Xie Sen felt that the strange timing and location of the Wild Forest were too coincidental, but it didn’t matter whether it was coincidental or not. Anyway, he had to go there regardless of whether it had anything to do with red energy or not.
He asked Maine, "When are you going? I'll go with you."
Maine frowned and refused directly: "No, the deeper you go into the forest, the more dangerous it is. You can't go." He paused, and like comforting a child, he added, "I will be back as soon as possible."
Xie Sen spread his hands: "I have to go. If you don't want to go with me, I'll go by myself." He pointed to his right shoulder, "It sensed the thing I was looking for. It's in the dangerous area in the east of the Wild Forest."
Maine frowned slightly: "Is it related to this unusual movement?"
"I don't know," Xie Sen said as he walked towards the kitchen, "I'll make dinner first and talk to you in detail later."
Maine followed him into the kitchen: "I'll help you."
Xie Sen smiled, knowing that he was fine, so he didn't stop him. Thinking of going to the forest, he was a little worried: "After leaving the city, there are still 600 to 700 kilometers. Is there any way to get to the danger zone quickly?"
"You can rent a flying machine, fly to your destination from above, and then land on the ground by climbing a traction ladder. This is the fastest way, but it is dangerous."
Xie Sen thought it sounded quite reliable: "Does it require a high level of physical fitness? Are you afraid that you might lose strength and fall down halfway?"
Maine paused for a moment, wanting to laugh. "If you can't even do this, going to the forest is basically suicide. The danger I'm talking about is that you may be attacked by animals at any time during the descent. Not just birds, but also various animals with strong jumping ability and huge bodies, such as pythons."
"In addition to the dangers during the descent, the situation below is unknown due to landing directly in the danger zone, and safety after landing is not guaranteed."
Xie Sen was terrified when he heard this, but he felt relieved when he thought of what Adam had said - he had a natural aura and would not attack animals actively, so they would not attack him either.
"Is there any other good idea?"
Maine said: "Besides this, the only option is to rent a flying contract beast. However, to ensure safety, each contract beast will only carry the owner and a guest, and the speed is one tenth of that of an aircraft."
Xie Sen shook his head as he thought about flying on the back of a bird without any cover. It seemed fun to watch TV, but in reality the airflow generated during the flight could definitely kill people.
If you don't hold on tightly and get blown down accidentally, it would be terrible.
"Let's rent a flying machine...is it expensive?" he asked.
"It's not expensive, 50,000 a day, 100,000 is enough for us to go back and forth," Maine said, "In addition to transportation, we also need to prepare medicine, food and some tools. We can set off in a few days."
Xie Sen calculated the time: "Your birthday is in seven days. Why don't we go after your birthday?"
He also took advantage of these few days to collect energy so that he would be able to protect himself when he entered the forest.
Maine hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay."
After dinner, Xie Sen contacted Sun Mao and asked to work overtime tomorrow so that he could be transferred to next week. Sun Mao agreed directly and praised him a few words.
Maine sat on the sofa, with the coffee table filled with various small parts, concentrating on assembling them.
Xie Sen didn't disturb him. He returned to the bedroom, turned on the system, thought about it, and exchanged for a one-meter watermelon vine.
He must understand the characteristics of the watermelon vines, as well as their availability and combat effectiveness, so that he can respond quickly in actual combat.
He summoned a watermelon vine, a meter-long dark green vine stretched straight across in front of him, with a big round watermelon hanging in the middle.
Xie Sen's eyes lit up and he swallowed silently, recalling the system prompt. The key word for watermelon vines was toughness. He gave the order to form a circle.
The watermelon vines in front of him immediately changed from a straight line to a circle connected end to end.
He then gave various instructions such as coiling the vine into a scent-smelling shape and tying fancy knots. The watermelon vine was very slow at first when tying complicated knots, but after practicing a few times, it became very fast.
Xie Sen smiled with satisfaction and turned his gaze to the water cup on the bedside table: "Tie up the water cup and lift it up."
The watermelon vine flew quickly to the bedside table, and with a 'bang', the watermelon hanging on the vine hit the cabinet door. A crack immediately appeared in the middle of the round watermelon, revealing the red flesh.
The watermelon vine didn't notice anything wrong at all and completed Xie Sen's instructions meticulously. It tied the water cup and held it in front of Xie Sen and shook it, and the watermelon juice flowed all over the floor.
Xie Sen suddenly felt pain in his flesh and hurriedly grabbed the watermelon. Before he could move, the watermelon fell off the vine and landed in his hands.
Xie Sen tapped the watermelon with his fingers and confirmed that it was the same as the ones grown in the fields, very crisp, and its only offensive use was probably to hit people.
As for the melon vine, he had a lot of ideas in his mind, but there were requirements for the length. He didn't have much energy left at the moment, so he wasn't going to try it for the time being.
After thinking about it carefully, he couldn't help laughing. The melon vine was very tough. As long as it was not broken by a sharp weapon, there would be almost no loss. It saved more energy than using peppers as weapons.
And one energy comes with a free watermelon, which is really great!
He called back the vine, happily took the watermelon out, and cut the watermelon into two halves, putting one half in the refrigerator and dividing the other half into two, with he and Maine each taking half.
"Take a break and have something delicious." Xie Sen handed the watermelon to Maine.
Maine went to wash his hands, then took it, looked at it for a moment and asked, "What is this?"
"For watermelon, eat the red part in the middle and spit out the black seeds." After Xie Sen said this, he took a big bite. The sweet watermelon juice filled his mouth and a faint sweet smell came into his nose.
It's so delicious! Xie Sen was so moved that he wanted to cry. He hadn't eaten watermelon for a long time since the end of the world.
He didn't bother to talk, just ate the whole thing, finishing a quarter of the melon in one go. He collapsed on the sofa and touched his stomach: "I feel full and satisfied!"
He tilted his head to look at Maine, who was eating a little slower than him, but was still eating.
Xie Sen looked at the reminder of energy 2 and couldn't help but be surprised. In the past few days, Maine would give him 3 energy every morning. With the addition of the 2 energy today, Maine gave him 5 energy in one day.
Maine followed Xie Sen's way of eating, leaving the green melon rind and eating all the flesh. He looked at Xie Sen with shining eyes, "It's delicious!"
Xie Sen had no doubt about his evaluation, so he gave him 2 energy! Enough to exchange for two watermelons.
Xie Sen smiled and said, "There is still half left, to be eaten tomorrow."
Maine asked: "Is this... also a fruit grown by your contracted beast?"
Xie Sen nodded: "Yes."
Maine looked at the melon rind on the table, picked it up and smelled it: "It's still fragrant. Can't we eat this?" He said, took a bite, and felt that it was crispy and fragrant. "It tastes very good."
Xie Sen slapped his head. It was already this late, but he still remembered not to eat the melon rind. Melon rind is a good thing here!
He had heard of the dessert of cold-mixed melon rind, but had never eaten it or made it. However, this fully demonstrated that melon rind is edible.
He picked up the remaining melon rinds and said, "I'm so full now. I'll deal with it tomorrow and see how I can eat it."
Maine handed him the melon rind in his hand and said, "I'm full too."
"Chirp~" Tuantuan flew in from the window, flew straight towards Maine, and pecked at his wrist. Maine pulled his hand back, and it pecked the melon rind, pulled out its beak, and chirped happily.
Then, its neck seemed to be on a motor and it pecked at the melon rind frantically.
Maine took his hand back and looked at it unkindly: "This is not for you to eat."
"Chi~" Tuantuan stared at the melon rind, flew over and tried to eat it, but was dodged by Maine again.
Xie Sen was a little embarrassed. If someone had told him one day that Guapi would be so popular, he would definitely not believe it.
He took the melon rind from Maine's hand with amusement, flattened it into the size of his palm and placed it on the corner of the coffee table: "You can only eat this much, and you are not allowed to steal any."
Tuan Tuan nodded, flew to the corner of the coffee table, and ate the snacks that were extremely delicious to it.
Xie Sen took the melon rind to the kitchen, scraped off the layer he had eaten with a knife, washed the rest, put it in a bowl, and put it in the refrigerator.
When he returned to the living room, Main had already wiped the coffee table clean and was packing up his parts.
"What are you doing?" Xie Sen asked.
"An unmanned probe."
"Is it similar to the detector on Yuzhu Island?" Xie Sen was curious.
Maine nodded. "I've made some improvements. The detection range is longer. I've also used anti-detection and camouflage systems, so it's not easy to be discovered."
Xie Sen didn't know much about electronic products, but he thought it sounded really cool, so he didn't try to hide it and praised directly: "You're awesome!"
Maine's mouth curled up slightly.
The next day, Xie Sen added some watermelon rind when he was cooking broth in the morning. He found that it was surprisingly delicious. The meaty smell was gone, and the soup still had a light fragrance from the rind.
He ate his fill and went to work overtime at the Gold Medal with satisfaction. Just as he punched in, Sun Mao came over and said jokingly, "There are a bunch of your gifts at the gate again. I think you should stop working and just resell the gifts."
Xie Sen was helpless. These days, more and more people were trying to please him. He felt annoyed when he heard someone was looking for him with gifts.
Sun Mao took a step closer and whispered, "I heard a piece of news that you are the master of plant beasts. Is it true?"
Xie Sen looked at him without answering. Sun Mao smiled and said, "No wonder you suddenly have so many suitors. No wonder you have such a high affinity with animals." His eyes sparkled. "Can you sell me a red pepper?"
"No." Xie Sen refused. He had to save energy to go into the forest.
Sun Mao sighed: "Are you planning to save all the fruits as a dowry?"
Xie Sen's mouth twitched: "What the hell?"
"It's just like a resource-based contracted beast. They save the output of the contracted beast from childhood, and then use it as a dowry when they get married," he said with a curious gleam in his eyes, leaning closer and whispering, "I wonder if Manager Yang did the same thing before."
"Manager Yang?" Xie Sen couldn't help but ask, "What is his contracted beast?"
"Long-wool sheep, clothes made from their wool are expensive and popular. Manager Yang's partner is so lucky," Sun Mao sighed, and added, "Of course, your boyfriend is even luckier. Red pepper is an extinct plant. Not even the research institute has it!"
"No wonder they all pursue you. Marrying you is like marrying a treasure chest! A treasure chest that can give birth to a bunch of cubs."
Xie Sen was speechless: "I'm a male, what the hell do I do when I give birth to a baby?"
"What are males afraid of? I heard that both male and female plant-type beast masters can give birth to offspring. That's really great."
"No, I'm not. I'm the kind of male who can't produce offspring!" Xie Sen said in a firm tone and decided not to listen to Sun Mao's nonsense anymore. Who knows what explosive topic he would bring up next.
After get off work, he contacted Bai Jiao on his way back to the apartment, wanting to buy the insect repellent and detoxification pills that Bai Jiao had applied on his body last time.
After listening to this, Bai Jiao asked directly: "Are you going to the Wild Forest?"
Xie Sen did not hide it: "Yeah."
Bai Jiao said, "What a coincidence. I am also planning to go. There have been more and more reports of strange things happening deep in the forest these past two days. Someone came out safely this afternoon and brought out a fruit. According to the Botanical Research Institute, it is the extinct medicinal herb wolfberry. I am very interested."
Bai Jiao asked: "How about we go together?"
Xie Sen hesitated for a moment: "It would definitely be better if someone who knows medicine came with me, but I plan to go with Maine, and I can't make the decision alone. I'll ask him later."
"It's okay," Bai Jiao smiled, "I'll mail the medicine you want to you. As for the price, I'd rather get a red pepper. I've checked the relevant literature and it has medicinal value."
Xie Sen calculated and said, "Your medicine will cost at least several thousand yuan in total. If you don't think it's a loss, I'll mail it to you."
"Thank you." Bai Jiao said excitedly.
When Xie Sen returned to the apartment, he saw two people fighting in the distance. They were Long Teng and Maine. Xu Da was standing not far away. When he saw him, he waved at him.
Xie Sen walked over, and Xu Da said, "A Teng has been in special training for a few days. I thought he had improved quickly, but I didn't expect Maine to be no less impressive. It's really surprising that he has achieved this level as an A-level contract beast master."
Xie Sen smiled, not wanting Xu Da to doubt Maine's identity, and praised: "He has been working hard to train."
Xu Da laughed: "It's a good thing that young people know how to make progress. The only thing they need to do is find a contracted beast. After the contract is signed, they can improve a lot."
At this point, he sighed, "Alas, I just watched the news a few days ago. I was studying potatoes and peppers those days and didn't pay attention to the news." He patted Xie Sen's shoulder, "If you have difficulties with money in the future, tell me."
Xie Sen thanked him politely and appreciated his kindness.
Another twenty minutes passed before Maine and Long Teng finally stopped fighting. The two ended up in a tie. Long Teng smiled, showing his bright white teeth, and put his arm around Maine's shoulders: "You are amazing. How do you usually train?"
Maine patted his hand down, and he took it again, looking curious.
Xie Sen answered his question aloud: "Maine trained through hunting."
Long Teng tilted his head and looked at Maine in a daze: "No wonder you are so good at hunting wild animals." He jumped in front of Xu Da and said, "Grandpa, I want to go hunting too."
After he finished speaking, he added very quickly: "By the way! Didn't you tell me to go deep into the forest to find the flying dragon beast? It just so happens that I can fight all the way there!" He waved his arms as he spoke.
Xu Da slapped him on the back of the head and said, "Do you know how many kilometers it is from the edge of the wild forest to the middle? If you fight all the way there, you'll be lucky if you can survive for one more day."
Long Teng covered the back of his head: "Grandpa, I'm very powerful!"
"Your ignorance is pretty impressive," Xu Da complained bluntly.
"Grandpa," Long Teng said dissatisfiedly, "I understand."
Xu Da ignored him and quickly followed Xie Sen into Maine's apartment. He sat on the sofa and looked at Xie Sen. Xie Sen asked, "Uncle, is there anything wrong?"
Xu Da smiled and said, "What did you cook this morning? I smell the delicious food. Can you sell me some?"
Xie Sen laughed, what kind of nose is this!
He was just thinking about how to fool it when, with a chirp, Tuan Tuan flew to the coffee table in front of him. It had a fingernail-sized melon rind in its claws. It threw the rind onto the coffee table, lowered its head and ate it. Then it spread its wings and chirped in a low voice.
Xie Sen's mouth twitched. What did this mean? Tell him that he had finished eating?
"Eh," Xu Da was surprised, "Is this a white-headed eagle?"
Xie Sen said: "It seems so."
"Chirp~" Tuantuan jumped on the table, flapped his wings and flew towards the refrigerator, grabbed the handle of the refrigerator with his claws, and turned around and called: "Chirp~"
Xie Sen stroked his forehead. Does it think it gets a portion of melon rind every day?
"No more," he said.
"Chirp!" Tuantuan flapped its wings and patted the refrigerator door. Obviously, it knew there was still food in the refrigerator.
Xu Da sighed, "With this kind of intelligence, it must be a bald eagle." His eyes became eager, "What did it just eat? There should be some in the refrigerator, right?"
Xie Sen had no choice but to take out the melon rind and give a small piece to Tuan Tuan, reminding him, "This is the last piece. There will be no more in the future."
Tuantuan looked at the melon rind and didn't eat it immediately. Instead, he made a sad "chi" sound.
Xu Da looked at the melon rind and said, "Is this a watermelon? I want to buy it! This seems to be the rind, but where is the flesh? I want to buy that too?"
A silent Maine spoke up and said coldly, "Not for sale!"
Xie Sen found it funny. It seemed that Maine really liked eating watermelon.
Xu Da was helpless: "Sell me some of that melon rind!"
Xie Sen cut off a quarter of the rind from the remaining half of the watermelon and sold it to Xu Da. Xu Da was very happy holding the rind. Long Teng curiously leaned over and took a bite. His eyes lit up immediately: "It's delicious!"
Xie Sen thought to himself that when he came back from the forest this time, he would sell the whole watermelon to Xu Da. Long Teng was such a soft-hearted kid.
Xu Da achieved his goal as a foodie, and then turned to business: "Have you read the news about the Desolate Forest? I think this is a good opportunity to find a contracted beast. I'm worried about Ateng going alone. If you go, take him with you. He may not have other abilities, but he's good at fighting."
Xie Sen thought that the best thing was actually luck.
Long Teng is the protagonist of the book. Although he is always in danger, he always manages to escape danger. Moreover, his abilities can be continuously improved and his luck is amazing.
But if you think about it carefully, according to the time in the book, Long Teng should have already entered the wild forest alone.
Now, everything is different. Xie Sen looked at Maine and felt at ease.
Although he knew that Maine had not fully recovered yet and was more sensitive and suspicious than before, Maine was still young and he believed that he would get better.
Maine happened to look at Xie Sen at this time, and noticed his gaze, his expression softened a lot: "You decide."
Xie Sen was a little surprised, and then he started to think seriously. He had to rest every eight hours. If it was just him and Maine, when he was resting and encountered a dangerous situation, Maine would be the only one to deal with it, and Maine would have to be distracted to take care of him, which was too dangerous.
The forest is so large that it is very likely that the red energy cannot be found immediately, and it is not convenient for two people to take turns to keep watch.
"I think it's okay," Xie Sen said, "I contacted Bai Jiao today, and he wants to go too. There are many poisonous plants and animals in the forest, so it would be safer to have a doctor. The four of us can go together."
Maine had no objection: "I'll listen to you."
Xie Sen said to Long Teng, "We plan to set off on the 26th. Is there any problem?"
"No problem," Long Teng said with a smile, "You can leave now."
Xie Sen reminded, "It's better to make some preparations." Thinking of Long Teng's character, he said, "Don't worry about anything else, just bring more weapons!"
"Okay!" Long Teng smiled widely and agreed.
After the discussion, Xu Da and Long Teng left the apartment.
Xie Sen contacted Bai Jiao and explained the situation to him, telling him the departure time. Bai Jiao smiled and said, "No problem for me. I'll come find you guys when the time comes. I'll prepare some more medicine in the next few days."
After hanging up the phone, Xie Sen went to make dinner. After dinner, he and Maine each ate a large piece of watermelon, and both looked very satisfied.
After the meal, Xie Sen asked, "Is there anything else that needs to be prepared?"
"I'll be ready," Maine looked at him, his eyes falling on his arm, "you should strengthen your arm strength training in the next few days, etc."
As he spoke, he walked into the bedroom and soon took out a pair of dumbbells, one large and one small: "Use this to practice."
Xie Sen thought about the need to land from the aircraft, and nodded hurriedly, but he was still a little worried. Could he train well in just a few days?
He took the dumbbells and returned to the bedroom. After thinking about it, he still felt uneasy. He looked at the remaining energy. There were a total of thirty-three, of which three were returned by Maine in the morning, and the rest of the increased energy was obtained from work.
He gritted his teeth, exchanged for two meters of watermelon vines, carefully picked the watermelons, and then ordered the vines to tie him up and lift him up.
At first, he felt very uncomfortable being strangled by the watermelon vines. The vines fell apart soon after his feet left the ground. He tried for a long time and finally found a more comfortable position to be hung up, and the vines would not fall apart.
If anything unexpected happens during the fall, he at least has the ability to save himself.
In the next few days, Xie Sen worked actively, trying to help more contracted beasts in order to obtain energy from the beast masters. By the 24th, he had accumulated 156 energies.
Early in the morning on the 25th, Xie Sen got up earlier than usual. He exchanged two potatoes, let each potato double in size, then cut one of them in half horizontally and steamed it directly. He cut the other one into potato strips and fried it into French fries.
When Maine came out of the bedroom, the whole house was filled with the aroma of potatoes. He looked at the closed kitchen door, and his eyes gradually softened.
Xie Sen carefully placed the steamed potatoes side by side on a large plate with the cut side facing up, then took chopsticks and wrote "Happy Birthday" on it and drew a smiley face at the end.
He looked it over and made sure it was okay, then walked out of the kitchen carrying the 'potato cake'. Unexpectedly, Maine was standing at the door and he almost bumped into him.
He stopped in time, smiled and handed over the plate: "Brother, happy birthday, I wish you happiness and good health every day!"
Maine stared at him for a long time. The boy's smile was bright and full of sunshine, which made him feel warm. This warmth went straight to the bottom of his heart. He couldn't help but leaned over and kissed him on the forehead: "Thank you, I'm very happy."
Xie Sen covered his forehead, staring blankly at the energy 3 prompt in front of him, and watched Maine walk into the living room with a plate.
This... is the thank-you ceremony of Planet Brant?
Xie Sen thought about it and felt that this was the only reason that made sense.
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