Chapter 211

"Siwen, you're not dead!"

Aoruilian felt the camaraderie in his chest about to overflow.

Looking at his teammate who was corroded by the Hydra's stomach acid until he was almost unrecognizable, Aoruilian shouted the slogan of victory loudly.

"Miss Nie has already gotten the apple, we can retreat!"

"Pfft!"

A snake head attacked again, and Siwen, who had just escaped death and hadn't stood firm, was bitten in one mouthful; this time the snake monster didn't swallow him, and a giant venomous fang pierced Siwen's chest.

The venom spread rapidly throughout his body, and Siwen no longer had the strength to curse.

The camaraderie that had just risen in Aoruilian instantly dissipated, and the metal wings on his back turned into a rain-like barrage of throwing knives shooting toward the Hydra's huge body, while he himself turned and left without looking back.

Nie Yingying was not yet proficient in all the abilities of the 【Sky Assassin】 and could not fly for a long time, but fortunately, the barrage of throwing knives from Aoruilian when he left bought her enough space.

At the cost of one arm being splashed by venom, Nie Yingying successfully escaped the Hydra's attack range.

Seeing her palm corroded into white bone in the blink of an eye, Nie Yingying did not hesitate to swing her dagger to cut off her arm, successfully stopping the spread of the toxin.

The Hydra's huge body and the ancient bloodline in its body endowed it with powerful combat effectiveness, but its bulky body size also limited its movement speed.

In the end, Nie Yingying successfully escaped, and listening to the 'rumbling' sounds still coming from behind, Nie Yingying pursed her pale lips and walked quickly toward the outside of the swamp.

Thanks to the fact that the group had already figured out the route when they came in, Nie Yingying soon reunited with Aoruilian.

Looking at each other, they couldn't help but still have lingering fears about this operation.

The mud was as thick as black asphalt, with an eerie oily sheen on the surface, and made a low "gurgling" sound when bubbles burst.

Rotting plant remains floated on it, emitting a pungent, nauseating stench.

The air was filled with a damp, musty smell, mixed with the scent of rust and decay. Every step felt like being pulled by countless hands, the mud submerged their knees, cold and bone-chilling.

Nie Yingying's left arm was severed from the elbow, the wound eroded black by mud and venom, blood mixed with muddy water dripping along the stump, her steps staggering, barely supporting her body.

Aoruilian's left arm hung weakly at his side, the pain of fractured ribs making every breath feel like a knife cut. His golden armor was shattered, fragments embedded in the wounds, blood staining half of his body red.

"Almost there... the edge of the forest is ahead..." Aoruilian's voice was hoarse.

The swamp mud gradually became shallower, and the ground under their feet became solid.

Stumbling out of the swamp and collapsing on the grass at the edge of the forest, the two breathed rapidly, cold sweat on their foreheads mixing with muddy water and flowing down.

After resting for a while, Nie Yingying stood up and scanned left and right.

"That guy Weisite is not here."

"Sigh!" Aoruilian couldn't help but sigh. "Should I say I expected this? To be honest, the moment I saw that nine-headed monster, I had a feeling that this was the plot inertia trying to kill us."

Nie Yingying pursed her lips again, looking at her severed arm in silence.

Although she had made huge progress on this journey and mastered the 【Sky Assassin】 profession abilities more and more flexibly, whenever such moments came, she couldn't help but imagine that if that kid were here, it definitely wouldn't have been so hard.

"Let's go! Anyway, we finally completed the mission, and judging from the intensity, the harvest should be huge!"

Aoruilian's words hid anticipation and gratification; after all, it was a harvest after they had paid a huge sacrifice, and thinking about it, he was still quite looking forward to it.

Nie Yingying quickly pulled herself together and took two steps past Aoruilian.

Although she lost an arm, her injuries were far lighter than Aoruilian's.

But soon her steps stopped again.

Because a corpse was lying under the big tree in front of her.

Or it would be more accurate to describe it as a skeleton.

It was the horse Weisite had ridden over; the whole horse had almost become a skin-and-bone corpse, and many ants were busy on the corpse, which caused many parts of the corpse to already reveal pale bones.

Nie Yingying was very familiar with such a corpse; her companion, or rather teammate, the bald Hans, was in this state before he turned into flying ash and was kicked out of the plot world.

"It seems the swarm of mosquitoes that attacked us ran out of the swamp." After crouching down to check, Aoruilian continued: "It's a pity, that guy Weisite escaped."

Nie Yingying also saw some mosquito corpses left on the ground and nodded in agreement with the 【Sun Knight】's statement.

It seemed that after Hans and Siwen died and were kicked out of the game, Aoruilian's words had become more frequent.

"Rumble!"

Bursts of wind and thunder sounds gradually approached from afar.

Nie Yingying and Aoruilian looked at each other, and the two immediately became vigilant; they could no longer afford any accidents.

Tapping her feet lightly, Nie Yingying targeted a big tree that three people could hug in front of her.

Stand high, look far!

Nie Yingying felt that 【Sky Assassin】 was not only a good assassin, but also a good scout.

She leaped toward the big tree as if using legendary light-body techniques, but before she could step on the target branch, a black stream of light was already in front of her eyes.

"It's great that you're okay, I was worried to death; if something happened to you, I wouldn't be able to answer to the master."

The black stream of light was Lilisi, who had arrived after receiving the news.

After flying around Nie Yingying twice, the 'rumbling' sound of wind and thunder finally arrived in front of them.

Landing lightly on Nie Yingying's shoulder, Lilisi saw Nie Yingying's empty left arm, her pitch-black eyes flickering crazily but she didn't say anything more.

Under the tree, Aoruilian stood silently.

He recognized this crow that had once appeared on Xie Yaoyao's shoulder.

In the Fairytale World, talking crows were not rare.

But a talking crow with no entries on its head was very rare.

As far as he knew, only travelers could hide the entries on their heads, and indigenous people of the Fairytale World, no matter what kind of creature they were, could not hide entries; they didn't even have the consciousness of the existence of entries.

That Viscount Graz might be even more powerful than he had imagined!

With the addition of Lilisi, the journey back became much easier and safer.

"Weisite returned to the palace, covered in bumps, his face swollen into a pig's head. Having failed to bring back the 'Sleeping Apple', he was punished by that woman, the Queen, to go scrub the toilets; this is not a good job."

"If I weren't in a hurry to find you, I would have killed him first. But before I came, I still let that guy take a good bath in his workshop."

"I was worried to death! If the master wakes up and finds that you lost a life in this world, he might blow up the plot, kill everyone, loot all the entries, and just leave!"

Nie Yingying pursed her lips again.

Would he? For me?

Lilisi is talking nonsense!