The Eve of the Blood Moon (Part 3)

Ye Miaomiao was completely unaware of the sudden events in the territory. At this moment, she was standing in front of the magnificent ancient tomb ruins with Fang Yan and others.

It was only two or three in the afternoon, but the sky was already pitch black, dotted with dense stars.

The blue-purple aurora spanned most of the sky, and three huge stars alternated at the end of the aurora, so huge that they seemed to be about to collide with the top of the ruins.

Ye Miaomiao, Fang Yan and sixteen others climbed up a thousand-meter-high staircase under the light of the stars. Many parts of the pure white stones had broken into pieces and fallen off the cliff, leaving only one-third of the area walkable. The pillars on both sides looked like they would collapse at the slightest wind.

The steps at the foot of the mountain were shrouded in thick, dark fog, and the howling of wolves could be faintly heard behind me.

This is clearly not a territory, or even any normal land outside of a territory.

This is a special public territory, the "Sacred Tomb of Mara in the Sky," located in the central public area. It and another public territory, the "Buried Ant Tribe's Treasure Cave," are known as the two most dangerous places in the central area during the primitive era.

But misfortune and fortune are interdependent, it is said to be a dangerous place, but in fact it is also a blessed place.

Although the territory is filled with monsters that constantly respawn, as long as you open the dangerous area and reach the end, you will receive a treasure chest, as well as additional experience and achievements. In layman's terms, these two places are dungeons.

When Ye Miaomiao saw that Mission 2 required 20 Level 3 security guards, he set his sights on the Holy Tomb of Mara.

Veteran expedition members can smoothly transfer to become level 3 security guards.

However, the new members who had participated in guard missions, although their strength and other attributes were sufficient, lacked a lot of experience points and were still a long way from becoming Level 3 security guards. Not to mention the eight new recruits who were temporarily recruited to complete the 20 Level 3 security guards, who were even further behind.

"The eight new recruits we just recruited are only level one. To be promoted to level three security guards, at least..." Ye Miaomiao and Fang Yan walked side by side, muttering, "One hundred plus eighty. We're not lucky. Even if each dungeon gives thirty experience points..."

Fang Yan held her arm very gentlemanly and helped her climb the one-meter-high steps.

Seeing that Ye Miaomiao was absent-minded and kept counting, Fang Yan couldn't help feeling helpless.

He was still thinking about how to get Ye Miaomiao to concentrate on walking, when he suddenly saw a stone being kicked away, and Ye Miaomiao's body tilted and suddenly leaned forward -

"careful!"

Fang Yan's heart skipped a beat, his hands tightened, and he quickly held her arm tightly.

In just a blink of an eye, their breaths intertwined, and then quickly separated.

Ye Miaomiao was held firmly, feeling nothing. She only hummed a few times perfunctorily when someone spoke in her ear. It was unclear whether her mind was working properly, but she couldn't stop counting the numbers she had just counted on her fingers: "One hundred and eight divided by thirty, six times..."

Fang Yan quickly leaned back to create some distance, perhaps because he felt that he was about to bend down.

Hearing the laughter of the new security guards behind him, Fang Yan's heart suddenly started beating abnormally fast. He was a little worried that the people behind him might see something.

What worries me more is...

At this moment, his hand was tightly clasped on Ye Miaomiao's slender arm.

Fang Yan watched the blue-purple aurora color fall on the fair side of her face. The gentle and dreamy light cast a layer of film on that face. Fang Yan felt that this color was the same as him. He inexplicably wanted to get closer to the person, but was blocked by some things, such as the fuzz on her face.

Then his heart skipped a beat, and all the lessons he had just thought of, such as watching where you walk, were forgotten in an instant. Instead, he blushed fiercely, as if he had done something wrong.

"If...that would have to be eight times..." Ye Miaomiao murmured, completely unaware.

So... serious.

A hint of smile appeared in Fang Yan's eyes, and he sighed. He stiffened his entire arm, then slowly relaxed the grip on his fingers, allowing his hand to return to its "gentleman's hand" state.

——After a moment, I just breathed a sigh of relief.

"Are you tired?"

The voice came from above his head, and Ye Miaomiao suddenly turned around and asked.

She... Fang Yan's stiff hands trembled, and before he could form a sentence in his mind, he was about to explain and reply when he heard the team members behind him shouting breathlessly in unison -

"It's okay! Boss!"

Looking at Ye Miaomiao again, she was indeed looking over his shoulder at the group of people behind her.

Really... Fang Yan was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

"Rest for a while, equip your weapons and prepare to enter the Holy Tomb of Mara. I have received the notification to open the dungeon."

Ye Miaomiao took out her level 3 armor and bow from her backpack and equipped herself with them. After organizing her thoughts, she finalized her plan.

As a non-African outside the territory, she has no interest in the fourth or fifth level god-level weapons that come out of the treasure chest, a fact that cannot be changed even by spending money.

She came with only one goal - to upgrade everyone to at least level three security through additional experience and achievements.

Fortunately, the Holy Tomb of Mara is at the primitive level. A team that can gather 18 people and have iron weapons is far beyond this level, and they should be able to pass the level quickly.

"Don't you have any water?"

Finally reaching the finish line, everyone was thirsty.

Seeing that the team members around him started to drink water guzzlingly, Fang Yan stood aside with an expressionless face, his dark pupils looking at the romantic aurora in the sky, and no one knew what he was thinking.

Ye Miaomiao took out her gourd cup from her backpack, uncorked it, and handed it to Fang Yan.

"Drink water."

Fang Yan saw a thin layer of sweat on her forehead and knew that she must be tired, so he did not answer: "You drink."

He also packed some snacks in his backpack. He knew she would be tired today, so he could take them out if she was hungry.

However, Ye Miaomiao didn't say she was hungry. Instead, she apologized, "Thank you for supporting me for so long. Otherwise, it would have been very difficult for me to climb up. If I left you without water, it would be my fault."

He stuffed the gourd bottle in his hand into Fang Yan's hand.

Fang Yan looked at Ye Miaomiao, who was panting slightly and looked like she was short of water, and firmly refused: "You drink it, I have it."

Ye Miaomiao looked at her hesitantly, and simply stood still, waiting for Fang Yan to bring out the water.

The air was silent for a while.

Fang Yan felt a little embarrassed and racked his brain for words. Suddenly, he remembered what Ye Miaomiao had asked him before, so he said, "I'm supporting you because they can't do it."

——So you don’t have to worry about me being tired. It was understandable that I asked them if they were tired before.

Ye Miaomiao thought about the relationship between this sentence and drinking water, but came to a completely opposite conclusion.

——I can do it, so I don’t need to drink water to climb such high stairs. They can’t, so they need to drink water to replenish their water so urgently, including...her Ye Miaomiao.

Ye Miaomiao: “…”Okay, she can’t.

She silently withdrew her hand, raised the bottle high, took her mouth away from the bottle and took two sips, then put the lid back on and stuffed it into Fang Yan's hand.

"drink."

Turned around to take care of the new team members.

Fang Yan was stunned for a moment, looking down at the bottle in his hand...

She looked unhappy.

The attributes of the new team members are not particularly good. In fact, Ye Miaomiao is already very grateful to have eight new team members.

Because she specifically stated during recruitment that the blood moon was coming, new team members had to take on special guarding tasks and had to work intensively with her to clear dungeons and raise their professional level to level three.

They thought they would have to wait a long time, but these people still stubbornly signed up.

In their words – “We believe in territory!”

Ye Miaomiao: Tears in my eyes.

"Okay! According to the previous plan, we'll split into two groups, four veterans and four newcomers. We'll take turns, with one veteran leading one newcomer, and the veterans will keep an eye on the newcomers' condition!"

"We have a lot of people and good equipment, so don't worry too much, but don't relax too much either!"

"yes!"

"Ready, start the dungeon!"

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At this moment, inside the Hungry Hungry territory, the gathered crowd did not disperse, but instead grew in number.

When Zhang Jiajia came back from dinner, he saw Fang Zhiyong surrounded by a group of people, shouting something loudly, and the people around him were talking to each other. He was almost scared.

He didn't know that Ye Miaomiao had already written something related to the "blood moon" in the recruitment information. Firstly, he was afraid that Fang Zhiyong's nonsense would cause panic, and secondly, he was afraid that these people... would be scared.

Blood Moon... Zhang Jiajia shuddered at the mere thought of what Fang Zhiyong had said. If these people were frightened by the Blood Moon, wouldn't there be any riots or panic?

Zhang Jiajia was in tears.

The boss went out to prepare for the blood moon and said goodbye to him before leaving. But he was careless and left Fang Zhiyong here alone... What should he do if something happened!

However, when Zhang Jiajia trotted over anxiously, he heard unexpected words.

"Yes, I came from the neighboring territory. I can make an analysis by comparison. I believe in the strength of our territory. How could it be defeated so easily by a special mission? The only thing that worries me is that damned Lord Yu."

"He Feixiang, and now Lord Yu, why are they targeting our Hungry Hungry Territory? They're as disgusting as dung beetles, so stinky!"

"What did you say! Dung beetle pusher!" A person next to him shouted.

The one who mentioned dung beetle fell silent instantly.

Someone said, "But the first half of his sentence is also right. If the dung beetle really pushed its shit over here, we would definitely be disgusted!"

This statement immediately aroused the approval of others. It was really... The saying that the dung beetle pushes shit to disgust people was disgusting and extremely vivid at the same time. It was truly faithful, expressive and elegant to the extreme!

Zhang Jiajia walked over with a dull face, and saw the eyes of the people who supported the dung beetle light up, as if they had seen something delicious.

"Chef Zhang!" Everyone seemed to have found their backbone, and hurriedly left the crazy Fang Zhiyong and rushed towards him.

"Chef Zhang! What do you think we should do? Yu Chao is determined to disgust us. What can we do?"

"Yes, yes, we can't just sit there and wait for death! You were one of the first employees and are closest to the lord, and now the lord is away. Tell me, what can we do to protect our territory and prevent that...what-"

"Yeah! What can we do to prevent dung beetles?"

Zhang Jiajia: "..."

He swallowed hard: "You...you're not afraid?"