Chapter 21: The Forest of Sand

"Are you a girl?" Ashufude looked at Zi Yue and said. Although he looked the same, Zi Yue's voice was easy to confirm his gender.

"I'm like this..." Zi Yue originally wanted to say that there was a boy as beautiful as me, but she suddenly remembered that I was just one. "Even if Zi Ri was an exception, under normal circumstances, you should think of a girl first when you see me like this, right?"

"I'm sorry, I was rude!" Ashufude quickly apologized. "Let me introduce it again, I am Ashufude, the president of the Iron Crusader."

"My name is Ziyue, the deputy military commander of the Frost Rose Alliance."

After the introduction, Ashufude looked at a messy beach. "What's going on? Why did it hit so hard?"

"It's all my fault that Zi Ri was not allowed to accept the modification of the warship. As a result, we forgot to install the speed reduction lever. We rushed from China at super speed. Yesterday morning we were still in China, and we arrived in Europe in just 24 hours. We were almost on the plane!"

Asu Fude was shocked when he heard this. "You just rushed ashore and slowed down?"

"What else can I do?"

"That's right." Ashufud looked at the beach and said, "What should I do if these fragments are there? Are you here to bring something? This speed may have been broken!"

"The things we transported were not damaged in the portable space, but I still have to help you clean up the wreckage of the warship. There are many technologies shared by our two guilds on the warship, such as thruster technology. Do you don't want third-party guilds to get them too, right?"

"Of course." Ashufude quickly turned around and ordered his men to clean up the pieces, and Ziyue and the others followed him to clean up the things.

Time went back one day before, and the Biling had just left China.

The Biling left the port, and we couldn't catch up with its speed. Ming knew that there was no problem, so he had to pray for them. According to the plan, I took Rose away and moved towards the northwest. Riding on Yeying, pulling Rose up and sitting in front of me. Bailang followed us on the left, riding Xiaochun and Jingjing on his back. Xiaoxue walked on the other side of us, and Ling and Emmenis sat on it together. Xiaofeng turned into a pet dance form and stood on my shoulders, and Feibirds hovered over our heads to be responsible for high-altitude reconnaissance. At the end were 10 Lingyin knights following us on war horses. This lineup was huge enough.

We brought such a team into the teleportation array. Our goal was a place called Luji City. When we were studying the map yesterday, we searched for a long time, but this city was close to the destination. The game map also considered the reality and reality. The spacing between cities in the northwest region is relatively large, and there are only scattered small cities in the desert area. This Luji City is one of these cities, with no cities around hundreds of kilometers.

When we appeared in Lukui City, Zhuo Shi stunned the players around us. Such a glamorous team did not often appear in such places. After walking out of the teleportation array, we found that the buildings here were made of loess, and the yellow sand on the street looked very dilapidated. A super big sun was roasting overhead and the surrounding heat waves were rolling. Before we came out this time, we had already brought enough dry food and drinking water, so we went directly outside the city without any supplements.

Standing at the city gate, we were stunned.

"Are we getting the wrong place?" Rose asked.

I looked around and saw an endless desert outside the city. Even if I opened my star pupils, my sight was still covered with yellow sand. "There won't be forests in this kind of place, right?"

“Look at the map.”

I quickly raised my left hand to face the front, and a holographic map appeared in front of us. "This is where we are now. What is the forest in front? It's nothing wrong!"

"Then let's take a look. Maybe something like an illusion covers the forest."

"Why are you looking for the Sand Forest?" A player wearing a strange costume appeared in front of us. Judging from the costume, he is definitely not a warrior. If he is not a profession like an assassin, he should be a mage.

"Sand Forest?" I raised my left and right and opened the map again and scared the guy. "Is the Sand Forest you mentioned here?" I pointed at the dot on the map with the tip of the spear.

"It's here, but the roads there are very difficult to walk. Take me with me and I can help you avoid detours."

Rose said to me: "Let's just let him be a guide? It's also a headache to always go the wrong way."

"Then let me listen to you." I looked up at the player and said, "What reward do you need?"

"5 crystal coins." The guy said frustrated.

"Trade. My name is Ziri, this is Rose. What's your name?"

"My name is Burial Flower Man."

"Do you have a mount?" Rose asked.

"Yes, I have a sand lizard."

"Sand Lizard?"

The Burialist immediately pulled out a monster from the alley next to him, which looked like a giant chameleon. Seeing us with suspicious eyes, the Burialist shouted: "Don't underestimate my sand lizards, they are much faster than those useless horses in the desert." As he said that, he looked at our mounts with contempt.

Ye Ying neighed, and the sharp corners on his head immediately shone with a compressed electric ball. I understood what Ye Ying meant: "I'm not a horse."

But the Burial Flower Man said, "It's all the same. Anyway, it's all waste when you encounter quicksand. Follow my footsteps, don't run outside. If you fall into quicksand, you'll be done."

"Just leave, don't worry about us."

"Okay, follow me."

The Burial Flower Man rode on the sand lizard and rushed out into the desert outside the city. We immediately followed. The Burial Flower Man was very confident in his mount. Only when we left the city did we know that he really had the capital to be confident. The sand lizard was flying on the yellow sand, and its speed was far faster than that of ordinary creatures. The war horses that rely on four hooves were indeed at a disadvantage. The horse's hooves were too small, and they could sink into the sand and they could not run at full speed. Finally, we had to leave the ground and fly. The mounts of the Lingyin Knight were all added with the dark cloud floating technique by Ling, and the white waves were added with the wings of light. Ye Ying and Xiaoxue were originally able to fly.

He was also surprised to see all of us flying up and the flower burialist. He didn't expect that we would all fly. In fact, if I hadn't heard that there were many monsters in the Sand Forest, I wouldn't have had such a large lineup to come out to guard.

The sand lizard was fast, but we were flying, so we didn't delay the long on the road. As the sand lizard was running, the flower burial man jumped off the sand lizard.

We landed with it. "Why stop?"

"arrive."

"Has it arrived?" Rose and I looked around but saw nothing. "Where?"

The Burial Flower Man pointed to the ground. "We are now standing above the Sand Forest, which is a rare underground forest, right under your feet."

“Where is the entrance?”

The flower burial man directed his mount and smelled it for a while. Finally, the sand lizard found a place to dig. In just a few minutes, a huge stone slab appeared on the ground. "This is the entrance. Open the stone slab and you can enter. Our agreement is to send you to the Sand Forest. Now it has arrived. You can pay me, right?"

I waved forward, and Sgott took a few Lingyin Knights to grab the ring on the slab and pulled it backwards. The whole slab flew up. It seemed that the slab was not as heavy as imagined. The Lingyin Knight was obviously exerting too much force. Sgott stretched his head in and looked at it and said, "There is a forest."

I took out the crystal coin and handed it to the Burial Flower Man. "How big is the area inside?"

The Burial Flower Man said: "I don't know how big it is. No one has ever walked through it anyway. You'd better prepare to go back to the city and go in. Getting lost is not a joke. Or you can continue to hire me as a guide."

"Yes." I answered without hesitation.

"I'll agree first, the fee this time is 20 crystal coins."

"Why so many?"

"Because there are many people who know the Sand Forest, the competition is very fierce. But I am the only one in this forest. Of course, it is more expensive to have a monopoly economy."

Rose shook my arm a little angry and said, "Let's go by ourselves, there's a map anyway."

"Okay." I said to the Burial Flower Man: "We don't need you to lead the way, goodbye."

"Then you guys are careful, don't blame me for not reminding me. The monsters and traps here are terrible." After saying that, he turned around and rode on the sand lizard and left. I didn't notice a strange look flashing in his eyes.

After the sand lizard disappeared in the dunes with the flower burialists, we also began to enter the forest. Under the stone slab was not a passage, but a large hole directly led to the space where the Sand Forest was. From the entrance of the cave, you can see the lush canopy at the top of the forest. There seemed to be bright lighting in the cave, and I don’t know what the light source was. The bottom of the cave was completely covered by trees and the ground was not visible. However, the light tree top was nearly 100 meters away from the ground, and such a large space could only appear in the magic world!

I put away my magic pet and jumped into the hole with the rose in my arms. With the help of wings, we slowly landed to the bottom of the hole, but just as we touched the tree canopy, the top of our heads suddenly became dark, and someone closed the hole. The rose held my shoulder and said, "Don't worry about it, let's look for the mine first, anyway, just go out and teleport directly."

Rose didn't say that I was not worried. When she said this, I felt something was wrong. Even if the other party didn't know that I had a teleportation ring, he should have known that there was a scroll back to the city. He didn't need to close the hole! He quickly experimented with the teleportation ring, and it was as I guessed.

Rose asked nervously: "What's wrong?"

“Telection restricted here!”

"That doesn't matter. It's not a problem to use our destructive power to make a hole on it. The top layer above is only seven or eight meters thick."

"That's right."

No longer worrying about getting out, we slowly landed on the top of the tree. Because wings in the forest were inconvenient and were inconvenient to fly, we landed on the top of the tree and climbed down. Let the roses hang on my back, and then hung the dragon tendon rope on a tree fork that was enough to carry our weight and jumped down directly. As the dragon tendon rope slowly set off, we also fell at a constant speed. Soon we found that this forest was not as simple as we imagined. The height of our descending from the top of the tree has exceeded 100 meters, but we still haven't reached the ground, and we didn't even know where the ground was. We continued to descend, and the branches and leaves around us became more and more dense. Later, I had to use eternal opening to descend while descending. Finally landing to the ground and check the length record of the dragon tendon rope on my arm. Oh my God! 271 meters! Is this a tree?

Retrieving the dragon tendon rope, we started to have a lot of surrounding environment. The ground here is black soil, very soft and abundant moisture. The trees here only start to grow branches from more than six meters, so the ground is very empty and not crowded with branches. Around us is the tree that just landed. The place where it connects to the ground is extremely thick, with a diameter of about 19 to 20 meters. If the tree grows so big, it will probably not be blown by the wind, and its own weight will break it.

I don’t know why, the forest is full of fog, and the visibility is only ten meters. I quickly summoned my subordinates to help. The environment here is not suitable for flying pets and mounts, so Xiaofeng and others and Yeying did not summon them. The space in the forest is not very large, and I did not summon the large magic pets. However, the land here is quite suitable for the actions of Rose Vine and the Trail Blazers.

Rose was a little nervous because of the gloomy environment here, and grabbed my arm tightly and followed me. The Knight of Ringyin formed a protective circle on the sides and behind us. I walked in the front. Rose Vine and the Trail Blazers were underground to detect whether there were abnormal vibrations or other things on the nearby ground. They would know as soon as there was something close to them.

After the defense circle was laid out, I opened the map, looked at the green dots representing myself, and then looked at the mineral burial point. "Then." I pointed to the left. Retrieve the map and start moving towards the target.

As we advanced, the fog in the forest became heavier and the visibility became lower and lower. Rose and I had small water droplets on the edges of the armor. Ling and Xiaochun behind us were even more miserable. Their tulle skirts had long become a transparent shiny gauze and stuck to their bodies. The two former goddesses realized that their image was a bit bad, so they quickly summoned their armor, which would be much better.

After walking for a while, Bailang suddenly stopped. "There is a smell of blood in front of him."

"Can you smell what kind of blood?"

"No, the smell is too light."

"Stop." A silver feather fell from my wings and turned into a steel silver bee in the air. The little guy immediately began to fly forward, and I could see everything it saw. Looking at the visual image sent back by the silver bee, it felt like it was flying. The picture continued to advance and soon discovered the target. A large animal skeleton with invisible shape was lying on the ground, its body was gnawed in a mess, and it could not tell what it was.

I directed the silver bee to go around in place for a few times, but I saw nothing, so I had to continue moving forward. When I quickly walked to the place where the pile of corpses, the ground suddenly moved and the tentacles of the rose vine emerged. The phantom began to convey the meaning of the rose vine.

"There are footsteps coming."

"Be careful, everyone." I said to the Knights around me.

The Phantom kept translating: "The target is coming towards us, the distance is approaching."

“What direction?”

"There are all around, there are 11 in total, and the speed is very fast and approaching us."

“Type, size.”

"Bi-legged walking creatures weigh about 150 kg."

"Distance now?"

"700 meters...600 meters...500 meters...400 meters...300 meters...200 meters...100 meters...and is still approaching."

Suddenly Phantom said nervously: "The target disappeared."

"disappear?"

"Suddenly there is no signal!" Phantom explained: "That's what Rose Vine said. It suddenly disappeared without any sense of vibration. Maybe the other party left the ground, or maybe it stopped."

We all looked around nervously, but in fact we couldn't see anything. I said to Bai Lang: "Did you smell any abnormal smell?"

"No."

Rose whispered: "There shouldn't be no smell at all close?"

But Bai Lang said, "There is nothing else around us except the familiar smells."

"Ling. Is there any magic fluctuation?"

"No, there is no magic fluctuation around."

I said strangely: "This is strange. The other party is only 100 meters away from us. When walking, the rose vine will feel it. When flying with wings, the white waves will hear the sound of airflow. When flying with magic, there will be magic fluctuations!"

After listening to my analysis, Rose suddenly said, "No! They must have climbed a tree."
Chapter completed!