Chapter Seventy-One: The Wood Brown Rat of the Second Degree
Li Ji noticed that the water in the large wooden bucket was almost running out when he washed his face before, so after having lunch with the young beasts, he made arrangements for today's main task.
Li Ji knew that his current physical condition did not allow him to fight, and the intense training he had not stopped in the past few days had put a lot of pressure on his mind and body, so it was better to take advantage of this rare free time to go to the creek to fetch water, and catch a few fish by the way to relax, after all, combining work and rest is a reasonable way of life.
After putting the empty wooden barrel into the space ring, Li Ji said to the young beast who was lying on the ground with a satisfied face: "Get up, lead the way ahead, otherwise there will be no water to cook and eat tonight." ”
"Lead the way, where are you going?" The young beast with a mind full of foodies didn't react for a while, it didn't notice that Li Ji had already put the empty wooden barrel into the space ring, and asked puzzledly.
"Nonsense, of course you're going to fetch water! What are you thinking about all day long? You're so concerned about eating, why don't you find out that the water has run out?" Li Ji said with some hatred, it seems that at this time he can find a little sense of accomplishment, who makes him compare strength to the young beast.
"Oh! I'll lead the way. Hearing that there was no water, the young beast immediately cheered up, and quickly got up and ran to lead the way. It doesn't want to let tonight's dinner go down the drain, and I'm sorry for its stomach.
Seeing that the young beast obediently ran to the front to lead the way, Li Ji couldn't say anything, and the sense of accomplishment he had just picked up was reduced in this way, and it was extinguished before it reached the high tide.
Out of the cave, the sun was shining high, the harsh light was bright and hot, and even the wind blowing on the side carried a dry heat, which made people irritable.
However, as Li Ji, who is immune to most of the fire attribute magic attacks, this bit of heat is not taken into his eyes, at least in these days, he has been training with young beasts in such an environment. The pitch-black ground under the slope in front of the cave is the best testimony.
The heat that did not interfere with Li Ji was even more ineffective for the young beast, and I saw that the young beast was still shaking its head and running downhill with its buttocks, not disturbed by foreign objects, and seriously being a good guide for Li Ji.
The road to get water, Li Ji has walked a total of twice, because the distance is long, there are many detours on the way, and all the way is hard to break through, it is not a road, plus after a few days, the vigorous weeds and vines will be repaired, it is difficult to identify the direction, which is also an important reason why Li Ji can not write down the route. However, in the face of the automatic navigation of the young beast, everything is not a problem, at least it can make Li Ji die a large number of brain cells.
After a relatively peaceful journey, the young beast led Li Ji safely to the stream. The clear stream flowed with small white waves from time to time, and Li Ji's eyes crossed the shallows of the waves and came to the small pool. There are still palm-sized fish swimming and shuttling here, not panicked by Li Ji's arrival at all, and still leisurely, as if Li Ji did not exist.
Seeing this, Li Ji smiled, these fish that don't have a good memory are still not smart after being caught twice, and they are clearly giving him the opportunity to add vegetables, of course, they must also count the young beasts.
Li Ji stands, the sun is not shining, the branches and leaves of the giant trees on both sides of the bank are covered, and the green shade is paved on the ground, and only the size of the pond has sunshine. At this moment of cool wind, Li Ji walked directly to the pond to wash away the tiredness on the way.
After all, this place is far away from the cave, the safety is not high, and Li Ji has also encountered the experience of Warcraft, so even if he knows that Li Ji is comfortable in the bath, he does not dare to enjoy it too much, and after washing it in a hurry, he filled the big bucket in the space ring with water upstream, and caught a few fish as soup for tonight.
The young beast left on the shore silently looked at Li Ji's self-amusement, and had no intention of joining, for things like water, in addition to having more contact when drinking broth, as a fire-attribute demonic beast, it was shy in its heart, and it liked more fiery things, such as magma, and it naturally didn't look down on Li Ji's little troubles with the lava lake as a bathhouse. At least that's what it reveals in its tsundere eyes.
After a short period of relaxation, Li Ji led the young beast on the way home.
When I came out, it was already afternoon, and I had to hurry up after a long time to go back and forth. After all, the closer to dusk, the more dangerous the situation is, although Li Ji thinks that it is quite dangerous during the day, but there are young beasts, and it is better than at night.
The road was boring, and the tall weeds were in the way, Li Ji's originally good mood disappeared after walking for a long time, and he used his hands to remove the vines that stood in the way, and occasionally encountered the traces left by some demonic beasts that ran over him. But as he walked, Li Ji suddenly felt that something was wrong. He paused, took a closer look at his surroundings, and came to the conclusion that matched his hunch that the path he was taking now was not the one he had taken. It's not that Li Ji's memory is good enough, in fact, he can't remember what the way he came from at all, but this does not hinder his rational reasoning. The reason why Li Ji felt that something was wrong was because the obstacles encountered on the road were getting bigger and bigger, as if it was the first time he walked, and he observed the young beast leading the way in front of him, and found that although the young beast did not encounter many obstacles, the layout after it passed by was basically intact, Li Ji could clearly see that the road that the young beast took had no traces of walking at all, and even if the traces were not obvious for a short time when he came, it would not be as traceless as now, so the only explanation was that this road was not the one he came from.
For a while, Li Ji was also a little confused, he didn't know if the young beast accidentally took the wrong way, or if it did it on purpose. If it's the latter, whatever it means to the young beast, it's not too bad, but if it's the first, it's going to be difficult, and if even the young beast loses its way, maybe it's going to be here tonight. Therefore, thinking of this, Li Ji immediately became calm.
"Hey, stop! Don't you notice you're going the wrong way?"
The young beast that was still taking care of its own path stopped when it heard the sound, turned around and said with a cute face: "It's not wrong!"
Seeing that the young beast didn't seem to have discovered the problem, Li Ji suddenly frowned, he felt that it was going to be bad, and things were inadvertently developing in an uncontrollable direction.
"Didn't you notice that this road wasn't the one we took when we came?"
Hearing Li Ji ask, the young beast blinked its stupid eyes and said disapprerovitically: "I know this road is not the one we took when we came, but what's wrong with this?"
"What's the problem? You're embarrassed to ask?...... The problem is big, where are you going if you don't go back to the cave now?I don't know if time is running out?The night in the forest is so dangerous, do you want me to hang here?" Li Ji was annoyed by the young beast's disapproving tone, and really wanted to pry open its little brain to see what was going on inside.
However, hearing Li Ji's sudden questioning, the young beast suddenly felt extremely aggrieved, it lowered its brows, and said in a choked tone: "I'm going back to the cave! This is a shortcut road, didn't you say that you should pay attention to the terrain and choose the shortest distance to walk?"
"Uh!" Hearing the young beast's explanation, Li Ji was speechless for a while, he remembered that he had indeed said this to the young beast, but the young beast decided to change the path without consulting him, so it was no wonder that he would misunderstand. Of course, he also knew that the young beast had strictly implemented what he said, but there was still a lack of communication on some details, which caused the current embarrassing situation.
"What now? admit your mistake or ...... Enlighten it?...... Alas, this young beast is good at everything, but it is too young to be able to say things to the point. Li Ji sighed helplessly.
"Alright, I'm wrong to blame you. But you should tell me if you change your route temporarily, so I won't misunderstand you. Next time you encounter this situation, remember to tell me first, do you know?" Li Ji taught the young beast earnestly. After speaking, he stepped forward to remove the vines, stroked the dog head of the young beast, shook the pot with strength, and used actions to prove that the fault was on the young beast, and soon brushed himself off, only the stupid and cute guy of the young beast still enjoyed Li Ji's touch, and instantly walked out of the grievance just now, like a heartless monster.
Suddenly, the young beast, which was still enjoying Li Ji's petting with its eyes closed, looked up and looked to the upper left, where something seemed to have caught its attention.
The young beast's sudden behavior made Li Ji a little strange, and he didn't know what kind of trouble it was going to make, so he unconsciously looked in that direction. What caught his eye was just an ordinary giant tree, with lush branches and leaves, no different from the other surrounding ones, Li Ji didn't know why the young beast looked at it so seriously. However, just when Li Ji guessed whether this was another brainless behavior of the young beast, something seemed to move on a branch of the giant tree, and at first Li Ji thought that he was dazzled, but after a closer look, he found that it was not dazzling, but something really on the tree, but the color of the thing's fur was almost exactly the same as the color of the bark, both of which were brown. Judging from Li Ji's position, the back of that thing happened to be the main trunk of the giant tree, giving it perfect cover, if it hadn't moved, Li Ji really wouldn't have found it.
At this time, the young beast under his feet came and said, "There are demonic beasts." It was intended to remind Li Ji, but this belated prompt made Li Ji cry and laugh, "Nonsense, I've seen it all, and I want you to say it." ”
"Huh, by the way, why didn't you find out until now this time? Could it be that you were distracted again? Didn't I tell you to be vigilant when you were outside? You forgot such an important thing?" asked Li Ji, who then reacted.
"No, I didn't wander this time, it was this monster that hid its breath, and I couldn't find it. The young beast hurriedly explained, fearing that Li Ji would misunderstand it again.
"What? This Demonic Beast will hide its aura? Could it be that its level is very high, so even you can't find it?" Li Ji was suddenly a little inexplicably nervous, now he is still a wounded, he doesn't want to start a war with that Demonic Beast at this time, even if it is to watch the battle, there will be a certain risk, who knows if this Demonic Beast will make a Yin move to Yin him.
"Its level is not high, it is only a second-level wood attribute demonic beast, but it is surrounded by wood attribute elements on the tree, plus this wood brown rat is naturally timid, and it often hides its breath when there is nothing to do, is it no wonder that I am not surprised?"
"Second-level Demonic Beast?Wood Brown Mouse?" Li Ji listened to the young beast's explanation, and when he looked at the beating demonic beast again, its body that looked blurred because of its coat color really looked like a mouse, but it was the same as the concept that Li Ji had recognized since he came to this world, all Warcraft were larger than the similar species he saw on the earth, even if Li Ji couldn't see it clearly now, he could probably know that its size was not what a mouse should have, except for kangaroos, of course.
The monster on the tree is like an enlarged version of a mouse, larger than the smaller young beast, very fat, adhering to the consistent characteristics of rats, which may be the consequence of not being picky eaters.
"By the way, how do you know it's called Wood Brown Mouse?" Li Ji was a little puzzled, it seemed that the young beast only knew the level of the demonic beast before, and did not know its name, except for the wind wolf.
"I already knew! The cub said as a matter of course.
"Then those first-level demonic beasts you met before, why don't you know their names?"
"I inherited so many things in my memory, and I was only a few days old at the time, and the first thing I remembered was of course the things that were good and threatening to me! A first-level demonic beast like the Fire Rabbit was neither good nor threatening to me, so how could I have time to remember what it was called? If you didn't always have to challenge them, and their meat was delicious, I wouldn't have remembered what it was called?" When it came to the first-level demonic beast, the young beast had a disdainful expression.
"It turns out that those first-level demonic beasts are called fire rabbits!" Li Jian looked like an afterthought, and he felt that this name was quite appropriate.
"That's right. Is this wood brown rat powerful?What is its magic attack?" After defeating the first-level fire rabbit, Li Ji set his sights on the second-level demonic beast, and now it is rare to encounter a second-level demonic beast, of course he has to inquire about the information of this second-level demonic beast, in case of any future emergency.
"Magical attack? It looks like a tangle of dead vines...... Oh, and thorns. The young beast thought for a moment and said.
"Is the Withered Vine Entanglement Thorn Technique powerful?" Hearing that this wood brown rat could attack magic in two ways, Li Ji raised his vigilance even more, and asked with some concern.
"Not awesome. The withered vine entanglement is used to trap the enemy, and I can burn it with a fire; although the thorn technique is a wood-attribute attack magic, the attack power of the wood-type magic is not high, and it can't break my defenses at all. The young beast raised its head and said proudly, as if it was still waiting for Li Ji's praise.
"......" Li Ji was speechless, he forgot that asking the young beast this question was simply humiliating himself, it was better to try it himself, it would be difficult to get any results by relying on it, after all, he did not have the strength of the young beast.
However, then Li Ji suddenly remembered what the young beast had said just now, this kind of demonic beast seemed to be very timid.
"How dare ......you be? Do you want...... Try it?" Li Ji said.