area51novel Chapter 76 Temporary Camp Takes Shape
Chapter 76 Temporary Camp Takes Shape
Before Long You could finish speaking, Zhang Lexuan had already put the tactical helmet on her head. As soon as Long You finished speaking, a series of clicking sounds of metal shifting followed seamlessly.
"It should be sorted out. It says its name is Number Three."
"Yes, it's all taken care of." Long You confirmed Zhang Lexuan's words after glancing at the dialog box that popped up on his screen indicating that Target Number Three had been connected.
"Senior, you can try adjusting the tactical goggles mode now and just speak. Once we start moving, you can have Number Three switch the communication mode to internal communication mode."
After giving instructions to Zhang Lexuan, Long You checked the location of the Hornet Unmanned Soul Guidance Reconnaissance Aircraft and found that all the little hornets had arrived at their preset positions.
Within a circular area with a radius of one kilometer, all situations are projected (within the normal field of vision, 3D full-scale projection) or displayed on a screen (the entire exploration range, surveillance video footage).
"Senior Brother Caitou, don't talk to them anymore. Just try it out and you'll know what's going on. Have Cigar change the danger warning condition to all soul beasts. I've already changed it."
Although the place where Long You and his group stopped was a few kilometers away from the real Star Dou Great Forest, which could barely be considered a safe zone, there were still soul beasts there.
These are the insect-type spirit beasts that eat leaves and grass seeds, as well as the small bird-type spirit beasts that also eat small insects. These spirit beasts are incredibly weak; even ordinary people, if they are strong and powerful, are not afraid of them.
However, a soul beast is a soul beast; compared to ordinary animals, they possess soul power fluctuations. As long as there are soul power fluctuations, the wasp-shaped unmanned soul-guided reconnaissance aircraft designed and manufactured by Long You can detect and lock onto them.
Long You and He Caitou changed the selection criteria, and changes appeared on both the tactical helmet's eyepiece display and the armor projection display of the soul-guided power armor.
Several square aiming frames appeared in Long You and He Caitou's field of vision. As long as Long You and He Caitou thought about which aiming frame they needed specific information about the soul beast, the aiming frame would enlarge and appear in front of their left eyes the next moment.
Beibei, Tangya, and Zhang Lexuan are using the second mode of the tactical goggles. In their field of vision, the scene that was originally like a background suddenly becomes clear with several square aiming frames drawn around it.
It's conspicuous enough, but not particularly obstructive to the line of sight. Numbers are marked on the aiming reticle, and you can easily figure out which reticle to view in detail.
After allowing Beibei and the other two to slowly move and adapt to the path for a while, before entering the actual tropical jungle, Long You and He Caitou adjusted the filtering information back to normal. Those whose soul power cultivation energy reaction was less than five hundred years were no longer prompted.
A soul beast of this level could not possibly break through the team defenses set up by Long You and He Caitou.
When traversing the Star Dou Great Forest, preventing sudden attacks from various soul beasts is crucial. There are many ways to prevent this: relying on experience, your martial soul, or a detection soul tool. But what is the best method? A trigger-activated soul tool defensive shield.
Every detection method has its vulnerabilities, but this trigger-activated soul-guided defense shield, which automatically activates upon encountering an attack, is unique in that it doesn't. Unless it's broken, it's impossible for it not to trigger.
There are too many things in this world that can catch you off guard, so carrying a trigger-type soul-guided defensive shield when going out has become standard equipment for Longyou and his friends.
During their trip to the Star Dou Great Forest, aside from Zhang Lexuan, the inner court senior who had temporarily joined, all four members of Long You's group were equipped with level four trigger-type soul-guided defensive shields. However, this alone was not enough; Long You was extremely protective of his life. He had no choice before because his strength was insufficient, but now that he was strong enough, he immediately created a team version of the trigger-type soul-guided defensive shield.
In order to activate this team defense, Long You adjusted the formation, placing Zhang Lexuan in front of him. Then, Long You and He Caitou pulled out a bunch of soul-guided shield generators that looked like those strong magnetic Buckyballs and surrounded the entire team.
With everything in place, Long You activated his silent soul tool, and He Caitou took a hurricane drill soul tool for clearing the way. Everyone except Zhang Lexuan boarded their anti-gravity soul-guided skateboards. The team's speed increased dramatically from a leisurely stroll to 120 kilometers per hour, like driving on a highway through a tropical jungle.
Faced with this speed, none of the three—Zhang Lexuan, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya—could adapt. It wasn't that they couldn't keep up, but rather that they couldn't adapt psychologically.
Is this team led by a titled Douluo? Running at this speed... Warning signals flashed intermittently on the tactical goggles in front of me, but before I could see them clearly, they'd already rushed past, and new signals would appear. My eyes were blurry, my head was spinning; I was really not used to it.
However, it was clear that both He Caitou, who was at the beginning, and Long You, who was at the end, were able to adapt, and adapt very well.
They were able to adjust the group's direction in time, and even at a speed that should absolutely not be in the Soul Beast Forest, they didn't cause any major disturbance in the forest. No, it should be said that they didn't attract the attention of any soul beasts.
The remaining three forced themselves not to adjust their tactical goggles. As elites of Shrek Academy, they couldn't possibly be unaware of the reconnaissance advantages of these tactical goggles. Similarly, as elites of Shrek Academy, they couldn't afford to lose face if they couldn't adapt to a more effective combat method.
The jungle race looked dangerous, but the detection and silencing systems worked well, so the journey was uneventful and safe.
The Star Dou Great Forest, though called a forest, is only so because forests dominate the landscape; it actually contains all kinds of terrain. It has mountains, water, and even grasslands, all located near its inner core.
With Zhang Lexuan's strength, going to that grassland is not impossible, but she wouldn't dare to go with Long You and the other three, nor is it necessary, since it's not like they're hunting ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts.
He Caitou, who was leading the way, relied on the fact that his group's soul-guided powered armor (powered exoskeleton) was equipped with at least level seven healing bottles, giving them ample soul power reserves. They simply sped around for the entire morning, managing to travel from the outer edge of the Star Dou Great Forest to a relatively inner part of the central circle.
They stopped to rest and began setting up a temporary camp. This was a place where the forest area and the volcanic area of the Star Dou Great Forest met; there was little flat land, but also no trees. The view was very open, and generally no soul beasts roamed this place, making it safe.
Although it's said that no spirit beasts wander around here, this place is, after all, a spirit beast habitat, their territory. Therefore, when setting up the temporary camp, a cloth tent couldn't be used; metal plates equipped with defensive spirit tools had to be used.
However, it didn't take much effort; it was just a mobile metal prefabricated house, and with the help of a dedicated soul-guided robot, everything was done in fifteen minutes.
The building has two floors. The second floor has a standard bedroom, a duty room, and a turret. The first floor has two standard bedrooms; a combined dining, meeting, and relaxation area that includes a dining room and kitchen; a shower room that can accommodate two people at the same time; and a toilet.