Chapter 95: A Teammate as Useless as a Pig

Since it is the main road, then unless we are forced to flee along the smaller paths, we must never leave this way. I finally understand why those monstrous things have been trailing us so relentlessly. Perhaps their only purpose is to drive us back onto the side paths.

Now that they had found a route, everyone was overjoyed. Just before they set off, however, Miss Nine suddenly spoke up.

“How many oxygen masks are left?”

Su Yi had already noticed it too. This main route seemed to slope downward, and the air was growing thinner by the moment.

No one knew what might be waiting further below. Perhaps they would not even need those dreadful creatures to kill them; they might simply asphyxiate first.

There were only three oxygen masks.

“Whoever can no longer hold out will use one. Brother Ma, you decide how to distribute them. Move!”

After speaking, Miss Nine walked over to Su Yi and quietly added, “Actually, there are four. I hid one. If you need it, just tell me.”

At that moment, Su Yi found the girl rather adorable.

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The farther they went, the steeper the road became, until the incline reached a terrifying thirty degrees.

It was enough to make anyone’s heart stop, and moving forward became far more difficult.

Then, farther on...

“Damn it, was this place a theme park or something back in the day?”

“A three-hundred-and-sixty-degree spiral slide? What the hell!”

The plumpest of them all, Han Pangzi, was suffering the most. One careless step and his heavy body could roll straight down.

“Hell, Han Pangzi, stop yanking on me all the time. If you fall, you’ll drag me down with you too...”

Tall and thin, with a sharp, monkey-like face, Zhang Lin was one of the main fighters. Earlier, when they had been surrounded, it was he and the Wind-Slayer who had joined forces to cut a path through. Now, he could only glare helplessly at Han Pangzi.

“Damn it! We’re brothers in this life, and in the next I’ll definitely be your wife. Can’t you put in a little effort? Would it kill you?”

Han Pangzi was also muttering curses under his breath, but as soon as he stepped forward, crack!

The sudden sound of cracking made everyone’s expressions change slightly, and they all looked instinctively at the ground beneath Han Pangzi’s feet.

It was covered in spiderweb fractures.

Su Yi and the others did not dare move.

A bead of cold sweat also broke out on Zhang Lin’s forehead.

Now they could only carefully shift their weight one by one, inching away from that spot.

But at that moment, Han Pangzi did something.

He lifted one leg and stood on the other, like a lone golden rooster.

According to martial arts logic, this should help maintain his balance, allowing him to enter a mysterious state in which he became as light as a feather.

However, crack, crack, crack!

The fractures spread at once, racing across the entire floor of the tunnel.

Crack!

The whole thing caved in.

Miss Nine rolled her eyes, Su Yi pressed a hand to her forehead, and Brother Ma and the others reached for their blades.

Damn it, what a pig of a teammate.

If some god would grant me ten seconds, I would personally execute this fatty by slow slicing.

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In the blink of an eye, the group plunged through the collapsing floor, only to discover that the thing was barely a three-centimeter-thick stone slab. Beneath it...

“Aaaahhh!”

Their cries rang out across the sky.

Yes, across the sky.

As Su Yi and the others fell, they saw that below them stretched a luxuriant rainforest, a green oasis.

The entire place was a vast basin.

Cliffs rose up to the heavens; waterfalls crashed down and became rivers that flowed into lakes; towering trees stood a hundred meters high; the green branches hung heavy with fruit, and flowers bloomed in brilliant profusion.

White birds soared in layers through the blue expanse above.

Farther away, Su Yi saw a giant lake connected to a stretch of yellow sand. Beyond the lake stood an enormous palace, and behind it rose a towering sand cliff that seemed to pierce the heavens.

Only a fantasy world rendered with computer effects could possibly describe such a place.

This dreamlike world.

“My lord!”

“The Three Pure Ones!”

“Mary!”

Those falling from a height of thousands of feet shouted such exclamations in midair, while Miss Nine, though equally astonished, immediately shrieked, “Damn your immortal ancestors, I’m about to fall!”

Aside from a woman’s monthly flow, there is nothing on earth more unstoppable than gravity, girl.

A thousand meters, a hundred meters, ten meters...

One after another, they dropped into the dense rainforest.

Su Yi grabbed a vine threading between the trees, but the force of her fall was so great that it snapped the vine cleanly in two. She still descended, yet the vine’s pull lessened her impact enough to keep her from striking the ground. As the broken vine whipped away, she was flung straight toward a massive tree...

With a collision like that, even if she managed to kick against the trunk, it would probably still leave her with a broken leg.

“Ah-wah-wah-wuuuuu!”

Suddenly, a Tarzan-like cry rang out. Su Yi turned her head and saw Miss Nine, who had also seized a vine and was now hurtling through the air with the ferocity of a female ape.

“Beauty Su Yi, your sister has come to save you!”

Then she lunged across.

What a beautiful sight this should have been. Su Yi ought to have felt deeply comforted, but there was something a little wrong here...

Miss Nine, why are you letting go of the vine?!

Bang!

Miss Nine, flying through the air, crashed into Su Yi and sent her entire body flying. Clutching Su Yi, the two of them left the vine entirely and landed on the broad leaf of a giant tree, then...

Thump, thump, thump—they bounced repeatedly as they fell.

All right, so there was more than one pig of a teammate.

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When at last the two of them lay on the ground like corpses, one on each side, no one knew how much time had passed before a conversation began.

“Miss Nine, did you take any medicine last night?”

The plain-speaking mode was activated: “I was trying to save you just now...”

“Have I done anything to wrong you?”

The melodramatic mode was activated: “...I really did want to save you. I just forgot to grab the rope for a moment.”

“Forgot?”

The half-in-love mode was activated: “Mostly, when I saw you, I suddenly really wanted to throw myself at you. I wasn’t like this before. After meeting you...”

“It’s my fault.”

Su Yi had no choice but to sum up her own mistake. Why had she been so impulsive as to think that, by cutting through the mess quickly, she should agree to come to this damned place with this woman?

The result was early death and early release.

She truly had walked into danger.

Su Yi rarely muttered about anyone, but today she had devoted the whole lot to Miss Nine. Yet when she glanced aside at Miss Nine’s leg, red and black with blood...

She sighed.

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Miss Nine could not have described how she felt when the equally miserable Su Yi slowly walked over, helped her up, and carried her to the base of a tree. She wanted to cry.

“Even if my clothes are not clean right now, don’t wipe your snot on them.”

Miss Nine immediately recovered her proud, haughty self. “Dream on.”

“Your leg needs treatment.”

Su Yi’s expression remained calm as she pointed to the black-red blood staining Miss Nine’s trouser leg, some of it still fresh.

And there was also a two-decimeter-long tree branch stuck in it.

It looked like a steak served on a plate.

Miss Nine bit her lower lip, her expression turning strange. After a moment, she said, “No need. I’ll handle it myself. I don’t need you... Aaaah!”

Su Yi had already taken the opportunity to pull out the tree branch, ignoring Miss Nine’s twisted expression, and said with a deadpan face, “Will you take your pants off, or should I?”

Take them off? Take off her pants?

Miss Nine’s face turned green, then white. After a long moment, she finally said weakly, “Don’t you think I’ve lost a little too much blood?”

Su Yi paused, then frowned. “I don’t think this is something worth praising you for.”

A mouthful of blood almost sprayed from Miss Nine’s mouth onto Su Yi’s face.

“I... I got my period!”

When Miss Nine finished shouting that, Su Yi took about ten seconds before making an “oh” sound, and then asked seriously, “So what do we do now?”

You’re asking me?

You’re actually asking me?

At that question, Miss Nine fell silent. She turned away, clutching the tree trunk, tears streaming down her face.

Why did she have to meet such a hypocritically proper woman at the most humiliating and miserable moment of her life?

Was this her punishment for being so domineering and ferocious for twenty years?

She was surely the only grave robber in the world to die from excessive blood loss because of her period.

This woman had definitely been sent to ruin her. Definitely.

“Su Yi, you’ve never had a period? You’re asking me something like that? Are you mocking me?”

“Mm. I’ve never had one.”

“You really are mocking me... what?”

Miss Nine snapped her head around and stared at Su Yi. “Really?”

“Mm.”

Su Yi nodded. She really had never had a period.

“That’s impossible... I checked your records, and even then I thought it was odd. Back then you were only one hundred sixty-three or one hundred sixty-four centimeters tall, but look at you now. In such a short time you’ve grown to one hundred sixty-seven or one hundred sixty-eight, only a few centimeters shorter than me. It has to be that your period already started, your estrogen began to secrete, you entered puberty, and then you grew this fast.”

Was that really all right, casually studying other people’s hormone levels from their records?

Especially since, after saying that, Miss Nine added a summary: “Actually, your growth is pretty efficient. It’s just that you only grew taller, not fleshier. Your chest and hips... heh heh heh. You must have been mocked a lot, right? Also, you really never had a period?”

Su Yi gave her a chilly look. “Do you need some leaves? Completely natural, uncontaminated. Wrap them up and it’s very healthy.”

Period... leaves...

Miss Nine promptly fell silent.

Still, knowing her own period was imminent, she had insisted on coming to explore this ancient tomb. Su Yi felt that was the real courting of death.

But Miss Nine believed it was the fault of another group, and so she ground her teeth and unleashed a long bout of foul-mouthed cursing.

Yes, in English.

But then she suddenly remembered that Su Yi’s English was rather good, and so, right in front of Su Yi, she switched to the local dialect of some place.

Meeting a woman like this, Su Yi was honestly speechless.

And what left her even more speechless was that just as she was about to fetch a couple of leaves for Miss Nine, the woman slowly and triumphantly pulled one from the inner pocket of her clothes.

“What do you think I am? Did you really think I’d come unprepared? You even seriously planned to give me leaves...”

Su Yi looked at the damp, waterlogged thing in the woman’s hand.

“Wet?”

“No problem, you can dry it for me. Hey, hey, where are you going? Don’t leave me behind... Fine, I’ll do it myself, all right?”