When Silvan slowly stood up, it was as if the air had frozen.
Jian Sheng shuddered and involuntarily took half a step back. After all, Lin Sanjiu had known him for a few months. If she was not mistaken, the expression that flashed across his face was one of shock and regret. It was as if he had never thought that the day would come when Silvan would become his enemy. Only now did he realize the gravity of the situation.
"Are you finally going to fight?" Jian Sheng caught his breath and shook his head with a smile. "It's hard for you to even stand up, let alone fight. You are so weak that you can't even use your ability. In the end, if it's not a battle of stamina, what else can it be? After all, we are not strangers. Why can't we solve our problems peacefully? "
"Then, go back," Silvan said quietly. "Don't come back until it's time to pay your taxes."
Everyone knew that it was impossible. He was already in a difficult position.
Silvan looked at Jian Sheng's expression and smiled. "Hmm," his voice was deep and hoarse, "I think so too."
For a short moment, Lin Sanjiu saw nothing. She vaguely knew that Silvan had moved, and he seemed to be pouncing toward Jian Sheng. However, it was as if he had leaped into the void and disappeared from her sight in the blink of an eye. How did he manage to move so fast with only three food balls that could sustain him?
She had long forgotten that she had to plow the fields. She threw her farming tools aside and dashed a few steps forward. Then, she crouched down and looked at the other side of the room. If Silvan's stamina was really weak, she would rush over and do her best to stop Jian Sheng, even if it was a waste of her time.
When she peeked out from the ground, she could not see who was who. She only saw that they seemed to have collided into each other. Only when one of them fell to the ground and slid a few steps toward her did she heave a sigh of relief. The person who fell had dark brown hair, so it was naturally Jian Sheng.
However, Silvan was not much better off. The other pair of combat boots from the Munitions Factory came into view, but he staggered a few steps before regaining his balance. It was as if he did not have the strength to continue his pursuit. Suddenly, he leaped up from the ground, but he did not lunge at Silvan. Instead, he lunged at a corner of the room.
Puzzled, Lin Sanjiu looked around and immediately understood. There were some daggers and swords piled up there. They were used to mark the place when they searched the room.
Jian Sheng's hand reached down and grabbed the hilt of one of the swords. Lifting it up, he turned around and faced Silvan again. While he was rushing over to grab his sword, Lin Sanjiu could already think of dozens of ways to attack him, let alone Silvan. However, he still managed to get his hands on the knife without any interruption.
Silvan's soft gasp sounded like an illusion when it reached the other end of the room.
"You don't even have the strength to fight," Jian Sheng said confidently.
Even though Lin Sanjiu did not want to admit it, she had the same thought. Silvan's attack had forced him to stand there for a few seconds, and he had given up a golden opportunity to attack. Now that Jian Sheng was holding a knife …
"Don't be afraid," Silvan laughed hoarsely and said, "I will try my best to spare your life."
Without a doubt, his words infuriated Jian Sheng. The pair of feet that belonged to him charged toward Silvan's combat boots after he let out an angry roar. Since most of Lin Sanjiu's line of sight was blocked, she could not see the dagger. Just when she was feeling anxious, a bright light suddenly shone in front of her. She could see the two people in front of her again.
Silvan moved to the side lightly. His movement was so slow and soft that it was as if he was not the one moving, but the space had suddenly opened its hand to welcome him. The silver blade grazed past his shoulder, and the wind stirred up blew his blonde hair away. At that moment, the space had already gently pulled him into its embrace.
Even though he had lost his stamina, his talent and understanding of combat were still unmatched by others.
Jian Sheng quickly sheathed his knife and looked at him with a smile. "You can only dodge, which means you are just wasting your stamina."
The golden-haired man looked up and took a few steps back to the center of the room, perhaps to avoid Jian Sheng's attack. Without another word, Jian Sheng pounced at Silvan again. This time, Silvan had nowhere to retreat, so he could only dodge to the side. However, he seemed to have exhausted all his strength as he stood there motionlessly. Just when Lin Sanjiu's heart leaped to her throat, Jian Sheng's knife had already pierced into Silvan's shoulder.
Someone in the room sucked in a breath of cold air.
Amidst the blood splattering all over the place, Lin Sanjiu vaguely saw Silvan standing at the same spot. Then, he reached out his long arm and grabbed the man's collar, who was still in a state of shock, and pulled him toward himself.
A shrill roar suddenly sounded out of nowhere, causing the entire house to shake. Amid everyone's gasps of shock, Jian Sheng was thrown into the air in the next second. He crashed heavily against the ceiling. Just when Lin Sanjiu thought Silvan was going to retaliate, she saw a long gray shadow appear behind him. Her gaze followed the gray shadow and landed on an elephant.
"An elephant?
Ah, right, there is an elephant in this room. "
Lin Sanjiu felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over her head. Nü Yue, Haust, Lu Hua, and everyone else, except for the grand prize, shifted their gaze away from Jian Sheng and Silvan. Their gazes landed on the elephant.
It was as if they had lived in their own home for a few years, only to realize that they were living in a prison.
"Why … Why didn't I see it?" Nü Yue blurted out as she was too shocked.
Lin Sanjiu shuddered, but it was too late to stop the elephant.
The eyes on the elephant's body turned, and it turned around and charged toward Lin Sanjiu. Lin Sanjiu quickly grabbed the back of Nü Yue's shirt and tried to pull the latter to her side. However, she felt a heavy force coming from the side. The shirt in Lin Sanjiu's hand was torn apart, and Nü Yue's body was thrown far away.
"Don't speak!" Ji Shanqing shouted anxiously, "Look at the wall!"
While the other two turned to look at the wall, Lin Sanjiu did not move. She stared at the torn piece of cloth in her hand, and her eyes widened in anger. After two consecutive attacks, the elephant's gray trunk returned to its soft and sluggish state. When it rolled around in the air, many pairs of eyes glanced at Lin Sanjiu's face.
It took almost half of her life for her to turn a blind eye to such a scene.
When the elephant finally turned around and walked away, Lin Sanjiu threw the piece of cloth away and rushed toward Nü Yue. Lin Sanjiu could tell that Nü Yue's injury was much more serious than Han Suiping's. The elephant's trunk had hit her chest, and even though she coughed until her face was covered in blood, she still could not breathe.
"Grand Prize!" Lin Sanjiu's voice was tearful when she called him. Nü Yue had suffered so much to leave the modern world, so she could not die in this small room. However, she couldn't say anything. All she could do was call out, "Ji Shanqing!"
"It's okay, sis. It's okay." Ji Shanqing rushed over to her, bringing with him the scent of grass and breeze. "I'll stabilize her condition. She'll be fine."
Lin Sanjiu could barely control her emotions. She scrambled to make room for him. There was nothing in this room, so she didn't dare to think about what he could do for Nü Yue with his bare hands. She didn't want to look at Nü Yue, who was vomiting blood, so she moved to the side. When she looked up, she saw Silvan sitting at the other end of the room. His hand, which was holding her shoulder, was also covered in blood.
"That knife …" She stopped to calm herself down and asked, "Is it deep?"
"Not deep," Silvan said in a low voice. Even though they were in the room, she could hear him clearly. "I just wanted his saber to graze my shoulder … and stab into my back."
The elephant was behind him just now.
Anyone who attacked the elephant would have to face the elephant's retaliation. So, both he and Ji Shanqing did not forget that there was an elephant in the room.
Lin Sanjiu turned her head slowly and looked at the messy room.
Most of the farmland that the four of them had laid on the ground had been trampled by the elephant. Not far away, Ji Sheng was lying on the ground with a bunch of broken food balls under his body. He might have injured his spine when he fell from the ceiling, so he was lying on the ground in a twisted position. If it weren't for his chest that was heaving up and down, he would have looked dead.
He seemed to have sensed her gaze even though he was in pain. He turned his head and looked into her eyes.
Ji Sheng opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't make a sound that Lin Sanjiu could hear. She couldn't help but ask, "What?"
"I …" Ji Sheng's breathing was intermittent, as if he would disappear at any moment. "Why did I … become like this?"
This was a question that Lin Sanjiu couldn't answer.
Ji Sheng seemed to want to laugh, but his face quivered, and the pain returned. "Will … Will you save me?"
If it were a few minutes ago, Lin Sanjiu wouldn't have felt any pity for him. However, after she realized the existence of the elephant, all her hostility, anxiety, and hatred toward him gradually melted away.
At the end of the day, he was just a normal person who was forced into the corner of humanity.
Lin Sanjiu wanted to nod, but Ji Shanqing called out to her.
"Sis," Ji Shanqing said in a low voice as she walked over, his face dark. "Nüyue can't last until the end of the game. If you are willing to let me read her data, you better start now. "
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