Ah, Her Slap Smelled So Good: Wants Another

Xin Lan's answer touched on something Mo Xiao knew nothing about.

And she was not one to say things she didn't mean. Whatever she said was exactly what she meant.

So everything he had thought before had actually been wrong. She wasn't worried about Chi Ming and Wu Xi at all, and even hoped something would happen to them?

Why?

Mo Xiao couldn't figure it out.

No matter what angle he considered it from, he couldn't make sense of it.

Unfortunately, Xin Lan had no intention of explaining it to him.

The two remained silent throughout the journey and finally arrived near the pollution source right on time.

Mo Xiao brought the hovercar to a stop in midair instead of rushing down, his expression somewhat grave.

"The range of this pollution source really has expanded."

As soon as he finished speaking, an earth-shattering crash, the sound of an explosion, and the deep, powerful roar of a polar bear rang out at once from the yellow smoke filling the sky.

Xin Lan's eyesight was not as good as a sentinel's, and she couldn't see the battle clearly through the dust, so she immediately told Mo Xiao to take the hovercar closer.

Only after they entered the area shrouded in dust did she finally see what Chi Ming and Wu Xi were fighting.

It was a giant spider that had been thoroughly polluted. Its entire body was covered in spikes, each tipped with a venom sac. One of its eight legs had been severed, but even standing on the ground, it rose like a skyscraper, occupying more than half the sky. Its vast, dark form was overwhelmingly oppressive.

Not only that, but it also used its height to its advantage, constantly spitting webs covered in black slime at the ground below, trying to wrap up and kill every creature that had invaded its territory. Its severed leg was also recovering at an astonishing rate, rapidly regenerating almost before their eyes.

Wu Xi's Spirit Body was no longer the silly, clumsy bear Xin Lan remembered. It was several times larger than it had been in the Mental Landscape, its eyes were scarlet, and many spikes, bits of flesh, and traces of blood still clung to its fangs. But it was smaller than the spider, and with no venom and a coat of fur, it was clearly no match for it.

Although its sharp claws could easily snap the spider's legs, enormous amounts of webbing stuck to its fur, making it so uncomfortable that it had to stop and tear them off.

It was furious and in agony, but no matter how it pulled, it couldn't get rid of all the webbing coated in black slime. The slime also kept corroding and polluting it.

Just then, an enormous black-and-gold anaconda suddenly sprang up from the pile of black webs on the ground and swiftly, fiercely coiled tight around the spider's massive body.

With a crash, the giant spider was slammed hard into the ground by the anaconda.

It frantically spat webs and struggled, and the spikes on its body did their utmost to inject venom into the anaconda. But the anaconda showed no reaction, only tightening its coils and crushing it harder.

"Roar-"

Seeing this, the polar bear, which had still been tormented by the webs, immediately leaped over and sank its teeth into the giant spider's head. After a series of teeth-grating cracks, the bear tore the spider's head clean off and crushed it in its jaws. The anaconda also silently and patiently tightened its coils, crushing the giant spider in one go until it was nothing but several mangled pieces of carcass, bursting with fluid.

Honestly, the sight was a little too disgusting.

Xin Lan finally understood why sentinels' Rampage Levels rose so easily.

So they fought by sending their Spirit Bodies straight into close combat.

After dealing with the giant spider, the anaconda and polar bear didn't stop fighting. They turned and pounced on other bizarrely shaped pollutants.

They tore, bit, constricted, and crushed. The dust filling the sky gradually obscured them, and from inside the car, Xin Lan could only occasionally glimpse the anaconda's dark serpentine form, as large as a towering tree, and the polar bear's back as it furiously raised both claws and slammed them down.

What a bloody, violent way to fight.

Xin Lan quietly watched them fight for a while and silently breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, it looked like they hadn't found the crystal fragment yet.

"Let's go. Land the car, and we'll look for the crystal fragment."

She pressed the parking button, and the hovercar immediately began to descend.

Mo Xiao had just thought she had been frightened by the cruel, bloody scene and was about to persuade her to go back. To his surprise, she was already about to open the door and get out.

In his urgency, he barely even thought before quickly grabbing her wrist. "Wait!"

"Wait for what? Are we supposed to go over after they finish fighting?"

Xin Lan impatiently shook off his hand, pushed the door open, and jumped out.

Yellow sand filled the air outside, and the sounds of the battle were even clearer.

Xin Lan picked at her ear, shoved her hands into her pockets, and set off toward the fighting.

Mo Xiao frowned deeply and hurried after her at a jog.

"Xin Lan, don't go over there. It's too dangerous! There are still lots of pollutants that haven't been cleared out!"

He said it at the fastest speed of his life, then clutched his head and let out a pained growl as he failed to suppress his wildly soaring Rampage Level.

"Argh-"

He held his head and bit his lip, his hand trembling as he tried to find the Guide Pheromones inside his clothes. But his rapidly soaring Rampage Level threw his mind into chaos and even brought on countless bizarre hallucinations. In less than ten seconds, he fell straight to the ground with a thud and curled up in agony.

Two white dragon horns with dark blue tips rapidly grew from his forehead, and translucent blue scales quickly appeared on his fair face. The clothes on his back were also suddenly torn open by two rapidly growing blue wings...

Seeing that his body was also beginning to grow and his arms were about to transform into dragon claws, Xin Lan sighed, ran over, and gave him a kick, thoroughly annoyed.

"So annoying!"

She had already said she was coming alone, but he had insisted on following her, only to hold her back.

If she didn't still need him to handle her appointment later, she really would have liked to leave him here to turn into a mutant.

He was wasting her time.

"Hiss, hiss~"

Some pollutants had already noticed them.

Several giant mutated snakes with strange little wings slithered over to surround them, flicking their black tongues. Plenty of other large creatures of various shapes followed behind.

Xin Lan roughly entered Mo Xiao's Mental Landscape and purified it while releasing her mental power to destroy the brains of these blind fools. Although these things were easy to do, she really wasn't good at purification, and it took her a long time every time.

The thought that she would have to spend half an hour here purifying Mo Xiao made her furious, and she gave him several more kicks, her face cold.

Unfortunately, Mo Xiao wasn't conscious at the moment and couldn't feel any pain at all, so kicking him wasn't satisfying in the slightest.

Finally, by the time the pollutants she had killed around them were piled so high that they were nearly buried, she had purified most of Mo Xiao's Mental Landscape.

It was a world of nothing but white clouds and dazzling gemstones.

An enormous blue-and-white winged dragon flew happily back and forth among the clouds, occasionally gathering up a pile of sparkling gemstones to give her.

Xin Lan, however, didn't even spare them another glance. She immediately withdrew and slapped Mo Xiao.

"You wasted so much of my time, and you're still not waking up? Looking for a beating?"

Mo Xiao had barely regained consciousness when he was slapped hard. His left cheek burned with pain, and his stomach seemed to hurt too.

But he didn't dare speak, or even show the surging affection he had nowhere to direct after their deep mental connection just now. He could only stare intently at her with an ardent gaze, his Adam's apple bobbing repeatedly.

"I'm sorry, Xin Lan. Thank you for helping me purify my Mental Landscape. I'll take you to find the crystal fragment now."

Not daring to hesitate for another second, Mo Xiao decisively released his Spirit Body.

The winged dragon had a white belly, a blue back, and a pair of enormous blue wings. As soon as it saw Xin Lan, it excitedly lowered its head to rub against her. It even made a very human gesture of reaching into its pockets, puzzled as to why the gemstones it always carried were gone.

Xin Lan couldn't be bothered playing with it. She slapped it straight on the mouth. "Get down."

"Mmm..."

The winged dragon puffed out a breath of dragon breath and obediently lay down, looking aggrieved, so she could climb onto its back and hold its horns.

Once she was seated firmly, it was happy again. It immediately flapped its wings and took to the air, flying swiftly toward the area with the densest concentration of pollutants as she directed.

When the winged dragon was slapped, Mo Xiao felt as though he had been slapped too.

This time it was his right cheek.

Now, sitting behind Xin Lan, he felt both cheeks burning with pain, but not only did he not feel humiliated, he instead thought her slap smelled wonderful.

The fresh scent of lily of the valley was so pleasant. When the floral fragrance struck him together with the pain in his body, in particular, he felt his body and even his soul tremble with excitement.

It felt so good that his scalp tingled, and the lingering sensation refused to fade.

At a moment like this, staring at her cold, beautiful profile from so close, he even found himself faintly wanting her to give him another slap...