Chapter 34: Self-defeating

In the deep and quiet woods, a fluffy little white rabbit is concentrating on grazing, with a pair of long little ears, turning left and right from time to time, listening to the sounds around it.

Suddenly, the rabbit, who was addicted to food, seemed to hear something, and when it looked up, it saw a fireball flying towards it, and it was already in front of it. If it is an ordinary rabbit, I am afraid that it has already accepted its fate now, but it is obviously not an ordinary rabbit.

At the moment of crisis, the little rabbit did not panic at all, only to see that it opened its small mouth, and a crescent-shaped wind blade was generated out of thin air, colliding violently with the incoming fireball.

After a short confrontation, the fireball was the first to fail, and it burst open with a bang, and the wind blade continued to fly forward until it carved a shallow mark on a large tree, and then turned into energy and disappeared into the air.

Seeing that the strength of the enemy was far inferior to his own, the little rabbit showed a contemptuous smile before running away slowly. But it hadn't taken two steps before a sudden spike rose on the ground and pierced him.

"What, why is there an enemy who can use two attribute mana" When he was dying, the little rabbit thought unwillingly. It wasn't until it saw the tall two-legged beast coming out of the dense forest that it remembered what its grandfather had told it about the fear of being dominated by two-legged beasts.

It still remembers that day, when his grandfather told him a story under the stars: "Xiaobai, if you encounter a two-legged monster in the future, remember to run away immediately." It was because of them that our ancestors had to migrate to the ...... deep in this dense forest."

"Grandpa, I'm ashamed of your teachings......" The little rabbit closed his eyes unwillingly as he watched the two-legged beast walk towards him step by step.

Finally, the little rabbit died at the age of ten and a half.

Maybe it's a blessing for it. There is no need to see the wicked deeds of the brutal two-legged beast to its body.

Closer, closer.

Finally, the two-legged beast stretched out his sinful hands, and thenβ€”in a porcelain vase, took the blood that flowed from it.

And while receiving it, the two-legged beast also said in heartache: "Hey, it's a waste, so much blood has flowed away in vain!"

Who would hunt for blood? Of course it wasn't a vampire, and when he looked away from the rabbit, he could see that the person who came was a teenager, not Han Lin.

And whenever Han Lin remembered the reason why he came out to hunt today, he couldn't help but scold his mother angrily.

"Damn, rich people just do, so many delicious things don't eat, you have to eat some spirit beast blood. The blood of the spirit beasts in the entire Yecheng is in short supply, and I have to go out to hunt by myself!"

That's right, during the three days that Han Lin was in retreat and cultivated spells, the food world in Yecheng had undergone earth-shaking changes, all of which started with Ye Zhen, the eldest son of the Ye family, who was lazy and delicious.

Three days ago, the eldest son of the Ye family didn't know what was going on, and suddenly came to Dongxing Building and said that they should make themselves a food called Mao Xuewang. For Ye Zhen's unreasonable request, Dongxinglou has become accustomed to it, because this is not the first time he has done this.

In the past, if Ye Zhen went out to eat any food, after returning to Yecheng, he would also ask Dongxinglou to find a way to make it. And this time it was good, at least he provided a rough idea of the ingredients and tastes, so that the cook knew where to start, and sometimes he even only knew a name, and the cook often spent a lot of time and energy to make the food he wanted in order to meet his requirements.

It was the same this time, although the cook didn't know what was delicious about this spirit beast blood, but this was the request of the young owner, so they could only explore it a little bit, and finally spent a whole day making this food.

Originally, Dongxinglou thought that this was just a food that the eldest young master came up with on a whim, but when the chef who made this dish didn't hold back the aroma and tasted it, the door to the new world opened.

They never knew that the blood of the spirit beast that they had directly discarded before could actually make such delicious food, the taste was not even much better than the spirit beast meat, and the special tender taste was even more than the spirit beast meat, especially the blood of herbivores, that kind of fragrant taste, it was really appetizing.

And the chef also found that in addition to making the Mao Xuewang that Ye Zhen said, it still tastes good if it is simply steamed or fried.

Young Master Ye's proposal actually worked!

Although the people in Dongxing Building don't want to admit it, because of this business, if it is done, it will be very profitable. Therefore, they finally had to bow their heads and discuss with Ye Zhen, and after obtaining his consent, they finally put this spirit beast blood on the menu of Dongxing Building as a series of dishes.

The reality is also as everyone imagined, once the dishes are launched, they will instantly become popular all over Yecheng. On that day alone, Dongxinglou's performance doubled, and Ye Zhen, the person who "proposed ideas", was also praised by the hostess's mother once, which can be said to be a joy for the guests and hosts.

Except, of course, Han Lin.

Due to the countless number of people who come to Dongxing Building to taste the dishes every day, this makes the already small amount of spirit beast blood in short supply every day, so that in addition to buying a large number of spirit beast blood from other restaurants, Dongxing Building has also launched ordinary poultry blood, which is barely enough for daily consumption.

The result of this phenomenon was that the price of spirit beast blood was rising, and in the end, when Han Lin went to Dongxing Building again this morning to buy spirit beast blood, he found that the other party was not selling, and not only here, but the entire Yecheng no longer sold spirit beast blood.

And when Han Lin heard the ins and outs of this incident, he was so angry that he almost crushed his teeth.

Although Han Lin knew that this should just be a kind of pursuit of new things by the public, and the heat would return to normal after a while, he couldn't afford to wait for this time, he urgently needed spirit beast blood to mix ink.

So after greeting these rich people very reverently, in the end, Han Lin was heartbroken, and while it was still early, he left Yecheng directly and came to the nearby mountains to hunt alone.

Since I can't buy it, then I'll find it myself!

Han Lin's luck was also good, due to the abundance of products in the mountains near Yecheng, plus he was now a cultivator, he had a certain perception of the aura in the body of small animals. In less than half a day, he had collected the blood of the spirit beast in six small porcelain bottles, plus the little white rabbit just now, the amount was basically enough.

Moreover, in addition to the blood of the spirit beast, Han Lin also picked a lot of spirit grass that he needed, and now he even saved the money to buy spirit grass, which was really a double win.

It was not too early to see the sky, and after Han Lin finished collecting the rabbit's blood, he carried the rabbit's ears and walked towards the periphery of the mountain.

"Today's harvest is good, if you sell the spirit beast meat when you go back later, won't you be able to make another profit!" Han Lin happily planned, "Sure enough, the old ancestor is right, you still have to rely on labor to get rich, otherwise you can only sit and eat." ”

Han Lin was now thinking about his plan to get rich in the future, and he didn't pay attention to it at all, and unconsciously, he seemed to be getting farther and farther away from the way out of the mountain, and when he reacted, he was already in a dense forest that he had never been before.

"Wait, where did the mark I made go" Han Lin was a little nervous, he hadn't seen the mark he made on the tree in a while.

"Is it still ahead" Han Lin was a little unsure, but he couldn't just stand here and wait, so he walked a few hundred steps forward, but he still didn't see his mark.

Looking at the unchanging dense forest around him, Han Lin had to accept this fact: he was lost!

This time his proud sense of direction didn't help him, which reminded him of the old saying: "Whoever drowns knows water"

The ancients did not deceive me!

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Although Han Lin was not fully prepared, he finally got lost in the mountains, but fortunately, because he had already walked a lot in the direction he came from before he got lost, his current position can actually be regarded as the outskirts of the mountain.

After a careful search, although he did not find any marks he had made, he did find signs of human activity and a clear trail of footprints.

Judging from the size of the footprints, the age of the owner of the footprints should not be very large, and the other party only walked here not long ago.

But Han Lin didn't have time to dwell on why a child had come to this mountain, he just wanted to find the owner of this set of footprints as soon as possible, so that he would definitely be able to leave here.

Following the footprints and some subtle traces, Han Lin groped for about half an hour, and finally found the owner of the footprints next to a small stream.

It was a little girl carrying a basket on her back, she was dressed ordinarily, her figure was thin, and it could be seen from the herbs in her basket that the other party should have come to the mountains to collect medicine.

At the first glance when she saw Han Lin, the girl immediately stood up and warned Han Lin, obviously the other party understood that in this vast mountain forest, the chance of two people meeting each other was not great.

But Han Lin had no ill intentions, and after his patient explanation, and with the promise of two rabbits as a reward, the girl believed him and eventually led him out of the jungle.

When leaving the dense forest, Han Lin's sense of direction was always in a state of strike, and it was not until he returned to that main road that it came back online.

Thinking back to today's encounter, Han Lin suddenly felt that he was so lucky, if there was no girl, he might have died in the dense forest.

But when he wanted to turn his head and thank the girl again, he found that the other party had already mixed in with the crowd that had entered Yecheng and was gone.

"What an anxious little girl, I haven't had time to ask his name yet!" Although there was some regret, since the other party had left, Han Lin was no longer entangled, and he also got up and rushed towards Yecheng.

In the evening, Yecheng is lit up. The faint sunlight mixed with the light, sprinkled between the green tiles and red walls everywhere, the abrupt horizontal cornices, the high fluttering shop signs, the sparkling cars and horses, the endless flow of pedestrians, and the indifferent and comfortable smiles, all of which reflected the prosperity of this Yecheng.

This is the first time Han Lin has seen such a Yecheng, and compared with the scenery during the day, such a Yecheng really has a different flavor.

Walking around like this, before he knew it, Han Lin returned to the Ye family.

And when he was about to arrive at Ye's house, he never thought that he would meet that little girl again.

What he didn't expect was that it was this little girl who got him involved in a lot of trouble.

But that's the rest of the story!