Chapter 75 Traveling together
After Zhou Chen greeted the villagers one by one, he took Leng Yiyao back to his new home. The next day, the villagers came to Zhou Chen early with tables, chairs and benches.

At this time, Zhou Chen had made an appointment with them yesterday to treat everyone to a meal today. Of course, although it was an invitation, Zhou Chen only provided the ingredients. As for the tables, chairs, benches, and making fire and cooking, the villagers had to do it themselves.

The simple villagers did not care about this. As soon as the day broke, women came to prepare. At this time, everything was ready and all that was left was to serve it on the table. The dish was also very simple, with only one dish of braised pork and the rest was rice.

This is exactly what the villagers like most nowadays. As long as there is meat, they will eat any number of dishes. When Zhou Chen came out, he found that the villagers had already started eating. There were about ten people squeezed into one table, and there was a pot of braised pork on each table.

Seeing the satisfied expressions on the villagers' faces, Zhou Chen was also happy from the bottom of his heart. After the villagers finished their meal, they helped Zhou Chen clean up the yard before leaving.

Zhou Chen sat in the room drinking tea and thinking about the scroll that Zhen Nantian gave him. He had read the contents of the scroll. The task was very simple. There were many monsters living in the depths of Wuhua Mountain. Zhou Chen's assessment task was to personally hunt down an eighth-grade monster and bring it back to the Demon Suppression Division.

This task did not pose any pressure to Zhou Chen at all, but before entering the Demon Suppression Division, Zhou Chen still planned to improve his cultivation first.

Zhou Chen mentioned the matter of joining the Demon Suppression Division to Leng Yiyao two days ago. Leng Yiyao didn't say much about it, but just told Zhou Chen to make his own decision.

However, the Demon Suppression Division is in Wu'an County, which is a certain distance away from Qinghua County. If they join the Demon Suppression Division, they will definitely have to move, otherwise the two will have to be separated frequently.

However, there is still time and Zhou Chen is not in a hurry. Then Zhou Chen turned his attention to Qinghua Mountain. Now the snow on the mountain is slowly melting, and Zhou Chen plans to go to the mountain tomorrow to see if he can bring back a seventh-grade monster to enhance his strength.

This time, before Zhou Chen left the county government office, he brought back an iron bow, the range of which could reach 200 meters.

At dawn the next day, Zhou Chen took his iron bow and went out of the yard. As soon as he reached the foot of the mountain, he met several hunters who were also planning to go up the mountain to hunt.

These hunters were from the neighboring village, and Zhou Chen was not familiar with them. Zhou Chen originally did not want to pay attention to them, but he did not expect them to be so persistent and pester him.

"Brother, you are the Brother Zhou Chen, right?"
"Oh, yes, it's me."

"It's really you. That's great. We won't return empty-handed this time." These hunters didn't look very old, so it wasn't wrong for them to call Zhou Chen "big brother."

However, Zhou Chen did not want to travel with them. "I am going to the depths of the mountains. Are you sure you want to come with me? If anything happens, I can't guarantee your safety."

When they heard Zhou Chen say that he was going to the deep mountains and forests, they were stunned. Seeing their expressions, Zhou Chen smiled and planned to leave.

"Brother Zhou, please stay," Zhou Chen turned around in confusion, "Are you really planning to go into the mountains with me?"
"There's nothing I can do. As long as I can catch the prey, it doesn't matter if there's a little danger."

Zhou Chen knew that they must be in trouble, otherwise they would not take the risk. Then he sighed and said, "Okay, let's go if that's the case."

Seeing that Zhou Chen agreed, several people smiled. One of the young hunters quickly stepped forward to help Zhou Chen carry the bow and arrow.

Zhou Chen waved his hand to refuse, "No need, I can do it myself. You can't carry this bow."

"Brother, you are joking. I am very strong." He showed his right arm and symbolically displayed his muscles. Zhou Chen smiled helplessly and put the iron bow on the ground. Then he stepped back a few steps. The hunter stepped forward, rolled up his sleeves, grabbed the iron bow and exerted a little force.

After squatting on the ground for a long time, the iron bow only moved slightly. Zhou Chen smiled and walked forward to carry the iron bow again, "Okay, let me do it."

After an hour's journey, everyone arrived at the best spot for hunting. This was also Zhou Chen's favorite place to visit. Now that the snow has melted and all things are reviving, the prey are slowly beginning to come out.

Not long after, Zhou Chen saw a pheasant looking for food in the snow about 80 meters away. He drew his bow and shot an arrow. Before the pheasant could react, the arrow had pierced its heart.

Seeing this, several hunters behind him hurried over and picked up the prey. The leading hunter among them was called Gou Zi. Gou Zi stepped forward and returned the arrow and the pheasant to Zhou Chen.

Zhou Chen simply took back the arrows and let Gou Zi and the others share the pheasants. Then Zhou Chen searched in the mountains for a while but did not see any other prey. Just as they were sitting on a rock to rest, a tiger suddenly jumped out from the woods next to them and pounced towards them.

Gou Zi and the others were so scared that they sat down on the ground. Zhou Chen turned around and punched the tiger in the body. After being hit by Zhou Chen's punch, the tiger let out a painful howl and fell to the ground, dead.

This was just an ordinary tiger, how could it withstand Zhou Chen's punch. Seeing that Zhou Chen actually killed a tiger with one punch, Gou Zi and his companions were stunned on the spot. Gou Zi even went up to Zhou Chen and wanted to worship him as his master, but Zhou Chen directly refused.

His current strength is still very weak, so how could he teach others? As for the tiger's demon pattern, Zhou Chen did not choose to obtain it, and let it dissipate in the air.

What good things can an ordinary tiger drop? Zhou Chen then divided the tiger meat equally among the people with the knife he carried with him, and said, "Okay, this meat is enough for you to eat for a while, you can go down the mountain now."

After getting the tiger meat, several people left. Gou Zi wanted to stay and help Zhou Chen. How could Zhou Chen let him stay and become a burden to him? "Let's go. The place I'm going is very dangerous. If you follow me, you will definitely not survive tonight."

Then he turned around and his figure suddenly disappeared in front of Gou Zi. Looking at Zhou Chen's departing back, Gou Zi secretly swore that one day he would catch up with Zhou Chen's footsteps.

Zhou Chen ran all the way, and half an hour later he arrived at the deep mountains and old forests. No living person had set foot here for a long time, and there was no road at all in the mountains and forests. Zhou Chen had to fight his way through the thorns to get here.

Although there are not many wild animals active on the outskirts of the mountain, there are many wild animals here.

In just a short while, Zhou Chen saw several ferocious beasts, but they were all ordinary wild beasts. Zhou Chen had no interest in them. His target had to be at least an eighth-grade monster.

Zhou Chen began to search here. Although he saw several ninth-grade monsters during the period, Zhou Chen had no interest in them and chose to bypass them and continue searching.

As Zhou Chen went deeper, he found that the prey nearby began to become scarce, which was very abnormal. According to Zhou Chen's experience, there must be a powerful monster lurking here, otherwise there would be no way that there would be no wild beasts active here.

Things turned out just as Zhou Chen had expected. He soon heard some noise behind him. Zhou Chen was not afraid at all and chose a stone to sit down. He took out his dry food and started eating. Knowing that Zhou Chen liked meat, most dry food was vegetarian, but his dry food was made of pure meat by Leng Yiyao.

(End of this chapter)