In the uniquely flavoured wooden vine villa, a fire pit rose in the middle of the first floor hall. The temperature in the secret realm fluctuated greatly; although there was no distinction between day and night, it still alternated between cold and hot, just like now. After a cold wind blew through not long ago, the small forest immediately turned as cold as an ice cave, with even frost forming on the leaves of some plants.
Now the surroundings were quiet, with no sounds of insects or birds, of course, another reason for the silence might be that the living creatures here had almost all been killed clean by Ye Dui and his group…
Mr Bear was truly the nemesis of all living animals.
It had been over a hundred hours since entering the secret realm, which amounted to five days. Ye Dui and his group had accumulated enough food and planned to leave tomorrow to explore other regions of the secret realm.
In the fire pit piled up with stones, a roaring flame burned, bringing a heart-penetrating warmth. Grylls skilfully threaded the meat blocks onto wooden sticks and placed them over the fire to grill, occasionally sprinkling some secret realm-specific seasonings. There was no salt here; although Mr Bear had found a kind of insect that could substitute for salt with its salty taste, undoubtedly no one besides him could stomach eating it.
Fortunately, grilled meat did not necessarily have to be salty. Mr Bear had also found a tall-stemmed plant that secreted a juice like sugarcane syrup, from which he extracted a honey-like sweet juice. Brushing this juice on during grilling also gave it a distinct flavour.
Everyone was comfortably enjoying the delicious honey-glazed roast meat, occasionally pairing it with a cup of full-bodied fruit wine. That fruit wine was brewed from a kind of wild fruit, a masterpiece from Mr Bear, under whose hands the time required for brewing seemed to be directly omitted.
“I really want to stay here forever.” Dani, sitting on a vine chair laid with a warm fur blanket, sighed comfortably after taking a sip of fruit wine. This remark made Ye Dui and the others momentarily stunned; they seemed to have come here for adventure in the Crown War…
There was no tension at all.
At this moment, Ye Dui thought of something and looked towards Jacob: “Has your guardian spirit not coalesced yet?”
Jacob shook his head regretfully, his eating motion pausing slightly: “Perhaps my talent is really too poor, and no guardian spirit is willing to shelter me…”
“What are you talking about? Your talent is not inferior to any other prince at all. Isn’t it enough to have gained the recognition of that gravity magic tome?” Debbie hurriedly comforted him. “The Crown Battlefield has not opened for several hundred years; perhaps guardian spirits cannot find hosts immediately. Wait a bit longer, and you will definitely awaken your guardian spirit. Relax.”
“Exactly, even without a guardian spirit, it does not matter. We can still make you win.” Grylls also comforted him. “I think the other princes who entered the secret realm were all teleported to similar forests like us. I dare not say anything else, but I am certain they are not living as comfortably as us in the early stages.”
“…” Jacob still wanted to say something, but looking at the delicious roast meat in his hand, he had to agree with Grylls’s statement. If Ye Dui had not just asked him about the guardian spirit, he would have forgotten why he was here…
A delicious roast meat feast ended quickly.
Ye Dui announced that everyone should go rest first. Of course, rest could not forget vigilance, and on this point, Dani played a great role. She went outside the wooden vine villa, walked around it once, and in the places she passed, a kind of strange plant immediately grew from the ground.
This was a fantasy creature, a creation of Harley Quinn.
From its appearance, this plant resembled a sunflower very much, but the disk part was a clown’s face, with a split mouth as if emitting a silent大笑. These clown plants had no combat ability, but they had a very useful function: vigilance.
Scattering them around the wooden vine villa, if someone approached or they sensed killing intent, they would immediately emit a piercing shrill laughter. Even Dani could set vigilance levels; if only small animals approached rashly, it would not trigger their alert.
“This way we are safe and sound.” After finishing this, Dani happily clapped her palms, raising her face to look at Ye Dui and the others, showing an expression of come praise me. Hmph, this girl is now the most useful person.
“I know, I know.” Ye Dui was somewhat speechless at Dani’s usual showing off and smiled as he said it, then called everyone back to rest. They were scheduled to depart in ten hours and leave here to explore other places in the secret realm.
The wooden vine villa soon fell into silence.
There was no night here, yet it was as quiet as midnight.
Then, suddenly, a figure appeared in front of the wooden vine villa.
This was a somewhat strange man, appearing in his forties. He had long hair and a long beard trimmed very neatly. Those clown plants all turned their disks towards him, but after a moment, they seemed to judge that this person posed no threat and turned their disks towards other places again.
The long-haired man stood in front of the wooden vine villa for a moment before stepping onto the vine-condensed steps and walking inside.
…
Ye Dui slept very comfortably and woke up with full energy. He climbed up from the warm fur bed, walked to the window, and pulled open the fur curtain, thanks to Mr Bear. Over these few days, through his tireless efforts, not only did everyone sleep on fur beds, but the rooms also had fur curtains hung, and even fur carpets laid underfoot…
This made Ye Dui unable to help sighing; the other princes were probably still struggling for food. Were they being too luxurious?
He opened the window and took a deep breath, summoning the magic tome. After a night of recharging, the battery icon on the iPad magic tome showed that the magic power was fully charged at one hundred percent.
Then Ye Dui tapped the app on the magic tome screen, that was the iPad’s file manager. Of course, in the magically modified magic tome, it represented [Storage Space]. Ye Dui could directly take things out from the [Storage Space] with his will or view the contents through the file manager. Now it was filled with all sorts of things.
Among them, the most numerous were dragon blood stones, but the point that made Ye Dui and Debbie feel most helpless was that the dragon blood stones were also affected by the time corrosion here. Once taken out, they would immediately hatch into ordinary stones. This meant that the pay-to-win swordsman Gilga could not be summoned casually.
However, now Debbie was slowly trying to summon the horror clown, so Gilga’s absence was not a big deal.
At this time, when Ye Dui checked the [Storage Space], what concerned him the most was the elf girl.
Yes, the elf girl planted in the flower pot, whom Ye Dui had put into the [Storage Space] before entering the secret realm.
Of course, Ye Dui could not possibly leave such an important thing casually in the castle. Fortunately, the elf girl was now in plant form and remained intact in the [Storage Space]… but it was clear she did not like the [Storage Space] very much, constantly swaying her branches as if protesting the darkness inside.
Ye Dui had no choice; he did not dare to take the elf girl out of the [Storage Space] casually, worried about whether she would be affected by time corrosion… he could only wrong her.
Stretching his body, Ye Dui was about to leave the room, but at that moment, a scream suddenly came from outside the door.
That was Debbie’s scream.
Ye Dui’s expression turned cold, and he hurriedly rushed out of the room.
After coming outside the room, he suddenly froze.
The wooden vine villa was a two-story building, with the upper floor for living. Connecting to the stairwell was a slender corridor, with the rooms where several people lived lined on both sides. And now, on this wooden corridor wall, Ye Dui saw it densely covered with… bizarre and inexplicable paintings.
Twisted, abstract…
That inexplicably familiar style.
Debbie lived in the room opposite Ye Dui’s. She was now standing in front of Ye Dui, and the reason she screamed was because she saw these paintings in the corridor.
The two stared at each other for a moment.
“Fuck, could the undead butler have come in here with us!?” Ye Dui could not help shouting, thinking that back in the castle, the undead butler seemed very insistent on hanging those works by Master Kandinsky.
Grylls, Lessa, Dani, Guni, and Xilesi also drilled out from their rooms one after another. Seeing the anomaly in the corridor, they all froze on the spot.
Dani discovered something: “Eh? Where is Jacob?” She rushed to Jacob’s room, pushed it open, and found it empty. Thus, they all went downstairs together.
In the hall on the first floor, they saw Jacob.
And in front of Jacob stood a strange man, the long-haired man with a long beard. In his arms, he held a strange large brush, raising his head arrogantly and scrutinising Ye Dui and his group coming down the stairs with his nostrils.
Dani hurriedly ran to Jacob’s side: “Are you hurt?”
“I, I’m fine…” Jacob hurriedly shook his head. “After getting up this morning, I was preparing to cook some meat porridge for everyone, but then I discovered those things in the corridor. When I came to the hall, I saw him…”
“Who is he?” Dani looked warily at the long-haired man.
Ye Dui and the others also showed vigilant expressions.
While the long-haired man continued to scrutinise everyone with his nostrils.
Jacob’s voice carried a hint of despair as he said: “He, he seems to be my guardian spirit…”
“Guardian spirit!?” Debbie exclaimed in her mouth.
Ye Dui thought of something even more: “He, he could not be…”
“He said his name is Kandinsky…” Jacob continued.
Ye Dui and the others: “Fuck,”
Jacob’s guardian spirit was actually this master of the twisted school with problematic style!?
Those famous and powerful people in the Star Empire, after death, would be absorbed into the secret realm to become guardian spirits, which the royal bloodline could command. Guardian spirits chose hosts based on their own recognition… It was not surprising that Master Kandinsky became a guardian spirit, but why would he recognise Jacob?
Ye Dui thought of the massive amount of Kandinsky abstract paintings in the villa…
“Prince Geller is screwing people over!!!”
