Chapter 23: Realm Guardian

One hour later, Chen Mo returned to the lion pride's territory with three humans and the Ice Crystal Mouse.

"Roar!" (Great King, you actually captured three humans!)

Frost Lion Xiongba walked toward the three men while expertly kissing up.

"Roar!"

Xiongba let out a roar at the three men.

He did not like humans — he could even be said to loathe them.

One of his mates had once been shot and killed by humans.

At this time, the fat officer who had fainted from fright earlier had just woken up in the vehicle.

Then he saw an even more ferocious and terrifying lion face coming straight at him.

"Ahhh!!!"

Suffering a repeat performance, the fat officer let out a scream and fainted once again from fright.

Seeing Frost Lion Xiongba's vicious and ferocious face, the other two soldiers couldn't help but feel that Chen Mo beside them had become much friendlier and more approachable.

In truth, whether judged by human aesthetics or lion aesthetics, Chen Mo's looks could score a perfect 10.

From his snow-white fur, to the ice crystals between his claws and on his chest that gleamed like sapphires, to his sleek body curves and explosive muscles.

"Roar!" (Step down for now! I'm going to interrogate them.) Chen Mo roared at Xiongba.

He was a little worried that the somewhat rugged-looking Xiongba might scare the other two black guys into fainting as well.

Although Frost Lion Xiongba didn't understand the exact meaning of the word "interrogation," he still nodded and quietly withdrew to the pride, standing guard not far from the Lion King.

【Who are you?】

Chen Mo wrote on the snow and communicated with the two remaining soldiers.

His main purpose in risking the attack and capturing humans was to learn more information about this world!

"We're from the Tanzanila army. After the Great Snow Mountain appeared, our superiors sent us here to hunt extraordinary creatures for research."

The young soldier Sanchi answered haltingly.

【How many teams like yours are there?】

"As for hunting squads, there are probably more than 20."

Sanchi replied.

He was gradually recovering from his shock and fear.

【Let me borrow your hand】

Chen Mo wrote on the snow again, then took out a Huawei phone, gripped the black young man's right hand with his lion paw, and controlled one of his fingers to type on the screen.

Chen Mo's paw was too large to type at all. Sanchi didn't dare move, watching the Lion King control his finger sliding across the screen, cold sweat pouring down.

This world was too crazy!

What Chen Mo mainly wanted to look up was the current world's background and landscape, as well as information about Qi recovery and extraordinary creatures.

Because of the "secondhand" operation, getting half of ten characters right was already pretty good, wasting quite a bit of time.

It couldn't be helped — an ordinary phone was simply too small for the current Lion King.

"If I get the chance later, I definitely need to get a tablet — the biggest screen kind!"

Chen Mo thought to himself.

After a bout of difficult operation, he finally found the information he wanted.

Good news: he was still on Earth.

The location was Serengeti National Park in the country of Tanzanila on the African continent. The time was 2035. Although his rebirth as a lion had taken only an instant, in reality a full 10 years had already passed.

Bad news: a year ago, various regions around the world had successively entered Version 2.0 — the era of vital energy recovery! Anomalies like the Great Snow Mountain appearing out of thin air had occurred all over the globe! A year ago, in Yunan of the Dongxia Kingdom, a primeval forest stretching across hundreds of thousands of square kilometers suddenly appeared, even covering many cities! Half a month ago, a giant lake shockingly appeared in the Egyptian desert; 3 months ago, three cities in North America were engulfed and buried by yellow sand. Humans called these anomalies "Ancient Secret Realms."

The "Great Snow Mountain" now appearing above the African savanna was already the 12th Ancient Secret Realm to emerge.

These "Ancient Secret Realms" would bring enormous changes to the nearby ecology.

For example, the Great Snow Mountain Secret Realm had caused the temperature of the original African savanna to plummet below zero, with heavy snowfall ceaselessly! And this was merely the sign of the Secret Realm's imminent descent!

About 2 months after an "Ancient Secret Realm" appeared, it would fully descend upon Blue Star, completely covering the original landscape! In addition, accompanying the Ancient Secret Realms was a special energy invisible to both the naked eye and instruments.

Extraordinary energy!

Also known as spiritual power! Extraordinary creatures were creatures that wielded extraordinary power.

There were mainly two types of extraordinary creatures: one was native life of Blue Star that had consumed treasures like energy crystals or awakened on their own.

Within the current Great Snow Mountain area, quite a few extraordinary creatures had already been spawned.

The other type were the "indigenous inhabitants" of the Ancient Secret Realms, slumbering within the Secret Realms.

Only after the Secret Realms officially descended upon the real world would they awaken.

The Great Snow Mountain Secret Realm had not yet fully descended, so the extraordinary creatures Chen Mo had encountered so far were all native life.

"But what the heck was that Sky Canopy Ice Spider!? No matter how you look at it, it doesn't seem like a newly awakened extraordinary creature!"

Chen Mo thought silently, then slowly used his paw to write a line of Chinese characters on the snow and looked toward the black young man.

【How much do you know about that spider behemoth?】

"This... I'm not too sure either."

Sanchi said somewhat nervously, seemingly worried that the Lion King before him wouldn't believe him, so he hurriedly added, "But our officer might know!"

Chen Mo nodded and didn't make things difficult for him; he just asked a few other questions to deepen his understanding of this world.

10 minutes later, the fat officer slowly woke up.

He desperately wished his earlier ordeal had been just a dream, but upon waking and seeing that familiar lion face, he wished he could faint all over again.

【I ask, you answer. Otherwise, die.】

Chen Mo wrote Chinese characters one by one on the snow.

Seeing the handwritten Chinese ice lion, the fat official patted his own head, feeling he was likely hallucinating.

"Official, speak quickly! As long as we honestly confess, the Lion King will surely let us go!"

Seeing the fat official's frightened look, Sang Qi hurriedly said.

Chen Mo couldn't help but glance at him.

"This black youngster is a talent!" After realizing the ice lion possessed wisdom, the fat official's desire to survive reignited, his expression instantly becoming obsequious as he replied: "Lion King, I, I don't know much either. I only know that this giant spider beast is not a supernatural creature of our world, but comes from an ancient secret realm."

After speaking, he paused, not continuing.

Seeing the fat official suddenly pause, Chen Mo slowly walked toward him.

"Lion King, if I confess everything, could you spare my life?"

Chen Mo said nothing, merely staring at the fat official with a blank expression, his lion eyes icy.

"I'll talk, I'll talk."

Sweat beaded on the fat official's forehead; knowing he had no room to bargain, he hurriedly spoke again:

"They are called Boundary Guardians; almost before each ancient secret realm descends, two or more Boundary Guardians appear."

"These Boundary Guardians guard the entrance to the world inside the ancient secret realm; any life seeking to enter that inner world will be mercilessly slaughtered by them."

Under the threat of death, the fat official blurted out everything he knew.

At the same time, he felt immense regret.

Had he known that giant spider was a Boundary Guardian, he would never have thought of attacking it! (End of chapter)