Forced to become a delicate companion of a paranoid lord

Winter had just ended and the snow had not melted much. Xie Wei walked briskly on the dense snow towards the misty forest. The road was not flat snow. After landing, Xie Wei found that he needed to take detours in many places.

He climbed over small hills, walked through small rifts, and encountered a pack of normal-sized snow wolves on the way. He hid in the safe house and watched the wolves walk past him. He found it very interesting to observe these beasts up close.

Maybe it’s because he hasn’t seen the outside world for a long time, so everything he sees is new.

Of course, he did not stay for too long. The number of anti-cold potions and physical strength potions was limited, and he could not waste too much time.

It took Xie Wei an hour longer than expected to reach the edge of the misty forest. He looked at the forest in front of him, turned back to look at the Nayasos Snow Mountain, and then walked in without hesitation.

From the moment he used the teleportation scroll, he no longer thought about Thrall. Some things would become less firm if you thought about them too much.

The Misty Forest gets its name from the white fog that occasionally permeates the forest. Travelers and bounty hunters who enter the forest often end up wandering around in circles because they can't tell the direction due to the fog.

Those who are lucky may be sent out of the forest by the fog, while those who are unlucky will stay in the forest forever.

However, there are a small number of people who can clearly identify the direction even in the fog. These people are usually hired by explorers as guides.

In fact, most of the Paraso warriors who have passed the fourth level training will not get lost in the Misty Forest, but few people will hire a Paraso to lead the way.

Due to years of misleading information, it is difficult for people who have not actually come into contact with the Parasau people to have goodwill towards this race.

Xie Wei slowed down his pace after entering the Misty Forest. Holding the dagger given to him by Roland, he did not dare to relax for a moment.

But he was lucky. He had been in the forest for two hours and had not encountered any fog. He also collected some magic plants on the way.

Looking at the extra 500 points in his system, Xie Wei didn't know what to say for a moment about the 250 magic plants he had collected, each worth 2 points.

As long as it is something he has collected himself, he can multiply the number of collections by the points, but if it is something given to him by others, no matter how many points he should get or how many items he has collected, he can only get 1 point.

This rule of the system can be said to be preventing cheating.

After fully understanding the system's points algorithm, Xie Wei was no longer in a hurry to continue his journey. He enthusiastically collected magic plants along the way. However, his backpack still had certain limitations and he could not carry too many items. The space in the backpack also needed to be expanded by exchanging points.

With the space in the magic plant column, he could only fit a thousand plants at most in his backpack.

So Xie Wei could only collect and exchange at the same time, trying to leave as much space as possible in his backpack, but he would leave some of each magic plant in his backpack.

He thought that when he had time later, he could study the properties of the magic plants and see if he could use them to cook or make potions.

Sitting in a naturally formed tree hole under the roots of a huge ancient tree, Xie Wei took out the animal skin blanket from the system backpack and placed it on the collected dead leaves.

The time on the system panel showed four o'clock in the morning. He arrived at the Misty Forest at a dozen minutes past midnight. When he first entered the forest, he did not encounter any fog. He also saw various magical plants that he had never seen before, so he walked for a long time with great interest.

More than seven hours have passed since we left the castle, and we have used four bottles of cold-proof potion and four bottles of stamina potion.

There were originally 18 bottles of stamina potions and 15 bottles of cold resistance potions, but now there are only 14 bottles of stamina potions and 11 bottles of cold resistance potions left.

The stamina potion is enough to last more than a day, but the anti-cold potion is not enough.

Xie Wei spread the animal skin half under his body and half over his body, then opened the safe house. The space in the safe house was not enough for him to lie down completely, so he curled up and leaned against the wall formed by the tree roots.

The tree hole was very large, like a small house. Xie Wei had observed it before coming in and found that this place did not look like a cave occupied by wild beasts, but rather had some traces left by humans.

Whether in the previous life or in this world, there are some travelers who always like to leave some traces of their presence in the places they stay.

Xie Wei now has a total of 3000 points in his system. He has an affinity with the wood magic element. Although his magic power is not particularly high now, it is still easy for him to identify whether the magic plants are poisonous and will not hurt people.

After walking deep into the forest, there were many magic plants that Xie Wei no longer touched easily, and the number of low-point and relatively safe magic plants that he could collect also became fewer. So after collecting 3000 points, which made him feel safer than the previous 351 points, Xie Wei stopped and found a place to rest.

The effects of the stamina potion are different from those of the previous pink-scale fish. The pink-scale fish will make the consumer's physical and mental strength very sufficient and full, but for a weak person like Xie Wei, the fatigue will rebound doubly after the time limit expires.

The physical strength potion can only give people sufficient physical strength, but cannot eliminate mental fatigue. However, Xie Wei is very satisfied that there are no side effects.

After sitting and drawing cards for a while and using up 1000 points, Xie Wei drew 20 bottles of stamina potions and 15 bottles of cold-proof potions.

There are now 34 bottles of stamina potions and 26 bottles of cold-resistant potions in the backpack. The probability of drawing cold-resistant potions is lower than that of stamina potions. Xie Wei has seen the materials needed to make potions. The materials needed for cold-resistant potions are rarer than those for stamina potions. This explains why its extraction rate is low.

Xie Wei took out a handful of strawberries from his backpack. He was a little hungry after walking all night.

He could secretly hide some clothes and supplies into the space, but food and the like were difficult to hide. Now his system backpack could only keep the food produced by the system fresh, and as for things outside the system, as long as they were put in, they would be the same as if they were stored at normal temperature and had a fixed shelf life.

Besides, Xie Wei couldn't hide too much food, and if too much food disappeared, it would be easily discovered.

Previously, he was forbidden by Sal to leave the bedroom and go to the small kitchen, so he had no access to fresh ingredients. He could only hide some of the easier-to-store items in the meals that were delivered.

The only edible things in the system backpack now, apart from the fruits obtained by drawing cards, are some desserts, candies, dried meat, bread, etc. With Xie Wei's appetite, it is enough for two days.

After eating these, he can find a way to hunt some small animals or find some edible magic plants.

Xie Wei's current magic power can control vines to bind prey, so dealing with some small animals is not a big problem.

After eating strawberries to replenish some sugar and water, Xie Wei wrapped himself in animal skins and curled up to lie down. Soon he fell asleep in the narrow safe house.

At the same time, Thrall, who learned of Shevi's sudden disappearance, was on his way back to Gut City. The subordinates following him could not keep up with Puka's speed, and they could only watch the lord's figure getting farther and farther away.