Chapter 292: Chapter 234: Big Sister and Big Brother Are Really Alike_2

"Of course, I’ll come to get you," Pharmacist’s Wish looked at the increasingly intense glow around her, his voice slightly choked, "How could I not come for you? You’re my family... my only family."

"Will we meet again in the future?" the Rabbit Heroine reached out her hand to her.

"We will meet again." Pharmacist’s Wish nodded emphatically, reaching out to hold her hand, "We definitely will!"

Whoosh. The Rabbit Heroine transformed into a glow and vanished from the prison. Pharmacist’s Wish stared blankly at the spot where she disappeared, until the magma burst through the rock wall and flowed to her feet.

Meanwhile, at the Ping City Military Camp a thousand miles away.

In a small courtyard where only the Commander is qualified to live, Ye Si and Jiang Shi sat together in a room, cross-legged on the bed with their eyes closed, resting. At this moment, Jiang Shi was enveloped with a blue luminescence, like a rope in a tug-of-war, as if trying to pull something from a distant place.

Suddenly, the luminescence converged on the open ground, weaving a little girl with a large braid and tattered clothes. Ye Si Jiang Shi opened their eyes, exchanged a glance with the little girl, seemingly needing no words, their gaze alone was enough to complete the exchange.

The little girl climbed onto the bed that had long been prepared for her, crossed her legs, and entered a state of meditation.

The Ping City Military Camp was extremely quiet in the early morning; no one knew a monster capable of massacring the entire camp with bare hands had appeared nearby.

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"Ho!"

Yan Qing shouted, exerting himself to pull the Lock Chain, dragging Pharmacist’s Wish out of the river of magma.

Pharmacist’s Wish rolled to the ground, and the moment she landed, she hurriedly took off her helmet, the ends of her hair already ignited, and the Black Wolf Mask was scorched and pierced with several small holes. Yan Qing, ignoring the burning heat, went up to help remove her other armor. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

Descending to the Magma Prison comes with a Unity Lock, but there’s no such benefit on the way up.

Moreover, because Pharmacist’s Wish was wearing heavy armor and the magma was dense, Pharmacist’s Wish could hardly swim in the magma, entirely dependent on Yan Qing’s efforts to pull hard on the Lock Chain from above, which naturally wouldn’t be very fast.

When Pharmacist’s Wish’s defensive barrier was exhausted, she could only rely on the armor to bear it, and the temperature skyrocketed to unimaginable heights in just one or two seconds. The temperature alone could be endured, but unlike the fully steeled rough Lock Chain, some armor was necessarily thinner for movement convenience, possibly mixed with more flexible materials, thus becoming the first to melt in the magma.

"You got lucky this time," Yan Qing said, watching Pharmacist’s Wish pat the flames out, chuckling, "I wonder if you’ll dare to act so recklessly next time."

"It’s none of your business." Pharmacist’s Wish raised an eyebrow, "I’m just following your orders for this mission, so what? Do you actually want to be my leader to command me?"

Yan Qing was stunned, they’re back, everyone is back! Just after rescuing the Rabbit Heroine, Pharmacist’s Wish immediately reverted to the previous arrogant and bossy thief, Black Wolf, using people when needed and discarding them otherwise. Pharmacist’s Wish, you...

Although Pharmacist’s Wish said nothing, Yan Qing knew the Rabbit Heroine had already made her way to Jiang Shi, as the skill Immortal Travel shares a team cooldown, and since the Rabbit Heroine activated the skill, Yan Qing saw that Immortal Travel went into cooldown.

In other words, like the Return Order, Immortal Travel can be activated even in the Secret Realm, not burdened by the many limitations that come with the Thief’s House’s free return. However, the Thief’s House’s free return is practically a teleport with no limit on usage; if it could be activated in the Secret Realm, that would be overpowered.

Who knows what the Rabbit Heroine said to Pharmacist’s Wish... Yan Qing set the Rabbit Heroine to fully automatic behavior before the mission, so apart from definitely using Immortal Travel, all dialogue choices were left to the system, since Yan Qing couldn’t bring a game console out on tasks, at most setting whether the Rabbit Heroine’s attitude towards Pharmacist’s Wish was ’close’ or ’estranged’.

Yet thinking back to his use of AI before crossing over, Yan Qing strongly suspected that the Rabbit Heroine might have rambled nonsense while speaking.

Yan Qing glanced at the molten armor thrown aside by Pharmacist’s Wish, "What are you gonna do with this? Take it back or toss it into the magma?" The armor is too distinctive, leaving it here is like exposing one’s identity.

"Toss it in, I’ll treat my wounds; you handle it." Pharmacist’s Wish devoured Blood Replenishing Pills, having used the Blood Sacrifice Dagger to strengthen her defensive barrier each time she crossed the magma, her health was already at dangerously low levels.

Damn it...

Yan Qing kicked the armor into the magma, along with the pilfered corpse of Chu Luoyan, as these would leave traces of Pharmacist’s Wish that couldn’t remain.

He glanced at the Black Ebony Rock Gate above, "Next, we just wait for them to open the door, nothing we can do here."

"You could use the corpses of the Divine Marquis Mansion’s constable to practice your swordsmanship, so next time you won’t embarrass yourself like this," Pharmacist’s Wish simply stated, "Using the Bingzi Pepper Forest with you is a waste, I wouldn’t have swung the sword so poorly even at thirteen."

Yan Qing’s face darkened; he thought Pharmacist’s Wish hadn’t seen his screw-up, yet she had stripped him bare. Reality proved that feeding oneself the manual can’t grasp the secrets of skill; only crushing through with high-level relics guarantees victory. Skill is unreliable; stats are the reason one becomes king.

"Yellow Dog," after treating her wounds, Pharmacist’s Wish suddenly inquired, "Your organization, it was only established the day you made the declaration, right?"

This wasn’t something he needed to hide, Yan Qing replied, "So what if it was, so what if it wasn’t?"

"The timing of the declaration matches exactly when we learned the details of this mission," Pharmacist’s Wish mused, "I was just thinking, the abilities of these two teams are so perfectly suited for our action, could it be that because I needed to save the Rabbit Heroine, you—"

"Don’t flatter yourself too much," Yan Qing cut her off, "Do you really think you’re that valuable to me?"

Pharmacist’s Wish looked at him steadily, muttering to herself, "Seems like what she said makes some sense..."

"What?"

"None of your business."

Rumble!

Suddenly, a deafening noise erupted above, as loud as thunder, startling the two of them. They looked up to see the Black Ebony Rock Gate forcibly smashed open by a giant iron hammer, the door panels deformed, revealing a seam.

Two familiar snake-fox masks peered through the gap, filled with blood and gore. Shang Xinlei, holding a Snake Pattern Rope, looked down at them, voice full of resentment, "Hey, isn’t this our mighty Black Wolf and Yellow Dog? What, do you need a little help?"

Yan Qing glanced at Pharmacist’s Wish; Pharmacist’s Wish took a deep breath, looked up, and shouted, "Red Snake, save us!"

"Louder, I can’t hear you."

"Red Snake, please save us!"

"Hmm, not bad, now the other one?"

"Me too?" Yan Qing incredulously pointed to himself.

"What else? You think we’re close buddies?" Shang Xinlei gritted her teeth, "Who was it that left me alone up there just now?"

Forced by the circumstance, Yan Qing could only shout, "Red Snake, save us!"

"Change it up, something new!"

"Red Snake, we need you, you’re the light, you’re the electricity, you’re the only myth!"

"Oh? Didn’t know I was this amazing in your eyes," Shang Xinlei bashfully scratched her head, while Ying Rushi secretly chuckled.

This is maddening, Yan Qing thought, clenched his fists, they were so tight he wanted to rip apart her stockings!