Electromagnetic Tyrant

Chapter 38 The Forest Patrol Tribe

 Midnight.

Ji Xinghuo woke up on time, glanced at the mechanical watch, and realized that he had slept for six hours.

 The star realm has entered the "middle month", which is the fifth month of the hot season and the middle month of this season. On the 18th day of the middle moon, the length of the starry night and the dark night will be equal, 12.4 hours each. After that day, the starry night will be longer than the dark night, and the weather will get hotter and hotter.

Ren Mian was sitting at the door of the tent, eyes slightly closed, as if he hadn't moved for several hours.

Ji Xinghuo sat up. This small movement immediately aroused her alertness. She opened her eyes and looked over.

 The two made eye contact in the darkness.

Ren Mian stood up and made way for her. Ji Xinghuo went to take her place and sat on the still warm straw mat. He watched her get into a sleeping bag next to Jiangnan Caiyi and fell asleep in less than half a minute.

Ji Xinghuo looked away.

 He also closed his eyes slightly, but he felt no sleepiness and was full of energy. The magnetic field induction extends outward instantly, and all movements within a range of 350 meters are mapped in the mind.

 It is very quiet in the mountain col.

The chirping of insects sounded from time to time, making the dark surroundings even more profound.

Occasionally, if a wild animal passes by, it will not find the tent hidden in the thorn bushes. If it accidentally approaches, it will be driven away by the smell of animal repellent grass.

Ji Xinghuo was bored and opened the interface of Vientiane Star Pupil. After thinking for a moment, he put all the 15 points of spiritual energy obtained today into the "rotating magnetic field".

 The upgrade progress becomes 117/359.

It is still far from being upgraded to Level 2, and the strengthening effect on the body is not very obvious, but the range of magnetic field induction is expanded by nearly ten meters.

Given his current position in the team, the stronger the perception, the better, and the safer everyone will be.

  Ji Xinghuo’s calculation.

 When the level one progress of the rotating magnetic field reaches full level, the magnetic field induction distance should be about 500 meters.

 This is a safe enough distance that even a legendary ranger would find it difficult to launch a fatal attack on a target 500 meters away.

As for enemies above legendary level, if you really encounter them, it doesn’t matter whether you can sense them or not.

 The night vigil is the most difficult.

However, Ji Xinghuo is very determined and maintains a relatively high level of concentration. In the past six hours, monsters had entered the range of the magnetic field induction, but they did not approach the tent, so he did not alert his teammates and allowed the monsters to leave.

 At dawn, the teammates all woke up.

Jiannan Caiyi heated up the remaining spider leg meat from last night and served it as breakfast for everyone. After adding some water, the team continued on their way.

 Before leaving the camp, Ren Mian removed the plant protection outside the tent, recovered seeds and samples, and restored the place to its original state.

 All the way to the west.

By noon, the team had advanced more than 70 kilometers.

The few battles we encountered were not too fierce. We harvested two alien species, but only one was high-quality, worth about 100,000 Asian dollars.

Ji Xinghuo felt a little strange after walking a long way in the afternoon. He never encountered any monsters, and there were even fewer wild beasts.

“Sister Ren, have we entered the territory of some powerful monster?” he asked in a low voice.

 “Probably not.”

Ren Mian took out a map. The drawing was very rough, but there were crosses in several places with eye-catching red pens, indicating dangerous restricted areas.

"We are not in the danger zone, and the nearest one is far away." She studied it carefully and confirmed again, "Either we are unlucky and just didn't encounter it, or there is a settlement of alien races from the star realm nearby, or there are A tribe.”

Ji Xinghuo asked: "Is there a star alien race to the west of the Free City?"

“Of course there is.” Chi Zhonglin laughed, “There is no place in the star realm where there are no alien races. There are dozens of races in the Thousand Peaks Abyss Forest alone, and they are all nominally vassals of the Tianyu Royal Court.”

Ren Mian reminded: "Most alien races can communicate, but you can't let down your guard and don't approach easily. Because the few alien races that can't communicate are sometimes more dangerous than monsters. You don't know if they are hostile. "

 She listed some alien races in the astral world and described in detail the abilities and customs of these alien races.

 “I remember.” Ji Xinghuo nodded.

 Along the way, his teammates often imparted hunting experience and astral knowledge to him.

 Most of the time it was Ren Mian who was talking, and she had a very deep understanding of the astral realm.

Chi Zhonglin and Jiangnan Caiyi have been in the star world for several years, but they know that they are very different from Ren Mian, and they often have to listen carefully.

 Ji Xinghuo has a very good memory and has basically remembered everything.

 In fact, before entering the astral realm, Ji Xinghuo learned a lot of alien knowledge. His university major was Astral Language, and the three alien languages ​​came with related courses. Language is the best window to understand a race or a civilization.

 In this regard, his foundation is better than most people, and he can understand it with just one point.

 When the starry night approaches.

Ji Xinghuo suddenly stopped and whispered: "Someone is approaching, not a monster." After carefully identifying them, he added: "Three forest rangers."

There are indeed foreign tribes nearby.

Ren Mian was not surprised and asked: "Can you tell which clan branch it is?"

“No.” Ji Xinghuo shook his head.

 Magnetic field induction has no color, and you cannot see pictures. The image in your mind is very abstract. You can only identify your identity through the shape of the magnetic field, and judge your strength through the strength of the magnetic field.

His expression changed slightly, "These three forest rangers have discovered us and are coming towards us."

   “Let's avoid it.”    Ren Mian does not want to conflict with foreigners, which may cause a lot of trouble.

"They are moving very fast, I'm afraid they can't be avoided." Ji Xinghuo felt that the attackers were evil, so he already held the compound bow in his hand, took out the arrow and put it on.

The sound of rapid footsteps came from the front, like the intensive stamping of horse hooves.

“Get ready.” Ren Mian put his hand on his belt. Chi Zhonglin put down his backpack and stood in front of the team with a gun. Jiangnan Caiyi’s figure disappeared into the air.

Soon, three tall figures rushed out of the dense forest.

Their upper bodies are similar to humans, but their lower bodies are like artiodactyls, like horses and deers, with huge black hooves, extremely strong bodies wearing leather armor, protruding faces, huge nostrils, and a pair of thorns on both sides of their heads. The bifurcated black horns and round eyes reveal a primitive and ferocious gaze.

The leader is obviously a male. His head is more than two and a half meters above the ground. His bare chest is extremely strong. His legs are as thick as pillars. He holds a huge spear in his hand and carries a bundle of javelins on his back.

The two people beside him have female features, their bodies are smaller and more flexible, but they are also close to two meters tall, and each holds a heavy long bow.

 They all have blood-red tattoos on their skin, all over their bodies.

 “Forest Rangers!”

Ji Xinghuo thought to himself.

The forest rangers are very common in the star realm and are considered a very large race. They live in the forest and call themselves the masters of the forest.

 Overall, the talents of the rangers are average among the alien races in the astral world, and their intelligence is also relatively high.

However, the Forest Patrol Tribe is a race dominated by belief. The differences in beliefs make the good and evil tendencies of different Patrol Tribe tribes completely opposite.

Some forest rangers respect nature and are hospitable.

Some rangers are ferocious and violent, hostile to all outsiders who enter their territory, like uncivilized wild beasts.

 Ren Mian has activated the "Thinking Necklace", and her voice rang in her head: "I have never seen this clan, try to communicate first."

“I don’t know the language of the Patrolling Clan.” Ji Xinghuo replied, “But maybe they can understand the Celestial Clan language, let me try.”

 Tianyu Royal Court As the ruler of Qianfeng Yuanlin, the words of the Tian clan should have weight.

 “Everyone…”

As soon as Ji Xinghuo opened his mouth, the male ranger on the opposite side suddenly let out a roar, sprinted with all four hooves, quickly pulled out a javelin and threw it towards him.

 The other two female rangers also shot arrows.

"what's the situation…"

Ji Xinghuo was confused and didn't know where he had offended the other party.

 But his reaction was not slow at all, and the arrows on the compound bow were shot out almost at the same time.

Green light bloomed in Ren Mian's hand, and a group of dry leaves instantly unfolded, forming a green lotus leaf about two meters in diameter, like a round shield blocking himself and Ji Xinghuo.

 And the scales in the pool have already rushed out.

 Poof!

 The javelin pierced the "Shield Lotus" and penetrated the lotus leaf, but was stuck on it. Two thick arrows were also blocked by lotus leaves.

 At the same time, a female ranger screamed.

"ah…"

 A willow leaf arrow pierced her eye and pierced her head, and she fell to the ground in an instant.

When the remaining female ranger saw Ji Xinghuo draw another arrow and aim it at her, her eyes suddenly showed panic. She stared at Ji Xinghuo's compound bow and tried to dodge the arrow, but she was completely unaware of a transparent arrow. The figure has circled behind him.

 Jiangnan Caiyi suddenly appeared, her samurai sword flashed past, and she beheaded the unsuspecting enemy with one blow.

With one encounter, two of the rangers died.

The leading male had no time to rescue him. The death of his clansman only aroused his ferocity, and he slammed into the oncoming pond scales.

 “Hoo!”

Chi Zhonglin's body swelled to the same height as the forest rangers, his arm muscles exploded, and he struck the opponent's spear without any pretense.

  The advantages of the lava gun are immediately apparent.

The ranger's spear broke with a sound, and a searing force penetrated along his arm and into his body. He opened his mouth and spat out a large mouthful of blood.

Chi Zhonglin turned the tip of his spear, taking advantage of the enemy's inability to defend, and shot it into the heart.

 The gun exploded with energy, and his chest exploded.

Chi Zhonglin pulled out his spear, and the blood stained on it was burned dry in the blink of an eye. He immediately withdrew without even looking at the enemy's corpse.

"Walk."

Ren Mian did not hesitate and asked his teammates to leave immediately.

Chi Zhonglin carried his luggage with a spear and ran at the front. Ji Xinghuo and Jiangnan Caiyi followed. Ren Mian who was behind threw a black flower on the ground.

The black flower fell to the ground and took root. The roots spread quickly and swallowed up all the plants it came into contact with. Whether it was flowers, grass, shrubs or big trees, they were all eaten up and converted into nutrients, creating a liquid-like blanket.

The dark fungus carpet covered a hundred meters and ate the corpses of three forest rangers, digesting them completely.

In less than ten minutes, this area of ​​trees turned into a pool of black water.

A moment later, a group of forest rangers arrived here. Looking at the empty black ground, their faces were full of fear and anger, but they were also very confused.

 (End of this chapter)