Chapter 912 Lu Li: Let me taste what weirdness tastes like

Chapter 912 Lu Li: Let me taste what weirdness tastes like

Chapter 912 Lu Li: Let me taste what weirdness tastes like

Later, Lu Li wanted to ask the Sword Keeper some more questions, but the Sword Keeper knelt back to his original position and refused to speak no matter how Lu Li asked.

Helplessly, Lu Li could only follow Ji Hong and leave the secret place of the tribe.

When I returned outside, I felt like I was in another world. After all, who would have thought that a seemingly ordinary human tribe actually housed peerless masters.

The Sword Keeper may be the only indigenous person in this world who still retains a human heart and possesses powerful supernatural powers.

After meeting the Sword Keeper, Lu Li understood that it was not that humans in this world were unable to obtain extraordinary powers, but that over a long period of time, the methods to obtain extraordinary powers had long been lost.

In addition, there are contradictions in devouring monsters. In the primitive era, human warriors could risk their lives to hunt down the first monster, but in today's era, humans outside have become livestock in farms. Even those humans active in cyber cities may not have a self.

Under such circumstances, it is simply a fantasy to expect humans to organize themselves to hunt monsters and devour them to become stronger.

Lu Li guessed that in the past, the tribe had grown stronger and organized operations to hunt monsters, but as the number of humans in the tribe decreased, the Sword Keeper no longer passed down this system of secrets.

Because that would be equivalent to letting the remaining humans in the tribe commit suicide, and the last spark of fire would be extinguished.

As for why the sword keeper didn't hunt some monsters himself and help the people of the tribe master extraordinary powers, Lu Li didn't know. He just saw that the sword keeper was kneeling there stubbornly and refused to leave the cave. He felt that this guy was a bit stubborn.

Ji Hong also said that the sword keeper had never left the cave since he could remember, and his grandfather said the same thing.

Furthermore, Lu Li also saw some problems from the method given to him by the Sword Keeper. Swallowing monsters is not without risks. It is possible that after you absorb the monster, you will awaken extraordinary powers, but at the same time you will also become a new monster.

That kind of crazy mental pollution will make ordinary people lose their minds, and after being lost, they will become new monsters, and no longer be human beings.

Therefore, in this world, it is quite difficult to obtain extraordinary powers.

"Elder Ji, I am planning to go to the city that the Sword Keeper mentioned. Do you have any suggestions?"

Lu Li asked. He had heard Emily say before that Emily’s uncle had been outside and brought her some drinks, so he thought that the tribe was not completely ignorant of the city-states outside.

"I suggest you not go to the city."

Ji Hong said.

Lu Li's expression froze, "I didn't expect Elder Ji to be so humorous."

Ji Hong shook his head. "I'm not kidding. Although the Sword Keeper responded to you, you don't know how terrible it is outside. I have a nephew who once went outside to take risks and went to a human city-state without listening to advice."

"Emily mentioned it to me, and she also said that her uncle brought her some delicious drinks."

Lu Li said.

"Then Emily must not have told you that her uncle committed suicide not long after he came back."

Ji Hong looked serious and his tone was very heavy.

"Is he injured? Or has his nerves been contaminated by the weirdness?"

Lu Li was a little confused.

Ji Hong shook his head. "Neither. He is in good health and has not been manipulated by monsters. He is just desperate. Because he has seen it with his own eyes, he believes that there is no hope for mankind. That kid feels that no matter how hard he tries, there is only despair at the end of life. Rather than struggling and dying in despair, it is better to be free early."

"Everyone is going to die, isn't he? So why not struggle a bit and see if fate will change?"

Lu Li said with a smile.

Ji Hong looked at Lu Li deeply and sighed, "It would be great if everyone was as optimistic as you, but I don't recommend you to go to the city-state. It's not just because I think the outside world will be despairing. Your heart doesn't seem that fragile. I just think that a human with extraordinary powers like you will be very conspicuous when entering the city."

"Do you think I'll be targeted by weirdos?"

Lu Li said thoughtfully.

"This is inevitable, because I feel that you are not low-key at all and are quite straightforward. Once you show your abnormal power, you will definitely be targeted by the monsters in the city-state. That is much more terrifying than the giant blood demon."

Ji Hong advised kindly, "I don't know what the Sword Keeper gave you, but I don't think it's worth risking your life for. Only by living can you have a future."

However, Lu Li turned away and waved his hand, "To me, that doesn't count as living."

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Lu Li did not leave the tribe directly, but stayed here for a few more days to learn the skills on the scroll given to him by the sword keeper.

It was not known whether it was a coincidence or not, but the exercises on this scroll were also a kind of horizontal training. After Lu Li mastered the theory, he could not start practicing directly due to the lack of body-building materials.

But he has a martial arts furnace. As long as he understands and learns this technique, he can put it into the martial arts furnace to deduce and integrate it.

It took Lu Li several days to integrate this technique into his Hunyuan Bati Gong. Now the Hunyuan Bati Gong is equivalent to the fusion of three SSS-level techniques. Although the level has not been upgraded, the strength has begun to change qualitatively.

When Lu Li uses all his strength to activate this technique, his skin will turn black and red due to overheating, and the texture of the surface will be somewhat like jade. When he increases his power, his body shape will also change to a certain extent.

After finishing his training, Lu Li slowly exhaled and looked at the figures working in the terraced fields in front of him.

"Emily, why don't you go learn hunting skills from them instead of farming here?"

Lu Li asked.

Emily stopped tilling the soil and wiped the sweat from her forehead. The girl with a ponytail in the sun exuded the simplicity of a worker. "Grandpa said that we can't feed more people by hunting, and the income is very unstable. In the past, people starved to death every winter. If we want the tribe to become better, we must reclaim our land."

Lu Li walked over, leaned over and grabbed a handful of soil, and shook his head, "Even though you have been planting for an era, you haven't been able to harvest any food?"

Strangely enough, trees and vegetation can grow on this land, but edible crops such as wheat and rice cannot be grown.

"That must be because our efforts are not enough. As long as I cultivate this land carefully enough, there will be hope."

Emily said as she continued to turn the soil, and also turned out some withered seeds.

Those seeds were picked by hunters in the tribe when they were hunting outside. Some edible plants can grow in the outside world, but they cannot survive if they are brought back to the tribe and planted.

"Hope is a rare word here." Lu Li said with a smile.

"If you don't have hope, you will be desperate, and then there is no meaning in living. This is what my grandfather told me. I also want to believe that seeds will sprout from this land eventually."

Emily said, "Besides, I really want to taste the bread again."

When she was exploring the ruins of Imhotep, she found a bag wrapped in special leather. After opening it, she found the bread. She didn't know how long ago this relic of human civilization was.

After being wrapped in fur that she could not recognize, the piece of bread that had finally begun to mold was passed into her hands after hundreds, thousands, or even several epochs.

She didn't know what it was, but she knew it was a kind of food just by her sense of smell and intuition. Later, when Lu Li mentioned bread on the way here, she learned that it was called bread.

It may be difficult for ordinary people to understand the pain of not having staple foods in their diet, but the sense of satisfaction when consuming carbohydrates cannot be replaced by meat and wild fruits.

Emily was conquered by the taste after just one bite. Later she asked Lu Li, and Lu Li said that it was made from flour ground from wheat crops.

Originally, Emily was not diligent in farming, but after she learned that such delicious food could be grown in the land, she was full of energy to work these days.

"what……"

Emily stopped turning the soil and uttered a questioning sound, then squatted down. "This... this seed has sprouted!"

Emily's voice trembled as she carefully lay on the ground, looking at the new shoots emerging from the soil as if she was looking at a holy relic.

Lu Li came over, looked at the new sprouts emerging from the soil, and smiled, "Maybe you will have bread to eat soon."

Emily's face was full of surprise, but also revealed distress. "But... I forgot what the seeds I planted here were originally. It may just be an ordinary plant seed that fell here and took root and sprouted."

It's not that her mood easily turns to pessimism, but she has been taking care of this land since she was nine years old, and has never seen any crops sprout. There have been cases where the wind has dropped tree seeds in the fields and they have sprouted.

"Emily, you said you wanted to have hope. Don't you hope it can grow bread?"

Lu Li said with a smile.

Emily lay on the ground, looking at the new sprout with a smile on her face. "Mr. Lu, this is so strange. How can a seed grow bread directly? But I am willing to believe that it is the seed of a crop. I must take good care of it."

"Then you should redouble your efforts. I need to go to the city-state."

Lu Li turned and walked out of the field. He certainly knew what would grow from the seed because it was the seed of the golden breadfruit tree he planted.

Strangely, the seeds from the Gourmet Hunter world can take root and sprout, but the rice and wheat seeds from this world's theoretically higher basic energy level and quality cannot grow.

Lu Li initially thought it was a problem with the soil, but when he checked the soil, he did not find any obvious difference between it and the soil outside. At least with his current strength, he could not see any strange power remaining.

But there are wild fruits and vegetables and crops growing sparsely in the wild, and they cannot be grown after being brought back by the tribesmen.

Lu Li asked Aizen, and Aizen said that the people in the city-state did not farm, they lived on nutrient supplements. As for what the nutrient supplements were made of, Aizen had not yet found out.

"Mr. Lu, please come back. I still want to hear your adventure stories!"

Emily shouted behind Lu Li, but Lu Li had already sat on Ah Huo and was walking away.

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boom--

Amid a violent roar, dirt and gravel flew everywhere, and Lu Li rolled out on Ah Huo's body. Both the man and the bear crashed into the mountain wall and dirt in the shock wave.

Lu Li turned over and stood firm, then entered the demonic state and slashed forward with a knife. At the same time, the shadow of the gourmet demon appeared behind him, letting out a threatening roar.

A dark blade light flashed, and a gray blood mist was stirred up by the tip of the blade. The huge gray insect was slashed by Lu Li.

Immediately afterwards, Ah Huo rushed over from the side and used his fat body to block the attack of the giant insect's sickle.

At the same time, Lu Litian took a series of steps and dodged, slashing across the giant insect's belly with his sword, starting from the weak parts. He slashed countless times during the sliding process. After Lu Li passed through, the body of the gray giant insect behind him fell down with a loud bang.

"call--"

Lu Li exhaled a breath of foul air and adjusted his breathing to be steady. The monster he had just killed was called Centipede Gray Scythe, and its comprehensive attributes were approximately 226 points, slightly weaker than the Giant Blood Demon.

But because this thing seemed to have a low combat IQ, Lu Li and Ah Huo worked together to seize the flaw, allowing Lu Li to kill it.

Facts have proved that not all monsters have excellent recovery ability, and the healing ban of the Demon Prisoner is no joke. Even a monster with a strange life source mechanism cannot withstand the continuous slashing of the Demonic Evil and the Soul Eater.

Moreover, Lu Li discovered that in this world, there was a title that provided him with a particularly useful bonus, and that was God Slayer.

This title can reduce his charm by 10 points against natives with divinity. This not only greatly enhances the independent damage increase effect of his Evil God Mask, but also obtains up to 100% independent damage increase based on the opponent's divinity.

If the calculation is multiplied in this way, in the most ideal situation, he would quadruple his overall damage.

Of course, ordinary monsters do not have much divinity, but Lu Li discovered that no matter what kind of monster it is, there must be a little bit of divinity on it, even the big bug he just killed.

After getting rid of the giant insect that had been chasing him and Ah Huo for more than ten kilometers, Lu Li cut off one of its legs. Without feeling disgusted, he bit down directly on the joint of the insect's leg and swallowed it with his mouth.

Lu Li wanted to give it a try to see if the method given to him by the Sword Keeper was really useful. As for the possibility of his mind being polluted by strange flesh and blood, Lu Li was not afraid. He was originally a person with extraordinary powers, and his spiritual world was still very stable. He did not believe that even the devil could not pollute his mind, and that the flesh and blood of a bug would cause him to degenerate.

"vomit……"

However, Lu Li just took a bite and made a retching sound. He dared to say that even the devil fruits he exchanged for as snacks were sweet fruits compared to this.

Lu Li considered himself to be a person with strong endurance and was not picky about food, but he still almost vomited at the first moment.

"In order to become stronger, I have to endure it!"

Lu Li talked to himself, as if to encourage himself, and then took a bite. He mentally suggested that he was eating crab leg meat.

(End of this chapter)