Volume 1 Mountain Village 106: Preparing to run away from home
After returning to the witch's hut, Fang Nuo naturally separated from the two mourning birds who were almost inseparable for a while.
He had his own plans and wasn't going to tell them to the two birds.
Once they are aware of it, it can be cumbersome to explain.
Although, ever since he was brought to the mountain village and met the mourning birds, he has been laying out the idea every moment, believing that it will soon come true.
That's right, "not long after".
If the meaning of the word used to be "until the next Red Star Day", now it has changed to the point in time that he agreed with Mr. Yoi.
After the carriage merchant returned from the forest and greeted the village chief, Fang Nuo was able to ride the carriage he had hidden and head to the "end of the stone wall".
Once there, it would be easy to go back to the Yellow Immortals' lair, and he wouldn't be so ignorant of the way.
Even though it's only a short relationship...... Fang Nuo looked up through the crack in the door at the mourning birds pacing on the lawn outside the hut, and the emus who had helped him a lot, silently burying his feelings for them in his heart.
There is no need to put them into words.
The snow-white beast shook its head and pushed its tail against the door of the hut.
He was the only living creature left in the huge scene—perhaps, in the corners that the witch couldn't clean on a regular basis, there were also miniature occupants like "Emerald", but they were too small to attract Fang Nuo's attention.
The "bridge" he built before going out still spans every piece of furniture and furnishings, so that he can move freely between different areas without touching the pile of "obstacles" made by witches and mourning birds.
Fang Nuo found the witch's storage box on the edge of the bookshelf, which contained things she didn't think she needed for the time being, such as food, herbs, and ritual materials provided by the residents of the mountain village.
The witch stuffed some of the reward that Noka gave her into this box, and the herbs that Noka had collected were placed on the medicine cabinet next to the small table by the window, and books like "Another Time and Space: The Other Era" were naturally inserted into the shelves.
Fang Nuo pulled out a "moonlight veil" from the box.
This miracle artifact belongs to Noka's sister, Erica.
The young man asked the witch to keep it and give it back to Erica when she was an adult or in need.
But when the little beast is concentrating on one thing, it is easy to leave what he already knows behind.
His nature is not selfless, but rather calculating, a little "self-only".
Hiss—he used his claws and teeth together, tearing the portion of moonlight that belonged to Erica into two parts, one large and one small, the smaller one just big enough to wrap around his body.
After doing this immoral thing, Fang Nuo tilted his head and thought for a moment, then released a little spiritual power in his body, smoothing out the jagged edges of the large moonlight veil.
If you want to do something wrong without being blamed or having a psychological burden, you must have the ability to cover up this mistake.
Yes? You say "make up"? If you want to make up for it, it's not called "trying to do something wrong".
Fang Nuo did this with all his intentions.
"You can also contact the control of spiritual power by the way." He thought as he carefully folded the moonlight veil.
The end result seems to be a thin layer, but it can be unfolded.
Then he jumped onto the small table by the window, and found a "treasure bag" in the shape of a scabbard under the cushion - or "treasure sheath"? It was a "miracle creation" he had brought back from underground engineering to store anything that could pass through the sheath.
It's also easy to take things out, and like Alternate Space: The Other Era, it responds to the owner's thoughts.
After stuffing the stolen moonlight yarn into the scabbard, Fang Nuo turned around and ran back to the bookshelf, staring at the "history book" that Noka had given to the witch.
"In that case, there will be no balance between us." The snow-white little beast squatted on the bridge, staring at the "Different Time and Space: The Other Era" placed in front of him, and muttered to himself.
"I took too much from her." He still cares about the "social principle" that he has been told by his elders since he can remember: "Even if I can't do an equivalent exchange, I need to leave something to pay off this 'debt'." ”
"Wait a minute." Fang Nuo muttered to himself, "In the Dark Forest before, I took them out of the snake clan's lair, does this count as I saved them?" ”
"Well, that's a gratitude...... Feathered Serpent's share is considered to be a friendship, and Mr. Yo's has been offset by the agreement to ride in the carriage, witch...... A life-saving grace is enough for a small piece of moonlight yarn and a history book, right? ”
The value of everything is determined according to his ideas, and in this way, he and the witch become back to the situation of "not owing each other".
"Isn't that a little too shameful?"
The little beast is very self-aware.
"Moreover, I may not be able to take the history books with me, and it is a little too early to consider them 'equivalent' at this stage."
"Hmm...... Forest greenstone is now integrated into my body. He lifted one of his claws and covered half of his face, "There's no need to know how to restore the number of times the Beastmaster's relic is used. ”
But, just in case, Fang Nuo opened the book in front of him, hoping to find a reliable answer in it.
"There are special restoration workers......" he reads the text presented on the page, "learn specific 'miracles' from an early age, pass a certain number of assessments, get the corresponding certificate, and then you can get a job." ”
"It's for humans, isn't it?" He reacted quickly.
In the human world, "capable people" or "capable people" are also divided into many types.
There are "warriors" who are good at performing lethal miracles, like Mr. Yoi, Feathered Serpent, and the Witch, who usually go to join the army or become monster hunters to maintain the peace of human territory.
There are also skilled people who specialize in "healing", who are usually closer to the water element in nature, and making "water" out of thin air is a compulsory course for them.
Capable people who are friendly with the "earth element" are very good at business, and they can use the miracles they have mastered to "cheat" and seek financial benefits.
Of course, there is no shortage of serious businessmen.
However, most of the "capable people" who choose to become businessmen will not be very talented, and they will not be able to become warriors, so they can only retreat to the next best thing to exert their skills in the economic field.
If you want to take on this position, you must master the spiritual power of the wind element and the earth element in the atmosphere, and then try to learn spells such as "reforge" and "reconstruction", and then practice them until you can master them.
The book only describes what humans should do when they encounter a situation such as the failure of a miracle creation.
Humans make books that don't pay attention to the condition of the orcs.
"If you encounter such a situation in the future, do you have to go to the human territory to find a professional to help?" Fang Nuo closed the book stupidly, "Go after transforming into a human?" ”
"And you'll have to try your luck." He quickly thought of a new question, "There are no such capable people in the mountain village, and there may not be those human territories scattered in the mountains. ”
Fang Nuo, who had a new idea for the "big city ......", immediately turned out the witch's "three-dimensional map" from the hut: "There are tens of millions of human beings living in the place, and trying to find a special person is like finding a special herb in the dark forest." ”
He didn't have much contact with humans, and he hadn't been to any other human territory except for the mountain village, but that didn't mean that he couldn't use the layout and furnishings in the mountain village to think of the situation in other human territories in the world.
"There should be a hint, right? There are also street signs on the streets of this small mountain village. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but recall the "treasure map" that had been turned into a map of the mountain village, and "also, the profession of a tour guide...... In the past, I had heard from the elders of the clan who had been to the outside world. ”
His yearning for the "outside world" seems to have become a little stronger.
However, now, he wants to go back to Huangxian Ridge even more, he has many questions in his heart, and he plans to take them to "consult" the elders of the clan when the time comes.
Rolling up the map and forcing it into the narrow entrance of the scabbard, Fang Nuo realized that he had taken another thing from the witch, that is, he owed a small debt.
"No, I haven't taken the history book yet," he glanced at the book in front of him, "and that's still the case ......of the 'two clears'." ”
He asked a few more questions about the "history books", refreshing the historical record of getting the answer "Heavenly Machines Must Not Be Revealed", and he also answered some doubts in his heart.
For example, the emerald that still hangs on his chest, as long as it is provided with sufficient spiritual power, this blind spider will automatically wake up after sleeping enough, and there is no need to worry about it at all.
And "plenty of spiritual power"? They had just been baptized by a wave of excessive spiritual power, and Fang Nuo was still holding on.
The last thing he lacks now is "spiritual power".
I hope that after returning to Huangxian Ling, I will not be eaten by the relatives in my family...... Fang Nuo recalled the intimidation of the bird queen in the forest, and his body couldn't help but tremble.
He tried to perform all kinds of "miracles" that he had not taught himself in the past few days, but he never managed to shrink the book in front of him, or make it thinner, or turn it into something else that was easy to carry.
In the end, Fang Nuo gave up the unrealistic idea of "take it away".
He didn't have the confidence that he could bind the book with the spiritual power line all the time and return to the Yellow Immortals' lair with it unharmed.
And apart from this "next policy", he couldn't think of any other way to take the book away for a while.
After weighing the pros and cons, he asked all the doubts he could think of, and then stuffed it back into the shelf.
Fonno, who had learned a lot, rummaged through the witch's hut along the bridge, hoping to find something that would arouse his interest and use it to fill the gap in the "equivalent exchange".
In the middle of his life, his tail swept over something, and he knocked it off the bridge, falling into a piece of pastry directly below.
"Woo ......" Fang Nuo's nose twitched, and he smelled the sweet scent of rose snacks.
With a little spiritual power, he manipulated the silver-blue string to pull the thing out of the pastry, and with a wave of his hand, he cleared the food that stuck to its exterior and the smell of the sweet beast.
It was a ring.
To be exact - Fang Nuo, who was playing with it in his hand, accidentally discovered that the ornamental jewel on the ring could be opened, and inside was a seal.
A stamp that looks like "Wake Up Grass".
"Guardian Beast's Seal" - subconsciously, such a word popped into Fang Nuo's mind.