Chapter 6: The Skull in the Cabin

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The speed of the two people's walking gradually slowed down, and Ah Cai followed closely behind the flowing dust, holding the warm flame in his hand.

Without the barrier of leaves, the moonlight poured unscrupulously on the smooth rocks. The two of them chose to take this route, and they had already circled the forest for a long time, until when they saw Ah Cai's house, the sun was about to rise.

After this night's run, Liuchen was exhausted, and Ah Cai was about to hold on, and the second half of the journey was almost all completed with her eyes closed, she followed Liuchen, half-asleep and half-asleep holding Liuchen's hand.

After the fireball went out, she was almost dry.

They walked for a long time, and at last they had crossed a dirt slope and saw a small hut in the distance.

Liuchen patted the sleepy Ah Cai behind him, pointed to the distance and asked:

"That wooden house in front of you is your home, right?"

Ah Cai opened her eyes suddenly, and she didn't seem to have woken up yet.

She rubbed her eyes, looked around for a few moments, and then looked in the direction that Liuchen was pointing, and her sleepy eyes were covered with a layer of morning dew.

"That's right, that's it, huh, it's my brother, my brother is still waiting for me at the door!" Ah Cai pointed to the front excitedly, and found a tired man squatting next to the wooden house.

Ah Cai shouted and ran towards the man excitedly.

This man is older than Liuchen imagined, and although he is called his elder brother by Ah Cai, he seems to be a little old, making people feel that his actual age is more like Ah Cai's father.

Liuchen stood in place, not following her, looking at her back as she faded away, ready to turn around and leave.

After Ah Cai ran out a few steps, he found that Liuchen did not follow, so he stopped, turned his head and said to Liuchen:

"Big brother, come here! Go to my house and take a rest, you haven't slept all night! My brother is coming back too!"

Drifting Dust froze in place, and the man in the distance had spotted them and was running towards them quickly.

Liuchen wanted to leave, but the current situation made him a little embarrassed, because he knew that turning around and running away at this time would arouse the suspicion of the other party.

The loss of mana is too severe, the body is also very tired, and the injuries on the body are too serious, if the dust encounters the pursuing enemy again at this time, it will definitely be a dead end!

"Come on, come here, big brother!" Ah Cai urged with a smile.

Liuchen hesitated for a moment, but finally did not choose to leave.

The main reason is that his body is really at its limit!

Liuchen slowly followed, and at the same time, the man in the distance also walked briskly towards them, holding a bright double-barreled shotgun in his hand, in the faint light of the morning light, the man's somewhat old face became clearer and clearer, and the ravines above also made him look a little hideous.

After getting closer, Liuchen saw clearly, no wonder this man who was called his brother by Ah Cai looked so old, it turned out that his face was full of uneven folds and scars, and his hair was also a little thin, especially the part near his forehead, there were only a few strands of streams, which looked very terrifying.

Ah Cai excitedly threw himself into his brother's arms, and the man also hugged Ah Cai excitedly, his eyes hidden in the folds roamed over Ah Cai's body, and when he found that her clothes were wet and untidy, he was immediately surprised:

"Ah Cai, where the hell have you gone, and ...... Who is this person?"

As he spoke, the man had already raised his double-barreled shotgun and aimed it at the dust.

Liuchen was still a little disdainful, although his mana pool was close to being depleted, but even so, it was still impossible for such an ordinary shotgun to hurt himself, and even the magic shield he created couldn't break it at all.

However, Liuchen's disdainful expression quickly disappeared.

At the same time as the man raised his shotgun, the bare skin under his animal skin shoulder pads slowly lit up with blue wolf lines!

Blue Wolf Pattern Demon Warrior!

Under normal circumstances, the man in front of him is not an opponent of Liuchen at all, but in his current state, even the demon warrior with the cow pattern may be difficult to deal with, and he is even more powerless in the face of such a strong enemy.

"Don't, brother, don't shoot! It was this big brother who saved me, if it weren't for him, I would have been eaten by those white wolves in the forest!" Ah Cai hurriedly pressed the man's gun.

The man still looked at Liuchen vigilantly, his sharp eyes seemed to be aimed at his prey, and after observing for a while, he slowly put down the gun in his hand, slowly stood up, and said:

"Thank you for saving Ah Cai!No one has been here for a long time, don't mind if it's a little rude!" The man's voice was a little hoarse, and he didn't know if he had squeezed out a smile on his face.

Liuchen nodded slightly, and he found that his heart was beating uneasily.

"It's okay, it's always good to be vigilant!"

"You're tired enough from a long night's walk, go and rest where we live!" the man invited.

"Good!" replied Flowing Dust tiredly, walking over to the man, but he still tried to steady his pace, and seemed to be in good spirits.

The three of them came to Ah Cai's house, and found that although this wooden house looked very simple on the outside, it was still very warm inside, the ground in the house was covered with the animal skin of a giant bear, the animal skin was rolled up, a little old, and the walls were also hung with all kinds of trophies, among which there was also a skull of a demonic beast snake walking lion, hanging in a very conspicuous position, obviously the pride of the hunter, but the only flaw was that there were some cavities on it.

When Liuchen walked into the hut, he noticed a faint smell of blood in the air, and he followed the smell and found that the source of the smell was a freshly slaughtered wild boar in the back kitchen. There are two bedrooms in the wooden house, a living room, Liuchen pushed the door and walked into a room, and found that this should be Ah Cai's boudoir, with a few small toys made of animal bones at the head of the bed, and two small shotguns next to the bed, the room was very tidy, but it seemed a little empty.

Liuchen hung the cloak next to the fireplace, sat down next to the stone table, and Ah Cai brought a large plate of barbecue from the back kitchen, and scooped a large bowl of strawberry wine from the wooden barrel.

Liuchen was already hungry, no politeness, and ate the barbecue on the table, the taste of the meat was very fragrant, it should be the meat of wild boar, and the meat was also very fresh. Ah Cai was talking about interesting things in the mountains and forests with great interest, and Liuchen didn't talk, letting her tell it unilaterally.

Through Ah Cai's introduction, Liuchen knew that this man's name was Jian Chen.

After a while, his brother Chen Jian walked out of the room and sat down opposite Liuchen.

"Thanks to you, I didn't see Ah Cai all night, so I had to go back to my house and wait for her, this stinky girl, I'm really worried about me!" Jian Chen muttered.

"I didn't expect that so many white wolves would suddenly appear by the river......" Ah Cai innocently pulled the pigtails on his head.

"Hey...... The white wolf is the most cunning thing in the forest, right...... Brother, what's your name? Seeing that you are not very strong, and you don't look like a hunter, how could you come to such a place?"

Liuchen slowly swallowed the meat in his throat and looked at Jian Chen.

"I'm a demon hunter who came to find a monster called Nightmare, and I happened to see your sister being chased by a white wolf, so I just happened to help. You can call me ...... Tempest."

Liuchen's mind kept echoing the name of the wind, so he simply said it directly.

"Oh, that's it...... Nightmare ...... It seems that I haven't heard of such a magical beast in this forest, but you can rest today, and tomorrow I can take you to the Belshan Valley to have a look, I have been to other places, there should be no such magical beast as you said, only there is too complicated terrain, I haven't been there, maybe you can find its clues there!"

Liuchen nodded, his gaze fixed on Jian Chen's face, but immediately moved away again.

Chen Jian smiled awkwardly and said:

"I'm sorry, I didn't scare you just now with this face!"

Flowing dust chewed and roasted*** replied carelessly:

"No...... It's more terrible than the appearance of the outside, or the ugliness of the inside......"

Jian Chen sighed and took a sip of the purple-red strawberry wine in the glass.

Liuchen wanted to change the subject, pointed to the most conspicuous skull on the wall, and asked:

"This is the skull of a serpentine lion...... This monster is indeed rare......"

Chen Jian looked at the skull on the wall and said triumphantly:

"Yes, this is my most satisfying prey! That time I was chopping wood on the mountain, and I happened to see this wounded serpentine lion running by, and I immediately followed behind with a shotgun on my back, and chased it for a long time, before I finally found an opportunity, and shot it dead in the back!"

Liuchen was slightly stunned, and replied with some surprise:

"Did you hunt this serpentine lion yourself?"

The pride on Jian Chen's face disappeared, and he sighed and said:

"Yes, but even though I killed it, it was because of it that my face was what it is......! You are a demon hunter, you should know, this serpentine lion is very ferocious, although it has the head of a lion, its body is as smooth and narrow as a snake, and it has no limbs. What's even more terrifying is that even after the death of this magical beast, it will still instinctively fight back against the approaching enemy, and it was because I didn't know this characteristic at the time, so after killing it, I couldn't wait to see the situation, but I was firmly entangled in its body, and I threw it out, and I fell into the nearby flame vine, and my face was burned like this......"

"I see...... This serpentine lion is the most dangerous type of B-rank magical beast, and it is indeed difficult to deal with. Liuchen quietly looked at the skull on the wall, thoughtful.

"Whew...... It's all old days, anyway, it's just me and Xiaocai here, and no one looks at my old face, come, brother, thank you for saving Xiaocai, I salute you!"

As he spoke, Jian Chen raised his glass.

"I won't drink......" Liuchen touched his wine glass, a little hesitant.

"Brother Wind, try it, it's very sweet!" Ah Cai said with a smile.

Liuchen hesitated, and slowly picked up his wine glass, which exuded a rose-like fragrance, so that although the self-brewed fruit wine tasted mellow, it was also very strong.

Liuchen took a sip lightly, and Jian Chen drank all the wine in the cup.

The cool liquid enters the mouth, and the smell of wine spreads between the lips and teeth.

The three of them continued to chat, and after a while, Liuchen suddenly felt his body shake involuntarily, his head was a little dazed, and his knife and fork fell off the table.

The two figures in front of him gradually distorted, and the dust fainted.