Chapter 35

Chapter 35

“Is this how you fish, ahhhhhh—?!”

In the originally silent forest, a devastating scream suddenly rang out.

In the forest where the trees blocked out the sun, a black-haired boy was seen moving nimbly between the branches with such speed that the leaves and vines could not touch him at all - if he was not carrying a blonde girl on his back who seemed to be riding a roller coaster.

"yes."

A cheerful voice with a smile rang out.

At the same time, the black-haired boy landed on the fork of a thick tree again. The moment he fell, he unloaded the force and then exploded in the blink of an eye like a spring.

He was like a nimble swallow or a swift cheetah, leaping out of his position at a speed that no one could react to. His left hand grasped the vine at the moment of leaping, and his movement swung through the woods without any hesitation, as if his behavior had been designed and practiced thousands of times in advance.

"Don't let it go." He reminded lightly, then suddenly spun in the air and swung the fishing rod in his right hand towards the monster that was following them non-stop!

This was a calculated angle and distance. The fishing line was thrown out with force, and a very thin silver light suddenly exploded in the forest!

"bite!"

The silver hook, loaded with all its swift and powerful force, embedded itself into the monster's hard shell without any deviation!

"squeak--!!"

The monster cried out in pain, and its seemingly hard shell was broken in an instant. The fishhook left a deep bloody mark on it. However, it was not the fishhook that was fatal, but the "bait" hanging on it.

【Corpse-dissolving grass*3】

The corpse-dissolving grass that came into contact with flesh and blood rotted in that instant, oozing out a dark, corrosive poison.

The monster didn't even have time to let out a more tragic howl before it melted into a pool of black water and sank beneath the surface.

At the same time, the black-haired boy who had already found a foothold simply turned his wrist, lifted the fishing rod towards himself, and collected it back in his hand before the fishing line and hook could get caught on trees and vines.

"Be careful--!" Leafa was almost scared to death. Seeing that he held the fishhook safely and was not touched by the corpse-dissolving grass, her heart that was about to jump out was barely retracted. Her whole limbs went limp and she let go of the black-haired boy. She held onto the branch of the tree, gasping for breath and coughing.

The black-haired boy, who had been fighting with more than a dozen monsters in the forest for so long, running and jumping constantly, but still breathing steadily, blinked and looked at her curiously:

"Why do you look more tired than me?"

Leafa: "..." Why don't you have any idea about this? !

When the black-haired boy was playing - yes, he was playing - he didn't care at all whether there was someone behind him. Several times, she felt that she was almost thrown out by the black-haired boy!

From childhood to adulthood, she had never been so grateful for the arm strength she had developed from years of climbing mountains to pick herbs and helping teachers.

Otherwise, she suspected that she was left behind in the woods, and the black-haired boy had to wait until everything was done before he made a puzzled sound: "Where is the person I'm carrying?"

——In fact, Su Xingyuan really did this.

After all, everything that could barely be considered a chase was just a small game in the big game for him.

He needed to find a suitable foothold to make his series of actions coherent so as not to be chased and blocked by the monsters lying in ambush everywhere;

Also pay attention to the space the fishing rod has to play, so that the hook can be thrown out instead of getting caught on leaves, or being unable to be retrieved after being thrown out, resulting in the mistake of having to put it back into the backpack and then take it out again.

Therefore, he could be said to be fully focused and naturally did not pay much attention to the bag behind him. In the previous files, Leafa was thrown out by him and pulled back urgently no less than three times.

And in the previous episode, he had already dealt with all the monsters and walked out of the forest, only then did he belatedly remember something that seemed very important.

Su Xingyuan: “…”

Oh no.

He did come out, but he didn't take anyone with him.

Players who were having so much fun that they forgot their mission objectives were forced to return to the previous game in a panic.

After the previous lessons, Su Xingyuan has actually restrained himself a lot this time.

Specifically, at least he didn't do a desperate backflip while carrying Leafa on his back.

"Ahem, ahem..." Leafa calmed her breathing and asked, "Are we out?"

"It seems so." Su Xingyuan put away his fishing rod, and all the red dots on the small map had disappeared.

He looked beyond the forest.

The sun was setting, the horizon was filled with red clouds, wild grass grew on the ground, and there was no sign of human habitation.

"There is a village a little further east." Leafa also looked over and said, "Then we will see the road that His Majesty the King has repaired. If we walk east along the road, we will reach the royal city."

Su Xingyuan nodded and jumped down from the tree carrying Leafa.

He just took a step eastward and turned his head silently to look at Leafa.

Leafa instantly got goosebumps all over her body and said in horror: "I don't have the strength to pull you away now!"

Su Xingyuan smiled.

Then he took out four stone slabs on the spot, and under Leafa's dazed expression, he smoothed all four corners of them on the stones beside him. Even the movement of grinding the slabs left afterimages, and four freshly made round stone slabs were finally produced.

...Leafa couldn't ask "What are you going to do?" anymore. She was tired.

But when the black-haired boy moved her into the coffin, she immediately sat up in shock from her dying illness, and gripped the edge of the coffin in horror, refusing to get down even if she died.

"Huh? Don't you like my handiwork?"

The black-haired boy tilted his head slightly and said in confusion.

Putting wheels under the coffin, what a perfect makeshift four-wheel drive vehicle, he obviously thought it was perfect.

Leafa: "..." Who made this coffin by hand? !

Wait, you call this handicraft? !

Leafa collapsed.

But Su Xingyuan thought it was okay. Doesn’t handmade work using coffins as raw materials still count as handmade work? He had finally dug this coffin out of the ground, and killed dozens of undead skeletons in the process, obtaining [Human Bones*30].

He comforted her, "The dead inside have long since become wandering ghosts. Don't be afraid."

Leafa: "Thank you. I'm even more scared now."

But she also knew that her speed was a burden to Su Xingyuan, so she gritted her teeth, endured the strange smell in the coffin, and lay down. Before lying down, she said vigilantly: "You won't shake me out, will you?"

The black-haired boy smiled brightly: "Of course not."

The next moment, a familiar fishing rod appeared in his hand.

…

Ten minutes later.

Su Xingyuan put away his fishing rod and looked towards the village in front of him. At the same time, he stretched out his hand to stop the coffin cart that was still rushing forward due to inertia.

"We're here."

He turned around and saw Leafa crawling out of the coffin like a dead person, and gave herself a dose of medicine before almost vomiting on the ground.

Well, the life is back, Leafa thought with lifeless eyes.

After taking a few breaths, she raised her head and looked towards the village, then froze.

Su Xingyuan noticed her expression and said nothing, giving her time to react.

"It's not like that... I've been here before, and it's not like this..." She suddenly said, stumbling to the ground and walking towards the village, "Is anyone here? Is anyone else here? Uncle Anruya? Sister Jiali——"

Su Xingyuan calmly broke her fantasy: "This place is too close to the forest. Since there are monsters stationed outside the forest, they probably won't let this village go."

He opened a door casually and saw dried blood inside.

"Would you like something to eat?" Su Xingyuan took out the desserts he had stockpiled from his backpack and handed them to Leafa.

Leafa's dejected eyes fell on his hand, and then she reacted and slowly took the food.

The Pleiades Principle began observing and searching nearby.

The features of some of the destroyed houses correspond to the monsters he had killed before, so they should be the same batch.

Most of the food in the village had gone bad, but some of the pickled food was still edible. He put the food into his backpack and prepared to give it to Leafa to fill her stomach on the road.

The people living here are ordinary villagers. He opened the boxes where things were stored and found only some ordinary cloth and farm tools.

When Suxingyuan opens the game panel, the [Home] button is gray, which means that when the player enters the copy process, he cannot return to the safe point at will.

The space in his backpack was not enough. He thought about it, recalled the flow and feeling of magic when he entered his home before, tried to connect across the system, and finally opened a portal with a diameter of about half a foot in front of him.

However, compared to returning home in full force, doing so would consume nearly half of his intelligence.

Su Xingyuan stuffed all the farm tools and cloth in, then closed the portal. After all, if this thing was always open, it would consume his intelligence. It would be fun to wait until the intelligence value dropped below five again.

Su Xingyuan was in a good mood after figuring out the new function. He returned to his original place and saw Leafa sorting her medicinal herbs.

"Let's go." Leafa counted the potions and manuscripts again, raised her head and said.

Su Xingyuan: "Okay."

Along the way, almost every village and town looked deserted, as if the world had been destroyed during the three months that Leafa was trapped in the forest.

However, the closer to the royal capital, the more traces of human survival can be seen in Suxingyuan.

"They must have been taken away by the soldiers." Su Xingyuan stood up. "There are horse hoof prints on the ground, and no bloodstains nearby. The people in the town evacuated in advance."

Leafa murmured: "So they should all be here now..."

Before she could finish her words, she was suddenly picked up by the black-haired boy and taken to the rooftop of a house nearby.

In the distance, footsteps were heard, accompanied by hoarse and unpleasant conversations.

"That group of humans... haven't yet..."

"The Demon King will appear at the latest the day after tomorrow..."

"Tonight is the last siege on the city. They won't be able to hold out for long..."

They were several humanoid creatures with horns and extremely long limbs. They held a spear in their hands, and a child's head was hung on the top of the spear.

After they finished discussing the siege, one of them boasted, "I caught this kid from the cellar. He was suffocated a few days ago. He's so fresh!"

Hearing this, Leafa's pupils shrank and she bit her lower lip so hard that her nails almost dug into her flesh.

The humanoid creature was still saying proudly: "I'll use it as a drink tonight--"

“Swish.”

A silver light flashed without any warning.

"……vegetable……?"

A very thin line of blood appeared on the neck of the humanoid creature, and then the strange-looking head, which still maintained a smug expression, suddenly rolled down like an unarranged building block.

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