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Chapter 146 What a coincidence, you are here too!
The next morning, Yun Bai and his five companions, Zhang Xiaodi and his second sister, Hu Qun, the first-class spiritual plant master of the King Kong Gang, and twenty experts packed up and went into the mountains. This place is not like Tianlan, where transportation is basically on foot. You have to walk to enter the Chaos Forest.
“Two years ago, the Tiger Gang made their fortune after they found a second-grade mineral vein deep in the forest. We have also been searching for it over the past two years, but unfortunately we have not gained anything. However, there is still great hope this time—” Before setting off, Zhang introduced the beast to Yun Bai and the others while pointing at the spiritual beast held by a strong man beside him and said, “This is a second-grade multi-treasure beast that my eldest sister bought at a high price two days ago. It is an expert in finding spiritual springs and minerals. It took more than a month to train it well. Today we are going to bring it into the mountains to try it out!”
Yun Bai had never seen a Duobao beast before, so he looked at it curiously. It looked a bit like an anteater, with small eyes that looked very smart, and a long nose that was very flexible, sniffing around. It had pink fur, four short legs, and a piglet-like tail that was curled up. It was chubby and cute.
"Okay, let you out to play for a while, I have to take you back, you are our secret weapon!" Little Brother Zhang also liked this Duobao beast very much. He stroked its head gently and then put it into the beast taming ring.
Everyone was a cultivator. Although the mountain road was difficult to walk, they didn't feel tired or bored as they chatted with many people. However, along the way, Yun Bai saw a lot of dead grass and trees. Many hillsides and valleys were bare, with only stones and soil left, and not even a single weed left. It was still early autumn, and the grass and trees should be lush, but what he saw was a desolate scene, which made Yun Bai feel uncomfortable. In the afternoon, they gradually entered the deep mountains, and the situation became better - at least the vegetation coverage rate could reach about 60% to 70%, and occasionally spiritual plants and old trees over a hundred years old could be seen.
Because he had heard that Yun Bai was also a spiritual plant master, Hu Qun took the initiative to talk to Yun Bai. Seeing that Yun Bai was just a little girl of fifteen or sixteen years old, he looked down on her somewhat, and guessed that she was at most a first-grade spiritual plant master like himself, or even that she had just entered the rank. However, no matter how he tried to probe her indirectly, Yun Bai never told him her rank. Fortunately, although Hu Qun was a little curious, she was not the type to be competitive. Seeing that Yun Bai didn't say anything, she stopped asking and talked to her about some professional content of spiritual plant art. During the conversation, Yun Bai found that Hu Qun loved her spiritual plant profession very much, and had worked hard. Her professional knowledge was very solid, and she could also quote extensively and draw inferences from one example. This made Yun Bai admire Hu Qun very much.
Hu Qun was even more surprised by Yun Bai's performance. Although she was not very impressive, she could answer all the questions he asked fluently, and her angles were unique and thought-provoking. For some reason, although she was a little girl, Hu Qun had the illusion that the person in front of him was unfathomable! He thought it was indeed an illusion, but he also knew that Yun Bai was not as simple as she looked. Therefore, Hu Qun put away his contempt and treated this girl who was a dozen years younger than him as an equal.
Along the way, Yun Bai kept using his magical skills to communicate with the plants in the forest. Ordinary plants have no intelligence, so it is too difficult to communicate. The information received is unclear and incomplete, and Yun Bai often has to rely on guessing. Fortunately, there are many plants, and even with "all kinds of talk", he can understand a lot. The deeper you go, the more you can find sporadic spiritual plants, which makes communication much easier. Through their introduction, Yun Bai has a certain understanding of the situation in this forest: on the one hand, affected by long-term wars, the lack of heaven and earth energy, the lack of sufficient nourishment for plants and trees for a long time, and their growth is getting worse and worse; on the other hand, many plants are injured or even killed by various weapons in the peripheral wars; there is also a main aspect, that is, the scarcer the resources, the more ruthless the people in the chaotic land grab from here, and in the state of exhausting the pond to catch fish, year after year, the originally dense primitive jungle has become barren, and many places have even become "bald mountains".
A first-class spiritual plant master could only help a few plants around him recover 10% to 20% of their vitality. Seeing that Hu Qun had been trying to perform the restoration technique but with little effect, Yun Bai quietly turned the spiritual guidance technique to the lowest level - so that it would not be noticed by others. She walked along, helping the damaged plants recover. Even though most of them were ordinary plants, they could grow better with the nourishment of spiritual power. The group of people from the King Kong Gang did not notice that a hundred meters behind them, various plants sprouted from the soil like bamboo shoots after rain, and the forest that originally seemed a little dilapidated became full of vitality.
That night, everyone found a sheltered place to camp. Zhang said that although they had walked a long way, they were still at the outskirts of the Chaos Forest. It would take at least four or five days to finally enter the deep forest area. Their speed was actually very fast. After a whole day, they had probably advanced at least hundreds of miles, and this was just the outskirts. It seemed that the area of this Chaos Forest was not smaller than Wushaoling!
"We're lucky. We didn't encounter any wild beasts or even magical beasts—" Zhang said to everyone while sitting in front of the campfire, "I heard that some people encountered golden crystal tigers after entering the mountains, and there are even King Kong bears in the core area! There was even one time when a group of people from the Changfeng Gang encountered a mutated second-grade silver moon wind wolf. There were more than 20 people, and almost no one came back..." Seeing Yun Bai's face change, Zhang laughed quickly and continued, "Don't worry, we have done research before, and the route we chose is the safest. Moreover, even if we enter the deep forest, we are far away from the core area, so we can easily deal with wild beasts even if we encounter them."
"Don't be afraid, we are here!" Xiaohua also deliberately leaned his huge body towards Yunbai to give her comfort and warmth. Yunbai looked at the many burly men around him, as well as his reliable companions, and immediately became braver.
"Can you tell us more about the mutated Silver Moon Wind Wolf?" Yun Bai did not forget their mission this time, so he asked boldly.
"I just heard from others that it seems to be near the core area of the forest, but not in our direction - we are probably in the south of the forest now, and the Silver Moon Wind Wolf was in the west before. I heard that the mutated wind wolves are very fierce, and they will pounce on living people until they bite them to death and then eat them! What's more -" Zhang Xiaodi was talking vividly, but Mu Yun interrupted him and diverted him from this topic. Because Yun Bai's face was pale, she was really scared.
Zhang Xiaodi also realized this, laughed and told everyone a joke, and the atmosphere immediately became lively again. At dawn the next day, everyone packed up and set off again. At noon, they sensed from afar that there was a group of people approaching quickly from the left rear. When encountering humans in the mountains, you have to be vigilant, so everyone is on high alert. If they are friends, they will greet them warmly. If the other party has bad intentions, they will also guarantee to "treat" them.
About ten minutes later, the group finally came near them. After seeing the faces of the people clearly, everyone present exclaimed almost at the same time: "What a coincidence, you are here too!" Among the group of people opposite, Yun Bai and his friends knew two of them - one of them was Liu Xianwu, the third leader of the Tiger Gang, and the other one was surrounded by stars in the center, and that person was the campus beauty of Cangyu College, He Youhong!