Chapter: Chapter 140
“That’s because you don’t understand the power of those adults. Even gods have to bow their heads obediently before them,” the priest retorted loudly.
Leticia didn’t want to argue with him about this issue for now. Arguing would be pointless. The most important thing was to find Lin Qingyu quickly and have the Heavenly King take her away before Bai Ling arrived.
After that, they could take their time.
“Where did that half-elf go?”
The priest blinked. “I don’t know.”
“My patience has a limit,” Leticia said, glaring as if to intimidate the priest. However, her expression only made her seem cute.
This attempt at intimidation was effective, though. After all, this priest, with his pathetic combat power, had just been instantly killed by Leticia’s sword. It was completely normal for him to be afraid now.
However, no matter how scared he was, he couldn’t provide an answer.
“The agreed-upon teleportation target was here, but I just walked around and asked everyone. The only stranger I found was you,” the priest said pitifully.
He was just a low-level lackey; how would he know so many things?
“Tch, what about your organization’s base here? You must know that, right?”
“Base? There isn’t one. Those people from above come and go like shadows. Even if they come, they don’t stay here for long.”
“No, aside from knowing your organization’s name and what it does, what else do you know?” Leticia felt her blood pressure likely soaring. How could this priest be so useless? His combat power was pathetic, and the information he provided was also pathetic.
She might as well call him the “Pathetic Priest.”
“Ah, is this… not enough?” The Pathetic Priest blinked. He really only knew these things.
He had basically spent his entire life in this small town. Long ago, when Shenzuo passed by, they discovered someone with potential here. At that time, the leader of Shenzuo gave the priest some power and left without saying or asking for anything.
Later, the priest realized that person was actually one of Shenzuo’s founders.
He was a peripheral member of Shenzuo, someone who agreed with Shenzuo’s ideals and accepted the power given by Shenzuo. However, due to his pathetic combat power, he usually handled logistics.
For example, providing venues.
“Shenzuo only sent you to guard here? Aren’t you afraid of not being able to defeat someone teleported here?” Leticia asked.
“There is a divine envoy in Eden, but she hasn’t contacted me, so I don’t know where she’s hiding.”
Hearing this, Leticia covered her face. This priest was too disappointing; she couldn’t extract any useful information from him.
The key thing was that he wasn’t lying. He genuinely didn’t know these things.
Ridiculous, right?
It was too ridiculous.
“Forget it. You stay here. I’ll go wander around outside the town,” Leticia said, retracting her magic sword and turning to leave.
The teleportation magic array was of a lower level, and coupled with her deliberate sabotage, the people teleported here should be scattered widely.
She was lucky to be here. Those who were unlucky might have been teleported directly into the wilderness.
If Lin Qingyu and Xi Mengyao, those two girls with their delicate bodies, were teleported into the wilderness, they probably wouldn’t be enough for the wild beasts to feast on.
Leticia hoped she would be the first to find Lin Qingyu. If Shenzuo found Lin Qingyu first and took her away, she would have completely failed.
If Bai Ling found Lin Qingyu first, Leticia would also have failed, as she wouldn’t be able to get Lin Qingyu in this instance.
If Bai Ling and she met first, then Leticia would have to think carefully about how to stall for time until Xue’er and the others finished.
There were a total of five possibilities, and Leticia hoped her luck would be good.
“Hoo, I’ll head in this direction.”
…
As Leticia headed towards the wilderness, Bai Ling was squatting in a cave, locking eyes with a black-haired girl in a black outfit.
The girl was holding a half-eaten roasted sweet potato. When Bai Ling suddenly appeared, she was eating the sweet potato and almost choked to death.
After she finally recovered, she almost fainted again upon taking a closer look.
Wasn’t this the “Ms. Bai” the Singer had mentioned, who was very difficult to deal with? Why was this person also teleported here? What was going on with the Singer?
“Ahem, um, do you want some?” the girl weakly offered a new sweet potato.
It wasn’t that she didn’t want to fight, but the faint pressure emanating from Bai Ling made her afraid to act. She felt that if she attacked, she would be instantly killed.
To die? She wouldn’t do that.
As for running, she looked at the cave entrance blocked by Bai Ling, her eyes filled with despair.
Why was she cornered in such a dramatic way?
Was this Ms. Bai’s luck too explosive? The teleportation directly landed in front of her. What was she supposed to do?
She was finished.
“Who are you?” Bai Ling asked, taking the sweet potato offered by the girl. Her mood improved slightly.
“Belongs to Shenzuo, high-ranking divine envoy, Yi Yujun,” the girl replied softly.
Bai Ling touched her chin in confusion. Shenzuo? She had never heard of this name.
Was it some unknown little organization?
But looking at the quality of the girl’s clothing, it didn’t seem like a shady organization.
“Is the Singer one of yours?”
“Uh, I guess, she’s one of ours.”
“Did you guys attack Qianqian too?” Bai Ling narrowed her eyes.
The girl immediately felt a sense of death. Almost instinctively, she shook her head, then nodded again.
“We just wanted to exchange her for that half-elf. We didn’t intend to hurt her!”
“But you still attacked,” Bai Ling said, drawing her sword with a cold expression. She couldn’t forgive these people for daring to attack Leticia.
The girl panicked completely. She racked her brain trying to figure out how to escape this situation, but the conclusion was that it would be better to just give up.
She couldn’t win if she fought, and she couldn’t escape if she ran. Her escape methods had just been used a few days ago, and she couldn’t use them right now at all.
Fighting was impossible, running was impossible, so wasn’t giving up resistance the only option?
The girl’s reaction surprised Bai Ling too. She had expected the girl to try some desperate measures to struggle, but this person just gave up resistance?
Looking at the girl sitting on the ground with vacant eyes, Bai Ling didn’t know what to do for a moment.
She poked the girl with her sword. “Resist a little.”
If she didn’t resist, Bai Ling felt no desire to kill her.
“I can’t resist. Go ahead and do it.” The girl looked up, revealing her delicate, pretty face. If she could resist, she would have already done so, but the person in front of her gave her no desire to resist at all.
“Tch, where’s the Singer?” Yi Yujun’s attitude of lying on the ground for whatever Bai Ling wanted made Bai Ling feel like a blockage in her chest, unable to exhale.
It was very uncomfortable, really super uncomfortable.
“I don’t know.” Yi Yujun shook her head directly. “Shouldn’t I be asking you this question?”
She was happily gnawing on a sweet potato here, and in the blink of an eye, this calamity appeared at her doorstep. She didn’t understand the situation either.
Where was the Singer? Where was the half-elf?
And where was that priest in the small town?
The teleportation destination was set for the small town, so why did this person teleport to her?
This place was several kilometers away from the small town. Could the teleportation magic array she requested from the big shots be that inferior?
“Can you contact the Singer?”
“Yes, but not from here,” Yi Yujun shook her head. Usually, she would contact the Singer through that short, black-clothed person as an intermediary, and that short, black-clothed person wasn’t here right now.
She had gone to meet the Singer, and didn’t know if she had successfully met her.
As for phones… this was the wilderness town, where would there be mobile phone signals?
“Take me to the Singer,” Bai Ling said coldly.
Although she wanted to find Leticia more right now, she also knew that having Yi Yujun take her to find Leticia was not realistic.
Yi Yujun and Leticia had probably only met once. Expecting her to lead Bai Ling to Leticia was like expecting Leticia to drop from the sky into her arms.
“Ah, this, I can only say, I’ll do my best,” Yi Yujun replied weakly. “I can only take you to the original teleportation landing point we confirmed, but you were teleported with the Singer, right? Since you were teleported to me, do you think the Singer could have landed normally?”
Bai Ling turned her clever little brain and realized this was indeed a good question.
Perhaps, maybe, possibly, the Singer had also been thrown into some strange place like herself.
“Speaking of which, besides that small town, the areas around here are all activity zones for wilderness monsters. If we were unlucky and dropped there…” Yi Yujun muttered softly.
Bai Ling’s pupils contracted. If Leticia was teleported there…
No, time was of the essence.
“Take me to the designated teleportation landing point, quickly!”
…
Leticia’s safety was not an issue, but the safety of the other girls was a problem.
When the Singer saw a pair of emerald green snake eyes, she knew something bad had happened. She had killed many wilderness monsters in her early years, so she could easily identify the giant snake in front of her as not some ordinary wild animal.
This thing was a monster.
So, what happened to the promised peaceful and harmonious town? What happened to the friendly and hospitable villagers?
Don’t tell her this was the so-called friendly and hospitable villagers!
The most unbearable thing was that the Singer had two burdens hanging on her back.
Lin Qingyu, who was so scared she didn’t dare to move, held Xi Mengyao’s hand tightly, while Xi Mengyao… this girl had not yet regained consciousness.
The Singer sighed and snapped her fingers again.
“Eh?” Xi Mengyao’s eyes regained their sparkle. Then, she saw the giant snake, thicker than her own body.
Her legs instantly went weak. Fortunately, Lin Qingyu was supporting her, otherwise, this beautiful young lady would have probably fallen to the ground without any dignity.
“What is this thing! Am I dreaming?” the girl said with a crying voice.
“Unfortunately, we are all quite awake right now,” Lin Qingyu said. Although she was also a little scared, her demeanor was much calmer than Xi Mengyao’s.
After all, she had traveled alone from the boundary between the Elf World and the Human World through the wilderness to reach the central city. She had seen these monsters from afar, just not up close like this.
So, she was still scared, but not *that* scared.
Besides, there was a human shield in front of her.
“Don’t run around, you two. I can’t guarantee I can protect you if you encounter other monsters,” the Singer said, stretching her wrists. It wouldn’t take much effort for her to deal with this monster. What she feared was Lin Qingyu taking Xi Mengyao and running around while she dealt with the monster.
Her mission was to bring Lin Qingyu to the town alive, and their goal this time was to try to get Lin Qingyu to join their Shenzuo.
Lin Qingyu couldn’t die.
“Why do you care about us? Aren’t you a bad person?” Lin Qingyu asked.
The Singer was stunned again. Although she sometimes dressed like a bad person, she hadn’t done anything bad except trick Xi Mengyao once: “How am I bad?”
“You poisoned Xiao Xi. This is all your conspiracy, just to get close to me, to get close to Ms. Bai.” Lin Qingyu expressed that she wasn’t a foolish child. She had already deduced the cause and effect of this matter.
“Although I’m not exactly a good person, I do have a conscience. Do you think it’s good to involve innocent people for your own goals?”
“Hmph, I knew it would be like this.” The Singer pouted and turned to look at the giant snake. “Whether I’m a good person or not, I’m the only one who can protect you now. If you don’t want to die, just behave.”
The Singer was never good with words, but there were quite a few eloquent people in Shenzuo. As long as she brought the person, she would have successfully completed the mission.
Roar! The giant snake, which had been ignored for a long time, couldn’t help but attack. It felt like it was being looked down upon by these three little guys.
Excuse me, it was so big and looked so mighty. Shouldn’t it have firmly captured their attention?
Why did they start arguing among themselves first? It was annoying, so annoying.
They must be tormented properly.
“Ah!” Xi Mengyao was startled by the giant snake lunging at her with its mouth open. She instinctively hid in Lin Qingyu’s arms, making the pure-hearted half-elf girl blush slightly.
This girl was a bit heavy. Lin Qingyu wanted to step back a few steps but helplessly found that Xi Mengyao seemed to have become weak from fright, her entire weight pressing on her.
The Singer on the side had already started dealing with the giant snake. Various disgusting and nauseating sounds came from the Singer’s mouth, not only driving the giant snake into a frenzy but also making the other two girls feel very uncomfortable.
Lin Qingyu was fine. Protected by the necklace from Flora, she only felt a headache.
The most miserable one was undoubtedly Xi Mengyao, whose eyes were about to lose their sparkle again.
Fortunately, the battle didn’t last long. No matter how you put it, the Singer was a former S-class hero, and now she had joined Shenzuo, further strengthening her power. Dealing with this dim-witted giant snake was easy.
“Hoo, done.” Grabbing the giant snake’s tail and flinging it away, the Singer turned to the two dazed girls and said, “Let’s go, we have to start our wilderness survival.”
