Chapter 16: The Beast
A few months ago, the villagers of the Victorious Fishing Village sensed an aura of terror in the village, but no one could find out exactly where it was.
At the beginning, under the shroud of this atmosphere, the villagers continued to live a life of fishing with trepidation, and they have always been peaceful.
So the villagers became paralyzed and careless, and gradually stopped taking this existence to heart.
Three months ago, three people who had gone out fishing disappeared, and everyone finally remembered the incident again.
The villagers began to suspect that there was a monster in the water, and that the missing person had been eaten by the monster, but all this was just speculation.
Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to draft the water, the victorious fishing village is built on the water, and the villagers all rely on fishing to make a living.
Even if there are monsters in the water, there are always some skilled and daring people who go out to fish.
Otherwise, wait to starve to death?
Until one day, when a few brave people were fishing in broad daylight, a monster suddenly emerged from the water and swallowed one of their companions in one bite.
The people who disappeared before were all lonely people, but this time it happened in front of everyone's eyes, and the news that a man-eating water monster had come to the village was confirmed at once.
But this monster was very cunning, and he was born in peace for more than a month.
Some people still have a fluke mentality, always thinking that they will not be eaten by monsters, and then go out to fish.
But lately the monster has reappeared, and it has become even more violent, not only running out to attack people in broad daylight, but sometimes running to the side of the log house to do evil.
During this time, there will be one less person in the village every day, and no one dares to go into the water anymore.
The victorious fishing village was too far away, and a few villagers were initially sent out to ask for help, but there was no response.
So Kerry and the villagers decided to send out all the wishing conches that had not been sold this year for help.
Kerry was already full of grief after speaking: "Fortunately, a few magicians have come, and I implore you to help our fishing village get out of danger, as long as we can drive away or kill that monster, we will definitely thank you all very much." ”
"Thank you for it, you don't need to thank you, you probably can't come up with anything good when you are so poor, otherwise someone would have come to help you solve the problem." Bender was unimpressed by Kerry's alleged reward.
"Anyway, I happened to stop by and have a look."
Li Jie rolled his eyes in his heart, Bende's product is really annoying.
That night, Li Jie, Qing and Bond all rested in the room arranged by the village chief Kerry.
The people of the fishing village are accustomed to going to bed early and waking up early, and soon the whole village becomes extraordinarily quiet at night.
The night was so thick that it looked like ink that could not be dissolved, and occasionally two faint green lights flashed, which were Xiao Hei who was waiting for an opportunity in the night.
The village is quiet and serene, as if everything is normal, but Xiao Hei, who patrols the village, is always on alert.
Until the darkest hour before dawn, a pig-like thing appeared on the water not far from the room of Li Jie and the other magicians, and its huge body lurked under the water.
This water monster is very bold, it knows that the people in the village want to deal with it, and it has been lurking under the village chief's house for the past few days to eavesdrop.
The water monster quietly walked towards Li Jie and the other people's residences, and sped away.
Li Jie was sleeping Zhengxiang, and suddenly felt the bed board vibrate, and then he heard a loud noise, which directly woke him up from his sleep.
One jumped out of bed and ran out the door to look, only to see that Bender's room had collapsed.
At this time, Bender was slapping the wood chips on his body and scolding angrily.
"What a bold beast."
Qing was also startled by the sound and ran out.
When the villagers heard the movement, none of them came out to check, and all the doors were closed, as if they didn't dare to come out.
Li Jie looked at it and knew what was going on.
Because he saw something in the water.
"What's that!"
"I guess it's that beast, we haven't looked for it yet, but we didn't expect it to be delivered to the door first."
Bender directly pulled away from the stance, and was already planning to make a move.
Seeing the pig's head coming out of the water, Li Jie's heart was tired, what kind of evil relationship did he have with the pig.
Li Jie just sensed the magic element, although he can now be regarded as an intermediate magic apprentice through "cheating", but through the previous performance, everyone can see that Li Jie is still the original formula.
Seeing that the guy was showing his head, Bender quickly cast a magic spell and hit the pig on the head.
After the pig's head was hit, he immediately stopped moving, his eyelids drooped, and he floated on the surface of the water as if he was dead, motionless.
"That's it?" Li Jie looked a little dumbfounded, isn't this a spike!
This Bender is so powerful? That's so weird!
"Do you want to call the village chief and them to fish out this water monster?" The tone of the green on the side was indescribably brisk.
Bender stopped: "Wait a minute, I feel a little wrong. If we had been killed so easily, then this water monster would have been wiped out by the Krieri and them long ago, right? Not to mention that I was just testing it. Let's be careful. ”
Sure enough, the water monster pretended for a while and saw that the three people were not fooled, so he opened his eyes and quickly crashed into the place where the three people were.
Li Jie was stunned, he had just clearly seen a hint of banter in the eyes opened by the water monster, which only belongs to humans.
This Nima, who will pretend to be dead with this skill, where is this water monster? It's clearly a refinement!
But fortunately, it was not a spike, Li Jie looked at Bende, and the psychological blow was much less.
At this moment, several wooden houses were knocked to pieces.
"Run!" Bender yelled.
Li Jie felt that this kid was still credible, so he ran after him, and Qing saw that both of them ran away, so he followed.
Seeing that both of them had doubts on their faces. Bender explained as he ran, "I just saw his appearance, and I remembered that I had seen this monster in a book. The monster's name is the Beast, and its upper body resembles a pig, its lower body is a fish, and its limbs have degenerated into fins, and it is born in water. Its outer skin is smooth and sturdy, and it is immune to normal magic attacks, and only powerful elemental magic skills can damage it, and a junior mage like us is enough to tickle it. And the beast is so fast in the water, let's run, this beast is coming for us. ”
As Bender spoke, the sound of hitting the planks kept coming from behind the three of them, and the boardwalk under the three of them was staggering.
At this time, Qing spoke, "I learned wind magic, let me bless the two of you with the wind technique, the wind technique can increase our speed." ”
Li Jie and the others nodded yes.
With the blessing of the Wind Technique, Li Jie instantly felt that his steps were lighter, his speed had obviously improved a lot, and he was much easier to run than before.
"Thank you." Li Jie said gratefully.
"You're welcome, it's a pity that I'm only a five-star junior magician, otherwise the effect of the Wind Blasting Technique could be stronger." Qing looked at the two of them, slightly apologetic.
From the very beginning, Bende liked to target Li Jie, and he would sarcastically say a few words to him when he had the opportunity.
"Five stars is already very good, it's better than some people who are just an apprentice and dare to run to death."
Speaking of this, Bende's tone became serious again: "By the way, what about your awesome pet?" ”
Li Jie: ......
"It's not that you can't call it at all, I'll just say how can someone as weak as you have such a powerful pet."
Bender's displeasure with him, in fact, Li Jie can also understand.
Originally, it was clear that three level 30 players could brush up on the dungeon together, but now they have formed a level 10 rookie, don't talk about this, thank God if you don't wipe out.
Who can have a good face?
blamed himself for being too weak, Li Jie clenched his fists tightly.
"I'm sorry, I'm dragging everyone down."
It's a pity that Bender didn't appreciate it.
"It's not so much useless as this, it's better to think about how to deal with this monster, the strength is not enough, and the brain is still there, right?"
"Otherwise, let's run separately, since the target of this water monster is the three of us, it won't be able to split up when it runs separately!"
Qing nodded in agreement.
Bender, however, shook his head and said no.
"It's still a housing area, and running away will definitely cause more damage, and the destruction of houses is small, so it's not good for livestock to take advantage of the opportunity to eat people. Let's go to a remote place in the east, where there are no houses, and the road is relatively open, a straight road. We'll lure the animal ashore and find a way to deal with it. ”
Li Jie asked, "Are you sure this is a water monster that is easier to deal with on the shore?" ”
Bender rolled his eyes: "Believe it or not!" ”
In the end, the three of them did not run separately, but ran towards the east as Bender intended.
With Qing's Wind Surge blessing, the three of them quickly ran far away.
The water monster had been following behind the three people, unhurried.
Li Jie had a strange instinct, he felt that this water monster was teasing them.
It's like a cat and mouse, not rushing to eat the prey, but playing with it first.
Finally seeing the land, Li Jie was even more energetic and ran forward.
Suddenly, he saw Bender, who was running ahead, stop.
"Why don't you run away?"
Qing is also puzzled by Bender's behavior.
"Oh no, it's a village in front of you." Bender's voice was a little somber.
But at this time, it was impossible for the three of them to turn back, and with full of guilt, they rushed into the village.
The beast didn't give up and chased after it.
It was at this moment that the effects of the Wind Blasts wore off.
Qing apologized to the two of them: "I'm sorry, my mana can't be blessed with three wind techniques at the same time." ”
Bender said, "It doesn't matter, this animal is on the shore, and the speed will be greatly reduced." ”
Li Jie let out a big sigh, he really can't do it. He has been tossing like this since yesterday, and he has not recovered.
It's a pity that Bender's estimate was wrong. The three of them relaxed, no longer running away desperately, as if they were not very happy, and suddenly increased their speed.
When the three of them saw it, they were all terrified.
Li Jie shouted: "Ah, didn't you say that he was on land, and his speed would be limited?" Why are you running faster now? ”
"I don't know what's going on", Bender was also taken aback by the beast's actions, "Let's go our separate ways, we can't care so much about it now." ”
"Okay."