svetikya Chapter 9 Are your feet numb?
Chapter 9 Are your feet numb?
Chen Yan, who had chosen to play the cloth, stared incredulously at Hua Miao, who had chosen to play the scissors.
"How is that possible? You're clearly an Felyne, how could you possibly make a scissor shape with your paws!"
As we all know, Palicoes have short, thick paws, making it difficult for them to make complex gestures. Generally speaking, when they spread their five paws out in a plum blossom shape, it's like a cloth; when they clench their paws into a fist, it's like a fist. They are too weak to make other movements.
Chen Yan, who had already won against Hua Miao seventeen times in rock-paper-scissors, was seeing a cat's paws for the first time ever, with only the first two paws extended and the last three paws tightly clenched.
The cat, casually making a scissor gesture, appeared nonchalant.
"You cunning human, do you think I, this cat, don't know your little schemes?"
"I mastered this deadly scissor claw move a year ago. I was just waiting to surprise you at the crucial moment. Did you think I spent half a month squeezing ants with my two claws for nothing?"
The cat laughed and gestured for the other cat to enter.
"Come on, let this cat-lord open his eyes and witness the first warrior in history to crawl into the mouth of a giant thief dragon!"
Chen Yan resigned himself to his fate, took a deep breath, combed his hair into an adult style, used a few branches to pry open the mouth of the unconscious giant dragon to its maximum, looked at its throat full of red and yellow mucus, took a deep breath and burrowed inside.
Hua Miao quickly grabbed his trouser leg.
"No, you're really going to drill?"
Chen Yan turned around: "What else?"
"Chen Yan, there's something I've wanted to say to you for a long time, are you crazy?"
The cat raised three paws and listed Chen Yan's inhumane acts in the New World.
"Ever since we arrived in the New World, I feel like you've been getting more and more abnormal. First, you let a crested dinosaur ride on your neck, then you fed a little rascal relentlessly. That's one thing, you're stupid, broke, and don't even have a pretty editor to keep you company, so I can understand if you act crazy a bit. But now you're actually trying to crawl into the mouth of a giant rascal..."
"What, do you want to see how many hearts it has, or do you want to know how many pounds of shit will be in its intestines after the giant thief dragon eats you?"
The more Hua Miao talked, the more convinced she became that Chen Yan must have had his brain damaged when he was hunting monsters in the Old World, and that it was only now starting to manifest. She anxiously dragged Chen Yan toward the stronghold.
"Chen Yan, don't worry. Even if you're bedridden and paralyzed, constantly having trouble peeing or pooping, I won't despise you. As long as I, Hua Miao, have food, you'll definitely have water too!"
Chen Yan rubbed the cat's head.
Although its language was rough, the concern and worry in its eyes were genuine.
"Flower Cat, if I were really stupid, would I have won seventeen rounds of rock-paper-scissors against you?"
He stretched his limbs, lowered his body, and prepared to crawl into the mouth of the giant dragon.
"I didn't want to tell you, I wanted to keep it all to myself, but seeing how concerned you are about me, I've decided, I'll share half of the precious beads I dig up with you..."
When Hua Miao heard that there was a treasure, her eyes lit up. The concern in her eyes disappeared, replaced by longing for the treasure. Instead of pulling, she put all her strength into pushing him in.
There was no other way; it was simply terrified of being poor.
"Then hurry up and crawl in!"
Just as Chen Yan had expected, after struggling through the throat of the great thief dragon and sliding into a slightly more spacious area, he parted the elastic, wrinkled skin blocking his way and was immediately attracted by the hundreds of small stones in its stomach that shimmered with different lusters.
Precious pearl.
After going in and out three times, Chen Yan finally managed to empty all the visible pearls from the giant dragon's belly.
During this time, the big thief dragon woke up and struggled, almost taking Chen Yan back to his den to eat as takeout. Fortunately, they were prepared. When the flower cat pulled the rope, the stone hanging on its head fell down and immediately knocked it unconscious again.
"A glowing orb, a mysterious orb, an old orb... I'm rich! I'm rich!"
Jewels are valuable items. They can be used to enhance the abilities of weapons and armor, or taken to the Alchemist Granny for exciting alchemical adventures. At the very least, they can be sold for money.
The cat, drooling, didn't mind the giant dragon's stomach fluid stuck to the pearls. It carefully washed each pearl clean by the stream, almost kissing them one by one.
Chen Yan, on the other hand, was soaking in the stream, utterly despondent.
He was completely smoky.
[Task completed.]
[Strengthening your stomach]: Your seemingly ordinary stomach can hold more food, and you can also slightly control the speed of food digestion, but overeating will still cause your body to swell.
Despite spending half a day soaking in the clear stream and then scrubbing herself thoroughly for half a day after returning to the base, when she delivered roasted pig to Xialong in the evening, she was still disliked by the eldest sister, Naomi.
It was bad enough that she disliked him, but even Xia Long disliked him.
Instead of licking the purple lines on his wrist, Xia Long spat on his hand and told him to rub it himself...
Only the cat didn't mind him and, as usual, lay on him and slept soundly.
That strange smell lingered on Chen Yan for three whole days.
"So, where is the next monster to issue a quest?"
Chen Yan led Flower Cat on a aimless wandering in the Ancient Tree Forest for a whole morning, but did not encounter the Poisonous Demon Bird he was longing for.
He had originally hoped to encounter a quest-giving Puck, complete which would reward him with something like venom resistance, and perhaps even surprise the Chameleon with a surprise...
But before he could find the Poisonous Bird, while resting under a few ordinary trees, he saw several fluffy, azure-blue feathers carrying tiny arcs of electricity drifting down from the sky.
In the instant he looked up, he only caught a glimpse of a huge shadow flashing across the sky. Despite the clear weather, he could clearly hear the noise of electricity surging and crackling.
Behind a dense forest, Chen Yan spotted a pair of sharp red eyes in the shadows.
Perhaps realizing it had been discovered, the hiding monster let out a sharp screech, bursting forth and flipping through the air before lashing down with its long, thorny tail crackling with electricity.
Even faster than Chen Yan's dodging was the white bubble that appeared in his mind.
[The Flying Thunder Dragon issued a quest request: My claws are so numb.]
【I have a hang glider, but I just don't use it. Even if I jump from a very high place, I won't use it. What, you're asking if my feet get numb from jumping around like that?】
[Commission Fee: Skin Glide Wing/Lightning Resistance/Static Static Accumulation]
Chen Yan and Hua Miao dodged the lightning slap that came crashing down from the sky from the left and right sides of the Flying Thunder Dragon.
The Flower Cat drew its katana, its body tense, its fur slightly bristling. Unlike the large and small Jagras it had hunted before, it felt an indescribable sense of oppression from this monster it had never seen before.
"Chen Yan, fight or retreat?"
Chen Yan also drew his sword and confronted it. He carefully examined the Flying Thunder Dragon and indeed saw folded flesh membranes under its forepaws. He also glanced at its forepaws, which were scratching at the rotten wood beneath it, and saw what looked like a layer of fleshy pads.
"Even with paw pads, your paws will go numb from jumping so high..."
Compared to the man and cat standing in front of him, the Flying Thunder Dragon was clearly more interested in the Flower Cat. It hissed at Chen Yan as if issuing a warning, while its eyes were full of hunger as it looked at the Flower Cat.
Chen Yan suddenly realized that it wasn't him who attracted the Flying Thunder Dragon, but the Flower Cat.
The Tobi-Kadachi is a carnivorous monster that also eats carrion. In the Ancient Forest, the Tobi-Kadachi has a higher ecological niche than the Jagras and Pukei-Pukei, making it one of the best among medium-sized monsters.
The small-sized Tobi-Kadachi is obviously no match for large and powerful monsters like Anjanath and Rathalos. They usually feed on small monsters, and the Detyl Lynx living in the Ancient Forest happens to be one of the prey that Tobi-Kadachi can easily catch.
Could it be that they mistook the tabby cat for a Dettel lynx with a different skin color?
Chen Yan charged towards the Flying Thunder Dragon first.
"Hey, are your legs numb? If they are, lie down obediently, and I'll give you a set of Chen's Secret Foot Massage!"