Before Chen Yao woke up, he smelled a faint fragrance first. He opened his eyes and took a look. It was still dark at the top of the abyss. He slept very comfortably.
Tilting his head to the left, he saw a burning fire and a graceful back. Tilting his head to the right, he saw Yue Li, who was sleeping soundly next to him.
"woke up?"
Gently pushing aside the Yue Li that was wrapped around Chen Yao's body like an octopus, Chen Yao sat up, took off the clothes covering his body, and covered Qiu Yue Li with his hands and feet.
After standing up and moving for a while, he sat down next to Qiu Yunxi and added some firewood to the fire.
"Hiss...back pain..."
"It's no wonder you don't have back pain after sleeping for twenty weeks at a stretch! Huh, you didn't respond even to me."
Qiu Yunxi was carefully reading one of the pages excerpted by Jiang Taigong at this time, and was not aware of the coquettishness in his tone.
"Well...you two have worked hard..."
Chen Yao felt that the atmosphere was a bit...weird at this moment, and looked at another fire at the entrance of the monument, where Xiaohu was dozing off.
"Are you feeling unwell?"
"That's not true, it's just...hiss...the toe of my shoe hurts. I bit it yesterday..."
This feeling of caring made Chen Yao feel extremely uncomfortable. What's going on! Where did the Iceberg Girl go?
"Well... I want to go out for a walk, but it's not bright yet at the top of the abyss."
"Well, go ahead and be safe."
He really couldn't sit still. Chen Yao even wondered whether Qiu Yunxi was contaminated by monsters?
Give me back my iceberg beauty! At this moment, Chen Yao was roaring crazily in his heart.
Taking out the unused grease candle, he tore off a few strips of cloth and found a thick branch. Chen Yao silently began to make a torch. This time he planned to make a more flame-resistant one. After a while, A large torch was made, and Chen Yao was still confident in his ability.
Just in case, Chen Yao picked up Xiao Qing who was sleeping next to the fire. The little guy yawned and tilted his head in Chen Yao's hand.
"Let's go out with dad... ahem, go out with uncle."
Qiu Yunxi turned around and glanced at Chen Yao doubtfully. Under the firelight, his long eyelashes and bright eyes flashed...
There is a saying that says, look back at Bai Meisheng.
After calming down his mind, Chen Yao first took out the map by the light of the fire, marked the place, and then checked the route. He was ready to leave this sterile area and explore further. These three stars By the end of the day, several people had left the village and gone several kilometers deep into the direction of the Black Abyss garbage dump.
About ten meters out of the camp, it was already pitch black ahead. Moreover, Chen Yao was still walking through the messy snake forest. He had no choice but to take out a torch and light it with his hand.
After walking through the forest for several hundred meters, the sound of insects began to appear around him. After emerging from the forest, Chen Yao came to a bush where the vegetation was lower and the view was wider.
Chen Yao suddenly remembered the abnormality that occurred at the ancient ruins yesterday, so he randomly found a few low plants nearby, and focused on observing each one. After a while, some information appeared in front of him.
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Kucha Seed Seedlings: 100% recognition (from Botany Knowledge)
The whole plant is a woody plant with a slight fragrance, bitter taste and non-toxic.
Sawgrass: recognition rate 80% (from plant knowledge)
An herb with extremely sharp leaves, slightly poisonous.
Wild wheat: recognition rate 73% (from plant knowledge)
Grasses, weeds, non-toxic.
Shepherd's purse: recognition level 75% (from plant knowledge)
Herbal, edible, non-toxic.
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To be honest, this was quite interesting. Chen Yao observed and picked some useful plants while playing, but he forgot that there were wild beasts nearby, but at this time, they should not have woken up yet.
This time, he was so absorbed in playing that Chen Yao didn't react until he felt dizzy.
"Oops! Aren't I here to explore the way?"
This time, one hour passed directly, and it seemed that dawn was not far away.
Chen Yao headed north and walked through the bushes to a small road. Apparently no one had been here for a long time.
Follow the path to the end, where there are building ruins. In the center of the ruins is a half-collapsed statue.
Looks like a church? There is also a church of Lord Binding in the village.
But hey...this statue looks like the lower body of a normal human being? never mind...
Chen Yao walked around the ruins and found another path on the left side of the church. He didn't know where it led.
After completing the exploration, Chen Yao returned all the way. This trip probably took more than two weeks, and it was almost seven o'clock in the morning when he returned to the camp.
Back at the camp, Jiang Huyueli was already up, and the three of them were sitting around the fire, apparently waiting for Chen Yao to come back.
"How is it going?"
"Well, we found a ruins, like a church. We can go there to camp first. After all, there are some hidden dangers here..."
"Oh no! I'm hungry..."
Chen Yao took out a clay pot, placed it on the stone stove, poured water from his own water bag into it, washed the various wild vegetables he had picked earlier, added the remaining water in the water bag, and started boiling.
"Well...the water I prepared has run out. We have to find a new water source as soon as possible."
"Brother Yao, what are you cooking? Are these really edible? Isn't it poisonous?"
Qiu Yunxi was speechless, but also cast a look of distrust...
"Ah, I forgot to mention that."
Chen Yao slapped his forehead and remembered that none of the three people knew about his experience in the ancient ruins yesterday.
Taking advantage of the cooking time, Chen Yao gave a general account of yesterday's situation, including the scenes he saw and his abnormal state.
"I think..."
Chen Yao took out the tentacle statue. As soon as the statue was taken out, it gave off a disturbing and strange aura.
"The abnormality in my eyes is caused by touching this statue."
Chen Yao stared at the statue and observed it seriously.
"So...is there such a possibility?"
Qiu Yunxi said with a serious face.
"What?"
"Your abnormality is because of... another wild skill you awakened."
"..."
Chen Yao was stunned. He seemed to have ignored this possibility, so he quickly put away the statue, sat cross-legged, gathered his mind and recited the mantra.
After a while, Chen Yao saw the three familiar light spots again. He touched the flashing central light spot with excitement. After the scene in front of him changed, two light spots flashing side by side appeared in front of him!
This means that Chen Yao has truly advanced! After touching the new light spot again, Chen Yao received some information.
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"The Eye of Peeping into Mysteries: [Give you spiritual eyes to observe people, objects, and the heavenly path; ---------- (unclear)]"
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Sure enough, it’s a crazy skill related to eyes! Then it makes sense, and then Chen Yao withdrew from the world of consciousness with just one thought.
"How about it?"
Seeing Chen Yao open his eyes, Qiu Yunxi asked calmly.
"Ahem... It's true that he's awakened. It's a trick related to the eyes. I thought..."
Qiu Yunxi was speechless when he heard the sound, but at this moment, his eyes looked at Chen Yao as if he were looking at a fool.
"Congratulations, brother, then the four of us have now advanced to the level of Servants of Binding! Hahaha!"
Seeing that Chen Yao couldn't keep it off his face, Jiang Hu quickly came out to smooth things over.
"Yes, yes! Brother Yao has become even more powerful now!"
Yueli quietly pulled Qiu Yunxi's sleeve. Qiu Yunxi understood and turned to look at the pot.
"It's ready."
"While talking, the soup is ready, haha! I'll sprinkle some seasoning on it..."
Chen Yao quickly showed off his superb cooking skills to cover up his embarrassment, and took out a few pairs of bowls and chopsticks. They had an exquisite breakfast with dry food.
"Brother Yao! This soup is delicious. You will make it for me next time!"
"No problem! There are a lot of wild vegetables here!"
Chen Yao patted his chest and promised.
After they had breakfast, they tidied up and headed towards the church ruins. However, before leaving, Qiu Yunxi looked back at the half-covered stone gate of the historic site.
"Don't worry, um... first of all, it's... uh, not very smart, and shouldn't be able to open the door by itself. Secondly, it's afraid of light. It's safe when there's light. Well... it doesn't sound very good to say that. Safety."
Chen Yao, who noticed something strange about Qiu Yunxi, explained to himself, then took out a map and put a big cross on the location of the monument.
"Anyway, don't worry, I will find a way."
"Um."
Following Chen Yao's lead, everyone was preparing to pass through the Snake Wood Forest. Qiu Yunxi suddenly reached out to stop a few people, and then made a silent gesture. The others immediately stopped in place, not daring to make any move.
I saw Qiu Yunxi quietly moving to the edge of the snake wood forest, drawing an arrow, setting up the bow, pulling the string and shooting an arrow!
"Tsk! Tsk, tsk, tsk!"
"Okay, hit."
The few people who heard this parted the snake tree vines and looked outside. They saw a crested rooster still struggling with an arrow in its abdomen lying next to a bush about ten meters ahead!
"Wow! Sister is so amazing!"
"Well...I also asked why I didn't hear anything. It turned out to be an iron-crowned rooster that is good at hiding and escaping."
Chen Yao touched the tip of his nose out of habit.
"Hey hey hey, there's meat to eat tonight!"
The happiest person here is Jiang Hu, the biggest one. After all, he has been eating dry food for two days in a row.
Just as Qiu Yunxi was about to step forward and Chen Yao was thinking about how to cook, a scream suddenly came from above.
"Quack! Quack, quack, quack!"
A huge black shadow suddenly swept down from the top of the snake bush on the side, grabbed the crested pheasant on the ground, and then flapped its wings and flew away! The action is very fast.
Just when everyone was in a state of confusion, Chen Yao reacted instantly, because this was tonight's special meal!
"Don't be stunned, chase after me!!"
Qiu Yunxi put away his bow and arrows and rushed forward, his speed no slower than the black shadow.
But Chen Yao and the others were slightly slower than before. After chasing for a while, they were hung far behind. The reason was not because Chen Yao and Jiang Hu were slow, but...
Chen Yao looked helplessly at Yue Li, who was panting and her face was red.
"Come up, quickly!"
Stopping in front of Yue Li, Chen Yao lowered his body and motioned to carry her on his back.
"oh..."
Lili lay on Chen Yao's back, lowered her head and bit her lip, with a little remorse on her face.
After a moment's delay, Heiying and Yun Xi were almost disappearing from Chen Yao's sight, but as their speed increased, the distance between them slowly began to close again.
Within a few minutes, Yun Xi's figure appeared at the end of the road.
"What's wrong? Lost you?"
"No, it stopped and landed there."
Qiu Yunxi pointed forward.
Chen Yao looked up and was stunned. About twenty meters away from the front of the group, a ruin stood quietly. Due to the surrounding snakewood, only a small part of the ruin was exposed. They were now on the back of the ruin.
"What a coincidence, that's the ruins I mentioned before."
"We have to be careful. If we encounter other strange beasts, we will be in trouble. Xiaohu and I left our equipment in the ancient ruins..."
After Chen Yao woke up, he kept feeling that something was missing. When he turned to look at Jiang Hu, he remembered that the two of them had no equipment.
A few people walked carefully through the snake trees and moved toward the ruins in a covert manner. They stopped about ten meters away from the ruins. From this position, they could already see clearly what it was.
"Huh? What kind of bird is this? Why is it so black and ugly..."
Qiu Yueli complained softly.
At the highest point of the ruins, at the top of half of the wall, a huge black strange bird was lying in its nest, using its sharp and long beak to roughly pull off the colorful tail feathers of the Iron Crested Pheasant. From time to time, it would look around warily.
"Brother, what on earth is this? It looks like a crow, but it's many times bigger than a crow."
"Hmm...I don't know either. I tried using Huang's skills but I can't figure it out."
At this moment, ten meters away, Chen Yao's eyes were firmly fixed on the strange bird. With a flash of light in Chen Yao's eyes, he unexpectedly decoded some information.
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? ? ? :Recognition: 40% (from biological knowledge)
Corvids are creatures of the Corvidae family. They are mutants formed due to unknown reasons. Their body shape and habits have also changed. They will collect and devour various luminous objects.
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Chen Yao briefly shared the interpreted information with a few people.
"No wonder no one in the village has seen it. It's hard to survive for a long time with this strange habit..."
"Want to shoot?"
Qiu Yunxi asked calmly.
"Yes! Of course! If you steal our prey, how can it be kept alive? Well... maybe there will be some treasures in its belly, hehehehe."
However, Chen Yao considered that the black strange bird was crouching in the nest at the moment, which was extremely detrimental to Qiu Yunxi's aim.
"Xiaohu, find a stone, touch it to the side and throw it inside!"
Jiang Hu took the order and sneaked a few meters away from several people. He picked up a stone and threw it violently. The stone fell heavily in the ruins. The sound caused the black strange bird to stand up and look around warily. This was the best opportunity!
Finding the right moment, Qiu Yunxi took aim with bated breath and silently loaded the arrow with his bow. When he was about to shoot, he was stopped by Chen Yao.
"?"
"I'm afraid this guy will run away. Hey hey, add some power to your arrows and let's see!"
The palm of Chen Yao's left hand silently turned red-orange, and he grasped the arrow in Yun Xi's hand. After a few moments, the arrow part was also covered with a layer of red-orange brilliance, which was extremely lethal at first glance.
"Don't be stunned, shoot it quickly! Be careful not to hit the arrow!"
At this moment, Qiu Yunxi was still in a state of confusion, but he had no choice but to take aim.
"laugh!"
The arrow directly hit the strange bird's abdomen with an orange tracer! In order to prevent the power from being insufficient, Qiu Yunxi fired another arrow from his bow neatly, and this arrow directly hit its wing.
"Quack! Quack!"
Before the blackbird that was hit by the arrow could react, another arrow hit its wing. At this time, the arrow that hit the abdomen with a temperature of several hundred degrees began to take effect.
The strange bird's internal organs were instantly scorched, and it could only roll around in pain in the nest. Then it even fluttered its wings and tried to escape, but an arrow hit its wings and it couldn't fly even if it wanted to. It could only flutter around in pain. The screams, the sound was terrifying.
About ten seconds later, the seriously injured strange bird fluttered twice as if it were dying, and unexpectedly flew away from the nest, but that was all.
As its huge body fell heavily to the ground, its life came to an abrupt end.
"Huh, those last two blows, I really thought it could fly away."
Chen Yao breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that the baby in his mouth would fly away. After all, its belly is a big treasure box. The most exciting thing is that you don't know what's inside.
"I can shoot it even if it flies away, but why don't you explain your ability just now?"
Compared to the strange bird's belly, Qiu Yunxi was obviously more interested in the ridiculous skill Chen Yao had just performed.
"Oh, I forgot. I only told Xiaohu that I researched this myself. That was why I suddenly fell asleep that night."
"...Um."
"Stop talking, hurry up and see if it's dead. Hey, hey, there must be a lot of waste in this strange bird!"
Chen Yao rubbed his hands excitedly, thinking that he couldn't wait to absorb the waste source and cut open the belly of the strange bird.
"Ah, by the way, the crested rooster is still up there. Yun Xi, please go up and get it."
"good."
Qiu Yunxi put away his equipment, jumped up to the top of the ruins in twos and twos, and dropped the rooster down, but he couldn't get down from the top.
"What's wrong?"
"Look at this."
Qiu Yunxi picked up a silver cube and showed it to several people with a solemn expression.
Chen Yao raised his head in confusion. When his pupils focused on the object, he first frowned, and then showed a shocked expression!
"...Tianji...box!"
【coming! The most important item in this work: Tianji box
Another explosive chapter! ! ! 】
