Compared to the bumpy journey of Gao Yins and others, Youyi and Riva's journey was much smoother.
They didn't want to run into the Fairy Fieri, Gao Yins and the others, so they didn't want to and there was no need to choose the original route. They easily crossed the maze-like forest from another direction, and it only took four or five days.
Even now, although I am still walking in the woods, I am surrounded by a world of withered yellow and fallen leaves.
Walking lightly through the dense forest, Riva looked at Yui in front of him and wondered why the girl's hair didn't drag on the ground.
With a "crack", something broke under his feet and he stepped on empty air, losing his balance.
In desperation, Riva threw himself forward, then supported himself with his hands and struggled hard. His stuck right foot slipped out of the shoe, and his body rolled forward. The backpack touched the ground first, and then his left and right feet landed on the ground one after another, and his body naturally stood up again.
Pieces of dead leaves fell off the backpack and arms. Riva opened his mouth slightly, turned his head to look at the shoe that was still stuck in the narrow pit, and then shouted excitedly to Yui in front of him.
"Did you see that?! Did you see my reaction?! I didn't fall down!!"
"I see, I see... From your expression, I can imagine how useless you were in the past..."
Youyi curled his lips. This level is completely the level of an ordinary person. He can do it with a little practice. Well, earthling.
She jumped into the narrow pit, pulled out the dirty and smelly shoe covered with mud and sweat without any disgust, and brought it to Riva.
"Here you go."
Riva felt very embarrassed and quickly took it, feeling that his shoes had contaminated Yui's spotless hands.
He scratched his head, pulled his loose socks tighter, then brushed the dirt off his shoes and put them back on his feet.
Being despised by Yui could not diminish Riva's excitement at all. The initial period of weakness gradually passed, and Riva actually slowly discovered some changes in himself.
He could feel his heart beating stronger and his body's endurance getting better, so he could walk longer distances before feeling tired. Although Yui thought that this kind of useless change was not worth being happy about, Riva was still very happy.
After all, most of those who survived fatal injuries were left disabled or weak. Not only did he recover, but he was also stronger than before. At least now he had enough strength to be an apprentice, and he also had the confidence to support himself as a porter.
And now, it seems that performing skills such as comedy and acrobatics is not impossible.
Yes, Riva excitedly told these ideas to Yui beside him.
Then he was met with an even more exaggerated look of contempt from Youyi.
"Riva! You are my friend, Yui! You are my only friend in this world. How can you be so cowardly?!"
Seeing that Yui was a little angry, Riva's voice couldn't help but weaken.
"Then what do you think I should do..."
In Riva's impression, if one wants to get ahead, one has to learn a craft, which is out of the reach of nobles and commoners. Being a merchant is something that one does not understand at all and dares not even think about. To farm, one needs to have land.
"Tsk, of course you have to think about your own life, that way you will have no reason to regret. After seeing the vastness of the world, you will no longer have such narrow-minded ideas as before!"
"Is that so..."
"Nonsense! Otherwise, why would you want to see the world with me? Then you will surely understand how ridiculous you are right now!"
Yui felt that he was fully qualified to criticize Riva's ideals from a condescending attitude, and was about to say something else when he suddenly felt something.
"There's movement, come quickly! Riva, come quickly!!"
Leaving these words behind, You Yi rushed forward at a rapid speed. Riva could only see her long hair floating in the trees and disappearing into the distance.
"Hey Yui, wait for me!"
Riva tightened the backpack on his back and chased after him with all his might, but he couldn't find any trace of him for more than ten minutes.
Going at full speed while carrying a large bag, Riva felt like his lungs were about to explode. Finally, he saw that head of long black hair on a distant mound. Except for two exposed arms, the whole body of the little girl was covered by this hair.
"Snap"
Riva trotted over and lay down on the mound.
“Hu…Hu…Hu…You’re too…wuwu…wuwu…”
“Shhh!!!!”
Yui covered Riva's mouth and raised the index finger of his left hand in front of his rising lips.
"Look!"
She pointed in the direction outside the mound.
Seeing this, Riva tried his best to calm his breathing, then carefully climbed up a little, and slowly poked his head out from behind the mound.
"Oh... woo..."
As if he had expected it, the moment Riva widened his eyes and took a breath, Youi reached out his hand like lightning and covered his mouth again, preventing Riva's scream of fear from being heard.
Riva's eyesight was very good before, much better than that of most people, so he had an innate advantage in looking at the stars. Now his eyesight is even better, so he can clearly see that in the direction behind the mound, there is a group of corpses a little further away.
Yes, there were corpses, not those of wild animals or livestock, but of Soma people, lying there in all directions, each of them looking miserable. Some had incomplete limbs, some had their bodies separated, and some had several large holes in their bodies. There were at least twenty or thirty people, and their blood had soaked a large area of land.
It was eerily quiet there. Riva had his mouth covered by Yui's hand, but cold sweat kept oozing out of him.
"Don't... say... anything... I'm letting you go now, understand?"
Yui's voice was so soft that it was barely audible. She didn't let go until Riva nodded carefully. She found that her hands were covered with Riva's sweat.
"Look, from the color of the blood and the wounds, they died very quickly. Maybe the thing that killed them is still nearby."
Riva's heart was beating fast, and he didn't care about anything else. Whatever Youyi said was the truth, and he didn't dare to say a word.
“Bang… bang… bang…”
The sound of heavy objects falling to the ground came from a distance. Riva almost retracted his head behind the mound, but Yui grabbed him. They were far enough away and there were a lot of grass and trees in front of them, so it was difficult to be discovered.
On the path behind the corpses, several terrifying tall humanoid figures were walking slowly towards the corpses, taking each step as if it was heavy.
After no new figures appeared behind, I could see clearly that there were six of them, each about three to four meters tall, extremely dirty, wearing rusty, patchwork pieces of scrap copper or leather, holding huge metal-wrapped sticks, or rusty, crooked, terrifying swords.
“Bang… bang… bang…”
Every step on the ground was like stepping on Riva's heart. The few big guys behind them were carrying some Soma corpses, whose deaths were equally horrific.
When they reached the place where the corpses were most concentrated, the monsters threw the corpses they were carrying away.
“Woohoooooooooooooooooo!!!” “Woohoooooooooooooooooo!!!”
This strange chest breathing sound seemed like laughter, and then several monsters sat down, squatted, and began to pull up the corpses on the ground.
“Crackle, crackle, crackle…”
A terrifying sound was heard, making Riva tremble all over. They were eating the corpses.
"Ri... Wa... do you know what this is?"
Yui's voice was still very low, but Riva was extremely nervous, fearing that Yui's voice would attract the other party.
Riva quietly retracted his head behind the mound, and looked at Youyi with cold sweat on his face. He didn't dare to say a word, but he opened and closed his mouth, using his lips to make a silent answer.
"Giant...monster..."
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