"Why isn't she out yet?"
Aboveground, Xiao Li paced back and forth anxiously, his brows tightly knitted. Xiao Ding stood to one side with a frown as well.
"Commanders, please don't worry. I received a message from it. Miss Xiao Yan is on her way back, and nothing happened to her."
Nearby, Qing Lin opened her eyes slightly, a dim light flickering in her jade-green pupils.
She lifted her little face and spoke softly to Xiao Ding and Xiao Li.
"I see..." Hearing this, Xiao Ding and Xiao Li both let out small sighs of relief.
A few more minutes passed before the sound of a magical beast crawling came from the hole, and it sounded distinctly deliberate.
It was like someone stamping their feet hard as they walked to let everyone know they were coming...
All one could say was that this Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake certainly knew which way the wind blew.
Back aboveground, Xiao Yan jumped off the snake's back and patted it, signaling for it to go find Qing Lin.
It turned and immediately fled.
Not that it went very far, since Qing Lin was right beside them.
A large crowd of mercenaries surrounded Qing Lin... or rather, the Fire Spirit Snake behind her, as though facing a formidable enemy.
Although the snake did seem to obey Qing Lin, the whole thing was too uncanny for them to believe readily.
Besides, if this Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake suddenly attacked, even all of them fighting together would only delay their deaths.
But no one in the Desert Iron Mercenary Group feared death, so running was out of the question. They would simply keep their guard up around the snake, ready to fight at any moment.
However, the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake coiled its enormous body into a