Zongman: Daily draw

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With his Observation Haki, he quickly tracked down Mari's location, bypassing the complicated divergent routes and arriving at a small cave.

There was no water flowing in the cave, but there was a bottomless pool of water, with ice-like pale blue crystals surrounding the rocks on the shore of the spring.

Mary and Link arrived here almost at the same time.

When Link entered the cave, Mary was sitting on the shore with her eyes slightly closed and her cherry-colored lips slightly open, as if she was preparing to sing.

However, when she saw Link walking into the cave, the mermaid girl was adorably stunned, blinking her eyes as if to say, "How did you find this place?"

Originally, she wanted to use her singing to guide Link.

"Sing less in the maze in the future. It's dangerous if someone hears you and comes looking for you. Be careful not to be captured and sold."

Reading what the mermaid girl was thinking from her face, Link walked closer and tapped her head to give her a reminder.

"Oh..."

Being awakened from her daze, Mali rubbed the place on her forehead that had been touched and responded subconsciously.

"Link...how did you find me?"

Soon, Mary came to her senses and continued to worry about the matter.

"If you must, just follow your feelings?"

"Feel?"

Link nodded, but did not continue explaining. It was a little funny to see the mermaid girl frowning slightly, trying to understand the meaning of his words.

This girl is more or less too curious, and she is innocent and childish. No matter how you look at her, she seems to be gullible.

But think about it.

As a mermaid, she can neither fly like the songbird nor walk on land like other monsters. She can only stay in the water.

In the environment of Water Mystery City, adventurers are always very cautious when facing water, and there is no one who would take the initiative to jump into the water.

This resulted in the fact that the creatures that Mary could come into contact with were extremely limited.

When underwater, they have to hide from monsters of the same kind. Apart from the heretics, they have no one else to communicate with, so their experience is pitifully small.

She may have been born as a heretic for quite some time, but she still looks so innocent. This can only be attributed to the environment.

"Let's not talk about this anymore, Mary. Why are you here at Jucang Waterfall? Shouldn't you be staying with your companions?"

Shaking his head, Link stopped himself from thinking about anything else and instead became concerned about why she was here.

In terms of attitude towards heretics, Link is undoubtedly on the friendly side.

Why would we fight to the death with a group of creatures that won't actively attack adventurers, or even aren't hostile to adventurers?

They just want to find a place to survive.

From a personal point of view, there are no conditions that are sufficient to constitute a reason for Link to be hostile to them.

not to mention...

Who can resist an innocent and clingy mermaid girl?

"My companions are all gone, I'm alone..."

Perhaps she was thinking of something unhappy, Mali pouted her lips as if she was upset.

"Lei and the others have all gone upstairs. I am left alone to look after the house."

With her hands on the rocks, Mary slapped her tail, which was placed horizontally on the shore, making a snapping sound, which was a unique expression of dissatisfaction for a mermaid who could not move on land.

"So you're out playing alone again?"

Link felt like he had guessed the answer.

"no!"

This was met with a strong rebuttal from the mermaid girl.

Then, she lowered her eyes in disappointment.

"There's a scary thing where we live right now, and it wants to eat me, so I ran away."

Link rubbed his forehead, trying to grasp the key point of the girl's words.

"It? Is it a monster?"

"Yeah!" Mary nodded her head heavily and continued, "It has always wanted to eat us... but Reed and Gross would drive it away before. Now that Reed and the others are not here, I can only run away..."

"I can't go back until it leaves."

Finally, the mermaid girl did not forget to add one more sentence.

The author says:

Author's words: PS: Go, go, go!

122. Are you also Miao Renfeng?

After sorting out his thoughts, Link roughly understood the current situation.

To put it simply, Mary is currently blocked by monsters and cannot return home.

In Mary's description, it was a huge green monster that wanted to eat her.

This was not the first time that the other party had harassed them, the heretics. It had started a long time ago and they had been repelled more than once.

But every time when a crisis comes or when it finds something is wrong, the green monster will run away immediately, not giving the heretics room to kill it completely and then come back after recuperating.

Typical, sticky type, can't be shaken off.

The worst thing was that the entrance to the residence seemed to have been discovered by the other party, which was the real reason why Mary ran out.

"The big green monster...is it a moss giant?"

Link whispered softly.

According to the original plot, a strengthened moss giant will slowly develop in the Water Mystery City, and it has also appeared in the anime.

Didn’t you expect it to appear at this time?

And judging from what Mali said, the other party was born even earlier?

The Moss Giant is a rare monster that appears within the 24th floor tree maze.

A body made of moss is like a doll made of plants. It usually looks very tall, but it does not have a wooden frame inside, nor does it have great strength.

One of its main characteristics is that when it is cut, it will produce a clone without magic stone. Adventurers often say that it was actually the clone that was defeated, while the real body cunningly slipped away.

This monster is not warlike and prefers to use mimicry, ambush or escape. It has a high intelligence.

"Why is it the enhanced species again? Could it be that I have a better affinity with enhanced species?"

After listening to Mali's words, I judged the tremor I felt just now...

Link felt that he could basically attribute the noise to the moss giant.

Other adventurers rarely encounter enhanced species throughout the year, but Link is just the opposite.

I don’t know whether this luck value is good or bad.

Next to him, the mermaid girl listened to Link's mumbling. Puzzled, she moved her beautiful eyes to the side and upwards, as if thinking.

But after a while, Mali, who couldn't figure out what was going on, exhaled through her nose, as if she had given up on this behavior.

Putting those strange words and worries behind her, she gently moved closer to Link.

"Hey...Link, let's talk?"

Mary was extremely happy that she was the first person to accept her existence besides her compatriots, with her cheeks flushed and she smiled.

Girl, your home is almost gone, and you still have the mood to chat?

I felt a lot for her optimistic thoughts, and then...

"Okay, what do you want to talk about?"

"let me see..."

It was a rare opportunity to find someone to chat with, and for a moment Mali was immersed in the happy worry of thinking about what to talk about.

"Would you like something to eat?"

Link couldn't help but smile at this and quietly offered his advice.

"Okay, okay? Is it human food?"

"I guess so. And you can't buy it on the ground."

Under Mary's expectant eyes, Link took out the self-heating rice in the space, poured some water from the pond into it, and soon, a portion of steaming rice was placed in front of Mary, looking as if it had just come out of the oven.

"Oh! What is this? It smells so good!"

Mary's attention was easily attracted by the food she saw for the first time. Her little mouth opened involuntarily, and little stars appeared in her eyes when she looked at Link.

Little Star can be translated into just two words: I want to eat!

"This is potato and beef rice. You can try it. Although the taste of self-heating food is not as good as the fresh food made by chefs, it is still good to have a hot meal in the dungeon."

Link picked up the spoon, took a spoonful and fed it to Mary.

"Ouch~"

Without waiting for Link to finish, Mary hooked her arms around Link's body, stretched her neck and directly ate the potatoes and beef he fed her. Then she leaned on him, squinted her eyes and made sounds of enjoyment.

The tail half submerged in water kept shaking, reflecting the owner's joyful mood.

"Mmm! So delicious! So fragrant! Can I have another bite?"

Mary covered her mouth with her hands to taste the food like a squirrel, and spoke to Link incoherently.

"Well, I'll give you all the potato and beef rice. Just don't choke yourself."

Putting the whole bowl of potato and beef rice in her hand, Link gave her an instruction, then reached out again to take out the second serving of self-heating food and started eating it himself.

I felt bad when I won these things in the lottery, but now it seems not bad.

At least it satisfies the appetite.

Moreover, the quality can be guaranteed by placing it in a storage space. There is no concept of time in the space, and it will not expire or deteriorate no matter how long it is stored. It is super convenient.

I don’t know if it was lunch time, but Link had a not-so-rich lunch in the dungeon with the mermaid girl.

After a while.

"Hic.. What should I do? Link. I can't move..."

Mali touched her slightly bulging belly and leaned against Link, not wanting to move.

"Who told you to eat so much?"

Link rolled his eyes in annoyance and destroyed the food packaging with fire.

"But it's so delicious. Link, I'm feeling really uncomfortable being alone now."

"Tell me what I can do?"

What can I do if I eat too much?

Restoration potion?

Will the more you feed him, the bloated he will become?

"Link, can you help me think of a solution..."