Chapter 8: The Sorcerer's Codex (8)
Twilight.
"Hey, I probably understand, you have a high fever in a mental hospital, and you are here as soon as you wake up."
"Yes."
Jiang Jiuwei added a few more branches to the fire, raised his head and looked at Fang Fengran, who was trying to grill fish, and asked curiously:
"Do you have regular picnics?"
Fang Fengran laughed, his hands did not stop, shook the scraps sprinkled on the surface of the fish, and replied:
"When I was a child, my life was hard, and I often worked."
Her eyes lowered, as if she remembered something from the past, nodded sympathetically, did not continue the topic, and turned to look at Xiaobai and asked:
"You're a wolf... Why someone's body?"
"I'm a white wolf, isn't it a matter of course for someone to have a body?"
Seeing that Xiaobai was still dissatisfied with Jiang Jiu, Fang Fengran hurriedly sentenced:
"Xiaobai, we players don't know the common sense of this world......"
Jiang Jiu didn't hear him say this, he was a little puzzled, and asked:
"If we tell the information about the game, won't the system block it?"
He scratched his head, put his hand on his chin, and then leaned down and said in an unfathomable tone:
"After some temptation, I shouldn't have it."
Xiaobai rolled his eyes, as if dissatisfied with his contrived tone, and responded to Jiang Jiuwei's question instead:
"White wolves are the offspring of mating with humans through shaman's shapeshifting. It's written in the wizard's codex, and most people think so..."
Seeing the expressions of the two of them listening carefully, Xiao Bai pursed his lips, leaned over, stretched out his petite white hands to roast the fire, and continued:
"But actually, it's a kind of our white wolf... Similar to the ability of natural talent, she can transform into a human girl just by night. After the wizard fell and the world fell into eternal night, we could maintain our human form for almost a day. ”
The two nodded thoughtfully, but Jiang Jiu was not the first to speak:
"The Wizard Has Fallen? Eternal Night? What is this..."
Xiaobai cleared his throat, looked around, and continued to explain with a sense of accomplishment:
"About 300 years ago, a sorcerer had an accident while inventing the witchcraft to save the world, and not only died, but also caused the whole world to be blackened, turning the world into eternal night—literally eternal darkness..."
Xiaobai stretched out his hand, picked up the sparse light scattered in the sky, and added:
"It's not that there is no sunlight at all, it's just that the black breath that should be pouring out at night will also come out during the day."
Jiang Jiuwei probably understood that the kind of black breath she said should be the kind of black particles in her feelings, nodded approvingly, then turned to Fang Fengran, and said:
"The mission I told you was to go to a place that those people just called 'The Sorcerer's Ruins.'"
"Sorcerer's Ruins......"
Xiaobai was a little puzzled and asked:
"We wolves have lived in the forest for a long time, and we have never heard of any relics that have been discovered."
Fang Fengran's eyes flashed with excitement, the corners of his mouth raised, and he said:
"That's interesting, I'm going to meet this wizard's relic tomorrow and eat fish......"
He took down the fish that had just been tested on the shelf, stretched out his hand and gave it to Jiang Jiuwei, she blinked, expressed her gratitude, and then took out the tavern meal in the system backpack, let Xiaobai test the poison, and the three of them also finished the meal.
Nighttime.
Jiang Jiuwei lay beside the fire, and glanced sideways at the two people on the other side of the fire—Xiaobai turned back into a wolf, but he was not as big as the group of wild wolves, but petite and delicate, looking soft and lovely.
Fang Fengran looked heartless in the morning, but he kept frowning when he slept at night, his eyebrows were low, he should have dreamed of something bad.
Jiang Jiuwei's mind turned, but he still closed his eyes and pulled up the panel, wanting to see the newly triggered achievement accumulation table today.
[The number of viewers of the current live broadcast: 3.5w+ (the first in the same period on the newcomer list)]
"No, I don't agree with this family business."
"The classic combination of men and women and one dog, what else are you worried about."
"I don't want to be tempted either, but that's a white wolf."
"A few floors ago, you went out to see Brother Ran's live broadcast room, he was the ruthless man who tore the hunter apart."
"I'll go, Ninth Sister run!"
"Shhhh I feel that the anchor may be going to overturn this time and run into such a murderous player. ”
"Cold Eye"
Difficulty: Low
Condition: When a player or character from the same faction is in trouble, and chooses to give up support when they are in good shape, resulting in the death of that player or character.
Current Total: 1 (current) / 10 (1st order) / 50 (final)
Stage 1: This condition needs to be unlocked 10 times.
Stage 2: This condition needs to be unlocked 20 times.
Final Stage: This condition needs to be unlocked 20 more times.
Title: Passerby/Cold-eyed/Stagnant Heart
Effect: When you have a teammate nearby, the damage you take will be transferred to your nearest teammate at a ratio of 10%/20%/30%. (If it dies, the shift target is refreshed)
[Evaluation: The ruthless hurt others, and the sentient hurt themselves.] 】
Jiang Jiu didn't glance at the effect, feeling that it was okay, he could solve the disadvantage that his body was relatively fragile, but he frowned because of the difficulty of completing the conditions.
There was too little information, and there was no way to plan ahead for tomorrow's task, so Jiang Jiu did not simply restrain his thoughts, and finally added some fire oil borrowed by Fang Fengyan to the fire, and also fell asleep.
Morning.
Jiang Jiu didn't open his eyes, stood up, and saw that Fang Fengran had already gotten up and was putting out the flames on the side. He smiled when he saw her gaze, and then asked:
"I didn't have a nightmare today?"
She nodded, tightened her ponytail, and responded:
"Nope."
Fang Feng moved his lips, as if he wanted to ask something, but in the end he didn't make a sound, just lowered his head and quietly dealt with the fire.
Compared with the two, Xiaobai seems to be much lazy, and he hasn't woken up until this moment, his tongue licks his paws unconsciously, looking immature and innocent. Jiang Jiu didn't see this, turned his head, and asked:
"I haven't asked yet, how did you meet?"
Fang Fengran's subordinates paused, and seemed to be a little hesitant. Jiang Jiu didn't understand the reason why it was inconvenient to say, so he politely stopped asking, but he didn't expect to hear his answer:
"There was a hunter who planted a trap to kill it, and I saved it and killed the hunter."
She nodded when she heard this, and she didn't understand his previous hesitation on such a normal issue, but Jiang Jiuwei had never liked to inquire about other people's private affairs, and this time was no exception.
She stood up, cleaned up her clothes, which had been curled up a little from sleep, picked up the shotgun she had handy, loaded the only bullet left in her pocket, and checked the magazine—there were only two left.
Fang Fengran saw her movements, remembered something, took out a handful of bullets from the system backpack, and said:
"I'm not used to guns, you can take these bullets."
Jiang Jiuwei raised his eyes to look at the bullet in his hand, hesitated, but still took it, and still replied:
"Thank you."
In any case, enough bullets always make you feel reassuring. Jiang Jiuwei felt more and more that it was a wise choice to go with him, and turned to look at Xiaobai, hoping that she could wake up early so that she could advance the journey.
Fang Fengran smiled and said:
"Are you waiting for it? Sometimes, I just carry it on my back, and it wakes up on its own on the way. ”
She nodded, carried the shotgun full of bullets, and led Fang Fengran to set off in the direction guided by the mission pointers.
There was still that eerie rustling sound in the jungle, but it was mostly muffled by the footsteps of the two men.
Jiang Jiuwei could still see a lot of dark shadows in the forest, but looking at Fang Fengran's usual expression, he thought that those wolves should be because of Xiao Bai who followed.
Fang Fengran seemed to feel something, and explained:
"Xiaobai, the composition of their society is very different from ours, and the dignity of the white wolf is even higher than that of our ancient emperors...... It's probably equivalent to a saint under the theocratic system, and she has a good guard army. ”
Jiang Jiuwei nodded, but he keenly noticed that the person in front of him seemed to know a little too much about his speaking habits, and he didn't look like a stranger meeting for the first time.
But in her memory, she really can't find someone like him, and at present, it can only be understood that he is exquisite, and he has excellent patience and meticulousness towards others.
The relatively flat jungle gradually comes to an end, turning into slightly undulating hills. There are fewer tall trees, and the view is a little wider.
"The place where the hands show is right behind this mountain."
Jiang Jiu didn't say anything to stop Fang Fengran, and then reminded:
"This is the ruin, watch out for the surroundings, there may be some traps or something."
Fang Fengran nodded, put Xiao Bai down, lowered his body slightly, and looked around like her, trying to find any proof of the existence of the ruins. After a long time, the two found nothing.
Jiang Jiu didn't raise his eyes to look down the mountain, turned around and proposed:
"The mountain is not high, if we can't make a detour, we can climb it."
Fang Fengran agreed, and was about to move forward, but was suddenly stopped by a voice behind him:
"No, you can't!"
The two turned around - it was Xiaobai. She awoke and took on a human form, with a frightened look on her face, and explained in a trembling voice:
"Brother, let's go, don't go here... I feel a lot of dangerous aura, let's go......"
Jiang Jiuwei's eyes flickered for a while, he looked at the mountain in the distance, glanced at the task panel again, lowered his head, but heard Fang Fengran speak:
"You're still going, aren't you?"
She raised her head, looked at Fang Fengran's eyes, and said "um" softly, just about to speak, but was stopped by his voice:
"Xiaobai, you take your tribe back, I'll go with her."
Xiaobai's eyes were red, and her voice was a little crying, and she pleaded:
"Brother, you are obedient, that's really dangerous, it's dangerous... Would you like to let her go to her death by herself, and you will go back with me... Aren't you a gamer? I'll ask my clan to help you find a task, don't you go there, okay? ”
Jiang Jiuwei also felt that with his relationship with him, there was no need for him to take risks at all, not to mention that he had already told Fang Fengran what he wanted to know, and it stands to reason that he had no use value.
She hesitated slightly, but also opened her mouth to admonish:
"You go back with her, I can go by myself."
Fang Fengran's eyebrows suddenly lowered, as if he remembered something bad, he didn't respond to the words of the two, but turned to Jiang Jiuwei with inexplicable anger:
"Do you like to take risks on your own?"