160: Chapter 160 is here again!

Li Murou was already prepared, her fingers gently plucking and strumming the strings.

"Sorrowful Elegy"!

Zheng—!

The sound waves rippled out like water, instantly covering the swarm of butterflies in the air.

The Thunder Wing Illusion Butterflies, which had been agile and difficult to lock onto, instantly felt as if they had been filled with lead upon contact with the sound waves; their wings became incredibly heavy, and their flight trajectories immediately turned stiff and sluggish.

"Xiao Xiao, harvest them."

"Die!"

Su Xiaoxiao remained expressionless, the magic staff in her hand already fully charged.

"Sword Prison"!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Dozens of ice swords wreathed in deep purple lightning shot into the sky; like precision-guided missiles, they pierced the weak points of the controlled butterflies the moment they were immobilized.

"Squeak—!"

Accompanied by a few short, shrill cries, those Third-Tier Fierce Beasts charged in wave after wave, only to be wiped out in wave after wave.

They fell to the ground, emitting black smoke, dead before they even hit the earth.

[Killed Third-Tier Fierce Beast · Thunder Wing Illusion Butterfly x 30, gained 45,000 experience points.]

[Ding! Congratulations on reaching Lv.33!]

Chen Xi felt the power surging within him once again and nodded in satisfaction.

In just half a day, they had cleared three waves of the butterfly swarm, and their levels were skyrocketing like a rocket.

But the moment the battle ended, the relaxed look on Chen Xi's face vanished.

A sense of tension instantly occupied his mind.

"Quick!"

Chen Xi jumped off the boulder, grabbed Ye Fei, who was still wanting to celebrate, and urged her with rapid speech:

"Hurry up and get to work!"

"Ye Fei, come with me to dig out the Thunder Wing Illusion Butterfly hearts! Be quick!"

"Mu Rou! Xiao Xiao!"

Chen Xi pointed to the entrances on both sides of the canyon, his expression serious:

"Go guard both sides!"

"I have a hunch... that Men in Black thief might come back!"

Li Murou was stunned for a moment:

"Really? Is it really that coincidental that every time we finish killing monsters, he can immediately follow us here?"

"He isn't alone. Based on what Ye Fei and I saw last time, there are over a dozen of them. This is a gang, so we can't be careless."

Chen Xi said through gritted teeth:

"Remember! As long as you see any suspicious smoke or shadows, don't hesitate—just blast them with your ultimate move!"

Watching their captain's appearance, which was like he was facing a formidable enemy and even seemed a bit neurotic.

Although the three women felt it was a bit exaggerated, they didn't dare to be slow and immediately dispersed to keep watch according to the deployment.

Chen Xi took Ye Fei, and like two misers, they raced against time, digging for materials among the pile of corpses.

Every time he made a cut, Chen Xi would warily look back, afraid that the dark shadow would suddenly pop out again and say, "Thanks, boss."

Just as Chen Xi and the others were nervously cleaning the battlefield.

Several hundred meters away, on a towering dead tree, two figures were hidden among the dense leaves.

It was Shen Ye and Xia Qing, who had been arduously tracking them.

The two were currently lying on the tree trunk, witnessing the entire process of the smooth and fluid battle just now through the gaps in the leaves.

"Gulp."

Xia Qing swallowed a mouthful of saliva, took off his glasses to wipe them, and then put them back on, seemingly unable to believe his own eyes:

"Damn... Brother Ye, am I seeing things?"

"Are these... are these really Third-Tier Fierce Beasts?"

Xia Qing pointed at the corpses of the Thunder Wing Illusion Butterflies on the ground below that hadn't even cooled yet, his voice trembling:

"Those are the Illusion Butterflies known for their speed and illusions! Even our full 'Night Curtain' team back in the day would have to be on high alert if we encountered a butterfly swarm of this scale, and we might even get injured."

"And yet... they killed them as easily as chopping vegetables?"

"Crowd control, calling out targets, one-shot kills... after this combo, that group of fierce beasts didn't even have a chance to fight back!"

Shen Ye didn't speak, but the shock shining in his single eye was no less than Xia Qing's.

His gaze was locked tightly onto the tall figure holding a magic staff, wreathed in lightning—Su Xiaoxiao.

As a former teammate, Shen Ye knew Su Xiaoxiao's strength too well.

Although the Su Xiaoxiao of the past was also an S-rank genius and had strong explosive power, she was definitely not as exaggerated as she was now.

The power and precision of that sword strike just now made even him, her former captain, feel a sense of trepidation.

"Xiao Xiao... has become stronger."

Shen Ye muttered to himself, his voice hoarse:

"No, it's not just becoming stronger. Her class characteristics seem to have undergone a qualitative change. The purity and destructive power of her skills are completely different from before when she was in the Night Curtain team."

"And that Ye Fei..."

Shen Ye took a deep breath, turned his head to look at Xia Qing, his tone extremely certain:

"Xia Qing, it seems that person really didn't lie to me."

"This Chen Xi... really possesses the miraculous ability to help people undergo a transformation, or even advance their class!"

Xia Qing, upon hearing this, was also full of excitement: "Since he's so awesome, and it looks like they are genuinely killing the fierce beasts—they're so ruthless—they probably don't have any connection to the fierce beasts, right?"

"Brother Ye, let's not hesitate!"

Xia Qing proposed:

"Let's go down and say hello to them right now? Laying our cards on the table is better than feeding mosquitoes here."

Shen Ye pondered for a moment.

Indeed, through the observation just now, although Chen Xi's team acted cautiously, the resolute killing intent they displayed when facing the fierce beasts could not be faked.

They were true human warriors.

They stood firmly on the side of humanity.

"Alright."

Shen Ye nodded, preparing to jump down from the tree:

However.

Just at the moment the two had straightened up and were preparing to reveal themselves.

"Sizzle..."

An extremely subtle space fluctuation, yet one that made the hairs on Shen Ye's body stand on end, suddenly rippled through the canyon below.

Immediately following this, a thick white smoke emerged without warning on the open ground near Chen Xi and the others.

Shen Ye's movements abruptly halted, his pupils contracting sharply.

"This is..."

He watched as that familiar purple light lit up within the smoke, and a hideous space-time rift slowly tore open.

"Another beast tide?!"

Shen Ye instinctively clenched his fists, thinking it was a new monster invasion.

Xia Qing also immediately raised his magic staff in vigilance:

"Oh no! Chen Xi and the others are about to be ambushed!"

However, the next second, what walked out of that rift was not some bizarre, misshapen fierce beast.

Instead, it was a human figure wearing a tight black combat suit and a metal mask.

Only one.

He walked out of the rift, his footsteps light.

"Men in Black?!"

Shen Ye and Xia Qing looked at each other, both seeing the astonishment in the other's eyes.

A human who can control a space-time rift?

Below in the canyon.

The moment that white smoke rose, Chen Xi was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on; his entire being instantly bristled.

That familiar sulfur smell, that nauseating space fluctuation.

There was no mistake!

"It's here!!"