Chapter Fourteen: The Clumsy Young Lady

  Traveling through the forest at night is an extremely bitter task. The magical beasts lurking everywhere, the pitfalls formed by rotting leaves, the poisonous mosquitoes, and the thorny brambles all make people very worried. Especially Stillberg, who was so exhausted that he didn't even have the strength to straighten his waist, but surprisingly, he didn't complain about the suffering or the exhaustion, and he kept following Han Jin with gritted teeth. This kind of perseverance made people look at him in a new light. The other few people were either strong or weak, all belonging to professionals, although they walked the same road, but the efforts they put out were vastly different.

  Fortunately, there was Xian Ni Er, this new partner, who had extremely outstanding eyesight at night, so she walked in the front, responsible for guiding and alerting. If not for her, everyone might have suffered even more hardships. Mo Xin Ke carried a giant sword at the back, Han Jin and Sa Si Ou walked in the middle. The group of people walked out of dozens of miles without any surprises, until they decided to rest in a tree cave at dawn.

  Stilberg didn't care about anything anymore, and when he heard that it was time to rest, he was the first to crawl into a hollow tree, lying straight on the ground. In just a moment, snoring sounds came from inside the tree.

  "You go rest first, I'm not sleepy." Xanier pointed to the tree hole, but she actually couldn't sleep. It was just a tree hole, how could she squeeze in with others?

  Sasou yawned and crawled into the tree hole, he also felt tired. Han Jin quietly touched Mo Xinko and walked to one side, Mo Xinko followed slowly behind Han Jin.

  He had already walked over 30 meters when Han Jin thought of speaking, but suddenly remembered that Xian Ni'er had extremely keen hearing. He was hesitant and walked another 40 meters before turning back to look around for a moment, then asked: "Moxinke, why did you lie?"

  "When did I ever lie?" asked Mo Xingke.

  "Tell them I am a prophet."

  "Oh... this thing." Mo Xinke burst out laughing: "Then what's your profession? Mage? You can't even cast a small fireball; Warrior? Don't mention aura, you don't even have a weapon now; Hunter? Thief? None of these work, only Seer fits you."

  Han Jin furrowed his brow: "You can tell them that I'm just a very ordinary fallen noble."

  "Who would look up to you? Actually, when I saw you at Miss Gui's place, I already recognized you, and that's also why I'm interested in you. I'm curious... what could have caused such a big change in you in just a few days?" Mo Xinko said softly: "Raphael, do you want to be looked down on by others everywhere like in Ladong Town? I knew when I was very young that this world is very realistic. If you don't have any abilities and can't do anything... Hehe..."

  Han Jin let out a light sigh, he understood what Mo Xinke meant.

  "Just now, when Stillberg was in a hurry, he couldn't move. Sasou released magic several times to cast haste on Stillberg. If you think he's useless trash in his heart, do you think he would waste his magic?"

  "I know." Han Jin nodded.

  "The sage is a wise man who guides people out of trouble, but it's impossible to guide everyone out of trouble." Mo Xingke burst into laughter: "You understand? What a great profession!"

  "What I said was right, that's the manifestation of my wisdom; what I said was wrong, that's the arrangement of fate. Man can't fight against fate, is that what you mean?" Han Jin smiled and said.

  "Haha, I just mentioned it and you understood, looks like you really have a talent for being a prophet, hehe..."

  "Your badge can prove your identity, does this prophet also need some proof?"

  "You don't need anything." Mo Xinkai smiled and said, "In the language of the spirits, a prophet is someone who can see the future. Actually, anyone can be a prophet; it's just that no one believes them. Don't worry, I'll help you."

  "So I have just one last question."

  "What's wrong?"

  "Why did you help me?" Han Jin said calmly.

  "This... this problem is too profound." Mo Xinko scratched his head: "The teacher said, I only have some small cleverness, can't do great things, but you're a person with many clever ideas, think too much, your brain, my sword, we will be the best partners! So..."

  "It's not quite like what you told me last time."

  "Huh??"

  "You told me last time that your teacher said your brain isn't very useful, and advised you to make friends with smart people so you can learn something." Han Jin smiled: "Not being very useful and being slightly clever are quite different things."

  "Really? It's been so many days already, you still remember?"

  "Nonsense!" Han Jin felt a mix of laughter and tears.

  "I'm increasingly convinced of your brain!" Mo Xinkai patted Han Jin's shoulder and said seriously: "I think, together we can create a brilliant future!"

  "Before we create the future, can you answer my question first?"

  "Hehe... I'm telling the truth." Moxinke revealed a meaningful smile: "Your appetite is too big, humans can't eat that much! I guarantee you're definitely a descendant of dragons and humans! Don't look at how down on your luck you are now, but you have this dragon-human identity, in the future... You don't believe this either?" Moxinke hadn't finished speaking when he noticed something strange on Han Jin's face.

  "I figured it out, your cleverness is also limited." Han Jin shook his head helplessly: "Miss Kaili asked me to deal with that dwarf, wouldn't she investigate my past? And you, didn't you ask her? I've never left Ladontown since I was a child, and my parents rarely went out, it's easy to verify this, right? And the descendant of giants and humans..."

  "It's not easy to gain the trust of a prophet." Mo Xinko smiled wryly, "I know what you want to ask, my purpose, right? But... I have no purpose at all, just wanting to be friends with you, purely friends."

  "Why say so much? Why tell me a story?" Han Jin's face was full of disdain: "And your storytelling skills are too poor, I suggest you go to the Beit Alliance later and find some kids to practice with."

  "You... believe it?" Mo Xinke was a bit stunned.

  "Why not believe?" Han Jin asked back, although it must be admitted that the acquaintance, communication and cooperation between intelligent lives are mostly centered on interests, but they also yearn for one or several pure friends. The former will disperse as soon as there is no common interest, and may even become enemies, while the latter is not based on the height of identity or the number of wealth.

  Mo Xinke's expression looked very gloomy, he never thought that Han Jin, who always liked to analyze things until they were clear as water and stone, would actually believe in the most unreliable reason, making him waste half a day's brain power.

  "Let's go back, if we don't go back over there maybe it will be too late."

  "I'll go find something to eat, you can head back by yourself." Mo Xinkuo said in a low voice.

  "Bring back some more."

  "You ate a whole wild boar yesterday and you still want to eat?!" Mo Xinkai was about to go crazy.

  "Why didn't you say I ran away for a whole night?" Han Jin asked back with a ready retort.

  "I admire you, I extremely admire you!" Mo Xinkelong let out a breath and turned to walk into the depths of the dense forest without looking back.

  When Han Jin returned to his original position, Xian Ni'er was sitting on the tip of a tree, humming an unknown tune. Her speaking voice was crisp and pleasant, but her singing voice was extremely soft, like a lullaby. Han Jin leaned against the trunk of the tree and listened for a while, gradually feeling his eyelids getting heavy, so he simply closed his eyes.

  It was unclear how much time had passed when Mo Xike's voice startled Han Jin awake: "Get up, get up quickly!"

  "What's up?" Sasuke asked back, his voice a bit unhappy, which was normal, who liked being disturbed while sleeping?

  "Ignite, I don't have a lighter." Mo Xinke said straightforwardly.

  “……” Sasu let out a sigh, with a helpless expression, and walked out of the tree hole shaking. As soon as he saw the prey on the ground, his sleepy eyes lit up: "Back-haired lizard? Good stuff! How did you catch it?"

  "Snatched from the beaks of two human-faced eagles, haha, today's luck is not bad." Mo Xinko said with a smile: "You can go to sleep after lighting the fire."

  "Dare to provoke two fifth-tier magical beasts at once? You really don't have a small temper." Sasou automatically ignored Mosinke's latter half of the sentence, then sat down steadily and released a small fireball, igniting the prepared branches.

  In a moment, Xian Ni'er walked out of the forest with a bundle of branches in her arms. Seeing that the bonfire had been lit and two clean-backed lizards were also placed on the bonfire, she shook her head: "What a pity..."

  The flesh of the back-haired lizard is extremely tender and delicious, but its combat power is very poor, it is at the bottom of the magical beast food chain, and its movement speed is slow. Now it has gradually approached extinction. Generally, the back-haired lizards sold in cities are artificially bred, and wild ones are very rare. If they are sold in the city, two back-haired lizards can definitely be exchanged for a small fortune.

  Han Jin didn't know the value of the crested gecko, otherwise he would have tried every means to keep it, what a bargain...

  "What a pity? It's good enough to be able to eat." Sasou smiled, and as soon as his words fell, he suddenly thought of something, slowly raised his head to look at Han Jin, and sighed: "What a pity..."

  "Raphael, no, Lord Prophet, go back to sleep." Mosuke implored.

  "I'm not sleepy, even if I am very sleepy, when I see food, I'm not sleepy anymore." Han Jin said honestly, he now has a double desire for food, one is physical and the other is psychological.

  "Xian Ni Er, why don't you go out for a walk with our Prophet?" Mo Xin Ke kept making eyes at Xian Ni Er. Actually, they had just formed a team and didn't know each other well, so his words and expression were somewhat abrupt.

  "Why?" Xanthe asked curiously, without anger.

  "You'll know soon."

  "You go first," Xanthe insisted.

  "You... you will regret it." Mo Xinko said with a painful tone.

  Xian Ni'er looked at this and then at that, her face filled with confusion.

  "Stilberg, come out and eat something, or there won't be anything left." Mosken called out.

  The snoring in the tree hole stopped abruptly, and the next moment, Stilberg rushed out of it with his eyes still half-closed. Anyone who has spent some time with Han Jin would have learned a painful lesson: no matter how much food is in front of them, they must grab it and eat as fast as possible, or else Han Jin will devour everything, leaving nothing but an empty stomach for anyone who dares to be late.

  Xian Ni'er sat sideways on one side, and saw that her fingers moved slightly, a shining plate appeared in her hand out of thin air.

  Mo Xinke and Sasou exchanged a swift glance, they knew what it meant - Spatial Ring!

  Forks and knives, one by one, the tableware appeared as if by magic. Finally, Xian Ni'er took out a delicate little knife and gently wiped it with a white handkerchief. Her movements had an indescribable flavor - elegant, refreshing, natural. If Xian Ni'er's appearance wasn't so ugly, this would be an unforgettable scene.

  Moxinke and Saseur forced themselves to shift their gaze to the lizard on their back, staring at others was too impolite.

  "It smells so good." Stillberg wrinkled his nose exaggeratedly.

  Mo Xinkē grasped the giant sword and with a light flick of the sword tip, the skin of the Gecko's back was torn open, revealing strips of tender white flesh: "It's about done."

  Xian Ni'er raised the small knife, just turned her body around, but stiffened there again. She saw six hands grabbing towards the back of the lizard in a flurry, and in the blink of an eye, they had torn one side of the lizard's back into a mess.

  Perhaps it was the most impolite move she had ever seen, Xian Ni'er looked a bit dazed, and after a while, she slightly shook her head, she couldn't bear to continue attacking, and had no choice but to switch to Han Jin's side.

  Compared with others, Han Jin was the most elegant. When Xian Ni'er approached him, he even stretched out his hand to let her go first, indicating that she should come first.

  Xian Ni'er carefully cut off a piece of meat the size of her palm, then stood up and walked to the back of the tree. She was not used to eating with men who were competing with each other.

  To be honest, it was very lucky to avoid Han Jin at this time. At least he wouldn't choke on his food. However, when Xian Ni'er finished eating the meat in her bowl one bite at a time and wanted to come back for another piece, she was stunned again. Except for the bones, everything was gone. Mo Xinke and the other two were lying on the grass, rubbing their bellies and humming happily, while Han Jin still had an expression of not being satisfied and was searching for something in the skeleton.

  Xian Ni'er bit her lip and put the plate, including the utensils on it, into the spatial ring. Then she turned around and walked towards the depths of the dense forest.

  "Xian Ni Er, where are you going?" Han Jin yelled out loud.

  "Go take a walk."

  "Don't go too far." Mo Xinkai hastily sat up.

  "I know."

  "Mo Xinke, this lizard with a spiky back... is it a demon beast?" Han Jin asked slowly.

  "It's a second-order demon beast."

  "What about the wild boar?"

  "Look at what kind of wild boar."

  "That one you caught yesterday."

  "That's not a demon beast."

  "I see." Han Jin nodded, feeling that the energy contained in the meat of the back-haired lizard was more than that of the wild boar, but he couldn't calculate exactly how much more, unless he accurately cut off a pound of wild boar meat and then cut off a pound of back-haired lizard meat to compare.

  "Sasshou, you go ahead and scout tomorrow." Moshi Koro said in a calm tone.

  "Okay."

  "After crossing the next few mountains, we can rush to Pier Town in Beitmeng. Don't get into trouble before that!" Mo Xinko's face was full of helplessness: "We can't afford to take responsibility!"

  "Are you talking about Xian Ni Er?" Han Jin smiled and said.

  "Yesterday I thought she was an experienced hunter, didn't expect..." Sasu shook his head and said.

  "Sassou, are you familiar with the Beit Alliance?" Mo Xinko asked.

  "Very familiar, what's up?"

  "Guess which family's big sister she is?"

  "How could I have guessed!" Sasori muttered to himself for a moment: "This kind of girl who likes to go out and play, likes to do boring things... I don't have any impression at all."

  "Not only boring, but also very stupid." Mo Xinkai puffed out his chest: "Fortunately, we are all good people, otherwise... hehe!"

  "I reckon she should be wearing a mask on her face, have you ever seen an ugly woman as strange as this before?"

  "Don't say... I feel the same way!"

  In a distant place where Han Jin and others couldn't see, Xian Ni'er was quietly standing behind a tree, as if listening to something. After a long while, she continued walking towards the depths of the dense forest.