Chapter 76

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Chapter 76: The Queen’s Inheritance (XV)

The blindfolded girl who held Qi Leren’s thighs trembled and shook her head again and again: “No, no, no, don’t leave me! Please!”

Qi Leren had a headache, and he couldn’t move his leg. If he met a demon later…

“Let go of me first, and I promise not to leave you,” Qi Leren said.

The girl was suspicious: “Do you swear?”

Qi Leren thought carefully and then said, “I swear.”

The brown-skinned girl unclasped her hand and looked up. She seemed to be looking at Qi Leren through the black cloth over her eyes. As if she realized that peeping like this was rude, she lowered her head and whispered, “Thank you.”

Seeing that the young girl had recovered from her panic, Qi Leren took the opportunity to ask, “What’s your name? Why are you here?”

“My name’s Aya, and I am a sacred priestess of the Dragon Ant Queen.” The girl shivered, seeming to be full of fear towards the Queen. “I don’t know what happened, all the Flame guards suddenly collapsed, and then I was here. What is this place? Why are there so many monsters?”

“It’s not clear yet…” Qi Leren asked, “Do you have to wear your Holy Flame Virgin blindfold?”

“I… The head priestess said that we must not look directly at the light of the Flame, otherwise our eyes will become blind, so all the Flame Virgins must be blindfolded,” Aya said.

“You can’t see the Flame now. You should take off the blindfold, it’s very dangerous here,” Qi Leren urged.

“No, no, no! I can’t take it off!” Aya covered her blindfold in horror. “Never take it off! This is the commandment of the untouchables!”

Qi Leren felt puzzled and looked at Aya carefully.

This girl seemed to be an aborigine of the Nightmare World, but her skin was the colour of honey or wheat. She told that she used to live in a tribe in the Sea of Tranquility Desert. She had been chosen as a sacrifice to the Dragon Ant Queen when she was a child, and was sent to the palace in the Underground Ant City last month. She thought she was going to die tragically after being drained of blood, but she didn’t expect to be chosen as a Flame Virgin. She could live safely if she served the Flame piously with her eyes blindfolded.

No wonder she was so resistant to taking off her blindfold.

“My tribe is called the Valentines, and it’s near the Underground Ant City. The business travelers who come and go rest with our tribe… Unfortunately, since I’ve come here, I’m afraid I’ll never be able to see my people again,” Aya said sadly.

Qi Le’s heart fell. The Valentine tribe, he knew this tribe. Ning Zhou’s letter mentioned this hospitable tribe, and Qi Leren had also passed through this tribe on his way to the Underground Ant City—only at that time, the Valentine had been slaughtered by demons.

This tribal girl in front of him didn’t know the bad news that her home had long ceased to exist and regretted the loneliness and helplessness of being far away from her home, but she didn’t know that she was already one of the rare lucky few who had survived this demon attack.

“What’s your name?” Aya felt that Qi Leren was a very kind person and got the nerve to ask.

Qi Leren instinctively wanted to tell her his name, but when he went to say it, he skirted around it again. He was no longer a rookie. Knowing that it wasn’t a wise choice to give his real name at will in this world: “Zhou Ning. You can call me Zhou Ning.”

“Are you a foreigner?” Aya showed a curious look.

“Hmm.” Qi Leren didn’t want to say much more, so he hurried Aya away from the street.

[99.]

[98.]

[97. 96.]

The number prompt shown by the system was decreasing. When he had first entered the Underground Ant City, there were still four digits, but now it had dropped to double digits. This meant that the number of candidates for the position of the Dragon Ant Queen was decreasing sharply. More than one thousand people had died silently in this mausoleum…

The Queen’s mausoleum in the fog was deep and mysterious. Qi Leren inexplicably feels that it was different from the Queen’s mausoleum where he and Ning Zhou had been before, but he couldn’t tell the specific difference. It was covered in a deep fog, with endlessly repeating streets, dim lights in the streets and lanes, and demons hidden in the fog.

[Rain-Day Laundry: At present, the remaining sensing times are 2/3.]

“Be careful!” The card in the card slot issued a warning to him, and Qi Leren shouted the order, pushing the confused Aya against the wall. The dagger in his hand stabbed forcibly to where he sensed wind, the blade pierced flesh, and a small demon screamed and fled back into the fog.

Qi Leren let go of Aya, slowly backed away, and leaned against the wall.

The street ahead was full of fog. He wasn’t sure where the demons were, and the attack range of the dagger was too short. If the demons were too fast, he wouldn’t be able to handle them.

He still had to use a gun.

Qi Leren replaced the dagger with the handgun that Chen Baiqi had given him, took a deep breath, and all his nerves were highly concentrated, just waiting for the moment when the demon would jump out to squeeze the trigger!

“Dadadada…..” Strange sticky noises sounded in the fog, as if wet feet were walking on the ground, with more and more sounds getting closer and closer. This was definitely not a sound that a single demon would make! Qi Leren’s hair stood on end, and his mind couldn’t help imagining a scene where demons gathered and surrounded them. The more he thought, the more uneasy he was.

“A lot… A lot… There are… more and more.” Aya’s senses, though blindfolded, weren’t inferior to that of Qi Leren who had broken his shell. People who have lost their eyesight would only become more sensitive and perceptive. After feeling surrounded, her fingers clung to the wall behind her, and her teeth couldn’t stop chattering.

Indistinct in the fog, figures of different heights blocked the corner they had come from, and ghostly evil things even climbed the low walls. They seemed to be waiting for an attack order, and then they would jump straight at them and separate the two people from each other.

“Tsk, they’re everywhere.”

Suddenly there was a tapering female voice, the voice of a child!

Qi Leren, who was already nervous, really jumped up from the ground, squeezed the trigger with his finger, and shot a demon in the fog!

This shot was the battle trumpet, and the originally dormant and stirring demons were like the river that burst its banks, rushing toward them. Aya hugged her head and screamed, and Qi Leren’s mind went blank, shooting almost on instinct, shooting the monster in front of him.

“Go up!” When the bullets ran out, there wasn’t time to reload. Qi Leren stepped on a depression in the wall and jumped onto the roof. There was a little girl on it, who looked like a human being. She stood quietly and looked at him coldly, neither attacking nor leaving.

Intuitively, he sensed that the other party didn’t mean any harm. Qi Leren hurriedly dragged Aya onto the roof, loaded the bullets, and continued shooting.

“Fool, set a fire,” the little girl said coldly.

“Who are you?” Qi Leren asked while shooting.

“Don’t ask such stupid questions unless you want to die,” the little girl sneered. “You’ll die here if you don’t light a fire.”

“Fire! Right! Demons are afraid of flames!” Aya cried as she sobbed.

There was a little fuel in the item bar, and Qi Leren immediately threw out this barrel of oil, which exploded with one shot in the air—a loud bang, and the oil barrel that was shot through exploded in mid-air. The burning sparks fell like fireworks, and the demons in the flames’ range made strange howls and fled away in succession.

The fuel continued to burn and scatter on the ground, lighting up the land surrounded by demons.

“Now run!” The little girl dropped this sentence and ran away first.

Qi Leren took Aya, who had flattened herself to the ground, and quickly chased after her.

A safe distance from the encirclement of demons, the mysterious little girl stopped on a rooftop terrace. She didn’t look tired, didn’t look like she was panting, and calmly seemed to wait for Qi Leren and Aya to reach her.

“Who the hell are you?” Qi Leren asked again.

Until now, he hadn’t had time to look at this mysterious little girl. She looked six or seven years old, definitely not more than ten years old. She was dressed in a well-made palace dress with a diamond-studded headband in her hair, like a small crown.

The little girl raised her chin high, looked at them arrogantly, and gave a contemptuous smile.

“This is really funny. You’re rampaging in my mausoleum, but you still have to ask who I am?”

She… She was…

Before Qi Leren could speak, Aya knelt down with a whoosh and hung her head in fear: “Your Majesty…”

The young Dragon Ant Queen smiled coldly: “I am not your Majesty, I am just a dead person.”

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