Chapter 26: The Ludo Game

“Miss Chu, are you all right?”

The clear, pleasant voice was like a cool spring in summer, rescuing Shi Chuchu from her dizziness and blurred vision.

Shi Chuchu steadied herself with the long, powerful arm around her waist and gave the overly close Xiyao an awkward smile.

“I... I’m fine. Thank you.”

She tentatively gave Xiyao’s arm a gentle push... only to discover that it would not move.

Under the blazing sun, their bodies were pressed tightly together, and Shi Chu—

“Your background?” Lu Jintian did not dare lower his guard. He took from his backpack the broad single-edged dagger he had won from Mokede in their duel. Watching the figure opposite him, he answered the other man’s question.

The street was crowded. Although it was still early morning, it was already packed with people. Dark-skinned, brown-skinned, fair-skinned, and yellow-skinned people, dressed in all kinds of clothing and dragging suitcases, hurried toward the exhibition hall.

“What kind of place is this?” All four of them were extremely curious about the altar before them. What sort of structure was it, to have been built deep within such a remote wilderness of dense forests and barren mountains?

Her appearance instead allowed Hong Feifan to breathe a sigh of relief. By then, much of his vital energy had already been depleted.

Ji Caiyao believed that although this battered black ruler had been left unused for a long time, it had once been the magical weapon of Chichong, and its power must have been extraordinary. She simply did not know how much of it she could still unleash. Even so, against a giant monkey in its second state of berserk rage, her chances of victory should be quite good.

Xu Jie and Huang Fei were the same. A vast amount of information poured rapidly into their minds. Without Li Lu saying a word, all their questions had already been answered.

She was not accustomed to having other people touch her underwear. In the Mu household, she always washed her own undergarments.

Activating the colossus already required an enormous amount of energy—enough to stir the very veins of the earth. How terrifying an amount of energy would it take to create, out of thin air, an entity comparable to the colossus? Where in the world could they find such a power source? Could it be that these people’s magic was truly inexhaustible?

After climbing into the vehicle, Xiao Chen discovered that this motorhome, more than five meters long, had a karaoke room, a refrigerator, and a television in the back. Traveling in it would be extraordinarily comfortable.

“If I managed to walk out alive this morning, do you know whose doing that was?” Feng Gang asked.

“Of course. After becoming your skeletons, we inherited some of your abilities as well. In fact, we can all see our own attributes and those of our opponents. The brainless ones are useless, naturally, but I can see the attributes of you, Master, as well as those of every other skeleton!” the Flying Pig Skeleton said with an utterly unconcerned expression.

The Young Master had originally intended to work with Nightwatch Starry Night and Old Zhang to create a virtual planet. But whether in the Battle of Evil or the Struggle of the Demon Abyss, Nightwatch Starry Night had always taken the lead. Now Old Zhang had simply stopped mentioning the matter. The Young Master felt too embarrassed to ask for a share.

It seemed that although the two veteran guards had been standing there smoking, they had chosen a position that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, with a broad field of vision. With their wealth of experience, they were confident that such a thoroughly vigilant arrangement would leave no room for mishap.

He nodded in satisfaction, then returned gloomily to the game pod and sent Lin Mochi’s stealth account to his email—he could never remember Lin Mochi’s twenty-digit account number.

Their own sects naturally had rapid-healing chambers, but such chambers could not be carried around. As for the Mount Tai Sect’s rapid-healing chamber, anyone could tell that there was no chance they would allow these people to use it.

Xu Ming suddenly went limp and sank feebly to the ground. The dragon-patterned jade cong that had just come into his possession slipped from his hand, rolled twice, and came to rest at Xu Zhijie’s feet.

Dragons. Yet the arrows were repeatedly deflected by the creature’s hard scales. Only once in a while did one manage to make a blood-red “-1” appear above its head.

From that point onward, modern humans descended from late Homo sapiens became the dominant peoples of Eurasia, and subsequently advanced into the Americas and Australia.