Apava immediately shook his head frantically, almost shaking out sparks: "No, no, I'm glad I can help you... What do you think?"
He gestured with his chin toward the black steel sill strapped to his body.
Xue Jing smiled and snapped his fingers.
The shadow flame steel threshold on everyone's body suddenly dissipated.
Seeing this, Apava breathed a sigh of relief and quickly took out an old scroll map from his pocket, spread it out and handed it to Xue Jing.
Xue Jing looked up and saw a very clear map with red dots everywhere, some big and some small, and indigenous words written next to each red dot.
"Look, this is where we are now. This is the territory of the long-tailed dragon."
Apava pointed to a red dot on the map and said.
"The center is the roaring waterfall... The closer the dragon is to the waterfall, the stronger it is. Like here, here, and here."
He pointed to a few thick red dots near the center of the map and said, "The dragons that live in these places are very scary. It's best not to get close to them."
"We usually choose to capture dragons from the periphery..."
After Apawa's explanation for a period of time, Xue Jing basically understood how to read the information on this map.
“… That’s basically it.”
Xue Jing looked at the map and nodded with satisfaction: "Thank you so much."
“… I’m glad I can help you.” Apava said carefully.
"So, can we... leave?"
Xue Jing waved his hand at him: "Let's go... Are you sure you don't want to have a bite of dragon meat? It's delicious."
“No, no.” Apava shook his head quickly.
"Then we'll leave first..." He took off his headphones and handed them to Xue Jing.
Then he said to everyone: "Retreat!"
After saying that, he walked out of the forest.
The others were silent and followed Apava without saying a word.
The group walked slowly at first.
After they were away from Xue Jing for a distance and were sure that he would not chase them, they immediately ran away madly towards the outside of the forest.
Among them, Aparva ran the fastest.
"Captain Apava, wait for us!!"
In the forest, Xue Jing didn't pay attention to the movements of the natives, he just spread out the map and looked at it.
"Well, start by clearing the outside and then slowly move inside, starting with here."
His eyes looked towards the small red dot closest to him.
…
(The updates have been slow in the past two days, I will try to update more tomorrow...)
Chapter 154 Huge harvest, crazy liver, skyrocketing experience points and divinity (4K)
In a valley covered with yellow sand.
Xue Jing placed an unfolded monitor on the ground and let it use its eight mechanical claws to dig holes in the loess.
He pulled the tablet out of the backpack Shadowflame Crow was holding and glanced at the map displayed on it.
At this moment, there were three white dots on the map separated by a distance, indicating that he had placed three monitors at the border.
"It feels like this border is much larger than originally expected."
Xue Jing jumped onto the cliff with a few leaps and stood on a large rock more than three meters high, looking into the distance.
Even with his eyesight that was capable of seeing dozens of kilometers away, he couldn't see the boundary of this world.
According to the information that Bai Ya had given him before, the total area of the 'Roaring Waterfall' should be between 500 and 1,300 square kilometers.
If this border area is roughly a circle, the diameter of 1,300 square kilometers is only a few dozen kilometers.
With his eyesight, as long as there is nothing blocking his sight, he should be able to see the border clearly even if he stands at the very edge of the border and looks to the farthest side.
"Something's wrong. Even according to the map of dragon species distribution, something's not right."
Xue Jing took out the map he got from the leader of the 'Dragon Catching Group' and spread it out to look at it.
"I walked at least seven kilometers from the forest that was the territory of the long-tailed dragon to the nearest dragon species' territory."
He stretched out his hand to measure the distance between the long-tailed dragon's territory and the valley where he was at the moment... It was about half a finger's length.
On the entire map, the distance between the two red dots that are farthest from each other is as long as an adult's arm.
"If half a finger is seven kilometers long, then the distance between the two dragon species' territories that are farthest apart is at least a hundred kilometers."
"This is just a distribution map of dragon species territories, not a 'world map' within this border area."
"This area is obviously far beyond the area described in Bai Ya's data."
Xue Jing looked thoughtful.
"…Either the White Crow surveyors are too unprofessional and the data is too wrong, or there is something unusual that I'm not aware of."
He thought again of the abnormality that occurred when he first entered the border area.
"The GPS at the exit and the two 'monitors' that were originally placed were not displayed on the tablet."
"It seems that something happened that I don't know about..."
Xue Jing sat down cross-legged on the rock, a ball of black flame ignited in his hand, and he tossed it up and down.
His eyes turned toward the horizon.
A long snake-like figure was flying towards the valley.
"Don't think about anything else for now. Everything will work out when the time comes."
"The first priority now is to destroy all the dragon species in this border area and explode the divinity."
A long snake-like figure flew from the horizon to the front of the valley, revealing its full appearance.
It was a dragon without claws, wings, a single horn on its head, covered with smooth dark red scales, and with a snake-like body.
Dragon species creatures have very easy to identify characteristics.
First, its body surface must be covered with scales.
There must be dragon horns on its head.
Its eyes must have vertical pupils.
The last and most recognizable point is that dragons can definitely fly.
They fly by relying on their innate anti-gravity biological force field. Even if they have wings, they are only used to assist flight, not to take off.
"This is the dragon species marked on the map."
Xue Jing narrowed his eyes slightly.
At this time, the red-scaled dragon species that flew closer also noticed that on the rock of the cliff, there was a "little bug" sitting there that was ignorant of the danger and dared to invade its territory.
"roar!!"
It immediately flew close to Xue Jing and let out a dragon-like roar that shook the entire valley. Visible air currents emanated from its mouth, and the strong wind blew Xue Jing's hair into a slicked-back style.
Xue Jing stroked his hair and frowned slightly: "You are a bit arrogant."
Countless black air currents were drawn out from the shadows and rushed towards his shoulders, igniting large-scale black flames on them.
Then, a giant's right hand, which was seven or eight meters long and wearing exquisite gauntlet, stretched out suddenly from the black flames and grabbed the red-scaled dragon flying in the sky.
"Gah!" The entire snake-like body of the red-scaled dragon was pinched by a huge palm, and it suddenly couldn't make any sound.
It struggled and twisted its body constantly, opening its mouth towards Xue Jing.
"Squeak—"
The dark green liquid spurted out from its throat at an extremely fast speed, like a high-pressure water gun, forming a straight line.
Xue Jing dodged and moved away.
The dark green liquid directly punched a big hole in the rock where he had just been sitting. The splashing dark green liquid also fell all over the place, and when it came into contact with the ground, it emitted white smoke, which seemed to be extremely corrosive.
Xue Jing saw this scene and raised his eyebrows: "Spitting randomly, the quality of the local dragon is really too low."
He stretched out his right hand and clenched it towards the red-scaled dragon.
At the same time, the Shadow Flame Giant who was holding the Red Scale Dragon Seed also clenched his hands synchronously.
“Crack—”
With a crisp sound, the body of the red-scaled dragon was flattened, and flesh and blood squeezed out from the inside to the upper and lower ends.
A cloud of blood mist suddenly burst out of its tail, and its mouth opened, vomiting blood and flesh fragments continuously from its mouth.
[Kill special creatures with divinity, divinity +29]
"Done... Let's find the next one."
Xue Jing spread out the map in his hand and tapped the red dot closest to his current location.
"Just go around in a circle like this, clear all the things on the outside first, then gradually clear the inside, one circle at a time..."
…
Two days later.
Xue Jing, wearing a black tactical uniform, walked on the water and sped across a large lake.
With every step he took, a thin plate of shadow flame would appear under his feet, and he would shoot forward like a sharp arrow.
As he moved forward, the violent airflow he stirred up directly split the surface of the lake into two sides, and waves left a noticeable dent on the lake surface behind him, which was filled by lake water after a few seconds.
But even though his speed has reached the extreme, there are still things that are faster than him.
Under the lake, in the reflection of the sunlight, a huge black shadow was slowly approaching him, gradually arriving at his feet.
The black shadow looked like a giant fish that was more than ten meters long, constantly swinging its tail. As it gradually got closer to Xue Jing, its body became more and more obvious and bigger.
Until one moment—bang!
The surface of the lake exploded, and a huge strange fish with two wings on its ribs, a hexagonal head, and golden scales all over its body shining in the scorching sun suddenly jumped out of the water.
"roar!!"
Amid the dragon's roar, the strange fish opened its mouth full of sharp teeth towards Xue Jing and pounced on him.
Xue Jing's expression remained unchanged. He lightly tapped his toes, stepped on the thin shadow flame board, and shot up into the sky, just avoiding the pounce and bite.
“Click—”
The huge mouth closed in the air, the lake water scattered, and there was a loud sound that made people's teeth ache.
Xue Jing flipped his body in the air, head down, and condensed a thin plate of shadow flame under his feet again. He stepped on it and flew towards the monster below.
The black airflow gathered on his right arm, ignited black flames, and turned into armor-wrapped gauntlets. He then stretched out his palm and made a hand-piercing gesture.
Spiral indentations appeared all over the arm.
"Tornado Thunder·Piercing—"
The armor-wrapped hands have extremely sharp black claws, which, combined with the spiral compression force of the wind and thunder, form an extremely powerful penetrating force.
Because the strange fish jumped out of the water, countless water droplets in the air were immediately sucked over by the spiral force, forming a water tornado.
"Squeak—"
The hand came into contact with the scales on the strange fish's head. After a stalemate of about half a second, the scales were crushed and penetrated into the strange fish's head, penetrating nearly half a meter into its hard skull. However, because the skull was too thick, it failed to penetrate completely.
"roar!!"
With a painful groan, the strange fish began to swing its body wildly in the air.
Xue Jing grabbed the scales on the top of the strange fish's head with his left hand to hold his body from being thrown away. The armor wrapped in his right hand that had penetrated into the body of the strange fish was deactivated and burned into black flames again.
"boom-"