Man on the ark, forced to become king

Although Huang told her not to open her mouth in the wind, she still said something in the middle, but because the wind was too strong, Lin Guang couldn't hear her clearly.

After passing through the windy area, the terrain becomes relatively flat sandy, allowing the motorcycles to reach high speeds.

Perhaps Huang had turned the engine up to its maximum speed, so they arrived in the town much earlier than expected.

"Just wait for me here. I'll come back to you after I finish my mission."

Huang parked the motorcycle a hundred meters away from the town, turned around and patted Lin Guang on the shoulder, indicating that she could get off.

The town wasn't too far from her mission objective, and the round trip wouldn't take too much time.

"Can I go with you?"

Lin Guang didn't get out of the car. After a moment's hesitation, he asked.

After arriving here, she had a very bad feeling, as if something was going to happen.

As a knight, Nearl trusted her intuition and senses, and proposed to continue traveling with Blaze.

She had a premonition that something unexpected would happen if she didn't follow Huang.

And most of the time, it will be Huang who has an accident.

Huang had just helped her, and the knightly code prevented her from ignoring the potential dangers Huang might face, even if there was only the slightest possibility.

Repaying kindness is the chivalrous principle she has always upheld.

"Come with me, that's fine too."

Huang agreed to her request without much hesitation. Anyway, she wouldn't be barging in on her motorcycle in a big way. She could just have Lin Guang wait outside for a while.

'This person seems genuinely trusting; how can they be so trusting of a stranger they picked up on the street?'

In Lin Guang's view, this is not a good habit, and if one continues to hold this idea, one will suffer a great loss sooner or later.

However, Huang was in a hurry to complete the mission and didn't have time to talk about those complicated matters; they could only discuss them later.

So they walked past the town gates without going in, and after nightfall, they came to a remote wilderness far from the town.

"It's just ahead. That's what the intelligence I received said. Those people are very vigilant, so we can't go there on motorcycles. If you want to wear armor... that probably won't work either, it'll be too loud. Why don't you just wait for me here? This mission isn't high-rated, I can handle it by myself."

Huang took out his small notebook and looked at it for a while, then turned back to look at Lin Guang with an apologetic expression.

"I have no problem, I don't need the armor."

Lin Guang had no objection to this approach; she simply took out her weapon from the sidecar—a small, one-handed warhammer.

Holding the weapon in her hand, she had a strange feeling; the whole day had been strange.

She and Huang had only met that morning, yet they were already fighting together. Their familiarity with each other was like that of old friends who had known each other for many years.

Moreover, even though she had never been here before, she felt a strange sense of familiarity and destiny.

It was as if she was certain she would come here.

Are you sure you're okay?

Huang asked, still uneasy. She didn't take out a weapon, but she had a pair of gloves with a metallic sheen on her hands, which seemed to be her weapon.

"No problem, this is all I need."

Lin Guang answered with complete confidence, a confidence stemming from the skills honed in battle.

For her, armor was not necessary. As long as she could prevent enemies from hitting her or knock them down before they could attack, she didn't need to rely on armor for defense.

"Then, let's go."

Anyone who can walk in the desert wearing a metal can must be quite skilled—that's what Huang thought, so he didn't ask any more questions and led the way towards the mission location.

According to the Golden Tree's intelligence, a small religious group is supposedly based here, conducting forbidden experiments that are prohibited by the Kazdel Royal Court. The missing persons cases in the surrounding towns are also linked to them.

Since the unification of the royal court, the regent of Kazdel has revised the laws and purged all forces that do not accept the royal court's instructions.

Certain mercenary groups and religious orders that acted cruelly were within the scope of the royal court's cleanup.

Golden Tree's requirement for such groups is simple—once verified, they must all be eliminated, leaving no one alive.

This was the first time Huang had ever done a task like this.

In fact, she had never killed anyone before, so it was understandable that she was a little nervous.

This tension intensified as she approached her destination, slowing her pace considerably.

Lin Guang followed quietly behind Huang, his movements were very professional, even more so than Huang's, without making a sound.

Before long, the target location of the mission came into view.

It was a small valley, not very large, only big enough to fit a few people. It was more like a gap between two hills than a valley.

In the very center of the valley stood a large, dark iron cage. Lin Guang looked at it intently and discovered that what was inside the cage was not the wild beast she had imagined, but a person—a blonde girl slumped on the ground.

Looking around from the most conspicuous cage, Lin Guang once again discovered a sight that made her heart race.

At the edge of the valley, four corpses lay stacked on top of each other, men and women, their limbs mutilated.

Beside the body, two Sarkaz men stood together, seemingly talking, with the blades of their knives resting on the corpse.

Without a doubt, this person could not possibly be a decent person.

Huang also noticed these problems and subconsciously clenched his fists.

Golden Tree's order was that once verified, all of them should be executed; if they were not decent people, it meant killing them.

"We need to think of a way to prevent them from hurting the girl in the cage."

Suddenly, Lin Guang leaned up from behind and whispered something in her ear.

"Ah."

Huang composed himself and deeply agreed with Lin Guang's words.

Those people inside deserved to die. Killing them is fine; at most, they'll just feel uncomfortable and uneasy for a while afterward.

But the girl in the cage was probably a pitiful person who had been captured by these people; she was innocent.

Therefore, we must come up with a safer approach and resolve this quickly.

"Listen to me, I'll just rush in, and their attention will definitely be focused on me. You wait for the right opportunity to attack from behind."

Feeling Lin Guang patting her arm again, Huang quickly leaned closer to hear what brilliant plan Lin Guang had come up with. She figured that after struggling with this for so long, her words must be full of profound insights.

But after listening, Huang's first thought was: Is that all?

This is hardly a safe plan; it's clearly an attempt to launch a full-scale attack. Where is the safety in it?

Moreover, if someone rushes in alone, what if the enemy has a ranged weapon like a crossbow lying in ambush?

The risks of doing this are not even great; they are almost tantamount to suicide.

Anyway, Huang felt that she would never do that; it was too reckless. Even a novice like her, whose entire experience came from books, thought it was inappropriate.

"action!"

Unexpectedly, Lin Guang didn't say anything more and just followed her plan to charge straight into the valley.

"I'm really convinced..."

With things having come to this point, Huang said he had nothing to say. What else could he say? He could only proceed with brute force.

Lin Guang has already rushed in and is fighting with people. If she is still hesitating here, she will have to prepare to collect Lin Guang's corpse later.

Immediately, Huang stopped hiding and took advantage of the fact that the five people in the valley were distracted by Lin Guang. He leaped down from the mountain wall behind him, and his gleaming metal gauntlets slammed into the necks of the two people behind him with heavy force.

Click!

With their bones broken, the two men fell to the ground without uttering a sound, their heads drooping limply to one side as they lost their support.

Boom!

Huang's surprise attack from behind caused the three people attacking Lin Guang to freeze for a moment. Lin Guang grabbed one of the men's wrists and used his machete to block the other two's swings. His warhammer slashed from a very tricky angle, directly grazing the throats of the three men. The force of the hammer crushed their necks.

This was something Huang hadn't expected at all.

How can someone wearing heavy armor be so agile?

Looking at it this way, it seems that this reckless plan can be explained—Near Light is quite confident in his own strength and believes that he can deal with the enemy in a short time, so naturally he does not need a complicated plan.

"Watch out, this isn't over yet!"

The raised warhammer interrupted what Huang was about to say. Hearing Nearl's reminder, she also tensed up, her fair skin turning a light red, and the temperature around her seemed to rise considerably.

Gulu~Gulu~

Suddenly, a strange noise came from the pile of corpses next to the valley. A bright red tentacle emerged from a crack in one of the corpses, swaying and looking disgusting.

"What is this thing..."

Huang felt a bit nauseous. She was still a newbie, and this was only her first mission involving bloodshed. Killing someone was one thing, but encountering such a disgusting monster was another…

"do not know."

Lin Guang cautiously surveyed her surroundings, then bent down and swiftly threw the corpses she and Huang had killed toward the edge of the valley.

Gulu~Gulu~

Not long after the corpse hit the ground, identical bright red tentacles pierced through the skin and extended from the flesh.

Immediately afterwards, the swaying tentacles seemed to have some kind of connection with each other, tentatively trying to link together and intertwine.