Chapter 1685: I Don't Want to Die
Jiangnan and his group brought Mo Tian back to the camp. Looking at the devastated Mountain City, she was completely dumbfounded!
She couldn't even find a trace of what it used to look like!
∑(°口°#) "Th-this... what happened? How did Mountain City become like this?"
Liu Ming grinned: "The Southern God came over. Isn't it normal for Mountain City to get edited?"
Jiangnan rolled his eyes, raised his hand, and gave Liu Ming a Brain Flick.
Mo Tian twitched the corner of her mouth. Good grief, after not seeing him for so long, the Southern God was still the same!
And this power to edit maps was even stronger than before, huh?
Jiangnan's expression turned serious: "What was the maze like? What did you experience after you went in? Did you get any useful information?"
"That way, when everyone enters the maze later, they'll have more experience..."
Mo Tian shuddered, then couldn't help but say urgently:
(งᵒ̌﹏ᵒ̌)ง "Don't go! If you can avoid going, it's best not to! It's too dangerous!"
"One wrong move and you might really get trapped inside forever. There..."
Before she could finish, Mo Tian stopped. Looking at everyone's expressions, she knew that trying to persuade them was useless!
"It's a long story. We..."
Liu Mang grinned: "Then no need to say it. Just use the visual method. Recall it in your mind, and I'll help you project it!"
Mo Tian: !!!
"Is this pitch-black, dimension-losing creature really human?"
Liu Mang: (≖_≖●)
If it weren't for the fact that you're super fierce, I'd be cursing you out right now, you know?
Liu Mang directly pressed his hand on Mo Tian's forehead, read the content of her recollections, and projected them using his own ability!
Only then did everyone know what Mo Tian and her group had experienced these past few days.
It turned out that after receiving the investigation mission, Xiao Zhen's team entered the Rainforest Maze.
At first, they wandered around inside without any clues. With their strength, they could even kill ordinary Starlight Rank beasts.
Later, they encountered many small exploration teams in the rainforest. Their only goal was to find the Dao Nails hidden in the Spirit Ruins.
And they had already pulled out quite a few of them!
After inquiring carefully, they found that the timing of several Dao Nail removals coincided abnormally with the sudden spikes in spiritual energy on Lan Xing!
They instinctively suspected that the Dao Nails were connected to the abnormal increase in spiritual energy.
So they also started searching, wanting to further confirm.
And they actually managed to find one Dao Nail!
But before they could study it in detail, they ran into multiple exploration teams.
So Xiao Zhen and his team fought with those exploration teams to protect the Dao Nail from being pulled out.
During the battle, Mo Tian was unluckily randomly teleported away, while Xiao Zhen and the others continued fighting.
Mo Tian didn't know what happened afterward. She wandered through over a dozen Spirit Ruins and inexplicably found her way out.
Finally, the image stopped at a Spirit Ruins full of black rocky mountains.
Inside the Spirit Ruins was a huge black altar!
The altar was a complex spell array with a diameter of over a thousand meters.
At the center of the array was a spherical core, and stuck in the core was a crimson red nail.
Like red crystal, it was covered in spell inscriptions, and the crimson blood light seeped into the void.
This was the Dao Nail that Mo Tian and her team had found.
Jiangnan frowned deeply: (｡･ˇ～ˇ･｡) "This is probably part of that Spirit Sealing Array. Are all those exploration teams part of the Holy Star's scheme?"
Mo Tian bit her lower lip: "I don't know what happened to Brother Xiao and the others. I'm worried about them!"
Xiong Er paced anxiously: "Brother Nan! Let's go in! Aren't we supposed to stop the Holy Star from unsealing? We..."
Before Xiong Er could finish, Jiangnan raised his hand and shook his head.
"I told you, we can't just rush in. Do you know the details of the Spirit Sealing Array? Will you find Xiao Zhen and the others just by going in?"
"What's the use of barging in blindly and wandering around in circles inside?"
"Everyone wait! First, prepare to enter the Rainforest Maze. I'm going out for a bit!"
With that, he disappeared without a trace.
Wu Liang was stunned: (包•̌.•̑)ˀ̣ˀ̣ "Where did the Southern God go?"
Xiong Er smiled bitterly: "Probably went to catch Vivian."
Everyone nearly spit out a mouthful of old blood. He just went like that?
Forcibly catching her?
He tells everyone not to be reckless, but he's the most reckless of all!
...
Jiangnan walked down the street, calculating the contents of that little note in his mind.
Who was behind this, asking to meet him?
Was it a new scheme from Vivian?
No matter what, as long as he could run into Vivian, he could catch one.
Then everything would be fine.
At this moment, Mountain City had become completely lively because of the large number of Spirit Martial warriors who had come out of the Rainforest Maze.
The Vientiane Alliance had begun mobilizing their forces on a large scale, and Sen Luo was actually going to enter the Rainforest Maze personally!
Such a thing had never happened before.
His purpose in risking himself was simple: pull out all the Dao Nails, unlock the First Realm Spirit Ruins, find the core, and become the king of this Rainforest Maze.
The news quickly spread throughout Mountain City, and everyone in the streets and alleys was talking about it.
Hope from the Desolate River Association couldn't sit still either. His people also began to gather.
If Sen Luo became the Rainforest King, the Rainforest Maze would belong to the Vientiane Alliance from then on.
Then how would his Desolate River Association survive?
No matter what, Hope didn't want Sen Luo to become the Rainforest King.
If Sen Luo went in, Hope had to compete too. If he didn't, he'd be crushed.
Only the Thug Organization showed no signs of entering the maze, but they started recruiting on a large scale again.
As for the dozens of scattered factions, after hearing this news, they all couldn't sit still.
After all, if they could get their hands on the core of the First Realm Spirit Ruins, they could ascend to the position of Rainforest King and become the second Scarlet Queen.
Who wouldn't be tempted? What if they got lucky?
Humans have a herd mentality. When everyone is doing something, they want to do it too, or they feel left out.
The trend was instantly driven by the two giants, the Vientiane Alliance and the Desolate River Association.
The atmosphere in the entire Mountain City was tense. Every faction was actively preparing to enter the Rainforest Maze.
Of course, behind all this, the hand of Bracelet Wei was inevitably pulling the strings.
Among those Spirit Martial warriors who had come out of the Rainforest Maze with "news," no one knew how many were her people, and some were even her clones.
Mountain City was in turmoil, while Jiangnan arrived at that scallion oil noodle shop.
Although the walls had some cracks, they were still intact and hadn't been destroyed by the explosion back then.
He casually found a table, sat down, ordered a bowl of scallion oil noodles, and started slurping them up.
Just as Jiangnan sat down, the hooded man who had been waiting on the street corner across the way took a deep breath.
He strode straight toward Jiangnan's seat and, plucking up his courage, sat across from him.
He wore a vicious dog mask, covering himself completely.
(ꐦఠꈊఠ) "The note before was from me."
Jiangnan looked up, bit off a strand of noodles, and a smirk curled at the corner of his mouth.
(O՞ٹ՞) "Keji, right? Tsk tsk tsk~ You're quite lucky! You didn't die back in the Western Frontier, and now you've come to work in Mountain City?"
Keji shuddered, his whole body started trembling, and then even the table began to shake.
Damn! He recognized him just like that?
I'm covered so tightly, how did he recognize me?
To be honest, Keji was so scared he almost pissed himself. He felt like he could be killed by this Southern Man at any moment.
(‧̣̥̇๑꒪ﻌ꒪) "You... how did you recognize me?"
Jiangnan rolled his eyes:
(꒪ัД꒪ั*) "Are you blind? Is there anyone in this world with a perkier ass than you?"
"And even if you're shaking your ass, what's with the trembling? Are you doing a booty dance? There's no one more conspicuous than you, right?"
"Stop shaking! I'm eating noodles here! If you shake again, I'll kill you!"
Keji stopped moving immediately.
I'm a Star Glory Three after all, I can't be this cowardly!
But... I can't help it!
"Since you're here, I'll get straight to the point. This time I want to talk to you about..."
Jiangnan interrupted: "Vivian sent you, right? Tell her to come and talk to me herself. Don't play double-act. No sincerity."
Keji widened his eyes: ∑(°口°๑) "How did you know..."
Jiangnan was speechless: (￢_￢) "You have a radio earpiece in your ear. The buttons on your hoodie are disguised mini cameras."
"Vivian is remote-controlling you. She's afraid you'll say the wrong thing, right?"
[From Vivian's Resentment +1000!]
At the same time, in a small dark room who knows how far from the noodle shop, Hairpin Wei was wearing headphones, staring at the computer.
On the screen was Jiangnan eating noodles.
(•́益.•̀٥) "Damn it! This monster, he's snatched all the initiative!"
"Tsk~ so annoying!"
"Keji! Don't talk nonsense. I'll say one sentence, you repeat it. Got it?"
"Start now!"
Keji swallowed, looking nervous:
(๑ŏﻌŏ) "Start now!"
Jiangnan: (｡･ˇ_ˇ･｡‧̣̥̇)?
Hairpin Wei: !!!
(งᵒ̌口.ᵒ̌)ง "Idiot! You don't need to repeat that!"
Keji: (‧̣̥̇˵¯͒ﻌ¯͒) "Idiot! You... um..."
Jiangnan: (≖_≖)...
"Hey, hey, hey! Are you sure sending him is a good idea? Why not just talk directly?"
Keji sneered: "Hmph~ Do you think I'm stupid? Talk to you face to face? You'd catch me right away and poke me with that broken ring of yours. Where would I go to reason?"
"Don't think I don't know what little scheme you're plotting. We'll talk like this!"
Jiangnan: (ꐦ°᷄д°᷅)
"Hey, hey, hey! Keji, watch your tone. If you make me uncomfortable, I'll kill you, you know?"
Keji shuddered, his face turning pale.
(☍ᴥ⁰。) I'm so done!
Jiangnan said flatly: "What do you want to talk about? I'm quite surprised you sought me out."
Keji's expression turned serious: "Want to cooperate with me?"
Jiangnan raised an eyebrow, looking nonchalant: "Cooperate? Are you kidding me? Trying to play tricks on me again?"
"What, thought of a new plan? Infiltrate the enemy's interior? Gain my trust? Get information from my side? What new trick is this?"
"Do you think I'm stupid? Or that I'm easy to fool? After all the losses you've taken, you still haven't learned?"
Keji was also shocked by what Vivian said.
He was just following Sister Wei's arrangements. He didn't expect it was actually to cooperate with Jiangnan?
Keji: "No matter what you think, this is my goal. There's only one chance. After tonight, I won't be myself anymore."
Jiangnan raised an eyebrow, a smirk curling at his lips.
(乛˘乛〃) "And the reason?"
Keji: "I don't want to die!"
Jiangnan's brow furrowed slightly, then he smiled faintly.
"Interesting!"