Chapter 61: A Coincidence Encounter With Jiang Yawen
Jun Wu walked through the eerily quiet street, watching the ruins with vigilance.
His hand gripped the mural while his right hand held his Runic Revolver.
An unsettling feeling crept up from the depths of his soul.
This feeling came when he fell into the labyrinth and now, it once again appeared.
"I need to leave the ruin immediately..."
He was not greedy. With everything he gained from his raid and the stash he found in the labyrinth, looting Elder Feng and his party.
He couldn’t ask for more.
Now, all he wanted was to find the exit and leave.
With light steps, he walked over fallen fences, broken pillars, heading toward what he thought would be the exit.
Unlike other ruins, the exit was fixed and people entered at a fixed entrance and departed through the same spot.
This was different. When they entered the ruin, they appeared at a random location with no exit behind them.
To leave, they needed to find the exit which was easier said than done.
Suddenly, Jun Wu halted in his track, straining his ears to listen.
’Something is happening?’
He tried to find the direction the slight sound was coming from but he couldn’t pinpoint the location.
After waiting for a minute with no luck, he continued to move forward. This time even more cautious.
Suddenly, the sound of heavy footsteps came from ahead. Raising his head, he could not see the distance.
The ruins of a destroyed story building blocked his view. To know what was happening, he needed to bypass the collapsed building.
Slow and steady, he climbed through the collapsed structure, trying not to make any sound.
He walked through the debris with caution and arrived at the other side.
"What!" His jaw dropped.
Before him was a horde of skeletons fighting with the humans.
"Shit! How did they escape from that place?" He cursed, his face marked with confusion.
"I need to leave..."
Before he could turn and leave, a woman was racing toward the collapsed structure with all her might.
Behind her were a few dark skeletons baring their fangs.
"Shit! My damn luck." Jiang Yawen pushed her speed to the limit.
Like everyone else, she thought she could increase her strength from this ruin exploration.
But she was wrong.
This was no ruin but a nightmare.
Since she arrived, she had been battling Ruin Beasts, fighting fellows not to kill for her spoils.
She luckily survived the Spirit Storm and prepared to leave but who would have expected the sudden arrival of the dark skeletons.
"I just want to leave..." She cried, panting heavily, exhaustion marring her face but she dared not stop to catch her breath.
The dark skeletons were cold, brutal and unforgiving.
They would devour her whole while turning her into them.
With only a few meters from the collapsed building, she raised her head, her heart brimming with hope.
But then, she saw a young man trying to leave.
She did not think too much of it as she rushed into the collapsed structure.
Dust and debris fell over her but she did not care. She just wanted to escape.
On the other hand, Jun Wu had already left as he was busy trying to search for an alternative route.
Quickly, he turned to another street and escaped with a light sprint.
The situation was turning dire with every passing second.
He barely sprinted a few meters when he noticed the dark skeletons walking out from the crumbling buildings.
"How can this be?" He wondered, his gut twisted in anger.
Every attempt to leave the ruin was foiled by the dark skeletons.
He paused, contemplating.
’I can take them...’
’I don’t need to leave.’
He had already wasted a lot of time changing his direction and now, he didn’t want to waste more time looking for another route.
"Fight!" His eyes burned with determination.
He held the strange mural tightly and cast a defensive formation around his body.
He knew better than to let the dark corrosive energy touch his body.
With the defensive formation in place, he charged forward. His Swift Wind Blood activated, his speed blurring with the wind.
Slash! Slash! Slash!
Four wind blades struck through the air, slicing the heads of the skeletons.
Since the Wind Blades were made of wind, they could not be affected by the dark corrosive energy.
Watching the dark skeletons’ heads falling off their shoulders, Jun Wu’s confidence increased.
"Yes... I guessed right."
He unleashed a wind blade attack on the dark skeletons, sending their heads into oblivion.
But to his shock, he noticed the separated heads would automatically rejoin with the bodies.
And in no time, the skeletons were back on their feet.
"Shit!" He cursed but his hand did not stop shooting out Wind Blades.
Releasing the Wind Blades, he cleared a path and rushed out of the dark skeleton encampment.
Escaping from their encampment, Jun Wu breathed a sigh of relief and increased his speed.
He moved from one street to another, cutting through the dark skeletons on his path as if they were nothing.
He did not care if they were killed or not. His mission was to escape.
"Wait!" A female voice shouted. "Wrong direction."
Hmm?
Jun Wu slowed his speed, his eyes filled with vigilance as he looked toward the voice.
Coming out of her hideout, Jiang Yawen looked at the boy the same as her with shock.
"You!" She pointed her finger at Jun Wu.
She did not expect the person she was trying to save from entering the den of the dark skeletons would be him.
Jun Wu was also stunned. He locked his gaze on her and asked coldly.
"What do you want?"
Staring at him, Jiang Yawen was stunned. She felt the aura emanating from his body and her jaw dropped slightly.
"How is this possible?" She wondered.
Inside the ruins of Bright Pearl Village, he was a Third Rated Martial Artist.
Now, barely over a month, he had already become a High Stage Second Rated Martial Artist while she was stuck at Intermediate Stage Second Rated Martial Artist.
Also, she knew he was the famous once-in-a-century array formation genius.
Just thinking of everything made her throat dry in shock and confusion.
"What? Why did you stop me?" Jun Wu asked, his patience thinning out.
"Ah!" She recovered from her shock and responded quickly. "A few meters from the location you’re heading to is the den of the dark skeletons. There are thousands of them and growing."
"But I’ve found another path to the exit but it is also full of dark skeletons. But if we team up we can push through." She said seriously.
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