Chapter 35: Dream Cats

After Yuan Ming ate half of the venerkn, he returned to the tree house with the remaining cooked meat, and found that Hagon had not yet woken up, and after a little thought, he took out a yellow bamboo tube the thickness of his thumb from his arms.

He pulled out the bamboo tube and immediately sent it to Hagon's nose.

A cool and pungent smell immediately rushed straight into Hagon's nasal cavity, and his nose suddenly wrinkled, and he snorted softly, gradually becoming conscious.

Seeing this, Yuan Ming immediately removed the bamboo tube and resealed it.

After Hagon woke up, he gasped, the injuries on his body made him grin in pain, and it took him a long time to come to his senses, and then he saw Yuan Ming who was guarding the side.

"Brother Yuan, you saved me again." Hagon said with a grateful look in his eyes.

After that, he struggled to get up, but Yuan Ming held down his shoulder and pressed it back.

"The injury on your stomach is not light, and it won't get better for a while, so don't be in a hurry to move yet. Tell me, what's going on? Those two guys in the hyena hall didn't hurt your ability. ”

Listening to Yuan Ming's question, Hagong did not answer immediately, but looked up slightly at his abdomen, and saw that it had been bandaged, so he lay down again.

"If I hadn't been hurt, they wouldn't have hurt me. I've met a monster. Hagon said with a hint of fear on his face.

"Monsters? Not a ferocious beast? When Yuan Ming heard this, he immediately became interested.

"I ...... I'm not sure either. But it was definitely different from the usual beasts, and I don't think it was a beast. Hagon hesitated for a moment, then said.

"What does it look like, tell me?" Yuan Ming said.

He has Zhao Tong's "Illustrated Guide to Ordinary Fierce Beasts", for the ordinary fierce beasts that haunt the 100,000 mountains, even if he has not seen it, he is confident that he can sit down.

Yuan Ming wanted to see, what was the monster in Hagong's mouth?

Hearing this, Hagon took a deep breath and slowly closed his eyes, as if he was carefully recalling his previous experience, and as if he was calming his mind.

After a while, he reopened his eyes and looked at Yuan Ming.

"The thing that wounded me was no more than eight feet tall, covered with long white hair, with black claws, and walked like a man standing upright, but running with both hands and feet, like a wild man and like a wild beast. The most important thing is that his roar is like a human wailing and crying, which makes people feel a chill down their spine when they hear it. Hagon described slowly.

"That's it?" Yuan Ming saw him stop and wondered.

"These are just outward oddities, and when I fought with them, I found that this thing was not only physically tough as iron, but also seemed to have no pain at all, and when it came into battle, it was completely undefensive, and it was almost a suicide attack. My long knife slashed into its neck, but it didn't dodge, it resisted and seriously injured me with one claw. If I hadn't fallen under a waterfall and been swept away by the water, I would have been there this time. Hagon shook his head and said with a sigh of relief.

After hearing this, Yuan Ming touched his chin with one hand and fell into deep thought.

"If it's as Hagon says, it's a monster." He carefully compared it in his heart, and then was disappointed to find that there was really no corresponding beast in the "Illustrated Guide to Ordinary Fierce Beasts".

"Any idea?" Hagon looked at Yuan Ming and asked.

Yuan Ming shook his head, and then said: "I was just about to go to Toad Valley, this ghost thing you said, I'll ask Zhao Tong, he may know." ”

"It's fine." Hagon nodded.

"This is a makeshift den of mine, not very secluded, but it doesn't usually come to anyone. You rest here tonight, and I'll keep watch. Yuan Ming admonished.

"Brother Yuan, don't thank you for your great kindness, there will be a good reward in the future." Hagon clenched his fists and said sincerely.

"Let's not talk about that yet, let's eat something." Yuan Ming smiled and waved his hand, handing over half of the venison leg meat in his hand.

……

In the middle of the night, the hazy light of the crescent moon leaked down the cracks of the treehouse.

Yuan Ming leaned against the wall of the treehouse, and finally fell asleep from sleepiness, the moonlight gently covering his body like a light veil, and his subtle snoring echoed in the treehouse.

Suddenly, there seemed to be a cat meow.

Yuan Ming woke up suddenly, his eyes suddenly opened, and when he subconsciously wanted to get up, he found that he couldn't move at all, and for a while he only felt as if his soul was out of his body, and he couldn't tell whether he was in a dream or reality.

In a trance, a burst of ethereal woman's voice sounded intermittently, sometimes like someone whispering in the ear, sometimes like someone talking through the door, far and near, fluctuating.

"Wacky ......"

"Divine Soul...... What is ......?"

"It's kind of interesting......"

There was an indescribable psychedelic feeling in that voice, and when Yuan Ming listened to it, he felt that his mind was dizzy for a while, his eyelids sank, and he was about to fall asleep.

But just a moment before he completely lost consciousness, a small silver-white shadow suddenly flashed through the gap in the door panel of the treehouse.

It seems, is it a cat with a silvery coat?

After a drowsy night, it was not until the morning light of the second day shone through the cracks in the wooden planks of the tree house and shone on Yuan Ming's face that he slowly opened his eyes and woke up.

He rubbed his eyebrows, sat up with his body propped up, and couldn't help but think back to last night's dream, and felt a little ridiculous in his heart.

But in addition to the absurdity, the strange sense of reality, especially the sense of loss of control like a soul leaving the body, did not look like a dream under careful consideration, which made him unable to let go for a long time.

He shook his head, got up to check on Hagon's injuries, and found that he had recovered a lot, and saw that he was still asleep, so he had to wake him up.

"I have to go out, you're here alone, you have to be careful." Yuan Ming admonished.

"Don't worry, I'll be careful. You should also take it easy, and then I am afraid that the Green Wolf Gang and the Hyena Hall will target you. Hagon nodded and said.

Yuan Ming nodded at him, opened the door of the tree house, and walked out.

But the moment he bent down and walked out of the door, Yuan Ming couldn't help but be stunned.

"It's ...... That silver cat? An uninvited guest appeared in front of his eyes.

On a branch that stretched out from the treehouse, a silver cat with bright fur and about half a foot tall was squatting two or three steps away from him, staring at him with a pair of golden and amber eyes.

A round head, not much bigger than Yuan Ming's fist, from high to down, seemed to look Yuan Ming up and down carefully, which made Yuan Ming extremely surprised.

Thinking of last night's dream again, a trace of strangeness rose in Yuan Ming's heart.

"You were the one who spoke to me last night, right?" Yuan Ming asked.

The silver cat looked at him for a moment, and his head suddenly tilted slightly to the side, as if he didn't understand what Yuan Ming was talking about, and as if he was looking at a fool.

"I'm really ...... Can dreams be believed? Yuan Ming was speechless for a while and laughed at himself.

As soon as the words fell, his eyes flashed, and his body suddenly pounced like a cheetah, and grabbed at the silver cat.

Seeing that his hands were about to touch, the silver cat's body was light and long, and it dodged Yuan Ming's big hand for a while, and then landed on his arm, jumping up again like a dragonfly and jumping onto another branch.

Yuan Ming threw himself into the air, hugged the horizontal branch, and turned his head to look.

Then he saw that the silver cat was holding its head high, walking on the horizontal branch, and cast a disdainful glance at him.

The silver cat walked in a strange way, not with its tail cocked or curled like other cats, but with its long tail drooping and dragging on the ground, covering its buttocks tightly.

"Am I being despised by a cat?" Yuan Ming suddenly raised his eyebrows.

"Brother Yuan, what's wrong?" Hagorn's voice came from inside the treehouse.

"It's fine." Yuan Ming responded.

When he looked back, the figure of the silver cat had completely disappeared from view.

"Then again, how does this cat look a little familiar, as if I've seen it somewhere before?" Yuan Ming scratched the back of his head and muttered to himself.

……

In the Valley of Toads, in front of the stone house.

Yuan Ming handed over the materials he had recently saved to Zhao Tong.

"How's it going, have you gotten the swordsmanship technique?" Yuan Ming asked with a hint of expectation in his eyes.

Zhao Tong glanced up at him, pouted and shook his head.

"Our Biluo Cave is not a kendo sect, this kind of exercise is rare, how can it be so easy to exchange. I'm not afraid to tell you the truth, some of the exercises and secret techniques sold in the valley are actually released by the elders of the sect in exchange for resources. Those of us who are disciples are just earning an errand fee, so how dare we pass on the exercises privately? So, what you can buy is entirely a matter of chance, depending on what the elders are willing to sell. Under Yuan Ming's inquiring gaze, Zhao Tong explained helplessly.

"Is there any good stuff lately?" Yuan Ming had already looked away and asked.

"It's really ......" Zhao Tong heard this, stroked his chin and thought about it, his eyes suddenly lit up.

As he spoke, he rummaged through the box behind him for a while, took out a cyan book, and placed it in front of Yuan Ming.

"You kid is lucky, this "Shadowless Step" was just given to me by Elder Lu recently, and the resources you have accumulated with me are almost just enough to exchange." Zhao Tong said with a smile.

"What's the use of this exercise?" When Yuan Ming heard this, he couldn't help frowning and asked.

"This is not an attack technique, it is a body technique, and it will definitely be useful to you." Zhao Tong's voice lowered suddenly, and he said a little mysteriously.

"I want to hear about it." Yuan Ming said noncommittally.

"It's a cultivation method that can greatly enhance your physical agility, it can't improve your mana cultivation, and it can't directly enhance your combat power, but it can give you more means to save your life when you are in close combat with people." Zhao Tong explained.

When Yuan Ming heard this, he pondered and pondered.

After learning that the technique of fur had a backlash, he was anxious to get a book of swordsmanship techniques in order to improve his strength against the enemy, hoping to kill the beast without using the art of fur.

At present, it is mostly difficult to find swordsmanship techniques, and if you learn this body technique, it is also a good choice.

"Then how effective is this shadowless step?" Yuan Ming asked again while thinking.