Chapter 49 The Wilderness
Walking in the wilderness is a very novel experience.
Since the wilderness era, this has been a forbidden zone for intelligent creatures. No one dares to go deep into the wilderness easily. Even the free and easy-to-fly people dare to fly over the wilderness only in groups. The lonely winged people would rather go around half a continent than pass directly through it. This shows how deeply the dangers of the wilderness are.
Only the dragons that are rare in decades are qualified to fly freely under this sky. In other words, the dragons are originally a kind of mythical creatures. They are divided into the realm of smart creatures because they have more complete wisdom than other mythical creatures. The dragons are the only race that can travel freely on both sides of the civilized world and the wild land. And compared to being companions of small and fragile smart creatures, they prefer neighbors on the wild land. This is their playground and a hunting ground. They have spent millions of years here. As for what the future is, who knows.
No one can come up with exact data on how big the specific area of the wild land is. Everyone can only estimate that it is about 20 million square kilometers, accounting for one-third to one-quarter of the land area of the entire Pavatiga world.
This vast land area is beautiful and has abundant food. Although it is often affected by the three major disasters, it is still very suitable for living in general, and is even more suitable for living than some barren areas in the civilized world, such as the western wilderness. The beasts living here live quite happily. There is abundant food and abundant water source. Whether it is herbivorous or carnivorous, they are rarely troubled by hunger. No wonder when the gods and mythical creatures reached a consensus, mythical creatures who did not know how to worship gods were willing to accept the request of retreating to the wilderness. With this livable environment as a residence, mythical creatures do not need to go to the half of the civilized world to compete with smart creatures for living space.
Unfortunately, no matter how good the environment is, smart creatures do not envy them at all, because the predators here are so terrible. On average, they have legendary levels and are quite amazing. Therefore, every explorer will be cautious after going deep into the wilderness, and even dare not sleep well when resting. Even if there are guards, they are afraid of encountering unexpected events in their sleep. No one wants to wake up and see a few legendary or even demigod predators around them with napkins to prepare for meals. That would be really dead.
Even when they are awake, they don’t want to see any kind of predator. If they are strong alone, it’s fine. The civilized world is not just a predator with legends and demigod levels. The problem is that they are not only strong, but at least half of them are mythical creatures. This is very confusing. The huge body and tough body are generally half a level higher than the surface level. If you want to survive their hunting, three points depend on strength, and the remaining ninety-seven points depend on luck.
Therefore, any team that goes deep into the wilderness will choose to hide themselves as much as possible and not be discovered by predators. This is the best way to protect themselves here. It can be said that every team that goes deep into the wilderness and successfully escapes has one or several experts who hide their whereabouts. Some people even summarized a set of skills to hide themselves in the wilderness. There are many entries and they often change. But the first one is that it will never change, that is, you must not move around the ground openly, otherwise you will definitely encounter a fatal attack from predators within a few days.
But Shuer and his four men could proudly say that we have successfully broken this rule, and there is no need to be as careful as you said. Even if we are walking openly in the wilderness, no predator dares to attack us. Not only that, any predator must escape at the fastest speed when he sees us, and he dare not approach us within a hundred meters.
This is true, because not only is they accompanied by a top predator Thunderstorm beast, but they are now riding on Thunderstorm beast.
In fact, even if it is such a powerful existence of Thunderstorm, it is not daring to let the four guests move on their own. Although its existence is enough to scare away all large predators, the problem is that small predators in the wilderness are equally dangerous. And after millions of years of life, those small creatures are not too afraid of Thunderstorm.
The ground is dense weeds more than one meter high, and there are countless small creatures hidden inside. These little beasts are not interested in humanoid creatures that are far larger than them. However, when they are frightened, they often start to hurt people. Their attacks are meaningless to the thunderstorm beasts, and they cannot even break through the epidermis and cannot cause substantial damage at all. However, it is very troublesome for Shul and the others. If they are attacked suddenly, the thunderstorm beasts may have no time to rescue them and they will be eaten away.
In order not to allow guests to reach their destination in the form of parts, the Thunderstorm Beast had to let a group of four stand on themselves and carry them through the two kilometers of journey. As soon as they left the woods, the Thunderstorm Beast roared, took big steps in the roar, and walked in the direction Mia pointed before. The speed was not too fast, but it was just a normal walking speed, but it was much faster than relying on itself to move forward on alert.
The thunderstorm beast, which is more than seven meters long, leans forward and stretches its tail when walking, and its back is almost horizontal. The four of them stand behind it. The rough skin surface is bumpy. Although it looks very affecting the beauty, it is very firm when stepping on it. Even if it is a little bumpy during walking, it will not slide from behind. Therefore, the journey becomes quite leisurely. The four of them not only do not need to be careful to hide in danger, but also have the time to look around and appreciate the beautiful and strange wild land.
Looking around, the wilderness is full of vitality, which is completely different from the terrifying Jedi I imagined. Perhaps it is because of the appearance of the Thunderstorm Beast, and there are no large creatures within a hundred meters, but from afar, you can still see the backs of many large monsters passing by, with different postures and a wide variety. You can imagine how full of vitality it was when the Thunderstorm Beast did not appear.
Further away, dozens of black shadows like hills were not affected by the Thunderstorm beasts, and were still walking leisurely. It is not an exaggeration to say that it was a small hill. These giant beasts are much larger than the Thunderstorm beasts, and are more than twenty meters tall, like a thick mountain of meat. With such a body like a human, a body like a human may be divided into pieces. Even the most powerful Thunderstorm beasts will not treat them as prey unless they have to. After all, there is no need to take such risks in the wilderness.
The ground was full of vitality and the sky was not lonely. More than a dozen strange birds were hovering in the air and always following the thunderstorm beast. They seemed to be curious about the little things behind it. On several occasions, several of them even lowered their heights, as if they wanted to see clearly the appearance of these tiny creatures. Although the body spreading more than 20 meters of wings put a lot of pressure on the four of Shuer, lowering the heights also allowed the four of them to see their appearance clearly.
Similar creatures, Shuer has seen with his own eyes. On the distant New Brown Star, he has even experienced fighting with them. It is not bad, the strange birds that besieged steel spaceships with flesh and blood, bat-like membrane wings, flexible and sharp forelimbs, strong and powerful hind paws, and long sharp beaks that are still fresh in memory, with half of the teeth and swords. Shuer can hardly forget these irritable and ferocious flying creatures, so he can see their similarities at a glance. Although there are many differences, it does not affect overlapping their images.
The strange birds let out a harsh scream, further lowering the height, and they were quite willing to dive down and take away the four delicious foods. They were flying creatures, even the overlords of the land, and they dared to watch them. They looked like they had the ability to come up and beat us.
So they were beaten.
A large fireball that had been brewing for a long time soared into the sky. The compressed flame with a diameter of nearly a thousand degrees of wing length hit the monster birds head-on with a high temperature of nearly a thousand degrees. The prey they selected was not a gentle herbivore. If they underestimate them, even mythical creatures would be in danger of life.
The condensed flames stretched and danced happily. Wherever they passed, there was heat and burning smell in the air. The strange birds were startled and screamed and fled around, barely giving up the path of the fireball passing by. Several slow-running ones were rubbed by the fireballs, leaving burning injuries of varying weight on their bodies. They whined and raised their heights and never dared to approach them easily again.
They are lucky, because those who have not been injured and have increased their heights are more dangerous than their situation. Perhaps their noisy cries annoyed the thunderstorm beast. The beast suddenly twisted its neck and sprayed an invisible energy bomb out of its mouth. The energy bomb was much faster than the fireball and much more powerful. A strange bird that could not dodge was hit by the energy bomb head-on and was directly blown into pieces. Blood sprinkled on the path the beast walked through, and its limbs and internal organs were scattered all over the ground.
The remaining strange birds were finally scared and quickly raised up to accompany their injured peers, but they did not expect that this was the beginning of the real misfortune.
Several black shadows appeared from the distant horizon. At first, there were only a few vague small black dots, but within a few seconds, the black dots expanded into black shadows, which shows how fast they were. The monster birds finally discovered the arrival of danger and screamed and wanted to fly into the distance. However, it was too late to run again. At the moment they were stared at by those black shadows, they were destined to have a sad fate.
"Hu", in a blink of an eye, a black shadow appeared in front of him from the horizon. Even at a height of 100 meters, it still caused huge wind pressure. The four passengers swayed and had to lower their bodies to barely stand firm. Several black shadows ignored the passengers below and each chose a slow-escaped monster bird to open its mouth. With a few screams, the monster birds stopped struggling and turned from hunters to prey.
After one blow, the shadows turned around and left without stopping. Only the only shadow who was not involved in the hunting circled in the air for a few times, making a loud dragon roar.
Chapter completed!