Chapter 1
It's dawn.
A ray of sunlight shone on Luo Xiao's body, slowly moving his eyelids, a pair of dark eyes appeared, the sunlight was a little dazzling, blinked, adapted to the light, he got up and walked out of the 'tree hole'.
You can see a circle of yellow powder and some thin transparent threads tied to bells on the edge of the tree hole, which is realgar powder and alarm device, he is an adventurer, and the basic sense of danger is still there.
At this time, he was in a ruin realm, and because of the danger in the ruins at night, he had stayed in a tree hollow for the night before.
Where there is a ruin, there are adventurers, and the ruins are the most mysterious, weird, and dangerous places on the continent, and at the same time, they are also the most tempting, symbolizing wealth, fame, and power, and in order to conquer it, the profession of 'adventurer' came into being.
Most adventurers go for wealth, and Luo Xiao is no exception, this time he is here to explore treasures, to be precise, to try his luck.
This is a ruined realm called the 'Black Vine Forest', and there is a dangerous man-eating vine in it, which is said to be a treasure all over its body and has a high price.
Recently, it is the season when the cannibal vine is blooming, and the flower is the most valuable part of its body, and a flower can be sold for at least ten gold coins, which is the money that ordinary people can only earn by struggling for a lifetime, and adventurers only need to enter and exit the ruins to get it.
This is also the peculiarity of the profession of adventurers, with high risk and high reward.
Adventurers flock to it, some succeed, some fail, and many adventurers are poisoned by it and become nourishment.
Wealth is in danger, and if you don't succeed, you will become benevolent, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the adventurers are a group of crazy people.
"I don't know how many of those peers died, but it was better to die a few more so that I could collect their bodies. ”
Luo Xiao put the bell in his bag, and when he was ready to go, he said such a sentence heartlessly.
He is not a competent adventurer, this is also related to himself, the body is the capital of adventure, generally speaking, adventurers are strong, tall and big, and he is the opposite, at the age of twenty or eight, compared to his peers, he is a little shorter and thinner.
The lack of innate advantages caused him to be not favored, and it was not until he was thirteen years old that he obtained the adventurer's gray iron badge license, for which he worked several times harder than ordinary people.
Adventurers have always been team-based and have a high success rate, which is also the trend of the entire adventure industry, after entering the industry, he wants to form or join a team to take risks together, but disappointingly, everyone rejects him.
The reason is the same, a friendly one will say: I'm sorry, we need a stronger partner.
If you are not friendly, you don't give any face, and say disdainfully: Hahaha, it's really funny, you still want to join us like this, go away, go away......
Etcetera.
In such an unfriendly environment, he still did not give up his profession.
Since no one wants to partner with him, be a lone ranger.
Not to mention, after three years of hard work, he has successfully gained a firm foothold in the adventurer industry, and he has never picked up the simplest tasks to do them, although he earns less, but fortunately, he has a lot of money, and it is no problem to make a living.
Occasionally, he will go to the ruins to collect corpses and make some extra money, in fact, he will make money from the dead, and when someone dies, he will go to collect the money from the corpse.
Speaking of which, this matter is very inauthentic, and he is despised, but he is accustomed to doing too many things, and now he doesn't care about these, anyway, people are dead, and they don't take it for nothing.
This is contrary to his original yearning for an adventurous life, forced by conditions, there is no way to do it, to achieve his goals, he must first let himself survive in the industry.
"There shouldn't be a man-eating vine here, right?"
In a place where the fog was relatively heavy, Luo Xiao stopped and watched, and did not go any further, the soil here was slippery and soft, and the air was filled with a smell of corruption.
The fog obscures the view, and you can only see less than fifty paces away, and the vegetation is dense not far ahead, and there are probably man-eating vines hiding in it!
Forward or backward? Usually at this time, he will choose the safest one, retreat, in case there is really a man-eating vine, with his strength is estimated to hang up.
Just as he turned around, he was attracted by a blue light in the place where the sun shone in his sight, and he suddenly came to his senses, and when he fixed his eyes, it was a round object the size of a baby's palm, and he wondered: "Blue Bronze Badge!?"
He looked at it carefully, and vaguely saw that it was engraved with the head of an animal, and now he was even more sure, there would be no mistake, it was a blue bronze badge, and he was immediately overjoyed!
The only thought is to hurry up and get this treasure in his hands, the badge is the adventurer's license, the only thing that symbolizes the identity of the adventurer, the higher the level, the greater the value of the badge, his gray iron badge can be sold for at least fifty gold coins, and the blue bronze badge is two levels higher than him, if it is exchanged for money, at least five thousand gold coins, this is still less to say.
After a moment of joy, his mood sank again, the badge was not far ahead, and it was within reach, but three years of adventure experience told him that there must be danger ahead, and if he took a wrong step, it would be over!
He froze in place, neither advancing nor retreating, and his heart was entangled, "What am I afraid of? I'm an adventurer, isn't that just here to take risks, no matter what, I must get this treasure in my hands today!"
The wine was so strong that he simply took out a bottle of wine from his bag and poured two sips, which was the medicinal wine he used to disinfect when he was injured on his expedition.
The wine was very strong, and the strength of the wine immediately attacked, the whole body was hot, and the blood was surging, he exhaled a breath of heat, his eyes were firm, he pulled out the short sword on his waist, and walked forward step by step.
He was cautious, taking almost every step, through the wet grass, through the vines that stood in his way, and finally came to the badge.
It seemed like a short distance, but he felt like he had walked for a long time.
On closer inspection, the badge was dyed a little green, and judging from its appearance and color, as he expected, it was thought to be the legacy of the adventurer who had died here.
Seeing the baby right in front of him, he couldn't hide the excitement on his face, which was the biggest gain he had gained since he entered the industry three years ago.
When he reached out to reach for something, the real feeling of holding it in his hand made him intoxicated, like a dream, as if he was the owner of this badge, the adventurer who roamed the ruins from above...... Kindness...... And then this adventurer ......
"What am I thinking? Hurry up and get your stuff and leave. ”
Sensing that he was thinking nonsense, Luo Xiao quickly shook his head and retracted his thoughts.
At this moment, something unexpected happened, the chain of the badge seemed to be holding something, and in a hurry, Luo Xiao pulled hard, and a skeleton rushed out from the dense leaf in front of him, and pounced on him.
Yes!
Luo Xiao shouted, subconsciously stepped back, but the soles of his feet slipped, and he was pressed under the skeleton, followed by the sudden rustling sound around him.
"It's not good, it's a man-eating vine!"
This frightened him, and he panicked, and used twelve points of strength to push the skeleton away, and ran towards the way he came, holding the badge.
As a result, it was still a step too late, and the man-eating vine appeared, and the black vine with thick wrists was menacing, countless in all directions, and came in a circle, and a vine first wrapped around his leg and dragged it back.
He did not hesitate, a sword slashed, the vine broke in response, and then, he took out the wine bottle at a lightning speed and smashed it, let the wine spill around, and then struck a match, the wine caught fire and burned, and the fire rose sharply in an instant, and the cannibal vine was afraid of fire, and the offensive stopped.
Luo Xiao took the opportunity to swing his sword and slash wildly, and between life and death, he burst out with amazing strength, and countless vines were cut by him, and he successfully broke out of the encirclement.
The crisis is not over, and the man-eating vine is in hot pursuit.
Looking back at the cannibal monster behind him, he felt an unprecedented crisis, and if he continued like this, sooner or later he would become the belly of this monster!
He took out three fist-sized circles, three powerful bombs, which he had spent three hundred gold coins to save his life, and which he was now using.
Triggering the fuse and throwing it backwards, he threw himself forward at the time of the explosion, followed by three booms, and a wave of air caused by the explosion swept out, and countless broken man-eating vines flew all over the sky.
The explosion subsided, the man-eating vine retreated, Luo Xiao pushed away the broken vine on his body, coughed twice, and rejoiced: "This money was not spent in vain!"
He giggled and laughed, after the catastrophe, there was a wonderful feeling in his heart, this is the taste of adventure, this is the real adventurer, although this experience is very short, the feeling brought to him is different from the past, those small fights in the past are not worth mentioning compared to today's encounter.
Next, he picked up a few broken vines and hurried away.
Piff is not guilty, such a big move will definitely attract other adventurers, if you know that he has a blue bronze badge in his hand, the result can be imagined.