Chapter 234 Cliff Clues (3k)
“Senior, do you know my Grandpa?”
Seeing Su Jiu speak, Zi Yi’s face immediately lit up with joy, and the woman next to her also looked at them with hope.
Hearing the sound, Xiao Qiqi looked at the dark figures over there, carefully placed the equipment on the lawn, moved behind Su Jiu, and whispered, “Junior schoolmate, don’t believe them directly. Dean Zi’s granddaughter wouldn’t come to such a place casually. Be careful, it might be someone using a borrowed knife to kill.
She was a little worried that this strong junior schoolmate lacked experience in the wild. After all, not everyone was like her, having spent so long in adventuring wild teams.
Hearing this, Su Jiu nodded gently and didn’t rush forward. Instead, she smiled faintly at Zi Yi and the other woman in the darkness and said, “No need to mention Dean Zi. Prove you are from Mo University, and I’ll ensure your safety.”
Zi Yi and the other woman were stunned. Prove they are students of Mo University? Could the other party also be from Magical Capital University?
They prepared to prove themselves…
At this moment, hearing Su Jiu’s words, the robust Flower Hat Man’s expression turned ugly. He looked at Su Jiu’s face, obscured by silver threads, with disbelief.
“You two seem to be people of the world. This is just a personal vendetta, I hope you’ll give me some face.”
Turning around, a white light flashed in his hand, and a long spear adorned with arcing electricity appeared out of thin air. He grabbed it firmly, stomped on the ground with force, and a wave of air surged forth. The tail of the spear whipped up several silver snake-like lightning bolts. As the lightning flashed, the sound of thunder erupted, illuminating everyone’s appearance in an instant.
The Flower Hat Man intended to intimidate Su Jiu and the other with the aura of a mid-tier War General, but his actions were clearly counterproductive. The moment the light flickered, the Magical Capital University uniforms of Zi Yi and the other woman were inadvertently displayed before Su Jiu, the Oriental Pearl emblem shining exceptionally brightly.
“Junior schoolmate, this is really our school uniform.”
Xiao Qiqi, who had initially thought the other party was making up connections, was stunned by this scene. She turned to look at Su Jiu and found that Su Jiu was also slightly taken aback, clearly not expecting Zi Yi to be real.
After all, in such a wilderness, claims of connections could only be trusted by thirty percent. In novels, the Male Protagonist Bai Ming had accidentally helped a pair of sisters who turned out to be fugitives in the mountains, causing them to escape smoothly from the adventurers.
This forced him to spend a full month to recapture the fugitive to make up for his mistake. As the saying goes, learn from experience. Su Jiu naturally wouldn’t make such a low-level mistake.
“Since you’re from Mo University, you two come with me.”
Recovering, Su Jiu smiled gently, pulled the blue butterfly string around her neck, and gently grasped it. The faintly glowing object stretched and transformed into a long scythe. She held it backward and dragged it, making a “creak… ” sound as it scraped the ground, walking towards the enveloped two.
“She… she’s the top student from the 24th cohort!?”
Looking at Su Jiu’s flying silver hair, Zi Yi was a little stunned. Hearing the words of the woman beside her, she realized that this silver-haired person was Su Jiu, whom she hadn’t seen in a while. She instinctively waved at Su Jiu.
“How dare you meddle, you’re seeking death!”
The leading Flower Hat Man’s face darkened instantly. He placed his hands on the spear and spun it sharply. In an instant, the silver-white spear looked like a small windmill. As the spear was covered in arcs of electricity, he then raised it imposingly, grinning ferociously at Su Jiu.
“As expected, it’s you again. Anyone can be an adventurer these days, the threshold is really too low.”
Meeting him head-on, Su Jiu walked calmly. Her scythe also spun a few times like the man’s, its blade tinged with a faint bloody glow, with red butterflies swirling around the blade. The next moment, Su Jiu’s figure became somewhat ethereal, with afterimages flickering around her.
“It’s you, are you that monster?!”
Amidst the crackling thunder, the Flower Hat Man stared intently at Su Jiu’s pointed ears on both sides. He flicked his hand, focused his gaze, and swung heavily at Su Jiu’s ethereal form, unleashing a powerful electric blast.
Seeing the electric blast scatter Su Jiu’s phantom and strike the trees behind her heavily, his pupils tightened, and he suddenly shouted at the people beside him, “Finish them! There’s something wrong with that person.”
The black shadows quickly nodded and shot towards Zi Yi and the other, their long swords erupting with different colored lights.
Feeling the sudden surge of chilling killing intent, Zi Yi’s expression also changed drastically. She then pulled the other girl, holding a dark green silk ribbon, and desperately tried to break through the encirclement.
However, due to their injuries, they were unable to break through. The long swords gleaming coldly on both sides quickly stabbed forward, and then shot out like venomous snakes.
The chilling killing intent from both sides made the hair on Zi Yi and the other girl stand on end. Despair appeared on their faces. The people around them were all high-level warriors. In their injured state, they were no match for them and could not dodge these assassinations.
As the killing intent drew closer, a sense of horror welled up in their hearts. Just as they were about to close their eyes and await death.
A faint whistling sound suddenly echoed through the forest, and then they felt a few cool breezes brush past their bodies, and they could hear the booming sound of the air being cut.
This process lasted only a short moment. When they came to their senses, they were shocked to find Su Jiu standing between them. Her flowing long hair brushed past their eyes, giving them an incomparably reassuring feeling.
Looking at the attacking black figures in the distance, they had already turned into corpses, their entire bodies, along with their beast pets, instantly severed by the giant scythe.
“When did she get behind me?!”
Seeing this, the Flower Hat Man’s face instantly froze. He frantically swung the spear in his hand towards Su Jiu, only to find that the spear couldn’t move at all.
He turned to look at the tip of the spear and saw a pair of thick-soled shoes lightly stepping on it. When he tried to look up, he felt a chill on his neck, and a heavy kick to his face knocked him unconscious, his vision turning black.
“Why are you two in such a place? If you hadn’t met me, you would already be corpses.”
Su Jiu asked Zi Yi and the other girl softly. She kicked the headless male corpse away with leverage, then pushed off the tree behind her with her toes and bent down to retrieve the Beast Pet’s Magic Crystal from it. With one hand in her pocket, she looked at the two.
Seeing Su Jiu’s gaze, the girl next to Zi Yi quickly cupped her fists in a salute, her expression filled with gratitude, and said, “Thank you, top student, for your help!”
They thought they were at their wit’s end, but they never expected to meet Su Jiu, one of the school’s prominent figures, here. This was someone with matching Battle King level strength. The combat news about her recent opponents had left a deep impression on the school’s app.
Not only was her combat power strong, but her seemingly fated healing technique was also highly praised. She had been quiet for a while recently, and the app forum had assumed Su Jiu was seriously attending classes and behaving like a good student, no longer causing trouble…
“No need for formalities, it was just raising a hand. What are you two doing here?” Su Jiu’s fingertips glowed with a faint azure light, as if butterfly phantoms were drifting. While healing, she asked with some curiosity.
This was a unique effect after using Bairnis as a beast pet, as if deliberately guiding Su Jiu towards evolution into the Blood Clan.
Su Jiu had heard Zi Yi mention going to the Adventurer’s Guild, but she hadn’t expected to encounter everyone so close to their destination, which made her quite curious.
Hearing Su Jiu’s question, Zi Yi and the other girl snapped out of their shock of surviving. The other girl suddenly spoke, her expression somewhat excited, and grabbed Su Jiu’s sleeve: “Top student, Brother Long of the Nine Dragon Alliance and his group who came with us have also been captured!”
“People from the Nine Dragon Alliance have been captured? Tell me what happened.” Su Jiu’s brows furrowed slightly. She exchanged a glance with Xiao Qiqi, seeing the surprise in each other’s eyes, and then asked in a deep voice.
“It’s a long story. Because the school didn’t allow us to conduct investigation missions, we went out to accept missions. We don’t know who leaked the news, and we were targeted by some scums from the Adventurer’s Guild.” Zi Yi looked at Su Jiu and gave a wry smile, then sighed again.
“They pretended to be senior escorts and led us into this mountain range. Originally, with Brother Long, who is a High-ranking War General, our safety wouldn’t have been in danger. However, they were unexpectedly tricked. To save a companion who had fallen to the bottom of a cliff, Brother Long led a few people down and got trapped in the Alchemy Array on the cliff path. That woman was one of them!!”
“We were also surrounded by those scums. This Senior Sister Cheng and I fought to escape. We intended to find a place with a signal to call for help, but we were discovered by their outer sentries and were chased all the way here.”
Zi Yi’s eyes showed regret. She gritted her teeth and said fiercely, The school letting them form teams within the school clearly had its reasons. Even though they had the strength, they were played like this by those scums from the Adventurer’s Guild.
Ultimately, they lacked experience!
“Did you encounter Gugu Bird flocks by the cliff?” Su Jiu glanced at Xiao Qiqi, who was still experimenting. She looked at the two who were still emitting external qi and suddenly thought of something, and asked softly.
“Gugu Bird flocks? We did sense a huge flock of birds surging in, seemingly towards the lake at the bottom of the cliff. It was precisely because of those birds attracting the attention of those people that we managed to escape.”
Cheng Yun, who was beside them, pondered for a moment after hearing Su Jiu’s question and then replied softly.
“In the lake? Gugu Birds don’t swim…”
Hearing this answer, Su Jiu was stunned. This answer was very contrary to her expectations. Just as she was about to say something, Xiao Qiqi’s voice suddenly rang out, sounding somewhat surprised.
“These spores should only exist inside animals. There are large quantities of them in the water, and their activity is quite high!”
Su Jiu turned her head, and seeing the uncertainty in her eyes, she felt a headache coming on. The survival of spores in water was unprecedented in the outside regions.
No matter what, they could only go and rescue them first! After all, they were all people from Magical Capital University, and they had to be saved.
