98. Settlement Remuneration

Turning to the last pages of his nautical diary, a period of time before the hapless first mate went ashore at the beginning of summer, Li Yi discovered something interesting.

"Thirty-two years and fifty-seven days, foggy, rain at night

Today's harvest is good, at noon caught three blue crystal octopus water spirit cubs behind a reef, good quality, it is estimated that you can buy a good price, the real water spirit should be found in the sea, those inland explorer forces will come to the sea every year to buy a large number of high-quality water spirit, around eight o'clock, I caught a huge tuna in the sea, we grilled it, sprinkled with cumin and pepper, it tasted very good.

At noon, it was still foggy, and the captain said that there was a kind of mirage of water spirits that would haunt in foggy weather, and they were aliens who could release illusions in the water spirits, although they could not be compared with specialized phantoms, but the healing and cleaning ability of the water system was something that phantoms lacked, and the auxiliary energy of this spirit was very comprehensive, and I would like to have one, but unfortunately the three spirits have been contracted. In the afternoon, a large ray like a sail appeared in the sea, I didn't see it clearly, it swam very fast. Towards the end of the night, we found a small group of ghostly light floating, the quality is very good, we salvaged it and dried it to make canned food, each gram can be sold for 500 green spirit crystals.

In the evening, the fog was thicker, and there was a light rain, and it was so cold that you thought winter was coming, so we had to stop at the twin islands of Bartoru, an uninhabited desert island, covered with black stones, surrounded by rocky reefs, and it was more dangerous to drive on the sea at night on a foggy night than these dangers, and if you came across the legends, forget it, these unlucky things, what do you want them to do.

Dinner was salted cod fillet, cooked with sauerkraut, along with lime and onions.

A strange thing happened during the night, we heard a melodious singing, the song was as intoxicating as the sweet song of the girl in the bar, I don't know why it appeared at this time, the captain said it was just the sound of the waves washing between the reefs, I don't think so, I really want to see what happened, but the fog is too big, let's stay in the boat.

Good night, dear diary. ”

"No, this is definitely not the sound of waves hitting the reef, according to legend, the ancient water spirit Siren will chant a magic song to lead the ship to the reef and crash it, the song they hear may come from a siren spirit, or it may be a mediocre person disturbing themselves, forget it, I will go and verify it myself, if it is a siren spirit, catch it and sell it for a good price!" Li Yi closed the first mate's navigation diary and made a decision in his heart.

"Zizi!" Felder stirred the fire so high that the dried lynx rolled in the flames, leaving a lot of grease behind, and the grease fell into the fire, and immediately burst into flames a meter long, as if they were fireworks.

"Alright, call it a day!" Felder applied a final coat of condiments to complete the smoking process.

Li Yi took the spider carriage back to the city, he was very kind to let the spider go back, and then went straight to the Valentino Academy affiliated union to hand in the task, the clerk saw him walk in, and thought, "That task won't be completed for him, right?" Suddenly, he saw the white-level explorer badge on Li Yi's chest, and he was immediately a little annoyed, "It turns out that he is just a white-level explorer!" Is it here to cancel the mission? ”

"Bang!" A bloody head was thrown in front of the clerk, and Li Yi cut off the lynx's head as a proof of handing over the task.

"Ahh The clerk was startled, this lynx's head was indeed freshly cut off, it was very fresh, the scar on the left eye was hideous and terrifying, and the incision revealed half of the spine and the bone armor under the skin, judging from the faint golden spiritual pressure it revealed, this was really the monster raised by the cannibal race, and it was killed by this boy who was only twelve or thirteen years old, such a genius is also rare in the history of the mainland!

"Any questions? Isn't it time to settle the payout? Li Yi knocked on the table, he was now bent on going to the sea, hunting for wealth in the vast sea, and the matter here had come to an end.

"This will not be paid to you until our appraiser has completed the appraisal, please wait a moment, the result will be available in the evening." The clerk said respectfully, after all, if you don't look at Li Yi's age, he is also a powerful explorer who can kill gold-level spirits, such a person is worthy of respect.

"Well, I see, then I'll come back in the evening, trouble." Li Yi didn't think it was wrong, and slowly walked out of the union hall, he was going to eat his lunch.

After wandering around the city for an afternoon, I finally saw that it was almost dusk, Li Yi came to the union again, the appraiser had already been to the indigenous tribe, checked the traces of the battle and some details, Li Yi got paid smoothly, when he left the union, he weighed the money bag in his hand, and said to the clerk with a smile: "By the way, when I went to the indigenous tribe to complete the task, I had a quarrel with some students of your college, well, it was a student named Jonas and a student named Aldana, there were about six or seven people, The quarrel that happened was nothing more than a trivial matter, their bodies were a meal on the table of the natives, I am Dimante Dis of the Sky Academy, if you have any questions, go to the Sky Academy to find me. ”

The clerk was stunned, but he quickly calmed down, first, he was just a clerk, and this kind of thing was not his turn, and second, the other party was a student of the Sky Academy, and Jonas and Aldana were killed if they were killed, and the academy would not come forward for them.

"The academy won't care about this kind of thing, you have to be careful of the family behind them." He thought for a while and told Li Yi in such words.

"It's okay." Li Yi chuckled and shook his head, this was not in his consideration, anyway, he was going to leave here, and it was very convenient to push everything to Diamante Dis.

After the clerk reported the matter to the academy's higher-ups, the Valentino Academy did not say anything, but only told the news to the Livia and Loida families, to which Jonas and Aldana belonged respectively, and the matter seemed to settle down like this.

"Hmph, the academy won't say anything at all, but their family will definitely send a killer to assassinate me for the sake of face, it is very likely to be a gold-level explorer, the joint pursuit of the two families is very troublesome, I will definitely not be able to fight head-on, then I can only escape." Li Yi speculated that he abandoned the boat that had been parked outside the city-state and went into the dense forests in the north, preparing to cross the FranΓ§o-Les Mountains, go directly to the city-state of Jedman, and then go to sea.

Li Yi walked on the road to the forest in the north of the city, the cold wind was howling at night, and he was numb from the cold, he suddenly remembered that he was walking in a hurry, and he hadn't eaten dinner yet, but there were bread and cooked ham, soda and some vodka in the space ring, which was enough to deal with.

The dead grass on the side of the road curled, circling in the whirlpool in the wind, behind him was the lights of thousands of homes in the city-state, but it was pitch black in front of him, and the faint starlight could not see the path, Li Yi was a little uncomfortable, he preferred to take a comfortable boat, drink a cup of hot coffee in his bedroom, make some herring to eat, and read a book of essays or a book on psychology.

"Isn't it cost-effective to save Domingo, but get chased by two middle forces? This account has to be counted on his head, I don't know how high the potential value of this big nose is, and then use him to do something when he is stronger in the future, a person is too thin. Li Yi stomped his foot, the patent leather boots were not very warm.

Just when he heard the sound of the leaves in the forest brushing in the evening breeze not far away, a strange bass suddenly sounded in the sky, as if something was flying at high speed and low altitude, Li Yi turned around, and something seemed to be flying towards him in the sky above the city-state!

"What is this?" Li Yi took out a small telescope and held it in front of him, "Oh my God! Damn, how did they know I was running away into the forest? These two families have so many eyeliners in the city-state, and they deserve to be the head snakes of the land. ”

I could see clearly through the binoculars that the UFO was a huge ethereal, the blue feathers and tail feathers shimmered like silk, and the four powerful wings flapped, and the speed increased suddenly, shooting like a blue light! What's even more terrifying is that as it accelerates to the extreme, a thunderous sonic boom sounds, and a translucent sound cone bursts out.

"Run!" Li Yi ran away, it was not wise to fight the ethereal spirit on the open flat ground, and the woods could greatly reduce the power of the ethereal spirit. He asked Alger to find the green-level spider venom, although the ethereal speed of this chasing can break through the sound barrier at once, but in the forest, it is still the world of reptiles.

"Damn it, aren't they afraid of the revenge of the Dimante Dis family? Alas, killing two high-ranking heirs is really easy to arouse the anger of these family-style organizations! It seems that the local forces, big and small, are twisted together, but they are not afraid of the Sky Academy. Li Yi underestimated his opponent a little, and now he can only flee without his life.

Suddenly, he sensed that five hundred meters behind him, three spirits and a human were rapidly approaching!

"I know that there are also chasers on the ground, the one in the air is at least a gold-level mid-level ethereal, my three spirits can't be beaten together, the three spirits behind them have two fire spirits, a healing water spirit, and the two fire spirits are the gold-level primary and green-level peaks, and the water spirits are also the green-level peak, this combination is not easy to deal with, damn, they want to set fire to the forest!" Li Yi ran quickly in the forest, Felder and Alger also understood that the matter was urgent, the spider was found, Li Yi changed into the spider carriage and continued to flee in the forest.

Chasing Li Yi on the ground was a middle-aged explorer, who was wearing a peaked cap with gray blonde hair under the brim, a monocle reflector on his right eye, black leather gloves on both hands, and a wide muntjac fur coat that made him look a little bloated. The gold-level fire spirit beside him was an upright beast, covered with a smooth and shiny blood-red shell, with a sphere on its head, ellipsoids on its abdomen, and cylinders on its arms. Its eyes were two crescent-shaped holes, through which crimson flames could be seen burning within the monster's skull.

The other green-level peak fire spirit was in an ugly form, its body was covered in pimple-like crust and mutated connective tissue, its face was distorted, and its nostrils were barely recognizable perpendicular to the ground, and it was the size of an adult bull, but it only reached the waist of a geometric monster.

"I heard that this genius killed the eighth heir of the family, Aldana, and he can fight and kill a gold-level spirit at a young age, although he is a native-raised spirit without any formal training, but there is no doubt that there is no heir in the family who can compare to his genius, those big forces have gathered the best quality young explorers on the continent, and we can only eat the rest. It's a pity that this little genius is going to die at the hands of me Gordoncio today! The middle-aged explorer spoke in a half-baked local dialect, with a mocking smile in his eyes, "These genius explorers think that they come from some big force, and with a little ability, they can do whatever they want, how can this world be as simple as you think!" ”

"Boom!" Li Yi felt the heat wave rolling behind him, and the geometric monster shot out crimson burning rays from its eyes and mouth, and the extreme heat caused the parts of those trees that were swept by the rays to directly carbonize and volatilize, and they broke off from the middle, and then burned into a raging fire.

The other fire spirit was no less impressive, spitting out large strands of black grease, which ignited like an explosion as soon as it fell into the fire, and the tongues of fire that spewed everywhere could leap out of the ground for ten meters, and the whole ground burned red, and large swaths of earth cracked apart, making a beeping sound.

"That grease contains a lot of flammable substances, which can burn out in just ten seconds, and then release a terrible heat, even steel!" Li Yi was terrified when he saw it, Isabella used illusion to stimulate the nerves of the spider poison spirit to the extreme, which was equivalent to burning its life in exchange for a momentary explosion.

"Run faster! Damn it, oh my! Li Yi watched as a puddle of black slime shot from behind was ignited in the air, and then a terrifying flame burst out like an incendiary bomb, Felder propped up a three-dimensional shield to keep the heat wave and smoke out, and those twisted flames came to his face as if he was about to be swallowed by hell.

At this time, the blue ethereal spirit in the sky also began to struggle, the air twisted, countless transparent air masses condensed, and swept into the forest like hail in the high-speed rotation, the strong air flow blew the trees one after another, Li Yi felt as if he was rolling in the stormy waves, but fortunately he didn't get motion sickness.

Those airburst bombs were wrapped in golden empty spiritual power vortices, and as soon as they exploded, they flew out one after another, and the high-speed air flow cut through them like blades, whether it was trees or rocks, they were all shattered in these vortexes.

"Boss! Give me a raise! Felder struggled to hold off a deadly vortex, and those sharp empty spiritual powers cut through his body, rubbing against the rusty armor with a piercing grinding sound.

"If you can go back and kill those two fire spirits, it's all good!" Li Yi was chased and killed with nowhere to escape, the other party was just a wave of tentative attacks, which made him stumble, if he fled like this, he would undoubtedly die.

"yes, boss, if we don't kill that explorer, we'll all die!" Felder held up the vortex and drew a firestorm of black grease to other places.

"There is only a sixty percent chance of winning the raid back, and this is the result of Achilles' Pupil of Insight." Isabella reported.

"When did the eyeballs have this function? Yes, there is a chance to win, that means I can win, guys, go back and kill that crumb! Li Yi was in good spirits.