"You fouled."
Luo Yan was playing a black ocarina when he suddenly heard a voice devoid of emotion.
She turned around abruptly.
"Xiao Ai!"
The girl who appeared behind her was Pastor Xiao Ai.
"When did you arrive?" Luo Yan asked sharply.
“I’ll say it,” Xiao Ai looked at her with an indifferent gaze, “you’ve broken the rules.”
"This is my own business!" Luo Yan felt that the person in front of him was very troublesome, but he didn't dare to turn against him directly.
"You've been exposed, do you know that?" Xiao Ai parted her lips slightly and tucked her hair behind her ear.
Luo Yan's pupils contracted as he watched her earring gradually turn black.
"You! What right do you have to tell me what to do!"
“Because my rank is higher than yours.” Xiao Ai didn’t hold back, and the black needle, as thin as a hair, pierced towards Luo Yan’s brow with lightning speed.
After a puff of smoke cleared, Xiao Ai stood alone, silently watching the direction she had fled.
"call……"
Luo Yan frantically darted through the ruins, a deep bloodstain on his face.
She was almost killed by Xiao Ai just now, which made her both angry and afraid.
Although the two were from the same organization, Xiao Ai was able to outmaneuver her. If it weren't for Xiao Ai's interference, Luo Yan felt that she could have taken care of everyone on the deserted island.
"So annoying! She loves to meddle in other people's business!"
Luo Yan clenched her fists tightly, but in a moment of distraction, she suddenly noticed a figure at the end of the road.
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"Hey, that person in front looks familiar."
"What is she doing? Sharpening a knife?"
Wang Xiaoqi and his three companions also got lost, and only found Xiao He by following the sounds around them.
However, the latter was so engrossed in their work that they completely ignored the approach of these people.
"Hey! What are you doing here?" Wang Xiaoqi asked, frowning.
Xiao He continued cutting the stone, throwing each piece into the warehouse without even glancing at it.
Wang Xiaoqi was immediately speechless with anger: "Hey, I'm talking to you!"
"Where's your pastor?" Xiao He asked while chopping, without answering his question.
"It fell from above and disappeared." Wang Xiaoqi was getting impatient. Xiao He's attitude of not taking him seriously was really infuriating!
Xiao He paused in his movements.
Then, with two quick cuts, he finished cutting the remaining stones and put them away. Without saying a word, he stood up and headed towards Wang Xuefeng's location.
"Hey! Wait a minute!" Wang Xiaoqi quickly caught up: "You know how to get here, right?"
The three girls behind them couldn't help but look at each other in bewilderment.
They also had a deep impression of Xiao He. Since Xiao He was here, it meant that Wang Xuefeng was also here.
The three men's eyes lit up, and they quickly followed behind him.
They didn't have any bad intentions; they were just a little bit gossipy.
"Hey, Xiao He, my name is Han Qingyu, I'm a fire mage, let's be friends!"
"My name is Meng Yuan, and I'm also a melee fighter. I'd like to exchange tips with you..."
"Me too! Me too! My name is Chen Jin! I'm an archer!"
Xiao He was somewhat speechless. This place was too complicated to fly or run, and if they insisted on following, he really couldn't shake them off.
"I have something to attend to right now, you'd better make yourselves at home."
"But...but we're lost..." The girl named Meng Yuan looked embarrassed.
"Then you can wait here for me. I'll come find you later," Xiao He said.
"We..." Han Qingyu rubbed her hands together, "We do have some capabilities, maybe we can help you?"
Although Chen Jin, the shortest of the three, didn't say anything, the expectant light in her eyes was no less than that of the other two.
Xiao He said helplessly, "Do as you please."
Wang Xiaoqi was dumbfounded and unknowingly "squeezed out" by the three girls.
Ahhhhh
Just then, a screeching scream suddenly came from afar, as if the person had seen some kind of demon or monster.
"They must have been those younger students from earlier, right?" Han Qingyu asked the other two.
Meng Yuan nodded: "It should be, there's no one else here."
"Ah!!" Chen Jin, who was standing to the side, also exclaimed in surprise.
Wang Xiaoqi, who was closest to her, was startled: "What are you doing! You call out to everyone else?!"
"No... didn't you notice there are a lot of skeletons here?"
Chen Jin seemed to be very timid. Just now, she had only accidentally stepped on and broken a bone in her hand, and she wanted to jump up and hit the ceiling.
"Um...didn't they say...skeleton monsters...are very ferocious?" she added weakly, even unconsciously hugging her bow tighter.
"What are you thinking? There's a forbidden spell-level seal here, you know?" Meng Yuan seemed to be blaming her for making a mountain out of a molehill.
"Let's be careful now, the seal has been broken," Xiao He suddenly interjected.
"..."
"..."
Before they could question whether it was a joke, the ground suddenly began to tremble violently.
It was as if the entire city was slowly rising, and the skeletons lying haphazardly around it made a sickening grinding sound.
"What's the name of the priest in your team? What's his background?" Xiao He asked as he drew his sword.
"Are you talking about Luo Yan? She's a transfer student, and we don't know much about her background."
As Han Qingyu answered, she summoned her magic wand and began to chant skillfully.
"Help!!"
A series of disordered footsteps came from ahead.
It seemed that the students had seen Han Qingyu's flames, and they all struggled to run in that direction as if they had found a lifeline.
Chen Jin immediately nocked an arrow and provided cover for the fleeing students.
"Whoosh—"
"Bang!"
Before the arrows could reach them, a bullet shattered a skeleton in the road.
Chen Jin looked up with some surprise. Although she couldn't see anyone in the darkness, her sixth sense told her that it was indeed Wang Xuefeng.
Xiao Ai frowned as she watched all this from the exit. Knowing she couldn't stop it, she quietly slipped away.
[Xiao He: So, what did you find?]
[Wang Xuefeng: I shot that woman, and I threw the flute into the warehouse for Xiao Xing to study.]
[Xiao He: What's going on here?]
[Wang Xuefeng: She started by resurrecting this city. Given the number of skeletons, once this city returns to the surface, things might get a bit complicated outside.]
[Xiao He: Can it still be stopped?]
[Wang Xuefeng: We can't stop resurrection, we can only stop ascension, for example, by closing all channels]
[Xiao He: Wouldn't that mean locking all these people, including us, up here?]
Wang Xuefeng: Hmm
[Xiao He: Go]
It was as if Wang Xuefeng had been waiting in front of the mechanism for a long time. As soon as their conversation ended, they clearly felt that the upward trend came to an abrupt halt.
At this moment, the dome was only a few meters above the ground, but the resurrected skeletons were unaware of it. Because Luo Yan, who had resurrected them, was already dead, their "consciousness" was merely in a detached state.
Xiao He didn't explain to the students, but turned around and retreated back to the base of the giant stone.
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