Donate me some kofi?

Chapter 9


Huo Yin and his party went north all the way, killing monsters and upgrading, and their journey was smooth. Fortunately, they parked their hovercar far away that day and it didn't fall into the pit, otherwise, they would have had to find another one at the market.

After this period of battle and adjustment, Huo Yin feels that his body has recovered, and his physique is better than before. He has broken through the upper limit of level 5. 

He can continue to strengthen by absorbing and strengthening his source core again, but his elemental ability temporarily had no boost.

However, he usually still sits in a wheelchair, which can be used as a disguise and can refine his element manipulation.

In the evening, several people sat around the campfire, chatting while having their dinner.

Huo Yin and Yuan Chu wore the same combat uniforms, drank the same beverages, and played with handheld devices with each other.

"Momo." Feng Chenxiu approached Su Mo and whispered, "Look at the boss, they show affection every day, it's immoral."

Su Mo: "..." Who are you calling Momo?

"Pity us single dogs, no one cares and no one loves us." Feng Chenxiu sighed.

Su Mo: "..." So what if I'm a single dog? Singles are free!

"Or..." Feng Chenxiu looked at him with bright eyes, "Let's temporarily make a pair?"

"Go away." Su Mo finally spoke.

"So you can talk? Why don't you say a word then? How boring."

Su Mo: You are bored of me? Why do you even care about me? Even if you don't speak, your mental activity is enough to bother me!

At this moment, Tully got out of the hovercar, with her messy hair hanging down at random, with heavy dark circles under her eyes, as if she was wearing smoky makeup.  

She sullenly floated beside Yuan Chu, sat down, and picked up a skewer of grilled meat, silently eating.

During this time, Tully has been mastering her skills and is the most diligent one of all except Huo Yin. As her strength improved, the ghost qi around her became heavier and heavier. Even Feng Chenxiu didn't dare to approach her, but Yuan Chu didn't care. 

Therefore, Tully likes to be close to Yuan Chu the most, and always inserts herself between her and Huo Yin without knowing the current affairs.

Huo Yin raised his eyes and looked at Tully leaning against Yuan Chu, his eyes were slightly heavy.

Yuan Chu picked up a towel, and Tully immediately raised her face and asked her to help wipe her mouth. After wiping her mouth, Yuan Chu gave her another mouthful of water, like someone taking care of a large baby bird.

Huo Yin: [When I brought her in, why didn't I realize that she was such a submissive big baby who couldn't take care of herself?]

When Su Mo received this thought, the corners of his mouth slightly twitched.

Tully: [There is a lot of fresh dead qi around here. I won't sleep tonight. Let's practice hard and try to reach level 4 as soon as possible.]

Su Mo: ... This is a girl who just wants to become stronger.

Feng Chenxiu: [Ah, ah! A love triangle fight! Finally, I don't need to eat dog food!]

Su Mo doesn't want to listen to him at all!

Among these people, Feng Chenxiu was the loudest, and his mental activity was like a river, rushing in continuously, and couldn't be stopped. 

Huo Yin's mind is the strongest, and Su Mo can only receive some irrelevant or intermittent information. Tully is the purest and has no other ideas and thoughts in her mind except to improve her strength.

As for Yuan Chu...

Su Mo looked at her calmly. Yuan Chu's mind is like a bright sky, deep like a vast ocean, and it is impossible to peep at her thoughts at all.

Overall, this is a good team. Although everyone has their secrets, there are not too many intrigue schemes within.

Aware of Su Mo's gaze, Yuan Chu glanced at him at first, then withdrew her gaze and focused her attention on the handheld device again.

The video of the last encounter with the ground-cracking spiders and the mudstone beast has been uploaded on the Internet, and it has been reprinted from one area to another, which has brought them a certain reputation and also attracted Ji Ming's attention.

Huo Yin's disguise can fool others, but he can't hide from his companions who have been with him for ten years. 

Ji Ming knew that he was not dead, so he would act. If he just defected to another country, there may be room for a turnaround, but to have a glorious background, Ji Ming would not hesitate to kill his compatriots, which is unforgivable.

Huo Yin still doesn't know the fact that Ji Ming has found out that he is still alive, but his(HY) strength has recovered, his physique has been greatly strengthened, and he is guarded against him. It is not so easy for Ji Ming to harm him.

Yuan Chu was playing games while casually budgeting their money for the future.

At this time, she suddenly stopped playing, but the game operation did not stop. The two-dimensional characters inside were still coquettishly killing monsters, but the level was cleared in one minute. Not a sign of victory appeared on the screen, but a striking one word—[Mom].

Yuan Chu: "..."  'Her handheld phone is now alive.'

It may be because she used it to search for information last time, and some of her energy remained, which caused it to generate a source core on its own and become an electronic alien beast.

Not all alien beasts are aggressive and dangerous creatures. For example, this newborn electronic monster is not harmful except for occasional troubles.

[Mom, mom, mom...] The screen was flooded with big and small 'mom', and then it crashed.

Without waiting for it to be turned on again, Yuan Chu decisively stuffed it into her pocket.

"Boss, where shall we go tomorrow?" Feng Chenxiu asked.

To the north is the Strange Stone Canyon, and to the northwest is the Misty Forest. Driving a few hundred kilometers to the east, they will enter Area 36.

Huo Yin: "Strange Stone Canyon."

Yuan Chu: [Misty Forest.]

Su Mo looked sideways, and he heard an answer that was different from Huo Yins in Yuan Chu's thought.

[Strange stone canyon, dangerous. (Yuan Chu)]

Su Mo felt strange in his heart, since she knew the danger, why didn't she say it?

[Mating season, herds gather. (Yuan Chu)]

Su Mo was stunned and said, "The mating season of the beasts is coming soon, right? The Strange Stone Canyon has always been the active area where ​​the beasts mate."

Huo Yin paused, silently counted the month, and doubtfully said, "There is at least one month left before the mating season."

[The temperature has drastically changed this year, and the mating season has been moved forward. (Yuan Chu)]

Su Mo hesitated, not knowing whether to say it or not. After hesitating for a moment, he finally said, "The temperature change may cause the mating season to advance."

Huo Yin fell into deep thought when he heard the words. After a while, he nodded and said, "Your consideration is not unreasonable. Just in case, we will divert to the Misty forest."

Su Mo glanced at Yuan Chu and said nothing. He knew why Huo Yin wanted to go to the Strange Stone Canyon. It's because someone on the Internet claimed to have found several rare beasts in the Strange Stone Canyon, and attached photos remotely taken, attracting many people to hunt there. 

If it wasn't for Yuan Chu's reminder, Su Mo also felt that going to the Strange Stone Canyon was a good choice.

Only Yuan Chu knew that the rare beast hunt was a hoax. Some people speculated that the mating season was ahead of schedule and spread the news on purpose. 

The purpose was to use the riotous beasts to surround and kill evolutionaries, seize their source cores, and reap the benefits of the fisherman.

According to the normal trajectory, Huo Yin will encounter the danger of dying when he goes to the Strange Stone Canyon, and several other people may not be spared.

Now that Huo Yin has changed his mind, Yuan Chu waited for a while but did not feel the threat of Tiandao, and finally determined that she could deceive Tiandao by revealing key information through the mouths of others.

The next day, everyone dressed up and set off. On the way, They encountered several groups of teams heading to Strange Stone Canyon one after another.

Coincidentally, the people that they have met before are also among them.

"Hi, we meet again." Hao Zi was driving a single-person hovercar and warmly greeted Huo Yin and the others.

Huo Yin opened the roof cover, revealing the transparent protective cover, and nodded to the streamer.

"Are you also going to Strange Stone Canyon? Just in time! We can form a team."

"No, we won't go to the Strange Stone Canyon." Huo Yin refused.

"Ah." Hao Zi glanced at him unexpectedly, 

"Didn't you receive the news? Several rare beasts have appeared in the Strange Stone Canyon, and they are not low-level."

"I know, but I'm worried about the mating season." Huo Yin intentionally reminded him, but the other party didn't care.

"Haha, the mating season is still more than a month away, so isn't there nothing to worry about? Let's go together, we have so many masters, even if we do encounter the mating season, we don't need to panic."

That last sentence is a joke. The beasts in the mating season are all in a violent state, their strength is several times higher than usual, and there are so many that dozens or hundreds of evolutionaries can't deal with them.

Huo Yin didn't say much. After all, the mating season being ahead of time was just their guess. If it didn't happen, wouldn't it be a delay for others?

When the two were chatting, the streamer was also on live broadcast, so Huo Yin's words were also heard by the audience in the live broadcast room. Many people laughed and ridiculed, but some cautious people kept their words in mind.

After saying goodbye to Hao Zi, Huo Yin, and the others continued to march toward the misty forest.

When she was only a few dozen miles away from the Misty forest, Yuan Chu's heart skipped a beat, a stream of light flashed in her eyes, and she vaguely predicted something.

"Let's stop here." Huo Yin chose an open space to park their hover car, "We will be in the Misty forest for the next half a month."

There are more plants and elemental beasts in the Misty Forest. Of course, this 'more' is only in comparison with other areas.

The few people sorted out their equipment and then went deep into the foggy forest.

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On the other side, a relatively fast evolutionary team had arrived at the Strange Stone Canyon. To seize the opportunity, they immediately entered the canyon. As a result, no one came out alive. An invisible evolutionary who, after their death, scoured their bodies to steal, appeared. Everything happened silently, leaving no trace.

Soon after, evolutionaries rushed to the canyon one after another. They discussed in advance and divided an area without interfering with each other.

The hunting operation began, and the evolutionaries marched into the depths of the canyon with high fighting spirit, and couldn't wait to send their heads to...

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Huo Yin and others stayed in the Misty forest for three days and gained a lot.

Tully broke through level 4, Feng Chenxiu reached level 7, Huo Yin, Su Mo, and Yuan Chu have not changed for the time being, but they collected a lot of source cores.

"What are you looking at?" Huo Yin came to Yuan Chu and asked when he saw her staring into the distance.

"Nothing." Yuan Chu retracted her gaze and sat on the ground against Huo Yin's wheelchair.

"This is yours." Huo Yin handed three source cores to her.

Yuan Chu denied it: "You take it for me."

"You gave me all the source cores, how do you improve your strength?" Huo Yin had never seen Yuan Chu absorb source cores. 

Although he was puzzled, he had never heard of this phenomenon before. There are many dangers here and there, and if you don't have enough strength to protect yourself, your life will be ruined at any time.

"Don't worry about me, I have my way to improve my strength." Yuan Chu didn't need a source core, and her abilities will gradually be unlocked as the strength of Child of Luck increases.

Huo Yin fixedly looked at her but didn't ask any further.

This girl rescued him from danger, accompanied him through his most difficult times, and he believed in her.

"Then promise me," Huo Yin seriously said, "Protect yourself no matter what, and live."

Yuan Chu looked back at him: "As long as you live, I won't die."

"What if I die?"

Yuan Chu didn't hesitate to answer: "Then I'll die with you too." 

Once the child of luck died, she would be immediately discovered by Tiandao, and she could only leave this world in the end.

Huo Yin, who didn't know the inside story, had his heart beating hotly, so he took her into his arms.

"Don't worry, I will never die." Huo Yin's eyes lit up with two blazing flames. He still has great revenge to avenge, and his motherland is still in dire straits. This life of his is no longer his own.

The only luck in his life is that a girl is willing to be by his side. When he had nothing, she made up for what he lost.

Yuan Chu felt the change in Huo Yin's luck and thoughts in her heart:

After she helped him avoid the crisis in Strange Stone Canyon, Tiandao arranged another crisis for him. Yuan Chu was hesitating if she should remind him again, but now, she decided to keep silent.

The reason why the children of luck can compete with heaven is that they have diligence, wisdom, perseverance, courage, and fortune beyond ordinary people. 

They can break through desperation by themselves again and again. Blindly seeking good luck and avoiding evil will hinder their growth.

"I believe in you." Yuan Chu looked up at him, his image reflected in her eyes without a trace of impurity.

Those eyes with complete trust in him made Huo Yin's heart move.

This silly girl must have liked him very much. 

(Yuan Chu:???)

On the fourth day, Huo Yin decided to go further. With the others, he slowly moved forward.

Halfway through, Huo Yin suddenly felt a hot and humid breath, full of active elements. His thoughts moved and he said, "I'll go ahead and take a look, you guys are to wait for me here."

As Huo Yin said that, he operated his wheelchair and flew forward, disappearing into the depths of the forest in the blink of an eye.

"Hey..." Feng Chenxiu looked in the direction he left and sighed, "Heartless man, he abandoned us just like this."

No one paid attention to him.

Su Mo leaned against the tree trunk and listened carefully to the movements around him.

Tully was immersed in the condensed ghost qi around, unable to extricate herself.

Feng Chenxiu was so bored that he grabbed a few sick and injured animals and practiced his healing techniques.

After an unknown amount of time, Yuan Chu suddenly raised her head, and there was a loud bang in the distance.

"What's the situation?" Feng Chenxiu abruptly stood up.

Su Mo and Tully also looked in the direction of the loud noise.

They saw a small mountain in front of them, spraying out blue flames hundreds of meters high, like fireworks.

Feng Chenxiu said in surprise: "Volcano eruption???"

Yuan Chu didn't wait for them to react and quickly ran over there.

The others didn't have time to think about it and followed her in confusion.

After following a distance, everyone was surprised to find that they could not keep up with Yuan Chu.

Yuan Chu, in their eyes, has no sense of existence. During the battles they fought, they never saw her take action, so they only regarded her as Huo Yin's leg pendant. 

Now seeing her lightning-fast skill, they have a different understanding of her strength for the first time.

A bunch of blue fires fell from the sky, everyone quickly dodged, and followed Yuan Chu into a cave.

"Yuan Chu, where are you going?" Feng Chenxiu shouted, "It's dangerous here, shouldn't we find a safe place to hide first?"

[This is the safest place. (Yuan Chu)] 

After the eruption of the volcano, blue flames erupted all around, and the bottom of the volcano in the center is the safest.

Unlike ordinary flames, this blue flame does not produce toxic gases, but it can penetrate the skin and burn blood.

Su Mo received Yuan Chu's message and didn't hesitate, urging Feng Chenxiu and Tully to enter the cave quickly.

In the volcanic rock only a few hundred meters away from them, Huo Yin was fighting an elemental beast. Clusters of blue fire attacked him, piercing his skin, igniting his blood, and the severe pain was almost unbearable.

He gritted his teeth, stepped on the stone wall, and used his strength to avoid the attack of the flames. At the same time, he used a whirlwind in an attempt to control the movement trajectory of the fire elemental beast.

Just when he was about to succeed, his foot slipped, his body lost its balance, and he fell straight toward the lava below.

Huo Yin's pupils suddenly shrank, he trapped the alien beast with one hand and condensed the earth element with the other.

A large number of earth elements condensed on the magma, but he fell too fast, and he consumed too much energy just now, and it was impossible to condense enough soil to carry him in time.

Seeing that he was about to fall into the magma, the scattered earth elements suddenly solidified, Huo Yin turned over and landed firmly on the soil layer.

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Author's Little Theather:

Yuan Chu: Child of Luck, here I come!

Huo Yin: No, I can fight it!

Yuan Chu: Fight? What fight? If I came a second later, you will become a burned corpse.

Huo Yin: I want to save face too...

Yuan Chu: Haha.
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T/N: How I would love it if this exam month is over, unfortunately, I still had goddamn next week. 
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