Chapter 18: Sleep at Night
"Ding! The map exploration has reached 95%. ”
The night was quiet, and the sound of insects was everywhere. The blood-colored moon hung far in the sky, dimmer than the blood moon seen in the dense forest area and near the Blood Moon Lake. The red moonlight illuminates an entire cordyceps field.
The dragonflies finished their day's hunt and flew down the cordyceps to the top of the hillside to return to where they came. The remaining mosquitoes landed on the blades of grass and began to rest, and everything seemed to be calm again.
But the sound of insects everywhere still told Lin Ye that this was still a very dangerous place. A large number of giant centipedes are active at night. A centipede emerged from the vicinity of Lin Ye, its tentacles fluttering, and then crawled towards a small puddle nearby.
The leeches on the edge of the puddle were clearly confused about the situation and pounced on the centipede. And the latter, attacked by leeches, immediately instinctively defended themselves.
The centipede turned around and opened its poisonous teeth and bit down on the leech. The two rolled and wrestled together, attracting more leeches to pounce on the centipede. Until they were poisoned, the leeches did not let go of the jaws that were tightly attached to the centipede. The centipede's bodily fluids are constantly flowing, and there are seven or eight dead leeches hanging from its body.
With a heavy load and serious injuries, the centipede slowly came to the edge of the puddle, lowered its head and took a sip of water. However, after a long time, its lowered head never lifted up again, and its drooping head drowned in the puddle and died.
Just for this saliva of water, this centipede and this group of leeches paid a terrible price.
Lin Ye sighed in his heart, and brought water with him.
He loosened the small kettle tightly tied to his chest and drank the cold underground mineral water. Then I opened a small backpack made of grass blades and took a bite of delicious matsutake mushrooms.
The Blood Moon hung high, dark clouds blocking the upper half of the Blood Moon, and only half of the moonlight made the moonlight much darker.
Normally, at this time, Lin Ye had already fallen asleep in the sweet nest.
Although his stomach was full now, Lin Ye's head was still dizzy. He shook his head to get rid of the dizziness, but his right leg somehow went limp, and the whole bird fell to the ground.
If the Flame Feather Cloak gave him the ability to fight back, then the coercive skills that the predators used against their prey instead became the capital for him to save his life.
A coercion rating of E-,- means that there is a price to pay for using this skill. And this price will consume his energy, especially after the first use of the coercion skill, Lin Ye's brain is groggy, and he now sees that the grass below is all flowers.
Thanks to Lin Ye's efforts, he has successfully explored 95% of the map.
Although I want to take advantage of the fact that today I want to fully explore all the maps required by the mission and complete the main quest as soon as possible. But now, although he wanted to do this, this thin and tired body honestly rejected Lin Ye's proposal.
His legs were limp, he couldn't walk, and the scenery in front of him was all flowers. barely fluttered a few times, and could only barely walk a few dozen meters away, and then fell down with weak legs, and it seems that the remaining 5% can't finish tonight.
Find a safe place to rest for a while.
The place where Lin Ye is located is a relatively high ground, the geology is relatively dry, and there are relatively few weeds. Insects that prefer humid environments in this kind of place will not come, but there are always a few exceptions.
Jumping up a higher dirt slope, Lin Ye inserted a wooden stick on each side of the place where he went up, and then used the sharp yellow grass blades tied to his tail to wrap around the wooden stick to make a simple interceptor.
Finally, he found himself some grass and draped it over his body, and at the same time dug a small pit in the earth, burying his body in the ground, revealing only a pair of eyes. The thick drowsiness made him really unable to hold on.
Lin Ye didn't dare to sleep too hard, he opened one eye slightly, condescendingly, carefully observing the movement under the dirt slope.
A young chick is like a human baby, sleeping twenty-two hours out of twenty-four hours a day. And Lin Ye not only didn't take a nap, but also used the coercion skill to consume energy, and at the same time, he had been tense in the dangerous and harsh environment, and now he had reached the point where he could fall asleep in the blink of an eye.
This was the place he wasn't supposed to be.
I can't sleep to death!" Lin Ye held on to his sleepiness. If he dies in his sleep, a worm might come and kill him!
With the help of his heart's eye, Lin Ye saw that in the dense grass thirty meters away from him, two red markers were approaching each other, and they didn't seem to notice each other.
One of the relatively small red markings made a sound like a pulley on one side and a wrinkled film on the other. The other red marker seems to be attracted by the sound.
Seeing that the two red markers overlapped with each other, a squeaky sound was heard, and the two red markers instantly became only one.
A huge eight-eyed jumping bead jumped out of the grass, holding an emerald green cicada in its mouth. Its body is made up of red markings, barely invisible in the blood-red moonlight. The roof of the palate had two large sharp fangs, almost as thick as Lin Ye's thighs.
On its head, it has a pair of tentacles as long as the body of the woods, and its back is covered with thin patches of transparent membranous sounds. When making a sound, the wings vibrate at high speed and the friction generator produces sound. Only male grasshoppers have vocalizers, and their vocalizations are mainly used to attract females to them in order to mate.
The sound just now came from the grasshopper. Its upper body, like a chicken leg, is pierced directly by sharp fangs, but it is not dead, and its bouncing legs are still struggling to step on the air. And the wings on its back are still vibrating at high speed, it seems to be a stunned green, even if it is dead, it has to love, and keeps singing love songs to the nearby female grasshoppers.
It's a pity that the grasshopper attracts not a female grasshopper, but a terrifying and hideous big jumping bead.
Jumping Bead jumped out of Lin Ye's perception range with his prey, only to see the grass swaying in the distance, and a gloomy cool breeze blowing between the swaying blades of grass.
Lin Ye's fluff stood on end, and he held his breath and buried himself deeper in the soil.
At this time, the system gave Lin Ye help.
"The system will use a rapid warning sound to alert the host of impending danger. The system seemed to have a conscience, and the voice came out in Lin Ye's mind, "This is the system's compensation for the novice who strayed into the danger zone, please sleep with peace of mind." ”
Hearing the sound of the system, Lin Ye couldn't control his sleepiness anymore, his eyelids drooped, and he fell straight into sleep.
In the cordyceps field, there is the sound of squirming and swaying grass. But Lin Ye was not affected by them, his entire body was buried in the earth, only a small red mouth was exposed to the ground, and one by one breathed air.
Lin Ye felt as if he was being embraced by Mother Earth, very warm, this sense of oppression made him feel very full of security, and it was also very comfortable.
Exactly eight hours passed. During this period, a grasshopper tried to jump on the dirt slope and sing, but was hit back by Lin Ye's yellow grass blade interceptor that was arranging the edge of the dirt slope.
If it was Lin Ye in the hideout, he would have woken up by now. But now Lin Ye's eyes were closed and he was sleeping soundly, and he was not woken up at all. And the system seems to know that a gnats are not much of a threat to a bird, and it is very quiet and does not wake up Lin Ye.
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A peaceful night.