Chapter 148 Return to the Jungle
Three months later.
Arcadia returned to the Wakanda jungle as promised.
This time, she returned as the deputy leader of the "Morgan Expedition Team".
The captain was none other than Dr. Edward Morgan.
He learned from Arcadia that his only son was still alive. He was so excited that he wished he could grow wings and fly back to the Wakanda jungle immediately.
However, work forced him to remain patient, and after some preparation, he finally put together an expedition team.
Five years later, the doctor returned to the rainforest in the name of scientific expedition to find his lost son.
Arcadia volunteered to be the teacher's guide.
Thinking back to the thrilling experience during the last forest expedition, Arcadia learned his lesson after suffering the loss.
For security reasons, this wealthy noble lady spent a large sum of money to hire a team of mercenaries to serve as bodyguards for the scientific expedition team.
The leader of the mercenary group is named Hessen, a veteran who became famous during the War of Succession.
A middle-aged man with a very burly build, with a full beard on his face that couldn't hide his scar.
He had a huge sword slung across his back, and his eyes revealed a sinister and cold temperament.
Captain Hesse soon found an opportunity to prove himself worthy of his high commission.
The scientific expedition team left the ship and headed for the village where Tazan had settled.
On the way, we passed a swamp and suddenly heard the sound of fighting.
The two sides in the conflict are the Wakandans and the Lizardmen.
The cold-blooded lizardmen, covered in emerald green scales, are the most representative sub-human race in the rainforest.
To be fair, Lizardmen are not inherently evil.
However, these subhumans living deep in the swamp are seen as more barbaric than the Wakandans by visitors from the civilized world.
The Lizardmen also have good reason to hate humans.
The Wakandans often came to the swamp to fish and hunt, invading their territory.
The two sides frequently had fierce conflicts over this issue.
This melee on the edge of the swamp was just the usual racial friction.
The doctor and his team tried to quietly avoid the conflict zone.
Unfortunately, I was unlucky. Not long after I walked out, a group of lizardmen suddenly rushed out from the bushes ahead.
Holding a flint spear, with a scaly reptilian face, he looks murderous!
When the two sides met on a narrow road, they were both stunned.
The lizardman leader was the first to come to his senses.
It stuck out its forked tongue and hissed at us.
Everyone in the scientific expedition team looked at each other, confused as to what he meant.
Only the knowledgeable Dr. Morgan could tell that the other party was speaking ancient dragon language.
He hurried forward and tried to explain to the Lizardmen in his not-so-fluent dragon language that he was just a passer-by and had no intention of intervening in the conflict between the Lizardmen and the Wakandans.
Unfortunately, the communication between the two sides was not pleasant.
The lizardman leader reluctantly accepted the doctor's words and agreed to let them go, but with one condition.
The scientific expedition team must leave behind all the iron tools on their bodies!
Especially the swords carried by the mercenaries and the chain mail they wore.
In the rainforest area, iron ore is scarce and iron smelting technology is very backward.
Armor and weapons forged from fine steel are especially valuable!
The lizardman leader, seeing that everyone was well-equipped, couldn't help but become greedy and wanted to collect some tolls.
After hearing Dr. Morgan translate the Lizardmen's demands, the mercenaries immediately became furious!
Demand that they hand over their armor and weapons?
"Dream on!"
"Arrogant lizardman, you're looking for death!"
The crowd was outraged and swords were drawn!
"Stop making noise!"
Captain Hessen shouted, and his mercenaries fell silent.
"Dr. Morgan, please convey my respects to the lizardman leader."
Captain Hessen said calmly.
"We can discuss the matter of handing over weapons."
Doctor centered translation.
The lizardman leader's gloomy expression improved.
The compatriots behind him slowly put down the spears that they had held high.
Captain Hessen, in front of everyone on both sides, took off his helmet and chain mail.
The huge sword slung over his back was also taken off.
Holding the equipment in both hands, he strode towards the lizardman.
The lizardman leader crossed his arms over his chest and twisted his mouth.
A lizardman brother nearby stepped forward and took Captain Heisen's equipment.
A disarmed, unarmed human being poses no threat in the eyes of the Lizardmen.
However, they soon paid the price for this prejudice in blood.
The moment the handover was completed, Captain Hessen suddenly stomped his feet!
Boom! !
The ground beneath my feet suddenly shook violently, and dirt flew everywhere.
Level 2 Martial Arts——Earthquake!
Captain Hessen stomped his foot infused with magic, causing a local earthquake within a radius of fifteen meters!
All the lizardmen happened to be in the earthquake zone, and were caught off guard, and almost all of them fell down.
Only the lizardman leader was still struggling to hold on by holding onto the violently shaking tree trunk.
Captain Hesse himself was not affected by the earthquake at all.
He strode forward with a sneer, approaching the lizardman leader.
"Hiss—Human! Cunning! Damn it!"
The lizardman leader was furious and picked up the spear with one hand and stabbed it hard into Heisen's chest.
clang!
The sharp flint-polished spear pierced Hessen's chest, which had no armor protection, and a string of sparks flew out!
Captain Heisen was proficient in the third-level physical training and remained calm even after being hit in the chest by a spear.
With his eyes glaring, he strode forward with the spear at his head.
Crunch—
The wooden spear shaft was bent into a bow shape by him.
The lizardman leader leaned against the tree trunk, his hands shaking.
He could barely hold the spear shaft.
Snap!!
The spear, unable to bear the weight, finally broke.
The lizardman leader screamed and turned and ran away.
Captain Hessen grabbed the half spear head and threw it away.
Phew!
The tip of the spear hit the lizardman leader's back and went out through his chest.
The body fell to the ground with a thud, and a pool of blood spread out.
At the same time, Arcadia was not idle either, and worked with the mercenaries to beat the downed dog.
The lizardman who was knocked down by Captain Hessen was hit hard before he could get up.
The leader is dead, and the minions have no desire to fight anymore.
He left behind several corpses and fled away crawling.
After this fierce but short battle, Arcadia came to find Hessen with two swords in hand.
"The natives trapped by the lizardmen in the swamp are all residents of Tazan Village!"
"The simple indigenous people once treated us warmly! Now they are in trouble, we can't just stand by and watch!"
"What's more, there is Tazan's favor!"
"Captain! Bring your men and follow me to rescue them!"
"hehe……"
Captain Hessen sneered and shook his head.
"Miss, I'm so sorry."
"The contract we signed does not include rescuing the natives."
"Unless you pay extra, no deal."
"You...Okay, name a price!" Arcadia said, holding back her anger.
Hesse casually quoted a sky-high price.
An impossible price to accept.
Arcadia finally understood that this was not a matter of money, and Hesse didn't want to create any more trouble.
"If you don't go, I'll go by myself!"
With a heart full of resentment, Arcadia began to revert to her ancestral form.
He transformed into an angel of revenge with a silver helmet and armor, spread his silver wings, and flew towards the swamp.
At this time, a familiar long howl came from the woods!
The young man with a leopard head and a human body rushed out of the dense forest like a black lightning.
In the blink of an eye, he rushed to the rear of the Lizardman camp.
Screams were heard in the crowd!
The black shadows flashed like lightning.
The lizardmen fell down one after another, blood spurting from their throats.
His eyes were wide open, full of confusion.
From beginning to end, it only took the blink of an eye.
He didn't even see the opponent's movements before he suffered a fatal blow.
The speed of the Black Panther is terrifying and unbelievable!
The Lizardmen were in great disarray, their morale collapsed, and they quickly scattered.
"Tazan!"
Arcadia landed with joy and flew over without even bothering to change back into human form .
Along with a set of silver armor, he fell into Allen's arms.
"Dear friend, we finally meet again!"
At the same time, the two young people were hugging each other intimately.
Captain Hessen stroked his beard and frowned slightly.
I felt a little afraid of the Black Panther boy's strength.
…
After five years, Morgan and his son were finally reunited.
Alan comforted his cheap father who was crying with excitement, and told the doctor about his experience of wandering in the wilderness for the past five years.
Finding his son is just one of Dr. Morgan's goals.
He also had an important mission on this trip.
Based on the unearthed artifacts, the doctor speculated that deep in the rainforest, there existed an intelligent race older than the Wakanda people.
Before this race completely declined, it once created a glorious civilization.
The doctor and his team decided to venture deep into the jungle to explore the remains of ancient civilization.
Alan joined the doctor's team and led everyone to avoid the wild beasts and dangerous areas in the forest.
During the journey, Arcadia and Allen spent every day together.
It was natural to develop feelings for this wild young man.
One evening, two young people were dating under a banana tree.
They couldn't help themselves and together they wrote the great harmony of life.
This was the first time that Alan had been intimate with a girl with angelic blood.
Compared to ordinary golden cats, Miss Angel's skin is smoother, her pores are more delicate, and she feels great to the touch, just like porcelain...
Alan couldn't say whether this was a genetic trait of angels.
…
Happy times are always so short.
After more than two months of arduous journey, Dr. Morgan finally got his wish and found ancient ruins in a valley deep in the jungle.
To be precise, it is a deserted temple.
The building is made of huge stones and contains snake-shaped statues.
A little observation will reveal that the face of the statue looks very much like a human face.
And most of them are young women's faces, which are quite beautiful.
The statue with a human face and a snake body...
The more Alan looked at it, the more familiar it seemed.
I recall that I once hunted a snake monster in the mountains of Quint Town, my hometown.
That basilisk is said to be a Naga with severely degenerated bloodline.
Its facial features still vaguely retain the features of a human face.
His conjecture was soon confirmed by Dr. Morgan.
The statues in the ruins are none other than the legendary Naga tribe!
What the doctor is exploring is actually the civilization created by the ancient Naga tribe.
The Nagas with human faces and snake bodies are all natural sorcerers!
Their hearts are more vicious than their fangs!
Use magic to dominate all races, including humans.
They served as slaves and built this once magnificent temple.
On the walls inside the temple.
Mottled fragments of murals can be seen everywhere.
Alan didn't understand what it meant.
The doctor was overjoyed.
I worked day and night to copy the murals and try to interpret them.
The expedition team stayed in the temple for more than ten days.
With the help of his assistants, Dr. Morgan's research achieved groundbreaking results.
According to his identification, the murals depict the history of the ancient Naga tribe's rise and fall.
This mysterious ancient civilization belongs to a branch of the Naga ethnic group called "Spirit Naga".
The last matriarch of the Naga clan, in order to seek immortality, studied necromancy, massacred the surrounding indigenous people and held blood sacrifices.
He was crazy and ended up killing himself...
Not only that, the mistress's relatives, friends and children were also buried with her.
This crazy monster refused to admit that he had gone astray until the last moment of his life, declaring that death was merely the beginning of a more real life.
She felt that she would not die, but was embracing eternal life.
She felt that her family and descendants would not die, but, thanks to her, would accompany her and gain eternal life.
It doesn’t matter what the Naga mistress thinks.
The other Nagas in the tribe had enough of her madness.
Plot in secret and set a trap.
The mad mistress and her cronies were lured deep into the tomb where the ancestors were worshipped, and then a rebellion was launched.
After a bloody battle, the mistress and her cronies were all killed!
The coup was successful, but the Nagas still couldn't rest easy.
Before she died, the mistress declared that she would come back for revenge.
He keeps claiming that he is "immortal".
That sounds like crazy talk.
But...what if it's true?
What if she could really come back to life?
Some strange things that happened later made the coup plotters even more frightened.
They built this temple to suppress the spirit of the Matron of Death and try to escape the curse of the dead soul.
What happened later was not recorded in the mural, and Dr. Morgan did not know.
But judging from the signs of ruin at the scene, the Naga clan had clearly gone downhill after the coup.
Regardless of whether it was because of the mistress's curse, the tribe no longer exists and has been completely wiped out in the dust of history.
Only broken walls and ruins are left for later generations to study.
Based on the clues provided by the murals , Dr. Morgan has roughly deciphered where the ancestral tombs of the Naga tribe are located.
Reason told him to stop.
The Ancestral Tomb, where the Crazy Mistress was murdered, is definitely a very dangerous place!
The murals warn many times that if you trespass into the ancestral tombs without permission, there will definitely be no good end!
Of course, Dr. Morgan also admitted that there should be very valuable cultural relics deep in the tomb.
The Naga tribe advocates luxury, and burial treasures are indispensable.
Captain Hesse is intrigued by this ancient tomb and suggests that the Doctor continue exploring.
Maybe everyone can take this opportunity to make a fortune.
However, the Doctor resisted the temptation.
I firmly believe that it is wise to quit while you are ahead.
After a fierce quarrel, the doctor and the captain parted unhappily.
Captain Hesse considered leaving the Doctor behind and searching for the treasure on his own.
However, without the doctor leading the way, who can find the ancient tomb of the Naga tribe in this primeval forest?
No one else can do it.
Then, what happens next is a natural progression.
That night, Captain Hessen and his mercenaries launched a rebellion.
First, they poisoned the soup to make everyone in the scientific expedition team unconscious, and then they massacred them.
Captain Hesse doesn't need any more survivors except Dr. Morgan.
Alan is the only one on the team who is resistant to the toxin.
Only he and Arcadia escaped the massacre and survived.
Allen could have exposed Hesse's plot in advance.
But he didn't.
Atavistic meditation, in the final analysis, is for the purpose of improving spiritual practice.
From this perspective, the interests of practitioners and ancestral spirits are not always consistent.
The ancestors certainly hope that tragedy will not happen.
The ancestor spirit did not want to go through the suffering that nearly killed him and ultimately made him stronger.
However, without the subsequent suffering, how could the ancestral spirits have such a strong obsession before death?
How can there be perfect meditation without any end-of-life regrets to resolve?
Are you putting yourself too deeply in the shoes of the ancestral spirits and putting their interests above your own, simply to satisfy your own chaste heart?
Losing yourself and getting too immersed in the role are the signs of becoming obsessed.
Alan doesn't want to be possessed by a demon.
When necessary, you have to be "heartless".
This is the principle that a sorcerer must adhere to in his practice.
