vncnus Chapter 22 Don't Be Afraid
Chapter 22 Don't Be Afraid
By the time Chen Yan wiped his mouth and stood up, the mission reward had already been credited to his account.
It wasn't the bird-scratching kick he thought it was.
[Task completed.]
[Gold Digger]: Not only are combustible stones or sticky stones buried under your feet, but also pottery jars. There is a very small chance that you will dig up special items when you dig.
Instead of drawing the Scratching Bird Kick, Chen Yan drew a Gold Rush Claw that he didn't understand. He frowned and poked the ground with his scabbard. All that came out were gravel and pebbles of various sizes.
"What do you mean by extremely low probability? Even though the scratching bird is so good at digging, I've never seen it dig up any treasures. Could it be that I'm going to dig up some kind of treasure...?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a slight tremor came from the ground beneath his feet.
Chen Yan was stunned, and an incredulous look of surprise appeared in his eyes.
"New account and I'm lucky! My first digging actually yielded some treasure!"
Chen Yan spat into his hand, ready to go all out and dig for treasure, but before he could even bend over, a person suddenly jumped out from an ordinary pile of dry grass a dozen meters away.
Chen Yan thought he was seeing things, but when he blinked hard and looked again, the figure turned into Harley and rushed in front of him.
"Why did you follow me here?"
Before Chen Yan could whistle to signal the pterosaur to take him away, she pounced on him with the ferocity of a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey.
The two entangled bodies slid along the soft gravel until they slid into several unconscious Ankylosaurus before stopping.
Chen Yan was completely bewildered and unable to move. He had clearly grabbed Harley's hands first when she tackled him, so how did his hands end up being pinned down by her knees after just a few seconds?
"Wait, don't hit my face!"
Seeing Harley raise her fist, which was as big as a steamed bun, Chen Yan could only beg her not to hit his face. But the expected pain did not come. Instead, he felt a softness in front of him, a fragrance in his nose, and a few strands of black hair fell down his side.
"Don't move!"
Harley leaned down and pressed herself tightly against Chen Yan, whispering in his ear in the softest of voices, while also tugging at her invisibility cloak in the smallest of movements, trying to cover Chen Yan as much as possible.
"Huh...uh!"
Seeing that Chen Yan was about to open his mouth to speak, Harley pressed his mouth down and even pinched his lips with two fingers.
She unleashed a powerful, deadly scissor-hand move, catching Chen Yan off guard and causing him to nearly cry from the pain.
I didn't experience the so-called delicious flavor from a young girl's fingertips. Instead, I ate a mouthful of sand that grazed my teeth, and I couldn't even utter a single word of complaint.
Seeing Harley, who remained silent as if mocking him, Chen Yan was enraged. A true man can be killed but not humiliated!
He had teased her at the camp earlier, and he was indeed a little embarrassed, but he hadn't given up on making amends.
He was planning to show off his skills when he got back that night, cooking an amazing meal to win her forgiveness, but he didn't expect her to be so mischievous, wanting to play some thrills on him in broad daylight in the wild. Well then, he shouldn't blame him for being ruthless.
If it were his old tongue, it would be completely immobile, but his current tongue has been enhanced by the [Developed Tongue] reward from the Poisonous Bird quest.
Let alone being held between Harley's two fingers, even pliers might not be able to clamp his mouth shut.
Chen Yan sucked his mouth back, and Harley's two fingers immediately missed their mark.
Before she could search again, Chen Yan pressed her curled tongue firmly against her palate, and in an instant, she mustered all her strength, opened her mouth, and flicked it hard. With a crisp sound, her two fingers were directly whipped away by the tip of Chen Yan's tongue!
The girl's fair fingertips left faint red marks.
"Haha, you think you can subdue me? Don't even dream about it! I'm not even afraid of Xialong, why would I be afraid of you..."
Chen Yan's arrogant smile froze instantly.
Among the fallen armored dragons, there appeared something that, like Harley, shouldn't have been there.
To put it simply, it is—
A pair of huge, curved dragon horns, a massive mouth full of fangs and sharp teeth, and a pair of small eyes that radiate a terrifying, cold light.
Chen Yan gazed deeply into the eyes of a strikingly prominent dragon head on the sand.
It exhaled a stream of scorching hot exhaust gas from its nostrils, gently, slowly, and quietly pulling out the hideous, terrifying, and oppressive body buried under the sand.
"Hey, Harley, please... no, please shut my mouth again."
Harley gently patted Chen Yan's face and smiled, a smile as beautiful as a black rose.
"run!"
She leaped up like a hare, her slender figure extremely agile. Not only did she complete a 360-degree flip in the air, but she also managed to pull Chen Yan up as well, and even kicked the equally dumbfounded Hua Miao.
The three had just rushed out of the pass when they heard a thunderous roar behind them. A shockwave, as if it were real, swept over them. Blood gushed from Chen Yan's ears instantly. He felt as if he had been hit on the head. His vision blurred, and he was about to fall to the ground uncontrollably.
Harley also let out a muffled groan, her body stiffening for a moment, but she quickly recovered. While pulling Chen Yan and Hua Miao along, she somehow managed to unscrew a bottle of healing potion and splash it all over their faces.
The icy medicine quickly brought them back to their senses, and they continued their escape without stopping. With Harley pulling and dragging them, their speed was astonishing; Chen Yan had never run so fast in his life.
But they angered a horned dragon.
Although the Diablos is a type of flying wyvern, it is one of the few herbivorous monsters among them. They usually feed on cacti in the desert, but this vegetarian monster has an extremely violent and ferocious heart. They will kill any creature that enters their territory.
Just as Chen Yan was running with all his might, Harley suddenly swept his leg, knocking the unsuspecting Chen Yan and Hua Miao to the ground.
Watching Harley's resolute back, Chen Yan suddenly had a terrifying thought.
He heard a story when he was a child.
Two people, A and B, startled a bear in the mountains. A ran for his life, while B stood still and said, "What's the use of running? Can you outrun a bear?" A, while running, replied, "I just need to run faster than you."
Harley is like A now, while he and Flower Cat together are like B.
Just as he was feeling a mix of emotions, he saw that Harley had not gone far. She tried her best to regulate her breathing, held up the crossbow, and fired a bolt into the sky at an angle.
The strange crossbow bolt, made of some unknown material, emitted an extremely piercing scream the moment it left the bowstring.
She then turned around and pounced on Chen Yan again.
This time, without her saying a word, Chen Yan very proactively and eagerly placed that damned mouth between her fingers.
Seeing Chen Yan's comical pout, Harley laughed happily, even though they were still in a life-or-death crisis being chased by the "Desert Tyrant." She took the opportunity to gently pinch Chen Yan's mouth.
The girl's barely audible voice echoed in my ears.
"Don't be afraid, little brother, your boss is here."
The sand beneath it trembled, and the massive body of the horned dragon, over twenty meters long, leaped out from under the gravel like a yellowish-brown missile. Ignoring the two people and one cat huddled together beneath it, it chased after the crossbow bolt.