Wang Ling had never thought that Qu Shuling would give him such a big bow.
Although the atmosphere had already frozen when Qu Shuling had fallen head first into the ground, the fact that she had returned without any success just explained one thing.
That was, it was impossible to break through the desert on the outskirts of the oasis by brute force alone.
No matter how much spirit energy you had, if you wanted to be a stubborn lone wolf, you would still end up in failure in the end.
After all, the minimum number of people who could enter this map was four. That was to say, the higher-ups had definitely already sent people to carry out professional experiments to come up with the conclusion that four to twelve people were needed.
It would be hard to pass if there weren't enough people, but there could also be problems if there were too many people, like the resources in this oasis being consumed at an accelerated rate.
As the representative team of Huaxiu nation, when someone had recognized Qu Shuling, they had thought that they would definitely be able to pass. But now that Qu Shuling had failed, everyone felt a little evil.
Zhang Linyan dropped her forehead into her hand. Even she felt a headache coming on. Li Changzhe was still unconscious, and in the end, Qu Shuling had paid the price for her recklessness by fainting as well … at this critical juncture, these two people were definitely unreliable.
At that moment, she looked quietly at the youngster in front of her and realized that he was also looking back at her. He still had those standard dead fish eyes that couldn't arouse the slightest bit of interest, and the same impending yet indifferent attitude.
She felt that she was becoming more and more curious about Wang Ling, and she really wanted to know how he had opened the teahouse's door.
After waiting for a while and seeing that everyone was in low spirits, Wang Ling finally couldn't restrain himself anymore. Seeing that Wang Ling's gaze had been fixed in one direction, Zhang Linyan also looked in that direction.
She straightened Qu Shuling, who had already been lying flat on the ground, and finally found a very fine wound on the back of her neck. It was the mark of a beating, and because Qu Shuling was wearing ancient clothes that covered her neck, it was impossible to see it unless she took off her clothes.
When she looked at Wang Ling again, the young man had already looked away.
Was this a coincidence?
Zhang Linyan was suspicious, and somehow felt that Wang Ling was deliberately reminding her.
But this new discovery still caused an uproar among the people present.
Zhang Linyan heard many of her foreign friends praise her in English, and they all admired her meticulous observation skills.
"Amazing, Classmate Zhang! You actually found such a fine wound! "
"As expected of a famous high school student in Huaxiu nation!"
Only Zhang Linyan's face was bright red. To be honest, she was quite embarrassed by the praise, but the truth was that it was all thanks to Wang Ling that this matter had been discovered.
After the new discovery, the atmosphere became lively again. Everyone started to check their stamina. No one found the same injury on their stamina as Qu Shuling.
In that case, Qu Shuling wasn't sent back to the oasis because she ran out of spiritual power. Instead, she was knocked out by someone or a spirit beast!
There were so many groups of people marching in the desert, but none of them had ever seen any other living beings. Qu Shuling actually ran into one!
This also meant that perhaps Qu Shuling was already very close to the city in the desert. That was why there were creatures guarding the city around the desert!
Of course, all of these were just guesses. However, following these guesses, they could at least prove one thing.
The time limit to complete the mission within 24 hours was not as strict as he had imagined.
After all, it had only taken Qu Shuling three hours to solve a problem that no one had encountered before. The key was still to find a way.
Using Qu Shuling as a unit of measurement, Zhang Linyan estimated that under normal circumstances, it would take three to eight hours for someone like Qu Shuling to reach the level guarded by the living beings without any interference.
She wasn't sure about Wang Ling's level of spirit energy, but if Qu Shuling could do it in three hours, Zhang Linyan felt that she could do it in five or six hours, while others might take longer.
"We need to reformulate our plan. Also, whether we can break through this will require everyone's full cooperation," Zhang Linyan said after taking a deep breath.
She had the meticulous thinking of an archer and a natural sense of direction. Even if she didn't use perceptual spells, Zhang Linyan could still use other methods to determine her position.
So for Zhang Linyan, there were only two problems she had to deal with.
One was the replenishment of her spirit energy, and the other was how she should defend herself against those creatures that might attack.
Compared with Qu Shuling's stubborn lone wolf style, Zhang Linyan was actually better at arranging the resources she had at hand.
At that moment, Zhang Linyan subconsciously followed Wang Ling's gaze to the neatly moving ants on the ground carrying food back to their nests, as if she had suddenly realized something.
"That's right, the Spirit Injection Spell," Zhang Linyan said as she picked up a cobblestone.
This was a very basic spell. Simply put, it was to transfer the spirit energy in one's body to someone else or to concentrate it on an object, so that the object would be filled with spirit energy in a short period of time.
The spirit energy infused in this way could in fact be extracted. There were so many people in the oasis now; as long as each of them infused a bit of spirit energy into this cobblestone, it would be a huge amount of energy.
This was tantamount to creating a spirit energy power bank on the spot.
Of course, this kind of temporary power bank also had a drawback, and that was that the spirit energy would dissipate bit by bit over time.
Thus, Zhang Linyan had to calculate the amount of spirit energy that would dissipate.
Just as Zhang Linyan was getting ready to carry out her next plan to leave the oasis, a gust of wind suddenly blew, and the leaves on the trees swayed in the wind …
More than a thousand pinhole cameras hidden in the layers of leaves were focusing on Zhang Linyan from different angles.
Of course, a very small number of them were still focused on Wang Ling.
Wang Ling had long been aware of this, which was why he hadn't made a move, and had instead used hints to warn Zhang Linyan.
He had initially thought that as long as he kept a low profile, these cameras wouldn't focus on him.
But the people who had come in as part of Group Ten were impressively the focus of the cameras. Whether it was him or the unconscious Li Changzhe or Qu Shuling, they all had fixed cameras, which was a little annoying.
…
At the same time, outside of the cameras, in the command post of Jiutian Academy.
In front of a monitor, Teng Luchen, the head of Jiutian Teahouse and the chief commander of the Earth's Core Project, was stroking his beard as he looked at the image on the monitor.
His face was very calm, without the slightest ripple of emotion.
At that moment, a man wearing a bamboo hat stood behind him with a murderous aura.
The black gauze in front of the hat completely covered his face.
At that moment, he had already pressed the muzzle of a spirit power revolver called Golden Wind against Teng Luchen's waist. "Old Teng, I hope you don't play any tricks. I want you to release your most powerful map spirit beast and get rid of this bunch of people … I'll give you one more hour. If no one among these high school students is dead by then, I'll shoot one of your academy's people every ten minutes."
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