Chapter 41 Naming "Ghoul"

It's strange to say that Xiang En lived to nearly thirty years old and never saw snow in his previous life. Every time he wanted to go to the north to see snow, he would always encounter various things that made his thoughts come to nothing.

After giving up hard work, there is no need to go to see the snow.

Seeing a snow-white world now, I can't help myself, I can't control my curiosity at all.

Andrea expressed her understanding and cast a kind look at the child.

ten minutes later……

The two added two more clothes, put on thick gloves, and walked out of the village with a sword.

"What are we going to do today?" Andrea shook the snow on her body, wondering why she went into the forest when it was snowing outside.

There is no difference between snow in winter and rain in summer. If you accidentally encounter a blizzard, you may be buried in the snow, which is worse than rain.

Holding a wooden spear in his right hand and a wooden bucket in his left hand, Xiang En walked on the muddy ground with only a little snowfall, staring into the depths of the forest without any carelessness, and replied, "Just go to the river to have a look."

Looking at the wooden barrel in Xiang En's left hand, Andrea raised her brows slightly, her eyes pondering, and said, "Are you going to catch fish? But the river should not be frozen yet..."

"No, I want to see if the water is usable now."

"oh."

"If you can catch fish, then drink fish soup today." Xiang En added.

Andrea's eyes lit up. They conserved water quite a lot. For the last seven days, they ate only baked dried meat and bread, and every morsel of food was accurately calculated.

Although the salty dried meat is delicious, it will still feel greasy if you eat too much.

How wonderful it would be to drink a bowl of fish soup on such a cold day!

Thinking of the possibility of drinking fish soup, Andrea couldn't help but get excited, and hurried forward to open the way, hoping to catch a fish or two later, and fulfill her dream.

The two rushed to the small river not far from the village through the snow. Compared with the black water before, the river was much cleaner now, and a thin layer of ice had formed on the surface of the river.

With a light poke of a wooden spear, the ice layer shattered and drifted away with the current.

Andrea stared at the bottom of the river, expecting fish to poke their heads through the small hole, just like she had seen on her own frozen lake.

It's a pity that the scattered small fish at the bottom of the river didn't bother her at all, their tails twitched a few times, and they stayed far away from them, so they didn't come over at all.

Looking at the scattered small fish, Xiang En also gave up the ridiculous idea of ​​catching fish.

When the river was black before, the fish were almost all dead, and they finally recovered a little bit, but they couldn't just run out of water like this, even though they might not stay in the village for long.

After taking some thin ice and filling the barrel, Xiang En was about to turn around and take Andrea back with a disappointed face.

At this moment, the grass on the other side of the river moved, and a huge head emerged.

The long and narrow head is covered with scales. The inverted triangular shape and golden vertical pupils reveal the same coldness as the temperature. The body slowly leaves the grass, gradually revealing the tough body like a dinosaur, like a man with an inverted triangular head. A combination of a Komodo dragon and a tiger.

Xiang En and Andrea couldn't help but stop, and looked at the monster on the other side of the river. One of them had a serious expression, and the other didn't know why.

One thing is certain, the fangs of that monster are quite bluffing.

Xiang En recognized it. It was a scale-toothed monster that was close to the gold level in adulthood. It was a kind of monster with strong defensive and offensive capabilities.

It should have come to drink water. Looking at the calm appearance, the river water may already be drinkable!

Xiang En's gaze on the scale-toothed beast kept flickering. His and Andrea's strength growth had slowed down for a while, so they happened to meet this monster. Should they give it a try?

Seeing Andrea eager to try, he shook his head suddenly and said, "Let's go back..."

As soon as the words were finished, the scale-toothed beast on the other side of the river suddenly turned around and looked behind him, then turned and ran down the river bank quickly, attracting the eyes of Xiang En and the two of them again.

There was a low growl from the forest, and three human-shaped black figures rushed out alternately from the forest on the other side of the river, which surprised Xiang En and Andrea.

Three ragged-clothed humanoid monsters with black spots and tumors on their heads and hands hurriedly chased in the direction in which the scale-toothed beasts were fleeing. They seemed to be unaware that they were separated by a river.

Xiang En stared at the three monsters going away with wide eyes, and opened his mouth wide. Although he couldn't believe it, he was sure that the three were one of the corpses that ran out from the entrance of the village.

The bodies of the three monsters that could no longer be called human were rickety, their faces seemed swollen from beatings, and their mouths drooped like wild beasts. Their deep white teeth were as terrifying as wild beasts.

Under the gaze of the two, the rough long tongue flicked in the air and dripped a few drops of mucus, which was extremely disgusting.

Maintaining a mostly human posture gave them a lot of psychological pressure. Just imagining those black tumors growing on their bodies would give them goose bumps.

"Xiang En, are those villagers?" Andrea on the side was also pale with fright, looking at the monster going away, her eyes were full of disbelief.

"Obviously..." Xiang En also wanted to say no, but the tattered clothes couldn't help him from escaping from the reality, that was the monsters turned into by the dead villagers.

Several villagers disappeared in the forest for so long, and they were both missing when they were hunting and cutting trees, and finally ran back after going around.

The big mouth that no longer looks like a human means that they have completely turned into inhuman monsters, a brand new monster that is not as rigid as an undead creature.

Although their movements are very agile and flexible, in winter, when they run, they are also a little stiff, and their speed is obviously not fast, and they should not be able to catch up with the scale-toothed beasts.

"What if those monsters come to attack us?" Andrea asked worriedly as she watched the three monsters go away.

Hearing this, Xiang En thought for a while, and answered irrelevantly: "Let's give them a name."

Andrea looked at him in surprise, with a puzzled expression, "Eh? Why did you name them?"

"We named them because we valued them. Only with pronouns can we systematically recognize them."

"Is...is it?" Andrea, who didn't know much about the words, tilted her head and didn't object.

Xiang En began to think of names for those monsters, and the first thing he thought of was "zombie", but he rejected it again.

Zombies are not very magical. This is a magical world, so we have to choose a more magical name.

After racking his brains for ten seconds, he thought of it.

"Just call them 'ghouls.'"

In this world, there is no such word as ghoul, and the characters used by the people here are also phonetic characters, such as greed, corpse, and undead. When the three words are split and combined, it becomes a word that has never appeared in this world. new word.

The word Xiang En was automatically translated as "ghoul", and then explained to Andrea.

After Andrea understood this new vocabulary, she was astonished, but at the same time felt a little bit of chills. The ominous words can also make people feel scared in different environments.

Turn around and look around the woods behind them vigilantly, for fear that some ghouls will suddenly run out from behind them.

"Go back first, it seems that today is not suitable for going out."

"okay."

Lifting his spirits again, Xiang En and Andrea returned to the village.