Starting from Zero

After assigning tasks, everyone will start their own actions. Radamantis was taken by Jinshan Yinhai to scare people, and gold coin and true red were mixed with the battallion men and horses brought by us and a group of guides under Jinshan Yinhai, and then entered the rainforest to start The more dangerous monsters and NPC forces near the place where the city was built were suppressed. As for Kristina and I, of course, we took Polsephone and went to find Elf Race to pick up the task as we said beforehand. Of course, it’s impossible for the three of us to go there alone. Although we and Jinshan Yinhai are in a guild, after all, the people of the Elf tribe don’t know us, so it’s impossible to go this way.

In order to facilitate communication, Jinshan Yinhai equipped us with two guides. Both of them are members of our Frost Rose League, but neither of them is Chinese. One of the older ones is of American citizenship, but he is of Chinese descent. His ancestors came to the United States in the era of American development. Now the juniors in the family don’t even speak Chinese much anymore, but he speaks Chinese very well. He is still a China player. In the game, he also joined our Frost Rose League, a Chinese-dominated guild.

In addition to this Chinese, the other guide is a native of the country. Although he should be brown, I think he is black. At least in my opinion, this guy is as black as a briquettes.

Because of the special environment here in South America, outsiders without guides are almost impossible to move a single step. Therefore, various forces here have a large number of professional guides. Although these people have joined various guilds, they are actually not the same as real guild members. They are more like wage earners who have joined a company. The sense of belonging is not as good as real members, and they are just joining. In order to get more salary, it is not really necessary to join a guild organization.

"Hello, my name is Briquettes, and this time I am your jungle guide." The South American guy introduced himself immediately after Jinshan Yinhai's introduction, and his name is Let us almost laugh. Although this guy is darker than most blacks, but his name is briquettes is too exaggerated.

On the briquettes' side, the Chinese next to him opened the mouth and said: "It’s no surprise that our guild mainly receives guests from China, so the guides all have Chinese names. This is just It is convenient for everyone to call, our system name is not like this. My name is North and South, not the name of the game, it is just a title. In this mission, I and Briquettes are your guides, but our division of labor is different. Briquettes is a wayfinding guide, which leads everyone in the wild. I am a mission guide, responsible for communicating with NPCs. If you encounter any problems during the mission, you can ask me. I am very familiar with most of the common sense mission information nearby. I understand."

I nodded and said: "Are you all clear about the content of the mission?"

Balquet nodded and said: "Jinshan Yinhai has already told us that it is to send you all Just go to the Elf Tribe."

I nodded and said: "Then hurry up."

"Okay."

Because before we came here Jinshan Yinhai knew that he would definitely go to the Elf Tribe in the end. Whether it was going to robbery or picking up a mission, this trip would definitely not be saved, so the guide had been prepared a long time ago, and even the supplies were prepared. Hearing that I was going to start, the briquettes immediately took out a cloth bag from his body, and then pulled out a string of bottles from it and distributed them to us.

Kristina suspiciously took a string of bottles strung together with straw ropes, and found that these bottles contained a mess of everything. Some bottles are liquid, some are powder, some are stones or unknown semi-liquid objects, and there are even some live insects in a few bottles.

"What are these things?" Kristina asked, looking at the insect crawling around in the bottle.

After the briquettes had delivered the bottles, they carried a bunch of bottles and pointed to us one by one to explain. "These all are the most commonly used things in the jungle. This black bottle is filled with swamp wyvern dung."

"What?" Christina just heard the briquettes introduce the black bottle. He also moved his eyes to look inside, and almost threw the bottle out of the feces.

The briquettes don't care about Kristina's reaction at all. He probably sees a lot of people who react like this. "Don't underestimate this thing. Swamp wyvern is a high level devil beast in the tropical rainforest, and because the swamp wyvern lives in groups, it produces a honeycomb effect. No matter how strong the devil beast, you don’t want to offend the swamp wyvern easily, otherwise it will be attracted accidentally. A group of giant dragons, even if they are alone, have to flee in embarrassment. Therefore, if we want to rest in the woods, we can use this thing to delineate a range, and then other creatures will not dare to approach. But we need to be careful. We This place is called the rain forest. The rainfall is very heavy. Almost every day there will be one or two rains, so the dung sprinkled on the ground can only persist until it rains and it will fail. Once it rains, be careful, because this dung It will be useless."

"Aren't the other bottles filled with feces?" Kristina asked.

The briquettes shook his head and said: "Of course not." Then he pointed to a bottle full of green gel and said: "This paste is made from the leaves of the invincible tree. When you reach the high level devil beast and find that you can’t run away, you can throw this to the devil beast, or just apply it on yourself, the devil beast will not attack you anymore."

I was immediately surprised when I heard it. Looking at the bottle and asking: "Is this tree as very difficult to deal with as the cannibal tree?"

"No."

Kristina was puzzled Follow-up: "If not, then why is devil beast so afraid of the sap of this tree?"

"This is because the sap of the invincible tree is very smelly and has strong adhesion. After it is stained, it can't be washed. Use, you have to wait three or five days for it to oxidize naturally and it will lose its flavor. The nose of devil beast is much stronger than ours, so they can't stand the smell even more. They can be smoked away with just a little bit. If you are attacked by a high level monster When the time comes monster I can't run away, so I will wipe a little bit on myself. When the time comes monster I will feel sick and nauseous when I smell your body. I will never touch you anymore."

"Then what ……Thank you, is there something to deal with devil beasts?" I tried to explain: "We are not the same as the ordinary tourists you bring. When devil beast sees us, it should be devil beast who ran away. You We don’t need any of these things!"

When Briquettes heard what I said, he quickly slapped his head and said: "Oh, I forgot about this. You are all great characters, very difficult to deal with. Don’t be afraid of monsters. Then I’ll introduce what is useful to you.” He said, digging out a glass bottle from the rope and said, “Did you see the insect inside? This beautiful small insect doesn’t have anything. Offensive, but they have a strong sense of direction. If you accidentally get separated with our two guides and can’t find your way back, just let it out. This insect will fly back to your own city, you Just follow it to find the way back. But it’s important to note that this little thing flies very fast, once it runs away you will never catch up. So we put a thread around the neck of this little fellow, and the end of the thread It's outside the bottle. Before you open the bottle, tie the end of the thread somewhere on your body and don't let it fly away."

"This is quite practical. "Christina said.

"And this insect is also very practical. "The briquettes pointed to another bottle and said. This bottle is densely packed with a white silkworm-like fat insect. This insect is white all over, without any spots, and looks a little cute. Of course, just look at it alone. It's cute, but this bottle is not cute anymore when squeezed together. It still feels a bit numb all over the body. The briquettes are not afraid at all. They opened the bottle and grabbed an insect and said, "This is a gluttonous insect. It can be grasped directly by hand without any danger. If you need food in the woods, but you don’t know it, you can use this insect experiment. Put the insect on the thing you want to eat. As long as it eats this thing, you can eat it. If it doesn't eat this thing, you must not eat it. This insect can distinguish between foods. It eats everything that a human can eat, and there must be a problem with what it does not eat. "

"It turned out to be an automatic food detector! What's in the other bottles? "

"Most of them are not available to you, but these may be useful. The red one is insect-controlling powder, this is an antidote, and this is a plant juice that masks body odor, which is close to some timid creatures. And this is a medicine for water purification, this is a special paint for marking, this is a special plasma that attracts carnivorous devil beasts, this is an aromatic fruit that attracts herbivores, and this is a desiccant. Those of you from other places may not like our humid environment. Put a little of this desiccant and put it in the small bag that comes with you, and you will feel drier. However, it needs to be changed every two hours, otherwise it will fail. "

"We don't need that thing. "Christina asked: "Is there anything else useful?" "

"That's all for the time being. Most of these things are used for the lives of ordinary tourists. You are almost at the top of the food chain when you get here. I think those devil beasts need these things more than you, so you don't need them. In addition, I have some more targeted special medicine powders that may be useful, but there are many kinds of them, and the probability of using them is not high, you don't need to bring them, I just have them here. "

"Well, we have everything ready, let's set off. "

"Okay, come with me. "

The little elf tribe is not too far away from the city where we are, but because the road is not easy to walk, so there is a slight delay on the road. In fact, the main problem is the communication between the guides and us. Not very good. If you know the specific location here, you can fly directly from the air, find the approximate location and then airborne. Although the air in the monster area in the game is extremely dangerous, it is not a problem for us. .

When we arrived at the outskirts of the elf tribe, we ran into the other party's patrol team. Those elves had a very strong sense of defense, so we were only discovered just when we approached the outskirts of the elf activity area. Of course, we didn't deliberately hide it, but it was one of the reasons why we came here.

"Hey, it's you. "We were walking well on the road. Suddenly we saw the two elves jumping from the tree, but neither of them showed any intention to fight. They just came and chatted with Nanbei.

North and South simply chatted with each other for a few words, and then introduced us to the front: "These are the high-levels of our guild. This time I brought them to patriarch. I don’t know if patriarch is now in NS? "

One of the older elves said: "We have been out for a while, now I don't know if patriarch is or not, you should go to the tribe and ask again. "

"Okay, let's go first. "Nanbei and the other side greeted us and took us forward, and the other side quickly jumped onto the tree and disappeared after a few ups and downs. The elves are known as the children of nature. In the forest, they are like fish in the water and birds in the sky. , The battle is not necessarily the same. The ability to move and hide is definitely one-of-a-kind.

I don’t know if the front patrol team found out that we contacted the back in a certain way, anyway we have been I haven’t encountered a new patrol team, and a few times I obviously felt that elves passed by us and never came out to stop us.

After walking for a little while, we finally saw Jinshan Yinhai. The elf tribe mentioned. Although Jinshan Yinhai has always emphasized that this elf tribe is a very small tribe, but after seeing it, I realized that it is not as small as I imagined.

This The area of ​​the tribe is at least tens of thousands of square meters, and there are no walls or fences on the periphery. There are few such defense facilities in the cities of Elf Race, and generally only the elves who leave the forest or the elven cities such as the Spirit King. Will consider building defensive facilities such as city walls. Normal elven cities are open. Like commercial cities in player-built cities, there is no wall or so-called city gate.

With We gradually approached the elven tribe, and the surrounding plants began to show obvious changes. The plants nearby were obviously much taller than before, and the plants and plants were very closely connected to each other, unlike the previous tropical rain forest. This kind of sparse feeling. In addition, the types of plants in this area seem to be somewhat different from the surrounding plants. First of all, there are not as many shrubs in the elven tribe as there are in the normal rainforest. They only exist in some ornamental shrubs. There is no densely packed state in the normal rainforest.

In addition, in addition to the scarcity of bushes, the tree species in the Elf tribe has also changed significantly, although the trees in the Elf tribe are still the same as the surrounding plants It is tall and tall, but the plants here have a lot of horizontal branches, and the horizontal branches tend to be entangled between trees and trees, so that a channel like a single-plank bridge is formed above the trunk.

< p>The houses of the elves are almost all built on these spreading branches. The trunk of the big tree behind is used as a wall, and then the spreading branches are used as the foundation, and some canes and wood are combined to form several walls. , In this way, a tree house is formed.

Although the buildings here are all built on trees, after seeing these tree houses here, I can sort of understand why Jinshan Yinhai I say that this is just a small elven tribe.

Actually, I have seen a real elven city before. It is a system city with a large scale. The elven buildings in that elven city are also supported Built with big trees, but there are similar to the buildings of this tribe in front of you As different as heaven and earth.

In the real city of elves, the houses of elves are not wood houses as we think, but houses that grow from tree trunks. Although the tree houses they live in are made of wood, those woods are part of the trunks or branches of the tree that built the tree house, and these branches and trunks are not cut down and spliced ​​into houses, but trunks or branches. Some cavities grew out of the interior, and then a structure similar to a room was formed. Moreover, not all houses in the elven city are on trees. Some huge trees have houses at the roots. After entering these houses, you will find that there are spiraling stairs inside the trunk, which can be walked from the inside to the top. Go to the house on the branch.

This kind of house that grows on the tree trunk is the real building of the Elf City. Although the building of the Elf tribe in front of you is also a tree house, it is actually a Spirit Tree house rather than a human being. Tree houses, because the houses on the trunks here are made of cut wood. This is no different from wood houses built by humans. If you have to say something is different, it may be that the location of the building is a little strange. That's it. But in essence, these tree houses are still in the style of human architecture, not in the style of real elves.

In fact, Elf Race rarely cuts down trees. All the plants they need are spawned by life magic, and because the small tribe in front of them is too small, there is no high level wizard wizard. , Naturally it is impossible to give birth to that kind of tree house.

In fact, in addition to the tree house problem, this elven tribe has a more serious problem, that is, there is no Elf Race’s most important Tree of Life and Magic Spring in this place.

Tree of Life is something that every elven city must have. If there is no Tree of Life, then it will become a state of despair like the tribe in front of you, almost like wandering The same as the tribe. Because there is no Tree of Life, the surrounding plants impossible grow tall enough. In this case, building enough tree houses becomes an impossible task, so the scale of this tribe cannot be expanded. And the problem of no magic spring is even worse. Because there is no magic spring, the output of the mage is very low, and the level cannot be increased. The associated effect of this is that the strength of the tribe is low, and there is not enough battle strength to deal with the invaders, so safety cannot be guaranteed.

It can be said that the elven tribe in front of you is a slum-like elven tribe. Their internal living environment can be described as very bad. If it weren’t for the fact that elves are known as the children of nature, they don’t worry about eating in the forest. If you wear it, maybe they simply won't live anymore.

I was observing this elven tribe, and suddenly I heard that the north and south stopped a passing elves to inquire about the leader of the tribe. As a guide specializing in communication, the affinity attribute of the North and the South must be very high, and because they have deliberately brushed the favorability before, so the elves here are very enthusiastic to our group. Hearing the question from North and South, the elf immediately pointed to a big tree not far behind and said: "Patriarch is receiving foreign guests over there. You can go and look for it."

"Thank you very much. "Nan Bei thanked the elf and beckoned us to follow him.

After walking to the big tree not far away, we made a half circle and turned to the other side, and then we saw a tree hole in the trunk. The height of this tree hole is almost one meter six, although it is not too small, but with the average height of Elf Race of 1.78 meters, this height is obviously still a little bit shorter.

At this time, two elves and two creatures I don't know what they are are standing on both sides of the tree hole. The two elves are nothing special, but the two creatures are more personal. Generally speaking, these two creatures are both humanoids, but one of the heads is at least round like a large light bulb. It feels that the diameter of his head is at least more than twice the diameter of his waist, even his shoulders. The width is not as wide as the head.

Although it bears such a big head, the hands and feet of this creature are short and thin. The length is only about 2/3/2021 of a human, and his body is also very short. Although standing on the ground is a little over one meter six, at least half of this height is the head, and the remaining half is the length of the body and legs.

In addition to the ET-like head of this creature, there is also a very strange feature, that is, his body is smooth as if oiled, and it is actually a little shiny, and his skin color is The kind of faint blue, it feels weird to see this color in the forest.

In addition to this big-headed creature, there is another creature that is also a humanoid, but compared to the creature that resembles aliens more than Earth creatures, this thing can basically be classified as wild beast category.

This guy is at least 2.5 meters tall. He is wearing a set of heavy plate armor, but the exposed parts are all brown hair, and even his face is covered by a layer of slightly shorter hair. Then, except for the eyes and the inside of the palm, the exposed parts of this guy's body are basically all hairy.

Except for this hairy body and a huge body shape, this guy is basically human-like, with normal body proportions, but he looks very strong. In addition, this guy’s head is quite different from people, because the face of this thing is protruding forward. If it weren’t for the fact that it didn’t really look like it and it didn’t have horns, I almost thought it was an Ox Head Man warrior. .

In fact, this creature's head is a bit like a wolf, but its mouth is not that sharp, and it is relatively short and thick. But if it is a bear, the ears and face shape are not right, anyway, this thing is 80% of some kind of orc branch.

The four creatures over there were sitting or standing in a daze. Our sudden appearance immediately attracted the other's attention. After seeing us, the two alien creatures first glanced at the reaction of the two elves on the opposite side, but when they saw that the expressions of the elves did not change, they relaxed their vigilance, but one of the elves on the opposite side shouted at us: "This Isn’t it North and South? Are you here to buy bows and arrows again today?"

"No, no, I brought our president to meet with patriarch today. I want to ask you patriarch for help on something very important."< /p>

"Oh, that's it. But you may have to wait a while. Patriarch is talking to the guests. It's been a long time since I went in, so it should be over soon."

"It doesn't matter , We can wait." As Nan Bei said, he took us to the other side, and then he talked with the two elves in a low voice, which was obviously a good relationship.

While they were talking, I turned my head and whispered to a hooded Polsephone, "Let go of your divine force a little bit, don’t make too much. Just a little bit of escape."

Porsephone didn't answer, but I immediately felt a hint of coolness across my face. The two elves who were talking and chatting with North and South were talking and suddenly turned their heads and looked towards our side. Then for a while, one of the elves remembered to ask South and North: "The one with the hood is your president. ?"

"No, the one in front is our president, the one with the hood is very difficult to deal with, and he is currently a high-level person in the guild, and should be regarded as our president. Subordinates."

The elf was nodded after hearing it, and then he confessed to his companion and hurriedly turned around into the tree hole. I knew he must have gone to report. For an elven tribe, a high-level existence of Life Power is all over the body, but of course impossible is ignored. It’s okay if the other party doesn’t know it. Once it feels it, it will naturally report it immediately.

Sure enough, a large group of elves burst out from the tree hole in less than twenty seconds, at least more than ten in number. One of these elves, who looked very old and looked like an old man, directly locked the position of Polsephone at a glance, and then rushed over excitedly.

Speaking of which lifespans of the elves are very long, and this race hardly ages. If the lifespan of the elves is reduced proportionally to the length of the lifespan of a human, then the annual forest stage of the elves should be roughly like this. First, they will enter adolescence at the age of three, and then they will reach adulthood at about eight years old. Only they will remain young until the age of forty, and then they will enter the prime of life and remain until after the age of eighty. After that, the elves will quickly go through the late middle age and old age with a period of three years, and then die.

According to this ratio, it can be seen that both children and the elderly in Elf Race are very rare, because their childhood and old age are very short, almost most of their lives In the youth and prime of life. The elf in front of him looked like an old human being, with wrinkled skin, indicating that the elf was really very old, and it was estimated that he was almost at the end of his life.

The excitement of that old elf walked a little bit unstable, but he didn't really fall down yet. After running to Polsephone a few steps, he seemed to want to reach out and touch Polsephone, but he didn't dare to stretch it forward as soon as he raised his hand. Finally he hesitated for a while before he asked nervously: "I don't know how to call higher beings? I feel a strong life fluctuation in your body, which has far surpassed the life mage of my race. I was only in the moon before. I have felt this powerful Life Aura from the brilliance of Goddess at the festival. Are you...?"

Porsephone calmly lifted his hood and revealed it A smile full of affinity at the same time let go of the control of his divine force. As a breeze blows, the surrounding grassland shines with emerald green color instantly as if sprayed with brightener. Some plants that are about to wither are also resurrected in an instant, and many places are unfathomable mystery. Large and Small flowers, the entire Elf tribe was covered by a sea of ​​flowers in the blink of an eye.

The reason for this effect is of course that Polsephone deliberately did it. If she didn’t control it, she simply leaked a little divine force, although it would give birth to plants, but it wouldn’t be so exaggerated. Effect. She is doing this for my benefit, and the purpose of course is to gain good impressions. You must know that the elves are very kind to all the existence that is rich in Life Power.

As this divine force unfolded, the old elf immediately shouted excitedly: "Are you Goddess?"

Porsephone smiled and said, "I do My name is Goddess, but I’m not the Moon God. I’m the Goddess of Spring. It’s my job to unblock the winter and bring life to the earth."

"It turns out to be the Goddess of Spring. No wonder I have so much weight. Life Power. I don’t know if Goddess is here, if there is anything we need to do?"

"It’s not a request." Polsephone began to introduce him. "This is Purple Moon, the president of the guild affiliated with the Divine Race where I am now. I am here this time because our guild wants to build a wizard city, so we want your help."

"Elves City?" The old elves froze for a moment, and then asked: "I don't know how we can help. You have also seen that none of us ourselves can be called an Elf City residence, this... "

"We have all the other conditions for building a wizard city, but there are no wizard seeds. I don't know if you can help us get some wizard seeds." I asked aloud instead of Polsephone road.

"Elf seeds?" The old elves thought for a while and said, "We only have a few seeds, and they are all low-level construction seeds. These are definitely not enough to build an elven city, and We don’t have the key seed of the mother tree of life. However, if necessary, we can take you to the large cities of the Elf family nearby. There should be seeds there, but they will definitely not hand over them easily, so you need to find a way yourself! "

"It doesn't matter, as long as you can give us a thread." Your support is my greatest motivation.)