The six envoys east of Kazan's leg each have their own duties. Among them, the fourth envoy, Harvey, leads the hunting team and spends most of his time in the desert.
The job of the hunting team is to hunt the abyssal creatures that stray into the Kazan territory from other throne territories. The weak creatures will be treated as ordinary prey; if they find talented and valuable individuals, the hunting team will give them corpse viruses to replace Kazan. Zan recovered them and turned them into the future fighting force of the Canghong Palace.
In addition to hunting abyss creatures that have no territorial awareness of different thrones, the hunting team also hunts a special kind of prey, and that is spies sent by other thrones.
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After Harvey gave Wu Qi his last chance, he took Wu Qi to the hunting team's camp. The buildings in the entire camp are made of a mixture of wood and stone, covering a very large area. A 10-meter-high protective fence was built around the camp, and the exterior was brightly lit. At a glance, more than a dozen houses of different heights could be seen.
The bottoms of those houses are built with wooden vacancies, which are solidly built and can withstand certain impacts and remain standing in strong winds and rains. Although the camp is small, it is well-equipped with all the necessary buildings for the life of the hunting team such as workshops, textile rooms, boiler rooms, living houses, assembly halls, restaurants, training grounds, weapons warehouses, food warehouses, and material warehouses.
The gate to the gate between the protective fences of the camp was open and unguarded by hunters. Wu Qiyuanji could hear the sounds of hunting team members talking loudly or laughing coming from outside the camp.
The voice coming from Yuanji was not the human language that Kazan and the six envoys spoke that he could understand, but the language of the abyssal creatures. By that time, Wu Qi was not completely incomprehensible to the language of the creatures of the abyss, he could understand part of it; with the foundation of wilderness language, it would not take him long to learn the language of the abyss.
Harvey walked straight into the empty door, raised his huge legs and slapped them twice.
"Young men!" Harvey's voice was different from his calm and taciturn appearance. He didn't shout hard, and his voice naturally spread to the huge volume throughout the camp.
Wu Qi glanced left and right. Countless afterimages moved quickly from various places in the camp, forming a neat queue in the blink of an eye.
Wu Qi had a clear view of the members of the hunting team. Most of them have evolved to resemble humanoid abyss creatures, with various races and strange appearances. There are only 10 of the same race at most, and there are a total of 75 people in the hunting team gathered there.
In terms of pure strength, none of the "hunters" there have the aura of strength like the Air Explosive Whale and the Gray Queen. Their strength can be said to be very weak compared to mine. Although this is not a matter of course, otherwise it would be too unreasonable.
"Children, he is a new member of their hunting team, his name is 'Wu Qi', and he is a human. We will get along well from now on." Harvey announced.
"No!" 75 hunters said in unison. They responded to Lord Harvey's orders in unison, and then many small sounds of communication inevitably came from the small group.
"Did we smell it? The newcomer's race is actually not the real human being as rumored. It turns out it doesn't smell like that."
"Humans, isn't the weakest race unable to survive in the Apocalypse Abyss? Where did it come from?"
"Look at his skin, whether it is a 'corpse life' controlled by the Lord of the Throne. Is there any cocoa..."
Wu Qi's ears were filled with the gossips of the hunters. Some words he couldn't understand, some words he could understand, and they were probably discussing his race.
Can humans so-called "extinction" of species in the Apocalypse Abyss? There is thousands of kilometers of occupied wasteland between the human territory and the Apocalypse Abyss. If Sister Ruorong had not restarted the construction of five human bases in the occupied area, it would have been possible for humans and the beings in the Apocalypse Abyss to meet. Those who live at the bottom of the abyss of the apocalypse will never see a real human being in their lifetime.
But please tell me whether those guys have seen "human appearance", then they must have the opportunity to see it. The first envoy Deacon Dawson and the second envoy Lois, regardless of their true race, their appearance is exactly the same as that of humans. Arthur, the former Seventh Throne, has a rather Western human appearance in a British drama. Although Clio, the Ninth Throne, has horns on his head, his facial features are not human.
Wu Qi couldn't help but feel a little suspicious in his heart. Since there are almost no humans in the Apocalypse Abyss, why are there so many anthropomorphic individuals in the powerful Throne, and why are there so many humanoid creatures in the weak hunting team. I want to know whether powerful and rampaging plague species have evolved in the occupied areas outside the Apocalypse Abyss.
At this moment, Wu Qi buried a seed of doubt in his heart. He wanted to investigate exactly where the Apocalypse Abyss was, what its history was, what its civilization was, and what its species composition was. Ye Chang was sullen and vengeful to investigate whether the Thirteen Thrones and the Emperor's Throne would be successful, so he had to figure out the small details one by one and put them together into a grand map of ecological civilization, which was the way of the hunter.
Wu Qi put away all his thoughts and exhaled. At that moment, Harvey said to him: "Wu Qi, do I understand what they are talking about?"
Wu Qi was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Maybe he can understand a little bit. He knows the language of the wilderness, and the language of the abyss is similar to the former."
Harvey nodded: "I don't have the freedom to live in any way the hunting team lives." Whether I learn the language of the abyss and blend in with them, or become a lone wolf, it is not my choice. "
Wu Qi already had the answer in his mind. Only hunters in groups can hunt more powerful prey. If he takes investigating the ecological civilization map of the Apocalypse Abyss as his goal, the creatures in the Apocalypse Abyss will not be his enemies, or even his helpers.
"Thank you, sir."
Harvey's eyes were like the still water of a lake. The slightest movement in his eyes was just an instant, and he returned to calm after an instant. No one knew whether it had caused even a small ripple.
Harvey pointed at the werewolf standing in the front row of the queue, who was covered in jet black fur, and ordered: "Lykaon, I will take Wu Qi to choose a bed and a bow, and the whole team will set off in half an hour for routine training. "
The werewolf Lycaon spoke the same human language as Harvey, said "I obey," and waved his wolf paw at Wu Qi, asking Wu Qi to follow him.
Wu Qi followed Lykaon. Not long after, Lekaon brought Wu Qi to House No. 5. The wooden living room is as big as a three-story apartment. Open the door and go in. Inside is a multi-divided dormitory with two floors on the east.
"There are 20 people in one house, and room 5 is not fully occupied. Everyone except me is the logistics staff of the hunting team. Well, I will live in that room." Lycaon said as he walked through the dormitory on both sides. In the corridor, I pointed to a small room numbered 86.
The door of a small room is equivalent to about three-quarters of the arm span of an average adult, and there are wooden walls on both sides that separate it from other rooms. There is no need to think about features such as sound insulation, and you have the most basic privacy.
Wu Qi opened the door and took a look at the structure of the room. There was a bed, a bedside table, and wall racks, but otherwise nothing else.
"Go to the warehouse to get daily necessities with a sign. Give me the empty door sign. Write my name on it and hang it. That room is mine." Lycaon took an empty door sign from somewhere and it was very interesting. He took out the brush and handed the empty door sign to Wu Qi.
The empty door plate has a very light wood color, and like the door plate at No. 86, it is difficult to retain the ink on the material. Lycaon pressed the end of the brush, and dark ink seeped out from the outside of the brush and stained the tip of the brush.
Wu Qi took what Laikaon handed over, thought for a second, and then wrote two oriental characters "Wu Qi" on the empty door sign with a big stroke of his pen.
Laikaon grabbed Wu Qi's name and house number, raised his eyebrows, and said in his eyes, "I can't understand what characters Wu Qi wrote". After one glance, he put Wu Qi's name and house number on it. The door to the house is there.
"Okay, welcome me to officially join the hunting team. By the way, what's my name?" Lykaon extended his wolf claws to Wu Qi.
Wu Qi held Lycaon's wolf claw and said, "His name is Wu Qi. Wu, Qi."
"Yeah." Laikaon responded. Wu Qi didn't know whether he remembered it or not, whether that was an insignificant thing.
"Come here... follow him to get a bow. Wu, Qi, I used to use a long knife. He doesn't know if I have ever used a bow, but the rules of Lord Harvey's hunting team are that all hunters must Use bows and arrows in hunting, except when it comes to life or death," Lycaon said as he walked.
Wu Qi glanced at the long sword on his back and asked, "He knows how to use a bow. Can he ask the reason behind it?"
"The reason is simple. I've used the 'Real Arrow' and it will turn red."
There was clearly something certain in Lykaon's tone, so Wu Qi stopped asking and silently followed Lykaon to the armory, where he took a bow, a quiver, and a pair of wooden arrows.
"Meet at the entrance of the camp in 10 minutes, don't be late." The last words of Laika Onpaodong left Wu Qi's eyes.
Wu Qi lowered his head and looked at the desert-colored long bow that reached his legs. The size of the longbow almost matched his body and arm span. It looked like wood from any angle, but the weight in his legs was much heavier than that of metal of the same volume.
Wu Qi pulled a bowstring. The bowstring was made of some kind of sinew from the abyss. It was tough and difficult to pull. He estimated that if he wanted to fully draw the bow steadily, he would have to use his atavistically enhanced leg and arm strength.
"Gong..." Wu Qi muttered to himself. He couldn't help but recall the time when he drew his bow a long time ago, probably in Xujiazhai.
At that time, did I compete in archery with a group of enhanced human hunters from Xujiazhai? At the bonfire night.
Wu Qi closed his eyes, and in front of his dark eyes seemed to be a scene of the eastern fire shining at night. Who would have thought that after a long journey, he would now be traveling with a group of hunters of different races in a foreign land on the other side of the world.
Time passed so quickly in my memory, as if just a second passed, the sound of Lycaon's call for assembly came to my ears.
Wu Qi opened and closed his eyes, put the long bow in his quiver, turned around and walked out.
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ps: Thanks to the boss for the reward, haha, be cruel~
The subscriptions have been sluggish recently, and Xishan is a little autistic. I adjusted the status of Yidong in the past two days and updated it to 3000. I'm sorry.