After the team passed through the Gray Wind Ridge, the Green Dragon Mountains blocked the southward rain clouds, and the sky began to clear up. Just after noon, Mr. Gray Rock entered a valley. The rain stopped for a while, but the streams in the valley were still overflowing.
It was extremely difficult to move forward in the mud, and everyone had to get out of the car from time to time to clear the way for the huge negative hill beast.
The vegetation in the valley is lush, with crystal water vapor still hanging on the curly ferns, and mushrooms of various colors growing in layers on the rotten tree trunks. After walking off the platform, Tianlan wanted to pick them excitedly, but Etila carried them back.
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Miss Elf only picked some of them carefully, and then told others how to identify the harmless ones. There are many more wild fungi in Aitaria than on the earth, and some are not only poisonous, but even contain weird...
magic.
For example, a kind of oily yellow mushroom, whose bright color does not look like a good thing at first glance, is actually non-toxic and harmless. After eating it, it can temporarily increase a person's insight.
This thing can even be eaten raw. It tastes a bit astringent when eaten raw, but there is a refreshing taste after the dry astringency. In short, the experience is very strange, and Fang Plover does not want to try it a second time.
After taking a bite of this thing, he immediately felt that the scene around him became a little different.
There seemed to be countless strange textures between the trees, which were as strange as the faces of people. Some were sighing, some were smiling, and some were glaring, as if they were about to pounce at any time with their teeth and claws.
Birds of various colors are hidden among the dense leaves, which are magnified to look exaggerated and grotesque, and appear to be extremely conspicuous as if their bodies are surrounded by a circle of red light.
He could even clearly see a Fenris gray-spotted longhorned beetle dozens of meters away. That kind of thing was smaller than the ordinary longhorned longhorned beetles in other areas.
The movement in the surrounding grass attracted his attention. Fang Plover turned around and saw a young deer, whose body was made of bones, flashing past him. It stopped far away, and even turned its head and used a black hole-like sound.
Eye socket glanced at him, startling him.
However, the effect of this strange vision gradually faded away, and the surrounding trees returned to their original state.
Aitila looked at him narrowly, her pointed ears trembling slightly: "How is it?"
Fang Yu rubbed his eyes, and then realized that the gentle elf lady can also play tricks on people. This thing does not add insight, it clearly adds spiritual vision, okay?
"This kind of mushroom is called Orphen's Eye. It is a well-known psychic material in the Hill of Giant Trees. However, it does have the function of increasing insight. The correct way to use it is to mash it and apply it together with the magic solution.
On the eyelids.”
"Besides, eating too much can cause hallucinations."
Fang Yu didn't feel any hallucinations, only felt a little dizzy.
Miss Aitila then came over to take a closer look, opened his eyelids with her hands, and asked with concern: "Is it okay?"
Fang Yu shook his head.
But just because he didn't have any problems didn't mean that others didn't have problems. In the blink of an eye, Tianlan and Papalar disappeared.
Finally they found these two guys on the platform on the other side.
The Papalar man ate a crown fluorescent mushroom, causing his chin to neck to glow, and his cheeks puffed out like a walking lamp.
At the same time, he yelled and told others: "Ah, I feel very uncomfortable, as if I have swallowed a light bulb. Am I going to die? By the way, where is the nearest Resurrection Temple? I don't want to be resurrected in Roman's Temple
, her pastor has no humanity at all.”
"You can't die," Etila glanced at this guy angrily: "But you will feel uncomfortable for two to three hours. Don't worry, this mushroom is beneficial and harmless."
Parker opened his mouth wide and stuck out his glowing tongue, like a mutated anglerfish: "Really? Do I want to eat another one?"
"Then you are going to spend the night in this state?"
Rhett leaned on the railing and smoked his pipe contentedly, looking at the distance of the valley with his silver-grey eyes: "By the way, this is the territory of the night lizards. They are all skilled shooters, especially sensitive to light. You
You know what I mean?"
Parker swallowed a gulp of saliva and quickly looked around.
"What should I do about Tianlan?" Fang Pulver had an even bigger headache.
The little French girl has completely disappeared.
Her clothes were scattered all over the floor, including the magic furnace, Karn's harp and scattered small items. There was only a young white cat left among the clothes, tilting its head and staring at the big blue cat.
Looking at several people.
"Meow?"
"What's this?"
"Deformation mushroom, this thing is very rare." Jita frowned and said, "I don't know where Sister Fuli found it."
"How dare she eat it?" Fang Yu couldn't help but ask.
Luo Yu picked up the back of her neck with his hands and lifted her up. The kitten struggled hard and meowed sweetly.
"Luo Yu, put her down." Aitila said angrily.
Luo Yu turned around to look at her belly curiously, and Tianlan was so angry that he scratched his arm with a paw, leaving a blood mark there. Luo Yu felt pain and let go, and the kitten jumped and hid in Sylvide
Behind the leather boots, he looked at everyone in fear.
The noble lady touched her head tenderly, picked her up and held her in her arms.
Strangely enough, the kitten seemed to enjoy her touch, its eyes narrowed into a line, its tail curled up in her arms, and it purred incomprehensibly.
Aitila glared at Luo Yu and looked at the blood marks on his hands: "You really asked for it, go and bandage it."
"Is this really Tianlan?" Fang Pultru always felt that this kitten's behavior was very different from Tianlan's.
"Deformed mushrooms can affect people's minds to a certain extent." Jita explained in a low voice.
"There won't be any side effects, right?"
The little girl shook her head: "The transformation effect only lasts for a period of time. The person involved will only remember some vague details. In theory, there will be no sequelae."
"She is stupid enough anyway, at least this thing won't make her even stupider." The Papalar said with his glowing cheeks puffed out.
"Shut up, Parker," Attila said sternly: "Look at yourself, are you qualified to speak?"
The Papalar's symptoms became more and more serious, staring like a frog with glowing eyeballs: "Freedom of speech."
"I seem to see traces of the Night Lizard in the woods." Rhett put down his pipe and said.
Parker almost jumped up: "Wait, where is it?"
"Who knows?"
The former shivered and did not dare to brag anymore, so he quickly covered his neck and returned to the carriage.
The series of events caused by the mushrooms passed quickly. Attila confiscated the fluorescent mushrooms and deformed mushrooms still on the two troublemakers and gave them to Fang Plover.
These two kinds of mushrooms are also rare species that are rare in the wild and are often used in potion preparation and alchemy raw materials. I don’t know how these two people won the lottery.
Fang Pultru's current alchemy level has no idea how to use these mid-to-high-end materials, so he can only put them in glass bottles and put them in the dark compartment under the bed together with the raw materials of beta crystal.
On the other hand, the sequelae of eating mushrooms by mistake was that Parker completely turned into a light bulb. It is said that this state will last until the evening.
However, Tian Lan recovered her true form, but the little girl hid in the house with a red face and refused to come out to see anyone.
Aitila seriously asked Luo Yu to apologize to her, and Luo Yu nodded honestly.
It was just that Fang Yu saw this guy dazed at the door for a long time, as if considering his words, and then said sincerely: "Tianlan, you are actually a pretty good-looking cat. You look a bit like a little cat I raised before.
cat"
"Go away!"
Tian Lan screamed, threw a book and hit him on the head, then slammed the door. After that, the little girl locked the door inside and refused to come out no matter who tried to persuade her.
This is really a pot that cannot be opened.
Fang Plover couldn't help but raise his forehead when he saw this.
After three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the sun finally broke out of the clouds, reflecting a rainbow on the vapor-filled valley.
The others took a short break and had afternoon tea together on the platform. Except for Tianlan and Parker, they returned to the work of paving roads and building bridges. This is a hard and tiring job.
The trees were felled and then had to be carried out laboriously to pave a road through the muddy water.
And if the negative hill beast accidentally falls into a mud pit, the trouble will be even greater.
Fang Plover, Luo Yu and the big cat man were all covered in wet mud. The mud dried on their arms, neck and legs, which made people itchy and panicked. When they were scratched with their hands, the mud and sand fell down in lumps, exposing their lower parts.
Skin that is red due to allergies.
There are swarms of insects in the forest, and even burning rosin to drive them away is basically useless. Some palm-sized blood-sucking mosquitoes can even provide experience after killing them.
You can imagine how terrifying it is
Luo Yu was bitten and almost quit the fight immediately. Only the big cat man was content. He was a lion man with rough skin and thick flesh, and he also had a long tail that swept around to drive away mosquitoes.
But for Fang Plover himself, those insects seemed to avoid him intentionally. As soon as he stood there, the mosquitoes flew away with a bang.
The big cat people jokingly called him the King of Mosquitoes, but Fang Plover himself knew that it was the ring of golden flames on his body that was at work.
The ring seemed to be exuding a faint aura of dragon to the surroundings all the time, making wild animals and insects afraid to approach it easily.
He came to this conclusion after doing several experiments, but unfortunately its scope of action is limited and only affects the person who wears it. Looking at Luo Yu's miserable condition, Fang Pulver couldn't help but look at the heavy golden ring in his hand and was thankful that it was really a good thing.
thing.
When everyone was crossing the river beach, they almost encountered danger. The beast fell into the quagmire due to its excessive weight and almost tipped over.
He and Rhett tried their best to recover the losses, but Mr. Gray Rock was still inevitably injured.
The first day of the journey was not as smooth as expected. Flash floods seriously disrupted everyone's itinerary.
Although they arrived at Emerald Pass before the dusk began to rise, there was still a long way to go before the Andrita Falls, and the plan for the first day basically came to nothing.
After crossing the Emerald Pass, since the storm had not yet had time to hit the mountainous area behind, the mountain road became much easier here.
It took them an hour or two to walk about ten miles and entered a forest. Then the sun gradually sank into the mountains and night fell.
Gloomy clouds obscured the sunset, and the harsh weather meant that before the sunset had time to dye half of the sky red, the surroundings seemed to suddenly dive into the gloomy night.
There are Gaelin crystals suspended in the forest. The original crystals of Fenris contain light elements and emit a faint fluorescence at night.
Far and near, shining like fireflies.
But the night was not peaceful.
As the lion man Rhett said, there are night lizards living in the Green Dragon Mountains. These natural hunters are light-hating creatures. They are nocturnal and lurk in underground caves during the day, and return to the surface to hunt at night.
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Their eyes are sensitive to light, and the thin starlight allows them to see for miles at night. The low-light environment created by the light crystals in the Green Dragon Mountains is simply their natural hunting ground.
After Fang Plover solicited the opinions of others, he asked the negative hill beast to stop on a mesa behind the Gray Wind Ridge and a few miles south of the Emerald Pass.
But what no one expected was that they were attacked by two groups of night lizards overnight. The first group of night lizards sneaked in under the cover of night at one or two o'clock in the morning, triggering the Fang Plover's attack in the camp.
After setting up alchemy traps on the outside, they turned to attack the platform.
There are about ten Night Lizards in this group. The Night Lizards are fourteenth-level creatures. This number does not pose much of a threat to the team. However, the battle in the darkness has brought big trouble to everyone. Although there are many people on the platform,
There were torches, but the fire could not illuminate too far. However, the night lizards were surprisingly accurate with their bows and arrows in the darkness. At first, everyone wanted to use the newly installed ballistae on the platform to shoot at them, but they were shot as soon as they showed up.
A head full of bags.
Everyone could only retreat to the carriage, but it was unrealistic for the lion men to kill them out with torches. These monsters were born light-hating hunters, and they had a whole set of methods for light sources. The priests they accompanied actually had flame extinguishing techniques, and the big cat men charged several times.
Each time, the success fell short because the torches were extinguished.
In the end, Fang Plover's Clockwork Fairy was able to capture the location of the Night Lizard sacrifice in the darkness, and then Fang Plover asked Parker to use an explosive shot to solve the problem.
The only night lizard priest died, and the remaining lizard people seemed to realize that the situation was over, so they retreated into the forest.
The second batch of night lizards did not seem to be from the same clan as the first batch of attackers. They arrived before dawn and did not learn the lessons of the former. They were killed in two seconds by Fang Plover using the same method at the beginning.
A sacrifice.
It's just that the scale of the second batch of attackers was much larger than the first batch. Under the light of the explosion and shooting, I saw that the forest was full of these dry lizard men with pale eyes, like pieces of dead wood.
hunter.
The other party even brought some night lizard wizards, ghosts like Fang Plover, who actually knew how to use magic weapons, and almost blew up the carriages of Parker, Red and Luo Yu with several rounds of fireballs.
The battle in the darkness was still miserable, and this time even the clockwork fairy couldn't be used. The opponent obviously became more vigilant after suffering a loss. After the first wave of attacks, Fang Plover almost lost two people.
It took half a clockwork goblin to find the third sacrifice.
And after that, there was no success.
Of course, it is said that there are two and a half clockwork goblins because there is one clockwork goblin that Fang Plover himself gave up control of. In order to avoid being shot down, he let it fly directly into a tree hole.
I don't know if I can find it again.
The only good thing is that these attackers arrived relatively late. After the battle lasted for about half an hour, the sky brightened and the Star of Gold appeared on the horizon.
Then the Night Lizards retreated like a tide and disappeared into the forest, as if they had never appeared.
"Where did these ghosts come from!" Parker shouted angrily. He was shot in the butt by an arrow during the battle and is still lying on the ground.
Looking at the lingering smoke and the scorched black platform, Fang Yu also shook his head.
This thing has just been repaired not long ago, and it is about to be overhauled again. Although the beast of burden platform is easy to use, its defense is too low.
When he saw Aitila walking down the first saddle bridge, he couldn't help but ask: "Is Mr. Huiyan injured?"
Miss Elf shook her head: "We are lucky, we only suffered some skin trauma, which is nothing to it. Just prepare some herbs later."