Chapter 263: 263、The Devil Ascends the Mountain (Part 2)
Translator: Sparrow Translations Editor: Sparrow Translations
To tell the truth, Lu Shu was not the kind of person to suddenly turn compa.s.sionate and risk his own life to protect people he hardly knew. Everyone were of the same ident.i.ty; they held military ranks and were paid. Lu Shu was not duty-bound to protect them.
There was no reason for Lu Shu to follow them into peril when they were so adamant about going into where he thought would be dangerous. Who the h.e.l.l knows what these trees could be up to?
Of course, there was no best, Lu Shu still thought it would be prudent to observe for a night.
The last time, weren’t the skeletons more aggressive at night in at the Beimang remains? This was an invaluable lesson Lu Shu gleaned from the experience at the previous remains.
However, he was also not the kind who would look on while others faced imminent danger, so he would still talk when there was a need to.
In the face of the issue of life and death for these people, Lu Shu was serious for once.
Lu Shu’s words made Wei Qianyi hesitant. Nevertheless, their feeling about Lu Shu was still trapped in their first impression, of him being unreliable. Moreover, the trees had not changed one bit after all this while.
“Let’s go,” Wei Qianyi said calmly. “Thank you for your reminder, but I still think you’re making too much of a fuss. What we should do now is to meet up with the rest of our cla.s.smates and our teachers.”
To be honest, all these people who thought they know Lu Shu well enough ought to know, should they truly know him well, that few things in this world can make him so serious…
Lu Shu chuckled, “It would of course be best if all’s well, but do remember to run back here when there’s h.e.l.l.”
Still, he added after giving a few deep sighs, “I hope that all of you here would not let your impression of me previously affect your judgement. I am dead serious this time.”
Previously, there were still some who were sceptical of the fact that Lu Shu would really stay there alone. After all, this was utterly unbelievable to them. To ask themselves honestly, would they dare to stay alone?
Even if they were to return to this forest and have gained an experience of what they would possibly encounter, they would probably still opt to stay with the other cla.s.smates? Moreover, in this group was the one and only Cla.s.s D expert of the whole party. Wei Qianyi had already received from the Heavenly Network the standard spiritual instrument longsword. They felt that there would be a greater sense of security in staying with this genius.
However, from the look of it now, Lu Shu seemed to truly want to stay behind alone!
Wei Qianyi pondered for a moment and said, “Thanks for the reminder, but I shall still stick to my decision. As for everyone else, you can stay behind should you choose to.”
Everyone looked at one another until someone finally said, “We will go with you.”
Lu Shu was no longer anxious about their situation. He merely collected merrily all the leaves that could be use and brought them to the center of the open field, just like an industrious bee at work…
Lu Shu looked at the mound of leaves he had collected, among them were some dry twigs. However, he was shocked by how the twigs were entangled in bones. It seemed less likely that they had broken off themselves than the fact that the animals had broken them in their death throes.
At this point in time, Lu Shu would never believe if anyone said the trees posed no threat.
Still, if these small animals, which were far weaker than himself, could also break the twigs, would entering the forest be a risk for Lu Shu, with his lance, his Corpsedog and also his consummate Cla.s.s D pinnacle power?
The question was…without any distress points, what’s the point of entering…
Furthermore, looking at the situation now, Lu Xiaoyu, with her Cla.s.s D intermediate capabilities and her equally capable BlackSoul, should have no problem traversing the forest too.
Lu Shu was relieved to think of this. To be honest, he had been really worried that this place would become the burial ground for the students of Daoyuan Cla.s.s.
…
Lu Shu looked at his little mound of twigs and leaves in satisfaction… this would probably be sufficient to last a fire till the next morning.
He had zero experience with camping out in the field and therefore knew not how long could they burn. He shall simply pick as many as he could…
Compared to the Daoyuan Cla.s.s students and the Heavenly Network, Lu Shu had an edge over them…he possessed the Seal of Lands.
The principle function of the Seal to control the magical energy could not be put to use here, of course, but if it was just used as a spatial equipment, it would make life out in the field so much better.
From inside, Lu Shu took out a lighter and a small milk pan, and a large bucket of clean freshwater. With a smile on his face, he divided some branches and leaves, surrounded them with rocks and lit a small bonfire.
He broke a hardtack biscuit into two and dropped one half into the milk pan and added some water. After keeping everything else, he commenced his wait expectantly for the pan to heat up. Very soon, a pan of hardtack porridge was done cooking…
This was in fact Lu Shu’s first experience with survival in the wild and everything was a new experience.
Dangerous or not, Lu Su felt that such a relaxing and comfortable camp beats walking long distance with the light waning in the forest hands down.
He wondered…how is Xiaoyu coping?
If not for the fact that the Seal of Lands had already recognized a master, Lu Shu had wished for Lu Xiaoyu to keep it with her, then stuff her bag with more snacks.
Lu Shu sat looking up at the already graying sky, “Don’t even know if Xiaoyu would be hungry, if she can find a place to sleep, if she had discovered the peculiarities of this forest…”
He was only seventeen, but was already wearing the troubled face of one burdened with mortgage and car loans…
All of a sudden, the screen of the back-end income recorder came to life, jolting Lu Shu.
“From brown bear’s distress, +1+1+1+1…”
“From tri-coloured pit viper’s distress, +1+1+1+1…”
“From wolf-jawed spider’s distress, +1+1+1…”
“From white-headed ape’s distress, +1+1+1…”
Putt! Lu Shu spat out his hardtack porridge in surprise…What on Earth is Xiaoyu doing?
Did she just wallop a whole bunch of forest animals?!
His face melancholic, images of Lu Xiaoyu’s exploit started running across Lu Shu’s mind. Lu Xiaoyu, with her Cla.s.s D intermediate black spirit, pursuing a whole bunch of small animals fleeing for their dear lives…
So utterly…vivid…
This feeling was akin to seeing a quiet little girl always by his side suddenly turned into the devil’s incarnate once out of the door.
Why was he worried about Lu Xiaoyu…he should save his worries for the small animals in this forest!
Honestly speaking, the black soul had been promoted to the power level Cla.s.s D intermediate after eating the soul pearl, and Lu Xiaoyu herself was also of the Cla.s.s D intermediate power level. Judging from the Cla.s.s E capabilities of the cloud falcon and tri-coloured pit viper just now, Lu Xiaoyu could certainly have the ability to thrash all the small animals in the forest.
Moreover, the black soul was absolutely fearless, fighting anywhere and everywhere Lu Xiaoyu summoned it to. It was also resistant to poison and could always return to Xiaoyu’s celestial map to recuperate rapidly if hurt, as long as Lu Xiaoyu had sufficient celestial energy…
It was certainly…frightening.
Lu Shu was just thinking of going to bully some small animals to rapidly build up distress points. As it turned out, Lu Xiaoyu already helped him with it before he had even started.