Chapter 6: The Horror of the Hot Zone (Part 1)
When Beichen regained her spirit and stood up from Xiang Ying's arms, for some reason, the people around her looked at her with a slightly surprised expression. Not to mention Xiang Ying, the twins and Gu Yinyue, even Longyun and Naraka were a little stunned. Even Ragnar, who was taking a nap on a big tree root, turned his head.
Being stared at by everyone was a little frightened, Beichen touched his face with a look of horror:
"...What's wrong with everyone? Is it because I talked to Master Manzu that leaves are growing on my face!?"
"That's too bizarre! Lord Wanzu is not a virus!" Ragnarl rolled his eyes in annoyance in the distance.
"Ahem...how should I put it?" Xiang Ying shyly scratched her face with her fingers. "Master, you...seem to have become even more beautiful."
"yeah?!"
Beichen touched his face in surprise, then suddenly gave a flattering smile towards Wanzu's tree trunk:
"Hehehehe...it turns out chatting with Master Wanzu has a spa effect. Then can I come here more often in the future...woowa!"
With a thud, a crystal-shaped "leaf" hit Beichen's head perfectly, so she didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore.
"No, no!" Black Harm rubbed the spot on her head where she was hit, amused. "We're talking about...um, something subtle. Shouldn't we call it 'temperament'?"
"Actually, if it comes to the SPA effect, sharpening the blade is better... Phew!" Longyun, who was interrupting in the middle of the conversation, was stepped on hard by Naraka - Beichen twitched his mouth on the side - I should have known not to tell them these Earth words!
"That's right, leave the SPA effects to us! I was actually talking about the look in your eyes—they've changed." Su Jie also came up with a playful smile, "Did you see something extraordinary while chatting with Wan Zu? It feels like something has clicked."
"Huh? ...Well, that's certainly true."
Beichen took a breath and looked up at Wanzu.
"I've learned a lot of secrets and have a plan for what to do next."
So the group found a place to sit down and listened to Beichen's detailed account of her conversation with Wanzu. Gu Yinyue, who was standing by, also took out the coded spirit crystal and reported the matter to Xifeng, Yaye and Atlas who were far away in Elysien.
"So, what does the master want to do next?"
"Follow the original plan and explore all the remaining ruins mentioned in Xiaxue's diary."
"Ah?" Longyun was a little confused. "Didn't you say you were going to remove the poison for Wanzu?"
"Are you stupid?" Before Beichen could answer, Naraka rolled his eyes. "Remember what Beichen told us about the ruins? ... There's a lot of research data on shapeshifting weapons there!"
"Oh, yes! That means there's a good chance they'll find a way to destroy that modified control device... or even its exact location!"
Gu Yinyue nodded aside:
"That thing is located beneath the roots of Wanzu. It's impossible to destroy it unless we find the entrance. This is the most important heartland. The slightest mistake could harm Wanzu. We can't just dig three feet deep into the ground with a shovel. We don't even know its exact location."
Xiang Ying, who was standing aside, felt extremely guilty as he put back the shovel that was half made of star power.
The group discussed for a while how to deal with the device. At this moment, the secret code spirit crystal in the small water bottle next to Gu Yinyue began to vibrate - it was a message from Xifeng, Yaye and Atlas.
"Yaye said the exploration of the ruins of Elysion was complete. He used Beichen's blood to open a protective device in the deepest room and retrieved a strange fragment. There were also some other items whose uses were completely unknown. Since he had a large storage space, he took them all back in one go."
Gu Yinyue looked at the frequency of vibration of the secret code spirit crystal and translated it.
"Xifeng asked about our current location. Atlas..." Gu Yinyue was halfway through the translation when he suddenly blushed and coughed a few times. "Atlas said he missed Beichen. He felt very unsatisfied during this night of the star disaster. He wanted Beichen to at least help him with his hands... ahem, just once."
“…”
“…”
“…”
Bang!
Another leaf of Star Spirit Ore fell on Beichen's head.
"Hmm..." Beichen blushed and touched his head sadly, "Master Wanzu is starting to pull out his own hair (?) to bully others..."
Bang!
Another piece fell down.
Ragnarl on the side rolled his eyes helplessly - Wanzu's loneliness must be coming back.
After staring at Wanzu's tree trunk for a while, Beichen calmed down and discussed with everyone, and finally decided to meet Xifeng and the others at the next unexplored ruins.
So, while Ragnar was muttering in annoyance, "How did I become a moving tool?", Beichen, Heihuo and Sujie hung on him and rubbed against him, acting coquettishly for a while, and finally they smoothed out the scales of this old man's dragon. The giant dragon took off, circled in a circle, said goodbye to Wanzu, and then flew towards the Jiluo Empire.
The next relic is located in the desert area of the Jiluo Empire. According to Gu Yinyue, it is even more dangerous than the Black Swamp of Heyang. When he went there to explore, he only circled around the periphery and did not dare to go deep into it. This wasteland swallows up countless confident challengers every year.
"However, with our current strength, there shouldn't be any problem, right?"
On the dragon's back, Xiang Ying clenched his fist proudly.
"My master just reached the seventh level of Wu Si Huang a while ago and will soon surpass you, Lord Yin Yue!"
"That damn monk is already a ninth-level Wu Si Huang. No matter how much strength he possesses, it can't be measured by level. Of course, he'll be caught up..."
Longyun complained quietly on the side.
"That's different! If the master reaches the maximum level, she will become a true goddess!"
"...Xiang Ying, please don't give me such a weird upgrade setting without my permission!! A goddess can treat farts like a star cannon. Really, how tough must a goddess be!"
"...Uh, sneezing can summon the King of Disaster? No, no, that's not powerful enough—if I pull out a hair, it will turn into a Star Killer...?"
"...That's enough! Even if you're going to beautify me, make me into a real goddess! Is your idea of a goddess the Monkey King?!"
Beichen pulled Xiangying's collar and shook her back and forth, feeling both amused and helpless, while Xiangying held her waist with an innocent look on her face, letting her shake foolishly. Seeing this scene, as if remembering something from long ago, Gu Yinyue and his two weapons exchanged a tacit smile.
The twins, who were sorting out the map on the side, also hummed sourly.
"Little Loach is not a goddess. How can a goddess be so cowardly as to crawl under the bed and not be able to poop to avoid a threesome?"
"That's right, she had to be put in there to scare her out. What kind of goddess is she if she's afraid of even the Truth of the World? She's just pretending to be a queen in front of those fools..."
"Su Jie, don't deliberately bring up my shadow! Didn't you see that the word you said was blocked by the author and turned into [World Truth]?! Why on earth would you kill those black, crawling creatures that won't become extinct even if humans become extinct and the earth explodes and the weapons turn into chocolate beans and hide them in the storage space?"
Beichen's hair stood on end instantly, while Gu Yinyue on the side was stunned for a moment, then laughed for some reason:
"Beichen is also afraid of things."
"...Uh, 80% of women would be afraid of something like [World Truth]."
Black Disaster laughed strangely, "See, you idiot? Seeking credit and sharpening your blade is so inefficient! [World Truth] reigns supreme! Throw it over there, and the little loach will surely surrender! And when a woman is scared, her body will become especially [beeping]! Want it or not? Su Jie and I still have six storage spaces left. I'll give you half."
“…Is that so?”
Xiang Ying looked puzzled, but he took out his notes and carefully wrote down Hei Huo's words.
Beichen's face turned even greener. "Xiangying, I'm a little curious about what's written in that little diary of yours. Wait! Xiangying, don't really accept it! Do you really have to taint everyone's storage space with the dark aura of [World Truth]?!"
Gu Yinyue advised kindly:
"Beichen, don't worry, I won't scare you with that kind of prop."
Beichen was instantly moved to tears: "Wow, Yinyue is still the best──!"
"Yeah." Gu Yinyue gently patted Beichen's back. "Because my mother hates that thing so much, she ordered me to get rid of it within three seconds if I saw it, or I'd have to do push-ups for an hour. So, over time, it became a reflex. When I see it, I destroy it and everything within a meter of it. ...That's why I didn't do it just now, purely because I was afraid of damaging the dragon's scales."
“…”
Xiang Ying and Gemini looked a little unhappy.
"And as for using scares to liven things up, my mother said that her experience has shown that a harmless little snake is much more effective than the Truth of the World."
"Come to think of it, that dead monk once crushed a reptile in the primeval forest with his bare hands that was ten thousand times more disgusting than the [World Truth]." Longyun added fuel to the fire.
"Also, there are times when, due to running out of food and ammunition during travel, we eat high-protein [beep]," Naraka nodded. "That thing can actually be considered the same as [World Truth], right? Although it looks much cleaner."
“…”
Oh my god! You are so tough!
As Beichen's face turned green, Heihuo and Sujie silently gave Gu Yinyue the middle finger from an invisible angle.
"I said..."
Ragnarl finally couldn't help but speak.
"...Are your usual conversations always so meaningless and heavy-tasting?"
“…”
"So Elysion is the kingdom of heavy taste?"
Beichen's eyelids twitched: "Uh, no..."
"You, the master, are truly incompetent, to be exploited by weapons to play pranks on so many of my weaknesses. So, the name "Incompetent Kingdom" is actually more reasonable?"
“…That’s not right!”
"Threesome Kingdom?"
“…”
"The Kingdom of World Truth?"
"...If that's the case, I'll hang myself from a tree immediately!"
"Oh."
Ragnarl laughed gravely.
"You have so many weaknesses, Queen."
Beichen was stunned for a moment, then pursed his lips with an expression of approval.
"Well, I'm afraid of so many things. But what I'm most afraid of isn't the black crawling thing, nor is it P... Okay, I'm afraid of that one... But the thing I'm most afraid of is..."
What I fear most is that someone in this family will leave me.
"Besides that, I'm very strong and won't be easily defeated. And because I'm afraid of so many things, I need someone to accompany and support me."
"This is the fragility of human beings." Ragnar sarcastically said.
"But it is precisely because of this that they have survived to this day just like the [World Truth]." Beichen counterattacked with a smile.
The dragon laughed in a good mood.
"The Jiluo Empire is approaching, please prepare for landing."
"Huh? Do you need to prepare anything else?"
Gu Yinyue signaled to Xiang Ying and the twins, and immediately, Xiang Ying took out the iron helmet that Beichen had used when he killed Baiying quickly, while Heihuo and Sujie took out a set of clothes that looked very cool.
“This, this is…”
"Master, you should know that the place we are going to is a desert area, right? It is very hot there for humans."
"Yeah, yeah!" Black Disaster came up with his clothes in his hand, a smirk on his face. "We're high up in the sky, so it still feels a bit thick. If you don't touch the ground for a while, you'll get dehydrated!"
"But this dress is too cool! It's almost the same as a bikini!"
"Nonsense! Don't you have a bra and a short skirt? I've never seen Xiao Niu wear this kind of exotic clothes. Come and try them on!" Su Jie had already started to pull Beichen's clothes clumsily.
"But but but! We're just going to the wasteland, there's no need to change clothes, right?!"
"We need to find the town closest to the ruins and buy some supplies for crossing the desert."
Gu Yinyue spoke softly, then suddenly turned around and glared at Longyun, whose face was flushed and almost drooling.
"Longyun, be more self-aware, learn from Naraka and turn your head."
Longyun suddenly felt very aggrieved: "Why can you look at me, you damn monk? I'm not touching Xiaochen, I'm just looking at him, it won't make me lose any meat! I've been working as a lackey all this time and I don't have time to find a woman. I'm so lonely!"
"...Do you want to dance like a dragon? I... I'm the king's son-in-law, of course I can watch!"
Gu Yinyue threatened with some lack of confidence, so Longyun ran away with tears in her eyes to play with Naraka's scales.
Beichen here had been stripped almost naked by the twins (and had a lot of toyed with by the way). Xiang Ying, a young man who had just started having sex, started blushing and breathing rapidly. Although Gu Yinyue spoke with confidence, he covered his nose and turned his head after just one second of watching, and began to chant something that looked like the Great Compassion Mantra.
"Xiang, Xiang Ying, I'm changing clothes now! Where are you touching?!"
"...Yes, I'm sorry, it's just that Master is so... I couldn't help it..."
"Wow, little loach, your figure looks pretty good in this! What do you say, brother?"
"Still charming?"
"You still have some charm, you big-headed ghost! At least you have some charm or something, right?!"
"Master... can you let me touch that again—"
“Is this ever going to end?”
Before Beichen could object to Xiang Ying, seeing that there might be a pornographic scene on his back, the giant dragon could no longer bear it and deliberately shook its huge body, instantly scaring the several tiny humans and weapons on its back so much that they turned pale and stopped.
"Ahem!" Beichen, knowing he was in the wrong, cleared his throat awkwardly. "I see the settlement ahead. Are we going to land there?"
"Yes, I've been here before."
Gu Yinyue's expression became serious, and he reached out to adjust the light armor on his body. Because it seemed that the external temperature had almost no effect on him (he was wrapped tightly regardless of whether it was hot or cold), Gu Yinyue did not change his clothes.
Beichen glanced at the people in front of him and nodded to them.
In a few seconds, the irritated and incoherent woman disappeared, replaced by a queen with a stern face ready for a battle.
During the downtime on the journey, they were able to laugh and relax without restraint, which helped put their bodies in optimal condition - and now it was time to perform at their best.
In Arcana, a remote settlement of the Jiro Empire, a huge monster shadow suddenly appeared - a dragon the size of the Emperor of Disaster.
The residents of the settlement thought it was a violent iron ghost and were horrified. The Spiritual Martial Officers gathered together at a rapid speed, the lights of their weapons flickered one after another, and soon, everyone gathered around the shadow cast by the huge dragon in the sky, waiting for it to enter the range of the weapons.
But unexpectedly, the dragon did not descend, instead something fell from above.
Bang!
The person who came was surrounded by red light and made a slight sound when he landed. It didn't sound like he fell from a height of hundreds of meters. He just stirred up a small cloud of dust.
...is a blonde woman with waist-length blonde hair, wearing an iron helmet, holding an extremely beautiful transparent long sword, and wearing a pair of black and white hooks on her wrists.
The fair and delicate skin and the petite yet well-proportioned figure, which were rare in the Jiluo Empire, immediately stunned the residents - where did this big shot come from?
But the woman simply nodded to the crowd to show that she meant no harm, and then looked up.
Soon another person jumped off the dragon.
He has gray hair, wolf-like fierce eyes, a tall and strong figure, and is wrapped tightly. There is a huge sword behind him and a huge crossbow in his hand. Even in this hot place, looking at him will give you a strange illusion of a chill running up from the soles of your feet.
Perhaps because the two people's appearance was too impressive, many residents swallowed their saliva and took a few steps back.
Ragnar circled in the sky and flew towards the depths of the desert, probably to find a place to rest.
However, unlike Ragnar, Beichen and his companions didn't have much time, because after competing with Su Mo for the initiative and getting off the dragon's back, Beichen changed his role and entered work mode:
"Yinyue, when will Yaye and the others arrive?"
"They said they used spirit crystals all the way here, so they'll probably be here tomorrow."
"Okay, let's go explore the surrounding areas of the wasteland today."
The two nodded to each other and strode towards the open-air convenience store on the side.
The long-awaited partnership operation began, and both of them felt a surge of nostalgia and excitement in their hearts.
What awaits them in the ruins deep in the desert?
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