown meanings. As for the ancient tree in the center, the bark full of historical flavor has been mostly replaced by new bark.
It fell. The thick trunk of the tree grew again by a small half circle, and the unfolded dark green crown was thirty or forty meters higher than the surrounding area.
After the voice of "Hmm, ah,,", a whole piece of ground covered with dead leaves looked like a huge iron door opened there, which was opened by a claw covered with dark scales. The blood-red cross pupils were in "
A faint light reflected in the cave under the door. Those eyes were full of confusion, a state of confusion after being awakened from a deep sleep.
The eyes regained their proper brightness after that, and in the dim light, there was a head in the crypt under the "door" leaning sideways against the ground, as if it was catching a weak vibration signal coming from the distance.
"Ah,,,well,,," this kind of unclear self-talk seemed to mean that the owner of the giant eyes said that he understood what was going on. A huge dragon head poked out from the cave,
The pair of pupils looked at the place where the rumbling sound came from, and then retracted. The "door" was closed, and then there was a vibration on the ground. The vibration was transmitted up along the surrounding ancient trees, and the dead leaves that were placed on the branches at unknown times were
The leaves were shaken off, covering the "door" again unevenly, playing a simple camouflage role. A thin sound came from the ground, getting smaller and smaller, until it disappeared completely, and there was no more sound here.
Any movement.
At the same time, the frigate-class airship came to a complete stop deep in the forest. It crashed into many ancient trees along the way. Fortunately, the navy blue shell did not turn over after contacting the ground. It rubbed against the ground and plowed out a kilometer-long belt, and then hit several more.
An ancient tree, and then it stopped.
The lift device completely fell off, and all the devices outside the airship were scraped off, leaving only the caterpillar-like shell. A small part sank into the ground, and stopped at a slight angle at an ancient tree that was crooked by the impact.
In the front, gray smoke continued to spread out, and soon turned into a small open flame. A large amount of steam splashed out from the broken red copper pipe at the lift device, and soon the joint gap in the shell also began to leak steam.
However, the amount of leakage became smaller and smaller, until finally it was just a few wisps - the steam furnace was shut down.
There was a roar of impact from inside the airship, followed closely by the vibration and the sound of shattering glass windows. People wearing field camouflage clothing climbed out of various windows one after another, either with their faces, arms, or
Their bodies were more or less stained with blood. Their steps were sloppy, and the discomfort caused by the impact of the crash landing had not yet disappeared from their bodies, so they needed to rest for a while.
"Boom!" The deck for unloading cargo of the airship opened at this time. Several people holding red-hot pneumatic weapons destroyed the locking mechanism and the opening pillar before jumping out. The large amount of unfinished steam accumulated in the boat finally found its outlet.
He vomited out big mouthfuls, but the momentum quickly lost.
Some people began to throw down various materials in the airship, and more people found a place around to sit down and rest, and did simple emergency treatment for injuries. Close to thousands of people quickly came to the airship.
They gathered in a place under the call of the police. Some of them used soil to deal with the open fire, smoke and steam, while others began to organize materials and prepare for evacuation.
After the crew came down, they returned to the control room and tried to contact the headquarters here using the communication device on the airship. However, the communication was turned off and there was only electronic noise.
"We are afraid that the enemy will capture the communication. In the event of an attack, the headquarters will close the communication channel. Emergency communication is the easiest time for the enemy to capture information." A team of nearly 20 people has gathered around the person in charge.
They all had the logo of the Holy Emperor's Hall on their clothes. "How is the damage, and the specific number of people." When asking, the person in charge looked at the thousands of prisoners scattered in the nearby area, and felt awe-inspiring. This is not a good sign.
, Under the current circumstances, this group of criminals is not easy to deal with. There is also a sense of schadenfreude in these people's laziness, because this is not a good job in the first place, and they have no good intentions in letting them come here.
"So far, 1,174 people, including us, are confirmed dead, and 32 people can find their bodies. But compared to the total number of 1,350 people, 114 people took advantage of the chaos and escaped. This place is close to the edge of the forest.
The distance is very far, but if the number of people and weapons and ammunition are sufficient, it is still very possible to resist the attack of the second-category creatures and get out."
"Let them run away. Those more than a hundred people don't want to think about why so many people stayed on their own initiative and didn't take advantage of the panic to be like them? It would be fine if the threat was only a second-class creature, but they don't know yet.
After you break away from the main team, you will become enemies with us and everyone else from Qila Andi."
"Determine our current position as soon as possible, and let the communication personnel on the crew side pay attention to the contact at all times. Let everyone bring enough supplies, rest for another fifteen minutes, and deal with injuries as soon as possible. After that, we have to leave here. The goal is huge, although
Don't worry about the enemy's attack now. They haven't gone deep here yet. But the second-type creatures who heard the noise won't think so. There will definitely be some who want to come and take a look. Although there is no problem in killing some people, it is too
If there are too many, it will be hard for us to explain." The person in charge took a deep breath and sighed.
Most of the space on the airship is filled with various supplies. It was originally good equipment to bring to the joint team, but now it is cheap for these people. Most of the prisoners have not been active for a long time, but their physical foundation is there.
On the way here, they were all injected with medicines prepared to promote recovery, and their injuries were not serious. Everyone was fully armed and carried a full backpack. Under the leadership of the team from the Holy Emperor Hall, they headed towards
Rush to the direction where the joint team is stationed.
The entire team spoke little, and the atmosphere was dull. As time passed slowly, some small groups inevitably began to talk privately in this team of thousands.
Behind the team, in the Holy Emperor Hall and the crew team, there were people with keen senses reporting the changes in the team to the captain. But the captain barely listened to a word, or after a point in time, his energy was occupied by other things.
It's been involved.
"It's too quiet here, which is not a good sign." The captain looked around and said to the surrounding members, "It shouldn't be like this. This place has already passed the standard line deep in the forest. According to the density of second-class creatures, even if it is affected by
The impact of the landing just now disturbed some people leaving, but there was no other sound at all, which is very abnormal."
"The territory of a powerful second-class creature?" Someone replied, "This may be a good thing for us, because the number is individuals, and we are a team of a thousand people, and it is easy to solve them after encountering them."
"According to common sense, this is the case." The captain once performed a mission here and knew some of the situation, but he did not fully agree with the words of the people around him.