The five of them sat around the iron pot, eating the tender beast meat, and for a moment, their moods improved significantly.
"Junior Brother Chen Shu, you really are too prescient!"
"That's right, you can tell at a glance that you're an old beast tamer who frequently visits alternate dimensions!"
Lu Zhi Ning and the others praised Chen Shu profusely. A hot pot meal had effortlessly conquered the senior students.
"Don't be so polite, calling me Junior Brother Chen Shu makes us strangers."
Chen Shu smiled and said, "Just call me Brother Han Fei or Uncle."
"???"
The three of them looked at him in unison, feeling that something was slightly off.
"Senior students, seriously, you don't know my past..."
Chen Shu, while eating hot pot, began to recount his legendary stories.
Everyone listened with great interest. Even Fang Si kept glancing over, wanting to see how Chen Shu bragged about himself.
Two hours later,
Everyone was full and satisfied, with pleased expressions on their faces.
Chen Shu extinguished the bonfire. After all, they were in a swamp; if it burned all night, there might be accidents.
The five of them squeezed into a huge tree hollow, opened their backpacks, and set up their tents.
Soon, the tents were ready.
"A perfect masterpiece!"
Chen Shu constantly marveled at his tent-pitching skills.
"Goodnight, senior students!"
Chen Shu immediately fell asleep. As for the guard duty, it was left to the reconnaissance-type contracted spirit: the Magic Eye Crow.
The next morning,
Chen Shu was still in a deep sleep when something began licking his face.
"Hmm?"
Chen Shu, groggy, opened his eyes and his body jolted.
"Why are you licking me, you silly dog?"
Chen Shu rubbed the dog's head, about to go back to sleep,
Fang Si's voice came, "Chen Pi, wake up!"
"So early?"
Chen Shu yawned. Even in an alternate dimension, he couldn't sleep in.
"Husky, give me an ice ball."
Chen Shu said, preparing to wash his face.
The husky nodded and directly unleashed a skill.
A massive ice ball directly hurtled towards Chen Shu's head!
His body trembled, his pupils contracted, and his sleepiness vanished.
"Damn it, are you stupid?!"
He rolled to the side, dodging the incoming ice ball, and shouted, "Are you trying to betray your master?!"
"Awoo~"
The husky looked innocent, as if none of this concerned him.
"Why do I always feel like you were sent by God to assassinate me?"
Chen Shu's mouth twitched, and he had no choice but to leave the tent.
"Sister Fang Si, can I use your Ice Dragon!"
As soon as he exited the tent, the four girls looked at him in unison, and their expressions instantly froze!
They saw Chen Shu looking calm, his eyes still sleepy, but he was wearing a strikingly bright mental patient's uniform!
"What the hell!"
Lu Zhi Ning and the other two instinctively retreated from Chen Shu, fearing he might do something.
"As everyone knows, crimes committed by mental patients are not crimes!"
"Are you sick in the head?!"
Fang Si's mouth twitched, and she looked at Chen Shu with disbelief.
She remembered that he didn't have this hobby before. When did he pick up this bad habit?
Or, has Chen Shu been diagnosed?
"This sleepwear is comfortable!"
Chen Shu blinked slightly, and immediately understood.
"Look, the style, the fabric, they are all top-notch!"
Chen Shu patted his sleeve, showing them how good it was.
"I can responsibly say that this is the best sleepwear of the year!"
Looking at Chen Shu, who was talking animatedly, the four of them exchanged glances, a hint of panic in their eyes.
"It seems he really is sick now!"
Fang Si sighed and said, "Chen Pi, tell sister, is it because the college entrance exam pressure was too great?"
"Ah? What?"
Chen Shu was confused. What did this have to do with the college entrance exam?
Qiao Yue said, "Junior Brother Chen, what did the doctor say at the time?"
"Doctor?"
Chen Shu rubbed his forehead. It seemed they had truly misunderstood.
"Senior students, I'm really not sick!"
As soon as he said this, the four of them took another step back. Generally speaking, mentally ill people would say this.
Finally, Chen Shu spent a full half hour and managed to barely convince them:
"It's Xu Xing Xing who is sick, not me."
The group left the tree hollow and headed deeper into the dimension.
It was early morning, and the fog had become heavier.
"Awoo!"
The husky kept unleashing various skills, all hitting empty air.
Fang Si looked over and said, "Chen Pi, your dog has gone mad!"
"Uh, he's stacking buffs!"
Chen Shu said earnestly, while showing the four of them [Persistent Assault].
"This skill?!"
The four of them were stunned, and then they understood.
Lu Qing Yi said, "No wonder you could injure the Rock Giant Beast. You have this skill."
"Can this skill stack continuously?!"
Fang Si's eyes sparkled. She had never noticed this skill before.
"Of course not!"
Chen Shu coughed. If it could stack indefinitely, it would be far more powerful than a divine skill, capable of destroying everything.
"The highest cap is 300%. If the cap is reached, it will last for a period of time, and then it will enter cooldown."
This was the conclusion Chen Shu reached after research.
"The facts prove that this skill has drawbacks. Shen Wu Shuang didn't say it, or perhaps he didn't know."
"Triple the power?"
The crowd looked surprised. They had never even heard of this skill.
"Awoo! Awoo!"
The husky continued to unleash skills, which was extremely annoying.
Fang Si looked cautious and said, "Xiao Qiao, have Magic Eye Crow use its scouting skill."
Lu Zhi Ning chimed in, "Won't this husky attract danger?"
"Ahem!"
Chen Shu cleared his throat and said, "I even feel like a fierce beast will appear next second."
As soon as he spoke, a rustling sound was heard.
"Hmm?"
The crowd was slightly startled and all looked towards Chen Shu.
"Are you a mouth-mover?!"
"Awoo! Awoo!"
The husky kept jumping and howling, its eyes full of grievance: "Why is it always me who gets hurt?"
A black vine appeared, tightly bound the hind leg of the howling husky, and dragged it away.
"This guy not only annoys people, but also annoys fierce beasts!"
Options immediately appeared before Chen Shu.
[Option 1: Save the Elemental Beast! Completion Reward: Elemental Beast Obedience +10 + Fire Attribute +5%]
[Option 2: Directly leave silently, ignoring it. Completion Reward: Slime All Attributes +50%]
[Option 3: Abandon the Elemental Beast, and at the same time, take out the iron pot and start celebrating! Completion Reward: Excitement Potion *3]
Chen Shu's mouth twitched. Although he wanted to take out the iron pot to celebrate,
but the husky's strength was closely related to his own, so he could only save it.
"It's right ahead!"
Qiao Yue said, the Magic Eye Crow's eyes glowing with black light, staring straight ahead.
The crowd, along with their contracted spirits, ran forward.
Qiao Yue reminded them again, "Be careful, it's not just one fierce beast!"
"Everyone stop!"
Fang Si said, to prevent the beast tamer themselves from being in danger.
The Crimson Flame Dragon roared, and spat out a mouthful of flames, dispelling the fog ahead.
"Hiss hiss hiss!"
In an instant, more than ten black vines descended, directly binding the Crimson Flame Dragon, even restraining its wings.
"It's a Thousand-Vine Poison Tree!"
"It's the Heavenly Poison Flower!"
The five of them said in unison, but Chen Shu's words were slightly out of sync with the other four.
"You can see the Heavenly Poison Flower?!"
Lu Zhi Ning looked over, surprise in her eyes.
"I can vaguely see a bit!"
Chen Shu pointed ahead and said earnestly.
The four of them were slightly stunned, and looking in the direction he pointed, they saw only white fog. There was no trace of the Heavenly Poison Flower at all.
"Besides, didn't your husky get tied up?"
"And you're focused on the treasure at the first moment?!"
"It's truly a case of the master being kind and the dog being filial."