Lan Yu Shan, mouth full of sand: "Damn it!"
Wang Cao Tian, who landed on his backside, yelped, "Senior Shen is playing favorites!"
The moment Jiang Yue, Luo Shi Yu, and Xia Zhi were teleported high into the sky, they adjusted their landing postures.
Lu Zhi, who landed steadily and safely: ...
Why did he feel inexplicably happy about being treated differently?
"But speaking of which," Xia Zhi picked up his glasses that had fallen on the ground, "since Captain Shen could teleport us directly here, why did he go to such lengths to rent a boat?"
Jiang Yue felt a sudden enlightenment: "Yeah, why?"
Good question, Lu Zhi had just remembered it too.
"How about you ask Senior Shen when he gets back?" Wang Cao Tian suggested.
The atmosphere turned stiff.
Jiang Yue quickly shook her head, "Well, the thoughts of a senior figure are not something we, the weak, can fathom. Let's get back to the main topic. Now that we've successfully landed on the island, according to the original plan, we were supposed to split up and investigate."
Xia Zhi put on his glasses, "I don't think it's suitable for us to split up now."
Luo Shi Yu nodded, "We don't know the current situation on Sacred Island, so it's safer to stick together. Let's follow the original route and head towards the divine tower first."
No one had any objections. Jiang Yue opened her optical computer to display the shortest route to the divine tower on Sacred Island, and the group proceeded into the forest one after another.
At this moment, Lan Yu Shan suddenly asked, "Lu Zhi, why haven't you said anything the whole time?"
"I'm thinking about something." Lu Zhi had been pondering Shen Qi's reasons for leaving. He had said he was going to clear out some杂碎 (miscellaneous scum), and also that there was an aura on the island that he found extremely repulsive, a killing intent that seeped from his bones. Although he tried his best to suppress it, Lu Zhi had keenly sensed it.
But the source of all this was the moment Shen Qi broke through the barrier. A straight beam of light shot out from the center of Sacred Island, repairing the barrier.
It was also at that time that Lu Zhi felt a mysteriously familiar aura, and within this aura was a gentle power that attracted his attention.
He always felt that what Shen Qi was doing was closely related to him.
But why did Shen Qi have to hide it from him?
"Be careful, we're surrounded." Jiang Yue's calm voice suddenly sounded, and the next moment she commanded, "Scatter and dodge!"
Lu Zhi's foot, which had been stepping forward, suddenly retracted, and he quickly dodged behind a nearby tree. A series of whizzing air bullets struck the spot where they had been standing moments before.
The outer foliage of Sacred Island looked similar to ordinary trees, but their growth pattern was more vigorous than trees elsewhere, with thick trunks and interwoven vines and bushes, as if they had entered a swamp forest.
Although the branches and leaves overhead were dense, sunlight penetrated everywhere, providing enough light for everyone to see the direction from which the air bullets were fired.
Lu Zhi, facing this situation for the first time, couldn't help but feel a little nervous. He instinctively summoned his vine, Man Luo, to wrap around his wrist. Perhaps because Lu Zhi hadn't summoned her for a while, Man Luo clung to him, climbing onto his shoulder.
Lu Zhi's tense nerves eased slightly because of Man Luo. He extended his index finger and lightly touched the tip of Man Luo's leaves, signaling her to behave.
Jiang Yue suddenly jumped from behind a tree onto a branch and said loudly without concealment, "Hey, friend, you're attacking us for no reason, you should at least have a reason, right?"
From Lu Zhi's direction, he could see Xia Zhi quietly using targeted teleportation, Wang Cao Tian in a vigilant posture, ready to strike at any moment, while Lan Yu Shan closed his eyes and amplified his senses, and Luo Shi Yu protected him from the shadows.
Lu Zhi looked at their synchronized actions with surprise, suddenly feeling like he was redundant...
Whoosh—
Another air bullet.
A wall of fire erupted in front of Jiang Yue, and she once again dodged without a scratch.
Lan Yu Shan quickly said, "One o'clock direction, about 800 meters away from us."
"Got it." Xia Zhi's targeted teleportation activated instantly, and Wang Cao Tian was teleported over. A few sounds of fighting and gunshots came from there, followed by Wang Cao Tian's voice, "You can come over now."
Lu Zhi walked out from behind the tree, surprised, "Yu Shan, you can already pinpoint locations accurately?"
Lan Yu Shan's ability was actually sensory enhancement: hearing, sight, smell, taste, touch. It wasn't particularly powerful, but it was very useful at critical moments.
Just like the coordination of the four just now, Jiang Yue deliberately exposed her position to lure the opponent to attack her, Lan Yu Shan discerned the location, and placed his palm on the ground to sense the opponent's direction, allowing Xia Zhi to accurately teleport to the enemy's hidden location and subdue them.
"Hehehe..." Lan Yu Shan smiled sheepishly, "This is thanks to Brother Luo pointing out the strengths of my abilities. Shall we go too?"
Lu Zhi nodded and quickly walked over with Lan Yu Shan. From a distance, he saw Wang Cao Tian pinning someone to the ground. As he got closer, Lu Zhi realized it was a long-haired girl.
"Let go of me! You scum!" The long-haired girl, her face covered in blood, roared at Wang Cao Tian, "I won't rest until I haunt you!"
"Wait." Lu Zhi approached the girl and asked confusedly, "Little sister, we have no quarrel with you, why did you attack us and call us scum? That's a bit much."
The girl's eyes, filled with hatred, looked at Lu Zhi and the others and asked warily, "You're not with those people?"
Lu Zhi motioned for Wang Cao Tian to release her, saying, "It's not good to be pressing down on a girl like that." Wang Cao Tian and the others thought Lu Zhi was being soft-hearted. Before they could even advise him, they saw Lu Zhi summon Man Luo and directly bind the girl like a rice dumpling, saying, "This is safer."
Wang Cao Tian looked at the girl tied up like a rice dumpling, then thought about how he was pressing down on her back, and quickly explained, "I'm not, I didn't, I wasn't acting like a hooligan."
Jiang Yue said meaningfully, "Cao Tian, we never said you were acting like a hooligan."
Lan Yu Shan clicked his tongue, "Tsk, tsk, tsk, so this is the kind of senior you are."
Wang Cao Tian pouted and hugged Xia Zhi's waist with a yelp, "Brother Xia, they're bullying me."
Xia Zhi offered insincere comfort, "Who told you to ride on someone's back and laugh so pervertedly."
Wang Cao Tian: ??? Is that human language?
"You're going to the divine tower, aren't you?" The little girl looked about twelve or thirteen years old. She seemed to have calmed down. On her blood-stained face, only a desolation greater than sorrow remained. "Don't go, you'll die."
Lu Zhi frowned, "Did you come out from inside the divine tower?"
The little girl shook her head, and hatred erupted from her eyes, "We were chased by a bunch of scum before we even entered the divine tower. If it weren't for saving me, my brother... wouldn't have died."
As she spoke, the little girl bit her lower lip tightly, holding back tears.
Lu Zhi glanced at Jiang Yue and the others, nodded, and put Man Luo away, saying, "Can you tell us what happened on the island?"
...
Meanwhile, on the other side of Sacred Island, a group of men were hunting a woman covered in wounds, fleeing in disarray.
A little boy, about eight or nine years old, with dazzling golden pupils, watched the pursuit and hunt with evil and sinister eyes.
Suddenly, the little boy's expression changed slightly, and the next moment he disappeared from Sacred Island.
The men surrounding the little boy were still looking bewildered. The next second, they all showed twisted and terrified expressions, and their bodies exploded with a bang.
In the mist of blood, Shen Qi looked coldly at the spot where the little boy had disappeared, and the next moment he also vanished.
The only survivor was the woman who had been the target. She knelt on the ground and cried heartbrokenly, muttering, "It's a god... it must be a god who heard my prayers..." httpδ:/m.kuAisugg.nět
Those scum who cruelly killed her loved one, they deserved to die, all of them deserved to die!