"Wake up, Big Head, we are leaving..."
Because the body's loss of energy and blood has not yet recovered, Zhang Tie's biological clock automatically extended his sleep time in the past two days. Early the next morning, Zhang Tie was woken up by the dead fat man Barry, Zhang Tie When opened his eyes, he saw a hazy and slightly white sky. The last star in the east of the sky was still hanging there stubbornly. He slept with his head on the hard Stone under the sleeping bag all night and felt a little painful.
Seeing that the dead fat guys Barry and Doug were both awake, Zhang Tie also quickly got out of the sleeping bag and quickly packed his luggage. It was still dark, but the animals sleeping in the square had already gotten up one after another and began to greet the real Survival Trial.
"I just counted, more than ten groups of people have already gone down. It's the right time for us to go down!" Fatty Barry said while packing his luggage.
"You woke up early?" Zhang Tie rolled up his sleeping bag and glanced at Barry.
"Of course, I woke up early, and then I counted how many groups of people would go down first, letting those guys explore the way, and we followed behind. It's not good to be too late or too early."
This fat guy is so cunning. Zhang Tie praised the fat guy in his heart, but being a brother with this guy is a very reassuring thing.
Zhang Tie stood up and looked at the place where Gelis and the others slept in yesterday's memory. Sure enough, the four Gelis were gone. It seemed that they had gone down the mountain early. This trial was Gelis's last chance. This guy Gelis was probably more anxious to perform than anyone else at this time.
The seven people from Airplane Brotherhood quickly packed their bags, and then followed the dozen or so people in front of them to leave the square outside Wild Wolf Castle. From the castle square up and down to the bottom of the valley, there is a gravel-paved path, which is more than 200 meters long, winding down the mountain. When you get off the path, you will fall into the valley. There were two groups of people who came down with Zhang Tie and they parted ways with Zhang Tie and the others after they came down. From this moment on, to a certain extent, everyone is a competitor, because the more suitable places to live in the entire valley and the food available are limited. These things can only be obtained by luck and competition.
On the first day of Survival Trial, for everyone, finding a suitable place to stay became the first test in the trial.
In the wild, a suitable landing place must meet three conditions. One is that it is close enough to a clean water source, the other must be safe enough, and the third is that it is convenient for everyone to obtain enough food in the future.
The advantage of being close to the castle is that it is safe enough. There is a clean water source near the castle, but it is difficult to obtain enough food. Therefore, in previous trials, most people chose to base their base within one to seven kilometers from the castle. There are also some people with strong self-control or larger teams who will base their base farther.
Baghdad holding an ax opened the way in front, followed by Doug, followed by Barry and Zhang Tie, Sista and Shavin were behind Zhang Tie, and Light was at the end. Everyone took out their weapons, Xiao They cautiously walked into the valley. They couldn't be careful, because just after coming down from the path, Doug stepped on a pile of excrement left by an unknown beast. It looked like it was left just last night. When Doug cursed, everyone couldn't help but feel a shiver in their hearts. They reminded themselves again that this is Wild Wolf Valley, not Black Flame City.
After advancing two hundred meters in the valley, Shavin found a Water Leaf Willow, so he picked a few willow branches and let everyone chew them as a gargle. In the wild, everything should be kept simple. Early in the morning, the temperature in the valley was relatively low, and there was a thin layer of mist. There was some dew on the leaves and grass. After everyone walked in the valley for a while, half of their pants and clothes were already soaked.
There was an unnamed bird standing on the tree early in the morning and calling cooingly. The bird's call spread far in the valley, and there were echoes, making the valley seem more and more quiet at this moment.
Less than 500 meters into the valley, everyone encountered the first wolf they saw in this trial. The sound of Baghdad wielding an ax to clear the way alerted a wolf that was resting in the grass about 20 meters away. The wolf suddenly stood up from the grass, looked at everyone, and before everyone could react, turned around and quickly disappeared into the jungle.
This wolf made everyone involuntarily grasp the weapons in their hands.
After walking another kilometer, Zhang Tie they found a small river that was more than five meters wide and the water was so clear that you could see the pebbles and aquatic plants on the bottom of the river. There was a group of thin small fish swimming happily among the aquatic plants.
"I think we should follow the river and go deeper into the valley. It would be great if we find a suitable place to live by the river!" Baghdad suggested.
"Okay!" Everyone agreed. So everyone followed the river and went deep into the valley bottom. After going deeper for more than a mile, they passed by an abandoned mine. There were at least dozens of round caves around the mine. The two groups in front were ready to guard it. Doug asked strangely, "Why are there so many strange holes on those mountain walls?"
"I heard that Wild Wolf Valley had some Gold-Eating Python entrenched here before, and those holes were the holes Gold-Eating Python made for himself. Later, those Gold-Eating Python were killed, and those holes remained..." Shavin said.
"Gold-Eating Python's hole?" Doug asked with a face full of shock. Everyone looked at the round holes on the rock wall and ridge that were as small as one meter high and as thick as nearly three meters in diameter. They all swallowed hard. If If this hole basically matches the body of the gold-eating python, then how terrifying the gold-eating pythons entrenched here are, and how long they must be, is a question that makes people despair just thinking about it. Looking at those dark hole entrances, Zhang Tie also suddenly felt that his legs were a little weak.
"Of course, don't you know?" Shavin asked curiously.
"How did you know?" Light, whose face turned a little pale, asked Shavin,
"Look at the local chronicles of Black Flame City..." Shavin said matter-of-factly, "When Doug asked about those holes just now, I remembered that the local chronicles of Black Flame City that I had seen before seemed to record what happened here in Wild Wolf Valley. That was more than 30 years ago. At that time, in order to eliminate those entrenched villages, Here, it is said that the most powerful Gold-Eating Python has been around for thousands of years. The entire Blakerson Human Corridor was alarmed. After hearing the news, many masters rushed over from all directions. Later, with the cooperation of the army and many masters, they paid a huge price to kill the Gold-Eating Python entrenched here. Black Flame City is still here. A vein of iron ore and a high-quality crystal ore was discovered in the hole made by the python. Over the past few decades, the crystal ore has been mined almost completely, and now it has little value. The iron ore here was originally mined to some extent, but after Gelang Iron Mine was discovered, because of the high cost of mining here, the quality of the iron ore was not as good as Gelang Iron Mine. Okay, so several iron mines here have gradually been abandoned, which is why you can see so many abandoned mines in Wild Wolf Valley, and the number of wild wolves here only increased after Gold-Eating Python was killed and the ecological imbalance increased. Later, when I saw that there were many wild wolves here, I named this unknown place Wild Wolf Valley..."
Black Flame City's local chronicles, except Shavin, who in Airplane Brotherhood would be bored enough to read anything. Although Shavin was talking about something more than 30 years ago, it still makes everyone feel a little scared when they listen to it now.
"If those people hadn't killed all the gold-eating pythons back then and missed a small one..." Doug slapped his mouth.
With a grunt, all the animals took a gulp of saliva. Looking at those caves again, they wouldn't live there even if they were killed.
"I think we should not go too deep. If we go two kilometers further and don't meet the right one, we will go back and look for it..." Fatty Barry immediately said righteously.
Everyone nodded quickly, and even Baghdad didn't object. As long as they thought that there used to be a bunch of Giant Serpent Mercenary Corps and monsters that could reach hundreds of meters in length and even Stone could eat them, everyone felt that Wild Wolf Valley was inexplicably eerie.
Finally, after nearly four hours of searching, at noon, the seven people from Airplane Brotherhood finally found an unexpected landing place about 5 kilometers away from Wild Wolf Castle. It was a Dragon Claw Tree with a diameter of more than ten meters next to a small bamboo forest. I don't know if it is a mutant species after Great Cataclysm. Anyway, That Dragon Claw Tree is definitely the thickest and largest Dragon Claw Tree that anyone has ever seen. The whole tree of that Dragon Claw Tree is only more than 50 meters high. Its canopy is like a cloud, and several acres of ground are covered by it. When they found this place, everyone originally just wanted to come and take a rest, but they unexpectedly found that this giant tree with knots and tangles was more than four meters above the ground. People bent down to get into the tree hole. Baghdad climbed up and took a look. The space inside the tree hole was actually quite vast. It could easily accommodate three people. What's even more amazing was that looking at the appearance of the tree hole, it was clear that someone had lived there. It should have been lived by someone who had come here for a trial before. Now everyone was interested. They all climbed up to the huge Dragon Claw Tree to check it out. It was seven meters above the ground. A little further away, everyone found a natural hollow tree hole. However, the tree hole found at the back was much smaller than the previous one. It could barely accommodate one person and was a bit cramped. This Dragon Claw Tree still looked vigorous on the outside, but the wood in the center of the tree was rotten and dead, as if there were traces of being struck by lightning. In the tree hole, you can grab a lot of sawdust when you grab it.
"Why can't we transform this Dragon Claw Tree into a base that can accommodate seven of us?" Light's words sparked everyone's enthusiasm. The current tree hole seemed to be able to accommodate four people, and it seemed that it would not be troublesome to transform it again, so everyone just started to do it, and everyone started to take action.
The renovation plan is divided into two steps. The first step is to expand the space in the two tree holes as much as possible. Expand the first tree hole a little more. In addition to leaving enough space for four people to lie down, there must also be a place where everyone can stack their equipment and food. The second step is to expand the space in the two tree holes as much as possible. The amount of modification required for the first tree hole is larger. As long as the second tree hole is transformed into the size of the first tree hole, three people can sleep in the second tree hole by squeezing in. The base for Airplane Brotherhood seven people will be initially formed.
After expanding the internal space of the two tree holes, the second step of transformation can be carried out. The second step of transformation is to open up and connect the upper and lower spaces between the two tree holes, leaving an "n"-shaped passage and space between the two tree holes. In this n-shaped space, at least two or three people can sleep, so that no one will feel crowded.
Everyone has learned some basic carpentry skills in school. This job does not require any beauty or sophistication, just open your arms and do it.
Baghdad's ax and Zhang Tie and Light's multi-purpose Entrenching Tool saw sawdust flying as soon as it was swung. It only took more than two hours to complete the transformation of the first layer of tree holes.
Looking at the broken pieces of wood thrown from the tree hole, Barry cried out distressedly, "Ah, don't throw them away. These dried wood can be used for cooking. In the next few weeks, we will not have to worry about running out of firewood..."
Everyone laughed...