Chapter 257: Ulterior motives
This morning, Liu Mingkai discovered another shocking secret, this pigeon-sized Vermilion Bird can actually eat a rhinoceros, just like yesterday, a rhinoceros he finally caught in the morning, and finally starved, watching his breakfast turn into a pile of bones.
"I caught a bear today, would you like to have breakfast together?"
"Do you have time to have breakfast together today? I caught two wolves. ”
Suzaku and Cranberry Moss, who have been accustomed to eating lately, didn't even see Liu Mingkai's barbecue stall this morning, and after looking around, they had to hunt for food by themselves.
Suzaku flies all the way and is still looking around unwillingly, recently there is white food delivered to the door every day, it has been used to eating, and suddenly it is gone, which really makes it feel quite lost.
The dense forest, which is quiet and vibrant, is full of a variety of creatures, but it is not easy to find what Suzaku likes to eat and can eat.
The monsters have a full understanding of this pair, the weak ones are all going around them, the strong ones are not afraid of them at all, and the pair is also very self-aware, and will not take the initiative to provoke opponents stronger than themselves.
And now is not the time for large animals, and those small animals such as rabbits and squirrels feel that there is too little meat and are too lazy to eat them.
As he was passing through a particularly lush wood, he suddenly heard a rustling sound from behind the bushes, which seemed to be made by something big, so he left Suzaku in place and blew into the shadows of the trees and drifted there.
To his surprise, he found Liu Mingkai covered in blood there, not a large animal or a youkai trying to sneak attack.
One of his arms was broken, one of his legs was lame, and he had a long wound on his waist, which was bleeding outward, and his face was covered in mud, and he was curled up in pain among the thorns.
He panicked and tried to jump up when the mangrove suddenly appeared beside him, but Suzaku pressed down from the air only gave him a wing and made him lie back.
"Is this today's breakfast?" Suzaku looked at Liu Mingkai with a very critical eye, "I don't like to eat foxes, there is a strange smell on foxes." ”
Liu Mingkai's consciousness had gradually blurred, so he didn't hear the words. His food offensive for more than ten days has been fruitless, and he originally wanted to take the risk of catching a youkai today to curry favor with Suzaku. Unexpectedly, the seemingly weak prey was beyond his imagination, and it was himself who was injured and disabled.
Fortunately, the other party's injuries are not better than their own, otherwise they must be their own food for others. What's more, he is an outsider, and the youkai is injured, and maybe he can seek refuge from the family, but he has nowhere to go.
Maybe the youkai's family is looking for them everywhere at this time, and even if they don't, if they are injured like this, any youkai or even beast that sees them will see them as an easy meal.
"I can't die here...... Bai Wei is waiting for me...... I will go back, Bai Wei, I will go back......" In a daze, Liu Mingkai also sensed that something was approaching him, he muttered to himself, but he could only wait to accept his fate.
"He's the one who bakes something for you to eat every day. "The memory of the manjin moss is better than that of the Suzaku and he actually recognized Liu Mingkai before he was burned by the Suzaku.
"Are you going to eat him?" Suzaku hesitated.
After eating him this morning, I don't have to bother hunting, but from now on, Liu Mingkai's barbecue stall will be closed forever, and I will have to hunt every morning from now on. To eat him or not to eat him, it's a complicated question, and it's a dizzy brain to think about.
Manjin Moss has always listened to Suzaku for the choice of food, and he has no own ideas about whether to eat Liu Mingkai or not. But when Liu Mingkai crawled out of the bushes in a daze, he stepped forward and dragged him back.
"Manjin Moss, we have no grudges and no hatred......" After Liu Mingkai saw clearly who was dragging him in a trance, he finally understood that Manjin Moss would not have the so-called old love at all, and his desire to survive made him beg them with all his might, "Don't eat me, I want to go home, someone is waiting for me, I vowed to return to her, I want to go back......"
Manjin Moss pressed Liu Mingkai with one hand, and looked up at the foot of the big tree not far away, where a few people in yellow were calmly coming this way. Their eyes were fixed on Liu Mingkai, and Suzaku immediately shook his head, drove out the questions that were being thought in his mind, and immediately flew up, screaming threateningly at those people.
"This guy didn't die, his life is really hard. ”
"He's so unlucky to meet that father and son who eat everything. ”
"I promised my boy to bring this fox back to stew and drink it for him to vent his anger, but now it seems that it will not work, and what comes to the mouths of their father and son cannot be pried out with a stick. ”
"Forget it, forget it, he can't escape anyway, people die like lights out, so don't worry about him anymore. ”
"yes, yes, he's going to be eaten right away anyway, so don't resent him anymore. ”
It sounded like they weren't going to grab food from Suzaku, they were discussing there, and they were completely with the attitude that Liu Mingkai was dead, and when they finally left, they also made a gesture of worship to Liu Mingkai.
After Suzaku watched them leave, he looked at Liu Mingkai, who had passed out in a coma, and began to think hard again. Eat, don't eat, eat, don't eat? It broke off a branch from the tree and counted it one by one......
Liu Mingkai had a long dream, in which he experienced the amazement when he saw Bai Wei for the first time, the excitement and excitement when he talked to her for the first time, the ecstasy when he found out that she was also silently watching him, the first time he held hands with her and walked in the forest sweetly, and the first time he ......
When he opened his eyes, there was neither Bai Wei's beautiful face nor the familiar scenery of his hometown, but countless thorny branches covering the cold night sky above, and even the shape of the starry sky looked so strange and unfriendly.
"Bai Wei ......" Liu Mingkai groaned in pain because he touched the wound on his body, which made his consciousness a lot clearer, and he was surprised to find that he was still alive.
Crawling out of the thorn bush added many wounds to his body, but compared to the existing wounds, this is nothing, as long as he is alive, there is hope to go back to see Bai Wei, whom he thinks about day and night.
"You're not dead yet, it's a pity!" Suzaku's figure suddenly lit up a radius of more than ten meters, and it flew to the branch above Liu Mingkai's head, "I thought you were dead and you could eat it." ”
Liu Mingkai suddenly remembered that the last thing he saw before he lost consciousness was the Vermilion Bird and the Manjin Moss, and he was actually not eaten by them! A huge joy hit Liu Mingkai. Doesn't that mean that your plans have succeeded, and you can approach them without being treated as food.
"Do I want to eat you?" Actually, Suzaku had a full dinner, but he didn't eat it when there was food in front of him, which was not his usual style.
"Why are you eating me?" Liu Mingkai's wound hurt badly, but he asked Suzaku as calmly as he could.
"Because you can eat it!" Suzaku stared at him with a straight face.
"But I gave you so much to eat, how can you eat me in turn?"
"That's what you want!" Suzaku glanced at him contemptuously and snorted coldly, "Even if you don't want to, I can grab it." ”
"Then why didn't you eat me just now?"
"Why don't I eat you?" Suzaku began to think hard, and after thinking for a long time, he slowly fell asleep.
Liu Mingkai looked at Suzaku who was sleeping soundly in front of him unsuspectingly, and he was excited and didn't know what to do. He glanced at the golden figure resting on the branch, and he immediately leaned on the trunk of the tree to support his body, wanting to get close to touch the Suzaku, but suddenly felt the cold eyes of the manjin moss.
In this dark night, Liu Mingkai didn't know where the manjin moss would lurk, but he would definitely not fall asleep like Suzaku and could attack him at any time.
Liu Mingkai pretended to moan in pain: "Ouch...... Ouch...... It hurts...... Excuse me, can you help me heal?"
After being silent for a long time, the voice of the vine moss drifted with the evening breeze: "I won't." ”
Liu Mingkai has been observing this pair lately, he has seen the ability of the vine moss many times, if a low-level monster with such power surprised him, then when the other party said that he can't heal spells, it will surprise him even more.
According to Liu Mingkai's recent observations, if he didn't want to heal himself, he didn't have to make excuses or even answer, could he really not even know the most basic spells?
"I'll teach you, you come and save me...... Oh...... It hurts to death......" Liu Mingkai tested the reaction of the vine golden moss.
The shadow on the branch squirmed slightly, and then turned into a human form and stood in front of him. It turned out that he had been guarding Suzaku's side, and Liu Mingkai was secretly glad that he hadn't touched Suzaku just now. Manjin Moss looked at Liu Mingkai expressionlessly, quietly waiting for him to speak.
Liu Mingkai just casually said that he wanted to teach the magic of the vine gold moss, but he didn't expect the vine gold moss to really run out and learn from himself, after all, the monsters will not easily teach the spell to strangers, and of course they will not easily learn from objects weaker than themselves.
His original intention was just to interfere with the thinking of the vine moss, and he didn't want him to doubt his actions, since the vine gold moss had already given birth to the idea of treating himself, then the possibility of wanting to eat himself was much lower.
His words have already been spoken, and Liu Mingkai has no choice but to teach. He simply said a few healing spells, because he didn't intend to teach the vine moss at all, so he just memorized the spell verbal spells, omitted even the explanation, and then pretended to be seriously injured and fell asleep.
In the dream, Liu Mingkai vaguely recalled the time when he was a child and returned to study under the guidance of his master and mother. The spell he first learned was a healing spell.