Chapter 24

Time flies, and it is night.

Without the obstruction of dark clouds, the moon was hanging high in the sky, and even without turning on the lights, the scenery under the moon was clearly visible.

Under the cover of night, the sturdy adult men of the Kuli tribe each held a huge rock and did squats in front of the campfire with ferocious expressions, competing with each other and no one was willing to admit defeat.

The Kuli people who were watching the performance kept cheering, clapping and laughing.

More and more young people joined in, and the scene became very lively.

Not to mention their inherent desire to win, the young girls of the Kuli tribe are also one of the spectators. Their vision is even more discerning. If they think the level of the people on the stage is too low, they will even go on stage themselves to show what real strength is.

The tribes living in the jungle value strength and only care about strength.

On one side, delicious dishes were served on the long table. The Kuli people who were in charge of organizing the banquet had smiles on their faces. Both the elderly and children tried their best to contribute to the banquet.

Some of them took out the fine wine they had been brewing for a long time, some went into the water to catch a few live fish, and some scratched their heads and could not think of any ideas, so they ran to ask the chieftain if they could perform a chest-breaking stone trick on the spot.

Patriarch: “…”

The clan leader: "As long as you are happy."

The person who was going to perform the stone-breaking-with-chest act immediately started to prepare happily.

Yilu, who was standing by, couldn't help but hold his forehead: "They really are..."

The tribe leader smiled and shook his head: "After all, from now on, we no longer have to worry about the threat from the dragon. Although the matter is not completely over, they should be happy."

From now on, no member of the tribe will die of exhaustion while trying to lure a dragon out of their home.

Of course there is another reason, which is that the Kuli people value the use of force, so generally... their brains are not very good.

"Speaking of which, where is the Suexingyuan Hunter?"

The patriarch asked.

After all, a large part of this banquet was prepared for him.

Yilu looked around, a bit confused. "After the tribe's pharmacist treated his wounds, he said he wanted to walk around the village, and then he disappeared. I thought he would be back soon."

Just then, she saw Ariel passing by with a strange look on his face.

"Ariel!" She waved at Ariel: "Do you know where the Xingyuan Hunter is?"

Hearing this, Ariel's expression became even weirder.

"...I know." He glanced at Yilu and the tribe leader and said, "Do you have anything to do with him? Come with me."

Ilu and the chief looked at each other. Seeing the child's strange behavior, they became a little nervous and followed Ariel in a certain direction.

After reaching the destination, Yilu: "..."

Yilu's voice trembled a little: "...Am I dazzled?"

What is he doing?

In the fence used by the Kuli people to keep the long-eared beasts, a foreign hunter, who had just walked out of the clinic after recovering from a series of minor injuries after an arduous and protracted battle in the afternoon, was seen fishing for a huge carrot with his magical fishing rod, while he was being chased around in circles by the long-eared beast.

There were many long-eared beasts, but there was only one giant carrot, not to mention that guy had also learned the fishing rod kite technique. As they were unable to get what they wanted, all the long-eared beasts in the fence went crazy.

Ilu... It was the first time that Ilu saw the usually docile long-eared beasts stomping the ground so loudly that it made a deafening sound.

She looked to the side tremblingly and found that even the tribe leader who had remained calm when the dragon died was stunned.

Ariel, who was still very young, had already experienced a depth that was not in line with his age. He sighed and said solemnly:

"He had been playing here for almost an hour before you guys came."

Yilu: “…”

Her heart was trembling.

What about the calm, powerful, crazy and indestructible young hunter she idolized?

Anyway, it definitely won't be the one in front of me!

There are so many people with the same name, she really shouldn't make a fuss. Ilu smiled at Ariel:

"Obviously, you got the wrong person."

Ariel: “?”

Are you okay?

At this moment, there was a loud noise from the fence, and the strong and thin figure jumped high into the air, then arched his body and fell down in the air under the full moon, with his black hair flying, forming a neat and perfect arc, which was so beautiful that it was breathtaking.

——As long as he ignored the long-eared beasts that were colliding with each other just below him in a fight to grab the carrot.

The long-eared beasts were knocked around and staggered, and the culprit floated down from the air and sat cross-legged on the top of one of the furry beasts. He propped up his chin with one hand and swung the fishing rod with the other, and said with a smile:

"Poor thing, he was knocked unconscious."

"..."Who should be blamed for this? !

"Um?"

As if he noticed the inner thoughts of the people watching nearby, the black-haired boy glanced over. His slightly upturned cat-like eyes were like a green gem, which looked even more mysterious and magnificent under the moonlight, making the boy look like a forest elf who could see through people's hearts.

However, the bandages and patches on his body clearly indicated that he was a troublesome patient who had just gotten into trouble in the afternoon and was running around at night.

"Good evening, Suexingyuan Hunter."

The clan leader gritted his teeth and greeted Su Xingyuan.

In just a blink of an eye, a breeze blew by, and the black-haired boy who was originally sitting on the long-eared beast's head came in front of him, and the fishing rod in his hand disappeared, as if nothing had happened just now.

He smiled with his eyes curved, revealing his sharp canine teeth, looking cheerful and innocent: "Are you guys coming to take a walk and exercise as well?"

Yilu was silent for a moment, and the scene just now flashed back in his mind uncontrollably.

Running wildly in the fenced area where the long-eared beasts are kept...how can this not be considered a walk?

They are narrow-minded.

Perhaps this is the special training method of the Suxinyuan hunters.

"The clan leader wants to ask when Brother Su Xingyuan will attend the banquet." Ariel answered quickly, then puffed up his cheeks and said:

"You're so badly injured, why are you still running around? You came out of the doctor's office four hours ago, wandered around the herb garden for forty minutes, then watched ants swimming for half an hour, then ran to Uncle Kunjia's yard and stepped on moles for an hour, and then rummaged through all the boxes you could—"

The child raised his head as he spoke.

He found that the black-haired boy was looking at him with a smile that saved all living beings.

Ariel: "..."

Ariel's eyelids twitched, and his alarm bells rang immediately. His face tensed up, and he said nervously, "You, you want to fight!"

Su Xingyuan instantly restrained his expression and said steadily: "I am a serious person. I never fight with children."

"...Really?" Ariel looked at him suspiciously: "You are the best at lying. I don't believe it."

Su Xingyuan blinked in surprise: "Huh, has he become smarter?"

He held down Ariel, who almost jumped up when he heard this, patted his head, turned to Yilu and said, "If the banquet is about to start, let's go over now."

Yilu sighed helplessly, but couldn't help laughing and said, "Okay, Xingyuan Hunter."

Despite being in reliable combat condition... he's surprisingly childish.

…

Su Xingyuan just walked through the banquet and left. Before leaving, Ariel noticed his movements and tugged at his earlobe uneasily.

Su Xingyuan curved his eyes at him and gave him a soothing smile.

The child's mood gradually stabilized.

Su Xingyuan then quietly came to the small pond behind the village. It was some distance away from the banquet and he could hear some sounds, but it was like there was a layer of gauze between them and all he could feel was tranquility.

He opened the game panel.

[Your battle rewards have been settled]

Congratulations on your amazing achievement! 】

[Congratulations on getting EXP*10000, Gold*1500]

[You have been upgraded!]

[You have been upgraded!]

[Your current level is: lv.24]

[You have received an additional reward: [Dragon tendon headband·Fake]*1]

[Name: Dragon tendon headband·Fake]

[Description: After equipping, it will increase one layer of defense and physical strength, and the damage tolerance is 100]

Su Xing originally thought that 10,000 experience points was ok. After all, he had killed a dragon by force, so giving him more experience points would not be excessive. Until he looked down and saw "Damage Tolerance 100".

——Doesn't this mean that he has 100 more stamina points?

The game is so generous this time.

Su Xingyuan took off the [Simple Velvet Headband] and clicked to replace it with the [Dragon Tendon Headband].

[Congratulations on winning the title: Legendary Fisherman]

[When you wear this title, your chances of catching rare items will increase]

Not surprisingly, he earned a title related to fishing.

It seems that every time a player makes a major achievement, the game will award him a corresponding title based on the situation.

The title needs to be worn to work, and only one title can be worn at a time. He cannot use [Legendary Fisherman] for the time being. Currently, the combo of [Flesh and Blood Sage], [Starry Sky] and the title [Desperate Speculator] brings the greatest benefits.

As long as the enemy's attributes are not much higher than his, he can basically take them down with one set of moves. His main feature is the extreme burst.

But now, he obviously still needs to do one more thing, which is to reset.

Game values ​​​​can be unbalanced, but not too unbalanced. In order to have enough strength to fight against the dragon, he had added all his free attribute points to strength, resulting in his current strength value being far ahead of other attributes.

[Do you want to spend gold coins to reset your points? 】

[Note: One free attribute point costs 2 gold coins]

Su Xingyuan clicked "Yes" and redistributed the strength attribute points by 40 points.

Adding the attribute points gained from leveling up, he now has a total of 60 free attribute points.

Su Xingyuan invested 20 points in [Intelligence], [Agility] and [Defense] respectively. After all, the use of Man Tianxing skills also consumes a lot of intelligence.

His personal dashboard is now:

【Nickname: Su Xingyuan】

【Level: lv.24】

【Physical Strength: 43.7 (+101)】

[Intelligence: 47]

[Strength: 72 (+7)]

[Agility: 63 (+2)]

[Defense: 44 (+2)]

[Title: Legendary Fisherman; What's wrong with you if you survive for more than three seconds; Desperate Speculator]

【Occupation: None】

[Skills: Reader, Investigation, Starry Sky, Flesh and Blood Sage]

[Equipment: Ding Fengbo; shoes with small pulleys on the bottom; wooden armor; dragon tendon headband]

In addition, when he reached level 20, he unlocked a new section, [Home].

At the same time, he has also met the conditions for activating life skills - for example, "fishing" is one of the life skills he has already activated.

He turned off the screen and heard footsteps behind him.

Just by hearing the footsteps, he could guess who was coming.

The chief of the Kuli tribe had left the banquet at some point, walked slowly to his side and sat down.

Su Xingyuan picked up a small stone and threw it into the pond, causing ripples on the water surface.

He smiled and said, "What a coincidence, you are here to sunbathe the moon too?"

The patriarch choked on what he was about to say.

Su Xingyuan seemed not to notice his actions and continued to talk to himself:

"It can trigger a beast tide, and it also knows how to kill people with borrowed weapons, using dragons as part of its attack... Lord Patriarch, what do you think is behind all this?"

He lightly dropped the second stone into the lake.

I don't know when the surroundings gradually became quiet. There was only a breeze blowing, and the leaves swayed gently, making a slight rustling sound.

The chief sighed tiredly and raised his hand, as if he wanted to rub his temples: "I was also thinking about it, I want to target our tribe..."

The black-haired boy took out his fishing rod and started fishing.

"What on earth is this——!"

“Clang!!”

Mars splashes in four directions!

The black-haired boy was still looking at the lake reflecting the full moon, but his right hand holding the fishing rod suddenly moved to the right, blocking the hidden sword in the tribe leader's hand without any deviation!

【Features: Tough】

He had a smile on his lips and tilted his head slightly, his words still calm and relaxed, as if what was happening at the moment was not an assassination at all, but a normal and friendly conversation.

"What are you doing, Patriarch?"

His hand was so steady that he even gave in to resistance as he slowly moved the hidden blade a little towards the clan leader.

The black-haired boy sighed with regret: "It's a rare experience to play against someone in a game. I really tried very hard to cooperate with you."

"…When did you discover it?"

At this moment, the "patriarch" finally took off the mask of respectability, kindness and tolerance. His whole face began to distort and his voice became sharp and hoarse. It was not an expression or a sound that a human could make.

Su Xingyuan: "To be honest, I was just guessing until..."

He raised his eyes, and the bright red streak of blood on the "patriarch"'s head was clearly reflected in his green irises.

He suddenly chuckled, changed the subject, and said without any context:

"Do you know what's seven inches below the health bar?"

Before he finished speaking, the fishing rod disappeared from his hand in an instant. At a speed that no one could react to, it was seamlessly replaced by a sharp knife.

A murderous knife.

"Squeak."

The sound of a sharp weapon entering flesh rang out.

The moonlight poured down quietly, and one of the figures projected on the ground suddenly had its head torn apart.

Warm blood spurted out like a fountain, and scattered in the air like beads with broken strings. Behind the bright red was the black-haired boy's clean smile without any hostility.

“——It’s the head.”

Seven inches below the health bar is the enemy's head.

The "chief" in front of him had completely lost his head. His brain rolled to the side with a gurgling sound, lifeless, and his neck was torn apart by a sharp claw.

Immediately afterwards, a humanoid monster with smooth skin and covered in blood and flesh drilled out of the skin belonging to the Kuli people directly from the gap.

The monster was only the size of a child, with long limbs, purple skin, and a disgustingly smooth surface covered with constantly sliding pieces of flesh and blood. In almost the blink of an eye, the fresh liquid formed a stream on the ground.

[Monster Name: Skin Thief]

[HP: 100/100]

New lines finally appeared in Su Xingyuan's mission log.

【→Fight the last wave of beasts】

【3/3】

Instead of attacking the Pleiades Protoss, it suddenly retreated at an extremely fast speed, and then made a scream that almost shattered the eardrums!

In a flash, the sound of dense footsteps came from the banquet area!

The monster laughed shrilly, "You can't set traps now. You can deal with me alone, but can you deal with a group of us?!"

Hearing this, Su Xingyuan blinked: "Who told you that I need to use traps to deal with you?"

"in addition……"

The black-haired boy tilted his head slightly and said slowly, "Do you really think that the one-to-many person will be me?"

Passing through the trees that blocked their view, the owner of the footsteps finally appeared in their sight.

——Those were the Kuli people, each holding their own weapons, standing in battle formation. Their weapons were not pointed at Suxingyuan, but at the monsters covered in blood and with torn human skin.

Ariel, who was standing at the front, stared at the skin stealer with fierce eyes, and the muscles all over his body were tense, as if he could instantly pounce at the speed of a cheetah with just a word from Xue Xingyuan, and pierce his spear into the monster's heart!

"How could this happen..." The skin thief looked at the Kuli people and murmured in disbelief: "Where are my children? Where are my children?! Why——"

"You put on the skin of the Kuli people, and while you gain strength, you can't resist everything that enters through this skin, right?"

Su Xingyuan stood up and walked towards it step by step:

"So a small dose of drugs is all it takes to take them down."

The black-haired boy walked up to it and stretched out his left hand.

At this moment, a bottle of powdered medicine was lying quietly in his palm.

[Life Skills: Medicine Making (lv.2)]

"You didn't really think I spent forty minutes wandering around the herb garden doing nothing?"

The player said, "Honestly, what's so fun about the herb garden? I'd rather spend more time playing with the giant rabbits."

“You, you…! Su Xingyuan… Su Xingyuan!!”

The skin thief was furious. All his planning and infiltration were in vain because of this stranger who suddenly appeared!

When it noticed that he was different from others, it had already successfully given him mental suggestion, even though he clearly didn't feel the slightest bit of something was wrong!

Friendly, gentle, close relationships... It acted according to the way the patriarch remembered, and there was nothing wrong at all. What went wrong? !

It was almost there, and it and its children would be able to live in the skins of these Kuli people, just a little bit——!!

"Stand back."

The black-haired boy suddenly spoke calmly. Even though he was locked in deep hatred, there was no unnecessary emotion in his emerald eyes.

Ariel immediately realized that he was being talked about and stepped back obediently.

"——Kill you!!!"

As expected, the person the skin thief hated the most was Su Xingyuan, and the person he finally pounced on with all his might was Ariel, the only child here!

It inherited all the memories of a shrewd old man, and it knew best what to do if it wanted to take the most severe revenge on someone.

Ariel's pupils shrank. The skin thief could be easily killed, but its speed was too fast, so fast that people could not react. He subconsciously tightened the spear in his hand, but he could not keep up with the preset speed in his mind. He could only watch helplessly as the sharp claws stabbed into his chest before he could use the spear.

The body was suddenly pulled slightly backwards.

A familiar hand was placed at his waist, while the other hand, together with him, grasped the spear and wrapped around the back of his hand. The palm was dry yet warm, and the strength was strong.

Ariel's eyes suddenly widened.

Then suddenly there was a dazzling burst of light!

——He and the man with clean breath behind him swung the spear that shone like a silver gun!

——And the skin thief’s body was completely impaled on the spear.