Du Yuan's spiritual body was thus alienated.
Leading the group was Rong Cheng, whom Sang Yegang was still thinking about. As she rushed into the hall, she took off her thermal combat uniform and turned around to yell angrily, "You idiot, you cut my combat uniform, didn't you! You wait! See how I deal with you!"
Her spiritual form, a three-legged golden crow, flew beside her, and with each movement, it angrily spewed several streams of flame at the prisoners being escorted by the sentries behind her.
The three-legged golden crow was only a little over three meters long at this moment, its golden light shining brightly and radiating a dazzling brilliance and warmth.
With a hint of ferocity, Rong Cheng ripped off his combat uniform, which was almost frozen solid. A huge tear had been cut open on it by a sharp weapon, and it was stained with mottled blood. On Rong Cheng's back, the wound that was healing was still oozing blood, which stained the undershirt and was almost stuck to the skin.
The three captives from the snow mountain tribe, escorted by the sentries, were all unable to escape. They were dressed in distinctive ethnic costumes, with large bones hanging on their chests, and their skin was rough and reddish.
The one who tore through Rongcheng's protective suit was a petite woman. Her black hair was braided into two pigtails and tied in front of her chest.
Her appearance made Kuwano feel inexplicably familiar.
"Pah!" She was not afraid at all upon hearing this, nor was she intimidated by the fact that she had come to the enemy's territory. She even spat at Rong Cheng.
"You!" Rong Cheng was furious, wishing he could rush up and beat you to death.
"Rong Cheng!" Sangye hurriedly called out, running forward to pull her back. "You're so badly injured, don't get agitated!"
The hall was already heated. Rong Cheng had only changed into a regular combat uniform, which could be zipped open in the front and back for easy application of medicine and ventilation.
The prisoners were taken to a small room next to the hall, where a simple cell had been made.
After Rong Cheng finished packing, she and her team sat down around the campfire in Sangye and began scrambling for the roasted lamb.
"Don't take mine!"
"First come, first served."
Rong Cheng doesn't particularly like roasted whole lamb; she prefers lamb skewers, which are half lean and half fatty. She enjoys a bowl of fish and lamb soup, sprinkled with chili oil and a few spoonfuls of vinegar. After drinking it hot and spicy, she feels full of energy. Then she mixes it with freshly cooked rice noodles and eats with great pleasure.
Lin Changli was pushed aside, still clutching the half-eaten rice ball in his hand.
But he looked thoughtfully at the "cell".
"That woman was like she didn't care about her life. Everyone else ran away, but she still wanted to fight me to the death. She even tore my combat suit, trying to freeze me to death." Rong Cheng complained while eating. "Luckily, my spiritual body is a three-legged golden crow, otherwise she really could have succeeded."
Jinwu stood on the grill, its two claws spinning around playfully, while the other claw held a skewer of roasted lamb. The spirit form fed on spiritual energy, but could also drink nutrient solution to restore its energy when it left its body. It ate a bite of meat as it spun the grill.
"However, I have never seen her before. I have never seen such a powerful person in the Snow Mountain Tribe. Her mental strength is probably at level A. If I hadn't been able to suppress her and the Golden Crow hadn't been able to restrain her mental body, the outcome would have been hard to say."
“She is the high priestess of the Snow Mountain tribe, Minur,” Lin Changli said calmly. “She doesn’t usually leave the tribe, so something must have happened within her tribe.”
*
As no one expected, Minur was unable to utter a single word during the interrogation, and the two sentries she brought back with her seemed to have fallen into a state of mental exhaustion, completely devoid of life.
“Minur, if you tell me the whereabouts of Lieutenant General Kliu and the sentries, I will let you go.” Even though Aso Ment made such a promise, Minur remained silent with his eyes half-closed.
“Minur, the reason you're still sitting here, physically intact and mentally sound, isn't because I have a high moral compass, but because I once signed the ‘Interstellar Anti-Torture POW Agreement,’ and besides, there are too many people around here. If I torture you, I'll be demoted.” Aso stood up coldly, leaned close to Minur, and spoke in a very low voice, but with a heavy sense of threat.
"But there are always times when others can't see it, and that's not difficult for me to do. Don't think that just because you're an A-level Sentinel you can withstand it. Neither you nor the two beside you want to go through my torture. Think it over carefully. I advise you to accept my conditions. All I want is for my subordinates to return safely. Everything else can be discussed later."
Minur lowered his eyes, remained silent, and his expression remained arrogant, indifferent, and unmoved.
Enraged, Aso Ment slammed the door shut and stormed out.
The people outside the door also looked indignant. If the person inside were a guide, they probably wouldn't have been treated so roughly, but it was a different story with the sentry.
But just as Aso Ment slammed the door shut, a series of crackling explosions suddenly came from inside the house, accompanied by Minur's screams. She, who had been completely unmoved, seemed to have lost all self-control.
Aso Mente quickly turned back, and the Gu Diao erected a mental barrier in front of her.
The two sentries beside Minur seemed to have taken some kind of growth hormone, their bodies growing several times larger, their limbs beginning to mutate into sharp claws and teeth of spiritual beings, their faces growing scales and feathers, making them extremely terrifying, and they were also making "hoho" roars like wild beasts.
Minur stood before them, his face filled with a sorrowful sense of relief.
The alienated sentinel lost all reason and became a beast that could only wreak havoc. With a single gesture, it knocked the cell door away.
Several vines swept down from the ground and tightly bound the two men's limbs.
A snow-white, red-eyed, long-eared beast suddenly appeared, biting one of the men's calves and carrying him away from the crowd. Several vines spread from its body, swaying continuously.
The call of crows followed closely behind.
Panhu.
It turns out that her spiritual entity was not a plant, but Panhu, a divine dog capable of controlling plants.
Rong Cheng stood in front of Sangye.
"Even after all this, you still won't tell the truth?! Why did they mutate?" Aso grabbed Minur and seized the opportunity to interrogate him. "I brought guides with me. If you still don't tell the truth, I'll send them to their deaths and I will never save them."
Minur closed his eyes, seemingly unwilling to recall the nightmares of the past few days.
“They…ate the black crystal and used radiation to evolve their spiritual bodies,” Minur revealed.
"How dare you! Your Snow Mountain tribe doesn't even have guides, how dare you provoke a spiritual being?" Aso seemed to have heard something unbelievable, finding it absurd.
"Some time ago... a guide suddenly appeared on the old royal family's travel ship. We don't know her origins, but she is very powerful. The chief decided to use her to help the people through this period of change. But recently, this guide ran away and her whereabouts are unknown; our tribe has also run out of black crystals."
That's why the Snow Mountain tribe chose to invade the Snow Mountain base. First, they forced the Snow Mountain garrison to leave, then they mined up a large amount of minerals while constantly searching for the guide.
"Suddenly appearing on a travel ship? What are you talking about? What's that guide's name?!" Aso didn't believe this nonsense at all and insisted on getting a logical answer.
"...She said her name was Du Yuan."
Sangye and Rongcheng both looked at Minur at the same time, their faces showing identical shock.
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