Chapter 15: Barito flying squirrel with a watermelon in his arms
"That's terrible......" Kao, who was standing at the door of the venue, found a particularly serious problem - that is, no money!
Kao had planned to make a fortune at the Sky Arena after his exams, and then travel the world on adventures and food-seeking trips.
But Kao doesn't even have the money for transportation now, even if his hunter's license waives 95 percent of utility fees.
In desperation, Kao returns to the venue to find Menqi.
"Hey, Menqi...... Sister! Kao found Menqi in the hall as he was about to leave with Buhara.
Menqi turned his head to look for the source of the sound, and found Kao waving not far away: "Huh? I remember you, the only Kao who passed the sushi test. ”
"Hello, I want to be a food hunter, I wonder if you can tell me about the agency?" Kao hurried over to Menqi.
"Yes, boy, I thought you had a talent for being a food hunter." Menki grinned and patted Kao on the shoulder.
"Go out from here, go left to the end, you will see an underground café, you go to the owner, he will take you to the agent."
"We are both food hunters, so maybe we can have opportunities to cooperate in the future." Menqi said as he gave Kao his special line number, as did Buhara.
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Underground café.
"It's very classical." Kao pushed the door in, and the wooden floor and yellowed lights made people feel very comfortable and steady.
Sitting on the stage, Kao was still looking around. "Guest, what would you like to drink?" The forty-something shopkeeper spoke in a very soft voice.
"Black ice with lemonade." Kao uttered the code that Menki had told him.
"What's wrong?" Kao noticed that the store manager was suddenly stunned.
"I was just a little surprised, I didn't expect there to be such a small guest." The manager smiled and shook his head.
"Yes......" Kao looked down at himself, beginning to realize where he was, a fifteen-year-old professional hunter who was already at the top of the world pyramid, albeit a newcomer.
"Come on, I'll take you there."
"Okay." Kao followed the store manager.
The manager led Kao through the café's two corridors to a sliding Japanese room. "He's in there, and I'm back to work."
"Yes." Kao nodded in acknowledgement, opened the door and entered the room.
"Sit down, what kind of employer are you looking for?" A woman in a kimono with an elegant temperament kneels at a small table.
"Food-related work, located near here, can be completed relatively quickly, and it is best to have more bonuses." Kao came up to the woman and said a series of her demands.
"Wait a minute." The woman stretched out her hands and danced in the air with her fingertips.
"Can you see anything?" The woman asked.
Kao struggled to condense his qi into his eyes: "The operation system is connected to the computer, and then the control is assisted by the embodiment ability...... It's magical. ”
After using the condensation, Kao could see that there was a rectangular panel in front of the woman that recorded a lot of information, two meters in size.
"There are two that meet your requirements: the first person is the coffee shop manager who asks you to go to the Grimm Sea to retrieve the deep-sea pearl coffee. The second person is a big farmer who wants you to look for snowflake watermelons in a frozen volcano. Which are you looking for? The woman nodded.
"Which of the things they're looking for is closer?" Kao is more concerned about distance.
"The second one, the frozen volcano, also known as Mount Barito, is directly behind us, 20 minutes by bus or an hour on foot, but it's a bit more difficult."
"That's it." Kao makes a decision.
"Good luck, this is his address, and it's not far from here." The woman's anger suddenly retracted, and she wrote down a note and handed it to Kao.
"Thank you." Kao took the note and left.
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At the foot of Mount Barito, Kao looked up: "It's really exciting for watermelons to grow in the crater." ”
Passing through the forest, Kao could clearly feel the temperature dropping, and the closer he got to the crater, the sparser the vegetation became.
By this time Kao was able to see the crater, and on the rim of the crater, a layer of white snow covered the surroundings "I didn't expect the mountain at this height to freeze." ”
In order to avoid becoming a slippery person, Kao cautiously came to the crater and looked down "hiss~~~"
"This is the world I want!" In the crater, the inner mountain wall was snow-white, the snow-colored lava rolled up and rose a cold air, and there were snow-patterned watermelons floating on it, and the nature appeared in front of Kao like a fantasy.
"It's a bit difficult to climb this mountain, and I probably can't resist the temperature below......" Kao looked at the surrounding mountain, then found a wooden stick and threw it down, only to find that it would turn into a popsicle after only twenty meters of falling.
Just as Kao was distressed, several shadows appeared from the cave in the middle of the mountain wall, and Kao opened the writing wheel to take a closer look and found that they were three flying squirrels with extremely thick fluff.
They flew towards the snowy lava below, the bottom one holding a watermelon that was almost the same size as itself, but soon the cold of the snowy lava froze its claws on the snowflake watermelon. Then two other flying squirrels hooked it up. The three rats and one melon flew back into the hole.
"Wonderful! However......" Kao can clearly see through the writing wheel eye that the flying squirrel holding the watermelon at the bottom is being eroded by the cold, and its body is gradually freezing, and if it is not treated, it will slowly die. "It's really for food."
"There's no way I'm going to fish for watermelons from the snow lava, but that location should be fine, and it doesn't work......" Kao walked along the snowy mountain pass to find the spot above the hole where the flying squirrel had just been.
After finding his position, Kao took out the rope he had prepared and tied it to a nearby stone that was strong enough, tied the other end around his waist, used "Jian" to protect his whole body, and slid down the inner wall.
Gliding to the hole of the flying squirrel, looking below, Kao could already feel the strong cold, and his feet couldn't stop shivering: "If this temperature is not for the protection of qi, the body is estimated to be frozen."
"Sure enough." Kao stooped into the narrow hole, where seven or eight flying squirrels were trying to separate the watermelon from the frozen flying squirrels.
Seeing Kao's sudden appearance, several flying squirrels immediately retreated in fright, leaving the flying squirrels and snowflake watermelons lying in front of them.
Kao reached out and saw the flying squirrels let out a small wail. "Rest assured ......"
The temperature of Kao's hand on the frozen flying squirrel gradually rose, and the ice melted at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the flying squirrel, who was certain to die, struggled to get back to his feet.
Perhaps because of the temperature on Kao's hands, or because of gratitude to Kao, the flying squirrels, who were originally very scared, surrounded Kao.
"Fluffy animals are still cute." Kao hugged a few flying squirrels that had gathered around.
Once he got acquainted, Kao began to want to express his purpose.
Kao condensed a pinch of flame with his left hand, then pointed at the flying squirrel, then at the snowy lava watermelon, then made a flying motion, and finally hugged the squirrel with his hand.
"How's that?" Kao put on a show and looked at the flying squirrels expectantly. In Kao's opinion, using their abilities, the flying squirrels can get a lot of watermelons in a safe situation.
The flying squirrels tilted their heads in unison, then ran over to wrap their eyes around Kao's left hand with a happy face.
"I really envy Xiaojie for being able to communicate with animals...... "Kao sighed helplessly with his chin and let the flying squirrels surround him.