Chapter 1014: The Cursed World(1/2)
How fast can a person travel in a primeval forest without satellite positioning, the compass loses its function and visibility in the polar regions?
The answer is that no more than three kilometers per hour.
Moreover, due to the need to bear weight, few people who rarely engage in heavy physical labor feel very difficult.
Since Allen deliberately did not give any help to the members of the team, they had to sit down and rest for a while every time they walked.
In addition, I had encountered a large number of monsters before and the dark and cold environment around me, which made everyone's mental state very nervous, with a hint of frustration and despair.
In particular, Leo Fitz and Jenma Simmons, two logistics scientists, were basically unable to provide any support to the team after losing advanced equipment and electronic instruments.
If Allen hadn't had a calm expression on his face, some people would have begun to collapse.
After all, no one knows how long they will stay in this crisis-ridden world.
I don’t know how I can survive once I have finished eating the water and food I carry with me, or consumed with silver-plated bullets.
A strong sense of crisis is like a demon, constantly devouring everyone's heart.
Especially Colson, who is in charge of leading the team, knows very well that the longer the time passes, the less control he has over this team that has just been pieced together.
In the end, maybe there will be a tragedy of killing each other because of the competition for food, drinking water and ammunition.
So after walking through for about ten hours in a row, he finally came to Allen quietly while others were resting silently, lowered his voice and asked, "How far is we from the castle and village in the photo?"
"It will take about four or five hours to walk." Allen gave the answer calmly.
Needless to ask, you will know that no matter those monsters or the strange environment here, it will not affect him even a slight impact.
"Then what do you think will be waiting for us in villages and castles? More, more terrifying monsters, or humans like us?" Colson continued to ask.
Allen chuckled and shook his head: "I don't know! No matter what is waiting for us, it doesn't matter. Anyway, for you SHIELD, just find the cause that causes the two worlds and solve it?"
"That's right. I hope everything goes well." Colson sighed helplessly.
Since he chose to come in with a slight disagreement, he has actually been ready to die here.
To be precise, most S.H.E.L.D. agents have similar awareness when executing dangerous characters.
After all, the coward had been scared away after seeing the high death rate and missing persons of field agents.
Just as everyone was sitting together drinking water and resting silently, a deafening roar suddenly came from the distance.
"roar!!!!!!!!"
The next second...
A dazzling fire light emerged from a place one or two hundred meters away.
I saw a giant with a body that was thirteen or fourteen meters long and its wings were enough to cover the roof of a house, dived from the sky at an extremely fast speed and spewed out hot flames at the ground.
Through these flames that emit hot and high temperatures, you can vaguely see a few figures moving along the woods and dodging each other in a language that no one understands.
One of the women wearing leather armor even jumped deep into the treetops, pulled their bows and arrows to aim at the creature that looked like a dragon, and shot a fatal arrow.
Whoosh!
No surprises!
The arrow directly pierced the giant beast's eyes, and a large amount of dark green juice gushed out of the eyeballs.
All the stained trees and plants immediately made a harsh sizzling sound.
Obviously, these dark green juices contain extremely acidic properties.
In the blink of an eye, a tree with a foot thickness of a thigh was corroded and broken into two pieces.
The broken mouth also emits a pungent stench.
"Oh my god! Then...what is that?" Skye jumped up from the ground like a conditioned reflex, holding the gun in his hand tightly.
"It looks like some kind of flying dragon?" Grant Ward's tone was filled with a strong uncertainty.
As the main combat power in the squad, he has replaced the rifle in his hand with a more amazing shotgun.
After all, in this environment with extremely low visibility, the melee weapon shotgun is much more useful than pistols, submachine guns, and rifles.
Even a top predator like bears and tigers will be seriously injured or killed on the spot if he eats a shotgun in front.
"Be ready for battle! They seem to be coming to us!" Melinda reminded with a nervous look on her face.
Just as the few people were talking, Feilong, who had lost one eye, finally began to go crazy because of the pain, and unscrupulously vented his anger to the surroundings.
It took only about two or three minutes to ignite the entire forest.
Five unknown locals were swallowed up by the fire that was sprayed out and screamed in a terrifying scream.
The only woman holding a bow and arrow with her life escaped by chance. She didn't care about anything else, but just ran forward desperately with her long legs.
But Feilong didn't want to let go of the enemy who had blinded one of his eyes easily. He suddenly spread his wings and chased him all the way, and opened his bloody mouth again.
The moment the orange-red fire lights up from his throat again, Alan, who had been standing still without moving, finally took action.
His whole body turned into a shadow, rushed to the front at a speed that was lightning speed, and smashed his fist hard.
boom!!!!!!
Under the influence of terrifying power, the flying dragon had no chance to react, and its entire head exploded like a broken rotten watermelon on the spot.
Then, the huge body fell from mid-air, directly crushing a large area of trees.
When the female archer who was already running for life saw this scene, she didn't know whether she was scared or was shocked to speak. She stood there stupidly, letting blood flow into the sky and blood rain on her body.
"Hello!"
Alan stood on the dragon's back and greeted him with a smile on his face as a native.
By absorbing the souls of the dead and unlucky guys just now, he not only mastered the language of this world, but also gained a rough understanding of the situation in the surrounding areas.
As expected, this is not the earth, but an independent world or subspace.
In this place, there is no concept of day or night.
The sky will always remain in this gray state, and there will be no changes in the climate and temperature.
Due to the limitations of the environment, technology level and endless monsters, no one knows how big it is, nor how many people live in it.
The only thing I know is that Fort Edmir and its subordinate villages are the largest gathering place for humans within a radius of hundreds of kilometers, and there are about tens of thousands of families living in it.
As for monsters, they are divided into two types.
One is a beast like a flying dragon that can be damaged by ordinary weapons, which usually lives in forests that are rarely visited. As long as humans do not break into their territory, they are usually not attacked.
Another type is a cursed creature that can only be killed by silver-plated weapons.
The latter is also called a natural disaster, and it launches attacks on the places where humans gather at any time.
No one knows when they were born, but only that any living animal that was killed by a cursed creature will eventually become a member of the cursed creature.
Any gathering place where humans cannot resist will be slaughtered by cursed creatures without exception.
Simply put, the main theme of this world is the war between humans and cursed creatures that have been fighting for the right to survive for thousands of years.
"You...who are you?" asked the female archer in a slightly trembling voice.
"Me? I'm a traveler..."
Before Alan could finish his words, the female archer fainted.
Because the high-speed running and the battle with life hanging on the line just now consumed too much of her physical strength.
In addition, after escaping from death, my mind suddenly relaxed, and my body's self-protection mechanism was finally activated.
"Human?"
Seeing the dark-haired woman who was in a coma on the ground, Skye showed ecstasy on her face.
Before this, she had been worried that this place would be completely occupied by terrible monsters, and there was no trace of human existence at all.
"Just from the appearance, it should be humans. But from the genetic level, I think there should be a big difference between her and the earthlings. Especially the eyes! In such a dark environment, they should generally have night vision."
As he said that, Allen jumped off Feilong's back and opened a small bottle of water and poured it directly on the other person's face without any mercy.
In less than a second, the female archer woke up again by the cold water.
She first turned over and leaned against the tree trunk, and pulled out the short sword at her waist, staring at the team under S.H.E.L.D. with a look of alertness.
After a full minute, he spoke and asked, "Who are you?"
"What is she talking about?" Colson subconsciously pulled the trigger with his fingers.
"She was asking who we were, and she was very, very nervous." Allen replied with interest.
There is no doubt that the strange situation in this world attracted his interest.
Because from the perspective of magic, such a terrible curse that can affect a world is of considerable value for investigation and research.
"Mei! Give her an energy bar." Colson ordered without looking back.
Without saying a word, Melinda immediately took out a high-sugar, high-salt, and high-calorie energy bar from her backpack, then tore open the packaging and handed it to the other party.
Allen said to the female archer who was very suspicious in local language: "This is food, which can help you quickly replenish your energy. Eat it, we have no malice. Otherwise, just just watch you be burned to death by that flying dragon."
"You won't arrest me and sell it to those slave traders?"
To be continued...