socalfunplaces Chapter 24 Harley is acting strange
Chapter 24 Harley is acting strange
"Hey, Chen Yan, did you touch something you shouldn't have?"
Chen Yan was groggily woken up by Harley. Although his eyes were open, his head hadn't had time to turn around yet.
"Bullshit! I must have done good deeds in my past life, whatever I touch is what I deserve!"
"hehe!"
Chen Yan drank hot water, occasionally rubbing the slap marks on his face.
Harley, adjusting her clothes, looked at Chen Yan with a half-smile.
"Tell me, which monster do you want to provoke today? Let me make it clear first, I can't handle tough monsters like Rathalos or Diablos. At most, I can play with monsters like Barroth or Mudfish."
"That's enough, that's enough. I'm not going to hunt them, I just want to broaden my horizons. Harley, which one do you want to tease first?"
"It's a Barroth, I just saw Barroth footprints yesterday. It should be active nearby. But Barroth has a bad temper. If you don't want to be knocked away by it, don't stand in front of it easily."
Riding on a pterosaur, Chen Yan and Harley soon spotted a Barroth dinosaur munching on the carcass of a herbivorous dinosaur.
Looking down from the sky, the already short and thick neck of the Sand Dragon is almost invisible. All you can see is a large and thick, robust head connected directly to its back. It takes a few bites and then kicks its hind legs to drive away any carrion-eating abominations that come close. If the movements are bigger, you can also see its short and thick front claws swinging back and forth.
"Look, that's the Sand Dragon down there."
"Although it has a better temper than the Diablos, it is still a stubborn dragon. If you encounter it in the wild, in addition to being careful of its dragon charge, tail whip, and iron mountain lean, you also need to pay special attention to its headbutt. Sometimes it will also shake mud off its body."
After talking for a while, Harley suddenly realized that Chen Yan wasn't a hunter, so why was she telling him all this?
Chen Yan nodded seriously and circled the top of the earthen dragon a few times, but did not trigger the quest. In order not to miss any monster that might issue a quest, Chen Yan flicked a stone down the ground.
A palm-sized stone slammed onto the rugged, muddy carapace of the Sand Dragon. The Sand Dragon jerked its head up, looking around, but found no creature approaching.
Another pebble was thrown down, and the Sand Dragon raised its head again to look around, but still saw nothing. It growled a few times, scaring away several Abominations that had come to peck at its food. It snorted a few times in annoyance and then lowered its head to continue eating.
Throwing another pebble, the Barroth roared and rammed into the corpse of the herbivore, spinning around in circles. Still not knowing who was bothering it, it angrily charged at several Abominations that hadn't yet taken flight.
Looking down at the Sand Dragon that was sending bird feathers flying everywhere, Harley smiled gently and raised her hand to lightly slap it.
"It's already silly, and you're still teasing it. Okay, if you're free, I'll take you to see the Mudfish Dragon, but we might not see it. That guy likes to hide under the mud..."
Chen Yan nodded. Just as he thought the Sand Dragon wouldn't give him a quest and was about to leave, he suddenly heard a roar.
The two looked down and saw that the Sand Dragon had spotted them and was trying to raise its head and call out to them.
Its short, thick neck clearly couldn't support its head up for long periods; it could only lift it for a while, call out a few times, rest for a while, then lift it again for a while, call out a few times, and rest for a while.
It only stopped when it was completely exhausted and panting.
At that moment, a white bubble appeared in Chen Yan's mind.
[The Barroth issues a quest: I want to eat bugs!]
[Crunchy and delicious, tastes like chicken, and has six times the protein of herbivorous dragon meat! Herbivorous dragon meat is just for filling your stomach; the bursting beetle is the real delicacy!]
[Commission Fee: Hardened Crown/Mud Armor/Rocket Hammer]
"Got it!"
Chen Yan made a gesture, causing the Pteranodon to brake suddenly, which earned him a slightly resentful look from Harley.
After learning that the pterosaur liked to eat flying walnuts, she fed it a lot, but it still seemed to be closer to Chen Yan.
Looks like he's still a traitor.
"Harley, we have a job!"
"What?"
In an oasis in the northwest corner of the Great Ant Mound Wasteland, Chen Yan and Harley rummaged through the rocks and tapped on the dead wood. Harley, holding a twig in each hand, trembled as she pulled out a beetle hiding in the dead wood.
Chen Yan's movements were much smoother. Every time he turned over a stone, before the beetles hiding underneath could escape, he would swiftly pick them up one by one and throw them into his basket.
He hasn't forgotten the skills passed down from his ancestors.
The cat was quite efficient; it would use its tail to tuck and coil inside the dead tree trunk, always managing to entangle a few beetles.
Even the pterosaur came to help; with a peck of its long, sharp beak, it caught a beetle hiding in a crevice in the rock.
"Hey, you still haven't told me what you're planning to do with all these beetles. You're not planning to roast them for me tonight, are you?"
Harley squeezed the restless oval beetle in her hand and, from a distance, accurately tossed it into the basket on Chen Yan's back.
These things aren't necessarily inedible; you just need to break off their long, whip-like tentacles, throw them over a fire, and roast them for about ten seconds until they're cooked.
However, it tastes like tree bark, bitter, astringent, and hard. If you're lucky enough to find one that bursts with juice, the taste is even more indescribable.
"No, it's for... Yes, that's right. Actually, I'm also good at roasting insects, and I guarantee it will open your eyes."
"Oh, okay."
Chen Yan glanced at Harley guiltily. With Harley's intelligence, how could she not see through his incredibly far-fetched answer? But she didn't react or ask any further questions, and continued to hold the beetle tightly.
After filling their baskets to the brim, the two flew back to the Sand Dragon. Suddenly, Chen Yan's hand slipped, and the basket fell right in front of the Sand Dragon. The Sand Dragon quickly devoured all the beetles they had painstakingly caught.
Chen Yan was extremely annoyed and apologized to Harley repeatedly, but Harley just shrugged and said, "It's a pity I won't be able to enjoy this food," and that was it.
Chen Yan rubbed his hands together in secret, and after the spinning wheel stopped, he finally received his first offensive mission reward amidst his eager anticipation.
[Rocket Headbutt]
[Rocket Headbutt]: When you charge forward ten meters headfirst and hit someone, they'll laugh. When you charge forward a hundred meters headfirst and hit someone, they'll dodge. But when you charge forward a thousand meters headfirst and hit someone, you simply can't stop. Blind spots, I thought it was a speed bump... Well, tell your insurance company... We're all trying our best to live...
The reward bubble burst, and unlike before, this time a scorching warm current swirled around his forehead.
On the unseen front of the skull, most of the warm current adhered to it, and its color seemed to have changed. A small portion went to the front and back of the skull, turning into elastic ligaments that wrapped around the brain. The transformation was completed in a few breaths.
Harley couldn't hide Chen Yan's head-shaking and swaying movements from him. She reached out and touched Chen Yan's forehead with concern, as if she was afraid he was sick.
This isn't right.