Lu Yu glanced at the fruit knife not far from him. Because it had just been used to cut food, there was still some blood stains on it.
There were only two steps between him and the fruit knife, but at this moment, he could only think twice, tighten the ceramic water cup in his hand, grit his teeth, and get ready to go.
The bonfire in the tree hole was blown gently by the autumn wind, the flames floated, and the two shadows on the wall also twisted.
A spherical object the size of a human head floated not far from Lu Yu, and a thick, disgusting-looking black mist overflowed from its dark body.
Lu Yu could not find the eyes of this creature, but he could clearly feel that the dark monster in front of him was looking at him.
Behind the surging black mist, it seemed that a large number of eyes might open at any time, swallowing up Lu Yu's gaze.
Lu Yu didn't know what this black mist with a strong smell was. Soon after he went out to collect resources for the winter and returned to his nest in the tree hole, this strange thing followed him and floated into the tree hole.
Lu Yu has seen too many things that he cannot understand during this period. The appearance of the black mist once again expanded Lu Yu's cognitive boundaries.
what to do?
This kind of monster that is obviously beyond the scope of cognition, extremely weird, and has a particularly unpleasant appearance is in the same room with you. Being prepared for resistance should be the only option.
As for why he didn't communicate... Lu Yu was convinced that he didn't understand the other party's language.
Not long ago, he saw a group of soldiers wearing stainless steel armor patrolling in the forest from a distance. The language they spoke was different from any language Lu Yu knew.
Thinking of this, Lu Yu squeezed the ceramic water cup in his hand tighter.
Although it is not as deadly as a fruit knife, it is better than having it handy.
I just don’t know whether the monster shrouded in black mist before me has a body of flesh and blood, which can bleed and cause pain.
Suddenly, several tentacles stretched out from the black mist and pierced straight into the ground.
Lu Yu's tense nerves were stirred, and with a single step, he rushed to Hei Wu, holding the water glass in his hand high.
Just when the water glass was about to fall heavily, Lu Yu saw the pattern outlined by the tentacles on the ground out of the corner of his eye, wary of the tentacles coming from behind.
"I can't hold it back!"
Lu Yu secretly cried out.
Just when he was about to hit the black mist hard, two tentacles wrapped around Lu Yu's wrist and shook violently, causing his palm to loosen and the cup to fall to the ground.
At this time, the black mist had drifted some distance away.
Lu Yu, who recovered from the shock, saw the speed at which Black Mist evaded and the flexibility of its tentacles, and knew that he had no chance of winning against such a monster.
But this guy is carving patterns with his tentacles. Is this applying for communication?
Lu Yu covered his hand that had been thrown away and found that it had not been eroded.
I recalled several mathematical formulas and found that there was no sign of memory ambiguity.
Of course, he also felt that if the other party could really affect his thoughts, it might be difficult to find out no matter how he checked.
Suspicious, he slowly backed away and quickly looked down at the traces left by the tentacles on the ground.
It's not some complicated characters, but a pattern of lips plus an arrow.
The arrow points to the squirrel that Lu Yu roasted on the bonfire.
In the flash of lightning, Lu Yu understood something.
He lifted the unroasted squirrel on the shelf and asked carefully, "Do you want to eat it?"
The spherical black mist floating in mid-air remained motionless.
Lu Yu remembered the language barrier, so he immediately found a branch, added an arrow next to the lips drawn by the tentacles, and then placed the squirrel on the arrow.
The black mist took action.
As if worried that Lu Yu might misunderstand something, it first rolled up the water cup on the ground with its tentacles and handed it to Lu Yu.
Then, he rolled up the knife he had put aside, pointed the blade towards himself, and handed it to Lu Yu.
Lu Yu took these two things in a daze, and most of his vigilance disappeared.
Heiwu stretched out his tentacles and tapped the squirrel a few times. Seeing that Lu Yu didn't show any sign, it tapped the squirrel several times eagerly.
Seeing this urgent action, Lu Yu suddenly realized and stretched out his hand: "You can..."
Before he finished speaking, Lu Yu smiled helplessly, forgetting that he didn't understand the other party's language again.
He picked up the piece of squirrel meat and handed it to Heiwu himself.
After the black mist entangled it with its tentacles, it actually imitated Lu Yu, put it on with a wooden stick, and placed it on the bonfire again for roasting.
"Does this guy also like to eat cooked food?" Lu Yu thought this idea was ridiculous.
In his opinion, it is in line with his style to take it and then break it down directly, rather than like a barbecue master who keeps turning the squirrel meat with his tentacles until it is fully cooked before eating it.
Although he still didn't dare to reveal his back to this strange black mist, Lu Yu could breathe a sigh of relief after confirming that the other party was a creature that could communicate.
When people have low psychological expectations for what they will encounter, death is not a terrible thing.
Lu Yu wanted to resist just now but he didn't want to die too useless. After all, it had been almost a month since he traveled through time and he had been feeling aggrieved. His breath was stuck in his throat and he couldn't get out.
Now that the other party acted like an intelligent creature, this also gave Lu Yu, who had not spoken to anyone for a long time and could only talk to himself to maintain his language skills, some comfort.
He picked up the knife and fiddled with it for a long time, then processed another prey caught in the trap this afternoon and put it on the campfire.
Seeing the black mist's tentacles reaching out to take over the string in his hand, Lu Yu hesitated for a while and decided to try to reason.
He pointed at the squirrel that was being roasted by the black mist, indicating that it belonged to it.
Then he put the one in his arms...
The tentacles stretched out anyway, taking advantage of the moment when Lu Yu was about to make a gesture and swept away the squirrel meat.
Lu Yu stared blankly at the two tentacles of the black mist turning over the two pieces of squirrel meat. He wanted to say something, but he held it back.
The aroma of meat wafting in the air made Lu Yu drool. He sighed, dug out the winter grain storage found in the squirrel's nest, peeled a few pine nuts and put them into his mouth, chewing them carefully.
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During this period of time traveling back in time, Lu Yu had very little time to eat, and most of the time he was hungry.
He still remembered that when he successfully hunted for the first time, he even had the urge to drink blood due to excessive hunger.
During the most difficult period, Lu Yu relied on a big white wolf as tall as a person.
This white wolf always eats very wastefully. After eating up the belly part of the prey, it will be discarded elsewhere.
Lu Yu played a guest role as a hyena. Every time he encountered food that the white wolf couldn't finish, he would patiently cut it up with a knife and bring it back to the tree hole where he lived.
But the good times didn't last long. The white wolf seemed to have left the nearby area recently, leaving Lu Yu, who had enjoyed being a hyena, without a source of food.
I finally caught some meat today, but I didn't expect someone to break into my house and rob me.
However, Lu Yu was not very angry because he had not been with other living beings for a long time.
He missed the white wolf very much. Although the white wolf looked at him like he was looking at garbage every time, Lu Yu felt very peaceful every time he looked at the white wolf.
Now this black mist suddenly broke into his tree hole. Although it was a bit unexpected, it was still a living life accompanying him.
The rich aroma of meat penetrated Lu Yu's nose.
He turned his head and his cheeks felt hot.
The roasted squirrel meat was pushed in front of him by the tentacles.
Looking at Heiwu who was still grilling another bunch of squirrel meat, Lu Yu looked at the bunch in front of him again, was stunned for a while, and pointed at himself blankly.
The tentacle drew an arrow on the ground, pointing directly at Lu Yu.
Taking the squirrel meat, Lu Yu took a big bite without hesitation, chewing it and thanking him, completely forgetting that the squirrel was his trophy.
After a while, another bunch of squirrel meat was almost cooked. Lu Yu looked at the black mist intently, wondering how it would eat the meat.
Anyway, Lu Yu still hasn't found where its mouth is.
The tentacles rolled up the meat skewers, and then black mist surged. Lu Yu didn't see the movement clearly, and the pieces of meat on the sticks were gone.
ah?
What is this eaten with?
"Phew...finally I don't have to eat raw meat anymore."
Before Lu Yu could think about this problem clearly, a strange voice suddenly sounded in his mind.
It sounds like a girl, and I can understand the language, but...
Who is talking?
Lu Yu raised his head in horror and looked at the black mist not far away, and an absurd guess emerged spontaneously.
The voice in Lu Yu's mind suddenly stopped, and the black mist floating in the air slowly turned.
There is no doubt that Heiwu also noticed something unusual from Lu Yu's reaction.
Feeling the line of sight piercing through the black mist, Lu Yu swallowed subconsciously and couldn't help but move back.
The black mist's figure suddenly became blurry in Lu Yu's sight.
Before Lu Yu could react, several tentacles stretched out from the twisted mist and pushed him to the ground.
The core of the ball exuding black energy was almost touching the tip of Lu Yu's nose.
Even at such a close distance, Lu Yu could not find the mouth or eyes of this thing.
He was also surprised that in this situation, his first reaction was to look for these two things.
"You can hear me, right?"
The melodious female voice suddenly raised her voice, revealing uncontrollable joy in her anxiety.
Lu Yu felt very bad. He was pushed to the ground. If he hadn't immediately protected his head, he would probably have passed out now.
It's not a good thing that he didn't pass out. Lu Yu's vision was completely obscured by the black mist. The female voice kept blasting in Lu Yu's mind at this moment, like two tweeters roaring next to his ears.
Now I can be sure that it is this ball shrouded in black mist that is talking to me.
Fighting back his headache, Lu Yu yelled to shut up, but Heiwu didn't seem to hear him, repeating the same sentence like a repeater.
The high-pitched sound that kept echoing in his mind finally made Lu Yu give up his resistance. His vision went dark and he lost consciousness.
After Lu Yu passed out, the black mist's tentacles stopped moving.
She muttered in confusion in a voice that only she could hear.
"Can anyone actually hear my voice?"
When Lu Yu woke up again, he was in a tree hole. Just like when he fell asleep the first day, he fell in the innermost part of the tree hole.
He touched his body and checked whether it was intact, and then he saw the black mist in the tree hole at a glance.
The cold wind howled outside the tree hole, and from time to time, cold wind penetrated into the tree hole, making Lu Yu couldn't help but shiver. There was already a thin layer of snow on the ground, and the dead leaves were whitened by the snow.
It seemed like a whole night had passed, but unexpectedly it had started to snow, which made Lu Yu a little worried about whether he could survive this winter.
The black mist also noticed Lu Yu's awakening, and it slowly floated up from the ground.
Lu Yu was afraid that the black mist would be as agitated as before, so he quickly stretched out his hand to stop it from floating towards him.
"It's forbidden to be a repeater and it's forbidden to speak loudly!"
It wouldn't matter if he fell into a coma after losing his SAN. Yesterday, he was completely stunned by the sound of the black mist.
"You can hear me, right?"
The female voice sounded again, this time much softer.
Lu Yu nodded, and then asked: "Who are you? Why do you speak my language?"
An awkward silence fell, and the black mist retracted its tentacles and slowly floated to Lu Yu's side.
"Nodding means understanding. I understand. Your language is very strange. I have never heard such a strange language. I am using spiritual magic as a bridge to talk to you. I am meditating on what you want to say. I can feel it.
Some."
"Can you tell me where you are from?"
Lu Yu was dumbfounded, and then he suddenly realized that no wonder Heiwu didn't react at all even if he shouted "shut up" last night.
They didn't know their own language at all, so it was in vain that Lu Yu thought that Chinese still had a place in another world.
He tried the method that Heiwu told him and started thinking about it in his mind.
After trying several times in a row, Lu Yu finally successfully connected with the black mist.
"I also have a question, do we each get what we need?"
Hei Wu was silent for a long time.
"I'm sorry, it's difficult for me to maintain mental magic now. Your words are very vague and it will take some time..."
"I got it. I agree to your request."
It turns out that the Internet speed is too slow.
"Who are you?" Lu Yu became more and more confused about this strange-looking black mist.
After a while, the voice came over.
"Lulutis, a magician." After Black Mist finished speaking, he asked curiously, "It's your turn, who are you?"
Lu Yu touched his head and introduced himself: "Lu Yu, in terms of occupation... I came to this strange world just after graduation. I am an unemployed vagrant."
Lu Yu discovered that after he finished speaking, the mist around Heiwu would flow rapidly. Could this be a sign that Heiwu was fully processing what he said?
"Lu Yu...a very unusual name, like someone from an area ruled by an ancient country that I have heard of. In addition, please don't mention the irrelevant things next. Now I...well, I can't maintain this magic well.
"
Lu Yu could also see that Hei Wu was uncomfortable. Every time she conveyed a message, a large amount of black mist would escape from her body, and her voice would also tremble a little.
Is it painful to speak?
"Where is this place?" Lu Yu asked.
"I don't know where this is, I just arrived in this area not long ago."
Lulutis asked: "You are not from this world, right? I can feel that you are not a summoned object. The key is that you can hear my voice."
There was no way to hide this. The language system was different, and the other person was a knowledgeable magician, so Lu Yu nodded and acknowledged this fact.
But he was really curious about what Lulutis said at the end.
“If I can hear your voice, then I’m not from this world?”
Unable to maintain communication, Lulutis fell to the ground and rested for a while before slowly explaining the reason to Lu Yu.
Lulutis was originally a human magician. About a month ago, she conducted a special magic experiment in her mansion.
During the experiment, a mutation was suddenly discovered. The magic elements constructing the ritual were disordered, sweeping through the entire laboratory, destroying the potion she was developing, and eventually causing an explosion.
If it was just an explosion, it wouldn't actually be a big problem.
Lu Yu said in shock: "Isn't the problem a big problem?"
If this is not a big problem, then what is?
Sure enough, when we come to a different world, the boundaries of common sense need to be expanded as soon as possible.
"I'm a magician. Ordinary explosions can't hurt me at all. This explosion is a little unexpected."
Lu Yu stared blankly at Lulutis, who said that he once looked like a human being, and then looked at the ball exuding black mist...
A little unexpected?
Lulutis herself did not expect that the magic flow that swept through the entire laboratory would continue to spurt out on a large scale at the moment of the explosion.
The storage room where she stored a large number of magic scrolls, ritual magic, and magic contracts, and the study room...resonated under the disturbance of the magic flow.
"Sorry, you just said that it should be simpler. This is good for you and me. Overall..."
Lu Yu begged, "How about speaking human words?"
Lulutis' swaying tentacles froze.
"All my magic scrolls were triggered by mistake."
According to Lulutis's own conjecture, the potion changed her body shape. At the point when she was at her weakest, ritual magic, transfer scrolls, and the seal of the magic contract all took effect.
This also caused Lulutis to turn into the black fog, spherical core, and full of ghost appearance now, and she came to this strange place.
"Well, what does this have to do with your inability to communicate?"
"The sealing effect of contract magic. This magic is used for punishment. It is originally very ineffective for magicians of my level, but... in short, it's good if you know that this is a sealing effect."
Lulutis who became like this was about the same time as Lu Yu arrived at this point.
It's just that Lulutis looks worse.
Lu Yu just couldn't communicate with people in this world, but he still had a body that could integrate into normal society.
As for Lulutis...she tried to communicate with the magicians she encountered in the wild, but the answer was fireballs.
If that magician was not a beginner, Lulutis would have been dissected as a strange monster.
The effectiveness of the seal was much more powerful than Lu Yu imagined. Lulutis tried to use spiritual magic to communicate with monsters with slightly low-level intelligence. As a result, these monsters became manic without exception.
It's hard to tell whether this is an effect of his own medicine or the impact of the contract itself.
"Where's the text?"
"The written words will be distorted, making it impossible to read... I think one thing, but my body will unknowingly write other things under the influence of the contract seal."
"Damn, you magicians are really good at playing with such a powerful seal!" Lu Yu was shocked.
When the weak Lulutis heard what Lu Yu said, she was silent for a while, sighed, and did not correct Lu Yu's wrong statement.
There should be very few copies of this contract in the world.
An explosion destroyed many treasures in the mansion.
After I go back, can I recover some losses...
After all, can I still go back? How long will it take to go back?
All kinds of questions suddenly came to mind, and Lulutis was left helpless.
"Wait a minute, can't you draw pictures? Why don't you use patterns..."
"Do you think my style will have a chance to convey a message to others through such an abstract form as a pattern?"
"Yes." Lu Yu looked at Lulutis and expressed deep sympathy.
After explaining in one breath, Lulutis retracted all her tentacles and said tiredly: "I can't maintain the mental magic anymore... I need to rest for a while... Thank you for the dinner."
After saying that, Lulutis fell asleep.
Lu Yu stared intently at the black mist on the ground, recalling the conversation that just took place in his mind. Everything felt very strange.
This is the first time he has come into contact with magic since he came to this world, and it is also the first time he has communicated with the lives of this world.
After extinguishing the bonfire and letting the wind blow for a while, Lu Yu poked his head out of the tree hole to observe for a while, confirmed that the surrounding area was safe, and then blocked the tree hole with a baffle woven with rattan and wooden strips.
Still uneasy, Lu Yu looked around again through the gap in the cane, and then lay down on the small nest made of hay with confidence.
It's no wonder that Lu Yu is so cautious. He has lived here for almost a month. If he is not careful at all, it will end in reopening.
Although he still has doubts about Lulutis' appearance...after all, what kind of person can make a potion that can turn him into such a chaotic appearance?
The use of this potion is worthy of careful consideration.
However, Lulutis's seal was real, and she was the only person she could communicate with for so long.
According to Lulutis, if she wants to become a normal person, she may need her own help.
Thinking of this, Lu Yu no longer felt that the black mist was disturbing.
I have been in this world for so long, and I am always nervous when I go to sleep.
At least he can sleep well tonight.
After Lu Yu fell asleep, Lulutis floated up from her sleep and took a look at the baffle made by Lu Yu.