Chapter 2 Hunting
Ten days later.
Night, there is a moon.
The purple moon hung high in the sky, quietly releasing a hazy light.
In the huge circular valley, the moonlight shines through the circular mountain pass on the top, the hole on the top of the mountain is not large compared to the space of the valley, and the range of the moonlight is very faint, if you look down from the top of the mountain, the line of sight is a undulating black, and in the deeper part of the valley, the moonlight cannot reach the place is filled with a faint blue light.
Ye Xiao was half-crouching behind a tree, blue light permeating his face, and his tense body showed that he was ready.
Not far away, there was a sudden sound of a slight sigh, Ye Xiao's body shook unconsciously, touching the low plants under him, and without making a sound, it stirred up a small spot of blue light.
The low plant has long leaves, and the veins of the leaves are dotted with patches of blue light, and the blue light spots sway in all directions under the swing of the leaves.
Some of the fluttering blue dots of light fell to the ground, and some fell to the rabbit.
It was a rabbit with shiny black fur, and its strong, well-developed tendons were constantly stirring under the skin as it went, and it looked like black waves of water being blown by the breeze.
The mouth full of sharp teeth tore at the surrounding plants effortlessly, but it was clear that these plants could not satisfy its appetite, because through its wild and tyrannical red eyes, it could be seen that this rabbit was an omnivorous animal full of bloodthirsty **, wait a minute, it may not be appropriate to say that it is an animal here, or we can call it an elemental monster.
Suddenly, the rabbit stopped, turned its head sideways and quickly shrugged its nose a few times, and then moved quickly in a certain direction.
Ye Xiao turned sideways and looked towards the place where the voice came from, and a huge black shadow quickly broke into his line of sight.
Ye Xiao's expression became focused, and his breathing began to become slow and long, and from time to time he paid attention to the movement behind another tree with the corner of his eye.
A rabbit as large as an ox jumped up and down into the glade, and a hand was stretched out from behind the tree.
The rabbit didn't see the hand, but saw a piece of meat on the ground, the fresh and sweet smell of blood stimulated the rabbit's nerves, saliva dripped down the corner of the mouth to the ground, the rabbit's eyes lit up, and the hind legs kicked violently.
The explosive power of the strong hind legs made the rabbit skim the open space in the middle in an instant, and jumped directly to the piece of meat that exuded a sweet smell.
"Boom!"
There was a muffled sound, and the rabbit that had just landed sank into the dirt along with the piece of meat.
And with the sound of the sound, the palm behind the tree quickly clenched into a fist and swung down.
After receiving the signal, Ye Xiao immediately waved the dagger in his hand and slashed at a rope beside him, and with a snap, the rope broke in response.
A whistling, the sound of a barbed plate made of wooden spears falling, almost drowned out the howl of the rabbit.
"Click!"
The rabbit easily slammed through the barbed plate, and apart from a few wooden spears piercing its skin, the previously falling barbed plate seemed to only serve to keep the rabbit out of the way.
Ye Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, because several figures had already rushed to the side of the trap while the rabbit was blocked.
"Poof! poof!"
Three consecutive sounds of weapons cutting through flesh sounded, and the rabbit flipped a few volleys before falling to the trap.
The metal spikes coated with neurotoxins in the trap had already caused it to be injured, and the attacks added by the three of them with their poison weapons had also added a few large wounds, and the poisoned rabbit had also lost a lot of blood at this time.
But these can't kill it, because it's a demonic beast, although it's only the lowest-level low-level elemental demonic beast, it's not something that these few people who can't even reach the low-level magic apprentices can easily deal with.
The night rabbit struggled to get up, its big red eyes flashing with a tyrannical light, wisps of black gas permeating its surroundings, and its red eyes began to turn black.
At this moment, a figure rushed in. With the power of running, he jumped high, and his hands raised above his head clenched a snow-bright big sword, and the red light flashed around the big sword, and the big sword turned into an arc of sword light with the red light, splitting the black around the night rabbit and breaking the neck of the night rabbit.
The huge rabbit's head rolled to the side with a grunt, its broken neck as if it had been burned, and almost no blood oozed out.
Ye Xiao walked quickly to the corpse of the night rabbit, pulled out the dagger on his waist with a snort, and pried out a black spar the size of an orange from the rabbit's head.
The black spar is crystal solid, and there is a black mist in it that keeps churning, and it is a little heavy to start with, which is very peculiar.
Without waiting for Ye Xiao to take a closer look, the spar in his hand was snatched away by a person, and it was flattered to the man holding the big sword.
Ye Xiao twitched the corners of his mouth, sneered lightly, and continued to decompose the corpse of the night rabbit in front of him without looking back.
As the dagger in his hand kept cutting at the corpse, the pungent smell of blood gradually became stronger, and the man who had snatched the spar from Ye Xiao's hand walked over with a frown and an impatient expression.
"I said you-can you hurry up!" The man shouted at Ye Xiao with some excessive excitement: "I can't help anything, I still swallow it slowly when I do something, I really don't understand why the captain recruited you in the first place, who is not good to choose, I have to choose you as a clumsy stupid maggot, it's really ...... I said why are you stopping, hurry up!"
"Can you shut your foul mouth. Ye Xiao himself was a little irritable by the slippery touch of blood and the unpleasant smell, not to mention that the man behind him provoked him more than once, from the first day of contact between the two, this tall and thin white man with messy flaxen hair kept pointing at Ye Xiao as a superior person, and the more he tolerated him, the more presumptuous he became.
"What......" The white man walked up to Ye Xiao and stood still, squinting at Ye Xiao with a slanted face and looking at Ye Xiao condescendingly with bloodshot eyes.
This person was half a head taller than Ye Xiao, and as soon as he opened his mouth, a smell of wine mixed with bad breath came to his face, Ye Xiao frowned at him, but he didn't retreat from his eyes.
After a while, as soon as the man was about to speak, Ye Xiao sneered and choked: "If you really can't stand it, then you can come." With that, he pushed the blood-stained dagger towards the man.
The man immediately took a step back in a panic, and then moved half a step forward with an annoyed expression.
Ye Xiao sneered and pursed his lips, and said mockingly: "Dirty, scared? Then it's better not to come over and dirty my ears." With that, he ignored the white man and turned around to continue to decompose the body.
"Scared? I'm fucking afraid of you? Okay, then let's compare ......" The white man behind him was extremely angry, his face turned red in an instant, and his trembling fingers kept poking at Ye Xiao's back.
"Okay, if you delay any longer, the smell of blood here will attract other elemental demonic beasts, and there is no time for you to quarrel, so stop talking. The man with the big sword took the magic core in his arms, and the big sword in his hand was inserted back into the scabbard behind his back, preventing the dispute at the right time.
"But Captain Sith, this guy is just going too far. The tall and thin man's voice suddenly softened, but he still pointed at Ye Xiao, who was decomposing the corpse, with an angry face, and continued with an unwilling expression: "If I don't teach him a lesson, he won't take me seriously in the future." ”
Seeing that the tall and thin man was still making a fuss, the man with the big sword on his back Sith vaguely glanced at the two guys who were hiding on the side to watch the play, and the two immediately put away their expressions of watching the show, walked to the side of the tall and thin man, hugged his shoulders and dragged him away with half pulling and half dragging.
Ye Xiao's subordinates moved quickly, and in a short time, they had already hollowed out the night rabbit's stomach and decomposed their limbs, and the others also took advantage of this time to appease the irritable thin and tall man, and after watching Ye Xiao finish processing, they also took out a gray oilcloth bag from his body, and put different parts into the bag.
During this period, in order to prevent Ye Xiao and the tall and thin man from arguing again, the two of them were always separated between Ye Xiao and the tall and thin man, because they knew the danger here, the tall and thin man who had calmed down a lot did not continue to stir up trouble, and several people quietly handled the corpse of the night rabbit, and then quickly left this glade.
And Ye Xiao, after throwing the night rabbit's internal organs and other worthless remains into the trap, also carried a bulging bag and followed the Sith out of the area.
Silence returned to the woods, the low plants quietly emitting a blue glow, and the place was as calm as ever.
"Bah-"
The silence of the forest was broken by a sudden cry, and a black shadow rushed into the clearing from the forest, and a black goat with a white exoskeleton on its face swept into the clearing.
"Bah-"
The black goat barked again, and there was no meekness in the cry of an ordinary goat, and it was full of some greed for flesh and blood.
Lowering his head and sniffing, the black goat showed a mouthful of jagged sharp teeth, and drops of cloudy saliva dripped on the ground, causing a puff of white smoke.
A black shadow swept by, the black goat jumped into the trap, and the forest suddenly resounded with a creaking chewing sound.
"Ye Xiao, you really don't want to go for a drink with us. "There was a winding path in the dim woods, and the end of the narrow dirt road was a fork in the road, which stretched in two different directions.
Ye Xiao and Sith were on both sides, standing on different forks in the road.
"Well, I'm just going over there to do something. Ye Xiao pointed behind him and explained.
The Sith was just about to speak, but a person behind him sneered: "What are you proud of, who does he think he is? ”
"Enough Luther!" Sith scolded behind him, then ignored Luther, whose face turned blue and his expression was very ugly, and smiled at Ye Xiao with a kind face: "That's okay, the task will be assigned to you after the mission points are released, and there is ......" Sith leaned over and covered his mouth with his right hand, and said softly: "Don't worry too much, Luther is like that." ”
Ye Xiao smiled and nodded, and did not speak, like that kind of verbal provocation that was not painful, Ye Xiao didn't bother to pay attention to it at all.
"We'll see you the day after tomorrow. After waving his hand at Ye Xiao, Sith turned around and led Luther and the four of them towards a wooden building not far away.
"Bang!"
A muffled sound came not far from his side, Ye Xiao immediately turned his head, and saw a black shadow bounced off by the protective cover of the safety zone, and rolled a few times before stopping.
The black shadow disappeared in the darkness, only revealing a pair of eyes glowing with blood-colored red light, vigilantly staring at the protective shield that appeared out of thin air and emitted a blazing red light, after a while, the black shadow disappeared into the darkness with its red eyes, and looked at Ye Xiao with those blood-red eyes when he left, and a suppressed roar full of unwillingness came into Ye Xiao's ears, but the black shadow could only leave.
And the protective shield that lit up red light out of thin air also faded the red light shortly after the black shadow left, gradually becoming transparent, and finally disappeared directly.
Ye Xiao stood in place and looked at the protective cover silently, until the red light completely faded, then he raised his head a little blankly and looked at the narrow night sky above his head, the sky surrounded by the curved mountain wall was less than a foot, and the black pressure mountain wall appeared incomparably wide and heavy, making the originally incomparably wide space full of strange depression and constraints.
Ye Xiaochang took a breath and spit it out violently, and his depressed mood was relieved a little. Turning around, the yellow light released by the few magic lamps at the end of the fork in the road was a little warm, and Ye Xiao hummed a song and slowly approached the light.