Chapter 34 You think you can do it? You seem to have angered him.
Lin Jianyu still couldn't see the spirits, but she seemed to faintly smell a salty, fishy odor coming towards her, very close at hand.
She instinctively raised the whale fall sword in her hand and thrust it forward. She didn't intend to hurt the other person with this thrust, since the sword wasn't even drawn. She just wanted to use the sword to keep the other person at bay and avoid close contact.
She was even prepared for the possibility that her attack would fail and she would be sent flying by her opponent. However, when she struck with her sword, the familiar feeling of weightlessness did not come. Instead, it was as if she had sent her opponent flying.
Following the crowd further confirmed her conjecture.
"Awesome!" When Zhu Liu saw the undead attacking her head-on, he was prepared for her to be crippled or killed, but she was unharmed and the undead flew away. He could only exclaim "Awesome!"
His junior uncle's Whale Fall truly lived up to its reputation as the nemesis of the undead; even without drawing its sword, it could easily knock away the undead.
Lin Jianyu's thoughts were similar to his, but she did not become arrogant, because the undead were only knocked away by her, not "dead," and could attack her again at any time.
“Come behind me,” she said to Zhuliu.
Upon hearing this, Zhu Liu quickly hid behind her, showing no sign of the embarrassment of being a senior brother who needed his junior sister's protection.
"He got up, his expression was a bit fierce, it seems you've angered him."
"Be confident, drop the 'seems' part." Lin Jianyu said, gripping the whale fall tightly, ready for battle at any moment. "The moment to test our teamwork has arrived."
"Do we have this thing?" Zhu Liu asked.
Lin Jianyu: "..."
Lin Jianyu's fighting spirit, which had just been ignited, was instantly extinguished.
"We have to have it even if we don't have it."
“Okay,” Zhu Liu said. “Let’s draw a table together, with your front facing you at the twelve o’clock position. Here we go, the direction of the pointer axis.”
Lin Jianyu: "???"
Before Lin Jianyu could even react to which direction the pointer axis was pointing, Zhu Liu had already manually adjusted the direction for her. His actions and words were almost perfectly synchronized, clearly indicating that he had never expected her to understand the direction he was referring to.
"As expected, there's absolutely no understanding between them," he said.
"Above, just say above, what do you mean by the direction of the pointer axis? Who the hell can even process that?" Lin Jianyu was speechless.
"At four o'clock, it turns, three o'clock, two o'clock, one o'clock, the pointer axis."
Lin Jianyu, who was once again forced to raise his sword: "..."
"Here's the sword, you do it." Shooting a moving target while blind, with a teammate who has absolutely no chemistry with you, is just too difficult.
Zhu Liu took the sword and, without waiting for the knocked-back undead to attack them again, took the initiative to attack him.
In less than a minute, he was back beside Lin Jianyu, flying back in reverse.
"This sword won't work well in my hands, you should take it."
Lin Jianyu's arrival is not a problem; the problem is that she cannot see the undead, and the undead will not stand still and wait for her to launch a sneak attack. They can only passively defend as before.
While passive defense is not out of the question, she prefers to take the initiative and completely defeat the undead.
“You draw his attention, then give me directions, and I’ll ambush him.” Lin Jianyu held the whale fall in one hand and pulled him up from the ground with the other.
Halfway through the pull, she heard him shout at her, "Be careful behind you!"
Without hesitation, she released his grip, causing him to fall back to the ground. She then turned and struck him with her sword, hitting him precisely.
They weren't completely without coordination; at least this one sword strike was perfect.
“Do as I say,” Lin Jianyu said. “The undead who have lost their minds are not very intelligent. We should make the most of our strengths.”
"The key is that I'm not very smart either." Zhu Liu is very self-aware.
"It doesn't matter if you're not smart, as long as you have a strong will to survive. You don't want to die young, do you?"
Zhu Liu did not answer her question, because the spirits of the dead had returned.
"Ten o'clock direction."
This time, the undead did not turn, and Lin Jianyu reacted quickly, hitting the target once again.
“I think we work together quite well,” Zhu Liu said.
"Teamwork alone is not enough; we also need to kill him."
"That's ambitious," Zhu Liu said. "I'm entrusting my junior brother's back to you." With that, he picked up his sword and charged forward.
He slammed on the brakes halfway down the road, then ran back, calling out as he ran, "Back, back..."
Only now did Lin Jianyu understand what he meant by "I entrust my back to you".
He wasn't trying to draw the enemy's attention to her so she could launch a sneak attack; he was leading the enemy towards her.
"Don't come this way."
Zhu Liu obediently turned the corner, and after turning, he shouted to her, "The undead didn't turn."
Lin Jianyu: "..."
Lin Jianyu swung her sword forward, but missed everything. She thought to herself that she was in trouble, and sure enough, the next second, she was sent flying.
That wasn't the worst part. The worst part was that the whale fall slipped from his grasp when he fell.
"Help!"
Zhu Liu also wanted to save her, but he was a bit far away, so he could only shout to her, "Pointer axis!"
The pointer axis is right above. Thanks to his unreliability, this understanding has been deeply ingrained in Lin Jianyu's mind. Almost as soon as she heard those three words, she rolled away to avoid them... but she didn't.
The undead was much larger than she had imagined. Her roll didn't even get her out of its attack range; it was a complete waste of time.
The unfamiliar salty and fishy smell hit her again. Just when she thought she was about to be hit head-on, she was indeed hit head-on, but this head-on hit was not quite the head-on hit she had imagined.
The head-on attack she imagined was an undead attacking her head-on, causing her to sink into the ground and be unable to be dug out. This head-on attack was the undead attacking her suddenly appearing in front of her and stopping in front of her as if it had been frozen in place.
The distance between the person and the dead was only inches; they were truly within arm's reach.
Most of the undead are not in human form; that is their true form.
At this moment, right next to Lin Jianyu was a fish. It wasn't particularly large, but it wasn't small either. One of its heads was as big as two of hers. It suddenly appeared in front of her, startling her, especially since it was rushing over with its mouth open, as if it wanted to swallow her whole.
With just one glance, Lin Jianyu scrambled and ran more than ten meters away, not forgetting to take the whale fall he had dropped earlier with him as he ran.
Only after running to Zhu Liu's side did she dare to look back at the fish one last time.
The fish was even bigger than she had imagined, because it had several bodies and was clearly not a normal fish.
"What kind of fish is this?" she asked Zhuliu.
"You can see him now?" Zhu Liu asked instead of answering.
"Yes." Lin Jianyu nodded. "I was so startled, I almost died on the spot."
"So, you're the one who made him stay in place?"
"How could that be?" Lin Jianyu wanted to say that she didn't have that ability, but before she could finish speaking, she suddenly noticed the whale fall in her hand. "Could it be a whale fall?"
"Whale fall?" Upon hearing this, Zhu Liu subconsciously turned his gaze to the whale fall in her hand.
The whale fall in Lin Jianyu's hands is like a beautiful jade hidden in a rough stone, a bright pearl covered in dust, as ordinary as can be. But he had personally witnessed the whale fall kill two undead without anyone controlling it. Now, it seems not impossible for it to immobilize another undead without anyone controlling it.
"Did you just use the bloodline power of the sect leader's junior uncle again?"
"I don't know." Lin Jianyu has not yet learned how to use her master's bloodline power.
Zhu Liu glanced at her pupils; they were black, not tinged with azure.
“I remember the last time you used Junior Uncle’s bloodline power, your pupils turned blue, but this time your pupils did not change.”
"Last time? Which time?" Lin Jianyu looked completely bewildered.
"That time you summoned Whale Fall from the sect leader's junior uncle," Zhu Liu reminded him.
"You mean, when I use my master's bloodline power, my pupils turn blue?" Lin Jianyu asked.
“I’ve only seen you use the bloodline power of the sect leader’s junior uncle once. I’m not sure if your pupils turn blue every time you use the bloodline power of the sect leader’s junior uncle,” Zhu Liu said.
"I'll ask the big boss later." After saying that, Lin Jianyu turned his gaze back to the frozen undead. "If it wasn't whale fall, what froze him?"
There were only the two of them here. She clearly didn't have the ability, nor did Zhu Liu, but the undead was indeed immobilized. It wasn't a whale fall, so it couldn't be that the cultivator who raised it had died, right?
It doesn't seem impossible.
It has been almost two hours since their tactical retreat, and Lu Jiao and his team are nearing the end of their operation. As for the enemies who have attacked them, Qianli has always been ruthless and leaves no survivors.
"His master is dead, will he be unable to move?"
"I don't know." Zhu Liu knew very little about this. "Regardless of what immobilized him, we should take advantage of his weakness and kill him now."
"What do you want?" Lin Jianyu asked.
“Use whale fall!” Zhu Liu said without hesitation.
"Knock him to death?" The whale fall was stuck in her hand and couldn't be unsheathed. And a sword that couldn't be unsheathed could only be used as a club.
“You hit him, I’ll chop him down, we’ll slowly grind him to death,” Zhu Liu said, raising his sword to charge.
Just as he took a step, the previously motionless spirit suddenly turned its head towards them, startling him so much that he immediately withdrew his foot.
"He, he, did he just move?"
"Isn't it obvious enough?" Lin Jianyu said, looking at the spirits who had turned to face them.
"Then why is he not moving again?" Zhu Liu asked.
"Good question." Lin Jianyu also wanted to know the answer.
"Is he able to move now, or not?" Zhu Liu asked again.
“That’s a good question,” Lin Jianyu said.
"Should we take advantage of his weakness and finish him off?"
Lin Jianyu thought for a moment and said, "You go first."
"I'd rather die than go first." Zhu Liu rejected her suggestion without even thinking. "At least you have the whale fall to protect you. If I go up there, I'll just be throwing my life away."
Lin Jianyu thought about it and agreed, then said, "I'll go first." She went immediately, holding the whale fall in both hands and carefully approaching the spirit.
Zhu Liu followed behind her without any backbone.
"You're so slow." It took her several minutes to walk a distance of just over ten meters, and she was still more than ten meters short.
“If you’re so capable, you go first,” Lin Jianyu said.
Going with the flow won't work; otherwise, he would have already done it and wouldn't be lingering here with her.
"You weren't this cowardly even when you couldn't see him."
“I didn’t know he looked so scary when I couldn’t see him,” Lin Jianyu said. “And he just moved.”
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