Chapter 171: The Magic Continent’s Dark Weasel Forest 2
“Then let’s do this. Brother, Brother Yi, you two release the magic beasts. Grandma, you take this.”
Sang Chu handed her some medicine, which Meng Wei An had been making for Sang Chu to suppress the zombie virus in his body during this time.
He hadn’t been able to research a complete cure, only suppressive antidotes. If the virus in his body flared up, it could be contained.
“Our mission is to escort these antidotes. Although it seems a bit absurd, the master of this mission is Grandma, which makes sense. Firstly, her magic level isn’t high, and secondly, she’s an elder, so it’s understandable she’d want protection.”
Grandma Yun Xiang accepted this well: “Indeed.”
“Alright, everyone get ready. We’ll get off the carriage and walk. Mu Xue, you must be careful. A large part of our safety will depend on you. If you experience a shortage of supernatural abilities, you must tell us in advance so we can prepare.”
“Mhm, I know!”
Mu Xue nodded repeatedly. Lu Min Feng, holding the invisibility cloak, made her disappear instantaneously. After Sang Chu and the others cautiously disembarked, they entered the mountain forest only after Lu Min Feng put away the hovercar.
As soon as they entered the Dark Weasel Forest, the world seemed to change.
The forest should have been pitch black at midnight, but the sky above the forest was a vast expanse of aurora!
An entire aurora, transitioning from purple, formed a giant circle, enveloping the entire Dark Weasel Forest.
Xiao Yi Fei had never seen such an aurora and was so stunned his mouth hung open: “This, this, this shouldn’t be called the Dark Weasel Forest, it should be called the Aurora Forest!”
Grandma Yun Xiang said: “The Dark Weasel Forest is named after dark weasels. They are natural killers. Their small bodies are dark and agile, darting through the forest like hunters hidden in the darkness. Everyone be careful. Although dark weasels are rarely seen now, they still exist. Dark weasels like to eat meat, and their favorite meat is human flesh, so you must be vigilant.”
Sang Chu: “Yes, everyone be alert.”
Sang Chu and Xi Rui walked at the front, while Xiao Yi Fei and Sang Jing Wen flanked Grandma Yun Xiang in the middle. Behind them were Ri Peng and Nai Shen.
Bringing up the rear were the Scorpion Tail Lion and a White Lion.
Xi Rui walked ahead, her eyes and ears open to everything, but unexpectedly, Mu Xue’s supernatural ability wasn’t as timely.
Mu Xue and Lu Min Feng were also walking in the middle of the group, but after a short while, she sent a message to everyone via her optical computer: 【Everyone be careful, someone is approaching us! 】
Xiao Yi Fei was shocked: 【What? Haven’t we just arrived? 】
Sang Jing Wen: 【Xiao Xue, how far away is the other party? 】
If it were before, she wouldn’t have been able to specify the distance. But after coming out of that cultivation room, both her space supernatural ability and mental power had improved significantly.
【They are about ten kilometers away. If we continue on this path, we will encounter them. 】
Sang Chu was silent for a moment. Sang Jing Wen asked: 【Sang Sang, should we continue? 】
【Xiao Xue, can you sense how many people there are? 】
Mu Xue attempted to construct a simulated scene based on the energy feedback in her space and said: 【There should be three people, appearing to be traveling in a carriage. The energy is very strange, and it feels like there’s something else inside the carriage. 】
Sang Chu: 【Can you sense their magic level? 】
【The magic level feels similar to Nai Shen’s. However, there’s a very strange object on their carriage, like a large, living, spherical object, but I can’t sense any magic from it. 】
Sang Chu had initially wanted to snatch the other party’s carriage, but thinking of Sang Jing Wen and Mu Xue in the group, he hesitated. Now, hearing that the opponents’ strength was comparable to Nai Shen’s, there was no need to take the risk.
【Let’s change our route. Which direction is clear right now? 】
Mu Xue sensed for a moment and pointed to the side: 【This direction feels safer, but it will be a much longer detour. 】
Sang Chu: 【Then let’s go this way. Safety first. 】
Without a sound, Sang Chu changed their path. Xi Rui saw this but said nothing. She knew Sang Chu and the others likely had a private way of communicating, she just wasn’t privy to it.
Suddenly, Xi Rui stopped dead in her tracks, an arrow already nocked on her bow: “There’s something!”
Sang Chu raised his hand slightly, and everyone instantly stopped. Xi Rui slowly walked to Sang Chu, her gaze fixed on a tree not far away: “A Chu, you go behind me. This thing seems to be targeting you.”
Looking in the direction Xi Rui pointed, she saw only a strange, large tree and nothing else.
Hearing Xi Rui’s words, Xiao Yi Fei stared intently at the large tree ahead. Shielding Grandma Yun Xiang with one hand, he pulled Sang Chu between himself and Sang Jing Wen with the other: “That thing is dark, thin, and long. It looks a bit like a mutated rat?”
Sang Jing Wen and Sang Chu couldn’t see what he was talking about no matter how hard they looked. They finally gave up: “We can’t see it. Xi Rui, could that thing be a dark weasel?”
Xi Rui: “I haven’t seen one, so I don’t know if it is, but the description is somewhat similar. It’s perched on a branch, staring at Sang Chu with strange eyes.”
Mu Xue, however, didn’t sense any threatening aura in her space and couldn’t help but say: “It probably means no harm.”
Xi Rui ignored her. She only knew that this thing was squatting on their path, watching them menacingly.
Sang Chu asked Mu Xue: “Xiao Xue, are you sure?”
“I’m quite sure. If there were any dangerous aura, I would have detected it long ago. But I haven’t, which means it has no hostility towards us, and it possesses no magic.”
Xi Rui was momentarily stunned. She had assumed this thing was a threat, as in the Magic Continent, there were no monsters that didn’t attack people. But after hearing Mu Xue’s words, looking at the lurking dark weasel again, it did seem to have no offensive capabilities, just as Mu Xue said.
Grandma Yun Xiang said at this moment: “Could the rumors be true?”
Sang Chu: “Grandma, what rumors?”
“When I was on Mermaid Island, I heard the elders mention a rumor that dark weasels angered the Forest Demon King, and as a result, the Forest Demon King drained all their magic. Since then, the offspring of dark weasels have all become ordinary animals.”
Ordinary animals? It doesn’t look like it from this appearance.
Xi Rui did not relax her vigilance because of Grandma Yun Xiang’s words, not until the dark weasel disappeared from the tree.
Xiao Yi Fei: “Holy crap, it, it, it just disappeared like that!”
Xi Rui also saw it. She looked at Xiao Yi Fei curiously. As a member of the Elf Tribe, she had naturally keen eyes that could see far and clearly, and even at night, her vision was unaffected.
But Xiao Yi Fei was an ordinary person. Although he was a wizard, he shouldn’t be able to see as well as an elf’s keen eyes. Yet, he seemed to see more clearly than she did?
