i have a museum of curiosities

Soon after, Zhang Ye was carefully identifying the direction with a rather detailed map, and behind him was Jaina with a depressed face.

"Zhang Ye... How long will it take to get there?" Jaina pouted, her face full of impatience and exhaustion.

"Miss, we've only been away for less than half an hour, okay?" Zhang also looked back at the relaxed Jaina with some helplessness, rolled his eyes silently, and said, "Look back, you can still go here. I saw Dalaran City!"

"But... I can't walk anymore." Jaina pouted at Zhang Ye, showing an aggrieved look.

"Alas...at our current speed, we won't be able to reach the Silver Pine Forest in another three days." Zhang also pointed at the map with some helplessness.

Jaina didn't speak, but just looked at Zhang Ye aggrievedly.

"Oh, I'm afraid of you..." Zhang Ye shook his head, then squatted down, "I'll carry you on my back!"

Jaina is very light, far lighter than Zhang Ye imagined. Even with her on his back, Zhang Ye's walking speed is not much slower.

"Zhang Ye, why don't you let me buy a horse?" Jaina asked in a low voice, lying on Zhang Ye's back.

When Jaina spoke, her breath hit Zhang Ye's ear, which was hot and itchy.

"Oh, my dear Master Jaina, an ordinary horse costs 9 gold coins, and learning how to ride requires 80 gold coins. Even if you search my whole body, you can't get so much money."

"...If you can't afford it, you can't afford it, just say it. Your tone of voice is too disgusting!" Jaina pouted.

Zhang couldn't help but frowned, and thought to himself: Isn't this the emphasis on dubbed films?Isn't this way of speaking inappropriate for the Eastern Kingdoms?
"It's so boring...Zhang Ye, tell me a story." Jaina blew in Zhang Ye's ear again.

Zhang couldn't help being a little speechless.Do all children like to listen to stories...

At this moment, a dirty pretty face flashed in front of his eyes.

Zhang Ye was stunned for a moment, his brows were slightly frowned, as if he had grasped something vaguely, but he didn't remember anything.

After thinking for a while, Zhang Ye said: "Then I will tell you a story about 'Little Red Riding Hood'. A long time ago, there was a pretty little girl whose grandmother gave her a little red riding hood made of velvet. The little girl likes the little red riding hood given by her grandmother very much, and she wears it every day, so people call this little girl 'Little Red Riding Hood'..."

Zhang also intentionally made the story longer so Gianna wouldn't pester him to tell another story after the "Little Red Riding Hood" story was over.

So under Zhang Ye's intentional embellishment, the story of a junior magician "Little Red Riding Hood" and the villain "Mr. Big Bad Wolf" fighting wits and courage was finally finished in about an hour.

However, after Zhang Ye said "the story is over", he didn't have the expected admiration or questions, but his neck was a little wet.

Zhang Ye frowned and turned his head away. Gianna's pretty face, which was just sleeping, came into his eyes. As he breathed, her small nose moved, which was very cute!
It's just that Zhang Ye doesn't care about admiring it at all right now, because the wet feeling on his neck comes from Jaina's saliva after falling asleep.

A pretty little girl, how can she still drool while sleeping... Zhang couldn't help cursing secretly, but he didn't wake Jaina up.

An inexplicable sense of familiarity rose in his heart, and Zhang Ye sighed softly. Instead of paying attention to Jaina, he looked up at the mountain not far away.

"According to the map and Jaina's description, after passing through the mountains in front of you, you should arrive at Amber Mill, a small town on the edge of the Silverpine Forest. You can resupply and rest there." Zhang also muttered in a low voice. A few words, then turned his head and glanced at Jaina who was smacking her lips, and then sighed: "It seems that I can't make it today... If there is no danger on the road, I guess I should be able to arrive at noon tomorrow."

Although I didn't meet any fellow travelers on the road, it didn't mean the journey was boring.At least in Zhang Ye's eyes, the scenery along the way is beautiful, and there is no need to rely on stories to pass the time.

According to the description on the map, the land where the Kingdom of Dalaran is located is called Hillsbrad.Walk along the main road from Nanhai Town in the south, and you will reach the Silver Pine Forest.This can also be regarded as a normal way to enter the Silver Pine Forest.

But it will take at least ten days to go back and forth like this.

Zhang Ye and Jaina chose to pass through the mountains on the border between Dalaran and Silverpine Forest.Although the road is not easy to walk, one must be careful to beware of wild beasts wandering in the mountains and orcs wandering in the wild.But it only takes four or five days to go back and forth, which makes Zhang, who wants to improve his strength as soon as possible, very excited.

Zhang Ye was not idle along the way. Although Jaina slept soundly on his back, it couldn't stop his determination to yearn for fire magic.So Zhang has been muttering silently about the spells and incantations he learned from Jaina.

Of course, spells need to cooperate with actions to successfully release magic, so just chanting the spell silently only allows the mage to feel the surge of mana in his body, and does not directly release the spell.This is why Zhang Ye dared to repeat the spell silently without fear of waking up Jaina.

For some reason, the incantation that was originally obscure in Zhang Ye's eyes is now recited silently very smoothly, which makes Zhang Ye puzzled.

"Could it be... because of Jaina's back?" Zhang Ye muttered to himself.

Other than that, he couldn't think of any other possibility.

It can't be that after he successfully released the big fireball, his comprehension of magic broke through the sky all of a sudden, right?That's the routine of third-rate fantasy novels!

After thinking about it, Zhang can only attribute all this to a certain magical genius sleeping soundly on his back.

However, there is still a little pity.It's just that I carry Jaina on my back, and I can't swing my arms to practice the spell-casting movements, so if I encounter any danger, I may not be able to use those magics!

But it doesn't matter, I have now mastered the "fireball technique"!Think about those blind little beasts, they can't hold a fireball the size of a washbasin, right?

Just thinking about it, a thin wild boar sprang out from the woods not far away.

"Hmm..." Zhang couldn't help looking over helplessly.

spotted boar
Level 6 [Beast]

Health 55/Attack 15/Armor 6
Skill: Charge - rushes to the enemy from a distance, knocks the enemy down and causes 20 points of damage.

"A level 6 wild monster with skills..." Zhang also lost interest in an instant.

Don't say that I haven't changed my job to become a knight, just say that my level 10 panel attribute can crush this level 6 beast.It's just that the "charge" skill is a bit troublesome... If he is knocked down, wouldn't Jaina behind him be injured?
So without even thinking about it, Zhang stretched out his right hand and waved it, slowly singing: "B-Lei-Ze-Fer-Bei!"

As the "Fireball" incantation with a completely different tone from before was recited, a dazzling fire suddenly appeared on Zhang Ye's right hand.Immediately afterwards, Zhang Ye quickly threw the firelight in his hand at the mottled wild boar who found that he was about to charge.

I saw that the flame was good at facing the wind, and when it fell on the spotted wild boar, it was already the size of a washbasin!
"Huacha...you can rub it so big with one hand? Why don't you call it 'Fireball', call it 'Big Basin Fireball'!"

"boom--"

A dull explosion sounded, and the body of the mottled wild boar suddenly flew up, and then fell heavily to the ground.

At that moment, Zhang also captured the damage data——
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80!

"Tsk tsk tsk... I really didn't expect it... I can hit such a high damage by rubbing a fireball with one hand... It seems that I am really suitable to be a fire mage!"

"Well... the longer the spell is released, the more damage it will cause."

Jaina's voice came next to her ear.

"Woke you up?" Zhang was also a little embarrassed.

Jaina yawned, then rubbed her eyes, looked at Zhang Ye with a smile, and said, "Zhang Ye, I'm hungry!"

Zhang Ye glanced at Jaina, then at the mottled wild boar blown away by his "big basin fireball technique", raised his eyebrows, and said, "Okay! Let's eat roasted wild boar!"

"Great!"
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As night fell quietly, Zhang Ye patted the sleepy-eyed Jaina on the back while warming himself by the fire.

"I said Master Jaina, haven't you been sleeping on my back for a long time? Now it's dark and you're sleepy again?" Zhang Ye muttered in a low voice.

Jaina pouted her lips, mumbling something.

Zhang Ye sighed softly, staring at the burning bonfire with wandering eyes.

Bonfire...Little Lolita...Why do I feel so familiar?Jingyue once said that those of us players who entered the game world have lost their memories, but what I lost... Which memory is it?Why do I feel like I've forgotten so much, so much...

The climate in Dalaran is very pleasant, even at night it will not be particularly cold, Zhang Ye gently carried Jaina into her tent, sighed helplessly, and muttered in a low voice: "We have only known each other for a few days, You trust me so much and don't defend me? Should I say you are innocent, or do you say you have a big heart..."

After arranging the little loli, Zhang also sat in front of the campfire again.

Not long after, he vaguely heard a strange sound, as if someone had left silently.He subconsciously turned his head to look at a big tree not far away. The dark shadow of the tree brought inexplicable pressure.

Maybe those who secretly protect Jaina.

Zhang Ye shook his head slightly, and turned his gaze to the burning bonfire again.

It was completely dark, and apart from the chirping of insects and birds, there was only the crackling sound of the campfire burning.

Zhang Ye stretched slightly, and was about to continue contacting the spell of fire magic, but suddenly heard a low wolf howl from a distance.

A huge white snow wolf figure flashed in front of his eyes, Zhang Ye frowned suddenly, and straightened up involuntarily.

"Wolves... are pack animals..."

Such a sentence suddenly appeared in his mouth, and he couldn't help frowning in surprise, and then he took out a green glass bottle containing an unknown powder from the magic storage bag at his waist.

"...I still can't avoid using this thing in the end..." Zhang Ye sighed with some disgust, and then carefully sprinkled the powder in the green glass bottle around the tent.

After a while, pairs of eyes glowing with green light and full of dead silence really appeared in the depths of the woods.

The wolves appeared.

I have to say that the wolves of Azeroth look a little strange—the canines on the lower jaw are so long that they even affect the sight of wild wolves.

Strangely, when Zhang Ye saw these strange gray-haired wild wolves, a strange sense of familiarity suddenly rose in his heart, as if...he had seen these wolves before!But at the same time, he seems to have another idea... or memory, that is, the wild wolf in front of him is different from the gray wolf in reality!
"...Reality..." Zhang couldn't help but frowned.

According to Jingyue, these "players" from reality have lost part of their memory, but they are inexplicably aware that they are in the game world and have a chance to return to reality.

But Zhang also felt that what he lost was not only the memory of the so-called "reality"!And ever since he inexplicably came to Dalaran to meet Jaina, some inexplicable memories deep in his heart are slowly recovering...

Those memories... also do not belong to reality!

"...Who am I...?" Zhang Ye looked at the dense pack of wolves in the distance and muttered to himself.A familiar message box appeared in front of his eyes——

Timber wolf
Level 8 - [Beast]

Health 70/Attack 20/Armor 4
Skill: Bite - a terrible bite, causing 30 points of damage immediately, and causing [bleeding] effect, making the enemy suffer 10% damage in the next 120 seconds.

"Hey... a level 8 wild monster with bleeding effect... it's still a group..." Zhang couldn't help curling his lips, and said, "If I didn't have the 'wild monster buster' in my hand, wouldn't I be divided and eaten? "

While Zhang Ye was muttering to himself, a wild wolf that looked extraordinarily strong raised its head to the sky and howled, and the pack of wolves responded immediately.

In an instant, the wolves roared at the moon, frightening everything.

"It's such a rare spectacle!" Zhang couldn't help admiring, but there was no worry on his face.

"Ouch-"

There was another clear wolf howl, but this time the sound was more urgent.

Sure enough, the pack of wolves looked in Zhang Ye's direction after hearing the wolf howl, with obvious hostility in their eyes.

"Come on..." The corner of Zhang Ye's mouth curled up in a weird arc, "Let me see how brave the wild wolves of Azeroth are!"

Just as Zhang Ye's voice fell, the pack of wolves moved.

Like a well-trained army, they moved, accelerated, and ran one after another, rushing straight to the two tents standing alone in the night...

However, soon, a shocking scene appeared—the first few wild wolves who ran to the edge of Zhang Ye's earlier spraying of powder, suddenly stopped as if they had seen something frightening!And the wild wolf running behind had no time to react, and ran straight into the wild wolf that had barely stopped in front!

For a while, the pack of wolves fluttered and fell, which was so funny.

Zhang couldn't help grinning, and muttered in a low voice: "It turns out... dragon dung is really so easy to use..."