Chapter 5: Strange Prefix
“Hoo-hoo~”
Wu Xiu, carrying his long robe, ran wildly and gasped heavily along the way, while behind him, a hungry wolf with red eyes drooling continuously chased after him.
As a scholar who had achieved the title of a successful candidate from a wealthy family, he felt regretful in his heart. Could it be that he would die here today?
At the thought of this, he regretted deeply. What was he doing out in the wild at this time of year?
It was just his bad luck to encounter a wild wolf. Not only was he unfortunate, but there were also some other classmates out here for an outing. It’s just that he had a little too much to drink, so he walked a bit further to relieve himself. As a result, just after he finished, he was targeted by this wild wolf.
Moreover, this wolf happened to block his way back, and in a panic, he could only run with all his might.
Once he started running, he ran for nearly half an hour, almost exhausting himself to death. Fortunately, his will to survive was very firm. Even though he was exhausted, as soon as he saw the hungry wolf behind him, he immediately found the strength to keep going. If it caught him, he would really be doomed.
“Oh no, today seems to be an unavoidable death. Wait, it seems like there’s someone there.”
Wu Xiu looked up and suddenly saw a strange figure not far away, dressed in tight wooden armor and with a sudden draw of a bow to shoot an arrow.
Swoosh!!! The sound of the wooden arrow piercing the air grazed his earlobe and shot straight towards the wolf chasing him from behind.
With a crack of bones, he turned back to see that the evil wolf had been pierced through the head by the wooden arrow and died on the spot.
Seeing this scene, Wu Xiu finally heaved a sigh of relief.
He was completely exhausted, but he managed to walk over to the strange figure and gratefully said, “Thank you for saving my life, hero.”
The strange figure was none other than Chen Xiyi, who watched as the white dot on the map gradually turned green.
[Scholar Wu Xiu, HP: 98%, Status: Still scared, grateful, tired]
[You rescued Wu Xiu, the Scholar, from the exiled Wolf King. Wu Xiu, the Scholar’s favorability towards you +1, current favorability: 0.5 stars]
[You have added a friend: Wu Xiu, the Scholar]
Chen Xiyi looked puzzled. How could there be a friend system, and why add an NPC?
And what kind of name was this? He had thought that the “Newborn Otherworldly Devil” was the name of a monster, but it turned out that “Newborn” was a prefix, and “Otherworldly Devil” was the type of monster, just like Wu Xiu, the Scholar.
He opened the friend system and indeed saw a new friend.
[Friends (1/1)]
[Wu Xiu, the Scholar: Online, favorability: 0.5 stars]
“If this person dies, shouldn’t it show that they’re offline?” Chen Xiyi was somewhat speechless because there were outsiders present, so he couldn’t openly criticize.
More importantly, he understood what the other person said, which meant that in this sandbox game, there was an embedded language pack, so he didn’t have to worry about encountering language barriers in a different world.
“You’re welcome, just a small effort.” Chen Xiyi said in a muffled voice, then turned towards the exiled Wolf King’s dead body.
He found it strange that nothing had dropped.
Flipping through the log, he found a record. It was supposed to be that killing this exiled Wolf King would make it disappear like the newborn Otherworldly Devil before, and then drop something.
“A one-shot kill? The damage seems a bit high, is it because this wolf is weaker than the Otherworldly Devil?”
“It seems that the attack of the wooden bow and arrow locks onto the target, as long as it is shot, it hits. Is it because of the game mechanics?” Chen Xiyi knew that with his abilities, he couldn’t have hit the wolf at all.
【You used a wooden bow to shoot a wooden arrow and dealt 100% damage to the exiled Wolf King】
【You have killed the exiled Wolf King】
Chen Xiyi walked over and found a note on the wolf’s corpse.
【The wolf corpse shot by the wooden arrow, HP: 0%, Status: Dead, Collectible, Decaying】
The name changed from the exiled Wolf King to the wolf corpse shot by the wooden arrow, and its vitality naturally returned to zero. The status changed from extreme hunger to three.
Death was normal, and decaying was probably due to it rotting, even though it just died.
But the fact that it was collectible was interesting, so Chen Xiyi immediately chose to collect from the wolf corpse.
【Collecting: 1% 50% 100%】
【You collected the wolf corpse shot by the wooden arrow, and obtained: 1 Wolf Pelt, 1 unit of Wolf Meat, 5 Wolf Teeth.】
The wolf corpse disintegrated in an instant, turning into a large number of materials that entered Chen Xiyi’s body.
“Interesting, unlike directly obtaining items from Otherworldly Devils, you need to collect the items from this wolf corpse yourself, like looting a corpse?”
Chen Xiyi found it somewhat amusing.
On the other side, Wu Xiu’s eyes widened in disbelief. This scene was unheard of for him.
A perfectly good wolf corpse, and that weird person standing on the side for just a short while, the wolf corpse was split into white light and flew into the other person’s body.
Thinking about being in the desolate mountains and encountering such phenomena, Wu Xiu was momentarily at a loss, not even daring to take deep breaths.
In this situation, it was either encountering immortals or encountering demons.
He couldn’t afford to offend either.
However, upon closer inspection, it didn’t seem like a demon. After all, demons in the records were described with green faces and fierce appearances.
Moreover, he had just been saved, so if the other party was truly a demon, he might have been devoured on the spot earlier; would the person still be talking now?
At first glance, it seemed more like an immortal, especially with the wooden armor on the person, which was similar to the idols worshipped in temples.
After going through this mental exercise, Wu Xiu truly believed that he had encountered an immortal.
Seeing Chen Xiyi walking towards him, Wu Xiu hurriedly bowed and said, “This junior has seen the immortal. Thank you, immortal, for saving my life. If there are any orders, this junior will definitely comply.”
Since it was an immortal, he had to quickly show his respect.
Leaving other thoughts aside, just now, Chen Xiyi’s actions had been classified as immortal techniques.
This made Chen Xiyi somewhat vigilant. The other party seemed so decisive; could there be cultivators or immortals existing in this world?
If that were the case, it would put him in a passive position. What if a powerful being appeared from somewhere and captured him? Therefore, he could only discreetly inquire about the situation.
“You’re welcome. Have you encountered any other fellow cultivators like me?”
Upon hearing Chen Xiyi’s words, Wu Xiu couldn’t help but get excited – he truly believed the person was an immortal.
“I have not encountered any. Immortal, you are the first immortal I’ve met,” Wu Xiu quickly responded.
This ambiguous statement left Chen Xiyi indecisive. One possibility was that there really was an immortal that this scholar named Wu Xiu couldn’t see.
The other possibility was that there was no immortal at all, and the other person mistook him for an immortal.
“Well, then, tell me about this world first,” Chen Xiyi decided to take a casual approach in order to gather information about the world before proceeding further.
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