Mystery: When the Fool Meets the Masked Fool

Chapter 439 I can't do anything to hurt women!

On the other side, Silver City.

The journey was remarkably easy. Under Colin's protection, the exploration team encountered virtually no danger.

Finally, they arrived at the Giants' Court.

What the exploration team saw was a magnificent yet somber sunset.

The place shrouded in twilight is a complex of buildings with countless palaces, towers, and imposing city walls. They are magnificent and splendid, like miracles from myths and legends, frozen in time.

Looking at such a magnificent scene, Alicia let out a soft "wow" in admiration.

However, Yinzhi, who usually loves to praise, did not immediately offer any praise.

The scene before me was beautiful, but it was too desolate.

The massive, towering building stood silently in the frozen twilight, utterly still, as if it were merely an oil painting. Beautiful, but lifeless.

It's like a dead city.

After a long silence, Yinzhi finally spoke.

"Such a beautiful scene is naturally extremely beautiful. But stagnant time and decay deprive people of the right to enjoy beauty. Standing still makes it difficult to move towards greater beauty."

“We’ve now truly entered the Giants’ Court and are approaching its core. The danger level will only increase, not decrease. Don’t let your guard down just because things were easy before,” Colin reminded the people behind him.

"Yes, Chief," the members of the exploration team responded in unison.

At this moment, Xing quietly moved to Alicia's side:

"Aili, Aili, I think Elder Lovia is still quite charming. Why didn't you try to strike up a conversation with her?"

The raccoon expressed curiosity, feeling that this didn't fit the other person's character.

Alicia blinked, pointed to Lovia's left ring finger and the skull she was holding, and explained in a low voice that only Xing could hear.

“Look, Ms. Lovia is already married, and she seems to love her husband very much. It wouldn’t be appropriate for me to go over there.”

"Oh!" Xing exclaimed in sudden realization, "So it's because you don't like married women!"

They're quite picky.

Unlike her, who accepts everyone who comes her way.

As expected, the Galaxy Succubus was still the better one.

In short, we won big.

"Hmm..." Alicia actually thought about it seriously for a moment, "No, it's not that simple."

"It mainly depends on whether the other party will refuse. If they will refuse, then naturally I won't bother them. And Elder Luo Weiya will definitely refuse, so I won't bother her."

I, Alicia, would never do anything to hurt a woman!

"What if the other party doesn't refuse?" Xing asked.

"Humph."

Everything is unspoken.

Alicia smiled slightly.

Little glutton, asking a question you already know the answer to.

After a while, they saw a huge stone staircase, grayish-white in color but tinged with orange light, both dazzling and serene. Each step of the staircase was relatively high, and a normal human would definitely find it very difficult to climb. Fortunately, Colin could simulate the abilities of a Dream Weaver of the Preservation Path to create a staircase that was relatively smaller in size.

Above the massive steps stands a city wall so majestic that one must look up to see its top. It bears many signs of damage and burning, and in some places, arrows as thick as ordinary trees and several meters long are stuck in the ground, causing some of the stones to collapse.

In the middle of the city wall is a double gate, several tens of meters high, with a grayish-blue hue and gold nails embedded in it. Two guards stand outside, their mere presence creating an intense sense of oppression.

They were five or six meters tall, wearing exquisite and sturdy full silver armor. One held a greatsword, and the other had a giant axe planted on the ground. Behind their faceplates, a ball of orange-red light shone out, as if they were single-eyed.

"It's the Tree Guardian!" Xing immediately marked the local unit.

“No, they don’t have horses,” Serres corrected.

“Yeah, why don’t they have horses?” Xing pondered.

"Poor thing, did the horse die?"

"Really? That's so pitiful."

Just as Colin was about to step forward, he suddenly noticed the exploration behind him; the team members seemed to be getting more and more relaxed.

Indeed, since the quality of life and technology in Silver City have improved, the exploration team members have become less and less focused on their own abilities.

Especially when he was leading the team, although it was clear that the team members were indeed exploring seriously and remaining vigilant, they still couldn't keep up because they hadn't had enough experience.

This made him consider whether he should find a way to train them, such as suppressing the two Sequence 3 fighters and reducing them to Sequence 5, then handing them over to the team members behind him, or something like that...

Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly noticed that the girl named Xing in the group had slipped out at some point.

She lowered her body and, though her back was bent, moved slowly but steadily behind the two silver knights.

This action made Colin frown.

No, this is ridiculous!

But something even more disheartening was yet to come.

Mingxing walked around her openly and honestly, but the two silver knights acted as if they couldn't see her at all.

Even when Xing circled behind one of the silver knights and pulled out a flaming spear, the flames burning the knight's back, the knight didn't turn around.

Just as Xing suddenly thrust his gun into the back of one of the Silver Knights, the other Silver Knight, as if suddenly noticing Xing, drew his weapon and turned to face him.

Immediately afterwards, the silver knight began brandishing and slashing at Xing's body with his weapon, but the attacks passed right through her body and failed to cause her any harm.

It wasn't until Xing kicked the Silver Knight who had been attacked in the back, pulling the Flame Spear out of his back, that he seemed to finally regain his "attackable" state, rolling away.

Colin, who didn't understand what "invincible frames in execution animations" meant, said he had learned something new.

Then, Colin watched as Hoshino rolled twice, stabbed once, rolled twice, stabbed once, and occasionally shook the spear in front of him while muttering something like "Ashina Shaking Sword Technique".

Finally, Xing used some unknown method to trap the two Silver Knights in a crevice between rocks. The two Silver Knights, like broken machines, frantically attacked the wall. Xing stood behind them, openly launching a sneak attack, muttering things like "The skipping class tutorial I just found is so useful" and "Speeding through the Giant's Court dungeon"—things that were hard to understand.

It's really confusing.

PS:

How should I put it? I annexed Bai'e because of certain unavoidable reasons, but you still hold a grudge and insist on standing against me.

Hmph, what can I say? You may not have Bai E, but you still have me.

I can totally replace him and become your partner. Don't I?

(End of this chapter)