When Xia Chiyu rushed into the bushes, he found that there was nothing, no living creatures there. He looked around, but found some clues. Since the hasty departure did not have time to cover up, there were indeed traces of some person or creature standing there behind the bushes, apparently observing them.

So, Xia Chiyu returned to the edge of the bonfire and sat down.

"What's wrong?" Lacey asked curiously, "Is that arrow a trap or something?" ”

Xia Chiyu smiled mysteriously: "No, I believe we have arrived in the territory of the elves. ”

Zhang Zinuo frowned and said, "So fast!?" It's only been more than half an hour since we arrived on this continent! ”

Xia Chiyu raised his hand to signal her to calm down: "It's just that they have entered their range of activities, it doesn't mean that they have cities and villages nearby, and they are still far from completing the task." ”

"And how did you find out that there were people here?" Lin Qianxue asked puzzled.

"It's more obvious system prompt, I saw a silver light flashing over there, probably the elf's arrow reflection." Xia Chiyu shrugged his shoulders and said, "This is probably a reminder that we have entered the range of activities of the elves." ”

"But what about the hunting?" Liu Yiyu asked with a smile.

"......" Xia Chiyu was silent for a while, and before he could sit down, he had to get up and go hunting.

This mission did allow them to enjoy the exploration mode, and Xia Chiyu found that the exploration mode was far more interesting than he imagined.

At night in Exploration Mode, you can't advance without light, otherwise you won't see anything, and you'll be attacked by a demon named "Night", which reduces a certain amount of HP per attack, and can be reduced by defense, but you can't defend against it. This lasts until the player dies or finds a light to dispel the darkness.

In addition, the player will also have the attribute of "Spirit Points" when exploring the wild for a long time. When the spirit value is too low, the player will hallucinate, and will be attacked by the illusion, and will indeed lose health when attacked, but players with too high spirit value will not be able to see those illusion monsters, so only players with low spirit value will deal with it themselves.

The good news is. Defeating these illusionary monsters will allow the player to regain some stamina slightly.

As for the stat of Spirit, it can be affected in many ways, but to summarize it simply, any state that makes the player feel uncomfortable will cause the stat to decrease.

For example, if the player is too wet after being exposed to rain, his energy will continue to drop until his body is dry; When fighting monsters, your energy will continue to drop.

In addition, eating unpalatable or unhandled food will also cause the player's energy to decrease, while delicious food will restore the player's energy points, and some herbs can also consume stamina, health, or satiety to restore energy points.

In addition, staying in an excessively hot or cold environment for too long can cause the player to suffer from heat stroke and frostbite due to excessive temperature or too low temperature. Health will continue to drop until you die or your body temperature returns to normal.

After Xia Chiyu and the others continued to move forward for a while, the environment soon began to become bad, and Xia Chiyu realized that what they needed to worry about the most was not actually the attack of monsters or elves, but the nature of this mysterious continent.

It was obviously spring here, and it was a swampy area, and after walking for a while, it began to rain heavily.

The heavy rain is nothing, the key is after the heavy rain falls on them. The humidity kept rising, and the energy level kept dropping. Xia Chiyu has never seen what the so-called "hallucination" looks like. But hearing that the shadow beast that appeared in the hallucination was very difficult to kill, Xia Chiyu was worried that Liu Yiyu and the others would not be able to support it.

There are only two ways to get rid of dampness, use the skill of survival in the wild to make shelter, or bake a fire. Of course, hiding in a travel tent can also effectively eliminate the humidity and slowly restore your energy level. But then there is no way to move forward. And this heavy rain has not stopped at all, but unfortunately none of them will have the skill of surviving in the wild.

As a result, they ended up having to move some distance and open their tents when the humidity was high. Rest inside and recuperate, and dry your wet clothes. And if you don't have a travel tent, hiding under shelter such as under a large tree can also be an effective way to slow down the increase in humidity. However, the faster you advance, the faster the humidity increases.

The raindrops were ticking down on my body, and the feeling of wet clothes sticking to my body was very real and uncomfortable.

"I knew we should have practiced the skill of survival in the wild." Zhang Zinuo wiped the water on his face and muttered.

Of course, in fact, everyone has a little bit of their own survival skills in the wild, but with their current proficiency, they can only pick a leaf and put it on their heads to cover the rain, which has no obvious effect, and will slow down the speed, so it is better to move forward in the rain.

However, Xia Chiyu feels that the temptation of getting wet is also good, although there are no benefits because of the game, but the wonderful curves that are delicate can still be seen.

And it's not just about humidity that's going to be a problem, it's all about the same thing that happens from time to time.

After they advanced some distance, the humidity increased significantly, and the fatigue debuff came out at the same time.

As a result, some of them had to go out hunting to recuperate and regain their satiation, or else their "stockpiles" would be consumed. And this is the first day of exploration, and it's not a good sign to start depleting stocks so early.

They quickly set up their tents and walked in, lit the tent's fireplace, sat cross-legged in front of the fireplace, and began to dry their clothes. The warm feeling quickly spread throughout the body, dispelling the feeling of dampness and coldness.

At that moment, Xia Chiyu really wanted to stay in front of this stove forever and never go out again, but now everyone not only had a slightly tired debuff, but also a fairly low level of satiety.

As the satiety level continues to decrease, the player will go into a state of starvation, which will continue to reduce health until the player dies or fills the position. Of course, they can also directly consume the food stored in the tent, but ......

"Forget it, I've heard that it's dangerous to hallucinate after your mental value is too low, so let's be safe and take out the stored food and eat it." Lin Qianxue said worriedly. "Isn't the food store just for this time?"

"Don't get in the way, just see what this hallucination is, and then if you're unlucky and can't really avoid hallucinations, we can know how to prevent and deal with it." Xia Chiyu shook his head.

"Eat the fish, I'll go." Lacey said. Standing up, "I'm a knight, my blood is thick and my defense is high, and it should be the most suitable for me to test this illusion mode." ”

Xia Chiyu pressed Lacey's shoulder and made him sit down: "It's not that I look down on you, I believe you can survive the illusion mode, but I don't think you can figure out some of these tricks, so let me go." ”

Immediately, Xia Chiyu sighed, reluctantly lifted the tent and went out.

This damp effect cannot be dispelled by magic. Of course, he could choose to release a Flame Circle on himself to reduce the humidity, but the amount of moisture that can be reduced during the duration of the Flame Circle is too small to be painless. What's more, Xia Chiyu really wanted to try this illusion mode.

The humidity continued to increase, Xia Chiyu only felt that the cold feeling surrounded him, his clothes were wet and sticking to his body, and with every step he took, he could feel the insoles sticking to the soles of his feet like soft mud, which was so uncomfortable that he wanted to turn his head back to the tent immediately.

And fatigue accelerates the decline in mental value. Soon his mental value dropped to thirty percent, and he began to show signs of hallucinations. Xia Chiyu only felt that the whole world seemed to be covered with a layer of reddish-brown mist. And slowly squirmed.

"This is an illusion...... Xia Chiyu muttered to himself, coupled with the cold discomfort on his body, which made him extremely anxious. Moreover, he seemed to see some strange black shadows dangling around him, which should be the so-called shadow beasts.

Xia Chiyu raised his hand and threw a fireball at those shadow beasts. However, the fireball only pierced through the bodies of these shadow beasts, and did not have any damage effect. And these shadow beasts don't attack him now, just hovering around him from time to time.

Xia Chiyu estimated that his spiritual value had not dropped to a sufficient value, so he didn't pay attention to it.

However, the hallucinations also caused Xia Chiyu's sensory function to decline a lot. Not only his vision, but the buzzing of his brain also weakened his hearing, so that he didn't notice when a boulder cow appeared behind him, and was hit by the other party. Xia Chiyu hurriedly released the Hurricane Technique in mid-air to stabilize his body and turn, and only then did he discover this boulder cow.

At this moment, the boulder Newton paused, ready for the next attack. Xia Chiyu is especially good at dealing with this kind of attribute monster, there is a truth of five elements in AO, and he has spells of all attributes, so he can choose the skill that most restrains this elemental creature. Therefore, Xia Chiyu raised his hand, aimed at the boulder cow and shouted: "Demon Realm Flower ......"

The stone-like armor on the boulder cow suddenly exploded, and the bewitching flowers quickly drilled out of the cracks, and the boulder cow also fell to the ground in pain, although it did not deduct mana, but it entered the "armor-piercing state".

You must know that the damage reduction effect of wild monsters is almost eighty percent, so the damage received after entering the armor-piercing state will increase dramatically, not to mention that this boulder cow is only a seventy-level wild monster, Xia Chiyu is a ninety-level player, and he casually used an ice thorn technique to kill this boulder cow in seconds, and then used primary cooking to obtain ten copies of "large boulder cow beef".

In fact, if you practice haute cuisine, you can get more portions and more detailed parts of beef, such as sirloin, beef shank, tripe, etc., but now you can only make up for it.

"That should be enough for us to recover." Xia Chiyu picked up the beef and thought secretly.

At this time, he suddenly felt a chill behind him, and turned his head, a hound-like creature formed by black mist had already pounced on him, it was the shadow beasts that were dangling around him before, but they had not yet taken shape, but now they looked much clearer than before. It used to be just a faint black shadow, but now it's almost condensed into a solid body.

Xia Chiyu was startled, and hurriedly stretched out the spiritual force field, but fortunately, the spiritual force field worked on this shadow beast, hitting its body and bounced it out, and then this shadow beast turned into black smoke and dissipated.

"It turns out that this is the Shadow Beast......" Xia Chiyu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but after those black smoke dissipated, it quickly condensed and formed again not far away, and pounced on him with a fierce momentum. This time, Xia Chiyu raised his hand and threw a fireball at it.

After the Shadow Beast was blown up by the fireball, it dissipated into black smoke again, and then condensed and formed again not far away. Xia Chiyu's attention was suddenly diverted, he planned to study this shadow beast carefully......

Soon, he figured out the specifics of these shadow beasts. First of all, Shadow Beasts are divided into two forms, one is this Shadow Beast that resembles a giant hound, and the other is similar to a walking man-eating flower. Man-eating Shadowmon is probably an advanced state, with significantly more health than Hound Shadowmon, and its attack power, attack speed, and movement speed are significantly faster.

In addition, the characteristic of these shadow beasts is that they can only withstand one attack, after which they will dissipate, and then form again not far away, and continue to attack; The second characteristic is that these Shadow Beasts don't actually have health, they can only take a certain number of attacks, and any attack will deal the same amount of damage to them.

For example, Shadowhounds die after taking five damages, while Maneaters can take seven attacks. Regardless of whether these attacks are forbidden spells or small fireballs, an attack counts as one damage. This is good news.

Also, killing both Shadow Beasts will restore the player's stamina. The Hound Shadow Beast will recover 30 percent, while the Man-Eating Flower Shadow Beast will recover as much as 50 percent!

However, it's just to restore the spirit value, not to remove the player's negative state, when Xia Chiyu recovers the spirit value, because the dampness on the body is still there, so the spirit value will continue to decrease. This will result in the player being constantly harassed by Shadow Beasts, and may even be harassed by multiple Shadow Beasts at the same time.

It is very troublesome for multiple Shadow Beasts to appear at the same time, because these creatures cannot be killed quickly with damage, and can only be slowly consumed by the number of attacks, and when there are more Shadow Beasts, it will cause the player to make mistakes. Shadow Beasts will refresh constantly, so if the player does not choose to clean up the first Shadow Beast when it appears, it will enter a vicious cycle of accumulating more and more.

However, the good news is that as soon as the spirit level is restored to more than thirty percent, all shadow beasts will disappear. Therefore, if the player kills one of the Shadow Beasts, all of them will disappear at the same time.

With this valuable information and enough beef, Xia Chiyu walked towards the traveling tent. (To be continued.) )