Chapter 12: Taboos in the forbidden zone
In the face of Blood Shadow's provocation, Luan Ya's eyes became even more murderous as he looked towards Team Lei.
Lei Team's expression was as normal, and he spoke faintly.
"Cross."
Cross sniffed without saying a word and directly picked up the bow, instantly pulling it open and shooting an arrow towards the sky.
The speed was so fast that it set off a sharp whistling sound, and its arrow was like a bolt of lightning, instantly penetrating the eagle hovering in the sky.
Blood flowers bloomed in the sky, and this eagle let out a mournful scream as it crashed down, landing on the ground in the middle of the two squads with a bang.
At the same time, one of the people in the Blood Shadow squad, his whole body shook wildly, spewing out a mouthful of blood, his face instantly pale.
That was his eagle, unlike the dog raised by Luan Ya, this eagle was his own spiritual energy incorporated into the manipulation, and at this moment, under the backlash, the whole person was heavily injured.
The rest of the Blood Shadow Squad had their killing chances filled, but they were stopped by the Blood Shadow Captain, who slowly stood up from the dog's corpse, not bothering to look at Luan Ya, but staring at Team Lei.
Lei Team also looked at him with cold eyes.
The two looked at each other for a long time, and each of them snorted coldly.
"Let's go." Lei Team spoke calmly and walked forward, with Luan Ya and the others following behind, Xu Qing among them.
He sensed the deep animosity between the two squads, so he swept back at those from the Blood Shadow Squad, seeing that they were waiting for Ma Si and Fat Mountain, but unfortunately, those two would never appear.
Xu Qing remained silent and withdrew his gaze, along with Team Lei and the others, gradually leaving the camp.
The forbidden area didn't seem far from the camp, but in reality, it was still a bit of a distance to walk over.
It was only after their group had walked for about half an hour or so that they could distantly see the pitch-black jungle.
From the outside, this forbidden area jungle was boundless, and it was unknown how much it spread.
Now it is the time when the sun rises, the sunlight is rich, but within the forbidden jungle, it seems to be two worlds with the outside.
Far away can also see the sky at the end of the jungle, there seems to be a storm convergence, a lightning visible to the naked eye, in which dazzling out, so that the entire forbidden zone, giving a mysterious and dangerous feeling.
Xu Qing looked at all this, silently followed, on the road, no one in the Thunder Squad spoke, but as the distance from the forbidden zone was getting closer and closer, Xu Qing keenly noticed that all the people, their whole body muscles began to gradually tense, and so did he.
Until the feeling of stepping into a chilly world surfaced throughout Xu Qing's body, as all the warmth in his body was instantly removed, he entered the forbidden zone.
It was as if what was removed along with it were all the images he had watched in the normal world.
The familiar piercing coldness awakened the memories he once had within the ruined city, in the rain of blood.
So he took a deep breath, his heart's vigilance strong, and instinctively gripped the iron sign in his hand very tightly, the same as when he was in the ruins.
The difference is that the city is broken, and here ......
The trees are twisted like the shadow of a severe ghost, the mud ground is withered like the soil of the yellow spring, and the branches and leaves are diffused like the claws and teeth covering the sky.
But the people of Thunder Squad were obviously familiar with this place.
They carried weapons on their backs, and the paths they took were obviously frequented places, each step was very detailed; there were places where everything was clearly normal, but they skipped, and there were places that looked menacing, but they stepped on them.
There were also areas that were bypassed for no apparent reason, and just like that, they avoided some dangerous places along the way.
Xu Qing followed behind, paying close attention and memorizing all.
However, he also discovered something strange, not all of the journey was led by the Thunder Team, sometimes it was the Barbarian Ghosts, sometimes it was the Luan Teeth, replacing each other.
Although the speed of the crowd forward was not fast, but along the way, in addition to hearing the hissing of some ferocious beasts from afar, it was quite safe.
Even if there are some poisonous insects, also in the luan teeth lit a incense, did not come close.
Until they had traveled for about an hour, they, who hadn't said anything throughout the entire journey, stopped beside a silt and let out a sigh of relief to each other.
Xu Qing noticed that Luan teeth take out some powder, sprinkled in the mud, soon a group of poisonous insects from within the drill, seems to have aggressive, but her expression as usual, waved his hand to take out another kind of powder spread, poisonous insects agitation, soon scattered, the mud calm down.
After doing this, the people have squatted down, skillfully fishing up the silt, coated the whole body.
"The details on the road, remember them?" Team Lei coated his entire body while signaling Xu Qing to do the same.
Xu Qing nodded his head and without hesitation fished out the silt and started smearing it, while his gaze swept over Luan Ya, he felt that the other party seemed to know some poisonous techniques.
"The area that is skipped to avoid is due to the leaves withering badly but intact, this means that no ferocious beasts have traveled through it, and there exists an unknown."
"The area to step directly to is because there is ferocious beast feces on the ground, and the biological instinct is to choose a safe area to defecate, so it represents that there is no excessive danger and man-eating quagmire."
"As for the range of bypassing, it is due to the nose of Barbarian Ghost, he has a sensitive nose and can smell the odor of the presence of some dangerous beasts, you'll be learning a lot along the way, so memorize as much as you can."
Xu Qing sniffed and glanced at Barbarian Ghost, who also turned his head at this moment, baring his teeth at Xu Qing.
"As for this silt, it's a place containing Night Lizard skin damage that our squad discovered many years ago, coating the entire body will not only cover our breath, but also have a certain deterrent."
"Going forward, is the direction we are going to, while going north, there is the Poison Dragon Pool, the forbidden jungle has been spontaneously divided into a number of ranges by the scavengers due to the different landforms."
"The Poison Dragon Pool is one of them, but we're not going there this time." Between his words, Team Lei had already finished painting.
Xu Qing had already finished at this moment, and when he got up, the cross that had walked past him, although he had questioned Xu Qing's following yesterday, he still said with a cold face.
"Keep an eye on your alienation points, the forbidden zone is thick with alien qualities, keep an eye on it at all times, once you exceed the alienation limit, no one will be able to save you."
Xu Qing nodded, having noticed this point long ago.
He could sense that the concentration of heterogeneity within this forbidden area was extremely high, but it was much weaker than when the city ruins were at their peak.
It was only that he had accumulated quite a bit of his own heterogeneous quality nowadays, so at this moment, even if he didn't cultivate, but just breathed, the heterogeneous spots on his arms began to faintly tingle.
So he took out a white dan and placed it in his mouth, not swallowing it, but holding it in and letting it slowly melt.
Soon, everyone was coated, and the group looked at each other as they continued on their journey.
However, somewhat different from the previous journey, on the next road, their speed was even slower, and in everyone's hands, they had taken their weapons out.
Xu Qing swept over their weapons.
The Barbarian Ghost had a steel shield with a wolf tooth stick, the Thunder Team had gloves, the Cross had a longbow, and as for the Luan Teeth, they had taken out a serrated dagger with a cold aura on it.
A few days ago, Xu Qing went out to keep an eye on Fat Mountain and had other gains as well.
Because of his keen hearing, he had heard quite a few scavengers talking to each other, and knew a lot of information that he hadn't known in the past.
For example, here in weapons, he now knew that they were categorized into magic treasures, talismanic treasures, and heavy treasures.
Among them, the magic treasures belonged to the things of legends and were quite rare.
Rumor has it that every treasure has a different degree of heterogeneous contamination, will increase with the use, extremely difficult to remove, so basically belongs to the non-renewable resources, coupled with great power, naturally exceptionally valuable.
So was born treasure breeder this kind of special existence, they are often from the child was raised, to the body to dilute the heterogeneity of the treasure.
This point, when the Lei team also said.
In addition to the magic treasure, then there are talisman treasure and heavy treasure.
Although the former talisman treasure is as rare, but relative to the magic treasure, can be considered a luxury thing, as for the latter heavy treasure is common.
Often are some special materials to build, is the ordinary people can use the same weapon.
Xu Qing felt that his own iron signature was perhaps a heavy treasure, and the ones in the hands of these people in front of him were clearly in this category as well.
Time slowly passed, and Xu Qing followed the Thunder Squad, gradually traveling farther and farther within this forbidden area.
On the way, he also encountered some not-so-small troubles, but most of them were dealt with by Barbarian Ghost alone.
Occasionally, when they encountered a more powerful ferocious beast, the cross's bow would shoot out.
As for Luan Ya's strikes, they were predominantly art techniques, and she seemed to be able to perform some sort of shock, causing the arriving ferocious beasts to appear to pause in their behavior, quite inflexible.
During this period, Xu Qing also struck out once, grabbing a poisonous snake that shot from the back and crushing it directly.
And after dealing with all of this and realizing that Xu Qing had been able to follow along from start to finish during the forward journey without making any rookie mistakes, Cross looked at Xu Qing with less scrutiny and imparted some experience to him as well.
"Kid, this forbidden zone may seem menacing, but for those of us who have been here for a long time, as long as we don't encounter three situations, we're basically safe."
"These three situations, you have to keep in mind."
"The first one, is a strange foreign beast from the depths of the forbidden zone that has come to the outer area, this situation is not very common, and the range of our activities are practically all just the periphery of the forbidden zone."
"But once we encounter it, it is incomparably dangerous, because we only understand the habits and abilities of the peripheral foreign beasts, and the forbidden zone is too big, the foreign beasts inside are diverse, and their abilities are all kinds of different, and a little bit of inattention is death."
"The second one is the song. "Speaking of this, Cross's face revealed scorn.
"There is a saying circulating within the forbidden area of this place, it is said that the sound of song will appear here, and the people who hear the sound of song do not exist in a hundred, except that I have never heard the sound of song, and the one of us who has heard the sound of song is only the Lei Team."
Xu Qing looked towards Team Lei.
Team Lei didn't say anything, only looking up at the depths of the forbidden zone, a touch of complexity hidden in his eyes.
"I'll say the third one." Luan Ya, who was on the side, laughed and glanced at Xu Qing.
"Child, the third danger here, which is very common, is the mists."
"Once the mists come out like a person becomes blind, must be lost, and the mists exist for a long time in general, and once lost here, can't get out in time, trapped in the forbidden zone, with the corrosion of the heterogeneous quality, their own heterogeneous quality naturally and gradually raise, and this also often represents the advent of death.
"But there are two ways to dissolve it, one is fire, and the other is born or cultivated after birth, those with strong spiritual power."
"The former treats the symptoms but not the root cause, although the fire can dispel the fog to a small extent and restore vision, but the mists are bizarre, it is difficult for the fire to survive for a long time, as for the latter, often a few decades can appear in the camp for a half of it, and most people in this category leave very quickly to have a better development."
"There is also a fourth kind of danger, that is to encounter the malicious ambush of hostile people." The Barbarian Ghost, who was driving the road ahead, spoke sullenly.
Luan Tooth on the side was just about to open his mouth, but right at this moment, the Lei Team, who was looking towards the far side of the forbidden zone, suddenly changed his expression and let out a low gulp.
"Shut up!"
In the next instant, the cross opened its bow, Luan Ya's eyes revealed a ghostly aura, the Barbarian Ghost's entire body swelled, and Xu Qing here also had his sweaty hairs stand up in an instant as a strong threat suddenly came from within the pitch-black jungle in the distance of them.
Soon, a ghostly aura appeared in the pitch-blackness, it was a pair of eyes, with indifference, with gloom, gazing at the crowd.
There were extremely many eyes.
And with the appearance of these eyes, a giant wolf with black scales all over its body and a body the size of a buffalo slowly walked out.
Looking around, the number of at least dozens of more, and even far away hidden, there seems to be more, afraid of no less than hundreds.
And every wolf, the spiritual energy fluctuation emanating from its body, reached around the second layer, causing Barbarian Ghost and the others, to change color.
"Black Scaled Wolves!"
"They usually only live in the junction between the depths and the periphery of the forbidden zone, not in this range, so how did they come here!"
Cross's pupils contracted, and Luan Tooth on the side was also a little pale.
Truly they knew very well that although a single Black Scaled Wolf was nothing, but in such numbers, it would be a severe test for them.
The most important thing is that the forbidden area is rich in heterogeneous substances, once the body's spiritual energy loss is too great, they can only go to absorb the external spiritual energy to replenish. While fighting, it would be too late to separate the heterogeneous matter, in which case, the heterogeneous matter in the body would accumulate very quickly, and the risk of alienation would increase infinitely.
Xu Qing also breathed slightly sharply, the oppressive force from the wolves was immense.
"You guys retreat first, I'll block them."
In the midst of everyone's hearts and minds shaking, Team Lei spoke in a deep voice and slowly stepped out.
A spiritual energy fluctuation that surpassed the cross by at least a factor of two erupted from the Lei Team's body as it moved forward.
Those wolves, too, all had their footsteps lurched as they stared at Lei Team.
