"Mm!"
Bao Yuting nodded. "I've known about it for thirty years. That was also the beginning of my nightmare!"
"Hoo!~"
Bao Yuting let out a long sigh. "Mr. Ye, do you know about the first anniversary of Brad Base?"
Without waiting for Ye Feng to respond, Bao Yuting spoke again. "This place wasn't originally called Brad Base. It was my hometown, called Guardian Village."
"This was originally a very peaceful paradise. Our ancestors lived here in harmony... until a man named Kolergi came with the blood race..."
"They came here to find something... Later, I learned that what the blood race was looking for was the Anka that our Guardian Village had guarded for generations..."
"After Kolergi and a large group of blood race members interrogated the villagers, they turned the entire Guardian Village upside down but couldn't find the Anka they wanted!"
"So, they began a indiscriminate massacre..."
"Seven days and seven nights. Everyone in the entire Guardian Village was killed except for me... Blood stained the entire river, the entire land, and the houses..."
"From then on, this place was called Brad Base!"
"The time when my clan was wiped out was also the first anniversary of Brad Base. However, it wasn't just one night, but seven days and seven nights!"
Bao Yuting's expression was full of sorrow and a hint of helplessness. "Actually, I lost the desire for revenge long ago because the blood race is too powerful... so powerful that it made me despair... I just wanted to leave here with Hong Hong... unfortunately..."
"Mr. Ye, the clan leader entrusted the Anka to me before he died, asking me to guard it well. This is what our Guardian Village has guarded for generations..."
"You saved me twice, and I don't know how to repay you, so I'll give you this Anka!"
Bao Yuting scratched her head. "Although I don't know what use this Anka has, I think it's something that our village has guarded for who knows how many generations, and that the blood race and Kolergi have been searching for for decades... It must be something good!"
As she spoke, Bao Yuting wiped the blood off the bloody object in her hand on Ye Feng and handed it to him again.
Ye Feng observed the Anka in Bao Yuting's hand with great curiosity. He found it to be a multi-faceted, translucent box about the size of a fist, inscribed with strange runes on the outside.
"You just stuffed something this big into your chest?"
Ye Feng was quite surprised.
"Actually, it was my heart..."
Bao Yuting was a little embarrassed. "When I was six years old, the blood race's claws pierced my entire heart. I thought I was dead, but the clan leader placed the Anka into my heart... and I actually survived..."
"So, without this Anka, you won't die, right?"
Ye Feng looked at Bao Yuting's chest, his expression a little worried.
"No, no!"
Bao Yuting quickly waved her hand.
"The clan leader said the Anka is a divine object and it chooses its owner. It saved me, and I once thought I was the Anka's owner, but now it seems I was overthinking things..."
"Perhaps, you are the one who belongs to the divine object Anka!"
Bao Yuting looked at Ye Feng with a trace of genuine hope in her eyes.
"Belongs, huh..."
Ye Feng stared at the Anka in his hand for a long time. "Bao Da Ting, do I also have to put the Anka into my heart or other body parts?"
"The clan leader didn't say. It shouldn't be necessary... and the clan leader himself didn't put it in! It should be enough to keep it by your side!"
Bao Yuting recalled for a moment, then shook her head.
"Bang! Crack!"
At this moment, the glass water ball that Yue Miao had left him on Ye Feng's left wrist burst, instantly forming an arrow.
"Huh?"
Ye Feng's face lit up with joy, as this was a message from Yue Miao.
"Bao Da Ting, are you coming with us, or will you find your own way to leave?"
Ye Feng turned and looked at Bao Yuting with a questioning gaze.
"With my current pathetic strength, I won't be a burden to Mr. Ye. I'll lurk around nearby and see if I can cause some trouble!"
Bao Yuting scanned her surroundings, clearly having made up her mind.
"Then be careful!"
Ye Feng nodded at Bao Yuting, then he and Xiao Xiao quickly ran in the direction indicated by Yue Miao's water arrow, which happened to be the direction of the passage he had chosen earlier.
...
Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao ran at a considerable speed, but without making a sound.
"Swoosh! Swoosh!"
Before the two level three blood race elders in their path could react, Ye Feng ended their lives.
Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao didn't pay much attention to the two blood race elders and continued running in the direction indicated by Yue Miao's water arrow.
Before long, they arrived at an extremely sinister place.
Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao also stopped, because Yue Miao's water arrow began to twist and deform, no longer able to indicate the direction.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, Ye Feng frowned. He and Xiao Xiao quickly hid in the darkness, looking alertly towards the dark corridor in the distance.
Because he sensed a powerful presence approaching from that direction!
"Ye Feng, it's me!"
Yue Miao's faint voice came from the dark corridor in the distance.
Seeing this, Ye Feng emerged from the shadows, though Xiao Xiao remained hidden.
"Hoo!"
Yue Miao let out a light sigh, and his figure quickly appeared from the dark corridor ahead. He moved stealthily to Ye Feng's side. "Ye Feng, your stealth skills are truly superb. Not only your voice, but even your scent is undetectable!"
"If I hadn't sensed the water buoy I left behind, I wouldn't have been sure it was you!"
Yue Miao looked at the water in the glass ball on Ye Feng's wrist with surprise.
"Did you find where the angel is imprisoned?"
As he spoke, Ye Feng waved his hand towards a dark corner behind Yue Miao, and Xiao Xiao immediately came out.
"This..."
Xiao Xiao's sudden appearance startled Yue Miao. Although he hadn't thought much of it when Ye Feng appeared, he hadn't expected Xiao Xiao to be standing silently less than three meters behind him.
"Uh... I... I didn't find where the angel is imprisoned..."
Facing Ye Feng's expectant gaze, Yue Miao scratched his head somewhat sheepishly. "I can only roughly infer where the angel is imprisoned... Only the Ten Great Blood Guards can enter that place now!"
"Is the place where the angel is imprisoned nearby?"
Ye Feng looked around and asked.
"No!"
Yue Miao shook his head. "It's quite far from here, several layers underground!"
"Then why did you bring me here?"
Ye Feng's brows furrowed tightly. "Let's go to where the angel is imprisoned now!"
"Wait a moment, Ye Feng!"
Seeing Ye Feng about to leave, Yue Miao quickly stopped him. "Ye Feng, you want to save the angel captured by the blood race, but you absolutely cannot go to the place where the angel is imprisoned. You won't be able to save her like that!"
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