Chapter Seventy-Eight: Quenching Poison
Murong Feng stepped on the snow in the pine forest with his feet and let out a "crunch!" Crunch! The sound was surrounded by straight and towering cedar trees, and every few hundred meters Murong Feng squatted down to observe the snow, carefully identifying several rows of paw prints of different shades.
"The snow has stopped, and these paw prints should have been left a short time ago." Murong Feng half-squatted in the snow, took out two expensive miniature scouts from his shoulder bag and threw them on the snow, and immediately the two metal balls automatically grew whiskers, and they squeaked and got into the snow. And Murong Feng's helmet goggles also had two more green dots on it, and he quickly jumped forward, as if there were two more eyes with no dead ends in all directions, and any trace along the way could not escape the scanning of the two scouts.
"It's really a penny, but it's a pity that the price of the flying detector is too dark, otherwise you can use it as a microsatellite if you buy one!" Murong Feng sighed and quickly floated in the direction explored by the two scouts, leaving no footprints along the way, as if he had stepped on the snow without a trace.
After walking a few kilometers further, Murong Feng suddenly received a 'skeleton' graphic alert from the miniature scout, indicating that he had encountered an extremely dangerous creature. Murong Feng was startled in his heart, and immediately turned over and climbed to the top of the tree, lurking among the branches covered with snow, motionless. According to the warning quantification standard, green represents harmlessness, yellow represents peers, red represents danger, and skeletons are as far away as possible to hide!
Soon, Murong Feng felt a slight shaking between the branches, and it became more and more obvious. Dozens of seconds later, a 'Roshan' slowly came and appeared in Murong Feng's field of vision.
The huge body is more than five meters high, this is still a crawling state, if it stands upright, I am afraid that it has a height of ** meters, and each huge fleshy palm alone has a width of one or two meters, and it is absolutely dead or crippled when it is slapped on a person. What appeared in Murong Feng's field of vision was an incomparably huge white bear!!
Elite [Snow Mountain Bear] (Active Attack)
Health: ???
Grade:??
This is the second time Murong Feng has seen an elite monster with a question mark in the game, and the first time is the elite ogre tree king, but the giant bear in front of him is a powerful demonic beast, not a wood-based spirit that is not good at moving, there is no doubt that the giant bear in front of him is a terrifying creature that is more dangerous than the ogre tree king!
Although the Wolf King's cloak in the woodland could provide stealth functions, Murong Feng still felt that it was not safe enough, and took out two attack grenades that he had just bought from his satchel.
Offensive grenades are not known for their power, but mainly provide various offensive support functions, such as flash, stun, detonation, smoke, blasting, and other effects. Defensive grenades are just the opposite, such as the explosive plasma fragments that Murong Feng used before, all of which belong to defensive grenades with great destructive power.
The two offensive grenades that Murong Feng touched out were a flash thunder and a roaring thunder, which could mainly cause the enemy to be blind and deaf for a short time. In this way, if you are discovered, you can actively create an opportunity to escape, instead of sitting and waiting for death, which is the advantage of being prepared. Of course, Murong Feng would never take the initiative to provoke this terrifying giant beast unless he had to!
Watching a huge mountain of meat slowly walk by less than a hundred meters away from him, the suffocating sense of oppression made Murong Feng subconsciously hold the grenade in his hand tightly.
Suddenly, the giant bear stopped, raised his head, sniffed his nose, and spewed out a large cloud of hot air, and then turned his head and looked towards Murong Feng's hiding place!
Murong Feng suddenly stood upside down, almost couldn't help but smash the two grenades directly and then turned around and ran. Fortunately, the giant bear just glanced at it suspiciously, and continued to lower his head, twist his big ass, and shake away.
Seeing the giant bear's huge body completely disappear from view, Murong Feng felt that his whole body was about to collapse from nervousness. Fortunately, this time I spent a lot of money to buy two miniature scouts to open the way ahead, otherwise I would not have even had a chance to escape if I ran into such a terrifying monster head-on in an unprepared situation.
Turning over and getting off the big tree, Murong Feng didn't even think about it, and directly drifted away in the direction of the giant bear's footprints, the high-level giant beast itself has a strong coercion, and it is definitely a retreat of all beasts along the way, Murong Feng followed the giant bear's footprints and undoubtedly found an invisible safe passage.
The miniature scout, which had automatically lurked, was reactivated and continued to explore the way ahead, and soon a new situation was communicated.
Murong Feng felt that the woodland was full of wreckage at the scene, and there were corpses of snow wolves everywhere, to be precise, some scattered flesh and bones, and large areas of snow stained red with blood. Obviously, the snow wolves encountered the giant bear, and they were all torn to pieces and became their breakfast.
Murong Feng was worried for a while, originally according to her speculation, wolves are all social animals, and the Silver Moon Demon Wolf should also follow the wolves around to forage for food, as long as she finds the traces of the wolves, she doesn't worry about finding the traces of the Silver Moon Demon Wolf, but she didn't expect that before she found the wolves, the wolves would be wiped out by themselves, and she didn't even know if the Silver Moon Demon Wolf had suffered with it.
"What a big forest, maybe there are other wolves. Now we can only hope that the Silver Moon Demon Wolf is not so unlucky. Murong Feng smiled bitterly and comforted himself, took back the scout, and then turned on the map projection to check where he was.
"Well, thirty kilometers to the north is the boundary of the Great Snow Mountain, to the south is the player's camp, to the east there is a large canyon, it seems to be called the Valley of the Ice Wind, there are first-order snow demons distributed at the mouth of the valley, and further into the territory of the second-order snow ape, as for the depths of the valley, no player has ever reached, and no one knows what powerful monsters exist in it."
Murong Feng felt that it was necessary for him to go to Icewind Valley to find out if there was any trace of the Silver Moon Demon Wolf. After all, the area near the Great Snow Mountain is the most conspicuous in this Icewind Valley.
After identifying the direction, Murong Feng turned and drifted towards the Ice Wind Valley, and it didn't take long for snowflakes to float in the sky, which made Murong Feng's mental power perception seriously disturbed, and he had to slow down and move forward carefully.
As he approached the valley, Murong Feng obviously felt that the temperature around him had dropped a lot, even if he had a not weak cultivation, it was still quite difficult to resist the cold air. "I would have known that I would have changed to a thicker set of equipment!" Murong Feng shook his head and thought helplessly.
The mouth of Icewind Dale is located between two mountain ranges, the southern side of the mountain range is gentle and steep, and the northern mountain range is straight and steep, and there is a spectacular icefall hanging from the valley, and the whole mouth of the valley is actually a frozen glacial lake, but it is covered with ice shoots.
Literally, some people may mistakenly understand the ice shoot as a plant, but in fact, on the contrary, the ice shoot is actually a special crystal mineral, distributed in clusters on the Gukou Glacier Lake, the large ice shoot bush is more than ten meters high, and the small one is half a person high. However, these ordinary transparent ice shoots have no value, only the ice shoots with colors are valuable, and can be used for various purposes such as potion configuration, equipment production, etc., and the more colorful the color, the more valuable they are. Therefore, there are often many professional miners who come here to dig colorful ice shoots. However, ice shoots only grow in the middle of the night when the temperature is very low, and the color will gradually fade when the sun hits the sun during the day, so there are many players who come here to dig for ice shoots in the morning.
When Murong Feng, who was wearing a snow camouflage suit, came here, there were already more than a dozen miner players on the ice lake digging ice shoots here. With such a large number of people and eyes, it was obvious that the Silver Moon Demon Wolf could not be in the vicinity, otherwise there would not be a relevant message on the forum.
Murong Feng crossed the icy lake and climbed the ridge along the low-lying mountain range in the south to overlook the entire valley, only to see the cold fog lingering in the valley and the heavy snow, so he couldn't really see the situation inside. However, Murong Feng had already prepared and directly released two scouts to sneak in.
The Scout, which is less than the size of an egg, has a good camouflage function, and can avoid the attention of most monsters, and quietly penetrate deep into the valley. However, at this time, the situation fed back by the scout was that the depths of the valley were full of dense red dots, which was not a place that Murong Feng could reach at all, and it was obviously impossible for the Silver Moon Demon Wolf to hide inside, otherwise Murong Feng would have no way to take the Silver Moon Demon Wolf at all. Summoning back the scout, Murong Feng turned around in disappointment and was about to go down the mountain, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a small valley on the other side of the ridge, and there was a huge rock standing up steeply in the valley, which looked like a natural stone tablet, Murong Feng secretly thought that he would come anyway, so it was better to go over and take a look. He toe a little on the snow, and his figure floated down to the small valley.
Slowly drifting into the small valley and landing lightly in front of the natural stone tablet, Murong Feng was slightly surprised in his heart, he didn't expect this boulder to be much bigger than what he observed from a distance. The height alone is enough to be about ten zhang, and the width is also four or five zhang wide, and it stands very conspicuously in the middle of the valley. Moreover, the surface of the stele is as smooth as a mirror, and there is a smooth feeling of stroking and condensing the surface of the boulder when you gently touch it with your hand.
Murong Feng went around to the other side of the boulder and looked at it for a while, feeling that this boulder seemed to have been deliberately polished. However, Murong Feng walked around the boulder and did not receive any system prompts, obviously this boulder was just an ordinary landscape stone.
Murong Feng shook his head, raised his head and glanced at the boulder again, and was about to turn around and leave this place, when suddenly a vague picture flashed in his mind, Murong Feng's heart was suddenly shocked, and he turned around and looked directly at the boulder, with a shocked look on his face. The picture just now is particularly blurry and short, but it is very impressive!
The bright moon hung high in the night sky, and a moonlight shone on this boulder, and a curved silver moon pattern was reflected on the smooth stone wall!
Murong Feng closed his eyes and pondered for a while, then opened his eyes again to reveal a glittering light, secretly thinking that even if this boulder had nothing to do with the Silver Moon Demon Wolf, there must be something strange about it. Why don't you just stay here and wait for the moonlight to come and show the strangeness, and then come and find out!
Murong Feng stood still for a while, and then began to arrange around this valley
After surviving, Murong Feng took a slight breath, then glanced at the boulder and floated away, found a cave on the nearby mountain peak to hide in, and then released two scouts, one lurking at the entrance of the cave, and the other climbing to the top of the mountain to monitor the valley. Murong Feng himself stayed at the entrance of the cave, doing other preparations while quietly waiting for the night to come.
Murong Feng first took out two sets of stainless steel darts, and then took out the poison sac of the web-forming spider collected in Baimu Valley, as well as the group of expensive experimental equipment that he had just bought in the craftsman area for a dozen gold coins, and suddenly the ground was covered with bits and pieces, two sets of darts, a poison sac, a miniature stove, an alloy tong pot, four high-temperature resistant glass beakers, a ceramic stirring rod, and some fragmented glass test tubes, air conduction tubes and other things. Murong Feng only left darts, poison sacs, stoves, tongs and stirring rods, put everything else back, and then took out a small bag of flour, which was left when practicing cooking, anyway, everything in the restaurant was his own, so this is not stealing, after all, the system god didn't care about it.
"Miss, what are you doing here? Do you want to cook rice? Lian'er asked curiously, tucked into her warm cloak.
Murong Feng's face was black, and he returned, "Have you seen anyone who cooks rice with tongs?" And the ingredient is a poison sac? I'm going to try to poison darts! ”
"Huh? Miss, will you still quench poison? When did you learn it? How did I not know? Lian'er was amazed.
"Ugh! If you learn it online, you can just draw a gourd and do it! Murong Feng was casually perfunctory in a cold sweat. But with both hands, he first put the tongs pot on the stove, put in a few snowballs until they were heated into water, then added a little flour, and kept stirring until it was thin and paste.
"Miss, why do you use flour paste for this quenching poison? Wouldn't it be enough to just apply venom to the weapon? Lian'er said curiously.
"This is to keep the venom poisonous for a longer period of time, if the venom is applied directly to the weapon, it will be easily lost due to various accidents, and if it is an acid venom, it will also corrode the weapon and cause damage. Therefore, as long as the batter is mixed with venom, and then wrapped in the weapon, it will form a poisonous film on the surface of the weapon after cooling, which can not only preserve the poison for a long time, but also maintain the sharpness of the weapon. Its practical batter is just the easiest way to do it, and some special chemical binders are the most suitable, but they are not currently sold in the game. Secondly, an adhesive made of some natural resin is also a good substitute," Murong Feng was stunned as he spoke, and suddenly his face was overjoyed, and he jumped up and hurriedly cleaned up, and hurriedly drilled out of the cave and rushed to the pine forest he had just passed.
As soon as he came to the pine forest and found a big pine tree, Murong Feng immediately took out a mouthful of glass, and then used a dart to cut a few oblique marks on the tree, and after a while, he saw a few drops of golden pine resin slowly dripping into the glass along the knife marks, Murong Feng was immediately ecstatic, he didn't expect this game to be so realistic, and even thought of this special detail.
However, perhaps because the weather was too cold, the knife marks on the trunk of the tree automatically condensed after oozing a few drops of resin, and Murong Feng had to keep changing trees to draw knife marks to collect pine resin. It took half a day to barely collect less than half a cup of nearly 100 milliliters of pine resin mucus. By the time Murong Feng returned to the cave with a tired face, Lian'er was already urging her to go offline for lunch.
After finishing eating, he hurriedly returned to the game, took out all the spare things, reheated the half pot of batter, and then mixed in a small amount of resin solution, stirring constantly until the batter in the tong pot turned into an amber viscous liquid, and then turned off the fire and let it stand, because the high temperature will damage the toxicity of the venom, so you must wait until the amber batter cools down to about 60 degrees before squeezing in the venom, and then stirring evenly. The last step is naturally quenching.
In fact, there are many ways to quench poison, and depending on the weapon, the way of quenching poison will be different. Like a sword, it is usually applied to the edge of the blade, so it has the effect of sealing the throat with blood, but it can be easily worn away during the fight. Throwing hidden weapons such as darts are generally applied to the blood trough, and when the hidden weapon pierces into the **, the venom will quickly integrate into the blood, and at the same time, it can also avoid accidentally cutting the finger and poisoning yourself when throwing the hidden weapon with your bare hands
If it's a blunt weapon, it generally won't quench poison, one is because this weapon generally causes blunt injuries, and there are rarely wounds for venom to seep into, and heavy blunt weapons are basically a hammer when wielded, who bothers to apply anything**.
And Murong Feng's choice of quenching method for the dart is relatively simple, directly pick up a dart and insert it into the ** prepared by himself and stir it, and then lift it up to drain the excess venom, put it aside and wait for it to cool and solidify on its own, and after a while, the two groups of a total of twenty darts were all wrapped in a layer of ** coating, Murong Feng picked up a dart and looked at it, and suddenly showed an evil smile on his face.
【Steel Darts】
Quality: Fine (Green)
Throwing weapons
Damage: 1-30
Poison: When hitting a target, there is a high chance to poison the target, paralyzing the target's entire body and reducing their movement speed and attack speed by 25% for 12 seconds. This effect gradually decreases to targets that are 3 levels higher than the self until it becomes ineffective.
Frequency: 5/5
Toxicity: 24 hours.
Occupation: General Purpose
Required Level: 10
Instructions: If you don't know how to throw, it's best not to stand behind a teammate and use this throwing weapon!