In other words, on the 21st, the three of them will be in great danger. Even if all three of them are incredibly lucky and survive, they will probably still have a hard time dealing with the 21st of next month.

Time flew by, and when the 21st arrived, the three of them stopped running for their lives and chose to stay put and wait. After all, no matter how they ran, they would be caught on this day, so they might as well conserve their energy.

This area is a wilderness, with no buildings around, and a layer of mist has risen up at some unknown time, making it look eerie and sinister.

Su Xuan broke the silence with a laugh, "Looks like no one received your distress signal."

That's what he said, but the sarcasm in his eyes was very obvious, clearly indicating that he didn't mean it that way.

Lin remained silent with a sullen face.

Suddenly, patches of red appeared in the wilderness. These patches of red were spaced apart from each other, but they were all facing the same direction. Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that the red covering the entire sky was actually a bunch of eyes.

"The sand is coming."

Zhou Quansheng then pulled out a pen.

Lin Guaiji also took out his weapon, as did Su Xuan. When the sand spread to where they were standing, it meant that they were about to face a fierce battle.

The yellow sand slowly advanced towards the three of them, and the eyes covering the sky seemed to be closing in as well. The three of them separated slightly, each secretly wondering what kind of opponent they would face this time.

"They're here."

The yellow sand swept over the three of them, and suddenly the scene before them changed. At the edge of the wilderness, a disheveled woman limped towards them. The moment she appeared, the three of them tensed up and stared intently at her, until a gust of sand swept Zhou Quansheng away.

It was obvious that this woman chose Zhou Quansheng.

Zhou Quansheng and the woman disappeared together. Not long after, an old man appeared at the end of the wilderness. The old man held a bottle of wine and mumbled to himself as if he were a passerby. However, when he appeared, the red eyes that filled the sky froze. The sandstorm reappeared and swept away Lin Guaiji.

Su Xuan stood alone in the wilderness, watching the young man slowly walking towards him from the end of the wilderness, and shrugged, "Wow, what good luck, I even ran into this kind of old monster."

A sandstorm swept through, and there was no one left here.

Once the 21st passed, Zhou Quansheng, who had been missing for a whole day, reappeared in the place where he had disappeared, covered in blood. He quickly looked around and found that he was the only one who had come out. He was silent for a moment, then sat down on the ground and began to heal his wounds.

Over the past year, all their medicinal herbs and healing remedies have been exhausted, and now they can only rely on their own healing abilities to slowly recover.

The night passed quickly, and as dawn broke, a second person appeared beside Zhou Quansheng—Lin Guaiji. The two did not exchange words.

It wasn't until it was completely dark that Lin Guaiji stood up. "He can't get out. Let's go."

Zhou Quansheng sighed silently.

He thought that they probably really couldn't escape it. Death was only a matter of time for them now. This number twenty-one was Su Xuan, and the next number twenty-one might be him.

As usual, the two evaded the pursuers, but this life-or-death struggle had taken a heavy toll on them. Just surviving from those monsters had exhausted all their energy, and now they were running non-stop, their bodies were on the verge of collapse.

"Hehe, I see you all."

The appearance of that voice was the last straw that broke the camel's back. Lin Guaiji and Zhou Quansheng finally couldn't hold on any longer and collapsed to the ground. The two of them quietly watched the woman walking towards them in the distance, realizing that their lives had truly come to an end.

These guys are tired of this game of cat and mouse.

Facing imminent death, Zhou Quansheng revealed his true nature, asking curiously, "Whom did you turn to for help back then?"

Perhaps realizing that Zhou Quansheng was the only person by his side when he was about to die, Lin Guaiji did not remain silent this time and gave the answer directly: "My family and some people who made promises to me."

"The person who made a promise to you?" Zhou Quansheng's expression was strange. "I believe the distress message could reach your family, but to reach the person who made a promise to you... could there be a contract between you?" In fact, Zhou Quansheng knew it was impossible as soon as he asked the question, because if a contract had really been signed, the other party would have to come as long as they were still alive, otherwise they would suffer a considerable backlash.

"My ability." Lin Guaiji didn't say much, only giving this four-word answer. Seeing the woman getting closer and closer, he simply closed his eyes.

But a sigh escaped his lips.

I've been abandoned by my family...

The woman quickly walked up to the two men, and said with a smile, "The game is over. Thank you for providing such a fun game." With that, she raised her hand.

Zhou Quansheng and Lin Guai were prepared, but the expected torment did not come. They even sensed a spatial tremor. Almost simultaneously, they opened their eyes and dragged their exhausted bodies to the side, instantly escaping the woman's grasp.

The woman glanced at them casually before turning her gaze to the sky, where a spatial rift was forming.

"Interesting, there are actually people from the outside who want to get in."

Lin Guaiji and Zhou Quansheng immediately moved a kilometer away, seizing every opportunity to heal their wounds. Zhou Quansheng was somewhat excited, "Damn it, your family has finally arrived!"

Lin Guaiji also breathed a sigh of relief. The two of them had given up hope of survival because they couldn't see a way out, but now that Lin Guaiji's family had come to rescue him, they naturally wouldn't continue to wait for their deaths.

"Squeak squeak squeak!!!"

"Stratosphere."

"Aww!"

The spatial rift was still a little short of completely breaking apart. Wen Zuo and Mo Shuwan on the other end were somewhat helpless. They couldn't open the rift, so they could only ask the stratosphere to try to teleport them there.

Lin Guaiji, Zhou Quansheng, and the woman were all focused on the spatial rift. When two people and two beasts appeared out of thin air below, all three had somewhat complicated expressions.