The "City of Glory" has been pioneering in the land west of the Alcoron Mountains for decades, but the focus has always been on advancing to the north.
The reason why we have never gone deep into the southwest region to discover the "Forest of Ashes" is because there are several very dangerous foggy areas here.
The more people are lost, the fewer are left.
If the news about the coal mine and the temple hadn't suddenly broken out this time, the direction of land reclamation would probably still be northward for many years to come.
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"Plague Swamp" is one of the most dangerous foggy areas that prevents hunters from exploring the southwest.
The swamp here cannot pass through the large mechanical city, so it can only be entered by a small hunting team.
But the wood mist in the swamp is thicker than that on the plains, and no one knows what monsters are hiding in the swamp. There are many poisons, many monsters, and many unknown dangers.
Moreover, this place is also rich in some strange and deadly creatures that have never been recorded in the classics.
The closer you get to the "Forest of Ashes", the monsters, insects and various plants become larger and larger in size, and their shapes become more and more weird.
[Bawang Blood Mosquito] A bite from a mosquito with a wingspan of over one meter can cause a pustule the size of a basketball to swell on a person's body, often accompanied by a very fatal infection.
Named [Thousand-Hand Vine], it is a man-eating vine that can automatically sense creatures like a leech. Once it gets entangled, you will find that the "grass" hundreds of meters below your feet comes alive, like tentacles pulling it. You drag it underground. This plant, it eats meat.
The "Ghost-faced Poisonous Moth" follows the light source. Once a fire is lit at night, it will come overwhelmingly. It will fill the sky with dust and sprinkle on the skin, making people itchy and scratch the skin.
The mushroom named [Teemo Mushroom] is hidden in the fallen leaves. It is like a mine. It will explode violently when touched by external force, spraying you with corrosive acid directly.
The strange pitcher plant named "Gun Flower" can spray bullet-like fruits that can easily penetrate human skulls.
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There are so many strange creatures, too numerous to mention.
Almost every day, new species that have not been recorded in the "Encyclopedia" are discovered, and almost every day, hunters die for various strange reasons.
This is how it got its name "Plague Swamp".
This swamp is a nightmare place for extraordinary people. It is avoided by people like a plague, and has dissuaded most of the hunters who want to explore its secrets.
But this time it was different.
A large army went out to conquer everything.
Large-scale engineering steam vehicles would pave roads directly in the swamp and dig stones from other places to fill the pits. The mage's [Swamp Solidification Spell] can directly solidify the soft swamp.
With this kind of one-ring earth spell, any magic apprentice can fill up several meters in a day. There are hundreds of thousands of magic apprentices in the Glory City. Once there are more people, road construction is as efficient as a bulldozer.
With a solid ground, the large mechanical city can enter the swamp area and directly push everything across.
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This is the first time for Ren to participate in wilderness hunting.
Originally, he positioned himself as a bastard who came to make soy sauce.
Without leaving the base, it would be more or less boring. But he didn't expect that hunters would bring out some strange creatures from the fog every day.
Ren knew that his teacher Ilubek liked to collect samples of different organisms and study their genetic sequences.
Now that the teacher is not around, he helps with the work first.
Every day he hangs a bounty in the "Mission Hall" of the base and collects strange creatures brought back by the hunters.
Then record some data, collect some living sample data, and then make specimens.
I was thinking about meeting the teacher sometime and giving him a surprise.
Others don't know why the animals and plants here are generally much larger than those in the plains, but Ren knows it very well.
One of Irubek's research topics is a topic called "On the Factors Affecting the Air Environment on the Body Size of Organisms." The content of the topic accurately explains why the creatures in this swamp area have become so large.
The high oxygen content in the air will cause the overall body size of organisms to be larger. This is one of them.
The fog here is thicker than that on the plains, which is the second most important thing.
Ilubek has already studied the fog of this world in depth. He analyzed and studied some special ingredients, including trace amounts of toxins, but also some special substances that can enhance the human body.
Irubek confirmed that the mist was both harmful and beneficial to the human body, but he was not sure what ingredients were at play. Because of the development of scientific research equipment, many theories are in the "hypothesis" and "inference" stages.
The fog here in the "Plague Swamp" is very thick, and ordinary extraordinary people must wear gas masks. Otherwise, over time, more and more toxins will accumulate in the body, which will put their lives in danger.
But as far as Ren knows, Udo and the Coleman clan don't have or need gas masks at all. Their respiratory tracts are directly exposed to the air, and they can breathe through their mouths.
It is also because they have lived in the "Ashes Forest" where the fog is thicker than that in the plains since they were young.
This also resulted in the warriors of their tribe being taller, with heights generally exceeding three meters.
Although no samples have been tested to confirm this conjecture, Renn also feels that the human toxin resistance of this primitive tribe must be much higher than that of ordinary humans. Breathing poisonous gas for a long time also makes their physique much higher than that of ordinary humans.
This is also completely consistent with the "inference" in the research report left by his teacher.
Science is a door. Once you open it, you will be attracted by its infinite splendor.
After reading the research materials of Irubek, it was the first time that Renn became interested in the colorful and infinite possibilities of biological science.
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Another two months passed by.
The progress of land reclamation at the base in "Plague Swamp" is very good. Although the hunters' daily casualties are not light, they have not encountered large-scale attacks by Warcraft.
Renn also heard that the dangerous areas near the "Forest of Ashes" have been basically eaten away by various hunting regiments. It will probably not be long before they directly engage the barbarian tribes and launch a general attack.
But all this has nothing to do with him. Renne just stays in the base every day to survive and develop.
There hasn't been a large-scale war yet, there are not many wounded people, and the doctors in the camp can handle it calmly. Doctor apprentices like him can't get any "good jobs".
Wren was happy with that, too.
Everyone else was working hard to earn contribution points because of this collective hunt, but as a doctor's apprentice, he didn't hang out with people in the doctor's circle, and he didn't take the initiative to take on tasks, so his contribution points were naturally minimal.
But he doesn't care, this is the confidence that he is not short of money.
He spends several hours every morning doing medical dissection, making potions, and collecting specimens. He spends his afternoon practicing martial arts and meditating in the evening.
The life of making soy sauce is also very regular.
This day.
In the training room of the camp.
This place is a bit like an indoor gym in a previous life, with a lot of people practicing spells, fighting, and marksmanship.
On the fighting training platform, Renne was sweating profusely practicing punches.
"2995, 2996, 2997... 3000!"
The punches are strong and the sound of breaking the wind is endless.
A thousand kicks, three thousand punches... and various physical training such as squatting and jumping with weights. This is the training plan he set for himself, and the amount is increasing every day.
Although the skills of martial arts have been honed and familiarized in the dream space of the "intelligent brain", the body's muscle memory and reflexes still need actual combat practice.
Although he has been struggling for several months, Renn's combat power is also improving rapidly.
In the past few months, the [Corpse Maker] potion he took when he awakened to the extraordinary has been almost digested and fused.
Strength, perception, nerve reaction speed, toughness... the increase in various attributes is twice as strong as it was a few months ago!
Because what he awakened was a magical potion of excellent gold quality, his attributes were already much higher than those of ordinary extraordinary enhancements. Now just talking about the physical data, he is already the top among the first-order [Awakened Ones].
On the other hand, "Breath of Thunder" does have its advantages in being expensive.
At least if you use this technique to meditate, your fighting spirit will really increase in efficiency many times as much as before.
During this period of time, the amount of fighting spirit in his Qi Sea had increased significantly visibly to the naked eye.
Moreover, because his fighting spirit is strong enough, he has now condensed a third "gang line". Along with this, the progress of [Hercules Art] is also very impressive. I practice the thirty-six movements every day and use the Gang Thread to nourish the muscles, and I have reached the level of "first glimpse of the door".
It is estimated that Uncle Sam, who gave him this secret method of body training, would never have thought that someone would master this secret method in a few months!
When it comes to getting started with Kung Fu, the most direct benefit is a surge in strength.
Just stepping into the threshold directly doubled his strength!
To give a very practical data example, when Ren first awakened to the extraordinary, his physical strength was about 260 kilograms. Now after digesting the potion's stamina, it has exceeded 600 kilograms; plus the strange strength bonus of [Hercules Technique], Directly over a thousand!
The increase in absolute strength also means a geometric increase in actual combat ability. Whether it is punching power, speed, muscle toughness, or resistance to fighting, it will be greatly improved.
Moreover, with strong enough physical fitness, Renn finally touched the threshold of using the "mystery".
The higher the level of martial arts, the higher the requirements.
And Renn spent a lot of money to learn the "Six Fighting Secrets", which requires a high threshold.
[Magic Movement] Stepping on the air to make explosive sounds and rapid movement requires a minimum speed value in addition to mastering skills and fighting spirit operations.
[Sky God Strike], [Cannon Fist], [Arashi Kiri]...these attack secret skills also require a minimum absolute strength value to meet the requirements for use.
In the past few months, Ren's tireless COPY in the "Dream Space" has almost copied the secret martial arts skills practiced by the two masters.
What he lacks now is the integration of body and consciousness in reality.
Only through continuous hard training and actual combat can the awareness of the "six great secrets" in the mind be turned into the fighting power that one's body can display...