It only took fifteen seconds for Chen Mu to enter the buffer zone of Amay City.
The wild beasts in the buffer zone had long since been cleared out, and most of them were bases for the cultivation of flowers and plants.
But there were only some low-grade fast-growing plants in those cultivation bases, and one or two wild beasts would occasionally rush in, which wouldn't cause too much damage.
Because of the huge demand for materials in the market, botany had gradually flourished in the last few years, and there had already been people trying to artificially cultivate some low-grade plant materials.
Quite a few big firms had started to set up their own cultivation laboratories.
More than 80 percent of the materials needed for three-star and above cards had to be obtained in the wild, which was an enormous and shocking number.
Among the 80% of the materials, mineral raw materials and plants made up 30% each, while materials obtained from animals made up about 20%.
That was also why those big firms would pour so much money into the cultivation of plants that they couldn't see any short-term profit from.
For example, if the luminous trees were successfully cultivated on a large scale, it would mean huge profits.
Every plant that could be used as a raw material had value in cultivation, and whoever cultivated it first would be able to grasp the direction of the raw material market.
The profits would be enough to make countless people green with envy.
It was said that some of the more powerful firms were no longer satisfied with the cultivation of plants, and had even started to invest in research into the production of animal materials.
Compared with the investment in the cultivation of plants, the investment in the production of animal materials was dozens of times greater.
However, the profits involved were much higher than that.
At night, the simple and crude cultivation bases for fast-growing plants were peaceful.
The velvet emitted by the fast-growing fluorescent grass emitted a faint fluorescence in the dim light of the night.
There was no wind that night, and the balls of the fluorescent grass floated in the air, slowly drifting with the air.
The fluorescent grass velvet formed a sparkling ocean, which made the place look blurry and dreamy.
Unfortunately, Chen Mu had no interest in appreciating the scenery while he was in the state of breath control.
Sticking close to the ground, he rushed through the fluorescent grass garden with a whoosh.
He was like a shark slicing through the surface of the sea, leaving a V-shaped ripple behind him. The sea of fluorescent grass was affected by the airflow, and it immediately started to change and surge!
The calm and tranquil sea of fluorescent grass was stirred up by Chen Mu into pieces.
Whoosh, whoosh!
There were two figures again, one in front and one behind. This dazzling and dreamy sea of fluorescent grass velvet seemed to have jumped into an era of high-pitched talismans, and suddenly became excited.
Chen Mu sensed that his physical strength was constantly draining away. Most of the wounds on his body had already started to automatically stop bleeding, but there were still three wounds that were too deep, and blood was still flowing out.
But this was not the key. The key was time!
Only twenty seconds!
When the dark and boundless jungle appeared in Chen Mu's field of vision, the first emotional fluctuation in the state of breath control finally appeared!
His heart skipped a beat, and a strange yet complicated feeling rose in his heart.
This emotion was like an extremely minute trace of water vapor under the scorching sun. Before it could form a dark cloud, it disappeared without a trace.
Chen Mu's mind had once again returned to being as clear and pure as a clear blue sky.
Bo Wen and Cheng Ying had been left far behind him, so that they could only be seen as two tiny black dots.
Chen Mu had racked his brains to calculate every minute bit of time, gathering it bit by bit to form a distance that would allow him to shake off the two of them.
He raised his speed to the maximum without any scruples!
Like a shooting star, he fiercely rushed into the jungle!
The branches whipped his face painfully, and the calm expression on Chen Mu's face looked very strange.
Even in the state of breath control, he could only control the jet stream card to avoid the thick trunks, and was powerless to avoid all the branches.
Breath control wasn't invincible, after all, and it was still limited by Chen Mu's own ability.
Only when Chen Mu's own ability was higher and he entered the state of breath control would he be able to bring out more power.
The denser the jungle, the deeper Chen Mu drilled into it, completely ignoring the tiny thorny vines that were making countless tiny bloody marks on his body.
There wasn't much time left. Only five seconds!
He had to make the most of those five seconds.
The jungle in front of him was getting denser and denser, but Chen Mu's speed didn't decrease, but increased, as he continued to rush into the depths of the jungle.
Five!
Four!
Three!
Two!
One!
Chen Mu's speed dropped sharply, but he had already lost control of his body.
Bang! He fell head first into the mud like a sandbag, splashing up a lot of it.
Chen Mu almost fainted from the fall, and the only reason he was still awake was because the movement had been so big, and all the wounds on his body had burst open, forcibly waking him up from the pain.
Without waiting for him to crawl back up, he was clutching his stomach and retching in the mud.
His appearance by then was extremely frightening, looking like a mud man from head to toe.
The mud and blood mixed together, covering the tattered clothes he was still wearing.
There were streaks of blood all over his face, arms, and back, most of which were covered by the mud.
Half squatting and retching, Chen Mu was in so much pain that his face was almost distorted.
The violent retching continued for three minutes!
After three minutes, Chen Mu was almost exhausted, and his eyes were starting to lose focus, and his physical strength was on the verge of being overdrawn.
He struggled to stand up, knowing that it still wasn't the time to rest.
He needed to find a place to hide right away, and if he didn't treat the wounds on his body, then he would just be waiting to die from blood loss.
Coming out of the state of breath control, he was no longer able to look at all the sensations on his body as a bystander.
The pain was like a tide that nearly drowned him, and he used all the strength in his body to clench his teeth. The muscles in his cheeks twitched from time to time, making him look like a wild beast at the end of its road, ferocious and terrifying.
Dragging his weak feet, Chen Mu moved with difficulty toward the nearest big tree.
He had been dragged into the jungle by the demonic woman for a while, and had seen with his own eyes how she chose a place to rest at night. That little bit of pitifully precious experience had saved his life that time.
Bo Wen didn't rush into the jungle right after Chen Mu, but stopped and waited until Cheng Ying landed next to him.
"Let's go together." Bo Wen stared into Cheng Ying's eyes, his tone unquestionable.
Cheng Ying's expression changed, and after a moment of hesitation, she nodded and said, "OK." She had no choice at that time.
Whether it was Bo Wen's power or position, she couldn't refuse him.
The two of them walked cautiously into the jungle.
They weren't Chen Mu, and of course they knew how terrifying the jungle was in the wild.
No one dared to fly in the wild, and Bo Wen was no exception.
There were a lot of dangerous wild beasts living in the wild, and card artisans flying in the sky were the best targets.
Not only would they become the masters of the sky, but they would also have to guard against the sneak attacks of underground beasts.
For example, there was a kind of creature called the crouching frog, which was about 1.6 or 1.7 meters tall, with a mouth like a cannon barrel that took up three quarters of its body.
It was good at preying on birds in the sky, and its long mouth had the same function as a cannon barrel, being able to shoot a kind of green egg-shaped glowing bullet with extreme accuracy.
The power of one such glowing bullet wouldn't be considered very strong, but what was terrifying was that the crouching frogs were social creatures.
Imagine hundreds of crouching frogs quietly lurking in the dense jungle, and suddenly shooting out glowing bullets in unison. Most flying beasts would have no way of evading that kind of "cannon array."
So, the crouching frogs were sometimes called cannon frogs.
The other problem was that their pitifully low IQ couldn't tell the difference between a flying card artisan and a bird.
Looking down from the sky in the jungle, the dense foliage blocked out any possible danger.
Any card artisan with any common sense wouldn't fly in the jungle, and only a hothead like Chen Mu would have no such misgivings.
If they knew the way Chen Mu flew in the jungle, they would certainly think he was crazy.
The jungle was extremely dangerous at night.
They couldn't see the scenery around them, but Bo Wen, who had received the standard card artisan education, had excellent tactical accomplishments, and understood what he had to do under those circumstances.
He didn't rashly use the illumination card, but squinted his eyes to adjust to the light around him.
At the same time, he pulled out a probe card from the special card bag on his waist.
That probe card could help him detect if there were any threats within a 50-meter radius around him.
Bo Wen's adaptability flashed a look of appreciation on Cheng Ying's face. Since the two of them had become battle partners, no one would want their comrade to be rash, and that would be a joke in such a dangerous place.
Rookies always liked to use illumination cards in the dark, so that they could see clearly what was going on around them.
Little did they know that was the stupidest thing to do.
That was to create an opportunity for the enemy to mount a sneak attack.
But that wasn't the only danger in the jungle.
There were a lot of insect creatures in the jungle that liked the light, and there were quite a few of them that were extremely dangerous.
Once you used the illumination card, you would find that you were already surrounded by some extremely dangerous insects without you even realizing it, and would finally be left with nothing but a pile of bones. That was a scene that could give people nightmares.
"Look!" Cheng Ying had suddenly discovered something.