Chapter 251: Chapter 171: Natives (2)
"Huh?"
"Are there other clan members?"
"Then hurry and help us!"
"There are way too many ghosts today!"
The boy called Wu quickly turned his head to ask for help as well, but the one named Ling shook his head and stated with certainty,
"They’re definitely not clan members."
"But they should be human. Maybe there are other groups in the Spirit Realm."
As he spoke, he grabbed a ghost with his bare hands and ripped it completely in two!
He was dressed in very ordinary clothes,
making him look like a common laborer from ancient times—very rough and simple. At the same time, his skin had a bronze hue and a faint, silvery glow.
This feeling...
If Su Xing were here, he would definitely recognize it. It was not much different from the aura of his own physical body.
But,
there wasn’t the slightest hint of an Extraordinary Being about him.
Or rather,
there were no signs that he had ever cultivated.
It was as if...
all of this was formed naturally, something he was born with.
"Ling, should we still ask for help?"
Wu’s clothes were similar, but his skin was noticeably paler and his face had a childish look. A faint halo of light also shimmered around him, but it wasn’t as conspicuous as the one on Ling.
These two,
looked as if they had never cultivated before.
"..."
"Wu, you already shouted it,"
Ling said, sounding a bit exasperated.
Wu seemed to be a beat behind, quickly covering his mouth and whispering:
"Did I screw up?"
Just then,
a ghost lunged at him, and he smashed it to dust with a single slap.
"It’s fine..."
"Humans are safer than spirit beasts, at least,"
Ling said flatly.
The two of them,
despite not being in the Extraordinary Realm,
possessed the physical strength of at least a sixth-tier combatant just by looking at them.
This situation,
was truly baffling.
How could humans who had never cultivated possess sixth-tier combat power?
"Not necessarily. Aren’t those guys from the Spirit Sect just a bunch of bad seeds?"
"They’re clearly human, but they were actually thinking about wiping us out too."
"Good thing they reaped what they sowed. Who knows what they did out there, but now there are only two of them left."
"..."
"That’s different."
The two of them were trapped here purely because they had no other offensive methods.
They could only rely on their formidable physical bodies, punching their way through the endless sea of ghosts one by one. Though slow and inefficient, they would eventually be able to get out.
However,
the other group wasn’t having such an easy time.
Sequencers,
their greatest weakness was their physical bodies.
Even though they were all wearing combat suits, these were ultimately external objects that couldn’t be used with great dexterity. In a situation like this, facing a siege from a massive horde of ghosts, things became extremely tricky.
Therefore,
they were somewhat relieved to learn that there were other humans nearby.
Although,
they didn’t know the other party’s stance,
in a hellhole like this, as long as the others responded, they would surely lead them out, no matter what they wanted to do with them afterward.
But,
Wu’s four sentences, however, made Lin Yiming’s heart sink.
He had originally thought that natives who could live here must have a way to handle the situation, but the other party was asking his group of four for help. This made him hesitate about meeting up with them.
And yet,
there was no time for such considerations.
Both groups began to move toward each other with all their might.
They were indeed trying their best,
but their efforts were focused on different things.
One side was desperately defending, while the other was desperately trying to carve a path through.
Soon,
the two groups saw each other.
Wu was a bit carefree. When he saw the four Sequencers, his first reaction wasn’t to think about how to deal with the current situation or escape their predicament. Instead, he pointed at the four of them and exclaimed in surprise:
"The material of your clothes is so nice."
As his voice fell,
Lin Yiming and his group also noticed what Ling and Wu were wearing, as well as their terrifying strength—felling a ghost with every punch. This made Lin Yiming’s eyelid twitch; he had no idea why they had been asking for help.
"Is there a way out?"
Lin Yiming asked anxiously.
The strength they displayed was clearly greater than that of his own group of four. Plus, they were natives here. Asking them was obviously the right choice.
"A way out?"
"There is no way out."
"You just have to kill your way out,"
Wu said nonchalantly.
But his words made the other four’s eyelids twitch uncontrollably. They suddenly felt that this guy was a completely unreliable type.
"..."
"Don’t mind him, everyone. Wu has always been like this. Besides, these ghosts really aren’t a big deal."
With Ling and Wu joining them, the four Sequencers’ progress accelerated significantly, as if they had suddenly been equipped with motors, allowing them to push forward at a much faster rate.
Soon,
the six of them charged out of the forest and saw an abandoned city shrouded in darkness not far away.
"We just need to get over there and we’ll be fine,"
Ling said seriously.
The others exchanged a glance and, without saying much, just nodded.
After leaving the forest,
the number of ghosts clearly began to decrease,
and the pressure on the group to fend them off began to ease.
Then,
the six of them arrived at the city
and found a dilapidated house to slip into.
The ghosts were all kept outside, as if they couldn’t enter buildings.
"Holy shit."
"This guy’s got some serious guts!"
Wu exclaimed as soon as he entered the house.
"What are you talking about?"
Ling followed, a bit confused, only to see three mangled living corpses on the opposing building and a wall that had been completely blown apart. He couldn’t help but curse as well:
"Damn!"
"Who’s so damn bold?!"
The other four also arrived and saw the scene, but their reactions weren’t as strong as the two boys’. For Extraordinary Beings, fighting and breaking a few things was an extremely common occurrence, hardly anything to be surprised about.
But Lin Yiming immediately realized that they might not be surprised by the destruction of the house, but for some other reason. He asked:
"Are these dead spirit beasts particularly powerful?"
"..."
The two boys immediately turned their heads, giving them a confused look, and asked:
"What tribe are you from?"
"How can you not even know about this?"
"We really don’t."
"We rarely venture out and know very little. Could you enlighten us?"
Lin Yiming asked.
Humans in the Spirit Realm spent most of their time struggling to survive. Their minds weren’t that complicated, especially these two, who were still just kids. Hearing Lin Yiming’s explanation, they believed him without any suspicion.
"Those two dead spirit beasts... their bodies are so mangled I can’t tell what they are, but the one in the middle is one of the infamous Wild Hunt."
"They’re basically centaurs."
"It’s just that their queen calls herself the Wild Hunt."
Lin Yiming silently committed this information to memory and then continued to ask:
"Based on what you’re saying, these centaurs are a type of spirit beast. Why would killing one make you say the person who did it is so bold?"
"..."
"Because once you do something like this, they will do everything in their power to kill you. No matter where you run or what you do, they will hunt you down and turn you into a living corpse—a creature that’s neither human nor ghost."
"Normally, no one messes with that bunch of crazy women. Not the human tribes, and even the other spirit beast clans rarely bother them."
"..."
"I see."
Lin Yiming fell silent for a moment before responding.
From their few sentences, he instantly understood the complex power dynamics within the Spirit Realm.
These relationships,
were far more complicated than he had imagined before entering.
’If I can use this to my advantage, it might even help us wipe out the Spirit Sect,’ Lin Yiming thought to himself.
"Then..."
"Who would attack one of these centaurs?"
another member of his organization asked, pointing at the corpse on the ground.
Ling and Wu glanced at each other and said helplessly, "Either someone who is ignorant, or someone who is fearless."
"Anyway..."
"The two of us wouldn’t have the guts."
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