bioinnovel Chapter 145 Children, I'm here!
Chapter 145 Children, I'm here!
Xiao Hong: "..."
What left her speechless was not how bizarre the poem was, but that it was just too damn familiar.
This is clearly the famous sacrificial song from Starlight City, only with a few keywords replaced.
Since Bao Yunxing became the leader of the alliance, the folk songs of her hometown, Starlight City, have suddenly become popular. Almost everyone has heard them online more than once, and even Xiao Hong herself can hum a few lines.
Realizing that she had been completely fooled by Xiao Lü from beginning to end, Xiao Hong immediately raised her eyebrows and felt a surge of anger.
Okay, she pretended to be so serious, drawing blood and drawing arrays, and she actually believed it for a few seconds!
As a senior, I can't swallow this insult from a junior.
"Are you kidding me?! How dare you play me like that!"
Little Red jumped up from the bench with a "whoosh" and pounced on Little Green with bared teeth and claws. Her movements were so fast that even she was a little surprised.
It's not working...?
Little Green clicked her tongue in disappointment, glanced at the unmoved formation, and then began to flee without hesitation. She nimbly dodged to the side, avoiding Little Red's first attack, and took off running.
The two engaged in a fierce chase around the fairly large magic circle. Little Red was chasing, and Little Green was fleeing; their footsteps clashed on the garden's stone path, startling several butterflies perched among the flowers.
Out of basic respect for the "deceased," even though she was 100% certain that this was a trick to fool children, Xiao Hong didn't dare to actually step on the blood-drawn magic circle. She could only chase after it by circling around the edge. Several times she was about to grab Xiao Lü's clothes, but she failed because she had to turn around the boundary of the magic circle.
And so, the two chased each other around and around, panting and their skirts fluttering in the wind. The afternoon sunlight was shattered into shimmering spots on the ground.
However, just as Little Red's fingers finally touched Little Green's collar, and victory seemed within reach—
boom!!!
A thunderclap exploded without warning in the clear sky.
It wasn't a distant rumble of thunder, but rather a sound that exploded right above their heads, so close it felt like it was touching their eardrums. Both of them trembled in fright; Little Green's legs buckled and she almost fell, while Little Red's outstretched hand froze in mid-air.
They all looked up at the source of the sound, only to see that the space above the garden seemed to have been suddenly torn apart by a pair of invisible hands. A ten-meter-long, pitch-black crack appeared out of thin air, its edges gleaming with an icy blue light, distorting the afternoon sunlight into an eerie arc.
Almost at the same moment the crack appeared, a pet beast rapidly floated out from it.
It wore an ice cloak woven from frozen soul fragments, its lower body hidden in the floating ice mist, its face deeply shrouded under a wide hood, its entire body a semi-transparent ghostly form, flashing through the air as fast as a gray-white ghostly shadow passing over the retina.
Little Red and Little Green only had time to see its trembling back. Just that one glance was enough to feel its panic and indescribable excitement, as if the ghostly beast was screaming in its form, announcing to the world some kind of uncontrollable ecstasy or fear.
Before her brain could process the information, Xue Youyou emerged from the spatial rift in the next second.
She was still surrounded by a layer of frost that had not yet dissipated, and tiny ice crystals clung to her clothes. When she landed, the grass beneath her feet was instantly covered with a thin layer of white frost.
She did not continue the pursuit, but stood still, gazing in the direction in which the Frost Soul Master had fled, her gaze calm and cold, revealing neither joy nor anger.
The spatial rift slowly closed behind her, emitting a low hum, like a heavy door being slowly pushed shut. Finally, the dark rift shrank to a point, transforming into a fist-sized ice crystal snow lotus, which landed lightly in Xue Youyou's outstretched palm, crystal clear and exuding a chilling aura.
Xiao Hong was completely dumbfounded when she saw this, her mouth agape in a perfect circle.
What's going on?
They've really come back to life?!
The summoning ritual... did it really work?
Xiao Lü, on the other hand, was so excited that her face turned red, her eyes widened, and her lips trembled uncontrollably.
She had studied the occult for over a decade, scouring obscure texts, lost incantations, and folk rituals from remote villages. She had tried them all, but never succeeded even once. This was the first time in her life she had truly succeeded!
For her, this was a great step, the most remarkable milestone of her life!
"Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!—Lady Snow White!"
Little Green was so excited that tears streamed down her face. She didn't even bother to wipe them away. Her voice changed, and she screamed incoherently. She jumped and bounced around on the spot, just like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.
Hearing that familiar tone, Xue Youyou was genuinely startled. She turned around abruptly, thinking that the Soul Lord of the Underworld had turned back to attack again.
Just as they were about to engage in battle, they looked around and discovered that it was Xiao Lü and Xiao Hong.
She paused for a moment, her gaze slowly shifting from the two excited faces to the eerie, bright red magic circle at their feet, and then she noticed the souvenir with her autograph placed in the very center of the circle…
Xue Youyou's eyes twitched slightly. She squeezed her eyes shut for a moment and then opened them again to make sure she wasn't under some kind of illusion.
Having confirmed it, she pointed to the magic circle on the ground and asked in a slightly trembling voice, trying her best to remain calm, "What... are you two doing here?"
"Oh my gosh! Snow White!! It was I who resurrected you!!!"
Little Green shouted these words with all her might.
Clearly, at this moment she had completely lost her human language system and could only express her inner ecstasy through volume and repetition. She knelt down beside the magic circle with a thud, raising her hands high to the sky, tears and snot mingling together, creating a truly shocking scene.
Xue Youyou was completely confused. She glanced at Xiao Lü, who seemed to have gone mad, and then turned her questioning gaze to Xiao Hong.
Fortunately, Xiaohong's logical thinking is still quite clear.
She took a few seconds to compose herself, took a deep breath, and organized her thoughts before speaking clearly and logically: "Lady Shirayuki, you have been missing for a day and a half. Dean Shikagami instructed the two of us to wait for you in the courtyard, and to inform you immediately if you return so we can proceed to the competition venue."
"A day and a half?"
Upon hearing this, Xue Youyou's heart skipped a beat. The situation she had been worried about had finally come to pass. She had only been inside for less than half an hour, but she hadn't expected the difference in the flow rate between the two spaces to be so great. A whole day and a half had passed outside.
Without uttering a single word, under the watchful eyes of the two, Xue Youyou's figure rose from the spot, enveloped in a layer of biting icy wind, and soared directly towards the competition venue. She drew a blood-white arc in the air, disappearing from sight in the blink of an eye.
"Wow—Lady Shirayuki can fly?!"
Xiao Hong craned her neck, staring in shock at the departing figure, her mouth agape once again.
But then she thought again, this was a woman who could go toe-to-toe with the Mountain-Shaking Ants, and could even withstand those giant insect beasts of that size. It wasn't too surprising that she could fly. What was she surprised about?
Xiao Hong shook her head, feeling that she had experienced far too much stress today.
As for Little Green, she remained kneeling on the ground, continuing to scream in a high-pitched, aria-like voice: "Oh oh ...