Ark Journey

Alina noticed Xue Zhi's gaze, and she sat on the blanket, smiling and tucked her feet under her skirt.

"..."

Xue Zhi waved her hand and placed some Russian snacks on the table, along with a pair of chopsticks and a knife and fork.

Pickled cucumbers, sliced smoked pork, a whole smoked salmon, and some rolls made from baby cabbage.

“It looks delicious.”

Taking out two small wine glasses and placing them on the table, Alina filled them half full with wine.

Then he slowly pushed the wine glass in front of Xue Zhi.

"please."

The wine is very clear and you can see the bottom of the glass at a glance. It should not be homemade.

Xue Zhi didn't drink, but just shook the wine glass gently.

"What do you want from me? You're not just going to have a drink?"

Alina drank very quietly, holding the glass in one hand and supporting the bottom of the glass with the other.

After taking a sip, the little deer, whose face turned a little red, smiled and said:

"Why not?"

Xue Zhi also laughed.

"Oh, that's not a problem."

His drinking movements were much more heroic. He drank half of the wine in the glass in one gulp. He wouldn't get drunk anyway, and he could taste the flavor better if he drank more.

"I told Tallulah what you said before, and she asked me to thank you."

"Ah."

Xue Zhi nodded nonchalantly, and picked up a piece of pickled cucumber with chopsticks and tasted it.

"It tastes good. Try it all. It should suit your taste. Since we are here to drink, let's not talk about anything else."

"I'm not picky about food."

They drank until the early morning. The small wine jug could hold a lot of wine, and Alina, who didn't drink much, almost fell on the table.

And the sound becomes somewhat discontinuous.

She kicked Xue Zhi's legs lightly under the low table with her sock-less feet and said:

"Well, Xue Zhi, you're really weird. Why are you still so nice to me after I said that?"

However, Xue Zhi did not answer during her last moments of consciousness. Most of his attention was attracted by a person who appeared at the edge of his sensing range.

"Finally here."

Chapter 18: The life and death of the soldiers

The mental power was divided, with one part remaining in the tent to continue mental detection, while the other part rushed out of the tent with the body, and within a few jumps, it flashed out of the Integration Movement base and entered the nearby forest.

It was snowing lightly outside and the temperature had dropped to the lowest point of the day. Except for the sentry on night duty, no one stayed outside.

"I just saw someone flash by."

"I saw it too."

"Report."

"Ah."

The two sentries saw Xue Zhi's figure and immediately reported the situation to their superiors after confirming with each other that they were not mistaken.

In the warm tent, Xue Zhi glanced at Alina who was already drunk across from her, waved her hand and let her float up slowly.

A glow appeared on his hand, and he placed it in mid-air over her lower abdomen to make sure the wine she drank would not make her feel uncomfortable at night.

Outer clothes were taken off one by one and then folded neatly automatically. Finally, Alina, who was left with only two thin white clothes and pants, was stuffed into the bedding that had been taken out but not used.

Don’t use your hands if you can use your brain.

After making sure that the quilt was tucked in so that Alina wouldn't catch a cold, Xue Zhi glanced at her antlers.

"This corner...I can't even turn over when I sleep."

Alina moved in the quilt before she calmed down. She didn't know if Xue Zhi had pressed down on her little tail.

"Goo?"

"Stay still, Alpha."

In the forest, dense snowflakes fell from the sky. In the darkness, the trees that looked normal during the day looked particularly terrifying, and their twisted and growing branches looked like the wildly dancing arms of evil spirits.

Heavy, hoarse breathing sounds echoed throughout the forest. In the light snow mist, a tall and strange humanoid creature was walking among it. A considerable number of tubes extended from its head, connected to a severely modified gas mask. A faint red light shone through the mask, making it like a ghost in the mist.

A dark trail spread behind him, with a faint light flashing on it, which seemed out of place in the darkness.

The snowflakes fell, but quickly changed from white to transparent black gray when they made contact, and then disappeared immediately, not melting, but simply disappearing into the material world.

Xue Zhi appeared in front of the inner guards, his pure black leather armor making him looming in the dark.

He did not take any action, but just stood there. He had a certain respect for these warriors who had incorporated evil spirits into their bodies. The heroic act of collective self-detonation in the Haisi IF line to pull up the country's city wall was deeply memorable.

"Internal Guard, no going forward."

A bright red light lit up on the strange mask, and it scanned Xue Zhi's face several times like an eye. Then the inner guard said nothing, but raised his hand and released a spell to attack.

Xue Zhi did not dodge and let the attack hit her.

A burnt mark appeared on the leather armor, but the powerful enchantment prevented the energy from penetrating further.

An extremely tiny space crack opened up at the location where it was hit, but it was instantly smoothed out by Xue Zhi's space power before it could cause any damage. In this regard, the two people who were also self-taught were obviously better than Xue Zhi.

Bits of pure malice towards all living beings linger in the spiritual world. Although rare, they are as dazzling as a fire in the dark night.

Xue Zhi thought of something bad and frowned and asked:

"What exactly is the devil?"

As expected, there was no response, only another spell shot out with increased power.

Xue Zhi's figure disappeared, leaving only a sigh.

The hard permafrost layer shattered, and radiating cracks formed in an instant, revealing a vacuum zone in which the snow and fog were dispersed by the shock wave formed by the rapid movement. Relying solely on the burst of physical strength, Xue Zhi crossed a distance of dozens of meters in the blink of an eye and arrived in front of the inner guard, followed by a simple straight punch.

A loud noise echoed through the forest, shaking off the snowflakes on countless branches.

When the inhuman creature met the real inhuman creature, it showed no ability to resist at all. It was sent flying backwards with just one blow, breaking several trees before it stopped on a rock.

After throwing a punch, Xue Zhi raised her hand, and a rapidly falling figure in mid-air stopped in mid-air as if a pause button had been pressed.

That's another inside guard.

The sound of bones rubbing against each other and various indescribable noises were heard. The moment he was pinned down, the second inner guard began to resist. The red light shining from under the mask became brighter and brighter. He struggled desperately and actually moved his body an inch.

Without giving him a chance, Xue Zhi immediately grabbed his ankle and threw him towards the place where the first inner guard landed.

A violent sound of breaking through the air was heard, and the barrier called the sound barrier was broken. Countless birds chirped and flew away from this dangerous area.

A seed slipped from his sleeve, and the moment it landed on the ground, it quickly grew into a bright flower half a person's height.

Vitality, warmth, holiness, and all kinds of relaxing feelings are released from the flower. Around it, the land soaked by the kingdom slowly returns to normal.

Holding an Ursus scimitar seized during the battle, Xue Zhi appeared in front of the two inner guards who had just stood up.

"Two of you at once? You really think highly of me. And you are indeed the best and most elite soldiers in Terra. I didn't kill you even after this."

Their protective suits were torn, their kingdom had been leaked, large swathes of pitch-black shadows spread with their bodies as the center, and all matter they touched began to fall into the subspace.

The country was already at their feet, but Xue Zhi, who was in it, seemed to be fine and could still talk to them with a smile. In essence, the space-cutting attacks and malice towards living beings were useless in front of him.

"The royal family of Yan? Why are they interfering with Ursus?"

The sound of speaking was accompanied by heavy breathing, and the guard whose weapon had been taken away spoke.

Xue Zhi discerned a hint of anger in the voice. It seemed that being disarmed in a single blow on the battlefield had made this warrior, who was supposed to bear the glory of Ursus, feel humiliated.

"Nonsense, do I have horns on my head or a tail behind me?"

They seemed to have confirmed Xue Zhi's identity and stopped talking.

The sound of a blade being unsheathed was heard, and the guard with a knife rushed forward with the knife, while the other one cast a spell in the back.

"Stubborn."

Holding the seized weapon, Xue Zhi fought with an internal guard.

With the first strike, Xue Zhi suppressed him.

Unable to see the trajectory of the sharp blade, he could only rely on his inner guard to hold the scimitar upright and half-kneel on the ground, with both hands resting on the blade to barely withstand the force of Xue Zhi's attack.

But a kick from a blind spot sent him flying.

As the two fought, a large number of spells were thrown at Xue Zhi, but the crystal ice shield that appeared out of nowhere blocked them all.

He advanced in pursuit, and the heavy and fast attacks hit the inner guard like a torrential rain. Tired of defending himself, he was cut several times, and his protective suit that looked like a Soviet-style coat was destroyed by the sharp blade.

The complete kingdom has arrived.

Chapter 19: Singing and Dancing Under the Beauty's Tent

A black sphere spread rapidly around the inner guard's body, and everything within its coverage seemed to lose its color.

The other guard who was using magic to attack immediately retreated when he saw this.

Xue Zhi, who was closest to the kingdom, saw the entire process.

A gray object like a singularity appeared under the mask of the inner guard that quietly turned into ashes. There was no longer any appearance that a human should have.

I have no idea how he is thinking.

A silent soul screamed, the gray singularity jumped violently, and then suddenly expanded, like a touchless wind, a part of the subspace, descending into the real world.

A crystal light shone around Xue Zhi's body. Facing the subspace that was expanding like a storm, he was like a bright beacon in the storm.

Any matter it came into contact with was swallowed up, space was pulled inward and collapsed, and even time was slowed down.

A snowflake is divided into two distinct halves, one half is pure white and the other half is transparent gray.

Seeing the kingdom erupt completely, the inner guards who escaped from this area were silent for a moment, and then whispered:

"...Here's to you, bro."

Then a scene that surprised him appeared. The expanding country began to shrink inward, and the surrounding materials that had not been completely swallowed up revealed an exceptionally smooth cross-section, which then began to grow and recover.

"what happened?"

The country stopped changing after shrinking to a certain size, and was almost the size that could wrap around Xue Zhi.

The time core stopped working, and the kingdom shattered like a broken crystal ball, and a large amount of fragments dissipated before they even hit the ground.

"It didn't completely return to its original state...even time was swallowed up a little by the warp?"

Xue Zhi, who had just reversed time, stood intact on the dark ground, holding a piece of the preserved kingdom in his hand.

The crystal light enveloped it, allowing it to be completely isolated from the surrounding material world. This was the spatial ability that Xue Zhi mastered after revealing her true identity.

"Are all the royal family of Yan Country monsters..."

An unbelievable voice sounded from the side. Xue Zhi turned around and saw another inner guard standing there.

Although I couldn't see his face, oh, he no longer had a face, I could still tell from his voice that he was surprised at the moment.

Xue Zhi shook her head and stepped forward with her sword drawn.

Soon, a second kingdom broke out in the forest.

In the tent at the base, Xue Zhi was talking to herself:

"The target has been resolved, and there are no more dangerous units approaching."

When the kingdom erupted just now, from the perspective of the spiritual world, that area disappeared directly, but after the spiritual power went deeper, the situation inside could be seen again. It was a world composed of bizarre lights, and the shape could not be distinguished. Moreover, a large amount of information fragments and complex emotions were transmitted along the spiritual power at that time.

"I hope this subspace can be normal."

Alina woke up slowly after hearing Xue Zhi's voice. She opened her blurry eyes, raised her body, stretched out a muscular white arm from under the quilt and extended it towards Xue Zhi.