Volume 4: It's Dark, Please Close Your Eyes Chapter 63: Rules of the Far North Wasteland
Bait!
In Tang Zheng's mind, all these messy things have been connected into one line.
In fact, it’s not difficult to understand once you think about it.
"The fish you saw should be a demon called the Far North Swordfish. The Far North Swordfish has lived in the center of the Far North Wasteland for a long time. For this species, the half-demon close to the border is a top delicacy, just like people living by the sea like to eat wild roe deer, while people living in the mountains like to eat seafood..." Tang Zheng said quickly.
"Well, what next?" Tang Xiaotang and the others asked.
"It just so happens that the Far North Swordfish is the most exquisite delicacy in the world for another demon race - the One-eyed Vermilion Bird. But because the Far North Swordfish rarely floats to the surface of the lake, and the One-eyed Vermilion Bird has no way to dive to the bottom of the water, the One-eyed Vermilion Bird needs... bait! Bait to lure the Far North Swordfish out of the water!"
"Hiss..." With just two simple sentences, everyone understood the relationship between the half-demon, fish, and bird.
In a nutshell, one word – eat!
In order to eat the fish, the bird caught the half-demon and used it as bait to lure the fish out of the water and eat it.
That’s right, this is actually the most common and most mindless way of getting along between tribes outside the border.
If the word "eat" did not exist between them, wouldn't they have worked together to flatten human civilization long ago?
But even for Tang Zheng, it took him a long time to figure out that the relationship between them was just one of "eating".
"But, those half-demons are all so beautiful..." Even though Tang Xiaotang understood the relationship between them, she couldn't accept it for a while, "If we could bring them all back to our teacher to warm them up..."
"Ahem...well, I've already seen you." Tang Zheng stood in front of Tang Xiaotang and the others with a frown on his face.
It was obvious that Tang Xiaotang still hadn't come to her sense of thought.
Tang Zheng asked her, "When you eat pork, do you know which pig is beautiful?"
What is bait? What is food?
Since they are food, of course the only thing we consider is whether the meat is fresh and tender.
No matter from which aspect, young and beautiful half-demon definitely meets the requirement of "tender meat"!
"Okay..." Although Tang Xiaotang listened to Tang Zheng's words, she still hadn't recovered from the shock of those beautiful half-demons suddenly turning into bait. She stopped thinking about it for the time being and asked, "What should we do now? Should we leave first?"
Tang Zheng made a gesture to stop him.
He is listening.
The sound of wind and birds singing.
They were communicating with each other, but of course Tang Zheng couldn't understand the language they were communicating in.
The demonic fire not far away lit up the sky above the oasis...
Tang Zheng, however, did not give the order to leave.
"With our strength, it will be no problem to destroy this wave of demons, but it may delay the time for us to find the North Sea Demon Butterfly." Jiang Wuyan said.
"Yeah, I know." Tang Zheng nodded.
Jiang Wuyan nodded and did not say another sentence, because Tang Zheng rarely showed such hesitancy. At least, in his experience with Tang Zheng, it seemed that this was the first time.
The scene was silent for a moment.
Tang Zheng's silence led to silence of the entire team.
But his silence lasted a little too long...
After waiting for a long time, Tang Xiaotang looked at Tang Zheng's seemingly deep face and asked in a low voice: "Master, what are you thinking about?"
Zheng Qian also came over: "Do you want me to help you analyze it..."
"Oh, no need. I'm just recalling a story." Tang Zheng said.
Tang Xiaotang was speechless for a while: "What time is it now? What story are you still reminiscing about?"
Tang Zheng shook his head: "No, no, this story is very important... I have to recall it before I can decide whether we should leave or stay."
"What story?" Hua Yingxiu asked.
"Well, the name of this story is, The Quarrel between the Snipe and the Clam?" Tang Zheng said casually, as if thinking about something.
A quarrel between the snipe and the clam?
Tang Xiaotang remembered that Tang Zheng had clearly told them this story, so how could she have forgotten it?
The story is quite simple. It is about a stalemate between a snipe and a clam, and then a fisherman takes advantage of the situation.
She remembered it all, so how could Tang Zheng not remember it?
"Master, do you mean that we should be the fishermen who collect the net?" Tang Xiaotang blinked.
"Well... let me think about it." Tang Zheng shook his head.
A bit messy.
The quarrel between the snipe and the clam was just something he made up casually. Of course it would be better if it could be done.
But the question is, why do it?
Snipe is also good.
Clams are good too.
He shouldn't be feeling this way!
Whether or not you can be the fisherman, and how to be the fisherman, that's all a matter for the next step...
Now, he wants to sort out his thoughts first!
Tang Zheng believed that everything he could remember in his mind should not be useless information, so he felt particularly surprised that he could remember the names of the Arctic Swordfish and the One-eyed Vermillion Bird among Xu Qingyan's many stories about the demon race.
Far North Swordfish, One-eyed Vermilion Bird.
Both are quite common names. Even if they are a bit picky about food, they are just ordinary monsters. But the monster names that Xu Qingyan mentioned, there must be at least eight hundred, if not one thousand, right?
Why did he remember these two demon races?
He searched his mind for a long time but couldn't figure out why he could remember them. However, he was very sure that the things he remembered must be meaningful, so he didn't leave for the time being.
"Hide where you are and we will observe for a while." After Tang Zheng came to Xingyao Continent, he received too much information. It was normal for him to remember half of some things and forget the other half.
"Okay." Since Tang Zheng said so, everyone turned off their stars and hid on the spot.
Soon, the chirping sound was heard again from not far away.
It must be the group of one-eyed Vermilion Birds that discovered the body that Zheng Qian had finally managed to put down after overcoming his strong psychological barriers.
Their calls were cheerful and joyful. Although Tang Zheng could not understand them, he knew that this was the emotional expression of the demon race with a certain level of intelligence.
"Master, they are coming." Tang Xiaotang said.
"Hmm." Tang Zheng could vaguely see that those half-demons were hanging on the tree again, and there were more of them than Tang Zheng and his friends had seen before.
The group of one-eyed Vermilion Birds also extinguished their magic fires. Only the smallest one, walking at the end, was staggering with two magic fires as it followed the flock of birds towards the lake.
They did not hide like Tang Zheng and his friends.
It seems that extinguishing the demonic fire is the most concealed hunting behavior they can perform.
"It seems that although they have a certain level of intelligence, that's all..." Tang Zheng said silently in his heart.
The initial intelligence of each type of demon race is different.
For example, a half-demon, although he has no real strength, his IQ is generally at the level of a 15 or 16-year-old boy.
However, some monsters are as powerful as five-star or even six-star strength, and their IQ is only at the level of a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy.
I have to say that Xinjiang is a very unfair place, because there are huge differences in their origins. Initial IQ is only one aspect. What is more terrifying is that in this place there exists... a food chain!
So what if Meng Mirage possesses such powerful demonic powers and the IQ of an absolutely normal adult?
Once it encounters its "natural enemy", it will be swallowed up without leaving even a bone.
I can only say that the gameplay in the Far North Wasteland is completely different from that in Xinjiang!
However, Tang Zheng and his friends soon discovered that the Arctic swordfish in the water did not seem to have a very high IQ, and it might even lack a basic sense of distance.
Because the half-demon corpses had been hung up not long ago, there was a quick reaction in the water - as soon as it smelled the bait, the Far North Swordfish was indeed a little eager to move, and it didn't even try to judge how far the bait was and whether it could reach it.
The one-eyed red bird is getting closer and closer to the waterside...
The Far North Swordfish is getting closer and closer to the water surface...
From Tang Zheng's perspective, with the faint moonlight, he could barely see the shadow of a fish about ten meters long and with a tail of about five meters below the water.
The Arctic swordfish has a huge head with a row of exposed teeth. The two fangs on the upper jaw are very long and look very aggressive.
I have to say, the One-eyed Vermilion Bird really fought hard for this bite of food!
But Tang Zheng could no longer remember why he recognized this fish. Although the fish looked a little fierce, that was all. What else about it made him remember the words "Northern Swordfish"?
However, he felt that the star power in his body was moving a little...
It would have been fine if he hadn't seen the Arctic Swordfish show up before, but when he saw the fish, his combat experience as a professional player clearly told him to kill it.
Tang Zheng is no ordinary professional player.
He is a professional player with a strong sense of purpose!
With his ten-year professional career, there is only one situation that can give him this clear sixth sense - there is an explosion!
"Hehe... now..." Tang Zheng rubbed his temple.
One is his vague memory, and the other is his sixth sense.
Both sides came to the same conclusion - kill.
However, Tang Zheng still did not move.
Because neither of these two reasons can be a reason to convince teammates to stay and take the risk.
In his previous life , Tang Zheng was a lone ranger and had basically no fixed teammates.
Therefore, he never had the need to think about this kind of problem.
So, what now?
Should I stick to my unconvincing idea and stay to kill the Far North Swordfish? Or should I communicate with my teammates and leave here to do the real work?
Tang Zheng took a deep breath...
Now is not the time to solve the problem by keeping silent, he must make a choice!
