Chapter 96

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"ah!"

"Be careful!" Lian Yun heard Lina's exclamation, quickly turned around, saw Lina almost falling, and supported her in time.

Lina was tripped by something, but it was too dark around and Lian Yun couldn't see it at all.

"Are you okay?" Lian Yun helped her to stand steadily, and said with some self-blame, "It's too dark here, and I don't know how long it will take to get there."

Lina shook her head to indicate that she was fine. After a while, a muffled voice came from the armor again: "Will we... be unable to get out?"

"What are you talking about?" Lian Yun knocked on her helmet, causing the mist above Lina's head to dissipate. "You're confused. I'm here, what are you afraid of?"

A giggling voice came from the armor: "I was wrong! Come on, sister, I'll follow you closely!"

Lian Yun could even imagine Lina's expression, and his mood became much more relaxed.

Even though Lian Yun had his own cheats, he was clueless at this point. He had no use for his skills. When he opened the map, he saw a fog where they were, and even the dots that marked the identities of several people were blurred.

"elder sister."

Lina suddenly stopped and her voice became much softer than before.

Lian Yun also lowered his voice: "What's wrong?"

Lina dragged her armor, turned her body at an angle, and whispered in one direction: "Did you hear any sound?"

sound?

Lian Yun became alert for a moment and looked in that direction with bated breath.

She didn't hear any sound, but after Lina said that, she suddenly felt that there seemed to be something in the darkness.

Lina continued softly, "Aunt Xiaoqi said that we orcs have a natural ability to deter and perceive monsters."

So... that's a monster?

Hearing the implication of Lina's words, Lana, who was walking at the end, held Luo with one hand and quietly drew out the holy sword with the other.

Gather your strength and wait.

Being able to survive in a forest filled with poisonous fog, it is obviously not an ordinary monster.

Although they were all in darkness, Lian Yun still had some vision compared to the two people behind her who were completely covered in shells. She opened her eyes wide and tried to identify what that thing was.

"Sister," Lina said again, "let's go over there."

"Go?" Lian Yun repeated. "Are you sure?"

Lina nodded firmly. This thing made her feel like... a frog.

That’s right, they are just like the big frogs in the cave, but they may be smarter than those big frogs.

Lian Yun secretly encouraged himself, gently pulled the cotton rope, and slowly walked over.

I had just taken two steps when I suddenly stepped on something soft, and an inexplicable sense of horror came over me.

Before she could even scream, she heard something under her feet move faster than her—

"Gu!"

“Gugugugugu——”

"Cuckoo!"

A single stone caused a thousand ripples, and the few people seemed to have returned to the day when the frogs croaked in unison, except that the frog sounds echoing in their ears had turned into "clucking" sounds.

As the sound gradually spread, Lian Yun's eyes suddenly opened up. The forest in front of him seemed to be lit up in an instant. The colorful light came towards him, catching him off guard.

Lian Yun was not used to it for a moment and blocked it with his hands.

Lina, who was covered in the shell, also felt the sudden brightness around her and asked anxiously, "Sister, what happened?"

Lian Yun waited until he gradually became familiar with the light, then opened his eyes and found himself in a colorful wetland.

The purple mist of varying shades was no longer in front of him. Lian Yun turned around and saw that there was no mist wherever the light reached. Occasionally, in the dark corners of the forest, he could see some residual smoke that had not completely faded away.

Lian Yun began to formally look at the "lights" lingering in the sky in front of him.

Mushroom-like objects floated in the air. The umbrella was empty and light, and the umbrella surface emitted various lights. Like jellyfish, they squeezed the air in the umbrella cavity and "swimmed" in a bulging manner.

The ground was also dotted with mushrooms of varying lengths, their caps larger than the ones floating in the air. Beneath their caps lay piles of round, multicolored balls, both strange and familiar...

What Lian Yun just stepped on was something other than these two things, something else that she wanted to recognize but didn't dare to.

The thing was black, fluffy and round. Lian Yun could tell that it was definitely not fat caused by fluffy feathers, it was just fat.

The fat little "chicken" with a pitch-black body stood up blankly after being stepped on, revealing its black claws - raised - lowered - and lay down.

Just moved a step and a half.

When it lay down, its companions under the mushrooms gradually stopped chirping.

Lian Yun was not sure whether this thing had eyes or not. She suspected that its eyes were also black.

"elder sister?"

Lian Yun came to his senses and quickly turned around: "You can take it off now. The poisonous fog has dissipated."

Lina was delighted and took great pains to take off her heavy armor. She also helped Lana rescue Luo from his suffocating shell.

Lina moved closer to Lian Yun, slowly squatted down next to her, and looked curiously at the legendary "chicken" at her feet. It was hard to believe that it tasted as delicious as Sister Lian Yun said.

Lina felt that this thing had no attack power. Like a big frog, even the calling mechanism was exactly the same, and she suddenly felt a sense of evil interest.

She stretched out her finger and poked the little black chicken in front of her lightly.

"Gu!"

The little black chicken stood up suddenly, turned its black head, took one, two, and three steps in the opposite direction of Lina, and continued to lie down.

Now Lina saw clearly that this thing really had eyes, which only opened when it stood up. She even read a hint of "life is so boring" in its small eyes.

After being looked at like this, Lina's opinion of this chicken instantly changed from a "silly chicken" to a "chicken that has seen through the world", so she withdrew her hand in disappointment.

"I always feel like they seem to know their fate." Lian Yun held his chin and watched the actions of the man and the chicken, sighing lightly.

"What are those?" Lina's eyes fell on the colorful mushrooms - colorful balls.

"According to my common sense, those are their eggs." Lian Yun tried to explain and convince himself, "even though they are colorful."

Black chickens lay colorful eggs.

Any questions? No problem.

Although Lina would rather believe that the egg was laid by a mushroom.

But my sister said that the magical Elf Forest has everything.

She believes it.

Lina looked back at the dimness in the woods: "Aunt Xiaoqi said that we just need to walk through the poisonous fog, so are we considered to have walked in now?"

This mushroom wetland is illuminated by glowing mushrooms, interspersed with little black chickens resting. The road stretches far away, and it is unknown what is at the end.

"Keep going?" Lanna had just asked when he suddenly felt the person on his shoulder move slightly.

He quickly and lightly put Luo on the ground and sat him down against a big tree nearby. The two people in front of him saw his movements and quickly surrounded him.

"He just moved a little." Lanner explained.

This was the first time Luo had made any independent movements since he fell into a coma.

Lian Yun stared at Luo nervously until he saw his chest heaving violently, and then Luo regained consciousness with a cough.

"grown ups……"

His first call was to Lian Yun.

Lian Yun quickly grabbed his raised hand and said, "I'm here. We're in the Elf Forest now and have passed the poisonous fog."

"Don't worry, I will definitely find the elves."

The next second Luo grabbed her sleeve tightly.

Luo felt a strong burning sensation lingering in his throat, and the pain was so severe that he almost fainted again.

He used all his strength to endure the pain and headed towards Lian Yun: "There are footsteps."

Lian Yun was stunned.

She subconsciously wanted to hide.

But it's too late.

There is no place to hide where the light shines, and there is no escape from the poisonous fog that lingers in the darkness.

On second thought, who else could be making those footsteps in the Elf Forest?

Lian Yun gritted his teeth, stood up, and looked towards the source of the footsteps.

If you need something from someone, it is better to be open and honest from the beginning. If you hide something and it is discovered, the credibility of the negotiation will be greatly reduced.

Perhaps it was the natural attribute of the elves, the footsteps of the person coming were very light. Lana, who was also a vampire, although his senses were not as sensitive as Luo's, were also much better than those of ordinary people.

Even so, it was not until the other party just showed up that Lian Yun and the others discovered them.

Like Lian Yun, they walked out of the jungle with a faint glow around them, as if they were God's chosen darlings, with an innate halo.

They don't have wings on their backs, but their bodies are light and their footsteps on the ground are like dragonflies skimming the water.

Jumping among the colorful mushroom rain flying all over the sky, it is as agile as a butterfly, or like a leaf dancing in the wind, floating freely and at will.

There were two people in total, a boy and a girl. They looked young, three or four years older than Lina. Their hair was silver-white and braided with a soft flower stem. Flowers bloomed beside their ears, and there were a few buds next to the blooming flowers.

They were holding a cloth bag half a person's height in their hands, walking lightly while chatting and laughing.

Until she looked up and saw Lian Yun and the people behind her, the smile on her face suddenly froze.

"...Isn't that what you said?" The boy next to her was waving a bag in his hand and talking excitedly about something interesting, waiting for the girl's response expectantly.

The girl froze the smile on her face, slowly extended her elbow and nudged the boy.

The boy raised his head in confusion: ...

Lian Yun looked at the two replicas' stiff smiles, put on a very friendly smile, and waved: "Hello."

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Second update! Is it a surprise? Is it an accident?