Chapter 68: The Dark Forest After Ten O'Clock in the Night
At about ten o'clock in the evening, Lu Xi had just put hot water and was about to take a bath and go to bed when he heard Cross's voice coming from the yard.
Temporarily put on a coat and walked out of the door, Lu Xi saw the door of the courtyard, and his voice had already shouted to Cross, who was coughing dryly.
The gate of the courtyard was some distance from the small western-style building on the second floor, and Cross did not dare to step into the courtyard without permission, and if he wanted to alarm Lu Xi, he could only shout loudly at the gate of the courtyard.
This was a terrible faux pas, but Cross was too anxious to even care about it, and if he could find the children, he would accept any punishment.
Fortunately, Lu Xi didn't care about this, opened the courtyard door, and let Cross come in the house to talk back and find out what was going on.
It's getting colder, and she can't stand outside in her pajamas, so listen to Cross's answer.
The room had been renovated before, and all kinds of furniture had been fully arranged, and Cross didn't dare to listen to Lu Xi's words, and sat directly on the chair, which was very expensive at first glance, but bent over and stood with a slightly restrained posture.
Don't even dare to look up and take another look.
Lu Xi arranged the living room quite spacious, mainly to facilitate Xiaoyuan and Mao Hao to enter and exit, if there is too much furniture, they are easy to get stuck.
He poured a glass of water and handed it to Cross, who trembled in his arms, which was a great gift.
"Moisten your throat." Lu Xi didn't want to listen to Cross report the situation to her in a hoarse voice, first, Cross himself said that he was uncomfortable, and secondly, Lu Xi was uncomfortable listening to his hoarse voice.
"Yes, yes." Cross nervously shook the cup in his hand, the white and translucent glass of water set off the color of his jet-black arm, and after noticing this, his arm couldn't help but tremble again.
Noticing that Lu Xi was still looking at him, Cross gritted his teeth and poured a glass of water into his stomach, and he couldn't stop choking, and only after his throat was moistened by the water and it was not so uncomfortable, Kross opened his mouth to talk about what happened.
Because of the injured and Lu Xi's cancellation of the order to go out, Kroos and the others only did some simple training in the afternoon and never went out again.
And Marco took people out to hunt the monsters they had attracted, and he really didn't take the opportunity to run away, and when he came back at night, he brought back a lot of monster corpses.
The hunting speed and results are much stronger than those of Mao Hao and Xiao Yuan, after all, no matter how you say it, Marco is also a mid-level elemental warrior, and he still has so many subordinates.
Lu Xi didn't want Marco to get close to his small courtyard, so he asked Marco and them to pile up the monsters they had hunted back in the square and dispose of them by themselves.
Cross didn't have much knowledge, and he couldn't guess anything when he saw the situation in Lu Xi's courtyard, but Marco was different, he had been with Mayor Sienqi for many years, and he was more familiar with many things about the nobles than Lu Xi, and Lu Xi was very worried that he would be detected something.
Therefore, although many things on the monster's body are valuable and can be exchanged for money, such as horns, teeth, bones, fur, and even "whips", Lu Xi is not moved.
Compared with the Spirit Farm, the value of a few monsters really doesn't make her heart move, and if she is really excited, she can also let Xiao Yuan and Mao go hunting.
The reason for the incident is that Marco and they hunted too many monsters, and they were not used to working, so they were a little too busy for a while.
Marco was a smart man, and he could see Miss Lucy's friendly attitude towards the group of slaves, which to some extent indicated his attitude towards the group of slaves in the future.
Coupled with the fact that he would have to live with these slaves for a long time to come, he made up his mind that he had to have a good relationship, and even if he didn't, he couldn't let Miss Lucy see it.
Therefore, Marco entrusted some of the handling of the monsters to the slaves of Cross, and the reward was the meat on the monsters.
Although the monster that Lucy gave them before had not been eaten cleanly, the food she exchanged for labor was definitely different from the food that Miss Lucy had rewarded.
The former means that they can survive on their own, while the latter can only rely on the charity of others.
So Cross agreed very happily, and arranged for almost everyone in Xinwa Village to help, and seeing this, Marco even took the opportunity to propose a small bonfire dinner, using these monster meat as the main food.
Of course, no one would refuse such a good thing, but Marco overlooked one thing, and that was that the place where he held the bonfire dinner was in the square of the funeral farm, and the only thing that could be used to light the bonfire was to make tents or furniture, and some wood leftover.
He couldn't move every plant or tree in the Spiritual Farm.
But it's not a problem, send out some people to pick up firewood outside the Spiritual Farm or something, that's it.
This can be said to be the first important event that everyone encounters after arriving at the Funeral Farm, so everyone is full of eager anticipation.
The adults were completely busy, and they neglected the care of the children, and a few and a half children followed the adult to carry water for a while, and followed the adult to carry and wash the vegetables for a while.
In the end, I forgot who called the children over to help.
It wasn't until everything was ready and the bonfire was about to start that someone finally noticed that the children were missing.
The adults looked at each other, and they didn't even know when the child had disappeared, so they became anxious.
Before coming to Lu Xi again, Cross had already led people to search the entire Spirit Farm, although many buildings and rooms they couldn't enter, it also meant that the children couldn't hide there.
It's just that after walking around the entire Soul Farm, he didn't find these children, and Cross had a bad idea in his heart - Miss Lucy told him that the Soul Farm is next to the Night Forest, and there are many passages to the Night Forest, and during the day, you don't need to worry too much, just come out in time, but don't stay inside after ten o'clock at night.
The reason why Lu Xi told Cross about these things was because Cross and they wanted to live in the Spirit Farm for a period of time, explain the dangerous places in advance, and reduce possible accidents.
- You see, the accident just happened.
Cross had confirmed that the children had not left the farm from the entrance to the Shrine Farm, so the only possibility was that they had accidentally strayed into the entrance to the Night Forest and would not have been able to find them on the farm.
With no other choice, Cross came over and sought Miss Lucy's help.
After hearing this, Lu Xi's expression on her face changed, she had been reminded many times by the residents of the farm not to enter the Night Forest after 10 o'clock in the evening.
Glancing at the clock on the wall, the time was already ten forty o'clock, if it was for his own safety, then Lu Xi should go to the Night Forest tomorrow morning to check the situation.
In that case, Lu Xi himself would definitely be absolutely safe, but the safety of those children could not be guaranteed.
According to Cross, the children should have disappeared in about two hours, and the sooner they are found, the higher the chance that they will be safe.
Let Lu Xi ignore the safety of those children...... She couldn't.
Closing her eyes, Lu Xi thought of the "Player Protection" patch after the last game system update and repair, this patch can remind her of the danger she encounters next, and when she encounters mortal danger, it will directly teleport her back to the farm.
Since you can't die, what are you afraid of, Lu Xi cheered for himself, there were less than six hours until four o'clock in the morning, plus the "Snow White's Crystal Coffin" prop, even if he was injured, he didn't have to worry about it at all.
Moreover, didn't she always want to know what would happen in the Night Forest after ten o'clock in the evening, this was a chance to explore!
"You go and call Marco and them." Having made up her mind, Lu Xi got up, with Marko's group of ready-made coolies to command, she would not let it go.
Compared to exploring the Night Forest alone with Mao Hao and Xiao Yuan, it must be easier to have a group of elemental warriors and elemental mages by his side.
While Cross went back to call Marco over, Lu Xi also began to arm himself, first by equipping all the defensive elemental magic weapons he had purchased before, and secondly, by checking the props in the system's backpack.
Adjust the props that may be useful or can be used to the most conspicuous position, and strive to take these props out as soon as possible when an accident occurs.
By the way, after changing into clothes that are easy to move and very warm, Lu Xi walked out of the courtyard with Xiao Yuan and Mao Hao, just in time to see Marco and them coming.
Marco was about to vomit blood to death in his heart, the bonfire party originally held in order to pull in the relationship had not yet started, and such a thing happened, and he didn't get a good impression, but he got a fishy body, and he might as well do nothing.
After seeing Miss Lucy, Marco bowed very humbly, repeatedly lowering his sense of existence, trying not to let Miss Lucy think of anything and blame himself.
Lu Xi didn't pay much attention to Marko, and his gaze fell on the two low-level elemental mages behind Marko, "Are the two of them okay?" ”
Marco was stunned for a moment, and then reacted that Miss Lu Xi was not concerned about the physical condition of these two people, but about whether the two of them could play their due role in the next time.
"It's okay, it's okay." Marco hurriedly replied, of course, the elemental power overdraft is not so easy to recover, but Marko has an item in his hand that can replenish the elemental power, so he is not weak when he says it.
In order to make a good impression in front of Miss Lucy, he was kind of open-minded.
Lu Xi didn't think about it so much, looking at Anne and the male low-level elemental mage named Dove, who were not as weak as before, nodded, and walked towards the Night Forest with more than twenty people.
As for ordinary people such as Cross, even if Cross himself strongly asked to follow, Lu Xi did not agree.
Ordinary people who don't have any ability, isn't it just sending them to death if they follow up, but she herself has two monster cubs to protect herself, and she has a bunch of defensive elemental magic weapons on her body.
As soon as he stepped into the Dark Night Forest, Lu Xi instantly sensed something different.
In the forest of day and night, although there is a change in the movement of the leaves in the wind, the change is very mechanical, and there is a certain change in the fixation, for example, there will be a gust of wind blowing every ten minutes, and the height of each leaf will be blown up.
However, the night forest at night is different, all the changes in the surrounding environment scene have become "random", the wind is blowing low, not big, but it is full of cold, the curvature of the leaves is small, but the sound is very permeable.
Looking at the clean and neat road during the day, it became blurry in the shadows at night, and Lu Xi couldn't tell for a moment whether this was his own illusion or not.
The topography of the Night Forest is a square mouth shape, and the place where Lu Xi enters the Night Forest is on the south side of the mouth word.
Because of the simple terrain, whether you are walking from the east or from the west, you can return to the entrance after a circle.
Lu Xi glanced at the people behind him, of course, they have a lot of people here, and the most time-saving plan is to divide into two teams, look for them from the east and west sides respectively, and finally meet at the other end of the map.
This saves at least half the time.
Without hesitation, after having the idea of the detachment's action, Lu Xi simply divided the team into two.
Two low-level elemental mages walked to the east with 18 low-level elemental warriors, while Marko, an intermediate elemental warrior, followed Lu Xi and the two cubs to the west.
Marco was the most powerful, and he felt that if he was in danger, he could still run away with Miss Lucy alone, and the others could only be regarded as a burden.
Marco didn't completely ignore these people, and took advantage of the gap between the groups to hand Anne and Doff his prop that could replenish the elemental power, so that even if there was any danger, they could cope with it with the replenishment of elemental power.
Lu Xi didn't mean to push out the powerful bodyguard, and recognized this grouping, although when she was in danger, she could completely let Mao Hao fly into the air with her to dodge, but it was still very safe to have a person with enough combat power by her side.
The topographic map of the Dark Night Forest, Lu Xi has already explained it to everyone, there are a total of four kinds of monster gathering places in the Dark Night Forest, starting from the west are the Red Feather White Feather Chicken, the Wind Shadow Rabbit, the King Kong Wild Boar, and the Sand Gopher.
During the day, you don't have to worry about the threat of these monsters, but at night it is not necessarily.
After meeting the red feather white feather chickens, the moment he saw them, Lu Xi's heart sank, and it was not surprising that these red feathered white feather chickens "came to life".
It was no longer like daytime, repeating the same movements mechanically, but walking around more casually, and even quickly spotted Lu Xi's group approaching.
Before Lu Xi entered the Night Forest, he had thought about what dangers he might encounter here, the most likely of which was that the monsters living in it would "come to life", otherwise he wouldn't have thought of any changes that could pose a threat to himself.
However, the good news is that these four monsters in the Night Forest are all ordinary monsters, and there are no low-level monsters that can do elemental magic, which greatly reduces their threat level.
There is no need to do anything, there are two low-level monsters Xiaoyuan and Mao Hao, and after sensing their breath, the red feather and white feather chickens scattered and ran away, not daring to confront the two of them at all.
Even if he used the camouflage appearance of the dragon, bird, and beast, it was full of threats to this group of ordinary monsters.
When passing by the territory of the Wind Shadow Rabbit, it was even easier, Lu Xi didn't even see the Wind Shadow Rabbit come out, it may have appeared, but her dynamic vision was not enough to catch the Wind Shadow Rabbit's tracks.
But looking at the reaction of Marco and the two cubs next to him, Lu Xi guessed that most of the Wind Shadow Rabbit didn't come out at all.
Walking farther and farther, but the traces of several children were still not found, Lu Xi became more and more uneasy in his heart, and only hoped that there would be some good news from the team on the other side.
Night Forest, since when did I write about the Dark Forest...... Sluggish