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In addition to the above advantages, Fang Senyan always vaguely felt that Mbenja's role in combat was not limited to these. Just think about it, even in such a dangerous environment and energy consumption as before, even powerful reef and Mogansha colonists were defeated, but Mbenja could still weather the storm and show his heroic qualities. This showed the potential of this guy, or rather, the ferocity of his luck.
"Oh, right." Just as Mbenja felt despair, Mbenja suddenly said earnestly, "I also thought of a legend. Few people know about this legend now, but it was verified more than ten years ago."
When Fang Senyan heard the time frame of "more than ten years ago," his heart suddenly jumped! Strictly calculated, wasn't this exactly the time when Lord Fogg Jr. last visited the African continent to steal the Sun Ladder? He immediately asked Mbenja, "Tell me the content of the legend quickly."
Mbenja scratched his head: "Whenever the total number of fingers of eight people alternates between the dry and wet seasons, a huge broom will appear in the sky, the grasslands and jungles will wither, the rivers will be cut off, the earth will have scorched cracks, and the giant swamps will also age." Fang Senyan knew that because the temperature difference between the four seasons was not obvious here, and it was not very cold in winter, these natives directly divided the whole year into two stages: the dry season and the wet season. The alternation of these two seasons is one year.
The total number of fingers of one person is ten, so the total number of fingers of eight people is eighty.
This means that the legendary event happens about every eighty years.
A huge broom appeared in the sky...
Fang Senyan immediately thought of Halley's Comet, which always appears in the sky on time every seventy-six years! And all human beings on the entire earth can see it, which is a very obvious sign. It also roughly matches the time period in Mbenja's legend... You can't expect this group of primitive people's astronomical calendar to be as accurate as the Greenwich Observatory.
As for the rest of the legend, it clearly describes the signs of a severe drought. Then Mbenja's legend is undoubtedly a foreshadowing: once Halley's Comet appears in their place, an unprecedented severe drought will occur.
From this, Fang Senyan immediately made a bold inference: Could it be that Lord Fogg Jr. and his party waited bitterly here for more than five months just to wait for the arrival of the great drought? Does it mean that the secret passage leading to the hinterland of the Dibaya Great Swamp must appear when the great drought arrives? Then it can be further inferred that the most scarce thing when the great drought comes is water...
Therefore! This secret passage is actually an underground river in normal times! When the great drought comes and the river water is cut off, this place becomes a passage that can be quietly sneaked into! No matter how alert the Dibaya people are, they will at most guard the land transportation routes and will not notice the absolutely safe exit of the underground river, which was originally so turbulent that it was impossible to pass through!
Even if the Dibaya people are strong at ordinary times, they would never dare to jump into the deep underground river to embark on a journey deep into the ground that is likely to be a never-ending, life-and-death adventure!
This can also explain why after Bernard Fogg successfully stole the Sun Ladder, his descendants can still follow the strategy and regain the powerful and strange Sun Ladder flower! That's because...
Such flaws are simply impossible to prevent!
Bernard Fogg stole the Sun Ladder through that underground secret passage hundreds of years ago, and the tribal elders would definitely instruct the next generation: Every eighty years, you must be careful to prevent someone from invading from the entrance of that underground river... Well, the average life expectancy of the Dibaya tribe is at most forty years old. Their cultural heritage is passed down through knotted ropes and word of mouth from generation to generation, so the shelf life of the tribal elders' warnings can be imagined.
However, although Lord Fogg Jr.'s timing of entry can be said to have all the right conditions, the conditions placed in front of Fang Senyan at this time do not have any of these three factors!
First of all, it has only been more than ten years since the great drought, and Halley's Comet is still far away from Earth's orbit! The timing does exist, but it is inclined to the Dibaya people's side.
Secondly, since the great drought has not occurred, then the secret passage should be surging with rapid currents at this time, which can hardly be considered geographical advantage.
As for people... Well, the strength of the original three people entered this cruel and powerful world, but at this time, only one person is left, and this person is still one-armed... So the word "people" cannot be mentioned at all. On the contrary, the Dibaya people have just experienced the painful lesson of Lord Fogg Jr.'s invasion more than ten years ago, and there are still quite a few people who personally experienced the great changes of that year, so this is very bad news for Fang Senyan, because the Dibaya people may strictly guard the exit of the secret passage.
The timing, geographical advantage, and people are not on Fang Senyan's side, which can be said to be a great obstacle to what he wants to do next, but Fang Senyan knows very well that once he overcomes this hurdle, the road ahead will be smooth. He is confident that he must be much stronger than the gentle Lord Fogg Jr. back then. Things that this guy can accomplish, then naturally he can accomplish, and do better and better!
Here, Fang Senyan couldn't help but realize that he had missed a key character, that is, the demon horse Moomoore. If he could get this guy's help, then of course he could achieve twice the result with half the effort. But considering getting this guy... Please note that it is getting him, not killing him. Fang Senyan estimates that it will take at least one or two worlds, which is obviously a matter of disproportionate investment and output.
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"Well, then let's find the entrance to that secret passage first." Fang Senyan made such a decision at this time. As the saying goes, one won't give up until one reaches the Yellow River. In short, as of now, there are still nearly a hundred hours left to stay in this world. Anyway, he is idle, so why not use a little more?
Although Fang Senyan has not yet obtained any direct information about the entrance to the secret passage, sometimes, as long as you analyze patiently, a lot of information is actually hidden behind the scenes.
Just imagine the grand occasion when countless Apple fans set up tents and queued up in front of the specialty store on the eve of the launch of "iPhone 4s" in mainland China. People always have an urgent mentality for things they like and want to get. Even if they cannot get it temporarily for various reasons, they will hope to get as close to it as possible before.
Since Lord Fogg Jr. is a person... at least he was a complete person while waiting for the secret passage to open... then when choosing a camp, he would mostly follow human habits and subconsciously choose the location of the camp close to the secret passage... This can not only satisfy his urgent mentality, but also reduce unnecessary trekking in the jungle to consume physical strength. More importantly, he has a full five months and eleven days to do this site selection!
Therefore, Fang Senyan's search range was defined as: within a radius of two kilometers centered on the Fogg Jr. camp discovered at this time. And the entrance to the secret passage is very likely to be in the small river next to the Fogg Jr. camp. The entrance to this secret passage must be relatively large, because even Moomoore, who had not yet become a demon, could enter at that time.
However, this search process was extremely difficult, because Fang Senyan was a human, not a god. This time, from the beginning, he entered a huge misunderstanding.
This is the most feared way of reasoning. The initial road is completely going in the opposite direction, which means that the greater the hope you pay, the greater the disappointment will be!
The truth is: when the unprecedented great drought came, the water source in that secret passage slowly dried up. Moreover, since the water flow in that secret waterway also flowed through the core area of the Dibaya Great Swamp, the river water inevitably became contaminated with some harmful substances and miasma. During its drying stage, it would slowly release a certain amount of poisonous gas. For ordinary humans, even if it does not lead to death, it will cause illness!
The two unlucky guys who died lying in the camp were Lord Fogg Jr., who was anxiously sending them out to closely explore whether the entrance could be entered. Then, after inhaling the miasma, they fell ill and finally died miserably in that cave.
Therefore, the range of two kilometers that Fang Senyan initially delineated was actually wrong.
No matter how much correct effort is put into a wrong area, it will ultimately be in vain. So after Fang Senyan spent more than eighty hours doing this, what he finally got was still disappointment.
However, at this time, careful observation helped Fang Senyan again, because just as he began to try for the nth time, he suddenly discovered a scar on a tree about ten meters away from the Fogg Jr. camp.
As we all know, just as people are afraid of cramps, trees are afraid of peeling. Once the bark of a tree is transversely peeled off in a circle, exposing the xylem, it is often difficult to grow back.
What Fang Senyan saw was such a large circle of old scars that looked quite conspicuous.