Chapter 23 What? My basket was taken away?!
The group walked out of the valley with hairy crabs, but as soon as they arrived at the entrance of the valley, they saw an incredible scene...
The originally dense flowers, plants and shrubs at the entrance of the valley actually disappeared, leaving only a scorched earth with blue smoke. There were more than twenty women lying in it, and their mounts were next to them. They were the members of the Red Moon Group that Zhao Qiankun had met before...
Seeing this scene, Jessica and others rushed up immediately. Fortunately, these team members were still alive, but their lips were chapped and their faces were sallow. They seemed to be seriously dehydrated, and they were about to turn into mummy states one step away...
Jessica immediately began to use healing spells, and Delphin, who was standing beside her, also began to use water magic to draw water from the river to drink for them, and at the same time released the fog warming technique to increase the humidity of the air and replenish the team members.
After working hard for a long time, everyone finally woke up. Jessica hurriedly asked: "What's wrong with you? What's going on?"
"We were entrusted by Mr. Zhao to come back to help him take care of the basket. But as soon as we left the valley, we saw a red-haired Dongmaster who was about to leave with the basket. Of course, we didn't agree. We chased after him and wanted to grab it back. However, when the old mage waved his hand, a flame wave came, and we didn't remember anything..."
"I'll bring you down with one move?" Jessica frowned: "Is it a great magician in the fire system?"
"It's not an ordinary great magician..." Zhao Qiankun raised his nose and sniffed: "The residual fire element in the air is very weak, and the plants and trees are burned to ashes. Such a large formation has no traces and does not hurt lives... This control is extraordinary!"
"That's right!" Delphin also agreed: "Especially on Qiongluo Island, I usually use thunder magic to be careful to ignite the fire and cause accidental injuries. He can directly use flame magic, and he can control it so well, and his realm is quite high!"
Zhao Qiankun nodded: "But what I wonder is, why are you snatching my basket with such a master?"
"What's in your basket?" Jessica asked.
"It's nothing..." Zhao Qiankun curled his lips: "It's just a bunch of mission items, the one who collects Tiger Peak eggs..."
"Did you do that mission?" Violet said in surprise: "It's more than 500 kilometers deep, only you two? How many eggs did you get?"
"Now, those are useless..." Xun Yiming coughed: "The key is how to find the guy who robs us of the spoils!"
"Well..." Lao Zhao touched the ashes on the ground: "The opponent worked flawlessly, and there was no trace left... But how could he, a mage, move a basket weighing more than ten tons? If he only knows fire magic, then moving heavy objects is nothing more than a fire element messenger... But the dry basket burns when it encounters fire, and other element messengers are not like it, because there are no footprints left nearby... Then I guess he is probably proficient in ventilation magic and is supported by airflow..."
"It's indeed very likely..." Jessica said curiously: "Even if she knows that her opponent is proficient in ventilation magic, how can she find him?"
"By the nose!" Zhao Qiankun smiled and pinched his nose: "My sense of smell is very sensitive. The larvae in the basket are wrapped in thick honey, and you can catch up with the smell of honey!"
This is not something Zhao Qiankun said randomly. His skin and flesh are made of Taotie. He is the ancestor of foodies. Not only does he have a large appetite, but he also has a very sensitive sense of smell, which makes it easier to discover food. Zhao Qiankun naturally inherited this!
"Can't you smell it now?" Violet frowned and said, "Just just smell it, let's go. What's the matter with wind magic?"
"I can't smell it now..." Zhao Qiankun shook his head. "The smells nearby are covered by the burnt smell, but they are out of the burnt range and there is no smell of honey. But if the other party is a Wind Magician, it makes sense..."
As he said that, Zhao Qiankun smiled at Violet: "Do you know what the wind division's ** teacher has one thing in common?"
Violey took a step back and shook her head. For some reason, Zhao Qiankun's smile made her spine a little cold, as if it evoked a memory deep in her heart that was unbearable to look back on... Strange, I must have never seen this face before, why was I instinctively afraid?
"That's that they don't like to walk well!" Zhao Qiankun smiled and said, "The advanced wind magician has a magical skill and flying magic! Who can walk if you can fly? Besides, the mountain roads here are rugged and grassy, so the mage probably flew away with my basket! So there is no smell on the ground, but if it is a little higher..." As he said that, he suddenly rushed up, stuck in the air for dozens of meters, lifted his nose and took a deep breath, and then fell down again.
"The smell of wood ash at this height is still too strong, it should be a little higher..." As soon as he finished speaking, he jumped nearly a hundred meters and sucked hard again...
"On there!" Old Zhao smelled a faint sweetness in the air, which was coming from the north! He hurriedly used the floating cloud skills, pulled the giant trees in the north from the air, flew over with his body, climbed on it, and sniffed it with his nose.
"It's this direction!"
Seeing that he found it, Jessica shouted: "Zhao Qiankun, please wait, let's go with you!"
"You are too slow! When you are waiting for you, the smell will disappear!" Zhao Qiankun and others had already disappeared in the forest: "You go back to Tianqiong City first, I can handle it myself!"
"He said it is reasonable!" Xun Yiming also advised: "Ladies, you are now in a state of being trapped and injured, and you can't help even if you go. I'll take you back. Although I'm not willing to admit it, that guy is stronger than me!"
The few people were surprised when they heard this. Xun Yiming fought with hairy crabs alone and they all saw it. Although he was better than his skills and mind, he looked at him with ease and could be called a top expert! And the unreliable Zhao Qiankun actually made such a master feel at a disadvantage?
"You go back first, I'll follow him!" Jueying spoke, but she saw her pulling up a pair of iron legs and soaring into the air, turning into a red light and chasing Zhao Qiankun, without giving anyone else a chance to stop him...
Everyone was helpless and couldn't catch up even if they wanted to. Moreover, the current condition was really bad. There were still many wounded people who could not delay. They could only listen to Xun Yiming, pack up their luggage, organize their teams, and rush to the direction of Tianqiong City first...
But Jueying leaned on her pair of iron legs and jumped like lightning among the giant trees. Soon, she saw Zhao Qiankun holding a piece of bark and raising her nose to confirm the direction.
Jueying rushed over, but before she could land on the bark, she saw Zhao Qiankun pulling back and an invisible force came, which actually locked her in the air!
It was this power, Jueying's eyebrows were slightly clumped. When she was about to be pushed by Cancer on the rock wall, it was this power that pulled her away. When she came to her senses, she was in the man's arms... It turned out that he saved herself!
Jueying opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but saw Zhao Qiankun put his finger in front of her mouth, making a move to silence, and focused on looking forward...
Jueying looked along Zhao Qiankun's sight, but saw nothing, just a few giant trees grew in the rugged mountains. It was no different from other places...
"What are you looking at?" Jueying landed gently on the trunk of the tree, her heels nailed to the bark, walked to Zhao Qiankun and asked quietly.
Zhao Qiankun raised his hand and swept over the five trees in front of him: "Don't you think these trees are a bit unusual?"
"Not ordinary?" Jueying squinted his eyes and looked at the five trees. The trunks were all straight, but there were countless such giant trees in the jungle. What's special about it?
Seeing Jueying with confusion, Zhao Qiankun explained: "These five trees form a standard regular pentagon!"
After he reminded him, Jueying looked carefully and found it true! These trees are about 30 meters in diameter, about 300 meters apart, and they are really a standard regular pentagon. However, the terrain where their roots are located is different. If it is difficult to see the shape of the pentagon from the ground, it is really not easy for Zhao Qiankun to find out.
"Pentagon? What does this mean?" Jueying asked curiously.
"It means that there is a very likely human intervention!" Zhao Qiankun's nose moved: "The smell is broken here. If we chased him here, it proves that the other party did not deliberately hide the smell. If he is broken here, it means that he should have entered a certain area that can isolate the smell..."
As he said that, he picked a piece of bark and threw it out to the area between the five trees. With the technique of picking leaves and flying flowers, the bark penetrated diagonally without any obstacles.
"Isn't it an illusion... Is it a sub-space?" Zhao Qiankun frowned: "It's a pity that my Doomsday Flame Demon's skin was lost. This Taotie has no talent for space magic..."
"What did you say?" Jueying couldn't hear Zhao Qiankun's mutter clearly. Old Zhao waved his hand and said, "It's okay, I suspect that there is the old mage's nest hidden among these five trees!"
"Hidden nest?" Jueying looked around: "You mean the magic barrier? It's like the one in Tianqiu City?"
"Not that kind, it's a different space..." Zhao Qiankun was stunned when he said halfway, and then a smile appeared on his face: "Yes, you reminded me that this place should be the same as Tianqiong City!"
Jueying tilted her head, not knowing what this guy was laughing at.
Subspace magic is naturally different from the defensive magic of Tianqiong City, but Jueying's words reminded Zhao Qiankun of a common point between the two!
That is, when opening and closing the door, a lot of energy is consumed. Therefore, if there are no special requirements, in order to save energy, this subspace usually has a normally open back door!
Of course, the Haina Cave Heaven that Zhao Qiankun encountered before was different. It was to imprison monsters. Even if it was troublesome and increased energy consumption, it would not leave a door that could be opened for a long time.
As for the polar castle, before the King Kong Skeleton went wild, in order to facilitate the mages to enter and exit, the main entrance of the castle could also connect to the outside world without barriers, but it was not visible from the outside. However, later the skeleton went wild. In order not to allow the monster to escape, the mage changed the settings while dying, closed all exits and completely isolated them from the outside world.
If there is really a hidden subspace in front of you, there is a door that is always open, just like the wallless gate of Tianqiu City, which will only be closed at night or when no one is there. After all, this place is rarely visited, even if it is open, at most some flying insects and the like will be accidentally broken in...
"The smell will be broken here. If there is really an entrance, then it's nearby..." As he said that, Zhao Qiankun raised his hand and said to Jue Ying: "Get back..."
Jueying didn't know what he was going to do, but she took two steps back and used the tree trunk as a cover.
However, Zhao Qiankun raised his hand, which actually condensed a high concentration of fire elements. With a click, a huge fire cloud burst out and instantly filled the nearby space hundreds of meters!
"Fire Magic?!" Jueying widened her eyes in surprise. She only heard that Zhao Qiankun was a powerful warrior, but she didn't expect that his fire magic was so exquisite!
Look at the fire cloud, blooming brilliantly in the high oxygen environment of the island, with fiery red everywhere, but in the middle, another small gap, like a whirlpool, absorbing the nearby fire elements...
"It's there!" Zhao Qiankun was happy, raised his hand to disperse the fire clouds, and his feet jumped towards the gap. When he approached, he disappeared, as if he was swallowed by the void...
Then, the place where he disappeared seemed to have been thrown into the water, and the space was rippling...
"Absent?" Jueying frowned and rushed over, but when he arrived at the position, nothing happened and walked through without any obstacles.
After landing, Jueying frowned: "Is it because the location was not right?" She rushed up again, following the memory to follow Zhao Qiankun, but no matter what, she could not find the crack in the space.
As for Zhao Qiankun, the moment he rushed into the space gate, he felt the scenery in front of him suddenly change. The empty space between the five trees suddenly had a floating wooden palace out of thin air, and there was a 100-meter-high tower in the center, which was very majestic!
No, it's not suspended. The base of the building complex is made of logs and is paved with wooden boards to form a regular pentagonal floor. The pentagonal pentagonal corners are fixed on the trunks of the five giant trees, about forty or fifty meters high from the ground. Against the backdrop of the giant trees, the palace that should have been very majestic actually looks like a miniature landscape.
"It's more than this..." Zhao Qiankun stood up and looked around. He saw that the surrounding jungle and the ground at his feet were completely different from those outside!
When he chased after him, the five trees were empty, with only some weeds and few creatures, but now it looks like the trees are covered with large patches of dense grass, almost touching the floor of the wooden palace, and various insects are flying from it, mostly strange shapes and cannot be called names; looking up, there are also various strange insects flying above the branches and canopies...
"That's..." Zhao Qiankun's eyes suddenly moved, and a huge moth was lying on the trunk of the tree. It was the iron armor beheading moth that had appeared near Tianqiong City before and was slapped to death by his big hands!
Zhao Qiankun couldn't help but squint his eyes, "Why are there any here..." As he said that, he turned his head and saw an orange sea of flowers on the other side, which looked very familiar...
At this moment, a burst fireball suddenly shot from the palace! Zhao Qiankun raised his hand and threw it out. Two concentrated fireballs collided in the air, and a loud noise suddenly burst out. The shock wave made the branches sway and the grass and trees flew...
"I didn't expect that this Qiongluo Island and someone with such a high attainment in Fire Magic! It's just that I'm open to my eyes!"
Chapter completed!