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"Come to think of it, Ruixia and Ximu have known each other for a long time, haven't they?"
On the other side, the remaining two men were being dragged excitedly towards the base by the priestess girl. Sorens didn't know what he was thinking about, and suddenly asked this question.
"Not really..." Morina briefly looked up at the sky, thinking for a moment. "It's said that they first met after being dragged into this place, and happened to be imprisoned in dungeons facing each other, so they escaped together - at least that's what they told me."
"Oh, I see. Because they really looked familiar, I thought..."
"Right, right?"
Morina seemed to have completely misunderstood Sorens's meaning. Her eyes were shining, and she was obviously very confident in her own inference.
"I tell you, the first time I saw them, I knew something was wrong with them!"
There was no way. After all, from Morina's perspective at the time, the two of them, one with a red face and the other with a white face, scared her so much that she was stunned. They didn't look like teammates who had just met not long ago.
Moreover, compared to her, the priest who joined later, the interaction between the two was obviously more natural. Ximu seldom questioned Ruixia, and Ruixia was also very worried about Ximu's safety and would never let her go into danger just because she was the strongest.
This trust, this care - can these be ordinary teammates?
If they really met here for the first time, wouldn't it be love at first sight?!
Seeing the gossip spirit in the girl begin to burn, Sorens smiled helplessly, and Zhui Neng took a step back speechlessly.
After returning to the door of the base, Morina did not push the door open immediately, but instead eavesdropped through the crack of the door, which was really indescribable.
"It's not that serious..." Sorens smiled bitterly.
"Hey, it's only been a short while. What if we suddenly push the door open and disturb them?"
The short-haired girl spoke righteously, even making a gesture to keep quiet, and tried hard to hide by the door for a while.
It was not difficult to guess what she meant by "disturbance", but on the one hand, Sorens felt that Ruixia and Ximu's personalities would definitely not lead to such a situation, but on the other hand, he really wanted to know what would happen after the two of them went back hand in hand.
It has to be said that curiosity is human nature after all.
After struggling with his face, the brown-haired boy found an angle and also lay down by the door, muttering, "...but there's no movement."
"Oh, if it's just a little affection, it wouldn't make much noise—but oh, are you done talking? Why is there no sound at all? Are we back late?"
"No way, we're not that far behind them..."
"Okay, both of you get out of the way."
Unable to bear it any longer, Zhui Nian pushed them apart with one hand each, her disgust evident in her words: "The door is so tightly closed, how can you hear anything?"
I thought he had had enough of the two little brats' mischief and was ready to go in directly, but I didn't expect the man to cleverly apply force on the gap in the door. It seemed that the door didn't move at all, but a trace of air was already coming out from inside.
"You need to open a little to hear the sound, are you stupid?"
The girl who had always been at odds with him was startled, raised her thumb, and silently mouthed the word "master". Then both of them put aside their past grudges, lay down at the door together, and listened closely to the movements in the house.
There were indeed voices inside, but they were too far away to be heard clearly.
Just as they were thinking about whether to open the door a little further, the double doors that had been reinforced and modified by Ruixia suddenly opened automatically, and the three of them fell in together without warning.
The two young men were moving side by side on the ground, but Zhuiren was a mature adult after all, so he regained his footing after stumbling for a moment and did not cause any additional damage to his fallen teammate.
"...Why are you blocking the door?"
Ruisha poked her head out from the work area and looked at them in confusion.
Xi Mu, who was sitting nearby watching the screen, also turned around at the sound, glanced at the three people who had returned, and only asked if the fallen Molina was okay. After receiving the response of "nothing", she nodded and began to look intently at the structure and route of the workshop on the screen.
...So normal.
How come it's so normal as if nothing happened?
Molina didn't give up and jumped towards Ruixia: "By the way, what exactly did you guys just do..."
"ah."
Ruixia interrupted her in a rare moment of pretending to be in a daze, and said seriously, "Come to think of it, I was just about to tell you that Ximu just proposed some ideas on how to deal with the centipede monster in the workshop. Now that everyone is back, why don't we come together and see if it's feasible?"
With the blushing, heart-pounding atmosphere between you two just now, and the rush to come back to talk about something like this, could it be possible?!
Molina didn't believe it at all, but the other party was avoiding the issue and it was obvious that he didn't want to mention it.
But come to think of it, if Ruixia didn't handle it properly just now and his confession failed, it would be a bit embarrassing for her to get to the bottom of it...
No matter how gossipy one is, it can never surpass the friendship between teammates. Morina blinked, sighed unwillingly, and had to go along with it.
"So soon? Are our remaining supply reserves enough?"
Although she complained, Morina still honestly checked the inventory and prepared to count it again.
"If Ximu's plan succeeds, our expenditure this time might not be that great."
Following Ruixia's mysterious speech, everyone turned their eyes to him, and then turned to the location of the suspended Vulcan altar on the first floor of the workshop that Ximu had been observing.
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"My high and mighty gods..."
Standing in the defensive barrier set up by Sorens in advance, Molina held the staff and watched the terrifying long monster chasing Ximu from the other side of the blood-red corridor. Even though she was mentally prepared, she was still frightened by the scene.
Generally speaking, most monsters have their own territories and fixed ranges of activity, but based on their previous experience, as long as you alarm them and enter their attack range, unless they lose their target, they will chase you for a while even if you leave their inherent territory.
It is obviously not difficult for Ximu to control the balance between the two.
The silver-haired girl didn't even set foot on the bloody road. She just had to put one foot into the blood. When the monster roared and poked its head out of the forging room and pounced towards her, she turned around and ran quickly towards the altar.
After entering the agreed location, Ximu suddenly jumped high, luring the slender monster to stretch its body like a snake and pounce into the air!
At this moment, Ruixia, who was standing on the edge of the landscape mine, raised the magic crystal cannon and directly blasted the monster's only foothold at the moment - one of the countless arched stone bridges!
Suddenly losing its foothold, the centipede-shaped monster lost its balance and instinctively twisted its body to try to climb other nearby bridges, but was shot down one by one by Ximu and Zhui Ning who had been waiting for a long time. It could only watch itself fall into the bottomless abyss below.
There was originally a protective magic here to prevent pedestrians from falling, but fortunately it was not strong enough to seal it, so they had violently dismantled it in advance.
After the monster fell, a huge barrier rose up, but it only surrounded the upper part of the landscape mine.
This was also the countermeasure they had discussed in advance. They had finally lured the monster out of their territory, and they couldn't let it escape easily again.
This mine is bottomless. If it could just fall to its death, it would be the perfect situation with the least effort.
But... things don't always go so smoothly.
After a while, the strange climbing sound broke the silence again - without the interference of external enemies, the multi-talented craftsman easily stopped falling, and climbed up the rugged rock wall like a long worm, and soon returned to everyone's sight.
“Now!”
Following Ruixia's order, Sorens, who had been accumulating strength for a long time, immediately exerted his strength and quickly completed the lower half of the barrier, completely sealing the monsters, the altar, and a series of intricate arched stone bridges within a huge circular barrier.
Now it can't escape.
Ximu and Zhui'en led the monster to wander around the chapel. When it coiled around the flame statue symbolizing the God of Fire like a snake, the two of them used their respective restraining magic, one at the head and one at the tail, to nail the roaring monster directly on it!
The moment it was completed, the two of them immediately moved away from each other. Ruixia, who had already charged up her energy, raised her hand and fired a shot, which made the huge stone sculpture shake!
"Oh, gods..."
The priest, long accustomed to multitasking, while paying attention to his teammates' conditions, found a moment to sigh, "As a priest, I'm actually helping others bomb other gods' chapels. This is not something that can be solved by turning around and praying!"
"You're not serving the God of Fire, why are you so nervous?"
It was actually quite difficult for Sorens to maintain such a large barrier, but perhaps it was because he had slowly trained himself over the past few days, or because Morina had just replenished him with some magic power, he actually still had time to joke.
"That's not the way to say it..."
Not only Ruixia, but also Ximu and Zhui'en who were moving back and forth on the arch bridges were not idle either. They used their own long-range attacks to assist in the damage while keeping an eye on the monster's situation. Once it showed signs of breaking free, they would immediately restrain it to ensure that it could not get down from the sculpture at all.
If it were in its familiar home ground, it would probably have many ways to do it.
Those ubiquitous bloodstains are obviously its eyes. Once it leaves the range covered by the bloodstains, it will become blind and can only rely on the sounds of the enemy's movements to determine its direction.
And those forging tables in the room, with their hanging broken limbs and arms, might not just be decorations; they might provide unexpected benefits during battle...
Actually, it's not impossible for them to test each one of them one by one, and then go to the opponent's home turf and defeat it openly, but...
That would take too much time, wouldn't it?
Furthermore, if they always fought according to the enemy's prepared strategies, they would inevitably be put on the defensive. This wasn't a competition, and there was no need for fairness, justice, or reason.
As long as we can win, that's all that matters.
The monster had a sinuous body and moved extremely fast, but it was certainly not very resistant to attacks. After being tricked like this, it was completely unable to use any of its tricks. Apart from struggling and roaring in despair, it could only watch helplessly as its limbs were broken and shattered bit by bit under the attack of the heavy magic crystal cannon, becoming completely helpless.
Just as it was frantically gathering strength, as if preparing for a final fight, the silver-haired girl suddenly flashed from the smoke like a ghost to its back, facing the reversed, blind face, and chopped off the ignorant head with one knife!
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