Joey thought a lot that night, and didn't fall asleep in a trance until late at night.
In the early morning, everyone got up one after another.
Annie regrouped, this time assigning Joey to her group, while the other two girls stayed in the camp with Mi Pang and the professor.
"Gul, Anderson, Chris, go to that water source and dive in to have a look. Is that okay?"
"Joy, you come with me!"
Joey knew that Annie was preparing for a showdown with him.
After arranging everything, set off for action.
Joey walked in front, and neither of them spoke.
Today, Annie wore a smart tight leather jacket that outlined her perfect waistline.
The silent atmosphere lasted for a long time. It wasn't until the two of them entered the dense forest that Annie spoke leisurely:
"I underestimated you"
The sun shines through the gaps between the lush branches of the trees, and a ray of light hits Annie's fiery red hair. If I hadn't seen her teach Chris a lesson.
Who would have thought that such a beautiful woman could get angry and take off someone's arms even if she disagreed with her.
"Are these important?" Looking at the distance between the two, they were almost touching each other, and he could even see Annie's blinking eyelashes.
Joey said in his heart that he couldn't bear it: Witch, don't even think about breaking my Taoist heart.
Amber eyes stared directly at Joey, and her tone suddenly turned cold: "Who are you?"
Joey curled his lips and almost blurted out a sentence: I am my different fireworks.
Fortunately, he finally held back, shrugged, and said: "Joy Creevey, lives in Port Leah, and is a recent graduate of Hawkins University. He is 23 years old, male, and likes women! His favorite food is... . . ”
"Shut up" Anne Block's face showed anger for the first time.
"You know, that's not what I want to ask."
A fragrant smell suddenly broke into his breath, and the source of that smell was none other than Annie. He pretended to be nonchalant and took two steps to the side.
Looking at Annie with a serious face, the evil smile flashed from the corner of her mouth, she said softly, "Oh", and suddenly realized: "I am your mascot!"
Annie was annoyed by Joey's rogue behavior and decided to teach him a lesson first.
She raised her head, plucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear, and said proudly: "I am an extraordinary person."
Joey was not surprised by this.
"What a coincidence, so am I."
Instead, it was Joey's frankness that made Annie unable to react for a moment.
After being stunned for about ten seconds, he said: "Sure enough."
He looked at Joey up and down with a scrutinizing gaze, then suddenly took action, turned over, and swept Joey's lower body with a whip leg.
This was completely a tentative attack, and Annie didn't expect it to hit. Unexpectedly, the blow landed firmly on Joey, causing him to stumble and fall.
"Ouch!" The burning pain coming from his calf brought him back to reality: this bitch is really going to kill me.
"Huh?" Annie looked at Joey suspiciously and whispered, "What's wrong with you? You can't avoid it?"
After about ten seconds of relief, Joey opened his trousers and looked at his left leg, which had a small bruise on it, feeling depressed.
Careless! He was secretly angry. At the same time, he also confirmed one thing. Anne did not speak. She was indeed a transcendent person. At the moment when he took action, he felt a slight fluctuation of spiritual factors in the air.
The reason why he didn't run away was entirely because he didn't feel any hostility.
Lucky Master's spiritual induction gave him a strong sense of perception. Even if he was chatting and joking with Anne on the surface, he would feel even a hint of hostility.
He would take action without hesitation, but the bad thing was that from beginning to end, Anne only wanted to test and showed no hostility at all.
"Your ability is not combat-based?" Annie asked.
"You are not talking nonsense"
In Lasvegard, one of the paths to transcendence controlled by the kingdom is the fighter.
If my guess is correct, Annie should be the transcendent of this path, but I don't know what sequence it is.
From the sequence name, you can judge the general ability of this sequence, which is a proper combat system.
"I'm a fighter, what are you?"
really! A hint of that was indeed the case flashed through Joey's eyes.
After two seconds of silence, he said: "Lucky Master"
There is nothing to hide. In addition to the orthodox sequences mastered by the Church of the Seven Gods, there are also many weird extraordinary sequences.
"I haven't heard of it, but this should be a very interesting sequence." Annie tilted her head and thought carefully, making sure that she did not have the corresponding information in her memory.
Not asking about each other's abilities is a tacit understanding between extraordinary people.
The two of them explored the depths of the jungle along the bushes.
If you think about it from another perspective, it feels pretty good to go on an adventure with a beautiful woman.
"Joy, why did you become an extraordinary person?" Annie, who was walking in front, suddenly asked.
Joey thought for a while, then spoke two words from between his teeth seriously: "Self-protection."
The shrubs grew luxuriantly, and their huge leaves blocked large areas of sunlight, leaving only a few lines of golden light coming through the gaps.
This reminded him of the dark Senegal, Tony's father, and captain Vader. The one they were fighting for was the sun. If he could choose, he didn't want to become a transcendent.
"Self-protection?" Annie's surprised voice sounded: "You are quite strange. You talk as if you will die if you don't become a transcendent."
After the Seven Gods established the Holy Temple, there has never been a major battle in this continent. In other words, everyone is very satisfied with a stable life, and would rather live an ordinary life than an extraordinary person who can lose control at any time.
Although the people at the bottom live in hardship, they are better off in stability.
Joey didn't want to continue this topic, and then asked: "What about you, why did you become a transcendent?"
Annie gave a very surprising answer to Joey. She turned around, her beautiful eyes curved into two crescent moons, and replied with a smile: "It's fun."
It is possible to lose control and turn into a mythical creature at any time. Do you think it’s fun? He looked at her speechlessly: "I'm sick."
"Thank you for the compliment"
"This is not a compliment." Joey was already wondering whether Annie's spirit had been contaminated by the potion.
"You know, actually before March, I was just an ordinary person."
Anne Bullock, a rich young lady born with a silver spoon in her mouth, is her mother's good daughter, her father's pride, and an existence that the upper class of Faerûn looks up to, except herself.
No one asked her what she liked, no one cared what she thought.
Her role is only as a carefully crafted work that can be used by parents, an item that can be used by parents to show off in the upper class.
As her mind matured, the rebellious factor gradually grew. Finally, by an accident, she came into contact with an extraordinary object and entered the dreamland due to the curse.
"Can you imagine the expressions on my parents' faces after they found out that I was tainted by the curse? They looked at me like a wild dog begging on the street. The young lady of the Bullock family suddenly fell ill without my knowledge. died"
Joy caught an emotion of heartbreak on her face.
"I don't even know, I'm dead"
"Don't you look sad?"
She turned around suddenly and glared at Joey with her amber eyes: "Why are you sad? I am so happy. After leaving Faerun, I feel like I am a living person."
"I don't have to pretend in front of a group of flattering people. I can scold and beat those I hate without any scruples. This feels wonderful."
Joey disagreed. This was a typical example of a young lady who didn't know how to make money.
While enjoying the halo of the Bullock family, they are not willing to pay the corresponding price.
"Doing whatever you want is based on the surname Bullock and financial status. Without this identity, you are nothing."
She glared at Joey and said, "You are so disappointing."
"That's all I am." He spread his hands and shrugged, silently complaining: What's most annoying about you is that you act like you and stand up at the same time.
"Tell me, what's your real purpose in coming to this island? Don't talk about curses. The curses in the dreamland are nothing to extraordinary people!" Joey said.
Although this is just a guess, Joey feels that it is very close.
The real function of the dreamland should be to stimulate some kind of power, that is, to strengthen the spiritual bodies of ordinary people and become extraordinary ones.
Annie's eyes suddenly opened wide and she looked at Joey with a smile: "You even know this"
"Do you think everyone is Chris's brain and just a decoration?"
Annie did not answer the question. She slowly took two steps forward with her hands behind her back and said, "You will know later. The most important thing now is to find something first."
Everyone has secrets. A trace of unknown darkness flashed in Joey's eyes and he did not continue to ask.
In fact, there was something that Joey did not tell Annie. The dreamland involved not one god, but two, or even multiple gods.
He didn't plan to make any of this public until he found out Anne's true purpose. His intuition told him that more unexpected things might happen after this operation of nine people.
At first Joey thought Annie was searching aimlessly, but gradually he discovered that this was not the case.
Every once in a while, she would change direction.
His intuition told him that the map Anne had previously disclosed might be a fake, and she still had a copy in her hand.
Finally, when Annie suddenly changed directions for the countless times, Joey said:
"Should we go back?"
At this time, the two of them were covered in sweat due to the heat, and the water they had brought with them was almost exhausted.
Anne took out the sketch from her arms. It was full of red circles. She looked at it for a while and drew a cross on one of the circles.
"Let's go back"
The time was short, but Joey still saw clearly that the picture on the sketch was indeed another map.
When the two returned to the camp, they smelled the aroma of food from a distance.
Joey from far away yelled at the top of his lungs: "Mi Pang, what have you prepared for tonight? It smells good."
Mi Pang said: "Everyone is in for a treat tonight."
Joey leaned over and saw clearly that it was a strange fish half as tall as a man, with a dark green color on its body.
The expression on his face was frozen in place for a moment.
A large barbecue grill was set up on the sandy ground of the camp. The fish was tied to an iron rod with wires. The charcoal fire was sizzling, and an alluring fragrance filled the air.
He asked with a trembling voice: "Where did this thing come from?"
Mi Pang turned the grill and pointed behind him without raising his head.
Chris stood on the deck of the sailboat, enjoying the sea breeze comfortably.
Anderson and a group of people gathered there, not knowing what to say, and seemed to be having a great time chatting.
"Back!" Chris waved his hand to wave Joey over: "Joy, you don't know, that pool is full of big fish like this."
"This thing is too big. Anderson and I spent a lot of effort to get one back."
"I've been sailing on the sea for more than ten years, and this is the first time I've seen this," Gur said with excitement on his face.
Professor Remo said: "Even if the food stored on the ship is used up, we don't have to worry about food."
Seeing everyone's excitement, Joey turned his head and took a closer look at the fish. The permeating fragrance made him swallow and spit, and asked tentatively: "You haven't eaten it?"
Annie looked at Joey suspiciously and said teasingly: "Look at you, you look like you haven't eaten anything good."
They didn't realize the seriousness of the matter at all, they simply thought Joey was greedy.
Ignoring Annie's teasing, he asked again: "You haven't eaten, have you?"
"Have you ever seen this kind of fish?" Margaret asked with her big watery eyes.
At this time, everyone also noticed Joey's serious expression.
The atmosphere fell into a brief subtle atmosphere.
There was only the burning sound of the charcoal fire.
At this time, Mi Pang said with a smile: "Come on, it's almost done."
While he was talking, he used a knife to cut off a piece of meat and pretended to put it into his mouth.
"Don't eat it!" The expression on Joey's face suddenly became frightened, and his eyes widened.
He rushed too fast, failed to stop the car, and collided with Mi Pang. His momentum continued and the barbecue grill was knocked to the ground.
Bang bang!
"What are you doing?" Mi Pang complained angrily.
"Spit it out." He pinched Mi Pang's neck. In the eyes of others, it was Joey who suddenly went crazy and looked like he was going to strangle Mi Pang to death.
"Pull him away quickly," Anne shouted solemnly.
For a moment, the scene became very chaotic.
In the end, Anderson and Gur took a lot of effort to pull Joey away from Mi Pang.
As a chef, the worst thing you can do is to see your food being spoiled.
The fish now lay alone on the fire in the sand, burnt.
He roared angrily: "You'd better give me a reasonable explanation."
Looking at Mi Pang's swallowing movements, Joey knew that it was too late.
"Hey" he took a deep breath, looked at the two people holding him on the left and the right and said, "let me go."
Anderson said: "Don't go crazy, what's wrong with you?"
"Do you know that it took us five or six hours to fight back this fish?" Gur let go of his hand with an ugly expression.
"You really want to know?" He looked around at everyone with strange eyes.
No one responded. He thought for a moment and said, "It's okay if you want to know, but there is a condition."
"Say" Anne said one word indifferently.
He pointed at Mi Pang and said, "Fat man, go back to the ship. You'd better not hear about this."
"That's not okay, I have to listen. Who told you to destroy my fish?" When Mi Pang heard this, he immediately became unhappy.
"Annie, I'm doing this for everyone's benefit. I really can't let Mi Fat know."
"We are a team. I don't think there is anything to hide from everyone. Just tell me."
Because of Joey's sudden and crazy behavior before, his trust score has dropped to freezing point.
"Okay, I told you not to blame me."
"Mi Pang, how does that piece of meat taste?"
Mi Pang seemed to still be reminiscing about it. He smacked his mouth and said with an endless aftertaste: "This is the most delicious thing I have ever eaten."
"Delicious! Ha" Joey sneered with a cold face: "If you know what that thing is, I hope you will keep this expression."
"Fat man, I haven't eaten anything, who are you trying to scare?"
"Man, have you eaten it?"
