Everyone's playing hide-and-seek: This crazy beauty has maxed-out third eyes.

Lydia understood the gesture.

She closed her mouth and remained lying on the ground, suppressing even her breathing to a minimum.

Lin Sui'an withdrew her hand and stopped looking at her.

A hissing sound came from my ear.

"An'an, the Russian Bear Kingdom has made a deal with us in exchange for rescuing Lydia."

Jiang Lai's voice was fast, as if she was in a hurry.

"oh."

"If she encounters danger again, you don't need to worry about her. Just take care of yourself."

"Okay~"

"Furthermore, according to our monitoring, there are two strange creatures moving towards you from the south, one from the west, and another from the southeast—"

"beep--"

The sound stopped.

Lin Sui'an blinked twice into the air and patted her ears.

"elder sister?"

no respond.

"Feed?"

still none.

Lin Sui'an tilted her head and muttered, "Hang me up?"

She wasn't too bothered by it; she'd heard everything she needed to hear: two from the south, one from the west, and countless others from the southeast—all heading this way.

It's okay if she can't hear it, she can see it herself anyway.

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Inside the command center, the communications officer turned his head.

"Report: Communication time expired, system forcibly terminated."

Jiang Lai's hand was still on the communication button; she didn't speak.

Chen Zheng glanced at Lin Sui'an's position on the screen, then at the strange movement trajectory, and said in a low voice, "Four have confirmed their direction, and there are two more turning in the southeast. Adding to the two that were originally near the pond, there may be up to eight converging."

Jiang Lai stared at the screen and said, word by word, "It's dangerous."

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In the game, Lydia has just lost communication with her country.

She got it.

Something strange is coming this way.

She gritted her teeth, braced herself with her arms, and forced herself to sit up.

The wound on my back was burning from being soaked in water. My leg cramps had stopped, but I was shaking like a leaf.

She looked up at Lin Sui'an on the pavilion.

"Spar... thank you."

Despite the awkward pronunciation of the Chinese language, Lin Sui'an understood it.

She glanced down at Lydia and put her index finger to her lips.

Lydia immediately shut up.

Lin Sui'an pointed to the right side of the pavilion.

There's a rockery over there, made of piled-up stones, just tall enough for a person to climb onto the eaves of a pavilion.

She gestured with her hands again—to climb up.

Lydia looked in the direction she was pointing and understood.

Without hesitation, she turned over and moved towards the artificial hill, alternating between using her elbows and knees.

Every movement tore at the wound, and she bit her lip until it bled, but she didn't utter a sound.

When her hand touched the first rock of the artificial hill, her leg trembled.

The second stone made her arms tremble, barely able to support her weight.

The third piece, her hand reached the edge of the pavilion's eaves.

Just one step away.

Just climb up one more time and you'll reach your destination.

Lydia took a deep breath, preparing to exert her strength.

Lin Sui'an pressed her hand down. She looked up and saw Lin Sui'an with one hand on her mouth, signaling her to be quiet, and the other hand pressing on her shoulder to prevent her from moving.

Lydia froze, not understanding why she had to stop when she was just one step away.

She blinked, her face full of doubt, but the other person had just saved her, so they shouldn't harm her.

She continued to look at Lin Sui'an, but he didn't look at her; instead, he stared at the direction below the artificial hill.

Footsteps.

The sound of dragging a sickle.

It's really weird.

Lydia's pupils dilated suddenly. She lay motionless on top of the artificial hill, her breath stopped.

As the two strange figures passed by the artificial hill, one of them paused for a moment.

The ear turned halfway around.

Lydia felt like her heart was going to jump out of her throat.

one second.

two seconds.

The eerie ears turned back, and it casually swung its weapon before continuing forward.

Lydia's back was covered in cold sweat. Only now did she understand why Lin Sui'an had told her to stop.

If she had climbed onto the pavilion just now, the sound of her climbing would have been heard by those two eerie creatures.

Lin Suian released Lydia and took two tiles from the pavilion.

She glanced down at Lydia, then shook the tile in her right hand and then the tile in her left hand.

Then he pointed upwards towards the artificial hill.

Lydia watched her movements, her mind racing.

The sound of the tile being thrown attracted something eerie, and she took the opportunity to climb up.

She nodded.

Lin Sui'an held up three fingers.

three.

Take one back.

two.

Take one back.

One.

Both hands were swung out at the same time.

The tile on the left flew towards the stone path on the south side.

The tile on the right flew towards the stone path on the north side.

"Snapped!"

"Snapped!"

Two sounds rang out almost simultaneously, but from completely opposite directions.

The eerie atmosphere around the pavilion exploded, ears trembled violently, and hooks and sickles swung out in two directions simultaneously.

It was in that very moment.

Lydia braced herself against the eaves and flipped herself up, her knees hitting the roof tiles. She bit her lip and remained silent.

Lin Sui'an reached out and grabbed her, pressing her against one side of the octagonal pavilion.

Lydia lay down, her face pressed against the tile, her chest heaving violently, but her mouth remained tightly shut.

Lin Sui-an released her hand and gave her an "OK" sign.

Then I squatted down too.

We can't throw it away anymore.

With only two pebbles left in his pocket, all the eerie things were gathering here. Making more noise would only send him flying.

After cutting in two directions without finding their target, the strange creatures returned to the vicinity of the pavilion one after another.

One.

Two.

Four.

Six.

Six eerie figures dressed in red stood beneath the pavilion, their sickles dangling at their sides, their ears constantly twitching.

Lin Sui'an looked down and saw six eyeless faces facing different directions, their ears constantly twitching, searching for every sound in the air.

Lydia lay beside her, completely tense, not daring to move a single finger.

Lin Sui'an glanced at her, then looked down at the eerie scene below.

She slowly reached into her bosom and touched the rag doll.

I pinched it.

Then he took out the doll, held it upright in front of himself, and silently opened his mouth towards it.

Lydia turned her head and saw that the madman from the Dragon Kingdom was staring at a rag doll.

Six eerie figures stood beneath the pavilion.

On the pavilion, this woman is playing with a doll.

Lydia felt that she might be the one with a mental illness.

Lin Sui'an put the doll back in his arms, patted it, then turned his head and saw Lydia lying quietly. He nodded in satisfaction.

With their weapon cooldowns over, the six monsters brandished their weapons.

One of them hit the artificial hill, sending pebbles flying.

One hit the pond, splashing water everywhere.

Two of them hit the road surface, turning the smooth road into a bumpy mess.

One corner of the pavilion was cut off, and the eaves fell off.

Another one hit a pillar of the pavilion, and the pillar was cut off.

"Click."

Wood chips fell.

"Click."

The pavilion swayed slightly.

Lydia's fingernails dug into the cracks in the roof tiles.