Chapter Twenty-Nine: A Lonely Desert Island Night
Chapter Twenty-Nine: A Lonely Desert Island Night
As the sun was about to set, Dewey's search finally paid off.
He found a small puddle deep in the woods to the west of the island. This is probably a puddle left after the rainy season, there are no wild beasts on the island, and the place where this puddle is located is also relatively backlit, Du Wei carefully checked the surroundings of this water source, and found no trace of wild beast activity.
After tasting it and confirming that it was fresh water in the puddle, Du Wei was relieved. The two young boys and girls who had been thirsty for most of the day immediately threw themselves on the edge of the puddle and poured them violently, and the cool water with a slightly strange taste poured into the dry and burning throat, and Du Wei couldn't help but let out a pleasant sigh. When that cool feeling slides down my throat, the whole person will shiver comfortably.
After drinking enough water, Du Wei immediately took off his sheepskin boots and washed them in the puddle.
"What are you doing?" Vivien blinked at Dewey's movements.
"Wash shoes. Du Wei said, and the movement in his hand did not stop: "Then take it and hold water." β
"Sheng Shengshui, shoes, shoes?" Vivien said, with a strange expression.
"Of course. Du Wei pouted: "In addition to shoes, can you find other water containers? Do you have bottles or jars? Since you don't have them, then you can only use shoes." My shoes are sheepskin and waterproof very well. Speaking of this, Du Wei glanced at the little silly girl: "Don't frown, this is the only way we can do it." We don't know how long we're going to be in this damn place, we can't stay here and guard this puddle, we have to go to the shore! If you think my shoes stink, you can take off your own shoes and fill them with water. β
Vivien was still a little flustered, and Du Wei had already urged, "Hurry up." Unless you want to drink the water from my shoes tomorrow. β
It was probably the latter sentence that stimulated poor little Vivien, and she hurriedly took off her shoes.
The sorceress's shoes are also leather, and seem to be of better leather than Dewey's sheepskin boots. After taking off her shoes, the sorceress seemed to be a little at a loss, her horns were covered with white socks, but they were already stained with blood, and it seemed that after half a day of walking, the girl's feet were blistered, and the blisters were broken.
Soon, the sorceress followed Dewey's example and lay on the edge of the puddle and quickly washed her shoes. She washed it countless times, and finally Du Wei was a little impatient: "Washing twice is enough, why are you washing so many times?"
"Shoes...... Shoes, dirty ......"
Du Wei smiled and looked at this simple little silly girl: "Hey, look, this puddle is not big, just a little water." You wash and wash, your shoes are clean, but the water is dirty, and the last thing you drink is the water. β
"......" Vivien was stunned, and then she flattened her mouth and stood up with two boots filled with water with infinite grievances: "But, do I really want to drink this?"
"Tomorrow, when you are so thirsty that you smoke, you will not hesitate to drink even water ten times dirtier than this. Du Wei said lightly: "Okay, now let's go back." β
When he was on the road, Du Wei was still holding the long wooden stick in front of him, but after walking for a while, he found that the female magician behind him was falling farther and farther away, Du Wei stopped and frowned at her: "You'd better hurry up, it's not too early." If the sun goes down completely, it will be dark and it will be even more difficult for us to walk, and it will be difficult to make out the direction when walking in the woods at night. β
Vivian hurriedly nodded and sped up to keep up, but after taking a few steps with a shallow foot, she couldn't help but shed tears in pain: "I...... My feet, my feet hurt. β
Du Wei frowned and walked to her side, looking down, the girl's small feet had been punctured by thorns in a few places, and the originally delicate and round ankles, as well as a few small toes, were covered with mud and blood.
Sighing, Du Wei was a little helpless. It was really embarrassing for such a delicate girl to walk barefoot in the jungle.
Du Wei grimaced, hung his two shoes around his neck, and then turned around and bent down slightly.
"Come up!"
β...... Huh?"
"I'll come on!" Du Wei turned his back to the sorceress, his voice still cold, "Hurry up." Don't waste time, I'll carry you back. β
"Cocoa ......"
"Nothing, listen, little girl, we need to hurry up and get back to the dragon before dark, we are not familiar with this island, God knows what is on this island. Now you and I have no ability to protect ourselves. We're going to hurry! Now, don't talk nonsense, come up!"
Du Wei's stern voice made poor little Vivien dare not refute anything, and she immediately followed Du Wei's example and hung her shoes around her neck, and then obediently lay down on Du Wei's back.
Walking a few steps with the female magician on his back, Du Wei felt a little struggling, after all, although his mind was that of an adult, this body was still a teenager and a half-old...... And he is still a frail and sickly guy who has been congenitally deficient since he was a child.
"Thank you...... Thank you. β
After walking for a while, the sorceress on her back suddenly stammered in a low voice, her voice was so low that Du Wei almost didn't hear it clearly. But he just snorted and didn't speak.
In this way, on this deserted island, as night fell, poor little Vivian lay on the back of a strange young man, and when she looked up, she could see the black sky exposed in the dense branches and leaves, and when she looked down, she could see the young man under her struggling to move forward, and she could hear Du Wei's struggling breathing.
Vivien suddenly felt that this little nobleman who honestly bullied herself and spoke fiercely didn't seem to be so terrible......
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Back at the place where the two of them "crashed", the dragon was still asleep. According to Vivien's stammering introduction on the way, the dragon can slowly recover from a deep sleep after being injured, and there is no need to eat or drink during this time.
This made Du Wei breathe a sigh of relief...... Fortunately, otherwise, this little fresh water is not enough for people to drink, where can it be enough to feed a dragon?
Returning to the temporary camp of the two with difficulty, Du Wei dropped the female magician on his body, and he fell to the ground and gasped for breath.
"No more...... No......" Du Wei took a big breath, panting like a dying man, his whole body was sore, and he complained: "If it was in the past, let alone carrying such a little girl, even if I carried one and hugged one, I could run a thousand meters in one breath, and now this body is too bad......"
Vivian next to her was thrown to the ground by Du Wei, this time she didn't open her mouth to cry out in pain, but sat up with a bone, looking at Du Wei's gasping and struggling appearance, the little silly girl suddenly jumped up, hurriedly picked a large leaf from a book, and then sat quietly next to Du Wei, raised her little hand and tried to fan Du Wei with a cool breeze.
Du Wei gasped for a moment and looked up at Vivien, "What are you doing?"
"I ...... I look like you're tired, and I'm fanning you. Vivien said seriously with wide eyes.
Du Wei couldn't help laughing, this girl is a little silly, but she is really stupid and cute: "Thank you...... But don't you know it's the beginning of the year, and it's still quite cold?"
Du Wei gently took the big leaf from the female magician's hand, looked at the female magician's flushed face with a little smile, and then said, "Okay, we need to raise a fire now, otherwise, the night will be unbearable." We don't have anything right now, and if we get sick from the cold, we're in big trouble. β
In fact, the problem of cold nights is not difficult to solve, as long as the two of them sleep against the dragon.
After all, that dragon was a flame dragon...... It's just that sleeping next to such a behemoth, if the sleeping dragon casually turns over, the two of them will be crushed to death.
Moreover, Vivien may also become the first magician in history to be crushed to death by her own magical pet.
Du Wei picked up enough branches and leaves for the sorceress to cast a fire spell...... A small fireball spell (now Vivien's magic ability is only a little bit left.) οΌγ
The branches were lit and Vivien was given the torches, and Dewey held enough branches, and the two came to the side of the beach, where Dewey lit a fire, and he piled the branches as high as he could, and the bonfire burned fiercely.
In the darkness, the eye-catching fire light can be seen even from a long distance!
Du Wei sighed, this was the only hope. I just hope that some passing ship can send someone over when they see the campfire here, and then the two of them may be saved.
When everything was done, Dewey was exhausted, and he lay on the beach on all fours, sighing long.
That's when ...... Mutter!
Du Wei was stunned for a moment, and then heard a ......
Mutter!
He sat up and looked at Vivien next to him with a smirk.
"I'm sorry, my belly. The bonfire next to her made the sorceress's face red, and Vivien clutched her stomach a little embarrassed: "I'm hungry." β
"Me too. Du Wei sighed: "It's a pity that we haven't found any small animals on this island at the moment, otherwise, it's not bad to catch two of them and get an open-air barbecue here." β
"That'...... So, what about Nonoka?"
"Look around, where are the fruit trees? Not even those berry bushes. Only leaves and weeds. Du Wei sighed: "Otherwise, do I still need you to remind me?"
"So, then, what about the fish?" the sorceress looked at Du Wei pitifully, "There are fish in the sea, right?"
Du Wei shrugged his shoulders, and he looked at Vivian, "Do you know how to swim?"
The sorceress shook her head.
"Neither will I. Du Wei smiled bitterly: "I'm just like you, a landlubber." I don't have the ability to catch fish in the water. And, during the day, I had already searched the coast. I'll only find some empty shellfish and snails, unless your stomach can digest the hard shells?"
"Yes...... But I'm hungry. Vivien pouted pitifully and looked at Du Wei with a wink.
"I can't help it, let's sleep all night, and tomorrow at dawn, I'll find a way to get a long branch to go to the beach and see if I can find fish in the diving area...... Not now, it's dark now, we can't swim, and if we drown, it's over. β
Vivien sighed, and she sat down obediently...... Inadvertently, she sat next to Du Wei.
"Talk, talk and forget about hunger. Du Wei smiled: "We haven't officially understood each other yet." Speaking of which, we are now friends in trouble. β
"How's that, understand?"
"For example......" Du Wei thought for a moment, he hugged his knees and looked at the stars in the sky, "For example, you are so young, it doesn't seem to be older than me, right? How did you become a great magician? β
"I don't know. Vivian also hugged her knees like Du Wei and sighed softly: "I've been with my teacher since I was a child, and I've never been out of the house, this is the second time." β
Du Wei glanced sideways at the little silly girl, and suddenly smiled: "Actually, your voice is still quite good, sweet and soft, if you don't stutter, it will be even better." β
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. Vivien blushed: "I haven't been very good at talking since I was a child. β
"Actually, the more you stutter, the more you have to talk, and the more you do anything, the more you do, and the better it will be. Du Wei smiled: "Okay, tell me about you, how did you become an eighth-level magician! At such a young age, you have achieved such an achievement, I am afraid that it is one in the entire empire." β
"Huh?" Vivien looked at Du Wei blankly.
Du Wei sighed and said with a wry smile: "Hey, I'm complimenting you, you can at least give a reaction." β
"Ah...... I'm sorry, I'm ......" Vivien was a little flustered again.
"Silly girl. Du Wei shook his head: "You don't seem to know anything except magic?"
Afterwards, Du Wei patiently chatted with Vivian for a while, and Vivian struggled to tell Du Wei some of her situation.
She, Vivien•Young, had been studying magic with her teacher for as long as she could remember.
It's just that her teacher's identity, no matter how Du Wei asks, the little silly girl just gritted her teeth and refused to reveal half a word, and she couldn't even get Du Wei out of her clichΓ©s.
Let's just think of her teacher as a master of the world.
Vivien grew up living with her teacher in a secluded place, and according to her, in the middle of a mountain. Vivien has only been out twice in more than a decade, and has spent almost all of her time at home studying magic.
All her daily work is to learn all kinds of magical knowledge, memorize all kinds of strange and difficult magic, and ...... Help the teacher do the laundry.
"Do you do laundry?" Du Wei smiled: "Do you also do laundry?"
He took Vivien's little hand and looked at it: "Such a tender little hand, it doesn't look like they can do those housework." β
"I will!" Vivien blushed, not knowing if it was because Du Wei didn't believe her words, or because Du Wei was shy because he was holding his hand: "I can wash it with magic...... With just one spell, the clothes will be washed by themselves. β
"Oh...... Wouldn't that be the same as a washing machine......" Du Wei moved.
Vivien's two outings, the first of which was when her teacher took her to the headquarters of the Magic Guild in Dìdū, where she participated in a secret, undisclosed magic level assessment.
Before that test, her teacher had said, "Let the fools of the Magic Guild stare at you!!, let them know what an amazing genius I've cultivated!!"
And the result is...... The magicians in charge of that assessment in the Magic Guild were indeed almost staring out their eyes.
Because, magically speaking, Vivien is indeed a genius! and a genius of geniuses!
A fourteen-year-old eighth-level magician! Almost all over the history of magicians, it is also unprecedented!!
"Well, that was a year ago. Vivien was a little embarrassed: "Then those magicians originally wanted me to stay in the emperor, but the teacher said that no one washed the clothes at home, so he took me back." β
"Hmph, your teacher doesn't want you to be co-opted by the Magic Guild people. Of course, Du Wei will not be as simple as Vivian: "An eighth-level magician is a very important person anywhere! Even if it is in the magic union, how many great magicians above the eighth level can there be?" hum...... And you're so young. β
"Hmm. Vivian blinked, she couldn't quite understand Du Wei's words, but she quickly became happy: "That assessment, I passed, the teacher was very happy, he gave me a gift, it was Lie...... Violent...... Lie!"
"The dragon?"
"Hmm!" Vivien said of her magical pet, and her eyes immediately brightened, "That's it!"
Du Wei sighed...... Who the hell is her teacher?
It's not a cat or a dog! It's a dragon!!
Vivien, on the other hand, spent another year in the teacher's seclusion...... Every day is still learning magic and doing laundry.
After that, this latest outing was her second time in the outside world. It's just to catch the dreaded phantom demon that escaped...... It was her teacher's pet.
"Wait!" Du Wei suddenly jumped up, his face was a little excited, and he looked at Vivian: "Where's the phantom demon? It's still on you, right?"
Vivien tapped her brain, she unfastened her robes, and the little phantom demon was locked in a small cage and hung on Vivien's waist.
"Belly, belly, now you can be saved!" Du Wei swallowed with a hungry green light in his eyes: "Hey, little silly! Well, this little thing, the meat is whirring, and it looks very fat! Although there are no ingredients here, it should taste quite good after peeling the skin and roasting it. β
"......" Vivian blinked her eyes, and it took a long time to understand Du Wei's words, and suddenly she screamed: "Ah!!No, no, no!!!, you can't eat me, my tweet!, it's the teacher's pet, eat it, I, I, I, I ......."
"I can't care so much...... Du Wei said loudly: "We have been hungry for a day, and if we continue to be hungry, we will all have no strength tomorrow, and we don't know if we can catch fish!"
"No, no, no...... Don't eat my tweet. Vivien struggled to hold the small cage in her arms, and didn't let Du Wei snatch it: "Don't eat my tweets." β
"Hmph, then eat your dragon!" Du Wei said loudly, "Such a big man, cut off a piece of meat and eat it, it won't die, right?"
"Eat...... Eat Eat Dragon?"
Vivien felt like she was fainting.
I just thought that this little nobleman seemed to be quite a good person, but in the blink of an eye, he became a demon again!
Eat dragons, O almighty God, like poor little Vivien! I have never heard of anyone in my life who would dare to fight a dragon...... And even treat it as food!
"No, no, don't eat my chirp!no, no, don't eat my chirp...... Wow...... Dad, Mom ......" Seeing Du Wei's vicious appearance, Vivien launched another tear offensive.
Du Wei was helpless, looking at the crying little silly girl, he could only shake his head: "This doesn't work, that doesn't work...... Hmph, okay! I'll leave it to you tonight. I'll try to catch fish tomorrow, and if we can't catch fish tomorrow, then we won't be able to starve to death! If our lives are gone, then don't talk about anything! If we really can't do anything, we have to take this phantom demon first!"
At this moment, it was not only Vivian who was crying, but even the fat little phantom demon in the cage, this kind of high-level magical beast could understand human words, and after listening to Du Wei's "declaration", he couldn't help but tremble with fright, a pair of bean-sized eyes looked at Du Wei stupidly, and his fat body shrank into a ball and trembled.
Listening to Du Wei's words, Vivien was a little relieved, but she quickly prayed in her heart......
Bless poor little Vivien, O God Almighty...... Let this demon catch a few fish tomorrow...... Oh no, no, no, it's not that poor little Vivien is greedy, just to save Jiu Jiu's life...... Uh, if she could, little Vivien could skip the fish, uh...... Or, just eat one or less...... Ask God Almighty...... Woowoowoo...... But I'm hungry too, and Vivien wants to eat fish......