In the darkness, Ma Tao asked Ming Zhiyuan softly: "What did you say at that time? I didn't hear clearly."
Ming Zhiyuan was a little surprised: "When?"
"I said I was sorry for the incident at Saint Maiden Mountain"
Ming Zhiyuan: "..."
Ming Zhiyuan repeated: "When?"
"That's when I said I couldn't protect you and would embarrass the God of War."
"When you said something?"
Ma Tao: "...I said I can't protect you..."
Ming Zhiyuan felt dumbfounded for a moment. He couldn't tell. This Ma Tao was usually serious, but he didn't expect that he was so sullen by nature. Did he like to hear compliments from others so much?
He paused and said solemnly: "I said, you are the pride of the God of War."
"real?"
"Really, I commend you on behalf of Master Mu, the God of War."
In this dangerous forest of monsters, two people with a bleak future and their lives hanging on a thread, laughed silently together in the darkness.
...
Ma Tao's injuries were serious. There was a deep scratch on his back with bone visible, and a piece of flesh was torn off his left thigh.
Compared with these two places, other scratches and bites are minor injuries. If these two places are not treated well, it will lead to death.
Fortunately, the most indispensable thing in the World of Warcraft Forest is various medicinal materials. Fortunately, since Ming Zhiyuan entered Saint Maiden Mountain, he has worked very hard and even masochistically to learn the knowledge of various medicinal materials and elixir making.
Ming Zhiyuan took off his robe and tore it into bandaging strips, then bandaged Ma Tao like a variegated mummy!
Now that the warrior is injured, he can only rely on Ming Zhiyuan, a newly admitted alchemist.
He dug a cave under the boulder that he could bend down to enter! He also moved many rocks and picked some branches and piled them together to create an obstacle to block the view.
The first thing that needs to be solved is food and water. The water source is not a problem yet, there is a stream not far from the cave.
Ming Zhiyuan came out with Ma Tao's long knife and carefully turned around in the small area around him.
No large monsters were encountered.
He didn't dare touch it because of its small size, fearing that it wouldn't kill him and the movement would attract other monsters.
He came back dejectedly and sat at the entrance of the cave with his head down and said nothing. Ma Tao lay on his side on the ground, looking at his depressed look, and comforted him:
"It's okay. Let me take a break and I'll go pack something. It's too difficult for you, an alchemist, to hunt monsters. We'll be hungry for a day or two and it'll be fine."
Ming Zhiyuan said softly: "You are so seriously injured, don't move anymore, I will look for you later, don't worry." "I am a fourth-level warrior. This injury is nothing, I can heal it in a few days."
Okay. I still have you to treat my injury." Ma Tao comforted him.
Ming Zhiyuan looked at Ma Tao. His face was pale due to excessive blood loss, his lips were bloodless, and his lip skin was cracked, with layers of crusty skin.
He picked up the knife and walked out of the hole again, quietly walking to the right side. When he came back just now, he saw a rabbit there, but he didn't dare to move. Now he went there to try his luck.
Ming Zhiyuan was covered with branches and crawled on the ground.
He spent nearly an hour waiting for the rabbit to jump to his hiding place, holding the long knife tightly in his hand.
The moment the rabbit jumped up, he suddenly swung the knife. The rabbit split into two halves in the air and fell to the ground without any sound.
Blood sprayed on the grass, and the heat evaporated and entered his nostrils with the faintest smell of blood.
Ming Zhiyuan was so excited that he was shaking all over. He held the long knife in both hands and couldn't let go for a long time. It took him a while to calm down.
He cleaned up the blood stains, returned to the cave with two hare halves, and handed half of the hare to Ma Tao: "If there is no fire, I don't dare to light it, so just eat it raw."
Ma Tao took it, tore it open and gnawed without hesitation. Ming Zhiyuan resisted his nausea and managed to take a few bites before he couldn't eat anymore.
Ma Tao comforted him: "Hold it and eat some more. You must have physical strength at this time."
Ming Zhiyuan nodded, held his breath and started to bite fiercely.
...
It has been three days since Ming Zhiyuan and Ma Tao were trapped in the Warcraft Forest. During these three days, they relied on a rabbit, a snake, and two mountain rats to support themselves.
The wounds on Ma Tao's back have begun to heal, and scars have begun to form on his thighs and other places. Ma Tao said that this was all due to Ming Zhiyuan. If it hadn't been for him, he would have been in the belly of the monster by now.
Ming Zhiyuan smiled bitterly: "If it weren't for me, you would have returned to the defense line."
Ma Tao patted him: "The warrior protects the alchemist. This is Tianyuan's rule. Don't worry about this."
"Don't worry, I just feel useless." Ming Zhiyuan's voice was low.
Ma Tao retorted: "The usefulness of an alchemist is not in fighting with force. In just three days, my injury was almost healed. This is the use of an alchemist."
Ming Zhiyuan shook his head and said nothing.
How can this function be used enough in this Warcraft Forest?
Now they don't know where in the forest they are? Which direction to go to get to the other side of the defense line.
The trees in the forest were lush and tall, blocking out the sky and the sun. They couldn't even see which direction the Warcraft Mountains were.
The only thing that is certain is that they are not deep into the forest yet, but should still be in the transition zone from the edge to the depths.
Because they haven't seen a large monster in the past three days, only a group of violent monster pigs passed by.
The individual fighting ability of the grumpy demon pig is not strong, and it usually lives on the edge of the forest.
The closer you go to the middle of the forest, the stronger the combat power of the monsters becomes. The center area is the territory of various high-grade or even super-grade monsters.
On the fourth day, Ma Tao walked out of the cave and tested his physical condition. He was barely able to walk.
He turned to Ming Zhiyuan and said: "Let's go, we can't delay any longer. The longer the time, the greater the chance of being discovered."
Ming Zhiyuan shook his head: "Let's keep it for another two or three days. You can't move around now. Even running away when encountering a monster will be a problem. Let's leave after two or three days."
Ma Tao was speechless. He knew that Ming Zhiyuan was right. He didn't even have the ability to run, let alone protect himself.
But he was not worried about his own safety, he was just worried about being unable to protect Ming Zhiyuan.
He was the one who got lost in the forest with Ming Zhiyuan. This mistake led to a huge mistake, which made him feel very uncomfortable.
Especially when Ming Zhiyuan, an alchemist who followed the martial artist, was led into a pit. Ma Tao felt extremely frustrated.
The protection of alchemists by warriors from Tianyuan Continent has been a rule for thousands of years. It is a natural iron law similar to the need for people to eat, drink, and wear clothes.
Everything has advantages and disadvantages, and this kind of protection has also resulted in the general low value of alchemy masters on Tianyuan Continent.
It is rare for a warrior to harm an alchemist. If this happens, that warrior will be hunted down by warriors from the entire Tianyuan Continent and the four major empires.
The final result is either to hide in the Nine Flames Sand Sea and become a demon, or to escape into the Warcraft Forest and wait to die.
The human race of Tianyuan Continent, surrounded by the Nine Flames Sand Sea and the Magical Beast Mountain Range, has been fighting against the Nine Flame Demons and the Magical Beasts for more than 10,000 years.
In order to protect this human settlement from the invasion of monsters and demons, warriors and alchemists, as the main fighting force, have formed a life-and-death alliance that depends on each other.
The alchemist provides the warrior with elixirs for healing and improving his realm, while the warrior protects the alchemist from harm.
Ma Tao felt guilty for failing to protect Ming Zhiyuan.
But Ming Zhiyuan, as a time traveler, does not have the confidence that a warrior should inherently protect an alchemist.
He hated himself for holding Ma Tao back and causing him to be trapped in this forest of monsters with him.
He knew that if a fourth-level warrior wanted to escape for his own life, there would be no chance at the edge of the Warcraft Forest.
Both of them have their own knots in their hearts, which makes the relationship between the two of them very strange in the past few days.