Volume 10 Bugs Chapter 1 An important person who decides life and death
Among the brave space travelers who traveled through countless time and space planes in search of adventure and landed on the Falvi continent, there is a seemingly vulgar but extremely correct saying:
I'm not afraid of awesome opponents, I'm just afraid of stupid comrades!
I fully believe that this is an absolute truth built up from countless humiliations, failures, deaths and blood. It is like a beacon in a storm, pointing out the direction for adventurers struggling on the edge of death and providing a target for reflection. When you are at your wit's end in battle and cannot escape death, look back at this sentence and you will find that the first person who could say this concise and wise advice must be a great poet, a brave adventurer, a profound philosopher, and an unlucky guy who was dragged to death countless times by stupid teammates.
"Crack!" A violent collision suddenly came from under my sword. Because I have been fighting with formless wild spirits, I have become accustomed to not having collisions during battles. This time the collision came unexpectedly, and I lost my balance and the long sword almost flew out of my hand.
A "bone-eating giant ant" that was half my waist tall had already run to my side. This huge insect was covered with a thick shell, which was not inferior to ordinary metal armor. My sword chopped it down.
If only one or two bone-eating giant ants appeared occasionally, they would not pose much of a threat to us. But when I looked closely, I suddenly realized that since some time ago, more than a dozen of these greedy and hungry giant insects had gathered around us, even more than the original number of boneless wild spirits.
Damn it, how could all these dangerous guys suddenly appear here?
"Help... Why are there monsters everywhere..." The hysterical screams of the nanny in the candlelight of the Tauren Druid attracted my attention. Following her figure, I soon understood why our enemies were getting more and more...
At the beginning, there was only a Boneless Wild Spirit with less than one-third of its health following closely behind her, occasionally shooting one or two harmless "Shadow Arrows", which would make the already frightened Tauren Druid scream in pain.
The nurse in the candlelight was obviously frightened. There was a colony of giant bone-eating ants lurking in front of her, but she rushed in without knowing where to go. She also threw a ball of magic fire for no apparent reason, hitting the butt of a level 50 "mutated giant bone-eating ant".
"Where are you hitting!" Seeing another group of angry giant bone-eating ants following the nanny in the candlelight and rushing towards us aggressively, Fei Yin gritted her teeth and roared loudly.
"I...I...I forgot to switch targets..." The nanny in the candlelight ran away while gasping for air and making excuses with an innocent and stupid look on her face.
As soon as she finished speaking, she stepped over the big head of a sand lizard without noticing.
Let's assume that you are lying on the beach, basking in the sun with your wife and children, enjoying a leisurely life away from the world. At this moment, suddenly a reckless guy runs out and kicks you hard on the forehead. What will you do?
If it were me, I would call a group of brothers to pick up weapons and teach that reckless guy a lesson, so that he would know that paying attention to your steps when walking is the most basic moral norm.
This floating lizard was obviously a well-educated wild animal like me, and it did exactly what I told it to do.
Seven or eight gravel lizards, each more than a person long, immediately joined the hunt for the female minotaur. The most violent one in the lead had a clearly discernible circular cow hoof print on its forehead. Several others indignantly charged into our battle group, using their sharp claws and hard foreheads to fight us.
Please, the one who provoked you was that stupid cow with long horns, and we are all innocent... I was waving my sword to resist, sweating profusely, and cursing in my heart.
Before long, almost all the desert residents within a radius of 200 steps were harassed one by one by the candlelight nurse, and a long line of chasing teams followed her. The enraged monsters and beasts roared viciously behind the Tauren Druid, raising a trail of dust in the desert, which looked spectacular.
Finally, all these irritable guys followed the footsteps of the cow, and rushed towards us with green eyes. We were already in a difficult battle, but we were overwhelmed by this group of monsters, and we felt the pressure doubled. Countless dangerous claws were waving in front of me, making me completely exhausted. My left hand holding the shield became completely stiff due to excessive force. Even so, the nanny in the candlelight seemed to think that we were not dying fast enough, and turned around and attracted two "thorn cactus monsters" that were mutated from desert plants.
In such a fierce melee, even if we have gloves in hand and medicines by our side, we must tense every nerve, and we may die on the spot if we are not careful. And the most infuriating thing is that the culprit who caused all these evil consequences is still shamelessly calling for help:
"Big sister, come and save me, I can't hold on any longer..."
Fei Yin's face turned livid, her eyes were sharp as if they were real, and she wished she could pierce two holes in the Tauren Druid's body right there:
"You can't hold on any longer? Nonsense, even I can't hold on any longer! What's wrong with you? Are you trying to attract so many monsters to die? It's not enough for you to die alone, you want to kill us all!"
"Big sister, I was wrong...but I didn't mean it..." the nanny said aggrievedly in the candlelight.
I fully believe that she did not do all this on purpose. I even suspect that if she wanted to do this on purpose, she might not have created such a big scene - but it is precisely because of this that I fell into deep despair: if a person is so stupid, then he is really completely hopeless.
Finally, as the two giant bone-eating ants bit hard, the nurse in the candlelight finally let out a muffled cry and lay quietly on the ground, turning into a dead cow.
The death of Nanny in Candlelight left our adventuring team one person short.
There is one less person attracting monsters everywhere, one less person wasting life potions, one less person who needs care and cover, and one less "very important" person.
When I say the Tauren Druid is "important," it's no exaggeration. As soon as she was killed, I could immediately feel the pressure eased: no one was bringing new monsters full of life to replace the dangerous beasts I had already killed, and no one was blocking my sight and making my attacks miss their targets. I was destroying opponents faster and more efficiently than before, and I didn't have to drink potions as frequently.
I never thought that being able to fight freely and normally could be such a happy thing.
Therefore, no matter from which angle you measure it, the survival of the nanny in the candlelight is indeed the most critical factor in this battle - she alone determines the balance of victory or defeat in this battle and is an important weight that is a decisive factor!
I have to say that the death of the Tauren Druid is the greatest contribution she can make to us - if she hadn't died, I'm afraid we would have all died out - when an adventurer's value to his companions has reached the point where "life is worse than death", I want to say that you can no longer simply use the level of "strength" or "IQ" to evaluate the meaning of his existence.
This can simply be called a "realm"!
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Without the big burden of the nurse in the candlelight, the three of us, Foxiao, Feiyin, and I, were relieved of a lot of burdens. We fought while walking, resolutely avoiding a head-on confrontation with a large group of enemies, concentrating our strength to eliminate the opponents one by one, and giving full play to the flexible guerrilla tactics. After about ten minutes, the large group of ferocious beasts and monsters were finally completely wiped out by us.
Sitting on the slope of the sand dune, we enjoyed the pleasure of surviving the fierce battle while waiting for the resurrection of the Tauren Druid. Foxiao pointed at the corpse on the ground and asked angrily:
"Where did you find such a rookie? He almost caused the whole group to be wiped out!"
Feiyin showed a rare look of embarrassment on her face, and shook her head helplessly: "She is a new member who just joined the guild. I heard that she happens to live in the same city as me. I take care of her when I have nothing to do. She is so stupid that she can only fight and make trouble, and then attract a lot of monsters. I have been killed by her several times."
"Then why are you still bringing her along? Just let such a mentally retarded girl fend for herself!" Foxiao said relentlessly, obviously still in fear of the danger just now.
"Forget it, it's just for fun, why take it so seriously. After all, we are from the same city, and a distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor..." It's really rare that Feiyin can be so generous.
"...Besides, she also promised to treat me to a meal when she has time. If I don't take advantage of such an opportunity, I will suffer retribution..." the president added.
Hey, why do these things sound so familiar?
"So that's how it is..." Fu Xiao nodded with realization, as if he remembered that he was in the same situation as Fei Yin.
"Big sister..." Finally, the nanny in the candlelight who had just died was resurrected. As soon as she stood up, she cried to Feiyin with a face full of misfortune: "...The armor you gave me is broken, and I don't even have enough money to repair it..."
Armor? I looked at the poorly made leather armor on the minotaur with a gloating look on my face. Normally, this kind of discarded stuff would only be left to rot in the grocery store, but I didn't expect that someone would actually be willing to wear this piece of rubbish and treat it as a treasure.
Newbies are so easy to fool… I sighed sincerely in my heart.
"Alright, alright, it's just the repair fee..." Fei Yin frowned and threw over a dozen silver coins impatiently, "...you can keep the rest to buy medicine!"
This was the first time I saw Feiyin being so generous—she didn’t even mention paying back the money or the interest. But considering what she said about “treating everyone to dinner”, although I still couldn’t fully understand it, there was one thing I was very sure of:
Our president will never do anything that does not involve any advantage.
"Big sister..." The nurse in the candlelight excitedly hugged Feiyin's arms with both hands and shook them vigorously, with her thick lips pressed against Feiyin's face, "...You are really my best sister. If I didn't have you, what would I do..."
Seeing a bull-headed woman who was more muscular than a man, posing in a coquettish and corny intimate posture like a weak little woman, I felt goose bumps the size of soybeans all over my body and hit my feet one after another.
The bull-headed woman's heartfelt words of gratitude and confidant made it hard for Foxiao and I not to think of a familiar figure we had just seen not long ago - I am your father. This new monk with a big beard was surprisingly similar to the nanny in the candlelight in terms of flattery and flattery.
"Um... Miss Nanny..." Fu Xiao couldn't help but ask, "...how many brothers and sisters do you have?"
"Why are you asking this?" The Tauren Druid immediately looked at Foxiao with a vigilant look on his face.
"Oh, nothing, just asking casually..." Foxiao replied with a wry smile, "I was just thinking that we might have just met your brother..."
…
"By the way, why did you two come all the way here to see me?" Feiyin suddenly asked us. She subconsciously tightened her purse. "Don't say you're here to borrow money. I welcome you to pay me back, but not to borrow money!"
Seeing the president's miserly appearance, Foxiao and I looked at each other with a smile on our faces. Foxiao looked around, then lowered his voice and said to Feiyin, "We just found a bug."
Although I didn't understand what Bug meant, it seemed that Feiyin knew it very well. She loosened her right hand that was tightly holding the purse and looked at us in confusion: "Bug? What's going on? Can you explain it to me clearly?"
"The truth is, it's like this..." I cleared my throat, took off the pair of "boxing gloves" on my hands, and started by helping I'm Your Father change my job. I explained the whole story in detail, all the way to how we verified that only this kind of boxing gloves can increase attributes for professions other than monks.
"...That's it. We found that we can also equip and use this boxing glove, and it does not conflict with other weapons and equipment." Foxiao also took off his boxing gloves to let Feiyin see the changes in his attributes clearly.
The nurse stood by in the candlelight, her eyes sparkling as she watched: "Can our druids wear this glove, too?"
"It should be possible. We haven't tried it." Fo Xiao handed a pair of boxing gloves to her, indicating that she could try it.
The Tauren Druid stuffed his big hands into the boxing gloves with hope - he didn't tear the gloves - and then shouted excitedly:
"Big sister, it really works. My attack power has also increased by 40 points!"
The 40 points of attack power added by the boxing gloves may not be very obvious to us, but for this rookie cow, it is a qualitative leap. She looked at her hands with love and greed, rubbing her fingers constantly, as if to verify whether the gloves were still on her fingers. Looking at her red eyes, she almost wished that the gloves would grow directly on her cowhide.
The nurse in the candlelight looked like a hopeless peasant, and even Fei Yin couldn't stand it anymore: "Okay, okay, these low-level equipment of level 10 are everywhere. If you want them, you can just use these gloves yourself."
"Really? Big sister, you are such a good person, thank you so much!" The nanny's face was full of joy in the candlelight, and she couldn't help but give Feiyin a warm hug like a boudoir sister again - it was only because of Feiyin's strong resistance that she was unable to imprint her big mouth on Feiyin's face again.
The Tauren Druid was obviously too excited, so he didn't hear what Fei Yin said next:
"…You won't need it for a few days anyway."
"I'll go try it out and see how it works..." The nanny in the candlelight jumped for joy and ran away.
At this time, the three of us were busy discussing how to use boxing gloves, so we all neglected the whereabouts of this rookie cow. I agreed casually, and then asked Feiyin anxiously: "President, what should we do next?"
"Give one to everyone in our guild. This way, our guild will be much stronger..." Foxiao couldn't contain his excitement, "...With stronger attack power, it will be more convenient to go to dungeons. Maybe we can even be the first to open up a new large dungeon..."
Feiyin smiled and shook her head. Just as she was about to speak, she suddenly seemed to remember something:
"Ah, what did that rookie say when he left just now?"
"She seemed to say...she wanted to try out the effect of the gloves..." I answered while recalling. After I finished speaking, I realized the huge potential danger behind this sentence.
"Ah, my attack power has become so high, and this pair of boxing gloves is really useful..." From the other side of the sand dune came the excited shouting of the nanny in the candlelight, and the three of us were pale as dust - after all, we were still a step too late!
"Hey, don't hit me... Why are there more here... Ah, there are more over there... Why are they all surrounding me... Big sister, help me..."
An exceptionally stout female figure rolled down from the top of the dune. A moment later, a mist rose from the top of the dune, as if a hurricane had swept through. At first, there were only a few scattered black dots that spread over the dune and rushed down the hillside. Before long, these black dots had gathered to a shocking degree, almost covering the entire hillside. From a distance, it looked as if the entire dune was collapsing forward. The whole scene was so spectacular that it shocked people from the bottom of their hearts and moved them to tears.
Our tears were about to fall, but this had nothing to do with the "touched" feeling deep in our hearts.
"Damn it, has this idiot woman brought all the monsters in the wilderness here..." Feiyin didn't even turn her head back, and rushed to the front of us with an "instant teleportation", cursing while running for her life...
