Lu Xi took a step back, took a deep breath, and his messy mind became clear.

She wanted to see the human who left traces, but she couldn't appear directly in front of him. At least she had to first understand what kind of human he was and whether he was a threat to her.

If the other party is a murderous robber or something, Lu Xi doesn't feel like he has any ability to resist.

Even if Xiao Yuan is added, it won't work. It is just a wolf pup that looks about the same size as a medium-sized dog. Facing a human who may be an adult man, they do not have enough strength to protect themselves.

After finding a suitable place to hide his luggage, Lu Xi easily returned to the place where he had just found the footprints, and followed the direction of the footprints and approached it extremely carefully.

She has never learned tracking, and has never done this kind of thing before, but she always understands the basic principles, and she can use them here properly.

Xiao Yuan is simpler than Lu Xi. He is born with the instinct of lurking close to prey, and he has become proficient in it after dozens of times of swooping at birds.

It didn't take long before the target came into Lu Xi's sight.

He is indeed an adult man, which proves that Lu Xi's vigilance is correct. He wears clothes that have been repaired many times. He only has simple short sleeves and shorts with rolled up legs. Lu Xi cannot see the clothing characteristics of the clothes above. It can be seen that his family is probably not very wealthy, it can even be said to be poor.

The man was about 27 or 28 years old, in his prime. He was about 1.8 meters tall, which made his slightly thin figure look taller. He was holding a hand that had been used for a long time and had various marks on it. The ax was chopping down a tree with concentration.

The tree body had begun to tilt and sway. It seemed that he had been chopping here for a long time and was about to end. No wonder Lu Xi followed the footprints to catch up with him so easily. It turned out that he had never moved.

Lu Xi didn't know anything about psychological analysis and could judge whether the person in front of her was trustworthy through various details. She could only rely on her own intuition to make a gamble-like choice.

"Crash!" Lu Xi was about to stand up when he accidentally touched a branch next to him, causing a crashing sound.

The sound was actually not loud, but the man who was chopping the tree still heard it, turned around quickly, raised his ax and faced the direction of the sound.

Lu Xi had no choice but to change his initial expectations, slowly walked out from behind the tree, and tentatively said, "Hello?"

She was equally unsure whether her language could be understood.

"Who are you?" the man said cautiously, not letting down his guard because Lu Xi was a woman.

Fortunately, the language is common.

Lu Xi took a deep breath and started thinking rapidly. From the details she could observe, this man should be "safe" and a resident of a certain human gathering place, not one of those dangerous bandit mountains. bandit.

Of course, the residents of the human gathering place did not completely mean that they were trustworthy, but Lu Xi did not have any more choices.

Lu Xi was unfamiliar with this world. She urgently needed to go to a place where humans existed to learn all the information about this alien world and decide how she should survive in the future.

There was no way she could live in the forest her entire life.

So in just a short moment, almost as soon as the idea was finalized, Lu Xi's face showed what could be called a weak expression, his eyes were red, and he looked particularly pitiful.

"I accidentally had an accident and was left alone in the wild. I have been here for a long time. You are the first person I met. Can you take me back to a place where humans live?"

She did not answer her name directly, nor did she let Xiao Yuan come out from hiding. Once the man had a bad intention, Xiao Yuan could catch him off guard and give her a chance to escape.

Lu Xi was lucky enough that the man didn't have any bad intentions. After looking at Lu Xi's patched clothes, he seemed to believe Lu Xi and said to Lu Xi in a very simple and honest manner, "That's it. I can take him with you." You return to my village, but you have to wait until I finish cutting down the trees. My house is damaged and needs to be replaced with new wood."

After saying that, the man actually turned around and cut down the tree again, completely ignoring poor Lu Xi.

Lu Xi had just prepared a few embarrassing lines, but he was stuck in his mouth and couldn't speak. He stared at the man's back for a while, and after confirming that the man was really serious about chopping down the tree, he started thinking and tentatively said, "Okay. , but when I came here just now, I left something over there, can I go and get it now?"

The man just turned his back to Lu Xi and waved his hand honestly, "Okay, go ahead."

Lu Xi took a few steps back and found that the man had no other reaction. He motioned to Xiao Yuan to stay and watch him. Lu Xi actually went back to get his luggage.

The location where the luggage is placed is a bit remote, and more than half an hour has passed since I came back and forth.

When Lu Xi reappeared, the man had chopped down the tree as thick as a bowl and tied it behind him. The branches and leaves had been simply cleaned away, leaving only the tree body, which was about three meters long.

Seeing Lu Xi coming with a lot of things on his back, the man was relieved and said, "You're back. We can go. My village is a bit far away from here and it takes a long time to walk. Is that okay with you?"

Lu Xi shook her head. What she was most accustomed to now was probably walking long distances.

The man didn't say anything more, and he didn't even realize that Lu Xi had stopped pretending to be pitiful. He picked up a whole tree on his shoulders and walked forward on his own initiative.

Lu Xi hesitated for a moment, glanced at Xiao Yuan who was still hiding in the dark, and decided to let Xiao Yuan hide and follow them quietly to prevent anything from happening.

Firstly, it was because she didn't dare to completely trust the human man in front of her, and secondly, Lu Xi couldn't guarantee what this human man's attitude would be after seeing Xiao Yuan.

She didn't want Xiao Yuan to be hurt by this.

"Can you tell me your name?" Lu Xi followed the man's footsteps and asked tentatively.

The man was carrying a tree on his back and was not walking very fast, so Lu Xi could easily follow behind, keeping a safe distance that was neither too far nor too close.

"Wallen, what about you?" Walron is not a man of few words, and most of the questions raised by Lu Xi can be answered.

"Lu Xi." Lu Xi thought for a while before saying her name. She wanted to see if the other party could understand.

"Lucy? It's a nice name." Vallon thought for a moment and praised the name seriously. Lu Xi obviously felt that they didn't mean the same name, but couldn't tell the difference.

"You... just believe me?" Lu Xi was very doubtful, but she had very little common sense and was worried that her ignorance would be exposed by trying, so she asked directly.

"You have a lot of wounds on your body. You seem to be used to it." Walron replied with a sincere tone.

Lu Xi actually didn't have many wounds on her body. After all, her body was refreshed every day. After surviving in the wild for nearly a month, she already knew how to reduce injuries.

But the traces on the clothes will not disappear. The scratches were mended using crude methods. The patches are more attractive than Lu Xi’s gray face. The decorative column on the personal panel has long been removed. At some point, it became "the broken clothes of a wanderer".

Anyone who sees Lu Xi can see that she has left so many traces after struggling to survive in this forest for a long time, and she has become accustomed to these changes.

Vallen didn't know much, but he could feel that Lu Xi really needed help.

Lu Xi opened her mouth, not knowing what to say for a moment. Facing someone who treated her so sincerely, her defensiveness seemed despicable, but she clearly understood that what she did was not wrong.

She is so unfamiliar with this world.

"Can you tell me about your village?" Lu Xi put aside unnecessary emotions and used the conversation to talk to Walron.

Walron didn't mean to be on guard against Lu Xi, or maybe Lu Xi's questions were not important, so he answered them all.

Lu Xi learned from this that the village where Vallen was located was called Kuva Village, which was close to the Purohei Forest. This was the forest where Lu Xi had lived for more than ten days. The people in the village made a living by hunting ordinary monsters in the Purohei Forest. .

"Ordinary monster?" Lu Xi was shocked. No matter how you hear the word monster, it seems that it cannot be associated with ordinary.

"Yes, low-level monsters generally don't get too close to the edge of the forest. As long as you're careful, you won't encounter danger." Walron said matter-of-factly.

After some insinuations, Lu Xi finally understood that the word monster is actually equivalent to animals on the earth, and it is a very general word.

What makes the distinction is their level. For example, the chubby rabbit that Lu Xi met before, the snake and the bird that Xiao Yuan caught are all ordinary monsters. They basically have no special abilities and can be easily hunted by humans.

Above this are the low-level monsters. Low-level monsters are huge in size, usually several meters or even ten meters tall, and their physical strength will be stronger. It is difficult for ordinary cold weapons to break defenses. The most important thing is that they can master magic.

Yes, it's magic, the kind of magic like fireball, wind blade, freezing, etc. However, the magic mastered by low-level monsters is relatively simple, usually no more than three, and most of them are magic of the same elemental attribute.

With the right response, a dozen armed adult men can hunt it.

There are intermediate monsters and high-level monsters above, but after Lu Xi asked, Vallen shook his head, "I don't know. Intermediate monsters are very dangerous. If there are intermediate monsters, the patrol team will notify us, Village Chief Luli He will take us to the town of Weiguli to take shelter.”

The town of Weiguli is a subordinate town to Kuwa Village, more than fifty kilometers away. The town above Weiguli belongs to the Trumini Kingdom, but it actually belongs to the Grant Territory... Walron said.

Lu Xi was confused about this, and she could not understand any of the place names.

Fortunately, Walron only knew a few place names and didn't know much more, so Lu Xi would not expose his ignorance.

Kuva Village soon arrived. After leaving Prohei Forest, a path appeared on the ground, which was much easier to walk. Apparently people from Kuva Village often traveled to and from Prohei Forest.

"Wallen, you are back. It looks like you have found some good wood...Who is she?" A middle-aged man carrying tools greeted Varron and looked over the tree. It almost landed on Lu Xi who was behind Vallen.

"Uncle Amai, I met her in the Prohei Forest. She said she was in trouble and was abandoned alone in the forest." Walron scratched his head and answered.

"What a poor person." Uncle Amai sighed, and then told Vallen, "Then go back quickly, put down the things, and then take her to the village chief of Luli. Those mercenary masters broke the table again. I'm going to fix it for them. I really don't understand what they're doing. This is the fourth time they've broken the table..."

Walron responded and continued walking into the village. He met many villagers along the way. It seemed that the relationship in the village was very harmonious, and they could all exchange a few words with each other.

Of course, Lu Xi suddenly appeared in the topic of these sentences. Almost everyone asked him about it, and Walron didn't find it annoying. He said the same thing more than ten times, and it was not until he returned home that he was quiet for a while. Come down.

Lu Xi lowered her gaze. When those people asked questions, she just listened silently and analyzed some of the information revealed in the villagers' conversations. She did not interrupt, nor did she open her mouth to ask Walron any more questions. There were too many things she didn't understand. , we must learn to be silent.

Chief Luli is the most commonly mentioned figure among the villagers. All villagers admire him very much and like to let Chief Luli make the decision no matter what.

Including Lu Xi, a person of unknown origin, the consensus of the villagers is to let the village chief Lu Li decide whether she should stay or go.

For a moment, Lu Xi was wary of the village chief Luli, whom he had never met, and worried that he would be exposed in front of such a person.

Different from Lu Xi's nervousness, the villagers only had natural curiosity and gossip about Lu Xi's sudden appearance.

"Although her face is covered with dirt and her appearance cannot be clearly seen, I bet that she will definitely be a beautiful girl."

"Have you seen her hair? It's black, which is so rare. And her eyes are also black."

"Hey, have you noticed that the clothes she's wearing...Wallon wouldn't have picked up a noble lady, right?"

"It looks like I'm going to tell the village chief Luli that Vallen has picked up a noble lady. This is a big deal!"

"What? Vallen picked up a homeless noble lady in the Prohei Forest?!"

"Oh my God, Valen is really lucky. Will he become a knight because of this? Will we call him Mr. Valen in the future?"

"What's her name? Lucy? Oh, it's Miss Lucy. That's a really nice name."

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Kuva Village is like a pond where a fish has accidentally jumped into. The tranquility of the water surface and bottom is broken, and the ripples spread farther and farther.