The countryside at night is not as beautiful as the story says. For people who are accustomed to city life, the tranquility here is worse than dead silence. The darkness here is like a solid, not to mention the layers of smoke that fill the air on time at dinner time.

smoke.

"You still need to kill thirty kobolds." Roach said, crouching behind a dark bush. "There is no other quick upgrade route."

He looked up at the layers of smoke rushing towards him under the moonlight, "Are you okay? Even if I don't freeze to death, I will almost choke to death from the smoke."

No one responded to his words. Roach poked his head out from behind the bushes. In the silent wilderness, even his own breathing was harsh. He stood in a northern forest, with the decaying grass covered with thick grass.

There was snow, the woods were empty, and the cold wind of early spring roared through the mountains and forests like a whip, penetrating into the bones. The village was at the end of the hillside at his feet, and the lights were dim. From the mountain to the bottom, there was not even a ghost in sight.

No.

Damn it, I didn’t even know to say anything when I left. Luo Qi muttered in a low voice in annoyance.

In fact, he was not really upset. Things had advanced to this point, and he was only excited.

A few hours ago, he and Du Zhengyi analyzed the current situation. They must force the believers of the Pure Land Temple to make an urgent wish. Roach broke the matter down into several key parts, namely, the believers and the urgent wish.

The environment and the difficulty of completing the task should be as high as possible. If this is a game, then this sentence can be replaced by - the task NPC of this map, the conditions for unlocking the task, and the high experience value task.

"Once this task is completed, they may be introduced to the chief!" This is what he told Du Zhengyi. In order to let Du Zhengyi understand his metaphor, he later guided Du Zhengyi to play the game. As a result, later

Just as he expected, although Du Zhengyi had an expressionless face, he rose to level fifteen without letting go of Guan Xinyue's mouse. It wasn't until Luo Qi urged him to go out to work that he went out with a straight face.

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As for the specific analysis process, first of all, believers are well positioned. According to Guan Xinyue, there are a large number of Pure Land Temple believers in this village, and the Christian church next door with a red love sign cannot compete with the Pure Land Temple.

Luo Qi felt that this place was somehow very similar to the novice village in the game. In order to create tasks, they should create a certain crisis for the village. This is the urgent wish-making environment. In other words, it forces NPCs to post tasks. The greater the crisis, the greater the risk.

According to the temple's calculation method, the greater the merit attached to the wish you make.

After discussing with Guan Xinyue and revising his ideas again and again, Luo Qi generally had some ideas. He sketched an outline of the plan in his mind. The trouble in the village cannot be as huge as landslides and ground cracks, otherwise they will not be able to escape.

Don't be too deviant from common sense, otherwise it will be difficult to explain to the school when you go back. Therefore, this trouble must be very secular and cannot be separated from the common things of country people.

After that, Guan Xinyue went home, to her grandmother and father's house. They didn't know how many days they would be staying here. Guan Xinyue didn't have to wait here all the time, and she couldn't stay away from home. She was leaving.

Before, she confirmed the phone number with him again. In the last lie to each other, at least the phone number was true. Finally, they added WeChat, and he also promised that if there was any trouble here, he would

Tell her everything in detail on WeChat.

In the end, Roach decided to create a crisis in the temple, and out-of-control wild dogs with rabies symptoms were the best choice.

He and Du Zhengyi had been inspecting the terrain around the village in detail and making plans. Mages were once very good at controlling animals, but after humans ended the cold weapon era, mages no longer used them. The reason is simple, psychic

Animal technology is gradually no longer of much use, and animals no longer have the upper hand in the face of firearms. Moreover, humans are almost exterminating all animals. Do mages have to channel common hens and goldfish? As mages give up

Most of the gathering areas have gradually become deeper and deeper into human society, and skills such as summoning and necromancy that are not easy to hide have lost even the last bit of their existence value.

Fortunately, mages have recently stepped away from the retro trend, and the school's History Department has restored some ancient magics, including summoning and necromancy. The History Department once held a wonderful academic report for this purpose, and Roach expressed this

He was deeply impressed. He was also very fortunate that Du Zhengyi was not picky and picked up miscellaneous knowledge. He knew at least some knowledge in all fields and was well aware of his school's innovative projects.

The only thing Luo Qi was worried about was that Du Zhengyi's strength couldn't be controlled freely. After all, they were in a human village now. They couldn't really cause any big trouble. They must not let the psychic beast hurt people, otherwise he would be in trouble in the future.

I can no longer caress my conscience.

Du Zhengyi talked little when doing business, and said nothing when checking the terrain in front of and behind the village and in the mountains, which made Luo Qi very worried. Luo Qi himself chattered endlessly and designed a vertical and horizontal route to make it easier for Du Zhengyi's mad dog to pass through.

, Du Zhengyi ignored him. He warned him about things to pay attention to like an old mother, but Du Zhengyi still ignored him. He wanted to say something else in exchange for some interaction, so he started to talk about Du Zhengyi's game strategy, but now

Well, Du Zheng disappeared without saying a word.

Now Luo Qi was standing alone in the mountain forest, feeling that the wind was getting stronger and stronger. Although the temperature was still very low, there was already some shadow of the spring wind. He raised his head and looked at the top of the tree, and could see through the sparse branches.

Thin clouds were flowing in the sky, and the edge of the half-moon hanging high on the mountaintop was getting clearer and clearer. The haze was gradually dissipating in the strong wind, and he smelled a trace of real air, coming from deep in the mountains and forests, with the fragrance of earth.

A gust of wind stopped at this moment, silence enveloped the forest again, and Luo Qi heard a subtle sound of crushing dead branches.

"Brother?" he asked softly. No one answered him, so he asked again tentatively, "Du Zhengyi?"

He listened carefully, and another gust of wind blew, and he could hear nothing but the sound of wind. An instinct that sent chills down his spine made him lean against the thick trunk of an old tree.

At about this time, the first long howl like a wolf and a dog came from the bottom of the mountain, and several black shadows ran across the path between the cottages. Roach could almost hear their heavy footsteps. Then, the whole village

All the dogs started barking.

Du Zhengyi's actions were all over the place. Luo Qi was distracted by the chaos at the bottom of the mountain. The lights in the village were lit one after another. The villagers, who had always saved electricity, finally spent a lot of money.

Luo Qi felt sorry for them, and began to wonder if there was anything else he had to say to Du Zhengyi. I don’t know when it started, but the wind stopped again, the mountains were quiet, and the noise in the village sounded like it was through a goldfish bowl.

All of Roach's senses were amplified by the silence.

He shuddered, woke up from the disturbing thoughts, raised his head blankly, and finally stared at the dark woods a few steps away. The pale bark of several birch trees reflected faintly in the moonlight.

of light.

It was as if there was a wind blowing, in the opposite direction to the wind just now. There was a faint static electricity in the wind, as light as an illusion, but it was the sting of fear. It seemed to be the deepest fear and the most primitive instinct engraved in the genes.

across his spine. He lowered his head involuntarily, lowered his body's center of gravity, and curled up his neck.

A tingling sensation passed through his left hand, like the excitement you get after drinking six cups of strong coffee in a row.

It happened at this moment. The lowered viewing angle allowed him to look at a pair of green eyes that were shining under the moonlight. The thing was definitely not a human being, but it was as high as an adult man's chest. He was blurry.

I knew it was a huge thing.

Roach's mind went blank, and then instinct took over his body. He suddenly shrank down and rolled to the grass beside him.

The sound of wind behind his ears almost immediately passed by, and the fierce force that passed by made him think that the thing would definitely hit the tree.

However, the heavy footsteps behind him fell lightly, and the thing had an agility that did not match its weight. Roach did not dare to stop at all, and rolled a few times, in case the thing immediately launched a second attack.

There was silence in the wind. Roach got up from the ground in shock. He didn't know whether he should be confused or afraid. He put some strength in his hands and looked up at the place where he was standing two meters away. Unexpectedly, the focus distance was completely different.

That was right or wrong. As soon as he raised his head, his whole body was exhausted and he almost collapsed to the ground. A pair of bright eyes looked at him close at hand. The thing just followed him silently. His

The hairs on my hair stood on end, and I opened my mouth to make a sound, but in the end I only got a mouthful of cold night wind, mixed with the cold light snow blown up by the wind.

Damn it.

He finished the curse word in his mind.

He thought of the cat catching the mouse, approaching silently, calculating cunningly, and only striking out the fatal blow at the right time. Now he was the mouse, and the giant ginger cat was majestic, and his bright eyes actually seemed like

He also has an IQ. Did he really see a lion?

He suddenly became angry. Did Du Zhengyi know the rules and told him that he wanted a dog? Could it be that he couldn't even tell the difference between a lion and a dog? Or was this how he understood the word "lion dog"? A kind of behavior

A yellow dog that is three meters long and weighs 500 pounds? After he is done, he will explain to Du Zhengyi what human language is.

Luo Qi suddenly felt a chill. Could it be that these things were running around in the village below now? He had already thought about the scenario where he would never get his diploma.

He suppressed the primitive timidity in his body. He knew that these were lions bred in a laboratory. Their brains were different from those of real lions. They were not as complete as lions in nature. In other words, they were better than those in natural ecology.

Lions are much stupider, which is why animal protectionists have always opposed the restoration of necromancy and summoning. It is a bit inhumane to create such things. Their incomplete brains are waiting for the human mind to be combined with them to combine their

Self-repairing and complete. They are more like the kind of mecha that humans long to realize. Part of Du Zhengyi's thoughts must be wandering in its mind at the moment. Maybe it is just some subconscious and some simple instructions, but in the final analysis, what it is reacting to now is

It was Du Zhengyi's will.

That's why Luo Qi got a little angry after being frightened.

The lion looked at him without moving.

"Are you trying to trick me on purpose?" He became even more angry. Du Zhengyi must have deliberately frightened him.

"Get out of here." He waved his hand in front of the lion puppet.

The lion stared at him, its huge head tilted as he moved, looking a little confused and cute.

Luo Qi smiled and thought it was a bit funny. He boldly reached out and touched the mane of the man-eating beast. He felt that it looked a bit like Du Zhengyi's mentor, the old lion-like mage. "You're still a little young.

Cute, but get out of here."

Roach retracted his hand, put on a straight face, and taught him like he was training a dog, "Sit down!"

A deep roar came from the throat of the giant beast. Roach trembled instinctively, and when he came to his senses, he was furious again, "Why are you still threatening me?"

He almost couldn't finish his words. Just as he was shouting, he saw the lion baring its teeth. A giant claw seemed to wave across his chest casually, but it was too fast to distinguish. Roach's eyes were blurred.

He was knocked to the ground.

The lion's slap scratched his clothes to pieces. When he felt severe pain in his chest, he saw feathers flying all over the sky in front of his eyes, as if an angel had descended. He hoped it was a Victoria's Secret angel. Then the lion stepped on him until he almost lost his breath.

When he came up, his mind became much clearer. He remembered that his down jacket must have been scratched to pieces, and he had to ask Du Zhengyi to pay for his clothes.

His numb left hand gathered strength that he could hardly muster on weekdays. This was basically the limit of his mage power. He did not have the illusion that he had the strength to overturn a raised hand. He raised his hand and threw a violent flash of light.

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The animal with good night vision roared, its eyes were hurt, and it instinctively ducked to the side. Roach wanted to take the opportunity to get up and escape, but he tried his best but could not move himself. The pain in his chest was so bad that he had difficulty breathing.

His right hand that could still move felt a patch of moisture on his chest. I'm afraid his ribs had been broken by the overweight thing, but he hoped his internal organs were fine.

The lion seemed to be completely irritated. It retreated slightly and then pounced on it for the second time. Under the bright light, Roach saw its dark white teeth running straight towards his neck. He closed his eyes. Death was coming.

It was too fast, and he didn't have time to be afraid. He only vaguely thought that the way he died was a bit worthless.

The sharp teeth with huge biting power stopped near his neck. Roach waited stiffly, his scalp numb as he smelled the pungent smell of the lion's blood. But this moment was actually prolonged, and the waiting made him impatient.

, opened his eyes suddenly. He was surprised to see a strange sight. The lion seemed to be competing with some invisible force, as if there were two instinctive forces tearing it apart. It stared at Roach,

There was an extreme bloodthirsty desire in its eyes, eager to bite Roach's soft and warm neck. But it shook its head uneasily, as if it was trying to restrain its desire to kill. It looked like a schizophrenic animal.

sick lion.

At the same time, Luo Qi himself was breathing hard. He could feel the vitality draining away from his body little by little. He might become one of the rare people to be trampled to death by a lion. He was a useless person in life and a miserable death in death.

. He seemed to see a human figure out of the corner of his eye. When that shadow completely transformed into a human, the force fighting on the lion won, and the lion retreated violently.

Luo Qi gasped for breath, and the scenery in front of him became dark, but his racing heart finally slowed down, and the cold air rushed into his lungs. He felt better. He felt that Du Zhengyi was beside him.

, her fingers were busy on his chest gently and deftly, and she called his name, her voice almost gentle. Hospice care?
Chapter completed!