87: Chapter 87 The Black Prison - Reversal

"Oh no!"

Xing Yaoyan inwardly cursed herself for being careless.

She had assumed that Qian Mo would kill these four with lightning speed, leaving them absolutely no chance to trigger the explosives above.

She hadn't expected such an unforeseen variable to suddenly arise.

Suddenly, feeling something, she glanced toward the passageway entrance to the upper side and saw the figure of the man with glasses flash by.

"Damn it! So this weakling was the one causing trouble. If I had known, I should have just killed him…"

But there is no medicine for regret in this world, and besides, the current emergency left her no time to regret.

"BOOM!!!"

A deafening explosion rang out from above, and large chunks of rock rained down rapidly.

Xing Yaoyan dodged a few falling rocks to the left and right, then shouted at the boy who was right next to the exit:

"It's going to collapse here, you need to leave quickly!"

As she spoke, the golden light on Xing Yaoyan's body grew increasingly dazzling.

Due to her shoulder injury and the distance from the exit, she no longer had time to run out.

Therefore, she was already prepared to use her spiritual crystals. Relying on the high-density protective shield generated by a large amount of Power Of Will, she should be able to steadily withstand this strongest wave of the attack.

And as long as she took the opportunity to heal her arm injury within the protective shield, she could dig her way out just like she had escaped from the quicksand before. At worst, she could consume a few more spiritual crystals and use her Golden Domain to prop up the rocks directly.

But Qian Mo couldn't; he didn't have as many trump cards as she did, and his Superpower didn't have this kind of life-saving functionality…

Xing Yaoyan didn't know why she had said that. She clearly knew before that when lives were threatened, normal people would prioritize their own safety.

And Qian Mo had done exactly that before; under the mayor's pressure, he had sold her out directly.

This time should be no exception.

However, she inexplicably had a strong premonition in her heart—he wouldn't leave, he would withstand it with her…

A massive boulder crashed between her and him, the dust it stirred up momentarily obscuring her vision.

And when her vision cleared, the boy's figure was gone from the cave entrance.

"I knew it…"

Xing Yaoyan gave a bitter smile in her heart.

She shouldn't have held onto such unrealistic thoughts…

She shook her head gently and was about to consume the spiritual crystals in her storage space to activate the golden protective shield…

"Look out!"

A familiar voice rang out by her ear.

Xing Yaoyan looked in the direction the voice came from and saw that the boy had arrived at her side at some point. As the two daggers in his hands danced rapidly, he instantly shredded the stone stalactite that was coming straight for her chest.

But that wasn't all; she saw him adjust his position in mid-air and land steadily in front of her.

"Black Prison · Inverse!"

Qian Mo took a black box out of the System space and slapped it directly onto the ground.

Xing Yaoyan immediately felt that she and Qian Mo were connected by a thread of black spiritual energy.

After a wave of spatial fluctuation, she found that everything before her eyes suddenly became pitch black, and dull clattering sounds of impact came from all around.

She subconsciously expanded the golden light surrounding her body outward, only then seeing clearly where she was now—the Black Prison!

For this thing she would never forget, she recognized it with just a single glance.

"Eh? Your Innate Talent is actually quite useful…"

She saw the boy standing to one side, tinkering with something that looked like a flashlight.

"Click!"

A blinding beam of light instantly illuminated the entire Black Prison completely.

"Your face…"

Xing Yaoyan pointed at the mask on her own face with her finger.

"It's fine. My previous face was a disguise from a Spiritual Artifact; I might have accidentally knocked it off just now."

The boy's originally ordinary face had changed back to his original, refined and handsome appearance.

What Qian Mo didn't say was that just now, when he was fully activating "Black Prison · Inverse," his body had absolutely no spiritual energy protection. A sharp piece of debris happened to pierce his head at a tricky angle, triggering the passive effect of the "mysterious mask" that blocked a fatal blow, and the disguise brought by the mask disappeared as a result.

Although this Heaven-Defying mask given by the System had "passed away" after being used just this once, Qian Mo did not regret it. After all, this White Wolf Girl had previously blocked that fatal blow from the Spirit Beast for him, so this exchange could be considered as repaying the life debt he owed her.

"I quite liked Spiritual Artifacts back in college. This 'Black Prison · Inverse' is an improvement I made based on the original Black Prison's effect, changing its absorption property into a property that forms around the user. This is also thanks to the uniqueness of my spiritual energy…"

Qian Mo rambled on about a whole bunch of things.

Although Xing Yaoyan didn't understand a single word, she was deeply impressed.

"Eh! Almost forgot, is your shoulder injury okay? Do you want me to help you…"

"Stop! Stay away from me!"

The boy obediently took a step back, holding the disinfectant cotton swab and alcohol in his hands.

The space in this Black Prison was already small, with at most two body lengths between the two of them, and Xing Yaoyan could clearly hear the boy's slight panting.

"I can recover on my own, you don't need to worry about me…"

"Also, don't you have some kind of teleportation spiritual talisman? Leave quickly, I'll be able to find a chance to get out myself later."

Xing Yaoyan turned her head slightly to one side, her palm resting on the wound emitting a soft glow.

This injury was quite serious, so it would take some time…

"Um… how about I stay with you until your injury is healed? Once this Black Prison loses my spiritual energy control, it will automatically disappear very soon…"

"Why?"

The White Wolf Girl suddenly asked.

"Why what?"

"Why didn't you just flee earlier? You clearly knew there was a life-threatening danger in coming to help me, why did you still come? Shouldn't you have…"

Xing Yaoyan quickly shut her mouth.

She almost gave herself away…

Fortunately, Qian Mo hadn't heard the second half of the sentence she didn't finish.

"Because you saved me. I have always treated my lifesavers like my own family. As long as I am still alive, I will definitely strive to ensure your safety!"

"Family, huh…"

The beautiful eyes behind the White Wolf Girl's mask flickered with a complex light.

She didn't speak again, sitting cross-legged right there, calming her mind to recover from her injuries.

It was a pity that the former her might have been moved by the boy's words, and might even have felt the impulse to take off her mask or even return to her true form to acknowledge him again.

But now, having experienced so many things, she had matured quite a bit. As a Star Beast, she was an outsider to this world, a wanderer struggling to find the road home. She had her own path to walk; this was not something a native like him could intervene in.

Moreover, some things, once they happened, would leave cracks in one's heart that could never be healed…

And just at this moment, a soft, glutinous voice suddenly rang out in her spiritual sea…