Chapter 57. Snowy Mountains and Rivers (The End)...
The newcomer was a little boy wearing a fur cloak, with dark skin, about 1.4 meters tall, with several white Indian tattoos painted on his face, and holding a shepherd's stick.
The little boy's first reaction upon entering this space was to leap close and use his shepherd's stick to strike the hand that Desais was using to choke Lin Xiaoxiao.
Dessais reacted somewhat erratically, throwing Lin Xiaoxiao out of his hand before the little boy could hit his arm: "Damn it, they couldn't even hold you back!"
Immediately afterwards, Desais quickly retreated, trying to create a suitable space for his attack.
Unexpectedly, the little boy pressed forward relentlessly, giving Desais no chance to create space. He grinned coldly, "Hold me back? You mean those bunch of dark monsters? Or those stowaways hiding in the corner?"
Desace's expression changed drastically: "What did you do to them?"
The little boy's smile was bright and sunny, revealing twelve big white teeth: "Cut him into eight pieces."
Upon hearing this, Desais instantly lost his temper, his punches increasing in speed: "Aaaaaah, how dare you, you bastard!"
What followed was a battle between the shepherd's stick and fists. The two, one tall and one short, moved very fast in this still space, like streaks of light entangled in a fierce struggle. When they collided, they would burst into intense light, accompanied by huge sounds and explosions.
During this time, Desais repeatedly tried to bypass the little boy and strike Lin Xiaoxiao's vital points, but the little boy blocked his attacks with his shepherd's stick.
Just as they were locked in a fierce battle, Lin Xiaoxiao struggled to her feet and crawled toward Xiao Weizhi, whose fate was unknown, not far away.
A moment later, she sat on the ground and pulled Xiao Weizhi into her arms. Tears welled up in her red eyes and slid down her cheeks, turning into tiny ice beads: "Weizhi, how are you?"
Xiao Weizhi's breathing was weak, her eyelids barely lifted, and her mouth opened slightly, silently saying, "I'm fine!"
The battle between Desais and the little boy didn't last long. After a dozen minutes, obvious cracks began to appear around the still space, as if it wouldn't last much longer.
Desais cursed under his breath. After weighing the pros and cons, he stared coldly at Lin Xiaoxiao and said, "I'll remember you, you cunning little rabbit."
He then reached out and created a spatial rift, jumped into the rift, and left.
After Desais left, the little boy walked up to Lin Xiaoxiao and gave her a bright smile: "I am Tada. It's nice to meet you. I've wanted to say hello to you for a while, but I've been too busy and haven't found the right opportunity, so it's been delayed until now."
Holding the barely breathing Xiao Weizhi in her arms, Lin Xiaoxiao looked at the little boy named Tada with a pale face and said weakly, "Hello, I am the treasure chest merchant - Lin Xiaoxiao. Thank you very much for saving me."
Xiao Weizhi, who was in her arms, was in an unknown state of life or death. As his contractor, Lin Xiaoxiao was also affected, and her life points were decreasing at a visible rate.
Tada tilted his head, scratched the back of his head, and as if remembering something, raised the 'shepherd's stick' in his hand and shook it several times, and a green light enveloped Lin Xiaoxiao and Xiao Weizhi.
A few seconds later, Xiao Weizhi's life points rapidly recovered, and her faint breath became steady and powerful.
Lin Xiaoxiao's weakness began to subside gradually, just as she was about to speak.
Tada looked around at the still space that was about to return to normal, and finally his gaze fell on the BOSS that was pouncing down. He said with some regret, "It's a pity that after raising it for so long, it was bewitched by that intruder. Alas."
Then Tada turned to Lin Xiaoxiao and said, "The time is not right now. I'll come over tonight to talk to you in detail."
After saying that, Tada waved his shepherd's staff, and a burst of intense light emanated from the tip of the staff.
The space then returned to normal, and Tada's figure disappeared from the spot.
Lin Xiaoxiao watched helplessly as the BOSS instantly turned into a pile of fragments, its core exploding and mixing with the falling gold coins.
[Congratulations to the Deer Forest Squad and the Dragon Fang Squad for their combined efforts in defeating the level 159 Azure Phoenix Ice Bird Monster BOSS (Diamond Rank), gaining 28473 experience points...]
Everyone was very confused. Why did the BOSS suddenly self-destruct the next second when they were having a tough battle with it?
Moreover, in the blink of an eye, Xiao Weizhi was unconscious and Lin Xiaoxiao was covered in wounds.
In the still space, only Lin Xiaoxiao, Xiao Weizhi, Tada, and the vanished Desais knew what had happened.
To the others, it was just a blink of an eye, and the BOSS exploded, with Lin Xiaoxiao and Xiao Weizhi falling.
Cheng Cheng dispelled his combo with Chen Feng and rushed towards Lin Xiaoxiao and Xiao Weizhi with the Holy Scripture in his arms: "Xiaoxiao, boss, hold on, I'm coming."
Cheng Cheng cast over twenty recovery spells on Lin Xiaoxiao and Xiao Weizhi in a row until all his mana was depleted.
After obtaining the core of the secret realm, the Deer Forest team suggested that Longya leave the secret realm first and take Xiao Weizhi out for treatment.
Lin Xiaoxiao asked Xiao Weizhi, who had already woken up, in a low voice, "Weizhi, can we stay in the secret realm for another day?"
Xiao Weizhi looked at her with complicated emotions for a while, then lowered his eyes and nodded: "Okay."
Xiao Weizhi had a premonition that tonight, everything Lin Xiaoxiao had been hiding would be revealed to him.
After politely declining Lu Lin's suggestion, Long Ya found a safe place to set up camp.
It was 1 a.m.
Tada appeared in the tent as promised, and the tip of his shepherd's stick glowed, effectively isolating the space inside the tent.
Tada smiled and bowed to Lin Xiaoxiao: "Now we can speak freely without any restraint, Agent."
Lin Xiaoxiao sat in the chair, her hands clasped together and rubbing them incessantly. She seemed a little restless and chuckled awkwardly, "Well, speak freely."
Her gaze would occasionally sweep over Xiao Weizhi, who sat to the side with a serious expression, his face completely unreadable.
Tada, ever the social butterfly, found an empty chair and sat down, crossing her legs in a relaxed and comfortable posture. She chattered on and on, saying, "I've been observing you ever since you came in. I wasn't sure if you were an agent, Miss."
"But since you left Darling's Wish Master, obtained that skill, and released the Treasure Tree Spirit, I'm almost 100% certain that you are the one. It's a pity that many things happened afterward, otherwise I would have come looking for you long ago..."
Lin Xiaoxiao then realized that from the moment she entered this secret realm with the Dragon Fang team, many discerning eyes had been fixed on her, because they were unsure whether she was a divine agent, so they had been silently observing her from behind.
They were only able to confirm Lin Xiaoxiao's identity after she fished out the box used for entrapment and made a deal with the Wanbao Tree Spirit.
As Tada's big mouth got more and more excited, he talked about everything from his experiences guarding this secret realm to driving away all sorts of intruders, and then to how surprised he was when Lin Xiaoxiao, the god's agent, entered the secret realm...
[The responsibility of a secret realm administrator is to manage the ecosystem of their designated realm. As long as the realm's core remains unobtained by humans, everything within belongs to the administrator. However, not everyone is qualified to manage a secret realm, thus creating a hostile group of unauthorized individuals who may attempt to illegally enter.]
[Smugglers: These are followers of gods who have no authority over the management of secret realms. They roam various high-level secret realms year-round, stealing the resources they desire.]
An hour and a half passed, and Lin Xiaoxiao's head drooped lower and lower, her back bent low.
She no longer dared to look at Xiao Weizhi's expression beside her, and just kept her head down, pretending to be a quail.
After Tada finished speaking, he casually stretched out his hand to Lin Xiaoxiao: "Here, give it to me."
Give it to him? Give what?
Lin Xiaoxiao then noticed that the prompt screen for the second task had appeared silently at some point and was floating beside her.
So, the second task was to be handed over to this servant named Tada?
She quickly took out the spatial crystal ball containing all the demonic beasts in the cave from her spatial storage and handed it over: "Here you go, here you go."
The moment Tada received the crystal ball, a notification sounded indicating that the quest was complete:
Congratulations on completing the second commissioned task!
[Reward: 200 points from the lich Anse of the Raeldonstriker tribe (Medium Unclaimed) (Claimable)]
[Bonus Reward: Lucky Fragment (1 point) (Claimable)]
Tada tossed the crystal ball in his hand, then put it into his spatial storage.
He snapped his fingers, and a ball of light the size of a fingernail appeared out of thin air and floated in front of Lin Xiaoxiao: "This is my contact information, please accept it!"
"Unfortunately, you are too weak now to trade for what I want. I look forward to your growth and will contact you again later. I need to go back to my mission. Goodbye, Agent!"
[Once the core of the secret realm is obtained by humans, the officials, attendants, and servants who manage it will abandon it without hesitation and leave; this is a consensus among this special group of people.]
After Tada left, the space inside the tent fell silent.
Xiao Weizhi, who wasn't wearing glasses, tapped the armrest of the chair with his index finger.
His gaze fell on Lin Xiaoxiao, who was pretending to be a quail, and his voice was low and playful: "Agent? Lin Xiaoxiao, I'm very curious about the special meaning of this word."
Lin Xiaoxiao cautiously raised her head, an unnatural smile on her face, her voice somewhat dry: "Weizhi, this is difficult to explain in just a few words."
Xiao Weizhi stood up from his chair, walked closer, bent down, placed his hands on either side of Lin Xiaoxiao's chair, and looked at her guilty expression.
His thin lips brushed against her right ear, his voice calm: "It's alright, take your time. We have a whole night. If we can't explain it in one day, then we'll talk for two or three days."
Lin Xiaoxiao's body stiffened, she let out a soft sigh, and closed her eyes resignedly.
The conversation continued until dawn.
Aside from: anything that would be forcibly silenced, such as mentioning Xiao Wei's fate or the world in the book.
Lin Xiaoxiao told everything she could, including but not limited to: her identity as a divine agent; the lost skills of the treasure chest merchant; her soul transmigrating and being reborn... and a series of other things.
During this time, Xiao Weizhi asked many questions about the secret realm.
But Lin Xiaoxiao admitted: 'She knew very little, only that some secret realms had administrators, but she knew nothing about the formation of these secret realms…'
As dawn broke, Xiao Weizhi sat in a chair, holding Lin Xiaoxiao, who was sitting on his lap, half-asleep and somewhat drowsy.
His voice was flat as he asked one last question: "In your original world, did you have a lover?"
Lin Xiaoxiao rested her head on his shoulder, her mind a little hazy, and blurted out, "No, my mother is single."
She started school a year later than other children when she was young, and she was admitted to graduate school before graduating from university. She was 27 years old when she graduated with her master's degree.
She became a teaching assistant at the school right after graduation, and just as she was about to be promoted after more than two years, she opened her eyes and found herself transported to this world (which is why Lin Xiaoxiao's behavior often seems 'naive', but as a 'student' who has never been in society, it makes sense).
Xiao Weizhi seemed very satisfied with Lin Xiaoxiao's answer, a subtle smile curving his lips, his exquisite and beautiful eyes narrowing slightly with pleasure.
He gently stroked the back of Lin Xiaoxiao's head with one hand and patted her back with the other, as if coaxing a child, his voice becoming very gentle and pleasant: "Okay, I know, go to sleep."
Lin Xiaoxiao, whose energy was currently negative and who was barely holding on, leaned on his shoulder after hearing T's words, slowly closed her heavy eyelids, and drifted off to sleep with steady breathing.
After Lin Xiaoxiao fell asleep, Xiao Weizhi glanced at the treasure-hunting mouse dressed as a doll and chuckled.
No wonder Lin Xiaoxiao can now easily find many well-hidden resources. With such a treasure-hunting (diamond-level) pet, it would be strange if she didn't find anything.
He held the sleeping Lin Xiaoxiao in his arms, leaning back in his chair, as if whispering to the air, "From now on, just keep a low profile and don't implicate her."
The treasure-hunting rat snorted and reluctantly replied, "Mm."
Then, Xiao Weizhi picked up Lin Xiaoxiao and carried her inside, placed her on the small bed, removed her prosthetic limb, covered her with a blanket, and lit some soothing aromatherapy.
Having not slept all night, he turned and left the tent, full of energy, to arrange the follow-up matters.
And as always, she had to find a suitable excuse for her flawed behavior and cover up all the clues that would arouse suspicion.
The reason Lin Xiaoxiao hasn't been exposed yet is because Xiao Weizhi has been following behind her, covering up any leaks.
(P.S.: Don't underestimate the intuition of professionals. If something is unusually out of the ordinary, these seasoned veterans who frequent various secret realms will always be able to spot it immediately.)
When Lin Xiaoxiao woke up, it was already past 8 a.m. the next day.
This day and night of sleep was the most peaceful sleep she had ever had since she came into this world.
Without countless secrets weighing on your mind, you can fall asleep without any burden, and you don't have to worry about accidentally revealing your secrets in your sleep.
In fact, Lin Xiaoxiao had thought about being honest with Xiao Weizhi a long time ago.
The reason she hesitated to speak was that she felt all of this was like a story. If she just said it without any evidence, would Xiao Weizhi think she was making it up?
When Lin Xiaoxiao got up and walked out of the tent, she found her friends gathered together. Three of them had a small stack of ice-type energy stones next to them and were playing cards.
Wang Hao asked arrogantly, "Yeah, K, want it or not?"
Jiang Tao immediately threw out a Jack: "Wang Hao, you've been too arrogant for too long, bomb!"
Li Junxuan covered the cards in his hand and said with a smile, "I don't want them, Taozi, you can leave."
Wang Hao tossed out a pair of Kings and Queens: "You're talking like nobody doesn't have a bomb, it's a royal flush!"
Seeing that the other two didn't want it, Wang Hao grinned smugly and threw all the cards in his hand out: "I won, quick, quick, energy stone!"
Cheng Cheng stood behind Wang Hao and jokingly teased, "Little Hao, you're in good luck."
Chen Yijin sat next to Li Junxuan, holding a cup of hot tea, and watched his friends joking and playing around with a smile.
Huang Yuwei stood behind Jiang Tao, her face displaying an indescribable expression that seemed to say: With card skills like this, don't bother trying to play like others; it's a waste of coins and resources!
Lin Xiaoxiao walked to Cheng Cheng's side and asked softly, "Why are you the only ones here?"
Where did Xiao Weizhi, Chen Feng, and Liu Huihui go?
Cheng Cheng reached out and took Lin Xiaoxiao's hand: "Them? They went to Lulin to discuss some things!"
Are the Deer Forest Squad around here?
Lin Xiaoxiao looked around curiously, but apart from a vast expanse of white and a frozen lake, she couldn't see any other campsites nearby.
Cheng Cheng's gaze fell on Wang Hao's cards, and he continued, "Lu Lin's camp is not far from us, only three or four kilometers away. The boss and the others should be back by now."
While watching them play cards, Chen Yijin asked Lin Xiaoxiao, "Do you want to eat something to fill your stomach first?"
Lin Xiaoxiao didn't feel very hungry. She checked the time and shook her head, saying, "Let's eat together when they get back."
Anyway, there's not much time left until dinner, so let's wait a bit longer.
While waiting for Xiao Weizhi and the others to return.
Lin Xiaoxiao, Cheng Cheng, and Huang Yuwei, the three girls, stopped watching the game and sat down to the side.
After leaving the secret realm, they went to Tianjin and started chatting and joking around about where to go for fun.
Xiao Weizhi patted the snow off his robe, stepped closer to Lin Xiaoxiao, and stood a meter away from the three girls, asking softly, "Have you eaten anything?"
Lin Xiaoxiao looked up and saw Xiao Weizhi. Her already rosy face turned bright red, and she hurriedly tried to cover Cheng Cheng and Huang Yuwei's mouths, afraid that he would hear what they had just been talking about.
Cheng Cheng, with a malicious intent, pulled away Lin Xiaoxiao's hand that was covering her mouth: "Boss, Xiaoxiao said, um..."
Lin Xiaoxiao reached out and covered Cheng Cheng's mouth, pleading in a low voice, "Sister Cheng Cheng, please let me go. I'll treat you to dinner when we get back."
Huang Yuwei, smiling, asked, "What about me?"
Lin Xiaoxiao quickly replied, "Please, please. You decide what we want to eat."
Xiao Weizhi's gaze fell on Lin Xiaoxiao's flushed face. He raised an eyebrow, pretending not to see it, and replied with a serious expression, "What is it?"
Having known Cheng Cheng for so many years, he understood Cheng Cheng's personality to some extent...
Cheng Cheng changed the subject: "Xiaoxiao said she's hungry and wanted to ask when you'll be done with your work."
Lin Xiaoxiao breathed a sigh of relief when she heard Cheng Cheng change the subject, and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, I'm hungry. We'll prepare dinner when you get back."
Xiao Weizhi reached out his hand to her: "Let's go, let's eat."
As a result, Lin Xiaoxiao didn't get to eat much of the spicy broth she had been craving for this hot pot meal; she ended up having the clear broth instead.
Even though Lin Xiaoxiao explained clearly that her fainting spell earlier was due to the integration of skills, she still understood that it was caused by the skill's integration.
Xiao Weizhi gave an impeccable reason for her refusal:
That mysterious man named Desais choked her for so long. Eating spicy hot pot might make her hoarse. After she goes back and gets a medical check-up and finds no problems, she can eat as much spicy hot pot as she wants.
This A-level secret realm trip came to a successful end, with Lin Xiaoxiao looking quite unhappy.
As the team members stepped out of the portal, they all breathed a sigh of relief, finally leaving behind that icy, snowy environment.
After handing over the thick stack of written reports to the registration office, Xiao Weizhi...
Holding Lin Xiaoxiao's hand, he said in a deep voice, "You've worked hard. The six-star hot spring hotel in Tianjin has been booked. Let's go."
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