Magic Item Master

Chapter 405 Hunting & Being Hunted
Every dietician has the consciousness of protecting the formula, so it is difficult to get close to people.

When a group of dietitians are together, unless the relationship is very strong, there will definitely be a slight sense of alienation, especially when unfamiliar dietitians join, after all, no one knows what the other person's personality is.

On the second day, under the arrangement of the director, Zhang Sen joined the team to protect the lumberjacks. The lumberjacks are in small teams. A team of lumberjacks has about 12 people, and there are two dieters who need to be equipped. Pharmacists work in teams of two.

Zhang Sen was partnered with a dietitian with a beard. After the two met, the other party first smiled and stretched out his hand and said, "You are new here, right? My name is Andor, nice to meet you!"

"Hemoway, me too!" Zhang Sen smiled and reached out to shake hands with the other party.

Andor smiled and said, "The lumberjack we're looking at is right ahead, let's go there first."

"Okay!" Zhang Sen nodded.

Possibly because he was new, he got some care, the line of loggers who needed protection was really close, 5 minutes from town.

When the two arrived at the construction site, the leaders of the workers took off their hats to Andor before allowing the team to start working.

"Don't be too nervous, just pay attention to the people who are close to the bushes. It's not difficult." Andor saw that Zhang Sen looked at the lumberjack without blinking his eyes, and thought that Zhang Sen was a little nervous doing this kind of work for the first time, so he went out Said comfortingly.

Zhang Sen smiled and said, "Well, thank you."

"I'm going to smoke a cigarette over there, do you want one?" Andor took out the cigarette case at this time and asked.

Zhang Sen shook his head and said, "I don't smoke."

"Then you will miss a great thing in life." Andor smiled, then ran to a stump and sat down, and began to puff.

Zhang Sen found that the loggers are on a shift system. Every six loggers work for half an hour and then come down to rest. This can ensure efficient felling. Basically, one carbon wood tree can be processed in about an hour.

He walked up to the workers who were dismembering the carbon wood tree, and picked up a branch of the carbon wood tree curiously. He found that the branches of the carbon wood tree were very heavy, much heavier than ordinary trees. No wonder these loggers were so tired Panting, this thing is really difficult to handle.

"What did you find?" Andor came over and asked at this moment.

Zhang Sen shook his head and said, "It's just that I haven't seen a carbonwood tree before, so come and have a look."

"In fact, some people thought that the carbon wood tree might be a kind of strangeness before, and even tried to make the formula, but unfortunately no matter how they tried, it failed, and gradually no one did it anymore." Andor relaxed after hearing that, and then laughed said.

Zhang Sen was surprised: "Why do you think the carbon wood tree is a strange thing?"

There is nothing special about this carbon wood tree, so why is it considered a strange thing?

"You have never entered the Black Forest at night. When you enter the Black Forest at night, no one can come out. You can only find the way out again after dawn." Andor explained.

Zhang Sen asked curiously, "Could it be impossible to walk in a straight line?"

"Don't talk about walking in a straight line, even if you can fly." Andor laughed.

Zhang Sen nodded and said, "It's really strange to say that."

If it is just getting lost in the Black Forest and not being able to get out, then it can be explained by natural formations, but if it is not even able to fly, then it must be a strange thing.

According to Zhang Sen's visual estimation, the tallest carbon wood tree in the Black Forest is about 20 meters, and it is impossible not to fly out.

Next, Zhang Sen and Andor found a tree stump and sat down, basically watching the lumberjacks at work, and chatting about unrelated things from time to time.

Andor didn't ask about Zhang Sen's ability, and Zhang Sen didn't ask about Andor's ability. The two didn't ask each other what they wanted in the Black Forest, and they didn't ask where the other came from. They got along very indifferently, as if they were just Two passengers who happen to be on the same bus, sitting next to each other.

A day passed in such a dull manner, without any major incidents, it was as peaceful as if the strangeness did not exist.

At night, there was no meal for the Shaking Mountain Bear, just ordinary food, but the hunting team brought back some strange monsters, but unfortunately there were no soul fetch monsters. Strange.

The physique of the strange monsters is very special. If there is no corresponding formula, no matter how much they eat, they will not be able to produce abilities, and even some strange monsters will have side effects if they eat too much.

Therefore, apothecaries are not interested in aberrations that do not have a corresponding recipe.

The next day, Zhang Sen was assigned to the hunting team.

The hunting team is not the more people the better, after all, the more people there are, the greater the movement, so the hunting team is a group of three.

Zhang Sen was assigned to a team of a man and a woman. The man's name was Pushkin, and the woman's name was Avril. The two were not difficult to get along with, and their communication with each other was not very different from that of Andorra.

All three of them were equipped with crossbows and long swords, and set off wearing high boots. Their hunting range was the black forest south of the town, but they didn't need to go deep, they only needed to look for prey on the periphery.

"It's your first time entering the Black Forest, let's go in the middle."

When the three came to the edge of the forest, Pushkin said to Zhang Sen.

Zhang Sen naturally had no objection to this. Pushkin said this out of good intentions, and he is not the kind of person who ignores other people's good intentions.

After entering the black forest, the sky darkened. It was a sunny day, but there was still a cloudy feeling in the forest, and both Pushkin and Avril became serious.

On the way the three of them came, Pushkin talked to Zhang Sen about some rules for hunting in the Black Forest, such as don’t shoot if it’s not necessary, don’t make too much noise, and try to use a crossbow if you can solve it. solve.

"follow me!"

Pushkin stopped suddenly while walking, his nose moved, and then said to Zhang Sen and Avril behind him.

He walked lightly to the right, Zhang Sen and Avril followed suit, and after a while, the three came to the edge of an open space.

This clearing is located in the forest, and it looks like it was dug out by some animal, and there are even many scratches on it.

Zhang Sen looked at Pushkin, Pushkin pointed to the front, Zhang Sen looked up, a strange bird was staying in the tree.

This bird has a small body, big wings, and a pair of feet that are bigger than its body. It looks very weird.

"call out!"

At this moment, Avril raised her hand to shoot, and an arrow hit the wing of the strange bird. The strange bird opened its eyes in panic and wanted to escape, but was shot in the abdomen by Pushkin, and finally fell to the ground.

The three ran over immediately, and Pushkin picked up the strange bird and said with a smile: "It seems that today is a good day."

"What kind of bird is this?" Zhang Sen asked.

Pushkin was in a good mood, and introduced with a smile: "This is a ground planer. Because of the existence of this guy, no one in the nearby towns is engaged in planting-related work, because the crops that are planted are often eaten by this guy. gone."

"I heard that there are four formulas for the planer monster, the most powerful one is the iron claw formula, which can greatly strengthen the palm." Avril added at this time.

It wasn't long before they hunted and successfully hunted a strange monster, which can be said to be a good start. After all, strange monsters are actually very rare. Under normal circumstances, it is not bad to encounter one a day.

Pushkin took out the bag specially used to store prey, put the ground planer into the bag and sealed it, so that other creatures would not notice the smell of the ground planer, otherwise the smell of blood would easily attract powerful creatures.

But then their luck seemed to run out, and they didn't find any prey until noon, not even ordinary animals.

The three found a place to eat dry food, and then continued hunting, but unfortunately they really ran out of luck. They didn't find any more creatures until four o'clock in the afternoon, so the three had to go back home.

When we got together again at the restaurant in the evening, Zhang Sen discovered that there was actually a soul fetcher among the strange monsters assigned, so he decisively asked for it.

This soul fetch monster didn't look that big, and the hunter's arrow skill was very good. He shot it directly in the neck and killed it with one blow.

Zhang Sen returned to the room with the soul fetch monster. He had already bought the matching materials, so he could start making meals and potions immediately.

The meal and potion made by a soul fetcher can be eaten for about three days. Zhang Sen is not sure that he will be able to get the soul-ecstasy eye within three days, so to be on the safe side, after making the meal and potion, he uses one of Sherlock's notes. This kind of storage method is to save the two, and he will start to take it when he gets another soul fetch monster in the future.

In the next few days, he will either protect the loggers with other dieters or go hunting in the Black Forest.

He found that the hunting of strange monsters was very difficult, which made him a little thankful that he had joined the system. It was a fact that he could enjoy the shade under a big tree, otherwise he might not have been able to get a soul fetcher until now.

Basically, eight hunting teams can only get three to four strange monsters every day. If you are lucky, you may be able to hunt five. Moreover, the types are relatively diverse, and basically the same strange monsters rarely appear.

These strange monsters belong to the type that is not very threatening, and can be solved with a crossbow.

In fact, the hunting team was not without problems. One of the teams encountered Shaking Mountain Bear, but the diet master in this team did not have the strong ability to fight head-on, and was almost killed by Shaking Mountain Bear instead. After escaping from the Black Forest, one of his hands was broken, one of his ribs was broken several times, and the last one was even worse. The bones on half of his cheek were smashed. If it wasn't for his strong vitality, he might not have survived at all.

Because of this incident, Zhang Sen also realized the danger of the Black Forest, where the dieter is not only a hunter, but also a prey.

Food masters are actually relatively powerful human beings who have abilities that ordinary people do not have, but they will still die if they are fatally injured.

However, although hunting is dangerous, Zhang Sen has no plans to quit. After all, it is more efficient to rely on collective strength than to hunt souls and get monsters entirely by himself.

(End of this chapter)