Chapter 231 Sunset of the Gugu Birds (3.5k
Hearing the shouts, Su Jiu raised an eyebrow, gently released her foot, and stopped the car by the roadside. Through the rearview mirror, she could clearly see that the other party consisted of two adventurers wearing similar clothes to Xiao Qiqi.
One woman and one man, the man wore a leopard-print knitted hat, had a dark face with a knife scar, and the woman had a blue and white patterned tattoo on her arm and large metal hoops in her ears.
After stopping the car, Su Jiu rolled down the window, chewed a piece of bubble gum, and asked faintly, “Is there anything the two of you need?”
The bald man heard the clear female voice driving the car, exchanged a look with his companion, and then trotted over.
Looking at Su Jiu and the other person’s appearance, their eyes immediately straightened. A strange gleam flashed in their eyes, and they rubbed their hands, chuckling, “Two young ladies, I am a Master Adventurer from the Adventurer’s Guild. Our car was damaged by monsters. It might be because too many monsters are gathered here, and the magnetic field has prevented us from making phone calls.”
“If you can take us to the adventurer camp in the town, I am willing to give you a thousand yuan.”
Su Jiu scanned the Flower Hat Man, whose muscles were almost tearing the Adventurer’s Guild uniform, her gaze swept over his shiny black pant legs, and she said calmly, “Then come up.”
As the saying goes, the servant follows the master’s nature. Bairnis, who was beside her, met Su Jiu’s gaze, her lips pursed slightly, and her blue eyes held a hint of an unreadable meaning.
She gently rubbed the little blue butterfly with two fingers and waved her hand, letting the little butterfly attach itself to the Flower Hat Man’s pant legs.
Upon hearing Su Jiu agree to let them get in the car, the Flower Hat Man immediately grinned, beckoned to the Flower Arm Woman, and got into the backseat. But when he saw Xiao Qiqi’s adventurer robe, his expression froze.
Xiao Qiqi glanced at the two of them, then ignored them and lowered her head again, taking out a notebook and placing it on her lap, constantly searching for documentations to understand the habits of the Ruomeng Root.
Seeing Xiao Qiqi’s actions, the Flower Hat Man’s gaze sharpened, and he turned his head to nod towards Su Jiu with the Flower Arm Woman, signaling her to ask something.
“Do you have any more allies…”
The Flower Arm Woman, wearing a loose robe, understood and her gaze flickered slightly, as if she were contemplating how to speak, but she only managed to get halfway through.
At this moment, Su Jiu stepped on the accelerator again and asked subtly, “Master Adventurer, Uncle should have the strength of a Battle General, right? Can’t you fly with qi?”
The Flower Hat Man clearly didn’t expect Su Jiu to ask first. After a moment of thought, he proudly said, “Indeed, I have the strength of a mid-level Battle General. However, it’s still very dangerous to fly around here, as some high-altitude monsters hunt. It’s safer to travel by road.”
“That’s true…”
Su Jiu nodded lightly. Just as she was about to ask other questions, a black shadow “bang!” pounced onto the front of the car, and a large suction cup tightly stuck to the driver’s side window. The serrations on it kept wriggling. From a distance, one could still vaguely see the black wings fluttering behind the suction cup.
“Ahhh!!”
This made the Flower Arm Woman behind the car unable to help but scream. But after a few breaths, she looked around and realized she was the only one screaming, so she chuckled and shut up.
She turned her head and found her companion looking at Su Jiu with an extremely shocked expression, and followed the Flower Hat Man’s gaze.
She found that Su Jiu had extended her right hand, pried open the glass with her fingernail, and pierced the monster. A blood-red light flashed on her fingernail, and the monster outside the window instantly exploded under the immense force of the external qi, spraying blood mist all over the car window.
Su Jiu retracted her finger, blew a bubble, and wiped away the blood with a tissue.
Then, with a blank expression, she turned on the windshield wipers to clear away the blood mist. The wind flowing in from the window gently blew her green hair, revealing her pointed ears, as if telling everyone – I am not human.
The Flower Hat Man and the woman were stunned.
Is this a monster of Battle General Level driving the car? No wonder this little face is so pale and pretty.
Su Jiu’s seemingly ordinary actions rendered the two of them silent, and a chill surged from the soles of their feet. The Flower Arm Woman didn’t ask any more questions, and the two of them huddled together. They were even a little scared of Xiao Qiqi, who was dressed the same as them.
“Oh right, madam, what were you trying to ask just now?” Su Jiu asked lightly, tapping her fingertips on the steering wheel, with a hint of playfulness in her tone.
Through the rearview mirror, she was well aware of their reactions. The Flower Hat Man wanted to know if they had any other helpers, so he asked the Flower Arm Woman to inquire.
But as luck would have it, a suction cup bird gave Su Jiu an opportunity to show off her strength, making the two with ill intentions suddenly speechless.
The car had already entered the town by this time. One could vaguely see people in combat suits patrolling the town. As for the original residents, they were either in the hospital due to skin rot or had been arranged to live elsewhere by the government.
“There are no problems. It seems we’re reaching our destination. We’ll get off here. Thank you for your help.”
The Flower Hat Man cast a wary glance at Su Jiu and the other two, then pointed to the camp that was already visible in the distance and said with a smile.
Since there was no Adventurer’s Guild in the town, they lived in tents. The words “Adventurer’s Guild” were written in large letters on the tent roofs.
When they were about 100 meters away from the camp, the car quickly stopped.
“See you again, the three of you.”
Unbuckling his seatbelt, the Flower Hat Man smiled and went to open the car door to get out. With a “click!”, he found that the entire car door was locked. His smile stiffened slightly, and then his heart turned cold. Looking at Su Jiu’s back, he swallowed and said,
“Miss, what does this mean? We are already very close to the Adventurer’s Camp.”
Could this be a premonition? Is this a case of “when walking by the river, one’s shoes are bound to get wet”?
Thinking this, the Flower Hat Man and the Flower Arm Woman exchanged a look, looking as if they were about to summon their beast pets and use their weapons, only lacking the white light to break through the car door’s confinement.
Su Jiu glanced at him through the rearview mirror and asked Bairnis to open her phone’s payment QR code, saying faintly, “One thousand yuan. Transfers are still possible if communication isn’t working.”
Flower Hat Man: …
After scanning the QR code, the Flower Hat Man and the woman successfully got out of the car. They watched the car speed away, feeling unsure of how to comment. Then they shook their heads and walked towards the camp, their faces once again filled with smug smiles.
“Let’s go. I heard my elder brother and the others scammed a group of college students into taking an S-class mission. They’re really big fat sheep.”
The Flower Arm Woman followed behind the man, her face showing a look of lingering fear. It seemed that Su Jiu’s shock was still lingering. She said fearfully, “A-Feng, do you think they’ll investigate us later? After all, we just scammed a Master Adventurer who was a high-rank Battle General!”
“If I kill a high-rank Battle General, I’ll be close to breaking through to high-rank Battle General. If there are enough people killed, let alone high-rank Battle General! Even Battle King Level is not untouchable!”
Hearing his girlfriend’s fear, the Flower Hat Man, named A-Feng, raised his eyebrows, stopped, and said indifferently.
After speaking, he waved his hand again and grinned, “Today we need to get acquainted with these little fat sheep… Tomorrow, we’ll take them to find clues with my elder brother and then find a hidden mountain ravine to deal with them all.”
“This skin rot disease has brought a bunch of self-righteous idiots!”
…
After driving for another ten minutes, the black Chevrolet passed through a field of wheat. Black streams of light pierced through the dazzling golden yellow, and Su Jiu could even smell the fragrance of wheat.
Soon, it stopped in front of a rather large farmhouse. After Su Jiu and the others got out of the car, they waited there for the farmer who had made an appointment with Xiao Qiqi.
Su Jiu sat on the hood of the car, gently swinging her small feet in thick-soled shoes. The faintly visible white flesh looked rather alluring in the sunset.
Her gaze shifted to Bairnis, who was squatting beside her playing with a dog’s tail, and she asked with a smile, “How is it? Is that thing human blood?”
Xiao Qiqi, who was still fiddling with her small notebook, suddenly heard Su Jiu’s words. She looked up at the angel-like face, and a strange chill surged in her heart—Did she… do something wrong?
She had been preoccupied with her thoughts in the car just now. What had happened?
Hearing Su Jiu’s voice, Bairnis slowly stood up, nodded slightly, and said seriously, “It is indeed human blood, and it only exists in the air for less than an hour.”
“I’ll go check the protective measures.”
Su Jiu nodded lightly, thinking to herself, “As expected. Whenever there is unrest, some people with ulterior motives will start making moves secretly.”
To see the surrounding protective measures clearly, she lightly tapped the ground and soared into the air. She looked at the white formation protecting the residents in the distance, which looked like a wall, and found that, just like the situation on the highway before, white arcs were flashing at the gaps, indicating that it had been violently torn apart by powerful monsters.
After all, such formations protecting residents could at most withstand the attacks of ordinary Battle General monsters. If the attack damage exceeded the threshold, they would still crack.
Just as she was about to land and discuss the Gugu Bird trip with Xiao Qiqi, and the specific implementation, “bang!” countless white figures rushed out of the broken pigeon coop towards the sky. For a moment, it seemed as if the white figures had swallowed half of the sunset, and the sky darkened.
“Night? The Gugu Birds are flying out in flocks?”
Su Jiu slowly looked up, her brows furrowed in confusion. As if sensing something, her body instantly stiffened and involuntarily switched to the Ice Dragon Transformation, and rejection symptoms began to appear.
“Quick, use external qi to resist! The spores are falling from the sky!”
Suddenly remembering something, Su Jiu’s pupils suddenly contracted. She lowered her head and roared, instantly merging her two fingers and drawing a line upwards. A thin ice wall twenty square meters in size instantly appeared above Bairnis and the other two, perfectly forming a protection.
Bairnis and the other two were not fools either and quickly used their energy shields. At this time, Xiao Qiqi, whose energy shield was emitting arcs of electricity, was using a bottle filled with white liquid to receive something from outside. The white liquid actually began to turn red slowly.
Seeing the test reagent change color, her face showed a look of ecstatic joy, and she shouted, “Our first step is successful! The deduction is correct! As long as we follow the direction of these Gugu Birds tomorrow, we will surely gain something.”
As if hearing the commotion, the door of the farmhouse slowly opened, and a freckled girl wearing a pig-nose gas mask emerged. Her face was a bit haggard. When she saw Xiao Qiqi raising her hands and shouting, completely unafraid of the superconducting reaction, she also showed a smile.
“Qiqi, did you come to help solve the problem?”
