Invasion - Chapter 29
Chapter 29
Lin Yuan dug out the box buried in the sand, carefully dusting off the grains.
“What is this?” Xiao Niao came over and took a look.
The box looked very old, and didn't seem to be made of any precious wood.
There might have originally been some strange words carved on its surface, but they had long since become blurred under the erosion of time. There were also a few sunken holes on its surface, which might have once been inlaid with gemstones, but they had all been dug out.
Lin Yuan held the old wooden box, but she was very happy. She looked at it for a while, turning it over and over, then put it away in her backpack with a satisfied look.
Xiao Niao felt a little strange.
Although it was just an old box, it had been brought up from the seabed, and it was a container that had been used to hold those precious energy stones. Logically, it shouldn’t have been ignored like this.
They were sentinels, sentinels all had sharp observation skills, and they rarely overlooked anything.
But just now, including her, everyone present hadn’t noticed this wooden box. As if it was something very ordinary, something that no one should see.
It was as if something cold had flashed by at that moment, making everyone neatly overlook this matter. Xiao Niao thought keenly.
The moment Lin Yuan put the box into her backpack, her movements paused.
She seemed to have heard something. She looked up towards the sea.
A dream-like, chaotic murmur came faintly from the depths of the ocean.
That sound seemed to come from very far away, exceptionally faint, and when she tried to listen carefully again, it was gone.
Only the waves, like skirts, still brushed against the golden beach again and again, making soft sounds.
“Strange, it seems like there was some sound from under the sea, did you hear it?” Lin Yuan asked.
A sentinel’s hearing was much stronger than a Guide’s, they couldn’t have missed it if there was a sound, unless Lin Yuan had misheard.
“No, I didn’t hear anything,” Xiao Niao said. “But I think, we should leave here as soon as possible.”
Xiao Niao's sentinel uniform was custom-made, with excellent elasticity, and two specially cut openings on the back. As long as she didn't excessively transform her body, she didn't need to take off her clothes.
At this moment, from the open parts of her back, a pair of huge wings slowly extended.
Her strong wings flapped, lifting her into the sky. She reached out, picked up Lin Yuan, and flew forward, spreading her wings.
The other sentinels picked up their pace, running at full speed on the ground, closely following.
Xiao Niao didn't fly very high, and Lin Yuan could see various green plants and low roofs flashing past below.
This feeling was very novel.
"Am I heavy?" she asked Xiao Niao, who was flying.
"Guide Lin, are you looking down on me?" Xiao Niao said, a little unhappy. "Other than Dahu, I have the strongest carrying capacity in Dongbin."
She had always addressed Lin Yuan very affectionately, sometimes even calling her Yuan Yuan when she was happy. Now that she was calling her "Guide Lin," she was clearly unhappy.
Lin Yuan stopped speaking randomly. She still thought it was very interesting, using her toes to reach for the tender leaves on the treetops.
Just then, she saw the world below seem to distort. The vivid trees, the straight road, the neat houses, all seemed to twist in an instant.
The entire world was writhing, something had awakened.
Xiao Niao landed from the sky, her mouth open, staring blankly at the sky.
The stars in the sky came alive, colorful lights swirling and flowing. Joyful music came from afar, the streetlights gradually lit up. The whole world seemed to be waking up.
"How could this be?" She could hardly believe her eyes. "'Nighttime' has arrived early."
Everyone looked up at the sky.
The whole world had come "alive."
The peaceful "daytime" had ended, and the frightening "nighttime" had arrived early.
On the originally quiet and empty street, where there hadn't been a single person, a figure suddenly appeared before everyone.
An extremely ordinary, middle-aged woman, the kind you could see anywhere.
She looked about forty or fifty years old, with permed, shoulder-length curly hair, lipstick, and a noticeable mole on her face.
She was carrying a shopping basket, and kept talking.
"Eggs are on sale today, 3.5 imperial coins per jin (Approximately 0.5 kilograms or about 1.1 pounds)."
"I have to hurry up and go."
This was originally the most common sight on the streets, a very ordinary person.
But her sudden appearance here, in this eerie contaminated zone, was horrifying.
Everyone pressed themselves against the wall, slowly backing away from the woman walking towards them.
The slightly plump middle-aged woman seemed to not see them at all, repeatedly muttering about the egg sale, walking towards them.
"Eggs are on sale today, 3.5 imperial coins per jin."
"Hurry up and go."
"Have to hurry."
Other than her eyes darting around uncontrollably, from her appearance to her clothing details, she looked exactly like a middle-aged woman who lived nearby, getting ready to go buy eggs.
Xiao Niao stared at the approaching "person" and made two tactical hand gestures towards Dahu.
Dahu nodded.
When the strange woman got close, Dahu suddenly lunged forward, severing her into three pieces with two strikes.
At the same time, Xiao Niao led the rest of them, sprinting along the side of the road. Without looking back at the battle, they quickly ran through the street and turned into an empty alley.
Dahu quickly caught up.
In the street they had just run through, the woman, cut into three pieces, lay on the road. Her bones and internal organs looked no different from a real person’s. Only, after a while, the three pieces of flesh and blood started to wriggle, gradually changing. Finally, three women, of different sizes but identical appearances, climbed up from the ground.
The three were completely different in height, the tallest was half the height of an adult, the smallest only the size of a head. But their clothing and appearance were identical to before, curly hair, mole, flesh-colored socks, and carrying a basket.
They looked a little dazed, looking around as if they didn’t understand what had happened. Finally, they started muttering about the egg sale again, waddling forward.
Xiao Niao and the others, hiding in the alley, breathed a sigh of relief.
They quietly slipped out of the alley and turned onto another street.
The number of people on the street had increased at some point.
An elderly person leaning on a cane, a child dragging a toy, a middle-aged man smoking… it looked like a lively neighborhood street.
The streetlights were bright, the starlight brilliant, soft music playing in the air, people strolling on the street after dinner.
Only, the height proportions of the people here were completely different from normal humans.
The middle-aged man was only the size of a fist, his small body squatting on a stone pier, smoking.
The child dragging a toy was unusually tall, a full three meters, his huge, fat body squeezing into the narrow alley, making loud banging sounds as he walked forward step by step.
"Be very careful," Xiao Niao whispered. "Don't touch their bodies, or their things. Otherwise they'll see us."
Everyone walked along the wall, carefully avoiding everyone.
The road was too crowded, with several "people" coming and going on the small road, making it very difficult to avoid them. The lights in the windows along the road were on, and human shadows moved inside.
But all the "people" seemed to be living in their own worlds, not a single one noticing these outsiders.
They reached the end of the street.
The middle-aged man, only the size of a fist, was squatting on a stone pier, smoking.
They held their breaths, pressing themselves against the stone pier, walking past him.
The man smoked, muttering repeatedly, "I should go find my wife tomorrow." As if he couldn't see them at all.
They safely passed right under his nose.
Everyone couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Just then, a window by the road was suddenly pushed open, and an elderly person, holding a basin of water, splashed it onto the street.
Xiao Mu couldn’t dodge in time, the water about to splash on him, Dahu pulled him to the side by his collar. Xiao Mu escaped the water, but Dahu's strong arm inevitably got splashed.
The middle-aged man who hadn't been able to see them just now looked dazed at first, then his expression twisted into anger, he shrieked, jumping down from the stone pier, lunging at them with his fangs bared.
Everyone on the street seemed to suddenly see them at the same moment, mutated creatures of all sizes, with ferocious expressions, charging towards them.
"Run!" Xiao Niao shouted, white wings extending from her back, grabbing Lin Yuan and flying. "Follow me, everyone.”
She flew diagonally through the gap between two buildings, swiftly crossing a narrow alley, turning through a culvert, and finally landing in front of an old tube-shaped building, jumping into the corridor on the second floor.
When the others climbed up, Xiao Niao had already taken out a key tied with a red string from around her neck. She inserted the key into the lock of an iron door and gently twisted it.
With a click, the door actually opened.
Everyone filed in.
Before entering, Dahu, without a word, cut off the entire piece of skin and flesh from his arm that had been splashed with water, throwing it into the courtyard.
The iron door slammed shut. The large and small monsters that had swarmed after them pounced on the piece of flesh and blood in the courtyard. Fighting over it, greedily devouring it, then they wandered around the bloodstain for a while, with confused looks on their faces.
Slowly, they resumed their sluggish pace, muttering repeated words, gradually dispersing from the courtyard of the building.
Xiao Niao, hiding inside, peeked through the gap in the curtains, watching the situation downstairs. Only after the mutated creatures had gradually dispersed did she finally relax.
Dahu's arm was bloody, the bone exposed, a terrifying sight. His companions were already bandaging it with a tourniquet.
Xiao Niao, without turning on the lights, went into the bedroom, took out a medicine box from the cabinet, kicked it with her foot, sending it sliding to Dahu’s feet.
Now, everyone finally had time to carefully look at the small apartment where they were hiding.
The apartment was very small, one bedroom and one living room, other than the bedroom inside, the living room, dining room, and kitchen were all crammed into the small space outside.
Xiao Niao found the first-aid kit and also took a blanket from the bedroom. She came out, handed the blanket to Lin Yuan, then skillfully opened the refrigerator, took out a few bottles of beer, and tossed one to everyone except Xiao Mu and Lin Yuan.
She sat by the window, popped open a can, tilted her head to look outside through the gap in the curtains, and took a sip of beer.
Sentinels weren't supposed to drink alcohol. The sentinels in the White Tower all drank a special alcohol-like beverage made for sentinels.
But the outpost didn't have that, and they were all used to it. A little bit of low-alcohol beer wouldn't affect them, it could even calm their tense minds.
"Big Sister Xiao Niao, how come you’re so familiar with this place?" Xiao Mu couldn’t help but ask.
Xiao Niao reached out and took away the bottle of beer he had secretly taken, not letting him drink. Xiao Mu stubbornly held on.
"This used to be my home, ten years ago," Xiao Niao said, taking away his beer while the boy was still surprised.
The lights weren’t on in the messy apartment. The streetlights outside shone in, illuminating the side of Xiao Niao's face and the fingers casually holding the beer bottle, as if she had been sitting in this dark corner for a long time.
Lin Yuan, wrapped in the blanket, felt a little tired, and yawned quietly. “How long do we have to hide here?”
"If we’re lucky and haven’t been discovered, it’s best to hide until 'nighttime' is over," Dahu said. He had just finished bandaging his arm and was also drinking a bottle of beer with one hand, glancing at Xiao Niao. "I just don't know if anyone will come back."
Xiao Niao didn't speak, just kept drinking her beer.
After who knew how long, the sentinels who weren’t on guard duty fell asleep.
Lin Yuan woke up from a short nap and saw Xiao Niao sitting next to her.
The female sentinel with the buzz cut was leaning against the wall, turning an empty beer bottle in her hand, staring at the window, lost in thought.
"Ten years ago, this was still a normal street, many people lived here," Xiao Niao suddenly said.
Her voice was very soft, as if afraid of waking the sleeping people.
"Back then, my mom and I lived in this apartment. My mom loved to drink, there was always beer in the refrigerator, she got drunk every day."
"Ten years ago? Was that when the last large-scale expansion happened? Then you escaped from here at that time?" Lin Yuan asked.
"No," Xiao Niao looked at Lin Yuan, placing the empty beer bottle on the ground. "That day, my mom and I had a fight, a big fight, we completely fell out. I took a few clothes and ran away from home."
The empty beer cans on the floor fell over, rolling around, making cold, clanging sounds.
Xiao Niao's calm voice mixed with the cold sounds of metal.
"I walked very far, and I didn’t look back. When the contaminated zone suddenly expanded, I wasn’t caught inside. My mom, the neighbors, many people I knew, they all stayed here. They all stayed in this nightmare of a place."
The night was chilly, and soft music came from afar in the sky.
Lin Yuan, wrapped in the blanket, didn't speak, just listened quietly. The little tentacles obediently raised their wrist feet, accompanying the two girls in the darkness.
"It's nothing, really. Don’t look at me like that." Xiao Niao snapped back to reality, suddenly feeling too emotional. She forced a smile at Lin Yuan. "My mom was probably very happy that I left. She always found me annoying before, said I was a burden."
"She drank every day, living a drunken life. Now she's probably doing pretty well, living directly in this dream-like world."
Just at this moment, footsteps came from outside the corridor.
Thump, thump, thump…
The footsteps approached.
A large, hunched figure, with long, curly hair, walked past the window and stopped outside the door.
Everyone in the room was startled awake by the sound, holding their breaths, gripping the weapons in their hands.
"Bai Hua'er, is Bai Hua'er home?" A faint voice came from outside the door.
Bai Hua'er was Xiao Niao’s nickname.
Everyone held their breaths, staring at the door, not daring to make a sound.
After a while, a sigh came from outside the door, gradually becoming quiet. The “person” outside seemed to have left.
The sentinels gestured to each other, two of them quietly moving, ready to go out and check the situation.
Suddenly, the sound of a key being inserted into the lock came from the door.
Click.
...
The door opened, pushed by a pale arm.
The hand was slender and delicate, illuminated by the cold white light of the corridor, a thin ring on its ring finger.
The hand reached in, but the person didn't move.
"Is Bai Hua'er back?" The person outside asked.
Bai Hua’er was Xiao Niao’s nickname.
Xiao Niao gritted her teeth, slowly drawing the saber from her waist. Before the blade was even fully out, her eyes were already red.
She knew who had come. For ten years, she had come to the No. 5 Contaminated Zone countless times, each time deliberately avoiding this area, not wanting to encounter this person, not wanting to see what she had become.
A soft hand reached out from the side, stopping her from drawing her saber.
Xiao Niao, her eyes red, looked over. It was Lin Yuan, standing beside her.
"No, Bai Hua'er isn't back yet," Lin Yuan suddenly said.
Everyone in the room was startled by Lin Yuan’s voice. They didn't understand why Lin Yuan suddenly spoke at this time.
Could it be because Lin Yuan wasn't familiar with the rules of contaminated zones?
Did she not know that here, within the space that belonged to the “local residents” of the contaminated zone, rashly talking to mutated creatures could easily provoke them, and was very dangerous?
The slender Guide stood in the room, calmly looking at the arm reaching into the house, as if countless huge shadows surged behind her not-so-tall body.
She slowly, gently, said again, "No, your Bai Hua'er isn’t home yet."
A suffocating silence fell outside, and cold sweat dripped from the sentinels’ foreheads.
Everyone vaguely knew who had come, whether powerful or not, they didn’t want to fight here. No one wanted to fight to the death with Xiao Niao’s "mother" here.
After who knew how long,
The person outside softly said, "So that’s it, she doesn’t want to come home yet.”
The pale arm withdrew.
Silence fell outside, not a single sound.
【So, it’s not like they can’t communicate.】
【That scared me.】
【Still a little scary.】
【What do we do, I think she'll be back.】
【Don’t let me come out next time, I’m a scaredy-cat.】
A gust of cold wind blew in through the empty doorway, the cold starlight shining through the opening, onto the floor.
Xiao Niao stared at the open door for a moment, then quickly composed herself.
To survive in a place like this, she couldn’t afford to dwell on nostalgia or sadness.
"We can’t stay here,” she said. "Let’s go.”
They ran up the stairs, and several missing person notices were posted on the wall of the stairwell.
The contents of the notices were from a mother who had lost her daughter, searching for her daughter named Bai Hua'er.
Xiao Niao ran past the notices posted on the wall without a word.
The little girl in the photo was very young, Xiao Niao from ten years ago still had long hair, a stubborn and lively expression on her face.
In a contaminated zone, time almost stood still.
The mother’s longing for her child from ten years ago was forever posted on the walls of the streets and buildings.
Xiao Niao could hardly remember why she had fought with her mother back then.
At that time, their lives had been very difficult. Her mother would always scold her, and she had also been very rebellious, arguing with her mother since she was young.
“If it weren’t for you, my life would be so much easier.”
“Just leave, don’t ever come back.”
So, the mother in her memories, who had always been fierce, actually cared about her. So, after she left, her mother had also posted notices everywhere, looking for her.
But she couldn't go back, she could never return to this small, broken home, that always appeared in her dreams.
They ran up the stairs to the rooftop. Strong wings appeared behind her back, and Xiao Niao prepared to take Lin Yuan and fly.
Lin Yuan handed her a missing person notice she had torn off.
"Why are you giving this to me?" Xiao Niao turned her face away, a little unhappy.
"Keep it. Don’t you want it?"
Xiao Niao bit her lip, and finally took the paper that she hadn't seen ten years ago, carefully folded it, and put it in the innermost pocket of her clothes.
Under the dark, starry sky, the sentinels jumped between the rooftops.
The terrain here was high, and they could see the ocean in the distance.
The music in the air became more and more cheerful. On the golden beach, black figures, one after another, climbed out of the sea, dripping wet, lining up, dragging trails of water as they walked towards the brightly lit streets.
A giant, glowing body came ashore with the waves. It wriggled for a moment, then got up, its soft ventral foot climbing over the houses, moving through the streets, its speed increasing.
"That, is that thing coming towards us?"
Lin Yuan, carried by Xiao Niao, pointed at the rapidly wriggling monster in the distance.
The sentinels looked over. The huge, gradually forming monster, climbing over the varying terrain, was moving forward at an extremely fast speed.
Clearly, it was heading straight for them.
Xiao Niao chose an open area without any buildings as the battlefield.
Although they didn't know why the monster was chasing them, no matter what, dealing with a single mutated creature was better than being surrounded by a whole street of monsters.
Only when it got closer did they finally see the behemoth clearly.
It had a strikingly handsome face, silver curly hair, gray-blue eyes, a gentle and deep gaze, and it wore a captain's hat on its wet hair.
Lin Yuan felt like she had seen that hat before. The long-dead captain in the Mary shipwreck had also worn an identical hat.
Below the handsome face, was a human male body fused with all sorts of marine creatures.
Huge, strange, and twisted fusion, not a living thing of this world.
Seven or eight arms with shells extended from its back and armpits, its soft ventral foot drooped to the ground, colorful scales on its back, and a slug-like tail dragging behind it.
It was almost a combination of beauty and disgust, a nightmare crawling out from hell, from the abyss.
This strangely shaped mutated creature, however, possessed a life force so powerful that it was suffocating.
Whether its abdomen was pierced, or its body was cut open, the wounds quickly, abnormally healed. Its gray-blue eyes remained calm, as if it couldn’t feel any pain at all.
Dahu took off his coat, thick fur appearing on his face and body in an instant. He roared, the king of beasts, a tiger’s roar in the jungle, shaking the mountains and the earth.
Dahu’s half-beast body expanded to its limit, with a tiger's head and a human body, sharp armor on his back, almost as tall as the giant monster.
The tiger’s sharp claws tore the mutated creature’s body apart. The captain’s head drooped along with its split body, its gray-blue eyes still calmly looking at Lin Yuan.
There seemed to be no pain, no emotion in those eyes, only a single-minded, pure obsession.
It had been slumbering in the deep sea, sleeping for countless years.
Now, in its chaotic mind, noisy sounds rang out for no reason, those voices urging it to kill these humans who had disturbed its deep sleep.
The repeated clamor, constantly ringing, stimulated its muddled brain, making it feel confused, uncomfortable, unable to rest.
So it had climbed out of the deep sea, twisting and piecing together its body along the way, until it destroyed the source of the noise, returning to its sleeping place.
【It’s useless, run.】
【He’s too powerful, and focused, we can’t influence him.】
The tentacles could change some of a person’s subconscious thoughts.
Taking advantage of their unawareness, acting subtly was the most effective. But if the other person's mental power was strong, focused, or moving towards a certain goal with great determination, it was very difficult for them to influence them.
【Is there really no way?】
【I don’t want a dead little bird, or a big cat.】
【There might be a way…】
The giant monster and the sentinel with the tiger’s head and human body were still fighting amidst the flying dust and smoke.
Xiao Niao fell from the sky, one of her wings almost broken, her white feathers covered in blood.
"Xiao Mu," she called the youngest boy in the team.
The boy, frightened by the fierce battle, hurriedly ran over.
"Xiao Mu, I'm giving you the most important task," Xiao Niao took out her dagger, put it in the boy's hand, her blood-stained fingers gripping his hand and the dagger. "Take Guide Lin Yuan and leave first."
"Wh- why?" Xiao Mu was stunned. He knew what letting the two of them leave first meant.
"We haven't lost yet, everyone is still fighting, Brother Dahu is so strong, we can still fight!" the boy said excitedly. "We still have a chance to win, Big Sister Xiao Niao!"
"We haven't lost yet," Xiao Niao's gaze softened, she reached out and touched the boy’s head. "In two years, you can officially join our outpost. I really want to see what you'll be like then."
"But now, I need you to protect the Guide and leave. This is an order, as a sentinel, you must obey."
Xiao Niao's expression turned cold, and she pushed the boy.
She spread her bloody wings again, let out a clear cry, flew into the sky, and charged into the battlefield like a cannonball.
They hadn't lost yet, but they were human, human strength had its limits, the human body couldn't withstand infinite damage.
But their enemy was an immortal monster, it could crawl back from hell again and again, they could never kill it.
The intense smoke of the battlefield gradually faded. The mutated creature, almost split in half, slowly healed amidst the dust and smoke. Its gray-blue eyes were like ghost lights hanging in hell, always calm, never extinguishing.
Dahu’s body had shrunk, Xiao Niao was covered in blood, and the sentinels roared angrily, holding their ground on the battlefield.
But they couldn't hold on much longer.
Xiao Mu gritted his teeth, grabbed Lin Yuan’s hand, and started running out of the battlefield. "Big Sister Lin Yuan, I, I’ll take you away."
Behind him, the overwhelming smoke, the tiger’s roar, the falcon's cry, the sentinels’ roars, and the cold, indifferent giant eyes of the monster.
The boy actually didn’t know where to run.
Towards the exit, perhaps other people would come there, they would open a door to escape this place.
He and Big Sister Lin Yuan could then leave with them.
He had no choice, he was still so young, he had a mother and a younger sister at home.
Escape.
There was nothing else he could do.
Sometimes, Xiao Mu really wished he wasn’t a sentinel.
Without a sentinel's excellent hearing, he wouldn’t have heard the sounds of hell.
He didn’t need to look back, he knew Brother Hu had fallen, his head pressed into the dust by that monster.
He heard Big Sister Xiao Niao flapping her wings in the air, letting out a desperate cry, he heard the sound of blood flowing.
I’m running away just like this, can I really run away like this?
Xiao Mu stopped running and looked back at Lin Yuan.
“B- Big Sister Lin Yuan,” he said, trembling, “ca- can you run by yourself?”
Lin Yuan looked at him. “Then where are you going?”
Xiao Mu felt that this Big Sister Lin Yuan was sometimes a little different from others. Most of the time, her face didn’t show much expression. No matter what happened, she always looked calm, indifferent, and composed.
This wasn’t a bad thing, he thought, at least compared to crying, it made him feel a little more at ease.
“It’s like this,” the boy sniffed, putting his map into Lin Yuan’s hand. “I’m a sentinel, I still have the ability to fight, I can't abandon Brother Hu and the others. Yo- you take care.”
He didn’t manage to run away, Lin Yuan grabbed his hand.
“If you’re going to die,” Lin Yuan stated the fact, but after thinking for a moment, she changed her wording. “If you’re not even afraid of death, then could you cooperate with me? I have a plan.”
“A pl- plan?”
“I need you to listen to me, completely, without any disobedience.”
She stood there, and the tentacles behind her all came out, covering the sky and the earth, dancing in the dust and smoke, no weaker than any sentinel’s mental body.
…
Rain started falling from the sky at some point.
In this world, even the raindrops shimmered with flowing colors, as if the stars in the sky were constantly falling.
Xiao Mu huddled blankly in front of a dilapidated shack, five unconscious sentinels lying behind him.
Xiao Niao, Dahu, they were all there. Although seriously injured, they were still alive.
Even now, Xiao Mu still couldn't quite understand how he had done all of this.
Or how Big Sister Lin Yuan had made him do it.
In the wilderness, the giant monster was still wandering aimlessly.
Its soft ventral foot wriggled as it crawled forward, dragging a long trail of water on the ground.
But it had lost its target.
Its gray-blue eyes stared blankly in the rain, slowly moving forward without a destination.
It was coming towards them.
Slowly, it almost brushed past the shack where Xiao Mu was hiding.
The huge, soft, eerie monster slowly passed right before his eyes.
Xiao Mu crouched there, motionless.
The monster left, then suddenly turned back, its silver braid, with the captain’s hat, hanging down, its gray-blue eyes staring straight at him for a moment.
Xiao Mu remained motionless.
Despite this terrifying scene, the monster right in front of him, he could even smell the fishy scent of its sticky skin.
He didn’t feel any fear.
He felt like he was a rock, a piece of iron, a piece of wood, his heart completely calm.
Neither fear, nor terror, just blankly sitting there, without a single emotion.
He was just a dead object in this world.
The monster stared at him for a long time, and finally gave up, wriggling its body, slowly walking towards the distant ocean.
Xiao Mu knew that with his mental strength, it would have been impossible for him to perfectly conceal all of his emotions like this.
But Big Sister Lin Yuan had actually done it, sealing off all of his emotions.
When he wasn’t resisting, when he was fully cooperating, those tentacles had sealed off the outwardly projected emotions of him and all the sentinels behind him, making them seem like lifeless objects.
They had actually, just like that, tricked that powerful, invincible monster.
Just now, not long ago.
The two of them had run back, right under the monster's nose, coordinating with each other, rescuing their injured companions.
One attracting the monster’s attention, while the other took the opportunity to grab the injured sentinel.
When the monster was about to approach, the person attracting its attention would turn into a “stone”, and the other person in the distance would then be responsible for attracting the monster.
Going back and forth like this, using the short window of time in between, they rescued their dying companions.
Rescuing them, sealing their five senses, completely hiding them.
This required extremely precise coordination. The monster’s speed was incredibly fast, a single misstep would have meant complete annihilation.
At that time, various commands kept ringing in his mind.
He almost didn’t hesitate, completely abandoning his own thinking, acting entirely according to Lin Yuan’s instructions.
Although the process had been extremely dangerous, incredibly, they had actually succeeded.
Until now, that monster had already left.
Xiao Mu still sat there like a stone, hardly believing that they had actually succeeded.
Just like Big Sister Lin Yuan had said, since you’re willing to die, then let’s use our lives to give it a try.
So crazy.
But they succeeded, didn't they?
【Who, who came up with such a crazy idea?】
【So exciting, I loved it.】
【Inspired by the big fish.】
【Remember our experience of touching the fish in that dark duct?】
【At that time, the big fish also tricked us like that.】
【This brings back good memories.】
【How did you know that that sea monster uses perception to distinguish enemies?】
【Of course, it's very similar to us, isn’t it?】
【Poor sea monster, don’t blame us, blame that fish.】
The tentacles chattered.
The rain fell on the roof.
Lin Yuan crouched there, reaching out to catch the raindrops. But how were they going to get out? The sentinels who could fight were almost all incapacitated.
“So pathetic? You’ve almost been completely wiped out?” A mocking voice rang out from the rain. An unfamiliar sentinel had, at some point, approached and was standing not far away, laughing.
Xiao Mu had seen this sentinel before, not long ago, among the group of sentinels who had robbed them on the beach.
He instantly stood up, drawing his dagger, protecting Lin Yuan.
All the sentinels who could fight were down, only he was left in their team.
In the dim rain, a whole team of sentinels gradually appeared.
It was them, those villains who had robbed them not long ago.
The rain drizzled.
That group of tall sentinels stood in the rain, their obscure gazes coming through the curtain of shimmering raindrops.
Like a pack of wolves in the night.
I’ll protect everyone, even if it costs me my life. Xiao Mu thought tragically.
“Could you help us?” At this moment, Lin Yuan behind him stood up and asked gently. “My sentinels are all injured, could you help carry them?”
Big Sister Lin Yuan, you’re too naive, too kind. Xiao Mu almost cried. Did you think everyone in the world was as kind and gentle as you?
That pack of wolves, those bandits who had just robbed them of their treasure, stood silently in the rain.
After a while, the sentinel who led them walked out from the group, gave them a cold look, and said in a business-like tone,
“According to the rules, fifty imperial coins per person we carry out.”
“Are you robbing us?” Xiao Mu shouted. “Brother Hu and the others only got fifty imperial coins for coming in here.”
Lin Yuan stopped him and said gently, “Alright.”
She even extended her arm. “Do you have a personal terminal? Let’s add each other, I’ll transfer the money to you as soon as we get out.”
The tall and thin sentinel looked at Lin Yuan silently, then turned his face away. “No, I don’t.”
【Hi, little fish.】
【Little fish, you're so tsundere.】
【Clearly very happy, aren't you?】
【Why not add her as a friend?】
these tentacles are so funny XDD
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