pertwk Chapter 34 It turns out it was right beside me
Chapter 34 It turns out it was right beside me
Chen Yan, who had witnessed the entire process, suddenly thought of a possibility.
He prayed while sensing the white bubble that had appeared in his mind very early on.
"Got it!"
[The cat, Flower Cat, has posted a quest: It wants to find a girlfriend.]
[Give it the gentlest touch in the world, how much longer must it endure, how much longer must it remain silent...?]
[Completion Fee: Palico Combat Gathering Skill / Palico Combat Analysis Skill / Flashwing Insect Breeding Skill / Dettel Language Proficiency / Flower Cat Three Styles (First Style: Swallow Return, Second Style: Hidden Blade Slash, Third Style: Unnamed)]
"As expected, not only are the rewards for Xialong's quests dynamic, but Huamiao's are too!"
Chen Yan completely ignored the previous rewards and stared at the grand prize, Hua Miao San Shi, swallowing hard.
It turns out that the treasure he had been searching for was right beside him!
He calmed himself down and turned back to the camp.
"If all goes well, we'll have a better idea of how to complete the dragon-slaying quest..."
After Hua Miao had memorized all the insights and shortcomings of the third move, it estimated that Chen Yan and the others should be getting up, so it picked up the little horned dragon that was chasing the rabbit around and quietly headed towards the camp.
The little horned dragon, which hadn't caught up with the circling rabbit yet, was unwilling to give up. It found that it couldn't get away by flapping its limbs, so it shook its head and used its horn and the little fleshy thing on its tail to hit the flower cat.
It's not very useful.
Flower Cat tiptoed back to the base, intending to warm up in the tent, but Chen Yan and Harley were already up.
Harley stared intently at Chen Yan, and Chen Yan stared intently back at her.
The atmosphere in the camp was extremely eerie.
The cat instinctively tucked its tail between its legs.
Before it could figure out if it was hallucinating today, and was trying to come up with a reason to fool them, it heard Chen Yan calling it to eat.
Nothing is more important than eating.
The cat abandoned the baby horned dragon and rushed towards the stone dining table.
It was still the disappointing wild vegetable soup, but unlike last night, there was an extra wild vegetable dumpling.
Making wild vegetable dumplings is very simple. Just crush the dry rations brought from the stronghold, add chopped wild vegetables, knead them into a ball, and then steam them.
The cat was quick and agile, grabbing at the vegetable dumplings like the wind, but Harley was even faster.
Harley took the vegetable dumpling in less than half a second.
She held the steaming hot wild vegetable dumplings, which were still quite hot from the pot. She kept turning them back and forth in her palms, puffing out her cheeks and blowing on them to cool them down, but her fair palms still turned slightly red from the heat.
Just as Flower Cat was regretting that her paws were too short and her hand speed too slow, and she could only watch others eat, she saw Harley hand the slightly cooled wild vegetable dumplings to the person next to her.
"Chen Yan, you eat."
Chen Yan didn't stand on ceremony at all, taking it in one swift motion, then passing it from his left hand to his right and handing it to the cat beside him.
"Flower Cat, you eat."
As Hua Miao watched the wild vegetable dumplings fall from the sky, tears of happiness streamed from the corners of her mouth.
"Okay, I'll eat...?"
Just as Hua Miao was about to put the wild vegetable dumpling into her mouth, she suddenly jumped in fright, her fur standing on end as if she were being stared at by a ferocious and terrifying monster.
It swallowed a tear of unhappiness, and tremblingly held the wild vegetable dumpling, handing it to Harley, who was staring at it with a deathly gaze.
"Meow, meow meow meow." (Harley, you eat.)
Harley took it, her terrifying gaze vanishing instantly. She then handed it to Chen Yan, who took it and, without hesitation, passed it to Hua Miao. Hua Miao took it and was then forced to hand it to Harley...
Endless.
The poor wild vegetable dumpling was eventually split into three.
On the pterosaur, Chen Yan held Hua Miao and was carefully describing the taste of honey-grilled fish to it.
"Hua Miao, think about it. A spring water fish has firm flesh. First, it's grilled over high heat for three minutes until the skin is crispy and fragrant. Then, it's coated with honey and grilled over medium heat for ten minutes to let the sweet flavor seep in. Finally, it's sprinkled with my secret seasoning and simmered over low heat for half a minute..."
"Hiss, that taste! It's like grilled fish that's been rolled around three times—even Gu Long couldn't stand up straight!"
The cat swallowed hard.
No cat can resist grilled fish, including Palicoes.
It grasped Chen Yan's hand with its paws, raised its head, and pleaded with him earnestly.
"Boss Chen Yan, please grill it for me!"
Chen Yan neither agreed nor disagreed; his eyes were vacant for a moment before he frowned.
"Wha...what's wrong?"
Hua Miao looked at Chen Yan, who was staring at it with his brows furrowing deeper and deeper, and instinctively put its paws in front of it to protect itself.
"Let me tell you, one grilled fish won't get me. I'll only consider it if it's three... no... five..."
Just a moment after Hua Miao asked for fish, a bubble did appear in Chen Yan's mind, but it disappeared without even displaying any words.
Since bubbles are produced, it means his idea is feasible, but what does it mean that the bubbles are produced and then disappear?
This shows that Hua Miao still doesn't really want to eat grilled fish.
Chen Yan smiled slightly, making no mention of the grilled fish, and went to talk to Harley.
Undeterred, Hua Miao scratched Chen Yan's leg. Seeing that he remained unmoved, Hua Miao scratched its head, thinking that Chen Yan was deliberately tempting it, and stopped bothering him.
"I've eaten hundreds of kinds of delicious food, after all. It's just a grilled fish. How delicious can it be...?"
Seven or eight lines had already been erased from Harley's outstretched palm.
"Harley, tell me about the differences between the dragon slayers in the Old World and the New World. Wasn't yesterday's dragon slayer duel amazing...?"
"I don't know much about the dragon slayers in the New World, but the dragon slayers in the Old World are quite famous. They were first confirmed to exist in the Ancient Forest near Berna Village... It was a formidable creature, one of the biggest troubles the Dragon Academy encountered when investigating the Ancient Forest..."
"By the way, you have to be careful of the Dragon's biting attack. Don't be fooled by its scary tail blade; its attacks are generally wide and easy to dodge. But when it bites, it's fast and insidious. Back then, many hunters weren't injured by its cuts, but by its bites..."
...
The Great Ant Mound Wasteland, within a complex underground river system.
The pile of withered grass and rotten wood that had been swept into the pond by the flower cat earlier drifted along with the ever-flowing undercurrent.
Most of them were swept into different dark vortexes, only a small piece of yellowish-brown was lucky enough to escape the pull of the vortex and tributaries, and crawled out of the underground crevice along the main stream.
It drifted and swayed, floating and sinking in waterways that were sometimes wide and sometimes narrow, sometimes clear and bright and sometimes dark and murky, until it was accidentally thrown high into the air by a few fish thrashing their tails in a fight for food.
It leaped over raging waterfalls, towering islands, and intricate waterways, avoiding a life of wandering, and successfully arrived at its destination.
In a desolate swamp.
It sank slowly, taking more than ten hours before it was about to reach the bottom.
A strange suction force emerged, and it, which should have been resting at the bottom of the swamp, was forced to drift with the mud until it stuck to a "city wall" that occasionally showed a crack.
It was stuck in the dense network of gill filaments of the fish's gills.
A scarlet lantern suddenly lit up the pitch-black bottom of the swamp.