The Spirit World

Chapter 250 The mountain is over there, we must not ignore it.

"what?"

Chang Yufeng watched as Mami finished drawing the route map. What was the scorpion she was talking about?

As a guide, he should have gone to "explore the way", but now he could only ask Mami, which made him unexpectedly anxious and stood out amid the surprise of others.

"It's a giant [Ice Crystal Poison Scorpion]!" Mami pointed to a name on another map. Above the name was an Ice Crystal Poison Scorpion with a poisonous tail.

This ice crystal scorpion is transparent all over, with crystal peaks on its pincers. It looks really silly, but the poisonous ice blue on its tail reveals its ferocious nature.

"Ice Crystal Poison Scorpion..." Chang Yufeng glanced at Xun Huangying, who also leaned over as if he didn't know anything and stared at Mami.

"Aren't these scorpions mostly found in the caves of Tangzhui Mountain? How could they be found on a plain like "Little Kitchen"?!"

Chang Yufeng explained it clearly. Scorpions like darkness. The habitat of the Ice Crystal Scorpion is on the hillside of Tangzhui Mountain. The mountain there is dangerous and there are many caves. It is a place that the Ice Crystal Scorpion likes. But now it appears on the relatively flat "small stove", which is obviously abnormal.

Of course, it is not uncommon for dark-clawed cat demons to die collectively on the road.

"I just saw those dead Dark Claw cat demons. Not to mention the damaged bodies, the intact bodies were very stiff, with blue veins on their faces and legs from being frozen. It is very likely that they were frozen to death, just as you said."

Mami changed her route and was no longer in a hurry. She confirmed Chang Yufeng and Xun Huangying's guess about the Dark Claw Cat Demon.

She took out the pen again and wrote something slowly.

"Then I went to see the [Small Kitchen] again. As a guide, you should know the situation in the Small Kitchen. There should be many caravans staying overnight there. We also plan to stay overnight there."

"Yes."

Chang Yufeng naturally understood what Mami was talking about.

The small stove is a large wide grassland, and there is a natural "stove" built of stones to shelter from rain and wind. There are very few monsters. There is no such good terrain to spend the night in front and behind this place, so suddenly giving up this place is definitely not the best idea.

How big must the ice crystal scorpion be to make Mami adjust her route immediately?
He also had the idea of ​​exploring it himself. But... he didn't know if he could...

After all, Mami has already done the detection. If he goes to detect it again, it would be somewhat disrespectful to Mami, which conflicts with his current embarrassing situation. Besides, even if he knew that the ice crystal scorpion was at the small stove, he would not propose to kill the ice crystal scorpion and then continue on the original path.

So he was just asking out of curiosity and couldn't say anything else.

"If it is summer, if you are traveling at night, you must stay in a wide terrain like the "small stove", otherwise you will encounter a lot of unnecessary troubles."

"There are many...many ice crystal poisonous scorpions there. One of them should be their leader. It is very, very big."

Tomoe Mami finished explaining the situation of the small stove in a few words: "Now, many caravans are resting near [Crescent Moon Lake]. We want to go there too."

"I guess Kaili will come back and tell my brother soon. Now, let's change our route to Crescent Moon Lake. Sir Jack, do you have any suggestions?"

Tomoe Mami asked Chang Yufeng, but she had almost said everything clearly, and it would be bad if he interrupted with a few unnecessary words.

There is no problem with going to Crescent Moon Lake, and it is really difficult for him to give any opinion.

He seemed dispensable. This was not an illusion, but his own experience.

But Tomoe Mami was not wrong, she was just doing what she was supposed to do. As a guide who was already in the team, it was no problem for her to do this job well. Chang Yufeng couldn't expect her to do nothing and let him "show off his skills" - if he really could do it...

"I...uh...I...have no objection."

This feeling was terrible, but he had just prepared himself mentally, and now he took a breath - he could feel such a normal inhale and exhale being so heavy and reflected throughout his whole body.

"Okay. What I'm going to tell Tilon now is the possible route we'll take tomorrow. Sir Jack, I hope you can give me some suggestions. If the current situation happens again, I think we need to prepare early."

"what?"

Chang Yufeng understood in an instant that the map that Tomoe Mami had just given Tilon was the [Moon Lake], and now she was drawing the route she might take tomorrow.

When he looked at the map, the various names on it were clearly the possible routes he might take tomorrow. The starting point was Crescent Moon Lake.

From the moment her wind magic brought her vision back, she had already thought about how to deal with the current emergency.

If I wasn't on this trip, maybe Mami would have done just fine.

"Lord Xunhuangying, what do you think? Which way should we go?" When Tomoe Mami saw Chang Yufeng coming over to look at the map, she looked at Xunhuangying, wanting him to give her some advice.

Xun Huangying touched his nose. He was a little surprised that he would be mentioned. However, when he saw Chang Yufeng looking a little embarrassed and uncomfortable, the corners of his mouth unconsciously raised, as if he was trying not to smile.

"Um, well, I'm not a guide, right? Not a professional guide. Ahem."

Xun Huangying pretended to pull at his wool tie, straightened his chest, stood on the map, put his hands behind his back, and looked like an old man: "However, since Xiaoba Mami asked me to talk about it, I can still tell you about it."

"Tomoe, Mami, stop messing with this stupid sheep."

Shirley also joined in. She had been left out the door just now, but she interrupted at this time, putting her book and elbows on the table: "What does this stupid sheep know? All he knows is eating, eating, just like a pig."

Shirley rolled her eyes and looked at Tomoe Mami jokingly: "We've been to Crescent Moon Lake before, it's so beautiful~"

"What?! How dare you say that I'm like a pig?! You were the one who scolded me first, don't blame me for scolding you later!"

Xun Huangying lost all the dignity of an old man. He put his hands on his hips, spread his legs, and stared at Shirley, looking like a resentful woman. But Shirley mocked him again: "Humph, you have such a childish temper. You are so fat, what's wrong with calling you a pig?"

"Fat?!!" Xun Huangying looked at his mutton belly in shock. It was so bulging that his feet were not visible. He had become rounder without realizing it.

"Haha, not yet." Shirley pointed at Xun Huangying, covered her mouth and burst into laughter.

"You! You rude guy!" Xun Huangying leaped in front of Shirley. Shirley stepped back unexpectedly. Her unconvinced look caused her to wrestle with a lamb for a moment.

Mami Tomoe shook her head and looked at Chang Yufeng again.

Chang Yufeng kept looking at the map. This map was indeed a guild-exclusive map. It was a detailed map that he, a personal guide, could only dream of. All the place names in the Arclight Forest, even some small paths, were clearly visible...

This was a dimensionality reduction attack for him. He kept looking at it. This map must be much more accurate than the map he memorized in his mind. He was fascinated by it until Mami looked at him again.

The desire in his eyes was rare to see, and he didn't notice it because he was leaning sideways.

Mami Tomoe pursed her lips and pushed the map towards him, and Chang Yufeng then looked at Mami Tomoe.

The closer they were, the more Mami pursed her lips. He didn't notice it at first, but when Mami pursed her lips, he realized something was wrong and quickly turned over to look at the map.

"Um……"

He suddenly got stuck, not knowing what to say. Where to? Where to tomorrow? If it was Mami, she would know anyway. If she had already thought about it, then wouldn't it be unnecessary for her to ask him?

This is totally unnecessary action.

He tilted his head slightly and looked into Mami's eyes. Mami's big watery eyes blinked quietly, asking him something. The doubt was conveyed by her green pupils, with a different kind of depth.

Chang Yufeng hesitated even more and it took him a long time to utter a sentence.

"I...feel...that it would be best to continue...continue...turn onto the main road and continue on our way..."

"why?"

Tomoe Mami asked the question clearly and concisely, while Chang Yufeng looked at her with wide eyes in surprise, as if he had never expected her to ask back.

"Because...because..."

Almost as if instinctively, he said the reason, but he stuttered. He coughed quickly and then spoke fluently.

He cursed himself in his heart for stuttering, getting excited, and even becoming the center of embarrassment at this time.

He was still wondering if he would be treated as invisible, but when Mami asked him, he thought it would be better to be a little invisible and dispensable.

"Well, that's what I thought."

He coughed again, adjusted his voice, and adjusted his body: "Look, our departure time tomorrow should be between early morning and afternoon. We must speed up our pace during this golden time in the morning. It would be inappropriate to continue along the path like Yueya Lake."

He spoke clearly, and I could almost hear every word he said.

"Here's what I think. We have seven days to spare. It's not worth it to travel in the scorching heat. This is a time period we must avoid. Just like now, we set out in the evening and rest until late at night. This is to maximize our strengths and avoid our weaknesses. Tomorrow we will set out from Yueya Lake and take the main road directly. It will be faster and safer."

"Yes, Master Jack." Tomoe Mami marked the route out of the avenue: "I agree with your point of view, then we will turn into the avenue tomorrow and move forward."

"OK, all right."

Chang Yufeng nodded. He said so much, but he was not as calm as Mami. However, as of now, he was affected by his own state of mind. The inexplicable lack of confidence and self-doubt made him somewhat out of touch with the present.

But fortunately, he adjusted.

He now felt that Mami Tomoe was not as difficult to him as Shirley, and might be someone he could get along with well.

With Rosades by his side, if Mami didn't take him seriously at all, she could just ignore him, plan her own route, and then ask him if he agreed. What she was doing now was indeed a chance Mami gave him.

An opportunity to re-enter the team and plan the route.

Or maybe Mami saw through his thoughts and felt that his current situation was very embarrassing. If she didn't help, it might remain like this, and Chang Yufeng would be completely unable to participate.

The noise of Shirley and Xun Huangying's fight did not alarm Rosades. He had been resting quietly, as if he had done too much during the day and would fall asleep even when sitting in his seat.

Shirley was fixing her hair, and Xun Huangying was completely rude. For a "bad kid" like Shirley, he almost beat her up to teach her a lesson.

Shirley was also unwilling to accept the defeat, and neither was Xun Huangying, but they fought for a few rounds and then separated on their own. They looked at each other angrily, like two lions confronting each other, neither refusing to give in, but neither arguing.

"Sir Jack, can I ask you a question?"

Tomoe Mami put the map away.

"of course can."

Chang Yufeng brought almost nothing to pass the time. He could only look at the moonlight outside. They had indeed deviated from the road, and the map marked with the Crescent Moon Lake by Mami came in handy.

The silver arc of light no longer spread out in the field of vision, and pieces of green and silver leaves rustled in the wind and shook towards the window.

The small road is naturally not as smooth as the main road, and the speed is not slowed down, so the bumps are constant.

"How did you and Old Tom become apprentices?"

"How to become a disciple..."

"Master and apprentice, I mean, master and apprentice, how do you become a master and an apprentice. You and old Tom."

Mami seemed to have said something wrong, but she started to organize her things again.

Chang Yufeng, who didn't know why this happened, watched Tomoe Mami pack up the cups, handkerchiefs, and some small boxes.

It was obvious that she was making sure she didn't bring the wrong thing.

No one knew what was in those boxes, but they were not heavy. When they were stacked together, they seemed as high as a small mountain. In front of Mami, they were like mountains that could not be moved at all.

"It's a long story."

Chang Yufeng had almost forgotten everything. There were so many things he couldn't remember, but this was an exception.

"I didn't participate in the Dragon Assembly at that time, and I had just recovered from a serious illness, so I thought about doing something. Otherwise, how would I live in the future...right?"

Chang Yufeng pursed his lips and thought for a moment.

"If I had met a bad guy, I probably wouldn't be here."

"You may not believe it, but it was old Master Tom who found me. He always said that he saw me walking around the city alone, like a homeless child, and wanted to send me to the Ministry of Internal Affairs."

"He said that at that time, I was like a little puppy that no one wanted."

"I wag my tail wherever I go, wanting everyone I meet to like me, and wanting to beg everyone to give me a little love."

"Later he found out that this was just a silly boy."

"So stupid that I am afraid of death. So stupid that I know nothing and want nothing."

"Master Tom was very kind to me. He accepted a non-magic No-Maj like me as his apprentice."

He said.

"He said he was the most special little guy I had ever seen."

"He accepted me as his disciple simply because he saw me."

(End of this chapter)