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"I have only one request." Chen Guan's voice wasn't loud, but it instantly drew the attention of the other two.

"During the operation, abandon your own judgment and follow my instructions completely."

"No problem," Hong Yuan replied crisply.

Aside from when they first met, when she treated Chen Guan like a sitting duck, that's how they've always been.

As for now... Red Kite has realized that I am the one who wins by lying down.

Yin Chen nodded in agreement. With a powerful figure carrying them, anyone who didn't win was a fool.

That's the advantage of teaming up with them; the two of them will completely hand over command to Chen Guan.

"Very good." Black Crow turned around and walked back the way he came.

"I'll follow behind, but I hope I won't have a chance to make a move."

At this point, he stopped being stubborn and directly admitted that he would take action if necessary.

His figure quickly disappeared on the other side of the hills, leaving this dangerous wasteland entirely to the three students.

Chen Guan did not set off immediately. He stood still, carefully studying the terrain map on the data panel.

It was a complex rocky forest with jagged stone pillars, natural shelters, and blind spots.

This is an excellent hunting ground for the Lightning Cheetah.

His finger swiped across the screen, and a red line was marked, marking the patrol's route.

Chen Guan turned off the data panel and looked at the two of them.

"Red Kite, conceal your presence and follow me for ten meters."

"Yin Chen, you walk at the back. Use your mental power to sense the area within fifty meters behind us to prevent being surrounded."

This formation is a bit strange. Red Kite is a warrior and should be in front, but he, the theoretical reaper, is at the very front.

Neither of them raised any questions; they simply adjusted their positions as instructed.

The distance wasn't far; the three of them walked in a straight line and soon arrived at the desolate, rocky forest.

The wind blew through the cracks in the stone pillars, producing a mournful wail like that of ghosts.

On the ground, the patrol team's tracks were very faint, with only occasional traces of armored vehicle wheels visible.

Chen Guan's footsteps were very light, making almost no sound.

His eyes weren't scanning around, but rather half-closed; he was using all his senses to experience the hunting ground.

When facing someone with spatial abilities, your eyes can be deceiving.

After walking for about ten minutes, Chen Guan stopped. Yin Chen was speaking into his earpiece.

"There's a layer of black powder on the edge of the rubble; it's the material of military-grade weapons. A battle took place here."

Chen Guan bent down, and sure enough, just as Yin Chen had said, there was black powder scattered on the ground. However, his eyesight was poor, and he could not tell the state of the powder before it was put into use.

Indeed, everyone has their own area of ​​expertise.

Hongyuan immediately became alert.

Chen Guan stood up and continued forward, his steps slower and more cautious than before.

Suddenly, a faint spatial fluctuation came from the left front.

"Be on guard!" Yin Chen's voice rang in the earpiece, and the ice spikes beside him instantly grew several times larger.

Red Kite's muscles tensed, and the giant axe was held horizontally in front of her chest.

However, nothing happened.

The fluctuation was fleeting, as if it were just an illusion.

"It's a test." Chen Guan knew the habits of wild beasts very well.

"They are watching us."

After saying that, he continued walking forward, seemingly not taking the warning he had just received to heart at all.

Hong Yuan and Yin Chen exchanged a glance and had no choice but to follow.

After advancing another hundred meters, the feeling of being watched grew stronger, as if an invisible eye was scrutinizing their every move from the shadows.

Just then, something unexpected happened.

A dark purple bolt of lightning appeared behind Yin Chen, tearing a tiny rift in space, and a jet-black, agile cheetah appeared out of thin air.

Its speed was extreme, and its sharp claws, accompanied by a piercing whistle that tore through the air, aimed straight for Yin Chen's back.

Tier 4 Lightning Cheetah.

Yin Chen's reaction was incredibly fast. His battle instincts, honed over the years, meant that before he could even turn around, a thick ice wall rose up behind him.

Stab it!

A sharp scraping sound rang out, and five deep claw marks, revealing bone, were scratched into the ice wall, with cracks spreading like a spider web.

Having missed its first attack, the cheetah showed no further interest in fighting, and with a flick of its body, it disappeared from the spot once more.

"Right side!" Hong Yuan roared, and charged out like a cannonball. Her giant axe, accompanied by the sound of wind and thunder, cleaved towards a stone pillar on the right.

boom!

The stone pillar was snapped in two, sending shards of stone flying, but the place was empty.

The cheetah appeared on a boulder about fifty meters away.

It elegantly licked its paws, its dark purple eyes filled with mockery as it looked at the three intruders.

It's playing tricks on them.

"Don't be impulsive!" Yin Chen shouted, pulling back Hong Yuan who still wanted to give chase.

He felt a lingering fear; if that attack had been a second slower, he would have been seriously injured, if not killed.

Spatial abilities are indeed not to be underestimated; they are a talent that allows one to fight beyond their level.

The coffin remained unmoved from beginning to end.

He watched the cheetah appear, attack, and then disappear.

His gaze fell on the spot where the cheetah had just disappeared.

The cheetah on the boulder had lost patience.

It moved again.

This time, its target is still Yin Chen.

In its judgment, this mage who can manipulate the elements is the greatest threat.

With a flash of purple light, its figure disappeared from the boulder.

Yin Chen's pupils contracted, and his immense spiritual power erupted instantly. Dozens of ice mirrors appeared around his body without any blind spots, protecting him layer by layer.

Red Kite roared, its muscles bulging, ready to meet any attack from any direction.

But this time, the coffin moved.

Instead of protecting Yin Chen, Chen Guan took a step towards the empty space to his right.

At the same time, the handle of his sickle, at an extremely tricky angle, thrust upwards and into the empty air.

This attack seemed inexplicable and completely haphazard.

However, just as the end of the sickle was about to reach its intended position, the air suddenly twisted.

A dark purple crack appeared out of nowhere.

A dark purple spatial rift opened in response, and the figure of a lightning cheetah emerged from it.

Its forward lunge still retained the ferocity of a predator, and the sickle handle, so close to its eyes, was clearly reflected in them.

It couldn't understand why there was an iron rod waiting for it there.

Someone's cheating!

Time and space lost their meaning at this moment.

The momentum of the Lightning Cheetah and the scythe handle of the coffin converged perfectly at one point.

thump.

A muffled thud.

Like a golf swing, the arrogant fourth-tier demon beast didn't even have time to let out a wail before its body went limp in mid-air, its eyes rolled back, and it plummeted straight to the ground. After twitching twice, it became completely still and returned to a baby-like sleep.

Yin Chen, who was being protected behind Chen Guan, still had dozens of ice mirrors that he had just erected.

He looked at the unconscious cheetah on the ground, then at Chen Guan, whose posture remained unchanged as he sheathed his scythe, and his Adam's apple bobbed involuntarily.