There was a scraping sound of leaves, and Li Fan and Ai Bo fell into the jungle together.
The bright sunlight shines slantingly on the ground from the gaps in the leaves, and the strong smell of vegetation hits.
The Laoshan Dragon, which has completed its landing at the rear, is continuing to move forward in an unknown direction with heavy steps.
"Huh ~ this is the ancient tree forest."
With his butt on the ground, Ai Bo stood up, patted the soil stained on his pants, opened the large book slung across his waist, and compared the surroundings.
"It should be, but the tree canopy here is too heavily obscured and it's impossible to identify the direction. Let's find an open place first."
At Li Fan's suggestion, the two immediately took action and headed towards an area with sparse trees.
Not long after, a yellow triangular tent appeared on the roadside.
Seeing the amount of dust on the tarp and the disorderly arrangement of items, the two speculated that this was an abandoned camp, so they started looking for useful things.
"found it!"
Ai Bo was in front of the storage box, holding up a leather-covered book, looking very excited.
"map?"
"Yes."
As the map annotation book opened, Ai Bo began to watch it carefully.
"Leave the jungle from here, come to the coast, and pass through the dense forest under the giant ancient trees, which is the Star Stronghold."
Ai Bo gives analysis.
"Then you can lead the way. I really can't understand the dense forest under the ancient trees."
Li Fan suggested.
The complex terrain of the ancient tree forest has always been Li Fan's nightmare.
In the real world without restrictions, the difficulty of pathfinding must be increased by several levels.
"The leader is too humble. This is actually a test for me, right?"
Ai Bo asked with a confident look on his face.
"It doesn't matter how you understand it. I'll be in charge of the combat. You just need to explore the path."
"Okay, let's go!"
The two of them walked out of the jungle without much time and arrived at the coastal area marked on the map.
tsk tsk
The transparent insect cage on Ai Bo's waist lit up with green fluorescence, and a dense sound of flapping wings sounded.
"The guide insects have responded."
Ai Bo opened the insect cage, and countless green light spots gathered into a swarm of insects, flying forward.
The cultivated guide insect swarm will chase specific tastes and substances, and has extremely strong tracking and exploration capabilities. It is a must-have for almost everyone in the New World.
The guide insect swarm hovered in the small stream not far away for a moment, and attached to a tooth mark on the surface of the rotten log.
The green light of the insect swarm is flashing, and you can see it very clearly even in the daytime.
This kind of extremely obvious imprint marking, called traces in the New World, is the main means of carrying out ecological surveys.
Ai Bo ran over and stood up to check. He used a knife to scrape a small amount of mucus from the tooth marks and put it into the bone tube.
"Although it's unclear what kind of monster is moving nearby, judging from the tooth marks, it has a large mouth and strong bite force. The research class in the stronghold should have relevant information."
After Aibo recorded his speculations, he packed up the collected traces, and the two of them continued to move towards the direction of the giant tree.
A dark jungle appeared in front of them.
Walking into it, Li Fan discovered that the reason why the sun couldn't come in was due to the disorderly growth of tree branches above, which were intertwined and intertwined to form a multi-layered spiral structure.
After a while, two rapid roars came.
The two looked for the sound and found four ferocious jackal dragons that looked like lizards and had bright yellow skin.
The one that roared was one of them, and to Li Fan's ears, it meant that brothers, look, there's meat here.
"Captain is hiding!"
rustle
As Ai Bo spoke, he pulled Li Fan and hid in a leafy plant as tall as one person next to him.
"The ferocious jackal dragon is not deaf or blind, so he must be able to detect it, right?"
Li Fan, who was hiding himself, felt that even non-leader monsters would not be too stupid, otherwise they would have been eliminated by the ecology long ago.
"Well, that's what was said in the fifth group training course."
Ai Bo looked at the ferocious jackal that was gradually exploring into the leaves, and his heart became more and more uncertain.
Ouch! Ouch!
The ferocious jackal dragon came to the root, raised its head and roared twice more.
The meaning is that brothers, come quickly, these two idiots are hiding in the grass, and Li Fan gets very angry.
Puff! Pah! Pah!
The thundering sword pierced through the leaves and penetrated the neck of the ferocious jackal dragon. The blood beads were instantly vaporized under the golden electric light.
Kill instantly with one knife, cleanly.
"Captain, you are so strong!"
Ai Bo was stunned for a moment and exclaimed.
"The main reason is that I still have this equipment. When we approach the New World, I won't take it off even when sleeping, just to prevent such emergencies."
"The leader is really a meticulous person."
Li Fan stood up and walked out, dragging the knife deliberately so that the tip of the knife scraped a large number of sparks on the ground.
The ferocious jackal dragon roaring to avenge his brother looked at each other and ran away without looking back at the ferocious jackal dragon who gave the siege plan.
Only the smallest ferocious jackal dragon was left, still roaring at Li Fan.
"You are very loyal."
Ouch!
"It turns out you should go back and practice again after you are young."
Li Fan somewhat admired the fierce jackal dragon's loyalty, so he persuaded him not to come and die.
Ouch!
"Haha, don't leave if you have the guts. Go and find the leader of the group, the fierce Jackal Longxing."
After Li Fan finished speaking, the fierce jackal dragon turned around and ran into the woods.
"Aibo"
When he turned around and saw Ai Bo carrying the shaved ferocious jackal meat on his shoulders, Li Fan immediately showed a surprised expression.
"This is the leader. I want to compile an encyclopedia of New World food, so I don't want to waste any ingredients. Of course, if doing this will cause trouble, I will correct it immediately!"
Li Fan suddenly understood that Ai Bo thought that he was too powerful and had too much fighting power, so he thought of carrying heavy loads of meat to the stronghold.
"Okay, your partner Eudora also likes food, remember to share it."
"Really! I didn't expect the chief hunter of Longliyuan to also love food."
Ai Bo's eyes lit up.
After passing through the oppressive and dark jungle, the terrain became wider.
In the distance, a giant ship straddling the tops of two adjacent mountain peaks appeared in view.
tsk tsk
As if aware of the existence of the trace, Aibo's guide insect reacted again, leaving the cage and flying forward.
This time it was a puddle of slime left on the surface.
Li Fan speculated that the guide insect swarm might be able to draw nutrients from the traces, which is why it has such strong tracking characteristics.
In the plot, Aibo was attacked by a ferocious jackal. In order to protect her, Li Fan stood aside while collecting traces.
"It appears to be the urine of some kind of monster."
Staring at the wet soil with green light, Ai Bo took out a small shovel and dug the soil to collect it.
Bang! Bang!
A series of dull tapping sounds came from far to near.
rustle!
A giant yellow lizard with manes hanging down both sides of its head suddenly burst out of the jungle.
Li Fan rubbed the tip of the knife against the ground and released an electric light as a deterrent, but it had no effect at all.
Even if the younger brother is not very knowledgeable, the leader has never seen it. It seems that the ecological crisis caused by the Wind God Dragon and the Thunder God Dragon has not affected the New World.
In other words, even if it was affected, it was resolved by some kind of force.
The ferocious jackal dragon showed no politeness and came at full speed with its huge mouth open, as if it wanted to swallow Li Fan whole.
Take two steps back and adjust your stance with a cassock chop.
Several fangs in the upper jaw of the big ferocious jackal dragon were chopped into pieces, but it still continued to bite forward.
An unpretentious straight slash with the knife came towards him.
Poof! Poof!
The skin was instantly chopped open, and the hard head made contact with the fork-shaped blade for a moment, and a clear sound of bone cracking was heard.
The big ferocious jackal dragon, shrouded in death, immediately lowered its head with a middle-parted mane to follow the direction of the sword.
Otherwise, if I keep pushing hard like this, my skull may be cut through.
Bang!
The knife struck straight and landed smoothly.
The big ferocious jackal dragon's neck was flexed with all its strength, and a ball of blood mist mixed with electric sparks burst out from its head.
Li Fan was somewhat surprised by this result.
Because the seemingly ferocious and brainless jackal is much smarter than expected.
Ouch!
The ferocious jackal dragon retreated amidst its roar, and finally went into the jungle with a scar on its forehead.
"With the ability to predict danger and unparalleled combat power, is this the chief hunter?"
Ai Bo sighed.
"Let's go."
After Li Fan finished speaking, he put away the knife, and the two of them moved forward again.
Ten minutes later, at the junction of the coast and the mountains, a gate made of logs and huge animal bones appeared.
"Hey! Are you members of the fifth phase group?"
A strong male hunter carrying a large bone sword shouted to the other two on the rock above.
"Yes! I am the editor Ai Bo! This is the leader of the fifth phase!"
Ai Bo immediately waved and shouted.
Li Fan knew this young male hunter with most of his chest muscles exposed.
He is the captain of the investigation team and the grandson of the commander-in-chief of the Star Stronghold. He is a hunter born in the New World.
"My name is Di Yan, and I am the squad leader of the investigation team. The gate will be opened soon."
As he spoke, Di Yan jumped off the rock and came to the push wheel behind the gate. He put his hands on the push handle and pushed forward with all his strength.
Crack! The gate slowly rises.
After the two entered, Di Yan closed the gate and guided the two into the stronghold.
"It's so lucky that not a single member of the fifth phase of the White Wind was killed in action."
Di Yan said with emotion.
"Where are the other four transport ships."
Li Fan started asking.
"They all arrived safely. This is simply a miracle for the fleets that came to the New World in the past. The recovery of the White Wind is a little difficult, but the material squad of the fourth phase of the regiment should be able to handle it."
Di Yan informed enthusiastically.
"It turns out that even landing is so dangerous."
Ai Bo suddenly realized that Li Fan's escorting all the way might not be a coincidence.
The three of them walked across a wide wooden bridge, located in a stronghold in a canyon near the sea, and the stars appeared in front of them.
From the fence on the seaside to the loft on the canyon, almost all wooden buildings here have serious traces of splicing, and the overall architectural style is chaotic.
The only statistical point is that most of the building materials come from dismantled ships.
The roof is formed by the inversion of the hull, and the sunshade cloth is formed by laying the sails.
Small areas extending from half the hull can be seen everywhere in the stronghold.
The stronghold is located near the port extending out to the sea, and four transport ships are lined up neatly.
Hundreds of hunters and members of the supply squad are unloading the supplies on the ship in an extremely orderly manner.
Aiden and Martha, who were taking care of the wounded in the fifth phase regiment, immediately screamed in surprise when they saw that Li Fan was safe and sound.
"Captain, you're okay!"
Aiden, run over here.
"Well, you don't have to worry too much about me. I think the injured still need to be transferred to the cable car. You can go ahead and get busy."
Li Fan informed.
"I'm going to help too."
Ai Bo said as he put down the pieces of ferocious jackal meat and ran over quickly.
On the circular canyon, there are multi-layered platforms built along the mountain rocks, which can only be reached by taking a cable car driven by a water wheel.
It seems possible to use a domesticated pterosaur to go to a high platform, but it cannot be carried on a stretcher carrying wounded people.
Li Fan, who looked up at the sky, quickly located the location of the Flame.
"Isn't the top floor of that location a restaurant?"
Li Fan also didn't expect that the Flame would hover above the restaurant.
So we came to the constantly rotating cable car and took it to the top of the canyon.
Smelling the aroma of the food, Li Fan came to the open-air stronghold restaurant consisting of several stone tables and a stove.
At this time, Eudora, Dilu, and Patch were sitting around a table, looking at the table seriously.
"Does the ancient tree forest have so many layers? It looks so complicated."
Eudora said anxiously.
"Why don't we attack first, Meow? I heard that there is a big ferocious jackal dragon moving nearby. I can't wait any longer."
Patch, who was carrying a backpack, said impatiently.
"The Great and Ferocious Jackal"
Eudora's eyes were solemn and her fists were clenched.
"Although I am also worried about Li Fan, I have confidence in him."
Dilu gave his opinion.
Let me tell you, I lost contact for a while so I didn't have to wait for dinner. It turned out that I came to this restaurant to discuss search and rescue measures.
As for the Flame, it must have rappelled from high above the stronghold.
"Ahem"
Li Fan walked to the table and coughed twice.
"Ah! You are indeed fine, meow!"
Dilu, who had been confident just now, burst into tears.
"How could something happen in such a small scene? Are you all okay?"
Li Fan gently stroked Di Lu's back and said.
"I was preparing to set out to search and rescue cats. I was relieved to see that you were okay."
When Patch saw Dilu getting close to his master, he couldn't help but feel disappointed in his eyes.
"You can also pounce on me, Patch."
Li Fan said, patting the other shoulder.
"Ah! I'm going to get ready, meow."
Patch said, stroking the cat's fur with his paw, and launched the tear-dropping attack.
"Well, what do you think I'm doing? Eudora, are you okay?"
When Li Fan saw Eudora staring at him, he asked curiously.
"fine."
Eudora glanced down at the corner of her mouth and responded coldly.
"Did you get injured while protecting the Flame Fire when it landed?"
Li Fan touched his chin and speculated.
"No, the landing of the Flame went smoothly. I went to order some food."
After saying this, Eudora stood up and walked towards the open stove.
The fire in the stone oven is blazing, and a large Ellu cat with the red flag of the First Regiment as a turban is standing in front of the fire with arms folded.
Seeing that the opponent had a wound across his right eye and was carrying a broken-edged sword, Eudora immediately felt that the aura of this Elu cat was unusual.
“Really a warm team”
The large Ellu cat looked back at Li Fan's table and said to Eudora: "I am the chef, welcome to the Bobcat Pavilion."
