Chapter 87: The Warlock An Ran
Chapter 87: The Warlock An Ran
"Speak up, kid, or are you scared and ready to run away."
The lynx approached slowly, showing its sharp fangs and arching its back, ready to attack.
Xiao Jie felt a little nervous and asked hastily, "Are you a player?"
"Player?" Lynx showed a confused look, as if recalling something.
"It seems so. I am... a player, from Old Land... Jiuzhou. I seem to have forgotten something very important... Damn it, why can't I remember it?
However, let me eat first and then think about it slowly. I haven't eaten enough for several days. Since you have entered my territory, you should be prepared to become prey."
"To be exact, this is municipal territory. Also, if you dare to hurt me, you can't get away. Remember the Player Management Act? In real life, if you kill someone, you will be arrested and killed."
The lynx's claws suddenly stopped in mid-air, "Player Management Act? Reality?" The wild and fierce expression disappeared instantly, "Player Management Act? What is that? Yes, I seem to remember it." The lynx's expression was confused for a while, and then became ferocious, as if it was about to pounce in the next second, and as if it was recalling something.
Xiao Jie was wondering why this thing seemed a little unclear, but it seemed that the player had not escaped.
Since it worked, he would try to wake her up.
"Hey, do you remember your name? Your human name?"
"Name? My name? My name is... my name is... my name is An Ran. That's right, my name is An Ran! I'm a player."
It shook its head, showing an expression as if it had just woken up from a dream, and suddenly looked down at the bird feathers and blood on its claws, as if it was frightened. The next second, the lynx's body suddenly stood up, and the hair on its body quickly faded away, turning into a woman.
The woman had messy short hair, a fit body, sparkling eyes, and a wild beauty.
It was just the blood at the corner of her mouth that made her look a little scary.
The woman seemed a little confused about the situation. She looked around blankly. Her mouth was covered in blood. Her body was not too dirty, but her wool sweater was pilling as if it had been licked by a cat. She touched the dried blood at the corner of her mouth, looked at the bones on the ground, and suddenly vomited.
Cough, cough, cough, it ended when he vomited out a ball of hair.
"What the hell have I eaten these days?"
She rummaged through the bones and bird feathers for a while and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
"fine……"
Xiao Jie thought, "It's okay" What does that mean? Are you worried that you've eaten someone?
"So you are indeed a player?"
"Yes, so you are also a player?"
Xiao Jie nodded.
The woman smiled thankfully, "Ha, it seems I'm lucky. My master warned me that practicing shapeshifting magic will have an impact on people's minds, and I thought he was just talking casually.
After all, there is no such mechanism in the game. I didn’t expect that after transforming in reality, I almost forgot who I was.
Thank you, if it weren't for you I would have almost gotten lost, I should be more careful next time."
She is indeed a player. From what she said, she is a player who majors in witchcraft.
"So what's the matter with you?"
The woman wanted to explain, but her stomach growled. “Are you hungry? Let’s go eat first.”
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Fifteen minutes later, Xiao Jie and the woman were sitting in a braised bone restaurant. Xiao Jie was silent as he watched the woman wolfing down a large bowl of meat bones.
This woman really can eat. Half of a big bowl of braised bones was gone in the blink of an eye.
His snow-white, sharp teeth tore off large chunks of meat, chewed it twice and swallowed it. The way he chewed the meat in big bites stunned the two uncles who were drinking next to him.
Ugh! The woman dropped the bone and burped.
"Why don't you eat?"
"I have already eaten."
"Then I won't be polite," he said as he took the bone in front of Xiao Jie. This time his eating manners were finally a little more normal.
"Are you also an Old Country player?"
"Of course, who else could it be other than a player? Speaking of which, I should thank you for what I just said."
"Thank me?"
"Let me formally introduce myself first. My name is An Ran." The woman said as she stretched out a greasy hand.
"Xiao Jie." Xiao Jie held the only hand of the woman that wasn't too greasy and shook it perfunctorily.
The woman didn't care and continued to chew her bone.
"My master told me that there is a danger of getting lost when I transform for the first time, but I didn't take it seriously. But after I turned into an animal, I suddenly felt like a different person. It was as if the world was no longer the same as before. Those streets, buildings, and people suddenly became very dangerous.
Only the hill and the woods in Tiger Hill Park gave me a familiar feeling, so I ran and ran into the hills, hiding in the observation tower during the day and coming out at night to catch squirrels, pigeons and other things to eat.
Ugh, I feel sick just thinking about it." She shuddered as if in response to the stress, and her lingering fear looked a little funny.
After hearing her words, Xiao Jie seemed to be thinking about something, and said leisurely: "The world is different in the eyes of humans and animals. For wild animals, life is only about survival and hunting, and there is only a difference between prey and predator.
There is only a difference between one's own territory and an unfamiliar and dangerous area.
After millions of years of evolution, humans' memory of survival in the wilderness has become subconscious.
So you will feel afraid only after you become a lynx, because your human cognition becomes subconscious, and the beast's cognition becomes the main consciousness.
Your biological instinct drives you to escape from those scary humans and unfamiliar concrete cities, which are unfamiliar danger areas and potential predators to you.
Only Tiger Hill is familiar to you and the territory you can seize, and those pigeons and squirrels are the prey you can hunt.
The further you get from the city, the more you forget your original self; the more you hunt squirrels and pigeons, the more you immerse yourself in the mindset of a lynx.
Fortunately, you didn't go to the deep mountains and forests to experiment, otherwise you would have really turned into a wild beast.
It was not until you met me, talked about games, and mentioned the Player Management Act that your repressed subconscious was awakened.
Of course, these are just my guesses.”
An Ran was a little surprised. "What you said makes sense. I didn't expect you to be a philosopher."
“I read all this in a book.”
"Anyway, thank you. If it weren't for you, I might not be able to change back, or I might have to eat someone before changing back - uh ah!" She showed that stressed expression again.
Xiao Jie couldn't help but laugh. "I don't think lynxes can eat people, right?"
"Don't laugh, this is not a joke." An Ran said seriously, "The shapeshifting magic can add one's original attributes to the transformed beast when transforming. So I looked like a lynx at the time, but in fact my fighting power is not comparable to that of an ordinary lynx. Ordinary people have no chance of resistance at all." Xiao Jie suddenly realized. No wonder the lynx before gave him an extremely dangerous feeling.
I thought all wild beasts were so scary. Damn, didn’t I just walk around the gates of hell?
Being able to practice witchcraft, this girl must be of a very high level, and her attributes are absolutely ridiculously strong. If we really fight her, I'm afraid I won't be able to last more than a few rounds.
"What if a fight had broken out just now?"
An Ran shrugged, her eyes lingering on the meat bone in her hand for a moment. That look made Xiao Jie feel a little creepy.
"I have to go for a physical examination later. I'd better not get sick from eating squirrel. What day is it today?"
"May 18th."
"Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen." The woman counted on her fingers, "I feel like I've changed for four days."
She sniffed her armpits with a look of disgust on her face.
"It all stinks." Then he burst into laughter.
Xiao Jie thought to himself, girl, your brain hasn't recovered yet, why do you feel like you are seriously ill?
"Don't look like you're looking at a patient like that. Strength affects a person's mind. Sooner or later, you'll experience this, too."
Xiao Jie agreed with this very much. Under normal circumstances, he would not run to the mountains in the middle of the night and be so bold as to look for monsters.
After all, it was the power that brought about the change in his mentality. If he could obtain immortal power in the future, who knows how his mentality would change.
Maybe by then he will treat mortals like ants, tut tut tut.
I have to be more careful about this. I can't be like the woman in front of me, who practiced witchcraft and almost turned into a beast.
"So you are a sorcerer?" Xiao Jie remembered that in the career introduction that Ye Luo gave him, there was a profession related to sorcery, and it seemed to be a double-transfer profession.
"Yes."
"You are of a high level then."
"It's just so-so, just level 30." An Ran said modestly, but her smug expression betrayed her inner thoughts.
Level 30! Not low at all.
"Then what else will you become?"
"Only Lynx. I have just started learning the art of transformation. I was thinking of trying it out in real life, but I didn't expect that - I won't say more. Just be careful next time. My master said that the first transformation is the most dangerous. As long as you change back the first time, you will be much safer in the future. What about you? What's your profession? What level are you? Let's team up and go on adventures together if there is a chance."
"My level is not as high as yours, so I'd better not drag you down." Xiao Jie said tactfully.
"Forget it. By the way, this is for you."
An Ran handed over a card.
"This is?"
"Jiangbei City's player group number, if you are interested, please add it. We are all from the same city, so we can look after each other if possible. More friends means more paths."
Xiao Jie was a little surprised. He didn't expect there was a player group. He thought every player was hiding their identity for fear of others knowing it.
"How many players are there in Jiangbei City?"
"Not many. There are only five or six people in the group right now. There may be others, but some players are reluctant to interact with other players in real life. Maybe they have read too many online novels and always think that players will fight to the death. So they are very cautious. In fact, it is not that dangerous. Our country is a society ruled by law. There are player management laws to constrain us. No one dares to do anything wrong."
Xiao Jie thought to himself that this was true. It seemed that this player management bill was really valuable. Otherwise, he would probably be worried about other players.
"Okay, I'll add it later."
The two chatted for a few more sentences, added each other on WeChat, and then the woman said goodbye.
It was already past eight o'clock when Xiao Jie returned home.
He was somewhat excited to have met another player unexpectedly.
I turned on the computer, logged into QQ, entered the group number, searched it, and sure enough, there was a QQ group.
【Players of Kyushu World (Jiangbei Group)】
Xiao Jie clicked to apply to join, but he didn’t expect that he would have to answer questions.
[Audit question: In which state were you born?]
Xiao Jie input——Feng Yinzhou.
Pass the audit easily.
After entering the group, Xiao Jie took a look at the group members. There were only six people in total besides him, and each person’s name had an occupation and level behind it.
Group leader: Niu Baoguo——Qigong master, level 20.
Administrator: An Ran Yi Meng - Warlock, level 30.
Member: Liu Xingyu——Swordsman, level 19.
Member: Zhu Youlei——Assassin, level 24.
Member: Northern Gun King——General/Tiger Guard, Level 19.
Member: Wentian Wuji——Qimen Tianshi Level 36.
Niu Baoguo: Wow, there are new people joining the group, welcome!
Liu Xingyu: Welcome.
Zhu Youlei: Welcome.
Northern Gun King: Welcome━(*｀*)ノ亻!
An Ran Yi Meng: You are pretty quick, my friend. I am home now. Fortunately, there is nothing serious wrong with me.
By the way, remember to change your name to the one in the game. It’s best to include your career level. Of course, it’s okay not to write it, but it’s best to write it.
Xiao Jie thought about it.
There is no need to conceal my name, but I will not write my rank and occupation for now. I cannot afford to lose face.
Another thing is that he was still a little worried about exposing his information.
So the name of the group was changed to - Yin Yue Sui Feng.
Zhu Youlei: Eh? Hidden Moon and Wind? Friend, is this your name in the game?
Yin Yue Sui Feng: Yeah, what’s wrong?
Zhu Youlei: You have been wanted by the Ender Hall. Let me remind you that it is best not to go to Longhua Prefecture in the next few months.
(End of this chapter)