Dorm Duo Survival: What Did You Do to the School Beauty?

With the battle at the ruined temple completely over, and the torrential rain subsiding, Lin Yuan and An Xin did not linger. After repeatedly confirming that the blood coffin seal was intact and the zombie team was under control, they immediately urged the paper horse and led the team back into the night.

After this battle, the two took the principle of "hiding during the day and going out at night, hiding from the world and traveling incognito" to the extreme, completely severing their ties with the secular world, just to complete the corpse-transporting mission safely.

They traveled cautiously, avoiding villages and towns and living people... There were no ambushes, no ambushes, and no treacherous schemes. This step-by-step approach took them five whole days.

For five days, the wind and rain were calm, the blood coffin remained a warm, deep red, and the seal on the coffin remained as firm as ever. The blood zombie inside the coffin was quiet and still, without even the slightest scraping sound.

Under the dual suppression of the talismans and the corpse-controlling bells, the zombie procession behind them moved stiffly but orderly, always keeping close to the carriage without any agitation.

Lin Yuan and An Xin's tense nerves eased slightly, but they never truly relaxed—the dangers of the corpse-driving journey were never accidental, but rather hidden in every planned node.

Late on the sixth night, thick, dark clouds completely obscured the stars and moon, plunging the world into pitch blackness. Even the night wind suddenly turned cold, carrying a biting chill that felt like a knife cutting into your face.

The paper horses gradually slowed down and stopped on their own before Lin Yuan could give the order. The intelligent paper horses showed a hint of instinctive fear, their hooves trembling slightly, and they dared not take another step forward.

Lin Yuan was the first to dismount, his brows furrowing instantly.

Without the need for a compass, an extremely cold and deathly aura rushed over like a tide, freezing one's bones to the bone.

This chill wasn't the cold of a winter wind, but rather the sinister cold emanating from the depths of the earth, carrying a ferocious power that seemed to devour life. Wherever it passed, even the air seemed to freeze.

Anxin followed closely behind, jumping off the carriage. He gripped the corpse control bell tightly in one hand and quickly took out a sniper rifle from his spatial ring with the other, pulling the trigger with his fingertips and looking ahead.

Before them stretched a vast, icy pool that seemed to have no end in sight.

The pool water was an intense, unyielding black, so calm that not a ripple could be seen, like a block of ice that had been sleeping for ten thousand years, its stillness chilling to the bone.

The area around the pool was barren, with a thin layer of white frost covering the gray-brown rocks, which had turned bluish-black from the cold. The ground was eerily clean—there were no weeds, no insects, no trace of birds or beasts, and not even a fallen leaf could be seen.

This area seemed to have been completely abandoned by all life in the world, leaving only endless coldness and desolation.

What's even more unsettling is the subtle, palpable sense of terrifying oppression.

This oppressive aura is the aura of a ferocious beast originating from deep water, like an ancient beast lurking at the bottom of a pool, capable of overturning rivers and seas and devouring everything with the slightest movement.

Even though the two of them were standing a hundred meters away from the icy pool, they could clearly feel a sense of oppression.

"Is this the Yin energy replenishment point marked on the map?" An Xin lowered her voice, her gaze fixed on the calm, still surface of the pool. The crosshairs of her sniper rifle slowly swept across the center of the pool. "It's too eerie. There's not a trace of life in it. The oppressive feeling is so strong that it's hard to breathe."

Lin Yuan raised his hand, signaling the paper horse and the zombie team to retreat to a sheltered spot a hundred meters away. He quickly walked to the blood coffin, gently pressing his fingertips on the crimson coffin body, his brows furrowing even more—the crimson color of the coffin body had faded slightly, and extremely subtle muffled sounds came from inside. The blood zombie's aura began to stir, and the sealed yin energy had reached a critical value.

If we don't replenish the seal with pure Yin energy in time, the blood zombie will break through the seal in less than three hours, and all our previous efforts will be in vain, and the mission will fail!

"That's right, this is it." Lin Yuan said in a deep voice, taking out the yellowed and wrinkled map of the corpse-driving route from his pocket. With the help of the faint glow from his sleeve, he slowly unfolded the map.

The ancient compass held in his left hand went out of control the moment it approached the icy pool. The pointer spun wildly, and the end of the needle emitted a dense, dark yin energy. Finally, it was firmly fixed in the center of the pool—the core of the purest and most concentrated yin energy in the entire area, and the only place to reinforce the seal of the blood coffin.

On the map, this icy pool was marked with striking scarlet ink, and next to it were densely covered with notes and warnings left by generations of corpse drivers. The handwriting was messy and chaotic, and the words conveyed extreme fear. It was a painful lesson learned with blood and lives.

Lin Yuan traced the scarlet markings with his fingertips, his tone solemn as he read out the record word by word:

"The Xuan Yin Cold Pool is a thousand feet deep, a place where Yin energy converges and is the purest place for replenishing Yin through corpse driving. However, a vicious dragon dwells in the pool, its scales as cold as iron, its mouth spewing cold mist, extremely ferocious, feeding on flesh and blood creatures, and is extremely cruel."

He paused, his gaze sweeping over the even more chilling annotations below, his voice growing even lower:

"Over the past century, of the thirty-seven teams of corpse-driving people who passed through this area, nineteen were wiped out. Without exception, they all disturbed the evil dragon, and their remains were never found."

From then on, the corpse-driving teams would rather take a detour than dare to step even half a step into the pool.

Every word felt like a heavy stone crashing into one's heart.

An Xin's grip on the sniper rifle tightened slightly, and her gaze towards the icy pool deepened with seriousness: "A vicious dragon? Is it that ferocious? So many years and so many corpse-driving masters haven't been able to defeat this beast?"

"Who knows? It's very strange." Lin Yuan put away the map, turned around, and stared at the dark, boundless Xuan Yin Cold Pool:

"If I could choose to avoid it, I wouldn't want to provoke it either."

He turned his gaze back to the blood coffin, shook his head, and said, "If the seal on the blood coffin hadn't given way and we hadn't needed to use the Yin energy of this Xuan Yin Cold Pool to completely stabilize the blood zombie, we wouldn't have needed to create trouble for ourselves."

"This evil dragon looks dangerous. We're not crazy, why should we do good deeds?"

"But there's no other way. Since the blood coffin can't malfunction and our mission can't go wrong, we have to kill this evil dragon!"

"Let's see if this beast's bloodline is more powerful, or my ancient dragon king's bloodline."

After saying that, Lin Yuan's eyes flashed with coldness, and he had already developed a murderous intent towards this evil dragon.

After a moment of silence, An Xin instantly understood the key point.

The blood coffin is the core of this mission. Once the blood zombies break open the coffin, their corpse-driving mission will fail directly, and they will even lose the right to return.

In contrast, facing the evil dragon head-on might be a dangerous thing, but that shouldn't make them back down.

So what if it's a vicious dragon? If it dares to block their path, then they'll slaughter that beast!

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