"Yours." Han Jiangxue came to Jiang Xiao's side, took the White Ghoul Witch's corpse out of the Space Coffin, and threw it beside him.
"Thank you," Jiang Xiao said gratefully, looking at the corpse beneath his feet. He could not help sighing.
The White Ghoul Witch looked rather similar to the White Ghosts, but it was much thinner and weaker, like a bamboo pole. He had no idea how such a frail body had survived in this harsh environment.
Its cheeks were pale and bloodless, and it looked extremely old—truly like a dried corpse.
"In seven days, we encountered two White Ghoul Witches. We're already extremely lucky. After absorbing this Star Pearl, are you confident you can upgrade the 'Blessing' Star Skill to Silver Quality?" Han Jiangxue asked.
Jiang Xiao endured the pain and crushed the "200,000 Ocean Coins," then gently shook his head. The first and second Star Skills in the template's second section had also changed slightly.
1. Blessing, Bronze Quality Lv.4.
2. Decoy, Bronze Quality Lv.4.
Jiang Xiao still had four Skill Points left, enough to raise this Star Skill to Lv.8, but no matter how he calculated it, he was still short by several minor levels.
"What's that?" Jiang Xiao looked up at Han Jiangxue. He suddenly saw a red plume of smoke rising in the distant sky behind her.
In this somewhat dim environment, ordinary red smoke would not be particularly eye-catching.
But that smoke was extremely bright, almost like fireworks.
"Someone's calling for help." Han Jiangxue turned around and said with a frown.
"Should we go take a look?" Jiang Xiao asked.
Xia Yan explained to Jiang Xiao, "This Signal Flare isn't meant for us. It's meant for the Guardian Team here. As Awakened, when you see a Signal Flare like this, the information you receive isn't 'someone is asking for help,' but rather 'a group of people is telling you that there's danger over there—stay away.'"
"They're coming toward us." Han Jiangxue frowned. She saw a second flare rise, seemingly from this very Snowy Forest where the trio was located! The other party should be fleeing at full speed, and they had chosen a northwestward direction—the direction back to the city.
That team had clearly gone deeper into the Southeast Route than Jiang Xiao's team. Why were they so confident? What kind of Different Dimension Creatures had they encountered?
Apart from White Ghosts, wasn't the only other possibility White Ghoul Witches?
Xia Yan said urgently, "Let's go. If we don't leave now, they'll be right on top of us soon."
Han Jiangxue suddenly said, "The strongest Different Dimension Creature group in the Snowfield is the White Ghost army led by the White Ghoul Witches. This means they're very likely being pursued by White Ghoul Witches."
Xia Yan was slightly stunned. "You mean..."
"He needs this." Han Jiangxue gestured toward Jiang Xiao beside her.
"Xue Xue, are you really planning to do something exciting?" Xia Yan asked seriously.
Han Jiangxue ignored Xia Yan. She opened the Space Coffin, reached inside, and dragged out the corpses of two White Ghosts, emptying the Space Coffin.
"Hey, Jiang Xiaopi, am I usually good to you? Hurry up and help me persuade your sister." Xia Yan stamped her feet anxiously. From the distant Deep Forest came the howls of White Ghosts.
"Han Jiangxue, let's go," Jiang Xiao said hurriedly.
"Neither of you seems to understand the situation. Given our current circumstances, even if we ran with all our might, we still wouldn't get away." Han Jiangxue quickly walked off, leaving the snow-covered ground littered with corpses. The other two had no choice but to follow.
After walking more than a hundred meters, Han Jiangxue stopped not far from the battlefield and hid behind a large tree.
Slowly, it seemed as though the Snowy Forest itself began to tremble, as if thousands of troops and warhorses were charging toward them.
The three cautiously hid behind the tree. In their field of vision, a pitch-black figure came running, stumbling and rolling. When he crossed mountains and valleys in search of a glimmer of hope, he suddenly saw a scene of blood flowing like a river.
That's right. In the vast Snowy Forest, the Awakened man running for his life saw the sea of blood and mountain of corpses left behind by Jiang Xiao's trio.
He was a male Awakened, seemingly past middle age, his face filled with terror. The instant he passed the battlefield, his rich experience prompted him to grab at a corpse lying on the ground.
The blood he touched with his palm still held a trace of warmth. A powerful will to survive suddenly burst from the Awakened man's despairing eyes, and he shouted, "Is anyone there? Is anyone nearby?"
The Awakened man kept running without slowing down. He did not dare stop. Behind him, wave after wave of White Ghosts charged forth, their killing intent soaring.
"A White Ghoul Witch cub! It can become a Star Pet! Save me! I'll give you everything I have! Everything on me is yours!" The Awakened man's voice was nearly hoarse, so muffled and trembling with despair that it broke the hearts of those who heard it.
Jiang Xiao looked at Han Jiangxue beside him. He saw another side of her.
Contrary to Jiang Xiao's expectations, this eighteen-year-old girl was not moved by the scene at all. She did not soften even in the face of someone's desperate sobs and pleas for help.
Her face was expressionless, seemingly devoid of all human emotion.
Just how cold and indifferent were the eyes hidden behind those goggles?
The next moment, a group of White Ghosts finally burst from the trembling Snowy Forest.
When describing a massive enemy army charging forth, people often used the phrase "a sea of darkness."
At this moment, in Jiang Xiao's field of vision, he saw "a sea of white." A hundred ghosts roaming by night!
No—a night march of White Ghosts! Hundreds of White Ghosts charged forward madly, roaring furiously. In the Snowy Forest, they did not advance in orderly formation like conventional troops. Vast numbers of White Ghosts darted through the trees like Tarzan, while several leaped high into the air at times, their dark, ghostly faces utterly terrifying.
In an instant,
The sky, the ground, and the trees seemed to be filled with White Ghosts.
"Don't panic. They won't pay attention to us," Han Jiangxue suddenly said.
Although the trio had done everything they could to move more than a hundred meters away, they had still underestimated the number of White Ghosts. They had not moved beyond the range of the horde's route at all.
Jiang Xiao was still somewhat confused, but he had already seen a group of White Ghosts charging in his direction.
"Lie on the ground. No one move. Even if you get stepped on, endure it!" Han Jiangxue's voice was extremely stern as she immediately lay down in the snow.
Her cool voice reached the other two, then was quickly drowned out by the earth-shaking roars.
When the army passed through, all living things retreated!
Jiang Xiao's hair stood on end. Hiding behind a tree, he obediently lay flat on the ground.
At this moment, he was no longer a ground-dwelling demon, nor was he some sneaky schemer.
He was just a minion pretending to be dead, praying that Da Sheng would withdraw his powers and make this troop of monkeys and their descendants disappear as quickly as possible.
Whoosh. A White Ghost had clearly landed on the tree above Jiang Xiao's head, then quickly leaped away, sending a large amount of accumulated snow crashing down onto him.
Because the tree blocked them, Jiang Xiao was not trampled by the monkeys and their descendants charging straight toward him. But on both sides of his body, he could constantly hear the heavy pounding of footsteps.
The snow splashed into the air by those heavy feet landed on Jiang Xiao, bringing him an unparalleled sense of happiness.
More, please. Bury me completely.
Han Jiangxue and Xia Yan were not fools either. They adjusted their angles and hid behind the trees.
Xia Yan also understood Han Jiangxue's order. Although the three of them were hiding well, and the army was rushing past them at high speed, there was still no guarantee that the White Ghosts would not discover them.
What truly gave Han Jiangxue confidence was the cry of "White Ghoul Witch cub!"
In other words, the White Ghosts' hatred had been completely drawn away. They would not pay any attention to the trio.
If the male Awakened abandoned the cub, he might still have a chance to survive.
But even at a moment like this, he still refused to let go. How greedy.
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