Chapter 417: Captain, What Are You Doing, Captain (8/10, Autumn Subscription)

Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu's eyes rolled around, and she said, "Um, Captain Lin, I don't think Ye Ge is up yet. Let me go wake him."

"Don't go. He's cultivating, not sleeping. If you go disturb him, you'll interrupt his cultivation. The lightest consequence is vomiting blood and serious injury; the worst is Qi Deviation."

Generally speaking, no one would cultivate a Heart Method in the wild—at most, they'd practice a Martial Technique.

But Lin Ling figured that with so many of them, and being on the village road, based on past experience, they generally wouldn't run into any Gui Yi.

Even if they did encounter Gui Yi, it would be relatively weak ones—ones Lin Ling could handle on her own.

So Lin Ling had discussed this matter with Fang Yue, and once Fang Yue insisted on cultivating, Lin Ling took on the role of guardian.

That's right—if someone wanted to cultivate in the wild, they'd have an elder or a companion guard them, create a safe and comfortable environment, and only then begin Heart Method cultivation.

Lin Ling felt she could take on this position, could play this role... No! She had to do it!

Fang Yue had done so much for Gu Yue Cun and for them. Lin Ling wanted to give something back to Fang Yue, even if it was only something trivial.

"Here it comes!"

Suddenly, a teammate beside her let out a low growl, and Lin Ling immediately focused her attention.

Whooo!

In the darkness, the wind howled, and a black shadow was rapidly charging toward them.

"Form up, tighten the circle!"

Lin Ling let out a great shout, and the team immediately responded, guarding the ten carts in the innermost position.

Jing Yan had also been startled awake by then, soothing Xiao Xuedou who was barking loudly.

And just then, the black shadow that had been charging at high speed suddenly reached the edge of the team and leaped high into the air.

"Croak!"

Under the illumination of the Human Soul Bonfire, the appearance of that black shadow was instantly revealed in perfect clarity.

What a bizarre figure it was.

The lower half was a human, as if lying flat and sliced off crosswise.

Then, using that crosswise lower half, it stood on the ground with reverse-jointed limbs, moving rapidly.

And atop this bizarre, horrifying lower half was a large, bulging sphere with two big, shiny copper-yellow eyes, oozing pitch-black fresh blood—somewhat resembling an inflated frog.

"It's a Beguagui!"

Lin Ling was first startled, then immediately felt relieved. She leaped up, like a hanging golden hook, arriving first despite acting later, and with a backhand kick, forcefully kicked the leaping 【Beguagui】 toward the ground.

The force of this kick was so great that it directly caved in the bulging spherical face of the 【Beguagui】, slamming it heavily onto the ground.

"Everyone relax, it's just a small Gui Yi."

Although it was a small Gui Yi, they couldn't let their guard down.

Lin Ling being able to kick down the 【Beguagui】 with one kick—that was because Lin Ling was skilled.

Although since meeting Fang Yue, Lin Ling seemed to keep getting the short end of the stick, with no real combat achievements to speak of.

But that was against freaks like Fang Yue, and the opponents she faced were all abnormal Gui Yi, leaving her no room to perform.

As mentioned before, Lin Ling was the most standard type of village Captain, even slightly above average.

So all those displays of strength were just normal performance.

The only issue was that her opponents weren't normal.

This 【Beguagui】 now was clearly a normal Black Grade Initial Stage Gui Yi, weaker than an ordinary village chief in the normal food chain.

"Croak!"

The 【Beguagui】 didn't know what fear was. After getting up, it immediately charged forward again, and this time the person it charged toward was Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu.

"Wu Wu, get ready to fight!"

"What?"

"Fight! Use every ounce of strength you can muster—fight!"

Lin Ling had just finished shouting when the 【Beguagui】 had already charged up to Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu.

Amid Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu's shrieking of "Ahhhh!", she was sent flying two or three meters by the impact, landing in a sorry heap.

"Wu Wu!"

Lin Ling rushed over to help her up, only to find she wasn't really hurt at all.

Perhaps after taking a beating all night, she'd developed some muscle memory.

In that hurried moment, she'd still known to raise both hands to block, directly defending against the strike.

"Not bad! Progress! Go, have another exchange with it. I'm right here beside you—nothing will happen."

"Again?!"

Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu's legs were going soft. That Gui Yi looked disgusting and was strong too—looking at it alone was almost enough to make her cry.

Lin Ling forcibly stuffed a spear into her hands, and Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu could only helplessly close her eyes and charge forward screaming "Ahhhh!"

The Guard Team members who had originally been surrounding the 【Beguagui】 were all startled seeing Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu charging in recklessly, and scrambled to get out of the way.

"Wu Wu! Watch where you're going!"

"Open your eyes, stop waving the spear around wildly—we're all right here!"

"Coordinate! Coordinate! Wu Wu, don't go off like that!"

The voices around her finally made Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu stop her wild flailing, and she opened her eyes, calming down slightly.

The result was coming face to face with the 【Beguagui】 galloping toward her in its reverse-jointed way—utterly horrifying.

"Ahhhhh!!"

Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu screamed again, wildly flailing about.

25!

28!

44!

36!

But as she danced and fought, Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu suddenly sensed something was off.

She seemed to have... hit that anomaly!

Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu forced down her fear and looked carefully ahead.

She saw 【Bi Gua Gui】 pinned to the ground by her wild spear thrusts, unable to get back up.

"I-I'm so strong!!"

Coming back to her senses, Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu suddenly got worked up.

And the more she fought, the more into it she got. Watching the damage numbers keep climbing felt inexplicably satisfying!

"Hahahaha! You anomalies, always scaring me! You anomalies, wiping out our Gu Yue Cun, you anomalies, always killing people! Today, you and I — I'm going to do heaven's justice! Hahahahaha!"

Once Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu got into the groove of it, she found fighting anomalies wasn't actually that hard!

"What what, my spear work is pretty accurate after all!"

While fighting the anomaly, Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu suddenly said something incredibly humble-bragging.

The others, seeing Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu so valiant, all froze for a moment. It took them a while to react, and then they started cheering her on one after another.

"Awesome! Wu Wu!"

"Wu Wu, amazing!"

"Don't stop, Wu Wu!"

"Wu Wu, what are you doing, Wu Wu! Being this brave isn't your style at all — oh, so today's Wu Wu is the powered-up version, never mind then."

"See that? Even Wu Wu can kill anomalies now — what excuse do you lot have for not working harder?"

"Moved the heavens, moved the earth, Wu Wu finally has some use!"

The first few compliments were fine.

But what did those last two people mean? Were they praising me or putting me down?

I won't bother arguing with you lot. I'll focus on killing anomalies — kill, kill, kill, kill!

Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu fought with gusto, beating on it for quite a while, and finally, with a system prompt, completely killed the 【Bi Gua Gui】 that had been pinned down the whole time.

Sleepy, just a bit more, hold on

(End of chapter)