From a Slave to a Overlord, My Experience with the Beast World

Chapter 57: Xingxing eats poisonous fruit by mistake and goes to the cliff to find the antidote

The two were extremely tired. After returning, they simply ate some rice roots cooked in the morning. They didn't have the appetite to cook meat. After grabbing a few rice roots and giving them to Xingxing, they went to bed.

Xingxing is not picky about food. He will eat anything given to him, even the roots of rice. He is not like the black bear in Liming's previous life. He eats everything, just like the orcs.

Before they lay down, they briefly told Xingxing to watch the cave entrance and make a sound if anything came. They didn't know if Xingxing understood or not, but they didn't care. What they needed urgently was a rest. After each of them swallowed two five-star beast essences, they lay on the bed to recover their beast energy and strength.

Li Mingsheng didn't dare to fall into deep sleep. He always remained awake, so his recovery speed was slower than Yanli's.

When night fell, Li Mingsheng also woke up. After the two of them calmed down, they began to take turns on duty tonight. After all, because of the nameless volcano, Wugui Mountain would not be peaceful in the next few days, so it was necessary to keep watch at night.

In the early morning, probably before dawn, Li Mingsheng had just laid down when he was woken up by Yanli.

"Brother Li, I feel like something is wrong with Xingxing!" Yanli was a little anxious. After fighting side by side with Xingxing during the day, his attitude towards Xingxing had changed a lot. Now that he saw that something was wrong with this black bear beast, he couldn't help but get a little anxious.

"What's wrong?" Li Mingsheng got up quickly, and on the way to the next cave, Yanli gave a brief description.

When he was on guard in the second half of the night, he met Xingxing at the entrance of the next cave and found that something was wrong with it. It was extremely excited, foaming at the mouth and its eyes were staring straight ahead.

Now the black bear has entered the cave and is lying on the ground, twitching and feeling very bad.

Li Mingsheng checked its eyes and found them a little cloudy. Then he found residue at the corners of its mouth, which were fruit peel residues.

"They must have eaten some kind of fruit. Can you tell what kind of fruit it is?" Li Mingsheng asked Yanli while pinching the fruit peel in his hand.

Yanli took the crumbs in his hand and shook his head. This thing was too small and he couldn't tell what kind of fruit it was.

Li Mingsheng looked at the half-dead black bear with the animal skin backpack he had made for it hanging on its body.

Li Mingsheng pulled the backpack out from under it, then opened the animal skin bag and saw that there was indeed something left inside.

It is a purple-black fruit with snake-like skin, the size of a fist, and exudes an enticing fragrance.

"Could it be this thing!" Yanli looked at the strange fruit and fell into deep thought, but he couldn't remember what kind of fruit it was.

Li Mingsheng: "Have you heard of a legend on this continent? It is said that there is a kind of fruit that has been blessed by the Beast God. It is a purple-black fruit that exudes fragrance, but it is deadly. Three days after eating it, you will accept the call of the Beast God and be guided by the Beast God to serve him. If you want to refuse, you can only go to the original place and ask the Beast God to give you the red magic grass!"

Yanli shook his head. He was just a slave of a small tribe before and had never heard of such a legend.

Li Mingsheng was able to remember it thanks to the original owner. The original owner used to be in a large tribe, and an orc in their tribe died because of this legend, so he had a deep impression of it. Although he was a slave before, because of his good talent, he was still able to get in touch with some things in the tribe.

"I think the only way now is to find the legendary red magic grass. Do you remember where to pick this fruit?"

When Yanli heard Li Mingsheng's words, his brain started working frantically. Yesterday they went up the mountain and reached the edge of the cliff, and then after Xingxing came back, he started chewing something in his mouth.

"It's on the cliff on the mountain!" Yanli confirmed, because at that time he was paying attention to the strange beast on the opposite cliff and did not pay attention to what Xingxing was doing at that time.

Now that they knew the approximate direction, Li Mingsheng and Yanli immediately planned to go up the mountain today, because it had been half a day since Xingxing ate the purple-black fruit, and they could not delay any longer.

After daybreak, Li Mingsheng and Yanli dressed neatly, blocked Xingxing's cave with a large stone, and then sprinkled a thick layer of stinky grass powder outside the cave.

The snow season has not ended yet, and although the ice and snow have begun to melt, it is still not easy for Li Mingsheng and his companion to go up the mountain. They are wearing thick animal skins, animal skin cloaks, and animal skin hats on their heads.

The mountain road was very slippery due to melting snow, so they had to be very careful along the way.

After spending more than half an hour, they finally reached the edge of the cliff. They could still faintly smell blood. Yesterday, Yanli shot and killed several strange beasts on the opposite side here. The corpses of the strange beasts were still lying quietly on the opposite cliff, with no signs of being eaten by other strange beasts.

Li Mingsheng and Yanli walked along the cliff on both sides in search of the tree with purple-black fruit. This thing should be right at the edge of the cliff.

"Brother Li, here." Yanli looked at the fruits on the fruit tree on the edge of the cliff. They were exactly the same as the ones he saw in the Xingxing animal skin bag. He called Li Mingsheng over, and both of them could confirm it without having to distinguish it anymore.

"Look around to see if there's any red grass nearby."

After saying that, the two of them began to turn over the grass under the fruit tree, and even turned over the cracks in the rocks, but there was no trace of the fruit.

"Brother Li, do you think this legend will..." Li Mingsheng automatically completed the words that Yanli did not finish in his mind.

Although this is possible, it would be difficult for them to accept it if they had to watch Xingxing die in front of them.

"Look again!" Li Mingsheng didn't intend to give up this possibility, so he could only ask Yanli to look carefully again.

"Brother Li, look, is that it!" Yanli pointed excitedly at a red grass plant on a protruding stone platform on the opposite cliff. The plant had long leaves and was completely fiery red, even the stems and leaves were red, and it was standing proudly in the snow.

There is a hint of red in the white, which is the hope of the stars.

Looking at the cliff more than four meters away, Li Mingsheng and his friends were in trouble as to how to get across.

Looking at the big tree behind him and the vines everywhere, Li Mingsheng came up with a good idea. After cutting down the tree, he placed them on both sides of the cliff. Then he tied the vines to himself, and then tied one vine to another big tree on the edge of the cliff, one vine to the one on the cliff, and tied another vine around Yanli's waist. In this way, there would be three vines on Li Mingsheng's waist, providing triple protection.

"Be careful!" Yanli watched Li Mingsheng jump with all his strength and jump to the other side, then go down to the stone platform. His feet slipped because of the accumulated snow, and Yanli didn't dare to breathe.

He was afraid that his movements would disturb Li Mingsheng.

After Li Mingsheng maintained his balance, he quickly pulled up the red long-leaf grass and put it into the animal skin bag sewn close to his chest. After making sure that it was safe, Li Mingsheng planned to return along the same route.

But the accident still happened.