Within the assessment area, all participants quickly headed into the Flying Snake Swamp from various directions. They had to find a good hiding place within half a day, which could be used as a resting place or a team gathering point.
The challenge in the Flying Snake Swamp will last for three full days. Although the mercenaries have good endurance, no one wants to hunt for three days and nights without stopping.
You must know that there are many "hunters" among the challengers. If you want not to become prey, you must maintain your state at all times.
On a thick ghost claw tree in the southwest of the swamp, sister Annie was holding a long bow and standing guard under the tree, while sister Fenia quickly climbed to the top of the tree and used her perspective skills to detect the movement ahead.
Two or three flying snakes were disturbed by the girl's movements. These fast-moving little things spread out the bat wings on their backs and disappeared into the surrounding dense forest of ghost claws in just a blink of an eye.
The twin sisters were not in a hurry to hunt them. It was still early and finding a safe and hidden hiding place was the main task at the moment.
Moreover, these flying snakes are very flexible in the air and are extremely vigilant.
Their bat wings are equipped with sensitive organs that can sense changes in temperature, humidity and wind speed of the surrounding air environment. At the same time, the snake messages in their mouths also have the function of collecting odors like ordinary snakes.
Coupled with the advantages of size and environment, a hasty hunt would not only be half the effort, but also easily expose one's whereabouts by breaking into other challengers' hunting areas.
"Sister, there is a taller ghost claw tree five hundred meters to the east... It seems to be hollow. Maybe it can be used as a good hiding place?"
Funya looked around for a while, then her eyes lit up, and she whispered to Anne under the tree.
"Understood, let's go over and take a look." Sister Anne nodded, tapped her foot lightly, and quickly ran in the direction her sister pointed.
Funya jumped on the tree trunk and kept up with her sister from the air.
The two sisters have the subtle advantage of spiritual communication, which allows them to often understand each other's meaning with just one look.
Therefore, the cooperation between them is particularly tacit. Even if they do not communicate, they can quickly assign their respective positions.
The two sisters soon arrived near the ghost claw tree pointed by their sister Funia, and soon discovered that the trunk of this tree was indeed hollow, and there was another tree just two or three meters above the ground.
A big hole half as tall as a man.
"How lucky!" Funya cheered, tapped the tree trunk with her foot, and quickly jumped to a branch next to the hole of the big tree.
The trunk and branches of the Ghost Claw Tree are covered with poisonous spikes, but for the sisters, such things are not even an obstacle.
After the queen of the Xiange tribe returned to the tribe, she personally taught the two girls for a period of time. The main purpose of this period of practice was to teach them to adapt to various environments, which of course also included rainforests and swamps.
Therefore, although the natural environment in the Flying Snake Swamp is very harsh, with bottomless bubbling swamps and poisonous insects and beasts running around everywhere, the two sisters regard it as a common occurrence.
Sister Annie waved the long bow in her hand to clear away all the sharp thorns near the tree hole, and then used her clairvoyance skills to take a look inside the tree hole.
"Not bad, it's pretty clean, and the tree hole doesn't have a bottom, so that's good..."
"Hehe! The place I found was pretty good~" the little girl Funya smiled and took credit.
"You little thing..." "Big sister" Anne laughed and shook her head, gently tapping her sister's forehead with her finger.
"Go and mark the surrounding area. When you come back to collect some materials, be careful when marking. Don't make it too obvious."
"I know, I know~" Funia waved to her sister, jumped lightly on her feet, and rushed out like a light swift.
Anne shook her head again, then held a longbow and began to patrol around their temporary hiding spot.
She is familiar with the surrounding environment and determining the best hunting areas and retreat routes. This is an important task that requires patience and care. Any information she has now may come in handy later.
At about noon, Funya returned to the hiding spot. She had made hidden marks that only their sisters could understand on the area with the hiding point as the center and a radius of one hundred meters.
Be careful about how to get back as quickly as possible after leaving your hunting range.
When the two sisters traveled with Xue Hua before, this technique was never useful. Because of the existence of the monitoring king insect, they didn't have to worry about getting lost.
But things are different now. The Flying Snake Swamp is still quite large. If you don't want to be unable to find your hiding spot at night, these marks are necessary.
Not long after Funya returned to the hiding place, her sister Anne also came back.
The two sisters tidied up the inside and outside of the tree hole in the Ghost Claw Tree to ensure that other passers-by would not notice this temporary camp at a glance.
After everything was done, the two of them hid in the tree hole, took out dry food from the inventory and ate while Annie shared the information she had just gained from getting familiar with the environment.
"It took us about half a day to get here from the edge of the swamp. Based on our traveling speed, our current position should be in the southwest of the swamp, closer to the center of the swamp.
There don't seem to be many people here. There are more ghost claw woods as you continue to the east. According to the growth habits of these trees, it should be closer to the center of the swamp.
In the northeastern area of our hiding spot, there is a relatively dense jungle of ghost claw trees. When I went to investigate there, I found flying snakes jumping out of the forest, and I suspected that there might be other challengers inside.
To the south of our hiding spot, the Ghost Claw Woods is relatively sparse. It should be closer to the edge of the swamp, and the number of flying snakes will be smaller."
Annie took a sip of water, then poured some more water on her fingers, and drew a rough schematic diagram of the nearby situation on the ground in front of her sister using the light from the tree hole.
"Our hunting area should continue to expand further east. Where there are more ghost claw trees, there are more flying snakes.
But the more flying snakes there are, the more likely we are to encounter other people, so we have to be vigilant at all times and never relax, got it?"
"Yeah! Yeah! I will do whatever my sister says~" A sweet smile appeared on Funya's face, and she looked at her twin sister with trust in her face.
"You~ you have to use your brain sometimes~ Master doesn't like stupid girls~" Annie helplessly stretched out her cold fingers wet with water and poked her sister's smooth forehead.
This little thing isn't stupid, she just doesn't like to use her brain. In fact, when she is smart, her brain is much more flexible than mine.
"Um...really?" When Funia heard this, she felt as if someone had stabbed her in the back, and she immediately became anxious.
"Okay~ I'm lying to you, how could the master not like our lovely Funia~" Anne laughed and shook her head, held her sister in her arms, and comforted her with soft words...
