Chapter 100: The blond-haired, purple-eyed boy.
On the other side, there was a different scene.
Zhou Yanyao and Qi Linzheng stood together, weapons in hand, watching the object in front of them warily.
It was a pitch-black "monster".
Its shape was terrifying, its dark color like a shadow, its genitals strange, and as it crawled closer, a wet, sticky sound kept coming from it.
“Yaozi,” Qi Lin said calmly.
Zhou Yanyao replied without hesitation, "Yes, I know. Same as always, I'll go first, and you watch when the time is right."
The two were not afraid of the terrifying monster and acted together in perfect harmony, clearly not the first time they had done this.
After a difficult battle, the monster let out a sharp, piercing cry, twitched a few times, and finally stopped moving.
Qi Lin stepped forward and, expressionless, delivered a few more blows to the monster, displaying remarkable caution.
Zhou Yanyao poked the dead monster with the tip of his weapon and said with disgust, "This monster's appearance is really... disgusting."
Qi Lin: "You're disgusting, yet you use weapons to rummage through its corpse."
Zhou Yanyao scratched his head and chuckled twice, not feeling there was anything wrong with his behavior of checking while expressing disgust: "I just saw that in many games, after defeating monsters, some things drop."
"For example, items or potions, what if they drop too? Wouldn't it be a huge loss if we didn't pick them up?"
Qi Lin actually thought Zhou Yanyao was right.
If there are any benefits, then at least it's a gain.
Unfortunately, the monsters here don't drop anything when you kill them.
However, Qi Lin wasn't dissatisfied at all. The fact that the two of them could still run and jump after coming down from the crevice was already a stroke of good luck.
You should know that when they first came down from the crevice, due to some special force, both he and Zhou Yanyao suffered very serious injuries and almost died here.
If it weren't for the discovery of a peculiar herb, it's hard to say what would have become of him and Zhou Yanyao by now.
“But Lao Qi, have you noticed that our strength has been constantly increasing since we came in here?” Zhou Yanyao said thoughtfully.
Qi Lin: "It would be strange if our strength didn't increase if we kept killing monsters."
Moreover, Qi Lin suspected that it might also be related to the herbs they had previously discovered and ingested.
This is what is called "opportunity," turning misfortune into blessing.
Qi Lin sometimes felt that agreeing to come down the rift with Zhou Yanyao was an extremely impulsive act. However, danger also hides opportunities. Sometimes, opportunities come with huge risks and are fleeting. It all depends on whether you are willing to seize them.
Moreover, when Zhou Yanyao saw Ning Wanwan fall, he didn't say anything and was about to jump into the crevice after her.
Letting this guy go into the crevice alone, he might really die here.
All things considered, Qi Lin's decision to follow was a well-considered one.
Moreover, Qi Lin was also eager to know if his good brother's "sweetheart" was alright.
If something really happens, Yaozi will probably be heartbroken.
Qi Lin let out a breath, suppressing the inexplicable anxiety that had been affecting him.
Zhou Yanyao had dropped his earlier forced smile and was staring at the dead monster on the ground, lost in thought.
Qi Lin knew that the other party was definitely thinking...
“Old Qi, tell me,” Zhou Yanyao suddenly said in a low voice, still staring at the monster’s corpse with his head down, “if Wanwan falls into the crevice, will she encounter these monsters like we did?”
Qi Lin: "Possibly."
Zhou Yanyao was silent for a moment, then asked with some difficulty, "Can she stop these monsters?"
Qi Lin didn't speak, but both of them knew that the chances of winning were very slim.
Even with Qi Lin and Zhou Yanyao, who have become stronger, it would take them a lot of effort to kill such a monster together, let alone in a situation like Ning Wanwan's.
Zhou Yanyao suddenly strode forward.
"Where are you going?" Qi Lin frowned and called out to him.
"Old Qi, I'm not planning to rest anymore." Zhou Yanyao paused, without turning his head, his voice a little hoarse, "I want to keep going... until I find Wanwan."
"Otherwise, Lao Qi, I really can't put my mind at ease..."
Qi Lin calmly pointed out, "Your body won't be able to hold on like this sooner or later."
"We are all human beings, and we don't have unlimited energy."
Zhou Yanyao: "...I know."
But knowing this is one thing, but if people could control their emotions at all times, how could they be called "human"?
Ning Wanwan is Zhou Yanyao's Achilles' heel, an uncontrollable emotional entanglement.
Qi Lin stared at Zhou Yanyao for a while, seemingly trying to assess his physical condition.
"Alright." Qi Lin picked up his weapon and said, "We still have the energy, let's go and kill another monster."
...
Ning Wanwan felt very tired, and she could barely keep her eyes open.
Strangely, once she was out of that dark space, she felt a surge of physical hunger, thirst, and exhaustion that overwhelmed her instantly.
In addition, a strange chill, as if it were penetrating flesh and blood and passing through the heart, came over me. It felt more like it was penetrating my soul than the chill that was felt on my body.
He had no strength left to move.
No… I have to wake up quickly and check my surroundings… What if the “monster” Jiang Yuyuan mentioned comes at this moment, and I don’t have time to take out the medicine? Wouldn’t I just be waiting to die?
But I'm so tired...
Strange, why do I want to open my eyes? What did I want to do? I can't quite remember right now.
There doesn't seem to be anything to do... I hope there won't be any danger...
"Hey, are you alright? Wake up."
A series of human shaking came, persistent and unwavering, as if it wouldn't stop until she woke up.
Ning Wanwan struggled to open her eyes for a while before finally being shaken awake.
"Hmm..."
She struggled to open her sleepy eyelids, which seemed to be glued together, and saw a face full of concern.
"You're finally awake! Seeing you unconscious here, I was so afraid you'd die any second now." The other person breathed a huge sigh of relief when they saw Ning Wanwan open her eyes.
Ning Wanwan's mind was still blank and confused. She hadn't realized what had happened and stared blankly at the person in front of her.
The person speaking in front of me was a very young boy with very distinctive, bright blond hair and violet eyes.
His appearance is very striking; when he smiles, he has a shallow dimple on his cheek, which is as sweet as if it were filled with mead.
He is a very approachable boy who seems innocent and pure at first glance.
Ning Wanwan: "You...where is this?"
"Haven't you figured out your situation yet? Take a look around you." The blond, purple-eyed boy sighed helplessly. "You're unconscious in the snow. The snowstorm is so strong, I almost couldn't see you."
"Luckily, I have good eyesight and saw you lying on the ground. Otherwise, you would have frozen to death if you had stayed here."
After being reminded by the boy, Ning Wanwan noticed that everything around her was a vast expanse of white, and the cold, sharp snow was lashing her face, chilling her to the bone.
"hiss!"
Ning Wanwan only belatedly realized the suffocating cold that enveloped her; the thin clothing she wore offered no protection against the frigid weather.
She couldn't help but take a deep breath. The icy air, mixed with wind and snow, suddenly rushed into her mouth and nose, choking her and causing her to cough and gasp for breath.
"Oh! Are you alright?"
The other person quickly patted her back to help her catch her breath, and noticing that she was shivering from the cold, immediately took off their coat and draped it over her.
Warm clothes, still carrying the other person's body heat, fell onto her body. Ning Wanwan instinctively wrapped them tighter, absorbing the warmth, which stopped her trembling so badly.
"Thank you..." She looked up, tucked the hair that was obscuring her vision behind her ear, and said softly.
Her messy hair was brushed aside, and Ning Wanwan's face was finally fully revealed.
The girl's face was frozen white, with a few snowflakes clinging to her eyelashes, and the tip of her nose was slightly red from the cough she had just coughed.
The way she pulled her clothes tighter and thanked them while shivering looked just like a pitiful little animal that had been frozen senseless.
Upon seeing the girl's face clearly, the blond boy slightly widened his purple eyes.
Then he smiled, without a hint of surprise: "You're welcome. Are you feeling better now?"
Ning Wanwan nodded.
The blond boy seemed relieved and gave her a reassuring smile.
He then stood up and looked up, his expression gradually becoming serious: "There will probably be an even bigger blizzard coming, we need to find a place with enough shelter as soon as possible."
Ning Wanwan: "...blizzard"
She slowly stood up and looked around, feeling a hazy, foggy feeling in her head, as if something was covering her and she couldn't see clearly.
"You seem to know nothing," the blond, purple-eyed boy said with a smile, shaking his head. "Are you from out of town? Did you flee here from elsewhere?"
Ning Wanwan hesitated, "I don't know..."
But Ning Wanwan felt that she shouldn't be here.
It shouldn't be like this... such a vast open space, and there shouldn't be so much snow.
She looks like she just came out of a very, very dark place...
"You must have fled from somewhere else, right? There have been quite a few people like you lately," the blond boy said gently.
Ning Wanwan thought about it carefully, and seemed to remember something based on the boy's words.
Ah yes, she was a refugee from another place, a lowly person who wandered around. Ning Wanwan had some impression of her.
But I can't remember anything else.
"I'm sorry... I seem to have forgotten a lot of things," Ning Wanwan said softly.
She was worried that her status as a refugee and her inability to remember things would make the boy find her troublesome and simply abandon her.
"It's okay, there's nothing to apologize for."
The blond boy's purple eyes were full of concern, without the slightest hint of disgust: "You probably suffered some kind of head injury, which is why you're unconscious here and your memory is a bit hazy."
"It's okay, this is normal, you'll definitely remember it eventually."
Hearing this, Ning Wanwan relaxed a little: "Thank you... I'll try my best to remember."
"Okay, keep it up!" The blond boy smiled encouragingly, his clear, beautiful violet eyes like the most precious gems.
Ning Wanwan's gaze was involuntarily drawn to his eyes for a moment, but she quickly came back to her senses and couldn't help but admire the boy's outstanding appearance.
She's good-looking, warm, considerate, and has a great temper; she's practically a perfect person.
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