Hotel on the mountain

The raft's mast was hung with canvas and the horses were abandoned on the shore and left to run back to the hotel. The raft leaned against the shore of the lake and floated all the way to the wide waters to the south.

Without the obstruction of the rugged terrain of the forest, Thorad and his party moved much faster. The wind and the current of the lake took them deep into the lake. Daniel built a bench for himself and sat on the front of the raft, letting the bait under the fishing rod move along the raft - it was difficult to catch fish this way. Yes, but Daniel didn’t know what he could do.

Thorad set up a table on the top of the house. He took some paper, looked at the terrain on both sides of the lake attentively, and meticulously drew a simple map on the paper.

The most leisurely one among them was Afu. She looked at the quiet lake and the quiet forest on the shore in a daze. The spiritual energy in her hands subconsciously made some useless shapes, and then threw them into the lake and turned into a The spiritual energy that escapes from the beach.

The idle clouds were forming one piece in the sky, and the bored people were sitting quietly on the raft. Daniel simply went to tinker with his weapons and equipment.

He walked into the house, took out the bow bag from the equipment box, and took out a stone bowl and a sealed bag. He sat back on the stool at the front of the raft and began to unpack the sealed bags, which made Afu curiously walk over to him and squat down to watch.

"What is this?" Afu pointed to a fiery red plant in the bag.

Daniel took out this plant. Under the light, you can see that there is a spherical flower bud growing on the top of it. The surface of the flower bud is pitted, and clusters of fist-like flower bones poke out from these pits. . The color of the entire plant seems to change from gold to fiery red.

"This is gunpowder." Daniel said with a happy smile, his slightly curly bangs resting on his forehead, "It is a necessary material for making fire-attribute arrows."

"Arrows? Fire attribute?" Afu has never been exposed to the weapon bow and arrow, and does not know the knowledge contained in it.

"Just like this -" Daniel pulled out all the flower bones from the gunpowder grass and threw them into the stone bowl. He took out two more dark red mushrooms with black spots on their caps from the bag, "Mixed the 'nitrifying mushroom' and gunpowder grass together."

Daniel took a stone pestle and pounded the fireweed and nitrocapsid mushrooms together. As the plants were ground into finer and finer pieces, Afu found that they emitted bursts of explosive fire-attributed spiritual energy, like an explosion. That blast of air when a barrel explodes.

Then Daniel took out the arrow branch from the bow bag, placed the arrowhead on the medicinal mud in the stone bowl, turned it around, and put it aside. He continued this way until all the medicinal mud in the stone bowl was wiped clean and then stopped. .

"As long as it takes a while, the arrows will absorb the explosive energy of the mixture of gunpowder grass and nitrocapsid mushrooms. After they hit the monster, they will cause additional explosion damage."

"Awesome!" Afu clapped his hands, causing Daniel's cheeks to turn red all of a sudden. He couldn't help but boast that he would show off his skills in front of Afu again.

So he took out the gunpowder grass and nitrified mushrooms, crushed them in a stone bowl, made them into a mud ball with his bare hands, and stuffed them into an empty bottle only the size of his palm. Under Afu's puzzled gaze, he spoke softly and explained as if he had done a trivial thing: "Put the mixed gunpowder into the bottle for emergency use. If you encounter some monsters that are weak to fire, As long as you insert the arrow into the bottle and take it out, you can quickly shoot arrows with explosive properties, but the effect is not as good as preparing in advance.”

"In this way, as long as you archers are well prepared, you will be very powerful!" Afu said with emotion, "Unlike us psykers, we have to withdraw when our psychic energy reserves are used up. I wish we would also Is there a way to replenish psychic energy?"

"Hahahahaha." Daniel laughed out loud at the praise, but he quickly calmed down his expression and coughed twice before returning to normal, "But being an archer is a very expensive profession, like the combination of gunpowder grass and nitrocellulose mushrooms. It costs almost 100 Hebrew gold dollars to make a potion with explosive properties. A ball of potion can only be mixed with fifty arrows at most, unless all fifty arrows are shot into the monster's eyes. How much effect.”

"Is that why you have been working for other people?" Afu asked curiously with his eyes wide open, "I heard that you have been busy helping other people collect plants, fish, mineral materials and so on."

Daniel's mood suddenly sank. He felt that Afu was saying that he was poor, which made him feel uncomfortable. His self-esteem was hit by himself in front of this girl, so with a slightly disappointed tone, he responded with a forced smile: "Yes."

"Then I'll entrust you to help me catch a fish!" Afu stood up and said happily, "I'll give you a reward, so you can rest assured to make powerful arrows!"

In Daniel's surprised eyes, Afu took out a gold dollar from her body and said with a smile: "I want to eat a big fish tonight, you have to catch it." She put the gold dollar into Daniel's hand and said with a smile Then she walked aside and looked at the surrounding scenery in a daze. She rubbed her boring ball of light in her hands and continued to throw it into the lake, where it scattered into a ball of lost spiritual energy.

Daniel put the gold dollar into his backpack. He put the fishing rod up, hung up fresh bait, and threw it back to the water. This time he held the fishing rod tightly, just wanting to use his hard-earned fishing skills. technology to complete customer commissions.

Sorad, who was drawing a map, looked at what was happening below, then quickly retracted his gaze and concentrated on completing the simple map of the journey.

The raft began to drift from day to sunset. Only a small part of the setting sun in the distance was exposed on the ridge in the east. Many birds returning to their nests began to fly across the sky, returning to the forest one after another.

Sorad, who had been concentrating on his work, suddenly felt that the speed of the raft was abnormally accelerated. He put down the pen in his hand, jumped to the back of the raft, squatted down to observe the pattern of the water waves, stood up and looked up at the arc of the sail, and found that the speed of the water flow was gradually accelerating - this was very unusual, how could the lake water have such a strong change in the water flow?

"Sorad!"

Daniel, who was fishing at the front of the raft, suddenly yelled in surprise, "Aquatic beasts! There are a group of aquatic beasts here!"

Sorad hurried to the front, and saw brown and yellow monsters like lizards in the water appearing one after another on the surface of the lake in front of him. They are aquatic beasts, and they appear in areas with abundant water resources.

This group of aquatic beasts with an average length of two meters rolled densely on the lake surface, picking up one fish food after another. It seemed that there was a place where fish gathered in front, which attracted aquatic beasts to hunt densely here.

"Quick! Get on the shore!" Sorad hurriedly ordered. He jumped onto the roof, put away the canvas, took out the wood paddle, and was about to push the raft towards the lakeshore.

But there was a dull rumble from under the raft - one after another, obviously some creature was hitting the base.

"It's too late. When we saw them, we had already entered their hunting range." Daniel grabbed the pillar that could stabilize his body and explained his understanding of the monsters.

"Afu, open the portal!" Sorad also hugged the pillar, trying to stabilize the violent turbulence.

"I can't do it. I can't concentrate at all." Afu fell on the wooden wall, fell down again, and hurriedly hugged the foot of her bed.

The aquatic beasts had never seen a raft before, and they rushed over in groups, hitting it, biting it, and trying to tear off "strips of meat" from it. The raft swayed forward, being pushed to leap into the deeper and more mysterious places of the lake...