The Lost People of Teyvat

Chapter 34 Devouring and Disguising

"Two wooden shield hillbillies, one fire axe hillbilly thug, and the rest are some ordinary hillbillies without even sticks. There's black smoke on their bodies, they're all projection monsters."

Chen Tianfeng held the knife and walked out of the wooden house with three adventurers and several merchants. He first stared to the left, then turned to the right: "There are a few slimes over there, with fire attributes, like a family, and they are also projection monsters."

"A family?" The adventurer holding the sharp knife was stunned.

"Yes, two large fire slimes and four small fire slimes, like a slime family taking their children out for an autumn outing." Chen Tianfeng grinned, "Everyone, we are being attacked from both sides."

The merchants looked unhappy, and the adventurers also looked serious.

The leader of the caravan and the adventurer with the sharp knife gathered together, whispered a few words, and walked to Chen Tianfeng together, bowed and said, "Little brother, can I ask you for a favor?"

"You two, please speak."

"Brother, you can ride a fast horse alone. You should be able to break out before the monsters gather together." The leader of the caravan said, "I would like to ask you to go to Wangshu Inn for help."

"Ask for help?" Chen Tianfeng frowned, his eyes turned to the three adventurers, and asked doubtfully: "Can't you deal with these monsters?"

"This..." The sharp knife adventurer opened his mouth, looking ashamed: "My two brothers and I have some experience in dealing with treasure-stealing groups or other thieves and monsters, but we have no experience with elemental creatures. What's more, there are only three of us, and these monsters are on our left and right. When the time comes, we will be attacked from both sides..."

He didn't finish his words, but everyone present knew what he was thinking: there were too many monsters and not enough manpower; even a skilled cook would have difficulty making a meal without rice, not to mention that the three of them were not even skilled cooks.

"I see."

Chen Tianfeng expressed his understanding, glanced at the caravan that was worried, and looked at the sharp knife adventurer: "Brother, if you only deal with those hillbillies, are you sure you can stop them?"

"Of course!" The sharp knife adventurer nodded and looked at Chen Tianfeng with doubt: "Little... what do you mean, Brother Chen?"

"To be honest, I have quite a bit of experience in dealing with elemental creatures." Chen Tianfeng smiled. "Leave the slime to me, and you brothers will deal with the hillbillies. How do you think?"

"..." The sharp knife adventurer and the caravan leader looked at each other, and saw the surprise in each other's eyes. Finally, they gritted their teeth and said, "Okay! Let's do as Brother Chen says!"

The leader of the caravan did not forget to add his admonition: "Brother Chen, don't be too brave. If you are defeated, warn us and go to Wangshu Inn for help."

"Don't worry, I value my life very much and won't act stubbornly."

Chen Tianfeng waved his hand, put his right hand on the hilt of the knife, and walked towards the group of slimes on the right.

The leader of the caravan watched his back disappear into the distance. Several slimes were leaping in the darkness, and bright orange light was already visible.

"Everyone, cheer up! They are just a bunch of beasts projected by the earth veins! What's there to be afraid of?"

The leader of the caravan gritted his teeth, picked up a stick that was handy, and shouted loudly: "Everyone come and help! If you can't beat that hillock thug, can you beat ordinary hillock people?"

"That's right! What are you afraid of? Kill them!"

"We have more people than them! We can win!"

So the merchants either used local materials or took out the weapons they carried with them, held them tightly, adjusted their breathing, and waited in front of the goods.

Chen Tianfeng heard the shouts behind him, and he kept walking, with a smile in his eyes. The longer he stayed in this world, the more he felt that there were so few things shown in the original world game. The stories of the main characters in the various countries were indeed wonderful, but it cannot be said that the stories of these "NPCs" who had never appeared were not vivid enough.

But think about it, Teyvat is a world, how is it possible to depict all the stories with just one game?
Chen Tianfeng stopped and looked at the fire slime that was jumping towards him with black smoke coming out of its body, and his smile was extremely sincere.

How can this be a monster? These are all energy!
Although it didn't taste as delicious as the real thing because it was a projection of the earth veins, he didn't mind at all as long as it could satisfy his hunger.

"Qiang!"

The long sword was unsheathed, Chen Tianfeng's palm swept across the blade, and a pale "flame" surged on the white blade.

This is one of the abilities that was born after the practice was completed some time ago!

Guide the grayish-white [Qi] in the body to enchant the weapon, giving the attack an additional layer of corrosion attribute. If the enemy is a pure elemental creature, then each slash will devour a portion of the enemy's energy and strengthen itself.

Although Chen Tianfeng always felt that this ability had a kind of evil style, and was far from the style of the "young man in blue shirt and white horse" he imagined, it didn't matter. No matter whether it was the righteous way or the evil way, what mattered was what mattered as long as it was useful!
In addition, Chen Tianfeng can simulate the energy swallowed in this way and pretend to be the owner of the Eye of God who uses this attribute element. Unfortunately, only one can be simulated, and they can be replaced but cannot coexist.

The protagonist of the game, the blond traveler, can also switch his own attributes by touching the [Seven Days Statues] of the seven rulers of the world. From a certain perspective, Chen Tianfeng's ability to devour energy in exchange for attributes can also be regarded as "touching the statue."

"boom!"

The body of the large fire slime turned red, like flowing magma. It glared at Chen Tianfeng, bounced on the spot, as if taking a deep breath, then opened its mouth and spit out a series of hot fireballs at Chen Tianfeng.

Chen Tianfeng tapped his toes lightly, dodged the fireball, flipped the long knife in his hand, and slashed across the bodies of several small fire slimes, cutting them in half easily like a sharp blade cutting through jelly.

The little fire slime's body stiffened, and its insignificant and vague consciousness returned to the earth veins. However, the fire element energy contained in its body did not explode. Instead, it was swallowed by the gray-white flame and flowed into Chen Tianfeng's body along the long sword.

In just a few seconds, several small fire slimes were devoured.

Chen Tianfeng felt a little relieved after "eating" the small fire slime, but his hungry instinct was still there. He licked his lips, glanced at the two large fire slimes, and smiled very gently.

Waving the long sword, Chen Tianfeng dodged the fireball, leaving one "scar" after another on the fire slime. The gray-white flames surged, greedily devouring its body.

Under the light of the knife, the two fire slimes gradually shrank in size, from large slimes to small slimes, and finally disappeared completely, and their unintelligent and vague consciousness also returned to the earth veins.

Chen Tianfeng swung his sword to extinguish the pale flame, feeling quite regretful.

Although this ability is useful, it has one drawback: the earth projection monsters that are swallowed will not drop any material output after they dissipate.

There are two types of material output from Teyvat monsters.

One is the drop from the projected monsters. After the projected monsters die and return to the earth veins, they will drop different materials according to the type of monsters. These materials have inherent energy and are very valuable. They can be used for both alchemy and weapon forging.

One is the drops from real monsters. When real monsters die, they are dead, and their bodies will not dissipate. When adventurers refer to "real monster drops", they mean collecting some items from these monsters themselves or from the camp.

Generally speaking, when the "drops" are the same, the value of the latter is far less than that of the former.

In some unsecured trading markets, there are also cases where masks that have been processed and dropped by real Hilichurls are used to pretend that they are dropped by projected monsters.

(End of this chapter)