Chapter 40

The G300p was on the road again, except there was one more person in the passenger seat.

Unlike the enthusiastic and energetic Xia'er, the new passenger was obviously much quieter.

She didn't open her mouth the whole way, and Mali offered her chocolate, but she refused.

She was only in her teens, but for some reason, this child gave people a feeling of an ascetic. Even the singing drifting from the speakers couldn't attract her attention.

However, she wasn't indifferent to everything.

In the middle, there was one time when she suddenly asked Mali to stop the car, and then she found a dying long-tailed tit in the bushes beside her.

She carefully picked up the poor little thing, put it into the blanket, and sat back in the car.

I don't know how she did it, but in a while, the long-tailed tit regained its vitality, drilled out of the blanket, jumped around in the car, and chirped.

"It's thanking you."

Mali had taken so many bottles of animal communication potion, but this was the first time he had truly used it to listen to the voices of animals.

Strictly speaking, what he heard wasn't complete sentences, but some vague and simple intentions. After all, most animals didn't have a language system.

The girl reached out her hand, letting the little fur ball stop on her palm, but the latter soon found a better place, flew to the top of her head, and nestled in her messy hair.

"It says it wants to be your... animal companion. What does that mean?" Mali asked.

The girl tapped the head of the long-tailed tit with a finger, and the over-excited little thing soon calmed down.

Afterward, she took a handful of wild raspberries from her pocket and placed them on the armrest box.

"Is this for me?" Mali looked at the raspberries and said.

The girl nodded.

"Thank you."

The off-road vehicle drove for another stretch of road, and it was almost at Black Stone Canyon, but Mali still didn't see any signs of human habitation or activity.

"Are you sure you really live near here?"

The girl patted his arm again. As the car stopped again, she jumped out of the car and walked behind a big tree.

Mali originally thought she was going to relieve herself there, but after waiting for a while, he never saw anyone come back.

After waiting for about ten minutes, he shouted there, "How are you? Did you encounter trouble?"

The only answer to him was the wind in the forest.

"I'm coming over."

After Mali finished speaking, he walked behind the tree, but there was no one there anymore, only a neatly folded blanket draped over a branch.

However, that branch was more than two meters above the ground. Even Mali had to stand on tiptoe to reach it. I don't know how the girl who was only 1.4 meters tall placed it there.

Just like her, she also disappeared mysteriously.

Mali didn't hear any footsteps. If it weren't for the blanket hanging on the branch and the few raspberries in the carriage, he would even suspect that everything before was just a hallucination.

And when he returned to the car, he suddenly realized that this was exactly the place where he encountered the bear-like creature before.

So what is the relationship between that giant bear and the strange girl just now?

Mali didn't know, but at least for now, the other party didn't have any malice toward him, just simply hitched a ride.

He was too lazy to guess the identity of the little girl again. Since she lived in this forest, there would definitely be a time to meet again in the future.

Mali drove the G300p and continued forward, arriving outside the canyon.

He turned on the differential lock, carefully climbed over the high slope in front, drove for another stretch of road, and saw the traces left by the battle with those goblins before, including the mace used by the deceased goblin chieftain, all of which were still in their original positions.

It seems Xia'er was right, this valley is indeed rarely visited.

In fact, not only humans, but even the animals in the forest don't like those Red Mists and rarely come here.

But Mali now is completely used to the existence of the Red Mist, and even feels a trace of intimacy when seeing it.

It's like returning to the downstairs of the residential unit in the community.

But he didn't rush in, because there were still some experiments to do.

He had previously deduced the rule that things inside the Red Mist disappear after leaving the Red Mist, but this would naturally lead to another question.

——What happens when things outside the Red Mist enter the Red Mist?

According to the half-elf girl, this Red Mist is basically equivalent to highly toxic to the intelligent life of the Leiwateleisi Continent, and it will kill you if you touch it.

But she didn't say what would happen if items entered it.

If there were no accidents, the people who first studied the Red Mist should have made similar attempts, but Mali hadn't seen things from this continent on the other side of the Red Mist.

This means those people might have failed, but wasn't there no him at that time?

Mali didn't know what was going on with his body either. Anyway, he could extend the existence time of things in the Red Mist outside.

Maybe the opposite could also work.

Mali had been looking forward to it for a long time, planting vegetables and fruits in the Red Mist.

Unfortunately, the final result was half joy and half worry.

He could indeed bring things outside the Red Mist into the Red Mist, although he didn't know for the time being whether there were also time and distance restrictions.

However, these things didn't include living organisms, such as seeds, insects, and a gray mouse that Mali specifically asked Xia'er to catch for him to do experiments, all failed to survive, and they all disappeared in the Red Mist.

Nothing was left.

But on the other side, those gold, silver, and copper coins, books, clothing, and even alchemical creations and the course videos he filmed on his mobile phone were not affected.

I don't know if it was his psychological effect, but Mali's stomach was a bit uncomfortable at noon, and it got better when he returned to the Red Mist.

And he also found a way not to waste the fruits and vegetables in the car. Mali made a fire, boiled a pot of hot water, and boiled all those things in it. In this way, they could be brought into the Red Mist.

As long as they could be frozen in time, the taste shouldn't become too bad, at least better than canned food.

It's just that this job is a bit grinding. He only had a small pot for cooking instant noodles, and later he just grilled it directly on the fire.

After preparing the supplies, Mali set off again.

He was already missing the soft latex mattress, but in fact, it would take at least two more days to drive out of this valley and return to the asphalt road of the city.

Although the distance between the two is actually not too far.

And this is also the reason why Mali insisted on building the road. Not to mention building a highway connecting Baimu Cun and Luoyang, even a dusty small dirt road could save him a lot of travel time.

The most critical thing is that the car models he can drive out will also become more.

Although the load of the G300p is not bad, it is still a bit too small for trade.