Beast Tamer: Super Lucky Starting Contract

After another six hours of running around, the three people and three animals finally reached the last direction under the cliff and saw the last "stream".

This "stream" is naturally obviously different from the previous three.

The first one is a stream, the second one is a river, the third one is purple ice, and this one is a huge green swamp!

Before they had even reached the destination, they saw a large patch of green land in front of them, with many grasses half a man's height growing out of the swamp.

However, their minds were not on the swamp, nor did they care much about how precious the vegetation was. Instead, they kept carefully observing any signs of possible spatial dislocation.

After suffering a loss last time, this time Mo Xu let Xiu Xiu take the lead to test the swamp's reality. After confirming that there was no suspicious danger in the swamp, he no longer stayed in the distance, but quickly moved towards the edge of the swamp.

Near the swamp, a faint stench mixed with the damp air filled the air, making people feel uncomfortable.

The closer they got, the sank their hearts became, because they hadn't found anything unusual so far, which meant that the exit was most likely not here.

Until we reached the shore of the swamp, we still couldn't find any signs of spatial dislocation as far as we could see.

The place is covered with reeds, sedge, and horsetail, all common plants, which surround the swamp surface tightly.

Mo Xu pushed aside a few grasses, put it down, and turned around and said, "These things are too much of a hindrance. Let's clear them up so that the exit is not hidden in some grass marsh."

Jiang Pan and the fat man nodded. If the exit was really here, it would not be impossible.

They acted right away, commanding the monsters to start cleaning up the area.

However, since it was too dangerous to get stuck in the swamp, "close combat" players like Dali Goose and Xiu Xiu could only clear the reeds on the periphery. Instead, the electric group's electric shock cleaning effect was good and it became the main force.

This made Xiu Xiu a little angry. It felt terrible to have strength but not be able to use it, so it had to vent its anger on attacking, breaking the reeds on the shore into pieces and soon clearing a large crack.

The electric ball was no less powerful, continuously launching electric shocks, just like cutting wheat, and with each electric shock a large area of ​​grass was cut off.

The attack of the powerful goose was much weaker, and he could only help the two big guys. Especially when he looked at the Grass God beside him, he felt depressed and admired. The Grass God waved his little fist like a prehistoric beast, and his speed was much faster than his own. They were all mid-level extraordinary people, but why did he feel that he was no match at all? It was too unreasonable.

After all, these grasses were common grasses, so it was not difficult to clear them out. Soon, they had reduced the height of the swamp by a large margin.

While the monsters were working, the few people were not idle either. They looked everywhere, but they still didn't find anything.

"Still nothing..." Mo Xu looked at the gradually flattening swamp, feeling increasingly lost.

"Look, what is that?"

The fat man suddenly exclaimed, attracting the attention of the other two.

Mo Xu and Jiang Pan immediately turned around and looked in the direction the fat man was looking. It was not the exit, but a three-meter-high reed standing near the center of the swamp.

Mo Xu wanted to hit the fat man who was making a fuss, and said, "It's just a tall grass. I thought I found the exit."

"No, it's not grass!" The fat man was a little excited: "This grass can withstand Tuanzi's electricity, it must not be an ordinary reed, and there seems to be other exotic flowers and plants next to it."

As Fatty said, this grass is indeed a high-grade material, and there are other materials growing next to it. After all, this swamp contains extraordinary energy, so it is not surprising that some good things are born in its central area.

But this time even Jiang Pan was speechless, and said with a bit of complaint: "Fat brother, it's already this late, and you're still concerned about this. Besides, these things grow so deep, how can we pick them?"

Mo Xu was too lazy to pay attention to the fat man and continued looking for a exit.

The fat man also knew that it was not a good idea for him to pay attention to this at this time, so he shut up in dismay.

Compared to the river, this swamp is much shorter, but it is still nearly several thousand meters long. They kept clearing the weeds along the edge of the swamp and moving forward.

Fortunately, the farther away from the cliff, the sparser the grass became, until finally there were only some moss and algae floating on the surface of the swamp water, which no longer required the effort of cleaning up.

More than three hours later, they reached the edge of the swamp.

The three of them tacitly recalled the monsters to rest, and took out extraordinary materials from their backpacks to replenish their physical strength. The food still tasted good, but the three of them were very disappointed and had no mood to taste it.

Walking here means that the exit is really not in this direction.

Or, it jumped to another direction last time. This kind of jump has no regularity. It could be anywhere where there is extraordinary energy.

Or, the "skill CD" of the export is ready again and it jumps again.

In short, neither is a good thing.

After finishing the meal in silence, Mo Xu was the first to cheer up. There was no other way. If he was also depressed, the three of them would not be able to work together. In a place like this, the most fearful thing is not setbacks and dangers, but the loss of the desire to persevere.

"Don't be discouraged," Mo Xu tried his best to sound cheerful, "Let's hold on, rest for an hour, and then set off."

"Where are we going this time?" Jiang Pan was a little confused. Now that he had visited all four directions, where should he go next time?

The fat man didn't make any jokes, but looked over and waited for Mo Xu to make a decision.

Mo Xu had a plan while eating: "Continue to the right and go back to the stream at the beginning. If we still can't find the exit, we can also collect all the remaining materials to make up for the loss. Then we will take a nap, and then we will march quickly and circle the entire mountain in one breath. How do you think?"

Jiang Pan and Fatty agreed. Not to mention that Mo Xu's plan was actually very reasonable, even if Mo Xu directed them to go right without explaining anything, they would follow.

"Why don't we stop resting and let the monsters go back to the extraordinary space to rest, and we'll just hit the road directly." The fat man, contrary to his usual behavior, appeared extremely "diligent".

Since even the fat guy thought so, Jiang Pan certainly had no intention of resting.

Seeing this, Mo Xu also agreed: "Okay, in that case, let's set off now."

Mo Xu patted his butt, stood up, looked to the right, and suddenly exclaimed "Huh".

They were now standing at the outermost edge of the swamp. According to common sense, if they looked to the right from here, they should be able to see the stream, but Mo Xu saw nothing. A few kilometers away was the towering fairy mountain, and in the distance was an endless wasteland. There was no trace of a stream, but on the left side, a large area of ​​fog and the hazy purple glacier were still clearly visible.

When the fat man heard Mo Xu's "eh", he asked, "What's wrong, Brother Mo?"

Mo Xu pointed to the right and said, "Fatty, you have good eyesight, come and take a look."

The fat man squinted his eyes and looked around. The right side was indeed empty. He didn't see the stream he had come from. "Hey, that's weird."

Jiang Pan also looked out, but couldn't see anything either. He thought for a moment and said, "Could it be because the stream is too narrow and small that we can't see it?"

Indeed, compared to the big river, purple ice and swamp that follow, the stream is the smallest and it is possible that it cannot be seen from such a distance.

"That's possible." Mo Xu put aside his doubts and said, "Let's not look at it anymore. Let's go and talk about it when we get back."

The few of them retrieved the monsters, put on their backpacks, bypassed the swamp, and continued to head to the right.

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This time, they talked much less. One reason was that they were tired, and the other was that they were not in a good mood. Even the fat guy who usually showed off did not find much topic to talk about, but just said a few words occasionally.

Mo Xu was also reviewing what he had seen and heard in the past two days. They entered this strange secret realm and first saw a stream with a large amount of high-level materials. Then they visited the rushing river, the large purple "supernatural crystals" shrouded in mist, and finally this muddy swamp.

"The stream, the river, the purple ice, the swamp... and the purple sky, is there any connection between them?"

Thinking of this, he asked Jiang Pan: "Jiang Pan, what is the result of the "Purple Qi" you were thinking about before?"

Jiang Pan shook his head: "No, Brother Mo, if you hadn't told me I would have almost forgotten it. I thought about it all the way before coming to the swamp, but I couldn't remember what it was."

"Do you think this could be related to other places?"

"Hmm?" Jiang Pan was stunned: "Brother Mo, what do you mean?"

Mo Xu also thought of the tomb-robbing novels he had read before: "I don't understand either, I'm just guessing, for example, are there any connections between the mountain in the middle and the streams, rivers, and purple ice swamps in the four directions, forming some kind of "feng shui pattern" or something like that?"

Mo Xu's words opened Jiang Pan's mind. Previously, he had been thinking about the natural landscape. If it was really a feng shui pattern, then the layout here was man-made!

He began to deduce: "Brother Mo, wait for me to think about it. According to this, the conventional layout is nothing more than the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, and it is nothing more than a wind and thunder. Even if the mountain in the middle is considered earth, the big river is considered water, and the stream is considered alive, barely wood, how can the swamp purple ice be calculated? It can't be put together."

"Or maybe the mountains don't count. The four directions are counted according to the four symbols, but that doesn't seem to work either. If it's the eight trigrams, the number is wrong... Is there any feng shui pattern that counts four or five..."

Jiang Pan was thinking hard, muttering to himself and denying various speculations.

"If there are eight directions, the layout is most likely based on the Eight Diagrams, but now there are only four directions with landscapes, which doesn't make sense."

"Eight?" Mo Xu's mind moved, and he glanced to the right strangely: "Wait, Jiang Pan..."

"What if there are indeed eight directions under this mountain?"

The fat man heard them talking for a long time and came over to listen: "No way, we saw them in the creek, one on the left and one on the right, and the big purple ice block is at the back. They are about to go back."

"No!" Mo Xu shook his head: "We just looked to the right and didn't see the stream. We thought before that the stream was too small, but there is another possibility, that is, there is no stream there, but a new landscape!"

Jiang Pan understood: "Brother Mo, what you mean is that the left and right we saw at the creek are not the left and right of the mountain. The purple ice is the right, and the next place we are going to is the opposite of the creek."

"That's right!" Mo Xu and Jiang Pan looked at each other and both felt that this guess was possible.

Because the mountain itself is irregular and has some bumps and depressions, and the distance is too far, it is very likely that they had the illusion that there were only four "streams" in four directions at the foot of the mountain, but in fact there may be eight!

The fat guy was a little confused: "What? What's the connection? What's left and right?"

Mo Xu patiently explained: "Fatty, think about it, we use the mountain as the "baseline" and the stream we came from as the "due south" direction. We did see other waterways on both sides of the stream. That doesn't mean those two are "due west" and "due east". If they are "southwest" and "southeast", then there should be eight so-called waterways. "

"I see!" The fat man understood and asked, "What do the eight rules mean? Walk more?"

Jiang Pan is an "expert" in this area. Mo Xu looked at Jiang Pan and asked, "If it is eight directions, can it match anything?"

"Eight... According to the Eight Trigrams," Jiang Pan closed his eyes and deduced silently: "The stream represents water and life, and the vitality comes from the mountain, which corresponds to the scene of the "Gen" Trigram. To the right of "Gen" is the river, which is the "Kan" Trigram. To the right again, what is the purple ice surface and fog?"

"The water is the same color as the sky... I know, this should be the Qian hexagram! Then the swamp is the Dui hexagram! Everything fits."

He opened his eyes and looked up at the wasteland on the right: "Then the hexagram we are going to is the "Kun" hexagram, which corresponds to the earth. This is the eight hexagrams arranged according to the eight gates. The stream we came in from is the "life gate", and the other side of the "life gate" is... the "death gate"! "