abnabooks Chapter 2: The Prey?
Chapter 2: The Prey?
Luo Feng hid in a place and waited quietly.
Half an hour passed.
An hour passed.
"Waiting like this doesn't seem like a solution... Enslaving a Qi spirit can create a second avatar, so could this Qi spirit be the life form here?"
"Or some other special kind of being?"
Luo Feng thought to himself.
Glug glug.
My stomach rumbled, and my intestines churned.
"Are you still feeling hungry?"
He hadn't had a proper meal because of hunger for a long time, and he never expected that coming to this world would feel like returning to his life in the past Earth during the Nirvana period.
With his gaze fixed on the village not far away, Luo Feng fell into deep thought:
"Perhaps we should try using the Qi Spirit Slave Seal first. If we can successfully enslave it, then we can learn about this world first, and then find a way to obtain cultivation information."
He possessed complete memories, and in his view, as long as he knew the cultivation methods of this world, cultivation would not be difficult for him.
The prerequisite is to solve the information problem.
This world is too bizarre; it's completely giving him no way to survive... Even tiny wild animals can bully him. Apart from his time on Earth, when have he ever suffered such treatment?
He is now certain that coming into this world is essentially the same as starting over.
We have to take it slowly.
Luo Feng made a decision.
It moved its position slowly.
The entire area around the village was barren, with no hiding places, clearly designed to prevent wild animals from sneaking in, making it difficult for him to approach during the day.
Luo Feng chose a place where hunters might pass by and hid himself completely.
Looking through the bushes at those tall figures, these guards and hunters only moved around and talked at the edge of the village, showing no intention of moving at all.
The hunger pangs in his stomach grew stronger and stronger, and only then did he realize that the little energy he had left in his body seemed to be slowly draining away.
The stronger the feeling of hunger, the faster this energy is lost.
"This can't go on. We need to figure out how to get some food first."
Just as Luo Feng was about to retreat, preparing to go hunting in the wild.
Suddenly, my gaze sharpened as a muscular figure approached from a blind spot around a corner.
He saw it clearly.
A patrolman.
It has two hands and two feet, and its overall shape is somewhat similar to that of a human. It also has horns on its head... Only when Luo Feng looked at it did he notice that it looked similar to the World Envoy.
The man kept a close eye on the bushes in the mountains, constantly scanning from hidden spots. In one hand he held the bow and arrow, the arrow already nocked, ready to be drawn and released at any moment.
His gaze swept over the area where Luo Feng was, then suddenly stopped, as if he had sensed something.
Without the slightest hesitation, he drew the bowstring taut in an instant.
Immediately following.
brush!
The arrow, released from its bow, transformed into a blur, hurtling towards the spot where Luo Feng was crouching.
It was incredibly fast.
Fortunately, Luo Feng had been keeping a close watch, and before the bow was even released, he had already quickly dodged away.
"***#￥@!*"
The patrolman with a bow and arrow spoke a language that Luo Feng couldn't understand at all, and he couldn't even understand what it meant.
As soon as he finished speaking, he aimed his bow at Luo Feng's escape route once again and drew it.
Luo Feng dodged it.
He glanced at it and breathed a sigh of relief. The arrow had pierced the soil; judging by its size, if it had landed on his body, he might not have been able to stop it.
The patrolman was shouting loudly, but Luo Feng still couldn't understand what he was saying. He could see that about one-fifth of the guards and hunters around the village entrance ran towards him after hearing the shout.
"This is troublesome."
Luo Feng was certain that the other party had seen him, but the other party showed no intention of communicating at all.
More importantly, they don't speak the same language and can't even understand each other's meanings, so they probably can't communicate.
"Hello, I mean no harm."
While the guy was still waiting for the third bow, Luo Feng tried to calm him down through conversation and gestures.
He smiled, indicating that he had no malicious intent to attack.
The patrolman looked at Luo Feng, saw his smile and eyes, which seemed to have no malice, and lowered his bow and arrow.
Seeing Luo Feng's appearance, he guessed that Luo Feng was a different race from them, and also an intelligent life form, only that they could not understand each other's language.
Seeing the other party's actions, Luo Feng thought he had a chance.
This way, we can save ourselves some trouble.
He tried to emerge from the low bushes, keeping a smile on his face, and attempted to communicate with the other person using various gestures.
The patrolman had a bewildered look on his face, but he didn't make any further moves to draw his bow.
The five creatures that were heading this way slowed down from their running pace.
Upon approaching, two of the five men were also carrying bows and arrows. They looked at Luo Feng warily, ready to shoot him if he made any unfriendly move.
Among the five figures, Luo Feng sensed that one of the tall and muscular figures possessed an exceptionally powerful aura.
This guy's aura was far stronger than the other four. He was also the core of the five, with the other four surrounding him.
Luo Feng's instincts told him that it was very dangerous.
If that guy were to shoot an arrow, he might not be able to dodge it.
"Hello, everyone," Luo Feng said, greeting the five people with a smile and gestures.
"!@#￥%&……"
The one leading the group spoke in a language Luo Feng couldn't understand at all, and gestured with his hands as if inviting him to the village.
The others lowered their guard considerably when they looked at Luo Feng, and were filled with curiosity about this person who was so different from them.
Luo Feng nodded and gestured that he wanted to follow them to the village.
Since these six beings did not take action at this time, it means that they still accept external life forms like him. Since they accept them, there must be opportunities for communication.
It's a good thing that we can communicate and exchange ideas.
Luo Feng walked beside the one with the strongest aura, while the other four, along with the patrolman, also headed towards the village.
"Captain Dano, we've never seen this guy before, and we don't know where he comes from or why he's here. He's so weak, I feel like he's about the same size as me, he doesn't seem like a wandering adventurer."
"I don't know. Let's see if we can communicate with him later," replied Dano, the powerful archer.
"Our captain is the strongest archer in our 'Maoshan Village,' and even someone with his skill level can't be a wanderer. How could this guy possibly be a wanderer? Any one or two of the 'fierce beasts' in the wild could easily tear him to pieces and devour him. I think it's purely an accident that he came here."
Luo Feng couldn't understand a word of what the group was saying.
But he could sense that these guys were probably talking about him.
"If this were just a village, these people wouldn't have much exposure to the world and wouldn't know anything about an outsider like me."
Luo Feng was unsure how these beings would treat outsiders.
Looking at them now, their expressions all seem normal, even somewhat simple and honest.
"..."
"By the way, I heard some secrets from the clan chief before. It's possible that we have visitors from outer space here. Could this strange fellow be a visitor from outer space? Has our Maoshan Village ever had visitors from outer space?"
"have no idea."
Discussion broke out again, and they looked Luo Feng up and down once more.
"If he is a visitor from outer space, then this guy is our blessing. If the clan chief offers a visitor from outer space to the great mountain god, the mountain god will surely bestow some 'spiritual aperture pearls' upon our Maoshan Village. At that time, those of us who do not have 'heavenly apertures' can also awaken our Qi senses and cultivate normally."
"How about we just send him to the clan chief? If he's an extraterrestrial, the clan chief should have a way to detect it. If he really is an extraterrestrial, then we'll be rich."
These people kept discussing.
Luo Feng noticed that as he spoke, the way these people looked at him changed again.
This changed gaze was very faint, but Luo Feng had seen too many people to miss it at a glance; the gaze had suddenly taken on a different meaning.
This made him feel like prey, the prey entering the hunter's area, and a bad feeling arose in his heart.
One moment he was praising the villagers for their simplicity, the next he felt like he was the prey being targeted. This reversal caught him off guard.
At that moment, the captain, Dano, also looked at him.