Shall we play a game?

About ten minutes later, Du Jie, who woke up from the silence, had already cleared his mind. He looked at the opposite village head who was recuperating on a chair, and asked a question:

"Is that map still there?"

Hearing the question, the village chief opened his eyes, and nodded to Du Jie wearily.

"I'm going to bring it to Mr. Adorer."

The village chief wandered into the back room unsteadily, and after a search, he quickly came out with a rolled up yellowed map.

Du Jie took the map and put it aside, instead of opening it directly, he asked a second question:

"The village chief wants me to explore the way, right? What's the reason?"

Du Jie didn't play Tai Chi with the village chief here anymore, he directly stated his intentions, and then asked the reason.

The village chief didn't evade at this time, he knew that the matter was at a critical point, and there was no need to dodge it.

Looking at Du Jie, he said with some seriousness:

"Because, the survival supplies in Xingshan Village, to be more specific, there is not much food in the village... Calculated at the current speed, there will be no food in three months at most."

Du Jie nodded slightly after hearing this, and fell into deep thought again.

He knew very well in his heart that the other party would not and could not lie to him about this matter, and he would be able to get the answer to this matter by simply asking a few villagers.

What's more, when drinking with Wang Tuzi a few times ago, he vaguely mentioned two similar things when he was drunk.

So, unless Du Jie was too famous, or Du Jie in his previous life offended the whole village, and the whole Xingxian Village wanted to get rid of him alone, otherwise what the village chief said was indeed true.

Therefore, what Du Jie is thinking about now is not the question of whether it is true or not, but the question of whether he will accept this request or not.

After thinking about it for about 5 minutes, Du Jie gritted his teeth, grabbed the map beside him, spread it out, and placed it on the table in front of them.

He stared into the village chief's eyes and asked:

"Tell me the current location of Xingxiang Village, and... the location of that village."

The old village head shook his body, looked at Du Jie with a complicated expression, then nodded, and began to explain the map information.

Ten minutes later, Du Jie, who had learned many details, put away the map on the table, stood up, and solemnly said to the village chief:

"It's not too late, since I have to take this trip sooner or later, I'll start tomorrow!"

"Ah? Master Juanzhe, this...you don't have to worry about these two—"

Du Jie interrupted the other party directly, shook his head, said goodbye and left the village chief's house without saying anything more.

On the way back, Du Jie was silent all the way except for responding to the villagers who greeted him one by one.

Back home, he saw the black cat Wubas lying beside the fire as if sleeping, hesitated for a moment, and then lightly packed up the same luggage.

After the luggage was collected, Du Jie sat on the bed, hesitated again, and finally he whispered in the direction of the black cat:

"This time, due to special reasons, I have to take a trip to the wasteland. In case something... life-threatening happens on the way, please help me."

After Du Jie finished speaking, he waited for a while, seeing that the other party did not respond, he lay down helplessly.

Du Jie wanted to rest early and recharge his energy, but couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning.

It wasn't until he heard a slight "meow" in his daze that he really relaxed and fell asleep quickly.

A night without dreams.

Early the next morning, Du Jie was woken up by a rustling sound. When he got up, he saw the black cat brushing its teeth by the sink.

He quickly turned over and jumped off the bed, ran to the table in the back room to pick up the water glass, and then ran to the water basin to get half a glass of warm water at just the right temperature.

Then came to the black cat again, Du Jie bent over at [-] degrees, held the cup with both hands and handed it to the black cat's mouth.

"Please use it."

"..." Black cat.

The black cat Wubasi with a toothbrush in his mouth stared silently at Du Jie for a few seconds, then buried his head in a mouthful of warm water, turned around and started brushing his teeth again.

Half an hour later, Du Jie was carrying a large bag on his back, which contained half of a Kaqier, and the black cat Wubasi sat on his head, and stood outside the gate of Xingxian Village.

He waved to the villagers of Xingxian Village who came to see him off behind him, looked at Wang Tuzi, Chen Liezi and others in the crowd, and nodded to the village chief standing at the front.

After saying hello, Du Jie didn't have too much nostalgia, he turned around and walked towards the wasteland outside the village. His figure gradually faded away and slowly disappeared from everyone's sight.

......

Two hours later, one person and one cat came to a small stream.

Du Jie looked at the clear water in the river, and then at the grass around him, feeling a bit puzzled:

"Miss Wubas, why is this wasteland different from what I imagined? You see, this is a grassland and a river. I haven't encountered any monsters along the way. What the hell..."

"That's because it's daytime now, and our current location is the southwestern edge of the entire continent, and the influence of the devil energy is the least."

Wubasi lazily sounded in his mind, and finally whispered:

"Not to mention I'm here."

Du Jie nodded understandingly, then pointed to the stream ahead:

"Then is this water drinkable?"

"Ordinary people will become demons if they drink too much, but those favored by the gods will not be affected."

"Ah, that's good, I'm almost dying of thirst."

After Du Jie finished speaking, he rushed to the side of the stream, bent down and gave a bang bang bang.

After he finished drinking, he still turned around and shouted to Ubas behind him:

"Miss Woobas, you come too—"

—Puff—————!

A sudden sound suddenly came from the water!

Du Jie, who had just turned around, was a bit late when he heard the sound, and he had no time to dodge.

Fortunately, the divine power in his body responded automatically and covered his back.

The moment Du Jie was stabbed in the back, without even thinking about it, Du Jie grabbed back with his left hand, and then turned around 180 degrees. With the five fingers of his right hand together, he used the inertia of turning to form a hand knife!

There was only a crisp sound of "snap", and the thing that attacked him broke into two pieces!

Du Jie, who had just finished this set of difficult movements, did not stop.

At the same time as he slashed out with the knife in his hand, he stepped on the ground with his left foot, and his body leaped backwards with this momentum, falling directly behind the black cat Wubasi.

It wasn't until this moment that Du Jie felt a little bit more secure. He raised the object in his hand and observed——

This is a black tentacle that has been broken in half. Its surface resembles the exoskeleton of an arthropod, and it is densely covered with one-centimeter-long barbs.

When the entire tentacle was caught in the hand, it was still shaking slightly, and white liquid continued to flow out of the fracture.

"Magic crayfish, the taste is not bad, you can go to the river to catch some later, we can roast them for lunch."

Wubasi's voice came from the side.

"Uh... I was attacked by a crayfish just now?"

"You have to remember, in the wasteland, don't underestimate anything, especially when you are still very weak."

There was a hint of seriousness in the crisp voice.

"......OK."