Chapter 8 Monkey Wine "I'll kill them!"
"three..."
"two..."
Before a single word could be uttered, the little monkey had already swooped down from the branch and landed on the shoulder of a larger, more robust monkey.
The little monkey stood up, waving its furry paws, pointed to the pottery jar in Bai Ye's arms, patted its chest, pointed to its mouth, and finally raised its little hand as if to drink.
Bai, through a combination of guesswork and deduction, finally understood what the other party meant. She lifted the lid of the earthenware jar and picked out a honey the size of a fingernail.
"Hey, you better keep your word. If you eat my honey and don't give me the monkey wine, I'll beat you up!"
The little monkey squeaked, seemingly disdainful of Bai Ye's threat. It took the honey and eagerly stuffed it into its mouth. The moment the honey entered its mouth, its bright black eyes widened instantly, and its long tail hanging behind it almost shook into a propeller.
Bai also asked with a smile, "I already said it tastes great, right? Now that the goods have been inspected, do you want to switch to monkey wine?"
"Squeak squeak squeak..." The little monkey waved to the troop, gesturing wildly. Several strong monkeys understood, leaped onto the treetops, and disappeared into the bushes.
In no time at all, the monkeys returned carrying large, oily, yellow gourds in their arms.
Bai's eyes lit up, guessing that the gourd must contain monkey wine. She followed suit, raising her hand and making a drinking motion to indicate that she also wanted to inspect the goods.
The little monkey rolled its eyes at her disdainfully, squeaked in disgust, and casually grabbed a yellow gourd and tossed it at her.
With a "snap," Bai caught the gourd, tore open the cork, and a rich aroma of wine mixed with spiritual energy burst forth.
Bai took a deep breath and felt completely refreshed! She tilted her head back and poured a large gulp of wine into her mouth.
"Gulp, gulp..."
Upon tasting the wine, the first sensation was a sweet, fruity aroma, followed by a rich, mellow wine fragrance. Bai had anticipated the surge of spiritual energy entering his body, and was prepared for the feeling of his meridians being stretched and aching. However, the moment the spiritual energy entered his body, it vanished without a trace, like a clay ox sinking into the sea.
Although somewhat puzzled, the monkey wine was so fragrant that Bai didn't care about anything else and continued to drink it in large gulps.
"Squeak squeak squeak!!!" The little monkey jumped up and down angrily, as if blaming Bai Ye for drinking too much during the inspection.
"Burp~" Bai let out a satisfied burp, a hazy look appearing in his amber eyes.
She slurred, "What... what... put it on my tab, this bottle of wine too, you stingy little monkey..."
With that, she tossed the earthenware jar to the little monkey. The little monkey caught the jar, eagerly opened the lid, reached inside with its paw, scooped out a large clump of golden honey, and stuffed it directly into its mouth.
The next second, it squinted its eyes happily, its little face filled with bliss. The surrounding monkeys, who had been drooling with envy, gathered around, their eyes fixed on the jar of honey.
Bai, his eyes blurry with drunkenness, looked at the greedy monkeys and grinned, "Give me some more of those...little fruits from earlier."
The monkeys placed the yellow gourd in front of Bai Ye and then disappeared in a flash. When they returned, they were carrying a bunch of berries.
One of the particularly delicate monkeys held a bunch of vines in its hands. It squatted on the ground and soon wove a sturdy net.
It squeaked a few times, signaling its companions to fill the gourd with fruit and wine. Once finished, the clever monkey stood up and waved to the drunken Bai Ye like a little person.
Seeing that Bai did not react, it was not annoyed. It dragged the net to Bai's front, put the huge net on Bai's back, and then quickly tied it up.
Bai squinted at the delicate and clever monkey with his drunken eyes, and chuckled foolishly: "So gentle, it must be my mother. Why don't you come back to the tribe with me?"
"Squeak squeak squeak!" Upon hearing her words, the little monkey immediately stopped eating the honey. It angrily jumped into the other monkey's arms, its little hands tightly hugging the delicate monkey's neck, as if afraid that Bai would kidnap it.
Bai nodded in sudden realization, and at the same time raised his paw to make a peace sign: "Oh, so it's your mother! Hey, I won't fight you for her!"
“I also have a mother, and I have two, more than you!” Bai Ye’s voice suddenly lowered when he said he had two.
She hadn't thought about her mother for a long time.
If she weren't drunk at that moment, even if the person opposite her was a monkey, she wouldn't have mentioned her mother, whom she would never see again.
"Squeak squeak squeak!" The little monkey felt it had lost and buried its head in the arms of the handsome little monkey in grievance.
The delicate monkey watched the two bickering cubs, its eyes shining with affection. It reached out and plucked a withered leaf from Bai Ye's forehead, then gently nudged her head, as if urging her to hurry home.
"Okay, I'm coming back now." Bai replied groggily, waved his paw at the monkey troop, and, carrying a net as tall as a small mountain on his back, swayed as he walked out of the forest.
Bai Ye, slightly tipsy, still managed to get lost even while looking at the map. Xiao Wang had already revised the navigation for her several times, but she kept wandering further and further away, and the surrounding scenery became increasingly unfamiliar.
"Ah... if we keep going like this, we'll end up in the deep mountains and forests feeding the monsters." Xiao Wang sighed in her mind. As a system, she was really worried sick.
Fortunately, after several hours, the monkey wine in Bai Ye's body was finally completely absorbed, the drunkenness in her eyes faded, and she sobered up.
"Hey? Xiao Wang, where is this? Why are you leading me into this deserted forest? This is very dangerous."
Bai looked around at the unfamiliar mountains and forests. Towering ancient trees blocked out the sun, and under his feet was a thick layer of black soil formed by the decay of fallen leaves. The air was filled with a gloomy and cold atmosphere.
Xiao Wang: ......
"What's wrong? Feeling guilty? I knew you had some kind of problem with your thinking..." Before Bai Ye could finish speaking, the tree canopy above his head suddenly shook.
A dark shadow, accompanied by a stench of blood, swooped down.
Bai also looked up at the sound, and after seeing the creature that was attacking, she quickly dodged the attack.
With a loud bang, a deep crater exploded where Bai Ye had just stood. A dark figure emerged from the bottom of the crater and chased after the fleeing white tiger cub.
【Ah, move to the left.】
Bai quickly dodged, avoiding the attack once again. The bloody wind behind her made her hair stand on end. The pressure of the fifth-tier black-scaled dragon was so real that it chilled her to the bone.
She doesn't even need to chew when eating monsters of this level; she can just crunch them down in one bite.
[Hey, get out of the way! It's coming again!]
Bai Ye's petite figure transformed into a white lightning bolt in the dense forest, leaving behind afterimages wherever she passed.
"Hiss!" The black-scaled dragon roared angrily, its head raised high, enraged by its agile prey.
Its tightly closed scales suddenly opened, and its hundred-foot-long body soared into the air, quickly flying forward, its dark shadow covering the sky above Bai Ye's head.
"Oh dear, it's going to fall ahead of you."
Bai Ye: "...I saw it!"
Why don't you get rid of that big pack on your back? Escaping is the priority!
"No!" Bai roared, his feet suddenly turning and running back.
"I am the protagonist, and protagonists never die."
[The premise of not dying is that you don't do anything stupid.]
With a loud bang, the massive body of the Black Scaled Flood Dragon crashed to the ground, causing the earth to tremble violently and the shockwaves from the explosion to scatter rotten soil.
Bai also braked suddenly, her four paws digging deep into the ground, carving out two furrows several meters long, but the momentum still carried her forward.
A stench wafted towards them, and Bai met the rapidly approaching, gaping maw of blood.
"Ah..." Xiao Wang let out a scream like a screeching chicken!
"Shut up!" Bai Ye shouted, his hind leg muscles tensed up suddenly, and he stomped his foot, creating a small mud pit in the ground.
Using the momentum, she leaped into the air, her hind claws, covered in decaying leaves and black mud, slamming hard into the black-scaled dragon's cold fangs.
A tremendous force of recoil came from beneath his feet, and Bai Ye's figure flew backward like a small cannonball, breaking tree roots and branches before disappearing from the sight of the Black Scaled Dragon.
The black-scaled dragon sensed something was wrong with the taste in its mouth. It flicked its scarlet tongue and licked the foul-smelling mud left on its fangs. It froze instantly, its cold, vertical pupils filled with disbelief.
"Ptooey... ptooey..." The black-scaled dragon shook its head frantically, spitting saliva everywhere. Its vertical pupils blazed with even more fury. This little prey was not only agile, but also incredibly filthy.
It raised its head and roared, its furious cry startling a flock of birds in the forest. Its hundred-foot-long body, like a high-speed train, rolled through the bushes and chased after them.
A loud rumble came from behind, shaking the ground. Bai glanced back as he fled, but could not see the Black Scaled Dragon; he could only see tall bushes collapsing one after another.
"Why is it chasing me? Is it because it smells the monkey wine?" Bai was also puzzled.
"It..." Xiao Wang's voice paused subtly, "...just now I licked the black dirt that you kicked onto your teeth."
"Ugh!" Bai Ye's little face scrunched up, sticking out her tongue in disgust. "How can this big black snake be so filthy?"
Despite her verbal protest, Bai increased her pace even further. She was joking; if anyone dared to feed her black mud, she'd bite them to death.
Clearly, the Black-Scaled Dragon thought the same thing; it was determined to kill that little thing.
In the dense forest, two figures, one in black and one in white, moved swiftly like lightning. Wherever the black-scaled dragon went, the grass and trees were shattered.
Bai was chased so fast that he jumped up and down, and in the blink of an eye, he had run a hundred miles.
The pack on his back grew heavier and heavier, like a mountain pressing down on his shoulders. Bai's breathing became more and more rapid, and his steps began to become erratic. "I can't go on like this, I'm going to die. Xiao Wang, is that giant snake still chasing us?"
[I'm chasing you; I'll catch up in about 500 meters.]
"Think of a way to shake it off, I can't run anymore," Bai said, panting heavily.
【Got it! Aye, run west into the mountains. There's a group fight going on there. Take the Black-Scaled Flood Dragon with you.】
Bai had already taken a step forward, but stopped when he heard that it was a group of humans fighting.
She cannot bring this monster to the human tribe; it would kill many people.
Xiao Wang noticed her thoughts and explained, "Ah Ye, don't worry, those men are beating your mother!"
"I'll kill them all!!!" Bai roared, and the tiger's speed increased even further, shooting out like an arrow released from a bow.
......
Deep in the woods, the stench of blood permeated the air.
Aunt Wu's cheeks were stained with blood, and a large gash was cut open on her arm, with the flesh turned inside out and blood gushing out, soaking her brown cloth clothes into a dark red color.
The hunting party members formed a circle, all of them wounded, their long knives stained with blood, clearly having been through a fierce battle.
Bai Shu's quiver was already empty of arrows; now only a longbow remained in his hand, the bowstring trembling slightly.
"I'm saying this for the last time!"
Outside the encirclement, a burly man with a full beard and bulging muscles stepped forward and roared at the crowd, "Hand over the golden pheasant, and you can keep a whole corpse."
Bai Shu looked up at the burly man opposite him and said in a deep voice, "You can have the prey, just let us go."
The burly man with the thick beard sneered, "A bunch of women, instead of staying home nursing their babies, they've come to these mountains and forests. Aren't they just asking for death? Beg for mercy now, and maybe I can spare your lives. You can even take them back to the tribe to warm your beds."
He raised his long sword, pointing it at the White Tiger tribe members, "Now that blood has been drawn, it'll be too late to beg for mercy. If we let you go, we won't sleep well at night!"
"Release the arrows!" The burly man with the thick beard waved his hand.
A dense series of whooshing sounds filled the air as countless arrows streaked across the sky, rapidly magnifying in everyone's eyes.
At the critical moment, a tender, childlike voice rang out across the battlefield: "Mother, don't be afraid, I'm here!"
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