Chapter 16: Chance Encounter with Piknicking Crowd
After a dreamless night, Su Jiu stood at the main door with a listless expression, her head drooping. Being smeared in the face by a little white rabbit, though satisfying…
Looking at Bai Qianyu, who had already changed into casual clothes and was full of vigor, Su Jiu felt a pang of bitterness.
But to keep her awake all night, stir up her interest, and then not let her touch, that was a grave offense!!
Seemingly noticing Su Jiu’s resentful gaze, Bai Qianyu turned her head, her ponytail swishing. Thinking about what happened last night, a blush crept onto her face, and she whispered, “Jiu-jie, even between girls, you can’t touch each other there…”
Su Jiu responded with a deadpan stare, so you can smear me with it all night? Doesn’t your conscience hurt?
“Be careful on the road, I’m going to work.”
Bai Chen’s voice came from outside the door. He was wearing a helmet, astride a dilapidated motorcycle. Waving his hand, he drove away.
Upon hearing this, Su Jiu secretly took out the map Bai Chen had quietly given her yesterday and glanced at the distress flare in Bai Qianyu’s hand. Without betraying her intentions, she tucked the map into her skirt pocket, guessing it was a hint.
It indicated that Su Jiu could take half of the dragon eggs inside as payment, but the other half must be saved for Bai Qianyu.
However, Su Jiu had already planned to do so and didn’t dwell on it. She checked the dagger strapped to her thigh garter and then followed Bai Qianyu towards the stream they were heading to.
“Gurgle! Gurgle! Gurgle!”
Soon, the sound of water hitting rocks reached their ears. It was a small stream flowing down from the mountainside. Bai Qianyu whispered, “We’re here.”
Su Jiu stepped forward first and scooped half a kettle of water. Under the sunlight, the water indeed sparkled, as if mixed with some rare material.
Immediately, Su Jiu took a small sip. In an instant, she could feel her stamina slowly recovering and her mind becoming refreshed.
That’s right.
“Let’s go to the upstream here.” Taking out the map, Su Jiu studied it for a moment before pointing to an area marked on the map with numerous large rocks.
She wasn’t making a blind guess. According to the novel’s description, the Male Protagonist searched for a long time before finding the shattered dragon egg in a rocky area.
The two followed the mossy path upwards. As the color of the jungle became increasingly verdant, the sounds of birds and cicadas strangely diminished. Su Jiu also drew her dagger from her garter, her expression gradually becoming serious.
This was the first half of the jungle section of the route, and Bai Chen had marked it as an area where monsters appeared.
For this past year, Su Jiu, having thoroughly studied the monster encyclopedia, naturally understood the current situation.
“What’s wrong?”
Bai Qianyu, not having yet experienced the baptism of monster wars, was startled to see Su Jiu pull a dagger out from her skirt.
“Territory! We might have accidentally stepped into a monster’s territory. According to what Uncle Bai said last night, this is likely the territory of a Dark Night Tiger.” Su Jiu’s whole body emanated a chilling aura. Her enhanced blue pupils scanned the surroundings, but finding nothing, she continued as if to reassure,
“However, there shouldn’t be any lords appearing in this kind of place, it should just be an ordinary Dark Night Tiger.”
“Avatar! I’ll help you.”
Upon hearing this, Bai Qianyu asked no further questions and immediately activated her avatar, her pupils instantly turning into vertical slits like Su Jiu’s, but with an amber color.
“You have no experience fighting monsters, protect yourself first,” Su Jiu said in a deep voice.
Then, her waist slowly arched, her breathing gradually slowed. That Dark Night Tiger must have already considered them as prey that had trespassed into its territory. They could only wait for it to reveal itself first.
“Squeak…” Suddenly, ten meters behind them, the sound of a small branch breaking reached Su Jiu’s ears. She flicked her dagger in a flourish and sprang forward like an arrow.
“Found you, little kitty.”
Bai Qianyu was astonished by Su Jiu’s incredible speed.
“Roar!” A mighty roar erupted from behind her. Bai Qianyu, being a diligent student, reacted quickly, retreating several meters and turning to look.
Su Jiu moved like the phantoms from the Assassin’s Hall, darting around a giant black tiger. The Dark Night Tiger’s prideful swift claws, whenever they struck, were either dodged or scraped against her dagger, creating brilliant sparks.
“Whoosh! Clang! Whoosh!”
The giant tiger’s claws, wreathed in some black mist, once again created gusts of wind. Bai Qianyu estimated the weight to be at least 3,000 pounds. With only one avatar skill, she was unable to intervene.
“This is already a battle of intermediate warrior level.”
She looked at Su Jiu with deep worry, her hand tightly clutching the distress signal. Her palms were slick with sweat, but seeing Su Jiu’s nonchalant expression, she involuntarily relaxed.
Seeing the Dark Night Tiger, over 3 meters tall, Su Jiu let out a sneer. After dodging the attack imbued with dark energy, she flipped over and moved to the tiger’s abdomen, frost immediately surging on her dagger.
“Slaaaash!”
Su Jiu, her expression unchanged, directly thrust the dagger in. Then, her fair hand was stained with a bit of blood. The next moment, she exerted force with her arm, creating a long, chain-like wound in its abdomen.
The Dark Night Tiger paused, frozen in place. The next second, with a “boom,” it collapsed to the ground, blood spraying like a fountain onto Su Jiu’s stockings, adding a touch of demonic allure as she wiped her dagger.
Fighting monsters of this level, she didn’t even need to use her drawing-blade technique.
It was merely due to practice.
“De-dead, it’s dead already.” Bai Qianyu’s voice was a bit stuttered, feeling as if she were in a dream. Her deskmate could so easily kill a Dark Night Tiger, a monster that could even defeat university students.
Could it be true that she had said in class that she would take care of the Scarlet Flame Wolf in one blow?
“Stop staring blankly, let’s hurry to the upstream riverbank. If we don’t quickly wash off the blood, it will attract other monsters.”
Su Jiu re-sheathed her dagger into her garter, returning to her innocent and lively little girl appearance, if one ignored the bloodstains on her stockings and leather shoes…
After they walked for some time, encountering some minor, unranked monsters, Su Jiu let Bai Qianyu handle them herself while she instructed from the side.
Su Jiu didn’t want to raise the Male Protagonist’s Sister like a canary; she had no interest in that.
After another three to four hours, a patch of grassland appeared before them. Su Jiu breathed in the air deeply.
According to the map, they had arrived at a place that was somewhat inhabited. Many people used to visit here and even built roads in all directions. However, in recent years, with the frequent attacks by monsters on the human world, it had been abandoned.
“Someone is actually picnicking here? They’re really tired of living.”
Suddenly, she saw several jeeps ahead. Tents were spread across the lawn not far away, and she could even faintly hear cheerful laughter.
Wanting to leave, she glanced at the somewhat disheveled Bai Qianyu. Her lips were slightly chapped from the fight. Sighing softly, Su Jiu said in a low voice,
“I’m going to get some food, Xiao Bai, you rest for a bit.”
Su Jiu planned to go in and buy some food. After walking only a few steps, she saw a familiar face exuding an aura of misfortune and froze.
“Su Xiao Yu? What are you doing here?”
“Elder Sister?”
