"You're going to the Undead Swamp?"
At this moment, Song Ji looked terrified, as if he had heard something utterly unbelievable.
"Is the place we're going to called the Undead Swamp?" Yu Tu asked with some doubt. She didn't know how Void Blood Spirit described it, so her impression of the specific location was very vague.
"No, we can't go there!" Song Ji said firmly, while also advising Yu Tu, "Miss An, the Undead Swamp is not a place for normal people. It's a forbidden zone for life. Several teams have already gotten themselves trapped there while trying to pick the exotic fruits, and their fates are unknown!"
"It's alright, we don't need you to go, just give us directions!" Yu Tu didn't want to trouble others; the journey was much more comfortable for just the two of them, Jiang Yuan and herself.
Jiang Yuan raised his hand to signal Yu Tu to be quiet, and then asked Song Ji, "Brother Song, why can't we go to the Undead Swamp you mentioned? Is there some danger hidden there?"
“We don’t know the specifics either, but in the three days since the Haicheng mercenaries entered this ruin, several teams have perished in the Undead Swamp due to their arrogance, including some ninth-tier and super-ninth-tier mercenaries!” Song Ji said sternly in a terrifying tone.
"I remember now!" Luo Nan suddenly exclaimed. He quickly took out his mercenary token, and after opening the mercenary token's mission, a mission marked with a bright red letter A appeared in front of them.
“Look, someone posted an A-level mission last night, with a bounty of 50,000 ninth-tier Holy Spirit Stones. The mission is to bring back the surviving members of the Phantom Squad! The person who posted the mission is the Phantom Squad leader—He Yiping.” Luo Nan raised his head and slowly announced the final mission location, “Mission posting location—Undead Swamp!”
"What is the background of the Phantom Squad?" Jiang Yuan asked in a deep voice. He knew very little about the mercenaries in Haicheng. Apart from those he had traded with, he knew almost no other teams.
"Three days ago, the Phantom Squad was ranked fifth in the mercenary rankings in Haicheng. However, yesterday, the Phantom Squad's vice-captain died, causing the Phantom Squad's ranking to plummet to eighth. And today, the Phantom Squad has fallen out of the top twenty because there are rumors among mercenaries that the Phantom Squad suffered heavy casualties in the Undead Swamp and is facing the crisis of being wiped out." Luo Nan reported as if he knew the details by heart. As the captain of a mercenary squad, he was always paying attention to his squad's ranking.
"If the Phantom Squad was ranked fifth before, that means their team also has a Super Ninth Tier!" Jiang Yuan's expression became serious. A team with a Super Ninth Tier wouldn't be easily destroyed, after all, the purpose of a team is to play a cohesive role in various harsh environments.
"Yes, the Phantom Squad's captain and vice-captain are both at the Super Ninth Rank!" Luo Nan's tone was a mixture of envy and sympathy. The world doesn't become safer just because you become stronger. On the contrary, the stronger you are, the more dangers you face.
"Even two super ninth-tier beings couldn't get out of the Undead Swamp!"
Jiang Yuan seemed to be deep in thought; he knew he had to treat everything here with utmost care.
"So what if the Phantom Squad has two Super Ninth Tier members? They still have to issue a mission for help, and no one even dares to accept it!" Luo Nan said bitterly.
"I've heard that the Undead Swamp is full of undead monsters, it's really weird!" Guan Zian rarely chimed in, but while speaking, he cautiously glanced at Jiang Yuan and the other person's reactions. Only after seeing that the other person's expression showed no anger did he become bolder.
"Have you been there?" Jiang Yuan asked abruptly.
Guan Zian shook his head vigorously, explaining, "I heard it!"
Jiang Yuan rolled his eyes. He had guessed this would be the answer, but he didn't expect Luo Nan and his group to provide any substantial help. His focus was still on cooperating with An Xiaoyu.
"Little rabbit, what do you think?"
Yu Tu pondered seriously for a few seconds before saying, "Let's go take a look. If it's really as strange as they say, then we'll retreat; but if it's just hearsay, we can't let these 50,000 ninth-tier Holy Spirit Stones go!"
Jiang Yuan agreed with this approach and nodded, saying, "Okay, let's go take a look!"
“Since you two have both made your decision, our Fujiang team can’t just take the money and not do the job!” Luo Nan looked solemnly at his teammates. “Therefore, our Fujiang team is willing to go together!”
Jiang Yuan frowned. His original intention was simply to have Luo Nan and the others tell him the exact location of the Undead Swamp. He didn't want to bring a bunch of burdens with him, but now that they insisted on coming along, he had no choice.
They fought their way through thorns and brambles, encountering a strange beast almost every ten miles. Without exception, Jiang Yuan reaped all of these beasts, leaving the Fujiang team with no chance to even make a move.
"Miss An, has Brother Jiang been so brave and skilled in battle all the way?" Luo Nan asked in a scholarly tone.
They had arrived near the Swamp of Life and Death, and Jiang Yuan had dealt with almost all the strange beasts along the way by himself, drawing cheers from the Fujiang team.
Yu Tu smiled helplessly and said, "That's just how this guy is. He gets more excited about encountering a strange beast than a beautiful woman!"
"Really? A beauty like Miss An can't even make Brother Jiang's heart flutter?" Guan Zian asked in shock.
"If you're in love, you won't break up with me!" Yu Tu blurted out. This guy had been deliberately keeping his distance ever since he gathered his admiration, which was obviously a way to force a breakup through passive-aggressive behavior.
"Break up...break up?"
Luo Nan and the others all wore expressions of disbelief, especially Guan Zi'an, who kept glancing at Jiang Yuan, who was fighting with the strange beast in front of him, while his mind started to race. They had witnessed firsthand how terrifying An Xiaoyu's strength was.
If Jiang Yuan's reliance is his battle pet, then An Xiaoyu's reliance is her own ability. Not only does she have a tadpole-sized ninth-tier Void Blood Spirit, but she can also summon Void Monsters. Most importantly, she herself is a super ninth-tier.
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