A subjugated princess will never die a vagabond

552. Forest Man

The target is facing another group of enemies, which is a good thing and a bad thing.

The advantage is that that group of people may attract most of the eyes of the Green Tooth Pirates. If there is chaos, Sasha and his party can carry out the beheading operation quietly.The disadvantages are also particularly obvious. The current air bandits have begun to be vigilant and strengthen their defenses. While the unknown situation is easy to fish in troubled waters, it is also easy to lose control.

Cloris asked: "Has Master Yankatis investigated the remaining psychic matter around?"

"It's messy and confusing, with no effective information," Barney replied.

Soul path transcendents are not necessarily better at grabbing information from ectoplasm than dreamwalkers.Soul and body are the two sides of most creatures, they are the carrier, and the information of memory comes from the activities of consciousness and the rich spiritual world.

It is not impossible for goblin mages to collect residual traces of consciousness from ectoplasm, but they can only reach a depth of one to three days, and it is more fragmented.

For example, if there are shepherds grazing in the grassland, what Cloris can see may be all aspects of the grassland this week, while the goblin mage can only see a fragmented picture of the flock in a few hours—unless Only by capturing a complete soul can more valuable information be squeezed.

"Shall I go and have a look?" Cloris asked.

"Are you alone?" Although she knew what Cloris was capable of, Sasha was still worried about the girl's safety.

"I have helpers." Cloris opened her dream and took out part of the planned spirit body.

"Hey, hey, please don't pinch my face, Lord...is this the Twisted Forest?" The struggling planner was taken aback for a moment, then looked at Sasha, frowned and said, "Why is there still an orc mage!"

What a pure spirit.

Sasha also wrinkled her nose. She could feel the inextricable spiritual connection between the planning and Cloris. When she thought of the girl hiding in the golden house in the dream, the little white cat immediately became hostile: "I am Cloris. Si's current girlfriend, the White Night Councilor of the Weicheng Guild, Sasha Hunting Claw!"

"Wait..." The planner vaguely remembered the name, "Member?"

"Who is she, Cloris?" Sasha didn't bother to answer Xiugou, but looked directly at the girl. Her voice was very gentle, without any questioning intention.

"The student of the reformer, who plotted against me on the night plateau, is now my slave... no, my dog," Cloris shrugged, "I am a staunch abolitionist."

Sha Sha was about to smile, and when she focused on planning, Xiu Gou suddenly said, "Master, isn't your girlfriend the red-haired one? What's the matter with this little cat?"

"Vivian, if you dare to talk nonsense again, I will pull out your teeth."

There is also a reason for Cloris to show the plan to the little white cat. Veronica reversed the magic contract of the plan through the power of dreams, but in essence, the ignorant succubus has no understanding of the contract.If the succubus became the master of the contract, she might still be able to rely on her powerful instincts to intuitively feel the rules of the contract, but the contract was hung on Cloris, and if she couldn't speak, both the girl and the succubus would be blinded.

After explaining the ins and outs of the plan to the knowledgeable Sasha, I will not want to leave Xiugou's death!

Threatened by Cloris, Planning immediately hid her resentment, and Youyou closed her mouth.

"That woman forcibly bound my dream, and this is the trouble I want to ask you to help in the future," Cloris said, "But before that, let's finish the business first."

"Well." Sasha believed Cloris' explanation, she could sense that the planner was being restrained by the girl, so she said, "But Cloris, you still have to pay attention to safety, this kind of bad dog can only be used temporarily, you should be careful Beware of rebellion, what contract did you use to enslave her?"

"A kind of magic contract," Cloris used the illusion to outline a part of the magic contract, but because the contract itself is not a simple fixed two-dimensional structure, the girl can only show the subject of the symbol concentration, she said, "Then I'll go there first."

While Sasha was concentrating on building the camp defense while meditating, Cloris had already swam quickly to the "canopy" where the picket team was located in the dark shadows.

"Did you find anything?" Cloris asked.

"This was originally a snake's nest, but it seems that someone has been here. You can directly monitor the torches of the fortress here."

The goblin mage smashed the shattered snake eggs on the branches with his staff, blood and flesh leaked from the uncompleted organs, and flesh-eating ants and insects came to eat along with the smell of blood.The goblin mage pushed aside a clump of vines, his sight suddenly widened, and he could easily see the city fortress with chains of vine bridges and clusters of wooden walls in the distance.

A small airship with a capacity of only three to five people transports resources into it along a fixed route.

"These bastards are so rich that they use airships to transport goods." The goblin mage cursed.

Cloris nodded.

The Twisted Forest is not short of energy. The air bandits deal with smugglers on the spot, or sell them to Terntan, and then exchange them for a large amount of energy ores and metals from Terntan. They purchase goods from the Twisted Jungle, and then sell them to the mines and plantations in the airspace from the chrysalis to the wasteland layer, including some bugmen and necromancers who need slaves and human materials.Behind each large-scale air bandit group are more or less the shadows of various forces, and some air bandits who have a close relationship with the great lord can even capture warships comparable to US warships.

In the Twisted Jungle, there have been situations where the air bandits were almost eradicated, but the complex interests and landforms made the looters revive again and again.

"Someone has indeed been here before," Cloris asked after gently catching the thumb-sized poisonous frog with a bumpy back on the leaf with a glove and wrapping it away with a thread, "Do you have any more detailed information about the Yaka people?" understood?"

In the team, an ecologist with two hard crossbows on his waist said: "The Yakas are natives of the twisted jungle. After the arrival of the first expedition team, they traded for a period of time, and then retreated to the depths of the jungle during the war with the lord. , they worship the spirit of the jungle and are very dangerous hunters."

"The "Explorer's Illustrated Journal" has already been mentioned." Cloris said helplessly.

In addition, the Yaka people and the Azika people are similar, they both worship the spirits with great power in nature, but so far, more than 200 years after the destruction of the Azika Empire, people still know about the natives of the Twisted Jungle very little.Their language, characters, and customs are a mystery.

Ecologist Monica nodded and said deeply:

"It is recorded in the only surviving documents of the Azika people. The Yaka people used to be thousands of tribes that did not belong to each other. They lived in the Twisted Jungle and the surrounding islands. When the empire still existed, the Yaka people would Driving a green boat with life to the sea of ​​fog for trade, and exchanging metallurgical artifacts and animal skins with the Aziica riding feather snakes and lovebirds, a prosperous trade was once developed.

"But at that time civilization had already experienced several collapses, and it belonged to what the Aziika called the 'Doomsday Generation'. Their final outcome also confirmed this prophecy. In the 'Doomsday Generation' earlier, but in a specific year In the uncertain 'Golden Age', the scope of the Twisted Jungle was even wider. Part of the tree country once led to the Secret Temperature Wetland and the Pillar of the Sky Veil. One.

"We speculate that this is related to the age of the ancient gods of the deep world, but now they have fallen into a deep sleep. There is a hypothesis that the core of the twisted jungle is the entrance to the kingdom of an ancient god, but so far, the area we know Only the depth of ten to fifteen kilometers outside the Twisted Jungle Forest."

Monica took out the memory crystal that was recorded on the map. On it was an endless vast green sea. The so-called depth of ten to fifteen kilometers was just a path with dots and lines using some good ports as entry points. In the tree country, most of the area is entangled with dense roots, not to mention ships, even an adult of normal height would find it difficult to move flexibly in it.

Cloris said: "I see traces of the Yaka people here."

"It shouldn't be." Monica said in amazement, "Although we speculate that there are still indigenous people, most of them were slaughtered during the lord's conquest. The deep forest is also a dangerous forbidden area for the Yaka people. There are countless poisonous insects, raptors, and mysterious hazards. Even if they survived, the probability of encountering the air bandit camp in this vast green hell is no less than winning the lottery, and this is a peripheral area. Air pirates conflict?"

"Cloris..."

At this moment, the vines and thorns in the crown of the tree turned into cats, and Sasha's reminder came: "There is a tidal noise approaching at a straight line distance of 5 kilometers to the west of you. It may be insects, snakes or something else, [-] minutes We will pass by your position later."

"Time is running out," Monica took out the insect repellent sachet extracted from the Twisted Jungle Plant from the package, and sprayed it on everyone. "Please follow me closely, and be careful not to step on the traps of those carnivorous plants..."

Before the words fell, there was a piercing "buzzing" sound not far away, and purple mosquitoes with swollen blood sacs swarmed!

Black dark stains floated out of the air, and a circle of light-absorbing circular tracks stopped in front of the mosquito swarm. As soon as those mosquitoes passed through the circle, layers of black ripples spread out, waiting for them to come from another floating black spot behind the group of people. When it flew out of the ring, it had already lost its vitality.

Barney took back the [Star Ring] that incorporates the characteristics of the night, and said to everyone: "This is just a solitary pioneer swarm, let's leave as soon as possible."

"Ugh-"

A deep horn whistle sounded from far away, and the increasingly depressing and noisy voice was gradually approaching, while the air bandits of the fortress had already blocked the path, splashing buckets of potions and fuel oil along the way through airships.

Monica quickly manipulated the vines to weave a bridge to another giant tree, and at this moment, countless jumping spiders jumped up from under the tree.

"boom."

A slight detonation caused the wind and waves to blow away half of the tree trunk, and a nearly full-body prosthetic picket used hand cannons to blow the tide-like jumping spiders into mud.

"Can the Yakas manipulate so many creatures?"

Cloris asked Monica across the screens floating around Barney.

"I don't know!" Monica yelled.She chose the path when she came, and every time she crossed an area, she destroyed the plant path that was originally built.

"It's not pure manipulation. The plants in the dense forest are disturbed by some kind of ritual 'emotion', and the native species are rioting," the vine Salsa suddenly emerged from the trunk that everyone was climbing, and reminded, "Cloris, I'm The 'Rift Valley' two kilometers ahead has created a wooden door, you can open the door there and teleport over from a short distance."

After saying that, Vine Salsa suddenly spit out a spear, and nailed the flying inferior feathered snake to the tree wall. The dripping dark green blood melted the surface of the bark, and the corpses growing in the trunk roared and crawled. out.

"Okay." Cloris nodded.

The dense forest is becoming more and more restless, and the original noisy sound has now turned into a chaotic symphony. All bats, feathered snakes, flying insects, and land starfish have poured out of their nests, aimlessly, seeming to be running away, and seeming to be biting each other .

Everyone rushed to the rift that Sasha called - between the two green "buildings", there is a vacuum zone with almost no connection, with no head and no bottom.From here, one can just see the southeast facing back of the Air Pirate Fortress. The stacked vines extrude into undulating folds, as if forming a cliff for the mountains.

On the edge of the cliff, Vine Salsa stands in front of a beautiful and magnificent tree.

"Miss Ke, have you also studied at the Star Church?"

Seeing Cloris manipulating the puppets to outline secret scripts and perform rituals skillfully, Barney asked curiously.

Cloris glanced at him. The girl wasn't worried that the identity of the Void Disciple would be exposed—the Hall Master, Cangsheng and Carlo Pushi all knew of her existence, and she was already invincible.

Moreover, the deep world is not like the gods of the upper world who reject disciples and kill them all. As far as the girl knows so far, apart from a few vice-chairmen of the calamity chart, the only remnants of the void active in the deep world are the commandments institute and the corrupt monastery. .

At this moment, Cloris remembered that the Church of the Stars possessed the secret technique of door transfer just like the disciples.The first time Ilona provoked Arista, she opened a door leading directly to the dean's room in the correctional center, but unfortunately, the nun closed it mercilessly.

"Of course," Cloris nodded, "I studied in the temple."

"So you're—" Barney opened his mouth wide.

To Star believers, each Templar Sister is an exceptional talent and a Virgin.

"Let's talk about it later." Cloris shrugged. She activated the door and sent the team members away one by one. Just as she was about to enter through the door, the omen of inspiration suddenly stopped her.

"Cloris?" Vine Sasha cast a questioning look.

"Can you see the canopy?" Cloris asked.

"What?" Sasha looked towards the far end, she shook her head first, then connected the perception of the surrounding plants through secret techniques, and reproduced the picture several miles away through a special perspective, "This is... "

Cloris stared at the portrait on the screen, surrounded by several unkempt natives.

"Orgov?!"

553. Jungle Natives

The hot and humid bonfire steamed with dark green water vapor, and simple barracks were built with tree stems and long leaves, surrounded by a dark and lightless place, with only the slight reflection of the fire reflecting the roots and hair, like being in the body of a giant beast.

Several skinny and slender dark green aborigines with braided hair were grinding insect remains with bowls. They smeared the slurry on the streamlined tattoos on their bodies, as if they had grown rough horns. A green female goblin was waving Wearing a skull cane to bless the natives, her pointed ears are decorated with black velvet flowers, cold and dark.

Three misfit outsiders watched from the side, a mother and daughter curled up uneasily, and the man was silent as he waited for the natives to complete another round of rituals.

After a short rest, the female goblin turned to look at Orgov. She held the cane in both hands, and her long cloak bent down along with her thick plush waist to show respect.

The female goblin said in a desolate native language: "Please ask the spirit to bless us."

Orgov took the cane, and the long staff, which was as tall as a goblin, was not much longer than the short staff in his hand. He said, "Pay attention to the outsiders who sneaked into the demon camp. It is forbidden to contact them, and avoid contacting them." There is a conflict."

After all, Orgov guided the spirituality in the cane, and applied the already existing magic to a group of natives. In an instant, a layer of bast changed on the surface of their skin, and the ends of their braids also grew Out of the cones, when those braids are poured into the roots that build the main frame of the jungle, the perception suddenly extends several miles away.

"Follow the emissary's will." The female goblin took back the cane and began to give orders to her subordinates.

Orgov sat next to his wife and daughter, and said: "Some more powerful people have come. They may fight against the air pirates. If we are lucky, we may be able to steal a ship that can leave here in two days. , but we may also stay for a while among those native tribes."

"Why?" asked the little girl Abatha.

"Because we are wanted criminals now, unless we forge new documents, we will be caught and put in jail when we go out."

"Master, can you teach me the words of these people? I also want to be so green!"

"can."

Olgov nodded. He glanced at the time on his watch and reviewed the unexpected situation during this period.

The process of escaping from Coconut Island to Sea of ​​Floating Stars was very smooth. With the cover of the business license of the steward and the lord, Orgoff quickly took his family away from the world as dazzling as stars, and turned to pass through the dark and depressing Twisted Jungle.For Marnie and Abasha, this is an experience of reshaping the three views-the beam of the searchlight casts into the endless darkness, the tiny ship drifts along the roots that seem to float in the darkness, the magnificent dense forest The world is taller than the mountains and wider than the sea. No matter where you go, the giant in the darkness is always by your side and cannot escape.

But Marnie will soon know that there are things more terrifying than static dead things. Those things are smaller than ants in front of the dense forest, but they are the death gods of countless business travelers on this route—the Green Tooth Air Bandits.

Orgov was changing to a flight to Terntan at Port No. [-] at the time. Unfortunately, the merchant ship encountered one of the most notorious air bandits in the Twisted Forest within two hours of sailing out of the port.What was even more unlucky was that the fleet stationed at Port No. [-] happened to be out on patrol and passed by the air bandits.There are only a few frigates still under maintenance in the port, and there is no escort at all.

Hundreds of hostages and a full ship of goods were robbed by empty robbers to the lair in the dense forest. Some of the hostages were used as cheap slaves for hard labor. sent to the depths of the forest.

In the giant tree nearly 2000 kilometers away from White Pit Bay, the air bandits established a kingdom consisting of thousands of bandits and more than 20 slaves.Orgov controlled the soul of an air bandit and learned that this place belonged to an indigenous tribe [-] years ago. After several wars, it finally became a paradise for air bandits.Not only that, the Green Tooth Pirates are still marching deep into the dense forest, frequently invading the homes of the natives, plundering the captives, and using their flesh and blood to perform evil rituals.

A battle between the natives and the air bandits gave Orgov a chance to escape, but the terrain of the Twisted Jungle is more complicated than that of the Night Plateau. If he hadn't bumped into this team being hunted down by the air bandits, he might have escaped This is the place to get lost to death.

Language allowed Orgov to gain the trust of the natives, and his mastery of spirituality enabled him to call on the power of the cane. These natives had lost most of their inheritance, so Orgov used the cane to control the dense forest. The act was regarded as a miracle, and then as a messenger sent to them by the jungle.

Orgov originally planned to take advantage of the conflict between the natives and the air bandits to hijack a departing ship, but the arrival of another group of people disrupted his plan: under the perception of the cane, he could perceive an unusual crisis wandering.

During the delay, he has been confirmed by the authorities to be on the wanted list?Or did the looting of the air bandits attract the Exterminator?

Orgov didn't want to live a primitive and ignorant life in such a ghostly place, but now is obviously not the time to escape. If those people belong to the official forces, he can only be careful not to be discovered.

He knew that he was walking on thin ice every step of the way, and the trial of the Coconut Island lord's family was more of a last resort than retaliation.If he was left alive, he would never have the chance to leave the Sea of ​​Floating Stars by boat.And more importantly, he needs to match his soul with Orgoff—

Thousands of years are enough to rot most lives and wither their souls. The reason why they have survived is because they use the curse of the abyss to lock their souls into ugly, immortal bodies to sleep.His soul has long been weak, and if he loses the protection and nourishment of his body, he may disintegrate under the attraction of the spirit world at any time.

After abandoning his ugly body and merging the mage's brain, Orgov's soul has actually collapsed, and the only memories he accepts are the fragmented pictures of the weeks before and after he entered the night plateau.Although Orgov's ectoplasm has become the nourishment for his new life, it still takes a long time of research and training to glue it into his own soul information.

When the offspring are reproduced, in addition to inheriting the physical characteristics of the blood, they will also have some similar soul information, so Abatha's cerebrospinal fluid is very important to him.This is one of the reasons why he brought his family with him.

The significance of becoming Orgoff is not only to avoid the censorship of the identity star emblem, but also to be accepted by this body, and to adapt the soul information to the body.

When this matter is completed, he can take Orgoff's wife and daughter far away, go to any peaceful area, and become a respected mage to enjoy stability and tranquility.

"My lord, my lord!"

While Orgov was planning the future in his mind, the Yaka native ran over in a panic, knelt down in front of the goblin, and shouted, "Those outsiders, they caught the hairy scorpion!"

Olgov's face suddenly sank.

The hairy scorpion is a kind of arthropod creature in the Twisted Forest. The Yakas here like to use poison and beasts as their names, so here, the hairy scorpion represents a living Yaka!

……

"Are you sure it's Orgov? That teammate of yours on the Nightfall Plateau, who is suspected of massacring Baileyman's entire family?"

In the camp, after listening to Cloris' description, Sasha still asked uncertainly.