Chapter 233: Preparing to Leave 2
Sang Chu watched Zuo Xue Feng’s increasingly skilled swordsmanship and felt he was truly a swordsman delayed by the Monster Transformation World. Sang Chu gave him a sword technique obtained from the Demon Realm; even without spiritual power cultivation, he could move freely among monsters with his half-baked swordsmanship.
Xi Rui watched Zuo Xue Feng entangled with the giant tiger and said to Sang Chu, “A Chu, do you really not need me to step in?”
“It’s fine. If Zuo Xue Feng can’t handle it, he’ll ask for our help. Besides, he’s not at a disadvantage right now.”
Zuo Xue Feng had combat skills, and coupled with learning swordsmanship, practicing against a giant tiger with just him and his sword was also good.
Tu You, who had been gone for a few days, finally returned. He squatted on Sang Chu’s shoulder and excitedly exclaimed: 【A Chu, let me tell you, this trip was a huge success! 】
Sang Chu: 【Stole a lot? 】
【How can you call it stealing? I took them fair and square. If they hadn’t stopped us from entering the city, we wouldn’t have had to do this. Let me tell you, setting up City A as a stop wasn’t in vain. While City A has its oddballs, most of its people are good. But City B, hehe. 】
It seemed like a lot had happened. Sang Chu didn’t ask for details, only saying to Xi Rui beside him, “Xi Rui, watch him. If he can’t manage, kill the tiger and find new prey. We’re leaving in a few days.”
Xi Rui nodded and, before long, drew her bow and shot the tiger dead.
Sang Chu: “.”
Zuo Xue Feng’s hand, raised high with his sword, stopped in mid-air. He turned back at Xi Rui in a daze, “What happened?”
Xi Rui looked at him coldly, “Too slow. We need a lot of prey!”
With that, she walked forward and put the tiger into a storage box.
Zuo Xue Feng held a storage box. Storage boxes were where mercenaries stored monsters after hunting them. The space could expand infinitely; as long as prey was put inside, the storage box would automatically expand, making it more convenient than ordinary storage rings and space links.
With a storage box, there was no fear of not having space to store hunted monsters.
Looking at this cold-faced, ruthless woman, Zuo Xue Feng offered no opinion, merely following behind her into the depths of the forest.
As they walked, he watched her scan the area like a scanner, able to clearly locate bird eggs, catch some newly born young beasts, and even some solitary groups. Zuo Xue Feng felt his worldview was about to shatter.
“Um, Xi Rui, where are we going now?”
Seeing her stop, Zuo Xue Feng stood about one to two meters away from her, holding his long sword, and asked.
Xi Rui looked ahead, her bowstring pulled taut. The arrow shot from the string flew with the force of thunder, leaving Zuo Xue Feng completely stunned.
That arrow was so fast!
After a beam of light shot out, wings instantly appeared behind Xi Rui, and she flew forward rapidly. Zuo Xue Feng, accustomed to her behavior, chased after her.
Before long, they saw three adult-sized black bears lying on the ground, crushing a large patch of bamboo forest. Beneath them, a cub was being protected.
Zuo Xue Feng looked at the fallen black bears in horror, swallowing repeatedly, “This, this is an S-class monster, right!”
Xi Rui rolled her eyes at him, “That’s it?”
She truly couldn’t understand this world; even frogs were on the list of Level One monsters!
And now, this ordinary black bear could be rated as S-class.
S-class was the highest level of monster, and they rarely appeared.
Mercenary groups commonly encountered monsters from Level One to Level Seven.
Monsters from A to S-class, like tigers, wolves, and bears, were rare. According to Zuo Xue Feng and the others, if you encountered them, it meant you were offering yourself up. Don’t think about escaping; just lie down and accept your fate.
Zuo Xue Feng looked at Xi Rui’s dismissive expression and fell silent.
Xi Rui directly collected all the prey, including the cub.
The two continued their hunt.
Inside the carriage, Sang Chu looked at the items Tu You brought back and clapped his hands in amazement, “No wonder you were gone for so many days! But where did all this come from!”
Food, daily necessities, drinks, and many high-end items that looked like they were from a research institute, all of which Sang Chu marveled at.
“You’re truly a genius, a natural-born thieving saint body!”
Tu You was initially proud, but he became indignant when Sang Chu called him a thieving saint body, “Pah! Who are you calling a thief? I took these fair and square. They just couldn’t see me!”
“Yes, yes, how could our Lord Rabbit do such petty thievery? Tell me, where did all these things come from?”
Tu You divided the items into several piles and said proudly, “To avoid harming innocents, I put in a lot of effort. Look at these; they’re all related to the royal family. These are battle armors researched by the Royal Research Institute. I don’t know how to use them, but like you said, it’s always good to have them.”
Sang Chu took out a small blue ball from his storage ring and asked in confusion, “This? Battle armor? Earlier, Xi Rui killed someone piloting battle armor, and that battle armor was huge. How can this tiny thing transform into battle armor that can seat a person?”
Tu You shrugged and flapped his large ears, “I don’t know about that. All information regarding battle armor is encrypted. I’m clueless about these things, so of course, I can’t see it.”
Sang Chu was silent for a moment, then looked at Tu You and said, “Can you take Li Yue with you?”
“That won’t do. The research institute is a net of traps everywhere now. If she comes out, she’ll be caught. I might not even have time to save her.”
Sang Chu: “Alright, then forget it. The items are already in hand, and we’ll figure them out eventually. If not, we can come back after this period of high alert passes.”
Tu You: “You don’t have to wait. You can sell one on the train mall. The price would be the usage method.”
Sang Chu: “You can do that?”
Tu You: “Why not? You might not know, but someone else will.”
Sang Chu: “Alright, then help me post the message. Just sell one for now.”
“Mhm, mhm.” Tu You nodded, but when he looked at the pile of small balls, he said with difficulty, “The problem is, we don’t know how to differentiate the good ones from the bad.”
These had different colors, just like the blue ball in Sang Chu’s hand, there were various shades of blue, each unique. They could probably only be categorized by color, but there was no way to know which were high-grade and which were low-grade.
Sang Chu: “Ask Li Yue?”
“That’s as good as me asking Mian Ge directly. He knows even more, and he can also help you buy train tickets. I’m off.”
Tu You instantly disappeared. Sang Chu looked at the other items he left behind and sorted them into his storage space.
