42: Chapter 42 A Family Reunion
The female Shadow Leopard's pupils contracted violently.
It was injured.
It raised its head and looked at that human.
Lin Mo stood in place, zhan chao held horizontally at his side. Fine arcs of electricity still crackled on the blade, and the moonlight cast a long shadow behind him.
"Die!"
As soon as the words fell, his figure vanished once again!
The female Shadow Leopard let out a roar; for the sake of its husband, it chose to charge head-on!
It swung its claws, and lightning exploded across the sky!
Lin Mo's blade light wove through the lightning!
"Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang—!"
The thunderous sound of metal clashing erupted repeatedly! With every collision, fresh blood splattered!
"Roar—!!!"
The female Shadow Leopard let out a desperate roar, using all its strength to spew out one final pillar of lightning!
Lin Mo dodged sideways, and the blade swept upward in one fluid motion.
"Puff!"
Dark red blood sprayed!
One of the female Shadow Leopard's front legs was severed at the elbow!
It staggered backward, barely managing to support its body on its three remaining legs. In its pupils, fear finally emerged.
It wanted to escape.
It finally wanted to escape.
But it was already too late.
Lin Mo stood before it, zhan chao raised.
Under the moonlight, the blade gleamed with a cold light.
Just at this moment—
A silvery-white figure pounced from behind Lin Mo!
It was that injured male Shadow Leopard!
It hadn't escaped!
It had slipped into the shadows, lurking behind Lin Mo, and launched its final strike at the very moment he was about to slay the female Shadow Leopard!
Five silvery-white claw marks tore through the air, heading straight for Lin Mo's back!
A pincer attack from front and back!
Seeing this, the fear in the female Shadow Leopard's eyes turned into madness! Ignoring the pain of its severed limb, it opened its mouth to bite at Lin Mo's throat!
The two kings, using their final reserves of strength, launched a fatal strike simultaneously!
Lin Mo did not turn around.
He simply swung his blade elegantly.
zhan chao swept up, and the blade light carved an eerie arc in the air, like a sliver of a pale moon.
Then, the world plunged into darkness.
"Puff—"
Two heads rolled to the ground, blood gushing out and drenching Lin Mo!
Two bodies, one large and one small, fell limply, crashing into the ground and kicking up a cloud of dust.
The dark red blood stained the soil beneath them.
[Ding~ Killed a Tier 3 Early-stage fierce beast, Shadow Leopard. slaughter value +600 (Cross-tier kill, slaughter value increased by an additional 100%)]
[Ding~ Killed a Tier 3 Early-stage fierce beast, Shadow Leopard. slaughter value +640 (Cross-tier kill, slaughter value increased by an additional 100%)]
[Ding, Aurora Flowing Cloud Slash proficiency +28, Lingyan Steps proficiency +36.]
[Ding~ Congratulations to the host for completing the achievement—Family Reunion, achievement points +1]
"Wooooo~~~~"
Behind him, those ordinary Shadow Leopards that had scattered, upon seeing the scene of their two leaders' deaths, let out rapid whimpering sounds and all chose to turn and flee for their lives.
They dared not look back.
They dared not look at that figure standing in the setting sun, bathed in blood.
That was not a human.
That was a nightmare their tribe would never be able to forget.
Lin Mo stabbed zhan chao into the ground and looked down at the two headless corpses, his chest heaving violently.
This battle had lasted less than three minutes, but it had left him nearly drained of all stamina.
He was covered in blood from head to toe, and the blood on the ground had soaked the entire patch of soil until it was soft.
Shen Yi was the first to snap out of it.
Her legs went weak, and she sat directly on the ground, staring blankly at Lin Mo, at the remains scattered all over the ground, and at the two mountain-like Shadow Leopard leaders.
"He... he won?" Shen Yi pointed at Lin Mo, her voice trembling.
Ye Zhixia stood there, her entire being as if struck by lightning, unmoving.
She was the pride of Jiangcheng University, with the blue trait [Winters Touch], ranked in the top three of the entire school.
She had thought she was very strong, believing that even if this training were dangerous, she could retreat safely based on her own strength.
When that group of Shadow Leopards surrounded them earlier, she had exhausted all her strength to activate her trait, and ice crystal tentacles had surged wildly—only to be swatted apart by a single claw from that Tier 2 leopard.
That leopard hadn't even looked at her seriously.
It was just a casual swat.
Her pride, her talent, all her self-confidence—they had all shattered into dust in that one swat.
And now, the person she had considered a "useless person with a white trait," the one assigned to the Bait Post, destined to go to his death, had not only killed a group of Shadow Leopards but had also slain the two Tier 3 leaders.
Furthermore, those two Tier 3 Shadow Leopard leaders seemed not to have put up any decent resistance in front of Lin Mo before being easily killed by him.
Ye Zhixia opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but she found that her voice was stuck in her throat and wouldn't come out no matter what.
The next second, her eyes suddenly turned red, whether from fear or something else, she didn't know.
"Lin Mo—!"
Lin Sisi was the last to react.
Or rather, she hadn't reacted at all.
Her mind was a blank slate, and her body moved before her consciousness. She rushed forward, rushing past the corpses covering the ground, rushing past the pools of blood still flowing, taking unsteady, stumbling steps, nearly tripping several times.
She rushed to Lin Mo.
Then she stopped.
Lin Mo stood there, covered in blood, his face pale, his eyes half-open and half-closed, blood droplets hanging from his eyelashes.
But he was still standing.
The hilt of the blade was still gripped in his hand.
Lin Sisi looked at him, and tears suddenly gushed out.
"You... are you injured? Where are you hurt? Don't scare me!"
"I'm not injured, just a bit drained. This is all the Shadow Leopards' blood!"
Lin Mo said casually.
"You idiot!"
"Who told you to come... Who told you to risk your life like this... Do you not want to live anymore..."
Lin Sisi suddenly hugged Lin Mo.
"Stop crying, I'm fine."
Lin Mo patted Lin Sisi in his arms and said softly.
After a long while...
Lin Sisi still showed no intention of letting go, and her tears kept flowing.
Lin Mo saw her crying like that and suddenly twitched the corner of his mouth.
"What are you crying for? Didn't you tell me to leave?"
Lin Sisi was stunned for a moment.
She buried her face in his shoulder, smearing tears and snot all over him, her voice muffled and intermittent as she said:
"Do you know, I thought I was going to die... I thought I would never see you again..."
"Fang Ming is dead... Su Qingting is dead too... Zhou Yuan is dead too..."
"They are all dead..."
"I thought I would be next..."
"And then you came..."
She raised her head, her face covered in tears, her eyes as red as a rabbit's, staring at Lin Mo's face:
"Why did you only come now..."
Lin Mo looked at her.
Her face was a mess of tears, looking incredibly disheveled.
"I'm sorry, I came late."
Lin Sisi cried again.
Behind them, Ye Zhixia walked over slowly.
She walked very slowly, bypassing the corpses, bypassing the pools of blood, and finally stopped three steps in front of Lin Mo.
She looked at Lin Mo, looked at Lin Sisi, who was crying her eyes out in his arms, and said:
"Lin Mo, I... the things I said back at school..."
She couldn't go on.
She wanted to apologize, to say that she shouldn't have said those things to him back then, shouldn't have called him a "useless person with a white trait," and shouldn't have said that going to the Bait Post was going to his death.
But those words were stuck in her throat and wouldn't come out.
Lin Mo glanced at her.
"It's fine, I've forgotten all about it!"
Ye Zhixia was stunned.
She had thought Lin Mo would mock her, humiliate her, and say: Now do you know who the real useless one is?
She had even prepared herself to be humiliated.
But he had said so nonchalantly that he had forgotten?
Ye Zhixia's eyes suddenly turned red.
Lin Mo felt a headache coming on.
What is going on here?
Why is everyone crying at the drop of a hat?
"Cough, cough, cough... I'm a bit drained, let me rest for a while first..."
Lin Mo quickly changed the subject.
Seeing this, the three women hurried to let Lin Mo sit down and rest for a while.
After catching his breath, Lin Mo finally looked at his attribute panel.
At this look, he was directly startled.
"No way, this much slaughter value?"
"This time I really hit the jackpot!"