Chapter 1127: First Arrival at the Dragon Crystal
After the arrangements for the reserve team were completed, the hunters spent a few more minutes to determine the groups for the preliminary investigation operations.
It’s not difficult to distinguish. As long as the combination of swordsman, shooter and editor is possible, just look for someone who is familiar with you as a teammate.
The personnel of the investigation team are screened very strictly. Those who can be selected to come to the New World, whether they are hunters or compilers, generally do not have character flaws or are too unsociable.
Especially the young people in the fifth group, because they often form teams (online?) to hunt together, they are divided into groups almost in the blink of an eye.
For the upper-level hunters, Gordon, Ancier, and Alva naturally formed a team.
Then start watching other people arrange and combine.
Feng Ying led Ai Bo and happily approached Hayata and Gale.
The trio of drunkards naturally acted together. They did not even plan to bring the editor with them. After all, their team did not have a fixed editor partner.
Aiden was stunned when he was left alone.
He has a bright personality and is very popular, but sometimes problems can arise if he is too popular. For example, everyone will subconsciously think that he has already found a team.
After finding out that Aiden was alone, a team immediately came to invite him.
But Ancier glanced at it and felt that the composition of several teams was complete, but adding Aiden and his editor partner would be a bit bloated.
So began to intervene in the exchange.
Feng Ying and Ai Bo were carried out by An Xil.
Hayata, Gale, and Hayata's editor Sophia already formed a complete reconnaissance team. It would be a waste of manpower for Feng Ying Aibo to squeeze in.
So it became a team of Feng Ying, Ai Bo, and Aiden.
Aiden’s editor partner (Sister Feisty), who has a competitive personality, was assigned to the alcohol team and personally entrusted her to supervise the three of them. She was not allowed to drink during the mission.
The editor, who has a serious personality, agreed very seriously and asked the three seniors on the spot to hand over all the "water storage containers" on their bodies for inspection.
Ted and the other three looked devastated, but Ancier was quite satisfied.
People with soft personalities and easy to talk can't control these three drunkards.
"These are the specific task arrangements. Does anyone have any questions?" Gordon glanced at everyone.
No one spoke.
Even Nora, who is the lowest ranking and youngest among this group of people, has rich experience, so there is no need to ask too trivial questions.
“Very good, take the time to rest, check the equipment, and set off early tomorrow morning.”
On the second day, everyone dispersed and set off.
After half a day of air travel, Gordon and his party arrived at the edge of the northern area of the Dragon Crystal Land.
Of course they also want to cross directly from the air and overlook the entire Dragon Crystal Land. After all, the efficiency of aerial reconnaissance is far beyond that of ground reconnaissance.
But correspondingly, the risks that need to be borne will also greatly increase.
The situation was not so urgent that he had to risk his life for time. For the safety of everyone, Gordon never considered the option of aerial reconnaissance from the beginning.
Instead, a total of eight teams were asked to start from the eight directions outside the Dragon Crystal Land, explore inside, collect intelligence separately, and confirm the location of the energy source.
This is the so-called "preliminary reconnaissance".
The specific direction positions each team is responsible for are not randomly assigned.
Research in recent decades has shown that the density of ancient dragon species in the northern part of the New World is significantly higher than that in the southern part. Therefore, in the general perception of members of the survey team, "north" is always more dangerous than "south".
Those with stronger strength should bear greater risks, and the team of high-ranking hunters was naturally arranged in the northerly direction.
The team composed of two eight-star hunters, Gordon Anhill, and Alva, a senior scrivener, will naturally be responsible for the most dangerous True North.
After landing in a relatively safe area with open terrain, Gordon Anhill immediately entered a state of alert.
Alva took out his notebook and map and started writing quickly.
There is a roughly semicircular arc on the map. This is the flight path recorded by Alva when they were flying around the Dragon Crystal Land in the air.
“We flew around here from the west. If the situation is similar in the east, the entire Dragon Crystal Land covers an area of approximately 650 to 700 square kilometers.
Is it bigger than expected? "As he said that, Alva marked a few more points on the map, which were the landing locations of the groups that had traveled with them before.
After completing a simple calculation of the area of the survey area and the distance between the groups, , Alva began to observe the surrounding ground and the crystallization conditions on nearby mountains.
The land of dragon crystals is not like the ancient tree forest and land coral platform. The Grand Canyon serves as an obvious boundary.
In order to facilitate the division, the Commander-in-Chief gave the Dragon Crystal Land a "definition" - it refers to the area with obvious crystals on the surface in the northern mountainous area of the continent. >The land area of six to seven hundred square kilometers seems large, but compared with the entire northern part of the continent, it is just an inconspicuous small area.
Alva's eyes went back and forth on those crystals, and several minutes passed like this.
Gordon turned his head sideways and asked, "Have you discovered anything?"
Alva frowned and shook his head, "I originally expected to be able to roughly judge the energy through the direction of crystal growth. The location of the source, but.
These crystals are growing in all directions, and it seems that we can only explore forward a little bit."
"We are now located in the northernmost part of the Dragon Crystal Land, and if we go straight across to the south, How far is the straight line?" Gordon continued to ask.
"About thirty kilometers." Alva replied immediately.
Gordon laughed, "Hey, it's not far, I can run back to the camp to sleep tonight."
"Thirty kilometers is a straight line distance, and this is a mountainous area with complex terrain. There are also underground areas." Anhir reminded him.
"I know, isn't this just to make everyone feel more relaxed?"
Anhil twitched the corner of his mouth, too lazy to continue arguing with this guy.
After making a few casual jokes, Gordon looked at his hunting partners, "Pig Chop, Gale, you are more sensitive to energy. Can you feel which direction has higher energy density?"
The cat and the dog shook their heads in unison.
"The energy intensity where we are standing now is already very high, my senses are completely confused in this regard," Zhupa explained.
"How is it confused? Can a high-energy environment confuse Elu's perception?" Alva's curiosity was aroused by the statement that he was pig-chopped.
Pigpa looked at him sideways, "You walked into a smelly toilet with your eyes closed, cat. Can you accurately point out which pit has poop in it?"
".I see." Alva nodded thoughtfully.
Gordon also pinched his chin, "Maybe if you get close enough?"
"Then you might have to stick your head into the pit."
"Well, In other words, when you are close enough to the source of feces, you can smell it, right?”
“Okay, that’s what you want!” It’s not impossible to understand meow”
Listening to their bad metaphors, Ancil's expression gradually distorted, "Are you done?!"
"Okay, okay, let's not talk about this anymore." Gordon smiled dryly and waved his hand, "Pork chops Lifeng, you are going to explore in a roundabout way, and if you find something, come back and report it in time."
Zhupa rubbed his little nose, jumped on Lifeng's back, and flew forward. (End of this chapter)