Chapter 361: Chapter 342: What do you want to know?
"Who am I?"
Lin Yi chuckled instantly, then sheathed his sword and stepped back three paces before introducing himself:
"My name is Lin Yi."
At this moment, the female winged person also spoke:
"My name is Yulia."
Looking at the somewhat bewildered winged girl in front of him, Lin Yi sincerely apologized for previously calling her a ’bird person’.
After the initial shock and disbelief, Yulia also quickly put the matter behind her.
Because now there was something even more unbelievable to Yulia.
Since she could remember, this enormous island had only ever had herself as the sole member of the Winged Race.
As for other races besides the Winged Race, Yulia could only learn about them from the elders in the clan.
She initially thought that the so-called Hundred Races were probably just legends fabricated by the elders.
However, she never imagined that today she’d actually meet this human man described as extremely cunning by the elders.
From the moment they met, Yulia had been scrutinizing this sudden appearance of the man in front of her.
It seemed that apart from lacking feathered wings, this person was basically the same as the men of the Winged Race.
At this moment, Yulia’s mind was filled with fantasies about the outside world, wondering if it was really as vast as the elderly in the clan described, with nearly a hundred races of different appearances living there.
Remembering the Clan Leader elder’s evaluation of humans, Yulia instinctively stepped back a few paces, then looked at Lin Yi with a wary face and said:
"How did you appear here?"
As for the girl’s question, Lin Yi really didn’t know how to answer for a moment.
Should he just tell her that he accepted a task and came here through a teleportation array in the basement of Xinquan City?
Not to mention whether she would believe such an explanation, if someone told him something like this, he probably wouldn’t believe it either.
Compared to her question, Lin Yi now was more eager to know where exactly he was; where the Spirit Awakening Pearl was; and what exactly was going on with this so-called Winged Race.
Lin Yi thought for a while and said:
"How I came here is a bit complicated to explain."
"Why don’t you tell me about your Winged Race for now?"
Originally, Lin Yi thought that she would readily agree and explain things to him.
But to his surprise, after hearing Lin Yi’s question, the winged girl named Yulia put on a terrified expression and guarded against Lin Yi, saying:
"What do you want to do?"
Seeing her reaction, Lin Yi was baffled, utterly confused, and said:
"I just want to learn about your Winged Race, is that not possible?"
Lin Yi had just checked the task information, which still focused on finding clues about the Spirit Awakening Pearl in Xinquan City.
Now the key was that Lin Yi got here through the Winged Race elders, but he had no idea where to search for the Spirit Awakening Pearl next.
Since a Winged Race had appeared here, Lin Yi estimated that the Spirit Awakening Pearl was probably greatly related to this Winged Race.
So Lin Yi thought that at the very least, he should learn about this race first, then locate where he currently was and finally analyze the whereabouts of the Spirit Awakening Pearl.
However, no matter what Lin Yi said next, the girl named Yulia always kept her guard up against him, and he couldn’t get any useful information from her.
During this time, Yulia thought about using her advantage to fly away, but she was quickly shot down by one of Lin Yi’s Arcane Missiles.
After that, Yulia dared not act recklessly again.
But even so, Lin Yi still couldn’t extract anything useful from her.
Just as Lin Yi was considering whether to use force, a voice suddenly came from a short distance away:
"Yulia, where are you?"
"If you hear this, answer me, Yulia."
"Yulia!"
Upon hearing this voice, Yulia immediately got excited and said:
"Krein, I am here."
"I am here, come quickly and save me."
Apart from calling out, Yulia remained vigilant, wary of Lin Yi’s sudden moves.
However, Yulia’s worries were entirely redundant.
Just moments ago, Lin Yi was hesitating whether to use force against this seemingly naive winged girl, but upon hearing this voice, he no longer needed to struggle with the decision.
Shortly after, a figure flapped feathered wings and appeared from the bushes, urgently saying:
"Yulia."
When she saw who it was, Yulia burst into tears of joy:
"Brother Krein, save me."
As Yulia was about to rush toward the male winged person, Lin Yi had unknowingly already stood in front of Yulia, blocking her way.
Lin Yi, with his back to Yulia, looked at the suddenly appearing male winged person and said to Yulia:
"Since you don’t want to answer my questions, he can do it for you."
Krein Lv30
Winged
Sure enough, he was only level 30, which put Lin Yi’s heart at ease.
Yulia pointed at Lin Yi in shock and asked:
"What are you trying to do?"
At this moment, Krein suddenly reacted, looking at Lin Yi in utter shock, and said unbelievably:
"Human?!"
But then seemed to remember something, suddenly his face twisted:
"Go to hell."
In an instant, a great sword formed by light element appeared in Krein’s hand, carrying a frenzied momentum as it slashed towards Lin Yi.
With such decisive posture, it was clear he intended to kill Lin Yi on the spot.
Lin Yi was utterly puzzled at this sight; does this Winged Race hold such a deep grudge against humans?
The two had just met and he already attacked without hesitation, not even giving Lin Yi a chance to speak, as if Lin Yi were his mortal enemy.
Recalling Yulia’s earlier behavior, Lin Yi vaguely sensed something was wrong, but wasn’t too sure.
Seeing Krein about to attack, Lin Yi had no choice but to think: If soft doesn’t work, then hard it must be.
Then Lin Yi directly tossed the Jade Qilin that was on his shoulder:
"Don’t kill him."
In midair, the Jade Qilin’s body instantly returned to its original form:
"No problem, leave it to me."
While Lin Yi turned directly:
"Instant Teleportation"
The next moment, Lin Yi appeared behind Yulia:
Switch Weapon
Lin Yi held a longsword against Yulia’s back, expressionless:
"If there’s a next time, you’d be dead now. Do not test my limits."
In Lin Yi’s eyes, Yulia, at level 30, had less than thirty thousand in life value.
Truly, it would take just one set of skills to defeat her.
Beside Yulia, the light element longbow that had just formed instantly turned into starlight points and disappeared.
To these Winged Race that Lin Yi found ’fresh’, he truly didn’t want to kill.
But what irritated Lin Yi was that these two Winged Race individuals kept trying to kill him once they found out he was human.
Could there be some irreconcilable enmity between the Winged Race and humans?
Meanwhile, Krein’s light element longsword viciously struck the foot of this suddenly appearing ’monster’:
"Clang~"
But the next moment, Krein felt as if he’d hit steel with a wooden sword, and the immense recoil made his hand go numb.
Krein looked in horror at the ’monster’ in front of him grinning widely, such strong defense.
The Jade Qilin Ian chuckled:
"Now it’s my turn."
Krein was shocked:
"What?"
The Jade Qilin shook its foot that Krein had struck, and its speed suddenly increased:
"Lie down for me."
Then the Jade Qilin raised its paw high and slapped Krein’s face, sending him flying like a cannonball towards the ground:
"Bang!"
Upon impact with the ground, Krein felt as though his body was falling apart.
The next moment, Krein felt something stepping on his head, and when he looked up, he saw the ’monster’s’ large eyes filled with contempt staring down at him:
"Too weak, not fun."
At this moment, Lin Yi walked over and kicked the Jade Qilin aside:
"I asked you to handle him, not to humiliate him."
Lin Yi squatted down, looking at Krein who was gasping for breath, smiling:
"Two choices: one, I kill you now."
"The other, answer a few questions honestly, and I’ll spare your life."
"Despicable human, just kill me. I won’t tell you anything."
Though badly injured, Krein glared at Lin Yi with a look of determined defiance, shouting angrily.
Hearing this, Lin Yi’s face immediately darkened:
"Truly refusing a toast only to drink a forfeit, don’t know what’s good for you."
"If that’s the case, then I’ll grant your wish."
Lin Yi suddenly stood up, raised the longsword, and thrust it towards Krein’s head... "Wait, I’ll talk!"
"Squelch!"
A sharp pain pierced the back of Krein’s skull, as Lin Yi’s sword tip just broke the surface.
Lin Yi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but outwardly looked coldly at Yulia:
"Had you done this earlier, you wouldn’t have suffered. Why put yourself through it?"
Then Lin Yi retracted the longsword, looking at Yulia:
"Tell me everything you know."
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Today’s update ends here.