Chapters 145 and 146 Unexpected!
"Quan Cang, why are you appearing here?" Luo Xue Ning asked, her vigilant gaze carrying a hint of surprise, that familiar aura, yet he could be certain that he had never had any contact with Quan Cang.
"This isn't your home turf either, if you want to come, come; if you want to leave, leave, it seems like it has nothing to do with you." Xiao Hong responded.
It can be said that the relationship between these two people is now extremely awkward. Whether it's Xiao Hong or Luo Xue Ning, in this situation, they would instinctively treat the suddenly appearing stranger as their primary enemy. However, at this time, the two of them couldn't fight anymore.
Apart from this familiar feeling, another aspect is the restraint between each other. Xiao Hong himself was very clear that even if he joined forces with the three of them, they still wouldn't be a match for Luo Xue Ning. A fifth-level Beastmaster, and he was only a second-level Beastmaster.
Although Luo Xue Ning had captured Xiao Hong, she was still filled with apprehension towards his strength. Especially after what Xiao Hong did just now - a single ice crystal had torn through her mask without harming her skin. This was not something an ordinary person could do.
Buzz!
But just as the two didn't know what to say next, Xiao Hong and Luo Xue Ning almost simultaneously heard a sudden sound of air and energy friction coming from not far away.
Turning his head, he saw that in the distant darkness, a light ball suddenly flashed and rushed towards Xiao Hong and Luo Xue Ning's side with extreme speed.
As a fifth-level charioteer, Luo Xue Ning's reaction was extremely quick. She slightly narrowed her eyes and quickly jumped back several steps while grabbing the hand that was holding Xiao Hong's neck, hooking it onto his collar and directly pulling him behind her.
Boom!
A moment later, looking at the place where Xiao Hong and Luo Xue Ning had stayed before, a deep pit with a diameter of more than two meters had been formed. The tree that Xiao Hong had leaned against also crashed down.
"Thanks." Xiao Hong, who was standing behind Luo Xue Ning, naturally knew what Luo Xue Ning had just done to save him. He carefully leaned his mouth against Luo Xue Ning's ear and whispered.
"Boom!" Luo Xue Ning didn't respond to Xiao Hong at all, but instead focused her gaze on the direction where the sneak attack was coming from and let out a long whistle.
Moment again!
Just as Luo Xue Ning let out that long cry, irregular energy blades formed in front of her, arranged horizontally and vertically like knife edges, rushing towards the direction of the incoming energy bullet.
Wherever it passes, no matter how broken the branches of trees are, the weeds on the ground are crushed into powder in an instant, and its dominance is extreme!
Plop.
A moment later, a man in casual clothes, holding a magic fire rocket tube, fell directly from the tree crown, without making any sound, and only twitched a few times before becoming motionless.
Following the moonlight, Xiao Hong stood behind Luo Xue Ning and could vaguely see that the man who had fallen to the ground had fresh red blood oozing out of his nostrils, earholes, and eye corners. The clothes on his chest had become tattered, and his death was a terrible sight to behold.
"Shuīyīn zhànwén……" Xiao Hong muttered to himself, as if he had guessed Luo Xue Ning's killing method earlier. He had also heard before that Luo Xue Ning possessed a battle pattern that could amplify her own voice by a million times, instantly causing the enemy to suffer heavy damage from the sonic impact, and those with weak physical strength would die upon contact!
Xiao Hong had never had a chance to experience it before, but today he finally did.
"The famous Quan Cang, indeed has some insight." Luo Xue Ning said, the content sounded absolutely like praise, but the tone made Xiao Hong feel extremely strange, as if it was slightly sarcastic.
However, at this moment, Xiao Hongke didn't have time to think about it, because he could clearly see that more than a dozen bright lights had appeared around him, which were obviously the driving patterns of the war tattoos.
"I didn't expect so many of these guys to show up, but they're just small fries! " Luo Xue Ning slightly narrowed her eyes and then shifted her gaze to Xiao Hong: "You take care of yourself, everyone's on their own now."
As soon as he finished speaking, he stood behind Luo Xue Ning and immediately activated the flow of energy. In an instant, more than a dozen pale blue energy whirlpools formed behind him, and then he jumped up with incredible speed.
This is the most fundamental difference between Flowing Cloud and Gale Mark. Flowing Cloud moves at an incredible speed, allowing even a Master-level character to perform basic actions in mid-air, whereas Gale Mark only provides assistance.
In an instant, Luo Xue Ning had appeared in the night sky, accompanied by a few long cries, and several tall trees between the mountains were destroyed.
In the distance, Xiao Hong could still hear the sound of people falling to the ground with a "thud".
Xiao Hong stood on the ground, and didn't have much leisure to watch Luo Xue Ning's performance, because he could clearly see that in the forest, there were already two people rushing towards him to kill!
However, Xiao Hong did not show a single sign of panic because he had already observed that these two people had not yet grasped the Wind Pattern, and it could be basically confirmed that they had not reached the level of a Rider, but were just pretending.
He lightly tapped his foot, activated the Ling Snake Wind Pattern, and with its powerful assistance, Xiao Hong instantly appeared to the right side of the two men. With a wave of his arm, rose petals wrapped in thin ice shot out, hurtling towards one of the men wearing camouflage clothing.
Before the man could react, a dozen or so rose petals didn't explode on his body like before. Instead, they used the extreme hardness of the Millennium Ice to directly pierce into the man's body, and then exploded.
With a few crisp slaps, the man's face was already a bloody mess!
Xiao Hong didn't stop, increasing the thrust of the spiritual snake vortex, and in a flash, he appeared in front of another man. One hand was like a steel pincer, directly grasping the man's neck, and pressing his body against the trunk of a tree.
Looking at the man again, his eyes were already filled with terror. At first, he had clearly seen Luo Xue Ning pin Xiao Hong to the tree trunk, thinking that Xiao Hong was just an ordinary small role, and specially came to find a soft persimmon to pinch, but did not expect that the other party's strength was also not weak.
In fact, these people were indeed from the Weilin Kingdom. They had come to scout out the terrain and hadn't expected to run into Lu Xue Ning and the others. As a result, none of them were particularly strong, with the strongest being at the second level of Rider, who had already been killed by Lu Xue Ning's sonic attack earlier.
They only wanted to launch a sneak attack, and if they could successfully injure Lu Xue Ning and subdue her, their military ranks would likely be promoted several levels. It's just that no one expected Lu Xue Ning's vigilance to be so high.
What made this man even more shocked was that until now, he finally saw the five-star eyes on Xiao Hong's eyes, which is absolutely one of the most distinctive things on Quan Cang's body.
"No... don't..."
Before the man could finish his plea, seven or eight dark blue ice blocks had already condensed on Xiao Hong's arm, like a handful of irregular sharp knives, and struck the man's jaw and chest.
The man then slowly slid down from the tree trunk to the ground like a dead object.
Taking a glance around, Xiao Hong found that no one was paying attention to him anymore. The Luo Xue Ning in the sky had also cleaned up the incoming people, leaving only a few remaining.
Seeing this scene, Xiao Hong was very clear that staying longer would be useless, so he prepared to leave quietly.
But at this moment, Xiao Hong's expression suddenly changed, and he felt that a burst of electricity came from the treetops not far away. The next moment, a figure rushed out of the treetops, with electric lights flashing on his hands, and rushed towards Luo Xue Ning who was in mid-air.
Before this, Xiao Hong had not noticed that this person should have a special magic tattoo for hiding himself.
Seeing someone suddenly emerge from behind her, Luo Xue Ning didn't show any signs of panic, slightly narrowing her eyes, and had just drawn out the Bone Splitting Dagger from her waist, preparing to slash the enemy at close range. However, Luo Xue Ning's expression suddenly changed.
All he saw was a black and green striped, ice-encased feather-like energy beam hurtling towards him from his right front.
Before Luo Xue Ning could react, the feather-shaped energy ball had already curved slightly in mid-air and exploded on the sneak attacker's head.
The powerful force instantly made the attacker's skull burst and then heavily fell to the ground.
Along the direction of the incoming energy attack, Luoxue Ning could clearly see that Xiao Hong was standing in an open space, with his index finger pointing towards the direction of the previous strike.
"You just saved my life, now we're even. Besides, I think the people inside have already contacted their base, and a large number of experts will arrive soon. It's better to leave quickly, goodbye." Xiao Hong said, and once again drove the Ling Snake Wind Pattern, heading straight down the mountain, without any hesitation or concern for Luo Xue Ning being a general or anything like that.
Luoxue Ning in mid-air watched Xiao Hong's departing figure, smiled slightly, then returned to the ground because being in mid-air made her earpiece too conspicuous and unsafe.
She glanced around, then headed in another direction, quickly making her way down the mountain. However, after only a few hundred meters, she had to force her way through a thorny forest, and suddenly stopped in her tracks. At her feet was a cliff, over a hundred meters deep.
Although Lu Xue Ning had the Flowing Cloud, which could suspend her in mid-air, on a pitch-black night, in an unfamiliar geographical environment, crossing such a cliff was indeed dangerous. It was clear that Lu Xue Ning had taken a wrong path.
She looked again at the distant view, and Lu Xue Ning was slightly surprised to find that Xiao Hong himself seemed to be like a fish in water, extremely agile and traversing through the forest, choosing the easiest and most convenient places to move forward, as if he was extremely familiar with this area.
After a moment of contemplation, Lu Xue Ning fixed her gaze on Xiao Hong and rushed over to him, not for anything else, but to follow the path Xiao Hong took to leave this place.
Xiao Hong finally stopped after running wildly for over ten minutes, and Yulin Town was already vaguely visible in the distance.
Chapter 146: Transaction!
Xiao Hong stopped moving forward, and Luo Xue Ning also suddenly stopped in her tracks. There was probably about five meters of distance between the two of them.
"You should know the way from here, don't follow me anymore, let's meet again if fate permits." Xiao Hong slightly turned his head and looked at Luo Xue Ning with a soft voice.
"Before, I always thought that this guy was just a small-time clown who had been hyped up, but now that we've met, he's not bad, thanks for bringing me here." Lu Xue Ning said softly, then prepared to leave in another direction.
Xiao Hong gazed at Luo Xue Ning's back, slightly pensive for a moment, when suddenly he thought of something.
"Wait a minute." Xiao Hong suddenly spoke up, saying to Luo Xue Ning.
"Is there anything else? You're not going to charge me for this favor, are you?" Luo Xue Ning said with a relaxed tone.
"Do you have Tie Hua Lian?" Xiao Hong asked directly.
"What's with the question?" Luo Xue Ning asked, somewhat puzzled.
"You just need to answer me, yes or no."
Xiao Hong's tone is still concise.
"That thing, although rare, how could the military possibly not have it? Especially since I'm a general." Luo Xue Ning responded.
"How about making a deal?" Xiao Hong said calmly, continuing on.
"Deal?"
"Yes, I have something you're very interested in and I'd like to exchange it for a batch of Iron Lotus Hooves," Xiao Hong said softly.
"What?" Luo Xue Ning asked with some curiosity.
"The army of the Weilin Kingdom is distributed in Taiwu City, but this distribution map is not on me for the time being." Xiao Hong said, but the distribution map was actually on him. Xiao Hong said so just to be cautious, although the possibility was small, what if Luo Xue Ning really came to kill and steal the treasure?
Lu Xue Ning, who had been listening to this conversation with a slightly calm expression, suddenly changed her expression. Her face turned serious and surprised, and her heart was also moved. She did not expect that the person in front of her would know about Weilin Gongguo, let alone have a distribution map. Lu Xue Ning was also very clear that once she had the distribution map, she could absolutely change the current passive situation.
For a moment, this Kaito, who was wearing strange clothes, suddenly became unfathomable in front of Luoxuening.
"Do you have a map of the Vyrlian Empire? How did you get it?" Luoxue Ning asked, trying to keep her tone as calm as possible.
"Tongjiang Street, I'll take care of it." Xiao Hong smiled slightly and said that in his heart, he was very clear about such things, and pushing them onto Quan Cang's body wasn't a big deal.
Then Xiao Hong took out a military emblem of the Weilin Kingdom from his pocket and casually threw it to Luoxue Ning.
Receiving the badge, Lu Xue Ning glanced at it slightly. Now she seemed to have no reason not to believe Xiao Hong in front of her.
"Let's talk about the deal, what price are you thinking of?" Luo Xue Ning got straight to the point.
"It's very cheap, twenty Iron Lotus, twenty Black Meteor Grass, plus the 'Four Gold', of course, if you can also provide a fifth-level spiritual beast's brain marrow, I'm willing to offer an intelligence that interests you greatly." Xiao Hong quoted.
For ordinary people, these things are absolutely priceless, but for Luo Xue Ning, they don't count as anything, as long as Xiao Hong's things are genuine.
"Deal, location and time." Luo Xue Ning said with a smile.
"Let's get in touch again." Xiao Hong said, taking out a brand new communication talisman from his magic bag and tossing it to Luo Xue Ning before turning around and walking into the depths of the forest.
Lu Xue Ning glanced slightly at the communication talisman in her hand, then looked at the direction where Xiao Hong had disappeared. She paused for a moment and didn't blindly follow him, but instead walked away in another direction.
After walking for about five minutes and seeing that Luo Xue Ning was no longer following him, Xiao Hong quickened his pace and headed in the direction where the tattooed car was parked.
Entering the magic car, Xiao Hong did not stay or return to the main road, but instead followed the quiet dirt slope road and quickly moved forward.
Xiao Hong, who is extremely familiar with the terrain here, knew very well that following this path straight would lead to Bo'an Town, where there was another road leading to Taiwu City.
Although it's a detour, there's no other way, because Xiao Hong doesn't know whether the Weilin army in Taowu City will come to reinforce or when they'll arrive. If they run into each other, it could be troublesome. Of course, he also doesn't want to run into Luo Xue Ning at this time.
After circling around for a big round, until two o'clock in the middle of the night, Xiao Hong finally returned to Da Hong Mei's trip. Xiao Hong, who got off the magic car, had already changed into casual clothes and quietly returned to his bedroom.
Then I began to think in an orderly manner about the transaction with Luoxue Ning.
It can be said that this is also a clever move by Xiao Hong, only when trading, you need to be more cautious, but this is not a difficult task.
After taking a shower in the bathroom and thoroughly washing off the dirt on his body, Xiao Hong lay down on the bed and fell fast asleep.
The next day, Xiao Hong, who had just gotten out of bed, didn't even wash his face. He got up and started making another set of warning talismans without stopping.
In the process of making, Xiao Hong's mind was also thinking about the choice of transaction location as much as possible. First, it must be quiet and a place he is familiar with. Secondly, no one would notice at all.
After careful consideration, Xiao Hong suddenly smiled slightly, thinking of a perfect place, which was a mountain peak near the Dongcheng Quarry. It was relatively quiet there, and he was very familiar with the geographical environment. Moreover, as long as he arrived there first to occupy the high ground, he could overlook all of Luo Xue Ning's movements nearby.
Even if you find it's not right, you can just turn around and leave.
Two hours later, when Xiao Hong had finished making all the warning talismans, he put them all in a wooden box and loaded it into the trunk of the magic car. He tidied up his personal belongings and got into the car, heading towards Xizhen Magic Academy.
As for the Iron Lotus transaction, it can be said that Xiao Hong's desire is unmatched, but at least give Luo Xue Ning some time to prepare, and Xiao Hong doesn't want to give people a feeling of being too hasty, even though his heart is very anxious, because he no longer has time.
At the same time, in the headquarters of Meiyin Entertainment Company in Baihuan District, Taiwu City, Mei Jie was sitting in the main seat with a gloomy face. The other producers also had serious faces. Mu Xi'er, who hadn't attended class, sat among them, her expression not looking good, slightly shrinking her neck. She knew that everything now was caused by her alone.
In front of this long rectangular conference table, there are two things that stand out particularly.
The first one is a promotional poster, and two weeks later, the rising star of Taiwu City... Yu Xin, also has a concert, and on the most eye-catching position of the poster, there is a line of large characters: Super Visual Effects Master Miao Dongsheng strongly supports.
As for Yu Xin, she is a fourth-year student at Xijin Mofang Academy. She has a charming and extremely coquettish personality, performing with openness and boldness, and has already become the goddess in the hearts of introverted and handsome men.
The momentum is even greater than that of Mochi's, and without a doubt, this concert, which is being held almost at the same time, is undoubtedly a naked challenge.
Moreover, Miao Dongsheng's withdrawal at the critical moment was a heavy blow to Murong Xi'er, while Yu Xiang was like adding wings to a tiger.
Some media have even started using phrases like "Muxi'er is done for" and "short-lived star" in their reports.
This is not the most striking, just now, Miao Dongsheng himself in the entertainment news, personally stated that his joining will definitely make Yu Xin's concert become the best performing concert in the near future.
The implication is already very obvious, it's clear that they want to get rid of Muxi.
Of course, all of this was already very clear to Majer. Miao Dongsheng's approach obviously relied on the unique Shadow Weave technology, looking down on others and telling them that whoever offended the Miao family would not have a good outcome.
"Hsss......" Majer, sitting in the main seat, let out a long sigh, as if he wanted to spit out all the fire in his belly. He then stretched out his hand and picked up a shadow-effect tattoo next to the poster.
Infusing the power, after driving, only Majer's palm appeared with a slightly rough shadowy vegetation, the shape was unbearable and blurry. What's even more ridiculous is that this shadow effect magic pattern, so-called "standing rest feeling", is actually just two flat images intersecting vertically, looking like two cardboard pieces crossing over each other.
Such a discovery almost made Majer, who was already furious, explode with anger on the spot.
"This is the Shadow Effect Master you spent 200 gold to invite? He's completely useless, a total waste!" With that, Meijer slapped the Shadow Effect Seal in his hand onto the table.
Several producers did not speak up, quietly listening, and Muxi'er's heart was slightly shaken. She was very clear that such a result was because of her, and Mei Jie had left some face for her, without directly targeting her.
"Boss, please calm down, this won't do, we can start over and choose someone else." One of the producers spoke up, trying to remain calm, but his words still trembled with fear. It could be said that Mei Jie had always been a good-tempered person, but this was the first time he had ever lost his temper so badly.
They could more or less guess in their hearts that as the president of Hongbo Financial Group, Miao Dongsheng's move this time was not so much a competition between Muxi'er and Yu Xin, but rather Miao Dongsheng taking advantage of the platform of Kulong Group to make a good impression after Luo Xue Ning arrived.
In short, no matter what the purpose is, Miao Dongsheng's arrogance and Miao Chen's overbearingness make everyone feel very uncomfortable.
"If... there really isn't a good special effects artist, I have a classmate who said he's willing to come and help." Muxi'er said, carefully taking out the special effects talisman that Xiao Hong had given her from her small bag and placing it on the table.
