Chapter 230: When the Snipe and the Clam Fight, Baichuan Profits

Still, doubts were doubts.

Baichuan also adjusted his hundred-meter-long massive body, to avoid being crashed into by the few people fleeing over in a moment.

After finishing this, he turned his attention to that place.

At the same time, inside the flying boat.

"Beep beep beep—"

Harsh flashing lights kept going off—those were the alarm sounds produced by the flying boat being damaged too severely.

"Yezi, how's it going? How much longer can the Star Boat hold out?"

A man inside the flying boat asked with some gravity.

"No good, big brother. The Star Boat is severely damaged, about forty percent of the array patterns have already been destroyed… ah! Damn it, at this rate the Star Boat is going to crash!"

Hearing this, the woman piloting the flying boat—the one called the Star Boat—replied with some helplessness.

At the same time, while answering, she once more carefully maneuvered the Star Boat to dodge a transparent wind blade launched by a Green Feather Dragon behind them.

As the Star Boat swayed, the man in his heart also felt some bitterness and regret.

If only he had known, he shouldn't have gone after that bargain. Who would have thought that not only did they fail to grab the bargain, but now the two siblings were about to lose their lives over it.

At this moment, the man seemed to recall that bizarre mission from a few days ago.

Back then, the two siblings were looking for missions suited to them at the guild as usual, when suddenly they came across a freshly posted bizarre mission: find ten stalks of Bitter Grass Flower, reward twenty taels of silver.

At first glance, the two siblings were utterly stunned, simply unable to believe it.

Ten stalks of Bitter Grass Flower for twenty taels of silver—was that normal?

Not normal!

Although Bitter Grass Flower was indeed very rare and precious, it wasn't so precious as to be worth twenty taels of silver—that was absurd.

The reason it was rare was simply because it only grew on Yuluoshan in Jingzhou; it had never been seen anywhere else.

And twenty taels of silver was enough for them to live on for a whole year. Yet now all they had to do was go to Yuluoshan to find ten stalks of Bitter Grass Flower and they'd get it—this was practically free money!

So the two siblings were instantly stunned, wondering if the mission's poster had a problem in the head, or had so much money they were anxious to spend it.

But complaints aside, being short on cash, they decisively accepted it.

Because missions where the reward and effort were so out of proportion had appeared before too; it was just that this time they were the lucky ones to encounter one.

Who knew that once they went, they unluckily ran into a group of unknown people attacking a transport boat that happened to pass by, and they happened to be right near that group.

Thus, they unluckily got taken by the heavily guarded soldiers or hunters on the transport boat as accomplices of the unknown people, and had no choice but to fight back while fleeing.

After a stretch of fleeing, they then saw that group of unknown people summon "that one," who destroyed the transport boat completely in a single strike.

Amid the thick booming of the explosion, the two siblings passed out on the spot.

By the time they woke up again, everything was over.

And just then, a man who was gravely wounded and carrying a precious sealed box staggered out of the forest. After giving them a few broken words, the man died completely.

Leaving behind the two siblings, stunned as they held the precious sealed box.

For a moment, having no idea what had happened at all, they wrestled with it for a while, then, with the thought of picking up some bargain, carried the box onto their own Star Boat. Just then, a dragon roar came from far off in the sky, and they saw a man with a knife scar on his face riding over on a Sky Banzhu Green Feather Dragon.

Seeing their behavior, that man was naturally furious beyond words, giving them no chance to explain at all, and actually rode that terrifying Sky Banzhu Green Feather Dragon straight at them to kill.

Thus, to dodge the flying dragon's attacks, the two siblings, in their bewilderment, began their flight.

Unfortunately, their Star Boat was nothing more than the most ordinary Star Boat sold by that mysterious City Lord Zhou of Haizhidu; apart from a barely passable Flight speed, it had nothing.

How could it possibly escape the pursuit of the Sky Banzhu Green Feather Dragon? If not for his sister's superb skill, given the Star Boat's durability, it should have crashed long ago under the Green Feather Dragon's attacks.

But even so, things weren't much better now.

Amid thick regret, and connecting it to that bizarre mission, the man now also came to his senses. There weren't that many coincidences in the world; perhaps that mission was meant to lure them there to die.

Everything was just to confuse the situation, and to drag those hunters who rushed over for money into passively resisting and wearing down the enemy's effective forces.

But now he realized it all a little too late; whatever he said now was too late.

Thinking of this, he also slowly walked toward the rear of the Star Boat, wanting to try resisting once more.

"Ah—"

"BOOM BOOM!!!"

But just then, his sister suddenly let out a terrified scream, and the explosive clang of metal striking metal rang out.

Immediately after, the Star Boat began violently swaying and rocking left and right.

"What?"

The man cried out in shock, and instantly lost his footing, tumbling about inside the Star Boat.

Outside, however, the man on the Green Feather Dragon's back suddenly crouched low, pressed his right hand on the dragon's back, and mysterious patterns began to bulge out on his face. Then the Green Feather Dragon beneath him, as if greatly stimulated, in an instant flung out three terrifying wind blades in succession, sealing off every evasive direction for the Star Boat.

As the wind blades struck the Star Boat, a thick plume of smoke rose from it, and then the Star Boat began losing balance and power, plummeting downward.

Seeing this, the sturdy man on the dragon's back finally let out a breath of relief, knowing they couldn't escape.

Only then did he grin savagely, watching the Star Boat crash below, his eyes full of brutality and cruelty.

Just a rookie hunter piloting a mere civilian-class Star Boat, and yet daring to loot a burning house and steal the most important mission target of this trip, nearly making him fail the mission. Next, let this lord show you what Ren Jian cruelty means!

At this moment, the sturdy man with a vicious scar on his face seemed to have already thought of countless ways to torment people.

Of course, to avoid any unexpected trouble overnight, the scarred man also directly rode his precious one, slowly heading toward the direction where the Star Boat below was crashing.

But the scarred man didn't know that at this moment, there was another existence that had gotten there faster than him.

That existence was precisely Baichuan, who had witnessed the entire process.

Having just awakened, he was at the moment most curious about the entire world.

So after seeing such a rather peculiar aerial chase, he also curiously went over to take a look.

After all, having been bombarded with all kinds of information in his previous life, he knew in an instant that a situation like this was either a vendetta, or someone preparing to kill and seize treasure.

And as for him, Baichuan, what he liked most was doing the beautiful thing of "when the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman profits." After all, his very first ability from when he was weak—Ice Frost—was obtained just like that.

How could he possibly miss this opportunity now? Even if this "treasure" might be of no use to him at present, did that matter?

Either way, swing the rod whether there's a date tree or not—there'll surely be a surprise waiting for him.

As his dragon body glided, in just a few breaths he overtook the scarred man and was the first to arrive at the scene.

By now that star vessel was nearly completely shattered—which made sense, for an ordinary star vessel with no protective capabilities whatsoever, plummeting from high altitude meant being smashed to pieces.

Since even the star vessel had crashed, the man and woman inside were naturally no better off—one was sliced clean in two at the waist, the other lay with bright red, almost blackened blood pooling beneath them.

Clearly, neither could be saved.

At this, Baichuan merely cast an indifferent glance and lost interest, then turned his gaze to the precious sealed box the pair had been so concerned with earlier.

Presumably this was the cause of the entire conflict?

While pondering, feeling the air currents above drawing closer, Baichuan no longer hesitated. He grabbed the compact box and made off without delay.

As for what would happen afterward, it was beyond his concern.

(End of chapter)