dark blood

"This is where you hunt every day. I can only go here with you. If you continue to walk in, I'm afraid it will hold you back."

After five hours, Xiao Yu and Zhao Changping finally stopped on a large barren mountain.Although the mountains are not high, they cover a very large area. There are huge rocks all over the mountains, and a large number of withered yellow weeds that are as tall as a person grow out of the cracks in the rocks.

After careful observation, you will find that there are many huge stone caves in the barren stone mountain, and there is a huge beast wandering in the nearby rock piles.This monster is nearly two meters tall and five or six meters long. It has no fur all over its body. The texture of its skin is similar to that of the surrounding rocks. Its two big eyes with copper bells reveal a fierce light.It looks like a lion, with a pair of sharp stone horns growing on its head, and a huge scorpion tail almost as long as its body protruding from the back, searching for prey.

Standing on the top of a short mountain nearby, Xiao Yu saw the monster from a distance, and exclaimed in amazement: "Hey, it's strange, isn't this a lion and scorpion beast?"

Zhao Changping felt very surprised, "It's a lion and scorpion beast. The city lord knows this kind of monster?"

Xiao Yu obviously knew the information about the scorpions, and said happily: "Of course I know. The scorpion is a relatively well-known elite monster that lives in groups. There are a lot of scorpions' lairs here, and there may be many scorpions living here!"

"Yes, there are a lot of scorpions here, and it is a gathering area for elite monsters. Scorpions are monsters in the late stage of the third order. They have strong physical attack capabilities, and they can also perform soil and poison attacks, defense and speed. The same is not weak, but the brain is not very smart. Just wait in a fixed position, if I find a single griffin looking for food alone, I will ambush on the only way to attack, and the success rate can reach 70.00 More than %. If you are lucky, you can kill nearly ten lions and scorpions a day."

It's no wonder that Zhao Changping's strength has improved so quickly, and he was guarding such a place.

Xiao Yu: "That's not their value. The lion's lair is, in a sense, a treasure!"

Zhao Changping didn't understand, and immediately retorted: "Treasure? But the city lord, although the lion and scorpion beast is an elite monster, its drop rate is quite low. It can't produce two items all day long, and it's worthless to drop one. Goods. They like to live in the barren and dry barren mountains, without any precious plants or ores nearby, and they cannot bring any economic benefits at all.”

Xiao Yu said: "You don't know, the value of the scorpion lies in itself, because the scorpion is a monster that can contract a monster, and the blood of a scorpion egg can become a contracted monster, that is, a magic pet. At present, the vast majority of people on the mainland do not have contract beasts, but we occupy a lair that produces contract beasts!"

Zhao Changping was taken aback, "Can these monsters become contract beasts?"

Most creatures cannot establish a contract with human spiritual power, and there are many types of creatures that can become contracted beasts, but they cannot be popularized due to various reasons.For example, the griffins I have seen, in fact, griffins are creatures that can become contracted monsters. However, the nests of griffins are often in the steep cliff walls several thousand meters high. The number of eggs laid is small and the incubation period is fast, so there are very few It is used as a contract monster.

Griffons are different from griffins. Griffons lay eggs two to three times a year. The eggs hatch for one year, grow naturally for two months, and have the ability to fight and one year to have fertility.Therefore, lions and scorpions are a kind of contracted beast that has a large number, lays many eggs, and has a long natural incubation time, so it can be popularized.

In the previous life, scorpions were commonly used by middle- and upper-class people. After all, they are elite monsters with very strong strength, and the growth potential of scorpions is quite high.Xiao Yu even heard that a person bought an ordinary lion and scorpion egg for hundreds of high-level gems, and accidentally hatched a mutant lion and scorpion, which was later cultivated to the fifth-level strength, and its combat power was only comparable to that of a lord of the same level!

It can be seen that the lion and scorpion is a good contract monster.

There are two forms of contracted beasts, hatched from eggs, or dropped from killing monsters, such as Xiao Yu's slime and Jiang Xiaowen's phantom.

The quality of contracted beasts hatched from eggs varies, some are good and some are pregnant, some are strong and some are weak.The latter is formed from the soul and life essence of the mother body, which can perfectly inherit all the advantages of the mother body and remove all shortcomings.It cannot be said that hatched contracted beasts are necessarily bad. Some eggs can hatch mutated contracted beasts. The potential of this kind of contracted beast is endless, but it is extremely rare, almost one in a thousand, and the probability of winning the lottery is almost the same.

The guy who hatched the mutant scorpion beast in the previous life is a lucky guy. He was originally mediocre and poor, but because of a powerful mutant contracted beast, he stepped into the ranks of first-class masters.

Zhao Changping cheered up and said, "There are at least a hundred lions and scorpions lairs here. If you search them all, how many eggs do you have? I'm afraid I can't continue killing monsters here. In case a female lion and scorpion that can lay eggs is given Killing it is not worth it."

"Don't worry about this. Lions and scorpions have relatively strong reproductive ability. When you kill one lion and scorpion cave and kill another lion and scorpion cave, new lions and scorpions will immediately live in the previous lions and scorpions cave. Goodness will not be a problem."

Zhao Changping asked: "How valuable is a contract monster?"

"It's hard to estimate the exact value, but it's no worse than a piece of blue equipment."

"I don't understand why the value of contracted monsters is so high? Isn't the breeding farm the same as the cultivation of elite monsters of the second and third ranks? Cities with a recruitment system consume similar soul gems and souls, and can also directly recruit three Level [-] monsters are also exempted from slowly cultivating them from level zero, which is quite a fortune.”

Xiao Yu shook his head and replied, "Let me show you something."

The Demon Butcher was released directly from the ring. His huge wings covered the sunlight, and his hill-like body moved towards that station to cover the sunlight. Zhao Changping was startled by the terrifying momentum and took several steps back.

"This is……"

"It's my slime, and now it has a name: Butcher."

Zhao Changping could feel the strength of the butcher, who definitely surpassed himself by far, and couldn't help but change his expression: "How did it become like this!"

Xiao Yu said calmly: "This is the difference between contracted monsters. Their strength can be increased, and their potential is sometimes not inferior to humans. A recruited third-tier monster will always be third-tier. In addition The contracted monster is connected to the master's spiritual power, and tied together from the spiritual level, not only is it easier to cooperate, but it will never betray."

Zhao Changping said with emotion: "It seems that I also want to find a battle pet."

"This is a good place, maybe you can find a suitable one!" Xiao Yu slightly raised his hand and said, "If I have a chance, I will go here to do some scouting in person, but due to time constraints, I can't stay here for a long time today. , we part ways."

"Okay, then I'll take my leave."

Xiao Yu bid farewell to Zhao Changping, and jumped into the depths of the forest.

…………

A day later, shortly after dawn, somewhere in the central area of ​​the Ogre Mountain Range.

The sky is like an upside-down ocean, a vast expanse of whiteness as far as the eye can see, the surging white waves swallowed up the high mountain peaks, hit the mountain walls, rolled and sank into the ridges, and the mountains and forests were always covered by a thin layer of white mist. Exotic flowers and plants can be seen everywhere, and the air is slightly poisonous, making it impossible for ordinary animals to survive here.

Xiao Yu and Tong Hammer walked on the rugged mountain road, the butcher was too big, in order not to be conspicuous, Xiao Yu turned him into the size of an ordinary person.Under the feet are cyan fragments covered with lichens, and water flows as thick as a thumb through the cracks in the stones, and the environment is relatively humid.

Xiao Yu raised his head and saw a long mountain ridge in the distance through the thin mist, like a black dragon crawling on the ground, "This mountain forest is really complicated, how long will it take to reach the mine?"

"We need to bypass several tribal territories. It may take some time, but we can reach the mine before tonight." Tonghammer stood beside Xiao Yu, holding a huge hammer in his hand, covered with a Within half an hour, the dwarf smashed the heads of five monsters with it. "You need patience in the jungle, otherwise you will get into big trouble."

The mountains cover an area of ​​hundreds of miles, and there are intelligent races such as ogres, dwarves, lizardmen, and cavemen. Of course, ogres are the most powerful. There are at least 500 million ogres living in this area. , but ogres live in the form of tribes, and there are strict divisions between each other. It is strictly forbidden to cross the border in normal hunting activities, otherwise a war between two ogre tribes will break out.

Ogres have too much demand for survival resources. After all, an ogre in the city is four meters tall and weighs close to a ton. It can eat two cows a day. If all the ogres gather together, the nearby prey will definitely be killed. When the light was turned on, creatures in the distance did not dare to approach, and as a result, a large number of ogres were starved to death.For this reason, a tribe of ogres does not exceed 2 people, and is so far apart that ogres of different tribes hardly communicate.

Therefore, although there are many ogres, they are loosely distributed. As long as you are careful not to enter the core area of ​​the ogre tribe, there will be no great danger.

"Roar--"

There was a muffled low growl like thunder coming from the front.

Tong Hammer's expression changed: "Oh, there are ogres!"

"There seem to be a lot of them. I don't know what level they are. You are not good at hiding your breath. Hide in my space ring first."

Xiao Yu used the space ring to put the copper hammer and the butcher in, and then his figure flickered, and he appeared on a big tree tens of meters away, his eyes turned silvery white, and he turned on the blur Like a non-existent ghost floating among the branches, a few branches and leaves passed through the body, and he didn't care.

Not long after, a group of ogres emerged from the woods.

There were about sixty or seventy ogres, and they had evidently just come back from a good hunt.Some of the trophies are monsters, and some are intelligent creatures, and of course there is no difference between the two in the eyes of the ogre.

Xiao Yu found that among the captives of the ogre were twenty or thirty dwarves, and more than 100 petite, white-skinned girls with fox ears and long fox tails. They were very beautiful and lovely girls. A rare creature of the human race.

The fox people are a race rich in beauties just like the mermaid and elves.

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