403: Chapter 322 403: Chapter 322 “Tsk tsk!”
Bian Shasha didn’t feel a twinge of sorrow for the companions who had been killed, but at this moment, she felt a bit regretful.
Those two pretty boys, they looked quite good – not quite as good as Lai Jianlin, but inside the Immortal Sect, they could be considered decent men.
They were a bit more handsome than the man beside her.
They lost because their cultivation was inferior.
Maybe in the near future, these two men could become very powerful, provided they managed to make it out of the Boundless Forest.
“Do you feel sorry for them?
Don’t you believe I would kill them too?”
“Pfft, you couldn’t kill them before, so now your heart is set on murder?
It’s not like you don’t favor your deer whip.”
“Haha, woman, your sharp tongue makes me like you even more.”
The man looked at Bian Shasha’s red lips and pretty mouth, his body seemed excited, but his mind was preoccupied with other matters at the moment.
As the black-clothed person let her down, Bian Shasha’s ears caught clearer sounds, hearing the voices of her companions.
She also heard the furious cries of giraffes, but she didn’t hear any sound of them fighting.
“What are those giraffes doing?
Just crying out and not surrounding them?”
Bian Shasha only knew about the powerful Demonic Beasts here but was unaware of the food preferences of these landscape creatures.
“The giraffes are gathering food.
Your companions are trying to steal their food, and all the giraffes do is cry out.
They collect a year’s worth of food first before they attack.”
The man in black had spent a very long time in this Boundless Forest, and he had a clearer grasp of the habits of some animals.
The man in black, who had long resided in the forest, mostly ate giraffe meat, so of course, he had to fully understand their habits.
The traps are not set in the Immortal Vine territory to prevent being bound by the vine whips, as that would make one the food for the vines, the food for the giraffes.
The man in black had heard a legend that these vines had developed consciousness.
Immortal Vines might not eat human flesh, but they do absorb human blood.
Especially the Immortal Vine King that had become sentient.
Among the clusters upon clusters of vine whips, there was actually one ancient ancestor.
All the others were its offspring, at its command.
With luck, a person could escape.
The reason they didn’t consume the blood and meat of giraffes was, of course, for mutual benefit.
The living habits of giraffes could contribute to the vines’ growth, and the flowers and fruit shells that grew from the vines became the giraffes’ food for the year.
“Let’s first collect the seeds you want, then ambush those giraffes!”
Bian Shasha nodded in agreement to the man’s words,
What the man said was true; with this man by her side, she was being protected.
In fact, the feeling of being protected by a man wasn’t bad; she started to grow softer, accepting his protection and acting coyly before him.
The giraffes discovered a potential theft again, with one scent being oddly familiar and the other belonging to a stranger.
The powerful giraffes, upon realizing that others had arrived, instructed those with lower cultivation to be careful not to be hunted by humans.
They rapidly continued to collect their food.
In this region of the forest, if there were other types of grass, they could survive on Spirit Grass.
It was a pity that in this area, not even a blade of grass grew, only Immortal Vines.
In fact, they could have moved elsewhere to live.
It was unfortunate that every area had its Guardian, and they could not overstep their boundaries; moreover, the nearby regions had the territories of other Demonic Beasts?
If they crossed the boundary, they would end up fighting, and perhaps among this conflict, some humans would take advantage of the situation, stealing away the Demonic Beasts which were already engaged in mutual destruction.
The giraffes had lived here for countless years, generation after generation surviving in this place, of course, there were also other Demonic Beasts contesting for territory.
Utilizing their familiarity with the environment and with the help of Immortal Vines, they drove other creatures away.
The giraffes and the Immortal Vines formed an alliance.
The giraffes protected the Immortal Vines, providing them with fertilizer.
In exchange, the Immortal Vines offered petals and fruit, helping out because they wanted to drink blood, regardless of whether it was the blood of other Demonic Beasts or of humans, which served as a nourishing food for them.
It seemed like the Immortal Vines had heard the calls of the giraffes, as clusters of vine whips started to move.
The previous clusters, appearing as if they could connect seamlessly, extended very long, and it was apparent that at the lowest end, there was a thick arm-sized ancestral vine whip.
The vine whips swung in the sky; although no humans were visible, they attacked toward where the humans were as if they had eyes.
At this moment, Bi Renchuan and his group had already picked some fruit and had not yet had the chance to do much with a giraffe, let alone hunt one.
They noticed the strange activity of the vine whips, took to the sky, and continually dodged the attacking vines.
Everyone used their spells, and with a wave of their hands, they became Ice Spells, dropping many ice blades from the sky, trying to sever these vine whips.
The vines feared the cold but didn’t fear being cut by the ice blades.
There were those who used Earth Spells, Wood Spells, and Golden Magic; however, their spells seemed to have no effect on the vines.
Bi Renchuan cast his Fire Spells, constantly spewing fire in the sky and throwing it into the vine jungle, trying to burn the jungle down.
He was just using spells to attack, convinced that the powerful vines would not be so easily burned by his fire.
Sure enough, the vines were afraid of fire but still not harmed by it; they kept waving, and the vine trees were also moving constantly, avoiding the enemy’s fire.
This situation made it hard for the herd of giraffes—some of the more expensive ones were doing better, using their magic to attack humans.
They kept spitting out toxins, anyone who came close would be more likely to be poisoned.
The people here began to fight; Bian Shasha and her partner were not idle as they were attacked too.
For a time, they couldn’t get close nor could they turn on each other.
Bian Shasha found that the vines were afraid of her fire and encircled herself with some fire rings.
The fire rings seemed to move; when the vines flew towards them, the fire rings surrounded the vines, attempting to roast them with fire.
Confronted with this situation, the vines began to dodge carefully, with some vines even carrying fruit, which Bian Shasha picked at her leisure.
She put the picked fruit into her Storage Bag, looking not at all busy; such leisurely actions were, of course, protected by her companion.
The woman in his arms was playing, picking these inedible fruits that might be useful resources but were of no use to them, as neither of them had a Wood Spirit Root.
A man can only indulge a woman’s persistence; now he wouldn’t use her as a shield as he had in the past, as if a day and night had passed and he had developed feelings for her.
Unless he hurt her himself, no one else could harm her by his side.
This thought existed only because he had not yet encountered a stronger opponent; perhaps facing a stronger one, he would give up and choose to escape.
“Woman, hold on tight to me.
We’re going to hunt giraffes now,” he said.
The man clad in black discovered a small giraffe, possibly a youngling, panicked by the fire and ice blades, and it had run a bit far from the herd, giving him a chance to hunt.
“You want to kill it?
No way,” she protested.
“Woman, state your reasons!”
“That giraffe is so adorable; I want to keep it as a pet!”
“That’s a poisonous giraffe; if you let it grow up, it might kill you.”
“I don’t care; I want it as my pet regardless.”
“Alright, fine, I will hunt it for you as a pet.”
The man in black had originally wanted to enjoy some tender meat; younglings taste much better than adults, which is why some people eat suckling pigs, with their tender and fragrant meat.
Considering the woman’s request by his side, it might seem excessive, but in reality, it wasn’t that much.
He didn’t have any other gifts to give her, so catching her a pet could be the gift he gave her, especially since they had been through a lot together.
The man succeeded in his endeavor and even produced a bag designed for pets, placing the young giraffe inside.
“Woman, take good care of it.
This is your wedding present from me,” he said.
“Hmph, stingy as ever,” she huffed.
Although Bian Shasha said so, she happily accepted the gift.
Just as they were about to leave, they were discovered by the mother giraffe, which frantically charged at them and sprayed them with toxins.
This unusual behavior from the giraffe attracted the help of other giraffes.
The Demonic Beasts did not attack other humans but went after these two villains who had harmed their own kind.
“We have to get out of here fast…” he said.
The man knew the danger had arrived; if they didn’t leave now, they would be trampled by the herd of giraffes.
“What about them?”
Bian Shasha felt that since nature had brought them together, they were inclined to betray their companions.