The terrain of Evil Dragon Bay wasn't steep.
A few large rivers had been meandering across this area, bringing silt and mud into this area, forming a swampy wetland. Muddy pools and ponds could be seen everywhere, and dense water plants could be seen everywhere. Sparse trees like red willows and locust trees grew in the wetlands by the water's edge, looking sickly and lethargic.
The clattering sound of water could be heard without an end. Occasionally, extremely large, long and round bodies would roll in the muddy swamp, raising large amounts of water splashes. Unknown poisonous creatures gathered on the thick layer of aquatic plants on the water surface, leisurely letting out poisonous gas and smoke.
The Evil Dragon Bay was filled with soft mud, making it hard to find a safe path. Within the Evil Dragon Bay, which had a radius of nearly ten thousand miles, there were only a few tens of small hills that were strong enough to support all kinds of buildings.
Therefore, the humankind used these hills to set up military camps, and stationed a large number of warriors in this strategic area.
Qian Tan was wearing a gray armor, angrily sitting on a small metal boat, slowly moving along a muddy tributary in the Evil Dragon Bay. Around him, nearly a hundred shuttle-shaped, ten-zhang long boats were in total, and around ten Jia Clan warriors were standing on each boat.
Spell symbols had been sparkling on the tails of these boats. Large pieces of magic crystals had been added into the power formation, which had been activated by the rapid water flow to push these boats forward, allowing these boats to glide at an extremely high speed.
But now, behind each boat was a row of wooden rafts, filled with dark-green skin frog slaves, who were thickly covered in thumb-sized black lumps. These lowly slaves looked like human-shaped frogs, with huge feet and webbing between their toes. They were especially good at swimming, and were the best cannon fodder for the Yu Clan to fight on the water surface.
A cooing sound came from afar, following which, a few gigantic frog slaves trod on the water surface and rushed over. Their bodies were light and agile, and the dangerous swamp didn't pose any threat to them. Running on the swamp was as easy and fast as ordinary people walking on flat ground.
The few frog slaves ran up to Qian Tan's boat, thudded in the mud, and said while gasping quickly, "Lord, there is no danger in front of us. We didn't encounter a single human scout in the front for a hundred miles. But there are too many anacondas here, and a few of our brothers have been swallowed. "
Qian Tan picked up a leather whip with a nasty attitude, fiercely lashed on the leader of these toad men and yelled, "Idiot! You look like this, if those water boas don't eat you, do they eat mud? Get lost and continue to scout. I don't believe that the humans don't know we're here. "
The frog man, who was the leader of the group, screamed out in pain. A deep, bloody mark was left on his smooth skin, and sticky drops of blood flowed down ceaselessly. The few Frog Demons lowered their heads and didn't dare to utter a word. They hastily called out to the others, and a dozen Frog Demons leaped down from a wooden raft. They followed them and ran towards the depths of the Evil Dragon Gulf.
Qian Tan fiercely wielded the leather whip, his mood was extremely bad.
He was banished! Indeed, he was exiled. Because of a mistake he made in the Chi Ban Market, his family suffered a great loss, and the family's honor was humiliated. Therefore, he was sent to the frontline army of the Qian Family from the Chi Ban Market, which was a rich and profitable place, to serve as the commander of a scout troop.
"I don't deserve to be treated like this! This is so miserable! "Qian Tan looked at the gray sky and wanted to cry but failed to shed any tears.
A fist-sized poisonous bug had been slowly flying over Qian Tan's head. Along with a puffing noise, that extremely ugly poisonous bug spurted out a yellow-colored stream of poisonous mist from its butt, slowly spreading out above Qian Tan's head.
The erect eye between Qian Tan's eyebrows opened, and a beam of blood-red light darted out. The poor poisonous bug's body suddenly froze, and its entire body turned blood-red. It then silently fell head-first into the water, turning into a faint stream of blood.
"I shouldn't be here." Qian Tan gnashed his teeth and said to his deputy commander, who was also hanging his head in frustration, "I should be in the Chi Ban Market right now, dealing with piles and piles of precious treasures, drinking good wine, holding beautiful girls, enjoying life as much as I can!"
"Even if I come to the frontline and fight against these bloody, ugly, stupid, dirty human beings, with my status, with my father's status, I should at least be the deputy commander of a frontline army, and be in control of at least half of the main force of an army."
Glaring at those Jia Clan warriors on the boat in disgust, Qian Tan scanned across their armors, which were thickly covered in scratches, then complained, "All my warriors should be the elites of the main force, instead of these second-line, low-quality ones. I should be in the middle army, commanding the army to fight, instead of wearing a set of crappy armors and coming to this bloody place to gather information. "
Swoosh! A turbid wave rose from the water surface, from which, an over ten-zhang long bonytongue fish swooshed up. It widely opened its mouth, which was thickly covered in sharp teeth, and threw a Jia Clan warrior down into the water.
The surrounding Jia Clan warriors were thrown into a great panic. They wielded their weapons, attempting to save their companions, but they were on a small boat. Therefore, even a slight movement of their enormous bodies would make the boat shake intensely, and nearly flip over in the water.
Fortunately, they had those frog slaves. Tens of frog slaves darted into the water while croaking, fought desperately for a while, and finally killed that bonytongue fish, then carried that Jia Clan warrior, who had almost sunk to the bottom of the water, onto the boat. However, within a short period of fighting, three frog slaves were swallowed by the bonytongue fish. When those frog slaves cut open the fish's belly and dragged them out, a layer of skin and flesh of the three poor ones had already been digested by the fish, and couldn't help but howl in pain.
"What a damned place!" Qian Tan angrily asked his deputy commander, "Are those family elders planning to launch an attack from here? Their brains must be damaged! "
Qian Tan's deputy commander looked at Qian Tan weakly and responded in a soft voice, "Lord, we're already unlucky enough. If you don't want to put on your leather armor and go directly to the front as a scout, I think, you should show proper respect to the family elders! "
Qian Tan opened his mouth, raised his head and looked at the sky, seeming to want to cry but had no tears, then gave a heavy sigh.
Over a hundred small boats glided across the water surface, dragging large numbers of wooden rafts behind them, moving towards the south along the muddy tributaries.
Pools, ponds, swamps were left behind by them. Six hours later, they had already gone three-thousand miles deep into the Evil Dragon Bay. During this whole process, they didn't even see a single human silhouette, except for large groups of poisonous bugs and countless fierce water boas, gigantic fishes, crocodiles and other aquatic beasts.
The Qian Family had sent out a hundred scouting troops like Qian Tan's in total. All of them had gone deep into the Evil Dragon Bay side by side, but they hadn't encountered even a single human being.
From a great distance away, a small hill appeared in front of Qian Tan, and a sturdy city was built on that hill.
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