Chapter 002: Annihilation Fruit Forest
If you want to hunt the sonic lizard, you must find a particularly large oblivion fruit tree, and Nanxing vaguely remembers that the Annihilation Fruit Forest is at least half a day's walk from the Quenjian River, and it is easy to take the wrong road.
"Nanxing, how's your luck? Fifty frogs! It's so damn that I want to hunt fifty frogs. Jimmy shook the glass bottle in his hand with a depressed face, this bottle can't be thrown away casually, and it has to be kept for water.
"Haha, you're really unlucky, why don't we change?" Nanxing looked righteous and handed out the exam questions as if he wanted to stick a knife in his friend's ribs.
"I'll go! Five sonic lizards, the master is too lucky in comparison, he is simply a lucky superman. Stay away from me, don't be obsessed with me. It is strictly forbidden to exchange exam questions, and the college satellite is watching it in outer space! Jimmy took a few steps back and hugged the glass bottle like a baby.
"Jimmy, thank you for taking care of me for a few years, I'm afraid I'm going to have to go our separate ways after graduation. Time is limited, let's hurry up! I'll see you at the end of the exam in five days, and good luck. ”
"Good luck, brother."
The two have a good relationship, but only because of a good relationship. You must know that the territory of the Federation is vast, and when you leave the college after graduation, the distance is calculated in light years, and most of the students in the college may not see each other in their lives.
Xuanyuan Nanxing ran quickly, since he felt that the breathing method of three short and one long breathing could greatly save his physical strength, he liked this feeling, the wind sounded in his ears, the leaves swept by him, and the flickering and moving was extremely smooth.
It took more than three hours to feel tired, which was unimaginable before. Even a little help can change the trajectory of life, and Nanxing is convinced of this.
Looking at my watch, I thought it was going in the right direction, but it was getting hotter and hotter in the woods.
You have to find a place to rest as soon as possible, and you don't have to run out of energy to move in the primeval forest, which can be extremely dangerous, because you don't know when you will encounter danger, and you only have the most basic supplies in your backpack.
Climbing a boulder, the vision was still relatively clear, Nanxing opened his backpack, a box of compressed biscuits, a roll of medical bandages, and a compound crossbow that could be put on his arm, but there were only five crossbow arrows. And the most important thing in the backpack is a cheap standard laser sword.
There is no need to expect to be able to use the laser sword as you like, the instructor on the spaceship has explained that in order for students to experience adversity, the laser sword in the backpack is only enough to last for a maximum of an hour, and if the battle is too intense, it will also consume energy in advance.
"O water! It's okay not to eat, but you can't do without water, and it must be pure, and it can't be adulterated with several bacteria of the Iron Hoof, so I want to think about where to get water from more safely. Nanxing couldn't help frowning, digging into his memories with all his might, and after a moment, he showed a hint of a smile.
After resting for five minutes, Nanxing got up, and after more than three hours of running wildly, he had already made his clothes dry, and he may not have been very good at his studies at the Jialanxing War Academy, but he inherited the excellent appearance of the Xuanyuan family, with short black hair, divine eyes, and a delicate face. Although it has not fully grown up, this appearance is already good, but this era looks at ability, and appearance is not suitable for food.
The Iron Hoof primeval forest, also known as the Slightly Toxic Territory, has many organisms with weak toxins, and in some places even contains radioactive materials, so it is important to get water.
Bouncing from puddle to puddle, Nanxing was looking for a light green mycelium.
Few people know about this secret, or after graduation, a student inadvertently announced it, saying that the explorers who arrived at the Iron Hoof Star in the early days planted the Arctic Fruit, after hundreds of years, the Arcane Fruit and the local mycelium combined to grow, although there were some abnormalities, but the nutritional value is richer, especially in terms of water conservation, each Arcane Fruit is equivalent to a small kettle.
"Found it." Nanxing's body drifted out four or five meters away, and his body was as light as a feather.
The vertical and horizontal jumping method published by the Federation is very technical, not to mention fourteen-year-old students, and even instructors can fully master this method. But it's no wonder that the level of those instructors in the War College is not high, and it is already very good to be able to reach the third level of elite soldiers.
Searching for the green mycelium, he soon pulled out five fruits the size of an adult's fist from the mud hollow. The surface of these fruits is dark green, which at first glance is very different from the o's fruit, and a layer of hard shell must be removed from the surface to reveal the true skin.
Nanxing pinched hard, and sure enough, it revealed a little pale yellow, five Ao Guo is enough to eat for two days, and it shouldn't be difficult to find a few more along the mycelium.
Numerous surveillance satellites in outer space lock on to the students and feed back their every move to the examiner. Wilson was looking at the screen with interest, and the picture expanded outward with the Quenching Sword River as the center, and the dozen or so students who ran the farthest appeared, all of whom were usually relatively good seedlings, as expected.
"Huh? Why didn't this little guy remember, what was he doing? Wilson looked slightly stunned, and hurriedly waved his hand to make the picture more detailed, it was a black-haired teenager, looking for something in the mud.
"Big guy, his name is Xuanyuan Nanxing, he is a student in the 305 graduating class, and his performance is usually mediocre. I really don't understand how he could run so far in such a short period of time and without making a mistake in the direction. The instructor at the bottom casually reported the situation.
"Mediocre performance? **Run one to try. The fruit in this mud field looks familiar, it can't be an obscure fruit, right? He must have collected a lot of information before the exam, and there were indeed people who tried to transplant it hundreds of years ago. Wilson lured out the black-haired juvenile circle as a key object of observation, in fact, in addition to having more opportunities to choose when assigning, there are also some small secrets, involving life badges.
Nanxing didn't know that he had become the focus of attention, and when he loaded his backpack with a dozen Ogo fruits, he was full of confidence and set out on the journey again.
After running for more than ten minutes, I found that it was very close to the fruit forest, and it seemed that the first three hours had not wasted physical strength in vain, but there was nothing to be happy about, the sonic lizard was extremely difficult to deal with, and if it was not good, it would be impossible to even take your life into it.
Sonic lizards are known for their ferocity, their bodies are about two meters long, they resemble the crocodiles on their home planet, but they have smooth bodies and hooks and claws, which can be firmly attached to huge branches, and when they encounter prey, they will spit out a large cloud of invisible sound waves, and kill them with sound attacks.
"Be careful, be careful." Nanxing raised his heart to his throat, and before entering the Oblivion Fruit Forest, he had already put on his crossbow and held the laser sword tightly in his hand, so nervous.
In fact, the fruit tree has a very large area in the rainforest, and the probability of encountering a sonic lizard is very small. This can't be blamed for Nanxing's timidity, although he got his memories more than ten years later, but after all, he was the leader, so he needed to take pains to hone it for a while, otherwise this advantage would eventually become common with age.
There are a lot of leaves piled up on the ground, and occasionally rotten fruits, and the deeper you go into the oblivion forest, the more you can feel a dark and corrosive atmosphere.
Originally, the surroundings were very quiet, but a shrill chirp suddenly sounded overhead, which frightened Nanxing to take a few steps back, and patted his chest after finding that there was no sonic lizard, and gasped: "It turned out to be a stinging stick bird, breathing, breathing, relaxing, relaxing, nervousness is a taboo." ”
Maybe it's because the memories I got today have worked again, my mood has slowly calmed down, and my breathing has become calm, and from a distance, Nanxing's back seems to have a fierceness far beyond his age.
At two or three o'clock in the afternoon, Nanxing crawled forward, and he spotted the first sonic lizard.
The sonic lizard dangled its body with its thick tail and disguised as a branch of an oblivion tree, and was napping with its eyes closed. They already exist at the top of the food chain on Iron Hoof, and camouflage allows them to hunt better and evade the only natural predator, the Oyster Red Hawk.
At this moment, Nanxing's heart was unusually calm, and he was used to seeing creatures stronger than sonic lizards in his memory, so much so that he threw off all the tension and fear in the process of going deep into the oblivion forest, and when he really faced the sonic lizard, there was only a piece of clarity left in his mind.
"Five crossbow arrows can cause a faint blast, and the sonic lizard has rough skin and thick flesh, but its eyes are weak. Only by making a noise to attract its attention, and nailing a crossbow arrow to it while its eyes are open, can it be severely damaged. If you fail, you have to retreat quickly and find another way. I heard that if you finish the exam ahead of schedule or overcomplete, your graduation score will be bonus, and if you successfully complete the hunt, there will be a second one, so I will have to fight for it. Thinking of this, Nanxing adjusted his breathing and focused his eyes on his prey.
At this time, there is a unique feeling, as if I have gone deep into the jungle thousands of times, as if I have shot crossbow arrows thousands of times, everything around me seems to be reflected in my mind, and there is a kind of intoxicating sense of control.
When it was time to make a move, Nanxing threw a thick branch that had been prepared in advance, and the branch made an arc in the air and slammed into the large tree where the sonic lizard roosted.
The big guy made a thunderous sound in his stomach, then turned his head to open his eyes.
"It's now."
In an instant, a sharp cold light was triggered, and the arm crossbow issued by the academy had a range of three hundred and fifty meters, in order to increase the intensity of the shot, Nanxing was not far from the tree, a distance of about fifty meters, making this arrow urgent and fast.
"Boom ......"
A small flame erupted from the tree, and the flame was incandescent in temperature, and then there was a thunderous howl.
Nanxing felt the blow succeed, and he scurried up and quickly crawled towards the top of the oblivion tree, even if the crossbow arrow successfully penetrated the eye socket of the sonic lizard, it was not enough to kill it instantly, it was best to bleed under its ribs, then the hunt would be perfect.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa......"
The roar of rage was overwhelming, and the sonic lizard curled its body in pain, and then it rolled back and forth on the canopy, and opened its mouth to spit out one cloud of sound waves, and the explosion sounded in one piece, and it just so happened that one of the sound waves was rolling towards the South Star from above.