Ark Journey

A light flashed on Xue Zhi's hand, and when it was wiped on her arm, the deep wound shrank and healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, leaving no trace.

"let's go."

After treating the wound and putting away the returning drone, the two of them quickly left the place. It was impossible for them to rest in a short period of time.

While walking south, W saw the corpses of the Sarkaz who were killed directly by Xue Zhi with thunder. They were still held high by ice spikes, but their blood had long been drained.

Seeing Xue Zhi taking off the dog tags of several people, W said with regret: "There is no time to clean up the battlefield. There are so many spoils left that we can't get. We used so many explosives in vain. In the past, I would have to work very hard with the Originium technique for a long time to make so many."

Xue Zhi smiled without comment.

The two of them ran for more than ten kilometers in one breath before stopping to catch their breath, mainly because W couldn't hold on any longer.

Seeing her leaning against the tree and panting, Xue Zhi took out the drill and said, "Okay, let's go again when it's daybreak."

A few minutes later, the two hid in the shelter they had just dug out. W, who had relaxed, fell headfirst onto the bed, his heart-shaped tail swaying from side to side.

"Is it finally safer to go to Scar Mall tomorrow night?"

Hearing Xue Zhi's voice, W stopped wagging her tail and stood up from the soft bed. She looked at his handsome face close to her, and suddenly a wicked smile appeared on her face: "Perhaps, someone may have taken a fancy to you and want to catch you and teach you a lesson. This kind of thing is very common in the Scar Mall. After all, you are good-looking, and many Sarkaz who have been tortured by the mineral disease to the point of being mentally abnormal don't mind attacking the same sex."

Facing such teasing, Xue Zhi smiled indifferently, and at the same time, one hand grabbed the tip of W's tail like lightning: "Then he'd better pray that I'm in a good mood and let him show up in front of the largest homosexual brothel in Scar Mall in one piece the next morning. Also, W, I don't mind training you right now."

"Well!"

W, whose tail was caught, made a delicate sound and tried to resist, but Xue Zhi's light kneading movements and the stimulation of extremely small electric currents made her, who was already tired, even weaker all over.

But it's still okay to move your mouth.

"Oh, you're revealing your true nature so soon? Then hurry up."

Facing the devil-like W, Xue Zhi just smiled and kept pinching the tip of her tail with her hands. The warm and cool touch that was soft yet tough was really hard to let go: "You should understand that men are fickle."

Chapter 16: Finally Found You

The continuous rain for several days finally subsided, and the whole forest seemed to be fresh and clean as if it had been washed. The hot temperature was also cooled by the rain, and I planned to stay dormant for a few days.

A huge mutant rock spider with spots of Originium crystals on its body crawled out of the nest. It was trapped in the nest by the rain and had not eaten for several days. Now it was hungry and was about to look for some small creatures or more delicious things to eat. Coincidentally, at this moment, the slight vibration from the ground was sensed by its eight limbs.

Just as it was about to hide and wait for its prey, a sharp long knife fell from the sky, piercing its brain and pinning it to the ground.

Xue Zhi, who had almost merged into the forest, picked up the large insect that was quite heavy on the tip of the knife and said, "What is this? An Originium insect?"

W came closer, observed it carefully, and gave a negative answer: "Let me see, no, it looks more like a rock spider. Ha, you can't be a researcher and you don't even recognize this."

After cutting off the eight legs of the rock spider and putting them away, Xue Zhi shook her head helplessly: "No one says that researchers must know everything. Those are generally called polymaths."

Seeing Xue Zhi throw the rock spider that had turned into a spider pig down and only retract its legs, W followed behind him and asked curiously, "What do you want its legs for? The body is better for making medicine or other things."

Xue Zhi's answer was concise: "Eat."

W was stunned for a moment, then quickly followed his steps: "I don't understand you."

Xue Zhi didn't explain too much. Maybe they could talk about this again when W can give birth to 5 children.

Yesterday's attack seemed to have announced the end of the Military Committee's actions against the two of them. Perhaps because they were close to the neutral area, they did not see any pursuers along the way.

However, a deep rift blocked their way. The rock walls were steep, close to 90 degrees, and the shortest point between the two ends was eight or nine meters apart. The bottom of the valley was filled with dirty rainwater from the past few days, and in the occasional bubbles that rose up, one could see Originium crystals reflecting sunlight.

W put on a gas mask, leaned against the edge of the crack and looked down carefully, then took out a map to compare carefully: "There is indeed no mark on the map. If a crack of this magnitude wants to appear in the near future, there must be a natural disaster around. Do you really not need this thing?"

She waved the spare gas mask in her hand at Xue Zhi, but Xue Zhi just waved her hand: "No need."

W didn't continue. She put away the map and gas mask and stood next to Xue Zhi: "Okay, how do we get there?"

"Follow me." Xue Zhi raised her hand, and countless earth elements emerged and gathered under their feet. Soon, a wide bridge connecting the two ends of the rift was formed.

Originally he was planning to use blocks to push it over, but magic was really convenient.

All I can say is that Master is Master.

W, who had experienced this kind of magical creation before, didn't care about the bridge's thinness of less than a few centimeters, and simply followed Xue Zhi and stepped on it.

The two men crossed the rift smoothly, and then the earth bridge that had completed its mission collapsed and fell to the bottom of the valley.

Looking back at the dissipating bridge, W said to Xue Zhi who was walking in front of him: "Your Originium skills are really terrifying. You can even maintain Originium skills for a whole day. I have never seen a magician like you."

Xue Zhi pretended to be surprised, and at the same time wanted to get some information: "You haven't seen it? Haven't you seen Theresa cast a spell? We researchers from Kazdel believe that she should also be a very powerful magician."

W shook his head in disappointment. It was a pity that he didn't see Theresa's heroic figure on the battlefield. "No, when I see Her Highness Theresa, it's usually not about fighting."

"Okay, but when it comes to spellcasting, you Sarkaz are natural experts..."

Before Xue Zhi finished her words, several rays filled with corrosive energy pierced through the forest and shot straight towards the two of them.

The dark rays passed by, and the originally lush and vibrant trees and shrubs instantly turned black and withered.

W was protected by Xue Zhi, and several ice shields emerged to block the deadly rays shot at her.

Xue Zhi raised her hand to block the attack with her body, looked at her palm without any change, then looked in the direction where the rays came from, and then said with admiration: "See, I told you that you Sarkaz are the experts in casting spells. A magic circle formed by several people can snipe us from a distance of more than one kilometer."

The moment he was attacked, he extended his mind, only to find that the attacker was not nearby, but one kilometer away.

W was covered in cold sweat at this moment. If Xue Zhi had not saved her just now, she would probably be no different from those withered trees now.

These mercenaries are indeed unable to go head-on with the large forces of the regular army.

Suddenly, W seemed to understand something. She looked at Xue Zhi with some suspicion: "These troops should be chasing you, right? I am just a small character. It is impossible for them to mobilize their precious main force on the front line."

【-twenty four】

Xue Zhi didn't comment on this, and took out 8 bottles of 8-minute Speed and Strength I potions and threw them to W: "Who knows, I don't think I'm worth it. Drink these, the blue ones can make you run faster, and the red ones can make you stronger. The time limit is 8 minutes. Follow me closely, I have a feeling that the person I meet this time may be a threat to you."

W curled his lips, but still drank the potion obediently: "What do you mean by threatening me?"

On the other side, the spellcasters, whose strength had been restored and whose magic circles had been readjusted, began to aim again, but they did not find the target at the expected position.

The intuition they had developed through life and death on the battlefield came into play at this moment. Even though there were guards arranged around them, they decisively abandoned the magic circle they had painstakingly set up and retreated to the surrounding areas.

As expected, after the evacuation, a small fireball immediately hit the location of the magic circle. The violent energy contained in the fireball instantly interacted with the various materials that made up the magic circle. A huge mushroom cloud and dust column shot up into the sky, showing huge damage that was inconsistent with its size.

The magicians who escaped death were knocked down by the shock wave brought by the explosion. The last sound they heard in their dazed minds was a young man's whistle: "Wow~, magic mixed with chaos elements is really scary."

Pulling the knife out of the back of a fallen man's head, Xue Zhi walked towards another enemy not far away.

In just one minute, they broke through the guard circle and arrived here.

Just when Xue Zhi was about to finish off the second person, a rough and hoarse voice rang out through the forest: "'Sarkaz Foul Mouth'! I finally found you! Die!"

Along with the sound, there appeared an extremely sturdy Sarkaz, who ran towards Xue Zhi at an extremely fast speed, holding the giant axe high in his hand, and then chopped it down on Xue Zhi's head.

Glancing at the bright light on the axe blade and the distorted air around it, Xue Zhi fell back: "Energy weapons? Objects with high energy density are good."

Chapter 17: Strong? That's it

Dense dust was raised, and Xue Zhi dodged the attack easily and blew away these annoying things.

The giant axe swept through the smoke and dust, cutting through the flying dust.

The powerful move was performed at a considerable speed. Xue Zhi took several steps back. He glanced at W, who was fighting with several personal soldiers brought by Sit. A short dagger, combined with the speed of leaving an afterimage, almost suppressed their long swords and spears.

Sit had a crazy smile on his face. The axe in his hand seemed as light as a toy. His swift and heavy attacks were as dense as a rain curtain, chasing him closely. Xue Zhi's continuous retreat and shaking eyes gave him the illusion that the opponent was just like that. Next, he wanted to vent the resentment he had accumulated for so many days!

In the fierce attack, facing the approaching scorching axe blade, Xue Zhi calmly held the knife in his left hand and inserted it into the ground with the sheath, intending to take it head-on. He knew that the knife could withstand it.

Seeing that Xue Zhi no longer retreated, and even arrogantly used her left hand to hold the scabbard, Xit's mouth was almost grinning to his ears. He did not change his moves, but chopped straight up: "Die!"

The axe blade hit the scabbard heavily, but the imagined scene of Xue Zhi being split in half along with the sword did not appear. The slender sword actually blocked his axe!

With his old strength exhausted and new strength yet to come, Xite saw Xue Zhi's empty right hand suddenly clench into a fist, and then smash into his chest at a speed he couldn't see clearly.

For a moment, Sit felt as if the soul of the dead was rushing up his spine.

Boom!

As if hammering on a metal plate, a dull sound came from between the two of them.

With this muffled sound, Sit flew backwards suddenly, and after breaking several thick tree trunks, he fell to the ground dejectedly, spitting out sticky blood and internal organ fragments from his mouth.

His weapon and even half of his forearm remained in place.

"Tsk, you really have something to keep."

After breaking off Sid's remaining limbs, Xue Zhi picked up the exquisitely crafted axe and took a quick look at it.

He just discovered that this was an energy weapon. The axe blade was extremely hot, and the ground where the two men had just fought was covered with black marks from the cuts of this thing.

The team that fell behind saw that their leader was almost dead, but they still rushed forward without hesitation.

Seeing that those people did not retreat, Xue Zhi sighed, and his hands moved. Sharp ice cones appeared around him. After hovering for a short time, they shot out at an extremely fast speed.

puff!

The sound of balloons being popped kept ringing, and most of the people fell on the way to the charge, and the land was dyed red with blood.

Suddenly, Xue Zhi, who was channeling magic, used her mind to sense that a unit was rushing towards them at high speed, and the target was W who was in the melee.

W was enjoying the battle at this moment. Normally, her strength was not enough to fight these warriors head-on, but at this moment, she could fight against many people alone and even suppress them.

Just when she was about to kill one of them, Xue Zhi suddenly appeared nearby, chopped down one man, and rushed straight into the battlefield.

Just as W was about to fight alongside him, she suddenly felt a tremor all over her body, and a sense of uneasiness emerged as if the blood was about to burst out of her body. At this time, she noticed a figure surrounded by blood light rushing towards her not far away.

He wanted to warn Xue Zhi, but the speed at which W could make a sound could not keep up with the speed at which the blood was approaching. However, his calm expression seemed to tell W that he had already expected what was going to happen.

boom!

There was a loud noise, but W did not see Xue Zhi's kick at the blood light. She only saw the blood light shattered in an instant and the figure flying far away.

It wasn't over yet. After kicking him away, Xue Zhi quickly locked onto his landing point. A huge ice cone that was almost as thick as a person suddenly shot out from the soil and pierced the flying figure fiercely! Then a fireball that kept jumping hit his damaged body directly.

"Commissioner!"

Farther away, a soldier whose lungs were pierced by an ice pick but who was still alive, shouted excitedly when he saw the blood, but before he could finish his shout, the person he was referring to disappeared from his sight.

The second blow made the soldier, who had already lost half his life, look dim in the moment, but as he was not dead yet, he immediately felt the pain of the blood being forcibly drained from his body.

"what!"

Blood foam gushed out of his mouth, mixed with screams, which became the last sound uttered by the soldier.

The participation and quick departure of their own bigwigs put the soldiers of the Military Committee into a desperate situation with collapsed morale, but they could not escape a few steps before they fell to their knees in pain.

Even W, who was closer to him, felt unwell.

Xue Zhi was keenly aware of the changes in the energy field around him, so he used his mental power to stimulate the energy field around him, forcing it to stabilize and create a safe environment for W.

After recovering from the discomfort, W looked at his chest in fear and caught a glimpse of the abnormal blood flow not far away: "He's alive, Xue Zhi, look at the blood!"

Following her finger, Xue Zhi discovered that there was indeed something wrong with the direction of the blood flow. It spontaneously gathered into a ball and flowed in a certain direction as if it had life, even ignoring gravity and flowing from low to high!

Those who were kneeling on the ground also showed abnormalities. Their bodies suddenly shriveled up, and countless amounts of blood gushed out from every pore and acupoint in their bodies, flying in the same direction.

Retracting his gaze, Xue Zhi's feet flashed a thick lightning chain, heading straight for the figure that he had just kicked away: "He doesn't even let his own people go. You really deserve to be called a blood demon."

The air is ionized and the fresh smell of ozone suddenly appears in the air.

The speed of that lightning was much faster than the speed of blood flowing.

On the ice cone in the distance, a pale man with his chest pierced was desperately using the Originium technique to summon blood that could sustain his life.

【As long as we can get there! 】

Seeing the life-saving blood so close, the man's pale face showed a strange blush. The inferior blood that he usually disdained to eat now became a life-saver.

However, a flash of lightning arrived earlier, turning him into a piece of stinking charcoal. All the blood that flew towards him also instantly lost its power, turning back into ordinary blood and shattering on the ground.

"what!"

The unwilling roar could even be heard by the two people far away, but Xue Zhi was sure that the man was dead.

【+10086】

Xue Zhi was in a good mood after receiving the largest single income so far. He turned around and said to W: "Solve it, let's withdraw."

W, whose body had finally returned to normal, looked at Xue Zhi as if she were a monster. She couldn't imagine what had happened in just a few minutes.

Following his footsteps, W found himself in awe of this man who was just as unassuming as Her Highness Theresa.

Then she saw Xue Zhi turned around and said to her with a smile: "Walking so slowly, are you scared? Do you want me to hug you?"

Looking at Xue Zhi's open arms, W was stunned for a moment, then a familiar smile appeared on her lips. She walked in front of him, stretched out her index finger and gently tapped his strong chest: "No need, don't look down on me."