Chapter 1676: Chapter 1677: Do I Have a Flower on My Face?
"You still say you didn’t? From beginning to end, your eyes and actions already betrayed you!" Wei Yingyue hurriedly grabbed Du Yanan’s hand, lowering her voice, "Li Muyun already has a girlfriend, and both parents have already met. Last time when I went to see his grandfather, I even heard him call that girl his granddaughter-in-law with my own ears!"
Hearing this information, Du Yanan was noticeably stunned, and her once wandering gaze immediately began to sink slowly, gradually losing its sparkle.
Du Yanan’s emotions plummeted to rock bottom, but she quickly rebounded, as if suddenly awakened from a dream.
A voice exploded in her heart: "How is this possible? Could it be that I’ve actually fallen for this brat? No no no no! It can’t be, he’s Qingmo’s younger brother, to me he’s just like a kid brother I’ve played with since childhood."
Du Yanan quickly smiled at Wei Yingyue, "No way, no way, how could I possibly like this kid? I’m several years older than him. Besides, this kid’s got neither looks nor physique. Even if I were blind, I wouldn’t be interested in him."
Wei Yingyue knew she couldn’t speak too definitively, so she held Du Yanan’s hand tightly and said, "Yanan, no matter what, you must control your emotions. You can’t let yourself get too deep, because once you fall in, there’s a chance you’ll never climb out, and in the end, you’ll be the one suffering."
Wei Yingyue understood these feelings all too well, and she didn’t want her best friend to follow in her footsteps.
Du Yanan knew that Wei Yingyue was looking out for her and chuckled heartily, "Don’t worry, although I prefer young men, it’s not just about the age."
Seeing Du Yanan return to her usual self, Wei Yingyue didn’t say any more. The two walked over to you, and at this time you had finished explaining, stood up, and said to Wei Yingyue and Du Yanan, "As I just mentioned, we absolutely cannot confront them head-on right now. Although this is a game, we only have one life, and once we die, the game is over. And most importantly, the pain before death is something nobody wants to experience. So, no matter what, we need to endure until we reach the Star-picking Tower."
"Star-picking Tower?" Wei Yingyue raised her eyebrows slightly.
You nodded, "Just now, I asked the hero, and he said before we see Emperor Xin, we must defeat three people: Bi Gan, Wen Zhong, and Su Daji."
"Is there a passage to leave this place inside the Star-picking Tower?" Du Yanan immediately reacted.
"That’s right, according to the hero, there’s a Sky Tower in the Star-picking Tower. Once we reach Sky Tower, three people can leave. And the boss inside the Star-picking Tower is Su Daji."
Wei Yingyue furrowed her brows, and even when frowning, she was as beautiful as jade, "But you also said, the enemies have immense forces. How can a few of us break through their layers of defenses?"
"Rushing in wouldn’t work, so we need to use strategy," you said with a smile.
"What strategy?"
"Feint what’s true, and make real what’s feigned; when the enemy advances, we retreat, and when the enemy is tired, we pester," you said with a mischievous grin, making Du Yanan want to punch you.
Du Yanan glared at you fiercely, "You player, what are you doing reciting the essence of the Grand Ancestor’s guerrilla warfare?"
Your sudden 360-degree change in attitude left you a bit unaccustomed, making you weakly ask, "I say, Lao Du, why do I feel like your mood suddenly changed? Hey, be honest, is it that time of the month?"
"Get lost!"
Du Yanan made as if to hit you, and you quickly dodged, laughing, "The hero also agrees with my plan, let’s move."
Du Yanan and Wei Yingyue exchanged a glance, and the two women could only nod. Du Yanan was a criminal police officer. Although she had learned many skills in the troops, they seemed useless here. You, meanwhile, seemed innately adept at such things, speaking so eloquently that the two women could only believe for now.
After setting off, Du Yanan deliberately distanced herself from you, while you walked indifferently, seemingly not caring at all about Du Yanan’s change in mood.
Seeing your demeanor, Du Yanan angrily thought to herself, "Heartless bastard, it’s a good thing I pulled back in time, or my life would really be ruined by you!"
As she was thinking, you suddenly turned to look at Du Yanan, noticing she’d been staring at you, prompting you to ask, "Lao Du, is there something on my face?"
"Yes, a dog’s tail flower!"
Du Yanan shot a fierce look at you.
This reaction left you speechless, but you didn’t think much of it, figuring that Du Yanan’s personality was a bit odd, sometimes sunny, sometimes stormy, making it hard to figure her out.
A girl like Du Yanan, with her classic beauty and enticing figure, wasn’t easy to find someone who could tolerate her quirky temper.
Following your suggestion, Du Yanan threw away her trident and, after intercepting a pack of wolf demons en route, snatched a steel sword from them and tucked it in her belt, also copying Wei Yingyue and slinging a longbow over her shoulder.
Du Yanan’s archery skills were on par with Wei Yingyue’s, and based on your spirit of guerrilla warfare, what you all needed to do now was break through the demon’s layers of checkpoints with minimal impact.
A longbow was the best tool for guerrilla warfare; after all, demons were demons—they weren’t humans and didn’t possess the same intelligence as humans. Their actions were based purely on instinct and intuition.
Currently, you and your party were heading north and arrived at Black Wind Town.
Black Wind Town was once home to many humans, but now the humans had long been devoured by demons. The demons, having consumed everything, discarded the bones of humans and livestock carelessly in the wasteland outside the town. This path of stark white bones made Deng Fang and Xu Mingjie’s hair stand on end with a chill they couldn’t brush off.
At this moment, the guiding hero signaled you to conceal yourselves, and you all ducked into the unmanaged farmland on the outskirts of the town. Although the crops were not tall, crouching low, the patrolling wolf demons would not spot you.
"The demon commander of Black Wind Town is a Black Bear Monster, a rather tough opponent."
"Hero, can’t we just bypass them?"
"The terrain on the east and west sides of Black Wind Town is different. The west is flat and easily spotted, while the east is forested, where the demons likely set up a checkpoint on the outskirts of the woods."
Listening to this, you said gravely, "We definitely can’t go west; once spotted on flat land, we could easily be surrounded by them. That would be troublesome, so we can only go through the eastern woods."
"But with the enemy’s checkpoint, how do we get through?" Xu Mingjie asked.