"He actually managed to escape!"

Seeing the Green Hat player had not been killed, Su Ran felt a twinge of disappointment, but the thought of that high-quality dead tree trunk soon made him feel much better.

"Sigh."

The Elf Queen emerged from the Holy Spring, took a deep breath, and walked ashore without a word, her gloomy expression adding a weighty solemnity to the surrounding atmosphere.

"Your Majesty, did they catch that little thief?"

Su Ran hurriedly stepped forward, feigning ignorance. He was playing the emotion card, trying to make the Elf Queen subconsciously feel that he was on her side, so she wouldn’t suspect that he had ruined the Holy Spring.

"No, he escaped, damn it!"

The Elf Queen’s words carried a tone of frustration. Failing to kill the intruding human on the spot filled her with immense regret, and she exclaimed angrily, "Deceitful humans, they infiltrate everything!"

"What? This human wasn’t specifically approved by you to come in?"

Su Ran knew exactly what to say to make the Elf Queen feel embarrassed. After all, she had just boldly claimed that even the God Race couldn’t enter without her permission...

Just as her words were still hanging in the air, the Green Hat brother openly contradicted them.

"Insolence! How would I ever collude with humans!"

The Elf Queen’s face turned a frightening shade of iron blue. She herself didn’t know how the human had managed to sneak in, so she couldn’t explain the situation to Su Ran and chose instead to avoid the issue.

"Your Majesty, this human must still be hiding here, we can’t just watch him desecrate this sacred water!"

Su Ran had not forgotten to continuously lead the Elf Queen to believe that the Green Hat player was the one desecrating the Spring of Life, making sure he had nothing to do with it.

As long as he shaped subjective thought, he would be completely free from suspicion!

Green Hat brother, you’re really something!

"No matter, I have already laid a trap in this Holy Spring so intricate that if he dares to show himself, he will not escape my grasp!"

As she said this, the Elf Queen’s expression eased somewhat, her eyes filled with confidence. However, before she could fully boast, the Holy Spring suddenly erupted with bursts of water jets, and then, like a torrential downpour, it poured non-stop.

"Great opportunity!"

The Elf Queen, seeing that her trap had been triggered, was delighted and dashed into the Holy Spring without hesitation, hoping to kill the despised thief on the spot.

However, once the water’s surface had calmed, the Elf Queen was unable to find any trace of the Green Hat player. This meant, quite embarrassingly, that the fellow had, once again, managed to escape.

This was awkward.

At that moment, Su Ran felt a bit of sympathy for the Elf Queen, who had tried so hard to set up her intricate trap, yet it had produced no effect. She had just exaggerated her capabilities, and immediately her own words had slapped her in the face—her cheek must be swelling!

What a trap, what a ’not escaping from her grasp’!

Su Ran felt that today wasn’t a lucky day for the Elf Queen, with everything going wrong.

"Arghhhh! Human, I will not spare you!!!"

The Elf Queen felt like she was going mad, fully aware that the detestable human was desecrating the Holy Spring, yet unable to catch him. This feeling was truly damn frustrating!

Tsk, making threats, what’s the use? It’s just satisfying to mouth off, still saying ’will not spare him’—better catch him before making harsh statements!

Su Ran felt that the dialogue in the game’s NPCs was overly civilized, reflecting deeply on this. There was no choice; the vocabulary for swearing was too tightly monitored, and careless words could be censored. Only civilized language was the true wisdom for keeping oneself safe...

"Well, Your Majesty, I’ll stop meddling here. You go ahead and keep busy."

Su Ran knew that under the continuous provocation of green hat players, the Elf Queen had completely lost her temper and had no time to bother with him. As for the Decay Bead, Su Ran had given up hope; even if the green hat guys picked it up, it didn’t matter—he could just blast it back another day.

What surprised Su Ran was that the Elf Queen didn’t even utter a word of courtesy. Impatiently, she waved her hand, her eyes fixated on the Holy Spring, genuinely hoping to kill this little thief to uphold her royal dignity.

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Su Ran had no time to linger on with these two; he was eager to see his recent gains! Thinking of that strange piece of deadwood, he couldn’t stay a moment longer and immediately took out the Elf Teleportation Stone, teleporting out of the hidden space without any reluctance.

"Hmm? A talking skeleton? That’s rare."

From somewhere within the Holy Spring, a very abrupt voice sounded, its origin unknown.

"Swoosh swoosh swoosh!"

The Elf Queen’s mind stirred, her fingers flicked repeatedly, and several beams of light shot out, attacking that part of the water. Unfortunately for her, the attack missed again, failing to blast the damned human from hiding.

...

"Man, good thing I’m not afraid of the Power of Curse, otherwise that’d really suck!"

After teleporting out of the hidden space, Su Ran found himself in thick fog, which was the characteristic product of Elf Forest transformed by the Power of Curse.

"Something’s off!"

Su Ran let out a slight gasp, a multitude of questions arising in his mind. Wasn’t the Power of Curse in Elf Forest mostly shot down by the Elf Queen? Why was there still such dense fog here?

Could it be...

Thinking of a ridiculous possibility, to verify his thoughts, Su Ran opened the control panel, intending to use the map to check his current position. However, to his surprise, the map function was restricted and couldn’t be used.

That’s so weird!

Faced with this, Su Ran didn’t panic. After pondering for a short while, he directly pulled out an Illusion Demon cloak and put it on—Spilt Water Can’t Be Regained was officially online.

"Ding ding, ding ding."

A series of friend notification tones came, causing Su Ran to startle.

He opened the friend interface and looked. Almost all messages were from Banana, though they were all outdated by now.

"Spilt Water Bro, be careful of Ling Wei. That Fire Spirit has gone bonkers, wanting to give you trouble!"

"It turns out Ling Wei wanted to apologize; she was asking me your location. Should I tell her where you are?"

...

After briefly scanning through, Su Ran found the messages unimportant and felt no need to reply. He cleared the message history and directly sent a coordinate back, asking, "Banana, can you check what part of Elf Forest this coordinate is in? I can’t even open the map here."

"Haha, Spilt Water Bro, you finally decide to show up! I’ve been waiting for you until I lost my appetite!"

Banana replied quickly, "Bro, just give me a moment. I’ll help you look. These coordinates are really off the beaten path, hard to locate."

"It seems momentarily safe here, but I always feel there’s danger hidden. Better not delay too much."

"Received!"

Banana transmitted back very promptly. Yet before even a minute had passed, an alarmed shout from Banana came through, "Spilt Water Bro, you hit the jackpot, this is a forbidden area of the God Race!"