Though Bao Yu Ting was badly injured and walked with a limp, his swaying gait still made him appear like a terrifying killer to De Das.
"Stop... stop! Your... your wife is still alive..."
"I... I can find you another wife... any beauty you want... I can have her surgically altered to look like your wife..."
Watching Bao Yu Ting draw closer, the panicked De Das stammered incoherently.
"Whoosh! Swish!"
Under De Das's terrified gaze, Bao Yu Ting brought his knife down, instantly severing De Das's head. Blood spurted out.
"Whoosh! Swish!"
"Sizzle sizzle!"
As if one blow was not enough, Bao Yu Ting continued to hack at De Das's severed head with his mithril long blade. Amidst a red glow, De Das's head turned to ashes.
Then, Bao Yu Ting walked to De Das's headless body. He looked at the delicate young girl's face on the left side of the chest, tears of blood streaming from his eyes. "Hong Hong, I'm sorry!"
With that, Bao Yu Ting plunged the long blade in his hand into De Das's left chest.
"Sizzle sizzle!"
After a burning sound, the eerie young girl's face on De Das's left chest completely turned to ash.
Immediately after, Bao Yu Ting brandished his mithril long blade again, cutting De Das's corpse into pieces, which also turned into a pile of ashes...
"Quick! There's a strong smell of blood!"
"It's ahead, the screams of Elder De Das just came from there!"
"There might be intruders, hurry!"
...
At this moment, blood race voices echoed from several passages around the area where Ye Feng and the other two were.
"Xiao Xiao, the spray!"
Ye Feng nodded at Xiao Xiao.
"Mhm!"
Xiao Xiao immediately understood, took out the environmental concealment potion, and sprayed it on Bao Yu Ting, who was bleeding from multiple wounds.
Bao Yu Ting cooperated, tearing off pieces of his clothes to bandage his injuries.
Meanwhile, blood race members holding various weapons appeared at the entrances of several passages.
Ye Feng frowned slightly, detonated a smoke bomb, and then retrieved the Great Poison Orb he had obtained from Yu Hou from his spatial warehouse, quickly throwing it towards a group of blood race members.
"Bang!~"
The poison orb exploded violently as it neared the blood race, spraying a large amount of liquid.
"Ah! Ugh!~"
"Ah! Run!"
"Scatter!"
...
The blood race members cried out in pain, and the scene descended into chaos.
"Whoosh~ Hoo hoo!~"
Some of the approaching blood race members used blood arts to blow away the dense smoke and dust.
On the ground lay many blood race members, some with rotting bodies, some frozen in place, and some had successfully spawned a large meatball...
"Chase!"
A seventh-level blood race elder roared, and the blood race members immediately split into multiple groups, pursuing them towards various fork roads.
"Elder, we..."
Several blood race members pointed to a passage on the left, looking at the seventh-level blood race elder with questioning eyes.
"We don't have permission to go there!"
After speaking, the seventh-level blood race elder chose a direction with fewer blood race members and pursued. The remaining blood race members quickly followed.
The blood race members did not notice that Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, and Bao Yu Ting had not run into any of those passages but were clinging to the rock wall of the dome, quietly observing below.
"A place even the seven-star blood race elder doesn't have permission to enter!"
Ye Feng, with one arm around Bao Yu Ting and the other gripping the dome, squinted at the dark passage.
In fact, he had saved Bao Yu Ting not only out of compassion but also for another important reason: to probe which areas in this vast region were particularly important...
After all, he and Xiao Xiao had spent a lot of time examining Area 1 earlier...
"Bao Da Ting, the place we're going is very dangerous. Do you want to follow us, or find your own way to leave here!"
After the blood race left, Ye Feng reconnected Bao Yu Ting's broken leg bone and asked him.
Bao Yu Ting seemed unfazed by the pain of his broken leg. He nodded numbly with vacant eyes, remaining silent.
Ye Feng frowned slightly and then, with Xiao Xiao, quickly walked towards the passage the seventh-level blood race elder had no permission to enter.
"Mr... Mr. Zhang San..."
At this moment, Bao Yu Ting behind them called out to Ye Feng in a low voice.
Bao Yu Ting's tone seemed conflicted, and his face showed obvious hesitation.
"If you want to say your wife is dead and you don't want to live, you don't have to. You can just run out and let those blood race members flay you alive!"
Ye Feng turned around and spoke quickly.
"But have you ever thought about it? Your wife... her name is Hong Hong, right? Would she want to see you like this? She endured the inhuman torture of the blood race, did she truly not consider that the blood race might be lying to her?"
"Or did she refuse to think about it, choosing instead to believe in the slim hope offered by the blood race's promises!"
He paused, then Ye Feng spoke again.
"I..."
Bao Yu Ting's heart skipped a beat. The lifelessness in his eyes regained some vitality. He looked at Ye Feng, who had already entered the passage, his expression hardening.
"Mr. Ye!"
This time, Bao Yu Ting did not address Ye Feng by his fake name.
"Mhm?"
Ye Feng turned around, looking at Bao Yu Ting with confusion.
"Mr. Ye, I, Bao Yu Ting, have lived half my life like a dog, carrying the heavy burden of revenge, and wandering aimlessly. It's truly wonderful to meet a real person in this apocalypse!"
As he spoke, Bao Yu Ting limped quickly towards Ye Feng.
"Swish!"
After reaching Ye Feng, Bao Yu Ting swiftly plunged a dagger into his own heart.
"Holy crap!"
Ye Feng was stunned by Bao Yu Ting's sudden suicidal act, but he quickly noticed something was wrong.
Because after Bao Yu Ting stabbed himself in the heart with the dagger, no blood gushed out. Instead, faint white-bright light emanated, and Bao Yu Ting's face showed no signs of pain.
Under Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao's watchful eyes, Bao Yu Ting discarded the dagger.
He reached into his chest, rummaged around, and pulled out a bloody mass, handing it to Ye Feng.
After Bao Yu Ting extracted the bloody mass, the wound in his chest rapidly healed, as did the other wounds on his body!
"Wh-what?"
Ye Feng looked at the bloody mass Bao Yu Ting handed him, utterly bewildered.
"Mr. Ye, this is An Ka, a treasure our people have guarded for generations, and something that Keless and the blood race have been searching for for decades!"
Bao Yu Ting looked at the bloody mass in his hand, his eyes filled with memory and a hint of sadness.
"An Ka? Something the blood race and Keless have been searching for?"
"You know Keless?"
Ye Feng looked at Bao Yu Ting with great surprise. He had initially thought the man was just an ordinary explorer in this place, but unexpectedly...
...