Night stood beside Lin Nai, gripping his arm slightly.
Shirley saw this and suddenly smiled, as if she understood something: "I see... Hello, my name is Shirley, and I'm from the Kingdom of Jian."
Nightfall bowed slightly: "My name is Gao Xuan..."
Night deepened.
Looking at the night outside, Lin Nai said, "Let's rest here for the night. Tomorrow we'll continue our journey to Ancheng. What about you?"
“I want to go to the capital.” Shirley hesitated for a moment before saying, “I have a friend there. We haven’t been in touch since the demonic tide three years ago. I want to go and see if she’s still alive.”
Linna: "The closer we get to the capital, the more monsters there will be. And even if your friend is still alive, she may have already been brainwashed and controlled."
Shirley bit her lip: "Even so, I still want to see it with my own eyes..."
Lin Nai nodded. Although he and Shirley knew each other and had met once before and helped each other, their relationship was not close enough for them to be completely open with each other. Therefore, Lin Nai did not intend to tell her his plans: "Since it is your insistence, then fine. Get a good rest tonight, and we will each take our own actions tomorrow."
Sherry: "Mm."
The cave was fairly large, but there was only a fire, no tents, no blankets, no pillows, so we had to sleep on the ground against the cave walls.
Fortunately, superhuman warriors don't need to be so particular in the wild.
Sherry leaned against the cave wall, even sleeping with her huge black scythe in her arms. She closed her eyes and fell asleep quickly. It seemed that wandering alone in the wild for the past few days had really exhausted her. This was probably the first night she had a companion in all this time.
Linna and Yewan leaned against the other side of the cave.
"Were you jealous just now?" Lin Nai asked, amused, as she gently pinched the girl's nose.
"No...no..." Night'er was too embarrassed to admit it, her cheeks flushed slightly. In fact, when she thought about it now, she didn't know why she had impulsively said that.
"No... didn't you say that since we're pretending to be a couple in public, we should act naturally... so that no one can tell...?"
The girl's voice was barely audible, and her head drooped lower and lower as she spoke, almost disappearing into her neck.
“Yes, that’s right.” Lin Nai said, opening her arms to indicate, “In that case, let’s just snuggle together and sleep like an old married couple.”
Night Child: "..."
The girl hesitated for a while, but finally blushed and leaned closer, resting her back on Lin Nai's arm. Then she tilted her head slightly and gently nestled her petite body against Lin Nai's shoulder.
Lin Nai raised an eyebrow slightly, not expecting the girl to actually come closer.
Girl: "Is...that's how it is?"
Linnaeus: "Yes, that's right."
Nightfall nestled in Lin Nai's arms like a zombie, too afraid to move. Her heart pounded like a deer's. She cautiously raised her eyes to look up and found Lin Nai staring straight at her. She quickly looked away.
"I...I'm sleepy, I want to go to sleep..."
"Okay, go to sleep, goodnight."
"......"
Time passed by, minute by minute. After more than ten minutes, the girl's stiff body gradually relaxed, and she slowly fell asleep on Lin Nai's shoulder.
Linnai gazed into the deep night, where purple mist and darkness intertwined in the cave, lost in thought. After a while, he gradually closed his eyes for a short rest.
"Rumble, rumble, rumble..."
"Knock knock knock knock..."
"Rumble, rumble..."
After an unknown amount of time, Lin Nai suddenly sensed an unusual sound and abruptly opened her eyes.
The ground beneath them and the cave walls behind them were also trembling slightly!
Night, nestled in her arms, also woke up, opened her eyes, and looked at Lin Nai: "What's wrong?"
"It sounds like the footsteps of a horde of monsters..." Lin Nai frowned and listened intently.
The footsteps were very mixed and heavy, and there seemed to be a great many of them!
The sound was like experiencing the great migration across the African savanna.
Several hundred? It seems like more than that...
Several thousand? More than that...
Tens of thousands?
Even... it seems there's more!
The heavy, dense footsteps seemed to be mixed with continuous roars of beasts!
Linna immediately got up, kicked out the fire, and then woke Sherry: "Hey, hey! Wake up! There's a horde of monsters nearby!!"
"Wh-what??"
Upon hearing Linnaeus's words, Sherry, who had been dazed, immediately snapped out of her daze and stood up, gripping the Grim Reaper's Scythe.
"Shh, don't go out!" Lin Nai shushed, then turned and winked at Ye Wan'er.
Night nodded and immediately raised her hand to form a hand seal: "Superpower - Barrier!"
A transparent, colorless light suddenly spread out, forming a small barrier that enveloped the three of them.
Linna squinted, looking out of the cave.
Soon, he saw a massive, dark tide of demons...
In the hazy interplay of purple mist and night, one could vaguely see tens of thousands of demons gathering and advancing in an orderly fashion, like a herd of migrating beasts, or an army marching through the night!
Sherry broke out in a cold sweat.
Due to the purple mist and the darkness of night, she couldn't see exactly how many monsters were outside, but she could get a general idea from the footsteps and the low growls of the monsters.
The number is definitely more than just a few hundred thousand!
Many monsters passed by within ten meters of them, but due to the barrier, they did not notice them.
This was the first time Sherry had ever seen such a large group of monsters up close.
Three years ago, in the city of Fede in the Kingdom of Jian, she had witnessed a tidal wave of hundreds of thousands of demons from the city wall, but that was from a distance of hundreds of meters, and the feeling was completely different from what she experienced now...
"How come there are suddenly so many monsters?"
Sherry lowered her voice and couldn't help but ask.
Linna narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice, "It seems that they have been summoned by some kind of call and are gathering together to migrate. These monsters should all be heading towards the capital."
"Why are they all gathering in the capital?" Shirley wondered.
Linnaeus: "How would I know?"
"Buzzing..."
At that moment, a low buzzing sound suddenly came from underground.
"Click!"
The ground cracked! A long fissure appeared between Linnaeus and Sherry.
Lin Nai sensed something was wrong: "Damn, there are some underground too..."
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