Chapter 56. Snowy Mountains and Rivers ⑧: BO...
Everyone quickly packed their things, hopped on their snowmobiles, and sped south without looking back.
The entire Deer Forest team next door looked puzzled. Weren't they all excited about those bad luck draws before?
Why did I get such a bad omen? I'm so scared, as if some ferocious beast is chasing me from behind.
The convoy had only traveled about ten kilometers when a huge ice ball, roughly fifty meters tall, fell from the sky, right where the two teams had stopped.
The puck landed on the snow, sending a huge tremor through the air. Two teams, about ten kilometers away, could only use all their strength to hold onto the handlebars of their snowmobiles and keep them steady.
A few minutes later, the tremors subsided, and when everyone turned around and saw the ice puck, only half of it on the ground, their eyes widened involuntarily.
Xiao Weizhi sternly reminded him, "Don't stand there, let's go!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the snow-capped mountains in the distance seemed to echo Xiao Weizhi's words.
The snow on top began to loosen, and large amounts of snow began to fall, starting as small drops and rolling away, increasing in the blink of an eye and moving faster and faster.
Like a massive, churning avalanche, it was completed in the blink of an eye, sweeping away everything in its path with a terrifying, all-destroying force.
Xiao Weizhi twisted the throttle of the snowmobile and took the lead, heading south.
He hadn't forgotten Lin Xiaoxiao's earlier statement about heading south. Whatever the reason that drove her to conceal so much, he would unconditionally believe her in this life-or-death moment.
The two teams, Dragon Fang and Deer Forest, raced desperately southward, with rolling waves of snow chasing closely behind them.
Lin Xiaoxiao hugged Xiao Weizhi's waist, her forehead resting on his back, but the bad premonition in her heart did not lessen at all; on the contrary, it intensified.
She raised her voice and said to Xiao Weizhi, who was riding a bicycle in front of her, "Weizhi, can you go any faster?"
Xiao Weizhi's right hand, twisting the accelerator, had veins bulging beneath his glove. His tone was grave: "No, this is already the fastest speed."
Suddenly, a clear, ethereal cry, tinged with a hint of allure, resounded throughout the entire secret realm.
At the summit of the highest mountain deep within the secret realm, a sudden shattering occurred. A massive, ice-blue figure crashed through the mountain wall and soared into the sky, clearly pursuing the direction in which Lin Xiaoxiao was located.
Above this figure, another figure stood steadily. The gusts of air that swept over him, sharp as blades, only ruffled his half-long hair but did not cause him any harm.
On the other side, Lin Xiaoxiao's heart was pounding like a drum. As if she had sensed something, she kept turning around to look behind her.
Countless monsters followed the caravan, running wildly. Anyone who was even a little slow would be swept up by the rolling snow waves and buried deep under the snow.
After running for more than an hour, just as the avalanche was about to stop, there was a cliff right in front of us.
"Damn it, there's a cliff ahead, boss!" Li Junxuan's cursing voice came from the right.
With a precipice in front and an avalanche behind, if either is not handled properly, everyone will be going to meet Yale Hadan in the Western Paradise ahead of time.
Xiao Weizhi gritted his teeth, his mind racing. Two seconds later, he calmly and loudly commanded, "Charge straight ahead! Once you're off the cliff, jump out of the vehicle!"
One minute later, the five flying cars and two sleds, propelled by inertia, shot straight off the cliff.
Xiao Weizhi put one arm around Lin Xiaoxiao's waist, and with a push of his foot, he kicked the snowmobile and jumped into the air.
Lin Xiaoxiao covered the pocket where the treasure-hunting rat was with one hand and hugged Red Tail with the other, leaning against Xiao Weizhi's chest, feeling the weightlessness around her, her eyes filled with a hint of fear.
Xiao Weizhi gritted his teeth, his eyes calm and collected, and his left hand quickly formed a hand seal.
Li Junxuan carried Wang Hao on his back, and his hands gradually emitted a light, forming a 6m*5m metal shield beneath everyone's feet.
At the same time, Xiao Weizhi's left hand emitted a huge pinkish-white light, unleashing the skill [Levitation (Bronze Level)].
[Levitation (Bronze): Grants the ability for objects to float in mid-air. The larger the object, the stronger the levitation. It is very suitable for use on various carpets and other similar items...t...]
The next second, everyone landed on the large shield.
The large shield shimmered with pinkish-white light, as if it couldn't bear the weight of so many people, and fell straight down like a plummeting elevator.
Xiao Weizhi gritted his teeth and increased the amount of mana he channeled, activating the skill—Levitation.
Just before hitting the bottom, at a height of 1.2 meters above the ground at the bottom of the cliff, the large shield came to a steady stop, floating in mid-air with a slight jolt.
Wang Hao lay on the large shield, looking relieved, and said, "We're lucky to be alive."
Jiang Tao plopped down next to Wang Hao, wiping the cold sweat that had turned into ice beads on his forehead: "You were really lucky."
Cheng Cheng quickly cast a skill on Xiao Weizhi to replenish his almost depleted mana.
Xiao Wei put his hand on Lin Xiaoxiao's shoulder, breathing slightly heavily: "Land, find shelter. Something's not right, it's too quiet here."
A moment later, both teams successfully landed on their feet.
The bottom of the cliff was eerily quiet, as if there were no living creatures there. With the howling of the cold wind, an inexplicable sense of silence made one's hair stand on end without realizing it.
A few minutes later, a giant, ice-blue phoenix with a wingspan of over a hundred meters hovered above the cliff, emitting a sharp cry as it spread its wings.
The instant its wings spread, a huge counter-current swept up below.
The two teams at the bottom of the cliff stood in a shallow cave, looking up at the huge Azure Phoenix Beast BOSS.
The captain and members of the Deer Forest Squad beside him wore serious expressions, their gazes sharp as blades, each gripping their weapons tightly. They knew from the moment they saw the BOSS that this would be a difficult tug-of-war.
In the Deer Forest Squad, a petite girl, completely covered from head to toe, took out a half-person-high, dark brown wooden staff.
The staff is shaped like a giant wooden lollipop, with a fist-sized, multicolored gemstone with a unique fire at the center of its top. Countless inscriptions are secretly engraved on the staff.
The girl named Lu Mianmian stood with her legs slightly apart, holding a staff in her right hand and rapidly making hand seals with her left. She covered her mouth with the cloth and quickly recited the incantation of a forbidden spell. A three-meter-wide magic circle gradually took shape beneath her feet.
Chen Tianchi slung his spear over his shoulder and turned to Xiao Weizhi, saying, "Mianmian's forbidden spell requires 25 minutes of chanting time. During these 25 minutes, our two teams must hold off the BOSS!"
Xiao Weizhi pulled Lin Xiaoxiao behind him and nodded to Chen Tianchi: "We will assist you and do our best to buy these 25 minutes!"
Lin Xiaoxiao stood behind Xiao Weizhi, gripping her weapon with both hands and looking up at the sky with a determined gaze.
Holding a long spear, Chen Tianchi leaped into the air, stepping on the floating stone steps created by his teammates using the [Floating Stone (Bronze)] skill, and quickly sprinted towards the giant Azure Phoenix BOSS in the sky.
[Floating Stone (Bronze): A stone that can be forged and float for a short time. It can be arranged according to the caster's will. Each time a floating stone is forged, it requires 200 mana points.]
In just over ten seconds, Chen Tianchi sprinted across hundreds of floating stone steps, a cold glint flashing in his spear as he thrust it at the BOSS at a speed of fifty strikes per second.
However, the BOSS's iridescent feathers acted like sturdy armor, completely blocking Chen Tianchi's spear attacks.
Xiao Weizhi looked up at the BOSS in the sky with a calm and rational gaze. He raised his staff, and thousands of fireballs appeared out of thin air around him, ready to be unleashed.
As Chen Tianchi finished his attack and fell downwards, leaving a suitable attack range, Xiao Weizhi waved his staff, launching thousands of fireballs upwards, which landed precisely on the BOSS above.
Immediately afterwards, Wang Hao, Lin Xiaoxiao, Hongwei, and the mages and archers of Lulin joined the attack.
All of this attack happened in just a few dozen seconds.
After a round of attacks, they couldn't even blacken the feathers on the Azure Phoenix BOSS.
Instead, this provoked the BOSS, which was floating in mid-air, into a berserk state. It rapidly flapped its huge wings and let out a loud cry.
Countless ice pucks appeared out of thin air and fell, as if to crush the members of the two teams below the cliff.
Seeing this, Xiao Weizhi quickly waved his staff and shouted, "Chen Feng and Cheng Cheng, use your combination skill to clear all these ice balls away; Junxuan, you must ensure that Lu Mianmian doesn't suffer any damage in the next 25 minutes; everyone else, use your strongest skills to clear these ice balls..."
We can't let these ice hockey pucks bury this place.
A series of commands came out of Xiao Weizhi's mouth quickly as he gave instructions and waved his staff.
One protective shield after another was placed heavily on everyone present.
The mages from the neighboring Deer Forest were also taking the same protective measures, casting countless shield spells on everyone present as if they had no mana to spare.
Huang Yuwei kept waving her staff, casting all sorts of halos around the people next to her.
Wang Hao, carrying the familiar rocket launcher, took out several bottles of mana-restoring potions—deep purple with a faint glow—from his spatial storage, gulped them down, assumed a solid horse stance, and his hands, resting on the rocket launcher, glowed brightly. In an instant, countless shells shot upwards like fireworks.
Lin Xiaoxiao held her weapon in both hands and fired rapidly at the falling ice balls. Countless ice fragments fell amidst the dense explosions.
Redtail kept opening its mouth and spitting out huge fireballs.
In an instant, a continuous explosion zone formed in mid-air.
A few minutes later, a semi-transparent giant of light appeared out of nowhere at the bottom of the cliff. The giant clenched its fist and slammed it down hard on the BOSS, who was flying in mid-air.
The BOSS was sent flying more than twenty meters by the giant's fist.
Then the BOSS frantically flapped its wings, and hundreds of tornadoes instantly formed, carrying wind and snow as they attacked the giant and the two teams at the bottom of the cliff.
Chen Tianchi kept jumping back and forth between the ice hoops, occasionally using his long spear to knock away several huge ice hoops, preventing them from falling to the bottom of the cliff.
Xiao Weizhi's face was very pale. He said to his companions, "Try to stall for a few minutes. I need time to chant."
The friends next to him nodded and subconsciously changed their formation, surrounding Xiao Weizhi and Lin Xiaoxiao, Chen Feng and Cheng Cheng in the center.
As time passed, several huge, fiery red magic circles floated in mid-air, gradually solidifying and facing the BOSS in the sky.
As Xiao Wei waved his staff more than a dozen times, the magic circle spat out flaming meteors at the BOSS in the sky.
All the members of the Deer Forest Squad looked at Xiao Weizhi with some surprise. This was the first time they had seen someone use a forbidden spell as a shooting platform, in reverse.
But it must be said that this idea was ingenious, and Xiao Weizhi, who was able to put the idea into practice, was a genius among geniuses.
After all, to do this requires extremely strong control and a thorough understanding of formations and incantations (conversely, it requires reversing all forbidden spells).
When this forbidden spell was unleashed, the BOSS, whose defenses had been impenetrable for so long, finally received damage.
Its feathers were no longer shiny; in some places, the feathers had been blown off, revealing its icy green skin.
Enraged, the BOSS repeatedly attempted to land and attack the two teams deep at the bottom of the cliff.
However, because its body is so large, it can only barely fit a head inside.
Once the BOSS dares to stick its head off the cliff, the giant will seize the opportunity and quickly swing its weapon at it.
The boss had no choice but to remain suspended in mid-air, attacking with various ranged skills: tornadoes, ice balls, wind blades, ice blades...
As time passed, the BOSS's attacks became increasingly fierce.
The time finally reached 25 minutes, and Lu Mianmian's forbidden spell was ready. A burst of intense pale purple light erupted from her body.
Soon, the light formed a huge pillar of light, enveloping the BOSS in the sky.
The BOSS screamed in agony, and in no time, the originally huge BOSS was shrunk to seven or eight meters, and the power of its skills also became much weaker.
It was this forbidden spell that forced the mysterious figure, who had been standing on the BOSS watching the battle, to leave his hiding place and slowly float into the air.
Lin Xiaoxiao stopped shooting and looked up in surprise at the thick clouds in the sky.
She could clearly sense a very familiar energy in the sky.
The mysterious figure standing in mid-air, hands behind his back, a slight, disdainful smile playing on his lips: "Oh? So you've finally realized something's wrong?"
He snapped his fingers, and everything in the entire secret realm seemed to freeze in time.
After completing all this, he slowly descended to the bottom of the cliff, standing about three meters away from Lin Xiaoxiao. He bowed politely and said in a deep, magnetic voice, "It's a pleasure to meet you, slow-witted new student agent."
Lin Xiaoxiao stared intently at the uninvited guest before her, her weapon pointed at the man who had appeared out of nowhere.
The man was extremely handsome, with medium-length hair, a well-fitting custom-made suit, and skin paler than paper. All of these features combined to make him look like a vampire from a dark story—elegant, sinister, and eerie.
The man didn't bother with pleasantries with Lin Xiaoxiao. Instead, he chuckled twice and slowly walked towards her.
Lin Xiaoxiao repeatedly pulled the trigger, firing continuously at the man who was approaching her step by step. Dozens of gold coins flew straight at the man's neck, eyes, heart, joints, and other vulnerable places.
Unfortunately, the man waved his hand, and the gold coins were bounced away before they could even get close.
Under the man's relentless pressure, Lin Xiaoxiao kept retreating.
Soon, she had nowhere to retreat; behind her was an ice wall radiating cold air.
The man reached out and gripped Lin Xiaoxiao's neck tightly, lifting her up with one hand. His eyes were filled with frenzied excitement, but this time the voice that came out of his mouth was a charming female voice: "A naive agent of the gods, great, hurry up and kill her, I want this body."
Then a male voice came out from that mouth: "Chris, don't worry, she's weak and can't resist. You will get what you want."
Lin Xiaoxiao was lifted up by the neck, her face flushed red, and she felt the air in her abdomen rapidly draining away.
She used the weapon in her hand as a brick, frantically pounding the head of the mysterious man in front of her.
After knocking on him more than thirty times, until even the palm of his hand was numb, the man in front of him seemed to be unharmed except for a few strands of messy hair.
A playful smile played on the man's lips as he reached out and lightly flicked the weapon in Lin Xiaoxiao's hand.
The next second, the [Golden Tyrannosaurus] in Lin Xiaoxiao's hand was blasted several meters away by a huge force.
The man's hand, which was gripping Lin Xiaoxiao's neck, began to tighten, his knuckles clenched, and the veins on the back of his hand became even more prominent.
Lin Xiaoxiao desperately tried to pry the large hand off the man's neck, while kicking him repeatedly in the waist and abdomen, attempting to injure him and force him to release her with this feeble attack.
The air in her abdominal cavity became thin, and flashes of darkness appeared before her eyes. In her hazy consciousness, she finally remembered what she had forgotten.
When Darlene was shooing her away from the underground igloo, she said something out of the blue: "Be careful not to get caught in a sting operation. Sometimes, good things aren't so easy to take."
When Lin Xiaoxiao heard this seemingly random reminder, she was a little confused. She hadn't tried to force anything that didn't belong to her, so how could she have been entrapped?
Now that I think about it, the treasure chest merchant's job skill was probably planted by this mysterious person in front of me who speaks sometimes as a man and sometimes as a woman.
Suddenly, an unexpected turn of events caused Lin Xiaoxiao to be thrown away by the man, allowing her to survive.
Xiao Weizhi, at some unknown time, broke through the frozen space and time, using her staff as a spear to pierce the man's abdomen.
Lin Xiaoxiao was thrown several meters away like a tattered rag, rolled several times, and stopped herself in place, coughing wildly, then her chest heaving as she inhaled oxygen.
The man stared blankly down at the tip of the staff that pierced his waist and abdomen, blood dripping from his belly. He then covered his eyes and laughed maniacally: "I didn't even notice. A little fry broke through my control. Interesting, really interesting, hahahahahaha."
The charming female voice came out of the man's mouth again, as if she were talking to him: "Hurry up, don't waste time, I want that body."
The man lowered his hand from his face, reached out and snapped the staff Xiao Weizhi was holding, then angrily kicked him, sending him flying more than ten meters away onto the ice wall.
Xiao Weizhi was first slammed against the ice wall, spitting out a mouthful of blood, and then fell to the ground. She was then hit by a skill that the man casually threw out, and a powerful explosion engulfed her. Her fate was unknown.
Seeing Xiao Weizhi being kicked away by the man and caught in the explosion, Lin Xiaoxiao immediately got up anxiously and staggered towards him.
But she was stopped by the grinning man: "Beautiful lady, I'm angry that you're ignoring me like this. I don't want to continue playing this cat-and-mouse game with you."
Just as the man reached out again, Lin Xiaoxiao remembered a way to temporarily separate her from him.
A bright light shone from her left eye, and the phantom of the scales of fortune appeared out of thin air.
From the moment Libra appeared, no matter what method the man used, he was unable to get close enough to touch Lin Xiaoxiao, who was isolated in a special space.
Seeing that he couldn't touch Lin Xiaoxiao, the man rolled his eyes and then appeared more than ten meters away. With one hand, he picked up Xiao Weizhi, who was lying on the ground with charred body and whose life was unknown, as if he were a chicken.
He sneered and threatened, "Agent, if you can just watch this man die at my hands, you can continue to hide in your 'protective shield'."
Lin Xiaoxiao stared in astonishment, her voice hoarse: "Let him go, what do you want?"
The man's smile was cold: "What do I want? I want a lot, a lot, but right now I just want your body."
Upon hearing the man's words, Lin Xiaoxiao's face turned deathly pale.
In an instant, countless thoughts swirled in her mind.
Suddenly, a voice entered her mind: 'Attract his attention, give me one minute.'
Without giving her much time to think, she saw the man looking like he was about to snap Xiao Weizhi's neck.
Lin Xiaoxiao subconsciously obeyed the voice's command, raising her hands halfway into the air and actively dispelling the light in her left eye, causing the illusory image of the Libra fortune in mid-air to dissipate.
She said urgently, "Don't touch him, I'm coming out!"
The man was very pleased with Lin Xiaoxiao's tact. He stopped twisting Xiao Weizhi's neck and tossed him aside like trash.
His tone was full of satisfaction with Lin Xiaoxiao's tact: "Very good, I like obedient girls."
Seeing the man about to stride over again, Lin Xiaoxiao took two deep breaths and asked softly, "What's your name?"
The man smiled knowingly: "What? Do you want to go to heaven and complain to Satan at Yale?"
Lin Xiaoxiao nodded in agreement with the man's words: "Yes, since you want my life, don't I have the right to know who you are?"
Beads of cold sweat dripped from her forehead. Despite her inner anxiety, she remained remarkably calm, as if she had already accepted her impending fate.
The man seemed to have never seen anyone like Lin Xiaoxiao before, staring at her intently. After a moment, he spoke in a cheerful tone, "You're quite special. You're about to die, yet you dare ask my name. Since you're the first, I can grant you the privilege of knowing my name."
"My name is Desais!"
After saying this, the man named Desais reached out to Lin Xiaoxiao again and grabbed her neck.
This time, Lin Xiaoxiao did not resist. Accompanied by a feeling of suffocation, she subconsciously believed the voice and kept counting down in her mind: fifteen, fourteen, thirteen...
Just seconds before Lin Xiaoxiao was about to be strangled to death by Desais, a petite figure, wielding a device resembling a shepherd's stick, broke through a corner of space and entered.
"Finally found you, you despicable stowaway!"
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