Stepping into this primeval forest full of the smell of decay, after thousands of years of countless springs, summers, autumns and winters, the trees sprout in the spring, and the withered leaves in the autumn accumulate and rot into black soil in this mountain forest, and the fallen leaves make the land here extremely fertile, sometimes the deposition of the leaves will reach tens of meters deep, those leaves rot, frozen into ice in the harsh winter, and then melt in the early summer, like some soft black big quagmire. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The dead leaves were covered layer by layer, then rotted and covered again, and the methane was pressed deep into the soil. Every time we camped, he would choose to be on the mountain, and he would be very strict about where we would make a fire, according to the guide's words: "There is a fire-breathing earth dragon hidden under this mountain forest, and if it is angered, it will burn the whole team to ashes!"

It is full of all kinds of dangerous traps, and the guide who walks in front always has a long pole in his hand, and he will constantly use the long pole to test whether the road under his feet is strong.

Even though he was extremely familiar with the mountains and forests, he seemed to be cautious, and his small eyes were very flexible to pay attention to the movements around him, and I knew by his eyes that he was a good and experienced hunter.

"We'll never see the danger under those rotting leaves!" was the first thing he said to us, and I think Benjamin hired him back, and that was the only thing he said was of some value, he was a chatterbox, always babbling endlessly, always telling clichéd tales of the party catching monsters in the mountains.

Stepping into the deep dead leaves, the yellow leaves drown my knees, even if I bless myself with the 'wind speed', there are still many difficulties and obstacles to cross this primeval forest, those tree roots hidden in the dead branches and rotten leaves, the slightest carelessness will trip people at once, never just those slippery and mossy branches, Minotaur Ruka' He followed behind me, his patience had been worn away by the forest, he gasped, his heart became a little agitated, and he angrily broke a branch that stood in front of him, and threw it at his feet.

I thought I should appease him, so I said, "This mountain forest contains countless precious gifts from nature, these leaves that have fallen off the trees and died, and after death, they will also return to their roots, yes, they will make the soil of the roots of the trees extraordinarily fertile, and many precious and delicious fungi will be born in these roots and rotten leaves, and their taste will be very delicious!"

"Really, why didn't I see those so-called mushrooms in your mouth?" The Minotaur suddenly shifted his attention to the food, although he is a vegetarian through and through, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't like food, the Minotaur is very familiar with the plants in the wasteland, but he rarely has the opportunity to enter this primeval forest, so he is also very unfamiliar with the plants here.

I didn't know where the so-called mushroom was, I squatted under a dead pine tree, gently brushed away the pine needles covering the ground, and on its rhizome grew a few matsutake mushrooms as thick as the size of a thumb, the irritable face of Karui the Minotaur suddenly became full of surprise, he grew his mouth, and with a somewhat novel look, he carefully picked up the matsutake mushrooms with two big hands, and a faint fragrance emanated from the matsutake mushroom's body, he gently put it to his mouth and sniffed it, and said to me with a smile on his honest face: "Jijia, this mushroom is so fragrant!"

Andy, the Ranger walking behind us, came up to me, looked at me with wide eyes and said, "Your luck is really good, this kind of delicious mushroom is a unique product in this mountain forest, and it is a very rare thing!"

Andy is also quite familiar with this primeval forest, in the whole team, only he and the guide are very accustomed to the mountain roads here, I feel that he walks in this mountain forest, like visiting his own back garden, and now I have such a taste of the mushrooms I found, so I asked him: "Andy, you are very familiar with this place!"

"Of course!" Andy wore a soft light armor of Antelope skin, and carried a short forest hunting bow, which was far more useful and convenient in the forest than a longbow.

Benjamin walked up from behind, kept wiping the slimy green moss on the palms of his hands, stopped beside us and exhaled a long breath and said, "Andy, this kid has lived here in the mountain city since he was a child, and he only moved to our city of El when he was about to go to school, of course he is familiar with the things here!"

Andy was a little embarrassed after being debunked, but he didn't annoy Benjamin, but rubbed his shoulder with one hand and explained: "This fungus is called matsutake mushroom, even in the mountain city, it is very precious. I remember when I was a child, I could only eat this delicacy at festival banquets, and if you fry it in good butter, it will be very delicious!"

"This ugly guy is matsutake mushrooms?" Mia, who followed behind, also looked at him in amazement.

Obviously, this group of noble children knew far better about food than the commoners, and the hunter guide who walked in the front looked up at the sky, and just said: "We must find a safe place in this valley before it gets dark, and then set up camp, whether we can find the two-headed snake lizard this time, we must return to the mountain city in four days." Now, though, it looks like we need to take a break!"

Hearing the hunter guide say a break, all of us let out a long breath, in this forest, the biggest enemy so far is not those ferocious demonic beasts, but the natural environment of this forest, we are just trekking in the mountains and forests, we are already exhausted, it seems, those seniors of the warrior academy also have a tired look on their faces, before facing the two-headed flame snake lizard, we should indeed take a good rest.

"This kind of mushroom is very rare, and some of our hunters here are in this mountain forest to collect this precious mushroom, and it is good luck to find these mushrooms!" said the hunter guide.

The members of the team who were sitting on the sidelines also looked at us curiously.

When Ruka the Minotaur heard that these delicious mushrooms were so valuable, he was very honest and stuffed them into me, and although his Adam's apple kept stirring, he no longer looked at these matsutake mushrooms.

"There are no mushrooms in the Minotaur's recipe, and I think the radishes over there might be a little more crisp to eat!" Ruka gave himself a lame reason.

But I took advantage of the moment he opened his mouth to speak, and stuffed a few mushrooms in my hand into the mouth of Luka the Minotaur, and he didn't finish his sentence...... Chewing these matsutake mushrooms all at once, he looked at me with wide eyes, pointed to the matsutake in his mouth in some panic, I reached out and poked twice on his hairy chest, smiled hehe, and asked him, "How is it, is it delicious?"

He nodded violently, and then he chewed it heavily, carefully tasting the delicious taste of those few matsutake mushrooms, and the impatient mood disappeared without a trace!

The hunter guide sighed softly from the side: "It's a pity!"

Then he said, "This is really a terrible thing, if I cut these mushrooms into thin slices, and I will go hunt and bring back a few grouses and cook soup together, it will be enough for us to drink a delicious meal!"

Ruka the Minotaur also regretted eating all the matsutake mushrooms in one bite, so he quickly squatted down and tried to find more matsutake next to the pine needles that he had opened, but unfortunately he couldn't.

I don't believe that this hunter guide, who is very good at talking, is willing to hunt the notoriously cunning grouse for us, probably because I gave all these matsutake mushrooms to Ruka, and regret and anger, before we found a delicious taste, are for everyone to share a little bit, everyone to share and taste, this time I just gave these matsutake mushrooms to my own subordinates, and the hunter guide who turned calm acceptance into a habit is slightly unbalanced, but everyone in the academy is from a noble background, and their own recuperation is higher, although there will be some ideas, but they will not say it like this。

"It's just a few matsutake mushrooms, and it's nothing special. Since we are here in the mountain city, there are still these delicacies sold in the market in the city, and when we finish hunting the flame snake lizard this time, we will return to the mountain city and I will invite everyone to have a feast of butter-fried matsutake mushrooms!" Seeing a slight little contradiction in the team, because of the complaint of the hunter guide, the members of the team looked at me a little hesitantly, Senior Benjamin sat aside and said.

Mia sat at the root of the tree next to me, looking at me curiously, and the servant she was traveling with was a female swordsman, and she was probably curious about why I was so kind to my servant.

Senior Sister Mia's face is extremely ruddy because of the strenuous exercise, in this extremely hot primeval forest, she is such a weak priest apprentice who can persist with us until now, I admire her very much. Senior Benjamin, dressed in delicate manticore-tailed leather armor, was handing a kettle to Mia-senpai, and he hesitated to find a test-tube-sized bottle of pale yellow potion, and also handed it to Mia.

Senior Sister Mia didn't take the bottle of potion, but just took the kettle in her hand, but the potion was pushed back to Senior Benjamin, and then said: "Wait until I find that two-headed flame snake lizard, I don't know what kind of situation I will encounter, this bottle of physical strength potion should be saved for the battle and then used! I'm not too tired, if I can't walk, let Ellie carry me!"

Ellie was Mia-senpai's female swordsman, and when she heard Mia say her name, she nodded her head this way.

I think a female swordsman like Ellie, maybe it is those civilian students who graduated from the academy before, they will choose to join some aristocratic families after graduation, and have never been the followers of some big people, for some civilian warriors, this is not a way out, at least they can have a life of abundant food and clothing, and unlike joining the adventure party, they always have to face danger, and when they are servants, as long as the noble master does not die by himself, they will generally live a very nourishing life, especially when they are the servants of a future priest, then it is even more beautiful。

I patted Ruka's broad shoulder, and then said to Mia-senpai, "Otherwise, if you sit on Ruka's shoulder in a while, he will walk smoothly and sit comfortably on his broad shoulder!"

Ruka the Minotaur is definitely a warm-hearted person, he doesn't think it's humiliating to sit on his shoulder, and after listening to my advice, he nods honestly and repeatedly.

Mia gave me a grateful look and whispered, "I'm holding on, I'm still going to hold on!"

I also secretly praise Senior Sister Mia's persistence, this young lady from a noble family has a precious character of perseverance.

However, I didn't intend to let go of the hunter guide so simply, it made us a little tired along the way, and I think he deliberately did it, probably to let us noble sons know how difficult it is to adventure in the forest, otherwise once these noble boys are interested in this forest they live on, it will not be a good thing for every hunter in the mountain city.

According to my calculations, if we walk at a slower pace, we will probably arrive in this valley tomorrow morning, in which case we will have a lot of energy, and then spend the whole day searching the valley, in fact, it will not take too much time.

It's like now that we've arrived in the valley early, we're so tired that we can't do anything this afternoon, so we can only choose a suitable place to camp. I think the hunter guide is also very tired, but he doesn't show it, every time he rests, he will quietly strive every minute and every second to recover his strength, some of his careful thoughts, in my eyes, it is difficult to get rid of the mustard in my heart.

But there is nothing to denounce the thoughts of a petty citizen like him, but when he brags that if there are matsutake mushrooms, he will go to the forest to catch a few grouses, and so on......

The grouse is not so easy to catch, although this pheasant has lost the ability to fly, but it can still fly short distances in this dense forest, and it can cross a distance of one or two kilometers from the pine forest with a gentle spread of its wings. Sometimes hunters have to bring their pets with them in order to catch this alert and nimble bird.

Since the hunter guide said so, how can I let him sit here and rest peacefully, and he can be regarded as a real toss for us for the past three days.

Actually, these people don't know that finding those matsutake mushrooms is actually surprisingly easy for me, although these matsutake mushrooms grow under this thick pine needle, and it is difficult to find these matsutake mushrooms without peeling off the pine needles. The places where these matsutake mushrooms grow are very scattered, and it is not easy to find. But no one knows that each matsutake mushroom grows under the pine needle quilt, and before it is harvested, a little water element will gather under the umbrella cap of the matsutake mushroom.

With my current affinity for the water element, it is already the limit to be able to feel the water element in the air, and it is difficult for a high-level magician who has not reached the second rank of the twentieth level to be able to perceive the essence of the water element. However, I have one exception, because I can feel the existence of Sister Guoguo, the spirit of the water element, after entering this valley, Sister Guoguo has become a little active, she is not content to follow me, but floats around casually within a certain range of my side.

At first I thought she was a curiosity about the natural world, maybe it was caused by the extraordinarily strong water element caused by the sultry heat here, but then I found out that it was not because of this, every time she found a place, she would squat down and gently float over, leaning her head over and inhaling gently, her mouth suddenly had a bright fluorescence, and I could feel through her excited and cheerful body at this time, it was actually a small ball of water element essence.

There are a lot of matsutake mushrooms in this valley.

That's right, before Sister Guoguo absorbed it, I still couldn't feel the little bit of water element essence, but only the essence the size of a fingernail was sucked into her mouth, in her light blue translucent body, like a fluorescent firefly, constantly floating in her body, and then absorbed by her little by little, I knew that the essence she inhaled was water elemental essence.

I followed where she had stopped and tried to peel off the pine needles on the ground, and sure enough, I found a few matsutake mushrooms underneath the pine needles. I found that what people call food must have something unique, just like matsutake mushrooms, which can actually gather the essence of the water element, and maybe that's why it's delicious.

I smiled at the hunter guide and said, "Okay, if I can get some more matsutake mushrooms, you'll go hunt some grouses and come back and make soup!"

The hunter guide was also stunned when he looked at me and continued his words, for a noble man like me who was an apprentice in magic, he needed to use honorifics when he spoke.

Now that the words had been spoken, there was no room for repentance, so he said, "You are right, Your Excellency the Magic Apprentice!"

I smiled, sat down next to Benjamin, and said to everyone casually, "Maybe sometime, if we're lucky enough to find some matsutake mushrooms, we'll all be blessed!"

After saying that, I seemed to casually pick up a dry pine tree with the thickness of an egg, and threw it into the distance, as casually as if I was throwing away the miscellaneous things around me.

That's right, that was the place where Sister Guoguo had just left, and she had absorbed two balls of water elemental essence there.

The crooked dead tree smashed to the ground, splashing pine needles everywhere on the ground, revealing a round, earth-colored mushroom......

The honest Ruka ran over curiously and pulled the pine needles away.

"Huh"

He smiled with a smile, and a few matsutake mushrooms lay quietly under the pine needles, and the team suddenly became so quiet!

Some looked at me in surprise, while others looked at the hunter guide with an imperceptible smile...... (To be continued.) )