Chapter 31: Take up your hammers
Many people still have some regret about Valrhona and Alanl's departure after yesterday's dinner. The girls regret not getting more advice on grooming – some of which don't seem reliable, and the boys regret not being able to take a second look – even though they're in the team now.
But a trial is a trial, and idlers are forbidden to participate, and you are not allowed to bargain. It may be a good idea to arrange some accompaniment, but let's not talk about whether the class can be together, since they are all accompaniment, of course, they can't be too old - too high for the academy to accept - then, how many young are masters?
Level 4 thief Grana floats past the camera......
Ahem, genius or something doesn't count, who would be so exaggerated by ordinary people?
In short, this is an activity of the academy to exercise the students' sense of autonomy, everything has to be done by the students themselves, and no one can help - again: you can have an artifact all over your body, but you must not bring an attendant to help you.
But even if the whole body is an artifact, there are problems that cannot be solved, such as: picnics.
Exhausted from a morning's walk in the mountains, Chrissy set up camp on a rocky beach by a stream that resembled a small river, and ordered her to roam freely in the vicinity for two hours.
Then, a group of humans, who were about to gather firewood to cook or eat dry food, plus an elf, came into close contact with a brown bear who had come out of the forest to catch fish and eat in the stream.
[Should I complain that Tutor Chrissy's talent for leading the way is really negative?]
The embarrassed Alicia watched speechlessly as Chrissy punched and kicked the brown bear into a panda - I'm not kidding, I don't believe you look at its fur that had been maliciously carved by some bad teacher - and the latter fled in panic, and continued to collect firewood with his head down very calmly.
I guess even if there is a demon Chrissy will solve the other party in three or two clicks, right?
After the episode, everyone continued to prepare lunch. The members of the soy sauce tribe who passed by and Granna, Fabiano, and Vaqis, who came to help or simply join in the fun, set up a large bonfire on the rocky beach, and then Alicia took out the fresh ingredients from the spatial bracelet and ......
Then Alicia, Mercury Lamp, Li Huayin, Michelle, Cecilia, Elijah, and Fabiano were kicked out of the group. Michelle and Cecilia, in particular, were even forbidden to go near a five-meter radius around the makeshift cooking site.
Chassi, Moonsong, Sophia, Grana, and Vakis's reason is that they want to be alive after eating.
You can imagine how curious these two are in terms of their level of cooking......
As for the others, well, the reason is slightly better: I hope that after eating, I can still digest normally without diarrhea.
By the way, the fair evaluation of the cooking level of this group of noisy and unqualified guys is: very good food (Vachisi), home-cooked side dishes (Chasi), unique flavor (Moon Song), normal food (Granna), eating immortal people (Sophia), hunting charcoal (Elijah), half-baked (Fabiano), unknown body (Li Huayin), abstract works (Elysia), alchemical reagents (Cecilia), and murderous cuisine (Michelle).
When did you see the Chairman go out of the kitchen?
In a bored wait, Cecilia approached Fabiano, who was sitting in front of the stream, holding a box of suspicious objects: "Now, Xiaofa. This is the bento I made for you yesterday, can you try it?"
Then everyone in the soy sauce was suddenly terrified by chatting around, taking a nap. Then, to everyone's horror, Michelle on the side seemed to be stimulated by Cecilia's behavior, and actually took out a box of dangerous objects and handed it to Elija with a red face, who thanked him and began to chew under the gaze of everyone's twitching eyes.
Speechless, Fabiano took out what appeared to be a piece of chicken from the bento box and threw it into the stream. A hungry fish swam up and swallowed it in one gulp, and then—floated up to bask its belly in the sun.
"Can you really eat this thing!?" Fabiano cried to Cecilia, pointing to the cupfish, "You see that fish has only taken one bite and hung up!, at least give me a bento that looks normal like Ilya next to me, instead of this strange dark green item in my hand!",
[In fact, the bento in Ilya's hand just looks normal......]
Just then, Ilya accidentally dropped a small piece of sausage, and the latter jumped up and down into the water.
A few small fish passing by for soy sauce said that the weather was very good today, which was very suitable for drying their belly......
Fabiano was silent, and after a while, he burst into tears, and took Cecilia into his arms: "Honey, promise me not to cook for me again in the future, okay? I'm afraid you'll be tired." Our family has money, and we will eat in restaurants every day in the future. ”
Cecilia was visibly pleased with Fabiano's rare initiative: "Well, I listen to you. ”
"It's a veritable bento. Looking at Elijah, who had fallen asleep after eating, Alicia shook her head and muttered to herself with a smile.
Fortunately, with Vacis and Chasi in charge, there were no more incidents of hunting for bento boxes. Yuege doesn't eat meat, but the fruit pies and vegetable salads she makes are sought-after. As for Sophia and Granna's cooking, at least Ilya won't dislike it. A group of people finally finished the meal without incident—congratulations, congratulations.
Because there are no dangerous creatures such as monsters here—in contrast to Chrissy in the true sense of the word—the students not only do not have warning officers, but instead scatter around the rocky beach to enjoy lunch and rest, alone or in groups. No one paid special attention to who was missing from the group, so less than 30 minutes before the meeting time, everyone realized that Chrissy was missing......
Cecilia scratched her head and wondered, "What is this?
There are many people around who echo this opinion - how bad is Chrissy's image in your minds?
[It's in the midst of a trial, isn't it? Although today is April Fool's Day......]
Sophia closed her fan and clapped her hands to attract everyone's attention, and then said, "No matter how bad Mentor Chrissy is, he will not make such a joke during the trial, after all, this is in the wild, and there will be danger at any time." I think the biggest possibility is that she went around the neighborhood and then ...... Get lost. ”
The analysis was so incisive that a dull thunder suddenly sounded above everyone's heads, and it didn't stop for a long time.
"Are you going to find her?" Chasi said, wiping a cold sweat, "Oh, you must go to her." Tutor Chrissy took us to the hotel the day before yesterday and didn't even find the map - anyway, Tutor Chrissy was leading the team this morning, are we really taking the right route!?"
“......”
Certainly not, the person in charge of arranging the route at the college would not have allowed a first-year student to enter the brown bear's area.
Seeing that everyone's eyes were on her, Alicia hurriedly raised her hand and surrendered: "Okay, okay, I know." I'll take a look at the map and lead the team later, right? The most important thing now is to find Mentor Chrissy first, right?"
Then the group split up, and finally found the two-eyed mosquito-shaped Chrissy in a small pine forest 100 meters away from the camp. Actually, the forest was nothing special, just a little more compact - but for Chrissy, it was enough to trap her in it and not get out.
In the afternoon, Chrissy was deprived of the right to look at the map and lead the group by Alicia.
"I'm really not lost," Chrissy circled around Lori trying to retrieve the map, "it's just that those pines grow so strangely! They seem to have a strange function that can make people lose their sense of direction, so I got stuck in them." ”
[Do you think that thing is Lord Wuhou's gossip array?]
Alicia pushed Chrissy, eager to explain that she wasn't a road idiot, to the side: "I see, I know, you're just falling for the ecstasy magic of nature. Don't worry, this spell is green, natural, and unpolluted. Your symptoms will go away on their own in a moment, so how about boosting everyone's morale before then?"
“...... Why do I always feel even more upset after listening to your words?"
"You're psychological. Later, we will walk around the lake in front of us and reach our destination, so you should calm everyone's emotions first. Alicia glanced at the map and said, "Although we met in actual combat on the first day of our first trial, after all, the opponent is human, and we can surrender. And wait a minute, we're going to face a monster with 'human' in its name, but we can't fight with any of us, and it's a lie to say that we're not nervous. ”,
"Okay, I see. Chrissy nodded and agreed with Lori. Then she turned around, took a hard breath, and shouted at the group of severely ill-exhausted mages who were sweating profusely on the mountain road, and the warrior teammates who were dragging or pulling beside them:
"Listen to the old lady! It won't be long before you rookies will be able to see those big furry gray rats in the Gstrick Mine, so cheer up! Maybe you will only have some elementary spells or basic martial arts, but it doesn't matter, because the other party doesn't even know any of that. Like I said before, even mages can win them in hand-to-hand combat. Don't worry unnecessarily, these big rats are not in the climate at all. So, grab your hammers and knock as hard as you like!"
[It's not a whack-a-mole game, is it!?]
Although this Chrissy-style cheering speech was thunderous, it finally made the faces of some frightened little girls gradually improve. Later, when they came to a valley and saw the huge sapphire-like lake in front of them, all fatigue, whining, and nervousness disappeared, and only admiration remained.
This is one of the most famous valley lakes under the main peak of Gstrick, which occupies almost the entire flat valley. If you can't see the forest growing on the other side, some people believe that it is the sea.
That's why the town at the foot of the mountain still has a swimsuit shop even though it's in the middle of the mountains.
......
Why doesn't anyone complain about why swimsuit shops are open during this season?
"We should set up a makeshift camp here as a base and then go to the mine to hunt whack-a-mole. "Although there are definitely some dangerous carnivores near the water source......," the chairwoman said, glancing at Chriss, who was filling the kettle not far away, with a clear meaning.
When the wolves come, they have to retreat gorgeously!
"Your suggestion is great, but please don't use 'whack-a-mole' to describe our trials, okay?"
"Do you wish there was a hibernating dragon in the cave and then replace the trial with 'Dragon Quest'?"
“...... I'm sorry I was wrong. ”
Because the camp to be built is used for sleeping at night, naturally it cannot be done in a so-so and perfunctory manner. First of all, there must be a water source nearby - there is no need to worry about this, secondly, because most of the people are carrying tents, it is necessary to prevent some small animals from getting in, and the temperature is still very cold at night in early spring, and no one wants to be used as a stove, and then it is necessary to keep some beasts out of the camp - just build a fire, and as for natural disasters such as wind, rain, hail and mudslides...... Hey, hey, hey, this is a tourist destination, okay, how could that happen? This is not the Earth of 2012.
Setting up a tent is a physical job, and at this moment, countless unknown boys who were originally ignored, despised and discriminated against suddenly became very sought-after among girls. Alicia even saw that Joey and Batru were being dragged away by the girls - though they were expected to be kicked away from their hands and feet for unclean hands and feet as soon as the tent was set up.
As for Elicia's tent...... Ilya, who came to help Michelle, once asked by the way, and then he was forced by Li Huayin, who came out of nowhere, to make a seven-and-a-half-round turn in the air and flew out at a speed of sixteen meters per second, and finally gnawed on the mud with a perfect mouth.
Later, Lori's tent was taken over by Li Huayin, who suspected that the latter had left a back door in the tent for night raids - something similar had happened many times when she was in the academy dormitory.
Drains were dug around the camp and some Cordyceps were thrown in, though Alicia didn't think any sore bugs would come out at night during the season. At this point, the construction of the camp was completed.
"Okay, we'll pick up the rest of the firewood after beating the gopher later. Chrissy nodded satisfactorily with a chocolate bar in her mouth and said, "Now everyone has an hour of rest." We'll enter the mine at five o'clock and come back at half-past six, and we'll all understand, right?"
[Is it really used as a whack-a-mole......]
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The mine is dark and cold, and some abandoned minecarts, iron pickaxes, and badly corroded railways can be seen everywhere. An oil lamp appears overhead at every passing distance, a reminder of how lively it used to be - of course, it no longer burns, and is fed by torches and portable magic lamps from the students who illuminate them. ,
Human beings are born with a fear of darkness, and no matter how great the Emperor of Calm is, it is impossible to slap PSP with his head in the face of the boundless darkness and shadows that seem to emerge at any time. Even if he's playing Alien vs. Predator.
So when the trembling Li Huayin leaned over, Alicia gave an elbow to her lower abdomen without hesitation.
Li Huayin, who was curled up like a shrimp, trembled and puzzled: "Why, why did you beat me...... I'm just scared to lean with little Ellie, huh?"
"Really? Can you explain why your hand was in my skirt?"
"I—I was just going to touch the top of the mercury lamp next to you, but my hand was misplaced. Li Huayin said without blushing - you can't see it even if you blush in this environment, right?
"That's right. Well, I was just trying to stretch and then my elbow was in the wrong place. ”
The daily life of the soy sauce department is really staged all the time. However, thanks to this nonsensical gift, the tense nerves of the onlookers who could be broken at any time were also relaxed. Everyone began to try to chat with the people next to them, although their voices were still a little shaky.
But at least the atmosphere is no longer oppressive.
Then the legendary Atmosphere Breaker suddenly appeared: a large gray rat walking on its hind legs, two front paws holding a wooden plank that God knows from some broken minecart to use as a weapon, and not a single piece of armor on his body - sorry, this guy didn't have a single cloth on him, only a shiny fur in the flickering light.
The rat man swaggered out of the corner near the front, and then made eye contact with a group of boys and girls.
At the very least, it's not because it's a handsome or beautiful human.
Chrissy's roar rang out in time: "What are you doing in a daze, do you want it to invite you to cheese!?"
So these rookies finally came to their senses. The warriors roared and raised their weapons and began to charge, and the mages also picked up their staffs and began to cast spells, and the nezumi on the opposite side also reacted, only to see it let out a piercing "squeak" sound from its mouth, and raised the plank in its hand—let's call it a hand—and then crouched back on its legs, strained its waist, looked at its nose, nose, mouth, and heart, took a deep breath, and suddenly threw the plank at everyone.
The plank was then split into flying pieces by the sword of the leader Batru, and a few shrewd and strong warriors behind him took advantage of the opportunity to rush forward with the various colorful primary magic that flew quickly around him, and the sword and armor shimmered in the light of magic and torches.
The nezumi on the other side screamed when the plank was shattered, and made a terrible gesture of baring its teeth and claws—and then turned around and ran away without a trace in the blink of an eye.
The scenes of Hollywood's magic blockbusters are shattered.
Everyone looked at each other and was speechless......
Chrissy came to the crowd and said, "I'll just say that the nezumi are very timid, right? I don't know what you're nervous about. ”
[If a human were to face a large group of nezumi, I think he would have run away......, right?
Regardless, the students won their first victory against monsters in the trials, which greatly boosted everyone's morale. So the crowd decided to move on—
Then, the rat-man who had fled just now gambled their path with a large group of densely packed companions in a relatively spacious area.
Alicia bit the mercury lamp's ear and said, "Why do I always feel that this is deliberately arranged by the author?"
The mercury lamp glanced at her and snorted, "Do you think that guy will let us just come in and walk around as if we were on an outing?"
It's not like an outing, you're already behaving like an outing, aren't you!?If I don't give you some problems, do you really think of this as a whack-a-mole!?