The sky curtain makes you a useless class monitor, yet you act arbitrarily for eternity?

Should the team be disbanded?

[Confirm] [Cancel]

Mengzhu's fingers trembled so much that she missed several times.

Only when the soldier ants on the mountain path began to swarm down to the bottom of the cliff did she bite her lip and press her finger on the confirmation.

[System notification: Mengzhu has left the party.]

The team logo went out.

Mengzhu grabbed the heavy sword, dragged her injured left leg, and turned to flee into the depths of the forest.

The soldier ants behind me were still hissing.

She didn't turn around, nor did she dare to.

Mengzhu covered her mouth to stop herself from crying out, but tears still fell one after another onto her blood-stained clothes.

—The mountaintop.

【HP: 5%】

Jiang Liyu's sword pierced the soldier ant's carapace once again.

"Click!"

The longsword, already dulled, finally gave way and broke in two.

The broken sword tip spun out and embedded itself in the nearby soil.

Jiang Liyu only had half a broken sword left in her hand.

Just as she was about to back away, the team interface at the edge of her field of vision suddenly flickered.

The teammate status bar, which was previously lit up, has disappeared.

Jiang Liyu stopped moving.

A soldier ant struck her in the chest, knocking her to the ground.

【HP: 2%】

She braced herself against the ground and brought up the team interface again.

empty.

Jiang Liyu ordered it again.

It's still empty.

There is no profile picture of Mengzhu.

There is no health bar.

There was also no symbol representing a two-person team.

There was only one system notification without any temperature reading.

[System notification: Mengzhu has left the party.]

Jiang Liyu stared at the line of words for a long time without moving.

The screeching sounds around us grew closer.

She simply opened the team panel repeatedly, then closed it again.

By the third time I opened it, my fingertips were shaking so badly I couldn't tap the screen.

"...Mengzhu?"

Jiang Liyu looked up into the woods, but no one responded.

She gripped the broken sword, trying to stand up again, but her knees wouldn't give way.

"You... left?"

Her voice trembled.

After saying this, Jiang Liyu immediately pursed her lips, as if she didn't want anyone to see even this slight loss of composure.

She lowered her head and tucked her blood-stained, ice-blue hair behind her ear.

This is a habit she developed after living in the Jiang family for many years.

No matter what happens, you must not cry.

We must not let anyone see our weakness.

You can't beg people in a low voice.

Jiang Liyu, supporting herself on the boulder, slowly straightened up.

But when she looked up, her eyes were still red.

"You left me here all alone?"

There has still been no response.

Mengzhu said that they would live on together.

Mengzhu also said that no matter what monster she encountered, she would stand in front of it.

That was the first time Jiang Liyu believed that, besides her brother, there would be someone else who cared whether she could go home.

But now, the queue is empty.

Jiang Liyu lowered her eyes.

She didn't call Mengzhu's name again, nor did she send a team-up request.

She simply gripped the broken sword and faced the approaching swarm of ants again.

With this exertion, even more blood flowed down the hilt of the sword, from the already numerous wounds on his fingers.

Jiang Liyu did not let go.

She didn't want to die!

The first soldier ants to rush in have already opened their mandibles.

Jiang Liyu raised the broken sword, but her movements were a beat too slow.

"Bang!"

She was knocked down again.

The broken sword flew out of his hand and landed several meters away.

【HP: 1%】

My vision started to go black.

The sound gradually faded away.

Jiang Liyu curled her fingers, gripped the soil beneath her, and tried to stand up again.

But she had no strength left in her body.

A soldier ant crawled up to her.

The sharp mandibles were aimed at her neck.

As Jiang Liyu looked at the dark figure so close to her, a single tear finally slid down her cheek.

"turn out to be……"

"You'll abandon me too."

Her vision began to sink into darkness.

Just as consciousness was about to be severed, a golden light pierced through the ant swarm.

"Whoosh—"

The soldier ants that pounced on Jiang Liyu stopped in mid-air, with less than half a meter separating the two.

After a brief pause, the soldier ant's body split in the middle, breaking into more than a dozen neat pieces of black carapace.

A large ray of golden light swept over Jiang Liyu's head.

The trees were bent to the sides by the sharp wind, and the swarming ants were forcibly torn open a path.

A black cloak flashed by through the woods.

Both long swords were drawn from their sheaths at the same time.

The man in black landed in front of Jiang Liyu, spreading his twin swords to the sides.

The golden blade energy swept out from him.

Within five meters, all the soldier ants stopped moving at the same time.

next moment.

Dense golden lines appeared on their carapace.

"Bang bang bang bang——"

Dozens of soldier ants shattered simultaneously.

Before the shattered shell even hit the ground, it transformed into numerous specks of light, illuminating Jiang Liyu's pale face.

The soldier ants behind were briefly stunned and stopped five meters away.

The mountain wind swept into the forest.

The hood on the man in black's head was blown off by the wind.

Her black hair flew backward in the wind.

His exposed face was young and indifferent, with no superfluous expression in his eyes and brows.

He stood in the center of the light, holding two swords, his clothes and black straps fluttering in the wind.

Jiang Liyu struggled to open her eyes.

In her blurred vision, that figure blocked all the soldier ants that rushed towards her.

The man in black did not turn around.

They didn't even ask her name.

He sheathed his long sword, bent down, and lifted Jiang Liyu from the ground.

Suddenly lifted off the ground, Jiang Liyu instinctively grabbed his collar.

The man in black glanced down at her health bar.

【HP: 1%】

He took out a bottle of high-grade recovery potion from his backpack, bit off the stopper with his teeth, and handed the potion to Jiang Liyu's lips.

"drink."

There is only one word.

Jiang Liyu looked up at him.

The man in black remained expressionless.

She opened her mouth and drank the medicine little by little.

【HP: 10%】

【HP: 19%】

The ant swarm behind them closed in again.

The man in black did not pursue the matter further.

He held Jiang Liyu with one arm and gripped the long sword with the other, slashing forward with the blade.

Golden blades flashed across the woodland.

The soldier ants blocking the way shattered, revealing a path leading down the mountain.

The man in black stomped his foot.

The two figures quickly broke through the encirclement and disappeared into the forest in a few leaps.

Even after he carried her away from the mountaintop, Jiang Liyu still didn't loosen her grip on his clothes.

On the treetops in the distance.

John Strange slowly lowered the hand that was blocking his eyes.

He stared in the direction where the man in black had disappeared, his mouth agape.

"I...I'll go?"

"Best friend betrays, hero saves damsel in distress, such an old trope...so classic."

Hong Ge also shook his head with a sigh.

"But girls just love that!"

"Plus, consider the modeling of Elder Ye throughout his life—didn't you see it just now?"

"He's incredibly handsome!"

"In addition, he has the aura of a cold-blooded killer and a top-notch gamer."

"No wonder Jiang Jianxian fell into depravity."

"Hey! Hey! Hey!"

John looked terrified.

"Stop lamenting! The ants are heading this way!"

Hong looked back.

Having lost their target, the soldier ants changed direction and crawled along the tree trunk toward the two men.

"Holy shit!"

"run!"

The two jumped down from the treetop at the same time.

John the Stranger's armor was too heavy, and his legs sank directly into the mud when he landed.

Hong grabbed him by the back of his collar and pulled him out of the pit.

"Didn't you want to appreciate beauty?"

"Stay and enjoy them at your leisure!"

"Admire my ass!"

"Brother Hong, wait for me!"

The two men, carrying weapons, rushed into the woods.

A dense swarm of soldier ants followed closely behind, frightening John so much that he ran while taking off his armor.

The projection briefly went dark amidst the screams of the two.

The chat room was unusually silent for a long time.

Until a comment slowly floated across the screen.

【philia0000】: "I can imagine why Jiang Jianxian was so determined to go back."

"Whoever came in his shoes would never forget the person who saved him from his most desperate moment."

【•Falling Flowers•】: "I only have one question now."

"That's right, the host said before that this is the previous incarnation of Patriarch Ye."

"If he ends up with Jiang Jianxian in his second life, wouldn't that be him being incredibly arrogant?"

"After all, the two are completely different no matter how you look at them."

[tide Feng's Biography]: "Don't worry about it, we already saw it before."

"Jiang Jianxian has gone back."

"She never imagined until her death that the person she had always wanted to find was the same person she had always resisted."

"well……"