Chapter 113 Hunting
Standing in front of a large vat filled with clear water, Zhang Yang looked at himself in the water, who looked like a skeleton, and could not even smile bitterly.
This time, it was really a life-and-death situation.
Who could have thought that the devil-horned lizard would be so vicious. When it saw that its attempt to take over Zhang Yang's body had failed, it immediately decided to die together with Zhang Yang in order to drag him to death.
Cuo Fei Zhang Yang has always been cautious. When he was at the Bald Ridge Fortress, he tried to merge several times but gave up each time.
After returning, he arranged many things, and then entered the Wood Demon Tower to integrate in the safest and most reliable state.
"It turns out that the village construction order can be unreliable sometimes."
With a sigh, Zhang Yang realized a little more about how horribly dangerous this world was.
This time it was the Wood Demon Tower that saved his life.
Even though Wu Yuan and others discovered something was wrong on the third day and tried to feed Zhang Yang water and food on the fifth day, Zhang Yang's body was not a vegetable at that time and he could not even take a drop of water.
It all depends on the Wood Demon Tower to restore vitality and mental strength every day to maintain it.
In order to ensure that Zhang Yang could absorb the maximum amount of energy, Wu Yuan even ordered that no one should approach the effective treatment range of the Wood Demon Tower.
But even so, after holding out for 32 days, the Wood Demon Tower had exhausted all its durability and collapsed.
That's why Wu Yuan was so anxious that he asked Song Dachui to knock out Zhang Yang's front teeth, and Qin Yidao was so anxious that he wanted to cut Zhang Yang's neck. They really had reached the point of being at a loss.
Fortunately, Zhang Yang woke up at the last moment and stopped these bastards.
But his physical functions still declined significantly.
Currently his strength is F+, agility is F+, and defense is F+, which is very bad.
However, Zhang Yang was not discouraged because his soul strength was successfully upgraded from A- to A-. Although it was not A+ yet, the effect was already very explosive.
You must know that after reaching transcendence, every level up will be a crushing victory.
For example, the devil-horned lizard, why was it able to almost overturn Zhang Yang's table? Even though it was due to its immortal devil soul, it was also related to its A-level soul strength.
Simply put, one A grade can beat five A- grades.
For example, before at the Bald Ridge Fortress, Zhang Yang used a top-grade magic weapon, but he still couldn't interrupt the devil-horned lizard's mutated fireball technique, because the opponent didn't even bother with him.
Now, as long as it is not a heroic-level melee, the captain-level soldiers will be instantly shocked to death by his soul force field regardless of whether they can get close to him or not.
In addition to the successful upgrade of soul strength, Zhang Yang also obtained 75% of the core memory of the demon-horned lizard. These are all treasures, because this means that he has cracked a small part of the secrets of the giant horned lizard civilization and the demon civilization, so he will not be confused when he encounters them again in the future.
Then, due to the inaction of the village construction order, Zhang Yang also obtained the two talents of the devil-horned lizard plus an enchantment skill in one go.
"Talent: Immortal Demon Soul: Construct 580 Demon Soul Crystals, thereby increasing the soul strength by 100% on the original basis, immune to soul shocks of A+ level and below, immune to soul imprisonment spells of A+ level and below, when encountering melee extraordinary professions, it will not be affected by the murderous aura, and after being killed, there is a certain chance to take over another body and be reborn."
"Talent: Demonic Soul Insight: The ability to sense ghostly and spiritual targets is enhanced. Within a one-kilometer range, as long as there is a ghostly and spiritual being peeping, it can be detected 100%."
"Skill: Explosion, type, enchantment type, can be used to enchant various disposable weapons. After the enchantment is successful, it will increase the explosive damage of the weapon."
In addition to this, Zhang Yang also acquired a skill left behind by Zhao Xuanling's consciousness.
"Skill: Mind Like Sword, Type: Divine Power, can train soul power to condense into a sword, causing slight damage to the target."
This Yi Ru Jian skill seems useless, but it is also what Zhang Yang cares about the most, because it is the first time he has obtained a magical skill.
Magical powers, magic powers, doesn’t it sound cool?
I don’t know how Zhao Xuanling got it in the first place.
Next, Zhang Yang did nothing but recovered calmly for three days, and then decided to carry out the plan set a month ago. He would personally lead the team out hunting.
This naturally met with fierce opposition from Wu Yuan, Wang Shen, Ryan and others. After all, in their opinion, Zhang Yang was so thin that he could be blown down by a gust of wind. Why was he still hunting? Wasn't he afraid that he would be caught by other monsters and stewed into pieces?
"What are you talking about!"
Zhang Yang just snorted, and everyone, including Wu Yuan, took a step back with pale faces.
This is soul shock, which instantly shrinks the soul force field to the critical point of materialization. Since his current soul power is already huge enough, this compression is like a hammer hitting even a hero-level unit.
So no one dared to object.
He had to go out hunting because in the past month, dozens of human monsters had been attracted to the mid-level tavern, which immediately caused the village's food reserves to approach dangerous levels again.
But there is still a month before the next harvest.
"Our hunting trip may last from ten days to half a month, so don't worry about anything. Just follow the established strategy."
Zhang Yang gave instructions. This time he brought Ryan, the Violent Bear quartet, three Storm Swordsmen, twenty captain-level infantrymen, twenty-four Berserker Swordsmen, and twenty captain-level archers.
If Zhang Yang wasn't counted, the strength of such a hunting team could only be said to be a bit weak, but with Zhang Yang included, the situation was completely different.
There were 85 captain-level infantrymen, 11 captain-level archers, 42 elite infantrymen, and 60 recruits who were promoted to elite archers left in the village. These were trained in the past month, and since there were still many low-level demon souls stored in the village, they could be strengthened easily.
With such a force, plus Wu Yuan, Wang Shen, Qin Yidao, and the Xianyu duo, Zhang Yang is absolutely at ease.
"Set off!"
At the command, the 73-member hunting team set out on the hunting journey with only three days of food.
The direction is due north. This is the final decision made by Zhang Yang after referring to the large amount of information provided by his fellow Earth native Wu Yu, because he is not only going there to hunt, but also to find a friendly village. If the information provided by Wu Yu is accurate, this village is more than 400 kilometers away in the north direction.
Nothing happened on the first day. Zhang Yang and his companions walked nearly two hundred miles. Apart from a few flying monsters, the only living things they encountered were various insects.
Even at night it was extremely peaceful, which indeed proved what Wu Yu said, that is, when a powerful village appeared in an area, the monsters within hundreds of miles around would flee in a very short time, leaving you no chance to hunt them.
While Zhang Yang was expressing his emotion, he was also highly alert because this situation was actually very cruel.
Since there are hardly any native beasts in this fantasy world, every hunter will be the prey.
No matter how powerful a village is, it will sooner or later become the prey of other hunters.
Therefore, the only way is to avoid taking shortcuts, increase the prosperity of the village, increase the livability of the village, expand farmland planting, and reproduce a large, healthy, and high-quality population.
At the same time, formulate reasonable plans for environmental development and protection.
Don't think that you can cut down trees at will just because this is an extremely dense primeval forest. It only took a few years for the Loess Plateau on Earth to turn from a large forest into a Gobi desert covered with yellow sand.
"We can't let a single incident throw the baby out with the bathwater. The wood monster tide every spring may be a fatal reminder. We must remember this. This is a long-term plan."
Late at night, Zhang Yang was thinking about these things after he woke up.
Environment, population, development, destruction, construction, survival, all factors must be taken into consideration.
"Perhaps the evil spirits that erupt every winter are the key. As long as I can capture enough ghosts, I can set up more Wood Demon Towers in the village. These Wood Demon Towers can slowly heal the body's hidden diseases, refresh the mind, and prolong life. At the same time, these Wood Demon Towers can also nurture more trees."
"We can't cut down all the trees just because we're worried about the wood monsters."
Over the next two days, the hunting team continued to move north, traveling about a hundred kilometers every day, but they hunted very few monsters.
It was not until noon on the fourth day that the hunting team finally hunted down a level 6 wild buffalo monster five or six hundred miles away from the village. This guy weighed five tons and was one of the monsters that everyone was most happy to see because they eat grass.
"What a pity. They are hunted too frequently. Such wild bull monsters usually cannot survive and reproduce. It's just luck that you can encounter them."
Ryan has extensive experience in outdoor wandering, so he personally prepared a sumptuous whole-beef feast for everyone.
Well, Zhang Yang turned off the plundering function of the village construction order. Now he no longer cares about the souls of these ordinary little demons.
Everyone was delighted after the meal. How could people survive without meat?
Just when everyone was eating with their bellies full and humming in the sun, Zhang Yang suddenly frowned, because just a few seconds ago, he sensed a kind of peeping, and it was very bold and greedy.
"It's interesting to see so many of us still showing greedy thoughts. This is not a good intention."
Zhang Yang did not alert everyone and allowed everyone to joke with each other and say some dirty words. The atmosphere was so happy that it seemed like they were on a picnic.
Half an hour later, the hunting party set out again, but the spy was still in intermittent pursuit.
When Zhang Yang informed Ryan of this, he was also surprised, and then he was pleasantly surprised, "Could there be a village nearby? Only villages and teams like Wu Yu can afford to raise little ghosts. Other than that, there is no way any monster can afford to raise little ghosts. But seeing our strength and scale, they still dare to covet and follow us, Lord, it seems that our delicious food can't wait any longer."
"Let's ignore it for now and keep going. According to the direction Wu Yu gave, we should be about to encounter another friendly village." Zhang Yang said calmly. If the peeper was a friendly force, then it could explain the situation.
As expected, in the evening, after Zhang Yang and his companions climbed over a mountain, they saw a village built in the opposite valley from afar.
There is curling smoke from cooking fires, scattered houses and rows of farmland. It is obvious that the area is well developed.
"Strange, this is not right. If it was the little ghost from this village, it would be impossible for them to continue peeping at this time. Moreover, the little ghost from this village came from the opposite side. The feeling of peeping was alert yet relaxed. It was obviously because we were all human."
Zhang Yang suddenly turned around, and the feeling of being followed all the way by voyeurism disappeared for some reason.
(End of this chapter)
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