Chapter 14: Moon Poison
Beichen also survived the second star disaster that occurred when he came to this world safely and smoothly.
With the experience from the previous time and Xiang Ying's promotion, this time was obviously not as tiring as the last time. However, the ones who killed the Disaster Emperor this time were unexpectedly Ling Shuang and the red-haired girl from the ninth level of the Spiritual Martial Division.
Did Ling Shuang sign a contract with her? Beichen looked over in confusion, but only received a cold, provocative look from Ling Shuang. He had advanced and was now a Five-String Yeyue Clan.
So she could only smile in boredom and swallow the question back into her stomach.
It's a pity that Gu Yinyue deliberately created the opportunity for her to advance - if Longyun and Naraka had not weakened the Disaster King's physical strength in advance, Ling Shuang might not have been able to kill the Disaster King so easily. This is the same as the situation of the previous star disaster.
After the rest period after the star disaster, Beichen picked a day to go out for fun with Pinhua, and then that night, he quietly left Wilvis Town with Xiang Ying without saying goodbye to anyone except Gu Yinyue and his party.
In fact, Gu Yinyue had suggested that she practice with them, but Beichen refused.
At the time, she said:
"Mr. Gu Yinyue, I really appreciate your respect for me, but I feel that if this continues, I will become dependent on you, which is a big taboo for the Lingwu Division, right? I hope I can rely on my own abilities and grow steadily."
After hearing this, Gu Yinyue nodded seriously and smiled at her again.
"You're right, it's my training policy that's wrong."
Beichen was dizzy again and took a step back with his eyes wandering.
"A-Anyway... Anyway! Although I'm actually looking forward to partnering with you, before that, I want to work hard to grow to the same level as you, at least to the point where I don't need you to distract me and cover for me on the battlefield."
Gu Yinyue nodded and placed his hand on Beichen's head.
"How long will it take? Will half a year be enough?"
"Uh, no, I don't know... should that be enough...?"
"With your current growth rate, it's enough. Xiaochen is a hard-working genius." Longyun said with a smile.
"Then see you in half a year."
Naraka made the decision for Beichen without authorization. Gu Yinyue also said "hmm" softly.
"We'll meet at the Red Hare Guild headquarters in the royal capital at noon on the night of the star disaster six months from now. It's settled."
Beichen nodded vigorously: "Okay, it's settled. I will definitely work hard to catch up with you, Mr. Gu Yinyue!"
"'Silver Peak' is fine."
"Uh...but..."
I always feel a huge sense of guilt when calling such a great senior so affectionately.
Gu Yinyue seemed to see her dilemma: "Let's call you that for half a year."
"……Um!!"
Finally, after exchanging a few reluctant and chaotic (??) greetings with Longyun and Naraka, Beichen parted ways with them, looking back every few steps, and embarked on a new journey.
A day later, Beichen and Xiangying had successfully arrived at the Kayana Valley.
After parting with Gu Yinyue and his party, Beichen and Xiang Ying discussed and decided on a very winding route to the capital on the map.
The levels of the Moon Messengers possessing the places they passed happened to be arranged from low to high - they planned to spend half a year walking directly from the remote Vilvis area to the capital.
“Huh…”
After climbing up a small stone hill in the valley, Beichen took a deep breath.
The terrain of this valley is very complex. On both sides of the valley are undulating stone hills. In the middle of the valley is a large river that is several dozen meters wide and does not flow too fast. The air humidity is very high. The stone hills are covered with mosses and strange low ferns (? ) plants. There are also many large and small caves on the rock walls of the stone hills. According to Xiang Ying, these are caves dug out by a large animal called the grass turtle for laying eggs - because the stone walls of the valley are much softer than other places.
Over time, those caves were connected into one within the mountain walls of the valley, but because they were too complicated, it was easy to get lost once you entered. Xiang Ying seriously dissuaded Beichen from going in to explore.
The moon messengers that roamed around this river valley were fish-shaped and crab-shaped. Because of their shells and scales, swords were hard to hurt. One or two of them was fine, but if there were three or four, Beichen would be chased and run away screaming.
Fortunately, they were quite mobile on flat ground, but not very good at climbing, especially those vertical rock walls. Even though they had so many crab-shaped legs, they always climbed up clumsily and slid down little by little. They could only look angrily and longingly (?) at Beichen who was laughing at them like a little man with great triumph on the stone hill, waving his huge claws.
In short, Beichen relied on the complex terrain and the hit-and-run rogue tactics to slowly advance in the valley. Since she had developed quite agile skills in the previous practice, she was not seriously injured. She only used up two of the large recovery spirit crystals that Pinhua sent her. The only trouble was that although she was in the valley, the closer she was to the water, the more Moon Envoys were possessed, making it impossible for Beichen to take a bath in peace. If you count it this way, she hadn't had a good bath for four days, and now the weather was so hot that she was about to stink.
In this regard, Xiang Ying's opinion is:
"Please don't worry, Master. You can't possibly have body odor. Even if it smells different from what most people consider to be 'fragrant,' it's a new smell you invented. It can't be smelly at all!"
Hearing this, Beichen not only did not feel happy, but instead felt subtly exhausted.
Fortunately, on the fifth day when she was almost going crazy about her hygiene problems, they found a deep pool extending from a small waterfall in the crevice of a small valley in the river valley. Due to the hidden location, there were no possessed moon messengers wandering around. Instead, there were wonderful and beautiful purple flowers quietly blooming by the deep pool, emitting an extremely tempting fragrance.
Beichen was almost in tears. She cheered, took off her clothes and ran towards the deep pool. Xiang Ying, who was not far away, twitched her lips, then turned around consciously and kept watch for her.
But──
“Wow!?”
Less than a minute later, Beichen's surprised cry came from the direction of the deep pool. Xiang Ying turned around and ran over - she saw Beichen's shoulder exposed above the water and...
The crab-shaped possessed Moon Envoy had eight legs and two eyes. Its Star Spirit Cannon was in the form of a bubble, firing slowly but covering a wide area. Being hit was extremely dangerous. The Star Spirit Core was located in its abdomen. In order to make himself forget what he had just seen, Xiang Ying began to silently recite the information about the possessed Moon Envoy in his mind.
"Xiang Ying, what are you looking at?! I'm talking about this side! There's someone! Someone has fallen in the bushes!"
Xiang Ying was stunned, then coughed awkwardly a few times, turned around and ran towards the flowers.
“……!”
His expression grew serious.
"Why, is that man still alive?"
"Master, he's still alive, but he's contracted the 'moon poisoning disease'...there's no hope for him."
"What is Moon Poison?"
Faced with this situation, Beichen had no intention of taking a bath. She quickly rinsed her body with the pool water, put on her clothes, climbed out of the deep pool, and squatted next to Xiang Ying and the man.
“……!!”
The person who fainted was a young man with beige hair and wheat-colored skin. Although he looked human, his neck was embedded with blue-purple crystals similar to those found on the Moon Envoy who possessed him.
“…This crystal…!”
"This is Moon Poison. He must have been seriously injured by the possessed Moon Envoy, and the Moon poison has entered his body."
"So this is how crystals grow?"
"Yes. In a little while, those crystals will drain the life force from his body, and then he will die."
Beichen frowned: "Is there any way to cure this 'moon poisoning'?"
Xiang Ying sighed and shook his head: "I'm sorry, Master, my knowledge is limited. As far as I know, it can't be cured. Those who suffer from moon poisoning can only wait for death."
Beichen looked at the injured person lying in the flowers with some apology:
"I see. ...I'm sorry, sir, I can't help you."
"No, there is a way."
"But that method is almost the same as having no solution at all."
Suddenly, two identical male voices came out from the flowers at the same time.
Beichen and Xiangying were both startled, only to find that in the distance, there were two weapons lying in the flowers. They were exactly the same, with half-arm-long claws, but one was black and the other was white.
Beichen walked over, picked them up, and brought them back to the injured person:
"Are you his weapons?"
"Yes, but he was infected with the moon poison and couldn't use us. We starved back to our original form and there was no way to find food for him. We could only lie there and wait to die."
"Ha, I've ended up like this. This deal is such a loss!"
Two voices rang out at the same time.
"... Let's not talk about this for now. Woman, do you have any food? Give some to that guy. His identity is not simple. Saving him will definitely benefit you."
Beichen and Xiangying looked at each other and then spoke.
"I will save him, but after that I hope you won't have anything to do with us anymore. In fact, I would rather save ordinary people than people with status. It will cause trouble."
"...Hey, you're quite rational?"
Black Claw sneered.
"Stop talking nonsense and save people first."
White Hooked Claw urged a little impatiently.
Beichen was a little touched that they were so concerned about their master, but Bai Gouzhua added:
"He still owes us half of the contract money. If he dies, who are we going to ask for it?"
“…”
As a result, Beichen was forced to act separately from Xiangying for the first time in this world.
She was responsible for hunting the possessed Moon Envoy with her hooked claws, while Xiang Ying was responsible for feeding the injured and caring for him. Fortunately, telepathic communication seemed to be possible within a certain range, so even if they separated, they didn't have to worry about getting separated.
She put the two claws on her hands awkwardly and waved them a few times awkwardly.
"By the way, I haven't asked your names yet. My name is Xiang Beichen, what are you guys calling me?"
"Hooked Claw, Black Disaster, Three-Eye, Brilliant Moon Seed."
"Hooked Claw, Su Jie, Three-Eye, Radiant Moon Seed."
Beichen was stunned.
"Are you twins? Do fighting weapons have twins?"
"Woman, are you alright? Aren't all the two-handed weapons in the world twins?"
Black Disaster shouted in a bit of surprise.
"……Well……"
But she had not seen any other Lingwusi using two-handed weapons in Wilvis except the red-haired girl who used a two-handed sword. She had also only seen the red-haired girl's weapon in human form once, and that was from a distance.
"Stop dawdling. If you want to chat, wait until you've fed us."
Su Jie hummed impatiently again.
Hey, hey, now you are asking me to save you──Although Beichen said this in her heart with a little dissatisfaction, she still honestly approached the nearby shallows and aimed at a large crab dangling alone.
“Yes.”
Because he had no experience in using the grappling hook, Beichen whispered a reminder with a lack of confidence.
"What nonsense! Are you still a Spiritual Martial Division member if you are so timid?!"
"inability."
As a result, the two claws rushed forward with Beichen's hands──
“Wuwaa ...
So when the lone big crab turned around, it saw a young girl with her hands stretched straight forward like a zombie, but her upper body was desperately leaning back - rushing towards it in this extremely weird and twisted posture - a drop of cold sweat appeared on the crab's head, and it swung its claw at it.
"Help! How did you guys just rush out like that?! That thing's shell is very hard, we should try to sneak attack it!"
“You’re so long-winded!!”
Heihuo roared, and swung out three parallel cold lights with Beichen's arm. With a snap, three cracks appeared on the huge shell on the crab's back, and then pieces of it fell off.
"Don't compare our hardness to your lousy longsword."
Su Jie sneered, and led Beichen to bend his left arm to block the crab's giant claw. Then he turned his wrist, hooked his claws onto a corner of the giant claw, and broke it down fiercely!
With a loud crisp sound of "snap", the huge claw was broken off!
"It hurts so much!!" Beichen unkindly recalled the scene of eating crabs in her original world, and she couldn't help but scream for the crabs.
"It hurts your sister!!"
Hei Huo slashed down with another claw, and this time, half of the crab's back was gone, and something that looked like crab roe flowed out.
"Gulp."
Beichen swallowed his saliva.
"We haven't eaten yet, why are you so greedy?"
Su Jie complained coldly, then growled, "It's about to fire the Star Spirit Cannon, kick it in the mouth!"
“Oh, oh oh!!”
Beichen didn't have time to think too much. He used Su Jie's claw to hold the crab's other front claw, and using it as a fulcrum, he kicked the crab's mouth that was spitting black bubbles.
“Ah ...
"What are you doing, stupid woman?! Are you really the Holy Spirit Wu Si?!"
Heihuo roared a little helplessly, and stabbed her arm into the crab's mouth - then Beichen gathered his right hand and right foot into one point like a gymnast.
"My waist! My waist! It's going to break! My waist is going to break! Help, Xiang Ying──"
"...What an ugly battle this is."
Su Jie started to complain heartlessly, and then added fuel to the fire by reaching out his left hand, making Beichen's posture even weirder - but he finally pried open the crab's mouth and got Beichen's foot off.
Beichen stumbled and crawled away a few meters, but was pulled back by Heihuo and Sujie. He crossed his hands and swept them quickly a few times, and finally successfully cut the big crab into a pile of crab meat paste.
"call……"
Beichen sighed in relief and sat down on the ground. As expected, partnering with other warriors made him feel uncomfortable and unable to fully utilize his skills.
"...Well, I'm finally alive again. How are you, bro?"
"Me too. That level five possessed Moon Envoy finally has some star power, bro."
I'm wondering who the older brother is. Beichen was speechless.
Just as Beichen was catching his breath, the claws on his hand left Beichen's body and turned into two rays of light, one black and one white, and turned into two young men.
The same face with evil and wildness, but Hei Huo has a wild hedgehog hair and a black tight leather jacket, as if to show off his good figure; Su Jie has short, soft hair with long bangs, and only the cold eyes can be vaguely seen under the dark brown hair. He wears a long white windbreaker with a high stand-up collar covering his cheeks, looking like a gangster boss.
Black Fire glanced at Beichen, who was sitting on the ground, with disdain: "Hurry up, little loach, we are still very hungry."
"Why are you calling me a loach?!" Aren't girls usually addressed as cute animals like kittens, bunnies, and foxes?! At the very least, "little fairy"?! Okay, she had nothing in common with little fairies.
"If it can be twisted like that without breaking any bones, what else can it be but a loach?" Su Jie smiled sarcastically with a crooked mouth.
"So you guys wanted to break my bones!!"
"No, no." Black Fate smiled evilly and waved his hand. "We're not that boring. We just like to hear the sound of bones cracking."
...That hobby is pretty boring, isn't it! And doesn't that mean you want me to break my bones?!
Beichen cursed in her heart, but she didn't dare to say it out loud - Xiangying was not around, and she was out in the wild without any weapons. She could only rely on these two perverted violent people ah ah ah ah -
"Have you rested enough? Stand up quickly, or we'll manipulate your body into a bodybuilding pose in front of your weapon."
As soon as Su Jie said this, Beichen jumped up from where he was standing, holding back his tears - this threat was too terrifying!
Helplessly putting the two people who had transformed into weapons again onto his arms, Beichen rushed towards a wandering crab in the distance with tears in his eyes.
She vaguely recalled the scene before she came to this world.
Back then, she had saved Xia Xue out of kindness, and so he had sent her to this strange world with a snap of his fingers. This time, because of her unnecessary kindness, she had become the thug and cook of two violent villains.
While beating the crab, she reflected on herself with a sad face.
From now on, you must find out the other person’s financial situation before saving them!!!
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