Chapter 175

In the magic pet snack shop, Bella flapped her wings and inspected the shelves, selecting the snacks she liked and putting them into the magic flying basket that followed her nearby. This was already the third basket, and the other two baskets that were piled like small mountains had already flown to the checkout location by themselves.

"That's enough, Bella." Olivia looked at the third magic flying basket that was about to be filled, and said with a hint of dissuasion in her voice, "Snacks will make you fat. If you gain more weight, you won't be able to fly!"

Bella, who was happily choosing, picked up a bag of Popping Candy from the shelf with her beak, flapped her wings, and dove precisely into the magic basket: "Wow wow wow!"

"There's no point in protesting. At most, you can fill up this basket, and then you can't buy anything else for the next two months." Olivia said, "It's good for your health to eat on time."

Bella flapped her wings and tilted her head, looking extremely unconvinced: "Ah wow——"

It raised its neck and shouted only halfway when a golden light suddenly flashed in its round black eyes. The smile on Olivia's lips froze instantly - the mental mark he left behind was triggered, and in an instant he could no longer sense it.

"Magic Black Alley." Olivia whispered again, her beautiful blue eyes seemed to be brewing a storm, "Let's go, Bella."

Bella, who was acting cute just now, suddenly folded her wings. There was still some space in the third magic basket, but she no longer put any snacks in it. Bella flapped her wings, serious but also with a bit of saccharine joy:

"Wow-Olivia-Weiwei's student is missing-"

Olivia's face darkened visibly.

"If you say one more word, I won't pay for the snacks."

This sentence seemed to have hit Bella's sore spot. Bella, who was flapping her wings in front of Olivia, landed on his shoulder obediently. A hint of flattery could be heard in her mumbling:

"Bad student - if you catch him, you will be penalized -"

The main feature is to be able to judge the situation, adapt to circumstances and be flexible.

Olivia quickly paid for Bella's three baskets of snacks. The moment he walked out of the Magic Pet Snack Shop, his figure disappeared directly on the street, and when he reappeared, he was at a pale blue stone wall. Olivia put his hand on the wall, and the waves-like pattern spread out. His figure faded again, and when he reappeared, he had already arrived at the place where Gu Hongying and the others were both injured.

The use of several teleportation magic circles in succession did not improve Olivia's mood, but made his face even gloomier. He stared at the messy traces on the ground, and the large magic circle began to cover the forbidden magic buffer zone from under his feet.

"Bella." Olivia's eyes glowed with gold. "Go tell the person in charge here that I have unlocked the magic ban in the buffer zone. Ask him to come back and reseal it later. The fine will be put on the account first."

"Wow--" Bella responded to Olivia's request, flapping its wings and rushing into the depths. Its eyes were shining with gold. It was Olivia who was establishing a mental connection with it.

Bella flew away, and the magic circle under Olivia's feet gradually took shape. It was a short-time retrospective magic circle. The phantom above the magic circle was like a reverse surveillance, which went back to the time when the group of people in black robes and Gu Hongying and the other three met.

The faint shadows perfectly restored the previous "crime scene" - after the team of black-robed men fell into Hao Zhizhi's powder, the magic circle engraved on the package wrapped in Robert took effect without warning when they touched it.

Based on the reaction of the phantom, Olivia guessed that there were two hidden magic circles on the package, one was the identification magic circle, and the other was the energy storage counterattack magic circle. The two complemented each other. Once it was identified that the person who touched the magic carrier was not an approved person, the energy storage counterattack magic circle would automatically take effect and release the magic power stored in advance at one time.

Olivia originally thought that only a few of his students were taken away when they encountered some gray transaction on the magic black market. The other party temporarily suppressed his mental mark as a warning, and needed him to go over and redeem them.

But Robert appeared in the shadow of the retrospective image...

Olivia wondered if it was because he hadn't taken action in several years that many people had forgotten how he dealt with the "hyenas" that were chasing Robert?

The mental link with Bella was read, which meant that the person in charge here had received his message. Olivia dispersed the magic circle and began to capture the remaining magic fluctuations in the air.

He chanted the ancient spell, like some kind of hymn with a strange rhythm. He heard the echo given by the residual magic fluctuations and caught the signal in the resonance.

"Níhggr," Olivia said.

The voice of the mermaid suddenly rose, and the magic wave condensed into a line, tearing the void in front of him. He raised his hand, and Bella, who flew from afar, stood on his arm and uttered a low "Ah——"

Olivia stepped into the void rift he tore open.

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“Blah——”

The dirt splashed, and a hand stretched out from the ground. The hand first waved around in the air, as if fighting an enemy in the air. Then the hand retracted, expanding the hole in the arm. With the unremitting efforts of this hand, the original fist-sized hole was now wide enough for the head to stick out.

"Puh, puh, puh!" Gu Hongying, covered in mud, crawled out of the soil with difficulty. His eyes met the patterned stone tablet at the end of his grave, no, at the end of the pit where he was buried.

Gu Hongying: “…”

Why erect a monument for him when he's not even dead yet?

After cleaning the dirt in his mouth, Gu Hongying turned his head and saw four small mounds of earth lined up in order besides his own. On top of each mound was a stone tablet with patterns inserted neatly.

Gu Hongying was so frightened that he quickly ran to the nearest mound of earth and started digging a grave, no, to save someone.

The shark-saw-toothed grass growing next to the mound became the best tool for digging holes. Gu Hongying quickly crushed a few of the grasses, grabbed the grass and quickly rolled them together to use as a rake.

After great efforts, Gu Hongying dug out a person, a gray ball and a small tea tree seedling.

The person was unconscious and had no reaction other than breathing. As for the small tea tree seedling... Gu Hongying picked up Yu Tu Miao. Yu Tu Miao was hanging limply in the shape of an "n". It looked like the liquid cat that was popular on the Internet some time ago, except that it was a liquid seedling.

Gu Hongying: “!!!”

Gu Hongying: "Wake up! Tutu? Zhizhi? Eric? Can you hear me?"

He knew it was dangerous here, but he didn't realize how dangerous it was. It wasn't until all his friends fell into a coma and didn't wake up that Gu Hongying felt truly scared.

"Yu Tu! Hao Zhi Zhi! Eric!"

Gu Hongying wanted to send his spiritual power in to check on their physical conditions, but he was afraid that he didn't know how to control it and that his spiritual power would harm their bodies, making the situation worse.

Gu Hongying looked around the eerie garden, and finally gritted his teeth and carried Eric on his back, put Yu Tu Miao in his left pocket and Zhi Zhi Tuan in his right pocket, intending to find the cave they came from, and go back to where they originally stayed along the cave - there was only darkness there, at least not as dangerous as above.

When Gu Hongying was looking for the hole they had dug, he heard the sound of leaves rustling. He turned around alertly and saw that in the center of the garden, the desert rose that Robert had turned into was shaking its leaves wildly. When Gu Hongying looked over, the blooming leaves on the desert rose struggled to spell out "SOS".

Gu Hongying did not turn around, but lowered his head and looked at his left and right pockets: "Robert, I will send them to a safe place first and then come back to save you."

Moving Robert's position would be the center of destruction. His friends were already in danger and he couldn't let them take risks a second time.

The leaves that Robert had arranged to form "SOS" trembled as if they were shaken, first changing to "QAQ", then to "T v T", and finally to "OK".

Gu Hongying found the hole they had dug when they came. Fortunately, only a little soil fell off the entrance of the hole and it was not completely buried. Gu Hongying first stuffed Eric in and then followed him in. Then he closed his eyes slightly and reviewed the passage they had dug underground in his mind.

Perhaps because he was worried to the extreme, he was now terrifyingly calm. Gu Hongying led Eric through the tunnel without making a wrong move. The only sound in his ears was the quiet breathing of his friends. Gu Hongying led them back to the pitch-dark room where they started at the beginning.

The ban on his spiritual power had been lifted in the garden. Even though magic was still banned in the house, Gu Hongying was not under much pressure. He cast a fireball spell, illuminating the dark space.

I was unaware of it in the darkness before, but now that there is light, I can see that this seems to be a long and narrow passage that is narrow at the back and wide at the front. With the faint light of the fireball, I can see that the top of the passage seems to be made of wood, and the front and back are all in endless darkness.

No wonder Tutu said before that there are only two directions, left and right.

Gu Hongying calmed himself down, laid Eric down, took out Yu Tu Miao and Zhi Zhi Tuan and placed them flat on his chest. Then, Gu Hongying took out a strangely shaped small bag from his neck and placed the bag between Yu Tu Miao and Zhi Zhi Tuan.

Gu Hongying thought about it and still felt that it was not safe, so he cut his finger and pointed at the small bag. A faint red light emanated from the small bag and it turned into a light red light shield.

After doing all this, Gu Hongying walked back the way he came without looking back.

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The desert rose, with its leaves drooping and looking lifeless, suddenly stood up after seeing Gu Hongying emerge from where he had left, and tiny drops of water fell from its leaves with a "pat, pat".

After crawling out, Gu Hongying patted the dirt off his body, tried his best to avoid the plants on the ground, and walked towards the center.

"Robert." Gu Hongying walked to the side of the desert rose. "Get ready. I'm going to dig you out now. No matter what happens later, you just need to listen to my instructions and follow me!"

His heart was beating fast now, and he felt excited and nervous about doing something big: "If you are ready, say it with a leaf."

The desert rose, still with tiny water droplets hanging on it, immediately gestured an OK with its leaves.

Gu Hongying quickly dug up the soil around the desert rose. The moment he dragged the desert rose out of the pit, he quickly pulled out the second rope from his neck with his other hand, broke it and threw it into the air!

The second Robert left the pit, he turned into a human form. Gu Hongying grabbed his arm and shouted, "Run!!!"

The eerie garden seemed to come alive at this moment. The branches hanging from the sky were like venomous snakes hunting, the closed buds slowly bloomed, holes began to appear in the blooming flowers, and strands of red emanated from the holes.

But more fascinating than the horrific changes in the garden is what Gu Hongying threw into the sky.

That thing was in the shape of a small sword, and at this moment it was changing from dim to brighter and brighter at an extremely terrifying speed. It looked like some kind of incredible killing move.

———It is indeed a killing move.

Gu Hongying couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling when he saw the clear and bright shadow beginning to appear under his feet.

Help! I should have waited a few seconds before throwing it away!!!

The escape hole was right in front of them. Gu Hongying seemed to have eyes on his back. He grabbed Robert's shoulder and pushed him into the hole: "Hurry up, hurry up, it's too late ah ah ah ah——"

He has two amulets hanging around his neck, one for defense and one for attack, which were given to him by his father during the Chinese New Year. It is said that the amulet for defense came from the ruins master of Guixu, and the amulet for attack came from the mountain master of Kunlun, so that he would not use these two amulets lightly unless he was in a desperate situation.

Gu Hongying only half understood it before, but he understood it completely after using it—the violent spiritual power fluctuations behind him were comparable to the sun. If he didn't run away before it exploded, he would have become the first unlucky person in history to be killed by his own amulet!

As the saying goes, what you fear will come true. After Robert was stuffed into the cave and crawled forward using his hands and feet, Gu Hongying had just entered the cave when he heard an earth-shattering explosion behind him. He immediately mobilized all the spiritual power in his body and concentrated it on his back. He crawled frantically inside while chanting various defensive spells at a very fast speed, but all of this seemed to be useless in the face of the incoming spiritual power.

The extremely terrifying spiritual power swept through the cave entrance, and the aftermath gave the two people an extreme feeling of being pushed back, pushing them through the winding tunnel at an extremely fast speed.

Gu Hongying's scream came out instinctively, and Robert shouted in the scream:

"Is this also part of your plan to save me—"