Those rumors are as dangerous as mirages to those who lack discernment.
…
Lu Liran squatted next to the body of the three-meter-long stinging sound bird, then picked up its claws and mouth parts with the battle ax, and observed it carefully.
“To be honest, I have only heard about this creature, but I never thought I would actually see it.” Lu Liran narrowed his eyes slightly, carefully avoiding the barbs and body fluids on its body, and walked around to its front.
The drone also adjusted its angle and flew right above it, giving a complete bird’s-eye view——
The three-meter-long strange bird was spread flat on the fallen leaves in the forest, almost filling up all the open space. Lu Liran squatted beside it, making him look several circles smaller in comparison.
[Hiss, look at it this way! It’s so big! Fuck it!]
[Really, before they’ve been running, or I just couldn’t compare it because of the distant view, I always feel like it’s just an ordinary fierce bird or something, I didn’t expect it to be so big!!]
[Is Brother Lu considering making it into dinner?]
Lu Liran saw the people in the live broadcast room mentioned dinner, and draw the corners of his mouth, for such a creature, he also somewhat felt that its not good to eat: “Whether this thing can be eaten is a problem. Its barbs and body fluids and saliva are corrosive.”
He pointed to the ground: “Look at the fallen leaves around. The places where the blood flows are obviously black and sinking, which means that even the blood is slightly corrosive. Just to be safe, don’t eat it.”
Xian Dan heard Lu Liran say “don’t eat it”, he swallowed and looked at the other in shock—— Mr. Lu was still considering laying his hands on this strange bird?!
[23333 There’s actually meat that Brother Lu can’t eat!]
[I think this stinging sound bird should be given a separate row]
[Agree]
Lu Liran picked up the beak and claws of the strange bird in front of him with the battle ax. The strange bird not only had a shark beak, but also had round mouth parts full of fangs.
Seeing this, Lu Liran slightly avoided the angle, indicating that others should also stay away, and he picked up a branch and inserted it into the mouth part. He pressed and poked it in slightly, and a small liquid gushed out of the mouthparts and fell on the branch, which visibly corroded in the naked eye.
“Sure enough, it’s exactly as I expected.” Lu Liran said, he frowned slightly as he observed the degree of corrosion of the branch.
Ke Ji looked at Lu Liran, he brought the machete that had been corroded when he blocked the barb before to Lu Liran, and said in a low voice: “It’s not very corrosive.”
Lu Liran nodded slightly, and said at the same time: “Besides, even the claws and beak of this stinging sound bird cannot cause such devastating and huge tearing injuries to that corpse.”
“Not to mention the aggressiveness and lethality of that little stinging sound bird.” Lu Liran looked at Xian Dan and the others, “In other words, the creature that killed your team member was another larger, and more stealthy thing that left without a sound before we reached the vicinity, and the stinging sound bird was just picking up carrion.”
Qin Qi swallowed heavily: “Something bigger?”
His eyes fell on the corpse of the three-meter-long strange bird on the ground—— Isn’t that big enough? How big is big?
Lu Liran responded perfunctorily, and looked around.
They broke into the woods in a great hurry, there was no time to observe the surroundings, and did not notice that the fog that originally filled the surrounding area, was unknowingly dispersed.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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Shu Hua was taken aback when he heard the words, but immediately realized: “You want to go back?”
Lu Liran nodded: “Unless you don’t need water.”
Xian Dan and Shu Hua looked at each other, of course they wanted water, but they also wanted to get back the supplies, even if there is the body of Old Six there…
“Damn it.” Shu Hua cursed, and hammered the tree trunk next to him bitterly, “Just go back and bury Old Six.”
Xian Dan nodded.
Qin Qi had no objection, they still had two camels over there, they ran in a hurry just now, they didn’t get on the camels at all, and he didn’t know if the remaining two camels were still in place.
If they’re lost, the supply loss on the camel horses will be great.
The group turned back again.
Strange to say, as soon as they walked out of the woods, the mist enveloped them again, as if the woods were like a barrier, specially able to isolate the mist.
Several people could not understand it, and simply did not dwell on it. There are so many strange scenery like this in nature, and no one can explain it.
They returned the same way, the pool was still there, and the two camel horses were also there, but the body of Old Six was gone. There was an obvious dragging mark on the ground, and the mark extended all the way to the other end of the woods.
Qin Qi’s scalp was numb, he looked at Lu Liran and Ke Ji at a loss, and asked, stammering: “That’s, did something just dragged away Brother Old Six’s body?!”
“Obviously.” Lu Liran’s expression was not good.
He squatted down, and was about to reach out his hand to explore the drag mark, but was stopped by Ke Ji.
Ke Ji said in a deep voice: “There are things under the sand, so be careful.”
Lu Liran was stunned for a moment, and then thought of the camel horse that suddenly lost control and ran wildly.
Ke Ji shook off the stem-shaped mouthparts that were wrapped up: “This is what I grabbed after the camel was bitten earlier, and I only had time to cut off this part. It retracted quickly, hiding in the sand with little warning.”
Shu Hua leaned over to look, and took a light breath: “I’ll go, why do the things here have such mouthparts?!”
“What is this?” Qin Qi asked in a low voice, “Is it poisonous?”
“Looking at the color, it is highly likely to be poisonous. If we can find the lost camel horse, we will know the answer.” Lu Liran said.
“Mr. Lu doesn’t know?” Xian Dan opened his eyes slightly, looking a little surprised.
Lu Liran twitched the corner of his mouth, he is not an encyclopedia, how could he cover everything. Even with the assistance of the system, what he acquired was only basic skills, and the information included was limited.
“This place is really evil. We just came here, and we bumped into so many things…we walked for a few days before, and we only occasionally encountered some living things on the road.” Shu Hua took a deep breath and said.
Xian Dan nodded deeply.
Lu Liran sneered, and looked at the two of them: “Your assessment of the danger in the desert oasis makes me feel like two children are playing house.”
Xian Dan scratched the back of his head, and could only touch the tip of his nose when being ridicule and said: “The limited information we have inquired about the desert oasis can only be based on speculation, knowing that there may be aggressive creatures in it, but it is limited to ordinary creatures. We have never imagined that there will be such things.”
Qin Qi blinked at Lu Liran, and asked curiously: “Mr. Lu, in your circle of bounty hunters, do you have more rumors about the desert oasis? Can you tell me?”
“I’m not here to tell stories.” Lu Liran refused.
Qin Qi also followed his own captain, touching his nose awkwardly.
Lu Liran glanced at the little medical soldier: “Rumors are just rumors. The credibility of bounty hunters is about the same as that of drunks. Trusting them is worse than believing what you see. Even if I tell you now, it will only scare you in vain.”
Qin Qi didn’t expect Lu Liran to explain, he was both surprised and moved, and felt that Mr. Lu seemed to be extra tolerant and kind to him.
Xian Dan and Shu Hua also felt the same way. As a duo who had been hated and slaughtered for a long time, they all cast envious eyes on Qin Qi.
Lu Liran didn’t think much about it. What he said was more to explain to the content of the barrage in the live broadcast room.
Someone in the barrage didn’t understand why he refused to tell the other party the rumors about the oasis, thinking that this would serve as an early warning.
Lu Liran felt that those comments and barrages were somewhat funny. Not to mention anything else, as far as the rumors about the location of the oasis are concerned, he knows about a dozen, but none of them were really close to the truth. If he believed those rumors, not to mention five days, even if he was given fifty days, he still would not find it.
Those rumors are as dangerous as mirages to the undiscerning.
Seeing Xian Dan and Shu Hua looking at him sadly, Lu Liran squinted his eyes and said with a snort: “Assuming you can survive, then you can also become one of those dozens of rumors.”
Xian Dan and Shu Hua rubbed their arms one after another, and said to Lu Liran with a dry smile: “Mr. Lu’s assumption always sounds like irony, and it feels strange and unlucky.”
“The chance of surviving is really not high.” Lu Liran looked at the two people plus a disabled person with a calf injury, “Follow me closely and don’t do anything unnecessary.”
Xian Dan’s group of three hurriedly nodded vigorously.
[Brother Lu, is the threat in place today? In place√]
[Laughing to death, look at the three people who are scared, hahaha]
[You guys really think it’s a scare? Why do I think Brother Lu said very serious ah]
[This…indeed, they just ran down the sandy slope and encountered so many things, not to mention what the medical soldier brother met in the fog]
[Yes, oh…]
Lu Liran took water, filtered it with the usual water purification method, and then drank it in small sips.
When Shu Hua and Xian Dan looked at each other on the edge, immediately, they felt that they were too careless.
But the water looks clear and bottomless, it’s running water, so it shouldn’t be a problem, right?
Lu Liran distributed some charcoal ash to those people, then he threw it into his canteen to settle and separate away.
As for the part of drinking just now, Lu Liran patted the two of them on the shoulders and said nothing.
But Xian Dan felt that this pat on the shoulder seemed to mean everything.
“What does he mean?” Shu Hua asked Xian Dan in a low voice.
“……probably, it depends on fate.” Xian Dan has nothing to love in life anymore.
[Eh, eh, eh, will anything happen if you drink the water directly from the pool?]
[This water is very clean]
[It just look clean, whose blood was still dripping in just now, who knows how much there was before…right]
[Ou, stop talking, I feel uncomfortable]
[That’s really fucked up]
Lu Liran glanced at the live broadcast room, when he saw it, the corners of his mouth curled up, then he lowered his voice and said softly: “The self-purification ability of running water is very strong, but if conditions permit, we should try to filter it before drinking it. But with the amount those two people drank before, unless their physical condition is too poor, there is no big problem.”
After he finished speaking, he glanced lightly at the two frightened men over there, and said lightly: “Just scaring them, so that they won’t go too far in the future and play themselves to death.”
Qin Qi just finished relieving himself from the bushes behind Lu Liran, and he couldn’t help twitching the corners of his mouth when he heard Mr. Lu’s words.
Lu Liran heard the movement behind him, he turned his head and looked over expressionlessly.
Qin Qi swallowed, and immediately agreed with Mr. Lu’s approach: “Captain and Brother Shu are indeed a little reckless, they should be frightened. I will definitely not say it!”
“En.”
[Laughing, did the medical brother sell out his team captain and Brother Shu like this?]
[Under the coercion of Brother Lu]
[Brother Lu may be the only one who can scare people with teaching effects—— 100M gifted the anchor 1x Sushi]
[Indeed haha, I feel sorry for the trio for a second]
[But if they can survive, it’s worth it—— SaltedFish YuYu gifted the anchor 1x Buddha jumping over the wall]
Sunnyshies: This is supposed to be yesterday, but I fell asleep while editing, hehe.
I’ll never go to an oasis. Never.
Thank you for the chapter 💐
I’ll never eat a corrosive bird. Never.
Thanks for the update 🤣❤️
thanks for the new chapter
And hunt for edible food continues lol
I’m surprised the live chat doesn’t have some kind of bingo going by this point.
+1
Thanks for the chapter 💜
It amazes me more and more who gave the okay to that merchant group to go to Salba? Maybe LLR comes off as too knowledgeable but in comparison they appear to be really useless and absolutely not prepared for that trip.
Thx for the ch ٩(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )و
Well they did have a guide initially, it’s just the guide turned out to be untrustworthy. Definitely a bad call to go there in the first place though, you’re right.
Well, considering they’re supposedly pointed towards home already, meaning they’re done with business. They just needed to be picked up, but the untrustworthy guide just lead them to their deaths.
Speaking off, Xian Family is a planetary space merchant group, which travels from planet to planet. They’re more inclined to space than in land, and maybe because of being at the top for so long they underestimated the danger below.