Chapter 173 White Horse, Sea Clan, and Reverse Robbery of Aba Aba...

After entering the grassland, the rebels led by Wu Wang stopped seeing them off.

"We have never left the desert. The forest you are returning to may be a new challenge for us. If we enter an unknown area without any preparation, our boss will scold us to death."

"Anyway, the rest of the journey is up to you. Have a safe trip!"

"Bye-Bye!"

Chu Xiuyan leaned out his upper body and grabbed the roof of the car, waving goodbye to the rebels parked at the boundary between the desert and the grassland. Further away? The giant holding the mysterious egg and the crawler looked at him from afar, and his voice of farewell rose a few degrees.

The SUV started again.

Chu Xiuyan returned to the car, staring at the red-haired man he had kicked into the front seat, and muttered, "Gou Erji, you look like a lingering ghost."

Mingji wore sunglasses and opened the car window, enjoying the gradually cooler wind blowing into the grassland. He felt so relaxed and comfortable that even the resentment of being forgotten was dissipated.

"How dare you criticize me? Who forgot that they had promised someone something important?"

Chu Xiuyan hugged his head, frowning, "Oh no, the battle with the Desert God seems to have erased part of my memory."

Ming Ji turned his head quickly and said in shock: "F-Is this true?!"

Zhang Chun: “It’s fake.”

Chu Xiuyan pointed at the back of Zhang Chun's chair and said, "Uncle, I'm going to expel you from the Yunyan Protection Association."

Zhang Chun sighed during the noisy conversation between Mingji and the boy, "The core, right? The one that was scrapped in the Forbidden Prison in the Ruined City?"

Mingji didn't know how to explain this stolen [core] for a moment, and he mumbled something that only he could hear.

Chu Xiuyan translated: "How about we kill this guy now? That will also prevent them from secretly using the core to do bad things."

Mingji: "What kind of translation is this?"

However, to their surprise, Zhang Chun's reaction was very calm. He directly skipped the question of how the [Core] came from the Forbidden Prison to Ming Ji's hands, and then how it was stolen and buried by the young man, and entered the search phase.

"Since we are going back the same way, we have to change direction."

Chu Xiuyan heard Zhang Chun's peaceful voice, and then turned the steering wheel, seemingly heading in a different direction from before.

He leaned against the car window, and the wind blew on his face, but he didn't want to move back to the car. He just stood there in the wind. After an unknown amount of time, Zhang Chun, who was driving in front, suddenly asked again: "Yun Yan, do you remember? Where did you bury the core?"

Chu Xiuyan's vague voice seemed very weak in the howling wind.

"My brain is as small as a goldfish. I can't remember too many things."

"What bullshit are you talking about? Are you blown by the wind? Are you out of your mind? You're not normal." Ming Ji raised his hand speechlessly and waved it out of the car window. The strong wind that was blowing and hurting his cheeks just weakened.

Chu Xiuyan cheered excitedly: "Wuhu! Resurrection!"

As time went by, they gradually approached the forest area.

When the lush green forest came into view again, and when my feet stepped into the soft and moist soil, a nostalgic and familiar smell came over me at a terrifying speed.

Chu Xiuyan almost cried out from the bottom of his heart:

"——I haven't climbed a tree in a long time!!"

Mingji, who got off the car a step late, took off his sunglasses and watched the black-haired boy climb up the tree with a more flexible posture than that of an ordinary human, shuttle between the branches, grab the vines and leap through the forest to cheer. Just a blink of an eye, the boy's figure disappeared from his sight, and he could only hear the loud cheers coming from all directions and the sound of birds flying up due to the noise.

"Like a monkey."

Ming spoke very frankly.

Zhang Chun: "You'd better pray that he doesn't hear you, otherwise?..."

Before he finished speaking, he bent down skillfully, and a dark shadow coming from a distance instantly hit Mingji's head.

"What is that...?"

It's a honeycomb.

A swarm of buzzing bees was approaching quickly from high in the sky not far away.

Mingji's face was suddenly filled with fear, and he turned around and ran away while shouting, "It's only been a short time. Where did you pick the beehive from?!"

Zhang Chun dodged the swarm of bees chasing Ming Ji, and felt the fresh air of the forest. He couldn't help but relax and began to slowly look for the boy's hidden [Core].

Why did this [Core] that was supposed to be scrapped end up in Mingji's hands? He probably had some guesses? The most common one was that someone in the Forbidden Prison of the Ruined City was secretly helping [Wild Dog], and at that time, there were only a few people in the Forbidden Prison who had the time and authority to send the [Core] away...

"Uncle, look!"

Suddenly, a voice sounded overhead. Zhang Chun looked up and saw Chu Xiuyan, who had come back at some point, squatting on a tree branch, with something struggling in his arms...

boom!

Zhang Chun was so fierce that he dodged to the side, and then a black shadow slammed heavily into his original position at a terrifying speed.

It was a carnivorous plant, with red petals nearly half a meter long and a circle of densely packed sharp teeth at the stamen. It was biting a mouthful of soil at this moment, spitting it out with disgust, twisting in the air with its teeth and claws bared, ready to move towards Zhang Chun.

Zhang Chun's eyelids twitched.

The black-haired boy squatting on the tree branch, holding the roots of the man-eating plant in his arms, wiped the tears from his eyes with emotion and said happily: "Uncle, Huahua is actually playing with you! It hated me before and kept trying to bite me, but it's just like raising a pet, you have to tame it first..."

Gaba.

The earth spikes rising from the ground pierced the carnivorous plant in half without hesitation.

Zhang Chun jumped onto the tree, picked up the black-haired boy who was crying and shouting "Huahua! My Huahua" and said earnestly: "What will the black dog at the entrance of the village think if you take the Piranha Plant back? It will think that you have been looking for a new pet outside and that is why you have not been back for so long. It will die of loneliness."

A boy who only howls but doesn't cry? He paused, pinched his chin and thought: "That makes sense. Should I go back? I should talk to him. I can't make the mistake of racial discrimination."

Zhang Chun: “…”

Although? It seemed that there was a problem with communication, fortunately? I was able to suppress the boy?s idea of continuing to pick up strange things and return to the village.

After a lot of noise, Zhang Chun found the [core] hidden by the boy.

Buried under a big tree.

It was wrapped tightly with cloth because the forest had been raining a lot during this period and was filled with the stench of decay.

When Zhang Chun handed it over, Chu Xiuyan pinched his nose and made a "go away" sound in disgust.

Mingji finally came back at this time, with a bite on his face and messy hair. He took it away aggressively? Zhang Chun untied the cloth in his hand and saw what was inside, and he was relieved.

He waved his hand and said, "Okay, okay, it's time for us to say goodbye. Let's go back..."

"Dog Erji, don't talk."

Chu Xiuyan suddenly interrupted Mingji's words, and his previous lively and cheerful expression was swept away. He became a little serious and kept looking around, as if he had discovered something unusual.

"You're not trying to trick me on purpose, are you?" Ming Ji looked at him warily but still lowered his voice.

"No, I heard a lot of horse hoof sounds, which was very strange, but there was absolutely no movement around."

Chu Xiuyan really didn't lie this time. He heard the sound of horse hooves coming from all directions, becoming clearer and clearer. However, it seemed that Zhang Chun and Ming Ji didn't hear it.

[Is this an auditory hallucination? Is it? ]

System: [Aba, I didn’t detect any horses around.]

Chu Xiuyan suddenly became nervous and quickly took two steps towards Zhang Chun.

Zhang Chun also realized that his reaction didn't seem fake.

However……

"I didn't hear any horse hoof sounds, and through sensing the ground, there were no horse-like creatures around. Yunyan, are you okay?"

The wind around was still normal, the small animals in the tree branches showed no abnormal reaction, the ground did not shake, and there was no hidden danger warning.

Zhang Chun waved to the young man to come closer, but the other party did not move.

Chu Xiuyan still heard the sound of horse hooves approaching from all directions, and swallowed nervously, "Um, uncle, I feel..."

Getting closer, closer...

Goosebumps suddenly appeared on my skin, and a chill suddenly appeared on my right side.

Ming Ji suddenly said in a stern voice: "Yun Yan, be careful behind you!"

The soft breeze turned into a cold blade and fiercely stabbed at the black-haired boy's back.

A naked arm with healthy skin color appeared from the void, dodging the wind blade, and decisively grabbed Chu Xiuyan and lifted him up high.

A long and loud neigh suddenly sounded.

A tall and agile white horse leaped out of the void, and its entire body quickly appeared from the head, exposing the man on the horse to the air. It was a tall man with a naked, muscular upper body, exuding a wild aura. However, what was surprising was that there was a donkey head cover on his neck, which looked weird and mysterious.

The man who suddenly appeared picked up Chu Xiuyan and threw him on the horse's back, and then completely ignored Zhang Chun's cold expression and Ming Ji's angry face. He pulled the reins lightly, and the white horse galloped away like a flash of lightning, jumping high over the countless earth spikes that protruded violently from the ground, and then drilled into another space between the palm-like earth walls on both sides, and disappeared into the air in an instant.

boom!

The earth walls trying to catch the white horse slammed into each other heavily, raising large clouds of dust.

“Ahhh I actually? I was kidnapped! Uncle, help me—”

There was also a faint sound of a boy? A cry for help with fear but suppressed joy floating in the air.

"No? Stabbed? Unable to touch? Not a physical entity?!"

Zhang Chun's expression was particularly ugly. It seemed that there were no relevant records of the white horse that could travel through space and ignore physical attacks in the ruined city.

Mingji also guessed the origin of the villain who had just robbed people: "Fuck, why would the sea people come to the land?!"

"Do you guys [Wild Dogs] have a way to pull the white horse back to reality from the void?"

Ming Ji shook his head: "That is another time and space. Unless there is a rule-based supernatural being here... So that bastard took Yun Yan away? What for?"

Take away? Reason? .

Zhang Chun recalled the many secrets of the young man, his expression became more and more solemn, and he said in a cold voice: "Yun Yan mentioned that he heard many horse hoof sounds, which means that the nearby sea creatures are not only the one just now. They avoided the battle and only took Yun Yan away, which means there is still a chance to save him. I will think of a way to contact this group of people. If verbal negotiations are useless..."

Their original war preparations against the desert were just about to be put to use.

…

"So you brought this kid in? What for in the dream world? Lady Elaine said that we should negotiate with the outside world with a friendly attitude. If you destroy Lady Elaine's plan, you will die."

A man wearing a white mask riding a similar white horse quickly came to the man in the donkey mask and warned him in a very unpleasant tone.

The man wearing the donkey hood scratched the rough hood fabric, pointed at the black-haired boy lying on the horse's back like a corpse, and sighed: "No, didn't you notice? This kid is carrying a sacred tree on his back... Shit!"

Chu Xiuyan, who had been pretending to be a corpse without any reaction, suddenly jumped up, held the horse's back and kicked the man in the donkey headgear to the ground.

There was a hazy white mist all around. Countless mysterious people riding white horses stopped moving forward. The sound of horse hooves was getting closer and closer. They were surrounding the area where Chu Xiuyan and the man with the donkey mask were moving.

"I understand! You are here just for my souvenirs! A bunch of villains! Robbers! Bad guys!"

Chu Xiuyan clenched the reins tightly, his eyes lit up with angry red light, and he swung the reins with all his strength. The white horse that originally belonged to the man in the donkey head mask let out a long neigh and galloped in the original direction without hesitation.

The man in the donkey mask who was kicked to the ground stared blankly at the black-haired boy? He rode away on his horse.

"Aina——"

The companion who had warned him earlier rode a white horse and slowly paced beside him, mocking him lightly: "Tsk, you can't even take your own horse? You're really a waste after it was robbed."

The man in the donkey mask simply sat cross-legged on the ground. "You are the one who is being stupid. You can touch the branches of the sacred tree, you can control the dream horse, and you are in the forest... these three elements are enough."

The mysterious people gathered around raised their heads and looked at the direction the young man left. They said in unison: "We have found the key person."

at the same time.

In the forest, Zhang Chun and Ming Ji were preparing to go to the ruined city to find a way to contact the sea people. At this moment, the sound of horse hooves suddenly sounded behind them.

A very familiar white horse leaped out of thin air, and on its back was the black-haired boy who surprised them? His face was filled with an excited and bright smile.

"Look! I'm back from the robbery—"

"Oh my god! How did you snatch their dream horse?!" Mingji shouted in disbelief.

Zhang Chun let out a long breath, looked at the boy with sparkling eyes, relaxed, smiled, and said, "Welcome back, and well done."