Doomsday: Gain experience by hunting

The dock was built by the lake.

Looking down from the sky.

The lake connects to a large river, its water veins winding like a jade belt, stretching far into the distance, reaching the horizon.

Tang Wen looked carefully, whether it was the lakeshore or the riverbank.

There were no obvious signs of water level decline.

Tang Wen was greatly puzzled.

This place also belongs to the Northwest Wilderness.

It shouldn't have rained much in the past year.

How is the water volume here still so abundant?

If it were the previous life, without rain for a year, most of the creatures on the ground would probably die.

First, most of the plants would wither.

Only a few drought-resistant ones would survive.

Then, the number of herbivores would sharply decrease.

Following that, a large number of carnivores would starve to death.

The food chain would encounter a cliff-like blow.

Humans would also completely turn into beasts in order to seize clean water sources.

Whoever has the bigger fist, whoever can get water, whoever can live.

Even through controlling water sources, gaining power, and ruling others.

Tang Wen, hiding in the clouds, couldn't help but sigh: "It's been a drought for so long, but the water source here is still so abundant."

At this time, the two had straightened up, with a full arm's length between them.

Their bodies separated, no longer needing to be tense.

Xia Qingge stopped trying to grab the clouds and looked down: "This lake is probably connected to many underground rivers."

Underground rivers, the lakes around the Flame Camp are also connected to a bottomless underground river.

He asked curiously: "Are there many underground rivers in this world?"

"Of course, there are many. Where there are lakes, there are underground rivers. This lake is so big, I don't know how many underground rivers are swallowing and spitting at the bottom of the lake," Hu Qi said in a muffled voice.

"Are underground rivers stable?" Tang Wen didn't understand.

Underground rivers are underground rivers.

According to Tang Wen's knowledge from his previous life, the reasons for the formation of underground rivers are complex, the underground environment is complex, and the geological structure is prone to changes due to the constant erosion of water flow.

The waterways of underground rivers may collapse directly.

In this way, there are even fewer stable underground rivers.

"Of course, it's stable," Hu Qi replied: "The underground world is extremely vast, with mountains, waterfalls, rivers, and countless strange exotic beasts. When you get to the underground, don't be careless."

"Can exotic beasts live? Is there light underground?"

"Of course."

"Impossible, right?"

"How can there be no light? Aren't there stars at night?" Xia Qingge said such a thing, obviously without much astronomical knowledge.

Hu Qi explained: "The stars are outside the sky, infinitely far away. There is no night underground, but there are a lot of luminous rocks."

It said a few words, Tang Wen was okay.

There are many pictures in his memory about underground works.

He has no yearning for this.

If he could, he wouldn't want to go underground.

Xia Qingge took a sip of wine, her expression eager to try.

Tang Wen was silent.

Hu Qi's words made him realize that he couldn't always look at problems with the common sense accumulated in his mind in his previous life.

In his previous world, not raining for a year was almost a world-destroying disaster.

In the current Northwest Wilderness, it hasn't rained for a year, but now it seems that the environment is just a bit worse, and there is no major change.

Beneath the vast Northwest Wilderness, there is a complex underground world.

There are not only magic people underground, but also various exotic beasts, with diverse ecosystems.

The complex intersection of above-ground and underground water systems may also be one of the main reasons for the frequent droughts on the ground.

Observing the large and small boats coming and going on the water below.

Tang Wen asked again: "Since there are so many resources underground, why are humans still fighting for them on the ground? Isn't it good to develop underground?"

Hu Qi shook his big head and asked back: "How do you know that humans haven't gone underground?"

"So there are humans underground? There are cities."

"There must be some. However, ordinary people can't live underground for too long," Hu Qi revealed these things to Tang Wen for the first time.

The latter listened very carefully: "There are so many experts on the ground, can't they take down the magic people?"

"It's those luminous stones."

"Stones?"

"They exist in limited places, and they don't light up in summer."

"Huh?" Tang Wen was stunned: "Do the stones hibernate, no, estivate?"

"Not only that, they usually dim for a few days without any regularity, or even don't light up at all for a few days."

So that's how it is.

Tang Wen could imagine the despair of no light.

Ordinary martial artists may have some advantages in fighting magic people under the light source.

If they suddenly lose the light source in the battle, then what awaits them is slaughter, a one-sided slaughter.

"No wonder they can only defend," Tang Wen nodded thoughtfully.

Xia Qingge was also very interested: "Have fourth-rank experts gone down?"

The white tiger's big eyes glanced at her: "Of course."

It didn't say the conclusion, but the two could guess.

If the fourth rank could solve it, the crisis brought by the underground magic people would have ceased to exist.

Tang Wen asked again: "Have the magic people never rushed out?"

Hu Qi made a human-like "tsk" sound: "Those below the fifth rank can't make any waves when they come up. If those above the fifth rank come up, if the response is not timely, it will be a disaster. Therefore, the underground cave entrance of Ganshan City is placed in the inner city. However, just like we don't like darkness, they don't like sunlight very much either. They usually hide in the dark places underground."

While the two and one tiger were talking about the underground.

With a swoosh.

Another white tiger crashed into the white clouds.

The speed was so fast that Tang Wen didn't see the direction it came from.

Before a few people could ask, Tiger Twenty-one waved its furry paws and said: "I have found out about the ships below. Those ships are full of grain. The other ships are large iron-clad ships, and they are loaded with ice and meat, all kinds of meat!"

"Exotic beast meat?"

"There is very little exotic beast meat, it is ordinary cattle, sheep, and pigs."

After asking about the details, following the direction pointed by the white tiger, Tang Wen distinguished the ships it was referring to.

Although he believed in the strength of the fifth-rank white tiger, he still asked: "This is an important dock for the ship gang, with fifth-rank experts sitting in town, and sixth-rank experts are even in double digits. How did you get close?"

The white tiger is so big, flying fast in the sky, and not very noticeable.

But once it gets close to the ship to peek at what goods are loaded inside, as long as the sailors on the ship are not blind, they will definitely find it.

Tiger Twenty-one did not speak, and raised its head triumphantly.

Hu Qi said: "It is very good at transformation."

Transformation?

Xia Qingge looked at it.

Tang Wen subconsciously thought: Can I learn it?

Seemingly seeing Tang Wen's intention, Hu Qi's amber pupils flashed helplessness: "Humans can't learn it. Transformation relies on memory inheritance. Or the elders teach it to the same race in their dreams. There is no observation method, no written record. How can you learn it?"

Tang Wen had to give up his thoughts.

The white tiger actually has memory inheritance. No wonder the worst adult white tiger is also an extraordinary strength.

This is clearly an extraordinary race!

The two looked at Tiger Twenty-one, and it generously showed the transformation technique.

The figure shrank without any reason, and finally became similar to an ordinary house cat.

Swish, it jumped on Hu Qi and meowed twice.

Xia Qingge couldn't help reaching out to touch it, but it nimbly dodged it.

Tang Wen said strangely: "Can the size change, and even the aura can be hidden?"

"Everything has advantages and disadvantages. I am not a fourth-rank expert. After my body becomes smaller, my strength drops to almost the peak of the sixth rank," Tiger Twenty-one washed its face with its paws, looking even more like a little white cat.

Xia Qingge scooped again, even more tricky, the little white cat twisted its waist and folded its body into an acute angle, and jumped directly off Hu Qi's body.

"There are only two senior fifth-rank guards in the camp below. My seventh sister and I can completely suppress them! It's better to launch a sneak attack and kill one first. The remaining one will never escape the joint efforts of the two of us."

Twenty-one, a little cat, waving its paws in a cute look, but its plan is very violent!

This is very much to Xia Qingge's liking: "Okay! Let's have a good fight!"

"No!" Hu Qi and Tang Wen stopped at the same time.

Xia Qingge tightened her pretty face, not angry, mainly to show the majesty of the queen, to give Tang Wen a little shock.

Unfortunately, it didn't have any effect.

On the contrary, because the transition from "brainless brave beauty" to "temperamental royal sister" was too fast, Tang Wen's weakness for lust became even "stronger".

What's going on, why do I feel like she's seducing me?

Well, it must be because I haven't asked Sister Bing and Zili to take care of my body for the past few days, and my fire is too strong.

I can only blame my body for being too strong.

The proposal of two warmongers who wanted to make a big fuss was rejected.

Tang Wen carefully analyzed it, abandoned the two tigers and one person, and went deep into the dangerous places such as the dock tavern, brothel, and massage shop to conduct on-the-spot investigations.

He found out that the grain and goods here were sent to Sanlian City.

The ships being loaded at the dock were loaded with raw materials such as grain, cloth, and iron ingots.

And the merchant ships returning from Sanlian City.

He sneaked up to take a look, and what came were dressing mirrors, enamel basins, mosquito nets, tobacco leaves, tea, and other higher-value processed agricultural products or primary industrial products.

"This trade is unbalanced."

The civilization level of Sanlian City is much higher than that of Ganshan City.

He looked forward to the alliance with the Bai family.

Establishing contact with the White Tiger tribe has gained military support.

On the surface, no one dares to oppose him.

After forming an alliance with the Bai family, Tang Wen wants the exclusive operating rights of Sanlian City's commodities.

Or to exclusively enjoy a trade route.

At that time, wouldn't the Huang family or the ship gang have to work for him?

Swish swish swish!

Tang Wen stepped on the Instant Step and came to the white clouds.

The footsteps landed, as if stepping on a ball of tough cotton.

"This is?"

"I was bored and strengthened it with mental power."

"What is this method?" Tang Wen wanted to learn.

Hu Qi didn't want to talk about it with him, and quickly changed the subject: "Have you thought of a solution?"

Tang Wen was not in a hurry: "I thought of it, the water ghost incident."

"What?" The two tigers and Xia Qingge raised their heads at the same time.

"You and Twenty-one dress up and go down to make trouble at night. Don't kill people, scare people! Scare those sailors, scare those martial artists and extraordinary, but don't scare the sixth rank!"

Xia Qingge listened eagerly, but when she heard that she was not allowed to touch the sixth rank, she was immediately dissatisfied, hugged her arms, and the lumps in front of her were even bigger: "Am I afraid of the sixth rank?"

"Yes! Scare the sixth rank, hit the fifth rank!" Tiger Twenty-one waved its pink claws.

Tang Wen shook his head firmly: "We are not here to kill people."

"Wouldn't it be more to grab if you kill them first?!" Xia Qingge raised her head.

"You have to change your mind. If you grab it and the other party is still in the dark, grabbing what water ghost like headless flies, isn't it more obvious your means?"

"Huh?"

Xia Qingge and Tiger Twenty-one looked at each other.

In the better half of the day, one person and one tiger hit it off and have become acquainted.

Listening to Tang Wen say this, it seems more interesting than going straight.

Seeing the two tempted.

Tang Wen took advantage of the heat to strike the iron, and threw the white clothes, white gauze, mosquito nets, rouge powder for makeup, and other things he bought from below to Xia Qingge.

Taking advantage of the other party's curiosity.

He coaxed her to dress up as a female ghost with blood-red lips, pale face, wearing a white dress and white gauze in one go.

There is no mirror at hand, she can't see what she looks like, but she has no complaints.

The idea of pretending to be a ghost was not thought of by Tang Wen. He heard the story of the water ghost in the tavern below.

Several street women also said that people drown at the dock every month, and there must be a life-threatening water ghost.

Since the legend of the water ghost is so marketable, of course, we must take advantage of the situation.

Night.

The moonlight spills on the lake, and the sparkling waves .

During the day, the ships that were loading and unloading goods were quiet.

Except for the people on duty, only a lonely lamp was lit.

And the cruise ships that floated on the lake during the day and were invisible were hung with festive lanterns and ribbons.

The decadent music of stringed and woodwind instruments sounded.

The cruise ships rippled, gently swaying in the water.

The atmosphere was instantly at its peak.

"It's quite know how to have fun!"

Tang Wen has only been to a brothel, and has not seen a boats where one can enjoy music, wine, and women.

He intends to experience, well, to criticize it.

But he has important matters to attend to, so he can only go to deserted boats to play ghost!

"Ah!"

A scream, accompanied by the sound of falling into the water.

The scream rang out on the quiet pier, and several ships next door lit up one after another. The special mirrors refracted bright light, which were simple original searchlights.

"Black Lao San?! What the mother are you yelling in the middle of the night?"

"That's right! yelling so scary?"

"This bastard, must be deliberately scaring us."

The man on the nearby ship are relatively familiar with each other.

They will also greet each other when on duty, so that if something really happens, no one will take care of it.

"Black Lao San, don't scaring people! Did you steal alcohol again?"

The man on the pier are quite loyal.

Several people shouted a few times, but did not get a response. They were really uneasy, so they lit the gestures, carrying kerosene lamps with smoked glass covers, and went together to the big ship guarded by Black Lao San.

swoosh!

White shadow flashed by.

White clothes, white socks, white face.

from head to toe nowhere not white.

Only the lips are bright red, with a smear of fresh blood at the corner of the mouth.

"What thing?"

"White clothes water ghost!"

There was chaos in the cabin.

crack!

The kerosene lamps fell on the ground, and the flame jumped up.

The footsteps were hurried like chaotic drums, and they rushed to run out.

suddenly!

A foot sway, the ship moved.

" run away."

"There are ghosts, there really are ghosts!"

It wasn't just this one ship that moved.

A demonic wind rose.

Many ships docked at the pier, loaded with grain, iron ingots, armor, and weapons, all began to move.

A white shadow, with speed exceeding that of ordinary martial artists and surpassing extraordinary reflexes, swiftly swept across the cargo ships.

"The water ghost has tiger claws!"

"Nonsense, the water ghost is clearly a woman with big breasts!"

"..."

Those who saw it cried out in alarm.

The ships drifted to the center of the lake.

Before the people on the shore could do anything to save them.

Several ships began to leak from the bottom, spiraled, and sank.

Panic spread on the pier, and soon the incident alarmed fifth-rank experts.

But after an investigation, they found nothing.

Beneath the lake's surface, they only saw the wreckage of a few ships, with the goods inside.

As for the remaining ten or so ships, they could not be found no matter what.

White mist rose, and the lake wind blew.

The two fifth-rank experts suddenly shivered, exchanged a glance: so many large ships disappeared into thin air, could it really be the work of water ghosts?