Xia Chujian felt guilty from what was said, and without a word, she didn't even dare to breathe loudly as she crouched in the pilot's seat, concentrating on the aircraft's speed. At the same time, she opened the virtual monitoring videos for up, down, left, right, front, and back, to avoid encountering the same saturated attack.
Six virtual screens floated in front of her, displaying images converted from the solid-state optical radar equipped on the aircraft. The aircraft's mechanical intelligence also provided auxiliary monitoring.
After all, she only had two eyes and couldn't simultaneously focus on six screens.
Once the aircraft entered a stable state, Ye Shijie brought up a new virtual screen, connecting to the Dark Night Hunter Association system's Star Network database.
On the virtual screen, the first thing that appeared was a planet of ink-black and bright blue, floating in the boundless universe.
Ye Shijie pointed at the planet and said, "This is the planet we're on, Guiyuan Star."
As his finger swiped, different images began to appear on the virtual screen.
"Guiyuan Star is the most remote planet in the Beichen Empire's star system, with only the most backward agricultural, forestry, fishing, and animal husbandry resources."
"Look here, thirty percent of it is covered by seawater, and thirty percent is covered by freshwater."
"Another twenty percent is fertile plains and farmland, and ten percent is grassland."
"The remaining ten percent is the Exotic Beast Forest, including the Land of the Far North, which has the 'Restricted Life Zone,' also belongs to the Exotic Beast Forest."
"The association gave the possible coordinates for the Blood Kirin's appearance, which is in the southern edge of the Land of the Far North."
"On the entire Guiyuan Star, only four large cities have permanent residents, and Mulan City is just one of them. Although the entire planet has a population of over ten billion, it has the smallest population and is the most underdeveloped compared to other planets in the Beichen Empire."
Ye Shijie continued to swipe on the virtual screen, found the location of Mulan City on Guiyuan Star, and zoomed in for them to see.
"This is Mulan City, where our team is stationed."
Then, he swiped his finger, zoomed in on the area representing the Exotic Beast Forest on the virtual screen, and continued, "Mulan City's north is the Exotic Beast Forest. This is its three-dimensional view."
"The Exotic Beast Forest spans the eastern and western hemispheres of our Guiyuan Star, bordering Mulan City to the south. Besides that, all the way north, the entire Land of the Far North of Guiyuan Star belongs to the Exotic Beast Forest."
"The core area of the Land of the Far North is also called the 'Restricted Life Zone.' It is said that no life exists there."
"It's so vast..." Everyone was immediately captivated by the scene on the virtual display.
Beneath their feet, mountain ranges stretching for hundreds of thousands of kilometers rose and fell, with no end in sight.
It was nighttime, and there wasn't much light, but the Exotic Beast Forest wasn't completely dark.
Various colors of light occasionally shone from the depths of the forest, not as dazzling as the neon lights in Mulan City, but with a unique charm.
Blood-like crimson, green apple-like light green, desert-like earth yellow, and even scattered bright orange, and eggplant purple that almost blended into the night.
Xia Chujian simply increased the precision of the aircraft's camera, and the situation on the ground became clearer.
Thousands of meters above, various furry little animals could still be seen running in the forest.
However, she didn't watch for long before she noticed that the scenery on the ground was becoming increasingly white.
Soon, the earth became a vast expanse of white, and large snowflakes began to fall from the sky.
Xia Chujian looked carefully at the display and said, "Is it snowing?"
"Yes, the further north you go, the colder it gets, and the heavier the snow falls. It's already mid-November, and even Mulan City in the south is almost in winter, let alone the Land of the Far North where the Exotic Beast Forest is located?"
It was clear that Ye Shijie knew the most about the Exotic Beast Forest in the team, and he was taking this opportunity to educate the others.
The Exotic Beast Forest was covered in white snow, and nothing could be seen at this time.
Xia Chujian was about to stop paying attention to the virtual display when suddenly, a golden dot of light rapidly magnified on the screen, coming from afar.
Was something rushing up from below?
Xia Chujian hurriedly manually operated the aircraft, suddenly pulling up sharply.
The aircraft suddenly accelerated, shooting up five thousand meters in one second. There was a feeling of weightlessness inside the aircraft, and with a little more acceleration, it could reach the first cosmic velocity.
The others in the aircraft were fortunate to be wearing seat belts, or they would have been flying around.
"What's wrong, Chujian? Are you trying to strangle Father Fu!" Li Fu let out a wail.
He was the tallest and strongest, and the seat in the aircraft was barely big enough for him.
This sudden acceleration and ascent caused him to be the first to be unable to bear the seat belt.
Xia Chujian ignored him.
She stared intently at the virtual screen, finally seeing clearly what the golden object below was.
It was a golden giant bird with a wingspan of four to five meters!
Its head was particularly large, four to five times the size of an ordinary hawk's head.
Its wings were not only very long but also incredibly wide and thick, with feathers that shone like gold.
With a flap of its wings, it seemed capable of stirring the air at high altitudes, pushing away gusts of air currents!
That strength was truly immense.
Even more peculiar was that this bird had four legs! Not bird legs, but four legs that looked very strong, like those of a lion.
The entire bird also appeared to be the size of a male lion, not at all like the size of an ordinary hawk.
"...What the heck is that? What if it crashes into our aircraft..."
Song Mingqian happened to see the virtual screen and gasped, understanding why Xia Chujian had suddenly pulled the aircraft up.
Ye Shijie frowned and leaned closer, examining it carefully for a moment before saying with uncertainty, "This looks like a Griffon Sea Eagle from the Exotic Beast Forest... but it usually operates in the Land of the Far North near the Restricted Life Zone on Guiyuan Star."
"We're not even at the southern edge of the Land of the Far North yet, and we're at least tens of thousands of miles away from the Restricted Life Zone. How could it have run so far south?"
Although they were in the airspace north of Mulan City, their current location was indeed considered south relative to the planet's northern core.
"Why does it only operate near the Restricted Life Zone?"
"Because it only likes to stay in cold places. The further south you go, the hotter it gets, which isn't suitable for Griffon Sea Eagles to survive."
Everyone: "..."
A place of minus eighty degrees Celsius, compared to minus one hundred and something degrees, is considered "hotter," right?
A subtle sense of absurdity arose in everyone's hearts.
But this was the Exotic Beast Forest, and it was near the Land of the Far North, so anything could happen.
"Then what does it mean by charging at us?" Xia Chujian extended her finger, calmly sliding it across the virtual screen, changing the viewing angle to observe the position below. "Look, it was chasing us. It only gave up after we rapidly ascended and it couldn't catch up."
"This aircraft is indeed powered by controlled nuclear fusion. Tsk tsk, look at this speed. I feel like it could transform into a starship and fly out of Guiyuan Star's gravitational pull in a matter of minutes," Song Mingqian, the technical expert in the team, said. He was said to be the only one who had attended university.
Xia Chujian looked at the data on the instrument panel and nodded, saying, "That's for sure. As long as we reach the second cosmic velocity, we can fly out of Guiyuan Star."
Everyone was attracted and couldn't help but gather together to study the performance data of the aircraft.
Only Xia Chujian frowned, looking at the direction where the Griffon Sea Eagle had disappeared, feeling that something was not right.
Their aircraft was a small combat aircraft.
Combat aircraft, like large airplanes, are equipped with long-range ultrasonic devices to drive away birds.
No matter how large a Griffon Sea Eagle is, it's still a bird.
Birds are most susceptible to the kind of ultrasonic sounds specifically targeting them and will avoid them from a distance.
Why didn't this Griffon Sea Eagle avoid it, and instead went against the odds? Could there be birds that like the ultrasonic noise? This is truly a case of the forest being so big that all kinds of birds can be found...
Xia Chujian complained in her heart while manipulating the aircraft, simply flying rapidly north at an altitude of ten thousand meters for an hour before slowly descending.
"Below is the southern edge of the Land of the Far North," Xia Chujian said, suddenly noticing that the instrument panel controlling the aircraft's direction was in disarray.
The pointer on it was spinning around three hundred and sixty degrees as if it were drunk.
"Team Leader Ye, what's going on?" Xia Chujian looked at Ye Shijie with some concern.
Ye Shijie, sitting in the co-pilot's seat, glanced at it and said calmly, "The closer you get to the Land of the Far North, the stronger the magnetic field energy. Aircraft will be like this. Disengage the autopilot mode and control it manually."
"...But the direction finder isn't working. How can I operate it manually?"
How can you fly without direction? "Use your eyes and brain..." Ye Shijie gave her a disdainful look. "Aren't you very capable? You even wanted to venture into the Land of the Far North in the Exotic Beast Forest alone!"
Xia Chujian: "..."
She gripped the control stick and said calmly, "Okay, anyway, I can't understand the instrument panel, so I'll just drive randomly."
Ye Shijie's face darkened immediately: "You really can't understand the instrument panel?!"
"I haven't graduated from high school yet, and I was a bad student. Do you think I can understand it?" Xia Chujian even threw in a Mulan City dialect phrase for Ye Shijie.
Joking aside, Xia Chujian still looked at the virtual display in front of her and slowly descended the aircraft.
She didn't breathe a sigh of relief until she could see the undulating mountains and snow-white branches on the ground with her naked eyes.
"This place below isn't far from the approximate coordinates of the Blood Kirin given by the Dark Night Hunter Association, so let's stop here." Xia Chujian zoomed in on a virtual display showing the ground situation in front of her, so everyone could see the situation on the ground.
Below the aircraft, the first thing that caught the eye was a green lake. The lake's area was very large, a large patch of green, like a transparent and clear jade, inlaid on the snow-covered land.
There were dense forests by the lake, covered in snow.
A little bit of verdant green peeked out from the expanse of white.
Through the aircraft's built-in 3D perspective system, they could see a large open space under the trees, and in the center of the open space, there seemed to be a building that looked like a small wooden house.
There was actually a small wooden house that looked very old in this remote place!
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