"What else can we do if we don't run? Wait to die?"

The speaker was a middle-aged man, a stranger who had married into Xujia Village, named Wang Hetai.

"Why did they die?" Jiang Yuan asked with great interest, even though the monsters below were already fighting with people.

"My talent is psychic abilities. I learned some unknown things from a monster before!" Wang Hetai's face was very ugly.

"She has such talent!" Jiang Yuan and Ning Yanlan slowly approached, but the distance between them remained at more than ten meters.

"Do you know why we're holding Xujia Village even though we're only ten miles from Nancheng?" Wang Hetai asked, his face pale.

"Don't say it!" Another person in the group pulled Wang Hetai away.

"What's the point of not telling? Everyone's dying, what's the point of keeping a secret!"

Wang Hetai raised his voice a few decibels, and the others fell silent.

"On the first day the Golden Gate appeared, a Holy Spirit Fortress fell in Xu Family Village. At the time, all the villagers thought that heresy had occurred. In the first instance, they organized all the strong men in the village to kill a newly born Holy Spirit with tools. However, the Holy Spirit Fortress was not for a single Holy Spirit. After the first Holy Spirit died, the other Holy Spirits pulled it inside!"

"But do you know what core element that holy spirit that was killed lost?"

Wang Hetai seemed unable to believe the scene he had witnessed.

"A Radiant Gold Core?" Jiang Yuan said, referring to it as the highest-level core he knew of.

Wang Hetai shook his head.

"Could it be something else?" Ning Yanlan was also extremely curious.

“A crystal core!” Wang Hetai took a deep breath and said with a wry smile, “Afterwards, I used my psychic abilities to eavesdrop near the Holy Spirit Fortress and learned that the nascent Holy Spirit we killed was a Holy Spirit with King-level bloodline, who was also the master of that Holy Spirit Fortress!”

"Impossible, then why haven't I seen the Holy Spirit Fortress you mentioned?" Ning Yanlan searched the village. Xu Family Village only had a dozen or so households, there was simply no place to hide a fortress.

"Let me finish!"

Wang Hetai continued, "At first, we didn't know the value of that crystal core, but as monsters began to evolve, we realized that the world had completely changed! And coincidentally, I was the first one in Xu Family Village to awaken my spirit, and later I even used spirit communication to understand the rules of evolution!"

"As we learn more and more, we all want to get that crystal core, but after we killed one of the Holy Spirits, the Holy Spirit Fortress was sealed off. No one with a strength of less than twenty can break through the Holy Spirit Fortress's defenses!"

"Just as we were trying to obtain the crystal core, the hunters discovered Xu Family Village. After a fierce battle, we repelled them with considerable casualties, but fearing that the Holy Spirit Fortress would be exposed, we spent half a day surrounding it!"

As he spoke, Wang Hetai pointed to a house in the far distance that stood out from the other buildings, "That's it, with brick walls on all four sides and a thatched roof!"

“We send people to guard that place every day, but the Holy Spirit inside has become increasingly powerful in the past few days, and the people of Xujia Village are showing signs of being unable to subdue the Holy Spirit!”

"You were trying to discuss this matter at that old lecher's house yesterday?" Ning Yanlan then remembered what she had overheard yesterday, and one of them was talking about the Holy Spirit.

“Yes, I’ve tried to persuade them to leave many times, but the village chief and his ilk are too greedy. They won’t stop until they get that crystal core! And those children don’t know anything about it. The village chief uses the excuse of protecting their home to get them to stay in Xu Family Village, and that’s how they got them to obey!” Wang Hetai sighed. He was just an outsider and didn’t have any real power in the village. His only advantage was his psychic talent.

Jiang Yuan looked over and, sure enough, most of those who had fled were middle-aged men and women, while the rest were mostly teenagers, the elderly, women, and children.

“If you want to go back, then go back. Don’t stop us. We just want to live!” another person sighed.

“Yes, let’s keep going!” Wang Hetai shook his head, showing no sign of going back to help. After saying that, he led a group of people out of the mountains.

"cannot……"

Ning Yanlan was about to call out to them, but Jiang Yuan pulled her back, "Forget it, it's no use calling out to them. These people won't risk their lives to save others!"

Looking down at the village ravaged by monsters, Ning Yanlan released her lips, which had turned white from being bitten. "Let's go, let's go too! Everyone's life is precious!"

As she spoke, Ning Yanlan tried to pull Jiang Yuan away into the distance.

"When the nest is overturned, no egg remains intact. The world is like this now, it's all the same no matter where we go! Sooner or later we'll have to face the invincible Holy Spirit!" Jiang Yuan took a deep breath and said, looking at Ning Yanlan: "Why don't we stay? This crystal core is our opportunity!"

"Are you sure?" Ning Yanlan's eyes revealed a strange emotion.

"..." Jiang Yuan was stunned. He remembered that Ning Yanlan had asked the old lecher "Are you sure?" twice before shooting him.

"Um, why don't you make the decision!" Jiang Yuan's eyes subconsciously glanced at Ning Yanlan's waist.

Ning Yanlan burst out laughing, "Idiot, why are you looking at me like that!"

"If you ask me that, I'm afraid you'll shoot me!" Jiang Yuan said, still shaken.

Ning Yanlan sighed, "You're right!"

Jiang Yuan shuddered upon hearing this. Did this mean they were really going to shoot him?

"What are you thinking!" Ning Yanlan laughed and scolded. "What I meant was that what you said earlier was right. The world is like this now, so what difference does it make where we fight? It's just a matter of time!"

"Then I'll go!" Jiang Yuan's blood was boiling at the mention of battle.

"Wait!" Ning Yanlan grabbed Jiang Yuan, who was about to run away.

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