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Merchant, late season.

Looking at the upturned face, Bao Jiwan's polite words in Daxinwu Village clearly emerged from the depths of Tu Shi's memory. It's just that I haven't seen it for a few days, and Bao Jiwan has been reduced to poison ivy food, and since then Yin and Yang have been separated......

"Whew, thank God!" The merchant crawled out of the cave along the rope, lay down on the ground exhausted, and then quickly got up again, bowed down to Tu Shi, and said, "Thank you—hey, strong man?" Have you left Tai Sing Estate? Congratulations. ”

"yes." Tu Shi was still immersed in sadness, and glanced at Bao Jiwan a few times, and her eyes almost didn't pop out: "You're not dead?!" ”

"The strong man said that, if it weren't for you, I would have really died."

"No, no, no, don't come over yet, I'll take a look." Tu Shi lifted the sword in his hand, looking left and right. Bao Jiwan is still a short man, with a good lower body, and has not turned into four worm legs.

Bao Ji was stunned for a while, and then there was no attack skill to mention for the time being, the upgrade speed is much slower than others, it's okay to team up with others for a short time, and team up for a long time, everyone has gone up and they haven't gone up, hehe, expect others to practice, right? Tu Shicai didn't want to be a baby with experience, so he decided to go it alone.

After a little inquiry, it will be known that the players are exploring in all directions with the center of Yibei City, some opening roads with other cities, and some stepping into uninhabited places, all of which have official tasks, the former is called "Dredging Post Road", and the latter is called "Territory Mapping" and "Building Post Station". After completing the previous tasks, the two cities will travel more closely, and the cost of carriage and horses will be reduced accordingly; Completing the following missions will make a new route that will make leveling up more convenient. Tu Shi prefers to participate in the latter, because when exploring a new area, the system will give the first explorer an experience point, which is known as the "regional development reward". What Tu Shi needs most at the moment is experience points.

Sharpening the knife and cutting wood, Tu Shi first went to the city lord's mansion to receive the task, and then went to the blacksmith shop to buy a brand new iron sword, whose data is not the same as the broken sword in his hand, which made him very satisfied.

Recall the south gate of the North City.

Tu Shi entered the city that day, and there were countless vendors on both sides of the road, but I didn't see any of them today, and it is said that the murder of five people in a row by the leper and ugly man on the street was too big, and the government suspected that the murderer had something to do with these floating population. And the strangest thing is that the five bodies disappeared from the morgue, and no one in the city recognized the origin of the five deceased, making the case simple and mysterious.

Tu Shi deliberately chose a place where there was no post road to travel. There are many kinds of wild grasses in the south, and many plants that Tu Shi can't name are mixed with, and the seeds are stuck in his trouser legs, which looks like foot hair sticking out of the fibers of his trousers, which is a little disgusting. He kicked and stomped, and suddenly heard someone shouting "help", so he kept an eye on it.

The person who called for help was in a hole in front of him, the entrance of the cave was one meter square, and the edge was extremely smooth. Tu Shi stood at the entrance of the cave and watched (almost not fainted by the stench in the cave), only to see a man shouting on his back: "That strong man, I accidentally fell into the hunter's trap, please save me!" "The light in the cave was dim, and only the upper body of the man could be seen, dressed as a merchant, his hair scattered over his shoulders, and he was extremely embarrassed.

Tu Shi heard the words and looked near the entrance of the cave again, there was no Orion mark.

Seeing Tu Shi's hesitation, the merchant was even more anxious: "I still have some money on me, if the strong man saves me, I will give it all!" ”

"Okay." Tu Shi immediately agreed, and said, "I didn't bring a rope." ”

"Don't worry, this hole is not deep, you can stretch out your hand and pull me up!"

Tu Shi sighed, and then shouted: "Hey, it turns out that I brought a rope!" Wait, I'll find a tree to tie up, and you can climb up. ”

The merchant was silent for two seconds, and said: "Strong man, don't hide it, I broke my leg and foot when I fell, you do good things to the end, come down and save me!" ”

Before the words fell, Tu Shi jumped down from the entrance of the cave and laughed: "There are so many rhetoric, don't you just want me to come down!" "There are no Orion marks at the entrance of the cave, and the cave stinks, which is all suspicious.

Although he was mentally prepared, Tu Shi was still startled when he came down. The upper body of this man remains human, but the lower half of his body is four shiny black beetle arthrops, which are bent in four directions, just against the cave wall, to maintain the balance of the body, and if the lower body is also included, the man is three meters tall. This is clearly a monster! The Toad King is a monster, and according to it, a monster can only be considered a monster if it cultivates more and transforms into a human form. Looking at the cave again, there are many animal bones scattered, and the stench is formed by the mixture of corpse stench and monster stench.

When the demon beast saw Tu Shi coming down, he laughed three times, folded his legs forward and stretched his legs back, and shifted his body's center of gravity, and he could pounce on Tu Shi without moving, this attack method was also very peculiar! Tu Shi flashed sideways, and the sword swept past the left arm of the demon beast, but it slashed out the sound of metal strikes - don't break the defense?! He fixed his eyes and saw that he only cut through the human skin on the demon beast, and under the human skin was a swarthy carapace.

The evil wind swept in, Tu Shi rolled on the spot, only to hear a snap of dust falling on the wall of the cave, and it was a thick and big tail that smashed on the wall, with a hook at the end of the tail, like a scorpion, and the light was dim and I didn't see it. I didn't expect this monster to have high defense and have a range attack? It seems that this tail is more flexible than the tongue of the Toad King, and it can be used in such a small cave.

The monster flexes its legs and flexes its upper body back into place, in the middle of the cave, so that it can press on any corner at the shortest distance and speed. The monster hugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "Humans, they are going to die anyway, give up resistance!" ”

Tu Shi ignored it, and when the demon beast opened its arms again, it moved behind the demon beast and was forced back by the long tail again, but it also proved the conjecture in his heart: although the demon beast can flexibly use the joints of the four legs, the waist joints cannot be rotated, and the attack surface can only be directly in front; If you want to attack the rear, you either swing your four legs to change direction, or use your tail to attack. Although the cave is the home of the monster, the monster's huge lower body is still affected, and it will definitely show flaws when it moves, so it can only attack with its tail. Not...... There are no eyes on the tail, so you can only use area attacks to increase your hit rate? The system didn't kill all the players.,It's still a weakness for the monster!

Tu Shi took a step back and began to attack tentatively, and the blade slashed and stabbed the upper body of the demon beast many times, slashing the human skin and clothes to shreds together. The demon beast was furious, and simply reached out to tear off the human skin, revealing its true face. It was a large bug, with a humanoid upper body, but covered in a black carapace; The face is also covered with a carapace, as if wearing a mask, the face has four green eyes arranged in the four corners of the square, and the lower part of the "mask" opens left and right when speaking, revealing the characteristic jaws of insects with rows of serrated sickle-like teeth, and the teeth are grinding, which makes people feel creepy: "It's useless! You're too weak, so let's die obediently! With that, he stretched out two black armor claws to press Tu Shi's shoulders.

[Shrink the ground into inches]!

Tu Shi appeared behind the demon beast, his eyes were bright green, and he had activated the [Cang Pupil]. He held the sword in both hands, infused his true qi into his arm, and the sword was chopping into the gap between the carapace where the monster's tail and body were connected. He saw the tail detach from his body in slow motion, and he saw green juice burst out of the wound in slow motion. He quickly took a few steps back, his front foot supporting his body, his back foot on the cave wall, and made an extremely irregular lunge, then pressed his body back with his weight.

[Lunge]!

The demon beast turned its upper body in pain, looked at its wounds, and then saw Tu Shi flying past, a sword dangling a bright light, and the light in the cave was unprecedented! The sword landed on the face of the monster beast on the side, slicing horizontally, and pulling down the upper part of its head, which can be described as devastating. The hundred-legged insect is dead but not stiff, the vitality of this demon beast is really tenacious, and after losing its head, it shook from side to side for half a minute before falling to the ground and dying, in the process, the juice flowed like an infusion, splashing a lot on Tu Shi's body, and the durability of the clothes was sharply reduced, it seems that this juice is still corrosive.

Tu Shi shook his arms, the shock force of the two swords just now was very great. It's so hard to kill! Only after infusing true qi can the defense be broken, let alone a novice, it is not easy for players to deal with it once they turn. Look at the system prompt again, yo he, the more you kill monsters by level 5, you have an extra experience bonus, which is pretty good!

Then the loot began to be harvested. The monster carapace is light and strong, but the iron sword is not sharp enough, and it is difficult to remove it without using true qi, but using true qi will damage the iron sword, so Tu Shi had to give up and only take the monster's tail hook. I heard the Toad King say that the demon beast breathes day and night, and the one that can condense into Neidan is even a monster, and this monster probably does not have a climate, and there is nothing in the abdomen. By the way, Tu Shi almost didn't spit it out after cutting open the monster's abdomen, sticky-greasy, wet and slippery, it was really disgusting, and there was actually a worm with the length of a child's arm crawling out, Tu Shi hurriedly chopped it to death.

Wireworm: Level 10. Wire nematodes (insects). It is mostly parasitic in the body of the insect and breaks out once the host encounters water. Good at skill none. Talent none.

The materials obtained from the monster are only small heads, which are actually piled up in this burrow. The demon beast didn't know how many people had killed, but all the edible parts were eaten, and the bones and indigestible relics were hastily buried in the hole. Tu Shi picked it up, and actually picked out seventy or eighty copper coins and a pair of grade 10 cloth shoes, thinking that this time it would be developed, if he could find this kind of monster again, I don't know how cool it would be to brush it? But the first priority is to climb out first. It just so happened that the monster's skeleton did not fall down after death, and he fiddled with the corpse and used it as a ladder to climb back to the ground. He also brought a thigh bone and tied it with a rope, so that when he was about to go down to the hole, he could use the bone to fix the rope position, so that he could climb up after fighting monsters.

System Hint: You've discovered a new map, Cave Wild, and gained some experience.

And so, the happy monster farming journey began. When he saw a hole in the ground, he rushed over, and when he confirmed that there was a monster underneath, he hung down the rope, and then went down to the hole to kill the monster, and then came up again after collecting the loot. Kill a lot.,Monster attributes have also been improved.,Add a new page to the system monster book.。

Poison Ivy: Level 15. Poison ivy (insects). After being outlied, they will transform into males, and will follow their instincts, find a suitable place to dig a hole and live alone, and then ambush people and beasts. After cannibalism, the cave opens up the wisdom, can put on human skin, spit out human words, and lure pedestrians into the hole. Wild and irritable, intelligent and not very high, if you talk for a long time, you will show flaws. A carapace sword is hard to hurt, but the places that are not protected by the carapace are very fragile. If you are parasitized by a nematode, your appetite will be more vigorous and more frenzied. Specializes in skills [Chitin Armor], [Whiplash], [Paralysis Toxin]. When attacking, there is a 5% chance to trigger "knockback".

Level 15 is just the initial level of poison ivy, and monsters (elite monsters) like poison ivy can continue to increase their level by eating people. In fact, Tu Shi encountered a level 17 one, which was even larger in size, and its strength was not comparable to that of level 15, and it almost didn't make Tu Shi capsize in the gutter - the level gap of level 7 is really a bit exaggerated, but jumping directly to one level after killing is also in line with the principle of "seeking wealth and danger".

It's so smooth, it feels simpler than the novice village period. Tu Shi thought about it and felt that because of the unique nature of poison ivy, the most dangerous thing about them was that they were all disguised like people and hid in the hole to call for help, this is a strange trick, it can only be taken by surprise, it is better not to use it if you use it too much, after all, players and NPCs are different, even if they are fooled for the first time, at most they will die and come back, and they will never be fooled a second time. No wonder poison ivy can only be a low-level monster in this life.

When I walked to the front, I saw a hole in the ground, and someone was calling for help. Tu Shi said lazily: "Okay." Lowering the rope, he looked inside, and his heart suddenly tightened, for he recognized the man inside.

Merchant, late season.