Chapter 11: Into the Dawn Forest
After 10 days of driving and riding, Ning Fan and the four finally came to the entrance of the Dawn Forest, Dawn Town. Walk 3 miles east through the town of Dawn and you will be on the outskirts of Dawn Forest.
After Ning Fan and the four of them came to Dawn Town, they were going to rest here for a day, take a good bath, sleep, and finally check if there were any vacancies in their belongings and then add them.
The next day, the four of them walked through the town to the Dawn Forest, and as for the car rental company in the carriage town, it had already been returned. Because the four of them had changed their route for some reason before, they had come around in a big circle, and the entrance to the forest was not the entrance to the forest stipulated by the academy, so they didn't meet anyone from the academy on the way. So some important messages were not received.
At ten o'clock in the afternoon, the four of them came to the edge of the forest. There is nothing to say, the boys set up a pot to make a fire, and the girls wash vegetables and cook a simple lunch.
Ning Jiexiu was still angry recently, because of the detour, he didn't take the route set by the college, so the road conditions on the road were not easy to walk, the road was potholed, not to mention that there were many places where there was no road, and the hard work was all plains, if he met a hillside, he couldn't even keep the carriage now, which made this girl who had never been wronged full of complaints, and secretly poked around Ning Fan's back every day. Ning Fan didn't care, the little girl, it was a naïve and romantic time.
After eating, Ning Jieming counted the tasks of the four people and marked them on the map one by one. A rough route is drawn into the forest from the right, walking to the center of the forest, and then returning from the left, so that the respective tasks can be completed.
Because they were about to enter the forest, the four of them each summoned their soul pets, and Ning Fan's fist rabbit was held in his arms, needless to say. Ning Jieming is a green wind wolf, the wind attribute is a soul beast, and Ning Jieming's own five elements are metallic. Ning Jieli is a finch bird, a kind of wind attribute soul pet that looks very much like a sparrow, but the finch bird is much larger than the sparrow, and the wings are spread out for a meter, and the color of the body is more vivid than that of the sparrow. Ning Jieli's own five elements are water attributes. In the end, Ning Jiexiu's soul pet is a three-tailed flame fox, a fire attribute soul beast, and the flame fox soul pet is second only to the Bright Tiger, which is a rare soul pet. In fact, Ning Jiexiu is not a person from Ningjiabao, his father is a foreign elder of the Ning family, because his surname is Ning and he has made outstanding contributions to Ningjiabao, so his children are allowed to enjoy the treatment of Ningjiabao's side children, so Ning Jiexiu will belong to the Ning family's 'Jie' generation like Ning Jieming and Ning Jieli. Ning Jiexiu's five elements are also fire attributes.
The finches and birds flew in the air, the flame fox and the green wind wolf walked in front, Ning Fan held the rabbit and the four of them walked behind and entered the Dawn Forest.
The four of them were lucky, and when it was almost dark, everyone found a relatively open space and prepared to set up a tent to camp, and in half a day, the four of them found a task item they needed.
When the night was completely dark, everyone had already set up their tents, lit a campfire, cooked and prepared to eat. There are not only soul beasts in the forest, but also ordinary beasts, and tonight's dinner is the hare that Ning Jieming and his Qingfeng wolf caught together. The main dish is roast rabbit and the soup is mushroom soup. Ning Jieli is a master of picking mushrooms, and she knows which one can eat and which one is delicious.
The dinner was lively. Then the two girls returned to the tent to rest, Ning Jieming kept watch for the first half of the night, and Ning Fan kept watch for the second half of the night.
Just after midnight, Ning Fan replaced Ning Jieming and sat down in front of the fire to start cultivating, and the latter yawned and walked into the tent.
Ning Fan had just run the 'Flame Bow' mental method for three days when he felt a creepy feeling in his back, as if a pair of eyes were secretly looking at him. Ning Fan quietly withdrew from his cultivation state, silently used his soul power, expanded his range of perception, and secretly took out the weapon.
Time passed little by little, Ning Fan's feeling became more and more obvious, and slowly, he slowly felt a black shadow approaching him. When Ning Fan was still 100 meters away, the black shadow suddenly jumped up, Ning Fan twisted his body, took a bow and shot an arrow, and a red light rushed towards the black shadow. The black shadow opened its mouth to highlight a ball of light, bursting the arrow light and landing on the ground.
Then Moonlight Ning Fan saw clearly what this black shadow was, it turned out to be a night cat with the size of a calf.
Night cat, a dark night soul beast, has a dark body and is used to coming out to forage for food at night. Good at lurking and jumping, excellent performance, will spray light bullets to hit the enemy, the claws of the forelimbs are very sharp, can easily tear stones, the stunt is a night kill, instantly disappear in the night to attack the enemy.
The adult night cat is nearly two meters long and has the strength of the dark iron level, this dark night cat is obviously just an adult according to its size, but even if it is just an adult, it also has the strength of the second grade of dark iron.
Ning Jieming, Ning Jieli, and Ning Jiexiu were also awakened by the explosion just now, and at this moment they were also looking at the angry roaring night cat on the ground.
Ning Fan waved his hand to stop Ning Jieming and the others who wanted to come forward, and he was ready to single out this night cat.
A whistle sounded, and the rabbit's two long ears stood up and pierced the ground, and in the blink of an eye, it disappeared beneath the ground.
With the rabbit disappearing, Ning Fan took a deft step, shooting at the Night Cat while distancing himself from it.
The Night Cat was hit by Ning Fan's rocket, roaring angrily, and rushed towards Ning Fan quickly and quickly. Suddenly, the rabbit rushed out from under the ground and hit the night cat in the abdomen, and the night cat was pushed into the air, taking this opportunity to take the rabbit to pull the night cat's two front legs and fall on the back, causing the night cat to fall to the ground from mid-air, and the rabbit gave it an elbow blow when it landed.
"Rabbit, dodge". Here, Ning Fan shouted after charging up with a big move.
The rabbit will dodge a red light bullet and land on the Night Cat. A loud explosion followed. After the dust settled, the night cat was lying on the ground, and it was already more in and less out.
A white shadow flashed, and the rabbit had returned to Ning Fan's arms, only to see the rabbit looking at Ning Fan with big eyes.
"Okay, okay, don't look at it next time, I'll pay attention, and besides, it's not that it hasn't been fried, so I'll compensate you for the radish." Ning Fan looked at the rabbit and said.
The rabbit got the turnip and went to eat it happily.
Looking at the end of the battle, several people were shocked in their hearts. Ning Fan's strength in school was mediocre, but he didn't expect him to be so strong. Although the night cat is not an adult, it also has the strength of the second grade of Xuantie. Among these four people, the known strengths are Ning Jieli and Ning Fan of the Bronze Ninth Grade, and Ning Jiexiu and Ning Jieming of the Bronze Seventh Grade.
For soul beasts and soul pet masters, every time they increase their level of strength, there is a performance of leaps and bounds, and the performance of soul beasts is even more obvious, because the body of soul beasts is also part of their strength. In today's battle, the strength displayed by Ning Fan and the rabbit completely crushed the dark night cat of the second grade of the Xuantie level on the opposite side. How could this kind of strength not make them stunned.
"Ning Fan, you~, have you broken through the Xuantie level?" Ning Jieli asked uncertainly.
Ning Fan and Ning Jieming looked at each other and smiled, Ning Fan nodded with a smile and said, "I was fortunate to break through a few days before departure."
"That~, how many levels does your boxing rabbit have now." Ning Jieli asked again.
"It's a three-grade Xuantie." Ning Fan looked at the rabbit who was eating radish and said.
Ning Jieli and Ning Jiexiu took a sharp breath after hearing this. Carefully looked at the rabbit that was eating Hu Luobu, and found that its hair was faintly red and it was indeed the strength of the Xuantie level.
Ning Jieli and Ning Jiexiu glanced at each other and secretly thought that this Ning Fan was really extraordinary, but he had such strength, but he had never revealed it. You must know that there are not many first-year freshmen who have broken through the Xuantie level.
"Hmph, if you have such a high strength but don't show it, you must have a ghost in your heart." Ning Jiexiu pouted and said.
Ning Jieli next to her pursed her lips and smiled when she heard her words.
Ning Jieming stepped forward to mend the knife for the night cat on the ground, and just as he approached the night cat and squatted down to mend the knife, the night cat suddenly lying on the ground suddenly raised his head and shot towards Ning Jieming's face.
Ning Jieming was startled and hurriedly turned his head to the right, and the light bullet flew past the left half of his face. The Night Cat took advantage of the situation and turned into the dark forest behind it and disappeared.
Ning Jieming only felt the pain on the left side of his face like a fire, and unconsciously screamed out, touching the blisters all over his face with his hand.
At this time, the other three also ran over, Ning Fan first helped Ning Jieming who was squatting on the ground to help up, Ning Jieli waved a thin layer of water blue film on her hand with one hand, I saw her put her hand lightly on Ning Jieming's left face, Ning Jieming felt that the burning sensation on the left side of his face slowly faded, and a burst of coolness came from the left side of his face.
Ning Jiexiu, who was on the side, took out the ointment from the medical box issued by the academy and helped Ning Jieming apply it to the burn.
Fortunately, when Ning Jieming dodged at the beginning, his face was just brushed by a light bullet, which was not too serious, but the surface was burned, and the internal tissues were fine.
"Unlucky, unlucky, really unlucky, a knife will hurt you". After the wound healed, Ning Jieming complained.
"I feel that something is wrong with this." Ning Fan on the side said.
"Huh?" the other three looked at him quizzically.
"First of all, the night cat should not appear near the edge of the forest as a dark iron level soul beast, it is too close to the range of human activities and the living environment is not good, according to the distribution of forest classes, this should be the territory of a bronze eight-grade or ninth-grade soul beast, and the territory of the night cat should go further in." Ning Fan analyzed.
"Well, what Ning Fan said makes sense, there should be something going on in the forest ahead that we don't know, I feel that we should be more vigilant from now on." Ning Jieli nodded and said.
"I think it's necessary for us to get out of here right now, um~, go to the right and walk again, if something happens in front, then the sound of the fight just now should have reached the front, let's go around the front and take a detour from the side." Ning Jieming covered his face and said.
"Well, it doesn't matter if you hurt you." Ning Jiexiu looked at the gauze on Ning Jieming's face and asked.
"Haha, this little injury is nothing, if it weren't for that black cat running fast, he would have died under my knife by now, oops, hey." Ning Jieming grinned because of the laughter, which affected the wound and pain.
"Then we'll pack up our things and leave quickly, Jieming, you prepare two torches, Sister Jieli and Jiexiu, you two pack up the tent." Ning Fan finally made a decision.