The full-scale tuba is in the apocalypse

Chapter 39 Siege
When it was almost noon, the sun began to blaze, and the dim light finally became a little dazzling.

The road patrol has now come to a large area surrounded by dense forests. It is the most common poplar forest in the north. The road passes through this forest. At this time, there are some cut down tree roots on the road.

The dense forest extends to both sides of the road, probably several kilometers away.

Although it's only September, a lot of withered and yellow leaves have fallen off and piled up on the ground. When the wind blows, there are bursts of "rustling" sounds, as if there are some invisible animals walking on it.

The 12 patrol members approached here very carefully. Instead of directly dividing into two waves and patrolling the left and right sides of the road at the same time as before, they concentrated on one side.

"Everyone, get ready," Captain Xu lowered his voice, "This is the most dangerous section of the road. There are more than [-]% of the attacks on this road. If they appear on this section, strange monsters will lurk in the forest and wait for the opportunity to attack us. .”

"Then why didn't these poplar forests be cut down?" a freshman couldn't help asking.

Alas, Shen Rui shook his head, beginners always have a lot of questions.

Captain Xu was really dissatisfied, but he could still suppress his temper, and still said gently: "Cut down the poplar forest? It doesn't exist. Our small fortress of 8 people does not have such a large engineering capability."

The freshman seemed to be going to the end, and continued to ask: "Then can I still ask Dabao for help?"

"Big fortress? This is not the era of the past. In the apocalypse, every fortress has to manage itself. Who will control your life? It's too late to compete with each other for population resources. How can we make great efforts to help us clean up the dangers?" The zone? If you can afford to hire, that’s fine too. But do you have money?” Senior He suddenly reprimanded.

The freshman lowered his head when he heard the words, not daring to continue talking.

At this moment, deep in the woods, there was a "buzzing" sound.

"Is it you again?"

Everyone was shocked, the voice didn't sound like a human being, but it was a human language.

A patrol member walking in the front turned to look at Captain Xu, who nodded at him.

Then the patrol member quickly ran to the road, took out a sheepskin bag from his horseback, and could faintly smell an extremely sweet smell.

Honey?
Shen Rui thought so.

The patrol member then came to the dense forest and said respectfully: "The great king of the jungle, this is our offering this week, please protect our caravan as always."

As he spoke, he carefully hung the sheepskin bag on an old poplar tree.

Then he backed away, and the rest of the patrol followed suit.

The freshmen were all surprised, including Shen Rui.

Everyone waited patiently for a few minutes, and then they saw a group of palm-sized hornets "buzzing" from the depths of the dense forest, rushing to the sheepskin bag.

Among them, there was the largest wasp, which was about the size of a normal human forearm. He sniffed it and nodded in satisfaction.

"That's right, Your Majesty will accept your offering this time, and you can enter the jungle now."

After saying this, it made many hornets grab the bag and fly into the dense forest again.

This, is this paying tolls for the strange monsters?
Shen Rui only felt that the three views had been greatly impacted. There was never any place in the book that mentioned this, and there was never a teacher telling them to bow their heads to the strange monsters for survival!

Sure enough, the gap between reality and books will always be huge. It is better to have no books than to have no books. If you don't study books, it's just that you are stupid.

The book only says that the strange monster is cruel, and the strange monster is the enemy of human beings and the biggest opponent of the doomsday world.

"Why, are you surprised?" Captain Xu looked back at the six freshmen with abnormal faces, shook his head and said, "I said before that strange monsters are also intelligent. Since they are intelligent, they can communicate. It's not monolithic either, the research on strange social groups has always been the most cutting-edge topic. Those of us are just making practical use of it."

"A bag of royal jelly can be exchanged for a week of bee colony support. Not only will these kings of the jungle not attack our caravans, but they will also help us drive away small sporadic tides. Before we have the ability to clean up these dense forests, befriend them. Being a local snake is also one of the wisdoms of survival."

"But," Wang Feng said suddenly, "Aren't you afraid that Shangfeng will blame you for doing business with strange monsters like this?"

"What are you blaming? Which one are you talking about? What the castle owners want is that the monthly trade volume does not decrease, and the number of casualties does not increase. As for what method you use and what process you take, they don't care. "Captain Xu shook his head and said, "As for higher levels, they will only take action when they encounter an irresistible crisis in the fortress. Usually, they don't have time to take care of these trivial matters."

"I see." A special gleam flashed in Wang Feng's eyes.

The 12 patrol members began to patrol the dense forest, and occasionally a wasp flew over their heads, seeming to monitor their every move.

The danger in the dense forest is obviously much greater than that in the wilderness.

Sometimes, it is a poisonous snake camouflaged in a tree, suddenly hanging down to attack.

Originally, there were very few poisonous snakes in the north, basically only some vipers. However, after the mutation, those non-venomous snakes in the north, such as cauliflower snakes, also began to mutate into terrifying poisonous snakes.

Sometimes, another seemingly ordinary sparrow suddenly pecked at it with its sharp beak.

Obviously, compared to the fields and wilderness before, in this dense forest, the strange monsters can attack at a very close distance with the help of trees.

Shen Rui saw at least three attacks, and the patrol team almost couldn't cope with them, so other people helped them deal with them.

No wonder the freshman wanted to cut down this dense forest. His original intention was naturally correct, but the reality is that it is impossible to do what he wants.

As for taking a detour, one can imagine how expensive it would be to open up a new road.

As for the patrol members, the scope of patrol is also much smaller, and they only clean up within 1 mile on both sides of the road, which is not like clearing as far as 10 miles in one go in the wilderness.

However, just like this, it still disturbed some existences in the dense forest.

Not long after, Shen Rui faintly heard roars coming from deep in the dense forest.

"Not good, retreat immediately, and the patrol members retreat alternately." Captain Xu shouted through the walkie-talkie.

The freshmen panicked for a while, but Shen Rui quickly turned his horse's head and galloped towards the way he came.

He is very aware of his ability, and now is not the time to be brave.

The others were not slow, turning their horses around one by one, and began to retreat.

And those patrol members escaped from the dense forest one after another, ran to the road, got on their horses, and began to flee.

Just 12 people, not everyone can escape.

"Ah," screamed three times in a row, which meant that three patrol members did not escape.

The team members fleeing along the highway couldn't help but look back.

They immediately saw who their opponent was this time!

I saw a giant wild boar like a baby elephant!

Those sharp fangs and thick clay armor shone with a ray of yellow light!
It's no wonder that experienced patrol members have to be injured.

"These monsters, they are stronger again." Captain Xu fled to the end, shaking his head and sighing.

(End of this chapter)