"Besides this bird, what else is up there?" Charles asked the one-armed guide again as he looked at the purple mist that was constantly being broken above.
"There is also a kind of invisible monster. We can't see their appearance. Even if we don't go close to the forest, they will still appear on our ship and kill our companions."
At this point, a hint of fear appeared in the guide's eyes. She touched her severed limb with her good hand, as if she had thought of something terrible.
"The dead had lacerations on their bodies, as if someone had carefully torn the flesh and bones apart. My hand was torn off by it. I could feel many small hands breaking my fingers. I don't know what it was."
"It didn't seem to just attack us, it also attacked the bird before it."
"There is also a kind of blue "fish" with a hollow body. It does not attack us, but opens its big mouth and continuously swallows the green smoke above the forest..."
Listening to the guide's introduction, Charles gradually understood the environment above. This forest tilted in the air has a mature ecological chain.
It is hard to say whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, at least it is within Charles' understanding.
Soon the first island he had explored passed by on Charles' left, and he could even see traces of the battle he had fought there.
As the island gradually disappeared into the darkness, the surroundings were once again shrouded in empty darkness.
Charles, standing on the deck, looked at the darkness in front of him. Now he felt like he was back under the deep sea again. This darkness was very similar to the darkness in the deep sea.
When we arrived here, the atmosphere on the ship became a little tense, as everyone knew what had happened here.
Everyone held his weapon in his hand, as if this thing could really bring a little courage.
The three airships that came up with Charles turned on all their searchlights and shone them around continuously.
After staying in this depressing environment for two hours, beads of sweat ran down the crew's faces.
One reason is the tension, and the rising temperature is also partly to blame. The temperature is now close to 30 degrees.
Second mate Nico took out a gauze and wiped his wet neck. Just as he was about to ask the guide next to him how far it was, a slight whistle suddenly sounded from the side of the boat.
"That's the sound! Lord Charles! The birds are coming!"
Charles' heart tightened when he heard this. He jumped out of the boat with both feet. "Hey, man, I want to get on!"
"Swish!" A rope quickly followed, wrapped around Charles' waist and swung hard, throwing him above the airbag.
Charles, with his feet on the wobbling airbag, looked in the direction of the sound with a frown on his face. He saw a group of afterimages circling around the four airships at a rapid speed.
Before Charles could figure out what that thing was, the right airbag of the airship on the left side of the Narwhal collapsed a little bit in an instant, and it punctured the airbag of that ship!
Then the shadow flew towards the Narwhal.
Seeing it getting closer and closer to the airbag of the Narwhal, Charles' heart moved slightly, and several transparent tentacles quickly stretched out from the airbag and waved towards it, but it was easily dodged.
Just as the afterimage quickly turned in the air and aimed at Charles, several tentacles instantly stretched out from its body and directly wrapped it up. A white light flashed by, and the thing instantly lost power, emitting white smoke and falling powerlessly downwards.
When the tentacles easily caught the thing, Charles also saw clearly what it looked like.
It was a very strange-looking bird, hairless and without even legs. Perhaps it was not a bird at all.
The hairless skin was covered with magnified goose bumps.
Charles pinched the dead bird's neck and looked to the side. The airship with a somewhat deflated airbag was still rising steadily. The huge airbag looked like a whole, but it was made up of small airbags. With a design like this, it would not matter if a few were broken.
The Narwhal continued to rise methodically, and the appearance of this bird proved that they were almost there.
Ten minutes later, Charles suddenly felt something. He looked up suddenly and a huge, dark and depressing bottom of a floating island appeared in front of him.
As the Narwhal continued to rise, Charles felt more and more oppressed, as if a mountain was slowly pressing down from above.
The second island is very large, twice as large as the first floating island.
When he came to the side from the bottom, he also saw the forest the guide had mentioned. He roughly estimated that the length and width were at least hundreds of miles.
The airship took a lot of effort to get from the bottom of the island to the side of the island.
The forest growing out of the second island was indeed horizontal. It was as if a giant had torn the entire forest off, and then stood it up and folded it over itself.
This is not a forest, this is a pair of forests, it has them on both sides.
The slightly tilted forest in the sky is like an aerial elevator, slanting diagonally into the darkness above.
The trees in the forest are obviously not species found on the surface. The branches wrapped in evil moss grow twisted and crisscrossed with each other, layer upon layer like a thorn forest.
"Where did he find the skull before?" Charles asked the guide.
The one-armed woman took out a map from her bosom. "It's on this floating island. The captain has prepared the map."
"Have you finished exploring here?" Charles remembered that they said they wanted to explore the third island.
"Yes, we have completed the exploration. There is no darkness here that we need to find. There are no valuable clues except the skull."
As Charles waved his finger, the Narwhal slowly approached, and the terrifying forest became even more terrifying.
But the bumpy open spaces in the forest made everyone less afraid of the forest, as it had already been occupied by humans.
Following the island map, Charles quickly found the human skull on the ground on the east side of the island.
Charles carefully reached out and picked it up. He tapped it with his fingers and found that the touch and sound were very similar to bones.
Charles pinched a small piece and threw it to Linda behind him, "Let's see what bone it is."
Linda sniffed it gently, then put the bone into her mouth and started chewing. "It's a human bone, and the smell is normal."
At this time, Dipper came over and took the thing from Charles' hand.
After carefully identifying the location and environment of the object and scraping off the impurities on the bone, Dipper said to Charles, "Captain, the time of death is at least ten years."
(End of this chapter)