Chapter 44 The Scented Little Female Master

The usually calm mechanical voice was unusually crazy.

Shen Jinxi felt anxious, "Could it be another family that did this?"

[System: No, there are only three of you families. What's going on?]

Hearing the system's question, Shen Jinxi couldn't contain her anger, "Are you the system or am I the system? You can even find the bug in the Star Terminal, so how come you can't find the person who killed the Poison Scorpion?"

[System: Please, if I could do everything, I would have become a Star Ruler long ago. This vulnerability has cost me a lot of energy, and I can't find who caused it yet.]

When the mechanical voice responded, it was sharp and piercing, followed by a burst of electric current sound.

Only Shen Jinxi could hear the system's voice. She covered her ears in pain, feeling dizzy from the noise.

"I was wrong, please stop screaming!" Shen Jinxi frowned in pain and quickly calmed the system down.

The sharp voice stopped abruptly, and then no matter what Shen Jinxi said, the system did not respond and disappeared again.

Shen Jinxi sat on the sleeping bag and realized that she had to prepare for both situations. She fell into deep thought and soon set her sights on Zuo Ya.

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The next day, the sun rose earlier on High Temperature Island than on the Beast World Continent. At four in the morning, the sky was already turning pale and the Milky Way had dissipated.

Sang Tian woke up with her eyes open, sat up and the first thing she did was to check the zipper of the tent, which was still in the same position as last night.

She crawled out of her sleeping bag. It was only six in the morning, and the temperature had already reached thirty degrees.

Sang Tian changed her clothes and went out, wearing a waist-length short-sleeved shirt with loose overalls to protect her thighs from insects or sunburn. She felt a burning sensation on her skin yesterday, so she didn't dare to wear anything short today.

The fire that was lit last night had long been extinguished, and only Wu Lanyuan was outside.

"Good morning." Sang Tian came out of the tent and greeted him.

Wu Lanyuan raised his eyes and glanced at her calmly, "Well, good morning."

Sang Tian rubbed his forearms to ease the embarrassment, and instantly felt less hot. The tone of the other party was quite cold.

She found a place to sit down, cleared her throat strategically, and prepared to formulate an explanation.

"You don't need to explain the matter of space to me. I'm not very interested in your affairs." Wu Lanyuan saw Sang Tian's hesitant look and expressed his opinion directly.

With this said, Sang Tian's previous actions seemed extremely unnecessary, and she felt that she was being too sentimental.

"That's good." Sang Tian breathed a sigh of relief. He felt an invisible sense of oppression when he was with Wu Lanyuan, which made him feel breathless. "I'll go take a look around here."

The forest is not big. You can get out of it by walking about a hundred meters forward. The surrounding vegetation is not lush.

Wu Lanyuan was worried, "I'll go with you."

"It's okay, this forest is not big."

Wu Lanyuan ignored Sang Tian's refusal, stood up, and walked straight towards her, "Let's go."

Sang Tian had no choice but to bite the bullet and walk into the woods.

There are many dead branches and yellow grass in the forest, which make crisp breaking sounds when stepped on.

"Will there be more forests like this ahead?" Sang Tian looked at the endless desert.

Wu Lanyuan has a darker skin color and is stronger than the other four beast husbands, standing at 1.9 meters tall.

His golden pupils were dazzling in the sunlight, his eyebrows were sharp and his eyes were fierce, and he had a sense of alienation that kept strangers away.

"Yes, this is a progress point. There are three such forests for the challenge families to rest in. Once you complete them, you will pass the challenge."

Sang Tian withdrew his gaze and prepared to return the same way.

"Wait." He took a half step forward and protected Sang Tian behind him. He vaguely heard some movement around him. "It seems like there's something. Don't move."

She came out suddenly, without the Flame Bow, and was completely helpless.

Hiss——

After the two of them fell silent, a creepy sound appeared in the air. It was a snake spitting out its tongue.

Wu Lanyuan knew that snake-type orcs were very fast in movement. Without determining the target's location, he did not dare to act rashly and had to protect the people behind him.

The hissing sound surrounded the two of them, and the other party moved very quickly, making it impossible to determine their exact location.

Sang Tian tugged at the corner of Wu Lanyuan's clothes and asked softly, "Why do I feel like there's more than one?"

Wu Lanyuan sideways glanced at Sang Tian who was huddled behind him. He saw that her brows were furrowed and she looked worried. He inexplicably felt an unprecedented desire to protect her.

"More than that, you better be more careful. I might not be able to take care of you because of the number of people."

It's not that they can't take care of her, but they are worried about hurting her by mistake. The strange beasts in the Floating Islands will attack the female master first. In other words, they are typical bullies who only bully the weak and fear the strong.

"Okay, don't worry about me. If anything happens, I'll just go into the space and hide."

In the blink of an eye, a scimitar appeared in Wu Lanyuan's hand. He rushed forward, drew the knife with his right hand, snapped his wrist, and quickly threw the knife out.

The scimitar was thrown out and spun half a circle, returning to his hand in just three seconds.

All the grass and trees within the range of the scimitar's rotation were cut in half.

"Hiss, hiss, hiss—Interesting, a B-rank female master paired with an S-rank beast husband."

A strange beast with a human body and a snake tail appeared. It had a long red tongue and made a hissing sound when it spoke, along with the sound of its tail shaking.

The voice came from behind Sang Tian. The hissing sound made her scalp tingle and her back felt cold.

Sang Tian didn't dare to be dazed and ran away.

The moment she raised her leg, the snake's tail wrapped around her calf. The other party tightened its force, making it difficult for her to move, and the rattlesnake's tail was shaking.

"Fast forward into space."

Sang Tian was entangled so tightly that she found she couldn't enter the space. "No, I can't get in."

It was also through this time that she realized that entering space requires a safe and spacious place.

Wu Lanyuan remained calm and warned the other party, "Let her go, I will give you a chance to live."

"You haven't understood the situation yet. Your life is in my hands now. You should beg me to spare your life." The lower half of the rattlesnake was tightly wrapped around Sang Tian.

Wu Lanyuan's thin lips were filled with sarcasm. He tilted his head coldly and looked at the strange beast. He looked at it with disdain, "Just you?"

Words alone were not enough. The strange beast used its snake tail to bring Sang Tian to its front, and sniffed her scent closely, as if it was enjoying a delicacy.

"Such a fragrant little mistress, no wonder she found an S-rank beast husband."

Rattlesnake thought he had control over Wu Lanyuan's lifeblood, and his behavior became more and more arrogant.

Sang Tian's face wrinkled into a ball, with resistance written all over her face, especially when the snake on the other side was trying to lick her with its tongue. She could no longer bear it, and pulled her hand out with all her strength to tightly grasp the other party's tongue.

"Disgusting or not, are you a snake or a dog? Kill them if you want to. Since when has a rattlesnake killed its prey by making them sick to death?"

It was obvious that the other party did not expect Sang Tian to do this. He opened his bloody mouth and tried to intimidate her to let go.

Wu Lanyuan chuckled when he saw this scene, then he gripped the hilt of the knife tightly and chopped at the rattlesnake. His speed was so fast that an afterimage appeared.

The snake's tail wrapped around Sang Tian loosened, and her body fell down, but was caught by someone the next second.

She looked at the rattlesnake and found that its tail had been cut off by Wu Lanyuan. Blood was oozing out and the snake's tail was twitching on the ground.

The rattlesnake revealed its true form and scurried off into the desert at breakneck speed.

Wu Lanyuan put Sang Tian down and chased after him. He swung out the scimitar again, and the blade cut through the heat wave, forming a stream of air surrounding the knife, and soon landed on the sand pile in the distance.

The moment the tip of the knife hit the sand, a miserable scream was heard.

"Would you like to drink snake head soup?" Wu Lanyuan asked Sang Tian seriously, hesitating whether to go over and pick up the human head.

Sang Tian thought of the guy's head being boiled in a pot, and her stomach churned. She quickly covered her mouth and shook her head to refuse.

"No, don't take it back!"

When Wu Lanyuan came back, there was still rattlesnake blood on the scimitar, with the tip of the blade bleeding the most, and blood was still dripping down.

Sang Tian frowned, his face full of disgust. He looked at his palm with disgust, which was covered with rattlesnake saliva.

"How disgusting! Wait a minute, I'm going to wash my hands in the space."

Wu Lanyuan was stunned. Facing her hypocritical behavior, he did not feel disgusted. He nodded and said, "Then I'll wait for you outside."

When Sang Tian was about to go in, he noticed out of the corner of his eye that there was rattlesnake blood on Wu Lanyuan's hand, which he thought was from something he had just touched.

"Come in with me and wash yourself. His blood is on your hands."

Wu Lanyuan lowered his head and noticed that there was blood on the palm and back of his right hand. He had no wounds, so the blood could only be someone else's.

He wanted to refuse, but when he looked up and met Sang Tian's extremely disgusted gaze, he swallowed the words of refusal.

"Oh well."

Sang Tian grabbed Wu Lanyuan's hand with the hand that had touched the rattlesnake and led him into the space.

So far, all five beast husbands have entered her space, but Wu Lanyuan is the most calm. He didn't even look at them. He followed Sang Tian and washed his hands before leaving.

When the two of them left the space and walked back, Wu Lanyuan remembered what Rattlesnake said before he died.

"Your weak female master can even kidnap me. When you meet the new A-level poisonous scorpion, I don't believe she can escape."

Considering Sang Tian's self-esteem, Wu Lanyuan omitted the word "weak chicken".

Sang Tian had just washed her face in the space, and the water droplets on her face had not completely dried yet. Under the sunlight, she looked like a hibiscus flower after the rain, very delicate and beautiful.

A pair of bright and watery eyes looked at Wu Lanyuan, with only him in their eyes.

"I don't know either. Let's go back and discuss it." He looked away and lowered his head to the ground.

After seeing a touch of green on the ground, Wu Lanyuan frowned slightly and found that the dead grass had all come back to life, forming a green belt.

Wu Lanyuan looked up at Sang Tian and realized that this trajectory was the same route Sang Tian had taken.