Riri Saotome had thought about finding treasure, but the treasure she had in mind was either gold, silver, jewelry, or some exquisite art antiques. But Riri Saotome would never have thought that she would actually find a person?
Wait, Mr. Fang Zheng and Miss Feili said before that this city has been occupied for nearly a hundred years!
Recalling the introduction that Fili had given them on the Void Radiance, Lei Zi felt a chill down her spine.
Could it be that he is already dead...that's not right?
If she was dead, she would have turned into bones in the past 100 years. Moreover, Saten Ruiko looked carefully and found that it was just an ordinary box. There were no wires connected to it, and it didn't look like a glass jar in a movie. Moreover, the chest of the girl inside was still rising and falling slightly, which meant that she was still breathing!
Just fell asleep!
"How are you?"
Ruizi curiously lay beside the box, carefully stretched out her finger and poked the girl's cheek.
Wow, what a beautiful girl, her skin is white, soft and smooth, and her eyelashes are so long, she looks so beautiful...
At this moment, Lei Zi was staring at the girl in front of her, and she was also fascinated. And under Lei Zi's gaze, the girl slowly opened her eyes.
"Woooooa ...
This also scared Lei Zi, and she stood up quickly. The girl slowly stood up under Lei Zi's gaze and walked out of the box.
"Um... hello?"
Looking at the girl in front of her, Riri Saotome greeted her cautiously.
"My name is Saten Ruiko, what's your name? Can you understand what I'm saying?"
“…”
The girl slowly raised her head, as if she was thinking, or as if she had just woken up from a dream and had not yet come to her senses. Then she walked towards the door without saying a word.
"Hey? Wait, where are you going?"
Seeing that the girl seemed to want to leave, Riri Saotome was confused and hurriedly chased after her.
"There's no one in this city anymore. I heard from Miss Fili that this place has been occupied by polluted beasts for almost a hundred years. There are only a few of us here... Ah, why don't I take you to see Mr. Fang Zheng? You can tell him if you have any problems. I think Mr. Fang Zheng will definitely help you solve them..."
"……odor……"
"Why?"
However, before Riri Saotome could finish her words, she was interrupted by the blue-haired girl.
"Hate."
“…Huh? Huh?”
"You smell like a human."
The blue-haired girl slowly looked towards Saten Ruiko, then turned her head away again.
"So, I hate you."
"……Why?!!"
Faced with the girl's sudden declaration, Ruizi was also stunned, not knowing what to say. After the girl finished speaking, she walked forward again.
“Ah, wait for me…!”
Although she was a little confused, Ruizi didn't want to let such a girl wander around the city alone, so she hurriedly chased after her.
"Um...what's your name?"
“…”
"Really? This city has been abandoned. It's very dangerous for you to be alone. Oh, don't worry, we are not bad people. Mr. Fang Zheng just came to the city center to investigate something..."
As she was talking, the blue-haired girl in front stopped. It was not because she heard what Ruizi said, but because... the road ahead had collapsed.
"Well... to be honest, you should come back with me to find Mr. Fang Zheng first. We only got into this place using special methods. If you want to get out, it's probably impossible..."
It was not until this time that the blue-haired girl turned around and looked at Lei Zi. However, just as she was about to speak, suddenly, a sharp "squeak" sound was heard. The next moment, the steel plate under the blue-haired girl's feet suddenly broke, and then the blue-haired girl was seen falling directly down!
"not good!"
“Bang!!”
Riri Saten also reacted quickly enough and grabbed the girl's hand the moment she fell. At the same time, Riri Saten's other hand also grabbed the railing next to her.
"Hurry, come up quickly..."
“…”
The blue-haired girl looked at Saten Ruiko holding her hand with an incredible expression, but she immediately stretched out her other hand towards Saten Ruiko.
However, at this moment...
“Crack…Crack…”
After all, this was a structure built more than a hundred years ago. After such a long period of exposure to wind and rain, it had already decayed. The railing that Ruiko used to stabilize her body began to bend and break. Feeling the slowly twisting railing in her hand, Ruiko Saten's face turned green.
"Hurry! I, I can't hold on any longer..."
“Bang!”
At this moment, the blue-haired girl's other hand finally grabbed Saten Ruiko, but...
"clang!!"
At this moment, the railing finally reached its limit and broke suddenly with a piercing noise. Riri Saotome, who had lost her balance, was directly dragged down by the blue-haired girl. The two of them fell down the broken passage stairs and fell into darkness!
"Wow... I'm going to die! Catch me!"
At this moment, Rinko Saten also shouted loudly, then she grasped the blue-haired girl's hand tightly and held her in her arms. At the same time, Rinko Saten clenched her teeth, and soon, a violent hurricane emerged from Rinko Saten's side and turned into a jet of air, which immediately slowed down the speed of the two people's falling. Then Rinko Saten stretched out her hand and slapped the side hard. The two of them immediately rotated sideways and rolled to the ground the moment they landed. After holding the girl and making several turns on the ground, they finally stopped.
"Huh... Fortunately, fortunately..."
At this moment, Riri Saotome also slowly let out a sigh of relief. You know, she really thought she was dead just now... It seems that exploring the ruins is not that easy.
"Are you okay?"
Thinking of this, Riri Saotome hurriedly looked at the blue-haired girl in her arms and asked, while the blue-haired girl shook her head slightly.
"Huh... I'm glad you're okay. Can you stand up?"
As she spoke, Riri Saten stood up and extended her hand to the blue-haired girl. The blue-haired girl stared at Riri Saten's hand for a moment, then reached out, held Riri Saten's hand and stood up.
"Ugh...what should I do now?"
Looking at the unfamiliar surroundings, Leizi realized something was wrong. Her flashlight had been broken when she rescued Lei, but her cell phone was still in her pants pocket. However...
"Ah, no signal, that's only natural."
Looking at the words "outside the circle" on the screen, Lei Zi remained calm. After all, this was another world. It would be abnormal if there was a signal.
"Anyway, I'll just stay here for now. If Mr. Fang Zheng and the others find out that I'm missing, they'll definitely come looking for me. But... they'll probably scold me a lot."
At this point, Lei Zi felt a little dejected. She could foresee that Mr. Fang Zheng might not bring her here again after this time. After all, she was simply causing trouble… Although strictly speaking, this should not be considered her fault, there was no point in discussing this now.
"On the way back, Shirai-san will keep nagging me...ah...Hatsuharu isn't here either, I guess I'm doomed this time...!"
However, before she could finish her words, Riri Saotome suddenly stopped.
Not because of anything else, but because of fear.
An instinctive sense of fear came over me, warning me that something dangerous was approaching...
"boom!!"
Suddenly, at the same time, the ground not far from Saten Ruiko and the blue-haired girl suddenly collapsed, and then a huge beetle-like monster poked its head out from it, staring at Saten Ruiko. It looked similar to the group Fang Zheng had encountered before, but it was relatively smaller in size. The monsters Fang Zheng had encountered were as big as heavy tanks, but this monster was about the size of an ordinary motorcycle.
But for Riri Saotome, this is obviously terrifying enough!
"This is the pollution beast!?"
Although Riri Saotome had never seen a pollution beast, Fang Zheng had told them about it. When she saw this horrific monster, she immediately thought of it.
“BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!”
And then, several more polluted beasts came out from the ground, staring coldly at Saten Ruiko. Seeing this, Saten Ruiko grabbed the blue-haired girl's hand without hesitation and turned around and ran away.
“Follow me!”
Originally, Ruiko Saten wanted to stay where she was and wait for rescue, but now the monster arrived before the people, so she had no choice but to run for her life. Ruiko Saten's judgment of her own ability was still very accurate. If the opponent was a human, Ruiko Saten might be able to fight back to some extent, but facing this kind of monster, Ruiko Saten had no experience, and she was not sure whether her ability would work against these monsters...
So at this time, among the thirty-six strategies, running away is the best one!
Thinking of this, Lei Zi grabbed the blue-haired girl's hand and hurriedly ran towards the passage on the other side.
"boom--!!"
However, at the same time, from all directions, polluted beasts crawled out from the ground and pounced on Lei Zi and the blue-haired girl.
In this situation, Ruizi soon realized that the situation was not good.
"We are surrounded..."
Standing at the entrance of the T-shaped passage, looking at the polluted beasts in all directions, Lei Zi's expression changed slightly.
"There's nothing I can do..."
Muttering to herself, Ruizi looked at the blue-haired girl beside her.
"I will attack to the right and try to open a gap. You must run out immediately and call Mr. Fang Zheng to save me. I will try my best to hold on until then!"
"……Why?"
At this moment, the blue-haired girl grabbed Lei Zi's hand and looked at her silently.
"Why do you want to save me?"
"Because I want to be friends with you."
In response to the blue-haired girl's answer, Ruizi smiled slightly and then raised the sword in her hand.
"I don't know who you are, nor do I know what you've been through, but that's why I want to be your friend. And since someone is in danger in front of me, I can't just stand by and watch them die! If this continues, we'll both die. In that case, at least I can save one of them!"
After saying this, the airflow on Lei Zi's body suddenly burst out, and the next moment, Lei Zi rushed forward with a whistle, raising the long sword at the polluted beast in front of him! Seeing the prey coming to the door, the polluted beast also raised its forelimbs and swung it hard at Lei Zi.
"Wind Barrier!"
At the moment the polluted beast launched an attack, Lei Zi suddenly swung her sword, and a whistling wind rose from the ground, forming a barrier to block the attack of the polluted beast. Then Lei Zi gripped the sword tightly, and the airflow on her body quickly rotated and spread.
"Wild Wind Slash!"
As the sharp blade was swung, the wind was compressed, swung, and shot out quickly. The rotating hurricane tightly entangled the polluted beast in front of it like a chain, and its forelimbs were completely cut off. Suffering from this pain, the polluted beast also let out a roar.
"Okay, I succeeded!"
Seeing this, Lei Zi shouted out in excitement, but what happened in the next second surprised her.
The cut-off forelimb of the contaminated beast suddenly grew a new layer of tender flesh, and then hardened rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just a blink of an eye, the forelimb of the contaminated beast was restored to its original state!
“No way!”
Seeing this scene, Lei Zi was also stunned, but she had no time to think about it, because at this moment, the storm used to restrain the monsters had weakened, and the pollution beast roared, broke free from the wind's recovery, and swung at Lei Zi again!
"not good!!"
"Bang!!"
This time, Lei Zi only had time to raise the sword in her hand, but the next moment she was knocked away by the polluted beast and hit the wall behind her heavily.
“Woo!!”
The intense impact mixed with pain made Lei Zi scream. She opened her eyes and could only vaguely see a squirming shadow.
Oops, I have to stand up quickly...
Ruizi wanted to stand up, but the previous blow had left her with considerable trauma. When she moved, she felt a burning pain all over her body, and the strength flowed out of her body like the gas in a burst balloon.
“Pah.”
However, at this moment, Ruizi suddenly realized that someone was holding her right hand. She turned her head and saw the blue-haired girl looking at her silently.
"Why... don't you run?"
"I don't understand. You are a human being, but you are different from others... Because you are different from others... So..."
As the blue-haired girl spoke, the next moment, the wind suddenly burst out, wrapping up Lei Zi and the girl.
This is... the wind? Could this girl also be a user with special abilities?
Seeing this scene, Ruizi was shocked. However, at this moment, the blue-haired girl was holding her hand, and her clear and sweet voice emerged in Ruizi's mind.
"A beautiful starry night, a thread of attraction, they fall in love with each other, in the sky, the fear of being caught up is hidden deep in their hearts..."
What is this? It feels like it came directly from my mind...
Listening to this sound, Lei Zi also found that her entire body seemed to merge with the wind. She didn't see it at all. At the same time, a mysterious symbol appeared on her forehead...
The next moment, Lei Zi opened her eyes again, but...
"What is this!"
Looking at the huge azure blade in her right hand, Riri Saotome was completely stunned.