Earthbreaker's biggest feature was the realism of living creatures. No matter how high the level of a creature was, even if it was a giant dragon, as long as you had the opportunity to hit a vital point and the attack was strong enough, you could still cause considerable or even massive damage. So … after the tenth poisoned arrowhead pierced the Scorpion King's eye socket and caused a splash of blood, the huge Scorpion King no longer made a sound.
The Scorpion King was dead, but Roddy did not feel relieved at all.
He bypassed the Scorpion King and sprinted towards Sally. The fluorescent scorpions in the distance had already dispersed due to the Scorpion King's death. Fortunately, that was the case. Otherwise, what Roddy would see would be the scene of Sally being drowned by countless scorpions.
But the current situation was not optimistic at all. Sally had been stung by the poisonous scorpions a few times and her life was in danger at any time. If it was in the past, these scorpion venoms would not be surprising at all, because the players would definitely carry antidotes. But now, even alchemists were a scarce resource in the territory, let alone antidotes. Where would they find the antidote materials?
"Damn it!"
When Roddy saw Sally's appearance, he still felt as if he had come too late. He picked up the unconscious girl and got up to confirm the direction. He did not care about the dead Scorpion King at all, and carried her as he ran madly towards Stello Creek. To deal with scorpion venom, other than using antidotes, the other method that the players had developed was to soak the whole body in water to wake the victim up from the illusion. As for the poison …
Roddy could only hope that Sally's HP could survive this.
Because it took a lot of time to prepare the trap, the day after killing the Scorpion King was already dimly lit. Roddy effortlessly found the source of Stello Creek — a small pool with a slightly elevated terrain. Without saying a word, he jumped into the cold water with Sally in his arms.
The temperature of the cool spring water was extremely low, causing him to shiver uncontrollably. However, he still continued to walk towards the deep end. In the end, only Sally's face was exposed to the surface of the water. Roddy, who was frozen stiff, hugged the girl's delicate body tightly in his arms, trying his best to support her body to float in the water, anxiously waiting for her to recover from the illusion.
If she couldn't recover, then there was only one possibility — the damage caused by the poison was too much for her to bear, and she would die from losing all her HP.
This was the place where the Scorpion King, Therix, had polluted the water source. Roddy was very familiar with the terrain. The final mission given to the players by the Wood Elf Village was to kill Therix and hand over the poison gland in his stinger to the village chief in exchange for a reward. However, all of this happened two years later. Two years ago today, would the Wood Elves still need the players' help to kill the Scorpion King?
Roddy was considering whether he could go to the Wood Elf Village to seek help. He understood the Wood Elf language, but the conservative Wood Elves probably wouldn't easily accept the appearance of humans. Even after the Wood Elf Village gradually opened up due to the influx of players two years later, there were still many Wood Elves who disregarded or even viewed humans with hostility.
However, at this time, only the Wood Elves probably had the ingredients to make antidotes.
Thinking of this, Roddy was burning with anxiety. He lowered his head to check on Sally's injuries, but he didn't expect to see a pair of bright and round eyes.
Sally didn't know how she woke up. She only knew that she was running helplessly in a dream-like illusion until the world suddenly collapsed in the bone-chilling cold. What appeared in front of her was Roddy's anxious face with his brows tightly furrowed.
At this moment, Sally felt confused. She seemed to have forgotten what she had just experienced, and even forgot who the man in front of her was. However, when the memories came flooding back, her gaze changed from confusion to uncontrollable fear. When Roddy's face became clear in her eyes, Sally finally came back to her senses, but then she did something that even she couldn't imagine.
She stretched out her arms and almost instinctively hugged Roddy tightly.
Sally didn't know why she was so excited after confirming that Roddy was still alive. Although Sally had learned to "handle things calmly" since she was young, she obviously couldn't control her emotions at this moment.
The two young people who had only met each other for less than a week were quietly hugging each other in the ice-cold pool. They seemed to have forgotten about the dangerous jungle environment around them, and even more so about the thrilling experience of killing the Scorpion King together.
Roddy felt as if Sally was trying to squeeze all the air out of his chest. It was as if the one strangling him was not a human but an octopus. However, this obviously wasn't the reason why he was still in a daze.
Speaking of which, Roddy's heart at this moment was far more shocked than Sally's.
In his impression, an ordinary level 8 player wouldn't be able to resist more than four attacks from the Scorpion King, let alone a petite and weak girl like Sally. Moreover, the Scorpion King's poison not only created illusions, but also had a strong paralyzing effect. For humans, unless they used antidotes, even a level 10 player would be paralyzed for half a day.
But now, not only was Sally not paralyzed and unconscious, she was also conscious and her eyes were clear. Her hands tightly strangled Roddy, as if she had never been injured.
After remaining silent for ten seconds, Roddy finally came back to his senses. He hurriedly carried Sally out of the stream and sat on the dry grass beside the pool, his whole body drenched. After sneezing a few times, he didn't even have time to take off his jacket. He moved closer to Sally's legs and carefully examined the wounds.
At this moment, he couldn't care about etiquette at all because the Scorpion King's poison had mysteriously "lost its effect". It was really something he couldn't understand …
Sally's small legs were slender and weak. Because she didn't have any protection when she passed through the forest, there were many scratches and stab wounds. But at this moment, the most conspicuous ones were the red and swollen marks from the Scorpion King's bites. Roddy counted and his heart thumped – because there were a total of 12 stab wounds.
Roddy swallowed his saliva. He was very clear that, according to common sense, Sally should be dead by now.
"Character information."
Without thinking too much, Roddy said such an unimaginable sentence in front of Sally. Then he looked at the data that appeared on top of Sally's head and frowned even more – because it showed that she still had more than 60% HP left.
"Is it poison purification? Or … poison immunity? That's not right … "
Roddy sat in the same place gloomily, his tone was filled with undisguised surprise. But when he looked up and wanted to say something to Sally, the words were suddenly stuck in his throat.
Because her clothes were completely wet, the linen dress was completely stuck to Sally's body, completely revealing the outline of her body in front of Roddy. Although Roddy was an otaku who had a painful relationship experience, it didn't mean that he didn't understand the beauty of a woman's body. At this moment, a young and beautiful girl was sitting in front of him in a wet state. If Roddy said that he didn't have any reaction, it would be a lie.
Awkward, at a loss.
Sally also noticed this, but she got out of the awkward situation faster than Roddy and said: "I … I don't feel like there's anything wrong with me. Can I start a fire to dry my clothes now?"
Roddy's eyes moved away, no longer daring to stay on Sally's body. He trembled as he got up, lowered his head and replied: "Wait here, I'll go get some firewood."
He turned around and walked a few steps, then suddenly stopped and said with his back facing Sally: "It's best to take off your clothes. If you keep wearing them, you'll get sick."
Sally's face instantly turned red. She originally wanted to ignore Roddy's opinion, but after a cold wind blew in the morning, Sally couldn't help but sneeze. Thinking of Roddy's attitude towards her, Sally trembled and stretched out her hand.
Roddy, who had walked a hundred meters away, wasn't worried that there would be any monsters attacking Sally. According to the procedure, this was already a safe area after clearing the dungeon. But thinking of the previous incident, he didn't dare to go too far for fear of accidents. He trotted back to pick up all the equipment, cut off the tail of the giant scorpion king, and carefully put away the poison gland. He picked up the animal skin and food that he had thrown away before finally dragging a large pile of things back to Sally.
Sally was almost naked at this time, only wearing a skirt as a shawl. Roddy tilted his head and awkwardly placed the leopard skin in front of her, then turned his head and silently started a fire. After experiencing several life and death situations, Sally's attitude towards Roddy had changed a lot. She blushed and wrapped her body with the animal skin, but she felt that when facing Roddy, she still didn't have much resistance and bashfulness in her heart. The chaotic emotions brought about by the battle just now gradually calmed down. After a moment of silence, she said: "I never thought that I would have such a day. In the past, I read that there were people living in the forest. Now, I … Are we similar to them?"
"Well … That's far from it." Roddy lit the bonfire and blew away the rising smoke. He propped up Sally's linen skirt with a tree branch and placed it next to the fire. He tried to calm down and replied: "Living in the forest … How should I put it? Those fellows aren't as primitive as you think. For example, the wood elves. From a certain point of view, they actually live a better life than Norland Village. Hmm, and their brewing technology is something that we can never reach. "
Roddy didn't have the concept of "being reserved" in his mind. He only knew that if he didn't dry his clothes, the wind would probably pierce through his heart. So, he also took off his coat with shivering hands and placed it in front of the bonfire to dry.
It was hard to change the habit of being a lone wolf. Although there was a member of the opposite sex by his side, Roddy wouldn't let himself catch a cold and sneeze for a week because of some "pride".
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