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Chapter 185 Blood Surge

Ino woke up, but compared to Sasha, he was still much weaker.

When he opened his eyes and woke up, the most important person in his heart was by his side. Fatigue weighed on his shoulders, and he fell asleep peacefully beside Ino's hand.

Ino didn't want to wake him, but his mouth was dry. He looked up and saw a kettle on the ground beside him. He moved to quench his thirst.

The Fidelia boy woke up almost the moment his arm was raised: "Ino...are you awake?"

After shaking off the drowsiness, he immediately helped the Liberi boy to sit up, and when he saw his condition, he immediately handed him the kettle.

"Ahem..." Neither of the two children said anything, but Ino's gaze was a little evasive.

"Ino is awake... Little Tower!" Elafia lifted the tent, and the two children turned around with joy in their eyes: "Sister Alina..."

"I'm here. Don't be anxious. Didn't Doctor Katyusha say that Ino is fine? And you should control the range of your movements. You haven't recovered yet." Tallulah quickened her pace and walked into the tent with Alina, while carefully helping her sit down. Alina was still not used to the daily activities after losing a hand.

"Sister Tallulah..." Not only the two children of Inossasha, but all the children in the Reunion Movement were most afraid of facing Tallulah after making a mistake.

It’s not that Talulala is too strict, but what these children fear most is no longer being cared for by their admired and respected leader, and being ignored and abandoned.

Once a moth has come into contact with the bright moon, it can no longer endure darkness. If it sees light again, it will blindly throw itself into purgatory even if it is a flame that burns its body and bones.

"Ino, tell me the truth, why did you go to the river? And even climb onto the ice?" Tallulah said seriously.

"Woo..." Ino was a little afraid to speak under that gaze. He twisted the corner of his clothes with his thin fingers, shrank his neck uneasily and said nothing.

"Sister Tallulah... Ino wanted to find the 'River Spirit' to bless Sister Alina to get better, so he asked me to go to the river together..." Sasha saw this and began to defend Ino.

"But the river spirit didn't show up in the end... I thought it was because it was too far away and couldn't hear me in the water... so it went to the ice..." Hearing his companions defending him, Ino also answered in a low voice.

Alina gave him a reproachful look: "The river spirit will not listen to the requests of a disobedient child."

"Wow... I hope Sister Alina gets better..."

Tallulah's brows relaxed a little. She understood the whole story and her anger subsided a lot, but she still had to say what she had to say: "Next time, I must inform the adults. If it wasn't for the new doctor who was asked to come to you this time, the consequences would not be as simple as choking on water and catching a cold!"

"Okay..." Ino lowered his head and admitted his mistake.

"Have a good rest. As a punishment, you must eat your meal well and not leave any vegetables behind." Alina smiled and smoothed things over. "Sister Tallulah still has a lot of things to do. Don't cause trouble for her."

"Yeah." The two kids nodded vigorously.

As she walked out of the tent, Tallulah's tiredness was completely revealed, as if she was carrying an invisible mountain on her back, and she coughed lightly twice.

"Talulah...you really need to get some rest." Alina looked worried. When she couldn't get out of bed, Talulah had insisted on staying by her side at night. Naturally, she couldn't sleep well, and she had to face a lot of trivial matters during the day. Ursus openly allowed bounty hunters to hunt "treasonous" infected people. The impact of this bill was far more serious than they and the patriots thought.

"I know... I'll take a break after I'm done with this. Right now, Froststar is waiting for me to exchange information... Without the Patriot, I have to guard the evacuation route, otherwise the soldiers will be in danger..."

"... Talulah," Alina said nothing more. The young fighter sighed softly. Only in front of her best friend could she show her vulnerable side.

Then she smiled inexplicably: "By the way, what is that river spirit?"

"Well, it's a legend circulating in this area. It is said that as long as you pray sincerely to the river spirit, the river spirit will crack the frozen ice and bring beauty and hope to the blessed people. I told this legend to Ino and Sasha as a story, but I didn't expect that I would get into trouble this time..."

"Is that so... That's not bad. It's just right for children." Tallulah cheered herself up, straightened her back and walked forward.

Alina stopped. If she went to the battle, she would just cause trouble. According to Tallulah's idea, it would be better for her to follow the troops to the confirmed transfer location today.

"Speaking of which, Brother Bai is very efficient. He confirmed it was safe in less than a day."

The flames whiter than the snowfield flashed through her mind, and her brows slightly frowned.

Complex emotions flashed in the eyes of the Elafia girl. Bai Ge is a good person, and she shouldn't think like that.

Mixed emotions, page by page, overlap on the flowing white flames. Perhaps this will continue until the black hole-like fate swallows up all the beautiful future.

Integration Movement Preparatory Camp.

"Brother Red, did Doctor Bai and Miss Xuanlang have a fight? It seemed like they hardly smiled during the entire journey." Daxiong, a member of the Snow Monster Team who was sent to help with the escort, was very uneasy. To them, Xuanlang had always been so taciturn, but Baige had always been very talkative. When he suddenly showed such a troubled expression, he didn't dare to talk to him.

"...I don't know much about things related to lovers." Red silently chopped the firewood in his hand. Seeing that Big Bear kept pestering him with questions, he had to admit that this involved his blind spot in knowledge.

"If you really have nothing to do, you can chop wood for me. I'm just going to take over the patrol shift." Red said unhappily, thinking that the job of cooking might be too easy for Big Bear.

"Huh? What does this have to do with love? Doctor Bai Ge said that he and Miss Xuan Lang are just friends." Da Xiong was completely confused.

Reid paused: "...I don't know."

"Okay, you take my place, I'm going to go help the patrol." Red refused to make a judgment based on insufficient information.

"Oh..." Knowing that he seemed to be tongue-tied again, Big Bear took the axe obediently, and then the first blow of the axe almost split the wooden stakes that were used as padding for firewood.

"Sorry, sorry, I overexerted myself, haha..."

"...Be careful." Red was silent for a moment, but still gave a warning before leaving.

Red walked out of the logistics area, the cold evening breeze dragging the fiery red scarf around his neck up and down. He walked along the path that had just been cleared with a snow shovel today, passed through the snowy forest, and saw from afar the patrol team members and material transport personnel surrounded by three circles inside and outside.

"What happened?" He was naturally alert, stepped forward quickly, and grasped the hilt of the long sword with his right hand.

"Hongdao, come and take a look... Doesn't this thing look the same as the thing that old Patriot dealt with the other day?" Red came to the strange blood-red object surrounded by the crowd. The moment he saw the thing, his pupils shrank. This was indeed the same thing as the monster that Patriot had dealt with.

But this thing in front of me... is alive!

However, although it is still alive, it is only because the tentacles of the blood-colored insect monster are still wriggling. The broken shell has become stiff and cold, and the eyeballs are motionless.

"Yes... but why is there this thing here too? Have we seen this monster on the way here?" Red pulled out his long knife and poked the dying monster. The latter remained unchanged except that the amplitude of its tentacles wriggling became a little larger.

"No... not to mention this trip, I have never seen anything like this in my life, it's too *Ursus swear* weird."

"What are you all doing here? Didn't you call me to start the meal early?" Bai Ge's voice suddenly appeared. Seeing that he was curious, everyone made room for him to take a look.

"White Dove, have you seen this thing? Mr. Patriot didn't explain to us in detail what it was, he just said it was very dangerous."

"I don't know what this is... It doesn't look like a good thing - I'm not saying judge things by their appearance, it's just that it looks too weird, and it's a bit creepy..."

Just as Ling Dengxian finished his words, the blood-colored insect's originally stiff and cold eyeballs suddenly turned, and this action directly shattered half of its eyeballs. Ling Dengxian subconsciously drew his sword and wanted to chop it out, but the strange insect still stared at him, and at the same time a strange hissing sound was heard.

"It...it can also bark?!" The infected warriors were frightened by the mutation and retreated several steps. Ling Dengxian had a slight strain on his leg due to the special training in the past few days and he had consumed too much mental energy today, so his reaction was a little slow and stood out.

The sky blue little dragon in his sleeve immediately sensed the danger, poked its head out, and spit out a stream of blue and white light. The next moment, the light was pierced by the blood-red thorns that arrived later, and it brushed Ling Dengxian's arm, bringing up a stream of blood.

"Ah!" Ling Dengxian swung his sword backhand and pierced through the remaining half of the monster's eyeball, completely killing it. Everyone was frightened by this sudden change.

What was strange was that the blood-colored thorn, which seemed to be real, turned into powder and dissipated in mid-air after scratching Ling Dengxian. The injured Ling Dengxian felt a little uneasy, and he immediately generated white flames that swept across the space where the blood thorn disappeared.

"Oh my god... this thing is really not harmless!" Ling Dengxian raised his hand and released white flames to heal the scratches, his eyes full of surprise and doubt. He really didn't expect that this thing could suddenly attack.

"Bai Ge! Are you okay?" Red and others who found him injured immediately surrounded him, and some of them immediately took the medical supplies for detoxification.

"It's okay... just a scratch."

"Fortunately, it's not any special injury... I thought there would be negative effects like poisoning." Ling Dengxian applied some local Ursus detoxifying medicine just in case.

"Doctor Bai Ge, please have a good rest today. If anything unexpected happens, call us and don't force yourself." As the person in charge, Reid made a reasonable judgment.

"Actually, I seem to be fine..."

Ling Dengxian thought about it and decided not to make things difficult for himself. Today's consumption was indeed quite heavy, and it was time to have a good rest.

"Bloody bugs..." Ling Dengxian stared at the dead body on the ground, and some not-so-pleasant memories came to his mind.

He still remembered the bloody battle with the bloody monster. That was the first time in his life that he faced a life-and-death crisis.

"But the two monsters... don't seem to have any necessary connection."

The blood-colored monster gave him a feeling of brutality and violence, while this blood-colored monster insect gave him a feeling of viciousness and cruelty.

Ling Dengxian had a premonition...that there might be some extra threats lurking in this trip to Ursus.

Deep in an ice cave in a mine somewhere in Ursus, a hoarse groaning cry with fury penetrated the air in a low voice. The cold ice mist shook slightly, but became thicker and thicker.

“…Found it…”