The Crushing Advance, Storming the Teleportation Formation
Jiang Yue had spoken the cruelest truth in the calmest tone, and Scholar Yun Geng had accepted that cruelest fact with the calmest response.
At the moment his shoulder had been patted, he really had sensed something amiss. Though he'd been taken aback at the time, he'd assumed the Water Engineer Scholar was simply being overly enthusiastic and, in his excitement, was showing goodwill in this way.
So that was the hidden trap all along.
Scholar Yun Geng looked utterly lost. "So, who are you really?"
"I suggest you don't ask. Knowing would only make things worse for you. If you want to keep living, lie down and play dead. I guarantee you'll make it out of here alive."
Scholar Yun Geng stared blankly for a while, then said in a forlorn voice, "All right, but at least hit me once."
If you didn't hit me, and I went back alive and completely unharmed, I'd have no way to explain myself.
"No need..."
Jiang Yue had barely finished speaking when Scholar Yun Geng felt the air around him tighten. A huge bubble, which seemed to appear from nowhere, had already enclosed him.
At that moment, a graceful figure appeared beside Jiang Yue. It was Han Jingjing. The bubble technique hadn't originally been one of her skills, but after seeing Jiang Ying defeat Deputy Camp Commander Zhou last time, Han Jingjing had an epiphany. Building on Deputy Camp Commander Zhou's technique, she had also mastered this powerful bubble technique.
She had used this skill before, when they'd infiltrated Kengtou Base through a secret passage beneath the water during their operation to take the base.
Back then, it had only been in its early form. But over the past few years, the bubble technique had