Volume 10 Bugs Chapter 44: Functions of Carrots (Part 1)
When a woman - especially a beautiful woman - has her cheeks stained with a delicate blush, a hint of shyness between her brows, her mouth slightly open, her blurry eyes half open, looking at you lovingly with an eager expression, and you know that she is encouraging you, guiding you, and needs you with a burning desire in her heart, then as a normal man, if you say that your heart will not surge with a strange wave, making you feel a little flustered and short of breath, then you must be lying.
Now, my heart is in a panic.
A thin layer of sweat covered my forehead, and I felt my breathing become heavy and short under such gaze. A strong sense of morality and honor drove me to reject such unreasonable requests, but the strongest part of my life instinct made me unable to reject the woman in front of me. Looking at her eager expression, I felt a little reluctant in my heart, but I inevitably approached her slowly and stretched out my right hand. My palm was warm and thick, and the fine sweat made it a little slippery. I put it deep into it, and when I took it out again, there was something more in my hand.
“Ah…” The woman let out a satisfied sigh, then looked at my right hand shyly and expectantly, and asked me in her delicate voice, “You… don’t want more?”
My nerve center seemed to be impacted by something innate, causing me to suffer from temporary aphasia. I could only stammer in panic under her expectant gaze: "Uh... that... you..."
Finally, I mustered up all my courage, tried to focus my sparkling eyes on the woman's face, and asked bravely:
"...Um...can it be cheaper?"
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This is how I bought the potion from President Feiyin. What? You misunderstood? How is that possible? Wasn't I clear enough?
Well, I'll narrate it in a way you can understand: You see, she was eager to encourage me and hoped that I would buy more potions, and although I didn't want to satisfy her profiteering nature, the desire to struggle for survival - undoubtedly this is the strongest part of life instinct - forced me to give in. I reached into my backpack and took out a stack of gold coins, hoping to buy some potions. Feiyin cheered with satisfaction, and then hoped that I would pay more money - damn, I am an educated and cultured warrior with higher education in alchemy, dignified manners and elegant conversation, but I always encounter listeners like you who only like straightforward and bland narrative methods. Life is so helpless...
But no matter what, it does take a lot of courage to bargain with the president, whom I have always respected and admired. When I said this, the shyness and panic from the bottom of my heart inevitably caused me to have a strong physiological reaction: my whole body went soft, except for one place that was hard.
Um... of course you know I'm talking about the gallbladder - where else could it be?
The president was very dissatisfied with my bargaining: "I only earn ten silver coins from each bottle of medicine, which is cheap enough. You should know that after completing this task, you will benefit much more than this..."
For a hero who is committed to saving the world, the various benefits promised by the president are not very attractive to me - no matter how great the benefits are, we must first save the world from the danger of destruction, right? I am more concerned about using the cash I have to buy two more bottles of potions as a backup, so as to avoid the embarrassment of insufficient use in future dangerous battles.
"Please, President, it's a good thing you temporarily replaced me with a team member. Just think about it, if I hadn't been there to support you, and if you had followed your original plan and let that thin-skinned swordsman Foxiao come with you, what would have happened to you now?"
"Well, if it was him..." Fei Yin lowered her head and pondered for a moment, then raised her head with a look of regret and said in annoyance, "...I should be able to sell two more bottles of potion..."
I:"……"
Negotiations were fruitless, and it seemed that I really had no better choice. At this time, I had not yet realized that many things in this world would only have a huge turnaround in the seemingly hopeless helplessness. Just as I was trying to endure the pain of cutting flesh and taking out more gold coins from my body, Yan Zhen - the elf tamer who had used up all his bullets in a moment of impulse - suddenly seemed to remember something and exclaimed softly: "Oh..."
Her scream attracted our attention, and thankfully my payment process was interrupted. Everyone looked at her in confusion—before we came to the narrower flat ground, let's forget about the corpse lying on the ground—wandering to know what her scream meant.
Realizing that she had attracted our attention, Yan Zhen was a little shy and a little anxious. She said uncertainly, "I suddenly remembered that my rabbit... just learned some healing spells."
"Then why didn't you take it out earlier!" My eyes lit up, and then I felt a little annoyed, and couldn't help complaining.
"That's because..." Yan Zhen was a little panicked, and hurriedly explained, "...its spell level is too low, and the restored vitality is a little..." She raised her head and glanced at us embarrassedly, paused, and then continued, "...less!"
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When Yan Zhen summoned her first "battle pet" from the trainer's magic space - a small white rabbit "Tu Cha Cha" with a furry body, a pair of blood-red eyes and two long pointed ears, the little guy was holding a carrot about as thick as a little finger and rolling lazily on the ground with his eyes squinting. When he found that the surrounding environment had changed and so many tall and ferocious uninvited guests suddenly appeared around him, he immediately jumped and hid behind Yan Zhen's trouser legs in panic, holding the carrot, and then sticking half of his head out with extreme vigilance to look at him quietly. When he saw that several of us "terrible and huge strange monsters" were looking at him with "ferocious" eyes with expectation, he was so scared that he almost dropped the carrot on the snow, and quickly closed his eyes and retracted his head behind Yan Zhen's calves, holding his precious carrot tightly with his two small front paws.
Um... little guy, you can't hide it like this. It seems... your ears are still exposed...
It has been a long time since I last saw this cute little guy. Our cold-blooded president Feiyin could not hold back the maternal care that suddenly overflowed from deep in her heart. She hugged Rabbit in her arms with a look of admiration, holding it with her left hand and gently scratching Rabbit's belly with her right index finger. The little guy was frightened at first, curled up tightly, closed his eyes, and held the carrot tightly in his arms with his front paws. Even so, he was still not at ease, and bit it hard with his little mouth, fearing that it would be taken away. But after a while, Feiyin's tickling gradually made it relax its vigilance. It gradually opened its limbs, stretched out its body with a comfortable look, and rubbed its head gently between Feiyin's fingers.
"Hehe... Look, it can even stretch..." Feiyin screamed with tenderness on her face. Holding this cute little rabbit in her arms, she felt as warm as spring.
But in a flash, she raised her head indifferently, her face still covered with ice and snow, and looked at us coldly, as ruthless as the autumn wind sweeping away the fallen leaves:
"Who's going to spend some life? We need to test its magical power..."
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It was not difficult to implement this cold suggestion. We only advanced about a hundred steps before we attracted the attention of a group of Sasquatch again. I was once again surrounded by them, and the red fluid carrying my life force sprayed everywhere. I could only helplessly watch the life tank above my head gradually decay.
Rabbit lazily raised its head, its two front paws still tightly wrapped around the carrot, and its pair of red eyes looked at us with a dull and puzzled look. This slow-witted little guy didn't seem to realize that he was witnessing a life-and-death struggle. It seemed to me that he had no interest in the blood-stained unfortunate person being beaten in the middle of the crowd - that is, me - but was very interested in the soft snow on the ground.
Just when I was about to lose my patience, the careless rabbit finally realized its responsibility. Under the constant encouragement and drive of the geese formation, it finally stretched out its right paw and waved it at me twice with great reluctance.
A sacred light descended from the sky and enveloped me. An indescribable holy feeling filled my body and soothed my soul. I felt that my whole body was infused with the joy of life. In the sky that we cannot see, the merciful God generously bestowed his grace on me, allowing my humble body to receive a warm nourishment. This warm current cleansed my body and my soul was redeemed like a rebirth. I looked up at the sky covered by clouds with gratitude. Under the shining of this divine light, I saw several green characters symbolizing kindness and salvation rising happily from above my head...
“+30”!
This pitiful amount of vitality can't even make up for the loss of a sneeze . Now I understand why Yan Zhen felt embarrassed when mentioning the healing power of this rabbit...
As soon as the sacred recovery spell "Ode to Life" was used, the rabbit immediately hugged the carrot back tightly in its arms, its two little eyes looked around furtively, as if it was afraid that someone would do something bad to its little treasure. But a moment later, it angrily discovered that the recovery spell it had just cast with so much effort did not seem to have any effect - the guy who was beaten was still struggling to death, and the violent murderers did not restrain themselves at all.
Rabbit Chacha seemed a little annoyed, and its red pupils shrank into a small dot. It struggled to jump forward in the snow... well... crawled... well... it should have taken a few steps - this fat boy with short legs had a hard time walking in the snow - and then raised the magic carrot again and waved it at me twice.
A green light shot out from the root of the carrot and shone on my body. I could feel that my body was thriving with vitality, and infinite vitality was emanating from my bone marrow and blood vessels, and then growing along my tendons and muscles. As a result, I gained... well... twenty points of life every second.
This healing magic named "Nature's Caress" shocked me greatly - it was not because the vitality it restored was so little, of course, it was indeed surprisingly little - what shocked me the most was that this lazy and arrogant little rabbit could actually release a natural healing spell right after releasing a divine spell. All this clearly showed that this rabbit actually represented the sacred majesty of two high-level gods, the Supreme God Darmos and the Goddess of Nature Nechernia.
Hey! Are you kidding me? It's just a fat, stupid rabbit that loves to sleep late! It would rather stretch than pray perfunctorily, but it can be favored and cared for by two gods at the same time? I believe that if this news spreads, at least half of the priests, priestesses, saints and other clergymen in the world will come here from afar to stew its skin and fur into a pot of rabbit soup, and then gnaw it with unprecedented piety until there is not even a bone left.
The other half will probably choose braised...
In fact, my shock had just begun .
Having just squandered the sacred power bestowed by the goddess of nature, Rabbit Chacha immediately stretched its left front paw behind its butt, squinted its eyes, and scratched the soft and furry butt twice with a look of enjoyment. Then, it raised its hand and pulled out a thick, huge, brightly colored, juicy... uh... carrot that was a little taller than itself.
Don't ask me, I'd also like to know where it got this thing from!
