Tang Rui and Jem were walking in the snow-covered forest.
They were friends who had known each other when they were fleeing. Later, they were selected by Mane in the refugee camp outside Viktor, and they were taken to the nameless town to become believers of the God of Games.
"Jem, why did we come so far away..."
Tang Rui, who was dressed as a soldier, looked about twelve or thirteen years old, and his body had not developed due to malnutrition. He looked dry and thin, like a clumsy blue cat.
He walked in the ankle-deep snow with one foot deep and one shallow, and kept complaining: "Isn't it good to stay in a small town?"
"Of course not!" Jem, who is wearing a white robe and carrying a cross on his back, looks a little smaller than Tang Rui, but his eyes are extremely bright, giving the first impression that he is like a clever mouse , the boy said without hesitation at this time: "Now the first half of the Valley of the Dead is always a bunch of people crowded together, it is so messy that there is no way to explore! The cellar of the living dead can't be beaten, if it continues like this, we will never be able to find it for the rest of our lives." I want to change jobs!"
"We can go to Gray Fjord to catch fish. The fish soup cooked by the frogmen over there is delicious." Tang Rui seemed to think of the smell of warm fish soup, so he couldn't help but suck his saliva.
"Although the inner sea of Grayfjord is big and there are many fish, the problem is that we can't catch it!" Jem sighed, "Going there would be better than crowding people in the Valley of the Dead."
"I see that many players have gone to Lancaster's underground stronghold recently, maybe there is something good there!"
Tang Rui tightened the leather jacket on his body, but the metal armor outside the leather jacket was still reducing his body temperature little by little. If it weren't for the several bottles of hot drinks in his backpack, he wouldn't have gone out in this weather even if he was killed.
"Those people want to do the task of 'My Lord's splendor shines on the earth', which is the weekly task of persuading others to become new believers. Those who have completed it say that the reward for that task is very good." Jem walked around aimlessly. Looking down, he replied casually at the same time.
"Then we..." Tang Rui's eyes lit up.
"It is said that many players were reported as cultists by the persuaded residents. Now seven or eight players have been hanged outside Lancaster City. If you want to be treated as a decoration on the city wall, please go ahead."
Jem said blankly.
"That's what I said," Tang Rui could only smirk and try to get away with it: "But you haven't said why we are going here."
"When I went to the temporary lord's mansion to pick up the task of moving bricks, I peeked at the map of the vicinity on the lord's desk. If I'm not mistaken, this direction goes straight ahead, which is called the 'monster forest'. Nia Dalinhai," Jem finally said the purpose of his trip: "There must be a lot of monsters in it, will you worry about not being able to level up by then?"
"Oh, as expected of you!" Tang Rui clapped his hands perfunctorily.
Suddenly, the expressions of both of them became a little serious.
A faint beast smell filled the air, and a moment later, a huge beast jumped out from the snowdrift in the forest, and rushed towards Tang Rui who was walking in front!
Tang Rui's eyes had long lost the lazy feeling before, and he rolled on the ground with a very quick reaction, avoiding the pounce of the beast!
If Edward Elena and the others were present, they would have discovered that this beast that suddenly appeared was actually the same type as the dragon-toothed fang that attacked the village back then!
The lack of food in the frost and mist season obviously also affected the top predator among the non-magic beasts, the Dragon Tooth Fang, and its movements were obviously more irritable than the one that attacked the village.
The two young players just glanced at the lv10 word on each other's head and the half-empty blood bar. After confirming that there was no boss or elite logo, they didn't have any worries and were ready to deal with this guy on the spot
Just when Longtooth Liao was about to pounce for the second time, and Tang Rui and Jem also drew their weapons, a feathered arrow shot into the left eye of Dragontooth Liao, which affected its pounce route. Then a figure wearing a thick fur coat leaped forward and threw the two teenagers who were about to activate their skills to the ground. While interrupting their skills, they also completely avoided the dragon-toothed fangs' pounce.
Immediately afterwards, many figures in heavy leather clothes appeared in the forest, and they used crude bows and arrows, dung forks and other weapons to carry out saturated blows at the dragon-toothed fangs that were blind in one eye, and they were hung with unknown weapons. How many feathered arrows and dragon-toothed dung forks smashed two trees angrily, and finally died unwillingly.
Those people in leather clothes couldn't help cheering excitedly when they saw this.
It wasn't until this time that Tang Rui and Jem came back to their senses, feeling dumbfounded... They were robbed by a group of ordinary hunters? No, maybe some of these guys aren't even hunters, considering the weapons.
Looking at the men who seemed to be lurking around here early on, their bare hands and faces blue from the cold, Jem couldn't express his last complaint.
"Which village are you children from?" The middle-aged man who threw them down asked them at the same time as he pulled them up from the snow in turn.
"We're from the Valley of the Dead..." Jem hinted to Tang Rui not to speak, but he himself replied vaguely.
The other party didn't suspect him, but just blamed his head and face: "You adults don't care? You came to this kind of place randomly, don't you know how dangerous the forest is in the frost and fog season!"
It's not dangerous and I'm not coming yet. Jem murmured to himself.
If the man continued to preach, Jem might turn back. Fortunately, the other party had no such intention, and his expression became gentle after he said a few words.
"Forget it, it's rare to hunt this beast, you also come to our village to drink a bowl of broth? I'll send you back when it warms up." The middle-aged man asked them for advice.
Tang Rui looked at Jem, who nodded.
The other party seemed to have only good intentions, and there was no need to refuse.
Taking a step back, it doesn't matter if the other party has any malicious intentions in their hearts. I wait for the players to be fearless. Anyway, I will die if I die, but after that, I will definitely let them know what a player's anger is!
At this time, other villagers also tied the dragon-toothed tusks to a wooden frame they did not know where to get, and a dozen people carried it away.
Jem couldn't help but feel that they were so stupid, even if the frame was used directly as a sled, it would save more effort than this...
But seeing that the villagers seemed to be very happy, he felt that they were probably proud of it, so he didn't say anything.
It didn't take long for the crowd to arrive at a nearby village. It was a small village hidden in the valley, with about thirty or forty families, and the number of people in a single round might be more than that of an unnamed town.