After four scumbags, I ran away

Lu Ren raised his knife to cut through the thorns in front of him, and stepped into the warm reflection of the campfire.

Ge Hui, who was in charge of vigilance, saw that it was Lu Ren, and relaxed his fist.

"How about it?"

Lu Ren nodded and said, "The neighborhood is fairly safe, there are no dangerous herds of alien beasts."

Their team chose to station in this place with good visibility and gentle terrain.They didn't gain much during the day, and spent most of their time traveling and exploring the terrain.

This area of ​​strange beast activity is about [-] kilometers away from Baihu City.The location of the camp is divided into the human activity area and the alien animal activity area.

From the station forward, it is no man's land.At special times, the camp is also the front line against the beast tide.

The farther away from the human activity area, the more dangerous and higher-level beasts you will encounter. After you successfully hunt them down, you will naturally get more points.

Of course, benefits are always accompanied by risks, which must be measured by strength and experience.

Lu Ren's team cooperated fairly tacitly, and there were not too many disputes.

He walked to the campfire and sat down, Qiu Ya handed him a bowl of self-heating rice.

Lu Ren glanced at it and asked, "Where's Teacher Mu?"

Qiu Ya raised her chin and said, "I went to the water source, it seems that I need to wash it."

Lu Ren responded, then bowed his head to eat.

While eating, he felt something was wrong, looked up, and sure enough, he saw Qiu Ya staring at him with burning eyes.

After taking the last mouthful of rice, Lu Ren took another sip of water and sighed: "If you have any questions, just ask."

Qiu Ya blinked and said, "Actually, I was very curious all the way. Do you have any prejudice against Mr. Mu?"

Lu Ren was puzzled: "What prejudice?"

Qiu Ya looked around and saw that Mu Qingtong hadn't come back, so she continued: "After all, there are rumors in the school..."

She paused, seeing that Lu Ren's expression had not changed, and said, "Sure enough, your character is free and easy, so I won't beat around the bush."

Lu Ren smiled: "Go ahead, I don't care too much about the past."

"It was not rumored that you and Shi Yan had an unclear relationship before, and then I heard people say that Bai Yueguang was a substitute." Qiu Ya waved her hand, "Of course, I am not a fool who listens to rumors. People who are stronger than you will not have such thoughts."

Lu Ren raised his eyebrows: "Oh? How should I say it?"

Qiu Ya smiled and said, "Anyway, after Teacher Mu came back, you stayed in the school for retreat. Those people just said what, after Bai Yueguang came back, the double was finally abandoned."

"What do they know? For warriors, cultivation is the most important thing. Why are you sad and retreating? Let's put this romance movie on."

When Lu Ren heard this, he became a little bit interested, and felt that Qiu Ya was a bit strange, and the character design changed too much, as if he had been lowered.

He asked: "Didn't you come to trouble me in the name of Shi Yan's fiancee?"

When Qiu Ya heard Lu Ren mentioning this, her face flushed, she stood up helplessly, and bowed.

"I'm sorry! To be honest, I've always wanted to find an opportunity to apologize. I don't know what happened to me. I probably got demoted!"

Lu Ren heard some other meanings, not so much lowering his head, but rather a buff of some kind.

Comparing Qiu Ya's current state with her previous state, Qiu Ya standing in front of her is more like a normal person with independent thinking ability.

Instead of the brainless and vicious tool people just to push things forward like before.

He asked again: "You don't like Shi Yan?"

Qiu Ya was stunned for a moment, and thought about it carefully: "Speaking of which, the words Shi Yan and I said didn't exceed ten sentences in total. How could you fall in love? What are you trying to figure out? That face?"

She scratched her hair, wondering: "No, to be honest, Shi Yan looks good and has high strength, so it doesn't make me so stupid..."

Lu Ren narrowed his eyes, and asked again: "Are your parents still promoting your engagement with Shi Yan?"

Qiu Ya was taken aback, and said: "It's also strange, my parents suddenly became sober some time ago, never mentioned this matter again, and instead persuaded me that in matters such as marriage, I still have to find someone who likes each other. There is no happiness in posting it."

The more Qiu Ya thought about it, the more she felt that what happened in her family this year was simply too strange, and her parents were not people who sacrificed their children's happiness for power.

what on earth is it?

Seeing her doubts, Lu Ren didn't interrupt, and took this opportunity to communicate with Xiaojun.

"Xiao Jun, can you detect whether this Qiu Ya also has a love brain buff?"

Xiaojun: [It’s nothing, the love brain buff is exclusive to the child of luck, she... Huh? 】

"what happened?"

[She, she seems to have faint signs of consciousness awakening, and the data fluctuations are somewhat similar to when I detected your self-consciousness awakening. 】

It turned out to be the case.

Lu Ren didn't think it was incredible. He could awaken his self-awareness, and so could others.

He is even happy to see the results. After all, people with awakened self-awareness prove that the more independent the world is, the more the plot correction mechanism will control the world.

However, what happened during this period of time caused Qiu Ya's family to escape the control of the plot correction mechanism.

Lu Ren remembered that the last time he saw Qiu Ya, she was still trying to sow discord at a charity auction, and she took a completely vicious female supporting role script.

Thinking of this, he asked, "Qiu Ya, I've been in seclusion for a while, did something important happen?"

Qiu Ya was stunned for a moment: "Which aspect are you referring to?"

Lu Ren: "About Shi Yan."

Qiu Ya hesitated for a moment, and told the truth: "I heard that the Shi family is in contact with the Mu family, and the news from the Mu family seems to be that they are planning to get engaged."

got engaged?

Lu Ren frowned slightly, not because of anything else, but because the news of the engagement came too fast.In the original plot, it was clear that Mu Qingtong was seriously injured and unconscious, and Shi Yan got engaged to show his loyalty.

The engagement in the main line of the game takes place in the hospital.

From the player's point of view, after waking up from a coma, there is an extra ring on his finger.Later, from the perspective of other NPCs, I learned what Shi Yan was doing during the coma.

This is a big development on the emotional line, commonly known as the sugar-making moment.

From Lu Ren's point of view, there is something weird about it. The plot is clearly following the flow, but it deviates from it.

This method is clearly the same as he imagined.

Lu Ren suddenly remembered Shi Yan's sudden change of attitude, and always felt that things might not be so simple.

After Shi Yan suddenly proposed to terminate the contract, Lu Ren and Xiao Jun discussed that probably because of Shi Yan's injury, he was again affected by the love brain buff.

It's just that for more than a month, Lu Ren didn't have the chance to contact Shi Yan, so he didn't confirm this speculation.On the airship before, Lu Ren also forgot about it after a while.

Now it seems that Shi Yan may have played an important role in this.

At this time, Mu Qingtong came over from a distance.

Lu Ren looked at Mu Qingtong, who was different from before, and felt more and more disobedient.

It's just that there is no evidence for all of this, so let's wait and see what happens.

Lu Ren closed his eyes and meditated, calming down.

Unexpectedly, after this long conversation with Qiu Ya, Lu Ren had an epiphany.

Perhaps because he discovered that there was light on the road ahead, Lu Ren entered an extremely mysterious state, and the five elements around him rushed over frantically.

He seemed to see a small world, and that small world struggled hard to get out of the established track, and gradually became more and more magnificent.

Lu Ren watched the growth of that small world, and the past that was always shrouded in gloom in his heart seemed to fade a lot.

He didn't know how long this state lasted until a voice suddenly dragged him back to the real world.

Lu Ren opened his eyes and saw Bai Ru standing there with an anxious face, as if there was something important.

The sky has become slightly brighter.

He doesn't need the five senses PLUS to hear the breeze caressing the leaves, the gurgling stream in the distance, and even the sound of birds flapping their wings and leaving their nests.

However, Lu Ren didn't have more time to experience the benefits of epiphany, so he just listened to Bai Ru.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt your epiphany, there is really no way, Qiu Ya is missing!"

Lu Ren's expression froze, and he asked, "What's going on?"

Bai Ru said: "Didn't you get enlightened, Qiu Ya volunteered to help you watch the night. It was the shift from [-]:[-] to [-]:[-] in the evening. It was my turn at four o'clock, but when I got up, I found that Qiu Ya was gone."

"Ge Hui rushed out. Teacher Mu said he couldn't let him go looking for someone alone, so he chased after him and left. I'll stay and watch you."

Ge Hui is Qiu Ya's suitor, and it is normal for him to lose his mind and chase after hearing something happened to his sweetheart.

Although Mu Qingtong participated in the practical assessment as a graduate student, he is also a teacher in the school at the same time, so it is normal to chase him out.

only……

Lu Ren remembered the conversation between Qiu Ya and himself yesterday, and also remembered the scene of Mu Qingtong's serious injury, and frowned and said, "Well, it's not too late, let's find someone quickly."

The two followed the direction Mu Qingtong left and looked for it.

Lu Ren deduced that if Mu Qingtong didn't come back, he must have discovered or encountered something in that direction.Instead of looking for Qiu Ya who has no whereabouts like a headless chicken, it is better to follow the existing clues.

Sure enough, not far away, they saw the mark left by Mu Qingtong.

Walking a little further along the mark, they found traces of fighting again.

Lu Ren checked the shrubs lying on the ground, and found fragments of clothes on them, which were exactly the clothes Qiu Ya was wearing today.

Strangely, there were no bloodstains at the scene of the fight, nor were there any corpses left by alien beasts.Such a fierce fight that caused a large number of bushes to fall, how could there be nothing left except for a few strands of clothing.

What is worth celebrating is that there was no blood at the scene of the fight, and the traces left by Qiu Ya seemed to have left on their own.

In any case, as long as the person is still alive, there is hope of being rescued.

"Lu Ren, there is a mark left by Teacher Mu here."

He walked over and found that there were marks on the trunk to guide the direction.

Bai Ru frowned, and said, "What's the matter, Mr. Mu? In this situation, why didn't you return to the camp to inform us, but rushed after him rashly."

With the body skills of the ancient warriors, it only takes about ten minutes to rush back from here to their temporary camp, and there is no such thing as delaying time.

In the wild forest, it is taboo to leave your teammates and act alone.

Lu Ren found a strange thing from the tree trunk.

He bent down and picked it up. It was a translucent sheet.

Bai Ru asked, "What is this?"

Lu Ren looked at the light for a moment: "It's the scales of a snake. Judging from the size and shape, it should be a python-like beast."

"Snake-like beasts are a bit difficult to deal with, but if they don't form a group, with Ge Hui's strength, they won't be chased until their whereabouts are unknown."

Lu Ren said: "Let's not talk so much, saving people is the most important thing."

"Ah."

The more you chase into the depths of the forest, the more traces you will leave behind.

But the more Lu Ren looked at it, the more he felt something was wrong. He stopped Bai Ru and said, "Wait a minute."

Bai Ru asked, "What's wrong?"

Lu Ren pointed to the body of the strange beast lying on the side, and asked: "Qiu Ya is obviously capable of resisting, why didn't she go back to the camp, and..."

Bai Ru suddenly realized: "Where did Teacher Mu go?"

There were traces of fighting along the way, including Qiu Ya's and Ge Hui's, but there was no Mu Qingtong who left in this direction.

At this moment, there was an exclamation in the distance.

"It's Qiu Ya!"

Bai Ru quickly recognized the voice.

Lu Ren didn't have time to think too much, saving people is the most important thing at this time.He and Bai Ru chased towards the source of the sound, and then found Qiu Ya on a platform protruding from a cliff.

Besides Qiu Ya, there was also Ge ​​Hui.

Ge Hui was lying on the ground, seemingly seriously injured.Qiu Ya swung her knife and beheaded a falcon-like beast that attacked from the air.

Beside her, the corpses of several falcon-shaped beasts were already lying. It seemed that the exclamation just now was caused by a sudden attack.

When Bai Ru saw it, she was very anxious and wanted to go up to save others, but was stopped by Lu Ren.

"what happened?"

Lu Ren pointed to the bushes below the cliff and said, "There is an ambush over there."

After finishing speaking, he said to Bai Ru, "Wait for me here."

Bai Ru nodded, and saw that Lu Ren didn't have any support, and lightly supported the tree trunk next to him with his hand, and he floated up to the top of the tree.

This beautiful movement, if it wasn't for the inappropriate situation, Bai Ru would have wanted to applaud.

Lu Ren floated past the treetops without attracting any creature's attention.Until he got close to the cliff and stopped.

Everything hidden under the bushes surprised Lu Ren.It was a densely packed giant python-shaped beast that gathered into a huge snake ball.

No wonder Qiu Ya and Ge Hui evacuated to the platform on the cliff even at the risk of being attacked by flying monsters.

Compared to python-like beasts of this order of magnitude, flying beasts are nothing.

Fortunately, these boa constrictors evolved in the direction of becoming larger, far less flexible than those small snake-like beasts. For a while, they just gathered and wandered under the cliff.

The problem is, the large gathering of this python-like beast is still a dangerous omen.

Small beast tide.

All the clues are connected, why Mu Qingtong was seriously injured in this hunting, considering Shi Yan's master-level strength, there is no strange beast in this area that can hurt Mu Qingtong under his protection.

It turned out to be because of the tide of small beasts!

not good.

Lu Ren couldn't care less about Mu Qingtong's whereabouts or whether he had anything to do with the sudden appearance of the small animal horde, he flickered and quickly returned to Bai Ru's side.

Lu Ren fell from the tree and said directly without wasting any time, "Hurry up and inform the camp. Get ready, there will be a wave of small beasts coming."

Bai Ru was also stunned, and said, "No, the tide of small animals in this camp only formed in the middle of last year. How could it be so fast?"

Lu Ren handed Bai Ru his phone and said, "It's too late to find out why. I took a video as evidence. When you go back..."

He paused: "Directly find any one of Ji Xiao, Shengjing and Shi Yan. They are all master-level, enough to control the whole audience."

Bai Ru took out the map from her backpack, set a point according to the direction from where she came all the way, drew a rough map, and put it away in her bag.

"Okay, be careful, I'll hurry back."

Lu Ren watched Bai Ru's figure disappear into the forest, and remembered what Ji Xiao said before, that there was a consciousness guiding him here, in order to protect important people.Could it be that this large-scale crisis is a tide of small beasts?

However, although the small beast swarms are dangerous, master-level fighters can still find the leader of them to hunt and kill them in a short time, thus defeating the beast swarm.

How could there be Ji Xiao's grand scene coming at the same time? Could it be that besides the plot of Mu Qingtong's injury in the small beast tide, there are other hidden meanings behind it?

Lu Ren frowned, but he didn't stop walking. He quickly skipped the bushes and landed on the platform on the cliff.

Qiu Ya clenched the knife in her hand, her five-element weapon was shattered, and the true energy in her dantian was not enough to condense the five-element weapon.

In order to save her, Ge Hui was seriously injured and was unconscious at this time.

She took a breath, even though the blade in her hand had cracks, she couldn't retreat at this time.Even if she can run, she can't leave Ge Hui alone.

In the distance, another black shadow swept over.

Qiu Ya gritted her teeth, her eyes were a little dizzy, but she still held on and did not fall down.She even felt a rusty taste spreading from her mouth.

She tried her best to swallow the blood rushing to her throat to prevent the fresh blood from attracting more strange beasts.

The black shadow was getting closer and closer.

Qiu Ya's eyes widened in disbelief, it was...

Lu Ren?

Sure enough, it was Lu Ren, and Qiu Ya couldn't see Lu Ren's movements clearly, but felt that when he floated down, he was like a fairy entering the mortal world.

Then, Qiu Ya seemed to feel that the tension in her chest suddenly relaxed.The weapon in her hand was still clenched tightly, but her eyes were darkened, and she fell forward.

With sharp eyes and quick hands, Lu Ren caught Qiu Ya and said, "Readjust your true energy, and I'll heal your wounds."

He didn't dare to input his true energy into Qiu Ya's dantian rashly. With a relationship like Ji Xiaoshengjing's, he could have no scruples and not worry about the instinctive defense mechanism causing both parties to be injured.

Qiu Ya also recovered some strength at this time, nodded: "Okay."

The endless stream of Mushui Qi entered Qiu Ya's meridians, and quickly healed her damage caused by excessive consumption of Qi.

"Okay, thank you." Qiu Ya said, "Next, I can heal my wounds by myself. Don't consume too much zhenqi. The snakes below haven't receded yet."

Lu Ren nodded, got up and walked to the edge of the platform, and glanced down.

The entangled snake group was still wriggling below, and he frowned slightly.During the tide of small beasts, a large number of snake-like beasts will be affected by the magnetic field and gather in the same place.

If there are many female beasts among them, the chaotic snakes will become entangled in the following state.They are multiplying...

It was precisely this reason that gave Qiu Ya and Ge Hui a glimmer of life.

It's just that those snake-like beasts will still climb up the cliff after mating, devouring all the people on the platform.

Lu Ren walked back, looked at Ge Hui's situation, and found that it was fairly stable.He asked Qiu Ya: "What's going on?"

Qiu Ya: "I don't know, yesterday I was on vigil, but suddenly my mind got confused and I walked away from the camp..."

Her face was a little pale, and she seemed to feel that her rhetoric was a bit untenable.

"It's true, like, like last time at the charity auction, I didn't know what was wrong with me, so I ran to tell you about Mu Qingtong out of nowhere."

Lu Ren saw that she was not in a good condition, so he comforted her: "Don't worry, speak slowly, I believe you."

Only then did Qiu Ya heave a sigh of relief, and continued talking.

"Then I was discovered by a group of snakes. I killed and fled all the way. Later, I met Ge Hui who came to rescue me. Ge Hui tried his best to get the two of us to this place for temporary refuge. After that..."

Afterwards it became clear that they had been trapped here for a long time.

Fortunately, the group of snakes below fell into a rut and carnival, and temporarily did not have the energy to pay attention to the two people on the platform above; unfortunately, it was too conspicuous in this place, and it was too easy to be spotted by flying aliens.

Ge Hui's true energy was exhausted, he was injured and fell into a coma, and then it was Qiu Ya who supported Lu Ren to come.

Lu Ren asked: "What about Teacher Mu? He came after Ge Hui to find you."

Qiu Ya shook her head and said, "I didn't see him, maybe the direction was wrong."

Lu Ren knew there was something wrong, he and Bai Ru chased after the mark left by Mu Qingtong, but Mu Qingtong disappeared.

He thought that in the original plot, Mu Qingtong's serious injury and coma seemed to be a plot effect, and he probably fell into other crises.

Now there is no time to take care of Mu Qingtong's affairs, the most important thing is to get Qiu Ya and Ge Hui out.Ge Hui's condition is more dangerous, and he must be sent back for treatment immediately.

Lu Ren said to Qiu Ya: "You take care of Ge Hui on the platform, I will try to lure the snakes away, and you take this opportunity to take him back."

Qiu Ya couldn't do this kind of thing of abandoning his teammates, and said: "No, it's too dangerous for you to deal with the snakes alone, I can't leave my teammates and run away."

Lu Ren flipped his palm, and the Wanwu Sword took shape in his hand. When the sword figure appeared, the sword energy shot up into the sky.

The extremely strong chaotic air of the five elements was entangled in it, and even caused a slight sense of distortion in the space in front of them.

Lu Ren smiled and said, "I just happened to testify to the results of my epiphany."

Qiu Ya's heart was shocked, she was overwhelmed by Lu Ren's aura, and heard another sentence from the other party.

"As for you and Ge Hui, staying here will only distract me and slow me down."

Qiu Ya was angry, but she had to admit that Lu Ren was telling the truth.With nowhere to release her anger, she turned around and bent down, and with all her strength, she directly picked up Ge Hui.

"You go to prove your way, I am ready."

Lu Ren smiled, held the sword in one hand, and rushed straight down from the platform. The human sword merged into one, and rushed towards the huge snake group with unparalleled sharpness.

The author has something to say: It’s not easy to divide chapters today, the two updates are combined