Chapter 23 - Interruption, Missing Suspect!

Chapter 23 Interruption, Missing Suspect!

“Again!” Lucia prepared herself for Cui Anyu’s attack

Yu Guang retreated behind Cui Anyu and pretended that the attack had nothing to do with him.

When the two of them passed each other, Yu Guang said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, “Stop using your skill. Try to focus your strength and attack accurately. Don’t worry about me. I’m your backup and not a burden.”

The two of them were extremely close to each other. The air that Yu Guang breathed out made Cui Anyu’s ears and face burn.

She knew that her opponent shouldn’t care about these things. However, Yu Guang’s handsome face was right in front of her, and he had just saved her. Cui Anyu couldn’t ignore it and didn’t find it annoying. She could only turn her head to the side, cover her face, and nod lightly.

Yu Guang didn’t care about her reaction. He moved aside and stood behind Cui Anyu.

“Hehe! Look! That partner is hiding behind the goddess again!”

“No way, no way! Is he just here to watch the show?”

“He’s a beastmaster without a familiar. Isn’t it normal for him to hide?”

The audience began to chatter. Because Cui Anyu’s ice skill was too similar to Yu Guang’s absolute zero, most people thought that it was Cui Anyu’s skill. Only Le Tai, who was sitting in the corner, couldn’t help but narrow his eyes as he watched the entire process. He started to size up Yu Guang from a distance.

He had seen very clearly just now that the partner Cui Anyu brought had blocked Lucia and Han Nan’s pincer attack. After helping Cui Anyu successfully recover the remaining skill, his strength instantly swelled and exploded!

“Is this person really a beastmaster?” Le Tai was suspicious. “Why do I feel like he has an ice skill as well?”

Le Tai felt that something was off. Could it be that there really were people who had beastmasters and awakened all at once? If that was really the case, then the awakened ones must fight for him!

Le Tai, who had been watching from the sidelines, immediately sat up straight the moment he saw Yu Guang’s strength, ready to observe him again.

Even though Cui Anyu was unwilling to admit it, since she had signed a contract with Yu Guang, she was really Yu Guang’s familiar now. The two of them could be said to be influencing each other. With Yu Guang by her side, she felt that her exhausted strength was constantly rising. “Can you still stand?” Cui Anyu asked Lucia across from her.

She had heard Lucia’s worried words earlier, so she did not want to hurt Lucia too badly.

Lucia said stubbornly, “What nonsense! Bring it on!”

Han Nan, who was lying on the ground, propped up his head with one hand and waved his other hand. “I can’t take it anymore. Don’t drag me into this.”

He had already done his part, and his strength was obvious to everyone. Anyway, it was just a test, so there was no need to make himself look so bad. He might as well just lie on the ground. It was nothing new for an A rank to be inferior to an S rank.

Lucia completely ignored him. Seeing that Han Nan had no intention of helping, she focused all her attention on fighting Cui Anyu.

The fighting spirit of the two had been burning ever since the start of the match. Cui Anyu used the same trick again, and snowflakes flew around her body once again. Standing in the middle of the field, she was like a goddess on a snowy mountain, sacred and untouchable.

“You’re using your skill again. Don’t you have anything else?” Lucia’s hands and feet went soft, but she refused to admit defeat.

Cui Anyu’s voice was as cold as ice. She neither refuted nor argued.

This time, the range of the cooling was not as large as before. It simply twined around her, but the snowflakes were even larger. The snowflakes first fluttered lightly in the wind, then stopped in the air and began to spin rapidly.

The sparkling snowflakes turned into sharp darts and flew toward Lucia one after another.

Lucia was not flustered at all. She waved her flame shield with one hand. Her innate skill, Sun Flame Sky, conquering ice could be heard from the other side of the flame shield. White smoke rose up but did not have any lethality. She was not flustered at all.

“Be careful!” Han Nan, who was lying on the side, shouted. A slender vine wrapped around Lucia’s arm and pulled her.

Lucia staggered two steps to the side. Before she could react, she heard a whoosh, and her golden curly hair fell to the ground.

Lucia touched her hair that had been cut short in disbelief. Cui Anyu’s snow dart had actually passed through her flame shield? “As long as the speed is fast enough, nothing is impossible.” Cui Anyu was expressionless, but her tone was very light. Fortunately, she was in the mood to comment.

Hearing this, Lucia was embarrassed and angry. Her face was red. Just now, when Han Nan pulled her, she knew her shield was full of flaws. Cui Anyu did not attack, but it was obvious she was so powerful.

The winner was decided!

The audience could also see that Lucia had lost.

“I…” Lucia bit her lip, her fingers fiddling with the corner of her clothes. She had to admit it, but she did not want to.

“Alright! The match has been suspended!”

At this moment, Chief Xie Heji, who had appeared in the audience seats at some point, called for the match to be stopped and interrupted Lucia’s words.

Lucia did not need to admit that she had lost in front of everyone. She heaved a sigh of relief and turned to look at Xie Heji.

“It’s an emergency. Some outlaws who had fled to Fengyao province have suddenly gone missing. Now, we need the night watchmen who are able to fight to split up into small teams and conduct a thorough search!” Xie Heji said loudly.

He wasn’t saying this to the rookies. After all, the missing criminals were level three C-rank. If the rookies went forward, they would only be sending their heads, so he only arranged for the night watchmen who had actual combat experience to participate.

After evacuating the audience in the venue, Le Tai suddenly walked to his side and pointed at Yu Guang and the other three in the middle of the arena. “Their strength is not bad. Let them come.”

“What?” Xie Heji didn’t understand this. He turned around and saw Le Tai constantly winking at him.

The two were old partners. In this situation, even if they didn’t understand each other’s intentions, they would still climb down the pole. Xie Heji understood now and immediately changed his words, “Ah, right, the four of you come along and accept the mission!”

He didn’t care whether the four of them were rookies or whether Yu Guang wasn’t from the Awakened Home. He forcefully stuffed the information and map into Cui Anyu’s hands and said, “Anyu, you are the best among the four, and your abilities are obvious to everyone. I hereby appoint you as the team leader, and you will be in charge of searching at Guotong Mountain.”

Guotong Mountain?

Yu Guang was startled. Wasn’t this the place where he cultivated previously? The mud on his body was still from that mountain.

“I just came back from the mountain.” Yu Guang took the documents from Cui Anyu’s hands and started to read them.

The names of Old Fan and Fatty Qiu were on the wanted notice, marked in bold and capital letters. It recorded in detail that the night watchmen of the two provinces had set up an inescapable net in the places where the outlaws might appear, ready to capture them.

However, the tracking night watchmen suddenly lost track of the two men, so the plan fell through. They had no choice but to mobilize all the night watchmen in the Awakened Home!

“There really is such a coincidence in this world.” Yu Guang chuckled. “These two men are indeed on the mountain, but I have already… buried them.”