Chapter 1 Viviane's Sleeping Place

For Lily in this time and space, Leta runes were still completely unfamiliar—in fact, in her life so far, she had never encountered any supernatural things besides herself. Magic, curses, runes, she felt that each of these things opened her eyes, so when Hao Ren put his hand on those Leta runes, this "werewolf girl" immediately went up to him, staring wide-eyed to see what changes would occur to those symbols.

The Leta runes immediately twisted after Hao Ren's fingers touched them, as if animals instinctively avoided a raging flame. Those dark red bloodstains moved quickly on the stones and ice, faded, and finally there was a crackling sound. A pungent black smoke came out of the runes. These words containing powerful force burned and dissipated silently.

Lily watched dumbfounded, her face full of surprise.

The destruction of the runes on the stone wall was just the beginning. As this part of the formation node was "erased" by Hao Ren's magic-immune physique, a rush of air suddenly filled this small cave. The air flow rotated rapidly,卷起了四周的积雪和冰屑, and soon formed a cold whirlwind that made it almost impossible to open one's eyes. With the appearance of this whirlwind, countless red glowing lines and words emerged from the dark stones, followed by phantoms and mists filling these lines and words—the entire cave was instantly widened countless times, and all kinds of strange and bizarre images spun and shook madly around Hao Ren and Lily, interspersed with some kind of ghostly wailing. Hao Ren saw the dark stone wall soften and fluctuate, and then one after another undead creatures burning with black flames staggered out from inside and fell to the ground in pieces. Even a creature that looked like a bone dragon stretched half its head out from the top of the cave, but the dark skeleton "creature" shattered directly into countless ashes that scattered with the wind before it could even let out a roar, disappearing without a trace within a few seconds after falling to the ground.

Were these the undead guards that Vivian had set up around her when she was sleeping? Legacy-level blood magic?

Hao Ren was startled by the sudden appearance of these things in the cave. He vaguely felt what kind of person his usually gentle and diligent "cook" was before she met him, someone who could stop children from crying at night. And Lily next to him was even more speechless: the werewolf girl had already dropped to the ground on all fours, baring her fangs and claws, confronting the terrifying scene around her. She growled in a low voice, her whole body trembling with tension.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, these things no longer pose a threat," Hao Ren quickly comforted this guy who could go berserk at any time. "I just lifted the security settings here. What you see are just broken scraps."

Just as Hao Ren said, the guard system in the cave had been completely destroyed by him: if these guards were released in advance, it would indeed be a huge trouble, but Vivian probably chose to seal these guards in blood runes in order to prevent accidental injury to passers-by, activating them only under specific conditions. This was exactly what Hao Ren wanted, and he could completely solve these things through a chain reaction with just a slight touch.

The terrible scene in the cave came and went quickly. After a few short breaths, everything around calmed down, and the true face of this "sleeping place" was finally presented to Hao Ren and Lily.

The originally not-so-wide cave had been expanded several times in these few breaths. The previously cramped stone walls and low-hanging icicles were all illusions created by magic. After they receded, they revealed a roughly rectangular stone chamber. The walls of the stone chamber had rough traces of corrosion and cutting, which should have been the rough processing done by Vivian before she fell asleep. At the end of the stone chamber was a flat boulder, and on the boulder was quietly placed a stone coffin.

Apart from that, there was nothing else to be seen here.

Seeing the stone coffin, Hao Ren couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief: "It seems this is the real sleeping place."

Lily had just recovered from the previous terrifying scene, and when she looked up, she saw this gloomy scene that resembled an ancient tomb. Suddenly, the fur that had just calmed down exploded again: "Are you kidding me! Big brother, this is where your friend sleeps?!"

Hao Ren nodded, walking towards the stone coffin while casually saying: "She used to like sleeping in this kind of environment..."

Lily felt completely dazed, watching Hao Ren walk onto the stone platform and walk around the coffin. She immediately felt cold sweat dripping down her spine: "Wait... wait a minute! What are you going to do?! That's a coffin!"

Hao Ren didn't even lift his head: "Open the coffin and wake her up."

Lily let out a cry and jumped back more than two meters: "You... you you... you're originally a grave robber!! So you're actually a tomb raider! You... you were lying to me before!?"

Hao Ren finally understood what this husky girl was thinking, and looked up at her with a bewildered expression: "What nonsense are you talking about? My friend was originally sleeping in a coffin. And look at my honest and loyal face, do I look like a grave robber?"

Lily looked Hao Ren up and down suspiciously, the expression on her face clearly not believing him.

Hao Ren was helpless, spread his hands and sighed: "Just look at the surrounding environment. Honestly, do you think anyone would bother stealing from a tomb as poor as this?"

Lily looked around and finally thought that what Hao Ren said made sense.

"Then you're really not a tomb robber," the husky girl carefully moved closer. "Then you should have said so earlier... Oh my god, there are actually people in this world who like to sleep in coffins... How many years has your friend been dead?"

Hao Ren was choked by the husky girl's words and almost coughed up his lungs. But just as he was about to correct the dog girl's worldview, the stone coffin next to them suddenly shook.

The two of them fell silent instantly, and then watched as the coffin began to shake again, and the shaking became more and more obvious. Even the heavy stone coffin lid began to tremble and shift to the side.

Lily jumped up two meters high in an instant, her head almost hitting the top of the cave: "Big... big brother! Your friend's coffin lid can't hold it down anymore!"

"Back off, back off!" Hao Ren grabbed Lily and retreated directly. "Don't get too close. She might have slept for who knows how many years, and we woke her up early. She might be grumpy when she wakes up!"

Before he could finish speaking, the shaking of the stone coffin had reached its peak. Then, with a loud bang, the coffin lid, which looked to weigh half a ton, was blown away directly by the aura from inside the coffin!

Hao Ren only felt a blur in front of him, and a black shadow rushed out of the coffin. The black shadow had no shape, like smoke. After coming out, it spun rapidly in the air, forming a storm. The temperature in the cave suddenly dropped by at least twenty degrees—this ghostly place was already in Siberia. If the temperature dropped by another twenty degrees, that would be terrible! Even with Hao Ren's physique and Lily's physique as a sled dog, they sneezed several times instantly!

A strong smell of blood began to condense in the cave. When Hao Ren smelled this bloody smell, he realized that one of the expected situations had occurred:

Vivian, who had just woken up, was not awake.

"Your friend seems to be really grumpy when she wakes up—" Lily blinked hard in the gusts of cold wind, holding her hair with one hand while shouting at Hao Ren. "Her grumpiness is spinning..."

Hao Ren grabbed the husky girl's arm and ran out: "Run!"

The dizzy husky girl was dragged by Hao Ren out of the cave that had turned into a world of ice and snow. As soon as the two of them rushed out of the cave, they felt a powerful air current erupt behind them, blasting the two of them more than ten meters away. After landing, they also smashed a pile of broken stones and ice. Hao Ren was protected by a shield, so he wasn't too embarrassed. When Lily crawled out of a pile of rubble, her already quite tattered leather jacket was even more broken.

The husky girl patted herself hard, shouting in shock: "Hao Ren... why is your friend so grumpy when she wakes up! Do you owe her a lot, a lot of money?"

"It's always her who owes others money," Hao Ren grabbed Lily and continued to run further away while shouting loudly. "How could she have money for others to owe her!!"

"Boom!!"

A earth-shattering sound came from behind. A powerful aura erupted from the cave, even blasting open half of the mountain wall. Hao Ren staggered slightly, subconsciously turned his head and glanced, and saw that the original sleeping cave had long disappeared from sight. In its place, only a dark plume of smoke was rising,膨胀出一个摇摇欲坠的蘑菇形状 in the air.

Vivian had her coffin lid dug up, and her grumpiness was so great that she simply exploded herself?

Such an absurd idea suddenly flashed through Hao Ren's mind, but his feet didn't slow down at all. He dragged the husky girl with a head full of paste and ran all the way, and in the blink of an eye, they ran to the entrance of the valley.

And within the valley, the powerful energy eruption and continuous rumbling sound continued to come non-stop.

"Alright, this distance is about right," Hao Ren wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and stopped at the junction of the sickwood forest and the entrance of the valley. "Let's just wait here."

Lily's face was full of shock: "Just wait here? Won't she rush over and kill us?"

"Don't worry, she won't," Hao Ren said, taking out Vivian's notebook from his portable space. "I understand her habits. When she wakes up, she has actually recovered her humanity and is not very aggressive. This should just be a stress response caused by us opening the seal in advance..."

"What's a stress response?" Lily asked naively. "You know so many profound words!"

"It's like when you're sleeping while holding a big bone, if someone suddenly takes the bone from your arms, you'll subconsciously open your mouth and bite. That's called a stress response."

"Awooo."

But after a while, Lily had another question: "Then how long will her stress response last?"

"That mainly depends on when she's hungry..."