The Red Fire Fox looked at Duke, then looked at the little guy, and slowly moved his figure towards Duke.

In contrast, it felt that Duke was at least not as terrifying as the guy with a long tail. Getting close to Duke was just an instinctively considered safe.

The little guy sniffed at the behavior of the Red Fire Fox. Although he didn't know Duke's specific strength now, there were some factors that made him feel uneasy. It was just hidden very deeply. The ordinary exploration methods were unable to detect them, so it was difficult to find clues from the outside alone.

Duke half-squatted in front of the Red Firefly Fox, then waved to the back, asking the little guy to give him the ball.

The little guy took the hollow ball from his neck, and then walked behind Duke after he became smaller, put it gently into Duke's hand, and then secretly wanted to see from the side how Duke communicated with the Red Firefly Fox.

The red fire fox, whose attention has been on the little guy, did not relax his vigilance because the little guy has become smaller. Last night, I saw that it was so small and did not emit any strong magic fluctuations on his body, so I was a little careless. But in the end, when the other party burst out with real strength, it had no ability to resist at all, and could only become the fish on the plan board.

"This is yours, is it?"

Duke held the ball, moving slowly, carefully stretched to the front of the Red Flame Fox, and stared at the Red Flame Fox with a serious expression.

The level 13 monster had a high IQ. It could tell that the terrifying little beast would listen to the human in front of it to a certain extent. After thinking about this, it breathed a little relieved, looked at Duke with a lively eyes and blinked a few times, then nodded.

"Where did you pick it up? Or..." Duke continued to ask.

The Red Fire Fox looked at Duke with some confusion. He didn't know what Duke was about to ask about the origin of the ball, so he did not answer in time.

"Gurl!"

The little guy who was secretly watching immediately jumped out of Duke and threatened the Red Fire Fox with grinning.

"Aowuwu..."

The Red Flame Fox was frightened and shrank back, but he did not dare to escape. Anyway, he could not escape no matter how hard he ran.

"Don't do this, why scare it?"

Duke picked up the little guy and put it in his arms so that it wouldn't continue to mess around.

But how could the little guy settle down so easily? It showed his head from Duke's arms, raised his small fist, and demonstrated to the Red Flame Fox for a few times. But then, it stuck out his tongue and made a face at the Red Flame Fox. This made the Red Flame Fox a little dizzy, but he had to feel relieved for no reason. At least the little guy is not the kind of bloodthirsty monster, but his personality is a bit difficult to figure out. For the time being, just follow its heart, just like it was a little reluctant just now, and it immediately jumped out from behind to threaten itself.

"Haha, it's okay, don't be afraid of it. Look, it's already hidden in my arms, right?"

Duke squeezed out a smile to make himself look kinder, but when he said this, he didn't see the little guy making trouble in his arms, otherwise he would definitely threaten the little guy without barbecue or something.

"Ao~Aowu~" the Red Flame Fox whispered a few times.

Duke understood that it was saying something to him, but he had never dealt with the Red Fire Fox and had no idea what these few sounds meant, so he had to lower his head and asked softly: "Little Guru, what does it mean?"

"It said that the little ball was picked up by a river when drinking water."

When Duke lowered his head, the little guy had already secretly pulled his clothes and covered himself. Now when he spoke, his voice was separated by a layer of clothes, which sounded a bit out of tune.

"Is that true..."

Duke murmured in disappointment, but he didn't expect that such news would be. If there was a specific location, he could search for it and maybe he would have a new discovery. But now he was picked up by the river. Who knows where he came from? It would be too difficult to find it.

...

The morning sunlight passes through the gap between the leaves, leaving some fine shadows on the ground, overlapping and coordinating with the surrounding vibrant environment.

Duke half-squatted on the ground, holding the hollowed-out ball in one hand, looking into the distance, and his thoughts floated to somewhere.

The hollow ball had a slight uncertain relationship with the pendant on his chest, but he had lost the clues to search for it. Should I continue to search for it now, or continue to go to the destination, get the fragments and plan, which made Duke feel embarrassed for a moment.

After thinking for a while, Duke planned to put away the ball first and then make plans after taking the fragments, because among the news Hermann said, the only thing he could be sure of is that the secret realm will not be closed for the time being, and he did not know the trigger conditions for closing, but the most important thing is to retrieve the fragments first, so that he has plenty of time to do other things.

However, at this moment, he caught a different shadow on the ground.

A ray of sunlight shines through the gap between the leaves, illuminating the hollow ball, projecting a rectangular pattern on the ground. When Duke looked over carefully, he felt very familiar.

Suddenly, he took out the map, his eyes quickly moved to a corner, and then looked at the pattern on the ground.

"I always feel like something is missing on this map, but I didn't expect that to be the case."

Duke was delighted and found a place with abundant sunshine. He spread the map in his hand flat on the ground, then moved the ball over to allow the shadows projected by the ball to overlap with the map.

When the shadow overlaps the map at a fixed angle, a completely different map appears in Duke's sight.

The lines on the original map became richer immediately, the mountains and valleys became more obvious, and the streams and rivers became richer, which was very different. Duke's heart was more and more surprised. When he looked at the map, his eyes were almost squinting a gap.

The little guy also widened his eyes. Unexpectedly, there was such a situation. The red fire fox looked similar to the little guy, but it secretly glanced at Duke from time to time. Looking at the expression on Duke's face, it knew that it was no longer dangerous. The human in front of him would not hurt him, and even the terrifying little beast would not do anything to him anymore.

After Duke wrote down the contents of the map, he called out the Flaming Bird and prepared to continue to the bottom of the debris.

Because he was thinking about something related to the pendant in his arms, after he set off again this time, Duke asked the Flaming Bird to speed up. He flew in mid-air and looked at the ground that could correspond to the map in his memory one by one. He knew that it was not too far from his destination, and he would definitely be able to arrive for a short time. Only at this time did he feel that it would be so happy to have the Flaming Bird to travel with him. If it were all based on his legs, not to mention what would happen if he encountered those high-level monsters, even if he had to walk with all his strength, he would have to walk for about half a month. From this point of view, there was no Flaming Bird, no cave, and no other monsters to delay time. He had already arrived in that valley now.

...

When he arrived at his destination, Duke realized how big the so-called valley was. I think so, even on the map, the area marked in the valley is not small.

This is a valley surrounded by mountains and without a gap. Looking at Duke in mid-air, he estimated that the valley was at least as big as the city of Gulas, and it was very flat. The ground in the valley had no flowers and plants, and it was all bare stones or tiny gravel.

Occasionally, the strong winds that blew from somewhere would form spinning hurricanes after reaching the valley. Although they were not as big as tornadoes, the rotation speed was not slow at all. Hula hula rolled up the sand, stones and dust in the valley and flew all over the sky.

The entire valley looks like a deserted area near the west, without any trace and life.

Finally, the flame bird flew around the valley in a low altitude. After observing the scene inside the valley, Duke picked a place with less wind and fell down.

Seeing that the Flaming Bird was a little tired, Duke handed the Flaming Bird cloth bag wrapped in two bird eggs and asked it to leave here. He robbed these two bird eggs to come here quickly. Now that it has arrived, why do you want these two eggs?

But what Duke didn't expect was that the Flaming Bird actually refused, and there was no reason.

"I don't need it either. This is your child, how can you not want it?"

Duke said with a headache when he looked at the stubborn appearance of the Flaming Bird.

"Hehe!"

The flame bird screamed twice, but no matter what Duke said, he turned around and wanted to fly away.

"Hey, you can't be like you in a bird. The place I want to go now may be very dangerous, and it's hard to keep them safe with them." Duke was helpless and thought for a while and said, "You can take it first, find a place around you to settle down first, and wait for me to come out here. Maybe you will need to send it to you then? And I promise you that if you go out, I will definitely take them out, okay?"

Hearing Duke say this, the flame bird flapped its wings happily and flew to a mountain with a cloth bag in its mouth.

Watching the flame bird leave, the little guy on Duke's left shoulder looked at Duke with contempt, as if saying, "You're fooling the bird again."

"Bastard! What kind of expression do you have? Am I the person you think of? You think of me too much."

Duke walked towards the middle of the valley and shouted loudly to the little guy. But the little guy turned his head and didn't even look at Duke, muttering something in his mouth. Duke was concentrating and realized that the little guy was actually muttering: You are... you are... you are...

"Your aunt, I didn't have any barbecue today!"
Chapter completed!