Black Feather struck hard in the air, and the nightmare was silent.

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In the woods, it is not easy to catch enough prey to fill your stomach, but on the contrary, even if you catch it, it does not mean that you can enjoy it safely. Even in the wild, if you're incompetent, there will be harsh tax collectors who can undo your work if you're not careful.

In the natural world, there is no limit to the tax collectors, and they will do everything in their power to get you to hand over your food, and even make you use your own body to pay for your tuition.

Sometimes, in the face of a crisis, it takes unflinching perseverance, but sometimes appropriate concessions are also necessary for reason. When the number of foraging beasts in the woods began to increase, Betton decisively threw most of the barge carcasses to the ground not far away. Attracted by this strong smell of blood, few animals are interested in the small portion of meat that has already been washed in his hands...... They are apparently more than willing to share food that is not guarded for free. On the edge of the lake, which was gradually darkening, the terrible sound of chewing flesh and bones was constantly heard in the distance, and if it were an ordinary moon prayer, they would probably be trembling with fear when they heard this...... Even Baton didn't intend to eat on the ground after cooking his dinner over the flame, but climbed straight down the trunk of the striated leaf tree behind him to the canopy, sat on the thicker branches, and leisurely looked at the treacherous woods below.

Well, while munching on the luxurious grilled barge meat, while admiring the Xinghua Lake at night, although the claim that you can see the stars falling from the sky seems to be an exaggeration, it is indeed a wonderful enjoyment.

At this height, most of the creatures can't reach the same place as the Moon Prayers, and of course, only most of them.

"Gooo......oo

Accompanied by the faint cry in the night sky, soon, Beton heard the familiar sound of flapping wings approaching from afar, he didn't even need to look up, he picked up one from the barge bone that had been prepared and threw it into the air, and was directly grabbed by an agile black shadow in mid-air, and then the other party flapped his wings lightly and landed on the branch next to him, and pecked the bone he grabbed on his claws.

"Shadowwing, you're back." Looking at the black bird in front of him, Betton showed a relaxed smile, his fingertips gently stroked the other party's head, and the bird named Shadow Wing also tilted his head and did not resist, letting him stroke his hair, "Then Dire seems to be not far from here, right?" ”

After a short slight haircut, Betton removed his fingers with great interest, and Shadow Wing continued to raise the bone in front of him, and the hard beak quickly tapped on the bone at a frequency that was so fast that it was completely invisible, and for a moment only a dense tapping sound could be heard, and large cracks appeared on the bones of this barge at a speed visible to the naked eye, even Beyton could not break the bone.

Unlike most creatures, they have no interest in meat, this black bird always picks the skeleton that has been eaten up of flesh and bones, and uses ultra-high frequency of impact to crack the bones, and then they use their evolved unique beak to extract internal bone marrow and other materials from the cracks in the bones.

This is an interesting mob, because their food does not conflict with most creatures, so many predators do not bother to pay attention to these insignificant bonebreakers, and sometimes bonecrers may take the initiative to lead those predators to the location of the prey group in order to get enough food, thus creating a mutually beneficial situation.

Most predators don't have the habit of eating all the bones anyway.

Shadowwing had been raised by Betton since he was an egg, so they were very close and familiar with each other as if they were family. As an animal with a relatively high IQ, Shadow Wing will often scout back and forth in the nearby sky, and sometimes come back to alert Beyton when he finds a serious threat, and Beyton will deliberately leave a part of the clean bones every time he catches prey, which is a tacit understanding that they have formed with each other.

But there's more to Bayton's animal companion than just Shadowwing.

Unlike Shadowwing's flamboyant return, the being named Dire returns in a completely silent manner, seemingly only by chance to turn around and find that it has appeared on a nearby branch, its body almost completely integrated into the night is quiet and peaceful, its dark pupils seem to reflect a faint starlight, and the three slender tails poking out of the darkness indicate its noble status in the country: the Nine Night Cats.

Nightcats, these creatures are more than just ornamental animals, they are terrifying stalkers in the night, moving silently, with incredible agility, and the three tails wagging back and forth behind them can even catch the faint changes in air currents to judge their surroundings...... Even if you close your eyes, you can move freely.

After all, there are no weak people who can survive natural selection.

Without the coquettishness of Shadow Wing, Dire embodies the cold aura very well, as if it were its master, it naturally walked up to Beyton, raised its head proudly, casually tore a large piece of roast meat to the side and gnawed silently, it had no interest in bones at all.

Betton smiled a little helplessly, and with his dagger cut off the piece of roast meat that the Dire had gnawed and threw it into the woods below, and vaguely heard the sound of a group of animals starting to grab food. Of course, he will not continue to gnaw on the place where the Dire has gnawed, it is one thing to be emotional, but the teeth of the Nine Night Cats have a large number of pathogenic bacteria, and even the Moon Prayer People can't afford it.

Unlike the Shadow Wings that were picked up in the wild, Dire was born in the Nine Nights Royalty, and its parental status is even more noble than most of the Moonprayer nobles, so this guy is a little ancestor to be messed with with by Berton...... Luckily, Dire was a female cat, so he simply made up for this guy's actions to be a tsundere lady.

Well, I feel like once I accept this setting, it seems to be quite emotional.

But speaking of which, since you have a black-haired bird and a multi-tailed cat, would it be perfect for you to have a big-eyed bead by your side......

Apparently unaware that he had just been caught up in some strange association, Bayton silently finished his dinner today...... Thanks to its own seasonings and even first-hand expertise, this barge meat is no less than a well-prepared grilled meat. After tossing the leftover bones to the pecked Shadowwing, Beton pulled a heavy book out of his bag. Instead of bringing the torch to the tree, which would have been too unsafe, he pulled out an amber object from his bag that had been split into standard squares, not a mineral, but the product of a tiny creature called a lightworm. Said to be named for the light they flicker on their bodies as they fly at night, they discovered the substance when people followed and dug up their nests deep in tree trunks, a biomaterial created by the lightworms using resin that has an interesting property: when it is lightly heated, even at the level of body temperature, it emits a faint glow. It's not very bright, but it's good enough to support close-up night reading.

Lightworms are scarce, and they generally only nest in a type of tree that was later named the Everbright Tree, and the light blocks do not emit light permanently...... After using it for a few months, the internal energy will be completely depleted, so this is actually a very rare thing, and its value is even higher than the fruit of the Vulcan Tree, even if it is only such a piece on Beyton's body, ordinary people can't get it at all.

The Moon Prayer gave this lighting square a very literary-sounding name: Rolling Lamp, as for why does this thing have to be called a rolling lamp when it can't be rolled up, future generations can only guess that it probably means a scroll?

Bayton carefully opened the paper book, although the book recorded the same content as in the library's secret room, but it was not the original of those ancient texts, but the content of his own re-excerpts, those old ancient books could not withstand any journey.

However, what made Bayton feel a little puzzled was that the age of those ancient books was obviously not as old as the Chamber of Secrets itself, otherwise these books should have rotted to the point of shattering to slag at the touch of a touch, and since they could still be barely read, then these books should have been added later......

Vaguely, he had a feeling of being calculated, but even if it was, it was thousands of years ago. With this thought, Bayton still suppressed the doubts in his heart, and he flipped through the books in his hand in the faint light of the rolling lamp, and sketched the route plan of the trip in his mind: "If you are in the deep sea, there is no goal at all......

When Dire had finished his meal, he fell to his knees with graceful cat steps, his three black tails wagging slowly behind him, like the legendary Nine Night Cat that carried the earth on its back...... It's just that it doesn't have any flashing bells on its tail, just catching the wind and grass in the nearby air, and always on alert.

"If you continue to move forward, you will be able to arrive at the port city next to the Life and Death Gorge tomorrow, and the money on your body is completely enough to buy a ticket to cross the strait, so let's search for clues in the Beiyuan Continent first." Beiton raised his head and looked at the starry lake that reflected the starry sky, and the eyes of the stars that had been staring at the earth for countless years in the sky were also reflected in the lake, as if they were looking at him with the eyes that could see everything, "Compared to the deep sea that can't be reached at all, it's better to go to the Beiyuan Continent first to find clues of another race." According to the book, there may still be traces of their activities......"

"A race that can soar in the sky and manipulate the power of thunder, Xin Yu......" Beyton's eyes couldn't help but show a trace of envy, after all, flying is also a common yearning of the people who pray for the moon, "But according to the book, there is obviously contact, but there is no information at all in the current record......"

Why? It's been lost for a long time, or has it been erased by something?

"Hollow Mountain...... I'll find you, I will. ”

Betton was silent, but the woods were not. Shadowwing continued its bone-crushing motion, a tedious process that meant that the bonecrusher had been feeding for a long time, and the small fire was still burning silently under the leafy tree, crackling and crackling, like the only warmth in the long night.

(Thanks to the 100 starting coins of "Rabbit's Qiluno" and the 10 starting coins of "Book Friends 160425211011377" for rewarding ~ thanks to the old days for providing the setting of broken bones~)