Chapter 140 Soul Beast: Firefly
"Zhou Qing, are you also an adventurer of the Notting Guild like Xiao Wu? Can you take me with you to experience the adventure missions in the guild?"
Qingzhu Zhu looked expectant.
"this···"
"I can pay you an extra 1,000 gold soul coins." Mother Zhu found Zhou Qing's weakness and offered her own bargaining chip.
"Then why are you so embarrassed?"
Zhou Qing laughed and immediately said, "Deal!"
"You are so greedy!" Xiao Wu said disdainfully.
"I didn't steal or rob anyone. I earned the money with my own ability. How can I be considered greedy?" Zhou Qing retorted, "You are just jealous."
"Jealous? Will Sister Xiao Wu be jealous of you?" Xiao Wu sneered, "Don't forget, we are a team. You can take the mission, and so can I. And the rewards for the missions have to be split equally."
"hehe!"
Zhou Qing sneered twice, called Qingzhu Zhu and Zhu Ma and headed towards the Notting Guild. He turned his back and waved to Xiao Wu, "Goodbye."
However, Xiao Wu still caught up.
"Why are you still following me?"
"I have accepted the mission to lead Zhu Ma and Qingzhu Zhu to visit Notting City, so of course I have to go to the guild to get my reward." Xiao Wu took out a piece of mission paper from the small bag on her waist and waved it in front of Zhou Qing.
After arriving at the Notting Guild, Xiao Wu received her reward immediately, and then walked to Zhou Qing, Qingzhu Zhu, and Zhu Ma, wanting to see what kind of tasks they would choose.
"how about this?"
Zhou Qing pointed to a task paper for hunting and capturing soul beasts.
The person who issued the task was a minor noble in Notting City, who wanted to find a suitable spirit ring for his thirteen-year-old daughter.
The reason why it was capture instead of hunting was because the young noble did not want his daughter to follow the soul master to adventure in the soul hunting forest.
Therefore, the soul master who accepts this task needs to bring the soul beast back alive.
The soul beast that the daughter of the young noble needed was a firefly called Guangying, and it had to be over fifty years old. As for the reward, since the soul master was required to bring back a living soul beast, the conditions were rather harsh, so the price reached one thousand gold soul coins.
However, because the requirement of "staying alive" is rather difficult, this task has been posted here for half a month and still no one is interested.
After all, when capturing soul beasts in the Soul Hunting Forest, the dangers one faces are not only the soul beasts needed by the employer, but also other soul beasts, poisonous insects, and other unknown situations, such as encountering and conflicting with other soul-splitting teams.
"Okay, that's it."
Qing Zhuzhu's eyes were full of anticipation.
So Zhou Qing tore off the task paper, walked to the counter, reported to Alice, and left the guild with Qingzhu Zhu, Zhu Ma, and Xiao Wu. By the way, Xiao Wu wanted to come here on her own, saying that she wanted to see what a soul beast like Guangying looked like - she had never seen this kind of soul beast in the Xingdou Great Forest.
Since they were riding in Qing Zhuzhu's carriage, which had a spacious interior and excellent shock absorption, and the horse pulling the carriage was one of the very few soul beasts that could be tamed by humans: a unicorn that could travel a thousand miles a day, Zhou Qing estimated that if he was lucky, not counting the time spent hunting soul beasts, and just the time spent on the journey, he could return to Notting City before dawn.
Zhou Qing then introduced the situation of Guangying: "Guangying is a firefly that may be different from other firefly spirit beasts you know. It only appears in areas with distinct four seasons. Therefore, this spirit beast does not exist in large wild forests such as the Star Forest and the Sunset Forest, where it is spring all year round. It can only be found near Notting City, and only in summer."
"Fortunately, there is still some time until autumn. If it is half a month later, we will not see this kind of soul beast anymore."
Outside the car, Zhu Ma, who was driving, turned around with a surprised look in her eyes: "You seem to know a lot about soul beasts?"
"I just like reading books. As a commoner, I can only take every opportunity to learn about various information about soul master training and soul beast species. Only then can I guess what kind of soul beast spirit rings are suitable for different martial souls."
Zhou Qing gave an example, "Like the noble who issued this task, his daughter's martial soul is a candle, which is an auxiliary martial soul that can illuminate and release a warm light to slowly heal injuries."
"I chose the Firefly because this soul beast can emit light, but the light is not glaring and can have a slight healing effect, which is very similar to the flame of a candle, so it can be considered to complement each other."
Qing Zhuzhu nodded slightly and asked, "Regarding fireflies, before I awakened my martial spirit, I heard about a kind of light-colored insect, which has a soft light, a very powerful healing ability, and a huge number. Why not choose this?"
Could he say that he had never heard of the name of the Light Rainbow Bug?
There was no introduction to this kind of soul beast in the books in the Notting College library, and he had not yet found the time to look through the library in the Notting City Wuhun Branch Hall.
However, Zhou Qing naturally couldn't show it, so he asked: "Where do these light-colored insects mainly gather?"
"Star Forest!"
Xiao Wu answered quickly.
Hey!
This kind of firefly-like soul beast could be seen every night when she was still a carefree rabbit!
"Just like Xiao Wu said, this kind of soul beast lives in the Xingdou Great Forest. Do the small nobles in Notting City have the wealth, resources, and connections to hire more powerful soul masters to hunt soul beasts in such a large forest?"
Zhou Qing calmly concealed his "ignorance" and answered Qing Zhuzhu's question from another perspective, "For most civilian soul masters, or even nobles in small towns with low status, there are actually not that many choices."
Although Qingzhu Zhu was young, he vaguely sensed the gap between the children of large families and royal families and the children of other poor families and common people.
But now, Zhou Qing summarized the key points and presented them in front of her.
Wealth, connections, resources...
[No wonder Zhou Qing wants me to live happily every day. It turns out that compared to other people, I, who was born in the Nether Spirit Cat family, really have everything that others may never get in their lifetime! ]
Once she learned how to compare, Qing Zhuzhu found that she should be quite happy... But why did she feel depressed when she was in the family?
"Speaking of the Firefly, this soul beast will shed its wings after the summer and become similar to an ant. It will burrow into the ground and feed on all kinds of rotten leaves, branches, and fruits until the summer of the following year, when it will grow wings again." Seeing Qing Zhuzhu's expression was a little depressed, Zhou Qing continued to talk about the soul beast called the Firefly.
"Why? Wouldn't it be good to have wings all the time? You can fly freely." Qing Zhuzhu was indeed attracted and couldn't help asking, "How great would that be?"
(End of this chapter)
