Path of Light.

Chapter 108 109. Dangerous
The petrified lizard lying in the grass has a chubby body. Its fat body makes it almost have no neck. Its mouth is half a meter long, revealing a row of sharp teeth. Its eyes are closed, and its eyelids look like fists. big.

His whole body was spotted with withered yellow and grass green, his limbs were pressed down by his bulky body, only two thick forelimbs could be seen, and his sharp nails were like hooked daggers.

Roy found that the most fatal wound on the abdomen should be under the abdomen, and there were hardly many scars on other parts of the body.

Even the three arrows that Claire shot on its head were only pierced through the skin and flesh.

There was a large puddle of blood seeping in the grass, and Roy couldn't help but touch the lizard skin on his body when he got closer. It was almost the same as touching a stone.

Even if you want to turn it over and let it lie on its belly, neither Roy nor Claire can do it...

"What should we do?" Claire was a little dumbfounded. The petrified lizard in front of him didn't have any breath, so it should have died here.

Roy tugged at the rope, but he couldn't move the petrified lizard at all. He could only give up the rope in his hand, and then drew out his dagger, trying to cut down the petrified lizard's neck, trying to fight for it. Cut off its head, because the leather on the head is the most difficult to peel off, so I simply gave up, as long as the leather on the body and tail is fine.

In addition, there is a magic core in this guy's head.

Neither Roy nor Claire learned the skinning technique. Although the Elven Academy has this course, few freshmen will sign up to learn it.

Those who are willing to learn the skinning technique are some veterans of the Elf Academy. They may have gone through several field experiences and hunting experience, and then suddenly found that when hunting in the wild, they cannot do many things without the skinning technique. You will only learn this course when you go to college.

Roy was carrying an ordinary fish-killing dagger, which was very useful for killing fish and scraping fish scales, but such a dagger forged from ordinary steel could not cut through the hard armor of petrified lizards at all.

He poked the skin of the petrified lizard with the dagger, but found that the dagger could only draw shallow marks.

In such hot weather, once an animal dies, its body will gradually stink, and the hotter the weather, the shorter the process...

Once the viscera stinks in the body, that is the biggest trouble.

Roy tugged on the rope again. He wanted to drag the petrified lizard to the shade of the tree. With the help of the branches and ropes of the big tree, there might be a chance to turn the petrified lizard over.

Too bad it's so heavy.

Roy thought of the ropes used to pull the sails on the Black Pearl. The huge sails on the mainmast weighed hundreds of pounds, and the ropes used to pull the sails on the ship had pulley blocks. Unfortunately, he did not have a pulley on this trip to the Malaga jungle. Bring those bulky pulleys.

"It's impossible for us to move this big guy." Claire said standing aside.

Roy glanced at the long dagger worn by Claire's waist, and said to Claire:
"Then just peel off the most precious lizard skin on its body before it rots. There is still a magic core in its skull. My dagger can't cut its hard skin. Use your long dagger How about trying it?"

Claire pulled out the long dagger at his waist and handed it to Roy.

The long dagger he carried with him was not the one he used to fight in the arena, but a gift specially given to him by his father when he learned that he was going to take an outdoor practice class.

Obviously this dagger is sharp enough, and there is a small piece of whetstone inlaid on the scabbard.

Roy held the dagger and cut open the hard armor in the petrified lizard. The edge of the dagger was not damaged at all, and both of them exhaled lightly.

Inside the hard armor was a layer of tender white meat, and after being cut open by the dagger, oil even spilled out.

"This dagger is really sharp..."

Roy followed the petrified lizard's neck, cut off its head, and then made a cut from the side of the abdomen, and began to peel off the hard skin of the petrified lizard.

Since the two of them had never learned the skinning technique, the entire petrified lizard leather was cut into four pieces, and the leather on the four thick lizard legs could not be peeled off in the end.

Roy and Claire finally figured out the cause of the basilisk's death when they stripped the basilisk's abdomen.

It had a wound nearly half a meter long on its abdomen.

When peeling the skin, Roy found that there was almost no blood in its body, and it obviously died after the blood was exhausted.

Finally, the petrified lizard was completely disassembled before dark.

There is no way to further deal with it in the jungle.

Roy tied all the lizard skins together, wrapped the petrified lizard's head with banana leaves, tied them with rope, and put them in Claire's magic pocket.

Roy originally planned to leave a part of the lizard's tail, and roast it tomorrow.

But it was firmly opposed by Claire.

The two had no choice but to dig a big pit on the spot according to the way of the elves, and buried the remaining bones of the petrified lizard in the grass.

After harvesting the petrified lizard leather, the two were exhausted.

Originally planned to camp under this big tree and rest for one night.

But when setting up the tent, Roy looked at the grass where the petrified lizard was buried, and said to Claire, "Claire, I think we should leave here first, if there are other petrified lizards around here, once we follow the traces Come up, I’m afraid I won’t be able to leave even if I want to.”

Claire also knew that what Roy said made sense, so she decided to rush to the No. [-] check-in point that night.

In fact, it is more difficult to walk in the Margara jungle at night, and it is impossible to detect the hidden dangers in the dark...

Relying on a cloud of divine light, Roy and Claire groped through the jungle for most of the night, and finally climbed over a mountain and arrived near the second check-in point.

It's so late, the teachers in charge of signing in may have already rested.

This mountain depression is very large, and there is no way to find out exactly where the check-in point is at night. After discussing it with Claire, Roy and Claire planned to find a random place to camp, and then check in after dawn, and report the news of the petrified lizard found in the jungle Tell the instructor in charge of signing.

……

It was just dawn, and there was still a faint layer of mist floating in the jungle. Roy crawled out of the tent, feeling that the whole tent was wet with mist.

Not only are the grass and leaves covered with dew, but even the stones under their feet are wet.

Roy lay in the simple tent and slept for only two hours before falling asleep again.

He chose a high ground with a wider view, compared the parchment map, and estimated the approximate location of No. 2 check-in point.

Sure enough, I saw a cliff rock in the mountain depression, which is difficult to find in the jungle, but as long as you stand on a high place and look at the entire mountain, this check-in point is still easy to find.

Seeing that Claire was still sleeping soundly in the tent, Roy planned to go to the check-in point by himself. After stamping the parchment map, the two left here.

Stop and go along the way, today is the ninth day into the Malaga jungle.

There are eight check-in points, and Roy has only found two so far.

Thinking that he might not be able to find all the check-in points, Roy felt that the geography task assigned by Mr. Harper was really difficult...

"Roy, where are you going?"

Roy tied his trouser legs tightly with a rope, and was just about to sign in, when Claire woke up, poked his head out of the tent, squinted his eyes and asked him.

Roy stood up, pointed in the direction of check-in point 2, and said to Claire:
"I found the location of check-in point 2, and I'm planning to go there to get a stamp. You should sleep a little longer, and I'll rush back after I check-in, and then we'll go to check-in point [-]..."

"Wait for me, let's go together!"

Claire poured the water from the water bag on top of her head, wiped her face by the way, then quickly put on the leather armor, and got out of the tent...

Neither of them packed the tent. Anyway, apart from the tent itself, there was nothing of value inside.

In the jungle here, a road has been opened up by the elf students who arrived first. There are no thorns and vines, but the road is very bad, and some footprints are full of muddy water.

A burst of fog rushed towards him, and Roy didn't know if it was his illusion. He smelled a faint smell of blood in the air.

Soon we came to the check-in point, which was an open area near the foot of the cliff, and several tents were set up next to the cliff.

Because next to the rock wall, the terrain is relatively open, and the fog over there is relatively thin.

Roy saw a few elf students sitting opposite an instructor from a distance. These elves didn't look like they were talking, and they didn't know what they were doing there...

Claire also discovered a strange thing at this time. It turned out to be a human instructor waiting at the second check-in point.

He was about to whisper something to Roy when he saw Roy's pupils shrank suddenly, and there was even a hint of panic in his eyes.

He stretched out his hand to hold Claire, and said in a very low voice, "Don't go over..."

His voice was even panting.

Claire felt that Roy was pulling her arm, so she stepped back carefully with him.

It wasn't until the morning fog completely covered the check-in point that Claire asked, "Roy, what's wrong?"

Roy leaned against a big tree, looked around vigilantly, and whispered:

"He is not an instructor in the academy. I have seen him before. He is a sailor. I saw him kill a dark moon elf in Castletown with my own eyes,"

Claire's eyes widened, and she exclaimed in disbelief:
"Then why is he at the check-in point?"

The answer flashed across the eyes of the two at the same time, but Claire's translucent pointed ears trembled slightly, and said quickly in a very low voice:

"Someone is coming, hurry up and hide..."

Roy squatted down, pushed Claire's feet up with his shoulders, and let him climb up the tree quickly, and then Claire hooked his feet on the branches of the big tree, leaned down and stretched out his arms, pulling one of Roy's arms...

When Roy stepped on the tree trunk and rushed up, Claire pulled hard and pulled Roy to the tree...

(End of this chapter)