Chapter 34
Leafa's pupils shrank.
"Enter the cave!"
She quickly picked up the bamboo basket and the clothes drying on the rocks nearby and rushed into the cave.
Su Xingyuan did not move, his eyes fell on the forest covered by leaves.
“Go!”
Seeing that he didn't move, Leafa thought he was frightened, so she dragged Su Xingyuan into the cave, then used a wooden stick to push down the layers of vines, completely covering the entrance of the cave.
For a moment, the cave was so quiet that only the sound of breathing could be heard.
Outside the cave, the rustling sound was getting closer and closer, like countless feet stepping on leaves, coming from the depths of the woods and finally stopping in front of the cave entrance.
The gaps between the vines, through which a little light could be seen, were covered by a huge shadow.
"I see you..."
"Come out."
"I see you..."
"Come out."
"I see you..."
Su Xingyuan: “…”
A repeater?
Leafa almost held her breath. She looked at Su Xingyuan and shook her head slowly, signaling him not to make any sound.
Su Xingyuan blinked and mouthed, "Really not possible?"
Leafa: “?”
No, what do you want to do?
The black-haired boy smiled and said, "It will only take a moment."
Before he finished speaking, the monster behind the vines, who had heard the human voice, suddenly became excited. The mutterings turned into sharp laughter, and the rustling sounds suddenly increased, as if countless feet were coming towards the inside of the cave!
The next moment, the huge worm's mouthparts moved straight down towards the black-haired boy's head!
Leafa's breathing stagnated, and she wanted to remind him, but it was too late.
The monster was moving so fast that she didn't even have time to look away, let alone save the boy in front of her.
At this moment, the black-haired boy still maintained that expression with his eyes slightly bent, and his green eyes were like the black cat she had seen in her grandfather's house before.
...But soon this expression will be covered with blood.
Leafa didn't think that this person she picked up was any powerful person.
If I were strong enough, I wouldn't have fainted in the forest.
If he hadn't reacted yet, how come his expression didn't change at all?
…
After he dies, I will be the next one, right?
I knew this day would come.
She should have died in the monster's mouth long ago.
“Swish.”
There seemed to be some sound.
She waited for the blood to be spilt, but did not wait for the pain of her body being torn apart by sharp teeth. Leafa's lifeless eyes refocused.
Then, slowly open your eyes wide.
The black-haired boy still maintained that expression. He was not swallowed by the worm's mouthparts as she had imagined. Instead, he pulled out a knife with his left hand, pointed the blade at the side where the monster's body was, and slashed it down at a faster speed, like a falling meteor!
——Before the mouthparts reached his head, it was his knife that split the monster's body vertically into two parts.
The mouthparts and the body broke off in the middle and fell right on either side of him, not even touching a single hair of his.
"I'm a bloody man again."
She heard the black-haired boy complain to himself.
“…”
Her heartbeat was speeding up, almost ringing in her eardrums, her cheeks were flushed with excitement, and she was almost about to burst into tears.
She opened her lips, but her throat was too dry to speak.
"you……"
"How did you get into this forest?"
Su Xingyuan's eyes fell on her, and he noticed something was wrong. He saved the file and said warily, "Walked in?"
Leafa's eyes suddenly lit up amazingly!
The one who walked in… He is not a native of the forest! Yes, how could she forget how long she had been in this forest? How could she not know whether there were other humans in the forest?
She spoke incoherently:
"Yes, there are monsters outside this forest. If you were an ordinary person, you would have been eaten by those monsters before you came in... You can come in because you have the ability to come in, so you can definitely... get out!"
She took a step back and bowed straight towards Su Xingyuan, her forehead hitting the ground with a bang.
"Are you...are you the knight sent by His Majesty the King?"
As if she hadn't felt hope for a long time, her body was shaking and her voice was choked with sobs: "It turns out that His Majesty the King has not given up on us... I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, you risked your life to come here, but I didn't protect the teacher..."
Su Xingyuan didn't let her get up.
The pair of emerald cat eyes calmly scanned the blond NPC in front of him, as if he had considered something for a moment, then he smiled and said:
"It seems that I am indeed the king's knight."
He remained calm and said, "You saw it too. I put a lot of effort into entering this forest. I ended up fainting in the forest and hurt my brain, so I can't remember a lot of things clearly."
"For example..." Su Xingyuan asked, "Who is your teacher?"
Leafa was stunned, and with the little remaining rationality she had, she vaguely felt that the black-haired boy's words were a bit far-fetched, but she had no power to fight those monsters, so she could only believe him at this moment.
She took a deep breath to calm herself down, and answered in a calm voice:
"My teacher is the Empire's number one pharmacist, Lord Cornel. He is an expert in the production and research of therapeutic drugs, and can even bring the dead back to life. No matter how terrible the disease or injury is, he can cure it with just one dose of his medicine."
"Teacher often took me to practice medicine and save lives everywhere, but three months ago, we received a summons from His Majesty the King, saying that a strange epidemic had suddenly appeared in the imperial capital, and asked Teacher to rush back to the imperial capital immediately."
Leafa closed her eyes and said, "... Then, we encountered a monster on our way back to the imperial capital."
When she opened her eyes again, she was filled with deep hatred and self-blame: "In order to protect me, the teacher kept running in the opposite direction of this forest..."
"He is just a pharmacist. He has no powerful martial arts, nor flesh and blood that is invulnerable to swords and guns. He had his legs and arms bitten off by the monster, so he drank a dose of medicine, which made them grow again, and then continued to run away."
She stared blankly at her legs. "He died right in front of me... and before he died he told me to keep living. But he was the one who should be living."
The teacher is the pharmacist who can turn the tide.
Why wasn't she the one who died?
"Is there a spring near here?"
A voice interrupted her thoughts which were sinking deeper and deeper.
Leafa came to her senses and said, "Yes... You can see it if you walk a little further to the east, but be careful not to make too much noise... No, maybe the monster is afraid of your presence."
“…”
Su Xingyuan looked at her and suddenly asked, "You brought me back because you want me to take over as your pharmacist?"
"You seem mentally unstable."
[Name: Leafa]
【Identity: Senior Pharmacist】
[Status: debuff-mental erosion]
"…I am indeed affected by the monster's power. After the sun sets, I get a splitting headache. I am afraid that one day I will not be able to bear it, so I want to find someone to help me preserve these manuscripts and materials."
She took out the clothes she had taken with her when she escaped. Among the clothes was not money or treasures, but a stack of manuscripts.
"On the way to the imperial capital, we discovered that different epidemics had also appeared in other cities, so we compiled the information. Unfortunately, something went wrong on the way before we could bring it back."
Su Xingyuan took the manuscript.
He couldn't understand what was written there, but the game system automatically added the recipes to the workbench.
[[Disease Treatment Formula 1]]
[[Disease Treatment Formula 2]]
…
Su Xingyuan's eyebrows jumped, and without taking the manuscript for another second, he immediately stuffed it back into Leafa's hands and said calmly, "I think it's safer for you to hold these important things."
"And you'd better not die."
He doesn't want to be a supporting role at all.
These are all stand-alone games with red and blue potions, wouldn’t it be nice to have a profession with explosive output?
Up to now, he has almost figured out the mode of special tasks for job transfer, which is to give him a plot line with a high degree of freedom and see what choices he will make.
Different choices will probably lead to different careers.
If he had chosen to stay put like Leafa when he was in the cave just now, waiting quietly for the monsters to leave, and completed the task of collecting the stone-hating flower for Leafa, spent a few days to gain her recognition, became a pharmacist apprentice and got the manuscript, then he should have taken the path of a physician.
The subsequent task arrangements are probably about saving lives and healing the wounded.
Unless he uses the abilities he has learned to kill every person he sees with poison after he goes out, it is possible that he can turn a doctor into a poison doctor.
Su Xingyuan made a quick decision: "Let's leave the forest now."
Since I'm leaving, there will inevitably be monsters to fight, so there's no need to clean the blood stains off my robe.
Leafa didn't ask any more questions, but quickly began to pack her belongings. She had fled to the forest in the first place, and apart from the manuscript, she only had some potions.
When she walked out of the cave, she found the black-haired boy using a gorgeous-looking box as a collection box, carefully collecting corpse-dissolving grass.
Leafa looked at this scene in confusion.
——Regardless of where the shiny box came from, why did he hang the picked corpse-dissolving grass on something that looked like a fishhook?
【Corpse-dissolving grass*21】
【Loaded】
"……what are you up to?"
The black-haired boy smiled, revealing his small fangs, and answered in a sunny and cheerful manner.
"Go fishing, of course."
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