Chapter one hundred and ninety seventh drinking boy
After recovering his strength in Jinsha Port and being promoted to level 7 ranger, except for level 0 which has reached the current upper limit, John has learned a new spell at level 1, level 2 and level 3. This level of spellcasting is no less than
Compared to ordinary druids, he is only a ranger with a semi-casting profession.
If the professionals in the Natural Assembly knew about it, they would definitely call him a genius.
Among them, the newly added level 1 spell is the signature ability of the druid profession and some fey creatures - animal communication.
This spell allows the caster to communicate freely with animals, just like talking to humans.
The little squirrel gathered a few pieces of dry food under his body and occupied them, and he and John were gesticulating and calling.
John, who has the ability to talk to animals, of course understood what the little guy meant. He looked at it helplessly and tapped the little guy's head with his finger. He said: "What a greedy little guy. Forget it, there's nothing I can do about you."
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As he spoke, he rummaged around in the main card space and found a large cloth bag. He twisted two strong pieces of hay into a straw rope and passed it through the bag. He stuffed several pieces of dry food into it and hung it around the little squirrel's neck.
The upper bag is placed behind the back to create a small baggage.
"Okay, it's very strong and should be enough for you to use for a while..."
The little squirrel carrying the baggage chirped excitedly and kept turning its head to look at the bag on its back.
"Now tell me, what's dangerous and weird about this place?"
After hearing this, the little squirrel showed a humane expression of horror, then pointed to the west and chirped.
A few minutes later, after leaving some dry food for other approaching small animals and bidding farewell to the reluctant little squirrel, John stepped into the ruins of the peaceful Ukyo Chang'an City shrouded in misty smoke.
According to the little squirrel, there are many terrifying man-eating monsters here, and it is shrouded in a layer of fog all the year round. Many hungry animals that accidentally broke in have not been seen since.
As for strange things, the little squirrel has not seen many in its limited life, and the thing that impressed it most was that before John, a group of big men like him entered inside, the number of which was about a dozen of the pine cones he had collected.
so many.
John carefully observed the direction the little squirrel pointed, and indeed saw some traces of human activities on the ground. These traces were very fresh and were probably no more than five hours old.
As a ranger, tracking skills are the core skills that must be mastered when living in forests and wilderness. Every ranger is a master of tracking and hunting.
Although he did not receive much instruction from the teacher, he later consulted Mark a lot, and his ability in this area reached the level of an ordinary ranger apprentice who had been trained for several years, far exceeding the average veteran hunter among humans.
"What are these people doing in there?"
John felt a little confused, because no matter what he read in the book or asked people about, Ukyo Chang'an has become a ghost that never returns, and no one has dared to set foot in it for many years.
However, there has always been a shortage of people in human society who seek excitement and commit suicide for various reasons or even for no reason, so John didn't think too much about it and just followed the other person's traces to find out.
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In the quiet ruins of Heian Ukyo, a team maintained a vigilant formation and slowly moved towards the depths.
Because he was afraid that the livestock would be frightened, he did not bring mounts or hounds with him on this trip. However, as a nobleman from a samurai family, Minamoto Akira was not one of those petite aristocratic sons in Kyoto. He had been practicing martial arts and riding all year round, although he was still in his teenage years.
He is fully grown, but he still has some physical strength.
This time, he hired an onmyoji and two ninjas, plus a team of samurai for protection, at the cost of his noble status and twenty guan each, and ventured into Heian Ukyo.
Of course, except for the Onmyoji and the two ninjas, most of the samurai in the team were his retainers, but this was still a lot of money.
There were also three foreign Western samurai who came with them for free and wanted to see what the monsters looked like. Akira Minamoto was also happy to do this. These three outsiders were very powerful. He came here to find a cure for all basic diseases.
Blood wine, go deep into the legendary ghost town of Heian Kyo where monsters are everywhere, and it would be good to have more strength.
If it hadn't been for his father's serious illness and the oppression his family faced from political enemies, he would not have chosen to venture into Heian Ukyo in an attempt to find the blood wine in the gourd in the hands of the legendary drinking boy, which is said to be able to cure all diseases and injuries.
You must know that Tonsu-dōji is one of the legendary three ancient monster leaders. It is said that he leads the Hundred Demons. This does not mean that there are only a hundred ghosts, but describes many ghosts. The legendary Hyakki nocturnal journey is to meet Tonsu-dōji.
The big monster boy and the king of ghosts caused a big noise in the night in the world.
Many people think that Shuten-Dōji is just a legendary monster. In fact, generations of Minamoto family have records about Shu-Dōji.
During the period when Heian Kyo was established, a group of monsters occupied the only way to Kyoto and caused great troubles. The leader was a drinking boy. In addition to abducting and cannibalizing women and children, they also sneaked into wealthy houses in Kyoto.
He stole treasures from his family and used them to build his own luxurious palace.
These bad behaviors have seriously affected the lives and interests of the daimyo's powerful people and ordinary people, so the daimyo sent General Minamoto Yorimitsu to conquer this group of ghosts.
Rumor has it that Shuten Doji, the leader of the Hyundai Demons, is best at seducing women by taking on the appearance of a handsome boy.
After they get it, their flesh will be eaten, their blood will be brewed into fine wine through gourds, and their blood will be drank up. For some outstanding-looking women, they will be imprisoned in their own nests in the village, or used as slaves.
.Because most of the female victims are young virgins, Shuten Doji is also known as the "Virgin Killer".
In fact, Yuan Lai clearly knows that the legends in the world are all based on rumors. In fact, the drinking boy is a fallen god, the son of the ancient mountain god. As a god, cannibalism does not give him much power, and neither does the blood wine.
It is brewed with blood, but its color is just like blood.
However, the theft of treasures is true, and monster cultivation also requires treasures and other items to refine magical weapons and purchase supplies.
It was precisely because of this that Yuan Laiming had the courage to lead people into such a haunted place, hoping to seek help from the big monster swallowing the sake boy.
While thinking, Minamoto Raiaki frequently looked at the three uninvited foreign warriors as he moved forward.
One of them is very handsome, not the kind of handsome boy or girl, but rather handsome in his own right, with an inexplicable temperament that makes people feel close to him.
It seems that this handsome man is the one with the highest status among them, and the other two are tall young men with curly and thick golden brown hair, like a majestic golden retriever dog, full of wild aura. Especially the other's tall figure.
He is extremely tall, and he only knows the other person's waist.
Yuan Laiming compared the figure difference between himself and that person with some envy in his eyes.
The other is a real strong man, a head shorter than the former, but with muscles all over his body, he looks like the kind of peerless warrior with arms that can run horses in the books from Middle-earth.
Not only did these three people have unique appearances, but they were also very neatly dressed. It was obvious at a glance that they were not ordinary people, and ordinary people could not wear such good materials. The shiny leather boots alone were something Minamoto no Yorimitsu had never seen before.
They must be nobles from the West.
In fact, if it weren't for the strength shown by these three people, he wouldn't have killed people in vain and involved innocent people.
After all, although he had some confidence that he would be able to see a big monster like Tonju Doji alive, he could not guarantee that he would not suffer any losses on the way into the ghost world.
Monsters are not the kind of kind and reasonable beings. Although the family records convinced him that the drinking boy should not eat people, but he couldn't stop other monsters from eating people?