Everything in the eastern forest looked perfectly normal, yet that very normality made Joey and the others feel that something was slightly off.
This was the Dark Continent!
Especially since this place was close to the Labyrinth City. Joey and the others had seen far too many experimental reports in the Archive.
And many of those experiments had been conducted near the Labyrinth City.
Whether it was the things in the lake or those in the western mountain range, they were all connected to the experiments.
How could there be no remnants of those experiments here in the eastern forest?
Besides, judging by the environment in this forest, it really did not seem like a place that could be ordinary.
Not only was it rich in resources, but its environment was also highly suited to the growth of living things.
The more normal this environment seemed, the more cautious Joey and the others became. None of them wanted to come to grief here.
But things often turned out this way. After three straight days of travel, whether by day or night, the worst they encountered in the forest were attacks from jackals, wolves, tigers, leopards, and the like.
Far from doing them any harm, these attacks merely provided extra food.
During that time, the Black Dragon passing overhead gave them a greater sense of danger instead.
Even after all these days of searching, that creature still had not given up scouring the surrounding area.
They had no idea whether it had found anything over the past few days.
As they continued through the forest, however, they gradually noticed a problem: the forest seemed far too vast.
At their pace, even if they could not cover a thousand li in three days, several hundred would have been easy.
Yet after all