Goblin Heavy Dependence

Chapter 36 Wooden Building
Just tonight, Xia Nan obtained more information from the half-elf and Wood than in the past few days combined.

Being in the wild, neither time nor space allowed him to truly begin training and learning new combat skills.

But now, he has a goal to work towards.

Learn two more combat skills and gain professional level.

Even if he no longer works as an adventurer in the future, his identity as a "professional" will be like his "technical certificate" in his previous life, allowing him to live comfortably in this world.

The half-elf Hai'an has also made an agreement with Shanan that after the mission is completed and he returns to Nium, he will try to help him find a suitable mentor to assist him in learning combat skills.

From the perspective of cold interests, a favor was exchanged for Xia Nan, who had just traveled to this world, channels that he did not have and the huge amount of money needed to hire professionals.

Although he himself did not consider it from this aspect, there is no doubt that this exchange is not a disadvantage for him at the moment.

With the idea of absorbing as much relevant knowledge as possible, Xia Nan sat by the campfire and asked the two about some information related to "occupations", "combat skills" and "adventurers" related to the supernatural powers of this world.

It was not until the moonlight deepened and the fog thickened that I reluctantly ended the topic.

It was not a warm and safe tavern. They were still in a misty forest full of dangers, and they still had a long journey to go tomorrow.

So they left someone to keep watch all night, and the rest went to bed early.

……

We are about to reach the location where the wooden sign was found.

At dawn the next day, the group packed their luggage and continued to move into the forest, chasing the fog.

Unexpectedly, as we were gradually getting deeper into the outskirts of the misty forest, the frequency of various dangerous situations should have increased.

But after walking for the entire morning, they didn't encounter even a single monster.

The only thing that could be considered exciting was a calf-sized black panther with golden eyes that passed by.

Its entire body was dark, its fur was shiny, and its claws made no sound as they stepped on the meadow.

There was no fight. The black panther just glanced at the team members from a distance, and after confirming that they were not prey that it could hunt, it slowly retreated into the shadows of the dense forest.

If it weren't for Wood's reminder, Xia Nan and others wouldn't even notice this little incident on the road.

Later, according to Wood's explanation, it was probably because of the four rust monsters yesterday that the weak monsters in the nearby area consciously stayed away from this place, which was why they were able to move so smoothly.

"hiss!"

A long snake with pale yellow round spots on its scales was driven out of the grass by a tattered one-handed hammer. Its slender body meandered and disappeared into the depths of the bushes in the blink of an eye.

"Another one! Have we entered a den of snakes?"

Larry reached out and wiped the sweat from his forehead, muttering to himself.

The one-handed hammer in his hand was no longer useful for combat because it was contaminated with the rust monster's venom, so he used it as a probing stick to drive away snakes and insects.

However, the weight of the metal hammer seemed to cause Larry, who was swinging the hammer from time to time, to consume too much energy.

He was now breathing heavily.

But he did not take the initiative to suggest stopping to rest.

Because compared to before, the speed of the entire team has slowed down completely.

Just like the closer you are to an oasis, the moister and more fertile the sandy soil becomes; the closer you are to a lake, the thicker the moisture in the air becomes.

As they got closer to their destination, strange things like the carriage appeared more and more frequently. Xia Nan alone saw half a thatched house, a collapsed mud-brick house, and even a five-story wooden building.

Although they have become ruins, through the remaining details in the ruins, one can still clearly identify the extremely rich oriental style that originated from the tokens and carriages.

Under Wood's leadership, they also carefully entered the ruins and conducted a thorough inspection.

Although many traces of life left by intelligent creatures were discovered, no corpses were found.

Similarly, these severely damaged buildings look like some lost relics, but the building materials themselves are very new and show basically no signs of erosion by time.

"Crack."

Broken branches and leaves.

Walking in the mist among the dense forest.

Xia Nan looked straight ahead, his mind focused, alert to the dense bushes and long grass around him.

The palm of his left hand, hanging naturally by his side, held a smooth, cold, hard object.

It was a fragment of some kind of porcelain that he had just found in the ruins.

It is hard to imagine that he, who has traveled to this fantasy world, can still see such traditional objects with light and thin body and warm glaze.

I was also very surprised at that time, and subconsciously picked it up from the rubble.

Feeling the soft touch from his fingertips, he couldn't help but recall the judgment Wood made when he faced the towering wooden building that was more than ten meters high but had collapsed for the most part:
"Based on the degree to which these wooden materials are affected by the mist in the forest, it should only take one or two months to build this building in the misty forest."

"Of course, considering the amount of material and manpower required, as well as the dangerous environment around it, I don't think anyone would really settle here."

As soon as these words were spoken, they were refuted by Hai'an and others.

After all, the building is right in front of us. If no one lives in it, what is the point of building it?

Xia Nan has his own opinion on this.

Unlike the other members of the team, they are all local natives who were born and raised in this world.

The soul in Xia Nan's body comes from another world.

The knowledge and memories of modern society in his previous life, as well as the many familiar details in the ruins, allowed him to recognize the purpose of the towering wooden building at a glance.

That's a restaurant!
It feels increasingly strange.

Who would patronize a restaurant built deep in a forest filled with dangerous monsters?
And judging from the density of buildings along the way, even if those thatched houses that have become ruins were full of people, the population size would definitely not be able to support a food and accommodation facility of this scale.

What's more, in Xia Nan's opinion, as long as he has the slightest concept of urban planning.

It would not be like what I saw along the way, where one moment there was a shabby thatched hut in the slums, and every two steps there was an exquisite tiled house where dignitaries lived.

One building after another, with no pattern at all.

It seemed to him that someone had built these structures deep in the forest specifically for the purpose of settling down.

It is more like there is an invisible big hand that transcends the barriers of space and time, in another time and space with a completely different style from the current fantasy world.

He picked a town at random, picked up a few buildings, and threw them into the misty forest.

(End of this chapter)