Chapter 3 New Dongyang
Dongyang, West District 143.
There are dense jungles, huge vegetation, and trees hundreds of meters high. They are completely different from the scene anywhere in Dongyang before, and they look like some kind of primeval forest.
Moreover, this primeval forest is never alone. Various roars are constantly coming from the depths of the forest. It is hard to imagine what kind of monsters can make such a terrifying roar.
But just from this forest that is definitely not suitable for human existence at first glance, a small group of people are slowly advancing on the ground.
There are more than a dozen people in this team, each carrying a huge backpack and guns and knives. It looks like an expedition team, but also like an army.
In the center of the team was Claudia, the daughter of the Ice Castle Saint King with pink hair. At this time, she was wearing a dark green combat uniform, and the tight combat uniform completely highlighted her slender and graceful curves. The hair tied into a ponytail, coupled with the huge backpack behind her and the silver-white pistol slung on her waist, gave people a capable and cool feeling.
The group moved slowly in the woods carefully. The sultry climate made Claudia unable to help but wipe the sweat from her forehead. She let out a breath and finally couldn't help asking the young man beside her: "How long will it take for us to get to West 69 District."
The young man looked not old last year and was wearing the same equipment as Claudia, but he was one of the few people in the team who did not carry guns. What's more special is that a furry animal lay on his shoulder, which looked a bit like a squirrel and a bit like a ferret, but had golden fur.
Hearing Claudia's question, the young man shrugged and said, "Area 69 is one of the most dangerous areas in the West Region. In order to be safe, we have to go a long way. It will take about ten days to go."
"Ten days?" Claudia frowned and asked, "Is there no way to hurry up? Our speed is too slow. If I were to consider me, I had received strict physical training and would not slow down like this."
The young man smiled and shook his head: "It's not because of you. If we go too fast, it's easy to attract attention. At present, more than 13,000 animals and plants have been discovered in Xindongyang, and this number is still increasing every day. Their common feature is that each type can kill people.
I've been here since the internal test. If you want the entire team to arrive in West 69 safely, just listen to me."
Claudia nodded without saying anything. As the heir to the throne who received elite education since childhood, she certainly understood that such things should be listened to experts. But she couldn't wait. He had already negotiated a marriage with Li Anping, but he didn't know that as soon as Li Anping came back from Dongyang, he immediately went into seclusion, let alone marriage. Even the imperial election of Daxia was delayed indefinitely.
Helplessly, Claudia could only wait in Tianjing, but she didn't know that it would take more than a year to wait. During the period when she was waiting, the struggle within the ice castle became more and more intense, and Claudia's father, Ivan II, was completely at a disadvantage.
Although the other three nobles took Li Anping's power and did not dare to cause substantial harm to Claudia's family members, the struggle for power and profit was inevitable. Claudia did not make further progress in Tianjin for more than a year, which made the other three nobles grow ambitions.
In the past six months, they have sent outstanding women from their family to Tianjing to study. The purpose is self-evident, and it is Li Anping.
Originally, Claudia was holding a glimmer of hope that she had confirmed with Li Anping before, but she didn't know that Li Anping finally came out of seclusion half a month ago, but she didn't mention the marriage at all, so she came to Xindongyang directly.
Under pressure from the three major nobles in China, Claudia made a decision and took the family knights and hired some people familiar with Xindongyang to serve as tour guides. She took her to find Li Anping.
To put it simply, she was here to force the marriage.
The young man named Tares next to her is a professional explorer in Xindongyang. Since Xindongyang opened internal testing half a year ago, the first batch of people who took the initiative to sign up.
He once traveled all over the Western District alone and discovered more than 1,700 new species.
Just as the group was walking slowly in the dense primitive jungle, a scream suddenly sounded at the front of the team. Tares hurriedly walked up and saw dozens of butterflies appearing directly in front of the team. The butterflies were shining with orchid light, looking like dreams, making the entire team look intoxicated, looking at the butterflies dancing in the air with admiration.
Even Claudia showed a favorite expression, thinking about whether she would take a few back to be a pet. Such a beautiful animal is really rare.
But Tares, who was standing beside him, changed his face and shouted, "Get back quickly."
But it was too late. At the front of the team, a big man stretched out his finger and let a ghostly butterfly stop on his index finger. When he heard Tares's shouting, he turned around with confusion.
"Damn it!" Tares's face darkened. With his hands moving, a pitch-black spear had appeared in his hands. Then he threw it with one hand. The spear instantly crossed dozens of meters away, and directly passed through the big man's chest with terrifying power. Then the remaining momentum did not diminish and flew directly to the back.
Seeing the man being nailed to a tree by Tares's spear, everyone around him immediately pulled out their guns and pointed them at Tares in the middle of the team, with an angry look on his face.
Claudia also pulled out her silver pistol, pointed at Tares' temple, and asked coldly: "What are you doing?"
"Kill him!"
"He killed my brother!"
Tares didn't say anything, but raised his hands high, signaling that he had no malice, and pointed at the dead man's position with his chin.
Just as everyone glanced at the corpse of the man, a dark orchid flame had already covered the corpse of the man. A few seconds later, there was a sound of a bang. In the huge explosion, the corpse of the man had turned into powder, and the orchid flame even enveloped the corpse of the man more than ten meters around it, and then gradually disappeared.
Most of the people who watched this scene were still scared and couldn't help swallowing, considering what would happen if the man was not ejaculated just now.
Claudia's face was even pale. If the big man had exploded in the team just now, more than one-third of the people would have been injured, and even she would have been in danger.
Tares looked at the ugly faces of everyone and said calmly: "This is Hell Butterfly, creature No. 227. When he first discovered them, he lost six abilities. Each one is a good player.
This hell butterfly will rush to the prey, ignite the flesh and blood with a blue flame, and then detonate. After being ignited by this blue flame, the flame will not be extinguished unless the flesh and blood are burned out. Any attack will also cause the hell butterfly to detonate."
After a pause, Tares said with a serious expression again: "Since New Dongyang opened, more than 500 capable people have died. None of them is under your strength. I would like to remind you again that if you want to arrive in Zone 69 safely, then don't touch anything, eat anything, and do anything unnecessary.
In that case, you have about 30% chance of living to the end."
Tares' words made the people in the team feel heavy again, and then he remembered the terrible aspects of Xindongyang in the government's propaganda.
New Dongyang is the new name after the Dongyang Catastrophe. No one knows what the cause of the catastrophe is. Only knows where since then, the environment of the entire Dongyang has undergone drastic changes, and various unprecedented animals and plants appear on this continent.
Until half a year ago, the Daxia government announced the situation in Xindongyang and took the initiative to invite a group of volunteers to explore Xindongyang.
But one out of ten people who were able to come back alive in the end, but even so, the strange plants and animals they brought back still caused a huge response in society.
Rats that can generate electricity, herbs that can make people taller, and dragons that can fly fire. Most of these precious species were acquired by the Daxia government, while a small part of the remaining were bought by some private consortiums.
And every person who came back alive from Xindongyang became rich overnight and had no worries about food and clothing from now on.
For a time, the entire Xindongyang became synonymous with wealth and opportunity, attracting the attention of countless capable people, mercenaries, retired soldiers, and adventurers.
Chapter completed!