Chapter 1 1 Stranger

Chapter 1 1. Stranger

Lu Yu glanced at the fruit knife not far from him. Because it was used to cut food, there were still some blood stains on it.

He was only two steps away from the fruit knife, but at this moment he could only think again and again, tighten the ceramic water cup in his hand, grit his teeth, and be ready to go.

The bonfire in the tree hole was blown gently by the autumn wind, the flames floated, and the two shadows on the wall twisted with it.

A ball the size of a human head floated not far from Lu Yu, exuding a black mist that looked quite sticky and disgusting.

Lu Yu did not find the eyes of this creature, but he could clearly feel that the pitch-black monster in front of him was looking at him.

Behind the surging black fog, it seemed that a large number of eyes might open at any time to swallow up Lu Yu's sight.

Lu Yu didn't know what this black fog with a strong smell was. Not long after he went out to collect resources for the winter and returned to the tree hole, this strange thing followed him and floated into the tree hole.

Lu Yu has seen too many things that he cannot understand during this period of time. The appearance of the black fog has once again expanded Lu Yu's cognitive boundaries.

What should I do?

This kind of monster that is obviously beyond the scope of cognition, extremely weird, and particularly difficult to deal with is in the same room with you. Being prepared to resist should be the only choice.

As for why he doesn't communicate... Lu Yu is sure that he and the other party don't speak the same language.

Not long ago, he saw a team of soldiers wearing fine steel armor patrolling in the forest from a distance. The language they used was different from any language Lu Yu knew.

Thinking of this, Lu Yu held the ceramic water cup in his hand tighter.

Although it is not as deadly as a fruit knife, it is better in hand.

I just don't know if this monster surrounded by black fog in front of me has flesh and blood, will bleed and hurt.

Suddenly, several tentacles stretched out from the black fog and stabbed straight into the ground.

Lu Yu's tense nerves were touched, and he rushed to the front of the black fog in one step, raising the water cup in his hand high.

Just as the cup was about to fall heavily, Lu Yu found that the opponent's tentacles were twisting strangely on the ground, as if graffiti.

"Can't stop!"

Lu Yu secretly cried out.

Just as he was about to hit the black fog hard, two tentacles wrapped around Lu Yu's wrist, shook violently, and shook his palm loose, and the cup fell to the ground.

At this time, the black fog had drifted a distance.

Lu Yu, who had recovered from the shock, saw the speed of the black fog's evasion and the flexibility of the tentacles, and knew that he had basically no chance of winning if he wanted to fight this monster head-on.

But this guy was using the tentacles to carve patterns. Was he applying for communication?

Lu Yu covered his hand that was thrown and found that it was not eroded.

Recalling several mathematical formulas, he found that there was no sign of blurred memory.

Of course, he also felt that if the other party could really affect his thoughts, then no matter how he checked, it might be difficult to find.

Suspicious, he slowly stepped back and quickly looked down at the traces left by the tentacles on the ground.

It was not a complicated character, but a lip pattern with an arrow.

The arrow pointed to the squirrel that Lu Yu had roasted on the bonfire.

In a flash, Lu Yu understood something.

He lifted the unroasted squirrel on the rack and asked carefully, "Do you want to eat it?"

The spherical black mist floating in the air was motionless.

Lu Yu remembered the language barrier and immediately found a branch, added an arrow to the lips drawn by the tentacles, and then placed the squirrel on the arrow.

The black mist moved.

As if it was worried that Lu Yu would misunderstand something, it first rolled up the water cup on the ground with its tentacles and handed it to Lu Yu.

Then, it rolled up the knife on the side, facing itself with the blade, and handed it to Lu Yu.

Lu Yu took the two things in a daze, and his vigilance disappeared for the most part.

The tentacles of the black mist tapped the squirrel a few times, and when Lu Yu did not show any reaction, it tapped several more times eagerly.

Lu Yu looked at this urgent action, suddenly realized, and stretched out his hand: "You can..."

Before he finished speaking, Lu Yu smiled helplessly, and he forgot that he couldn't communicate with the other party.

He picked up the squirrel meat and handed it to Heiwu himself.

After Heiwu wrapped it with tentacles, he actually learned from Lu Yu, put it on a wooden stick, and roasted it on the campfire again.

"Could it be that this guy also likes to eat cooked food?" Lu Yu thought this idea was absurd.

In his opinion, it would be more in line with his image to decompose it directly after taking it, instead of constantly turning the squirrel meat with tentacles like a barbecue chef, roasting it until it is fully cooked before eating it.

Although he still didn't dare to show his back to this strange black fog, Lu Yu was relieved after confirming that the other party was a creature that could communicate.

When people have low psychological expectations of what they will encounter, death is not a terrible thing.

Lu Yu wanted to resist just now because he didn't want to die too cowardly. After all, he had been crossing here for almost a month, and he had been very aggrieved, and there was a breath stuck in his throat that couldn't get out.

Now the other party behaved like an intelligent creature, which also comforted Lu Yu, who had not spoken to anyone for a long time and could only talk to himself to maintain his language ability.

He picked up the knife and fiddled with it for a long time, processing another prey caught in the trap this afternoon and put it on the campfire.

Seeing the tentacles of the black fog reaching out to take over the string in his hand, Lu Yu hesitated for a while and decided to try to reason.

He pointed to the squirrel that Heiwu was roasting, indicating that it was his.

Then he put the one in his hand into his arms...

The tentacles still reached out, and took away the squirrel meat while Lu Yu was about to gesture.

Lu Yu looked at Heiwu's two tentacles turning over two pieces of squirrel meat, and he wanted to say something, but he held it back.

The smell of meat floating in the air made Lu Yu drool. He sighed, turned out the winter food he found in the squirrel's nest, peeled a few pine nuts and put them in his mouth, chewing them carefully.

During this time of crossing, Lu Yu rarely had a full stomach, and most of the time he was hungry.

He still remembered that when he succeeded in hunting for the first time, he was so hungry that he even had the urge to eat raw meat and drink blood.

During the most difficult period, Lu Yu relied on a white wolf that was as tall as a man.

This white wolf was always wasteful when eating. After eating the belly of the prey, it would throw away the rest at will.

Lu Yu played the role of a hyena. Whenever he encountered food that the white wolf could not finish, he would patiently cut it up with a knife and bring it back to the tree hole where he lived.

But the good times did not last long. The white wolf seemed to have left the nearby area recently, so that Lu Yu, who was very happy as a hyena, lost his food source.

Today, he finally caught some meat, but he did not expect to be robbed by someone who broke into his house.

However, Lu Yu was not very angry, because he had not lived with other creatures for a long time.

He missed the white wolf very much. Although the white wolf looked at him like garbage every time, Lu Yu felt very peaceful every time he looked at the white wolf.

Now this black fog suddenly broke into his tree hole. Although it was a bit unexpected, it was also a living life accompanying him.

The rich smell of meat went straight into Lu Yu's nose.

He turned his head and his cheeks were hot.

The roasted squirrel meat was pushed in front of him by the tentacles.

Looking at the black mist that was still roasting another string of squirrel meat, Lu Yu looked at the one in front of him again, was stunned for a while, and pointed at himself blankly.

The tentacle drew an arrow on the ground, pointing directly at Lu Yu.

Taking the squirrel meat, Lu Yu took a big bite without hesitation, chewing and thanking, completely forgetting that this squirrel was his trophy.

After a while, the other string of squirrel meat was almost cooked. Lu Yu looked at the black mist steadily, wondering how it would eat the meat.

Anyway, Lu Yu still couldn't find its mouth.

The tentacles rolled up the skewers of meat, and then, the black mist surged. Lu Yu didn't see the action clearly, and the meat on the stick was gone.

Ah?

What was used to eat it?

"Huh... Finally, I don't have to eat raw meat."

Before Lu Yu could figure out this question, a strange voice suddenly sounded in his mind.

It sounded like a girl, and the language could be understood by himself, but...

Who is talking?

Lu Yu raised his head in horror and looked at the black fog not far away, and an absurd guess came to his mind.

The voice in Lu Yu's mind stopped abruptly, and the black fog floating in the air slowly turned.

There is no doubt that the black fog also noticed something unusual from Lu Yu's reaction.

Feeling the sight penetrating from the black fog, Lu Yu subconsciously swallowed his saliva and couldn't help moving back.

The figure of the black fog suddenly became blurred in Lu Yu's sight.

Before Lu Yu could react, several tentacles stretched out from the twisted fog and pressed him to the ground.

The core of the sphere with black air was almost touching the tip of Lu Yu's nose.

Even at such a close distance, Lu Yu couldn't find the mouth and eyes of this thing.

He was also surprised that in this situation, his first reaction was to find these two things.

"Can you hear me?"

The melodious female voice suddenly raised the tone, revealing uncontrollable joy in anxiety.

Lu Yu felt very bad. He was pushed to the ground. If he hadn't protected his head immediately, he would have fainted.

Not fainting was not a good thing either. Lu Yu's vision was completely blocked by the black fog. The female voice kept exploding in Lu Yu's mind, like two tweeters sticking to his ears.

Now it was certain that it was this ball covered by the black fog that was talking to him.

Enduring the headache, Lu Yu yelled to shut up, but the black fog seemed not to hear it, repeating the same sentence like a repeater.

The high pitch that kept echoing in his mind finally made Lu Yu give up resistance. His eyes went black and he lost consciousness.

After Lu Yu fainted, the tentacles of the black fog stopped moving.

She murmured in confusion in a voice that only she could hear.

"Is there anyone who can hear my voice?"

When Lu Yu woke up again, he was in the tree hole, just like the first day he fell asleep, and fell to the innermost part of the tree hole.

He touched his body and checked whether his body was intact, and then he saw the black fog in the tree hole at a glance.

The cold wind howled outside the tree hole, and from time to time the cold wind penetrated into the tree hole, making Lu Yu shiver. There was already a thin layer of snow on the ground, and the dead leaves were also whitened by the snow.

It seemed that a whole night had passed, but it had already started snowing. This made Lu Yu a little worried about whether he could survive this winter.

The black fog also noticed that Lu Yu had woken up, and it slowly floated up from the ground.

Lu Yu was afraid that the black mist would be as agitated as before, so he quickly stretched out his hand to stop it from floating towards him.

"No being a repeater, no talking loudly!"

It wouldn't matter if he fell into a coma after losing his SAN. Yesterday, he was completely stunned by the sound of the black mist.

"You can hear me, right?"

The female voice sounded again, this time much softer.

Lu Yu nodded, and then asked back: "Who are you? Why do you know my language?"

An awkward silence fell, and the black mist put away its tentacles and slowly floated to Lu Yu's side.

"Nodding means understanding. I understand. Your language is very strange. I have never heard such a strange language. I am using spiritual magic as a bridge to talk to you. I am meditating on what you want to say. I can feel it. Some."

"Can you tell me where you are from?"

Lu Yu was dumbfounded, and then he suddenly realized that no wonder Heiwu didn't react at all despite shouting "shut up" last night.

They didn't know their own language at all, so it was in vain that Lu Yu thought that Chinese still had a place in the other world.

He tried the method Kurogiri told him and started thinking about it in his mind.

After trying several times in a row, Lu Yu finally successfully connected with the black fog.

"I also have a question, do we each get what we need?"

Black fog was silent for a long time.

"Sorry, it's difficult for me to maintain mental magic now. Your words are very vague and it will take some time..."

"I accept your request. I agree."

It turns out that the Internet speed is too slow.

"Who are you?" Lu Yu became more and more confused about this strange black mist.

After a while, the voice came over.

"Lulutis, a magician." After Black Mist finished speaking, he asked curiously, "It's your turn, who are you?"

Lu Yu touched his head and introduced himself: "Lu Yu, in terms of occupation...I came to this strange world just after graduation. I am an unemployed vagrant."

Lu Yu discovered that after he finished speaking, the fog around Heiwu would flow rapidly. Could this be a sign that Heiwu was fully processing what he said?

"Lu Yu...a very unusual name, like someone from an area ruled by an ancient country that I have heard of. In addition, don't mention the irrelevant things next. Now I...well, I can't maintain this magic well. "

Lu Yu could also see that Hei Wu was uncomfortable. Every time she conveyed a message, a large amount of black mist would escape from her body, and even the voice conveyed would be trembling.

Is it painful to speak?

"What is this place?" Lu Yu asked.

"I don't know where this is. I've only been in this area not long ago."

Lulutis asked: "You are not from this world, right? I can feel that you are not a summoned object. The key is that you can hear my voice."

There was no way to hide this. The language system was different and the other party was a knowledgeable magician, so Lu Yu nodded and acknowledged this fact.

But he was really curious about what Lulutis said at the end.

"If I can hear your voice, do you mean you are not from this world?"

Unable to maintain communication, Lulutis fell to the ground and rested for a while before slowly explaining the reason to Lu Yu.

Lulutis was originally a human magician. About a month ago, she conducted a special magic experiment in her mansion.

During the experiment, a mutation was suddenly discovered. The magic elements constructing the ritual were disordered, sweeping through the entire laboratory, destroying the potion she was developing, and eventually causing an explosion.

If it was just an explosion, it wouldn't be a big problem.

Lu Yu said in shock: "Isn't the problem a big problem?"

This is not a big problem, so what is?

Sure enough, coming to a different world, the boundaries of common sense need to be expanded as soon as possible.

"I'm a magician. Ordinary explosions can't hurt me at all. This explosion was a little unexpected."

Lu Yu stared blankly at Lulutis, who said that he once looked like a human being, and then looked at the ball exuding black mist...

A little unexpected?

Lulutis herself did not expect that the magic flow that swept through the entire laboratory would continue to spurt out on a large scale at the moment of the explosion.

The storage room where she stored a large number of magic scrolls, ritual magic, and magic contracts, the study... resonated under the disturbance of the magic flow.

"Sorry, you just said that it should be brief. This is good for you and me. Overall..."

Lu Yu begged: "Can you speak human words?"

Lulutis’s shaking tentacles froze.

"All my magic scrolls were triggered by mistake."

According to Lulutis's own conjecture, the potion changed her body shape. At the point when she was weakest, ritual magic, transfer scrolls, and the seal of the magic contract all took effect.

This also caused Lulutis to turn into the black fog, spherical core, and full of ghost appearance now, and she came to this strange place.

"Well, what does this have to do with your inability to communicate?"

"The sealing effect of contract magic. This magic is used for punishment. It is originally very ineffective for magicians of my level, but... in short, it's good that you know that this is a sealing effect."

Lulutis who became like this was about the same time as Lu Yu arrived at this point.

But Lulutis looked worse.

Lu Yu just couldn't communicate with people in this world, but he still had a body that could integrate into normal society.

As for Lulutis... She tried to communicate with the magician she met in the wild, but what she got in response was a fireball.

If the magician was not a beginner, Lulutis should have been dissected as a strange monster.

The seal is much more powerful than Lu Yu imagined. Lulutis tried to communicate with slightly low-level intelligent monsters using mental magic, but all of them became manic without exception.

It is difficult to tell whether this is an effect of her own potion or the influence of the contract itself.

"What about the text?"

"The written text will be deviated, making it unreadable... I think one thing, but my body will unconsciously write something else under the influence of the contract seal."

"Damn, such a powerful seal, you magicians are really good at playing!" Lu Yu was shocked.

Lulutis, who was weak, was silent for a long time when she heard Lu Yu say this, and sighed, without correcting Lu Yu's wrong statement.

There should be few copies of this contract in the world.

In an explosion, many treasures in the mansion were destroyed.

After I go back, can I recover some of the losses...

In the end, can I go back? How long will it take to go back?

All kinds of questions came to my mind in an instant, and Lulutis was left with only helplessness.

"Wait, can't you draw pictures? Why don't you use patterns..."

"Do you think my style will have the opportunity to communicate with others in such an abstract form of patterns?"

"That's right." Lu Yu looked at Lulutis and expressed deep sympathy.

After explaining in one breath, Lulutis's tentacles all retracted, and he said tiredly: "I can't maintain spiritual magic... I need to rest for a while... Thank you for the dinner."

After that, Lulutis fell asleep.

Lu Yu stared at the black fog on the ground, recalling the conversation in his mind just now, everything made people feel very wonderful.

This was the first time he came into contact with magic since he came to this world, and it was also the first time he communicated with the life in this world.

After extinguishing the bonfire and letting the wind pass for a while, Lu Yu poked his head out of the tree hole to observe for a while, confirmed that the surroundings were safe, and then blocked the tree hole with a baffle woven with vines and wooden strips.

Still worried, Lu Yu looked around through the gaps in the vines, and then he lay down on the small nest made of hay with peace of mind.

It's no wonder that Lu Yu is so cautious. He has lived here for almost a month. If he is not careful, it will be a restart.

Although he is still quite skeptical about Lulutis's appearance... After all, what kind of person can make a potion that can turn himself into such a chaotic appearance?

The purpose of this potion is worth thinking about.

However, Lulutis's seal is real, and he is the only person she can communicate with for such a long time.

According to Lulutis, if she wants to become a normal person again, she may need his help more or less.

Thinking of this, Lu Yu no longer feels that the black fog is annoying.

After coming to this world for so long, sleeping is always a fear.

At least he can sleep well tonight.

After Lu Yu fell asleep, Lulutis, who was dozing, floated up and took a look at the baffle made by Lu Yu.

"There is really no magic breath..."

"Is the magic from a different source?"