Come Out

"Have you forgotten? We elves cannot break a promise once it has been made. Otherwise, he won't be able to obtain those Magic Crystals."

Chen Cheng naturally knew what Snow Maiden meant, but he had thought this rule only applied among Snow Maidens themselves.

Besides, they had already agreed with this Sandworm that he would wait outside the ruins, yet he had run all the way in here.

"Don't worry. If you really can't put your mind at ease, you can pay him first. As long as he swallows the Magic Crystals, he absolutely won't go back on his word."

As she spoke, Snow Maiden even blinked at Chen Cheng.

At that moment, Chen Cheng recalled the heart's blood he had taken when Snow Maiden had fallen before. Without her consent, that heart's blood was an utterly poisonous substance.

Among heaven-and-earth spirits like them, unless something was willingly given by its owner, taking it would make it a deadly poison.

It seemed Snow Maiden had learned the art of bluffing while staying by his side—making the Sandworm swallow the Magic Crystals first, then using its own understanding to bind itself.

Chen Cheng understood this immediately and promptly took out the Magic Crystals.

Of course, he could not truly trust this so easily. But there was no other choice now. Brother Octopus had acted like an idiot earlier and provoked those bugs into coming back. If they wanted to get out, they could only trust this Sandworm.

And what Chen Cheng could see through, Brother Octopus, that scheming octopus, naturally saw through as well.

He crawled over to Snow Maiden, stretched out a tentacle, and patted her shoulder.

"I never expected a little girl like you to have such a wicked heart. But I like it."

Snow Maiden, however, did not