"Brother Wang, what did you tell them just now?" Wang Meng went to talk to Yun Ruoyao and Yi Qianying, but Pei Ziao didn't follow, so he asked suspiciously.
"I invited Yun Ruoyao and Yi Qianying to form a team with us." Wang Meng didn't hide anything, but his behavior of cutting first and playing later made Pei Ziao feel very uncomfortable.
Moreover, Pei Ziao didn't want to get too close to Yi Qianying, so he said, "Why can't we form a team, what's the benefit of bringing the two of them?"
These words made Wang Meng choke. Forming a group is beneficial, for example, they can work together to deal with high-level monsters, and go to more dangerous places to obtain high-level elixir.
But there are also many disadvantages, such as the need to share the spoils evenly, and there must be a certain amount of trust among the team members.
Yun Ruoyao's cultivation was not bad, already a top level five swordsman, but Yi Qianying's cultivation was not high, bringing her along would not improve the team's combat effectiveness. More importantly, there is no trust between them.
Facing Pei Ziao's questioning, Wang Meng smiled embarrassedly after a brief silence: "To tell you the truth, Brother Pei, I had a good impression of Miss Yun when I first saw her, so I thought Use this opportunity to get closer to her."
Wang Meng's words were beyond Pei Ziao's expectation, but after thinking about it, it made sense. Although Wang Meng and Yun Ruoyao had no previous encounters, they were both talented and beautiful when they stood together, and their identities were still the same. Not much difference.
"I originally only wanted to take Miss Yun with me, but that Miss Yi who just married the prince has already formed a team with Miss Yun, so I have no choice but to take her along." Along the way, Wang Meng has already seen that Pei Ziao didn't like Yi Qianying's dislike, so he spoke.
"Unexpectedly, Brother Wang is still a flirtatious person." Pei Ziao and Wang Kuang have hung out together before, but they don't have much interaction with Wang Kuang, a genius-like figure.
This time, his father, Pei Yingxiong, also learned that Wang Meng was going to enter the Kongming Academy's trial site, and specially prepared a generous gift to ask Wang Meng to take care of him more.
In Pei Ziao's image, Wang Meng has always been a person who devotes himself to refining medicine, and he doesn't like other things very much. I didn't expect him to have a good impression of Yun Ruoyao, but it is very rare.
"To be honest, I'm not a womanizer, but I have a special liking for this young lady of the Yun family, so I ask Brother Pei to help me." Wang Meng said very politely.
A genius like Wang Meng, Pei Ziao's father wanted to call him a brother, and now he was talking about Pei Ziao's brother Pei, of course Pei Ziao was embarrassed to refuse his request, so he nodded and agreed.
Although Wang Meng's invitation was not accepted in person by Yun Ruoyao and Yi Qianying, he was very accurate in judging people, and he had already seen that Yun Ruoyao was someone with ambitions.
And the opposite team was obviously scumbags, they couldn't satisfy Yun Ruoyao's ambitions. Wang Meng just had to wait for the good news from Yun Ruoyao and Yi Qianying the next day.
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Zhuo Yifeng kept watch at night, and the three of Yun Ruoyan soon fell asleep. Yun Ruoyan felt that she had just fallen asleep when Zhuo Yifeng's voice rang in her ears.
"Wake up, wake up, the water monster wants to attack us." Zhuo Yifeng's voice was low and anxious.
Yun Ruoyan woke up all of a sudden, following Zhuo Yifeng's gaze, Yun Ruoyan saw several tentacles sticking out of the water by the lake through the night.
The tentacles were slowly extending towards where they were sitting, as if they wanted to attack at night.
Yun Ruoyan hurriedly pushed Lin Qingchen and Lin Qingxue to wake up again. After they woke up, the tentacle was already in front of them.
Lin Qingxue almost cried out when she saw the black, sticky and thick tentacles at first glance, but Yun Ruoyan covered her mouth, signaling her not to make a sound.
The four took out their weapons and just squatted in place, holding their breath and trying not to make any movement.
The surface of the lake was obviously calm, and the real body of the octagonal ghost creature was not seen out of the water, but those tentacles seemed to have eyes, and they stretched out in the direction of the four people without any mistakes.
"cut!"
When those tentacles stretched out in front of Yun Ruoyan and the others, Yun Ruoyan yelled. Several people swung down their weapons at the same time, slashing at the tentacles closest to them.
Yun Ruoyan chopped off with a fine steel knife, and a piece of the tentacle was cut off, and at the same time, the other three also cut off a piece of the tentacle.
The thick tentacles were cut, and the broken limbs of the tentacles writhed on the sand for a while. At the same time, the eight-legged ghost made a muffled whistling sound from the water surface because of the pain, and huge bubbles gurgled from the water surface, like It's like boiling water.
Holding the steel sword in Yun Ruoyan's hand, he made another strike towards the twisting tentacles. The eight-legged ghost was obviously enraged, and the rest of the tentacles were thrown towards Yun Ruoyan like whips.
Yun Ruoyan rolled back to hide, and Lin Qingchen and Lin Qingxue immediately rushed over to help.
However, Zhuo Yifeng retreated to the back, bent his bow and set an arrow, as long as the eight-legged ghost's head was out of the water, he would shoot it out.
But the eight-legged ghost creature never showed its head, just flung a few tentacles and fought with the three of Yun Ruoyan.
The tentacles are unkillable, and they are very long. The part that Yun Ruoyan and the others cut off is just a drop in the bucket to the eight-legged ghost creature, and it can't do much harm to it except for making it a little painful.
What Yun Ruoyan and the others didn't expect was that this eight-legged ghost creature was an extremely cunning monster. When Yun Ruoyan and the others were discussing how to deal with it on the shore, it heard it underwater.
That's why there was a sneak attack at night, but it was obvious that Yun Ruoyan and the others were much more cautious than those in the afternoon. Not only did the Octagonal Ghost Creature fail to make a successful sneak attack, but they were severely beaten up by them.
Because it was too cautious, it never showed its head, and finally was chased by Yun Ruoyan and the others and hid in the water again.
"Qingxue, stop chasing her." Seeing that Lin Qingchen was about to sink into the water after chasing a tentacle all the way, Yun Ruoyan immediately stopped her.
The light is not good at night, and the eight-legged ghost creature is an underwater animal, it must not rely on the eyes. Yun Ruoyan suspects that those tentacles must have senses similar to the sense of smell, and they can judge a person's position based on the smell.
Therefore, it doesn't need to reveal its real body at all, and can find their exact positions just by relying on its tentacles.
If it is chased into the water at night, the human line of sight will be blocked, which will be very disadvantageous. Therefore, Yun Ruoyan and the others did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but continued to wait for the dawn.
Several people put away their weapons and walked back from the lake. Zhuo Yifeng also put away his bow, looked at the tentacles that were still writhing on the ground, and said, "There will be something to eat tomorrow."
"What? Eat this!" Lin Qingxue stared at the tentacles on the ground and yelled in disbelief, "I will never eat it, even if I am starved to death."
They were newcomers, they were not familiar with this place, so they didn't rush into the forest to hunt, so they were hungry.
Yun Ruoyan was even hungrier after a fight just now, so hungry that she couldn't sleep, so she simply started to watch in the middle of the night.
When it was just dawn, Zhuo Yifeng got up and began to pick up those tentacles.
He sliced the tentacles, pierced them with sharpened sticks, smeared them with the seasonings he brought with him, and roasted them on the fire. After a while, he smelled burnt.
"It smells so good!" Lin Qingxue sat up, and before she could open her eyes, she began to sniff her nose vigorously.
Lin Qingxue held a skewer in one hand, and her mouth was full of sweetness, without any image at all.
"Didn't you say you wouldn't even eat if you were starving to death?" Lin Qingchen said with a smile, looking at Lin Qingxue who was devouring.
Lin Qingxue replied without changing her face: "It's fortunate that brother Zhuo didn't let me see when he was handling those tentacles, otherwise I would definitely not be able to eat them. Now that they are made into food, I can barely eat some."
After a few people had breakfast, they began to arrange how to kill the eight-legged ghost.
The Eight-legged Ghost Beetle has a cautious and cunning character. It suffered a loss last night, and today Zhuo Yifeng directly roasted and ate its tentacles. Just now, he blatantly cleaned the sliced tentacles by the lake, which must have scared it out of its wits.
"I'll go into the water to lure it out." Yun Ruoyan said, "Then Zhuo Yifeng will find an opportunity to shoot it."
Back in the Royal Secret Realm, Yun Ruoyan only had the cultivation of a fourth-level swordsman to dare to compete with the giant-toothed tiger, but now a seventh-level swordsman was naturally not afraid of eight-legged ghosts.
Even if Yun Ruoyan couldn't kill it with her current strength, she wouldn't let it threaten her safety.
"Sister Ruoyan." Lin Qingchen and Lin Qingxue called out at the same time.
"Although the eight-legged ghost is not a high-level monster, it is not as high as the giant tooth tiger, but it is underwater. No matter how good your water skills are, you still need to breathe. It will be very dangerous if you continue like this." Lin Qingxue quickly expressed her worries. He said it all at once.
Lin Qingchen and Zhuo Yifeng also frowned and nodded, obviously they were also worried about this.
"Don't worry, since I dare to do this, I must be sure."
Yun Ruoyan smiled faintly. Her confident smile was very convincing to the other three, because no matter what happened in the royal secret realm or after she came out of the royal secret realm, Yun Ruoyan would always able to resolve.
Even though those things seemed unsolvable to them, Yun Ruoyan seemed to be able to make the impossible possible.
So facing Yun Ruoyan's confident smile and tone, the three couldn't help but believe her.
"Don't worry, wait for me to lure it up." Yun Ruoyan said, turned around and got into the water.
Yun Ruoyan jumped into the water, and immediately took the fish monster inner pill around her neck into her mouth. With the effect of the fish pill, she could breathe freely. The feeling of being able to breathe freely underwater is amazing.
She pulled out the black iron dagger that Li Mo had given her from her trouser leg and put it in her mouth together with the fish pellets. Without her breathing being blocked, Yun Ruoyan dived all the way to the bottom of the water.
After diving for about ten meters, Yun Ruoyan saw the eight-legged ghost creature entrenched in the bottom of the water. Its black body was like a hill, and its eight tentacles were slowly dancing around the hill-like body.