When Dayu saw the Chen Family soldiers hanging from the trees, his expression was shocked, yet thoughtful.
At that moment, Qing Chen understood what he was thinking.
In this ghostly Forbidden Zone, humans easily develop the urge to imitate.
Because you don't know how many rules there are, or what they are. When a group of people are doing the same silly thing, you will subconsciously follow suit.
The consequence of not following suit might be death.
Therefore, when Dayu said he was going to the toilet, Qing Chen called Zard and Chen Jiazhang to secretly follow behind. The three of them even tacitly restrained themselves, none of them focusing their gazes on Dayu.
At this moment, the three were squatting behind the bushes, emitting a series of goose-like laughter.
Dayu, his face ashen, hung from the tree, neither able to get down nor unable to stay.
For a moment, he even considered dying on this tree.
In addition, Dayu seriously considered whether to pretend about Xiaoyu.Finally, he sighed, "Bad luck!"
"Come down," Qing Chen restrained his expression, choosing his words carefully, "We...".
Dayu, his face dark, released his hands and fell from the tree, then pulled up his pants, "What's going on?"
Chen Jiazhang: "It's like this...".
"Ahem," Qing Chen rubbed his face, which was numb from laughing, but he couldn't directly say that the rule was wrong. He could only carefully recount the events: "After you fell asleep that day, the Chen Family troops escorted us and 1300 refugees here. Everyone was almost completely unaware of this place, so we organized the refugees to "play dead" in various bizarre ways, and the Chen Family misunderstood some things."
Actually, at this point, Dayu already understood what was going on.
At this time, he calmly nodded, "Zard, give me the little frog in your body."
Zard's expression turned serious, "That's not possible!"
"Not giving it, huh?" Dayu calmly nodded.
He suddenly clasped his hands together, and from his right hand, he pulled out a long scroll from thin air.
Qing Chen was immediately shocked, "Wait, Forbidden Artifact ACE047, Space Ring!"
Chen Jiazhang: "Holy crap!"
Zard: "Holy crap!"
The total number of Federation Forbidden Artifacts is conservatively estimated to be over 300, and some speculate that there are over 100 unnumbered ones.
But among these nearly 500 Forbidden Artifacts, only one possesses spatial attributes, and that is Forbidden Artifact ACE047 Space Ring.
Many people regard it as a treasure, yet it suddenly disappeared centuries ago and has never reappeared, not even the Hu Family Intelligence Agency had the chance to record its appearance.
This is simply the protagonist's standard Forbidden Artifact!
No wonder Dayu, as a Chen Family painter, never carried the scroll with him.
This is Dayu's strongest trump card as a core member of the Chen Family. When everyone thinks his artwork isn't nearby, the artwork in the Space Ring will definitely surprise all enemies.
And most importantly, Dayu knows very well what the strongest ability of a Chen Family painter is.
It's not about frequent battles like Chen Yu, but about fighting once in a lifetime with artwork, and that one time will be decisive, like Chen Black Tortoise.
Therefore, during the fighting, he always used the swift swallow, not his own artwork.
Who knows how much he's stored!
Dayu sneered, "Looks like I'll have to kill them all."
Chen Jiazhang:
Zard:
Qing Chen: "Run!"
As they spoke, the three of them ran for their lives, while Dayu chased after them with a ferocious smile. Four A-Class experts engaged in a life-or-death chase in the Forbidden Zone, startling the wild beasts into a flurry of escape.
What does four A-Class mean? In small-scale operations, the Conglomerate gathers at most four A-Class experts!
In Forbidden Zone 008, there was chaos. Dayu chased them for over a hundred miles.
In the end, Chen Jiazhang pulled out the ...
Dayu was almost calmed down, but Chen Jiazhang's laughter caused him to chase for another hundred kilometers.
From night until sunrise.
Chen Jiazhang couldn't take it anymore. His body, drained by alcohol, could no longer sustain combat, so he could only apologize with a tense face.
Dayu sneered, "If you dare to laugh again, I'll kill you all!"
"No more laughter," Qing Chen and Zard shook their heads.
The anger accumulated by a Chen Family painter over a lifetime was indeed not something they could withstand.
Dayu coldly asked, "Is there anything else I should know?"
"No, no," Qing Chen said, "Just follow our lead. If we're going to make a fool of ourselves, we'll go first."
"Heh," Dayu said ferociously, "If I find out about something like this again, we'll all die together."
"Okay, okay," Qing Chen looked around, "Eh, I recognize these plants."
These plants appeared in the plant information Li Shutong gave him, called Feili Fruit, blooming for three years and fruiting for three years, slightly improving Cultivation talent.
This thing is extremely rare, the information doesn't even record how many a person can eat at most, because there are simply too few. Eating one is considered a heavenly opportunity.
So-called talent refers to the degree of connection of meridians in the human body.
If your meridians are like country roads, then your Cultivation will naturally be slower.
If your meridians are like highways, or even high-temperature superconducting maglev trains, then your Cultivation will be like Li Tongyun's, achieving twice the result with half the effort.
And the effect of this Feili Fruit is roughly "road construction."
At this time, three Feili Fruit plants looked like three strawberry seedlings on the ground, looking particularly cute, the fruits like cherries, already ripe.
"Quickly, quickly, uproot these three," Qing Chen instructed Zard, "Our luck is unparalleled. Thanks to Dayu, if he hadn't chased us for over two hundred miles, we wouldn't have encountered this."
Forbidden Zone 008 is too vast, it's rare to encounter such a thing.
It's like a ginseng picker in the mountains, there's actually a lot of ginseng in the mountains, but whether you can find it is another matter.
Anything in the Forbidden Zone is unowned; finding it is a gain.
Qing Chen thought for a moment and arranged, "These three Feili Fruit plants should be watered with dew, and someone should be guarding them to water them with a single drop every dawn. These three fruits can be given to Dayu first, let's see how many he can eat to reach the limit."
Dayu was stunned, "Give them to me? You're so kind! Aren't these poisonous things?"
"Go check Hu Family Intelligence Agency's 394th issue, it has a detailed record of Feili Fruit," Qing Chen said, "We're friends now. Not only the Feili Fruit, but also the Purple Orchid Star to help you with your Cultivation."
Dayu felt awkward, "I'm not your friend."
Actually, Qing Chen made this decision after careful consideration. First, Dayu, Zard, and Xiaoyu are deeply bound. Xiaoyu likes the Wildlanders settlement very much. If there's a strong person like Dayu to help, the people there will be safer.
Secondly, Dayu and Chen Yu clearly belong to different factions. If Dayu can be promoted to Demi-God one day, then Dayu's faction will have the foundation to compete with Chen Yu.
Qing Chen suspects that Dayu's identity is very high, he might even be the son of the Chen Family head, otherwise, how could he possess three Forbidden Artifacts as trump cards at the same time? Moreover, each is so useful!
Therefore, he not only wants to give Feili Fruit, but also Purple Orchid Star!
Just now, although Dayu chased them for over two hundred miles, he didn't crush the scroll in his hand, which means that Dayu actually recognizes their teammate status and won't be reckless in fighting and killing.
Unless Zhong Yu appears.
Qing Chen continued to instruct, "Feili Fruit, after each harvest, two-thirds are used for reproduction, and one-third is eaten, this maximizes the yield, and its output will be very high in no time. Then it's best to give it to one person, one Cultivation genius is better than a hundred Cultivation wastes, with the assistance of Purple Orchid Star, it's geometric growth. After Dayu finishes, the next one is Nangeng Chen, then Liu Dezhu, Xiao San, Little Seven, Xiao Wu, Nangong Yuanyu."
Qing Chen was planning, Chen Jiazhang listened to him listing a long string of names, while Zard was carefully recording, he was puzzled, "Our scale is so large now?"
Dayu sneered beside him, "Now, to describe Knights, we have to use nests as a unit, nest after nest, faster than a sow giving birth."
"Ah, this," Chen Jiazhang was stunned, "Has the times changed? How many Knights are there now?"
Qing Chen humbly said, "I have over a hundred disciples. By the way, senior uncle, how many disciples do you have?"
Chen Jiazhang:
"Let's go, we're too far from the Chen Family troops, and we can't effectively monitor their movements," Qing Chen said, leading the way back.
Eight hours later.
A team of over a hundred people from Fire Pit slowly emerged from the forest. Each of them carried a medicinal herb bamboo basket, looking like ginseng pickers from the mountains.
The elder said excitedly, "When I found Feili Fruit, I was about your age. At that time, the elder of Fire Pit was Jiang Chu Luobu. He was overjoyed. He said I was favored by heaven, so he started cultivating me as an elder. When I was 21, I became the second elder of Fire Pit, glorious!"
Qin Yiyi asked, "Is Feili Fruit useful to us Fire Pit people?"
"Of course it's useful," the elder chuckled, "For our Fire Pit people, every three years, we select three children with the best talents, designated by the gods, and then feed them Feili Fruit. This way, when they complete the ceremony, receive the blessing of the gods, they can gain more power. After collecting Feili Fruit, you'll take us for a walk in the Forbidden Zone, see how lucky you are. Walk for three days and three nights, whatever you encounter, we'll collect it."
Fire Pit has a method for collecting herbs in the Forbidden Zone. The first three are fixed targets, such as Feili Fruit. They go straight for them and then collect unknown herbs.
After collecting the first three, the rest must be left to a God Son, God Woman to gamble on luck. Whatever they encounter, they collect; if they don't, then they don't.
Even if you know the location of rare medicinal herbs, you can't go there again.
This has been the custom of Fire Pit for many years, signifying respect for nature, curbing human greed, and not exhausting resources, giving nature a chance to recover.
This method may be a bit sentimental, but Fire Pit has adhered to this habit for so many years without breaking it.
However, when the elder arrived at Feili Fruit, he saw three empty pits where the plants used to be.
"Who?! Who?!" The elder roared, "Who dug up my Feili Fruit?!"
Collecting Feili Fruit every three years is a fixed item for Fire Pit. Now, Feili Fruit has been uprooted!
That's too much, picking the fruit is fine, but uprooting it, what's the deal?!
At this time, a God Son bent down, picked up some soil and put it in his mouth to taste, "Elder, this pit was dug at most eight hours ago. The other party should not have gone far, we can catch up."
"Chase!" The elder roared, "Let me find out who dug it up, I'll kill them!"
The people mounted their horses and chased in the direction where Qing Chen and others left. A middle-aged Fire Pit person ran barefoot in front, leading the way. This person is the best in Fire Pit and is best at finding traces.
The vegetation in the Forbidden Zone is dense. If people pass through here, they will inevitably trample on moss, low grass, and break branches and shrubs.
In the eyes of many people, this is a boundless sea of forests, but for the Fire Pit people, everything here is a clue.
Qin Yiyi curiously asked, "Who would know the location of Feili Fruit? Isn't it said that no one dares to come to Forbidden Zone 008?"
The elder hesitated for a moment and said, "It might be the Knights!"
"Hmm?" Qin Yiyi asked in confusion, "How do you know?"
"I don't have any evidence, it's just that they like to do this kind of behavior where they eat the meat themselves and don't let others have a sip of the soup," the elder said, "I think it's the Knights, others aren't that shameless and unlucky!"
However, when he said this, the elder found Qin Yiyi's eyes light up, clearly happy.
He said angrily, "My little ancestor, they dug up our Fire Pit's treasure, why are you so happy?"
Qin Yiyi said, "Maybe it's not them? After all, there are tens of thousands of explorers every year, and there are over 100,000 Wildlanders in the Federation alone, it's not necessarily the Knights, I hope it's the Knights..."
As soon as these words came out, the God Sons beside him became indignant, they all wanted to find the person who stole Feili Fruit as soon as possible, to see if it was the Knights.
If it was Qing Chen, they could compete with him, let Qin Yiyi see who's more powerful, the Knight descendant, or their Fire Pit men!
The Fire Pit people chased on horseback for several hours, but they lost the trail at a stream.
The middle-aged man said, "They may have crossed the water, we have to go to the other side to continue looking for clues."
"Chase, kill them!" The elder said.
More than ten minutes later.
In the underground fortress opened by Zard's awakened ability by the stream, the four A-Class were still lying inside.
Previously, Dayu chased everyone from night to morning, so everyone didn't sleep all night, and everyone was catching up on sleep now.
The underground fortress is over ten square meters, with only a few holes imitating cicadas emerging from the ground for breathing.
Dayu asked, "Who? Riding horses in the Forbidden Zone?"
Qing Chen calmly analyzed, "It's not the Chen Family troops, the direction of travel is wrong, and there are no horses in the Chen Family troops."
Chen Jiazhang suddenly said, "It's Fire Pit, I followed them before, wanting to see what secrets are in Forbidden Zone 008, and I was discovered by them."
Qing Chen:
You guys keep thinking about Fire Pit, it's reasonable that they don't like you.
He patiently persuaded, "Don't always target Fire Pit, the Fire Pit people are quite good, our Knights should get along well with them."
Chen Jiazhang angrily said, "Don't be presumptuous, don't teach your senior uncle."
At this time, Qing Chen said, "Zard, open the fortress, I'll go after them. If they go on like this, they'll definitely collide with the Chen Family troops, I have to stop them."
"Okay," Zard said, opening the ground.
Dayu said angrily, "If you want to go, go ahead, I'll sleep a little longer."
As he spoke, he found that he was the only one left in the fortress.
Dayu hesitated for two minutes, and finally cursed and jumped out of the fortress.
The Fire Pit team of over a hundred people rode their horses forward quickly. It must be said that in this place, horses are much more useful than mechanized troops.
However, the further the elder went, the more something felt wrong, "Although we've found traces, they're reversed. Someone ran wildly from this road to Feili Fruit...it should be four people, acting very swiftly and hastily. Judging from their pace frequency and stride, these four are all A-Class physiques? There aren't that many Knights now, Chen Jiazhang and Wang Xiaojiu haven't appeared for a long time. Why are they running so fast, did they know our plan and want to compete with us for Feili Fruit?"
The simultaneous appearance of four A-Class experts without any attendants is very rare.
At this time, the elder seemed to hear something, and said in a low voice, "Dismount! Yiyi, watch the horses, they can't have anything happen!"
He drew out his black knife from his waist, lowered his body, and sneaked forward. His hunched back was level with the dense shrubs.
He quietly parted the shrubs and looked forward, seeing the Chen Family troops slowly advancing, and the engineers were still using tools to survey the map.
At this time, a Chen Family soldier whispered something to his comrade, then quickly ran towards the depths of the forest.
He loosened his belt, jumped up and grabbed the branches, and then looked down at the over a hundred Fire Pit people lying in the bushes. The soldier was dumbfounded, he even forgot to spread his legs, just hung there straight, being stared at blankly by over a hundred people.
He was disheveled in the wind.
He was also dumbfounded: What is this soldier doing? Did he discover us? But if he discovered us, why did he do this?
Is he provoking?
It's not that the elder couldn't react, it's that the scene before him was too unbelievable.
Luckily, Xiaoyi didn't come! Otherwise, her eyes would be dirty!
The next second, the Chen Family soldier roared, "Enemy attack! Fire Pit!"
The elder drew his knife and cut him in two, then hurriedly retreated, "Mount your horses, retreat, this is the Chen Family's army!"
When the Chen Family soldiers heard the cry, they swarmed forward. Gunfire erupted in the Forbidden Zone, as intense as the firecrackers on New Year's Eve, or the spring thunder.
The Fire Pit people also took out their automatic rifles to fight back, but there were only over a hundred of them, while the Chen Family's advance team had five hundred, and their firepower was not on the same level.
"Quick, quick, there may be their air force above, don't get hit by laser guidance, once locked, you're dead," the elder is very familiar with the combat methods of the army, because the rapid response and air support for ground combat method of laser guidance and laser cannon strikes developed by the Federation army is specifically designed for terrain like the Forbidden Zone.
The elder looked back and saw someone taking out a laser guidance tube.
His eyes were bloodshot, if the enemy completes long-range laser guidance, at least half of them would die, "You go first, I'll hold them back!"
But as soon as he finished speaking, sniper fire rang out from afar, and a puff of blood mist immediately erupted from the officer holding the laser guidance tube.
Sniper rifles roared continuously, Qing Chen didn't bother to hide his identity, and fully protected Fire Pit.
However, the Chen Family might not guess it's him, after all, there are many snipers in the Federation, he is not the only one who can provide fire cover. Moreover, before, he used tungsten core armor-piercing bullets, but this time he chose ordinary bullets to confuse the enemy.
As for whether the enemy can guess it's him, let the Chen Family guess.
At this time, Chen Jiazhang also appeared in front of the Fire Pit people, "Go quickly, Chen Yu might be in the sky, if you don't go, you won't be able to go!"
The elder was grief-stricken, "It's really the Knights, encountering you is never good!"
The people retreated while fighting, and Qing Chen's sniper rifle alone suppressed the pursuit speed of over four hundred soldiers.