Chapter 614: Malice
The fruit on the branches was not much, nor was it too little, for the fruit was not easy to come by, and Luna was very careful in picking them, and it took her half an afternoon to pick them all.
Looking at the lunch box, falling into the water, and swimming insects, Luna rolled her throat a few times, suppressed the regurgitated stomach acid, poured out the water that had been stained with juice and was a little blue, rinsed it a few more times, and then filled it with some more water, and put it on the fire to cook.
To be honest, when I was in Yuguo, in fact, Luna didn't eat less, although I didn't like it, but I didn't have this kind of excitement of facing a box of live little meat insects being cooked, struggling in it and then standing up.
When she had finished the box of fruity insect soup, Luna's face turned a little green, and she didn't eat any more, and she couldn't eat anything else, so she extinguished the fire, pushed the stone at the entrance of the cave to hide the hole, arranged the stumbling silk, and went to the corner of the cave to squint.
At first, Luna was dazed due to dizziness and nausea, but gradually she gradually fell asleep because of the amount of bugs she ate this time.
It was arguably the deepest night Luna had slept in since she stepped into the Trials Forest.
When she woke up again, she jumped up from the ground with a fierce spirit, blinked with a little chagrin and dazedness, and then discredited with the familiarity of the cave, put away the trap that had been arranged, walked to the entrance of the cave, and pushed away the stone that blocked the light.
The sky outside is not yet bright, with the unique gray of dawn, the temperature of autumn has begun to drop day by day, with a little fishy earthy smell on the face? Washed away the suffocation in the cave that had been closed for the night? Luna's whole person couldn't help but be shocked.
She glanced around vigilantly, and her nose moved slightly? See that there is no smell of strangers outside? Only then did he relax again and shake his head slightly? Although there is still a slight feeling of dizziness, but compared to before? But it's much better.
This couldn't help but make Luna's face feel more relaxed than it had in many days. Looking down at her fingers again, Luna's eyes couldn't help but glow with a burning light, and it was only one night, and only a little edge of the nail had popped out before? And another section grows? It has covered half of the original nail.
This gratifying discovery made Luna look into the distance, and subconsciously licked her bare gums in the direction of the previous day's grabbing fruit with the birds.
In the days that followed, Luna had to race against time almost every day to grab food from the beak of the bird, and then come back to dig out the little bugs one by one? It is then dried and stored.
Although the bugs are too small for her handicap? A little bit of fire will be charcoal-baked, but maybe practice makes perfect? Or maybe the will to survive is too strong, anyway, after countless failures? Luna succeeded.
And dried dried worms after roasting? The colors are getting more and more pleasant? From the initial inedible carbon black, it slowly turned into an attractive burnt yellow.
It took more than half a month for Luna to finish her preliminary research on this little insect with the help of the bald fruit tree that she finally destroyed before her nails grew more and more slowly.
In general, the effect of this insect is also limited, although it can improve physical discomfort to a certain extent, but the effect is decreasing in the cliff jumping, of which the first few times the effect is the best, and later, although it is not completely useless, but it is not as good as once, and the amount required will be more and more.
Luna didn't know if she had eaten too much at one time in the first place, or what, anyway, after more than half a month, now the bug was left to relieve her dizziness and nausea.
But on the bright side, it is not easy to stop walking two steps and getting dazzled, in this forest.
Rubbing her bald head, which had grown a layer of fluff, Luna put away the small notebook filled with her research results, and once again packed her bags and headed out of the cave.
Since the beginning of autumn, Luna's ability to encounter orcs in the Trials Forest has decreased significantly, but the chances of encountering mercenaries have increased dramatically.
These mercenaries usually come to the trial forest to pick, or hunt some more expensive and cherished specialties outside, although they will not pay attention to it most of the time, and will not help the orcs who come to the trial, but if it encounters a hunting conflict, they will never be soft.
And the consequences, almost without exception, the dizzy and uneven trialists are definitely the ones who have been abused, and they will be beaten at least and their lives will be lost.
Today, Luna, who was on her way to the water source to replenish her water, came across such a thing not far from the water source.
On one side, a two-headed purple deer with golden fruits on its antlers fell in a pool of blood, a laceration on its neck was still lying on blood, and the fatal part of the deer was nailed with a feather arrow whose tail was dyed red, and it had already swallowed its breath.
On the other side, three stout mercenaries were beating and kicking around a flesh-colored layer covered with dirt, and the sound of Peng Peng's fists and feet entering the flesh echoed rapidly in the forest.
As Luna passed by, two slender mercenaries guarding the deer's corpse looked at her vigilantly, seeing that she was a trialist, and although they didn't look away, they didn't seem to want to deal with her.
Glancing at the fallen deer, Luna understood that this was another dispute over her prey.
It was obvious that the mercenaries were here for the fruit hanging from the antlers, but even if the fruit was precious enough to be exchanged for a small manor on the edge of a remote town outside, it was still not as real as the flesh of the deer for a trialist like them, who was temporarily trapped in the trial forest.
Is this necessary?
Luna frowned, her own ability is limited now, she is barely able to protect herself, and she is not capable of meddling, if she can, in fact, when she hears the movement, she will automatically bypass it, but who let these people block her path to the water source?
If she had taken a detour, she wouldn't have been able to get back to the cave before sunset today, and on the night of the Trials Forest, she really didn't want to shuttle through the dangerous fluorescents.
With a low curse, Luna withdrew her gaze and quickened her pace, thinking that she would get some water and leave.
But I don't know if she glanced at the relationship between the dead deer who fell to the ground, but a mercenary who was originally standing next to the dead deer suddenly jumped in front of her with a turn of footsteps, blocking her way, and obviously with a bit of fault, he said:
"What do you see?"
Luna frowned slightly, took a step back, and wanted to go around, but she didn't think that the man didn't mean to let her go at all, but took a wrong step, blocking Luna's path again, and greeted her companion with a little malicious joy:
"Hey, brothers, come and see, what did I touch?