Chapter 8: Ahead is a Village

Although since entering the survival game, Gu Mi has not explored his place on a large scale, and his daily activities are basically revolving around a circle of limited size.

But she still relied on her previous life experience, combined with the surrounding ecology and geographical environment, to roughly guess where her initial landing point was.

This is the world's three major dangerous places, which will be called the 'Beast's Nest' by all the survivors and the aborigines in the future...

—Ekla Great Forest!

This large forest covers an extremely vast area, occupying almost one-third of the entire world.

And this world, as far as Gu Mi knew, was hundreds of times bigger than the blue planet where she was originally!

No one knows how big the Ekra Forest is, but everyone knows that this vast and fertile forest has bred countless magical species, and they live and thrive together in this big forest.

But that doesn't mean it's a peaceful paradise.

In fact, this place is more like a natural arena of natural selection. Every moment, there are extremely cruel laws of the jungle staged here. The survival of the fittest is the norm.

Danger lurks every moment.

Fortunately, although Gu Mi was unlucky and fell directly into this fierce field, she fell into the relatively safe periphery of the forest, or even the most edge, not the one full of various high-level monsters and advanced races. Inner circle.

Otherwise, I am afraid that she will be crushed into scum in a single meeting, and there is no time or opportunity to grow up.

Even so, the road to survival is difficult now.

Gu Mi sighed a little tiredly, then buried his head and continued on his way.

She had been running in one direction for several hours, but still couldn't see a shadow of the village.

This is also normal.

This forest is really too vast, even if it's just the periphery, the area is unbelievably large.

Therefore, even if there are a lot of villages, even small towns, or cities larger than small towns and other settlements of human or intelligent races, it still looks very empty.

It was really hard to find a village or town in the vast forest, but Gu Mi didn't have a map, so he could only use the stupidest way to randomly choose a road in one direction to the dark.

As for where the road ends... it's

all down to luck.

"I'm in a hurry, I have to rest."

Glancing at the "tired", "hungry" and other weak states hanging on the character panel, Gu Mi temporarily stopped walking.

She casually found a sturdy tree root that exposed the surface of the ground and sat down to rest, and by the way, she took out the leftover rabbit meat skewers from the rabbit skin satchel she was carrying with her and gnawed it.

Xixixuoso...

Gu Mi, who was eating, heard the sound of leaves flipping, and then saw a familiar fiery red tail emerging from the emerald green leaves, swaying a few times at her blatantly, sprinkled with sparks son.

These sparks are harmless when not attacking.

Even if it came into contact with the leaves, it couldn't ignite anything, and it dissipated naturally.

It was the fire squirrel that was 'borrowed' too much.

The little guy may have been attracted by the smell of roasted rabbit.

Sure enough, following the big tail came out a fluffy squirrel head.

Its round eyes stared brightly at the roasted rabbit in Gu Mi's hands, and without calling, it stared at her with those small eyes full of desire, as if trying to impress her cold heart.

However, it was ignored.

Gu Mi even turned around and silently increased the speed of eating.

This made the little guy anxious. He was hooked by the delicious food that he had eaten before that could replenish his strength. He didn't care about his vigilance against strangers. He hurriedly walked around the tree trunk to Gu Mi and raised his upper body. , the two little paws made a 'bye bye' gesture at her to please her, and they tilted their head cutely.

Ask for feeding.

Gu Mi paused and suddenly asked, "You have been following me here?" The

little guy didn't respond.

"Answer me a few questions, and I'll give this to you." Gu Mi took out a bunch of new roasted rabbit and held it in front of the fire squirrel. Don't be stupid.

It shook its head and called out "Squeak" twice.

It means not following her on purpose.

But Gu Mi deciphered another meaning from its behavior, not following her on purpose, that is, the fire squirrel ran to this place with a purpose.

And...

Thinking of the little guy's skillful begging behavior, this is obviously not a skill a wild squirrel should know, even if it is a monster with a certain intelligence, it is impossible, Gu Mi is more and more sure of his guess.

"Do you know where there is a village around here? Or is there a place where people who can talk like me gather?"

In fact, Gu Mi wanted to ask where the owner of the little guy lives. She could also find a gathering place for intelligent races, but she did not dare to ask too bluntly, so as not to arouse its vigilance.

It's not good to say anything at that time.

"Squeak..." The simple little squirrel didn't know the sinister nature of human beings. Now it was all distracted by the roasted rabbit meat in Gu Mi's hand. Hearing her question, he subconsciously pointed in the direction with his big tail.

"Thank you."

Gu Mi believed in his words. After getting the answer he wanted, he handed the promised roasted rabbit meat to the fire squirrel, letting it slip away happily holding the delicious food he was thinking of.

The direction has been determined, but Gu Mi did not leave immediately.

She continued to sit where she was, slowly nibbling on two skewers of roasted rabbit meat and three berries, waiting for the weakness on her body to disappear before she got up and walked in the direction pointed by the fire squirrel.

After walking for about half an hour, Gu Mi vaguely smelled the smell of gunpowder.

It smelled like something was burnt, like a tree being burned, and it was a bit similar to the unpleasant smell she had given off when she burned the corpse of a beast before.

She frowned and immediately accelerated her pace.

The petite snow-white figure ran fast among the trees, and the speed brought by the agility attribute of up to 40 points was extremely powerful, almost running out of the afterimage.

The smell wafting in the air was the best guide.

After a while, Gu Mi arrived at his destination.

The moment she saw the scene in front of her, she stopped, her face was expressionless, her eyes were calm, like a subconscious sigh: "It's late."

There was a village in front of her.

In other words, the former village.

Now there is only a piece of ruins that still burns with lingering flames, broken wood and various corpses lying on the ground.

There are humans, beasts, monsters, orcs, and even goblins.

The picture is grim.

Judging from the situation at the scene, Gu Mi can probably guess what happened here.

It's nothing more than that the village's defense was insufficient, and it failed to survive the beast tide that happened yesterday. In the end, the village was destroyed.

This kind of thing, Gu Mi has seen numbness in his previous life.

So, she couldn't do anything other than a sigh.

The village I was looking for in my heart was gone, Gu Mi hesitated for a while, but decided to help collect corpses for these dead souls.

Just do it every day.

Let the dead be buried in peace.

"Be careful!"

Just as he was about to make his move, an exclamation suddenly sounded from behind, followed by a sound of breaking through the air, galloping past Gu Mi's side, and a black shadow rushing out in the middle.

"Squeak..." The

shadow was beaten from mid-air and fell to the ground, screaming and struggling to roll over twice, but stopped moving.

Gu Mi looked up and found that its most vulnerable abdomen was dented by a stone, no wonder it died so quickly.

This shadow is a mouse-like monster. It is small and agile. It hides in the gaps of other corpses, and it is difficult for people to notice it at the first time.

However, based on Gu Mi's reaction speed, even without the flying stone, she would not have been successfully attacked by it.

Seeing Gu Mi standing still, the other party thought she was frightened, so he hurriedly rushed out, grabbed her wrist and took her out.

"It's not safe here, let's go!"

Gu Mi was 'forced' to follow, his eyes swept over the pair of bunny ears that were jumping on the head of the strange girl in front, and then lowered his eyes , remained silent.

Suddenly approached by a stranger, and being pulled by his wrist, Gu Mi didn't react much the whole time.

Or rather, all of this was done with her tacit approval.

As early as when the orc girl appeared, she was aware of it, but she wanted to see what the other party was going to do, so she chose to stay put.

Unexpectedly, the other party would actually take action to save her and escape with her.

"Come here!" The

bunny-eared girl led Gu Mi all the way around, the more she ran, the more remote she ran, and finally came to a hidden cave and motioned her to bend over and climb in with her.

Gu Mi looked at it and found that the hole was very narrow, and basically it could only accommodate a thin adult to climb in.

Of course, it was not difficult for her and the bunny-eared girl.

Both of them are petite, even though Gu Mi is a little taller, she is thinner.

Without much effort, I followed the rabbit-eared girl into the hole, and after passing through a narrow passage that was slightly tortuous, my eyes suddenly opened up.

At the same time, Gu Mi heard an old man's voice that was deliberately suppressed.

"Xiao Si, you're back, what's the situation outside?"

"The beast tide has receded." The rabbit-eared girl said the business first, before waiting for her companions to relax, and said in a crying voice: "The village chief grandpa , our village is gone, everyone is dead."

There was silence in the cave for a moment, and then there were a few low, suppressed cries.

"Alas..." The

old village chief sighed deeply, unable to say anything.

Maybe she felt that the atmosphere in the cave was too suppressed by herself, the rabbit-eared girl was at a loss for a moment, suddenly remembered the existence of Gu Mi, and hurriedly said: "By the way, the village chief grandpa, I even rescued a rabbit orc back. You don't know, the situation at the time was very scary, if I made a move late..."

Gu Tutu Orc Mi: "?"

Very good, she now knows what kind of camouflage the "camouflage Orc" in Tutu suit is.

It turned out to be all blinded by others.