Playing with fantasy beasts in the martial arts world

Chapter 12 If you can't beat them, you can always run away.

Quickly collecting the nearby chicken eggs into his backpack, Cha Nan noticed several mischievous cats lurking in the woods already baring their claws. He then transferred Guo Fu to the workspace of the Palu terminal, casually tossed out a Palu Ball, and summoned Yun Zhonghe from the team list.

Perhaps due to different world rules, in the martial arts world, Cha Nan can summon both Mian Youyou and Guo Fu, who are in the party, at the same time. However, back in the fantasy world, he can only summon one at a time and needs to use the terminal's workspace to summon them together.

As soon as Yun Zhonghe appeared, he was momentarily distracted and then transformed into a gust of wind, rushing towards Cha Nan, intending to control her first and prevent her from falling victim to his schemes again.

At this moment, his consciousness was still stuck on the moment he was injured by Mian Youyou's self-destruction. The immense energy that burst out in an instant still made him feel weak in the limbs and unable to control himself. He was unable to exert even 60% of his lightness skill.

Even so, its speed was so fast that Guo Fu didn't have time to react and couldn't immediately get to Cha Nan's side to protect her.

The thin, powerful claws were less than three inches from Cha Nan's neck. Yun Zhonghe suddenly stopped, his face showing struggle and confusion. Then he looked at Cha Nan, his expression turning respectful and humble.

"What...what did you do to me?" Yun Zhonghe felt terribly unfamiliar with himself.

Based on his memory, he should kill or coerce the person in front of him to find out what kind of strange methods he used, and even go further and humiliate the Guo family's young lady in front of him to vent his anger.

But from his heart, setting aside all the facts, he only wanted to obey the person in front of him, to serve him faithfully and at his beck and call. The fact that he could ask this question was his last remaining struggle.

However, this final struggle was still an experiment by Cha Nan, who wanted to see how far Palu would go if he were completely unrestrained and autonomous.

After all, not every humanoid Palu who is captured is as innocent as Guo Fu.

As it turned out, even without actively restricting him, the subdued humanoid Palu was still unable to harm him; at most, it only restored a small amount of its original malice.

Cha Nan did not answer Yun Zhonghe's question. He simply watched as the unruliness in Yun Zhonghe's eyes gradually disappeared completely. Then, he silently took three steps back and kowtowed on the ground: "Yun Zhonghe greets Master! Please punish this servant for his rudeness."

After saying that, Yun Zhonghe took out a dart from his pocket and held it directly to his chest. He was just waiting for Cha Nan's order to stab the dart into his heart.

"Get up!"

"I'll ask, you answer!" Cha Nan had no intention of wasting time with Yun Zhonghe on the so-called offensive questions.

With the other party in absolute submission, whether or not to pursue the matter is meaningless.

"Yes! Your servant will tell you everything without reservation!" Yun Zhonghe assured him.

Cha Nan beckoned Guo Fu over, and only then did Guo Fu fully realize what was happening. Although she knew that Yun Zhonghe seemed to have been subdued as well, she still watched him with great vigilance, ready to defend herself against him suddenly attacking someone.

"Describe to him what you saw at the ferry." Cha Nan had not yet truly set foot in the martial world, and had no experience or confidence in judging a person's strength from the wounds of the dead, so it was better to leave it to Guo Fu to explain to Yun Zhonghe.

Although the purpose of returning to the world of fantasy beasts is to obtain trump cards in order to pass the level, it is also necessary to be well-informed and act strategically.

That is, to combine the resources that Cha Nan can now obtain to practically solve the problems that the martial arts world is about to face.

Although Guo Fu was unwilling to deal with Yun Zhonghe, she would not refuse Cha Nan's request. She said coldly, "This person's swordsmanship is extremely superb, and his sword speed is also extremely fast. He never needs to use a second sword to kill someone, and he can kill seven or eight people in an instant, including many skilled ones. After the people die, not a drop of blood flows from the wounds, and the dead can still close their eyes. How do you think we should resist and deal with this master?"

Yun Zhonghe gasped. In his original world, he had only ever heard of one other sword master, the Sword God Zhuo Bufan.

"To possess such swordsmanship, one must be no ordinary person; one must be a first-rate master in the martial world. If I were to encounter such a master, I could only rely on my lightness skill to escape!" Yun Zhonghe shook his head and sighed.

He would never normally say such discouraging words directly; he would at least say a few polite words, the meaning of which remains the same but with a touch of high-sounding formality.

Now that his master, Cha Nan, was in front of him, he didn't need to put on any airs. Although he was also a first-rate expert, there were differences between first-rate experts.

His expertise as a first-rate fighter lies in his lightness skill, but his hand skills and weaponry are not particularly impressive.

"If we can't beat them, is running away the only option?" Cha Nan frowned slightly, but she wasn't surprised by the outcome.

In the world of fantasy beasts, there are countless fantasy beasts that are comparable to or even far superior to the first-class ones, but these are things that cannot be seen or touched. He has to focus on what he can do right now.

Therefore, focusing on the present, it is clear what Cha Nan needs to do.

"Guo Fu! You stay here and, as usual, cut down trees and collect these stones for future use." Cha Nan took out a black stone for Guo Fu to refer to.

Stones and wood are basic resources and are in long-term demand.

Guo Fu looked displeased, but she also took out an axe and started walking towards a big tree... Wait! Where did she get an axe?
Guo Fu turned her head and saw the confusion on Cha Nan's face. She smiled with a hint of smugness: "I took it from the woodshed of the inn last night. How about that? Aren't I clever?"

"My mother often says I'm not like her, but I feel that I'm only a hair's breadth different from her!"

Cha Nan nodded!

Cattle and horses provide their own tools, what more needs to be said about that?

The capitalists were moved to tears!
"I think so too. Now that you have the tools, cut down more trees!"

"Yun Zhonghe, come with me!" Cha Nan planned to take Yun Zhonghe out for a stroll, hoping to find a teleportation node in the forest, which would make it easier to travel in the future and also earn a technology point.

Yun Zhonghe's strength far surpasses Guo Fu's. With his protection, Cha Nan's safety increases dramatically, and she can try to go further.

Cha Nan currently doesn't have any Paluk Balls. Opening treasure chests or finding them by chance in the wild are both low-probability events. The right thing to do is to be able to craft them yourself.

The core material needed for low-level Paluk is only Palukite fragments; black stones and wood are not difficult to obtain and are relatively easy to collect.

Currently, Cha Nan only has one technology point left, which is enough to power up the original workbench but not the Palu Ball production skill. Therefore, she urgently needs another technology point to achieve initial self-sufficiency.

Before leaving, to ensure everything was in order, Cha Nan left all his valuables at the base.

The two then disappeared into the forest and quickly vanished from sight.

Guo Fu looked in the direction where the two had disappeared, pouted unhappily, but still gritted her teeth, gathered all her inner strength, and chopped down a large tree with her axe.

Bang!
The tree trembled slightly, scattering a small amount of wood chips.

The trees here were all too hard, and Guo Fu struggled to chop them down. When her wrists started to ache, she instinctively used a technique from the Nanshan Knife Style to deflect force. With the axe rebounding, she used the momentum to her advantage, turning the axe into a knife and slightly increasing her chopping speed.

The Nanshan Knife Technique originated from Guo Jing's fourth master, Nan Xiren, a woodcutter from Nanshan. Originally a woodcutter, this knife technique was even more elegant than first-rate knife skills when used to chop trees.

As a large tree was felled, Guo Fu suddenly felt a pain in her shoulder. Looking up, she saw a strange egg, about the size of a football and sea-blue in color. It must have been placed on the top of the tree, which is why no one saw it. Now that the tree had fallen, it had come down.

(End of this chapter)