Intelligence?

Su You thrust his sword forward, but Beiyuan Gang was clearly prepared; he took a step to the front left, dodging the strike.

Su You instantly changed his move, shifting from a thrust to a slash, but Beiyuan Gang suddenly dropped rapidly, vanishing right before Su You's eyes.

"A sand hole?" Su You stood where Beiyuan Gang had been, immediately spotting the hole, which was over five meters in diameter.

In the Sahara Desert, because most monsters lived underground during the day and only emerged at night, such sand holes were not uncommon. Previously, when Su You and Zhang Yue were being hunted by a flock of Sand Eagles, they had also used a sand hole to escape.

Zhang Yue caught up from behind and asked, "Did he run into the sand hole?"

Su You nodded, pointing at the hole: "He took two full-power strikes from me head-on; he definitely can't have gone far. I'm going down for a moment and will be back soon. Be careful up here."

After speaking quickly, Su You leaped, jumping directly into the sand hole. From their brief exchange, he had already gauged his opponent's strength.

Aside from having slightly stronger physical attributes, he was inferior in every other aspect. With his guard up, Su You was confident that even if Beiyuan Gang were at full strength, he wouldn't be able to ambush him.

Furthermore, the man had already taken two hits comparable to those of a high-level Warlord; even if he hid underground, he couldn't have gone far.

One should pursue the fleeing enemy with the remaining strength; Beiyuan Gang's sneak attack was the closest Su You had ever come to death, so he naturally had no intention of letting him go.

This sand hole did not descend in a straight line but was winding and tortuous, clearly dug out by a reptilian monster.

After descending about five hundred meters, Su You left the sand layer and landed on a rock. This appeared to be a massive space formed by a bedrock fault, and not far away, there was an underground river about ten meters wide.

Standing on the rock, Su You immediately spotted Beiyuan Gang. At that moment, he was trying to flee toward the underground river, but he was surrounded and being ferociously attacked by a large group of Sand Pythons.

Su You instantly understood; that sand hole must have been a passage dug by these Sand Pythons. The two of them had fallen straight into the Sand Pythons' nest.

Noticing the commotion of Su You falling down, several peripheral Sand Pythons quickly lunged at him.

Su You shifted his stance, decapitating several Sand Pythons in succession, and quickly charged toward Beiyuan Gang not far away.

Beiyuan Gang, who was fighting in the midst of the swarm, also spotted Su You. However, the leader of the Sand Pythons had clearly realized he was severely wounded and kept sending waves of subordinates to entangle him.

Although there were no Lord-level monsters in this group, every single Sand Python was fearless and desperate. Under the weight of his severe injuries, Beiyuan Gang had no way to shake off their entanglement.

"Heaven helps me!" Su You dodged the attacks of a few Sand Pythons, flashed behind Beiyuan Gang, and swung his right-hand sword while simultaneously thrusting his left-hand sword through a gap between several pythons.

Beiyuan Gang gritted his teeth and pulled his body back sharply, dodging the slash. He spat out another mouthful of blood, but just as he was rejoicing at having avoided the blow, he suddenly felt a sword tip emerge from his throat.

"This..."

Su You twisted and withdrew his Baihong Sword, and Beiyuan Gang's head was severed from his body, instantly being dragged away by the Sand Pythons.

Su You danced his dual swords, and the lunging Sand Pythons couldn't get near him.

"Hiss, hiss, hiss~~" The high-level Beast General-class Sand Python in the distance let out a roar, and the pythons around Su You scattered, leaving only Su You and Beiyuan Gang's corpse behind.

Su You chuckled; the leader of these Sand Pythons was quite clever. If it had been any later, he would have intended to dash over and kill it directly.

Su You flipped over Beiyuan Gang's corpse to inspect it, then stripped off his combat suit and collected the battle blade that had fallen nearby. Just as he was about to leave, he heard a "beep" sound.

"Hmm?"

In the previously pitch-black bedrock fault space, strange rays of light suddenly appeared. These lights converged in front of Su You, forming a white virtual figure.

The figure appeared to be a little girl. She wore an exquisite white dress that was a bit tight, stood less than 1.5 meters tall, and had her hair tied in long twin tails.

"XXXX..." The little girl chattered on and on. Her voice was ethereal and crisp, but unfortunately, Su You couldn't understand a word of it.

"xxxx..." The little girl seemed to switch to another language, but Su You still didn't understand what she was saying.

She cycled through over a dozen languages, but Su You couldn't understand any of them. He could only shrug helplessly, and she clearly didn't understand the pure Chinese or broken English he spoke, which made the little girl furious.

Why does this entrance feel so much like Babata?

Could she also be an intelligent life form? But how could an intelligent life form not understand Earth's languages?

Could there be another inheritance on Earth? But why wasn't it discovered by Luo Feng in my past life's memories?

Thoughts flashed through Su You's mind, a mix of excitement and vigilance.

After listening to the little girl chatter for a while, Su You suddenly thought: That Japanese man was likely sent by the Wang Family. I can't stay underground for too long, or it would be disastrous if something happened to Zhang Yue.

Thinking of this, Su You gestured goodbye to the little girl, using body language to tell her he was leaving.

Unexpectedly, the little girl blocked his path and pointed at a rock not far away.

Su You blinked, walked over, and picked up the rock. Upon closer inspection, he discovered a pitch-black ring embedded inside.

The little girl pointed at the ring in the rock and then at Su You's finger, signaling him to take it out and wear it.

Su You controlled his strength to crush the rock, hesitated for a moment, and then carefully placed the black ring on his finger.

The little girl made a baring-teeth gesture at Su You, and her entire form instantly shattered like bubbles.

"Hmm?" Su You was slightly startled, thinking to himself, Is she really an intelligent life form? Is this ring a space ring or a world ring? Could her core be inside here?

As Su You dragged Beiyuan Gang's corpse and climbed upward rapidly, he recalled the descriptions he had read in his past life about Luo Feng meeting Babata. He found that, aside from not speaking Earth's languages, this little girl was very similar to Babata in many ways.

"xxxx..." The little girl's crisp voice echoed in Su You's mind, but he had already anticipated this and was not startled.

Every intelligent life form could communicate with its master through consciousness, but unfortunately, this didn't seem to solve the language barrier between them.

PS: The protagonist's cheat has arrived, and the final heroine is online. Everyone can try to guess her identity.