Chapter 105. Entering the Black Abyss, Oops...
Lin Xiaoxiao and Xiao Weizhi headed north, clearing away any polluting beasts they encountered, and sweeping away any mutated plant-type polluting beasts they came across.
After walking for a day and a half, the number in my hand has reached 12,000.
During this time, the two of them took turns resting, but they had to face one attack after another from the polluted beasts.
The energy in their bodies kept decreasing. Lin Xiaoxiao accepted the lack of energy well, and Xiao Weizhi was also able to endure it.
Redtail and Treasure Mouse immediately slumped into a huddled mess;
Hill and Monet also shrunk in size and hid in Lin Xiaoxiao's pocket to conserve their energy;
The black cat was quite used to this environment. Not only was it unaffected, but it was even able to easily eliminate some of the attacking polluting beasts.
After resting for a few hours, Lin Xiaoxiao and Xiao Weizhi were once again surrounded by a horde of polluted beasts that had appeared out of nowhere.
After half an hour of fighting, Xiao Weizhi's energy was exhausted, so she switched to attacking with her longsword.
Lin Xiaoxiao stood back to back with him, holding an energy gun, the muzzle pointed at the vital points of the corrupted beasts: eyes, nose, joints, throat...
Pale blue energy spheres shot from the gun barrels, sweeping across the polluted beasts in front of them and creating a series of small explosions.
Amidst billowing smoke and dust, the polluted beast fell silently to the ground. Immediately afterwards, other polluted beasts trampled over the bodies of their kind and pounced on the two people in the middle.
[Congratulations to Lin Xiaoxiao and Xiao Weizhi for defeating the level 79 Polluted Beast - Snail Fang Beast, and gaining experience...]
The information about the destroyed items was updated rapidly. Soon, the energy indicator light on the top of the energy gun in Lin Xiaoxiao's hand was flashing red.
After flashing for two minutes, the energy was completely depleted, and no matter how many times the trigger was pulled, it was impossible to fire another energy shot.
Lin Xiaoxiao reached out and touched the pouch containing energy stones hanging on her lower back, sighing helplessly, "The energy stones are all used up again."
Xiao Wei used his sword to cleave the foul-smelling beast, which had dozens of tentacles over ten centimeters long extending from its gaping mouth, in two.
After the polluted beast was split in two, a large mass of tentacles burst out from its body, danced in the air for a few seconds, and then instantly dried into a pile of ashes upon contact with the black gas in the air, dissipating on the spot.
He asked in a low voice, panting, "Are you alright?"
Lin Xiaoxiao took out a new energy stone from her spatial storage and replied in a deep voice, "It's alright."
The energy stones were being consumed faster than she had anticipated, and she didn't want to use the Gold Coin Critical Strike skill unless absolutely necessary.
In her previous life, Lin Xiaoxiao also acquired the attack skill "Gold Coin Critical Strike" and used it in the Black Abyss.
At that time, she did not know that the corrupted beasts of the Black Abyss were extremely sensitive to the energy of the gods' agents. Whenever an agent used their skills in the Black Abyss, they would relentlessly pursue them.
The Contaminated Beast had an unusual obsession with the agent's flesh and blood, and she only discovered this truth after facing desperate situations many times.
Only by reducing the use of skills later on did we avoid the terrible situation of having to escape from a desperate situation every time.
The black cat appeared and disappeared unpredictably. Every time it extended its claws, it would take the life of a corrupted beast, which would then instantly transform into experience points and flow into its body.
After more than three hours of coordinated fighting, the two humans and the cat successfully cleared away the polluted beast horde in front of them.
[Congratulations to Lin Xiaoxiao and Xiao Weizhi for eliminating the Pollution Beast - Snail Fang Beast horde and gaining experience...]
After moving for several kilometers, Lin Xiaoxiao and Xiao Weizhi finally found a suitable place to rest. They leaned against the boulder behind them, took out cushions, and sat down to rest.
Lin Xiaoxiao took out a bottle of chilled mozzarella juice from her spatial storage and handed it to Xiao Weizhi: "Hurry up and drink something and rest."
Xiao Weizhi took the juice, unscrewed it, and first held it to Lin Xiaoxiao's mouth to feed her a few sips. After making sure she didn't want any more, he poured the rest of the juice into his mouth in one go. After drinking it, he casually threw the empty bottle aside.
Lin Xiaoxiao kept taking out new energy stones from her spatial storage and putting them into the small bag hanging on her lower back.
She then loaded new energy stones into the energy guns she was carrying, and only breathed a sigh of relief when the energy indicator lights on all the energy guns turned green.
These energy guns were crafted for her by Monet before she entered the secret realm. Although they are epic-level weapons, they don't deal particularly high damage because they use energy stones as their energy source.
Using these energy guns doesn't require much of her internal energy, nor does it attract an endless horde of polluting beasts.
Xiao Weizhi put his arm around her shoulder and asked softly, "Shall I stay with you and let you rest for a while?"
Lin Xiaoxiao leaned her head on his shoulder and chuckled, "Okay, I'll rest for a bit and then it'll be your turn."
Xiao Weizhi nodded: "Okay, I'll take a nap."
The two rested together in the darkness. Four hours later, they helped each other up and set off again in the direction they had chosen.
Tens of thousands of kilometers away in the northeast, a large herd of polluted animals is mechanically migrating in one direction.
The leading polluted beast was twenty meters tall, and sitting on its head was a humanoid polluted creature wearing black armor, with a face that had rotted away, revealing the skeleton inside, black eye sockets, and little hair on its head, looking exactly like a zombie.
The humanoid contaminant held a long spear in its hand, muttering to itself as if talking to itself, its voice dry and hoarse as if it had been rubbed with sandpaper: "God, God's new favorite, has come, has come, find him, find him, mission complete."
Where they passed, the black fog became exceptionally thick, and even the land emitted wisps of black mist.
'Bang—' The flash of the large explosion illuminated a small area, and the loud noise not only attracted the pollution beast, but also drew the attention of Lin Xiaoxiao and Xiao Weizhi, who were resting in the distance.
Lin Xiaoxiao lowered her voice and asked Xiao Weizhi beside her, "Shall we go take a look?"
Xiao Weizhi nodded in agreement: "Go ahead, I'll carry you on my back."
Lin Xiaoxiao shook her head and refused: "Save your energy, let's go together."
During these three days, Xiao Weizhi not only had to adapt to the energy recovery speed of the Black Abyss, but also had to wield his sword from time to time to kill the polluted beasts that appeared anytime and anywhere, leaving him in a state of severe physical exhaustion.
Of course, this wasn't without its benefits; in just three days, Xiao Weizhi's level jumped directly from 182 to 187.
Lin Xiaoxiao's level increased from 230 to 231, which was much faster than leveling up in those secret realms.
By the time the two approached following the sounds of battle, the fight was nearing its end.
This was a medium-sized team of about 50 people, dressed in tattered armor, wearing strange metal masks, and wielding weapons, roaring as they fought against a horde of polluted beasts that were 2 meters tall.
With its skilled hunting techniques and the occasional use of abilities, it gained the upper hand in the battle, and in the blink of an eye, it wiped out thousands of polluted beasts.
After the battle, several members of the group went into the horde of corrupted beasts and used strangely shaped hooks to repeatedly pull up the lifeless creatures and search them.
The hook was entirely black, with its bottom twisted into an irregular semicircle, featuring a sharp hook tip, and connected to a 1.7-meter-long, entirely black stick.
One of the young men, who looked rather thin, complained helplessly, "Nothing again. I've worked for nothing today."
A voluptuous woman standing nearby patted the young man's shoulder with a bold gesture: "Don't rush, there's still plenty of time. We might get something later."
The faint sound of a dry branch being crushed underfoot caught the attention of the team not far away.
They raised their weapons, tiptoed, and moved with lightning speed, closing in quickly in a formation resembling a dumpling.
Red Tail's six tails were taut and stiff. Under its right front paw was a small, withered twig broken into several pieces. It raised its head and looked at Lin Xiaoxiao with pleading eyes, indicating that it did not do it on purpose.
Lin Xiaoxiao used her eyes to soothe the red tail that was about to collapse, signaling it not to panic.
He then raised his hands in surrender, led Xiao Weizhi out from behind the huge black dead tree trunk, and said loudly, "We mean no harm. We just saw people fighting, so we came to take a look. We'll leave right away."
Xiao Weizhi followed Lin Xiaoxiao, raising his hands in silence.
Red Tail hid behind Xiao Weizhi's legs, peeking out half of its little head, its tail trying to gather together as it quietly observed the group in front of it.
The leader was a burly man who was 2.3 meters tall, with bulging muscles all over his body, and wearing a set of old armor covered in patches.
He slowly removed the metal mask from his face, revealing his dark skin. His gaze fell on Lin Xiaoxiao and Xiao Weizhi's dirty business attire, fair cheeks, and black hair. He frowned and asked, "Chinese?"
Lin Xiaoxiao lowered her hands, revealed a well-behaved smile, and nodded: "A Chinese."
Upon hearing that they were from China, the burly man raised his hand in a gesture to stop the fight, frowned, and asked, "With such a low level, how did you get in? Did you wander in by mistake?"
Although it is a question, the tone is very confident.
If a professional is born in the Black Abyss, their skin is dark from birth due to environmental factors, and even if they are fair-skinned, it will still look grayish-black.
Fair-skinned sixth-level professionals like Lin Xiaoxiao and Xiao Weizhi possess a trait that only professionals living in the Inner Realm can have.
Lin Xiaoxiao chuckled awkwardly and didn't reply.
But on the other side, some people had already imagined that the two poor souls, along with their pets, had been swept out of the secret realm and into the Black Abyss due to some uncontrollable factors. After a difficult rescue, they finally found their companions and came running over with great joy.
The one who conjured up these stories was the plump and robust woman in the team, who took the initiative to suggest, "Captain, they both look young and are also from China, let's lend them a hand."
The team leader sighed helplessly, "Molly, our mission this time is very important. If we bring them along, we might not be able to complete it."
Molly put her hands on her hips and said domineeringly, "Brother, bringing them along won't delay our mission. They're all Chinese, so we'll help them out if we can."
The team leader seemed helpless with Molly, sighed, turned around and reached out to Lin Xiaoxiao: "My name is Mo Sen, and I am the captain of this exploration team."
"We still have to carry out an exploration mission here for more than a month. If you don't mind, you can come with us for the time being. We'll go back to base together after we finish the mission."
Lin Xiaoxiao shook Mo Sen's hand for a few seconds and immediately replied, "Okay, thank you for your help, Team Leader Mo Sen."
Immediately afterwards, Xiao Weizhi shook hands with Mo Sen: "Thank you for your help, Team Leader Mo Sen."
After both sides exchanged greetings, the rest of the team continued their previous search.
Molly, who is 1.88 meters tall, quietly walked up to Lin Xiaoxiao, stopped and greeted her softly: "Hello, my name is Molly, and I am 18 years old."
Lin Xiaoxiao smiled and replied, "Hello, my name is Lin Xiaoxiao, and his name is Xiao Weizhi."
Molly gestured to indicate Lin Xiaoxiao's height and asked curiously, "Are you an adult? You look so young."
Lin Xiaoxiao stood up straight but still didn't reach Molly's shoulder. She said helplessly, "I'm 25 this year."
Molly looked surprised: "You're 25? You don't look it at all, you look like a minor."
Then he turned to look at Xiao Weizhi: "He's 25 too?"
Lin Xiaoxiao smiled slightly and said, "He's 29, four years older than me."
Molly's mouth dropped open in surprise: "He's 29? That old?"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Weizhi's face turned pale. He wasn't even 30 yet, just barely touching the threshold of his prime, and this was the first time in his life that someone had told him he was old.
Molly's suspicious gaze shifted back and forth between Lin Xiaoxiao and Xiao Weizhi as she tentatively asked, "Are you two a couple?"
Lin Xiaoxiao chuckled and shook her head: "We're not husband and wife yet."
Hearing this, Molly's expression was clear. If they weren't husband and wife, they were partners. She nodded in understanding: "I understand, partners."
After chatting for a few minutes, someone called Molly's name from not far away, asking her to come and help collect resources. She left with a message that she would talk to him later, and then turned to help her companions find the polluted beast cores.
After collecting everything, the team set off again, with Lin Xiaoxiao and Xiao Weizhi following behind.
They went through several short battles, each lasting no more than 40 minutes.
The same battle would take Lin Xiaoxiao and Xiao Weizhi several hours, or even half a day, to finish.
The thousands of polluted beasts were like lambs to the slaughter before their exploration team. Every attack or strike could take down a polluted beast, and the team leader, Morsen, could even kill dozens of polluted beasts with a single strike.
When it was time to rest, they skillfully found a suitable spot, set up camp, and lit a campfire.
After inquiring with Lin Xiaoxiao and Xiao Weizhi, who had tents and didn't need the team to provide them, many in the team breathed a sigh of relief.
They were willing to accept two unfamiliar professionals as companions, but many in the exploration team couldn't accept the idea of sharing their supplies.
After all, every single item of daily necessities in the Black Abyss is quite expensive.
Around the campfire, many people waited by the large iron pot for food, removing their metal masks and chatting loudly.
"Hey, I took down over 300 polluted beasts today! Did you see my heroic figure?"
"I didn't see your heroic bearing, I only saw you rolling around on the ground in a pathetic attempt to escape."
"roll!"
"I wonder if Nina saw my heroic figure. If she's willing to contact me tonight, I can give her all the points I earned from this exploration."
"You get out too. Do you think little Nina would want a skinny guy like you?"
...
Lin Xiaoxiao and Xiao Weizhi did not join their conversation. Instead, they found a place to sit in the corner of the group, took out a few jam-filled breads and two bottles of milk, and ate slowly.
Molly looked around several times before finally finding Lin Xiaoxiao. She tidied up the pebbles on the ground, didn't order anything, and just sat down next to her: "So you're here."
Lin Xiaoxiao picked up the bread in her hand and asked, "Do you want some?"
The sweet aroma filled Molly's nostrils. Her gaze swept over the bread, and she subconsciously swallowed, waving her hands repeatedly, "No, no, you guys eat it."
Lin Xiaoxiao took out three head-sized bread rolls and a bottle of milk from her spatial storage and handed them to Molly: "It's okay, eat up, we have more."
Seeing that Lin Xiaoxiao's expression didn't seem reluctant, Molly didn't refuse again. She awkwardly tore open the bread packaging and stuffed it into her mouth.
The moment it touched her tongue, Molly's eyes widened involuntarily. So soft, so sweet, so delicious! Is this what the people of the Inner Realm eat every day? It's so good!
After eating Lin Xiaoxiao's bread, Molly subconsciously categorized Lin Xiaoxiao as a good friend.
She talked on and on about many things, including: the town where she was born; the resistance army that came from the inner realm every three years; the distribution of power in the Black Abyss; the Black Abyss's way of life...
Xiao Weizhi sat silently beside them, taking in every word Molly said.
After chatting for a long time, Molly stood up, dusted herself off, and smiled brightly: "You guys rest first, we'll talk again tomorrow."
Lin Xiaoxiao smiled and waved her hand: "Okay, let's talk again tomorrow."
Since they had just joined the exploration team, Captain Mosen did not assign them to night watch. He simply told them to rest well and that night watch would be assigned once they were familiar with the team's combat methods.
Around the same time, Lin Xiaoxiao and Xiao Weizhi brought Red Tail and Black Cat into the tent.
To avoid looking out of place, the tent she took out was a regular 2m*2m tent, which, apart from basic rainproofing, had no runes, no magic arrays, and naturally no temperature regulation or defense features.
I had just laid out my sleeping bag when I heard faint, ambiguous moans coming from not far away. As time went on, these ambiguous sounds became more and more frequent.
Lin Xiaoxiao met Xiao Weizhi's curious gaze, coughed twice and awkwardly explained: "The lifestyle here in Heiyuan is a bit different from ours. It's more about finding someone you like, cough cough."
If we say that getting along in China is a matter of following the rules, falling in love, and letting things happen naturally;
In the Black Abyss, the way of getting along is even more primitive: if you like each other, you sleep together for one night; if it works out, you stay together; if it doesn't, you just walk away and find someone else.
After all, no one knows whether tomorrow or danger will come first, so the main focus is on a lifestyle of enjoying life in the moment.
Moreover, after the extreme killing, one can also relax their tense nerves in this way.
Xiao Weizhi reached out and hugged her waist, his voice a little hoarse. He placed his thin lips on her cheek and left a light kiss, the implication being particularly clear: "Then what about us?"
Lin Xiaoxiao reached out to stop Xiao Weizhi's mouth from going down, and said irritably, "We're going to sleep, don't even think about it, I have no shame. Red Tail and Cat Brother are here, and this tent isn't soundproof."
Xiao Wei sighed softly after being rejected. After settling Red Tail, Treasure Hunter, Hill, Treasure Hunter, and Black Cat, she took out a cleaner and prepared to clean the clothes that hadn't been cleaned for four days.
Lin Xiaoxiao called to him, "Stop messing around, come to sleep. It's not a good thing to have your clothes too clean in the Black Abyss."
Xiao Weizhi understood what Lin Xiaoxiao meant. He immediately put away the cleaning device, hung his robe aside with some disgust, pinched the bridge of his nose, changed into a clean set of clothes, and lay down in his sleeping bag.
After resting for a few hours, Lin Xiaoxiao and Xiao Weizhi were woken up by the team members, who told them to prepare to set off to continue their exploration.
Days passed by, and soon the two of them had been in the exploration team for more than a week, and their cooperation with the team had become more and more tacit.
At Captain Mo Sen's suggestion, Xiao Weizhi changed out of his flowing but cumbersome robes and put on a low-key suit of armor, along with the team's unique metal mask.
That day, after another fierce battle, Molly quietly approached and whispered, "Is there something wrong with your man?"
Lin Xiaoxiao didn't understand why Molly would ask such a question: "What do you mean?"
Molly rolled her eyes in annoyance: "What else could it mean? I've known you for so many days and I haven't heard you two make a sound at night. If it doesn't work out, I can introduce you to a good one. There are plenty of strong young men in the team."
Lin Xiaoxiao choked on her saliva and let out a loud cough.
Molly quickly reached out and patted her back several times, anxiously asking, "Xiaoxiao, are you alright?"
Lin Xiaoxiao was patted several times and almost passed out from Molly's strong touch. She quickly reached out to stop the hand that was about to continue patting her back and replied weakly, "It's okay. If you keep patting me, I'll be in trouble."
Molly awkwardly withdrew her hands: "I forgot you're delicate, and for a moment I forgot to hold back."
Lin Xiaoxiao waved her hand and said in a hoarse voice, "It's okay, I'm not that delicate."
After much effort and various analyses, she rejected Molly's unreliable advice. When she returned to her tent during her rest time, she was met with Xiao Weizhi's gaze, which resembled that of a wronged woman who had been abandoned.
Lin Xiaoxiao reached out and touched his cheek, asking softly, "Weizhi, why do you have that expression?"
Xiao Weizhi pulled her into his arms, buried his face in her shoulder, and said in a depressed tone, "Several people asked me today if I'm not good enough, saying that if I'm not good enough, I'll give you up."
Lin Xiaoxiao hugged him, patted the back of his head, and said with a mix of amusement and exasperation, "Didn't you tell them that our lifestyles are different?"
Xiao Weizhi thought of the covetous eyes that were fixed on her, and her eyes darkened uncontrollably, tinged with a subtle killing intent. Her tone remained unchanged: "I told them, but they didn't believe me."
She wanted to get rid of all those who coveted her...
Lin Xiaoxiao hugged Xiao Weizhi back, gently patting his back and comforting him softly, "It's okay, it's their business if they don't believe you, hmm."
The next second, her red lips were pressed against a pair of thin lips, and a slippery tongue pried open her red lips, like a small snake, directly coiling into that warm and soft mouth... Ambiguous water sounds echoed in the tent.
A moment later, Lin Xiaoxiao, panting, pushed Xiao Weizhi away: "Weizhi, stop, we can't continue."
Xiao Weizhi held her, his eyes closed, his breathing unsteady, his chest heaving violently, desperately suppressing a certain thought, and mumbled, "Mmm."
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