"Just who is this Tang Fan?"
Some people couldn't help but swallow.
Wang Xuan also felt somewhat dazed, staring blankly at Jiang Fan standing on the hillside.
"Oh no! The Nine-Colored Wind Chime Bird is about to escape!"
Cheng Ye shouted anxiously and ran wildly.
The two sisters were in opposite directions, extremely anxious.
Why didn't you stop it?!
"This thing has wings and can fly, what can I do? I can't fly." Cheng Ye expressed his grievance.
"Now is not the time to argue. We can't let it get away, or we'll have come all this way for nothing!"
"That's easy to say. It's flown away now. How are we supposed to catch it unless we grow wings and fly too?"
Wang Xuan looked up at the sky filled with sand and dust, but there was no sign of the Nine-Colored Wind Chime Bird.
Did they really come all this way for nothing?
At this moment, Cheng Ye spoke up in confusion.
"Huh? Where's Tang Fan? He was just in front of me a moment ago, where did he go?"
One sentence instantly drew everyone's attention to Cheng Ye's side.
It was completely empty.
Yeah? Where are they?
In the end, Wang Xuan was the first to recover.
"What are you all standing there for? Find them!"
Although they and Jiang Fan were only temporarily teamed up, those who came with them still had some responsibility.
Besides, if it weren't for Jiang Fan's arrow, he would probably have been seriously injured already.
The scene changes.
The Nine-Colored Wind Chime Bird, trailing its long tail, flew rapidly through the sandstorm, its eyes filled with mockery as it watched Jiang Fan chasing after it from below.
These tiny humans are really overestimating themselves!
It's just hovering in the air, what can you do about it?
Jiang Fan could actually shoot it down with a single arrow, but the problem is that the employer wants it alive; otherwise, they wouldn't have gone through all this trouble.
Jiang Fan used his Psychic Power to sense the location of Wang Xuan and the others. They had already created such a large distance that they shouldn't have noticed them.
Thinking of this, he stopped.
Seeing this, the Nine-Colored Wind Chime Bird became even more smug.
It is the darling of the sky; you little humans are only fit to look up at it.
Just as the Nine-Colored Wind Chime Bird was feeling quite pleased with itself, it saw two alloy weight rings slowly appear in front of Jiang Fan, and it leaped onto them.
take off!
It came straight at it.
Its speed was so fast it startled even birds.
As Jiang Fan grew larger and larger, the Nine-Colored Wind Chime Bird forgot to fly, its mind racing with a thousand thoughts.
You think you're Spirit Master? Why didn't you say so earlier? Why didn't you fly away sooner? You just kept chasing it like that, were you trying to bully it for fun?
"Gotcha."
Jiang Fan grabbed the wing of the Nine-Colored Wind Chime Bird, just like a country bumpkin preparing to slaughter a chicken, completely disregarding the beautiful and precious Nine-Colored Wind Chime Bird as some kind of treasure.
The Nine-Colored Wind Chime Bird was so shocked at first that it forgot to fight back, and later it was too late to fight back.
"Strange? Why aren't they around here?"
Wang Xuan and the others continued searching for Jiang Fan, their expressions filled with anxiety.
"Could it be that a monster suddenly appeared and kidnapped Tang Fan while we weren't looking?"
This guess wasn't impossible, and the thought of it made everyone's faces turn grim.
If that were the case, Jiang Fan would probably be dead by now.
Just as the atmosphere was becoming tense, a familiar voice suddenly rang out.
" Captain Wang, I'm here."
Upon hearing this, a light instantly ignited in everyone's gloomy eyes, and their gazes all fell on what was directly in front of them.
Seeing Jiang Fan appear unharmed, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
Jiang Fan walked up to the group, carrying a chicken wing—no, a Nine-Colored Wind Chime Bird wing—in one hand.
I'm sorry to have worried you.
Quiet.
Everyone opposite was stunned, staring at the Nine-Colored Wind Chime Bird in Jiang Fan's hand. No one answered Jiang Fan's question.
Jiang Fan raised his hand, and because of his movement, the bird's drooping head changed direction and continued to droop.
"I saw it run away just now and was in a hurry to chase after it, so I didn't have time to say hello to you."
"Gulp!"
Someone swallowed hard.
"You—how did you catch him?"
Wang Xuan noticed that the Nine-Colored Wind Chime Bird in Jiang Fan's hand had no wounds, which ruled out the possibility that Jiang Fan had shot it down with an arrow.
If not arrows, how did Jiang Fan manage to do that?
"To be honest, this thing underestimated me. Seeing that I was just a Middle-Stage Second Rank Martial Artist, it deliberately flew very low to provoke me. When it passed a rugged mountainside, I took advantage of its unpreparedness, quickly climbed up, grabbed its leg, and dragged it down."
Before returning, Jiang Fan had already thought about how to answer.
So while his answer may seem absurd and coincidental, it's still somewhat plausible.
" Tang Fan, you're amazing! This time it's all thanks to you!"
Cheng Ye is a straightforward person. "To be honest, at first I was worried that you were a newbie and would hold us back, but in the end we ended up benefiting from your help."
The other teammates shared the same sentiment.
Wang Xuan said, "Since you've contributed the most, you'll get half the commission, and we'll split the rest among ourselves. What do you say?"
Cheng Ye and the others had no objection to Wang Xuan's distribution, after all, if Jiang Fan hadn't caught the Nine-Colored Wind Chime Bird all by himself, they probably wouldn't have even gotten a feather today.
" Captain Wang, there's no need for that arrangement. You already found out that the Nine-Colored Wind Chime Bird was here, and you fought it for a while, exhausting most of its energy. I can't take advantage of the situation. So let's distribute the loot as we agreed before we came."
As Jiang Fan spoke, he handed the Nine-Colored Wind Chime Bird in his hand to Wang Xuan.
This action wasn't to show that he was a saint, but rather because, through conversations along the way, Jiang Fan learned that Wang Xuan and the others didn't come from good backgrounds and were all struggling to make ends meet for their families.
Take Cheng Ye for example. He seems carefree and rough around the edges, but he has actually adopted more than a dozen homeless children.
Then there are those two good-looking sisters. Their parents are old and bedridden, and they have to support them through their expensive medical bills.
"Alright! Since you put it that way, we won't stand on ceremony! To be honest, we're a bit short on cash lately, so you've really helped us out."
Wang Xuan and the others didn't say many words of thanks, but they firmly remembered this favor in their hearts.
[Ding! Congratulations, Master! You have helped your companion overcome a difficult situation and performed a good deed. Your points have been increased by 20.]
For Jiang Fan, this was an unexpected bonus.
He didn't originally consider the Good People and Good Deeds System when he did this; he just genuinely felt that way. If Wang Xuan and the others hadn't found out about the Nine-Colored Wind Chime Bird beforehand, he wouldn't have been able to find it on his own.
Moreover, they took good care of me along the way.
The exit from the Inner Wilderness Zone is the same as before; you have to go through Red Maple Forest.
"Ah! Help! An ant colony! Red Maple Ant!"
A scream suddenly rang out from the Red Maple Forest.
Red Maple Ant!
Jiang Fan's eyes flashed with light!
Excitement was evident on his face.
Where? Where?