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

Chapter 47 On-site Teaching

When Lin Sui'an dragged his massive root system back to the vicinity of the pit, the three pits were completely covered up. His own pit had been enlarged and filled with dead leaves.

Lin Sui'an ignored it and stretched out a branch, tapping it twice above the entrance to Lina's pit.

Tap, tap.

Lina peeked out through the crack and saw the gray bark and the corpses hanging on it, almost biting the reeds in half again.

But she recognized the rhythm.

"Happy New Year?"

The trunk of the ice tree swayed slightly.

Lina lifted the covering and crawled out, turning to dig at Lydia's hole: "Lydia! Sui'an's back!"

Lydia emerged from the ground, her golden hair streaked with grass clippings, clutching a dark red book in her hand.

Sergei was the last to look out, and he remained crouched by the pit, not coming out.

Without wasting words, Lin Sui'an plunged a thick branch directly into the mud beneath his feet and dragged it forcefully.

Three characters, each stroke etched into the earth.

Song Jinshu.

Lina leaned closer to look, her lips moving slightly: "Song...Jin...Shu?"

She looked up at Lin Sui'an: "Is this the name of that ice tree?"

The branch was touched.

Lina's expression changed: "That's a name from the Dragon Kingdom."

The branch was touched again.

Lina crouched down, staring at the three words on the ground for a long time, her voice low: "Sui'an... These ice trees, were they all people before?"

Lin Sui'an did not respond to the question; instead, she used a twig to draw another line of words next to it.

"Let Lydia try."

Lina snapped out of her daze and quickly pointed out the names on the ground to Lydia, explaining them rapidly in the Russian language.

After hearing this, Lydia looked down at the three Chinese characters and frowned.

She opened the Book of True Names; the dark red pages were blank, without any words.

"Song..."

Lydia tried to pronounce it, but her tongue got tied in a knot.

The four tones of the Mandarin Chinese are almost like tongue twisters to the Russians.

"sòng jǐn shū," Lina taught him word by word from the side.

"Song Jin Shu," Lydia repeated, her pronunciation wildly off.

The pages are not responding.

Lydia read it again, gritting her teeth as she broke down each syllable and spat it out.

Finally, the Book of True Names reacted.

On the dark red pages, where the pages were originally blank, words were quickly drawn, stroke by stroke.

Song Jinshu.

Immediately afterwards, a line of slightly smaller text appeared in the blank space below the name.

[Locked; force command can be issued.]

Lydia noticed the change in the book, suddenly looked up, held the book up in front of Lina, and quickly uttered a long string of Russian words.

Lina leaned closer and craned her neck to look at the words on the page.

"It's done!" Lina exclaimed in surprise.

"Happy New Year! There's a response in the book!"

"It says 'Locked, force command can be issued!'"

Lina turned her head to look at Lin Sui'an's huge, rough tree trunk.

"Lydia asked, 'What order should be given?'"

Sergei also straightened up from the edge of the pit and looked at Lin Sui'an.

Lin Sui'an's massive tree trunk, covered with sharp thorns, remained motionless, with a thin, long gray branch hanging down from the main trunk.

The soil rolled up.

"wait."

Lin Sui'an drew the first character.

The branches didn't stop; they continued to quickly scramble through the soil.

"Don't use it yet."

Lina looked at the words on the ground and read them aloud.

"Don't use it yet?" She looked up, her face full of confusion.

The branch continued to scratch: "It's been almost an hour."

"Keep it to save your life."

After writing the last four characters, Lin Sui'an retrieved the branch.

The branch tapped twice on the soil markings of the three characters "Song Jinshu".

Tap, tap.

Lina stared at the words on the ground and immediately understood.

"yes!"

"The game time is almost an hour."

"Based on previous patterns, the game will probably have new developments soon!"

Sergei slapped his thigh repeatedly beside him.

"Finally...it's even more dangerous."

Lina nodded repeatedly.

"The meaning of 'Sui An' is that good things should be saved for when they are most effective."

"Whether it's a treasure chest that's about to refresh, or an unexpected situation in the last half hour."

"This mandatory command, which will definitely work, is our trump card."

Lena turned her head and translated these analyses to Lydia at a rapid pace. After listening, Lydia's tense brows slowly relaxed.

She glanced down at the book "The Book of True Names" in her hand, then snapped the pages shut.

She nodded vigorously, carefully stuffed the book into her breast pocket, and patted it twice.

"right!"

After Lydia finished speaking, she took a step back and took a deep breath.

"Send it to the ripe ones quickly," she muttered softly.

Hearing this pronunciation, Lina turned to look at her: "No, no, it's Song Jinshu."

"Send...to...this...technique." Lydia gritted her teeth and followed along.

"Your pronunciation is terrible."

Lina walked over and stood in front of Lydia.

"Look at the shape of my lips."

"sòng".

Lydia stared at Lina's mouth.

"loose."

"It's not 'Song,' it's 'Song.' Press it down."

Lina chopped her hand down in the air.

"Song!"

Lydia nodded vigorously in agreement.

"Song!"

That's approved now.

"Jin".

Lina slowed down her speech.

"now."

"Press your tongue down a little."

"Jin!"

Lydia is learning to adjust her tongue.

"Jin!"

"The last word is 'book'! Pout your lips."

Lina pouted exaggeratedly.

"Book!"

Lydia pouted in response.

"Book!"

"Read it together, and it's Song Jinshu!"

Lydia took a deep breath and shouted it out in one continuous motion.

"Song Jinshu!"

Lina clapped her hands: "Yes! That's it!"

Lydia walked to the side, repeating herself softly over and over again.

She absolutely refused to allow herself to malfunction the prop at a crucial moment because of calling the wrong name. This was a life-saving item, and she had to memorize it perfectly.

Lin Sui'an stood aside, watching the two of them practice each word one by one.

Sergei stepped forward, patted Lina on the shoulder, and pointed to the pit next to them.

Lina immediately turned to look at Lin Sui'an: "Sui'an, look over here."

Lina jogged a few steps and ran to the pit that originally belonged to Lin Sui'an. The pit had been dug up again and was much larger than before.

"While you were looking for the ice tree, the three of us did some work."

Lina pointed to the pit, which was filled to the brim with dry grass and dead leaves.

"We've expanded your pit."

"You gave me the tinderbox before."

Lina felt the outline of the tinderbox in her pocket: "I figured we couldn't just sit there and wait."

"They just laid a layer of dry mud underneath, and then covered it with the driest dead leaves."

"What if another treasure chest spawns around here later?"

"Or when the ice tree comes searching on a large scale, and we can't escape."

"I just set the dry grass underneath on fire."

Lina looked up at Lin Sui'an.

"You said before that those little flames you threw along the way could entangle the ice tree for several seconds."

"We've made this pit really big, and packed it with dry grass. If it catches fire, it'll be a huge fire pit with a lot of heat. It'll definitely attract all the nearby ice trees, giving us a long chance to escape."

"Do you think this is okay?"

Lin Sui'an's branch hovered in mid-air as she swept her gaze over the modified fire pit, noting that the dry grass filling was indeed quite substantial.

If it were to actually catch fire, it would definitely be a massive source of interference.

The massive ice tree leaned forward, and a long branch without barbs hung down from its crown.

It landed on Lina's muddy hair.

I patted it twice.

Tap, tap.

The end of the branch curved upwards, curling into the shape of a thumb in mid-air, and waved it in front of Lina's eyes.

Lina stared at the thumbs-up gesture made by the tree branch and froze on the spot.

"You think it's a good idea too?"

"I'm afraid I might do more harm than good and attract all the monsters to our doom."

"As long as it works."

"Very good……"

Lina jumped up and down with joy.