There are other people in the Ghost Swamp
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Without saying a word, Ke Ji pulled Lu Liran away from the water quickly.
Lu Liran quickly followed Ke Ji’s pace, and at the same time turned his head to look at the large swamp water area just now.
In the middle of the water, something seemed to flash suddenly, and circles of obvious huge ripples appeared in the middle of the water.
Lu Liran couldn’t help but take a breath when he saw this. There was indeed something in this water! He just doesn’t know if what was inside can be brought ashore……
Several thoughts and concerns flashed through his mind, but finally settled on Ke Ji.
Fortunately, the backpack blocked it.
Lu Liran thought happily, otherwise, if that direct attack had hit Ke Ji’s back, Lu Liran couldn’t help but frown just thinking about it.
“What did you put in your bag?” Lu Liran asked.
He swam in front of Ke Ji, and the distance between them was less than five meters, but the thing only attacked Ke Ji, not him.
Ke Ji shook his head and said: “It’s not attacking my backpack.”
Lu Liran: “What do you mean?”
“It happened to swim behind me at that time, and I felt it, but it didn’t regard me as a target. Just as it passed by, its side fins hooked on the backpack and pulled me. I can only cut off the strap urgently.” Ke Ji explained.
Lu Liran didn’t expect it to be like this. He asked in surprise: “Did you see it? What is it?”
“It must not be the same creature that attacked us that day.” Ke Ji said, “It’s just a giant mouth catfish. But it is more than three meters long and extremely huge.”
The giant-mouthed catfish really had no intention of attacking him, but as soon as its side fins touched his backpack, it immediately swung vigorously, almost pulling him deep into the depths.
If he hadn’t reacted quickly, Lu Liran, who was tied to him, would have been involved and in danger.
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Ke Ji narrowed his eyes slightly. The extremely large catfish’s behavior in the water was contrary to its normal state. It seemed particularly excited or anxious, as if it had entered the mating period early, which was very abnormal.
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Three meters?! It’s simply a genetic mutation.
But if it was a giant catfish, Lu Liran could understand why they were not attacked.
The mouth of the giant-mouthed catfish is almost as wide as its head. When the mouth is opened, it can almost fit into the upper arm of an adult man, hence the name. It does look like a swamp monster, but it is actually the kind with an extremely docile temperament.
There are hundreds of teeth in its mouth, but they are all like downy shapes and not sharp. The pear bone teeth in the middle of the rear edge on the left and right sides are slightly sharper, but they are not of much use. They mainly rely on swallowing soil, small fish and shrimps.
The original task issued by the system included the requirement to collect three giant-mouthed catfish. The two-star collection mission would not involve collecting some too dangerous tasks. It can be seen that the giant-mouthed catfish itself does not pose much of a threat.
However, there is indeed no danger to an ordinary giant-mouthed catfish that is less than one meter in size, but it is really hard to explain the giant-mouthed catfish that has mutated to a size of three meters. It is not unbelievable to say that the open fish mouth is big enough to swallow a person.
As for why the genetically mutated giant-mouthed catfish was in particularly abnormal condition, Lu Liran could only attribute this to its mutation: “The sensory cells of the giant-mouthed catfish are distributed at the tip of the nose and the gills. It is larger, so it may have more sensory cells, which makes it more sensitive and acute, making it more frightened.”
He prayed in his heart that the collection mission of the three giant-mouthed catfish could be completed smoothly, and that he would not run into this accidental mutant.
Without saying anything else, the two of them stepped ashore and quickly left the water’s edge.
There are overgrown shrubs on the shore, the grass has grown to waist height, and the view is very poor.
Lu Liran and Ke Ji walked forward for a while, and the grass in front of them suddenly seemed to have been reclaimed by humans, with a trace of an east-west path appearing.
Lu Liran paused and looked at Ke Ji with some confusion: “Strange, why are there such traces here?”
He said “Huh”, walked a few steps inside, lifted the blades of grass and took a closer look.
Soon, Lu Liran was sure that this trace had only appeared in the past two days.
“It seems like someone has visited this place.” He raised his eyebrows and said, leaning down to push aside the grass on both sides and pointing it to the drone, “This is obviously the mark of cutting a road with a knife, and the edge area is neat. There was a thunderstorm near the Ghost Forest Swamp two days ago. The amount of lightning and thunder reached the highest level in this area in previous years. But now, there are obvious signs of scorching here, which should have been left by the thunderstorm two days ago. ”
Lu Liran said: “I didn’t expect to meet other people here.”
[When I heard that there were other people here, I felt inexplicably reassured]
[+1]
[I was worried about the “others”, fearing that Brother Lu would be hungry…crunchy and chicken-flavored]
[Laughing to death, it’s not that serious, it’s really not that serious]
[Where are you going, Brother Lu?]
Lu Liran: “I still plan to follow the previously established route.”
The Ghost Forest Swamp is occasionally visited by bounty hunters. After all, this kind of forest trees are also very popular, so it is not surprising that there are hunters who collect and cut wood.
Lu Liran estimated that the other party was heading for the cedar forest at the other end of the bush.
After a small accidental discovery, Lu Liran and Ke Ji accelerated their pace and arrived near the ancient road earlier than expected.
“This road was an ancient road used for land and sea transportation. Although it has been abandoned for many years, the prototype of the trail can still be seen.” Lu Liran stepped on a relatively obvious path.
Both sides of the trail are already covered with tall and low shrubs and trees, but they have not completely covered this deep trail.
“Following this road should take us out of the Ghost Swamp and and directly to the highway.” Lu Liran said while looking at the drone’s lens.
The drone rose into the air and captured the entire panoramic view of the trail within its field of vision.
They saw that the ancient path where Lu Liran was standing was only one person wide and led to the depths of the deep and silent forest. The path dozens of meters away was almost invisible and was covered by the dense forests on the left and right.
[Ah, just looking at this road with the naked eye…I feel so depressed]
[Me too!!!! I don’t know why, but I feel like it’s like a maze inside]
[When I think of what Brother Lu said about what happened here before, I feel even worse TAT]
[But to be honest, this is the only known route that can definitely lead to the civilized world. At least the direction will not be deviated and you will not be trapped in the Ghost Forest Swamp]
[One thing to say, in the Ghost Swamp, how does it not look like a maze?]
[Anyway, I believe in Brother Lu]
The reason why Lu Liran wanted to take this ancient road was not entirely because it could lead to the civilized world, but also because before setting off, in order to complete the task issued by the system this time, he searched for relevant information about the Swamp Ghost Crocodile in advance.
The Swamp Ghost Crocodile is not a crocodile, but a lizard, but it looks somewhat similar, but its body is much smaller, only the size of a palm. Its body is extremely colorful, and the scale pattern on its body is even more peculiar, like it is covered with circles of eyes.
Lu Liran had never seen such a creature before, and just looking at it made him feel a bit wicked.
He found a Swamp Ghost Crocodile specimen in an online bounty exchange with a price tag of tens of thousands of stars. After taking a photo, he curiously asked where he caught it.
The man told him mysteriously that they were the guards of the Ghost Forest Ancient Road. Each eye-like pattern circle on that thing represented the number of lives it killed to protect the ancient road and block foreign creatures.
Lu Liran naturally didn’t believe this. He did a lot of other information collection, and the final conclusions he got pointed to the ancient road.
In this case, the ancient road is a place he must go.
Lu Liran was about to move forward, but was stopped by Ke Ji.
“Come and take a look here.” Ke Ji said.
Lu Liran turned around and looked over, and saw Ke Ji crouched down, pushing aside the growing weeds on the ground with his fingers. The muddy path underneath was covered with sparse light green moss.
It just rained two days ago, so the paths here are still wet.
The slightly moist mud path just preserved an inconspicuous trace.
Lu Liran frowned slightly: “Are these shoe prints?”
Ke Ji responded, stood up and gestured, saying: “And the toe prints face outward, running from the inside.”
He followed the footprints as he walked forward, and the footprints quickly disappeared into the dense bushes.
Ke Ji raised his eyes and looked out, his gaze met the area where a path had been temporarily cut through earlier.
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