Killing is not for survival, nor is it for interest, it is only one and only "path" that can allow monsters who have never stepped out of the mountains to reach a higher level of personality.

Rather than believing that he had found the relics of a missing beastmaster by chance, Xiong Zhen believed that they had responded to his wish.

"From the day I got them, I decided that the Beastmaster was the only one." He told Fang Nuo, "The previous King of the Forest, who was recognized by the Eternal Scar Tree, has lost his whereabouts for a long time, and the forest has lost its ruler, and the spiritual power that fills it is bound to usher in the day when the balance will collapse. ”

"What's the point of telling me this?" Fang Nuo's attention was attracted by the colorful "Beastmaster Relic" not far away, and he didn't care about what Xiong Zhen confided in at all.

“…… I don't belong to this forest. ”

It took him a long time before he came back to his senses and realized that the other party was staring at him intently, as if he was expecting something.

"I just want to go back to Huangxian Ridge."

He decided to submit to his first judgment, but in a sense, the answer was true.

"I'm sorry I can't take you there." Xiong Zhen breathed a sigh of relief.

The other party's performance, in Fang Nuo's opinion, can already explain many problems.

"But," the giant bear noticed the change in Fang Nuo's expression, and his tone softened slightly, "I can trust the demon beasts in the dark forest...... It's the ones who ran away just now, find one of them who is good at hiking, and send a message to Huangxian Ridge for you. ”

"Oh?" The snow-white beast suddenly straightened up, looking interested.

"Tell me what you want to convey to your relatives and friends, and I'll arrange it for you."

"Then tell them, in seven ...... In five or six days, I will find a way to go back on my own, I am fine now, I am in a safe situation, so that they don't worry about me. ”

"Well, no problem."

"Really? Do you think it's the duty of the king of the forest to 'help a stranger who accidentally intrudes into the forest'? Fang Nuo was amazed at the cooperation of the giant bear.

The giant bear in front of him, who "plundered life without blinking", did not skimp on his friendliness at all, as if he poured all his guilt on the young orc he had just met, and was determined to do his best to help the other party.

Fang Nuo asked him why, and he only said that it was "to repay the favor owed to the Yellow Immortal clan":

"I want this fate, and it's a good opportunity to help you."

And when Fang Nuo asked about the inside story of "kindness", the giant bear kept silent.

After a moment of silence, the bear turned around and walked towards the treasure chest filled with the "Beastmaster's Relic".

In the process, he didn't forget to turn his head and signal Fang Nuo to follow him, not just thinking about "testing and running away".

"My family...... Pursue a 'solitary' lifestyle. "After passing the independent assessment within the clan, we will be separated from our mother and brother and roam all the places we can walk to find our own territory." ”

"When I woke up one morning, I realized that I had to live alone from now on."

"I inherited the skill of hunting from my mother." With a flick of his forearm, his sharp claws cut through the air, leaving striking claw marks on the trunk of the redwood tree opposite, "So, I basically don't worry about making a living...... Every day, he forgets his identity as a demon beast and lives like a beast as the only top predator in the activity area. ”

"How can I possibly understand these things you said?" Fang Nuo sneered, but after all, he didn't disturb the other party's memories of the past.

"Until one day, I broke into Huangxian Ridge." The giant bear said to the beast, "I captured a monster and ate him. ”

In front of a yellow fairy, you said that you preyed on a yellow fairy?

Fang Nuo raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows, only to feel a little tired.

The story didn't seem to be going the way he thought it was - he thought that it was some elder in the clan who saved the life of the newly independent bear cub and made it grow into a bloodthirsty behemoth, and he still remembered the old life-saving grace.

"At that moment, I suddenly had an idea."

After devouring a yellow immortal who was proficient in language, the giant bear suddenly found that he could understand what other creatures were saying.

This was supposed to be an ability that he had the opportunity to comprehend in the process of ascending to a person, but he easily mastered it by hunting demon beasts that possessed this ability.

"From the Yellow Immortal Elder who came to crusade and expel me later, I learned many ways for the Demon Beast Clan to improve their strength...... In order to save their own lives and those of their family members, they told me many differences between 'demon beasts' and 'living beings', which not only helped me broaden my horizons, but also helped me point out the future. ”

"Don't say 'coercion by force' so beautifully!"

"Do you need to see this as a favor that needs to be reciprocated?" Fang Nuo wanted to question the other party like this.

In his opinion, the Giant Bear and the Yellow Immortal Clan are like him and the Witch, both of them are connected by evil fate.

"Later, I gained other abilities from other races...... Giant Bear continued, "From what I have seen and heard up to that point, I have come to realize one thing: there is a limit to what a demon beast can control at the same time. ”

"The more I desire to increase my strength, the more I will be dragged down by useless abilities that are like a burden, and I deliberately retain the language skills I first acquired, while the other skills are replaced by hunting after hunting."

"Did you get the appearance of a human by hunting humans?" Fang Nuo understood, "Although he only got a head. ”

"The yellow immortal I captured happened to be the one with the best language ability of that generation, and I was reluctant to give it up." The Giant Bear glanced at Fang Nuo, "Now that you already have this ability, repeated devouring will not help to consolidate and improve it...... Moreover, you are still young, and the future is 'maybe' limitless. ”

He accentuated the pronunciation of words that meant 'maybe'.

"I don't mind having a good relationship with you."

"Little one," he said, "what's your name?" Do not lie to me, I want to hear the truth, and I will not treat you badly in this answer. ”

What he meant was that he would give a "reward" as appropriate based on Fang No's reply.

Just as he had previously ordered the beasts to hunt down the Mourning Bird and Fang Nuo, "distribute the Beastmaster's relics according to the situation" - listening to his tone, it didn't seem like a joke.

But Fang Nuo had a hard time with this request.

He had many "names", and his relatives called him according to his rank among his siblings, and the witches followed his instructions and called him "Six-Six...... However, his self-perception is the name "Fang Nuo" of unknown origin.

"My name is 'Fang Nuo.'" Finally, he magically told the other party what he called himself in his heart, "How does this name sound in your ears?" ”

"'Fang Nuo'." The giant bear solemnly pronounced out the name, "My name is 'Xiong Zhen', and this is the name that the creatures who feared me after I left my family. ”

"Then," after the formal acquaintance, Xiong Zhen squatted down in front of the treasure chest, and raised his hand to signal Fang Nuo to step forward, "Fang Nuo, I allow you to choose a relic from among them - its brilliance must not be the most dazzling, and its volume must not be the most significant. ”

That being said, it was like a pie falling from the sky, and Fang Nuo had to be suspicious.

"No need to be suspicious." Xiong shook his head with a smile, "First of all, your courage is commendable; Secondly, my ambition is to become the ruler of this forest, and I must make friends with other forces in the mountains, and your previous reply is very much in line with my heart, and I believe that you can be a good springboard. ”

"Besides, I do owe you a favor, and if you help you, you should be repaying the favor."

"These relics contain majestic spiritual power, and you want to use them to trigger the planned beast tide......" Fang Nuo arched his back, as if he wanted to test his way forward, but also as if he was preparing to run, "but you are willing to share them with other demon beasts." ”

In other words, he thought, the "beast tide" planned by Xiong Zhen had already left the preparation stage and entered the "present continuous tense".

"The forest has been ownerless for a long time, and even if you don't rely on these relics, the chaotic spiritual power will contribute to the outbreak of the beast tide in the near future." Xiong Zhen lowered his eyes and looked at the glowing jewels in the box, "I collect them just as an insurance." ”

"These relics are not from the same Beastmaster, and most of them are excavated by me from the ruins and tombs of the Beastmaster in various parts of the mountains...... As for the last Beastmaster to be recognized by the Tree of Eternity but missing for years, I'm not sure if his relics are mixed in with them. ”

The more the other party said, the more the idea of "turn around and leave" grew in Fang Nuo's mind.

This is the nature of beasts, and if you are not wary, you can easily become fertilizer for sequoia trees.

"Don't you trust me?" Xiong Zhen smiled helplessly, "I'm starting to get a little annoyed......"

"However, since I have decided not to kill you, I will repay the kindness I owe to the Yellow Immortal clan...... I won't go back. ”

"That's good," Fang Nuo didn't expect, the giant bear in front of him, who had not been seen for a long time, was really serious about "helping him", "I can swear - in the name of the Beastmaster, I will not hurt you." ”

"You said you were collecting relics for insurance......"

Now that the other party has achieved this, if he doesn't get closer, he is really dying.

Fang Nuo stirred up the conversation to distract Xiong Zhen as he quickly ran to the edge of the chest, and then, standing upright, just enough to reach the edge of the chest and see the outline of the top layer of glow.

“…… Do you want to use them against the guardians of the village beyond the forest? Fang Nuo deliberately inquired about the Giant Bear's opinion of the witch.

"Or, beware of 'capable people' organizing and sabotaging your ideas?" He remembered what the mourning birds told about the "last beast tide" during the day, at that time, was Xiong Zhen born?

"yes." Xiong Zhen generously admitted, "Even if I am cornered by the capable humans in that village, I can turn things around by absorbing the spiritual power in the relics." ”

"If it really comes to that point, I believe their physical and spiritual reserves have reached the limit...... They will not be able to defeat me, and I, with their heads as cups, will use their skeletons to build a throne of glory, and step on the vegetation irrigated by their blood to ascend to the throne of the supreme beastmaster. ”

"Wow." Sounds amazing.

"The next Red Star Day is when the blood of those humans is shed." Xiong Zhen opened his arms and solemnly declared, "I will let the beast tide ten years ago be staged again in the same place!" ”

It sounds like he has a lot of selfish motives.

Fang Nuo stared at the various jewels on the top floor of the treasure chest, and weighed in his heart the possibility of returning home in the next few days.

At dawn today, the witch will enter the mountain, and the giant bear's calculations are about to usher in the first test.

Thinking about it this way, it seemed that there was still a lot of time, and he could wait for the results of the battle that might break out between the witch and the "King Giant Bear", and then consider the next step.

And at this moment, his rationality could no longer resist the attraction of the "Beastmaster Relic" in the treasure chest - he cast his eyes on the things in the box, only to feel a heavy sense of age rushing to his face, but also an inexplicable sense of familiarity, as if the things inside could speak, and constantly calling him.

In addition to these two feelings, the chest full of treasures gave him a strange sense of beauty, which was still present even when the light gradually faded from their surface.