area51novel Chapter 84 Life on Earth
Chapter 84 Life on Earth
"This is what it feels like to have your feet on the ground." The moment he stepped onto the earth, a completely different feeling arose involuntarily in Luo Ang's heart—a feeling called peace!
Both being wizards, if Scarlet Wizards have awe of the continent because of her experiences, then Loon has awe of the sea because of his experiences as well.
This sense of awe is actually quite reasonable.
Think about what Loen went through.
Full of hope, I stepped into the stormy seas to seek the path of a wizard—but once inside, I became the very material that was delivered to my door, and was imprisoned for three years.
Then, taking advantage of the terrain in the sea, he tricked and killed a dark wizard.
This made Loon even more wary of the sea.
Even though he had learned underwater breathing techniques, which allowed him to breathe underwater, exempt him from certain water pressure, and had levitation techniques that allowed him to escape gravity and use aquatic creatures to help him survive... he still held the sea in awe.
But it's different on the mainland.
Putting aside other factors, the stability of the continental environment and ecosystem alone far surpasses that of the ever-changing sea.
It was already late autumn, and winter was just around the corner. While at sea, the change in climate was not yet noticeable.
But now that he has stepped ashore, Luo Ang clearly sensed the climate change between autumn and winter.
With each step, the wild grass beneath your feet makes a chaotic sound, and the thin ice hidden among the grass is crushed to pieces.
A chill seemed to creep up the shoes and spread through the body.
Looking up from my feet, the distant mountains and the intermingling yellow and green hues of the forests came into clear view.
Strange to say.
When he was on the boat, Luo Ang looked at the mountains and forests, but he could only see the outline of the mountains and forests and could not see the details of the mountains and forests.
Stepping from the boat onto the shore, a distance of only a dozen meters, feels like crossing a barrier between worlds.
Under the same field of vision, the blurred outline of the mountains and forests suddenly shattered, and all sorts of details rushed towards us in an instant.
A thin, almost transparent layer of ice covered the withered grass and spread into the mountains and forests, connecting the withered grass, tree trunks, branches and even leaves into one piece.
On the ice slab, even the veins of the grass, trees, and leaves were clearly imprinted.
Just by looking at these thin sheets of ice, one can tell that although the vegetation in this mountain forest is lush, its vitality is not strong enough.
Otherwise, the small animals in the mountains would have crushed and melted this thin ice long ago.
Loon led the Crimson Wizard slowly into the forest—as they got closer, Loon could clearly see that the thin ice between some branches had been broken by bird claws.
But all around was quiet, and there was no sound of birds at all.
Loon and the Crimson Wizard walked one after the other through the forest, neither of them making a sound. The only sounds in the forest were the rhythmic sounds of their footsteps breaking through the dry grass and cracking the thin ice.
Occasionally, a few cold winds would sweep by, only to be stopped by the mountains and forests.
As the two ventured deeper into the mountains and forests, the light grew dimmer, and the life force hidden within gradually became apparent.
Whether it was because the outside wind was blocked and carried away the heat from the depths, or because the life in the depths of the mountains and forests was gradually becoming active and the thin ice was being crushed... in any case, there was no thin ice that could be seen everywhere outside in the depths of the mountains and forests.
A few bird calls gradually reached Loon's ears.
Occasionally, there is the rustling sound of wings suddenly flapping, or the sound of birds straining between branches, causing the branches to sway up and down, and the leaves on the branches rubbing and pattering against each other.
It was the sound of birds that had been perched in a place they hadn't noticed being startled and then flying away.
As time went on, the chattering became more and more obvious and increasingly chaotic.
—This mountain forest is truly a place rarely visited by humans; the birds in the forest have no fear or wariness of humans.
After darting away for a while, the birds curiously landed around Luo Ang and his companions, hopping and skipping on the branches, following them closely.
Yellow-billed dove.
Pearl bird.
White-feathered raven.
Barefoot Oriole...
Various birds familiar to Luo Ang appeared before his eyes.
Surrounded and chirping among these birds, the Scarlet Wizard's fear of the continent seemed to dissipate somewhat.
Loon, who was leading the way, did not turn around, but carefully listened to the rhythm of the Scarlet Wizard's steps, the weight of her steps, and felt the hesitation gradually disappearing in her steps.
Then, following the rhythm of the Crimson Wizard's steps, they casually changed directions in the mountains and forests.
Suddenly, the Crimson Wizard stopped in his tracks, and Loon's raised foot also stopped in mid-air.
To their left, a bush that hadn't yet fully turned yellow swayed gently a few times, and then a small head peeked out from it, cautiously watching Loon and the Crimson Wizard.
It was a fawn whose antlers hadn't grown out yet.
He looked at Loen and the Scarlet Wizard with bright, curious, and intelligent eyes.
It was this little deer that made the Scarlet Wizard stop in his tracks.
After a few more breaths, the fawn seemed to realize that Luo Ang and the others were watching it. It suddenly stood up, turned around, and leaped deeper into the forest.
But after a dozen or so breaths, the little deer jumped back in front of Luo Ang and the others, continuing to look at them curiously.
Then they gradually moved closer to where Luo Ang and the others were.
Take two steps forward, then one step back.
Take two steps forward, then one step back...
It looks exactly like a silly roe deer from Northeast China in its previous life.
Just as the roe deer was about to reach Luo Ang and his companions, a wolf howl suddenly rang out.
Immediately following was a series of intermittent whistling sounds in response, each with a different rhythm.
Wolf pack in the mountains!
Now Luo Ang finally understood why there were no people in the mountains and forests.
The reason is this—there are wolves in these mountains and forests.
In the forest ecosystem, the forest wolf can only be considered a medium-sized entity.
If prepared, even a farmer can deal with a mountain wolf—and a trained soldier would find it even easier.
In the mountains and forests, the true kings are the tiger, the bear, and the leopard.
The tiger is a combination of strength and agility.
The bear is a combination of strength and vitality.
And the leopard represents the pinnacle of agility.
To deal with these three kings, even trained soldiers must be fully armored and form ranks—and even then, they will still suffer casualties before they can defeat them.
Only those knights could face bears and tigers alone in the mountains and forests.
However, once mountain wolves form a pack, their position in the forest's food chain will immediately leap forward, making them the top predators in the forest.
Even bears and tigers will retreat when wolf packs form in the mountains, choosing to leave and find a new territory.
Once a pack of wolves has formed, it may even actively harass villages or smaller towns.
Luo Ang clearly remembered that when he was eight years old, a wolf plague occurred in his family's territory—a pack of more than thirty mountain wolves invaded their family's territory.
His father organized a militia led by three knights to wipe out the wolf pack.
Unable to endure the exhaustion caused by prolonged delays with the wolf pack in the mountains, they took the initiative to invade the forest.
Although the wolf pack was eventually wiped out, a knight and twelve militiamen were killed in the battle.
The terrifying nature of wolf packs in the mountains and forests is unimaginable.
Since a wolf pack has already formed in this mountain forest, it is only natural that there are no human traces.
"I just don't know how big the wolf pack is in these mountains."
Luo Ang recalled for a moment that there were a total of seven wolf howls he had just heard.
It looks like just a small pack of wolves.
Even a small pack of wolves can pose a deadly threat to ordinary people who rashly venture into the mountains and forests.
"Strange." Luo Ang frowned.