Chapter 184: Preparing for the Hunt
"Brother Wang, what did you say to them just now?" Wang Meng went to talk to Yun Ruoyao and Yi Qianying, but Pei Ziao didn't follow, so he asked suspiciously.
"I invited Yun Ruoyao and Yi Qianying to team up with the two of us. Wang Meng didn't hide anything, but his behavior of cutting first and then playing made Pei Ziao feel very uncomfortable.
And Pei Ziao didn't want to get too close to Yi Qianying, so he said: "Why can't the two of us team up, what's the benefit of bringing the two of them?"
These words made Wang Meng choke, there are advantages to forming a group, such as working together to deal with high-grade demonic beasts, and going to more dangerous places to obtain high-grade elixirs.
However, there are also many disadvantages, such as the need to divide the spoils evenly, and the people who form the team must have a certain amount of trust among themselves.
Yun Ruoyao's cultivation is not bad, she is already the top level of the fifth-level swordsman, but Yi Qianying's cultivation is not high, and bringing her with her will not improve the combat effectiveness of the team. What's more, there is no trust between them.
Facing Pei Ziao's questioning, Wang Meng smiled a little embarrassedly after a short silence: "Don't hide it from Brother Pei, I had a good impression of the eldest lady of the Yun family when I saw her for the first time, so I want to use this opportunity to get closer to her." ”
Wang Meng's words were very unexpected by Pei Ziao, but it is reasonable to think about it, although Wang Meng and Yun Ruoyao did not have any intersection before, they are also talented and beautiful when they stand together, and the identities of the two are still not much different.
"I originally only wanted to take Miss Yun with me, but Miss Yi, who had just married the crown prince, had already teamed up with Miss Yun, so I had no choice but to take her. Along the way, Wang Meng had already seen Pei Ziao's dislike for Yi Qianying, so he spoke.
"Unexpectedly, Brother Wang is still a romantic person. "Pei Ziao and Wang Kuang have been messing around together, but they don't have much intersection with Wang Kuang, a genius character.
This time, it was also his father Pei Yingxiong who learned that Wang Meng was going to enter the trial ground of the Void Underworld Academy, and specially prepared a generous gift to ask Wang Meng to take care of him.
Wang Meng has always been a person who concentrates on refining medicine in Pei Ziao's image, and he doesn't like other things very much, but he didn't expect him to have a good impression of Yun Ruoyao, but it is very rare.
"To be honest, I'm not a good woman, but I have a soft spot for this eldest lady of the Yun family, so I also ask Brother Pei to fulfill it. Wang Meng said very politely.
Wang Meng is such a genius character, Pei Ziao's father wants to call him a brother, and now he is a Pei brother to Pei Ziao, of course Pei Ziao is embarrassed to refuse his request, so he nodded and agreed.
Although Wang Meng's invitation was not agreed to by Yun Ruoyao and Yi Qianying in person, he was very accurate in his view of people, and he had long seen that Yun Ruoyao was an ambitious person.
And the team on the opposite side is obviously scum, and it can't satisfy Yun Ruoyao's ambitions. Wang Meng only had to wait for the good news from Yun Ruoyao and Yi Qianying on the second day.
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Zhuo Yifeng kept vigil, Yun Ruoyan and the three of them quickly fell asleep, Yun Ruoyan felt that she had just fallen asleep, and Zhuo Yifeng's voice sounded in her ears.
"Wake up, wake up, the water monster wants to sneak up on us. Zhuo Yifeng's voice was low and anxious.
Yun Ruoyan suddenly came to her senses, and with Zhuo Yifeng's gaze, Yun Ruoyan took advantage of the night to see several tentacles sticking out of the water by the lake.
The tentacles were slowly reaching towards where they were sitting, apparently trying to carry out a night attack.
Yun Ruoyan hurriedly pushed Lin Qingchen and Lin Qingxue awake again, and after the two woke up, the tentacles were already in front of them.
Lin Qingxue almost screamed out when she saw the black, sticky and thick tentacles at first glance, but Yun Ruoyan covered her mouth and signaled her not to make a sound.
The four of them took out their weapons and just squatted in place, holding their breath and trying not to make any movement.
The surface of the lake was obviously calm, and there was no octagonal ghost deity out of the water, but those tentacles seemed to have eyes, and they stretched out in the direction of the four people with unmistakable accuracy.
"Cut!"
When those tentacles stretched out in front of Yun Ruoyan and the others, Yun Ruoyan snorted. Several of them waved their weapons at the same time and slashed at the nearest tentacle.
Yun Ruoyan cut down a steel knife, and the tentacle was cut off, and at the same time, the other three people also cut off a tentacle.
The thick tentacles were slashed, and the severed limbs of the tentacles writhed on the sand, and at the same time, the eight-legged ghost snake let out a muffled sound from under the water because of the pain, and huge bubbles bubbled up on the surface of the water, as if the water was boiling.
Yun Ruoyan held the steel sword in his hand, and made up another sword towards the writhing tentacles, the eight-legged ghost snake was obviously enraged, and the rest of the tentacles threw at Yun Ruoyan like whips.
Yun Ruoyan rolled backwards and dodged, and Lin Qingchen and Lin Qingxue immediately rushed over to help.
Zhuo Yifeng retreated to the back, bent his bow and arrows, as long as the eight-legged ghost snake exposed his head to the water, he would shoot an arrow.
But the eight-legged ghost snake never showed its head, just flicked a few tentacles and fought with Yun Ruoyan and the three.
The tentacles are unkillable, and they are very long, and the part that Yun Ruoyan and the others cut off is just a drop in the bucket for the eight-legged ghost snake, except that it hurts a little and can't cause it much damage.
What Yun Ruoyan and the others didn't expect was that this eight-legged ghost snake was an extremely cunning demonic beast, and when Yun Ruoyan and the others were discussing how to deal with it on the shore, it heard it underwater.
That's why there was a sneak attack at night, but it was obvious that Yun Ruoyan and the others were much more cautious than those individuals in the afternoon, and the octagonal ghost snake not only did not succeed in the sneak attack, but was beaten by several people.
Because it was too cautious, it never showed its head, and finally was chased by Yun Ruoyan and a few people and hid in the water again.
"Qingxue, don't chase it. Yun Ruoyan saw that Lin Qingchen was chasing a tentacle all the way and was about to go into the water, so he immediately spoke out to stop him.
The light is not good at night, the eight-legged ghost snake is an underwater animal, it must not rely on the eyes, Yun Ruoyan suspects that those tentacles must have senses similar to smell, and can judge the direction of a person according to the smell of breath.
So, it doesn't have to reveal its true body at all, and it can find their exact location just by relying on its tentacles.
If you chase into the water at night, your vision will be blocked, which will be very disadvantageous. Therefore, Yun Ruoyan and the others did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but continued to wait for dawn.
Several people collected their weapons and walked back from the lake, Zhuo Yifeng also collected his bow, looked at the tentacles that were still writhing on the ground, and said, "I have something to eat tomorrow." ”
"What, eat this!" Lin Qingxue stared at the tentacles on the ground and shouted in disbelief: "I will never eat, and I will not eat until I starve to death." ”
When they first arrived, a few people were not familiar with this place, so they did not rush into the forest to hunt, so several people were hungry.
Yun Ruoyan was even hungrier now after a fight just now, and she couldn't sleep when she was hungry, so she simply started to watch for the rest of the night.
When the sky was just dawning, Zhuo Yifeng got up and began to pick up those tentacles.
He sliced his tentacles, threaded them with a sharpened stick, smeared them with the spices he had brought with him, and roasted them over the fire, and soon the smell of burnt aroma came to him.
"It smells so good!" Lin Qingxue sat up, and before she could open her eyes, she began to sniff vigorously.
Lin Qingxue held a skewer in one hand, and her mouth was full of sweetness, and there was no image at all.
"Didn't you say that you won't eat if you starve to death?" Lin Qingchen said with a smile at Lin Qingxue, who was munching and swallowing.
Lin Qingxue replied without changing her face: "Fortunately, Brother Zhuo didn't let me see those tentacles when he dealt with them, otherwise I would definitely not be able to eat them, and now that I have made food, I can barely eat some." ”
After a few people finished breakfast, they began to arrange how to kill the eight-legged ghost.
The eight-legged ghost snake has a cautious and cunning personality, it suffered a loss last night, and today Zhuo Yifeng directly roasted its tentacles to eat, and just now blatantly cleaned the tentacles that had been cut by the lake, which must have scared it out of its guts.
"I'm going to get it out in the water. Yun Ruoyan said: "Then Zhuo Yifeng found an opportunity to shoot it." ”
When he was in the Royal Secret Realm, Yun Ruoyan only dared to fight with the Megalodon with the cultivation of a fourth-level swordsman, and now that he had a seventh-level swordsman's cultivation, he was naturally not afraid of the eight-legged ghost.
Even if Yun Ruoyan's current strength can't kill it on his own, he won't let it threaten his safety.
"Sister Ruoyan. Lin Qingchen and Lin Qingxue called out at the same time.
"Although the eight-legged ghost snake is not a high-level magical beast, and its level is not as good as that of the megalodon, it is underwater, and no matter how good your water is, you still need to breathe, so it will be very dangerous to go on like this. Lin Qingxue quickly said her worries.
Lin Qingchen and Zhuo Yifeng also frowned and nodded on the side, obviously they were also worried about this.
"Don't worry, if I dare to do this, I must be sure. ”
Yun Ruoyan smiled faintly, her confident smile was very convincing for the other three, because whether it was in the Royal Secret Realm or after coming out of the Royal Secret Realm, no matter what happened, Yun Ruoyan could resolve it.
Even if those things seemed to them to be incomprehensible, Yun Ruoyan seemed to be able to make the impossible possible.
So in the face of Yun Ruoyan's confident smile and tone, the three of them couldn't help but believe her.
"Don't worry, wait for me to bring it up. Yun Ruoyan said and turned around and went into the water.
Yun Ruoyan jumped into the water, and immediately took the fish monster Neidan on her neck in her mouth, with the effect of the fish pill, she could really breathe freely. It's amazing to be able to breathe freely underwater.
She pulled out the dark iron dagger that Limo gave her from her trouser leg and held it in her mouth along with Yu Dan, without the blockage of breathing, Yun Ruoyan dived all the way to the depths of the water.
After diving about ten meters, Yun Ruoyan saw the eight-legged ghost snake entrenched under the water, its dark body was like a hill, and its eight tentacles were slowly dancing around the mountain-like body with teeth and claws.