[Through] Delicious Journey

Chapter 42

"His people?" Yi Nie asked, "What kind of tricks are you playing again?" The conversation changed, and he looked at A Mao, "Is there always any news recently?"

Last time he sent the magic balloon he got in the snowy mountains of the Northern Region back to the old man at the General Assembly, but after that, nothing happened, and he didn't hear any more actions. It's unscientific.

"What's the news?" Amao and Xiaoxin looked at each other and said, "We just came out of the seventh ruins and rushed over after receiving your news. What's wrong with the association?"

Did not hear the desired answer, Ye Nie's eyebrows darkened, then shook her head, "It's okay, let's go, there is a village of Momaimang people in the center, we can find out a little about the puppet protocore."

The area of ​​Oyster Mushroom Rock is huge, with a light radius of over a thousand meters, and densely grown chocolate forests are distributed on it, and walking into it is like entering a lush jungle.

"Chocolate that grows on trees?" Ying Cui rushed up and stood under one of the two-person chocolate trees with her head raised.

Not only the bark and roots are made of chocolate, but the leaves and fruits are brown solid chocolate, shaped like a heart, and there are many square or spherical chocolate fruits on the bottom of the branches.

"Is it edible?" Ying Cui stretched out his hand to pick a bunch, but he is not tall, so he can only reach the bottom one.

The chocolate balls are not big, just big enough to fit the whole thing into your mouth.

"Not poisonous." Fanmi took one off and put it in his mouth, chewed it and said vaguely, "Eat it."

A group of people took a rest here, and picked up the peanut butter chocolate that Moore wanted to eat.

"It's so sweet." Ying Cui's inner core is white chocolate. After melting the outer layer of dark chocolate, the mellow and milky aroma keeps flowing out. There is no need to chew at all, the solid melts in the mouth, and as it slowly melts, it brings people's thinking The luscious pause.

"Taste this." Yi Nie stuffed it into Ying Cui's mouth, took the other's hand and threw it into her own mouth.

"Hmm." Ying Cui turned into a bitter face as soon as she ate it.

Salted fish chocolate, Nima, what kind of weird taste is this?

It was bitter and sweet at the beginning, but it didn’t take long before it became salty, and it wasn’t unpalatable. How should I put it, it’s a very peculiar taste, just like the salty sugar water you drink to cool off in summer. It’s okay to add less ingredients. Once too much, salty and sweet will make people inexplicably disgusting.

Well, Ying Cui is in dire straits right now.

"How does it taste?" Yi Nie squinted her eyes, her expression was absolutely malicious.

Ying Cui swallowed the chocolate with difficulty, retched when the taste passed through her throat, and took a breath, "I have to reflect, I have been too kind to you recently, I am tired of doing sweet and sour series."

So it was Yi Nie's turn to start grimacing.

Put the collected chocolates of various flavors into boxes, sort and pack them, and stuff them into animal skin bags.

move on.

Each tree is made of chocolate, mostly brown and black, and some of them are white, but most of them are the fruits on the tree.

The tree body, branches and leaves have clear veins, and even the best craftsmen can't make such lifelike shapes.

Ying Cui discovered that the roots of each tree do not go into the soil, and there is a certain circle around them. The chocolate liquid flowing in this area is the same as in the swamp, which seems to provide nutrients for the tree.

Fanmi said that the raw liquid under the tree is grade B and non-toxic.

Looking around, the big and small chocolate trees in this forest all leave a place at the root in this way.

If the oyster mushroom rock is compared to a mould, then these reserved holes are like slots. The raw liquid coming up from somewhere below is filtered through a layer to remove harmful substances, and then forms a fixed shape on the slots. , and bear fruit.

I have to marvel at the magic of the Creator.

"Wait a minute." On the way, Amao suddenly called out to stop everyone, "Did you hear anything? It seems..." Pointing his hand, "It's coming from that direction."

Everyone looked over in unison and pricked up their ears.

"Is there?" Ying Cui asked after listening carefully.

The others were silent, and finally Ye Nie spoke first, "Go and see."

I wanted to look in the direction of the source of the sound, but the sound became clearer.

Someone is fighting!

"That's it?" Ying Cui was surprised to see the person, "Kenley?"

This sound doesn't matter, the key is that it disturbed the two and one wolf in the battle.

Kenley was already in the upper hand, but when the other party was distracted, the silver wolf threw the blond man to the ground with a sudden leap.

"Yi Nie, hey, Xiao Ying is here too." Kenli looked over and greeted with a smile.

Someone called Xiao Ying expressed a little bit of displeasure.

"Why are you here? Aren't you going to prepare for the hunter's assessment?" Yi Nie walked over, "Why are you still with Bu Yasi's men?" Looking at the blond man who was thrown down, "Fight?"

"You (we) know each other?" Kenly and the blond man said at the same time, and then said in unison, "Is he not a poacher?"

Ying Cui was embarrassed, it seemed that she had misunderstood.

Kenly came to his senses first, let the silver wolf let go of the man, and said, "I was entrusted by the Momaimans to catch poachers. This guy is sneaking around in the forest, so..."

"Hey, hey, I'm serious about collecting evidence." Blonde said very dissatisfied, "I accepted the task of the city lord of Ancheng to catch poachers, but where did you come from?" Silver Wolf bared his teeth.

Yi Nie raised his forehead, "You two... Forget it, turn around and solve it by yourself, first tell me what you found, I didn't even see a puppet along the way, so you won't be hunted down, right?"

puppet?Ying Cui listened, and began to ponder in her heart, what is the relationship between the puppet man and the puppet proto-nucleus, it seems that the puppet man is in the forest?

"A month ago, a hunter reported that the number of puppets dropped sharply, and poachers might have appeared on Berry Tart Island. That's why I received the task entrustment." Extinct." After speaking, he looked at Kenli, with obvious provocation in his eyes.

Kenly was silent for a moment, but said something else, "The poacher's problem is not that big, the nuclear force center of the spiral thrust has a problem."

"Is that it?..." The first reaction was to think of the evil energy in the hunting area, and Yi Nie's eyes flickered, "Let's go to the village and talk."

A problem with the core center of the spiral thrust means that the puppet’s regeneration path has gone wrong. Poachers are a secondary problem that affects resource regeneration, but the core center is the fundamental problem. Once something goes wrong, the original chocolate solution will be exhausted even if there is no poacher.

In the center surrounded by forests is the Momaimang village.

When I entered the village, I met the group who attacked at night, and the two sides immediately stood facing each other, and the scene froze.

Kenly turned his eyes around, and pulled the leader aside to negotiate.

The houses of the Momaimang people are also made of chocolate. Ying Cui looked at one of them. The color and texture have the feeling of old wood. I am satisfied. I think the shop made by the A-grade liquid should not be far behind.

"Let's go." Kenli led the people to the village chief's house, and the blond young man followed.

Around, people from Momaimang Village who saw outsiders coming in stood by the roadside, pointing at the group of people, with no kindness or malice in their eyes.

"I planned to catch the poachers and then go to the Nuclear Power Center to have a look, but I searched around and only saw the one with the blonde hair." Kenley walked in front, lowered his voice and said to Yi Nie beside him, "What about you?" ? Why are you here?"

Yi Nie smiled, and glanced at Ying Cui who was playing with the tail of the silver wolf not far behind, "Here, he is looking for building materials, and Qiu Yi said that it is best to use A-level puppet stock solution."

Kenly was taken aback. The A-grade stock solution was under the Oyster Mushroom Rock, so he could take it and leave directly. There was no need to go to the muddy water of poachers. He grinned, "You are still so nosy."

Yi Nie shrugged, "That's what he said too." Looking sadly at the sky, "Actually, you all misunderstood, I really just want to take a puppet core back to play."

"..." There are ghosts only if you believe in you.

The village head is a skinny old man with a good mental state, but he is a little presbyopic.

For example, he is standing in front of Yi Nie now, "Is Kenli going to go down and take a look... Hey, why do there seem to be a few more figures, hey, don't shake, I'm a little dizzy."

Yi Nie's expression twitched too much to bear to look directly at.

Kenli sweated slightly, and looked at the young man from Momaimang who was following.

"I'll take you there." The man was the leader who took the lead in attacking Yi Nie, although he explained the matter clearly, he still hasn't pulled back his face and reconciled.

"Wait." The blond man said, "What about the poachers?" He didn't know anything about motivation, his mission was just to catch the poachers.

"If you were a poacher, would you still wait for someone to catch you after a big fight?" Xiaoxin said, "Although you followed them here a few days ago, it is undeniable that they are also very cunning. Maybe you came in with your front foot and they slipped away with their back foot, after all, they are more familiar with the terrain here, and haven't you found any clues these days?"

"How do you know I came with them?" The blond man's complexion changed, and after thinking that the matter was probably what Xiao Xin said, his complexion became even worse, "Who are you?"

No wonder he doesn't know the origins of this group of people. Kenli is really low-key. Yi Nie didn't show his true colors when he was the city lord. Fan Mi, as a high-end doctor, is usually invisible to hunters. As for Xiao Xin and A Mao, the relic hunters are only in a fixed circle Ying Cui was the only one who became famous, well, Ying Cui was not even a hunter.

This time, if Hongmao or Lu Chengzhong came here randomly, the blond man probably wouldn't ask such a question.

"Who is it?" Yi Nie practiced Tai Chi, "Naturally a hunter."

……

The road leading to the core area is at the junction of the village and the woods. From the outside, it looks like a well.

"We didn't pay attention at the beginning. There were fewer and fewer puppets in the woods before we realized something was wrong." The Momaimeng led the roadside and said, "But we also looked down there and everything was normal, so we thought there was a problem. On the poachers, a patrol team was organized. However, this still couldn't stop the puppet people from disappearing, and the woods began to wither."

The mouth of the well is only big enough for one person to pass through, but there is a cave at five meters down, and there is a side opening, which leads to another underground secret room along the side opening.

That chamber is the real entrance to the inner core.

The room looks like a small sealed warehouse, square, and the wall looks like a hole has been dug in a huge chocolate.

There is a large round hole in the center of the ground, and above the hole are bamboo baskets that can accommodate about ten people, as well as ropes for lifting.

The silver wolf was left at the mouth of the well due to its size. Eight people descended into the bamboo baskets. The leader stretched the rope and went down.