Quick Transmigration: The Mad Beauty Refuses to Be the Scapegoat!-Chapter 252 - 33: Berserk Junior Sister Refuses to Be Cannon Fodder (Part 33)
The fourth senior brother skeptically looked at his compass.
"How could it be? This is a spiritual artifact with spiritual power. No matter where it is, it won’t malfunction."
Everyone sighed, having no choice but to accept the fact that they were lost.
As the sun overhead grew larger and the temperature got higher, everyone’s faces displayed a varying degree of earth-yellow, and their lips began to crack.
The fourth senior brother pointed to the dog on Jiang Lai’s shoulder.
"Why don’t we let it guide us?"
"No way."
"Why not? Isn’t it supposed to find any path?"
"It’s too hot in the wind, and it’s all sand, which is bad for its nose."
Pudding relies on its sense of smell to navigate, but here it’s all sand. Taking one sniff might swallow a lot, and there’s no guarantee of finding the right direction.
"What do we do now? We can’t even find the way back."
We can’t just all stay here endlessly.
At this point, the little black snake on Du Furong’s wrist slowly crawled down her leg before anyone realized what it was going to do, and then it directly burrowed into the sand.
"What’s it doing?"
Jiang Lai looked down.
"The short-tailed adder naturally grows in the desert; maybe we’re saved."
The nose may not be useful, but the tongue can be.
The little black snake had not been in the sand long before it quickly resurfaced. Soon, small mounds formed under the sand, and everyone watched closely as earth-colored lizards crawled out.
At that moment, the little black snake looked back at Jiang Lai and flicked its tongue.
"What does it mean? Finding food for us?"
"Follow them."
As those lizards swiftly ran ahead, Jiang Lai immediately pulled Du Furong and shouted.
"Quick, follow them."
These creatures were too fast, their color matching the sand, so direction could only be determined by the tracks they left while crawling.
But these tracks would quickly be blown away by the wind, so they had to stay close.
Everyone pushed themselves forward, their throats and noses burning painfully, yet they dared not slow their pace.
Finally, the lizards suddenly stopped and quickly burrowed back into the sand.
Upon looking up, they saw an oasis not far away.
Jiang Lai looked several times to confirm that it wasn’t a mirage, but indeed an oasis in the desert.
Seeing water and trees now, everyone was overjoyed and rushed eagerly toward the oasis, with Jiang Lai jumping directly into the water.
The icy lake water instantly soothed the heat from their bodies and minds. Jiang Lai wiped his face, took a long breath, and then released the little black snake and Pudding to drink.
The eldest senior brother was cautious, standing outside watching while everyone else lounged in the water.
"Jiang Lai, don’t you find it strange here? Such a big lake and only we are drinking, no other creatures at all."
Beside him, Jiang Lai kept washing her face, ignoring him.
It was then that the eldest senior brother realized something was wrong. Why was everyone silent, just soaking in the water?
Moreover, Jiang Lai, usually cautious, hadn’t noticed the anomalies she would ordinarily spot?
Then Jiang Lai in the lake beckoned the eldest senior brother.
"Come over, wash up together."
"Jiang Lai, what’s wrong with you?"
"I’m fine, senior brother. Aren’t you thirsty? The water here is nice and cool, sweet. Come have a drink to quench your thirst."
The eldest senior brother looked at the lake, clear as a gem of pure green. Watching the junior brothers drink heartily, he subconsciously swallowed, his cracked lips pursing, his feet instinctively moving toward the lake.
He bent down to scoop water; it looked cooling just by sight, promising to quench thirst. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞
Whatever happens, a sip should cause no harm...
Suddenly, a hand heavily slapped his shoulder, startling him into spilling the water.
He snapped back to reality and looked at the water in front, now eerily black, no longer the clear sight from before, still and somber like a lake of ink.
He turned around and saw Jiang Lai behind him.
"You... just now..."
"What about just now? Snap out of it, this place is wrong."
It was then the eldest senior brother noticed the others had vanished, leaving only Jiang Lai standing before him.
"Where are the junior brothers?"
"They got caught in the formation; it’ll take a while to wake them. I woke you first."
"Formation? What kind? What on earth is going on?"
Jiang Lai didn’t understand formations well; the only expert, Wu Lie, had somehow been taken away.
"We likely entered the formation as soon as we stepped into this oasis."
"How did you know you were in a formation?"
Jiang Lai pointed to Pudding on her shoulder and showed the bite mark on her arm.
"It bit me."
"What about them?"
All around was sand, no sight of anyone else.
"You’re still in the formation. You’re awake, but that doesn’t mean you’re out. Didn’t your master teach you any formations?"
The eldest senior brother nodded.
"Yes, he did. Our master was an elder of formations within the Three Sects, very knowledgeable in formations."
The eldest senior brother walked two circles around the lake, then squatted down to grab a handful of sand to sniff.
"The scent of Simurgh Butterfly Fragrance."
Then he looked back at the tree behind him and struck with a palm, breaking the tree in half, but the surroundings remained unchanged.
"Then it’s not this tree."
Jiang Lai understood his meaning, and helped him cut down all the trees around the lake.
Finally, ripples slowly appeared in the black lake, the water waves growing larger and larger, black splashes erupting as if something was emerging from the water.
The eldest senior brother stood in front of Jiang Lai, watching a stone statue rise slowly from the lake.
"It’s the stone statue of one of the ancestors of the Three Sects, Ancestor Mo Yi. How did it end up here?"
Before he finished speaking, the statue in the water suddenly leaped, bearing down on the direction of the eldest senior brother.
The eldest senior brother quickly raised his hand to block it; the statue’s arms and legs began to move, attacking the vital points of the eldest senior brother.
Seeing this, Jiang Lai understood. This was the Maze Secret Realm the original had experienced, containing the Three Elements Spirit Fruit that drastically boosts cultivation; it was in her desire to defeat Mu Wu that she sought the fruit due to her inadequate cultivation.
Thinking of this, surely there was something more in the lake.
She looked back at the eldest senior brother.
"Handle it, I’ll check below."
"Junior sister, it’s dangerous in the lake!"
"I know, protect yourself, don’t die!"
