This time I chose Paladin.

Chapter 315 Hearing Cries of Sorrow

The temperature difference between day and night on the grassland is extreme, and the night wind carries a biting chill.

Nie Weiyang sped across the pristine plains, the wind ripping at his coat and whipping his long hair around him, giving him a breathtaking sense of freedom.

But he kept hearing strange crackling sounds in his ears, and even after subconsciously checking once, he couldn't find the cause.

Five minutes later, Bai Yu in the back seat could no longer bear it. She reached out and grabbed Nie Weiyang's braid, which was whipping wildly in the wind, and stuffed it into the collar of Nie Weiyang's coat.

Nie Weiyang: “…”

He then realized that the commotion was from Bai Yu getting a beating. He was immediately embarrassed and shouted through the wind, "Sorry! I didn't notice!"

This is my first time growing my hair long, and I really have no experience with this...!
Bai Yu withdrew his hand, resuming his absent-minded demeanor, and replied calmly, "...It's nothing."

He had always been like this, seemingly an empty shell, lacking any independent thought, only knowing how to obey orders. Nie Weiyang knew that wasn't the whole truth... or rather, not entirely, but...

Well, Bai Yu didn't actually fully meet the organization's admission criteria originally. Nie Weiyang ultimately let Bai Yu join because, while adhering to basic principles, Bai Yu wouldn't question the decision-makers' decisions, no matter how outrageous they seemed.

He needs someone like that.

About three minutes later, Bai Yu, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke up, his voice not loud: "I heard someone scream."

“You heard that, that’s right.” Nie Weiyang’s voice lowered, carrying a subtle chill.

He twisted the handlebars to the side, the Lucky Draw screeching as it scraped against the ground. With a beautiful drift, he came to a steady stop at the edge of a cliff, the gravel kicked up by the wheels falling into the abyss.

Below lies a deep, narrow rift valley, winding its way across the land to the unseen distance. Hundreds of such rift valleys exist across the East African savanna of the New World, intricately interwoven like the veins of a leaf, all ultimately converging on the deepest, longest, and most awe-inspiring main rift valley.

A sharp, jagged scar on the earth's crust.

It resembles the East African Rift Valley on Earth, but is steeper and more terrifying. The entire area is like a huge, unique map, mirroring the underwater environment—and in terms of biodiversity.

This is one of the places on Titan with the richest, most dangerous, and most aggressive mutant creatures. There are three such places: the Great Rift Valley, the Hummingbird River Basin, and all ocean regions.

On the map, this rift valley is respectfully called the 'Creation of the Planet'.

"Creation of a Planet... a strange name." Bai Yu closed the map and stared thoughtfully at a certain spot below.

Nie Weiyang was also looking in that direction, his mind racing with countless thoughts.

At this moment, right below this creation of the planet, in the place they were gazing upon.

From a dark corner, intermittent screams crept up the cold rock wall. The sounds were painful and desperate, and seemed especially eerie in the desolate night.

The voices sounded like more than one person, mostly women, and they seemed quite young. They were about two thousand meters away from the two people, hidden in a dark jungle.

Two kilometers.

This distance was entirely within Nie Weiyang's direct perception range.

At that moment, he could indeed clearly hear the voices coming from below the rift. Intertwined with the screams were the voices of despair, fear, resentment, and the will to survive.

But... there was no thought, no logic.

Those voices, the voices of hundreds and thousands, were just frantic pleas, screams, roars, wails, collapses, chaos... All of this flooded into his mind, like ice needles piercing his consciousness, making his face turn somewhat ugly, his eyes filled with thick shadows, the light more restrained than ever before, and his gaze unusually sharp.

“Let’s go down,” he said, putting away the lucky charm. Without the slightest hesitation, Bai Yu moved swiftly, like a light bird, silently leaping off the cliff.

Both of them were exceptionally skilled. Descending two thousand meters along a nearly vertical but lushly vegetated cliff was theoretically not a difficult task, as long as there were no powerful flying or climbing mutant creatures that could ambush them along the way.

In this respect, Bai Yu possesses a natural talent for stealth, similar to 'reducing hatred' and 'fading presence'. If he so chooses, most creatures will subconsciously ignore his existence.

As for Nie Weiyang?
If Nie Weiyang were to face a mutated creature head-on, it wouldn't be him who would be afraid.

Bai Yu did not fall in a straight line, but used the tenacious trees growing on the cliff as a buffer and foothold. The trees here are all quite old, and there is a wide variety of species, including many that should not theoretically appear on this East African savanna. This is clearly the result of the mixed ecology of the New World, or rather, the result of a previous civilization.

As the white feather leaped past a venomous snake coiled on a tree branch like a shadow, the arm-thick branch only swayed very slightly.

The venomous snake paused, its raised head gleaming coldly in the moonlight. Its scarlet tongue flickered twice before it slowly retreated, treating the snake as if it were merely a quiet breeze.

However, this tranquility was shattered in the next second.

A faint white light plummeted straight down like a meteor, hurtling headlong into the depths of the rift valley!
Nie Weiyang, who was not wearing armor or even shielding himself, relied entirely on his physical strength and control, choosing the most direct and violent way to descend.

After all, as time went on, he became stronger and stronger, his physical attributes improved, and his weight increased accordingly. Now, judging from the numerical value alone, his weight makes people think that he is made of iron and steel. Therefore, his stealth ability has naturally been reduced, and the ways he can decrease are also much fewer.

Of course, he repeatedly used the cliff face for leverage, kicking off rocks and soil to avoid some trees as much as possible.

It would be such a pity to destroy those ancient trees that have stood here for so long.

His figure streaked through the air, leaving a trail of shimmering light behind his crown, but the weight and acceleration brought by his terrifying physique still made him like a human cannonball, unstoppable!

'boom! ! ! ’

A deep, thunderous roar exploded at the bottom of the rift valley, sending earth and rocks flying and the ground trembling violently.

Nie Weiyang landed precisely on an open ground. The light of his shield flashed and disappeared in an instant. The moment he landed, he collided with the ground, dispersing the kinetic energy and creating a shallow, cracked crater several meters in diameter. The shockwave caused the surrounding vegetation to bend over.

Nie Weiyang: "…………"

He looked up at the sky from the crater he had created, and saw a fragment of the sky staring at him, like the vertical pupil of a celestial beast, perfectly framing the crack of the planet's creation.

Nie Weiyang climbed out nonchalantly, brushed the dust off his clothes, and looked down at the pit at his feet.

Although it was expected, he was still somewhat speechless about the commotion he had caused.

Immediately, he twitched his fingers slightly, and a layer of soft and pure light flickered at the center of his finger, quickly spreading out and disappearing into the air.

Wherever the light passed, all the dust, grass clippings, and even some barely noticeable odors on his body and clothes were purified and dispelled, leaving him clean and new.

[Blessing and purification].

A paladin skill originally used to dispel debuffs on allies and purify buffs on enemies. Its main function is to dispel and target dark energy, and to deal high damage to malicious spirits. It is also occasionally used for dry cleansing.

After doing all this, Nie Weiyang quickly walked towards the direction from which the screams came.

After a while, Bai Yu drifted down like a feather and quietly followed him not far away.

(End of this chapter)