But just as her hand was about to touch Kalina, Bai Chen's urgent voice rang out in her mind.
"Xiao Luoluo, cover your nose, quick! There's danger!"
The warning came so suddenly that Lin Luoluo's outstretched hand froze in midair.
Danger?
What danger?
Before she could think, she felt a chill at the tip of her nose.
A soft, slightly cool tentacle reached around the side of her face and plugged both her nostrils.
Having finished digesting, Bai Chen pushed Lin Luoluo up onto his head.
His gaze passed over Kalina, who lay limp on the grass, and turned toward the nearby woods.
There,
from behind a tree not far away, two men slowly emerged.
Their steps were unhurried, and their eyes held the playful mockery of cats toying with mice.
The man on the left had effeminate features and a head of extremely flamboyant pink hair.
A palm-sized pink butterfly perched on his shoulder.
Every time the butterfly beat its wings, countless tiny pink scales drifted down.
The powder shimmered strangely in the sunlight, but quickly turned transparent in the air, as though it had never appeared.
It was impossible to spot with the naked eye!
Lin Luoluo's heart sank.
Kalina... fainted because of that thing!
The man on the right, meanwhile, was a burly brute with a face full of coarse flesh and a vicious look in his eyes.
A massive tiger-type Contract Spirit followed at his side.
The Contract Spirit was pitch-black from head to toe, save for a fearsome white mark in the shape of the character for "king" on its forehead.
It let out a threatening growl, its beastly eyes fixed on Lin Luoluo.
Both men were Second Tier Contract Spirit Masters.
These were their Contract Spirits, an Illusion Dream Butterfly and a Black Flame Tiger, one level 26 and the other level 29.
The two were also among the very strongest of the Second Tier Contract Spirits, and they made a combination of support and powerful offense.
Two people with ill intentions and two threatening Contract Spirits.
"So it really was you!"
"Little girl, do you know how unhappy our young lady is because you showed up?
I was going to put you to sleep and deal with you quietly. I didn't expect you to be so alert.
You actually managed to ignore my Illusion Dream Butterfly's sleeping powder."
The pink-haired man looked at Lin Luoluo beneath the tree, and when he saw that she was unharmed, the amusement on his face turned to obvious surprise.
His voice was shrill, with a thoroughly unpleasant tone.
The pink-haired man looked at his Contract Spirit, seemingly very surprised by the outcome.
Even a Second Tier Contract Spirit Master would fall fast asleep and be left at someone else's mercy after inhaling just a little of the sleeping powder his Illusion Dream Butterfly released.
The burly man beside him gave an impatient snort.
"What a load of blather. I told you ages ago, there's no need to go to all this trouble!"
He spat on the ground and said in a rough voice,
"They're just two little girls. Why not just break their legs and take them away? Wouldn't it be better to finish her off early and go back to the young lady for our reward?"
Young lady?
Reward?
Those two words reached Lin Luoluo's ears.
Her body trembled uncontrollably. The expression on her little face, usually somewhat timid and soft, grew colder bit by bit, and flames of anger kindled in her clear eyes.
"You again..."
Her fair, delicate hands clenched into tight fists, her gaze filled with deep anger and a trace of icy killing intent!
Jiang Ruoxue!
During the Contract Spirit Master assessment, that woman had tried to get her killed!
If not for Xiao Bai, she might have died in the assessment grounds that time!
She had thought that once the assessment was over, everything would be over.
She had thought that as long as she kept to herself and stayed in the Lower City, she would never have anything to do with those young ladies from the Upper City again.
But she had been wrong!
The other party had never intended to let her go!
Lin Luoluo was suddenly seized by belated fear.
What would have happened if Xiao Bai hadn't warned her in time today, if she had inhaled that powder like Kalina?
She didn't dare think any further.
It didn't matter if she died, but...
The one she worried about most was her younger sister, Lin Chuchu.
Chuchu's illness still hadn't been cured, and she needed expensive medicine every month to stay alive.
If she was gone, who would take care of Chuchu? Who would earn money to buy her medicine? Without her, Chuchu surely wouldn't survive either!
And there was Xiao Bai...
He had only just come into this world, and they had only just become family.
If anything happened to her, he would be all alone again.
At the thought of all this, the fear in Lin Luoluo's heart was swiftly replaced by an even greater anger.
Nothing could happen to her!
Absolutely nothing could happen to her!
Whoever wanted to hurt her family, whoever wanted to destroy everything she had now, she would fight them with her life!
"Xiao Bai..."
Lin Luoluo's voice was soft, but carried an unprecedented resolve.
"Let's fight together."
Just as Lin Luoluo was about to act, she felt a warmth in her chest.
A searing heat came from where her heart was and swiftly spread through her limbs and bones, as though a small flame had ignited inside her chest.
This feeling...
She looked down and saw a ball of golden light slowly emerging from her chest.
At first, the ball of light was only the size of a fist, but its radiance grew stronger and stronger, coating the white armor around it in a layer of sacred gold.
This familiar sight.
This familiar feeling.
Lin Luoluo's eyes widened at once.
A new Life Skill?!