Chapter 1192 on the road
This was not the first time that Sylvia had entered the wasteland. In the past, when she was studying in the General Church of the Sky, she had gone deep into the depths of the wasteland as an adventure writer more than once. One was to collect species information on the wasteland for organizations such as the Apocalypse Society and the Medical College, and the other was to collect information about the wasteland tribes for the Fran Empire, so she either organized a caravan to go all over the tribe, or hired guides from the wasteland tribe to explore some ruins in the jungle, and never entered the depths of the jungle alone.
In addition, the jungle after entering the wasteland territory is very different from the jungle outside the wasteland. Moreover, after the fog disaster year, every year, even monthly, jungle hills and other landforms will change due to various situations. The previous information and experience have all been completely invalid. Only tribes that live in the jungle for many years know how to find the right path. Even caravans that go deep into the jungle for many years need old guides to find the right path in the ever-changing wasteland landscape.
All kinds of unexpected situations led to Sylvia's misjudgment of his abilities, and Leo also did not expect that Sylvia, a veteran adventurer who could write many books on adventures about wastelands, would get lost shortly after entering the wastelands.
However, this unexpected lost path also made the two of them unexpectedly discover a ruin ruin. A desolate god who had been dead for many years was found in the ruin ruins. The remaining spirituality of this desolate god could actually resonate with the power of the abyss demon dragon in Sylvia's body, and then absorbed by Sylvia.
After Sylvia absorbed the spirituality of the Wilderness God, the Abyss Flame, which originated from the blood of the Demon Dragon in her body, also transformed and evolved into a more powerful and terrifying flame power. In Leo's opinion, except that this ability cannot be improved with the increase of his own strength, other aspects are already very close to the strategic level of psychic skills such as the Thunder Spear.
The giant mutant monster group that appeared near Eagle Beak Rock not long ago became the object of the power of Sylvia's experiment in the Abyss Flame. After this terrifying force belonging to the abyss appeared in the world of Viron, the power and reaction produced by this terrifying force belonging to the Abyss was completely beyond the expectations of Leo and Sylvia. In addition to the known burning effect, it also has a petrified effect, and because of the stimulation of the power of the world, it also produces amazing effects similar to burning the sky.
This also made them curious about the desolate god who had been dead for many years. He actually relied on his remaining spirituality to make the Abyss Flame change so greatly.
"Do you know what those people just said about Batokaka?" Sylvia asked in a deep voice.
Leo thought for a moment and said, "I remember Rojack Lance's "The God of the Wastelands" mentioned that it seemed like a very evil powerful god of wilderness. Later, he was banned by wilderness such as the Mother of Plants." As he said, he pondered for a moment and said, "I remember the method of ban mentioned in that book is to divide Batokaka into several pieces and then put it in different places to avoid its resurrection."
Sylvia said surprise: "In this way, the decayed body we encountered is only a part of it, and there are other Batokaka bodies in other parts of the wasteland."
"It's true, but..." Leo nodded, hesitated for a moment, and said, "However, the Wasteland Tribe has no words in the past. All kinds of legends are passed down by word of mouth, and the content has long been changed beyond recognition. It may be difficult to find the remains of the body of Batokaka through legends, and the chance of taking the opportunity is greater."
"Try your luck?" Sylvia raised her eyebrows and smiled, "Your suggestion is good. Since we were lucky before and could meet a body that still has spirituality, it is not impossible to encounter a body again in the future."
Although Sylvia was just a joke, Leo could vaguely feel that this might not be a joke.
Later, Leo and Sylvia continued to the south along the map traded from the smuggling caravan, and soon found the first set of landmarks.
The terrain is very simple, it is just a pond formed by three hills with different orientations and a pond with a mountain spring. This is the place where smuggling caravans provide drinking water, but this is not a suitable camping place. The caravans will come here to replenish drinking water during the day and leave immediately, because at night it is a gathering place for all kinds of wild animals.
Although it seems that there are weak beasts that ordinary people can deal with when they pick up weapons by the pond, in fact, there are many extremely threatening beasts hidden in the woods around the pond, and even some extraordinary creatures.
When passing by this landmark location, Leo only sensed that before using his spiritual vision ability, he could feel that no less than twenty extraordinary creatures were hunting. In terms of the habitat density of extraordinary creatures, the edge of the wasteland is second only to the Black Forest.
After passing through the first landmark location, the second landmark location appeared in front of the two of them. It was a habitat for light insects. These light insects are unique species in the wasteland. They are ordinary insects during the day, but at night they will shine all over and illuminate the entire forest.
Although this kind of light insect looks like there is no danger, in fact, the danger of these light insects is even greater than that of those more ferocious extraordinary creatures. They will spray out a very powerful corrosive liquid. Once this liquid sticks to the body, it will stick tightly and is difficult to peel off. Only by cutting off the area that occupy the liquid and even the entire component can it be removed.
Therefore, even though the Dodd Group seemed to want to use the light luminous characteristics of these light worms to replace old street lights, it turned out that because the light worms were too difficult to catch and could not be cultivated manually, it had to give up this plan.
While bypassing this photoworm habitat, Leo and Sylvia stayed specifically for a while to observe the photoworm swarms in the habitat.
The reason why they became interested in photoworms is not because there is something special about photoworms, but because they found that these photoworms actually set traps in their habitats to attract some individual mutant monsters into their habitats. Some vines grow in this habitat, which seems to have consciousness, will cooperate with photoworms to kill mutant monsters. The corrosive acid of the photoworms will dissolve the mutant monsters and be absorbed by plants. After the plants absorb the solution, some flowers will grow quickly. The photoworms seem to rely on these flowers to survive and reproduce.
A complete and perfect predation chain was presented to the two of them, making them marvel at the beauty of nature.
However, what makes Leo and Sylvia even more interesting is that those mutant monsters who only prey on humans and attack humans, who are interested in preying on lightworms, and they like to prey on lightworms, and they are like addiction. Once they are lured, they will completely forget the dangers around them, and even be entangled by the evil vines and attacks, and will not fight back. They will only move towards the lightworms they stare at, wanting to eat them. Therefore, the hunting process of the lightworms and vines has almost no resistance.
After discovering this scene, Leo immediately reminded Sylvia and said, "This feature should be recorded and found someone to study it in the future. Maybe you can find a way to deal with mutant monsters."
After hearing this, Sylvia also used her own universal recorder to record an image of a photoworm and a vine prey on mutant monsters. Then she marked the approximate location here and sent it to Su.
"This thing is really useful. If you have the chance, find a few more." After the data was sent, Sylvia also sighed.
Leo shook his head and explained: "Not as good as you think. This link network is built as the core of the universal recorder in your hand. Without additional energy supplementation, but based on the energy cycle index of the universal recorder alone, it can only build a small network of four terminals, which means that at most two universal recorders can be linked, so you can no longer link other universal recorders."
"Can't you or Su's general recorder as the core?" Although Sylvia couldn't fully understand some of the professional words Leo said in Earth Federal language, she could understand what he wanted to express, so she asked.
"No, the general recorder in Su and I are both damaged. Many functional modules inside have been lost and cannot be used as core hosts." Leo shook his head, then shrugged and said, "But you can't say absolutely. Maybe the general recorder we found in the future can be as complete as the general recorder in your hand, or you can find an external energy module to make up for the energy defect of the general recorder."
The two stopped for a while and then continued on the road. In the early morning, they arrived at the third landmark, Fuxiong Mountain.
This place was originally called Longtoothed Beast Mountain, because the entire mountain looked like a longtoothed Beast. However, during the fog disaster, part of the mountain collapsed due to an earthquake, which changed the shape of the entire mountain and became like a bear roaring with its head raised, so it was changed to its current name.
The Rich Bear Mountain is the last landmark of the route marked on the map, reaching the former Southern Tribal Alliance important city Badisha. After arriving here, follow the Tutu River at the foot of the mountain and merge into the Dajiao River. Then continue south along the Dajiao River. After about two days, you can reach Badisha.
After arriving here, the two did not continue to advance along the Tutu River at the foot of the mountain, but instead went up the mountain, because Sylvia wanted to see the tribes living on the mountain to see if they could lay a foundation for the researchers who would stay here in the future.
It is not very far from the habitat of lightworms, and it only takes half a day for normal people to walk. At that time, the stationing point of the researchers in the tribe here will be very convenient for the two places to travel.
However, when they reached the hillside, Leo and Sylvia's faces became serious, because they both smelled a strong stench at this moment, and this smell should be the smell of corpses, and a large number of corpses.
The two of them accelerated their pace and arrived at the top of the mountain. They soon saw the tribe described on the map. However, now this tribe has become a corpse, and the defense walls built by the tribe have been completely destroyed. There are almost no intact buildings in the entire tribe, nor any intact corpses. A large number of corpses are scattered, distributed inside and outside the tribe. The blood has long penetrated into the land, dried up and turned black, and corrupted with the corpses, emitting an unpleasant smell.
"This was not done by a mutant monster." Almost in unison, the two of them said at the same time when they saw the scene in front of them.
Judging from the situation at the scene, although it feels like it has been attacked by monsters, everyone has been killed by monsters, the corpse has been torn apart by monsters, and the house has been completely destroyed by monsters, if you observe carefully, you will find that no matter the shape of the wounds on the scattered corpses or the damage traces of surrounding buildings, there are too many human-made marks. And more importantly, although monsters may not completely eat the killed humans, they will also eat most of them, especially human heads, so there are too many corpses on the scene, so even if the mutant monster sees them, they will shout waste.
"Is it a tribe vendetta?" Leo said with some confusion.
"Impossible!" Sylvia knew the situation of the Wasteland tribe very well and immediately denied: "Even if it was a revenge between tribes, it would not be used to exterminate a tribe in this way. They would turn the captured young and middle-aged people into slaves, those who were already sensible children would be sold, ignorant children would be adopted, and women were the most important wealth, which would be preserved intact, while the elderly would be discarded, allowing them to fend for themselves and would not kill them."
"Since it's not a tribe's vendetta, it's just that people outside the Wasteland tribe did it. They were worried about being discovered, so they made such a arrangement." Leo quickly analyzed: "However, it shouldn't be many people who came to arrange this scene to be attacked by mutant monsters, otherwise they wouldn't have arranged such a scene full of loopholes."
"It may not be that I don't understand." Sylvia opposed Leo's analysis and said in a deep voice: "This may also be the effect they deliberately wanted."
As he spoke, he saw Sylvia quickly walking to a damaged wooden wall, and then found a piece of metal inlaid in the wood on the wooden wall. It seemed that it was a spike fragment of some kind of weapon, but it was broken into the wooden wall because of accidentally pulling it out.
"Look at this." Sylvia looked at the metal fragment and handed it to Leo.
Leo directly penetrated the metal using the spiritual net, analyzing the components, and said: "The early Teclin forging process was used. The ingredients inside were somewhat similar to the fourth formula metal of the Teclin forging process. However, a little Jacotto iron rock ore was added to this formula. This ore can make this metal more rigid, but will weaken its toughness to a certain extent."
Chapter completed!