Online Game: Super Beast Tamer

Chapter 192: Encountering a Scavenger (Subscribe~)

Su Ming grabbed the gliding feather and floated farther and farther in the air. He was separated from the exploding airship and the falling players.

Because it was high enough, Su Ming could slightly change the direction of gliding like swimming.

Su Ming trembled with fear as he passed through an area of ​​sharp rock pillars eroded by wind and sand. He landed on a sand dune and was unable to keep his balance. He turned into a ball and rolled down, with a mouthful of sand in his mouth.

"Bah!"

Spitting the sand out of his mouth, Su Ming stood up and opened the small map to check his current location.

Since Su Ming had never been to Esbine, the small map was now completely dark, with only a few large main cities marked on the map.

In the backpack, the return stones of the initial cities are all gray and cannot be used.

Without the teleportation array and the return stone, it would take Su Ming 5 or 6 days to reach the nearest city, Yerlo.

In addition to walking over, there is another way to go back to the starting point directly and then take an airship to fly over again, but Su Ming cannot accept this method.

He would rather spend a few days walking than lose experience.

The city density in Esbine is much smaller than that of the initial place. With fewer cities, there are naturally more monsters. For players above level 25, it is better to come here to level up faster.

The wind blew, stirring up the fine sand. Su Ming was puzzled:
"Didn't they say there were a lot of monsters? Why can't I see any?"

brush brush --

Su Ming heard the sound of sand rubbing against each other. He came to his senses and summoned three pets.

Hammer came to the hot area, and was so happy that bubbles appeared on his body surface. He gained a "high temperature" BUFF, and his damage increased by 5%.

"Hot, hot, hot." As soon as Xiao Hei landed on the ground and touched the sand that was hot from the sun, he jumped up. However, as a slime, he quickly adapted to the hot climate and rolled and jumped around as usual.

Saemon also felt hot, but he didn't say a word. He was a cool guy.

Su Ming discovered that there was a "thirst" icon under the status bar of both him and Zuoemon. The icon was in the shape of a drop of water and was still blue, but was turning gray very slowly.

Thirst: You will enter the "thirst" state (-50 health points/second) after one hour, please prepare plenty of water.

"Is it a special area debuff? I'll have to rely on potions to survive these few days."

Because the journey would take a long time, Su Ming temporarily put Zuoemon back into the pet space to save "water" resources.

Fortunately, Xiao Hei and Hammer don’t need to drink water, otherwise Su Ming, a trainer, would not be able to survive for long alone in the wild.

brush brush --

The sound of sand rubbing against each other was heard again, but no monster was seen.

Su Ming felt it and immediately took a step back. A 70-80cm long earthy yellow scorpion emerged from where Su Ming had been standing. Its tail curled up and the tip of its tail was emitting green venom.

Desert Scorpion (LV28): 9200/9200.

The poisonous scorpion stretched out its two large pincers and rushed towards Su Ming.

As it charged, poisonous scorpions rushed out from under the sand at Su Ming's feet. Fortunately, Su Ming was sharp enough and moved fast enough to dodge all the sneak attacks from the poisonous scorpions.

The hammer came to Su Ming, and the lava-surging hammer swept across.

Lava sweeps across!
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465, -501, -486...

All the scorpions hit by the hammer were swept back and fell to the ground. Their four pairs of walking legs struggled twice in the air. As soon as they turned over, Xiao Hei landed with the "Perfect Tactics" skill, and then a ball of sticky liquid exploded, causing 4+ damage to each poisonous scorpion.

After being hit twice, the black sticky liquid cooled down. It exploded again and all the poisonous scorpions died.

After being attacked by the poisonous scorpion, Xiao Hei's body turned green and he entered a poisoned state that lasted for 10 seconds. His movement speed was also reduced by 15%.

Fortunately, these toxins cannot be stacked. After Su Ming picked up the things exploded by the poisonous scorpion, Xiao Hei returned to normal.

Scorpions drop two types of things, one is copper coins, the other is some materials on their bodies.

Things like scorpion armor, scorpion tail, and scorpion pincers.

Su Ming, in the spirit of not taking anything that would be wasted, put all the junk materials into his backpack.

Su Ming has the habit of picking up "junk". Even though he knows that these things are probably useless, as long as there is space in his backpack, he wants to pick them all up...

After destroying the monsters, Su Ming fixed the small map to his side and moved forward in the sea of ​​sand.

Endless sand and repetitive scenery. Without the help of the system map, Su Ming really didn't know where to go.

The sun rose and the moon set, and Su Ming walked through the desert for a day without realizing it.

Originally, Su Ming wanted to bypass the monsters and move forward, but in this area, the monsters were hiding under the sand and he could not bypass them at all. He could not move forward at full speed, so Su Ming called Zuoemon out to gain experience.

In fact, there was enough potion to drink, but I didn't plan to fight monsters before, so I didn't want to waste it.

Su Ming was very satisfied with the density of monsters in the desert. He walked and killed them all day long.

Before, after Su Ming had the celebration banquet, he and Butterfly Whispering struck while the iron was hot and cleared four heroic difficulty dungeons in a row, almost maxing out the experience. Unfortunately, although the "magic wand" that players think is the strongest at this stage was released, it is not as good as Su Ming's paintbrush, so in terms of equipment, it has not been improved much.

Now after a day of killing monsters, my experience has successfully broken through level 25 and increased to 26% of level 10.

After killing so many monsters, Su Ming’s backpack was filled with more than a dozen slots of similar materials.

"I hope there are missions related to these poisonous insect materials in the city." Su Ming thought.

Su Ming climbed up a sand dune and was about to run down quickly when he saw a group of people in front of him. Su Ming lay on the sand and observed carefully.

A thin man in a vest with bare arms was leading a camel and was surrounded by four bandits with machetes in their hands and their heads covered with cloth, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed.

"It's a sand bandit..." Su Ming also encountered sand bandits when he was walking in the desert yesterday.

They are also a kind of monster, infected by evil spirits, but still retain some rationality. They will rob passing players and NPCs. They are the most common elite monsters in the Esbine area.

On the forum, some players take advantage of this characteristic of them and wait for them to rob the NPCs before taking action to deal with them. This way, they have a high probability of obtaining the property of the robbed NPC.

But Su Ming obviously wouldn't do that.

It was not difficult to deal with the four sand bandits. After Su Ming saw the situation clearly, he rushed down immediately.

Xiao Hei took the lead, and his round body gave him an advantage when going downhill - he rolled very fast.

When it saw that it was in the right position, it launched a charged ejection.

With a duang, Xiao Hei jumped high, blocked the sun, and landed among the sand bandits.

"what?"

"Slime?"

"kill!"

The sand bandits don't care about anything and just chop whatever they see.

Xiao Hei exploded the slime, pulled their hatred, and bounced towards Su Ming.

After Su Ming arrived, the three pets joined forces with him, four against four, and resolved the battle very easily.

A level 28 bronze scimitar fell to the ground, and Su Ming walked over and picked it up.

According to the feedback from forum players, the chance of Sand Bandits dropping bronze equipment is quite high. Because of the high drop rate, many times when Sand Bandits don't go after players, players will go after Sand Bandits, and it's hard to tell who is the real bandit...

The thin man who was surrounded by the sand bandits came over and said with gratitude:

"Thank you so much for your help. My name is 'Pappy' and I'm a scavenger."

Su Ming knew about the scavengers. They were a special type of NPC in the Esbine area, a bit like wandering merchants.

This type of NPC will specifically look for ancient city ruins buried by the sea of ​​sand, looking for things inside that can be exchanged for survival supplies, so they call themselves scavengers.

"Hello, I'm a listener." Su Ming asked curiously, "You are a scavenger, why are you alone?"

Scavengers always act in groups, with a dozen or more people at least.

Paibi touched the camel beside him and said with a wry smile:

"It was because of it that I was disturbed by the wolves and left the team. I had no choice but to come to find it. I didn't expect to be robbed by sand bandits. Fortunately, you helped me, otherwise I would never be able to return to the team."

"So are you going back now?" Su Ming asked.

Pappy smiled and nodded.

"Is your team going to the ancient city ruins, or to the city to buy and sell daily necessities?" Su Ming asked again.

"We have just finished exploring the ruins of the ancient city and are planning to head to the nearest city, Hierro, to rest for a while," Paiby said.

"That's great. Can you take me with you? I want to go to Hierro too."

Scavengers have mounts, which allow them to move faster in the desert, and Su Ming wanted to take a ride.

Papy smiled and said:
"Of course, you are my savior. My team is heading west. Please get on the camel. I will catch up with them as soon as possible!"

(End of this chapter)