Chapter 120: Embarking on the Journey
Chapter 120: Embarking on the Journey (Additional chapter for Lazy Sheep)
The next day
Xiao Jie will be online on time at 8 o'clock.
After meeting up with Wo Yuchengxian in the village, the two of them prepared to set off.
Of course, before leaving, the two of them still need to say goodbye to other players in the village.
"Brother Wang Kai, thank you for your care during this period. I don't know when we will see each other again after we say goodbye today. Please take care of yourself."
"Haha, I can definitely take care of myself. After all, I'm not going out of the village to take risks. It's you who should take care of yourself. Listen to my advice. You only have one life, so don't risk it too much.
The bandits at the valley exit are very dangerous. You can actually wait for a while. Every month, a caravan comes to the village to trade. It should be here in a week. It will be much safer for you to follow the caravan then."
"No need, they are just some bandits, the two of us can handle them."
Xiao Jie decisively refused. A week was too long. Compared with Liu Qiang, his level and strength were much lower, so he naturally had to fight for every second to improve his strength.
This time cannot be wasted.
This game has experience penalties for defeating low-level monsters. Below level 10, the experience points are only in the single digits. Nowadays, the monsters in the novice village can no longer provide too much experience points, and the experience points required for upgrading after level are increasing exponentially, so there is no benefit in training further.
"Brother Dongfang, you will be the only one in the Novice Village fighting monsters and leveling up from now on, so please take care of yourself."
"Of course, of course. Take care of yourselves too."
Dongfang Sheng said this, feeling somewhat relieved and somewhat disappointed.
Fortunately, after the two of them left, he was the only player in the entire novice village. All the resources, all the tasks, and all the adventures were his alone to enjoy.
What's disappointing is that when you play the game alone, there's no one to help you even if you're in danger. If there's a rare elite or a special mission, there's no one to ask for help...
Fortunately, the system will send activation codes every once in a while, and new people will appear, so it can be operated properly at that time.
Recruit some people and form a team. With his first-mover advantage at his current level of equipment, he will definitely be able to become the team leader and maybe even accomplish something great.
Dongfang Sheng couldn't help but imagine in his heart, "Take care, both of you. We will meet again outside in the future, and we must take care of each other then."
"Haha, easy to talk about."
Xiao Jie said with a smile.
Dongfang Sheng is a man with a lot of thoughts in his mind. He is not suitable to be a subordinate, but he is still a good ally.
After the two greeted each other, they reluctantly walked out of the village. They were finally leaving the Novice Village. They didn't know how many crises and opportunities were waiting for them in the vast world outside. It made people feel nervous and excited.
Not long after walking, I heard a shout from behind.
"Brother Feng, look——"
When Xiao Jie turned around, he saw a large crowd of villagers gathered at the entrance of the village, led by Huang Shidao.
"Hidden Moon and Wind Warrior, please wait, let us wait for the elders of Ginkgo Village to see you off."
"Father-in-law, why do you have to do this?" He said this, but in his heart he thought that this should be a special treatment for reputation worship. However, even though he knew that this was a system mechanism, Xiao Jie couldn't help but feel moved.
The two men came to the villagers, among whom were many familiar and unfamiliar faces. Xiao Jie scanned their faces one by one, and there were all kinds of expressions, including gratitude, reluctance, blessings, and calmness.
The details of this game are really well done, and every face is so vivid.
"We have prepared some food and medicine. You two can take them with you on the way."
Huang Shidao said this and handed a cloth bag to Xiao Jie.
【System prompt: Obtain item [Villager’s Gift].
Xiao Jie thanked them, and as they were about to leave, Village Chief Huang suddenly reminded them,
"Oh, by the way, little brother, when you go back to Luoyang Town, remember to register your household registration at the town office. Now that you have a house, you can register as a resident in Ginkgo Village. And only after registering as a resident, this property will truly belong to you."
Xiao Jie responded.
After they walked far away, they opened the package, and found ten steamed buns, two loaves of bacon, four bottles of golden wound medicine, four powerful pills, and a set of cotton clothes inside.
The stuff isn't that great, but the intention is good.
Xiao Jie also gave me some of Yu Chengxian’s money. After all, it was a token of appreciation from the villagers.
They walked straight along the road in the forest towards the exit of the valley. This was the first time that the two of them walked completely along the road.
While clearing out the monsters encountered along the way, they discussed the itinerary after leaving the valley.
As he walked, a white light flashed on Coal Ball's body, and he was upgraded.
[System prompt: Your pet has been upgraded and gained 3 free attributes. Please add points to your pet.]
Different beasts gain different attribute points when they are upgraded, with a minimum of 1 point and a maximum of 5 points.
At the same level, a tiger is definitely stronger than a wild boar, and a wild boar is definitely stronger than a wild dog. The gap in strength becomes greater in the later stages.
This wild boar gains three attributes when it is upgraded to a higher level, which is considered to be of medium level.
Without saying anything, Xiao Jie added all of it to his physical fitness. This thing is a meat shield, and of course the meatier the better. In the future, if Wo Yu Cheng Xian is not around, this coal ball can replace Wo Yu Cheng Xian in the task of pulling monsters.
3 points of Constitution directly increases Coal Ball's health to 276 points (Life Tenacity increases health by an additional 20%).
If you keep adding like this, maybe you can train a super meat shield with more than one thousand health points.
When it was nine o'clock, the two arrived at the wilderness near the exit of the valley.
Looking at the Makou wandering in the distance, the two of them no longer had the initial nervousness.
Just a bandit.
However, you still need to be cautious. After all, this thing does too much damage and can call for companions. It is still a bit dangerous to encounter a few of them in the wilderness.
Xiao Jie said: "Let's walk along the edge of the valley. If the bandits come, just run up the hillside."
"it is good."
The two immediately headed towards the western hillside, moving along the edge of the mountain range, trying to avoid the monsters' patrol routes as much as possible.
However, when we reached the exit of the valley, we still attracted one.
"Run! Up the hill."
The two men immediately turned around and ran up the hillside, but the bandit did not chase them immediately. Perhaps he thought that the two were a little too strong, so he blew the horn and called his two companions, and then the three of them chased after them in parallel.
The two men ran to a ridge and stopped, and began shooting arrows at the bandits who were chasing them.
The slope was at an angle of 45 degrees, and the speed of the Makou suddenly dropped when he rushed up the slope.
Without the advantage of speed, the Ma Kou was a sitting duck and the two men could easily shoot one down with a few arrows.
A white light suddenly flashed on Xiao Jie's body. [System prompt: Your bow expertise has been upgraded from entry level to master level.]
not bad!
Xiao Jie was quite surprised at the sudden upgrade of his skills. Now his swordsmanship, archery, cooking, and shepherding had all reached the proficient level, and his woodchopping had even reached the expert level.
At the mastery level of archery, the aiming circle shrinking speed is increased by 10%, which makes aiming a little easier.
Keep shooting arrows—consecutive arrows!
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh! A combat skill actually fired a series of critical hits, and Ma Kou was instantly hit in the face by three arrows.
Full Moon Shooting!
This arrow actually shot Ma Kou off his horse.
At this time, another Ma bandit finally rushed onto the ridge and watched the Ma bandit coming at him with a knife.
The wild boar charged forward.
Bang! The horse was knocked to one side and almost fell off the earthen beam. I took the opportunity to rush over and jumped and chopped the horse and the man to the ground with an axe.
Ma Kou struggled to get up, but was executed with another blow of the axe.
The man died but the horse was still alive. I didn't waste any words and chopped the neighing warhorse to death with another axe.
"Hey, there's another one over there!" It turned out to be another bandit's mount, which was spinning in circles because its master had died.
"Wait a minute!" Xiao Jie stopped me from becoming an immortal and threw a beast identification spell at the warhorse.
[Grassland horse (beast), level 6, HP 200.
Beast diet: herbivorous.
Taming difficulty: Average.
Skills: Kick LV3, Carry LV1, Sprint LV3.
Description of the beast: A wild horse commonly seen on the grasslands. After being tamed, it can become a mount and can fight with its rider in battle. 】
The difficulty of taming is average? In other words, this thing can be tamed?
Can animal trainers also tame horses as pets?
Xiao Jie found it a little unbelievable, mainly because in the games he had played in the past, he could only tame ferocious beasts such as wolves and tigers, and horses usually appeared as mounts.
But just looking at the description it seems to be possible.
You know, a war horse costs 100 taels of silver, and a poor horse costs dozens of taels of silver. I can't afford it at the moment - I guess I can probably buy a donkey.
So if I can tame a horse, wouldn't I be able to get a mount for free?
Although this horse's combat power is probably weaker than that of a wild boar, it still has combat skills.
Moreover, Xiao Jie was a little envious of the horse's skills. Of course, it was not the carrying, but the kicking and galloping, especially the galloping. If one could learn this, it would definitely be a life-saving skill.
Give it a try.
Xiao Jie thought about letting me stay where I am and wait for orders, and he moved towards the horse, but the horse cautiously backed away.
Xiao Jie hurriedly threw a steamed bun towards the black horse.
Lure the beast.
The horse hesitated for a moment, then lowered its head and started eating the bun.
Watching the hatred value on the horse's head slowly decreasing, Xiao Jie also comforted it in a gentle voice.
"Don't be afraid, I mean no harm to you. Come, let me touch you."
As he spoke, he used the skill to appease the beast. After using it several times, the horse finally let down its guard.
Tame the beast!
[System prompt: You already have a pet. ]
Oh yeah, and coal briquettes.
Xiao Jie glanced at the wild boar next to him and said, "Sorry, Coal Ball, you are free."
It was originally used for transition, so I don’t feel too bad about it.
Xiao Jie directly chose to release the pet, and the name above Meiqiu’s head immediately changed to - Meiqiu (wild boar), losing the suffix [Yin Yue Suifeng’s pet].
It looked a little surprised, a little confused, and a little happy. It looked at Xiao Jie with a strange look, jumped twice in joy, looked at Xiao Jie again, turned around, and disappeared into the forest.
Haha, I thought it would be reluctant to leave.
Well, it seems that I was just being too sentimental.
Xiao Jie vaguely felt that the skill of taming wild beasts seemed to have a kind of effect similar to mind control. The tamed beasts did not seem very willing. The coal ball that was just caught had a happiness value of only 20.
Xiao Jie walked up to the prairie horse and said, “Now it’s your turn - tame the beast!”
The horse immediately neighed, as if feeling offended, and kicked forward with its hoof.
"Damn it! Don't get excited, I'm just kidding you."
The horse snorted and looked at Xiao Jie warily.
"Human, I won't let you ride me."
"No, no, I haven't even learned how to ride yet. Come and eat some steamed buns."
The steamed buns still work, Xiao Jie uses the soothing skill again.
It’s a pity that this horse is a herbivore and doesn’t eat secret dog food, otherwise it would be much easier.
Moreover, without the beast encyclopedia, the difficulty of taming it was still a bit troublesome. It took me more than ten attempts and dozens of steamed buns to finally tame it successfully.
From now on you will be called - Carrot.
【Radish (Yinyue Suifeng's pet)
Experience value: 0/2400.
Loyalty: 50/100. Questionable.
Happiness value: 20/100. Not happy.
Food type: Herbivorous, can be fed plant-based food.
Pet Skills——
Cowardice (Beast Trait): As a non-predator, it sometimes instinctively flees from a fight.
Kick LV3. Kick the target hard, causing 30 points of blunt damage.
Equipped with LV1. Can be used as a mount - requires riding skills (beginner).
Galloping LV3. Speed increases by 30%, lasts for 15 seconds. 】
(End of this chapter)