Otherworldly Apprentice Lich and Foot Knight

"This is..." Xia En stretched out his hand to touch it, and he turned his head and frowned at Zhou Lingke—probably thinking that this was Zhou Lingke's prank or something, then he started to pick, but he didn't pick it off, and his hands began to tremble a little Yes, but the force used to pick the scales is getting stronger and stronger.

"Boss." Zhou Lingke put his hand on Xia En's, trying to stop his movement, but he was slapped away, and he stretched out his hand again, grabbing Xia En with a lot of force, "Don't! Don't pick it! You're bleeding! Sean! Sean! Stop picking..."

Zhou Lingke hugged Xia En tightly and bound his two arms. Xia En struggled twice. I don't know if it was because of his physical condition, or Xia En himself gradually calmed down. He finally stopped struggling. .

"It's okay, it's okay, it's okay..." Feeling that Xia En's movements gradually slowed down, Zhou Lingke buried his head on his neck, it was just two ordinary words, but he kept repeating them one after another.

Slowly, Xia En's heavy breathing also calmed down: "Are you crying?"

"How can you cry?"

"It's disappointing... I'm sweaty, don't get so close to me." Being hugged tightly, Xia En shook his shoulders with difficulty.

"It hit my nose." Zhou Lingke muttered in protest, but moved away.

"Big man, too squeamish."

"When you hit the bridge of your nose, it hurts. This is a general rule, regardless of gender."

"Lingke...you can go." Zhou Lingke made a fuss, as if the attention of the two of them would be diverted from those scales, but this problem must be faced after all.

"impossible."

"Do you want me to eat you?"

"Don't always think of the worst."

"Then what is the result you agreed to?"

"The best result is that the scales fall off after the fever is gone. The worst is that you just have some scales on your hands. The worst is that you have scales all over your body, but you have clear consciousness."

"But I don't deny that it is still possible for me to become a monster."

"You've watched too many disaster movies. How can there be so many monsters?" Zhou Lingke raised the volume, and just released Xia En, but just as Xia En wanted to leave, he was hugged tightly again, "Don't refute me, so Let’s talk, if you really want to become a monster, it won’t happen in an instant, because judging by the scales you have grown, it’s a process, do you admit it?”

Xia En was silent for a while, then nodded: "That's right."

"If you really want to lose your humanity and forget me, it will also be a gradual process. So, don't tell me to leave you, let's see the situation first,"

"……it is good."

At some point, the violent storm had turned into a drizzle of light rain.

Zhou Lingke still maintained the posture of hugging Xia En from behind and embracing him in his arms. Xia En's body was still hot, and the possible reason for his fever was another damn scale.

"I'll go outside to look for dry branches." Although Zhou Lingke said so, judging from his actions, he didn't intend to let go immediately.

"Yeah." Xia En agreed, but Zhou Lingke didn't move for a long time after he finished speaking, and he didn't urge him until another 5 minutes passed, or 10 minutes passed, and the rain could not even be seen from the entrance of the cave. Xia Encai suddenly said again, "There are edible things outside, like mushrooms."

"Ah?" Zhou Lingke was stunned, because Xia En's words were too thoughtless and too sudden.

"It tastes like... the taste of edible mushrooms." If the two of them were face to face, then Zhou Lingke could see the doubts on Xia En's face at this time. He actually looked more puzzled than Zhou Lingke. It's too weird for humans-although some animals do rely on their sense of smell to observe the world, who can imagine that they can outline a bunch of mushrooms in their minds just by smelling them?And it is a demon that can eat clearly, "Not far away, about... 300 meters to 400 meters, there is a rotten tree, and some vines are wrapped around the tree, and the mushrooms grow in the gaps between the plants."

"You're telling the truth, didn't you lie to me to leave?"

"I promised everything, why lie to you?"

"That might be." Zhou Lingke dragged the tattered clothes of the two of them over. Although they were dirty, they were better than nothing, "As I said earlier, if you disappear, the first and only thing I will do The thing is to find you, I may get lost in the dense forest, I may run out of energy, or I may encounter wild beasts, in short, I will die before you."

"Have you finished talking nonsense?" Xia En rolled his eyes and lay down on his ragged clothes.He felt angry, but at the same time he also felt a kind of joy and joy, "I said I won't leave, and don't always talk about death."

"Well, let's not talk about it." Zhou Lingke put on his clothes, "Mushrooms can't run away there, I'll find some hay and firewood first, make a bed for you, and light a fire. Can you smell it? Dry firewood?"

Zhou Lingke was joking, he knew it himself, and Xia En could hear it too.Xia En didn't bother to pay attention to him at first, but as soon as the words "I can smell dry wood" crossed his mind, his nose almost immediately gave him feedback—plants, dead, dry .

"In that direction, about 100 meters away, there is a big tree, and there are many on the side."

"Can you really smell it?" Zhou Lingke, who was walking outside, was stunned.

"Don't ask me, ask it." Xia En pointed to his nose.

Zhou Lingke stood there and thought for a while: "Your Majesty Superman, if one day you can fly, you must take me with you. Let's have a shot in the sky. You don't know how long I have had a similar dream."

"Get out!" Xia En became angry from embarrassment.

"Decree! Get out!" Zhou Lingke smiled and gave Xia En a military salute like a ruffian, didn't get out, and ran away.

Xia En was alone in the cave, but he had to admit that the negative feelings caused by the unknown changes in his body had dissipated a lot now.By the way, when they first came down from the mountain, he was the only one who heard the sound of the water. Judging from the distance they took to find the stream, it was indeed impossible for normal people in that place to hear the sound of the stream. It seems that the change has changed since then. It has already started.

The black scales on his arms had been fumigated and scalded by his high body temperature, so when Shane touched them, they were not as cold as reptiles. If he could preserve his sanity, this change was indeed not a bad thing, at least, they were here The odds of survival in unfamiliar places are greater.

It took Zhou Lingke a while to find a big tree with a lot of dry firewood. After all, there are too many trees in this place, but when he found it, he couldn't help feeling that the "big tree" that Xia En said was too correct Yes - if you go to measure it, it will take seven or eight people hand in hand to surround this tree, right?

I don't know what kind of tree stands there, because the branches and leaves are too dense, so the area around it is completely like night.In this dark ruled area, most of the plants growing are very low weeds and wild flowers. Those taller plants are either weak and crooked, or have withered and died.

The dry wood that Shane mentioned were those dead plants.Also thanks to the dense branches and leaves of this big tree, the heavy rain just now did not water those plants.

The Tibetan knife is now a firewood knife. Zhou Lingke, who has never done this before, looks clumsy. In the end, he can only take off his shirt, wrap the chopped firewood and hug him back.After going back and forth four times, he was already exhausted and out of breath, and couldn't help feeling in his heart: doing physical work is indeed not at the same level as fitness in terms of consumption.

After about four more trips, he used hay to lay a bad grass bed for Xia En, and there was also a firewood pile in the center of the cave.

"Drilling wood to make fire?"

"Hey, just watch." Zhou Lingke smiled triumphantly.

Put a piece of dry bark on the ground, and the bark is covered with yellow hay.Zhou Lingke untied the lace of one shoe, tied a branch into the shape of a bow, took another branch that was fairly straight, and wrapped the bow string twice around the branch. One end poked on the bark, and Zhou Lingke held the other end with his hand, and then he twitched his back.The bowstring drives the branches to spin quickly on the bark.

After turning around for about 2 minutes, first smoke came out of the hay covered with tree bark, and flames followed.

"How is it?" Zhou Lingke smiled triumphantly.

"Amazing." Xia En raised his eyebrows, not stingy with his praise.

"Hey." Zhou Lingke smiled even more proudly.

Zhou Lingke held the burning firewood and turned around twice in the cave, and finally set up a fire in a place where the smoke was blowing outwards and the wind was not too strong.Sean lay on his side on the grass and kept looking at him.Zhou Lingke also knew that he was looking at him, so when Zhou Lingke finished the arrangement, his face became hot when he was watched.

Standing there and rubbing his hands, Zhou Lingke said, "I went to find mushrooms?"

"Well, I'll put medicine on your hand when you come back."

Although they are not pampered people, both Xia En and Zhou Lingke have no calluses on their hands.But Xia En noticed that there were many large and small scratches on Zhou Lingke's hands, and he might have been stabbed. Although Zhou Lingke only rubbed his hands once and did not show any discomfort, Xia En obviously still noticed it. .

Zhou Lingke glanced at his hands subconsciously, and winked at Xia En with a smirk before leaving the door: "Don't feel bad, be careful, I'm going to make an inch." Then he carried his clothes and walked away triumphantly.

After he left, Xia En sighed helplessly: "Aren't you too aggressive?"