Act 15 Journey (I)

When the former mage struggled to climb ashore from the river bank, the sky gradually became brighter.

Ge Tongluo, who struggled to fish Avis out of the river, stood up straight, shook the water droplets on his hair, and finally glanced at Avis helplessly: "To be honest, you are more able to run away than I thought... I thought I had to take action to save you. It seems that the magician has enough methods."

"Ahem..." Avis opened his mouth wide and finally coughed up a water stain that choked into his lungs. He took a long time to breathe, and then he felt the oxygen enter his lungs again. He lay on the grass, looking at the black clouds slowly floating on his head and the stars representing gods in the sky, feeling the late breeze of early summer. After a long time, he said, "Ge Tongluo, I (beep--) you!"

"At that time, there needs to be someone to attract everyone's attention." Ge Tongluo squatted down and said, "So one of us must escape invisibly, and after we leave the encirclement, we will save another person. And I think with your strength, it will not fall into their hands... I have no intention of harming you, or do you think I should let you drown in the water?"

Ivis sat up and said, "Why don't you discuss it with me?"

"Will you agree?"

"Of course not!"

Ge Tongluo made a 'will be tied' expression and continued: "Go back and get your luggage, we are going to set off."

"Ha?" Ives felt that he really couldn't keep up with the wanderer's thinking. Ge Tongluo glanced at Ives and continued, "Don't you think you can still take risks here safely after offending the 'Fire Axe', right? So take the bag, we are going to run away - if you are an ordinary person, or there are many unobtrusive methods. But now you are a wizard, and the Fire Axe just goes to the town to find out which magicians have come recently. You are destined to be unable to escape, so take the bag, we have to go to a new place..."

Ivis felt like he was being tricked by this wanderer from beginning to end. He sighed and continued, "I think killing you now and using your head to exchange for the trust of the Blazing Axe should be a good choice..."

"Since you said it, it proves that you don't plan to do this."

"Okay." Avis smiled bitterly, "I admit that I can't beat you now..." Then he stood up and shook off the water droplets on his body. He has no magic position now, and facing a level 5 thief, he really has no confidence to defeat him. Ge Tongluo glanced at Avis and suddenly laughed: "I am missing a teammate now, and suddenly I feel that you are not bad. Do you want to travel together?"

"Do you think I'll agree?" Avis looked surprised, "You just cheated me."

"But you don't seem to have a choice." Ge Tongluo smiled mysteriously, "or do you think you can escape the pursuit of the Blazing Axe alone? With your IQ that is only good at studying and not cheating people?"

"Ahhh! You underestimate me too! I also have dignity! I will never join you, a guy who is full of conspiracy!"

...

The sunlight at noon is a little soft, and the authority of the sun god Pandoshi focuses on the entire earth. In legend, the sun god has three untiring horses, which pull the sun from a corner of the earth across the entire continent in one day, bringing endless light and heat to the world.

The chirping of birds came from his ears. Avis, who was closing his eyes and resting, was awakened by the shaking of his companions. Open his eyes, the extremely bright world, and the soft sunlight rendered the earth into a golden world. The short hills in the distance, scattered huts between the fields, and you can also see people and animals farming. The farmland next to him was full of crops. With a breeze blowing, these green wheat ears were swaying in the wind. The sight slowly retracted. Avis saw some windmills that were five or even seven people high. The windmills were still making a 'crunch' sound when they were turning. The carriage that Avis was riding drove past the windmills, and Avis also saw several children running around the windmills...

"What's wrong?" Avis turned his head and looked at his companion beside him. Ge Tongluo was playing with a green dagger in his hand. He kept playing with the dagger back and forth, almost dancing afterimages - according to him, he was familiar with the sensing of weapons. Avis estimated that the wanderer at this level in front of him, who was about to level five, should have been a master-level figure of such a weapon.

"You have been sleeping for five hours." Ge Tongluo put the dagger back into the cowhide dagger sheath on his waist. He looked at Avis with a hint of mockery, "And you slept very hard and had no sense of crisis at all. If I had this heart, you should have died hundreds of times."

"Hey." Avis shook his head helplessly. Before traveling through time, he was an otaku who was squatting in front of the computer to play games. Although his fighting skills were trained by highly realistic games, how can an otaku be vigilant while sleeping?

"We should have dinner." Ge Tongluo blocked all the angry words of Avis, and smiled and took out the hard dry bread that could be used as a hammer and a pot of water. Avis's face froze: "Just let me go..."

"This kind of bread is easier to preserve than the cured and bacon you prepared before, and it is easier to make people eat. If you bring food as you did before, we may not live for three days. Now it's two weeks." Ge Tongluo said, "And after soaking this kind of bread, you can still taste it, don't you taste it?"

So Avis ate the bread. His impression was that he was eating wood. But what he had to admit was that this bread was quite filling. In order to prevent physical energy from passing away, they also cooked a pot of soup. The main ingredients were a slight meat and some easy-to-preserve vegetables, which was a plant similar to cabbage. Ge Tongluo, who had rich experience in the wild, also found some wild vegetables and put them in. The driver they invited to drive also ate some miscellaneous soup. As for Avis's valuable pure-blooded plain horse, which was used as a carriage horse, he ate the weeds on his own. Ge Tongluo looked at the majestic horse with his eyes flashing, and he didn't know what he was thinking about.

"If you dare to slaughter it and eat meat, I will duel with you now."

The young mage's vicious voice sounded in the wanderer's ears. The wanderer helped spread his hands: "It's too expensive to raise this horse... It has to eat food made of beans once a week, right? Although it can be allowed to eat some weeds at will, it will be detrimental to its health if it lasts for a long time... In other words, we have to pay an extra 3 gold coins a week with it. Well, it's about the same expense as our two monthly expenses."

"How difficult we have to live, we only spend three gold coins in a month! Wait, did you just say 'two of us'? Two of us spend three gold coins together?"

"If you sell it, you should have a thousand gold coins..."

"Hey! I bought it for ten times more than that! Well, why do you look at me with the eyes of the sucker?"

"Nothing." Ge Tongluo sighed, "I just saw the corruption of the noble life."

After playing with Avis for a while, Ge Tongluo looked at the pure-blooded plain horse: "But... there are many benefits to having such a good horse in the team. At least it is used to pull the carriage quite fast..."

"Apologize to it! It is a war horse that can bear the charge of the heavy armored knight!"

"Haha." The coachman who was invited by Avis and his two men with a silver coin smiled. He took a sip of the mixed soup with only a little meat in front of him, and smiled: "This horse is really good, very strong and not wild. If you keep it, you won't need to consider the need to change horses for at least five years."

Ge Tongluo looked shocked with a look of "You can save money", and Ivis no longer had the desire to complain.

After eating and drinking, the carriage continued to move forward. Ge Tongluo played with the dagger on his waist again, and Avis was no longer sleepy. He found a magic book from the side and added a trick "vision optimization" to prevent his vision from being myopic due to incorrect reading postures. He knew that many mages lost their most precious vision in this way.

Ge Tongluo played with the dagger for a while, then said to Ivis: "By the way, I'll remind you that we are about five hours away from Xueman City now."

"So fast." Avis expressed his shock at their speed of progress. Ge Tongluo nodded: "You should sigh that your horse's endurance is really superb. He ran at such a speed and was not tired all day long. By the way, if you want to enter Xueman City, you will pass through a canyon... It is impossible to verify what its original name is. Now we all call it Death Canyon. Be careful, there are many robbers inside."

"Why do I feel that as long as you say this, we will definitely meet robbers?"

"Because we can't avoid it." Ge Tongluo said, "Of course, most robbers are just seeking money. We just pass a few small money by sending us. Small teams like us who don't have much money but may have a large background, and generally no one will care about them."

"I hope so."

Avis changed to a more comfortable sitting position and read the magic book in his hand. Ge Tongluo looked at the big guy who had a headache at first glance: "Why do magicians like to read?"

"There is Yan Ruyu in the book, and the golden house in the book!"

"ah?"

Ge Tongluo said that he really couldn't understand this strange common word translated from Chinese.

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I made some changes. After reading this chapter, my friends should have seen that the protagonist's emotional intelligence is not high. He belongs to the type that "looks very powerful". Although he has a very high talent in spells, he is a science student...

In the second version, perception is also called wisdom. The attribute of our protagonist is 12, so he is a typical high IQ and low EQ. If he wants him to plot against others, it is really overestimated.
Chapter completed!