175: Goodbye sickle beetle

A few minutes later, the phantom that remained in place vanished like a bubble.

Phantom (Purple): Forms an energy phantom with 80% of the user's strength. The phantom possesses all of the user's skills, lasts for five minutes and thirty seconds, and has an eight-hour cooldown.

Through this period of understanding, the phantom's duration and cooldown time have both changed significantly.

If the cooldown could be reduced to within five minutes, the phantom could exist outside indefinitely.

This path was likely the route the Huanglong Sect once took; not only were there no zombies, but even cars blocking the road had been moved to the side.

Zhang Xiaoli drove forward at a speed of eighty kilometers per hour.

As the car's music started, she unconsciously began to hum along to the song.

"I didn't expect you to sing so well. You should sing for me often from now on."

Listening to the sweet singing voice beside him, Qin Shilei said with a smile.

"Of course, this young lady won first prize in the campus singing competition. You'll be in for a treat from now on."

Zhang Xiaoli said proudly.

She paused, then added, "Qin Ge, you sing a song for me too."

"Cough, cough." Qin Shilei coughed twice, changing the subject and saying, "Maybe I'm a bit inflamed, my throat hurts a little. I'll sing for you next time."

Zhang Xiaoli reached out her right hand and shook Qin Shilei's arm, whining, "Qin Ge... just sing one song for me!"

The sedan suddenly swayed, startling Qin Shilei, who quickly said, "Watch the road! I'll sing for you, but you might not have heard this song before."

"For you, I used half a year's savings, crossing oceans to see you..." Qin Shilei's off-key voice instantly filled the car.

The song finished.

Zhang Xiaoli suppressed her laughter and said, "Qin Ge, the lyrics are great. You sang it very powerfully."

"Really?" Qin Shilei asked, puzzled, "Others always said I sang badly. Were they just trying to grab the microphone?"

"Haha!" Zhang Xiaoli laughed loudly, "Qin Ge, actually your voice is very pleasant, but how did you manage to be off-key on every single word?"

Qin Shilei was speechless: "Is it really that bad? You haven't even heard this song, how do you know I was off-key?"

Zhang Xiaoli tried humming the song Qin Shilei had just sung. Although it was a bit different from the original, it was still pleasant to listen to.

"Isn't this tune much better? Qin Ge, how about I teach you to sing?"

Then, with one teaching and one learning, Qin Shilei gradually mastered some singing techniques and finally stopped singing off-key.

More than an hour later.

As Zhang Xiaoli and Qin Shilei were singing a love song together, she suddenly felt a blur before her eyes, and a figure instantly darted out from the roadside.

With a bang, the car immediately lost control and crashed towards a large tree by the roadside.

Fortunately, Zhang Xiaoli was agile now and quickly controlled the car, bringing it to a stop.

"Be careful!"

Qin Shilei teleported next to the car door and kicked a Scythe Beetle, which was about to smash the window, flying.

Zhang Xiaoli also quickly unbuckled her seatbelt and got out of the car. She looked up and asked, "Qin Ge, why does this mutated beast look so much like the Scythe Beetle you mentioned?"

In front of Qin Shilei were five Scythe Beetles. One had been kicked to death by him, and another, which had just been hit, had now gotten back up.

"These are indeed the Scythe Beetles I mentioned, but how did they appear here?"

He had just visited that valley yesterday. There were no Scythe Beetles coming from the Other World. Where did these beetles come from?

Qin Shilei looked at the surrounding Scythe Beetles with a puzzled expression.

"Qin Ge, do you think there might be an Other World passage nearby?" Zhang Xiaoli guessed.

"Very possible. We'll pay attention later and see if we can find an Other World passage." Qin Shilei nodded in agreement.

As they spoke, the four Scythe Beetles leaped and pounced.

Giant Wood Crash!

Zhang Xiaoli waved her right hand, and a half-meter thick energy Giant Wood instantly blasted two beetles over ten meters away.

Qin Shilei, on the other hand, simply and quickly struck two swords, splitting the remaining two beetles in half.

"These beetles are similar in strength to the ones I encountered in that valley, all around Bronze Rank Four or Five."

As soon as they finished collecting their spoils, several more beetles suddenly rushed from a distance.

After continuously killing twenty to thirty beetles, Qin Shilei pulled Zhang Xiaoli and hid in a five-story building by the roadside.

Standing on the rooftop and looking around, they found at least one to two hundred beetles wandering within a few hundred meters in all directions.

Once those Scythe Beetles discovered any living creatures nearby, they would rush over, raise their sharp scythe-like forelimbs to cut their prey into pieces, and then devour them ravenously.

Zhang Xiaoli said worriedly, "This is only fifty or sixty kilometers from the location of the mutated corn that the Huanglong Sect mentioned. I wonder if they will ruin all the corn?"

"I hope not." Qin Shilei said with a frown, "Let's hurry over."

The two of them changed to another sedan and continued driving forward.

However, more and more Scythe Beetles were disturbed and attacked the car along the way, preventing them from speeding up.

After another car was destroyed by the beetles, Qin Shilei had an idea and took out the Thunder Dragon, which he hadn't used in a long time.

Looking at the silver motorcycle in front of him, Qin Shilei suddenly activated the All Things Entry Refresh System as if by intuition.

[Do you want to refresh the entries?]

[Refresh.]

Energy Saving (Blue): Fuel consumption reduced by ten percent.

Lightning Speed (Green): Motorcycle's maximum speed increased by fifty percent.

Ghost Chariot (Green): A motorcycle with an extremely low sense of presence, capable of absorbing crystals energy to fade its form, like a ghost.

As Qin Shilei chose the Ghost Chariot entry, the Thunder Dragon immediately transformed.

The originally silver body turned completely dark, the front wheel extended half a meter forward, and the lines everywhere became more aesthetically pleasing, somewhat resembling the Soul Chariot from a movie Qin Shilei had once seen.

The Ghost Chariot's front also had a groove, which was where the crystals were installed.

Qin Shilei placed a few crystals into the groove, got on the motorcycle, and started the engine.

The pointer on the dashboard jumped rapidly, but no sound was emitted.

Zhang Xiaoli, witnessing all this, showed no surprise and swung her leg over to sit on the motorcycle.

Qin Shilei twisted the throttle, and the Ghost Chariot shot forward like a ghost.

The motorcycle and the people on it immediately became indistinct. Without careful observation, one wouldn't even notice a motorcycle driving on the road.

Qin Shilei rode the Ghost Chariot silently along the road.

A Scythe Beetle by the roadside felt a blur before its eyes, then looked up ahead.

It acted as if it hadn't seen the motorcycle gradually moving away, looked left and right, then turned around and continued to wander.

Thanks to the Ghost Chariot's stealth, Qin Shilei and Xiaoli basically avoided entanglement with the Scythe Beetles along the way, and soon passed through Qingshui Town to arrive near the mutated cornfield mentioned by the Huanglong Sect.

"Qin Ge, with such a large cornfield, how do we find the mutated corn?" Zhang Xiaoli asked.