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However, no matter how fast she ran, even when she was panting heavily.
Lu Mingfei's figure remained constantly by his side, maintaining a distance of about one hundred meters, neither too close nor too far, like an inescapable ghost.
In the end, Sheena was completely discouraged.
She stopped, her face crestfallen, and with a resigned air, turned around and ran back to Lu Mingfei. She looked up at him, her voice trembling with tears and deep helplessness, and asked:
"My lord, what exactly do you want?"
Lu Mingfei remained unfazed, his gaze calmly meeting her eyes, which were filled with confusion and unease, and uttered two words frankly:
"walk."
Hina: "..."
Her eyes widened, her small nose wrinkled slightly, and she was instantly overwhelmed by a huge sense of speechlessness.
walk?
In this desolate, icy wasteland, why did it keep following me on a walk?
Sir, could your excuse for taking a walk be any more flimsy?!
Looking at Lu Mingfei's calm and composed face, as if he were truly just admiring the snow scene, she felt a deep sense of powerlessness welling up inside her.
It seems that this mysterious and powerful Awakened One is determined to follow her.
Lu Mingfei stood a few steps away from her, the wind and snow blowing the stray hairs on his forehead.
He looked at the girl's face, which showed a mixture of confusion, unease, and resignation, and a gentle smile appeared on his lips.
"Don't worry," his voice was clear and steady in the cold wind, "I meant no harm."
Sheena blinked suspiciously, clearly not quite believing this "Awakened One" who possessed terrifying strength and whose behavior was incomprehensible.
“However,” Lu Mingfei continued, “I have nowhere else to go right now, so I can only follow you for the time being.”
"Really?" Sheena's voice rose a little, filled with doubt, her small nose wrinkling slightly. "You're not going to lie to me and turn me into a bear cake, are you?"
She subconsciously touched her furry ears, as if to make sure they were still firmly attached to her head.
Lu Mingfei was amused by her sudden, imaginative worry and chuckled softly.
"of course not."
His gaze fell on her bear ears, which trembled slightly with her emotions, and he added,
"How could I bear to part with such an adorable animal-eared girl like you?" The tone was tinged with genuine teasing.
Even if... even if you say I'm cute...
A thin blush instantly spread across Sheena's cheeks, reaching all the way to her ears, making her brown bear ears appear even redder.
She quickly lowered her head, trying to hide her embarrassment, but stubbornly muttered, "I won't be happy either... Humph!"
However, the slight upturn of her lips and the fleeting shy glint in her eyes revealed her true thoughts.
Looking at this awkward yet genuine reaction, Lu Mingfei instantly had a precise word pop into his mind:
The mouth is too honest!
This phrase perfectly describes Sheena at this moment.
She was secretly pleased to be praised for being cute, but she stubbornly denied it.
“Alright,” Lu Mingfei said, his smile fading and his expression turning serious. “I’ll take you back. I’m much faster than you, so it will save you a lot of time.”
Sheena looked up, the blush on her face not yet completely gone.
She looked at Lu Mingfei hesitantly, her eyes filled with struggle.
Bring a strange, powerful Awakened One back to the village?
The risk is too great.
But if we don't agree, judging from this person's demeanor, it seems he'll keep following us...
And he seemed... genuinely meant no harm just now? He even complimented himself on being cute...
After a long internal struggle, Sheena finally seemed to have made up her mind. She took a deep breath of the cold air and nodded.
“Okay…” She paused, her expression turning unusually serious. She stared intently into Lu Mingfei's eyes and emphasized, “
"But you have to promise me! Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely you can't hurt anyone in the village! They...they're all good people!"
Her voice trembled slightly, a testament to her utmost effort to protect her home.
Lu Mingfei met her tense and pleading gaze, nodded solemnly, and spoke in a steady and powerful voice:
"I promise you, don't worry!"
Chapter 191 Encounter in the Snowfield
The cold wind, carrying snowflakes, howled across the boundless frozen wasteland.
Lu Mingfei carried Xina on his back, moving swiftly across the vast snowfield.
Considering the girl on his back, he did not push his speed to the limit.
Instead, it maintained a steady speed of about 80 kilometers per hour.
Sheena wrapped her arms tightly around his neck, her furry bear ears trembling slightly in the wind.
Experiencing a speed far exceeding her own running limits, she felt both nervous and a little curious.
"That way!" Sheena's voice was muffled in the wind as she pointed northeast.
Lu Mingfei adjusted his direction as instructed, his steps steady. The profoundness of the Taixu Youlong Step made him feel as if he were walking on flat ground, even on the snow.
Just as they rounded the foot of a huge iceberg, Lu Mingfei's keen senses detected unusual activity coming from behind the iceberg—heavy stomping sounds, heavy breathing, and the crisp clanging of metal against metal.
He immediately slowed his pace, blending into the shadows of the snow, and silently led Xena closer to the edge of the iceberg, using the jagged ice ridges as cover to peer inside.
On the other side of the iceberg, a fierce hunt is underway.
Four orcs resembling Sheena are ganging up on a massive elephant.
One of the female orcs, with snow-white rabbit ears, was incredibly fast, her figure blurring as she moved constantly around the giant elephant.
He used swift surprise attacks and precise short-sword strikes to draw the giant elephant's attention, keeping it busy.
The other three male orcs were responsible for the main attack:
A man with tiger ears wields a large sword, exuding a fierce aura;
A burly man with bear-like ears wielded a heavy broadsword with astonishing strength;
Another man with dog ears, wielding a spear, moved nimbly, constantly searching for weaknesses in the giant elephant.
When Sheena saw them, her eyes lit up, and she instinctively wanted to call out to them—it was the hunting team from her village!
But she immediately glanced at Lu Mingfei's profile and remembered the existence of this mysterious "Awakener".
In the end, she swallowed her words back, only nervously clutching the clothes on Lu Mingfei's shoulder.
The battle was extremely difficult. The giant elephants had thick hides and immense strength, and every time they swung their trunks or stomped the ground, they carried the power to split mountains and shatter rocks.
Although the bunny-eared girl was fast, she was constantly in danger.
The attacks from the tiger-eared man and the bear-eared man were repeatedly blocked by the giant elephant's thick skin and hard tusks.
The dog-eared man used his keen sense of smell and hearing to constantly alert his teammates to the giant elephant's attack direction.
Finally, after the bunny-eared girl successfully distracted him, the tiger-eared man seized the moment when the giant elephant's neck was exposed!
He let out a low roar, channeling all his strength into his arms, and the greatsword in his hand transformed into a cold light, piercing the giant elephant's head with precision and ruthlessness!
With a deafening roar, the colossal elephant's massive body crashed to the ground, kicking up a cloud of snow dust.
The four-person team breathed a sigh of relief, their faces showing tired but excited smiles, and prepared to go forward to handle the spoils.
Just then, the dog-eared man's nose twitched a few times.
He cautiously raised his head, looking in the direction where Lu Mingfei and Xi Na were hiding, and said in a deep voice:
"Someone's coming! Be careful!"
The tiger-eared man and the bear-eared man immediately gripped their weapons, while the rabbit-eared girl quickly retreated to her teammates' side.
The four-person team instantly went on high alert, their sharp eyes scanning the direction of the iceberg.
Lu Mingfei initially thought they had been exposed and was about to bring Xina to explain.
However, his keen senses detected another aura—coming from the depths of the snowfield further away.
On the flat snow, a series of clear footprints appeared without warning, as if someone had appeared out of thin air.
Immediately afterwards, two figures appeared in the wind and snow.
One of them was exceptionally burly, dressed in thick animal hide clothing, his exposed skin covered with fine scales, and trailing behind him a thick lizard tail covered with the same scales. He had a huge steel sword almost as tall as him slung across his back, the blade gleaming coldly.
Standing beside him was a blonde girl who seemed completely out of place in this snowy landscape, wearing a pure wool shawl.
She was dressed relatively lightly, with delicate features and an indifferent expression. Her long golden hair remained motionless in the cold wind, as if unaffected by the outside world.
An ordinary person might assume that the burly man with the lizard tail was the leader, and the blonde girl was his subordinate or companion.
But Lu Mingfei's senses clearly told him that the seemingly harmless blonde girl possessed an extremely dangerous aura, and her energy fluctuations far exceeded those of the lizard-tailed man.
Judging from his current state of having his cultivation sealed, this girl is extremely dangerous.
He instantly made a judgment in his mind:
The tall man with the lizard tail was probably more like the blonde girl's slave or guard.
Sure enough, the man with the lizard tail stepped forward, his voice loud and undeniably domineering, and roared at the hunting team:
"We've had our eye on this giant elephant for a long time! It's our prey!"
"Nonsense!" The rabbit-eared girl retorted immediately, her eyebrows raised. "We tracked it for most of the day and just hunted it down! Why do you say it's yours?"
The tiger-eared man and the bear-eared man didn't speak, but their eyes became more serious and their muscles tensed. They could also feel the powerful pressure emanating from the lizard-tailed man, who was definitely not an easy opponent.
The dog-eared man sniffed the air warily, trying to discern the other's scent.
The two sides were locked in a brief standoff, exchanging heated words.