Chapter 908: Your sacred beast is a panda?
Chapter 908: Your sacred beast is a panda?
The rock, which was of the highest fairy-level quality, was melted away in just a moment. Lu Li took advantage of the gap and escaped from the acid rain.
His new clothes made a sizzling sound, but the clothes made of the hair of the Old Ruler seemed to have a strong resistance to the acid, and a small amount of acid could not penetrate Lu Li's nightmare.
This bought him a precious chance to escape, and he leaped with Emily in tow, the Galaxy Shuttler struggling to condense the landing point in the air. If Lu Li hadn't used the spirit particle aggregation technique, he wouldn't have been able to stand at all.
He flashed in the air and climbed over the mountains with complex terrain.
Although the giant blood demon was powerful and fast, it seemed unable to fly. Lu Li had already spotted this difficult-to-climb mountain and seized the opportunity to get rid of it.
Sure enough, although the giant blood demon let out an angry roar, it did not continue to chase over the mountains and hills. It might be because it had some wisdom and knew that there were similar mountain ranges ahead and it would be fruitless to continue chasing.
Lu Li took Emily and ran for more than ten kilometers before stopping to catch their breath.
"Damn it, I'm actually gasping for air."
Lu Li used the common language of humans in this world. He supported his knee with one hand and took two breaths before calming down.
He discovered that fighting and running in this world consumed a great deal of physical energy, and that the air in this world had a peculiarly turbid feeling.
This is not about the smell, but the energy in the air is very turbid, unlike the spiritual energy or magic in the ordinary world. The conventional practice system is simply unable to absorb and replenish energy here, or it is quite difficult.
Lu Li's fairy seed is quite powerful, but its absorption and conversion efficiency has been slightly affected. It can still replenish Lu Li's soul source quickly, so he doesn't have to worry about the consumption of soul source and the recovery of life source for the time being.
However, prolonged combat would consume a lot of his physical strength. He could recover from his injuries and replenish his soul, but he would get tired.
Lu Li believed that this was because his physical condition was not strong enough to transcend the oppression of this world, so he was no longer a perpetual motion machine.
"Are you OK?"
Emily still looked at Lu Li with caution, but her tone was much friendlier. She began to be a little willing to believe that the other person was a human being.
As she spoke, she walked towards Lu Li, carefully opened her shoulder bag, took out a piece of bread that looked a little moldy, and handed it to Lu Li with a hint of reluctance in her eyes.
"What do you mean?"
Lu Li was stunned for a moment.
"Thank you for saving me. Here's something to eat. It will give you strength."
Emily said, but her eyes were on the moldy bread, and she couldn't help swallowing as she spoke.
"No, I'm not hungry yet. You can eat by yourself. I'll just take a break and drink some water."
Lu Li rejected Emily's kindness, even though when he touched the moldy bread, the damn space identification told him that it was a high-rated fairy-level food item.
From his own experience, it can be inferred that the air in this world is turbid and it is difficult to absorb and release energy. Even if there are humans who have cultivated to a certain level of strength, they still have to rely on eating to replenish their energy.
So when Emily saw that she was tired, she reluctantly took out her treasured moldy bread.
While Lu Li was talking, he took out a bottle of drink that Shrimp had packed for him. After taking a few sips, he felt much better.
Emily was already standing nearby, chewing on the bread. She ate it very carefully, as if it were a rare treasure. She even picked up the fallen crumbs and ate them.
She ate only a small half of it, then rewrapped the bread, walked to the stream, washed the mud off her face, and removed the earthworms from her hair.
"Lu Li...Sir, let's assume you are a human. Why did you save me?"
Emily asked cautiously after she came back.
"As a human being, is it strange for me to save a little girl from a monster?"
Lu Li looked at Emily after she had been cleaned. She was a girl with both Eastern and Western features, with medium-length black hair and a straight and three-dimensional nose. Her other facial features were soft and beautiful, with some freckles on her face from her adolescence.
The emerald green eyes revealed numbness towards the world, fear like a deer, and that barely visible expectation for life.
It is hard to imagine that in a normal world a girl of this age would explore dangerous ruins and wilderness, and face death with fear yet calmness.
Facing Lu Li's question, Emily nodded seriously, "It's very strange, a normal human being would not do this."
"What will be done then?"
Lu Li asked curiously.
"They'll use a dagger to cut my tendons, leave me there for the monster to eat, and buy time to escape."
Emily's tone was flat, as if she had already decided that this was common sense.
"Hearing you say that, I suddenly feel that it's a good thing that you don't treat me as a human being."
Lu Li smiled and said, "At least I don't want you to think of me as a normal human being."
Seeing Emily's eyes fixed on the drink in his hand, Lu Li shook it and said, "Want to drink? I think sweet cola is still delicious."
Emily's heart told her that she should be more cautious about the man-like creature in front of her, but the fragrance exuded by the drop of liquid remaining at the mouth of the straw was a dreamy sweetness she had never smelled before, and she couldn't help swallowing.
Unnoticed, she moved closer to the cup, put her mouth close to the straw, and stretched out her tongue to lick the drop of liquid.
Lu Li pressed the cup with his hand, and a stream of clear cola sprayed into Emily's mouth.
In just a moment, Emily was conquered by the smell, and her whole body seemed to be wrapped in a huge sense of happiness. The refreshing and sweet smell, and the constantly echoing bubbles, were very relaxing, and her body couldn't help but relax.
"So, so delicious! It's ten thousand times better than Guru Beer!"
Emily exclaimed in amazement, she had never tasted such a delicious drink. Before this, she always thought that the best thing in the world was the Gollum syrup that her dead uncle brought her from the city.
But if she had to compare them, she felt that the Gulujiang was just slop.
And the bread she had just eaten was tasteless.
Emily felt guilty in her heart. How could she give up her gratitude for the food? That piece of bread was definitely her biggest gain in this adventure. She warned herself that she must forget the taste she had just tasted, otherwise everything she ate in the future would taste a little less tasty.
"Do you believe I'm a human now? The Mind Flayer and the Painted Skin Monster won't give you such a delicious drink."
Lu Li felt like a strange uncle who was trying to trick the little girl, but he needed information, especially he had to figure out what role his identity played.
Emily was the first human he met after coming to the world, and she also mentioned the tribe, which made him very interested.
"Hmm... Could this be a drink made by humans?"
Emily asked cautiously again after she came back to her senses.
"Yes, it's made from the brains of little girls like you. I like drinks with this flavor the most!"
Lu Li said this while making a ferocious gesture. Emily originally thought she should be scared, but after seeing Lu Li's gesture, she felt it was a bit funny and couldn't help laughing out loud, "Mr. Lu Li is lying to me."
"I just thought it would be fun to scare you since you're so worried."
Lu Li said.
Emily inexplicably relaxed. "No matter what, I am very grateful to Mr. Lu for saving me. I am going home. Please don't follow me."
Lu Li felt that the girl was too stubborn, but if he put himself in her shoes, he could understand. For a moment, he didn't know how to gain her trust.
Lu Li was not so kind-hearted as to have to save Emily in front of him. He just felt that the other party might be hiding information related to his starting identity. For example, the tribe she mentioned was completely different from the human society on Sosuke's side.
It is not difficult to find the girl's tribe. He is 100% sure that he can force the other party to tell him the location of the tribe through physical negotiation. However, this is not in line with his identity as the King of Men, nor is it in line with his principles of doing things.
While Lu Li was thinking, Emily had already picked up her tattered bag and left along the river.
As luck would have it, Emily had only walked a few dozen meters when a fountain of blood suddenly gushed out of the river, and a monster that seemed to be made of blood rose up and wrapped around Emily.
Lu Li was quick-witted and quick-handed. He grabbed a stone and threw it over like a cannonball, breaking up the blood that was about to cover Emily.
The monster sensed the danger and retreated into the river, dissipating into a blood-red glow and quickly disappearing into the distance.
Lu Li walked over to the shocked Emily and asked, "Are you sure you don't need me to take you there?"
Emily's body was still shaking. After having a near-death experience, she began to struggle, "I...I...but..."
Seeing Emily's resistance, Lu Li began to doubt whether his identity was really related to the other party. After all, he felt that if it was the case, as the reincarnation of the Human King, shouldn't he look very majestic in the eyes of the other party?
Lu Li sighed and whistled as he turned around. He had just quietly released Ah Huo before taking a break and asked Ah Huo to scout the nearby area.
Since Emily didn't want to have more contact with him, Lu Li didn't have much patience to keep coaxing the child, so he prepared to let Ah Huo take him away and explore in the direction of Sosuke.
puff-
Ah Huo's fat body rushed out of the woods and made a dull sound when it landed on the beach by the river, which startled Emily, who was still struggling, and made her shiver.
Lu Li flipped over and rode on Ah Huo. Although Ah Huo had turned into a panda now, he was very big, over four meters tall, and could carry people. Moreover, because his back was broad and full of fat, it was quite soft and comfortable to sit on.
Lu Li patted Ah Huo's butt, signaling Ah Huo that he could take him away, but at this moment, Emily behind him suddenly screamed.
"This... is this a sacred beast!?"
Emily's voice was trembling with excitement. She rushed forward and looked at Ah Huo in amazement. "Oh my God, ancestors, I actually saw a living sacred beast!?"
"Holy beast?"
Lu Li was a little puzzled as he was about to leave. He felt that things seemed to have taken a turn for the better. He got off Ah Huo and patted Ah Huo's fat belly. "You said it's a sacred beast?"
"Mr. Lu Li, how can you be so disrespectful to the sacred beast! Legend has it that you can't touch the belly of a sacred beast!"
Emily looked at Lu Li in shock, wondering why this tall and mighty sacred beast could be so docile.
"Ahuo is a companion I tamed during my training in the mountains. What is this sacred beast you are talking about?"
Lu Li asked.
Emily circled around Ah Huo, unable to take her eyes off him. "What a beautiful and majestic figure... This is indeed the sacred beast recorded in the legends of our tribe. I saw the statues of the sacred beast every day when I was a child, and I would never make a mistake!"
"Meow~"
Ah Huo raised his head proudly, meaning, 'See, it's my charm that works.'
Lu Li was a little speechless. He didn't expect that even after he said so many nice things and saved Emily twice, the other party still hid her fear of him. But as soon as Ah Huo showed up, Emily was no longer on guard.
At the same time, he also understood that Ah Huo also benefited from his role as the reincarnation of the Human King, or perhaps it was because of this coincidence that he could choose this starting identity.
"The sacred beasts recorded in your tribe wouldn't scream like this, right? Don't you suspect that this is an illusion of the sacred beast that I created using special means?"
Lu Li asked suspiciously.
What surprised him was that Emily shook her head repeatedly, "What are you talking about, Mr. Lu? This is how the sacred beast should be called, meow, meow, it's exactly the same as recorded in the tribe!"
Lu Li was completely confused and found it extremely strange, but fortunately Emily seemed to believe that he was not a monster, because from her pious eyes, it was clear that she felt that anyone who was close to the holy beast must be a good person.
"Then can Ah Huo and I take you home? I'm also interested in the legend of the sacred beast of the tribe you mentioned."
Lu Li inquired.
Ah Huo also nodded in agreement, "Meow~"
Emily did not resist this time and pointed Lu Li in the direction. It turned out that her tribe was forty kilometers away in the other direction of where Lu Li originally landed, but the distance became farther because of their escape.
"Then come up. Ah Huo has been eating too much recently and needs to exercise to lose weight."
Lu Li turned over and rode on Ah Huo, inviting Emily, but Emily shook her head repeatedly, saying that it was disrespectful to ride on a sacred beast, and persuaded Lu Li to get off as well.
Lu Li felt that he couldn't get a clear line with Emily, so he picked her up amid her screams. Ah Huo started running immediately, and Emily was so scared that she grabbed Ah Huo's fur in panic, screaming continuously.
"Holy beast, forgive me, forgive me, I was so disrespectful to you."
Emily kept muttering similar things, but because she was afraid at high speed, she didn't dare to let go, for fear that she would fall to the ground and be smashed to pieces, which made Lu Li feel very funny.
In the evening, with Ah Huo panting, they finally arrived at Emily's tribe. Looking down from above the basin, it was pitch black.
"Why don't you light the lamp?"
Lu Li asked Emily.
Emily looked at Lu Li with strange eyes, "This is no longer a question of whether you are a human or a monster. If it weren't for the sacred beast, sometimes I would really doubt whether you are from another world."
She stared into the quiet darkness, "Lights at night are most likely to attract monsters."
Lu Li also looked downwards. Although there was no light, if he extended his spiritual sense, he could clearly sense every inch of the basin in the darkness.
What surprised him was that he found that after his perception extended forward for a distance, it became very strange. It seemed that there was some magical existence in this tribe.
His naked eyes could vaguely see some human figures in the darkness, but his senses could not capture them. After looking around, he could only sense mountains and forests, with no people or buildings.
This aroused Lu Li's interest. Emily might not know that the reason why her tribe could survive to this day was not simply because they did not light fires at night, but because there was an inexplicable existence protecting this place.
Although he still knew very little about this tribe, Lu Li already had a hunch that his starting identity might come into effect here.
(End of this chapter)