Entering a restaurant, Yan Ting found a quiet place to sit down. When the waiter came over, he saw a customer carrying a giant knife that was taller than a man, and his eyes almost popped out of his head.
Yan Ting knew that carrying Duan Ya on his back would definitely attract strange looks. He had long been mentally prepared. During this trip to Death Tianze, he planned to carry Duan Ya on his back all the time. This was a good opportunity to increase
The compatibility between him and Duan Ya.
After the battle with Gu Feichun, Yan Ting was able to use some of Duan Ya's power, but he knew that this was not enough. Only when he fully adapted to Duan Ya's weight would he be able to exert Duan Ya's greatest power.
He randomly ordered a few dishes to go with the meal. No matter what happened next, the first task was to fill his stomach. He had not eaten for several days and he was almost starving.
The waiter came up with several plates of hot food and set the table for Yan Ting. Suddenly there was a burst of exclamation from outside. Yan Ting raised his eyebrows and walked to the window, only to see several people carrying a man covered in blood.
People ran to the hospital.
Compared with other cities, Daze City is relatively quiet, and there are usually no incidents that hurt people. This person was obviously very seriously injured. If he did not receive treatment, he would be disabled at worst or die at worst. Yan Ting was very worried.
It's hard to imagine what could possibly cause someone to be hurt like this.
"Oh, it's the crocodile man again." A middle-aged man next to him looked at this scene and sighed helplessly.
"Brother, is the crocodile man you are talking about the crocodile man in the Death Sky Zell?" Yan Ting asked politely after hearing what the middle-aged man said.
The middle-aged man glanced at Yan Ting, nodded slowly and said, "Yes, you see, most of the injuries on this man's body are on his legs and arms. This is the unique way of crocodile-men attacking humans. Daze City Fangyuan
There is only Death Tianze in two hundred miles, and there are almost no magical beasts. If it wasn’t injured by the Crocodile Man, who else could it be?”
Yan Ting took a deep breath. Regarding the records of the Crocodile Man, the files in the Sky Tower were not very detailed. This species seemed to appear out of thin air and was not a native species of the Snow Eagle Empire at all.
In this regard, Zhulu Academy specially sent experts to Death Tianze several times to investigate, and they got a general understanding of the Crocodile Man, and the conclusion they gave was - brutal, vicious, insidious and cunning!
A strong man once saw with his own eyes that crocodile people like to hide under pools in swamps, behind deep grass, wait for their prey to come up, and then suddenly launch a sneak attack, biting the limbs of the prey. When the prey is unable to move due to the maiming of its limbs, they will
Then they drag the prey back to the cave, divide it and eat it.
Crocodile people almost never have direct conflicts with humans, but sneak attacks. If they fail, they will escape into the swamp. The swamp can swallow up humans, but it is no threat to them. They are even faster in the swamp.
It exceeds the speed on land, so in Death Sky, the most dangerous thing is not the swamp and the environment, but the crocodile people hiding behind the environment.
But the records of Zhulu Academy are only this. The origin of the crocodile people, why they have such hunting habits, and why they can come and go freely in the swamps cannot be studied deeply. After all, even the strong Yuan Dao realm can't find a way to survive in the swamp.
Death Tian Ze is not completely unscathed either.
If you want to know more, perhaps you can only enter the Death Tianze and experience it for yourself. If Yan Ting wants to find the divine fire there, the Crocodile Man level is inevitable.
"Brother, you are a local resident of Daze City. Can you tell me what the crocodile man is?"
Although there are portraits of crocodile people in Zhulu Academy, Yan Ting wants to learn about crocodile people from the mouths of these residents. Daze City is close to Death Tianze, and the residents' understanding of crocodile people may not be worse than that of Zhulu Academy. Moreover, from
You may be able to get other information from their mouths.
The middle-aged man hesitated for a moment, and Yan Ting said with a smile: "Brother, it's already noon now. The younger brother has ordered some food, but he hasn't spoken yet. If the older brother doesn't mind, we will eat together. How about treating me today?"
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The middle-aged man smiled and said hurriedly: "Brother, that's not what I meant!"
"It's okay, let's just make friends. Come on, brother, we're right here. If you don't have enough food, you can have more. Just take whatever you want to drink." Yan Ting led the middle-aged man back to his seat and asked the store owner to add a pair of bowls and chopsticks.
The middle-aged man was probably hungry too, and he was a bit shy at first, but after Yan Ting's persuasion, he started eating in large gulps.
Yan Ting smiled and did not ask about the information about the crocodile man for the time being. Instead, he added two more meat dishes and asked the store owner to bring a jug of good wine. He pushed them all in front of the middle-aged man while he ate slowly.
Eat it with all your might.
After drinking and eating, the middle-aged man put down his bowl and chopsticks, smiled awkwardly, and said, "Brother, what do you want to know?"
Yan Ting swallowed the food in his mouth and said with a smile: "Brother, does he know the origin of the crocodile man?"
The middle-aged man huffed, looked embarrassed, and said with a wry smile: "I don't know the origin of this crocodile man. I just know a legend. I don't know if my brother wants to hear it."
"Brother, it's okay to say it. The legend naturally has its basis. Before the truth is revealed, the legend is believed by everyone." Yan Ting doesn't mind these mythical legends, just listen to them as a story.
"Okay, then let me tell you, this crocodile man is neither a beast nor a human, but a half-human, half-animal monster. But perhaps they were all humans a thousand years ago."
"Human?" Yan Ting asked in confusion: "Why do you say they are human?"
The middle-aged man continued: "Thousands of years ago, this Death Tianze was not a swamp, but a plain. There were several big families on this plain. Their wealth was terrifying. I heard it was comparable to the national treasury.
, on weekdays he is kind and generous, and he gets along well with the people around him. He is a well-known good person in the surrounding area."
"But when you are famous, you will inevitably have more troubles. Because these big families have great wealth and reputation, they attracted the covetousness of bandits. One night, a large group of bandits looted several families and took away all their belongings.
All the treasures were taken away, and nearly a thousand people from several families were killed by bandits."
Yan Ting nodded, this legend is exactly the same as the records of the Overlooking Tower.
"You said, these families ended up miserable because they did good deeds because of their money. Isn't God blind?" The middle-aged man sighed: "Oh, but after the looting, the sky suddenly changed and thunder struck all of a sudden.
After a while, several thunderbolts fell on the ground, causing a fire. There were many trees in that area. This burning directly set the entire forest on fire, stretching for dozens of miles. It is said that the fire burned.
You can see it in other cities."
"Just like that, whether it was those families or the group of bandits who killed people and robbed money, they all died in the fire, and together with their treasures, they disappeared from this world."
"Disappeared?" Yan Ting asked: "Although gold will be melted by fire, there will still be traces even so. What do you mean by disappeared?"
The middle-aged man said: "It just disappeared. Everything is gone, not even a trace. That place is relatively remote. Only after the fire burned for two days did someone go to put out the fire. Inside, they only saw burned ruins.
The house, but all the corpses and treasures are gone, do you think this is strange?"
Yan Ting nodded thoughtfully and said, "Brother, do you think someone is alive and took away the treasures?"
The middle-aged man smiled, shook his head and said: "How do I know, but your idea may be right. After that, the weather in that area seemed to have changed. It rained continuously and became extremely cold.
The people who originally lived there were frightened by the bandits' rebellion, but this terrible weather directly caused them to abandon their homes and move to other places, so it became a no-man's land."
"Many years later
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, the appearance of the place changed. It was no longer a plain, but turned into a swamp. There were potholes everywhere, and you couldn’t even see the road clearly. It was very dangerous to walk in it. Gradually, no one came close, until
Probably more than a thousand years ago, a group of people were passing by there on business. Guess what, there were more than a hundred people, including many masters of the Tianyuan realm. In the end, only a few were left, covered in blood and crazy.
People ran out of it, unconscious, and kept shouting "crocodile man, crocodile man". From then on, the legend of crocodile man spread. Later, some people who did not believe in evil also went in, and they never came back.
Never came out."
Yan Ting pondered for a while and said, "Does the king have nothing to do with this matter?"
"It's not that I don't care, it's that I can't control it." The middle-aged man sighed: "The Death Sky Lake area is cold and damp, extremely dangerous, and there are crocodiles hunting in it. Several generations of kings have sent nearly 30,000 troops into the Death Sky Lake.
There is no return. The crocodile people are cunning and good at taking advantage of the terrain, so the army has no choice. In the end, they simply don’t care. Anyway, the crocodile people have not left the Tianze of Death, so they just treat it as if it is a well and not a river."
"Water in a well does not harm the river?" Yan Ting sneered: "Nowadays, there seem to be quite a few sects that use Death Tianze as a place for training. This is using the sects to help kill the Crocodile Man, the leader of the Snow Eagle Kingdom, for fun
A good plan."
"Shh!" The middle-aged man made a gesture to shut up and lowered his voice: "Keep your voice down, you are going to die."
"Brother, what do you think these crocodile people are about?" Yan Ting understood the middle-aged restraint, so he restrained himself a little and continued to ask.
The middle-aged man smiled bitterly and said: "I am just an ordinary citizen of Daze City. I know that these legends are passed down from my ancestors. I really don't know the origin of the Crocodile Man, but many outsiders have come to Daze City in recent years.
, they all want to enter the Death Tianze to hunt the crocodile people, but it seems that they all return without success."
"Why is this happening?" Yan Ting frowned slightly.
According to the records of the Overhead Tower file, the crocodile man is not powerful, but just cunning, and extremely difficult to capture. There was a Yuandao realm expert from Zhulu Academy who easily defeated a crocodile man and almost killed it and brought it back, but was killed by him.
It was disturbed by its companions and then used the terrain to escape.
Since there were Crocodiles in the Snow Eagle Empire, there should have been countless people who have seen Crocodiles and fought against them, but no one has been able to kill them?
"Well, I heard that the skin of crocodiles is so hard that it can't be cut even by magic weapons. Moreover, they seem to have a magical power to recover from injuries. Someone once saw a crocodile that was seriously injured.
Man, when it reappeared, it turned out to be unscathed, moving freely, and even faster than before."
"Recover the injury." Yan Ting murmured in a low voice, his pupils trembling slightly, looking into the distance, and murmured in his mouth: "Could it be Yuan Xinyan... If these sects strangle with all their strength, it is impossible to kill even a crocodile man.
Unable to kill them, they seriously injured the Crocodile Man. Could it be that they already knew that the Origin Heart Flame was not just a myth, but a real existence. The Crocodile Man's skin is hard, but he can recover from his injuries quickly. Only the Origin Heart Flame can explain all this."
"If that's the case, why doesn't any sect leader come here? Yuanxinyan is one of the ten sacred fires and has the power of immortality. Can they control such a powerful force? Or...
...Have you buried the chess pieces a long time ago and are just waiting for the moment when Yuan Xinyan is born?"
Yan Ting sighed softly, he needed to enter the Death Sky Lake as soon as possible. It would be sad if the Source Heart Flame was obtained by others.
If he were simply looking for the Source Heart Flame for Xie Ningyan, he himself would not believe that the Source Heart Flame could bring his strength to a huge level. If possible, he must get it.