Chapter 130

Just as Su Jing's laser gun warmed up to a pale red light, the entrance to Lingcao Valley was blocked by a cacophony of footsteps—

Ten men dressed in U.S. mission uniforms surrounded her in a semi-circle. The burly man at the head of the group had broad shoulders and a flame tattoo on his left arm. He gripped a rusty metal knife, the tip of which was pointed directly at Su Jing's backpack.

The voice was hoarse and greedy: "'I'm the God of Wealth,' right? Hand over the spiritual herbs and monster eggs in your space, and explain your monster contract method clearly, and I'll spare your life!"

The nine people behind him immediately cooperated, with three of them holding fire-based ability devices pulling the triggers. Pale red flames danced on the muzzles of the guns, exuding a strong sense of threat.

The two earth-elemental ability users raised their hands and pressed them to the ground. Brown energy ripples spread along the layer of decaying leaves, and half-meter-high earthen walls began to form at the exits on both sides of the Spirit Herb Valley, clearly intending to block her escape route.

The remaining four people, gripping metal daggers, slowly approached the center, their eyes filled with covetousness—their communicators had clearly detected the dense energy fluctuations of spiritual herbs within Su Jing's space.

Su Jing remained calm, her fingertips quietly swiping across the communicator as she quickly analyzed the situation: Although the enemy outnumbered her, their abilities were mixed (most of their fire-type abilities were low-level, and their earth-type abilities had weak defenses), and their coordination was loose, clearly indicating that they were a hastily assembled team to steal supplies.

Her advantage lies in her diverse abilities and the cooperation of Xiao Jin. A direct confrontation is unnecessary; disrupting their plans with external forces is the optimal solution. She immediately focused her consciousness into the space and gently called to Xiao Jin, who was curled up and dozing beside the pile of spirit herbs: "Xiao Jin, wake up. If we need help from ferocious beasts, three will be enough."

The little goldfish in the space instantly perked up, its short golden fur twitched, and its black eyes shone like two black grapes. It squeaked twice at the space's light membrane, and even scratched at the nearby Qi-gathering grass seeds with its paws—clearly remembering the method of using spirit herbs to lure beasts.

Su Jing smiled knowingly and silently said "Release". A light blue spatial light membrane lit up at her feet, and Xiao Jin darted out with a handful of Qi-gathering grass seeds in its mouth. When it landed, it didn't forget to rub its paw against her trouser leg, as if to confirm the mission.

"There are three Earth-Splitting Wolves 100 meters to the northwest. Lure them over with the seed, but don't get too close." Su Jing lowered her voice, releasing a faint trace of lightning-based energy from her fingertips—

A pale purple lightning bolt danced on her fingertip, neither alerting the American team nor failing to allow Xiao Jin to clearly perceive the direction.

Little Gold nodded, picked up the seed, and darted northwest. Its short legs dug fine marks on the decaying leaves, moving twice as fast as usual. Simultaneously, a message popped up on its communicator: "Little Gold has locked onto 3 Tier 1 Earth-Splitting Wolves and is guiding them with spirit herb seeds. They are expected to arrive in 1 minute."

"What the hell are you trying to do by releasing a mouse? Buy time?"

Seeing that Su Jing didn't move and instead let the little beast escape, the burly man in the lead angrily swung his knife at a nearby dead tree, snapping the trunk in two with a "crack." "Earth element, quickly build a wall! Fire element, prepare to attack, don't let her try anything funny!"

The two earth-elemental ability users immediately increased their energy output, and the earthen walls on both sides quickly grew to 1.5 meters high, leaving only the valley entrance as an exit, which was completely blocked by the four knife-wielding men.

The guns of the three fire-type ability users were pointed at Su Jing, and the pale red flames had already shot out half an inch, just one step away from pulling the trigger.

Just then, a sharp wolf howl came from afar—three grayish Earth-Splitting Wolves rushed over along Xiao Jin's route. Each of them was 1.2 meters long, with bared fangs and drool dripping onto the decaying leaves. Their eyes were fixed on the Qi-Gathering Grass seed that Xiao Jin was carrying (although Earth-Splitting Wolves are fierce, they are obsessed with spiritual herbs).

Seeing this, Xiao Jin suddenly threw the seed at the feet of the American team, turned around and darted towards Su Jing, not forgetting to howl twice at the Earth-Splitting Wolf, as if to say "the prey is here".

Seeing the seed fall at the burly man's feet, the Earth-Splitting Wolf's eyes instantly turned red. The lead wolf pounced, biting the man's left arm. Its sharp fangs pierced through his uniform, and the man screamed in pain. The metal knife in his hand clattered to the ground, and his fire-type ability malfunctioned, spewing out a flame that burned the hem of an earth-type ability user nearby.

"Damn it! Are you blind?!" The earth-type ability user panicked and withdrew his energy, causing a section of the earthen wall that was only half-formed to collapse with a "crash."

The remaining American team was in complete chaos: someone tried to help the strong man pull away the Earth-Splitting Wolves, but was pounced on by another wolf and fell to the ground, instantly getting several bloody marks on his arm; someone held up a fire-type ability device to burn the wolves, but didn't aim properly, and the flames sprayed onto his companion's backpack.

Some tried to run towards the valley entrance, but a third wolf blocked their way, leaving them only able to wildly swing their daggers. Throughout the entire Spirit Herb Valley, wolf howls, screams, and explosions caused by uncontrolled supernatural abilities mingled together, creating utter chaos.

Seizing the opportunity, Su Jing immediately activated her invisibility ability—a pale blue energy membrane instantly enveloped her body, making her almost invisible in the sunlight, and even her shadow was blocked by the energy membrane.

She quickly checked the space: the spirit herb cultivation area and the monster egg area were encrypted with "lock mode", so even if they were detected, they could not be taken out;

Then, activate the flight wing membrane. The pale blue wing membrane only emits a very faint halo in stealth mode. Gently lift your feet off the ground, maintain a height of 2 meters, and move quickly in the southeast direction (the previously marked safe zone, with no trace of ferocious beasts or mission participants).

"Don't let her get away! She's gone invisible!"

An American mission member noticed that Su Jing's position was empty and hurriedly shouted, but was bitten on the calf by a splitting wolf and could no longer chase after the person.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Su Jing increased her flight speed to 50 kilometers per hour, and didn't forget to use her spatial ability to retrieve the Qi-gathering grass seeds that had fallen to the ground.

She couldn't leave them anything they could use. Occasionally, a few stray flames would come after her, and she would release a weak lightning-based ability. Small, pale purple lightning bolts would land at the feet of the pursuers. Although they didn't hurt anyone, they forced them to stay away and watch helplessly as she disappeared into the depths of the forest.

After flying for about 2 kilometers, Su Jing landed next to a dense thicket of ferns—this was a safe zone that had been previously explored, and there were no energy fluctuations within 15 meters around it.

She deactivated her invisibility and flight wing membrane, squatted down with Little Gold in her arms, and gently stroked its head with her fingertips: "Thank you for your hard work. I left you the best Qi-gathering Grass seeds."

Xiao Jin squinted comfortably, nuzzled her palm, and the favorability progress bar of "Xiao Jin" on the communicator increased from "80% intimacy" to "90% intimacy". A pop-up message appeared: "[The contracted monster "Xiao Jin" has increased its dependence on you and can share more perception (such as the traces of ferocious beasts within 150 meters)]".

Su Jing leaned against an ancient tree, glanced at the countdown timer on the communicator [Remaining time: 18 hours and 35 minutes], and checked the supplies in her space again: the spiritual herbs were piled up to the brim, the three green deer eggs were lying peacefully in the constant temperature zone, and the spiritual herb seeds she had left behind were still in Xiao Jin's exclusive corner.

After confirming that there was no danger around, she took a deep breath.