Chapter 62
◎ EXP ◎
Yu Chi was about to do something big.
She let out the treant and directly expressed her thoughts through her mind. It was late at night, and they were in a forest. There was no better disguise than a treant.
The treant’s branches and leaves moved, and the next second, it appeared 20 meters away.
“Explode,” Yu Chi said silently.
“Boom—!!!”
Dozens of Exploding Fruits exploded 20 meters away. The entire forest trembled, and the subtitles’ flames shot into the sky. The shockwave sent the bushes within a 10-meter radius flying.
The two people who had been embracing each other suddenly turned their heads, their faces changing drastically.
“What’s going on?!” the woman said sharply.
“Someone’s here!” The man’s eyes turned cold, and he immediately rushed towards the direction of the explosion.
And in the moment they were distracted—
Yu Chi had already finished her incantation.
“Holy Light!”
Three golden lights descended from the sky. With the help of the explosion’s flames, they accurately enveloped the seriously injured young giant. The wound on him, which was deep enough to see the bone, began to heal at a visible rate, and his pale face gradually regained its color.
“Ugh…” The young giant let out a muffled groan and slowly opened his eyes. He seemed to be looking for something, looking left and right.
But at this time, Yu Chi was long gone.
“Scary,” Yu Chi slowly exhaled and looked at the treant. “You weren’t injured by the explosion, were you?”
The treant shook its branches and leaves, indicating that it was fine.
Yu Chi didn’t plan to interfere in this matter, whether it was the player selling the giant or the face that resembled Zuo He’s. She was neither that kind-hearted nor did she have that much time.
At most, she would help a little.
She suddenly remembered the conversation between the man and the woman, and Yu Chi shivered, a wave of disgust washing over her.
…So scary. Why did he have to say such scary things with Zuo He’s face? Boohoohoo.
However, the reason that giant had suddenly chased them, could it be because of Zuo He’s face?
Yu Chi’s expression was grave. Damn it, I told that guy to wear his cloak properly!
At this point, she still had to rendezvous with those guys as soon as possible. Otherwise, even if there was no enmity, it would be created.
Yu Chi found another cave to rest in, took out the roasted meat she had just cooked, and another bottle of “Porter Water.” This water was very stimulating to the mouth and also had a sweet taste, very similar to modern cola, and it was wonderful with roasted meat!
She sat cross-legged on the ground, let out the silver wolf to accompany her, and ate a mouthful of roasted meat and a mouthful of Porter Water, eating very happily.
After finishing, she cleaned up the scraps. Yu Chi took out the retractable tent she had drawn a long time ago. She had complained that this thing was useless before, but now the time for exploring the island was getting longer and longer, and it was not convenient to maintain her elf form here. She still had to rest well to have energy.
She lay in the tent and yawned. On a whim, she decided to tidy up the things in her space. Not to mention the spirit plants and spirit fruits, many of her items had been set aside.
For example, the [All-Purpose Little Horn] that she hadn’t taken out for a long time. In fact, this thing was quite useful. She would occasionally take it out to ask questions, but the accuracy rate was only 50%…
Yu Chi pressed the button.
【Little Horn】: Who does DazedFish think is the most capable member of the alliance?
Yu Chi: “…”
This crappy horn never changes. What kind of crappy questions does it ask every time? Those who don’t know would think it’s a spy sent by those three!
However, the other few people were not here, so it was not impossible to answer this question. Yu Chi rubbed her chin and thought for a moment. The most capable member… no matter how she thought about it, it should be that person.
She clenched her fist and hammered her palm, with great certainty: “Of course it’s me!”
—The All-Purpose Little Horn’s questions usually had no correct answer. You just needed to be firm in your belief.
【Little Horn】: …Correct.
【Little Horn】: Zuo He actually has a twin brother, but he doesn’t want anyone to know about the existence of this embarrassing thing.
Yu Chi: “Yo ho.”
Really? The information the little horn usually provided was related to recent events. She had indeed just seen a person who looked exactly like Zuo He…
Yu Chi muttered to herself in disappointment: “Is it such a simple and unadorned reason as twins? I thought it would at least be a high-end thing like a replicant or a clone.”
Well, what the little horn said was not necessarily true. Speaking of which, in this vast sea, there wouldn’t really be someone whose skill was to create replicants, right?
Yu Chi: If there is, please don’t arbitrarily change my personality, thank you.
Zuo He has already become a pervert!
“Let’s have another one,” Yu Chi was bored and played again. After answering the stupid question, the little horn spat out another message.
【Little Horn】: GrumpyBro has had a crush on DazedFish for a long time.
Yu Chi gave a thumbs up: “Good taste.”
The next second, she coldly threw the [All-Purpose Little Horn] into a corner of her space again.
A crush on your big head!
Well, although she was not at all surprised that the [All-Purpose Little Horn] would spit out this kind of message.
After all, it had once said things like [Longevity Species is actually a woman], [DazedFish’s dad’s dream is to become a caterpillar], and [The sea god pulled them into this world just because he was drunk and went crazy], and other baffling messages.
This was also the reason why Yu Chi used it less. It was fine to play with it occasionally when she had nothing to do. When she was serious, she couldn’t even remember this crappy horn.
It always feels so cheap (gritting her teeth).
Yu Chi rummaged through her space again and found that she actually had very few items. She took out the [Magic Sunglasses] that could block light attacks and put them on.
Actually, the effect of this item was not bad, but she always forgot. For example, the strong light caused by the explosion just now could have been used with this item.
However, this was also because she had experienced fewer battles. After the natural disaster, she had been sent to the Elf Island in a few days, and there was no chance to fight there at all.
There was also the [Stealthy Umbrella] that could reduce her own presence, and by smashing Purification Crystals, it could resist a fatal attack. But it had cracked when she was fighting with the shark at that time, and she had not had time to repair it, so it was placed in a corner.
Yu Chi rummaged for a long time, then yawned again, finding that her items were actually pitifully few. She took out [Lucky Match-3] and played a round. Her mind was muddled, and she luckily got a one-star pass.
【Item: Smiling Grass
Grade: Rare
Description: Will make people laugh to death.】
Yu Chi propped her chin on her hand and pondered: “This ‘laugh to death,’ is it really laughing to death?”
Forget it, I’ll find an unlucky person to try it on another day. Yu Chi gave the Smiling Grass to the little flower fairy and asked her to plant it in her space first.
She would use Lucky Match-3 to pass a level every day, but as time went on, the match-3 also became more and more difficult. He rarely got three stars anymore. Most of them were one or two stars.
“It seems that Lucky Match-3 is probably going to enter the next chapter,” Yu Chi lay in the tent, the rest of it padded with a soft blanket. She swung her legs, feeling that this kind of outdoor life was also quite comfortable.
The next morning, Yu Chi simply made herself a breakfast and sat cross-legged on the silver wolf.
“Ah Yin, help me find those three guys,” Yu Chi touched the silver wolf’s head.
She had almost forgotten before. Wolves were one of the animals with the most sensitive sense of smell in the animal kingdom. It was most appropriate to have them find people.
“Awooo—” The silver wolf howled at the sky.
Yu Chi: “Huh? What’s wrong?”
Silver Wolf: “Awooo—”
Yu Chi: “Oh, you’re talking about the smell on those three? I’ll give it to you right away… smell???”
A bolt from the blue.
Yu Chi belatedly realized that the silver wolf had never seen those three guys, and with her and their plastic relationship, there was nothing around her that had their smell.
Yu Chi, dead.
“Damn it!” Yu Chi pouted. Just as she was thinking of forgetting it, she suddenly thought of something and took out three cloaks from her space.
Among the three of them, only he and Li Feng had a space, and her space was the largest, so the cloaks they had taken off were all with her.
“How about this?” Yu Chi asked.
The silver wolf lowered its head and sniffed, then let out an “awoo,” indicating that it was no problem.
Twenty minutes later, the silver wolf carried Yu Chi and stopped at the edge of a cliff. Below the cliff was a village made of giant treehouses, and smoke was rising from a thirty-meter-high chimney.
A few giant children were running and playing around the central square. The “toys” they were throwing and catching were actually car-sized rocks.
“Are you sure they’re here?” Yu Chi grabbed the silver wolf’s ear. The cliff was almost vertical, and the nearest treehouse window was at least fifteen stories high from the top of the cliff.
The silver wolf suddenly lowered its body and signaled her to look at the west side of the square. Three ant-sized figures were locked in a cage woven from vines. Li Feng was breaking a vine thicker than his waist with his bare hands, An Jin was sitting cross-legged and gnawing on some giant fruit, and Zuo He was using a lottery tube to divine for the small giants who were watching.
Yu Chi: “…”
Yu Chi: “???”
These three guys were actually locked up by the giant race?!
Yu Chi transformed into her elf form and focused her Spirit on the vine in Li Feng’s hand. Elves were friends of nature, and all plants would provide them with information, but doing so consumed a lot of Spirit.
Especially for cubs, it was best not to do this.
—《From the Elf Kindergarten Textbook》
Yu Chi turned a deaf ear. After attaching her Spirit to the vine, she could hear the conversation of the few of them even from a long distance.
“Why hasn’t that guy Yu Chi come to save us yet?” Li Feng took a bite of the vine and spat it out. “This is so disgusting.”
“Aren’t there fruits?” An Jin said. “Sister probably can’t find us.”
Zuo He calmly drew a wooden stick, looked at it for two seconds, and said to the giant in front of him, “A great disaster is imminent. It’s best not to go out today.”
The little giant was terrified, covered his face, and ran away screaming.
Li Feng: “Hey, charlatan, can you figure out when we can get out?”
Zuo He put away the lottery tube and shook his head. “No, I can only do one divination a day.”
“Useless charlatan,” Li Feng sneered.
Yu Chi withdrew her Spirit. These few people are so leisurely. I’d better go back and collect spirit plants.
…Are they idiots? Yu Chi’s face was ferocious.
However, she still had to save them. Yu Chi looked at the huge vine that was locking them up. It was probably this thing that was trapping them. Could it be that even Li Feng’s long spear couldn’t cut it?
However, the natural enemy of all plants should be fire.
Yu Chi had an idea in her heart. She directly transformed into her elf form and flew out, then threw a few fireballs at the vine cage. The entire vine instantly burst into flames.
Hmm, what about Li Feng and the others?
Yu Chi smiled: They’re so weak. It’s better to just burn them all together.
The moment the vine burned, the entire giant village was in an uproar.
“Fire!”
“Quick, put out the fire!”
The giants frantically carried wooden buckets and rushed to the river. The heavy footsteps made the ground buzz. Yu Chi took the opportunity to dive down and accurately grabbed the top of the cage in the thick smoke—
“Crack!”
The Frost Blade’s cold light flashed, and the burning vine was neatly cut. The top of the cage fell with a crash, stirring up a cloud of dust on the ground.
“Cough cough cough…” Li Feng crawled out of the smoke, covered in dust. He looked up and saw Yu Chi flapping her wings in the air. “You don’t treat us as human, do you?”
Yu Chi: “You have the nerve to say that.”
Li Feng gritted his teeth. He knew he was in the wrong, so he didn’t say anything.
An Jin jumped out of the burning vine and said with a grin, “Sister really came to save us!”
Zuo He was the last to walk out. He patted the soot-covered clothes and was very calm: “Thank you.”
When Yu Chi saw him now, she remembered what had happened at night, and her whole body became uncomfortable.
“No, no. Just don’t be so shameless next time.”
“?”
The gazes of the three of them instantly turned to Yu Chi. They didn’t even notice the fully armed giant warriors running over from not far away.
Yu Chi: “Wait, I’m not…”
Oh no, I accidentally got into character.
However, no one listened to her excuse.
Li Feng was the first to respond to her words, looking at Zuo He angrily: “Your vile nature has finally been discovered!”
“What did you do to my sister?” An Jin directly put his sword to Zuo He’s neck, a grin on his face.
Although, Yu Chi felt that these two guys were purely holding a long-standing grudge against Zuo He and were using her as an excuse.
Zuo He looked at Yu Chi with an unchanged expression: “Is there some misunderstanding?”
Just as Yu Chi was about to explain, an arrow as thick as a utility pole came through the air. Zuo He pulled her back, and the arrow grazed Yu Chi’s hair and stuck into the ground.
Her heart skipped a beat.
“Intruder!”
A deafening roar came from behind. Yu Chi turned her head and saw a dozen fully armed giant warriors rushing towards them. The leader was the young man who had been chased yesterday. He was holding a giant bow and arrow in his hand, and his amber eyes were burning with anger.
Yu Chi was silent for two seconds. “When were you guys captured?”
“Last night,” Li Feng said. “Their swords have a paralyzing poison. When inserted into a plant, it will instantly release a poisonous fog.”
If it weren’t for the fact that they had been chased for a day and were very tired, they wouldn’t have been paralyzed so quickly and then captured.
“Ah, this is it,” Li Feng pointed at the green fog coming out from under Yu Chi’s feet.
Yu Chi: “?”
Yu Chi shouted, “You didn’t say so earlier!”
“Swish! Swish! Swish!”
More arrows came like a storm. Yu Chi gritted her teeth and released a fire wall barrier, forming a protective net over everyone’s heads, blocking all the arrows.
“I can’t hold on for long. Let’s run first!” Yu Chi shouted.
Everyone answered and ran while blocking the rushing giants.
Zuo He suddenly threw out his hand, and a few earplugs were thrown into the hands of the few of them. Then he took out a suona and said coldly, “Put on the earplugs.”
Yu Chi would not forget what had happened on Cold Moon Island. She quickly put on the earplugs and at the same time turned and ran towards the exit of the village.
Zuo He stood upright on the chaotic battlefield, his expression cold… he put his mouth to the suona, his fingers dancing nimbly on the sound holes. Soon, a passionate and loud sound echoed throughout Giant Island.
The giants’ screams soon came. They all covered their ears and howled in pain on the ground, rolling around.
“Yo ho!” An Jin held two swords in his hand. While blocking the arrows shot by the giants, he looked at Zuo He with an admiring face. “Not bad. As expected of a top 10 player on the ranking.”
Yesterday, when the three of them were escaping, Zuo He had not taken out this move.
Yu Chi looked back and found that the effect this time was different from the effect of playing the suona last time. Last time, it would make people lose their reason and become crazy and impulsive, but this time, it seemed to be directly acting on the spiritual level.
As expected, these guys were not to be underestimated.
Li Feng on the right swung his long spear, and an invisible strong wind went out. A dozen or so giants who were chasing them actually all knelt down and then kowtowed.
“What is this?” Yu Chi was shocked.
Li Feng raised an eyebrow and smiled, whistling. “How about it? Cool, right? This is a new ultimate move I’ve researched—
First kowtow.”
Yu Chi’s eyes lit up: “Are there second and third kowtows?”
“Of course—not,” Li Feng raised an eyebrow. “Am I that boring of a man?”
Yu Chi nodded solemnly: “Yes.”
“First kowtow.”
“Second slash.”
“Third split.”
Li Feng smiled and said the names of her moves. “I’ll show you next time. These giants are not bad. It’s better not to make a mortal enemy.”
Yu Chi made an “OK” gesture. An Jin on the other side also began to exert his strength. The two swords in his hand suddenly flew out, hitting the hands of two giants, and then flew back the next second.
“?” Yu Chi, “Is this a sword or a dart?”
“Hahahahahaha,” An Jin laughed loudly. “It doesn’t matter, right? Anything is fine.”
The four of them ran all the way to the depths of the forest, and only stopped when they could no longer hear the giants’ angry roars. Yu Chi panted heavily with her hands on her knees, but when she looked up, she found that Zuo He was staring at her with a probing gaze.
“What?” Yu Chi took a step back warily. “Let me say this first, I’m not interested in perverts.”
Zuo He’s face was expressionless: “Did you see someone who looks exactly like me?”
Li Feng and An Jin stood on the side with their arms crossed, looking like they were watching a show.
“Oh, yes,” Yu Chi said seriously. “He was in the forest with your face and a wo…”
“Stop,” the expressionless face suddenly became a little stiff. Zuo He’s eyes narrowed. “No need to continue.”
Li Feng: “Huh? What? I still want to hear it!”
An Jin: “That’s right, sister. Quick, quick.”
Seeing Zuo He’s expression become more and more stiff, Yu Chi quickly stopped the two troublemakers. Don’t you care about my life!
The joke time was over—Zuo He took out a yellowed sheepskin scroll from his pocket: “I picked it up from the ground.”
A simple map of Giant Island was drawn on the sheepskin scroll, with a red cross marked on it, and next to it was written in a scrawl: [Crystal Mine Cave, No Entry]. What was more eye-catching was the signature in the bottom right corner—
“This is the Federation’s mark,” An Jin said with interest.
“So they’ve been here too,” Li Feng came over.
“Not just that,” Zuo He pointed to the date on the edge of the map. “Three days ago.”
Yu Chi suddenly remembered the “Zuo He” she had seen last night, and a subtle guess came to her mind: “Could it be…”
“The person who was born in the same body as me,” Zuo He calmly admitted. “Saeki, the Sa of Colonel, a small team leader of the Federation Alliance.”
Zuo He looked at the others: “Sorry, you guys were captured probably because of me.”
The air instantly froze.
Yu Chi silently raised her hand: “So what’s the deal with the name Saeki?”
Zuo He seemed not to have expected that she would only ask this. He was silent for two seconds before he said, “He thinks this name is more in line with the style of the Federation.”
“Oh my!” Yu Chi’s fist hit her palm. “Isn’t that just an idiot?”
Li Feng stretched lazily. “Just capture this guy and throw him to the giants.”
“So what’s their purpose?” An Jin tilted his head, his eyes on Zuo He filled with malice. “I wonder if you, as a brother, know.”
Zuo He was very calm: “He’s on a mission—to mine the energy crystals of Giant Island.”
Yu Chi suddenly remembered those mysterious crystals and took out two from her space: “It’s not this, is it? Besides those animals, can this crystal be mined?”
“Yes,” Zuo He pointed to the red cross on the map. “It is said that these crystals can directly provide EXP, but a special absorption method is needed.”
As soon as he said that, even An Jin’s eyes widened.
“EXP?” Yu Chi’s mouth fell open. “This thing can increase EXP, which means it can let us level up?”
Zuo He nodded. “I didn’t know we were coming to Giant Island beforehand. These things were all told to me by that guy when he was showing off.”
He had not joined an alliance. Saeki seemed to think that he would never join any alliance, so he would never be able to go to a level four island in this life. So he had told him this secret in a very stupid way.
Zuo He: Used to it.
Yu Chi told them about Saeki kidnapping the giant, and speculated that their main goal was to find out their method of absorbing the crystals, and secondly to sell them as slaves.
“So what do we do now?” An Jin shrugged. “It seems we’ve been drawn into a big conspiracy. I don’t want to worry about these things.”
Yu Chi stared at the red cross on the map and suddenly smiled: “Of course we’re going to the mine cave.”
The three of them looked at her at the same time.
“First,” Yu Chi raised a finger, “I saved their kinsman. We should get some reward.”
Although she was too lazy to tell the giant race about this, it would be easy to expose her elf identity if she did. And at most, she would just be invited to have tea and be praised.
…Good things still had to be explored by herself.
“Second,” the second finger, “Saeki got you guys captured. This score has to be settled.”
Since that mine cave belonged to the Federation, they would definitely come in continuously. Even if they couldn’t catch Saeki, they could catch a few other guys to vent their anger.
“Finally—” she blinked and took out a few glittering crystals. “Don’t you want this good thing?”
This was a crystal that could increase EXP!
As for absorption… even if she couldn’t get an answer from Giant Island, she could go and ask her elf dads. The elven race was one of the oldest races in the world!
Zuo He chuckled, took out a lottery tube from his pocket, shook it, and drew one to hand to Yu Chi.
The hexagram: [Gain without labor].
Yu Chi: “?”
Zuo He: “This time, you will get what you want very easily.”
“Oh, thank you,” Yu Chi subconsciously took the wooden stick, and then quickly reacted. “Wait, you’re not…”
“Didn’t you say you can only draw one lot a day?” Li Feng turned his head and sneered.
Zuo He turned around, pretending not to hear.