This time I chose Paladin.

Chapter 68 Yang Wuji

Forget it, my buddy has a high bone density and muscle ratio, and he's wearing armor, so it's normal for him to be a little heavier than in his previous life.

Nie Weiyang glanced in the direction where Lu Ran disappeared.

—Camp? Teachers and classmates? Heavy prison? Murderer?

The combination of these words made him smell a hint of conflict.

Nie Weiyang stared down at the fiery red head, as if thinking about something.

Danque, he knew this name.

Wang Jia of the Jin Dynasty wrote in "Records of Lost and Used Things: Emperor Yan and Shennong": "At that time, there was a red bird, which carried nine ears of grain in its beak. When they fell to the ground, the emperor picked them up and planted them in the fields. Those who ate them would grow old but not die." - This red bird once brought full ears of grain to Shennong, and it is actually one of the origins of the "phoenix."

Nie Weiyang knew this because there were indeed a few red birds in the mythical creature bloodline association "Wu Chi Tianmen" in his previous life. He had seen them all for some reasons, but there was no one named "Li Duo" among them. He was probably dead long ago.

As for the reason why he had to see them...

People of non-natural biological descent always have an inexplicable arrogance. If this arrogance is combined with some weird class ideas, it will cause some of them to cause disasters. Indeed, there are such people who have caused human disasters - just as bloodline does not represent true strength, bloodline does not represent whether a person is smart or knows how to judge the situation, let alone make some of them understand what morality and the rule of law are.

One of the functions of Nie Weiyang and his department is to become a shackle for those people.

Meet?

Identity recognition entry tracking system!

Don’t ask, the answer is that I have killed someone.

Now, this Danque and her... friends? Classmates?

They looked no more than fifteen or sixteen years old, a little older than the Liu Bang and Xiang Yu couple who had given him the bicycle, but not much older. To be honest, even though they had been floating in the new world for three months, they were still just immature children.

But the way that boy spoke made him deserve some punishment from his teachers and classmates.

Nie Weiyang wasn't ready to expose himself just yet; he was going to the "camp" to take a look. Li Duo cried for a while, then stood up again. Tears still welled in her eyes as she parted the grass. Seeing no animals caught in traps, she sighed and checked a few more nearby traps. She pulled out two rabbits and a pheasant, and her hair began to glow again.

You have to argue, but you also have to eat!

The girl took out a plastic rope that was obviously used in many battles, tied up the prey, and restored the trap. She held the two bloody rabbits in one hand and the pheasant's neck with the other, and walked back quickly.

So many prey were caught on a hillside. This shows that this world, full of vitality and where everything has blood bars, is also a world with abundant resources.

The camp was located in a natural cave. The bodies of two speed runners lay at the entrance of the cave. Several men, women, old and young were guarding the door. Inside the cave, there were various straw huts, and more than a hundred people lived there. Among them, more than forty people were staying on the edge. Although the spaces on both sides were connected, these people were obviously a small settlement compared to others.

Li Duo walked in with her prey, ignoring the looks from the men around her, and quickly ran towards the small settlement. On the way, she passed several other young men and women carrying their prey. Although some of those who were not of mythical descent were visibly pale, they were all smiling.

"The rainy season is over, and the little animals are all out. That's great." Another girl started talking to Li Duo. The two were obviously very familiar with each other, grinning and huddling together. "That should be Teacher Zhao Zhongxiang's voice here—oh, where's Lu Ran? Isn't he your partner? Why are you alone?"

Meanwhile, another girl beside her looked at Li Duo curiously. Upon hearing that name, Li Duo's face fell instantly. She gritted her teeth and took a deep breath: "...Let's not talk about that, let's cook first. I wonder how much the harvesting team brought today. Hopefully, there are vegetables; the ones we planted before all rotted from the rain..." As they talked, they walked into the settlement. In the center of the settlement stood a stone pot, and several young students were using crude wooden buckets to pour water into it.

Several people were sitting nearby, picking vegetables on stone piles that had been used as tables and benches. One of the grown men looked with a headache at a few seemingly innocent mushrooms in his hands, and also held a handful of various plants.

"There are so many new mushrooms and new plants popping up after the rainy season," he muttered. "There are more and more things I don't recognize. Damn it..." He paused and swallowed the curse word.

"That's fucked up." A boy wearing glasses next to him grinned and finished his sentence, "It's okay, I'm a 'scholar', and identification can solve everything!"

The man picked up a handful of wild onions and slapped the boy on the head: "Stop talking dirty! Xiaoyu is here!"

The boy turned his head, glanced, and fell silent. Beside them, a little girl, only three or four years old, looked up at the two of them. She blinked, not understanding what they were saying at all. After a moment's thought, she raised a crystal-clear berry to the boy who was being beaten, "Brother, eat..." She seemed unsure what to call it, racking her brains for words: "Eat fruit..."

The boy looked even more guilty. He held it in for two seconds and said, "Thank you, Xiaoyu. I'm full and not hungry." As he spoke, he caught a glimpse of burning red hair from the corner of his eye. Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he waved vigorously to Li Duo, "Li Duo, Li Duo!"

Li Duo was carrying her prey and placing it next to a few students who were cleaning up the animals. Upon hearing this, she turned around and smiled, "Yang Wuji, what's wrong?"

Amid the gossiping gazes of the people around him, Yang Wuji called Li Duo to a place not far away. Behind the eyes of others, he rubbed his hands nervously and took out a beautiful blue-green transparent stone from his pocket.

"Nothing much, just... this is for you," he said. "This is fluorite I picked up in the mountains. It's a bit brittle, but if it were made into jewelry, it would definitely suit you..."

"..." Li Duo stared at the fluorite in a daze for a while. She suddenly looked up at Yang Wuji and asked, "Why did you give me this?"

"I..." Yang Wuji was stuck.

"You know I like Lu Ran and won't accept gifts from other people casually." Li Duo said again.

Yang Wuji's entire body paled visibly.

"But today I understand." Li Duo took the fluorite from his hand and smiled brightly: "He is just an idiot. Thank you for giving me a gift, I like it very much, and I will return the favor."

Yang Wuji was stunned. He stared at Li Duo's back, not knowing whether to echo in his mind "Thank you" or "He's just an idiot." This mysterious and hazy voice made him even a little confused about how to speak. After a while, he suddenly clenched his fist and encouraged himself: "Good!"

"What's good or bad? Come here and pick some vegetables!" The man not far away suddenly raised his voice: "Wuji, your identification skills are so important--" He glanced at the group of girls where Li Duo was, and was about to say something else when Yang Wuji covered his mouth.

"Okay, okay, I've made some progress, Teacher." Yang Wuji gritted his teeth, "I don't want to cause her any trouble. She made it clear that she didn't want to cause me any trouble, you know."

"I don't know. You young people have complicated emotions. Oh, oh..." The man shook his head and suddenly asked in a low voice, "What about Lu Ran?" He paused and said, "That kid... has bad intentions."

"Lu Ran..."

Yang Wuji muttered the name, frowning. After a moment, he suddenly relaxed his brows and put on a completely smiling face. He smiled and greeted the few people who were walking over from a distance: "Hey, big brother! I'm cooking now, want to eat something?
"Lu Ran, you are here too?"

This smooth and fluent face-changing was truly amazing. Nie Weiyang squatted beside an air vent above the cave, crushed a scorpion to death and threw it away, staring at the face.

"Yang Wuji..." Nie Weiyang frowned, "...this lunatic, why is he here?"

(End of this chapter)