Newbie Guardians

Chapter 38 The Desperate 3rd Brother

Hannah quickened her pace, approaching the monster and unleashing a dash skill. Her two short swords thrust out rapidly, her attack speed quickly increasing to 30% with each hit. Combined with the passive ability of the Gale Short Sword—"the higher the proficiency, the faster the attack speed"—the group only saw two afterimages, sparks flying from the struck areas. However, the monster remained unharmed.

The monster was attacked from behind and twisted its body frantically, trying to get rid of the enemy behind it first, but it was trapped by Teacher Liu and could not break free.

Three minutes later, Hannah clearly felt the intense heat emanating from the short sword. She continued her attack while shouting:

"Pretty sister! Quickly use a water-based skill on the spot I'm attacking."

Mu Lingshan paused for half a second before realizing that the little girl was using the principle of thermal expansion and contraction to break through the monster's armor. She quickly activated her water ball skill, and with a series of "whoosh!" the water balls accurately struck their target, instantly creating a white mist that evaporated in the high temperature. Soon, a second and a third followed. Mu Lingshan precisely controlled her skills, casting them as soon as they cooled down. Quickly, cracks appeared on the monster's back, and thick, dark green blood gushed out, splashing onto Hanna'er. The instant it hit Hanna'er, a burning sensation shot through her; it was clearly poisonous. Hanna'er, ignoring the nausea, focused on attacking the cracks.

Elise quickly used her Vitality skill to rapidly detoxify and continuously heal Hannah's bleeding hand.

Three minutes later, the monster's back was hacked to pieces by Hannah, and it was no longer able to fight against Teacher Liu. Its body went limp and it collapsed to the ground dead. Dark green liquid splattered everywhere, and the weeds withered at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Huang Xin shouted:

"Teacher Liu, could you hold the zombie in place for about five minutes?"

"Sure, but let me catch my breath first, I'm exhausted!"

Teacher Liu plopped down on the ground, clearly exhausted from the battle with the monster. He could only grit his teeth and persevere to create an opportunity for Hannah. He glanced at Hannah, now a war goddess in her transformed state, and sighed deeply.

"So young, yet so skilled; she truly deserves the title of heroine!"

Looking at Elise again, his eyes were filled with even more admiration. Was he getting old? How come these two girls were both so amazing!

Finally, Jin Jun couldn't hold on any longer. The spiked club was knocked out of his hand, and he instantly lost all strength, collapsing to the ground.

Teacher Liu stood up and growled, "Guys, time to get to work!"

With a powerful push of his legs, he charged towards the zombie, slamming his arms down with all his might. Thud! The zombie was slammed back into the ground, but quickly rose up again, and then thud! He struck it down once more.

Jin Jun lay down on the grass. The wound on his hand had already been healed by Mu Lingshan and Iris, the two nurses, but exhaustion was not an injury and could not be treated. It could only recover slowly.

Huang Xin ran over, took Hanna'er's hand, and carefully examined it. Only after confirming there were no wounds did he feel relieved. He took off his shirt, intending to drape it over Hanna'er, but she stepped back two paces and whispered:

"No, no, I'm covered in that monster's disgusting blood, it will get your clothes dirty."

Mu Lingshan also spoke up in time to stop it:

"There are clothes in the car, I'll take her to change!"

"All right!"

Huang Xin put his clothes back on. There was only one zombie left. Elise's summoning skill was almost off cooldown. He should be able to hold out until dawn!

Mu Lingshan led Hanna'er towards the village entrance. They had barely taken a step when they heard a loud buzzing sound. Looking up, they saw a humanoid monster flying rapidly towards them from the sky. Iris screamed...

"Get out of the way! It smells of explosive worms!"

After saying that, she rushed towards Mu Lingshan without hesitation and pushed her away forcefully—she had to save people before Huang Xin, otherwise this guy would go to his death again, so she might as well take the risk herself.

With a bang, Mu Lingshan was thrown seven or eight meters, and then Iris was also knocked more than ten meters away. Iris was shocked to see that it was Huang Xin!

Just as Hu Jie was about to unleash his self-destruct skill, a powerful force pulled him directly from the air. With a loud bang, a large cloud of green smoke rose from the grass, and dark green sap splashed everywhere. Large patches of weeds withered instantly. This poison was more than twice as strong as the previous monster!

Immediately afterwards, a painful scream came from within the smoke; clearly, she had been badly injured in the explosion. Iris glared angrily at Huang Xin.

"How could you do this? How could you do this? You're so eager to die! Why don't you just die!"

While cursing, he ran towards Teacher Liu and quickly used the Vitality skill. A large ball of light blue light fell and purified the poisonous fog. Teacher Liu was covered in blood and his body was covered with wounds, which was shocking to see.

Under the vigorous and effective treatment, the wound was healing rapidly, and Teacher Liu's expression gradually calmed down.

With a roar, the zombie successfully broke free and lunged at Elise, convinced that she was the culprit who had knocked it into the ground.

Teacher Liu raised her hand, preparing to use her capture skill, when Huang Xin and Hannah stepped in front of Iris one after the other.

Hannah whispered:

"We'll die together!"

"Hanna, I will protect you!"

"Get out of my way, all of you!"

As soon as Elise finished speaking, a wooden spear as thick as a bowl was pressed against the zombie's throat, pushing it backward through the air. The zombie let out a muffled roar, and hundreds of meters away, a large flock of birds were startled into flight, some even flying straight towards them in their panic.

After the zombie landed, it engaged in a fierce battle with Amonic. It pounced on the zombie time and time again, only to be knocked away each time. Neither could gain the upper hand. The zombie had been trapped by surprise earlier, but it wouldn't fall for that trick again this time.

Huang Shen turned his head and asked seriously:

"Sister Elise! Do your summons have a time limit? Won't they just disappear while we're fighting?"

Elise was clearly still angry and ignored him. Yet, a strange feeling she had never experienced before welled up inside her:

"This guy risked his life to save Hannah because Hannah likes him, I can understand that. He risked his life to save the beautiful water spirit because he likes her, I can understand that too. But these two times he risked his life to save me, could it be... he likes me too?! Ugh! Men, they're all the same! How could they... how could they... do this! I'm so angry!"

Mu Lingshan walked over and said with concern:

"Huang Xin, it's safe now. Quickly take your friend to the car to change clothes. There's water in the car, so you can wash them up a bit."

Mu Lingshan pointed to Hanna'er's exposed waist and abdomen under her leather armor, which were covered with green marks.

"Although the toxins have been removed, it's not good for it to stay on your skin. Hurry up, we'll guard this place!"

Huang Xin looked at Hannaer and found that Hannaer was also looking at him, seemingly waiting for his answer.

"Alright! Hannah, I'll take you to the car to change your clothes! Ah! No! I'll stay at the village entrance and watch outside while you change in the car!"