"Is this a pack animal?" Guan Liyuan exclaimed as he looked at the creature in front of him.
In fact, Guan Liyuan had seen illustrations in textbooks, but this was the first time he saw a real thing.
Not to mention Guan Liyuan, who had little education, even Zhong Liqiu and Wei Yingying had seen a live pack animal for the first time...
It was about the size of a water buffalo, with a head and body like a turtle without a shell, and four short and sturdy legs.
"Don't look at the pack animal's soft back, but its load-bearing capacity is extremely strong. It can bear more than ten times its body weight. After wearing iron armor, it is also enough to entrust a team with supplies." Han Mengli patted the pack animal and introduced it. Guan Liyuan
also made preparations in advance. He had read the introduction of the pack animal in the book...
In addition to its amazing load-bearing capacity, more importantly, the pack animal has a docile personality... or stupid!
If it is not driven away, even if it encounters an abyss creature, it will not run away.
Moreover, pack animals are species that were born after the appearance of abyssal creatures. They are neither native creatures of this plane nor abyssal creatures. It is speculated that they are some kind of hybrid species...
This is also the reason why Wei Yingying and Zhongli Qiu have never seen pack animals. Pack animals suspected to have the blood of abyssal creatures are notoriously docile, but they are also prohibited from entering the city.
It is precisely because of the abyssal blood that after encountering abyssal creatures, the first target of the opponent's attack must be professionals. Moreover, pack animals are covered with thickened iron armor covering their entire bodies. In the case of not dealing with professionals, it is difficult for abyssal creatures to kill pack animals first.
Therefore, pack animals have always been responsible for "heavy" tasks in the team of primary professionals!
"But what if we encounter abyssal creatures at the commander level or higher? If pack animals are involved in the aftermath of the battle, there is a possibility of casualties, right?" Guan Liyuan asked in confusion.
After that, Zhongli Qiu and Wei Yingying looked at him with helpless eyes, while Teacher Han Mengli turned her head away very considerately, pretending not to hear.
Seeing everyone's reaction, Guan Liyuan knew that he had asked another stupid question!
"Liyuan, after a professional advances to the intermediate level, the intermediate professional runes can generate a storage space. As long as there are teams with intermediate-level professionals or above, there is no need to bring pack animals..." Wei Yingying explained.
This is the first time Guan Liyuan has heard of such a thing!
After all, the instruction manual for new professionals will not mention such common sense content...
"Huh? What if a beginner professional encounters a commander-level abyss creature?" Guan Liyuan asked, changing the subject.
"Then you should worry about your own life first..." Qiu's answer was straightforward.
"..." What he said made a lot of sense, and Guan Liyuan was speechless.
Indeed, if this situation really happened, a team composed of all beginner professionals encountered a commander-level abyss creature, and they would be lucky to save their lives!
However, the probability of this is not very high. Unless the team of beginner professionals leaves the suburban area, within the 300-mile radius of the city, only the strength of the Abyss Servants will not be affected. The strength of the Abyss Elite Soldiers will be discounted, and the Abyss Commander will be obviously suppressed...
Therefore, for the Abyss Commander, entering the suburbs is also a dangerous thing. If you encounter a mid-level professional, you will die miserably, so you usually don't do it.
Of course, even an Abyss Commander whose strength is suppressed is stronger than an Abyss Elite Soldiers.
"What Zhongli said is right. Later I will also teach you how to identify the clues of unexpected situations... For example, the appearance of Commander-level Abyss creatures in the suburban area!" Han Mengli said.
"Huh? Can you really encounter Commander-level Abyss creatures in the suburbs?" Guan Liyuan said in surprise.
Aren't the beginner professionals too high-risk?
"Pay attention, I said 'unexpected situation'. Usually there won't be any commander-level creatures, but you must be careful in the wild! Accidents don't necessarily not happen..."
As a mentor, Han Mengli was much more friendly than Liu Qing. Later, at the supply point for this professional, she also explained to Guan Liyuan and others a lot of knowledge that was not in the books, such as how to identify unscrupulous vendors and what kind of dried meat is not easy to eat...
Every time she talked about these, Han Mengli, who had been a mentor for a short time, would show a little excitement and pride on her face, but she often ended up with a gloomy look.
Guan Liyuan speculated that Han Mengli probably experienced some heavy blows, so she retreated to the second line.
But no matter who it was, no one would be stupid enough to ask at this time...
After leaving the supply point, Han Mengli also gathered her mood and officially led everyone to "wander" in the wild.
The route was set by Han Mengli before, and they would pass through two hidden supply points in the wild in two days.
Unlike the supply point at the edge of the city, the other two supply points are in dangerous areas...
"These hidden supply points in the suburbs are okay. In the future, you will see that in truly dangerous places, there will also be secret supply points in the mountains and underground. Remember the first thing to do when entering an unfamiliar supply point is to find out all the safe exits there. Once you are attacked by the abyss creatures in an organized manner and the evacuation alarm sounds, immediately evacuate from the exit with the least abyss creatures and abandon the supply point."
Han Mengli patiently instilled her years of experience to Guan Liyuan and the other two.
Guan Liyuan and the other two did not notice that Han Mengli paused slightly, and then began to observe them with her peripheral vision...
Not long after, when they passed by a short tree that was half a person tall, the branches of the short tree suddenly shook, and a "monkey" with long arms and legs, four limbs of the body as thick as a stick, and about one person tall, rushed out of the tree canopy at a very fast speed and grabbed Zhong Liqiu!
Because the tree was not big, none of Guan Liyuan and the other two thought that there would be such a skinny "monkey" hiding on it...
This "monkey"-like creature was fast, but it was still far behind Dongfang Ying. It just appeared too suddenly, which really scared the three of them!
"Ah!"
But in the next moment, the "monkey" twisted its neck to a weird angle and flew back in Zhongli Qiu's exclamation, hitting the tree trunk heavily...
Well, its IQ obviously thought that Zhongli Qiu, the smallest one, was the easiest to deal with among the four. But when its face with human features that looked like a ferocious expression came into Zhongli Qiu's sight, Zhongli Qiu instinctively knocked it away!
At this time, it can be seen that Zhongli Qiu's right hand, which hit the other party's face, revealed the appearance of "Sacred Tiger Transformation"...
"Is it... a human-faced monkey? It looks as disgusting as the legend!" Zhongli Qiu said with a grin.
"Student Zhongli has been able to partially transform into a beast? Yes, this will indeed make it much faster to respond, but I am not very satisfied with your performance just now. Didn't I tell you before that you must pay attention to your surroundings in real time after entering the wild, and be especially careful and observe carefully any place where abyssal creatures are hiding from sight?" Han Mengli's tone became serious.
"Sorry, Teacher Han, we will definitely pay attention next time!" Guan Liyuan and the other two said embarrassedly.
The other reason why the three of them didn't find the human-faced monkey just now was because they were mostly focused on Han Mengli's explanation, but they forgot that Han Mengli had said long ago that she would not take action or give warnings unless it was a life-and-death situation...
"Well, it's good that you understand. You don't need to apologize to me. This is related to your own safety in the future! And... what are the characteristics of the human-faced monkey?"
Wei Yingying replied after hearing this: "The human-faced monkey is one of the most common servant races of the abyss. It is smarter than the ghouls and weaker than the ghouls. It will become bolder when it appears in groups. When it appears alone, it is good at sneak attacks and is timid. When it is blocked, it will pretend to be dead and escape... Ah! Pretend to be dead!"
At this point, the three of them immediately looked in the direction of the human-faced monkey, and it was indeed empty.
"..."
The three of them could not help but be silent.
There are indeed objective reasons, such as the three of them just attracted their attention to Teacher Han again, and the human-faced monkey is indeed good at pretending to be dead and escaping, and it didn't make any sound...
Needless to say, Teacher Han must have done it on purpose again, but the lessons of these two times are indeed very profound, much more important than escaping a human-faced monkey!
This also laid a good tradition for Guan Liyuan's team to be cautious and always make up for the loss...