From the advent of the mountains and seas

Chapter 63 Alchemy Tower (Please read more!)
The swamp became the biggest obstacle for the team to go to the deer head monster stronghold.

It is undoubtedly nonsense to flow over directly.

Not to mention anything else, once dozens of heavily armed soldiers entered the quagmire, they would be trapped to death immediately.

No one knows what is buried under the mud.

Rao An Jing didn't dare to get involved rashly, after all, his combat power is reflected in close combat.

"The swamp was probably created by the monks who landed on the island to protect the stronghold. Look over there, there are a lot of bones of fierce beasts and monsters on the surface of the swamp."

Tang Ruosheng stepped forward, pushed aside a few vines, pointed to the half-exposed corpse in the mud not far away, and said,

"This is enough to prove that there are traps and even monsters lurking in the swamp."

As if to verify Tang Ruosheng's words.

As soon as the voice fell, not far away, half of a brown spine protruded from the mud, and then sank slowly.

An Jing could clearly hear the spittle of several soldiers behind him.

"General Hu, you lead the soldiers to guard here, and I will lead the team into the ruins. If you find danger, you will warn with sounding arrows."

In the current situation, forcibly breaking in is a suicide attempt. Commander Lu looked at the dense vegetation in the swamp and the high treetops,
"The deer head monster usually uses the giant's palm to move at high places, and we can do the same."

Vegetation within the bog is a perfect stepping stone.

As long as you choose a good location, you might be able to step on a branch and reach the tower ruins in the center of the swamp.

Considering the bearing capacity of the branches, Commander Lu finally picked out seven people.

Among the three aliens, Tie Wushuang was left where he was because he was a reformed person by an agency, and his weight was too exaggerated. Count one.

The other three places will be topped by experts selected from the three armies.

Since Tang Ruosheng was just an ordinary person, he couldn't move back and forth between the branches freely, so he let An Jing, who had rich experience in this field, carry it on his back.

Hu Shen will arrange the soldiers to put up a defensive position at the edge of the mud, and An Jing and the others climb up the trees in the mud one after another.

Fortunately, the trees on the island are extremely lush, often tens of meters high, and the branches are entangled with each other.

For An Jing, as long as he finds the right position and does not deliberately take risks, it is almost like walking on the ground.

While waiting for others along the way, An Jing still had time to check the mud under his feet.

The current position is condescending, with a panoramic view of the swamp. An Jing soon discovered that there were a lot of traces of biological activities in the swamp, and he was glad that he didn't choose to directly swim through it.

After just looking around, An Jing noticed that there were no traces of roads that could pass normally around the ruins of the tower.

This is a little strange.

It is understandable to say that the road has been destroyed because it has been vacant for hundreds of years, but now there are no traces of the road.

The deer head monster can move with the help of the giant's palm. Those researchers back then didn't have this kind of means. How could they create a swamp and trap themselves to death inside the tower ruins.

After telling Tang Ruosheng on his back about this discovery, he learned that he was also thinking about this issue.

"Since there are burial pits, and a large number of experimental subjects were buried, it proves that there were many people stationed in the tower. Food and water, and the entry and exit of personnel all required passages. appeared."

Looking at the situation below, Tang Ruosheng doubted his inference just now. After a brief silence, he said,

"If it appeared later, who would go to great lengths to create a swamp around a ruin for defense, let's say it's a deer head monster. He controls humanoid monsters and giants, and who is he defending against?"

Thinking gaps.

The team has already crossed the swamp with the help of the branch passages between the tree crowns, and came to the center of the swamp where the ruins of the tower are.

It was covered by fog before, and only an outline could be vaguely seen.

Now that the whole picture of the ruins of the rear tower is shown in front of everyone's eyes.

The entire tower is divided into five floors, and it is built with wood and stone as the main materials. Presumably, it should be made of local materials.

The scale of each floor decreases from low to high. It can be seen that the bottom floor should be the place where the people who landed on the island had a rest and eat, and the high place is the real research area.

The opening at the top of the tower is the best proof. The other areas are covered by a large number of vines, but there is no plant growth in that area, which is obviously the place where the deer head monster usually enters and exits.

"An Jing, bring Xueshi Tang and follow me. The others are waiting outside the tower. Anyone who trespasses will die!"

Commander Lu stood among the branches near the top of the tower, with the long sword unsheathed at his waist, and swung the sword forward while giving the command.

Wherever the sword energy reaches, the thick fog freezes into frost, connecting the heights of the tower, and forcibly creating a suspended ice bridge in mid-air, connecting the tree branches and the edge of the tower from left to right.

When the ice bridge was reinforced, Commander Lu jumped out first, stepping on the ice bridge to explore the way.

An Jing is considered to have benefited from Tang Ruosheng's favor, and followed him up the ice bridge.

Enter the top floor of the tower through the gap.

The sunlight that has been dyed a bit of orange red falls through the cracks on the top, and the rotten smell of wood hits the face.

After hundreds of years, no matter how hard it was during construction and without follow-up maintenance, the interior of the tower is still dilapidated.

Collapsed wooden cabinets can be seen everywhere, wooden and bamboo slips scattered on the ground, as well as a large number of biological skeletons piled up at the corners, weeds and moss growing along the gaps.

Could such a dilapidated place be the stronghold for the deer head monster to refine living pills?
Just when An Jing was feeling confused, Tang Ruosheng couldn't wait to jump down and went straight to the wooden platform in the middle of the top floor. There were a lot of bamboo slips piled up on it, some of which were spread out, and the existence of handwriting could be clearly seen.

If there is no accident, what is recorded above should be the content of research on the elixir by the monks back then.

Tang Ruosheng hungrily flipped through the bamboo slips, wanting to get a glimpse of the secret of the deer's head monster's "immortality". An Jing bent down to pick up a bamboo slip, opened it casually, and flipped through it, only to find that he didn't recognize a single word.

He had no choice but to put the bamboo slips back and wait for Tang Ruosheng's analysis. Commander Lu was in the same situation. He frowned and took the two wooden slips to look around. Noticing An Jing's probing gaze, he coughed dryly and said,

"An Jing, I'm here to protect Bachelor Tang. Go to the lower floors to investigate. If you find anything, you can ask people outside to cooperate with you and transport some important items back to the camp."

The tower has five floors, and there may be some other research materials or equipment underneath.

It will be night soon, and there are still wounded in the team, so it is impossible to stay here for a long time.

It is the right choice to collect valuable items as soon as possible and withdraw to the camp.

(End of this chapter)