Chapter 3 Grass
The friendly greeting was responded by the red snake opening its mouth and displaying its fangs. Lin Zhusheng miraculously stood up at the speed of light and ran away, his speed far exceeding the 100-meter physical test in high school, and he even picked up small coal balls in the middle of the run.
The cloth strips tied in a twisted manner on his hair were unfortunately lost during the escape. He could clearly feel his hair loose, but he did not dare to look back and continued running along the same path.
“Hoo—Hoo—”
The sound of wind kept blowing past his ears, and the shadows of the trees above his head disappeared. Lin Zhusheng ran into the unobstructed sunlight and returned to the hillside where he came from. He saw two figures in the distance. No kidding, his eyes lit up instantly, and he turned around and ran towards the direction of the figure.
The sound behind me seemed to disappear, and only the sound of my own footsteps could be heard in the wind. When my lungs were stretched to the limit and my vision began to blur, a clear prompt box popped up.
[Newcomer exclusive temporary mission: Defeat the red snake (0/2)]
[Reward: Physical Strength Limit +10, Random Healing Herbs x2, Gold Coins x10]
“…”
His eyes fell on the last reward. Lin Zhusheng's running feet stopped, leaving a mark on the ground. His face was not red and he was not breathing heavily. He turned around instantly.
It only takes a moment to make a decision. One hand was still holding the grass, and a wooden sword appeared out of thin air in the other hand. He was going to challenge the red snake.
Although he had never done such a thing, if he had read the information correctly when they looked at each other before, he remembered that Red Snake was also LV1 like him, so there was a possibility that he had won.
One gold coin is equal to one hundred silver coins, and ten are one thousand. No one can understand how tempting this thousand yuan is to a person who only has ten silver coins on him.
There was no hesitation or fear in his eyes, only the desire for money. The kitten in his lapel didn't expect him to suddenly turn around, with his eyes wide open.
The instinct to escape overcame the red snake's crawling speed. Master Lin, who was not good at anything else but good at escaping, had actually gotten rid of the red snake long before he left the woods.
He walked all the way back from the hillside to the woods, slowed down his pace when approaching the Lingxu grass collection site, and scanned the surroundings.
“Ka——”
When a gust of wind blew in the woods, he happened to step on a dead branch, making a slight sound. The wind made the grass sway, and a bright red color suddenly appeared among the swaying shadows of the trees.
Without any mental preparation, he met the red snake's eyes again.
Both sides were shocked, and there was a strange silence in the air. In the end, driven by his deep desire for ten gold coins, Lin Zhusheng swung his sword wildly to attack the snake.
A hearty and chaotic battle. The man couldn't see the snake clearly, and the snake couldn't see the man clearly. The only sounds in the space were the sound of the snake's body colliding with the wooden sword and the weeds being blown flying by the wooden sword.
The kitten left the battlefield at the beginning, and went out to make plans outside the affected area. He waved his paw and said, "Hit the weak spot!"
Even Lin Zhusheng knew that the snake should be hit at the weakest part, but the question was: "Where is that weakest part?"
I don't know where the weak spot is, but it's always a good idea to knock it from beginning to end. Finding an opportunity in the chaos, he kicked the snake's head, and the snake's body wrapped around the wooden sword loosened and flew out.
He stepped forward on his heels, raised his sword and slashed the red snake's body with the wooden sword as if he was cutting a carrot. Finally, at the moment he hit a certain place, a golden prompt box appeared in the air.
[Mission: Defeat the Red Snake (1/2)]
[Experience +10]
[Current level: LV1 (10/200)]
The snake lying in the grass was quiet and didn't move. Master Lin, whose arms were already starting to swell, stopped and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Before the snake came back to life, he squatted down, supported himself on the ground, and slowly and laboriously picked up its body with two fingers through his sleeve, then put it into his backpack in the blink of an eye.
The soft touch seemed to still remain on his hand, and goose bumps covered his whole body. He shivered twice and quickly stood up straight away from the ground.
Although he bravely went up because of his desire for money, in fact, the brave Master Lin had never come into contact with this kind of soft reptile before.
The chaotic scene ended temporarily. Kitty finally approached from a distance, walked around him, and briefly praised him: "You have a talent for using a sword."
Just now, Chunchun swung his sword randomly. Lin Zhusheng didn't realize where his talent for swordsmanship came from, so he ignored it, looked around with the wooden sword, and said, "There is still one missing."
He had to collect two to complete the task, but from beginning to end he only saw this one, which now occupied one slot in his backpack. We have already searched other places, so we can only go deeper.
It was almost noon, and I don’t know if it was because of the noise just now, but there was no more bird singing in the woods. I didn’t see any other animals after walking for half a day. Only the sound of wind blowing through the leaves could make its presence felt.
The deep woods meet the nearby mountains. The trees become denser as you go down, and there are obviously fewer people walking here. The surroundings look undeveloped.
The red snake's color is bright and arrogant, and it is even more conspicuous in such a dark place. As long as it is nearby, it will be noticed at the first time, but he has not seen it since he walked there... and then he saw it.
Lin Zhusheng saw large patches of Lingxu grass and a slender red snake tail hidden under the leaves of the Lingxu grass. The rest of the snake's body was sunken in the denser grass and could not be seen clearly.
It's not clear, but it's not a big problem. Through practice, he had roughly figured out the location of the snake's weak spot. According to the direction of the snake's tail, he raised the wooden sword in one direction before being noticed, and tried to avoid the Lingxu grass.
After all, there are 100 tasks to complete, and he would be heartbroken if he accidentally hurt any of them.
"boom--"
Before the wooden sword fell, the ground shook slightly and the grass and trees swayed slightly. It felt like something too huge was passing by, or like it was emerging from the ground, and the entire surrounding area was shaking with a sense of instability.
What appeared before the things was the health bar in the air. A long health bar, with the level on one side and a string of names in the middle: [Red Snake (Demon)]
This kind of interface means the appearance of a BOSS. If I guessed correctly, this seemed to be another snake he had to deal with, and he was LV1, and this snake was LV12.
The red tail that was exposed in the Lingxu grass moved, rolled over the ground, and quickly drilled into the deeper grass.
Then, behind the bushes and above the woods, a huge red figure emerged, and its scales swept across the branches, which were crushed along with the leaves, making crackling sounds. The red snake head hung above the woods, with a pair of vertical pupils drooping, and the shape of the pupils could be clearly seen.
Seriously, Lin Zhusheng felt that even without the snake's intervention, he would definitely die if just one scale fell off.
The kitten curled up into a ball and stood aside, stretching out his hand to encourage, "This is the last one. Beat it. Come on!"
In this case, adding 98 gasoline is useless. Thinking that maybe there was something wrong with his ears, or maybe there was something wrong with the system, Lin Zhusheng said, "Defeat it?"
The hand that was still unconsciously pinching a piece of grass pointed at himself, and then pointed at a snake whose scale was as big as his body. He opened his eyes and said in disbelief: "Me?"
It's obviously him, there's no one else here except him. The kitten nodded. The huge red vertical pupil has locked onto this side. There is no way to run away. If you want to survive, you have to keep going.
"What kind of magical plan would allow a new player who just entered the game to use the wooden sword given as a gift to directly fight the boss!"
Unable to leave, he could only fight. Lin Zhusheng bravely stepped forward, bypassed the Lingxu grass on the ground, and stabbed the snake's body with a sword.
He scraped the snake's scales, or to be more precise, helped to clean them. He poked it with a sword, but the scales were not hurt at all. Instead, the mud on them was scraped off, and it was as clean as new. The blood bar in the air did not change at all.
The red snake's tail swept towards this side, and AAA professional cleaning and maintenance Master Lin rolled on the ground several times, barely avoiding the attack range.
Hiding behind a tree, he urgently called a halt, grabbed the kitten that was also hiding in this direction, and stated his needs in a concise manner: "Cut the number!"
There was a constant vibration sound all around him, and he had to increase the volume to make his voice heard.
The level gap is too big, he can't defeat the snake even with his super invincible sword. If he wants to win, he can only change to his previous high-level account.
This person's mind was working so fast in a strange way that the kitten didn't even react to this behavior and opened his eyes.
"Didn't you say you would be responsible for my safety? Now I'm almost dead." Seeing the trees around him being cut down, Lin Zhusheng clenched the grass in his hand and kept talking at a high speed, "My old friend has nothing to return to. Can you give me a chance to switch accounts?"
The kitten was frightened by him, and it didn't even blink, as if it was quickly calculating something. Its pupils were temporarily out of focus and then focused again, and then it cried out.
[You have received an old friend return gift: account switching experience card (1h) x1]
Suddenly, there was an experience card in his backpack. Lin Zhusheng, who was howling because he couldn't think of a solution, was shocked: "Isn't there really such a thing?"
“Crash——”
The big tree he was leaning against was broken in half, and its branches sank into the ground. The sound of leaves rubbing against each other filled his eardrums. The soil was lifted up by the tree roots, and the ground beneath him began to collapse and rolled towards a slope to one side. Being swept downwards, he saw the layers and piles of thick red snake bodies below, which were many times larger than the small tail tips he had seen before.
A fishy-smelling wind blew from above, blowing his loose hair back. Lin Zhusheng looked up and saw a wide-open mouth with sharp fangs pointing straight at him. As he approached quickly, he seemed to be able to see the internal structure.
Without any hesitation, he replaced the wooden sword in his hand with a trial card, and a pop-up window popped up in the air, asking whether he wanted to use it.
The light around him was completely blocked by the snake's head. The distance was close enough that he could clearly see the stains on its teeth. It would pierce through his body in the next instant. He looked at it to confirm his option, stretched out his hand, and let his long sleeves slide down.
“Zheng——”
His finger landed in front of the confirmation option, and a clear and bright light spread from behind him.
The white-blue light instantly illuminated half the sky. The clanging of swords pierced the eardrums, spreading to farther places and echoing in the distant mountains.
A strong wind swept away, and the remaining trees were bent. Violent noises and the sounds of swords mingled together, and the fog in the mountains disappeared.
As his body couldn't stop sliding down, Lin Zhusheng raised his eyes and saw a thin line appearing on the body of the red snake that was originally close to him.
The strong wind caused the snake to move, and its head and body gradually separated, moving smoothly along the thin line, and finally moving separately.
The thick snake tail that was sweeping across the woods a moment ago twitched unconsciously, and finally calmed down and turned into a limp pile of flesh.
The snake's head fell from midair and landed right at the bottom of the slope, its mouth still wide open as before. He continued to slide down, and to his surprise, he was able to slide smoothly into the snake's mouth.
“…”
Without caring about his image at all, Lin Zhusheng put away his precious number card and began to move upwards using all four limbs. The kitten stayed in his clothes and symbolically used its two paws to poke at the air, helping him reach the top.
Maybe it really was the help that made it happen. Master Lin, who was working hard, felt that his body had become a lot lighter, and he was actually moving upwards.
Up, up, up, and start to leave the ground. The farther away from the ground, the more downward the curve of the corners of the acrophobic person's eyes becomes, the flatter the corners of his mouth become, and finally he begins to struggle like a whirlwind.
It wasn't the coal briquettes that helped him succeed, but something that grabbed his collar and carried him upwards.
"Don't move."
When he was about to perform a sweeping kick in the air, he heard a sound above his head, like the collision of two pieces of jade that had been tempered by ice, and the sound was mixed with a lingering chill.
The person carrying himself is a person, not some other strange object. OK, Lin Zhusheng closed his eyes and stopped moving.
He didn't know how long he was held in the air. After a slight sound, his feet finally touched solid ground.
He opened his eyes the moment he landed. As soon as he raised his eyelashes, a pool of light like water slid across the corners of his eyes and was then put into the moon-white sword sheath.
The hand that rests on the hilt of the sword has distinct joints, and above it is a wide robe with long sleeves. The person standing opposite was wearing a simple moon-lit robe with silver-grey dark patterns on the hem. He had a slender figure and a youthful air in his movements, but it was completely masked by his cold aura and calm features.
He looks like a very powerful person. Even with his feet, he could tell that it was this person who saved him and the number-cutting card that was almost used. Lin Zhusheng expressed his gratitude immediately, thanking the other party for saving his life and important property.
Wen Baizhou put away his sword and said nothing more, only asking, "Are you injured?"
He happened to be passing by the outer peak this time for some business. When he was halfway up the mountain, he and his companions saw an outer sect disciple running towards them with a piece of grass in his hand. They thought that something was wrong, but it turned back halfway and ran back to the woods in a very imposing manner.
Thinking of something, his eyes dropped slightly to the pair of hands that were a little dirty from being rubbed by mud.
“…”Well, the grass is still there, still holding tightly.
The people traveling with him thought nothing was wrong and left first, but luckily he came to take a look.
This place should have been a place that would not give rise to monsters, and was considered a safe place for outer disciples. However, this time, perhaps the spiritual energy on the peak overflowed, giving the snake the opportunity to transform into a monster.
Red snakes are naturally aggressive. If they are not dealt with this time, the consequences will be serious.
Lin Zhusheng was not injured. Although the situation looked very dangerous, in fact only a little blood was lost from his health bar. He could recover by chewing two herbs on the spot.
Thinking of the herbs, he finally realized something. He tightened his hand holding the grass and quickly turned his head to look at the place where the snake's tail had swept.
Without any warning, two lines of tears burst out of his eyes and he fell into extreme sadness.
Not understanding why the person suddenly became like this, Wen Baizhou followed the other person's line of sight and only saw the corpse of the red snake demon.
It would be fine if the demon was dealt with. He never cared about the follow-up. However, the man was crying too sadly. If he left it alone, he might cry for a whole day. So he could only ask, "Are you scared?"
He had no experience in this area and could only think of this reason.
The outer sect errand disciples are different from other disciples. They only have a little more talent than ordinary people. They have never seen any monsters in the Tianzong realm, so it is natural for them to be afraid.
"The snake demon has been dealt with and will not appear again..."
"no."
"Snakes are not important," Lin Zhusheng's tearful eyes fell on the body of the red snake monster - the Lingxu grass below had turned into a flat piece, and he wiped his tears sadly, "My grass is gone."
Wen Baizhou: "Grass?"
Lin Zhusheng cried like a sad panda: "Well, my grass."
This area was full of precious mission grass that he carefully protected. If one blade was missing, he would have to spend half an hour more pulling out weeds.
Wen Baizhou: “…”
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