Chichu Chun snapped back to reality and also logged out quickly.
Awakening from the imrsion pod, Xu Xiaoyou silently hurried out of the room, opting to use "Scent Disguise" and "Disguise Card" on herself, avoiding crowded areas along the way.
She had sowhat realized why the people of the Oasis Club were all engrossed in the screen at that mont. It turned out to be related to her.
Gloomy Blue Tide?
On the surface, both as a Cleaner at the Light Prism Tier, capable of reflecting the world's brilliance, she had no connection with the other party. Why would the other show such a strong interest in her?
This thought was imdiately dismissed by Xu Xiaoyou. She had no need to consider the logic of this since that lunatic's actions simply defied logic.
In that person's vocabulary, the word 'dread' does not exist. She could randomly choose a great family power to annihilate based on her mood. If that person really knew the real locations of the Queen's Armant mbers, Xu Xiaoyou had no doubt that she would gracefully smile and pay a visit the next second.
Xu Xiaoyou had always walked an invisible tightrope. Everything she possessed was, at most, a tiny chip, yet she used it to leverage the world, acquiring massive assets and benefits while bearing the risk of shattering completely.
Xu Xiaoyou knew better than anyone how miserable her end would be under the crushing backlash of the leverage.
Despite all her calculations, she didn't expect to stumble because of a madwoman. If Gloomy Blue Tide found her in reality, the other would probably see through her facade at a glance. Even if that lunatic wouldn't tear her apart out of feeling deceived, exposing her secrets to the association would be enough to doom her forever.
She must leave the Northern Territory quickly. She wasn't arrogant enough to think she could stand on equal footing with the Light Prism Tier. These beings had already transcended to another level, completely different dinsions from beings below the Prism Tier, like heaven and earth apart.
Even Deep White Midnight, who does not excel in combat ability, possessed top-tier strength and once single-handedly charged into the Light Chasing Tower, intimidating the entire association headquarters.
She swiftly returned to the hotel room, packed her and Chichu Chun's luggage, but before she could think of her next move, there was a knock on the door, causing Xu Xiaoyou's pupils to contract, yet a slightly hoarse voice ca through.
"It's ."
Angelina?
Why would she return at this ti?
Confirming that the presence outside the door was indeed Angelina's, Xu Xiaoyou opened the door, and was suddenly seized by a sense of bewildernt.
The girl's eyes matched her dim silver hair; the black coat soaked in blood, epheral and unstable, with a grim gash almost running from her waist and abdon to the shoulder. With Angelina's shoulder's rise and fall, poisonous blood was pressed out of her chest, flowing through her veins, and the dense black patterns on her neck twisted like worms.
Black blood trickled down the girl's forehead, drop by drop soaking into the gray carpet, appearing darker. In the hallway, passing hotel staff ignored the blood scent emanating from the silver-haired girl, nodding to Xu Xiaoyou in greeting.
Evidently, the other party used so thod to conceal her presence, visible only to Xu Xiaoyou.
"I'm really sorry to let you see in such a disheveled state." Angelina chuckled self-deprecatingly, her voice weak. "I... I really don't know where to go, who to seek..."
"In this world, it seems like I have no other anchor point; I have no acquaintances and have been drifting on a boundless ocean, drifting lonely, wherever the waves take . No one cares about my feelings, gives warmth, let alone willingly helps ."
"Why are you looking at like that... I won this hunt, I killed the Scale Horned Whale King, cough... Just got a bit injured, my heart is still beating, my blood is still flowing hotly, I haven't lost..."
Angelina's breaths were erratic as she kept talking, saying whatever ca to mind, slow but urgent all at once. Her dim eyes had clouds of mist rolling through, swaying as the wind blew gently, almost dispersing the fog.
"I really haven't lost..."
"Enough." Xu Xiaoyou lowered her gaze.
"I haven't lost."
Unable to hold on any longer, she wobbled and collapsed onto Xu Xiaoyou, and they fell into the room, Xu Xiaoyou's back gently hitting the door while noticing her flowered bow tie stained with black blood, frowning. Angelina, pressed against her, her body temperature frighteningly low, Xu Xiaoyou could distinctly feel the other's life slowly fading away.
The warm whispers, like gentle tingling feathered branches, were the only warmth from the other.
Angelina's consciousness was shackled in endless heaviness as if her wind-sweetened perfu scent mixed with honey floated around, securing her, leaning against the front warmth, she hadn't let herself be completely consud by the icy quagmire.
Closing her eyes slowly, then straining to crack them open a small slit, she rested her head on Xu Xiaoyou's shoulder, forcing a smile, "You still find useful, right? Help ..."
"But I'm leaving the Northern Territory." Xu Xiaoyou turned her head, the sea in her eyes was calm and unruffled.
Angelina lowered her head, her eyelids drooping.
Her gaze rising and falling, the floating golden strand of hair was all she could see. If even that strand drifted away, she'd truly have nothing left.
"Really, am I a bother to you?"
"If I'm a bother, just abandon ."
...
Just as Chichu Chun returned to the room, he saw Xu Xiaoyou sitting at the bedside, where a silver-haired girl with severe injuries had appeared unbeknownst to him, her closed lashes shaking occasionally as if constantly enduring so pain.
Moonlight cast a gentle outline over the golden-haired girl, illuminating worry on her face.
"You, she is..." Chichu Chun opened his mouth.
"Can't explain right now." Xu Xiaoyou raised her hand, the life-giving green light returning into her palm.
"Plans can't keep up with changes, we can't leave the Northern Territory at the mont."
Xu Xiaoyou rubbed her temples, discarding all thoughts of weighing options.
There was no way she could let Angelina go unassisted. The other's wounds were serious; the Scale Horned Whale King's poison had infiltrated her body, preventing her wounds from healing.
Perhaps her strong physique could self-heal, but once in a coma, if her presence was exposed to those around her, or Gloomy Blue Tide discovered her, the consequences would be unimaginable.
As for Gloomy Blue Tide, after cooling down and thinking it over, Xu Xiaoyou devised another plan, making a daring decision, betting that the Dawn Office could erase all trace of her existence in the Northern Territory overnight and fabricate all the evidence, making everyone believe she had already left the Northern Territory.
[Tao Twe: Your idea is indeed bold, but let's be clear, it's very risky; who knows how sharp that madwoman's senses are. Our Northern Territory branch's Cleaners have begun the cleanup; they're adept at this, trying to mitigate your risk as much as possible.]
[Tao Twe: Did sothing happen? If it's just one person going to the world's other-side Nest City, it's not considered difficult to rid yourself of the madwoman.]
[Tao Twe: Her target is only you, no need to overly worry about the Young Master's safety.]
Xu Xiaoyou gazed into the deep still night sky,
Tonight was destined to be restless.
The 'crash crash' of waves echoed below the leaden sky, long buckskin boots stepping on the ice, stirring up snow dust, the ice making slight cracking sounds, the brutal seawater spurting up through the ice cracks, a pair of magnificent amber eyes reflecting this icy world.
The biting wind blew towards the world's edge, massive ice layers slid from the cliffs, repeatedly falling, at one point plunging into the sea, raising roiling waves, the pitch-black sea extending beyond sight, even the farthest horizon could not glimpse civilization's lights.
On the ice's opposite shore, a small penguin stood quietly, thickly coated, cute with its beak grown on top of its head, eyeless, with oval fins placed on either side of its round belly.
With a blank stare, its entire vision suddenly split through the beak, neat sprouts like squirming vines connecting the split chest, with sharp edges all around.
The little creature was kicked into the icy sea by Chichu Chun, who lifted a cara with an expressionless face, which clicked continuously at her, nodding with a thumbs-up.
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