Ding Kui took out a stack of jerky from his baggage, handed it to Bai Ruoxi and said, "You eat this, don't worry, this is the jerky of Bingjiao Snow Cow, made with its best quality spine meat, and the taste is very tender." Let go and eat, I'll take care of enough. ”

Thinking of the mouse in Lei Feixiang's hand, Bai Ruoxi grabbed the jerky without any reserve, selected a piece and bit a small horn, and tasted it carefully, "Well, yes, it's better than the beef jerky I've ever eaten, and I'll only eat this kind of beef jerky in the future." ”

Cui Tianwu was helping Lei Feixiang deal with the nest of mountain gophers, cutting off the rat's head, bleeding and skinning, breaking open the abdomen, and taking out the internal organs, after listening to Bai Ruoxi's words, he turned around and smiled: "Cousin, Bingjiao Snow Beef is the best quality beef." Hidden deep in the Hengduan Mountains, they are rarely hunted by humans, and jerky made from their flesh has not been seen in the country for many years.

If it weren't for the fact that they rarely appeared in the beast tide a while ago, and were killed by the Tenth Legion, more than a thousand of them would not be found on the market. The inventory in the hands of His Excellency Xie Peng must be rationed by the Magicians Guild, and ordinary people can't buy it if they want to, and we haven't bought it in Tianmen Town in the past three days. ”

Hearing that the beef jerky in his hand could not be bought, Bai Ruoxi picked up a piece and chewed it in a big bite, and even the gnocchi soup stewed with mushrooms was reluctant to take a sip more, for fear that if he drank it, he would eat one less piece of beef jerky.

In private, Bai Ruoxi secretly stuffed Hua Mulan with two slices of Bingjiao Snow Beef Jerky, "You taste it, it's delicious, don't let that guy see it, otherwise he won't give it to me." Hehe, it's rare for him to be generous once, so you must eat enough. ”

Hua Mulan covered her mouth and smiled: "It's good, I think he has more chivalry than you." ”

"Well, well, I feel that he is more like a nobleman than those brothers in the family, stern when he should be strict, and demeanor when he should be gracious. If I hadn't met him in the party, and he was a magician, I would have thought he was a son of a noble family. Bai Ruoxi secretly glanced at Ding Kui a few times.

Ding Kui is applying spices to the skinned mountain mouse, he has long prepared all kinds of spices and seasonings, including barbecue, hot pot, and stew, anyway, he puts "eating" in the first place.

After the spiced mountain gopher was roasted, the fragrance was fragrant, Dou Xiaoqi tasted it, and praised it: "The magician is exquisite, if it is coated with the coarse salt we prepared, how can this barbecue come from so delicious." ”

"Your Excellency Xie Peng, if I stay with you for a long time, I will definitely gain weight again, and a real foodie should be like you. Lei Feixiang said while wiping the saliva from the corner of his mouth.

"Haha, you guy turned around and said I'm a foodie, what do we work so hard to do every day? Eat something good, wear something good, get a good night's sleep every day, and explore the world of magic with full energy, this kind of life is the most perfect. Ding Kui made himself look like a magician of an adventuring group.

"Cough, cough, cough," Bai Ruoxi was choked by Ding Kui's words, "Hey, I just said that he looks like a high-ranking nobleman, and now his true nature is revealed, he is a poor sour magician." She complained in hatred.

"What he said is not bad, I am satisfied with this kind of life. Hua Mulan gently patted Bai Ruoxi's back, feeling Ding Kui's words.

After eating and drinking, Sparrow and Hua Mulan set up simple warning traps around them, and the three samurai in the team took on the duty of keeping vigil. Archers and magicians must ensure that they are full of spirit, and Bai Ruoxi is treated preferentially and no one comes out to object, and everyone has established a tacit understanding about this.

The winter nights here are just as long, and the party's worst enemy is the cold, except for the ferocious monsters. One of the most burdensome places is dry food, and the other is fur to keep warm at night.

Under the pretext of being afraid that Lei Feixiang would be disturbed by the sound of snoring, Ding Kui used a piece of cloth in the middle of the tent to divide the inside and outside, and after hiding inside, he took out a skin of a fire-type demonic beast from the space ring and wrapped it tightly.

The other members of the group were surprised at first that he didn't have a large piece of fur in his baggage, and Ding Kui excused himself as a fire mage, and there were many ways to solve the temperature problem. Everyone believed it, they lacked understanding of magicians, and unless they reached the elemental magician stage, fire magicians would still be afraid of the cold.

After a night of nothing, and the sky had just turned white, the seven men got up and began to pack up the camp and prepare for departure.

Turning over the top of the mountain, through the morning light adventure group, I saw Torch Mountain, this straight and towering mountain, the top of the mountain is actually wider than the mountainside, and there is constantly black smoke and mist rising from the top of the mountain, as if the next moment will light up the fire, it is really a bit like a torch erected.

Bai Ruoxi looked a little excited, "Look, the top of other mountains is white, but it's burnt yellow, I've never seen such a strange scene." ”

"In the past, when the bald-tailed fire ape was there, we didn't dare to go near there, and the fire apes all over the mountains would drown us with fireballs like torrential rains. Cui Tianwu said.

"There's also the 'Firefeather Crows', which spew rockets and are incredibly fast, making them even more difficult to deal with than the Bald-tailed Fire Ape. Lei Feixiang added, "But as long as you don't get close to their nests and take the initiative to provoke them, they won't attack." ”

Fire Feather Flying Crow, a third-level fire-based demonic beast, is accustomed to building a cave on the top of the mountain, can erupt rockets, has a high flight speed, and is a kind of demonic beast that holds great grudges.

"This volcano won't erupt, it's still smoking. "Ding Kui is the first time to see a volcano, and he has long forgotten all about the introduction of geology.

"It has always been like this, there has been no record of eruptions here since Tianmen Town, as long as Tianmen Town erupts, it will definitely be felt. Lei Feixiang's answer made Ding Kui feel a little more at ease.

They descended the mountain at a fast pace, and as soon as the sun passed the treetops, they came to the foot of Torch Mountain.

"There was a dead silence up there, and I didn't feel any energy fluctuations. Ding Kui looked up at the top of the mountain, and casually added an eagle eye technique to himself, "The Fire Feather Crow should be active during the day, why can't you see any of it?"

Sparrow and Hua Mulan both widened their eyes and searched carefully, and Ding Kui also added the Eagle Eye Technique to them, this water magic is quite practical in the mountains.

"I should have come out early in the morning to forage for food, but was it really eaten up by other monsters?"

"Leave the firefeather crows alone, the bald-tailed fire apes here should be dead, let's find their nests first. Cui Tianwu waved his hand and took the lead in walking towards the mountain.

Just as Cui Tianwu judged, they climbed the mountainside without encountering a bald-tailed fire ape.

"This should be the place, and it looks like someone has taken the lead. "Sparrow found a huge empty stone cave.

Lei Feixiang was like a hound, drilling around in the stone cave, constantly smelling the smell with his nose, busy for a while, and said in frustration: "The search is very clean, it can be confirmed that it was done by humans." ”

"Could the fire feather crow on the top of the mountain also be killed by these people?" Bai Ruoxi was unwilling to be lonely and put forward his own conjecture.

"Unlikely, it will take a few adventure groups to kill all the crows, don't forget that the fire feather crows are very fast, and they can't escape. Bai Ruoxi's conjecture was quickly overturned by Lei Feixiang.

"Let's go up and take a look, they're all here, maybe these people left before the demonic beast ate the fire feather crow. Ding Kui had a hint of luck.

All the members of the group had the same thoughts as Ding Kui, they gave up looking for the nests of other fire apes, if there was no magic core in the lair of the fire feather flying crow on the top of the mountain, they would definitely run away in vain this time.

However, the cruel reality appeared in front of this adventure group, the fire feather crow's nest, which was as empty as the fire ape, was still swirling with water vapor, and the depths were bursting with fire from time to time, and the temperature here was much warmer than at the foot of the mountain.

"There is not a single corpse of a flying crow, humans can't do such a thorough thing, and the corpse of a firefeather crow is worthless. Is there something wrong with the middle layer? What is sweeping away the birds on the periphery?"

Cui Tianwu looked at Lei Feixiang and asked, "I haven't encountered this situation before, have you encountered it?"

"No, the demonic beasts within the middle layer have a fixed predation range, and this is the first time I have seen this kind of situation of crossing the boundary and getting so far away. Lei Feixiang, who had been busy again, was confused.

Hua Mulan asked her husband worriedly, "Will we be in danger in this way?"

"They all ate so cleanly on the way here, even if there are demonic beasts from the middle layer, they won't stay nearby, at least they won't encounter it or them when they go north. Rest assured, there will be no danger. Cui Tianwu comforted his wife.

"The Jinhua lynx's habitat is northwest of here, where should we go next?" Sparrow had already memorized the route he planned to take.

"We'll run for nothing wherever we go," Ding Kui took out a map from his arms, "For the time being, we can't be sure how long the person walking in front of us will be earlier, so we might as well jump away a little bit and try to go to the bone beetle's nest first." ”

Cui Tianwu, Sparrow, and Lei Feixiang all gathered around to look at the map.

"Good idea, Hot Springs Ridge is just north of Torch Mountain, and it's only a day's journey from here, so I'd like to go there first. Cui Tianwu and Sparrow looked at each other and said.

"Reliable. Lei Feixiang's answer was short and forceful.

Ding Kui walked to the depths of the Fire Feather Crow's nest and picked up a few stones, and threw one to Bai Ruoxi, "Take it, this thing can warm your hands, since you are here, don't go back empty-handed, it's unlucky." ”

When the other people heard it, it made sense, it was too unlucky to go home empty-handed, and this bad luck must not be carried over to the next destination. So they all learned to pick up a hot rock from Ding Kui, either in his hand or in his arms.

The core of this feudal superstitious thing is to give people a strong psychological hint, to which human world has its soil for growth, will I do this will bring the trend of superstition in this world?

Ding Kui held the stone and muttered in his heart.