Open Your Quest Log Chapter 5

What should you do when the problems you encounter are beyond your ability?

It's very simple, just close your eyes and pretend it doesn't exist, it can't be solved anyway. Sometimes we need a little bit of this "negative" thinking in order to maintain a false "optimism".

For Barrett, choosing to "set aside" is not a bad idea, at least from the current situation, the change he has suffered can't see any harm for the time being.

I hope this situation can be maintained forever. I don't expect it to get better, as long as there are no hidden ills. Barrett thought to himself. Maybe I should also find something to write to, like his former dwarven partner, Moradin, the dwarven god.

He compared the gods to "things", but he didn't realize what was wrong with it. Since the magical empire that has ruled for thousands of years has overturned the gods who oppose the mages, humans only know the mages, not the gods.

Barrett got up, walked towards the crumbling wooden door, and reached out to push the door open. The air outside is clear and cold, like the kiss of the undead. Although you won't get frostbite because of it, you will still feel the chills from the bottom of your heart. The temperature in early spring was lower than Barrett imagined, and Ray's daily clothes made him have some wrong perceptions of the current temperature.

Such a temperature might make her feel a little cold, Barritt frowned, thinking to himself. Then such thoughts that didn't fit his character were thrown out of his mind: he was a barbarian, an adventurer, a barbarian adventurer, not those who were full of troubles in their minds and opened their mouths like lemon cakes Sweet bard.

If he has a need, in that way, Barrett will go to those lovely people who only love the 'Silver Griffin' or the 'Golden King', it will be simpler and more direct. In terms of feelings, Barrett thinks that having this 'bride' is enough and doesn't need anything else. Although his 'bride' was not warm, it was sharp and dependable.

It seems that Ray is also in love with the 'Silver Griffin' or the 'Golden King', Barrett suddenly thought. But she's not a sweetie, no! He shook his head again and forgot the girl who had been with him for a long time.

Barrett has not been out for several days, five or six days? The time spent in the house all the time was always muddled and confused his memory.

He habitually sniffed his nose, moved his somewhat stiff arms, and walked forward.

The 'Bay of Pigs' is still the dirty and messy 'Bay of Pigs', as if the people living here are not all kinds of humans, but the fat livestock that will be put on the dining table. But the environment made Barrett feel intimate, as if every muscle in his body was drawing strength from the filth and clutter.

The door of a nearby grocery store was pushed open, and several adventurers in studded leather armor walked out. The lead one saw Barrett and was stunned for a moment, then turned around and followed him. A few of his companions said, "Hey, guys, look who this is?" The tone was as if seeing a goblin dancing in an apron—surprise mixed with wonder.

"Isn't this our great Mr. Feeder?" The adventurer didn't wait for Barrett to answer, then turned around and said behind him, "How did those mages express their surprise? Yes, magic is on!" His expression was a bit exaggerated, "Oh, the magic is on! You are still alive! I thought you had already become the feces in the stomach of some monster in the foggy forest. Trust me, if you turned into feces, It must be the stiniest one!"

After speaking, he made a gesture of pinching his nose and pooping, which caused his companion to laugh out loud.

This adventurer who satirized Barrett as soon as they met was called "Jon the Snake", and most of the nicknames circulated among adventurers had a certain irony. Like Barrett's nickname 'The Feeder', it was other adventurers who satirized him in the past when the captain teamed up to go on an adventure in the Misty Forest, and the death rate in the team was always high, as if he was not going to risk money, but regularly Same as feeding the monsters in the 'Misty Forest'.

And the nickname 'Jon the Snake' comes from a proverbial story on the road.

The protagonist of the story is a farmer named Jon, who often dreams that he has become a nobleman and lives a luxurious and luxurious life. After waking up from the dream, Farmer Jon is always unsatisfied and unwilling. Over time, he took on a so-called aristocratic posture in his daily life, pretending to be a nobleman. No matter how others persuaded him, he would not listen to him, and he always went his own way.

But Jon's essence is still a poor farmer who only knows how to farm, with only a hen and an old dog at home. His feel-good behaviors do nothing but make people laugh. Just like the snake lizard, no matter how much it looks like a snake, its essence is a lizard.

The later proverb "Live like Jon the snake" refers to someone who always fails to recognize reality and lives in his own fantasy.

"You also know that I am a 'feeder', but not food." Barrett put his hand on the hilt of the 'Iron Bride' and retorted.

He didn't like to be quick with his tongue before, but after spending a long time with his former dwarf partner, he was subconsciously influenced by the latter: "The 'Forest' is never picky eaters, it eats everything, while the 'Snake Lizard' 'This slippery thing is his favorite. When he eats it, he won't even spit out bones! If I have the chance, I will feed him all the 'lisks', all!"

The relationship between 'Jon the Snake' and Barrett is not good.

When the two of them were on an adventure in the misty forest, they met by chance. In that encounter, each other's adventurous team almost faced each other with swords because of the ownership of a seven-meter-long, dead fire-patterned python.

Although the death of this fire-patterned python has nothing to do with the two teams, it does not prevent them from wanting to take this valuable trophy as their own.

At that time, if an adult three-armed troll with a height of 4 or 5 meters 'just' passed by and drove the two teams of adventurers away, maybe only one of the two people facing each other would have survived.

"You're right, 'it' is never a picky eater!" Jon the snake lizard was not angry, but nodded solemnly, his expression seemed to agree with Barrett's words.

He raised his long and bushy eyebrows and pointed with his chin in the direction of the misty forest, "So it will eat whatever you feed it. Let me think about what you have fed it."

The snake lizard Jon frowned again, as if thinking hard: "There are 'Onion Tom', 'Gray Ribbon', 'Beer Shoes', 'Silly Locke'..." He continued to say The owners of these names were once famous among adventurers, but they have now been 'digested' by the misty forest, and they all happened in Barrett's team.

"And 'Cat Smile'!" A skinny companion behind Jon the Snake Lizard reminded.

Barrett followed the voice and found that he didn't know this person. The adventurer standing behind Jon the snake and lizard seemed to be a new face, but he was no stranger to things in the "Bay of Pigs".

"Yes, there is also 'cat laugh'!" Jon the snake lizard clapped his hands and said with a happy expression: "That poor man, although his laughter is like a cat's ** in a quiet night, it is very uncomfortable. , makes you want to stick a red-hot iron down his throat. But I must say, he's definitely a good lad! Neat and obedient, isn't he, Mr. Feeder? A dead good Boy, ha!"

The words of his nemesis left Barrett speechless. If there is anything that can make his inner karma as hard as the "Iron Bride" uneasy, then the successive deaths of his companions are undoubtedly the most important one.

Jon, the snake lizard, squinted his eyes and continued: "How old was 'Cat Smile' when he adventured with you? Seventeen or eighteen?"

"I heard that he is still the only son in their family." The skinny adventurer added.

"It's actually an only child?" The words of his companion made Jon the snake lizard a little surprised, "Like me, I don't know how his parents are willing to let him come out to work. My mother heard that after I had an accident, I would continue to work. The adventurer line even knelt in front of me crying. But what's the use of it, if you don't fight it, you might not be able to eat rye bread for the rest of your life."

When Jon the snake lizard said this, his expression suddenly became a little gloomy, and it seemed that the fun that Barrett brought him had disappeared in an instant, but he still said in a strong tone: "It's a pity that that good boy entered your house. Team, and you, fed him to the Misty Forest. As for me, sorry, you never had this chance, ever!"

After he finished speaking, Jon the Snake Lizard ignored Barrit and left with his companions on his own.

Chapter end