"Wow, did we check the almanac before going out today?"

"Yeah, the core drop rate is terrifyingly high!"

Halfway up the mountain, the Gale Squad had been fighting continuously for three hours and now took a break.

Meanwhile, Zhu Penghai and Qian Kai were counting the cores with great joy. They had swept through the area and killed over a hundred black-horned pigs, and the number of cores had exceeded thirty, which was a huge difference from the previous ten percent probability.

Jiang Yuan chuckled inwardly. If he were to finish off all the Black Horned Boars, he could produce at least fifty Cores. However, to conceal his strength, Jiang Yuan only finished off a few.

"Here, the Spirit Awakening Pill!" Jiang Yuan sat down next to Ning Yanlan, took out the pill bottle, and waved it at her.

Ning Yanlan was resting on a large rock when she saw Jiang Yuan holding the Spirit Awakening Pill. She smiled and took it, saying, "Your greeting just now reminded me of a saying!"

"What did you say?" Jiang Yuan sat down next to Ning Yanlan.

"When you used to watch the moon with me, you called me 'Sweetie,' but now that someone new has come along, you call me 'Old Cow'!"

After saying that, Ning Yanlan covered her lips and smiled.

"Uh!" Jiang Yuan definitely knew that line. "But I didn't watch the moon with you!"

“Watching the sunrise is the same! Aren’t the sun and moon both golden gates here?” Ning Yanlan pointed to the golden gates in the sky.

Jiang Yuan sighed helplessly. "You could have changed your name to something else, but Xu Lian just sounds so out of place."

"Look at Xiao Xin!" Ning Yanlan grabbed Jiang Yuan's hand.

"Why is Xiao Xin fighting with him?" Jiang Yuan looked over and saw Xiao Xin controlling her substitute doll to fight Yang Wenlin on the flat ground not far away.

“I sent her!” Ning Yanlan’s eyes softened. “Although Xiao Xin is young, since she has embarked on this path, she must learn to fight. Otherwise, if I’m not around one day, it will be even more difficult for her to walk this path alone!”

“Yes, that’s right. We brought her out here so she could fight!” Jiang Yuan agreed, unaware of the other meaning behind Ning Yanlan’s words.

"By the way!" Ning Yanlan said with a mischievous expression, "Jiang Yuan, if it weren't for our connection, would you still be taking care of your sister-in-law and Xiao Xin?"

"Why do you ask that?" Although Jiang Yuan felt something was wrong, Ning Yanlan was the kind of person who asked a lot of strange questions, so he didn't take it seriously.

"Just asking!" Ning Yanlan urged.

“If I hadn’t met you, I definitely wouldn’t have had any contact with Sister Li’s family!” Jiang Yuan said truthfully.

"Will you be able to take care of them?" Ning Yanlan blinked.

"They don't even recognize you anymore, why should I take care of them?" Jiang Yuan asked, puzzled.

"Don't you think your sister-in-law is quite pretty?" Ning Yanlan said with a mischievous glint in her eyes.

"Damn, you're toxic!" Jiang Yuan was speechless. He immediately explained, "Be serious, I wasn't thinking about that!"

"I didn't say anything, why are you so nervous!" Ning Yanlan looked at Jiang Yuan seriously.

"..." Jiang Yuan looked at him with suspicion. You're already looking at him like that, do I need to say anything more?

"Okay, then I'm just saying, hypothetically!" Ning Yanlan continued, "Just hypothetically, if I died on this Iron Ridge Mountain today, would you be able to marry your sister-in-law when you go back?"

"Big sister, don't mess with me!" Jiang Yuan's expression immediately changed. What kind of "what if" was this?

"I already said 'if.' If I die, Xiao Xin will have no one to take care of her. If you marry your sister-in-law, you can not only give Xiao Xin a happy family, but also protect her. Isn't that great?" Ning Yanlan looked at Jiang Yuan hopefully, wanting to know his answer.

"That's not true! Stop thinking about those melodramatic soap operas all the time!" Jiang Yuan was about to lose it. This was a whole ethical drama that was not suitable for children. The transformation from brother to father, no, there was also a perverted relationship between brother-in-law and sister-in-law in between... Hehehe, anyway, it was that kind of thing.

"But……"

"Alright, take the Spirit Awakening Pill and refine the Holy Spirit Stone. Will thinking about random things restore your spiritual energy?" Jiang Yuan immediately interrupted Ning Yanlan. "But this isn't over yet, is it?"

"Isn't it you who protects me?" Ning Yanlan blinked her pure, spring-like eyes.

"Someone's here?"

Jiang Yuan frowned before he could finish speaking. He sensed a group of people, no smaller than theirs, approaching from another mountain path.

"Who is it!" Ning Yanlan stopped acting cute and swallowed the pill to restore her spiritual energy in order to deal with any unexpected situations that might arise.

She knew Jiang Yuan well. He might be a bit frivolous about small things, but he never joked about matters involving his own safety.

"Captain Zhu, someone's approaching! Everyone be on high alert!" Jiang Yuan shouted to Zhu Penghai first, then whispered, "I don't know, but they're stronger than us!"

In the absence of law, weakness is the original sin.

Jiang Yuan brought Xiao Xin back, and sure enough, less than half a minute later, a ten-person squad appeared in the view of the Gale Squad.

"Do you know him?" Jiang Yuan asked Zhu Penghai, looking at the other person.

"I don't know, but it's definitely not from the camp!" Zhu Penghai took a few steps forward and then commanded, "Ye Yun, don't let the auras go out. Keep the team in top condition to deal with any emergencies."

Finally, the ten-man squad on the other side stopped twenty meters away, a distance that was the agreed-upon warning line between the two sides.

"Don't be nervous, we're an adventurer team too!"

Before Zhu Penghai could even ask a question, the young man at the head of the group spoke up.

"There's an unwritten rule in adventurer teams that it's unreasonable for you to get so close!" Zhu Penghai said calmly.

"Heh!" The leading youth chuckled, then said, "Don't worry, we're just here to discuss cooperation; we won't have any conflicts with you!"

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