Keep attacking girls and try not to be killed by them

After entering the room, Branch Chief Pame quietly retreated and closed the door. In this way, only Jiang Ran and Ice Star Shirley were left in the room.

(A one-on-one conversation... Why does it feel like the dean has called me into his office...)

The presence of Ice Star Shirley made the office as cold as an ice cellar. Jiang Ran looked at her with forced calmness, and she also looked at Jiang Ran expressionlessly.

Then, Jiang Ran's ominous premonition soon came true. The first sentence that Ice Star Shirley said at the beginning blocked his retreat.

"Fike, are you planning to withdraw from the maze subjugation team?"

7.12 - The Reward for Gambling (Part )

Shirley's question made Jiang Ran's heart skip a beat.

There were two reasons for the shock. One was that Shirley saw through Jiang Ran and the others' intentions, and the other was that she asked "you guys" instead of "you".

In other words, Shirley may have already seen the joint actions between Jiang Ran, Heloise, Vanessa and Pride.

As expected of someone who has already become the Chief Court Magician at the age of 28... Ice Star Shirley is truly amazing.

However, Jiang Ran used his mind reading ability to see that Shirley was not sure in her heart, so he was not going to confess.

"Lady Shirley, why do you ask this?" Jiang Ran asked back.

"There's no need to play tricks on me now, right, Fike? You know that Whipple Bilisha resigned as captain and left Dris Town, don't you?"

The news that the eldest son of the Green Lizard family had withdrawn from the maze expedition team had indeed caused a sensation in Dris Town. If Jiang Ran still said that he didn't know at this time, it would be too fake.

However, before confessing completely, Jiang Ran still wanted to find out what Shirley's purpose was in looking for him.

"I do know that Master Wei Pu left, but it seems to have nothing to do with the question you just asked?" Jiang Ran continued to play dumb.

And his pretending to be stupid seemed to have worn out Shirley's last bit of patience.

Shirley slowly stood up and sighed.

Her sigh made Jiang Ran feel that the temperature in the room had dropped another ten degrees.

If he continued to be "tortured" in such a low temperature, Jiang Ran would probably be frozen first.

·

"...Forget it, I won't beat around the bush and just get straight to the point."

Fortunately, Shirley had no intention of using cryogenic pressure to force a confession, but chose to communicate frankly with Jiang Ran.

Shirley said bluntly that she thought Vanessa and Jiang Ran were in cahoots.

Whether it was Wei Pu Bi Lizard or Vanessa Snow Deer, since these nobles had come to join the maze expedition team, it was impossible for them to give up without reason.

However, Wei Pu Bi Xi escaped, which meant that this maze expedition suddenly faced a fatal danger, and the one who caused this danger was most likely the "third team of the Scarlet Qi family" that Shirley could not control.

Shirley has seen many cases of nobles covering up for each other, and as Vanessa is currently a guest of honor of the Bilisha family, she must have also obtained information about Wei Pu Bilisha, so there is no reason for her not to run away.

"Fike, Vanessa didn't tell you that she was planning to sneak away by herself, right?"

Shirley looked at Jiang Ran coldly, with no emotion in her eyes or heart.

Jiang Ran finally understood at this point that Shirley was just doing her job and was simply looking for him to confirm her guess.

(Well… I’m going to quit the team sooner or later anyway, so I might as well do Shirley a favor now.)

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There are only less than 8 days left before the maze expedition team sets out, and Jiang Ran decides to have a "sincere" communication with Shirley at this time.

"Vanessa did tell me, but we haven't made a final decision yet."

Jiang Ran was telling the truth. Although they had already made a 99.99% decision to run away, they had not yet made a final decision.

"Haha, Fike, there's no need to use such polite language with me, right? If you want to withdraw from the maze expedition, it's just a matter of time."

Shirley's words were very sharp. At this point in the conversation, she had almost confirmed what she wanted to confirm, and it was time to reveal her real purpose.

"Let me be frank with you, Fei Ke. If you want to quit, I won't be able to stop you. However, I have one request, and that is that I hope you can stay."

(Eh? Me?)

Jiang Ran was stunned for a moment. He had not expected Shirley's request.

Moreover, Shirley basically says whatever comes to mind, which makes it impossible for Jiang Ran to know her thoughts in advance through mind reading.

"During our last fight, I learned that you have a strong ability to escape. I believe that with your abilities, no matter what the Scarlet Qi Family plans to do in the 'Green Ghost Lair', you will be able to escape alive."

"What I want you to do is to enter the 'Green Ghost Lair' as a member of the Labyrinth Subjugation Team, find out the conspiracy of the Scarlet Qi family, and then escape and tell me the truth."

"Of course, this isn't compulsory. If you don't want to, I won't force you... But if you do, I can pay you a 'reward'."

After saying this, Shirley folded her arms across her chest and continued to stare at Jiang Ran with cold eyes, waiting for his reply.

Jiang Ran couldn't look Shirley in the eye at this moment, because her posture was too awkward... No, it was because the room was too cold.

Out of desperation, Jiang Ran could only ask Shirley to cool down the frost on her body first, and then open the window to let the hot air outside blow in - otherwise, Jiang Ran felt that he would be frozen to death this summer.

"Oh, sorry, I didn't mean it."

Shirley apologized politely. It seemed that she did not intend to lower the temperature to undermine Jiang Ran's will.

After the temperature rose, Jiang Ran's frozen brain gradually resumed functioning. He thought seriously for a while and soon came to a conclusion.

"Lady Shirley, what kind of reward do you plan to give me?" Jiang Ran did not answer directly, but asked a question first.

"It depends on what you want, money, magic props... As long as it's within my ability, I can promise it to you."

Shirley's answer did not suit Jiang Ran's taste. He would not risk his life for such ordinary things.

"As long as it's within your ability, I can have anything I want, right?" Jiang Ran asked again.

The way he asked this question made Shirley take two steps back.

Shirley, she got it wrong.

"You...are you attracted to my body?"

Shirley, who had been expressionless all this time, became a little flustered at this moment.

Seeing her interesting reaction, Jiang Ran couldn't help but want to bully her.

"Lady Shirley, I didn't say that. Please don't have any wild thoughts about me."

"Who has crazy thoughts about you!"

Shirley's reaction was a little intense, but she had rich experience after all, so she immediately controlled her emotions.

"Stop talking about this nonsense. Just tell me what you want as a reward."

Seeing that Shirley was a little unhappy, Jiang Ran decided to stop and expressed his thoughts seriously.

"Lady Shirley, I feel like you owe me your life. So, in return, I want you to unconditionally agree to do something for me. What do you think?"

Jiang Ran's proposal made Shirley feel that he was asking for too much. In her opinion, how could the value of this young man's life be compared with hers?

However, Shirley really couldn't go into the "Green Ghost Lair" in person because it would cause more serious problems.

"I think it's okay, but there should be restrictions and you can't do anything that harms the world."

After much consideration, Shirley agreed to Feike's proposal. No matter what, she wanted to find out what the Feiqi family was trying to do this time.

"Okay, then it's a deal."

Fei Ke readily extended his hand to Shirley. Shirley hesitated for a moment, then also held the boy's hand.

——(The restriction of "harming nature and morality" should be enough...right?)

——(This kid is probably ten years younger than me, there’s no way he’d be interested in my body…right?)

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7.13 - The Plans of the Earthly and Skyly Ghosts

It has been four or five days since the Lord of Eternal Winter left the Prison Abyss Empire. The Earth Ghosts and Sky Ghosts are somewhat unable to adapt without their master.

Although the Lord of Eternal Winter did not blame them, both the Earth Ghost and the Sky Ghost believed that the Lord of Eternal Winter's personal trip was caused by their failure.

Now that things have developed to this point, the Lord of Eternal Winter no longer asks them to do anything else but to keep in touch regularly and report to him the location of "Banning".

When it comes to surveillance, the Earth Ghost controls the snakes and the Sky Ghost controls the birds. The two cooperate with each other, taking shifts day and night, and keeping a close eye on Banning 24 hours a day. As long as he leaves Dris Town, the Sky Ghost and the Earth Ghost will immediately discover him.

However, the two who had always considered themselves "the Lord of Eternal Winter's right-hand men" could not accept the fact of their failure after their last disastrous defeat, and gradually began to have new ideas.

On this day, the Earth Ghost and the Sky Ghost found each other at the same time, both for the same thing: to find a way to snipe Banning again.

"Oh my god, I adjusted my mindset and I feel like I can do it again."

"Really? That's a coincidence. I've also recently rekindled my fighting spirit."

The Earth Ghost and the Sky Ghost smiled at each other, and then reached a consensus that they would treat every subsequent sniper kill as the last one, and not be afraid of failure.

If they succeed, they will be helping the Lord of Eternal Winter to solve his problems, and if they fail, it will not affect the Lord of Eternal Winter's actions.

Then, since they were going to do this as the last time, they would naturally use all they had to snipe Banning.

The Earth Ghost told the Sky Ghost that he had successfully persuaded the Snake Shadow Society's strongest fighter, and that guy was currently on his way to Dris Town.

Tian Gui was quite surprised when he heard this. He knew a little about the strongest fighter of the Snake Shadow Society. That guy was famous for being out of control.

"Earth Ghost, your true form isn't in the Human Alliance. Can you mobilize 'that guy'?"

The Sky Ghost's question made the Earth Ghost smile bitterly. In order to mobilize the "highest combat power", he did pay a considerable price.

"I made a deal with him. If he succeeds in sniping, I'll give him the 'Ten Thousand Year Snake Crystal' as a reward."

"Ten Thousand Years Snake Crystal?!" Tian Gui was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth.

"Earth Ghost, if you give away the Ten Thousand Year Snake Crystal, what will you do next time you advance? There's no other piece of this thing in the world!"

The Heavenly Ghost knew what the Earthly Ghost was talking about, but he just sighed softly.

"Clearing the obstacles for the Lord of Eternal Winter is the meaning of our existence. My personal gains and losses are nothing."

The Earth Ghost's awakening moved the Sky Ghost, but before being moved by the Earth Ghost, he had already done something as crazy as the Earth Ghost.

"You're right, but I estimate that Banning was already dead before the strongest fighter of your Snake Shadow Society arrived in Driss Town."

The Sky Ghost told the Earth Ghost his plan in secret: These days, the Sky Ghost sold all his belongings, and then bought the legendary "Stone of Liberation" in the demon black market.

As long as the Liberation Stone is sent into the maze, all monsters in the maze, including the boss, will be driven into a frenzy, and their strength will be greatly improved by one level. However, the corresponding side effect is that the maze that absorbs the Liberation Stone will collapse on its own after seven days, so it is an extremely luxurious disposable prop.

"Based on the current situation, it's very likely that Banning will enter the 'Green Ghost Lair'. Once I confirm that he has entered, I will arrange for someone to bring the 'Liberation Stone' in and make sure he dies without a burial place."

Tiangui's eyes lit up when he spoke, as if he had already seen the scene of Banning dying in the maze.

The Earth Ghost was also very excited after hearing the Sky Ghost's plan. Their two plans complemented each other. No matter whether Banning finally entered the maze or not, what awaited him would be a doomed death!

"Heavenly ghost!"

"Earth ghost!"

The Sky Ghost and the Earth Ghost tightly grasped each other's hands. They were full of confidence in this joint action and vowed to use this success to make the Lord of Eternal Winter recognize them again!

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The camera cuts back to the town of Driss. After saying goodbye to Ice Star Shirley, Jiang Ran immediately found Heloise and the others, and told everyone about the agreement between him and Shirley.

"Now that we've spoken, you can withdraw from the maze expedition without any burden. Do you understand?"

Jiang Ran meant that Heloise, Vanessa and Pride should all give up this maze expedition.

Everyone had no objection to this decision, but they were worried about Jiang Ran taking the risk alone.

"Lord Fike, although I, Pride, am not very talented, I am still quite tough. I hope you can entrust me with the task of uncovering the truth."

Although Pride knew the danger of this mission, he would die without regrets if his life could serve Lord Banning.

"Captain of the Green Forest City Cavalry, this mission is best entrusted to the apostles of this Evil Tiger King God. When it comes to reconnaissance and evacuation, the agility and speed of our Tiger People are unmatched!"

Heloise also stood up. It was not that she was not afraid of death, but she was confident that she could come back alive.

Jiang Ran couldn't help but feel touched when he saw that both of them were willing to risk their lives for him.

He failed to make close friends in the Earth world, but he made two of them in this Prison Star world.

"I understand your intentions, but this matter has to be left to me. I was the only one who successfully passed Shirley's ten-second challenge, right? You have to believe in my strength."