44: Chapter 43 Who really has the courage?
The wind on the wasteland had stopped.
On the road straight to the Safe Zone, there was an extremely bizarre group.
The Alien Crown Prince carried a jagged greatsword, and every three steps, he mechanically slashed at Lin Mo.
Thousands of blade auras exploded, splashing up a dense spray of "-0".
The Crown Princess followed silently beside the Crown Prince, occasionally raising her hand to add a round of slashes.
Li Yueyue dragged her staff at the back, her eyes red and swollen beneath her silver hood, releasing a round of Starlight Like Rain every ten seconds.
Lin Yao clung tightly to Lin Mo's left side, her head turning left and right incessantly, like a startled field mouse.
As for Lu Fei, he had vanished without a trace, though no one knew when it happened.
"Lu Fei has hidden himself," Lin Yao whispered.
"Let him be," Lin Mo said, shaking his shoulders as he walked to stretch out the stiffness.
They walked forward for about a quarter of an hour.
They did not encounter anyone.
Nor did they encounter any monsters.
Even the sound of insects had disappeared.
The gravel, withered bones, and broken weapon debris on the wasteland all lay quietly where they were, as if someone had swept through this area in advance.
Lin Yao's heart beat faster and faster.
She was not a fool.
The Safe Zone was only three kilometers ahead, and this road was suspiciously clean.
No monsters meant someone had cleared the field in advance.
No people meant everyone was waiting up ahead.
"Lin Mo... I don't think this is right," Lin Yao said, her voice sounding faint.
"Mm, it is indeed not right," Lin Mo agreed with a nod.
Anyone would have sensed that the current atmosphere was very strange.
"Number 1, the angle of your slash just now was off. It's uncomfortable hitting the back; slash at the left shoulder."
The Alien Crown Prince gritted his teeth and adjusted the angle.
Seeing this, Lin Yao felt completely unsettled, because Lin Mo acted as if he didn't care at all.
They walked for another five minutes.
The ground began to change.
On the originally barren sandy ground, there were now many marks scorched by magic power.
In some places, rocks had been shaved flat, the cut surfaces so smooth they could reflect light.
In other places, the surface had been overturned, revealing the dark brown soil beneath, as if plowed by some large-scale spell.
"These are the marks left by clearing the field," Lin Mo glanced over and tossed his apple core into his spatial ring.
"To surround me alone, they killed all the monsters within a few kilometers. They really went to great lengths," he said, the corners of his mouth curling up slightly.
At the sixth minute, the boundary of the Safe Zone appeared ahead.
A pale golden light wall spanned the entire basin, enveloping an area with a diameter of five hundred meters.
Inside the light wall, dense figures were vaguely visible.
Lin Mo stopped.
"Number 3."
Li Yueyue instinctively raised her staff: "I'm... I'm here."
"About how many people are inside?"
Li Yueyue cast a detection spell, and silver starlight transformed into a few small light birds that flew toward the sky above the Safe Zone.
Three seconds later, her face turned deathly pale.
"Three hundred... three hundred and seventy-seven people."
"Not bad, not bad!" Lin Mo nodded.
Lin Yao was on the verge of tears: "What do you mean 'not bad'!!!"
Lin Mo didn't answer her.
Because the ground beneath his feet suddenly began to shake.
"Boom!"
Without warning, the ground in all directions exploded simultaneously.
Dozens of giant rock pillars, over three meters in diameter, burst out from the ground, carrying the ear-piercing sound of rock fracturing, and rose from the ground at an unstoppable speed.
The rock pillars quickly closed in, forming a closed rock cage with a diameter of about two hundred meters around Lin Mo.
The rock pillars at the top interlocked, completely sealing off the sky.
Thousand Rock Lockdown.
This was a terrain binding technique that required at least three senior formation mages to cast in coordination.
Once formed, the person inside could not leave by any means.
As for Lin Mo's tenacity, of course, it could not have any effect on terrain control.
Just as Olaf could not run out of the Crown Prince's ultimate move, and Yang Jian could not pass through the wall created by Zhu Bajie.
In such times, no matter how high the tenacity, it was useless.
Lin Yao was so scared she collapsed to the ground.
The Alien Crown Prince stopped his slashing motion.
The Crown Princess instinctively took a step back.
Li Yueyue's hand holding the staff was trembling.
"Not bad, you put in effort."
Lin Mo looked up at the sealed rock dome above his head, then looked down at the ground crushed by the rising rock pillars, and nodded with satisfaction.
"This setup is bigger than I imagined."
At the edge above the rock wall, figures began to appear.
They stood on top of the rock pillars, looking down condescendingly at Lin Mo at the bottom of the cage.
Some stood with arms crossed, wearing playful expressions.
Some held weapons, carelessly wiping the blades.
Some were in groups of three or five, actually whispering and chatting.
No one was looking at Lin Mo.
More accurately—no one felt the need to look at him seriously.
"Is this that guy with the one-billion bounty? He doesn't look like anything special."
"Blank Slate Warrior, level 30, can he take my Farmer's Three Punches?"
"Don't fight over it, we agreed I'd go first."
"Go first, what go first? Everyone agreed to join forces to deal with him first, and discuss the ownership issue later."
"Forget it, the way he is, I can crush him by myself!"
"The most important thing about Lin Mo is his hidden talent; whoever gets him is equivalent to getting an infinite money-printing machine..."
Noisy discussions came from all directions.
Over three hundred people, acting like they were drinking tea in a teahouse.
Listening to these words, Lin Yao had completely frozen.
Only Li Yueyue noticed one detail.
On an independent rock pillar at the highest point of the rock wall sat a masked person.
That person wore a gray robe, their face covered by an iron half-mask, and they had not joined any small group.
A extremely subtle fluctuation radiated from them.
It was not magic power.
It was a tremor, similar to law resonance, that made Li Yueyue's back go cold.
She had seen similar descriptions in the ancient books of the Nine Nether Temple.
It was an aura that only those who had touched the origin laws of the fragment space would possess.
"Who is that person..." Li Yueyue muttered to herself.
But she had no time to think carefully, because the voices on the rock wall continued.
"Come to think of it, Su Xiaoli's boyfriend is indeed good-looking, but it's a pity he's just a piece of trash."
"Trash doesn't matter, the main thing is that he's valuable."
A short-haired mage jumped down from the rock wall, landing thirty meters away from Lin Mo.
He glanced at the Alien Crown Prince and Li Yueyue behind Lin Mo.
"How should these two be handled?"
Someone on the rock wall replied: "The Tali Tribe one has a bounty on his own, and the Nine Nether Temple one can be kept to trade for items."
"What kind of dog barking is that? That is our third-seat Saintess-in-waiting!"
"If you want to die, I'll send you home right now!" the bald, burly man from the Nine Nether Temple cursed.
"Fine, fine, fine, keep your Saintess."
The person stepped back and said.
The bald, burly man turned to face Lin Mo and said triumphantly:
"Didn't expect this, did you?"
"In this situation, what are your thoughts? Are you feeling desperate? Our Saintess is not someone you can insult."
Then came a series of laughter and discussions.
"You have to admit, this kid really has guts to actually bring people here."
The short-haired mage patted the dust off his hands, his tone as relaxed as if he were discussing what to have for lunch.
"Come on, come on, who's going first? Stop dilly-dallying, the poison circle is going to shrink in twenty minutes."
Over three hundred pairs of eyes finally looked toward the bottom of the cage.
They looked at the Blank Slate Warrior, who still had a faint smile on his face.
Lin Mo slowly walked forward.
He looked around.
Three hundred and twenty-seven fully armed prodigies, each and every one of them...
Lin Mo smiled.
"Have you ever thought about one question?"
His voice was not loud, but it carried exceptionally clearly within the enclosed rock cage.
Everyone's gaze converged.
"You went to such great lengths to lock me inside."
"But you yourselves, also cannot get out."