"Thanks to you, this is the first time I've tasted charcoal ash. ”

Hodge barely stood up, sticking out his tongue and scraping the coating of his tongue with a mixture of black and gray charcoal.

"It's a little scorched. He remembered the taste on the tip of his tongue and tasted the burnt taste as a matter of course, after all, it was charcoal used to burn fires.

"It's like eating a mouthful of sand...... But it's still a little salty?" he didn't know why the charcoal ash tasted salty, it was unreasonable.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. ”

Luisa was embarrassed: "I was too sleepy and accidentally fell asleep, I didn't have time to look at the rope and the fire, are you okay?" ”

During the time she was asleep, the bonfire was actually extinguished, it should be because the white powder added was not enough, and the rope that tied Hodge didn't know if it was burned or couldn't bear the weight of his body, in short, it broke quite simply, but fortunately, the charcoal burned thoroughly enough, and when he fell down and pressed on the campfire, he directly pressed the charcoal into powder, it should have been no hard wooden handle to touch his wound, but just in case she still asked about his injury.

Hodge was sore and aching, especially his neck felt worse than a stiff neck, and he twisted his body vigorously to look at the wound in his abdomen, except for a little blood stain, it was not a big deal.

It seems that the little wolf skin still serves as a buffer.

"It's not a big deal. "But I feel my limbs aching, what's going on?"

The rope was already broken when he fell, which meant that there was nothing left to hold the blood-activating position that Louisa had set for him, and he woke up with his limbs in place, and he didn't have the chance to see his sassy heroism.

"I don't know, it's probably because of the poor blood flow caused by hanging from a tree for a long time, you don't know how cold your body was when you passed out, I thought about it for a long time before I could barely think of this way to make your body temperature rise. ”

If Louisa had been a canine, she would have waged her tail frantically by now, and if fairy tales were to be taken seriously, she would have a long oak nose by now.

"It's an old problem. Hodge shook his head, knowing that it was due to a chill caused by the overuse of magical power.

Dealing with the twelve monsters was a bit dangerous at best, but there was still some magic left after the victory to avoid the sequelae.

This time it was different, although they were inferior to the former in number, only three, but all three were intelligent kind of wolves, and in terms of aggressiveness, they were far stronger than the twelve combined.

So he couldn't save his strength, so he could only go all out to barely get a chance to win.

"It hurts. Hodge tapped his aching head and asked, "How long have I passed out, nothing has happened?"

"It should have been less than twelve hours, and as for what happened, there was a little thing that I don't know what the hell it was, trying to control my mind and trying to make me ...... to you Anyway, I've solved it, and it's strange that when I killed it, I didn't leave a corpse, it just turned into sand and disappeared, including bloodstains. ”

"Sand ......," he pondered for a moment, "does it have a pair of very thin wings, and he always likes to say something unashamed and impatient?"

"That's true. Luisa said.

"It should be the Dream Demon, a low-level goblin that feeds on lust and bodily fluids, and it's not easy for you to break free from their seduction. ”

Hodge immediately thought of the dream demon that the team had met in the dense forest, "Wait. Suddenly, he said, "How small are you?"

"It's about the size of a fist. Luisa clenched her fists in front of him.

Is it a juvenile? or a new breed, stronger or weaker?It's a pity that he didn't get to witness the process of the Dream Demon being killed, otherwise the "Bestiary" would have been able to accurately identify the Dream Demon's information.

"One thing suddenly came to mind. ”

His mind finally cleared up, "Didn't we pick up a strange rock before we met those three wolves yesterday?

"It's still here, even though you told me to throw it away, but I always feel like there's still a place to use it. ”

Luisa fiddled with her backpack for a while, and took out the small stone of strange color, which was half cold and half hot in her hand.

"And so it was. ”

Hodge clutched his hand in his hand and closed his eyes to take a closer look.

He had used occultism to investigate the stone, but unfortunately it ended in a failure of "35/34" by only one point, and it was even more laughable to get the information, saying "This is a mysterious object".

It's just nonsense, anyone can see the unusual nature of this stone, at that time he was also angry with bad luck to let Luisa throw it away, now think about it, thanks to her didn't really lose it, sure enough, women are naturally more cautious than men.

"This stone feels exactly the same way that the three cunning little wolves feel to me. ”

No wonder it felt so familiar when he first saw this stone, probably because he had fought with this kind of wolf before, but he didn't think about it.

"What do you mean?" Luisa could hear what he was saying.

In other words, this is probably the reason why the three wolves have changed so much, no wonder I always thought that those wolves were more protective than aggressive. ”

Luisa frowned, understanding his words, "You mean, the source of the mutation of these creatures in the jungle is near here, and those three little wolves are the guards?"

Hodge looked at her with a smirk, "Hehe, let's say it's leaking." ”

If she was really a simple traveler, how could she possibly know about the term "mutation", and he had never told her about the roots of mutation hidden in the jungle.

Luisa was very calm: "What about you, Harlow, and how do you explain your behavior in battle?"

Although Hodge had told her to close her eyes before the fight. But how could she really be obedient, although it was not obvious to the naked eye what kind of ability he was using, but the faintly distorted space and the overflowing heat all showed that the person in front of her was not as simple as a small hunter.

What was he? a magician, he didn't have a staff or ornament made of alchemical powder, she was sure of that.

No, he has no traits of being tested by grass.

No matter what he is, it must be inconvenient to make it public, so he chooses to hide his true identity like himself.

"I don't think I can hide it from you. ”

Hodge smiled faintly, "Listen, I have secrets that I can't say, and at the same time you are the same, since that's the case, I think we might as well not let any of us go to each other's secrets, in short, we don't have any ill will towards each other, and it's an extraordinary time, isn't it?"

"Totally agree. Luisa didn't argue.

"Good. What we should discuss now is how to act now that we have stepped into the most dangerous area, whether to find the root cause of the mutation, or to run away. ”