The bonfire crackled at night, and occasionally sparks jumped out of the sky to keep company with the stars in the forest - they were unknown creatures similar to fireflies, slowly wandering in the emerald forest where the sky was dark. Since it had just rained the day before yesterday and the shelter here was very tight, the ground in many places was a little damp. It was quite difficult to find an open and dry place to camp. But regardless, things are much better tonight than last night.
When we camped last night, it took a lot of effort to light the campfire due to lack of dry fuel. The fire that was initially lit contained a lot of thick black smoke, which made several people scramble. It wasn't until a woman in a black cloak came over and slashed with her sword with a roar of wind, causing the entire fire to explode, that she barely managed to prevent several people from being choked to death. After this incident, Duan Qing went to study the flammability of various plants in the Emerald Forest, and found that most of them were difficult to ignite, but this is a story for another day.
The woman ignored their thanks and walked aside to sit down. She took out a piece of hard bread from the package and ate it. The little girl hesitated and wanted to go over to say thank you and try to comfort the woman who seemed to be in a bad mood. , but was stopped by Duan Qing.
"It's useless if you say it in the past, she won't pay attention to you." Duan Qing said: "And...she is not the kind of person who falls easily."
Although she was a little disappointed and doubtful, the little girl still did not get over it after all. Several people set up the tent in a hurry, and then began to discuss the vigil for a while while eating. Duan Qing was more interested in this, because he rarely saw the wild night in the free world, so he still volunteered a little.
A few grown men would definitely not let a little girl do such a thing, so in the end they had to take turns on duty. Each of them would spend an hour or two, and the night was basically over. Everyone talked about some topics related to the mission. They talked about the whereabouts of the NPC, its possible fate, the strange knocking sound before, and the terrifying giant snake... I felt heart palpitating. , also a little curious.
Unfortunately, it was no longer found, and it was difficult to mention the war. After thinking about it, there seemed to be no other clues, so there were not many things that could be discussed. After being bored for a while, Aniu and the bad boy from Jiecheng each found a corner and planned to take a rest. In the previous discussion, Duan Qing was on the first shift.
The tent was not big, but not too small either. It was set up near a big tree. If it was squeezed in, it would not be a problem for three or four people to sleep inside. The location of Mengzhu is in the innermost place, where it is safer and the wind is not easy to leak in. The girl hesitated before going in, but turned around and walked to the black cloaked figure sitting under the roots of a tree not far away. The figure sat there with his legs curled up, his arms wrapped around his knees, and his head already lying on his knees.
"Well..." The girl's voice was still a little nervous: "Do you want..."
"No, thank you." The cloak's head raised slightly, and then the woman's unique, indifferent voice sounded.
"Well......"
Mengzhu hesitated to leave and planned to persuade her. The woman finally raised her head completely. Due to the obstruction of the cloak, Mengzhu could only see the part below her mouth. In the reflection of the bonfire, her fair face and ruddy face were visible. The lips, with perfect proportions, give people an amazing sense of beauty.
But the girl didn't notice this - the eyes hidden in the cloak were bright and cold, and the sight was as piercing as ice and snow, piercing people's hearts.
This experience made Mengzhu disgusted and afraid of the woman named Xueling Huanbing. For quite a while after that, the little girl was indignant when she mentioned this incident: "Why are you dragging me? Isn't it because I am a higher grade..."
Of course, this is another story.
Of course Duan Qing also noticed these interesting phenomena, but he ignored them. The little girl has some kindness in her heart, and she will definitely encounter more malice in the future. Even compared to the incident in the hotel before, this scene just now is considered good... Anyway, I will experience more of this. Nothing bad will ever happen.
Thinking of this, Duan Qing looked at the black figure sitting by the tree again. The white armor with stains was exposed from the gap between the corners of the black cloak. From this angle, you can also see long objects. Propelled across the middle of the cloak, what was probably the woman's sword lay across her knees. Noticing his gaze, the eyes hidden under the cloak also looked over. It seemed that the warning was not effective for this obviously much older player. The gaze circled around again, and then lowered it again. Go down.
It's hard for everyone to do this if you show your vigilance so clearly...
Duan Qing could probably understand the mood of that Xue Ling Huan Bing, but that was all. Due to his previous emotional injury, he has been looking at women very clearly recently, as if he suddenly jumped out of the chess game and became a spectator. But his interest is not in it at this time, so understanding is one thing, but ignoring it is another.
He walked to a nearby broken log and sat down, then began to pay attention to the surrounding situation.
The broken tree had been lying there for some time, and there was a lot of moss and some strange mushroom-like plants growing on it. Duan Qing searched for a while and finally found a place to sit. He sat on it, and the firelight of the bonfire shone from his side, casting the shadow farther away, and then was divided into countless fragments by the sparse weeds and shrubs, scattered into the dark night of the forest. He closed his eyes and concentrated for a while, then began to pay attention to the movements around him.
Surrounded by trees, the light of the bonfire couldn't actually shine very far. As far as the eye could see, all we could see were tree trunks reaching as far as the eye could see, as well as various silhouettes extending from the ground to the tree trunks. Duan Qing looked left and right, but didn't find anything that could catch his attention. He knew that night had just arrived, and it would be impossible to see a monster so quickly, and if he really encountered it, he would probably not be able to stop it.
In the original plan, the night watchman was only responsible for waking everyone up when danger came, and then... everyone ran away as quickly as possible.
In Duan Qing's mind, Mengzhu's warning expression was still vivid in his mind: "Don't disturb it if you see anything, because we have light here, and the monsters will not come by themselves. They are afraid of light at night, so let It can just go away on its own... If something really comes, wake up the sleeping people, and then everyone can run away as soon as possible. Just use torches to drive it away, and then just try your luck... ..”
The so-called fighting for luck is just hoping that when running away, you don't run into the embrace of a wild beast's territory.
Therefore, this kind of night vigil has no great significance except calling the police. It would actually be okay if everyone went to rest, but thinking that they would be killed in their sleep still made them a little scared. Not to mention that the team has a mission, even if it is an ordinary adventure, it is a very interesting experience to walk through such a process and be immersed in it. You can also shout everyone up and resist, even if you die in the end. There is no regret, and it can be used as a talking point to brag to others after returning home.
Thinking about it carefully, apart from masters who are confident in their own skills, only people with curiosity like me would do this... Duan Qing thought, and then glanced at Xue Ling Huan Bing from a distance. . In the darkening night, the woman's figure was as quiet as water. Perhaps she felt that her posture was a bit awkward. Her long sword was also erected on the right side of her body. On top of the black scabbard was a silver sword hilt, and on the handshake. There seemed to be some black cloth wrapped around it, and a small strip of cloth was exposed, floating gently in the breeze from time to time. There was a faint blue light coming from the silver gauntlet, and it seemed that there were several gems inlaid on it.
Her white left hand was tightly held under the gauntlet.
Forget it, we also have a master, and he is such a vigilant master...
The night passed safely in the end. Duan Qing did not see any creatures during the period of vigil - which greatly disappointed him - but the evil young man from Jie City got excited for a while when he got up in the morning and showed off to everyone. I heard about a few wolves passing by from a very far away place.
Because they were too far away, Shao Shao could not see clearly. But this was not enough to make him less interesting to talk about, because according to him, the eyes of those "wolves" impressed him deeply.
"Those wolves' eyes are all glowing! Red light, green light, blue light... In short, there are all kinds of lights. They look so weird..."
Several people were very curious and quickly asked what was going on. As a result, the evil young man hesitated and didn't say anything for a long time. Ah Niu is usually a fool, but he doesn't know how to fool people. He has only been playing games for a few days, so naturally he doesn't know whether to believe or question. Instead, Mengzhu introduced some of the things she knew: "I... Our previous team had encountered these creatures. They were very powerful. We also fought at that time and many people died... ....”
"Actually, there are many night monsters, which are the same as the day monsters, but they become very powerful at night. I don't know why..."
The girl was crying when she said this: "Wuwu... I don't want to hide it, it's just... If we meet, we will definitely die... They He can also cast magic..."
"Okay, okay, no one will blame you, it's not a big deal..."
"Yes, as you said, what can you do if you know it? If you encounter it, you will still die."
"In this way, we are really lucky, hahahaha..."
"Demonized creature."
Amid the flurry of comfort, four words suddenly rang out. Several people looked over there, and the person speaking was the cloaked woman.
Those four words seemed to have magic power, and the discussion, comfort and crying stopped for a while. In A Niu's confused expression, Mengzhu and the evil young man from Jiecheng looked at each other, feeling a little surprised and uncertain. Duan Qing, who was "not ashamed to ask", approached the woman at this time: "Oh? What is a demonized creature? Tell me quickly. Listen."
The other party looked at him indifferently, ignored him, and walked aside without any intention of explaining. Duan Qing continued to question for a long time, but seeing that the other party really had no intention of explaining to him, he had no choice but to wave his hand to the others and let it go.
After the small intermission theater, their team searched in the forest for another day, but made almost no progress. After those four words, the cloaked woman said almost nothing except maintaining necessary communication. When Duan Qing occasionally observed, the woman always tilted her head and looked to one side, her eyes wandering and she didn't know what she was thinking. Sometimes she would notice the other person's gaze. After he turned around, the woman would look at the man who had just peeked at him, her eyes indifferent.
Humph, I don’t know how many men I have seen like this. They always think that they won’t be discovered if they peek...
After searching aimlessly and talking without any boundaries, things finally began to change when everyone with no results was once again preparing to find a place to camp at the end of the second day.
"Who...are you looking for?" Xueling Huanbing, who was sitting next to the big tree as usual, suddenly asked.
"Ah hahaha, that..." Duan Qing responded.
As the master of this small team, she felt that she had to do something. Although she was a temporary wild man and was not familiar with the others, there were many people on the Internet who formed a temporary team to play games. I know each other...
But the point is, I watched coldly for a whole day and found that the people in the team were all unreliable people. Except for the person who looked like an old player, the other two men looked like novices. The girl named Mengzhu They have some experience, but their strength is far behind... Their field experience is extremely poor, and their protection at night is almost zero. Fortunately, I had been vigilant last night, and finally no monster similar to that giant snake came. ...I said I was looking for someone, but my actions during the day were unplanned. Instead, I talked about those professional players all day long. Sometimes I even found that they were going in circles...
If we don't take action, these people will probably starve to death here even if they are not in danger.
Jiecheng Bad Shao and Liu Qingniu were helping to nail the wooden sticks used to fix the tent, while Mengzhu stood aside and directed. She also heard the woman's question, but considering the look the woman gave her last night, the girl planned to ignore her and let the bad uncle who had already walked over handle it.
"Ah hahaha, that... big master finally wants to help us. Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations..." Duan Qing walked up with a look of surprise on his face.
It seems that you have always wanted to count on me to help, right? You don’t even know who I am... The woman secretly gritted her teeth, but there was no expression on her face: "Then tell me, that person His origin, appearance, and the clues you basically have..."
Duan Qing simply sat cross-legged next to the woman, but was surprised to find that she leaned to the other side very discreetly, so he could only smile casually, maintaining the appearance of kindness: "That man's name is Terry, Terry. K. Ozich is the father of a boy. I don’t know what he looks like, but his occupation should be a forest ranger..."
"Forest ranger? Never heard of it..."
"Probably someone who protects the forest, and occasionally provides necessary assistance to people who want to enter the forest..."
Amidst the constant chatter, Xue Ling Huan Bing finally understood the current situation. She frowned and thought for a while, as if she had encountered something difficult to decide, and then hesitantly said: "In other words, you have no clues, so just help Is that child looking for his father?"
She pointed around: "In this... forest?"
Duan Qing understood what she meant and shrugged helplessly: "We did have some plans at the beginning, but due to...some reasons, it turned into this. But don't worry, we are still confident. , although this place is very big...well, it is indeed too big..."
During Duan Qing's chatter, Xue Ling Huan Bing's eyes widened and she couldn't imagine what she had heard.
Her guild mobilized so much manpower and made so many preparations for the unwarranted ruins in the forest, and even asked her to bring an elite team to be responsible for the exploration. Although the cold reality made her understand, they still underestimated this. Weird place, but...
These people rushed into the same place with almost no preparation, and... saved themselves!
Duan Qing looked at the dull-eyed woman in front of him, wondering why this woman liked to wander so much... Then he found that the woman looked at him with a strange look, as if she were looking at a madman.
"Uh, what's wrong..."
The woman took a breath, as if she had used a lot of concentration to calm down, and then asked again: "You, you... are players born in Greenstone Village, right?"
"Yes what's the matter."
"No, it's nothing..." Xue Ling Huan Bing didn't ask any more, and a flash of light suddenly flashed in her mind.
Maybe people here come here to take risks like this, they don't need to prepare, they are used to this situation...
This forest is so weird. Not long after our people entered the forest, the monster they encountered was so powerful that even if the president led a team to come in person, they would probably not get any benefit from the monster... Although today was a confusing day, looking back now, I encountered almost no danger...
This was not mentioned in the information Wuji Fantasy God gave him before. Considering their birthplace or level...
Putting these together, I can infer that the only difference between my team is that their level is too high...
Could it be that this giant snake-like monster appeared because of some weird defense measures in this forest or the ruins, or some countermeasures against a strong person like her?
Thoughts flashed through her mind like lightning, and she had gone back and forth countless times in the blink of an eye. The woman raised her head and started asking again, but this time, there was a faint smile on her face: "You... uh, do you often go in and out of this forest? Do you know anything about this place? how many......"
A look of surprise flashed across Duan Qing's eyes, and the question and answer finally continued like this. After the matter was understood and several people began to have dinner together, the woman subconsciously pulled the front edge of her hood, frowned and began to think.
It seems that things may really turn around, as long as we make good use of these few people in front of us...
On the other side, Mengzhu bit into a large piece of cake and asked vaguely: "What did that woman talk to you just now?"
"What else could it be? There's nothing to hide about the circumstances we were looking for..."
In the girl's confused eyes, Duan Qing roughly described the general content of the conversation just now, and also stated the potential master's intention to help them.
"Sure! With such a master helping us, our task is easy..." Aniu waved his arms, very excited. The evil young man on the side had the same doubts as the girl, but when he spoke, he looked at Duan Qing with an ambiguous expression: "But he was so indifferent to us before, and now he says he wants to help us, right... ."
The direction of doubt is obviously different.
"Hey, hey, don't look at me like that. The woman over there just looked at me like she was a madman, and now you look at me like you're a concubine..."
"Young Master Evil said that, I also feel...I also feel..." Thinking back to what I had secretly observed during the day, the two people looked at each other from time to time, and the girl's expression became more and more... Excited: "Isn't she... attracted to you?"
With a "pop" sound, Duan Qing covered his face with one hand.
"What are you all thinking..."
Amidst the unanimous condemnation by everyone, Duan Qing smiled helplessly and denied the baseless accusation on the surface, but secretly covered his face and looked at the woman in the corner again.
That beautiful face kept a smile and seemed to be very interested in watching the commotion here.
So he turned around again, sweating and waving his hands to face the people's righteous criticism, but his thoughts became more certain.
This woman...
