"Friendly Technique...... All right...... Keep your distance", Tarrant leaned down and approached a large stout tree to the right, staring through the foliage at the bellbird hovering in the air.

Katrina carefully hid behind him, "See anything?"

"Look", Tarrant brushed aside a cluster of leaves, revealing a large tree beneath the bellbird, surrounded by dense grass that would be difficult to spot if someone was lying on the ground.

"I don't see anything, is it the Balance Messenger?"

"Over there," Tarrant said, pointing to a small, bright yellow flower in the grass beneath the tree, which seemed a little abrupt, "they are not balance messengers, they know how to hide themselves from disturbing the animals. ”

"What's so strange about flowers?" said Katrina, poking her head out.

"It's the spotted leopard, it's waiting for prey in the trees. ”

"Leopard?" Catrina crouched down sensibly, "how do you know?"

"Look at the tree, there is blood, the prey should have been scratched, the spotted leopard can climb up and catch it at any time, maybe, it is not hungry right now and does not want to eat right away, or it is just playing with its prey. ”

"Sounds like a falcon. ”

"Hunters usually have a lot of ways to torture their prey," Tarrant said, covering the leaves, "let's get around it," and he took a step back and burrowed into the grass on the right.

"Hey!" Katrina grabbed him by the arm, "Wait!"

Tarrant knew exactly what she was going to do, "Remember, the law of the jungle. ”

"You said, it's not hungry now, why watch the poor creature being bitten to death?"

"Nature is like that, they don't necessarily die on the food chain, we go. ”

"No," Katrina raised her right index finger.

"Don't!" Tarrant reached out to stop when the magic missile flew out of her fingertips.

The red ball of energy swept across the grass and hit the leopard all around, perhaps hitting it, and the bright yellow flower slammed to its feet, its muscular limbs stained with dried blood, and its dark eyes shot at Katrina's side.

"Damn it!" Tarrant hurried to the mage's side, pulling his robes and hiding behind a tree, clutching the mage's arm with both hands.

"Whew-" The beast let out a trembling breath, its paws moving slowly through the grass.

"Are you confident to kill it?" Tarrant asked, leaning into the mage's ear.

The mage shook his head.

The two of them clinged to the trunk of the tree, and the footsteps in the grass behind them gradually moved away, and finally ran away.

Tarrant stretched out half of his head to look over, the yellow flower was gone, only a single green color remained, and he breathed a sigh of relief, "It's gone." ”

Katrina also pricked out half of her head, "I'll just say, it's supposed to be afraid of us", she shook off Tarrant's hand, "see what its prey is." ”

"My combat strength has not yet recovered, in case of any accident, we will die in this wild forest, not even a whole corpse, don't think that the spotted leopard is just a big wild cat. ”

"Do you need to be afraid of tin cans?" said Katrina, running toward the tree.

"......," Tarrant trotted, "I'm worried about you." ”

"Oh, is it because I agreed to your request last night?" asked Katrina in a playful tone.

"No, you've always been so high," Tarrant said, holding his hand high above his head, "more important than myself." ”

"Haha, I guess your passion for me will soon drown out in your affection for the Spirit-Sucker", Katrina stopped in front of the tree, there was only a slight trace of blood on it, it was not yet dry, she looked up in the bushes, "Where is it?"

"Whoa", on the left side of the thick branch reveals a pair of frightened eyes, brown and round, like some kind of koala.

"What's that?" Catrina stepped back to Tarrant, "monkey?"

"Perhaps, who cares, it's time to go," Tarantra took the mage's arm, "get there before noon, and be lucky enough to get back to Watt Town in the evening, where soft mattresses and roasted rabbit meat are waiting for you." ”

Katrina licked her lips, "Sounds good, let's go", and she immediately lost interest in the mysterious creature in the tree.

When Tarrant remembered again, the fluttering of wings overhead was gone, and the bird seemed to have flown in other directions.

The two continued their walk through the woodland, the sunlight above them gradually obscured by the leaves, and they entered the dense forest area, where the ground was covered with a layer of dead leaves, and the roots and poisonous snakes could hide in it, and Tarrant reminded: "Be careful with the ground, your heels hit the ground first." ”

"Hmm", Katrina took Tarrant's hand.

"I guess the southern part of this woods is the Temple of Oblivion. ”

"Oh ......," Catrina looked intently at her feet.

The field of vision is blocked by trees all around, and the field of vision is very limited, and you can only see the general direction of the sun when you look up, "It's almost noon." ”

"Should we be walking for so long?"

"No", Tarrant looked around, exactly the same scene, he wasn't even sure if the two of them were going straight ahead, maybe they had taken a detour, if so......

"I'm tired," Catrina shook her robe, "rest?"

"No, they can't rest here," Tarrant urged, and if they had lost their way, perhaps they wouldn't be able to walk out of the woods until night.

They continued to move on, the dead leaves spreading all the way to guide the way.

After about dozens of minutes, there was still no obvious change around the forest, which was unreasonable, Tarrant remembered that there was no such big forest when Kitty led the way, and the iron tools on his body began to torture his will, he knew that this would happen and he should have let the young people in the camp lead the way, he looked back, Katrina had a fine sweat on his forehead, "I'm going out soon, hold on." ”

"Oh......" she wiped her forehead, "I'm hungry, thirsty, tired, sleepy. ”

"You can rest when you get to the camp", Tarrant was also very helpless about this, and the current situation was not suitable for stopping.

A figure stood in front, leaning against a tree trunk.

"People?" Catrina wiped the beads of sweat from the corners of her eyes and stopped, common sense knew that it was not a good thing for someone to suddenly appear in the woods and wait for someone, especially in such a remote place.

Tarrant pressed the handle of his katana with his right hand, "Maybe he can help," and he put his left hand in front of Katrina and walked towards the man.

He was wearing a coarse cloth coat of earthy gray, a pair of dirty yellow trousers, cloth shoes, and a short sword at his waist, it was difficult to distinguish his occupation, and it was surmised from his sloppy face that he could not take care of his image, he lived in the mountains, and there were mud marks on his cloth shoes, and the weather was fine for the past two days, and the land in the forest was also covered with dead leaves, he should have come from somewhere else, and Tarrant looked at the short sword from a distance, unadorned, and rustic in appearance.

"Is it a bandit?" Catrina followed behind Tarrant, "I still have missiles." ”

"No, don't worry, if it were a robber, he wouldn't be in such an easy state now, a paladin and a mage, and he only has an ordinary dagger", Tarrant glanced to both sides, and found no slings or abruptly colored piles of dead leaves around, the other party could be a wandering bandit or a ranger.

The man turned his head and smiled.

Tarrant quietly asked, "Could it be that he is also the one who worships me in the camp?"

"Ridiculous, I've never seen him. ”

Now that the other party has expressed kindness, Tarrant's right hand moves away from the hilt, "Hello." ”

"I've been waiting for you for a long time," the stranger said with a smile.