Chapter 14 A Once-in-a-Year Wonder
Only four hours later, Chang Le left the beast soul space, the knife wound in his abdomen was only healed on the surface, and the pain inside was still terrible, but he was eager to earn money to rescue his father, and he was not in the mood to slowly recuperate.
Returning to the real world and witnessing the three corpses again, Chang Le sighed with emotion. These people try to kill people for money, but instead take their own lives, if they had known this result, they may not have done it, but as long as the character is like this, they will not die today, and it will be over tomorrow, it is just a matter of time.
But when Chang Le found that the three of them had been stripped of their clothes and armor, and their weapons and bags were nowhere to be found, he screamed "ouch", remembering that he had forgotten something extremely important.
He is diametrically opposed to the other party, after killing people in self-defense, he doesn't know how to loot property, and when he finishes healing in the beast soul space, the spoils of war have already been led by passers-by, if he had cleaned up the battlefield in time, maybe he didn't need to pick mushrooms, and he could go back to the city to save his father.
This is another profound lesson!
So far, I have to follow the original plan and sneak into the devil's forest at night to find fluorescent mushrooms.
The forest at night is particularly dangerous, not to mention that the forest is called "Devil". Therefore, most of the ordinary adventurers choose to leave the woodland and light a campfire on the wasteland.
Chang Le is difficult to enter, because fluorescent mushrooms only glow at night, which is easier to find than during the day, and his keen "cunning" hearing also gives him a special advantage in the dark night.
However, the danger ahead was still unexpected, and when he stepped into the depths of the forest, there was no more leisurely moment, constantly searching, hiding, fighting...... He was always cautious, his nerves tense, but he was soon bruised.
As the Golden Armor Knight said, the "Holy Emperor Ruins" barrier is about to expire in the near future, and the forest is surging with abnormal energy, causing the creatures in the forest to be irritable and agitated, and even ordinary small scorpions have come out of their hiding places and frantically attack any moving objects that come close.
The "cunning rabbit" can detect moving creatures with his hearing, but he has difficulty detecting hidden hunters, which causes Changle to fight for more than half of the time, then get wounded, and then fight again with his wounds.
The advantage of this is that the accumulation of experience is extremely fast, including adventure and actual combat experience, as well as the cultivation experience of the beast soul, which made him rise to the "intermediate level cunning rabbit soul" the next day. The downside is that the collection work I really want to do is intermittent and slow.
The moon rises and sets, and when the sun climbs into the sky and moves west again, Chang Le has spent twenty-four hours in the forest, collecting a total of twenty-two fluorescent mushrooms, and only three are enough to save his father.
But he had just suffered the most serious attack, and a bloody wound was cut from the back of his neck to his back, and he was almost broken off his neck bone.
The "murderer" is a split-toothed leopard, a beginner-level 4-level demonic beast, which is obviously stronger than Chang Le in terms of strength, and also has a special skill "lurking", which has been quietly hidden in the treetops, and only when Chang Le passes by will he swoop down.
This is the closest Chang Le is to death, and he can't get out of the passive situation even after dodging the first blow, he has always been suppressed by the black giant leopard, he can't beat it, and he can't escape, the dense tree branches limit his use of "Hongfei", and his agility is not dominant in front of the leopard monster.
At this critical moment, suddenly a bright shadow flashed, and the cat Xiaobai appeared out of thin air, and the fluffy little paws waved like lightning, and the huge split-toothed leopard began to roar in pain, rushing and rolling in the forest, and it turned out that his eyes were blind!
Now the split-toothed leopard has been adopted as a pet, given the name "Lao Hei", and soaked in the fountain of life side by side with the Meizu woman Blue Moon to heal her wounds. Due to the shallow trauma to both eyes, his vision was quickly restored.
As a powerful demonic beast, Lao Hei's ability to communicate with his mind is much higher than that of the queen of the wolf pack, and he is even a little too nagging, thinking about the food reserves it hides in the woodtops for a while, hoping that the owner will allow it to go back to pack and clean up, and then talking about "the woman next to him is delicious", so annoyed that Changle has to cut off the link of consciousness with him.
Xiaobai was very quiet, licking its paws on the grass by the lake, trying to clean up the blood stained in the battle.
This kitten, which was picked up when he was a child and has never grown up, has become Chang Le's puzzled existence!
What is surprising is not that it has unfathomable strength, not that it has surpassed the level to defeat the Splittooth Leopard, but that it can travel through space at will, freely going back and forth between the beast soul space and the real world!
The beast soul space is a place to tame and house fighting creatures, and any creature that leaves the space and fights is controlled by Chang Le's mind. But Xiaobai can do his own thing, he is not enslaved and commanded at all, but he is like a guest at the door, and even owns this space with Changle!
Thinking of this, Chang Le was suddenly startled, and raised his hand to touch the beast soul bell on his chest. I have been hanging a small bell for 17 years, but I didn't expect that this is not a cat bell? Although it does not make a sound, the shape is exactly the same as the bell hung by a rich man's pet cat!
So he moved his mind, took Xiaobai out and held him in his arms, sat down with his back against a big tree, stared at its eyes and asked:
"Xiaobai, can you answer me, does this bell have anything to do with you, why can you travel freely in the beast soul space?"
Xiaobai raised his head and looked at Chang Le for a moment, his eyes were very clear and innocent, and then he buried his head and licked his paws.
"Hey, hey!" Chang Le grabbed Xiaobai and shook it desperately, "You can communicate with my mind, why don't you ignore me?"
Xiaobai opened his mouth and yawned, as if he was very bored, and then fell into his arms as usual, "purring" and dozing.
"You ...... This little thing!"
Just when Chang Le couldn't cry or laugh, he suddenly heard a crisp and immature voice not far from his ears:
"Big brother, how do you talk to a cat?"
Someone approached and didn't hear it? Fortunately, the other party didn't look like an enemy!
Chang Le was surprised to follow the prestige, and saw an acquaintance, it was the little beggar he met two days ago, sitting on a tree branch not far away, with two smooth little feet hanging in the air.
Chang Le had a very good impression of the little beggar, of course he was happy to see him, but he was also a little surprised, so he threw the cat back into the beast soul space, and asked with a smile:
"Why are you? When did you come? Why didn't I hear that?"
"I've been sitting here for two hours, and I should ask you, how did you get here?
What's under the thighs? Chang Le was startled when he heard this, and quickly jumped up and looked down.
"Haha! my apple core!" the little beggar laughed, and his little feet shook in the air even more happily.
Chang Le smiled bitterly, kicked the apple core away, and looked at the little beggar with both hands on his waist:
"You little beggar, are you going to the Devil's Forest for food?"
"Hmph, I'm not a little beggar anymore!"
After the little beggar finished speaking, he conjured an apple in his hand and threw it at Chang Le, and then conjured another one himself, and opened his mouth to nibble on it.
Chang Le was deeply shocked by this scene, how could this little guy also have space props? Didn't Blue Moon say that space props were very rare, and the lowest ones cost millions of gold coins? Why did everyone have them now, and they were all over the street? Little beggars actually carried millions of gold coins and begged along the streets? This world is so crazy!
After eating two bites of the apple, the little beggar explained the cause and effect. He said that he was not a beggar at all, but because he stole the teacher's magic bean, he was punished by the teacher for "begging and practicing", and he wanted to grind off his "arrogance", and if he didn't ask for a hundred silver coins, he would continue to beg forever.
Later, the teacher went to the Devil's Forest to investigate the "ruins", the little beggar was left alone in Kassel City, he didn't know how to beg at all, he stared at pedestrians with empty bowls in his hand every day, he was not disabled, he wouldn't hug people's thighs and cry, he basically couldn't ask for any money, if it weren't for the space ring hiding a lot of food, he would have starved to death on the street.
A gold coin that Chang Le gave him that day helped him relieve this suffering, so he was very grateful to Chang Le and hereby rewarded him with a precious apple.
"I see, don't thank me, the money wasn't mine. Chang Le smiled and put the apple into his mouth, "So, what are you doing in the forest? Are you a cultivator?"
"Yes, the begging practice is over, and the magic practice begins!"
"Magic! you...... You're a magician!" Chang Le's eyes widened and his mouth widened, and the apple flesh he chewed in his mouth fell on the placket of his clothes.
It is generally accepted on the mainland that only one out of a hundred people can cultivate the primary, only one out of a hundred beginners can touch the source qi of heaven and earth, and in the last hundred, at most, less than ten people can sense the power of nature and thus become a real mage. The above total, 1 in 100,000!
Mages not only have unimaginable lethality and play a pivotal role in warfare, but they are also the makers of all kinds of magic items, so any mage, even if it is a trainee mage at the same level as a monk, has a noble status and is admired by everyone!
And this gray and dirty little beggar turned out to be a mage!
Could it be that the light of healing that day was the work of a little beggar? But how could a child of such a young age have already stepped into the temple of magic!
At first, I couldn't see the appearance of the little guy clearly, but now I looked up from below, and I saw his face in the hood, although his face was deliberately smeared with some dust, he was still quite a beautiful child, and it was probably a girl, so as to explain the origin of his immature "child's voice".
What is her strength? Chang Le's discernment talent was immediately activated, and the result was amazing, it turned out to be "the strength is unknown, and it cannot be detected"! This shows that the other party is at least two realms higher than him! The little beggar is so powerful!
Chang Le was a little unhappy in his heart, and asked with a straight face:
"As a powerful magician, why did you only shout 'Stop, stop fighting' that day, and didn't come to help me?"
When the little beggar heard this, he covered his face with his hands and let out a whining cry.
Chang Le suddenly felt a little guilty:
"Uh...... I'm not accusing you. You're a girl, and it's normal not to like to fight with people. ”
"Who said I'm a girl, I'm a man!" the little beggar suddenly removed his hands covering his face, but there was not a tear on his face.
"Well, men are men. Chang Le took a bite of the apple, "Dear Mr. Mage, what kind of magic will you put on it?"
"Well, look at me!"
The little beggar conjured up a small wooden stick and held it in his hand, and began to chant words, and his graceful and slender fingers continued to pose in various shapes.
Chang Le couldn't help but laugh when he saw her pretending for a long time, what kind of magic needs to be prepared for so long? Maybe it's because his "identification" talent can't recognize the strength or weakness of the law system, the little girl's realm has not reached the third order, and her mastery of the power of nature has just begun.
But as soon as he thought of this, he saw a faint aqua blue glimmer between the other party's hands!
At this moment, Chang Le froze again, this looks like some kind of attack magic! A trainee mage who can cast attack magic is at least a second-order apprentice, and she, a little girl of thirteen or fourteen years old, can really reach such a realm?
As if he was afraid that Chang Le was not surprised enough, the little beggar pointed at Chang Le when the blue light was at its peak.
Chang Le was shocked, not knowing what kind of attack it was, and jumped up from the ground. As a result, nothing happened, and the blue light between the little beggar's hands disappeared.
"Woo woo woo ......" the little beggar covered his face again and pretended to cry, "My spell casting failure rate is too high! I always wanted to help you that day, but I kept failing and failing!"
Chang Le laughed and sat cross-legged again to eat apples:
"Don't push yourself, as the saying goes, if you want to hurry, you can't get there. ”
"No! I can't be intimidated by difficulties!"
The little beggar raised his head suddenly, his expression was resolute, and he started to compare and stroke again, and repeatedly failed, and he smiled at Chang Le's "hehe". It wasn't until she tried it about the seventh time, and then pointed to Chang Le, and the strange change was steep!
Chang Le felt a sudden chill on his side, and a few ice spikes rose from the ground next to him, splashing a cloud of dust and mud. And the ice spikes are of varying lengths, and their edges are as sharp as swords!
"Ahh
Chang Le roared in fright, threw the apple into the air, jumped up holding his hips, then glared at the little beggar, and then looked down at the crystal and terrifying ice spikes at his feet, imagining that if this spell was launched under his ass, its cruelty and perversion would be outrageous!
He was covered in cold sweat at this moment, and his hands behind him covered his hips tighter.
The little beggar naturally laughed proudly, and leaned back on the branch, his feet flapping on the tree.
After Chang Le was frightened, he wanted to belittle the other party's achievements and regain some face for himself:
"Hmph, that's it, what's the big deal? I'll break your magic when I jump!"
"Hmm......" The little beggar stopped laughing wildly and tilted his head to think for a while, "Then I'll change another one and see how you break it!"
I saw that she was brewing again, repeatedly making gestures, and constantly failing, but Chang Le learned a lesson this time and was fully prepared for battle.
After more than twenty failures, almost making Chang Le yawn, the little beggar finally released his next magic, but this time he didn't take Chang Le as a target, but pointed into the distance.
Hundreds of meters away from the forest suddenly condensed a large black cloud, followed by a thunderbolt explosion, countless purple thunderbolts fell in the air, such as the dive of dense light snakes, accompanied by a whistling whirlwind, the trees within a range of 100 meters penetrated longitudinally, everywhere green smoke curled, sparks shot out, and finally even the big tree more than one meter thick was split vertically, divided into two halves "boom" and fell to the ground.
Chang Le's mouth was so wide that his jaw almost fell off, the power of this magic was simply unimaginable to him, if he was in it, unless he hid in the beast soul bell before entering the battle state, he would be dead!
After a dozen seconds, the black clouds cleared, and the rays of the setting sun covered the forest again, and the vast expanse of trees was permanently scorched, recording the terrifying magic that had once occurred.
The little beggar looked at Chang Le with a grin, as if waiting for his evaluation.
But where could Chang Le say it now? He instinctively knew that this was not a magic that ordinary mages could cast!
A series of footsteps sounded in the forest, and then several cultivators ran over and shouted for the first one:
"May I ask which master was casting a spell in the thundercloud storm just now?"
Chang Le glanced at the visitor blankly:
"What master? She's a master?"
The little beggar rolled his eyes, smiled evilly and stretched out his hand to point into the distance:
"The master has gone over there!"
"Oh!" the other party was a little disappointed, but then shook his fist, "It's a rare opportunity to meet a magister, brothers, let's go over there!"
The chaotic footsteps quickly moved away, and silence returned to the scene.
Chang Le's gaze moved to the little beggar's face:
"You...... You're a Magister?"
He felt that his throat was a little dumb, he didn't know how powerful the Magister was, he only knew that the four words "Magister" represented the "Fourth Order", and it also represented that he was almost at the pinnacle of the human race!
The little beggar lowered his head, poked his two fingers together, and twisted his two little feet together, his face full of pretended shyness:
"Look...... This ...... This, Ben Gongzi, is fourteen years old, does he look like he can be a demon master?"
"But they say it's a thundercloud storm, and only a magister can cast it!"
The little beggar sighed:
"My bloodline talent is called 'Radical', and I can cast spells beyond the level, but in fact, I'm only a third-order magician. ”
Chang Le was still shocked: "Fourteen years old, third-order, it's also amazing!
"Yes, yes, not everyone has the talent of blood!" The little beggar became proud again: "The teacher said, I am a magic wizard once in a thousand years!"
"But, you magic wizard, why is the failure rate so high?"
"The teacher also said that the high failure rate of my spell casting is a miracle that happens once in 10,000 years!"
"Wow!" Chang Le couldn't help but exclaim, "Once in a thousand years, once in 10,000 years, appearing on you at the same time, it's really an amazing genius!"
"Haha! worship, mortal!" the little beggar shook his feet triumphantly with his hands in his arms.
"Look at the one who dragged you!" Chang Le snorted, glancing at the white and tender little feet exposed under her linen robe, "You're barefoot, aren't you cold?"
"My feet are too tired, take a break. It's really cold for you to say. The little beggar plucked a pair of delicate little red boots from the branch above his head, "Put them on for me, mortal!"
Chang Le was stunned first, but the other party was not really domineering, but a little coquettish, so he smiled, reached out and took the boots, grabbed the little beggar with one foot and put it on, and saw that her toenails were painted with pale pink pearls, and couldn't help but exclaim:
"Mr. Magician, your toenail polish is so beautiful!"
"Mortals, don't laugh at the feet of this seat!" the little beggar said in a very majestic voice, "and don't doubt the gender of this seat!"
Chang Le laughed: "Your teacher said that you are arrogant, it's really true, you can't change it even if you are a beggar for a while!"
"Squeamish or something, I don't care, it's good if I don't have athlete's foot!"
"Really?"
Chang Le had already put on one boot for her, and at this time deliberately put the other one in front of his nose and sniffed it, in fact, there was only some pure leather smell in the boot, but he still rolled his eyes and fell to the ground on his back as if he had been hit by poisonous gas, and the boot was thrown more than two meters away.
His movements were obviously pretended, but the little beggar hurriedly jumped down the tree, and his tone was eager:
"What's wrong with you, big brother, are you sick?"
"Uh...... Stinky ......" Chang Le pretended to have just breathed a sigh of relief, "It's stinky!"
"Really?" the little beggar picked up his boots and sniffed them, and then slapped Chang Le headlessly: "You liar! Liar!
"It's really stinky, don't you think it yourself!" Chang Le burst out laughing, feeling a little bit back, but he realized the kindness of the little beggar's heart again.
After some frolic, the relationship between the two became a little more harmonious, but Chang Le still continued to pick mushrooms, so he said goodbye to the little beggar and made an appointment to "meet again".
But the little beggar refused to part, and followed behind him:
"Big brother, I'm so bored, can I play with you?"
"I'm not playing, there's a lot of danger in the forest, and I don't have time to protect you!"
"Who wants you to protect me, I'm a wizard of magic!"
"Well, by the time you cast the spell successfully, the bones were gnawed away by the demonic beasts......"
The little beggar was stabbed in the sore spot and stopped talking.
Chang Le walked a few steps and looked back, the other party pouted and lowered his head, looking sad and sad, and suddenly his heart softened.
"Okay, okay, let's go mushroom picking together!"
"Haha! if you don't take me away, I'll cry to you!" the little beggar laughed, jumped up and ran after him, grabbing Chang Le's hand and shaking it around.
Chang Le looked at her, a warm feeling surged in his heart, and his face was full of smiles, vaguely feeling like a sister who likes to cheat, always love her more, and try to meet her wishes.
The two have very different living environments and growth trajectories, so the small talk is full of freshness, and the initial half-truth and half-truth battle continues, so that the laughter is non-stop.
Even in terms of adventure, the two are a perfect match. The little beggar is proficient in various support skills such as "Fengxing", "Stone Skin", "Light Armor", and "Blessing", which can make Chang Le's strength increase dramatically, almost elevating him to the realm of a war master. In turn, Chang Le can serve as a meat shield for the little mage with a high failure rate, help her play cover, and give her enough time to cast spells.
And Chang Le's keen perception ability is the most valuable skill in the forest.
Following Chang Le's side and cooperating with the battle, the little beggar also really began the "magic practice practice".
Later, they were known by each other's names, and the little beggar confessed that he was called "Wendy". The name is a girl when she hears it, but she still emphasizes that she is a man, and Chang Le goes with her, and basically Wendy doesn't think it's a matter of principle, just a gag.
Chang Le also reminded Wendy that he can't use the space props on his body in front of others, and he will inevitably be "killed for money" when he encounters bad guys, which is a lesson he learned with blood.
Wendy said that she understood this truth, "But the big brother is a good person", this comment made Chang Le's heart warm, but she followed up with half a sentence "But he is also a fool".
Only crying and laughing.
Chang Le was full of affection for Wendy because of her kindness, no matter how much the little girl pretended to be fierce, her heart was indescribably soft, which was quickly proven again in the adventure.
The reason for the incident was that Changle was suddenly attacked by a rudimentary magical beast "Horned Warthog", which has a sharp growth on its head, which is a demonized version of the ordinary plains warthog, but it gives up the traditional fangs and uses the horns as a weapon, which is more convenient to cooperate with the unique skill "Savage Charge", just bury your head and hit hard, and the attack is extremely powerful.
However, Chang Le knocked the nearly one-ton beast away with a single punch, and when he waved his arms, proud of the strength of his support skills, he found several little pigs humming out of the grass and running towards the big pigs.
It turns out that the horned warthog is a mother, and it launched a surprise attack because the two of them approached the piglet's hiding place.
Wendy burst into tears when she saw this scene, and timidly begged Changle to spare the pig's life.
Chang Le himself was already soft-hearted, but Wendy still took the first step and sprinkled the healing light on the unconscious horned warthog.
"How come you have been successful when you cast healing spells?" Chang Le was very surprised to see this.
"No way, it's too difficult to attack spells!"
Every time the little girl sighs and says, "No way", the innocent and scoundrel look is extremely cute.
Chang Le smiled: "I think, I'm afraid that because you are too kind, the attack spell is murderous, and the healing spell is to save people." ”
Wendy lowered her head and didn't answer, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and she threw out the healing spells one after another, quickly running out of mana and turning pale.
Chang Le helped her sit down and rest, and he took the beast soul bell and pasted it on the horned warthog, and used the life energy emitted by the bell to heal it.
The horned warthog gradually healed, and the Beast Soul Bell also took this opportunity to analyze the Beast Soul Skill "Savage Charge". However, Wendy did not see the bell in Changle's palm, and saw him put his hand on the pig to recover it, and the little girl could not help but be stunned.
"Big brother, you are also a strange thing in the world, you have never cultivated, you can't fight, but you have strong combat power, and you can heal, it's really a hell of a life!"
Changle didn't answer, and lifted Wendy's soft hat up with a smile.
Wendy hurriedly raised her hand to stop it, but Chang Le had already seen a few strands of blonde hair.
He sighed:
"You've got blonde hair and blue eyes, noble, right?"
Wendy knew that Changle hated the nobles, so she pursed her lips and asked:
"I'm a nobleman, so you ignore me?"
Chang Le shook his head:
"If you're a nobleman, I'll have to add it when I say that nobles are bastards in the future, except for Wendy. ”
"Haha!" Wendy smug again, "I'm arrogant, don't I asshole?"
"What is squeamishness, it's good if you don't have athlete's foot!" Chang Le smiled.