"Si Yin, what are you doing?"
Gazing at Lin Siyin as she used her own blood to inscribe a mysterious and complex pattern on Lu Zixun’s body, Su Nian’s brow furrowed deeply.
"A protective talisman, and at the same time, if someone harms Da Ju, I will get an alert."
While responding to Su Nian, Lin Siyin also drew the final stroke.
A faint red glow rose, then concealed itself within the pattern.
The consumption on Lin Siyin was clearly enormous from crafting this talisman.
At this point, Lin Siyin’s lips turned pale, and her body trembled slightly as she struggled to speak to Su Nian, "I need to sleep for a bit, just wake me up when we arrive."
Worriedly glancing at Lin Siyin, Su Nian wanted to say something, but ultimately, she closed her mouth and nodded.
With a slight smile on her face, Lin Siyin smiled at Su Nian, tightly held Lu Zixun in her arms, rested her head against the window, and slowly closed her eyes.
She soon fell asleep.
The car slowly drove towards the center of the forest, and the slumbering Lu Zixun was completely unaware of this.
Upon reaching the villa in the middle of the mountain, Lin Siyin opened her bewildered eyes under the shaking of Su Nian.
Raising her hand to rub her throbbing head, she turned to look outside the window, "Have we arrived?"
Nodding, Su Nian leaned in close to Lin Siyin’s ear, "Sister Meng just said that there seem to be university students from more than our school here, it should be safe, right?"
Frowning slightly, Lin Siyin vaguely felt something was amiss. Where had these other people come from?
As Lin Siyin pondered without resolution, a person in the student union’s work clothes boarded the bus, "Students, take your belongings, our three-day survival trip is about to begin."
To avoid attracting malicious attention, Lin Siyin had specifically handed her belongings in the bag to Su Nian, and put Lu Zixun into the backpack while holding him.
Following the large group off the bus, Lin Siyin observed the so-called forest villa in front of her.
The area it covered was quite substantial and, counting the guest rooms, there was more than enough space to accommodate so many people.
However, Lin Siyin increasingly felt that something was not right, a so-called student union activity, yet it involved staying outdoors for three days and two nights, which seemed rather unsafe.
With a dark expression, she followed Su Nian towards the inside of the forest villa.
At that moment, Qiu Yuebai, who was accompanying Bai Xinxin, also looked at the remote mountain forest with knitted brows.
"Brother Qiu, what’s wrong?"
Turning around and noticing Qiu Yuebai’s distressed expression, Bai Xinxin spoke.
"I thought it was just going to be one afternoon, I didn’t expect it to actually be three days and two nights."
Clearly, Qiu Yuebai and Lin Siyin had noticed the same problem.
Pausing for a moment, Qiu Yuebai continued, "Lingchuan City has just had cases of college students disappearing. Would the school still allow students to participate in such obviously unsafe activities?"
His gaze deepened a notch as he searched for Ma Jiang’s location. "Unless... the person who approved this order is out of their mind, or... it’s some other even worse situation."
At these words, Bai Xinxin’s complexion changed.
After the last incident with ’XS’, she felt an inexplicable fear of these matters.
Silently walking over to Qiu Yuebai’s side, Bai Xinxin tightly clung to his arm, "Brother Qiu, what should we do now? Let’s not participate in this activity."
After learning about Lu Zixun’s identity from Bai Xinxin, and seeing Lu Zixun’s figure before,
Qiu Yuebai faintly felt that there was definitely a conspiracy involved in this matter.
After a moment of contemplation, "Xin’er, send a message to your sister and ask her to send a car to pick you up."
Leaving was not an option for Qiu Yuebai, he could only call off the event for now, no matter what Ma Jiang was planning; he had to stop it.
Nodding her head, Bai Xinxin took out her phone, but her expression changed as she messaged, "Brother Qiu, there’s no signal here."
Just as Qiu Yuebai was about to halt everyone, his voice was drowned out by a tremendous explosion.
The panicked crowd looked around with terrified faces.
At this moment, Ma Jiang, who had long been sought by the crowd, appeared in the very center, "Don’t panic, don’t panic, this area is currently under mining construction, and I assure you it won’t be noisy at night."
Lu Zixun, awakened by the explosion, opened his eyes wearily.
He checked his body’s condition and his face changed.
His current strength wasn’t even equivalent to a C-grade, what was happening?
"System, what’s the situation with my body now?"
"Ding—Please, Host, do not panic. Bloodline purification is not only about enhancing one aspect of strength but is a process of comprehensive awakening, and this is normal."
Hearing the system’s evasive answer, Lu Zixun almost vomited blood.
This situation told him his strength had declined, was this not asking for his life?
"Is that what I asked? I mean, why has my strength dropped so severely?"
"Ding—While the bloodline is being enhanced, it is also merging with the Host’s superpower. The Host’s strength will recover after the bloodline purification, please remain calm."
At this moment, Lu Zixun just wanted to curse. Using bloodline purification alone could result in such a situation, why wasn’t he informed earlier.
Now that saying anything was futile, Lu Zixun took a deep breath, "System, how long until the bloodline purification ends?"
"Ding—It will conclude in twenty-seven hours."
Lu Zixun’s face was bitter; usually, he could just sleep in dorm 521 for a day and it would be over.
But at this critical moment... it was truly life-threatening.
With Lu Zixun’s current strength, even a normal abnormal creature could take his life.
Fighting the overwhelming drowsiness, Lu Zixun pulled out all the Array Formation Plates from the talisman.
He also threw the STO Identity Card and his phone into his backpack.
Struggling to raise, he pat down the chip on his chest with his paw, nano-armored covered his whole body, and he said with Spiritual Energy, "Si Yin, I might be asleep for about a day, and I probably won’t wake up during that time, don’t worry."
After saying these words, Lu Zixun fell back into a deep sleep.
Under the nano-armored, his body continuously flickered with the light of flames on his fur.
Hearing this, Lin Siyin’s expression changed.
The earlier explosion had undoubtedly confirmed her suspicion; the immediate priority was to take Lu Zixun and leave this place.
At this time, several bus drivers were milling around the bus, looking very troubled.
Lin Siyin left the crowd and approached the bus driver, "Sir, may I go down the mountain with you?"
The bus driver scratched his head in embarrassment, "I’m sorry, young lady, I don’t know why, but the bus won’t start, it can’t be ignited."