40: Chapter 40 Death Desert 23

The raven-colored braids that once fell to her shoulders had turned into three thousand strands of silver hair, and in an instant, she seemed to have aged ten years.

She stumbled toward the crowd, her bone-like bare feet crushing the water mirrors on the ground, each step sparking with the smell of sulfur.

Walking toward the players step by step, the sound of her footsteps—da, da, da—was like a demon emerging from the underworld.

The yellow-haired young man cursed several times and hid behind Camo Uncle, his hair standing on end.

Camo Uncle also broke out in a cold sweat, the hairs on the back of his neck standing up straight; he didn't dare say a word, terrified that if he made a sound, he would attract Lady Ba's attention.

"Who is it?" Her cracked lips moved, and her hoarse voice suddenly rose, sharp as a fingernail scratching across glass. "Who cleaned the moss off the stone platform at the bottom of the lake?"

There was only one person who had stayed underwater for a long time.

The crowd's gaze immediately and subconsciously turned toward Luo Yuejian.

Luo Yuejian was also startled; how had Lady Ba become like someone possessed by a ghost after going into the water?

Looking at Lady Ba, who was now being scrutinized by everyone, it would be impossible to say that Luo Yuejian wasn't afraid. Her entire body had stiffened, and she felt that Lady Ba could take her life in the next second.

But she suddenly realized, wait, wasn't her goal to court death?

If Lady Ba really killed her, that would be a huge favor!

Realizing this, the fear in Luo Yuejian's heart was immediately replaced by joy.

She suppressed the creepy feeling of facing Lady Ba and stepped out without hesitation.

The two white-haired figures stood facing each other at a distance of less than two meters. As a character from ancient mythology, Lady Ba's aura went without saying.

Especially now, in her state of rage, she looked like an Asura demon, which was terrifying.

However, in this situation, Luo Yuejian's aura did not lose to Lady Ba's in the slightest.

Her cold, indifferent gaze, combined with her fearless posture in the face of Lady Ba, made Luo Yuejian look completely unbridled, as if the person standing opposite her was just a small, bluffing animal.

She said indifferently: "So what if it was me?"

Hearing this, both Camo Uncle and the yellow-haired young man gasped, thinking to themselves, isn't the White-haired Girl courting death?

That Lady Ba is a mythological figure!

Did the White-haired Girl think she could defeat Lady Ba with that game item?

Camo Uncle had already sentenced the White-haired Girl to death and was starting to think about how to clear the level by relying on Wolf-tail Guy, when the yellow-haired young man next to him suddenly blurted out: "Um..."

Everyone looked over.

The yellow-haired young man leaned further behind Camo Uncle, "Is... is it possible that because Wolf-tail Guy is a man, the Goddess statue refused to let him touch its chest?"

Camo Uncle was speechless; who would believe such a reason?

Could a stone statue have gender awareness?

He was just about to rebuke the yellow-haired young man when he heard Lady Ba's voice—

"That makes sense."

Camo Uncle: ?

Lady Ba looked at Luo Yuejian, a dangerous arc curling at the corner of her mouth. "Then you go up and retrieve the eye of the desert for me."

Luo Yuejian subconsciously glanced at Wolf-tail Guy, thinking, shouldn't this be a job for him?

Why make things difficult for a little noob like her?

Wolf-tail Guy's cold gaze looked over, and Luo Yuejian subconsciously looked away; she really didn't like making eye contact with people.

Seeing that Luo Yuejian was slow to speak and just looked at her calmly, Lady Ba narrowed her eyes, her expression becoming even more sinister. "Why, are you unwilling?"

"No, I am willing."

Luo Yuejian had originally wanted to say that she couldn't climb that high at all, but then she thought, if she really ran out of strength halfway or accidentally fell, given the height of this stone statue, she would either die or be half-crippled. In such a dangerous game, she wouldn't be able to survive.

Even the system wouldn't be able to say anything then; after all, she was forced to do it~

Thinking of this, Luo Yuejian walked a few steps toward Lady Ba, took the cyan gloves from Lady Ba's hand, and rolled up her sleeves, ready to climb the stone statue. Just then, a sound of breaking air suddenly came from behind her, and that black stick she had seen in Wolf-tail Guy's hand before came flying swiftly with a whistling sound.

Luo Yuejian's heart stopped for a second due to this sudden turn of events. Before she could react, she saw the black stick brush past her hair and head straight for Lady Ba. Obviously, Wolf-tail Guy's target was not her, but Lady Ba.

Lady Ba's gaze had been coldly and fixedly staring at Luo Yuejian, but due to the sudden change, her attention immediately shifted to the stick flying toward her, and her expression instantly became even more terrifying. Her reaction speed was also extremely fast; almost at the same time the black stick brushed past Luo Yuejian, Lady Ba's hands had already formed a strange posture above her head.

When the black stick was almost about to reach Lady Ba's face, it seemed to be blocked by something, stopping its movement instantly and hovering in the air, making people exclaim that it was unscientific.

Before the sneer on Lady Ba's face could form, the next second, a pair of hands wearing cyan gloves went straight through her chest without any pause.

"Argh... ah!!!!" A scream so shrill it felt like it could pierce one's eardrums rang out. Lady Ba stumbled back several steps, clutching her chest with her hands. Without control, the black stick fell from the air to the ground, making a sound like metal striking metal.

Luo Yuejian knelt on one knee on the ground, not yet understanding what had happened.

Damn, why is Wolf-tail Guy going crazy?

Why did he suddenly attack Lady Ba?

It scared her so much she couldn't even stand steadily and almost fell!

Fortunately, thanks to the Agility Instinct rewarded by the system, otherwise, she would have fallen flat on her face in front of all the viewers in the livestream room.

Thinking of that scene, Luo Yuejian suddenly felt a sense of social death.

She was feeling awkward on her own, but the viewers in the livestream room didn't see it that way.

[Holy crap, that was so cool! This move by Moon God and Wolf-tail Guy made me boil with excitement!]

[Too awesome! Lady Ba probably still can't figure out how she was exposed, hahaha.]

[I understood their coordination this time. Before Moon God agreed to Lady Ba, she looked at Wolf-tail Guy. It was definitely a shady deal they reached at that moment!]

[With this level of tacit understanding, who would believe they just met for the first time?]

[How did Moon God know that the eye of the desert wasn't actually in the stone statue but in Lady Ba's body?]

[It's easy to judge that the eye of the desert isn't in the stone statue, right? There's a saying: the more your enemy wants you to do something, the more you shouldn't do it. The reason is simple: because your enemy wants you to do it.]

[Is your "do" in that sentence innocent?]

[?]

[There's a post in the Tieba explaining it, those interested can go take a look. It seems to be a clue Moon God found in the water earlier.]

[My head is so itchy, it feels like I'm about to grow a brain...]