Nan Xian's words, "100%", greatly surprised both of them.

The first leader, in particular, who had actually fought the boar beast face to face, almost had "Are you kidding me?" written all over his face.

Nan Xian herself didn't think she had said anything wrong. That was just the truth. She didn't even need to do anything. They just ran away on their own. Wasn't that a 100% chance of winning?

Huo Shaoying, who had personally witnessed her utterly crushing Linghu Sheng, was the first to accept. Suppressing her excitement and elation, she cautiously asked, "Are you really willing to help us find the Barbarian Song Flower in the Border Forest?"

Nan Xian nodded, "Of course."

Even without this incident, she would still have gone there—Nan Xian knew that the fragments she had just seen must be memories from her past life. Before this, she had never suddenly recalled them like this before; she had mostly only occasionally dreamt of reliving the past.

This must be the soul fragment guiding her!

**

With a 100% chance of winning, the three of them quickly got to work.

Time waits for no one; every minute of delay increases the danger to Ruizhu.

After a heated discussion, the three finally reached an agreement—the first leader would stay at the mansion to deal with the aftermath of the Shixi Tower incident, mainly to clean up the mess left by that damned Linghu Sheng, and then pry out from him where his strange demonic energy and evil magic came from.

Huo Shaoying led a team of twenty guards and set off with Nan Xian.

Of course, they couldn't just set off so casually. After all, the person who orchestrated Situ Xuan's kidnapping and the use of the Gu poison hadn't been caught yet. Who knew if they had already set up an ambush, just waiting for them to "walk into the trap"?

So they disguised themselves, went in groups of two or three, and entered the border forest at different times, pretending to be "smugglers," and then met at the agreed location.

Huo Shaoying spent almost all of her first sixteen years growing up in the border forest. She knew the terrain there very well. In a sense, it was her home turf. As long as they entered the border forest, they would win.

However, even with all their caution, an unexpected situation still occurred.

Nearly two-thirds of their guards perished on the way in.

According to the only guard who witnessed the incident and narrowly escaped, when they quietly broke through the barrier, a group of people dressed in Special Administration uniforms suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Without warning, they accused them of "damaging border security and stealing state secrets" and tried to arrest them.

They outnumbered the enemy and were armed, so they took the initiative and killed the resisting guards on the spot. It was no use for the others to identify themselves. When they said they were the leader's men, the human leaders just sneered, then ordered their mouths to be gagged, and after they were stunned by electric shocks, they were tied up and taken away.

Before this incident, she was keeping watch for her teammates when she suddenly noticed a large flock of birds taking flight from the woods not far away. Sensing something was wrong and suspecting there was someone there, she went over alone to investigate.

As soon as she left, the group surrounded her teammates.

Now, including Nan Xian and Huo Shaoying, the team only has nine people left.

Huo Shaoying's expression was very unpleasant. "The Special Administration Department? It's them again... Could it be that what happened these past few days is related to them?"

When Ruizhu was kidnapped, she did have her suspicions about the Special Administration, but she quickly dismissed them. The Special Administration had a conflict with the former First Leader, and after the current First Leader took office, he took the initiative to propose to the Special Administration to restore relations between the two sides. The other side's representative readily agreed. The two sides had just discussed restoring the Special Administration's security passage not long ago, so there was no need for them to deliberately create conflict at this time.

Nan Xian was also listening to their conversation and offered her opinion: "Perhaps it is precisely because they know that you are discussing cooperation with the Special Administration that those forces that do not want you to restore peaceful relations deliberately disguise themselves as officers of the Special Administration to provoke new conflicts between you and the Special Administration and sabotage your cooperation."

"That's not impossible." Huo Shaoying nodded.

After discussing it further, the two set off as dawn broke.

The border forest is vast, and indeed, it is fraught with danger.

With Huo Shaoying by her side, Nan Xian wasn't worried about any danger. Her goal was the final boss, the Boar Beast, and she could leave the smaller monsters to them.

Along the way, one often witnessed some truly comical scenes—

Three or four guards, armed with weapons, were dealing with a massive, three-meter-tall pustular rat. Several other guards stood ready, poised to finish it off at any moment. Not far away stood two women, one with fiery red hair and the other with jet-black hair. The red-haired woman held up something resembling a camera and snapped away at the rat, while the black-haired woman calmly explained to her the rat's characteristics, habits, attack methods, and how to deal with it if she encountered it alone in the wild... It was like a live-streamed tutorial.

They learned as they went, and on the evening of the third day, they finally arrived at the valley.

Without Huo Shaoying needing to say more, when Nan Xian climbed to the top of the mountain and vaguely saw the barren, almost green land on the hillside below, she knew that it must have been the work of those boars.

She couldn't help but frown, clicking her tongue inwardly: "This is outrageous! What did those little flowers, grass, and trees do to you? Why do you have to trample them all? Not give them any chance to live?"

Looking again at the exposed yellowish-brown soil, she thought, "Without plant roots to connect and support it, and after so long exposed to wind and sun, the soil's internal structure has long since become loose. A heavy rainstorm will surely trigger a landslide, burying the valley."

At that time, having lost their habitat, the boar beasts will inevitably migrate to other places and wreak havoc once again...

This is a vicious cycle. If the boar beast is not eliminated, it will eventually reach a point where it cannot be saved, and the human world will likely suffer as well.

The boars are usually nocturnal and more aggressive at night, so the nine of them set up camp on the mountaintop, planning to launch a surprise attack on the boars' base camp early the next morning.

That night, Nan Xian tossed and turned in the tent, unable to fall asleep, so she simply got up and put on her clothes.

Once she stepped out of the tent, she realized that she wasn't the only one having trouble sleeping.

Huo Shaoying was sitting by the campfire. Hearing the sound, she turned her head, saw it was her, smiled, and turned the fire a little brighter.

Nan Xian sat down next to her.

"Something on your mind?"

Huo Shaoying nodded, pursed her lips, hesitated for a moment, and then voiced her concerns: "I think... the Mange Flower is probably really extinct."

In fact, anyone who has seen the desolate and bleak scene at the bottom of the valley would not believe that any plants could survive there. Perhaps one or two "chosen wild grasses" might survive in the cracks, but it is almost impossible for such a rare and fragile plant as the Mange Flower to survive.