7 Red Bandits (1/2)
”Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh”
3 white lights flew across the forest and directly hit the face of a monkey. It tried to scream, however, before it could utter a sound, another light appeared and pierce its throat.
The monkey fell down on its butt and before he could do anything else, a shadow appeared in front of it and a dagger stabbed right through its heart, ending its sufferings.
The shadow was, of course, Li Wei, he spent the early morning practicing his throwing of the needles on moving targets such as rabbits. Eventually, he arrived back at the river and found a lonely monkey drinking some water. It was an opportunity to test his skills and it was clearly a success.
Li Wei collected the loot in his inventory and left the area, he did not know if other monkeys were near and did not want to face a whole group for now.
”Buying the needles was an excellent idea, even though the range is limited to 15 meters, it is very good for hunting. I just need to be more precise, 3 correctly placed shots should be enough to kill a monkey.”
Being level 4, Li Wei hesitated before coming to the eastern forest. It was better for him to go and grind in the Northern forest that housed monsters from level 3 to level 5. But he settled on going to the monkey's place first and then move north. The 2 forests were actually connected, the Northern Forest contained level 3 parrots, level 4 wolves and level 5 bears. Quite a few people were actually already hunting there, more specifically rangers were hunting there; parrots were actually very weak, they were level 3 only because of their ability to fly but would easily go down with 2 or 3 good arrows”
Li Wei was walking North, along his way, he met several animals that were almost shot as soon as they entered his field of vision. Li Wei already adapted to the environment and was like a hunter, searching for signs of animals.
He eventually heard some noises and immediately went hiding, Li Wei patiently waited and then proceeded towards the source of the noise. In front of him was a cleared area, 5 monkeys were there, 2 were playing, throwing some objects to each other while the other 3 were lazing around.
5 monkeys were too much to handle for Li Wei, as he was about to retreat he noticed what the monkeys were playing with. They were actually playing with what looked like storage bags, tossing them around. Greed flashed through Li Wei's eyes, he knew it was a chance, he was not confident in killing all 5 monkeys but there was a tiny chance of stealing the bags.
Li Wei moved closer to the monkeys while still hiding in the bushes. Li Wei took out his dagger and readied a needle in his left hand. He then immediately rushed out towards the group of 3.
The monkeys immediately reacted, they screamed loudly and the 3 got in formation, surrounding Li Wei. At the same time, the other 2 monkeys were alerted and retreated into the trees, leaving the bags behind.
Li Wei did not hesitate, he immediately dashed towards the monkey on his right and tried to stab it with the dagger. However, the monkey was agile and dodge the attack and retreated a few steps. While Li Wei was stabbing, his left hand rose up and threw the needle towards the monkey on his left.
The poor monkey was hit right on the nose, it immediately stopped approaching Li Wei and screamed. Meanwhile, the remaining monkey opened its arms and jumped onto Li Wei, attempting to bite him. However, with 10 dexterity, Li Wei was able to react in time and quickly ducked and moved to the right.
Li Wei continued to run towards the monkey on his right, behind it were the bags, there was only the monkey left as an obstacle.
The moment Li Wei started rushing forward, he felt very relaxed, it was as if he stopped thinking, only moving naturally by instinct. He did not know if he would succeed but he just ignored all the doubts in his heart and rushed forward.
When Li Wei arrived just before the monkey, he moved his body to the left, to pass the monkey. But the latter reacted and also jumped to Li Wei's left to bite his arm. However, Li Wei quickly moved, he put his right leg forward, and used all his force on it, he then made an anticlockwise rotation on himself and dashed to the right. It was a flashy move similar to that of dribbling in football.
With the monkey out of the way, Li Wei reached the bag and put them in his inventory. Having succeeded, Li Wei was momentarily distracted and at that moment :
”Pak”
A ”-7” popped up above his head, he just got hit by a coconut like fruit. The 2 monkeys that retreated did not actually leave, they just climbed the trees and grabbed some fruits as projectiles.
Li Wei quickly recovered and ran to the side as fast as possible. The monkeys screamed and chased him but they were simply not as fast as Li Wei.
After a few minutes of wild running, Li Wei stopped to catch his breath and looked behind. It seemed that the monkeys had given up.
Li Wei smiled and opened his inventory, it was time for his rewards.
There were 3 bags, they were labeled ”Item bag” and their description was : [Open for a random reward]
Li Wei opened the first bag, the bag disappeared in a flash and a new entry was made to the event log
[System prompt: You have opened an Item bag, you obtained 1 gold]
Even though Li Wei was hoping for an equipment, he was still satisfied as he was lacking money. He then proceeded with the second bag.
[System prompt: You have opened an Item bag, you obtained nothing]
When seeing that, Li Wei flushed red.
-”What the F***, is that even a reward, what were the developers thinking when they put this option...”
However, he could do nothing to change the outcome and proceeded with the last bag, crossing his fingers for a good reward.
[System prompt: You have opened an Item bag, you obtained Basic Cloth Armour]
[Basic Cloth Armour]
Armor: +2
[Armour: reduce the physical damage taken by a certain amount]
Li Wei smiled, when players were spawned, they were wearing clothes but these had 0 armor. Taking out the Basic Cloth Armour, Li Wei looked around in case there were people coming and changed himself.
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