Chapter 38 Night Fishing
I killed two birds with one stone, getting rid of the snake and the bug, and there was nothing else to do in the entire first half of the night.
When the guide came to Xu Zhiyan to take over the shift in the middle of the night, he seemed to find that there was no smell of the white treasure bug on him, and his expression relaxed a lot.
Xu Zhiyan was in no hurry to go back and rest.
He found the cocoa powder he had dug out of his luggage today, made two cups of hot cocoa in disposable paper cups, put a warm smile on his face again, and sat in front of the campfire to chat with the guide.
"It's really cold in the mountains. Is your home nearby?"
The guide looked at him, nodded and replied: "Our village is at the foot of Amber Mountain."
"Oh? So you have to go through the fog to go back to the village? Will it be troublesome? When did this fog start?" Xu Zhiyan took a sip of hot cocoa and pretended to be naive.
Judging from their equipment, this is a modern society. If it were so troublesome to go back to the village every time, then the village would have ceased to exist long ago.
Even if the older generation is reluctant to leave their hometown, the young people in the village who have left probably won't want to go back.
Especially when he gave the candy to the old guide during the day, the other party not only did not refuse, but also found something to wrap it up and put it away. Whether from this or from the other party's dress, this village is ninety-nine percent poor.
The old guide seemed not to be afraid of the heat. He drank the hot cocoa in one breath. He did not answer Xu Zhiyan's question, but urged him, "Go and have a rest."
He stood up and spread his palms, as if to feel the humidity in the air, and abruptly changed the subject: "It will rain tomorrow."
After saying these two sentences, the old guide didn't say anything no matter how Xu Zhiyan asked.
Xu Zhiyan, who had wasted a cup of hot cocoa, felt bored. He touched his nose, stood up, stretched, and prepared to return to the tent.
Just when he felt the old guide's eyes glued to his back, the other party spoke again, whispering: "It's very humid here, you may have nightmares after falling asleep. If you see something after falling asleep, it should be a nightmare. Don't be afraid, and never leave the tent."
Xu Zhiyan thanked him and felt that he had not wasted the hot cocoa in vain.
When he returned to the tent, he immediately took out his mobile phone to see if he could benefit from the barrage.
In the live broadcast room, everyone happily exchanged other information.
[Xiao Baiwan made me laugh to death, so are there any class representatives who went to watch other live broadcast rooms? Did everyone else eat? ]
[Brave snake! Not afraid of difficulties! ]
[Yes, yes, yes! I went around and found that about half of the players ate bugs. After eating, there was a strange bug symbol in the status bar.]
[What the hell, what is that status for? ]
[It’s not clear yet, but among the participants this time is Zhuo Yong, the eighth on the potential list! His expression didn’t change after he finished eating, he just took out a prop to cancel the status. ]
[Tsk, tsk, tsk, I'm getting more and more curious about what effect that bug has. ]
On the other side, Xu Zhiyan only saw one comment of Brave Snake, and the rest of the screen was filled with ▇▇.
If there is any barrage that leaks the slightest information from other live broadcast rooms, the system will block it tightly without leaving any loopholes.
He gritted his teeth and gave a middle finger to show his respect to the main system, then turned around to take inventory of the other supplies he had brought with him as a fisherman.
The owner of this identity should not be very rich, as he does not carry much fishing gear bag or other supplies.
In addition to the fishing supplies, there was also a tattered old can of milk powder, a newly opened can of cocoa powder, a bag of compressed biscuits, a few strips of beef jerky, a few pieces of chewing gum, and the rest were clothes and other things.
The bag of compressed biscuits was mostly eaten, with only two pieces left, which could probably be eaten for a day at most. The milk powder was half full, and the color looked weird and gray, and there was a strange smell mixed with milk, as if it had expired.
Thinking of what the old guide said about the fog in two days, he felt that two days should be a limit set by the game and he had to solve the bug problem within two days.
Moreover, the other party was too sure about having nightmares after falling asleep.
Who can decide whether or not they will have nightmares?
Xu Zhiyan lay down with questions in his mind, always feeling that the old guide was not a good person, but he had no evidence.
Just as he was tossing and turning, unable to sleep, he suddenly heard murmurs of dreams coming from other tents.
"Don't kill me... I didn't mean to..."
“No…no…”
"Help, help me, I know I was wrong."
"You deserve to die... You deserve to die."
“…”
His three fellow fishermen fell into a crazy nightmare almost at the same time.
I looked at the time and it was exactly three o'clock in the morning.
Xu Zhiyan wanted to check, but the moment he touched the zipper of the tent, his whole body trembled and his outstretched hand hung in mid-air.
It was not because he remembered what the old guide said not to leave the tent, but because through the low-quality tent fabric, he could vaguely see a dark shadow standing outside his tent!
Strange, Xu Zhiyan thought.
He hadn't slept yet, and he would have been able to sense someone approaching outside the tent.
Unless the other party appeared at the time when he zipped up the tent, creating a time difference and vision difference, it is impossible for him not to have seen it.
Damn, it seems even more terrifying when I think about it this way!
He was sure that when he returned to the tent, the old guide was still by the campfire, which meant that the black shadow that appeared could not be the guide at all!
Xu Zhiyan swallowed, slowly retracted his fingertips, and gently lay down. His fingertips couldn't help but tap the soft cushion on the side of his body.
He was not sure whether the dark shadow outside the tent was 'them' that had been chased back or the nightmare that the old guide had mentioned.
Nightmare? Nightmare...
If it was a nightmare, it would make sense!
The old guide must have known something, so he took the initiative to guard the second half of the night. He knew that the other four people would definitely be entangled by this black shadow.
Suddenly, a tent was opened.
"Fuck, fuck I just..."
"I...I just...seemed..."
Someone was awakened from a nightmare and said something in a hoarse voice. The voice sounded like that of the black hat brother Chen Zai.
He spoke tremblingly, but it seemed that he couldn't explain anything clearly.
The old guide's voice also sounded.
But it wasn't words of comfort.
He sang in a rough voice, and Xu Zhiyan didn't understand a word. It seemed to be some kind of dialect.
This song seemed to comfort Chen Zai.
Xu Zhiyan heard the sound of the tent being closed.
He glanced at the black shadow, thinking that if he fell asleep he might be attacked by the monsters outside. After thinking for a moment, he took out a potion from the system space and drank it.
The moment the bottle was clearly seen, the comments were filled with question marks.
[What the hell? What the hell! ]
[Is that the legendary insomnia potion? ]
[Fuck, it seems to be true! ]
[??? Does Xiao Millionaire have too much money and nowhere to spend it? Why did he buy this? ? ]
[What insomnia potion is this? Can you tell me more about it? ]
[Replying to my dear, I wonder if you have heard of the "Most Useless Props Ranking", this magic medicine for staying up late ranks third among them. ]
[It's so funny, yes! It's an A-grade potion, and its price is comparable to that of an S-grade potion, but its effect is not as good as a C-grade recovery potion! ]
It turns out that the price of insomnia potion in the system mall is 3999 points, which is more than the points given for completing a low-level dungeon main line.
However, its usefulness is extremely useless.
After taking it, players will be in a perfect insomnia state for the next week, not sleeping at night, but it will not affect their actions during the day.
That's why players jokingly call it a magic medicine for staying up late.
Just stay up late, no consumption!
The reason why it is included in the list of useless things is because of the price.
Because even if you lose mental energy after staying up late, the amount lost is not that much. If you use both physical and mental potions, you can fully recover within 200 points at most.
There is no need to pay fifteen times the points just to feel energetic at night!
【So, Xiao Millionaire is really fucking rich. 】
[Damn it! How could this happen! ]
[I am dying of laughter. Look at him after he finishes drinking. His eyes are as big as bells. Hahahaha]
[Is this the world of the rich? I also want to buy three thousand worth of chicken ribs and drink them. 】
[But this is really effective! Everyone else who fell asleep had a nightmare! ]
However, what the players didn’t know was that after Xu Zhiyan took over the safe house, he got a pile of useless props.
After all, after finding a safe house, most people will choose to trade props for time.
Guishen has not previously stipulated what kind of props players have to pay for, but the higher the level of the prop, the longer the redemption time.
And every player will more or less spawn a few items of relatively high level, which seem very cool, but are completely useless. These props come in handy at this time.
Not to mention anything else, Xu Zhiyan took out eight bottles of insomnia medicine alone!
When he finished checking the safe house inventory that day, he almost passed out.
All kinds of golden props...
There is nothing practical at all!
But since he couldn't sell them, he could only pick a few and consume them among himself.
In this way, he was full of energy, but couldn't get out of the tent, so he could only stare and waste time.
The next day, the sky was bright.
When the old guide shouted at everyone to get up, Xu Zhiyan rushed out immediately.
The campsite remained the same as before.
The old guide was cooking porridge in a small pot for everyone as breakfast.
After a while, the other three also woke up one after another. Except for Xu Zhiyan, everyone had dark circles under their eyes, as if they did not sleep well.
While eating breakfast, the old guide kept looking at Xu Zhiyan.
Finally, he couldn't hold it in any longer and asked, "Aren't you tired after not sleeping all night?"
Xu Zhiyan was stunned for a moment, and after realizing that the other party was asking him, he shook his head; "I slept, I slept very well, without any dreams all night."
He pretended to be confused and asked back: "Why do you think I didn't sleep?"
The old guide seemed choked by this question. He lowered his head and ate silently without saying anything more.
Now, Xu Zhiyan was finally certain that the old guide must know something.
However, his good sleep made the other three very envious. But when Xu Zhiyan asked the other three how they slept, they began to hesitate.
"I dreamed of something not very good."
"Well, I forgot. Anyway, I just feel uncomfortable."
"We're almost at the Amber Mountain Reservoir. It will be great once we get there..."
Xu Zhiyan nodded. He always felt that the few people had other purposes for going to the reservoir and were not going to fish at all.
After breakfast, it started to drizzle in the mountains.
By the time the rain stopped, it was already mid-morning.
A few people thought of the delicious fish soup they had yesterday and suggested that since they couldn't go into the mountains anyway, they might as well go fishing.
The old guide agreed and said, "It will rain in the mountains and fog will come earlier. When you come back for lunch at noon, you need to increase the amount of treasure insects."
Several people's faces changed, and they all thought of the disgusting fat white bug from yesterday.
But this thing can only be eaten after meals, so they had to say that they would come back as soon as possible and must have lunch in the camp.
The old guide said he was cooking in the camp and asked Xu Zhiyan if he wanted to stay.
Xu Zhiyan shook his head, looked into the distance, and said calmly: "No, I'm not going fishing. I want to go out for a while."
"What are you doing outside if you're not going fishing?" the old guide asked puzzled.
"I had a dream yesterday. I dreamt that a beautiful woman told me that I saved it and it was coming to me to repay me. I wanted to see if this dream was true." He answered solemnly, with a look of longing on his face.
Of course it’s fake!
After confirming that snakes could eat insects, he decided to catch a new snake.
Carry it with you to help him eat bugs!
After saying that, he left the camp despite the old guide's dazed expression and walked towards the direction where he threw the snake yesterday.
It has to be said that Xu Zhiyan is very lucky.
Not long after he walked out of the camp, he saw two ferocious white snakes, one big and one small, crawling towards him from the grass in the distance.
The thumb-thick white snake looked like the one he lost last night.
The other one next to it is slightly thicker than it.
When the enemies meet, their eyes are full of jealousy. The big white snake sticks out its tongue as if it wants to seek revenge for its younger brother.
Xu Zhiyan was extremely excited.
He took out a scoop net from the system space and caught both snakes.
This scoop net can only be used to capture NPCs. The rest of the time it is just a sturdy net bag. Catching these two snakes that are neither monsters nor NPCs is a piece of cake.
He touched the smaller snake head through the net bag and looked relieved.
"You are such a good snake. You even brought your friends to help me."
After saying that, he first took out the small snake that had been frozen inside, and just like last night, he picked up the snake's tail, spun it a few times in the air, and threw it far away.
He took off his gloves again and grabbed the larger white snake with his right hand, which was inlaid with ghost bones.
I have to say that this hand bone is both useless and useful.
Especially when it comes to animals.
A few days ago, Xu Zhiyan discovered that when he was walking on the road, stray cats and dogs would walk around him when they saw him. When he went back to ask, he found out that this thing has a natural suppressive effect on ordinary animals.
The big white snake, which had just acted like it was the boss and not the boss, was frozen by the bony hand.
Xu Zhiyan quickly tied up the snake's mouth with tape, coiled it up and stuffed it into his coat pocket, and returned home with a full load.
At noon, Xu Zhiyan finished his compressed biscuits and returned to the tent with the insect. He secretly pulled down the tent, released the white snake, and pushed the insect forward.
"I brought you food. Are you touched?"
He stared at the big white snake with a smile on his face, but the words that came out of his mouth were not very nice.
"Would you like to eat it yourself, or should I feed you?"
The white snake probably understood what was said. After hesitating for a moment, it swallowed the white treasure insect that was in front of it.
After eating, it may feel that its life as a snake has no hope, so it shrinks into a corner of the tent, turns itself over, and pretends to be dead.
Xu Zhiyan ignored the snake and looked outside the tent instead.
The other three anglers did not go fishing in the afternoon, but the side effects of eating insects seemed to slowly show up.
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