The fireball flying around was small and bright, and in its intense light, the invisible intruder instantly appeared.

After a burst of involuntary exclamations, there was a frozen silence, and the chicks were stunned.

Sandman's jumping ability is very strong. Osha, who was finally let go, pounced forward, stepped on the heads and shoulders of other Thornymen, and hugged the only one he cared about with all his strength.

Mo Ying, who was also stunned, finally reacted. She hugged the furry little sandman and rubbed it a few times involuntarily. Although the words she blurted out were reproachful, her tone was not harsh at all: "How could you come here! You

Do you know how dangerous it is?! You..."

She was stuck for a while before she remembered the more important question: "How did you get in?!"

Someone was already shouting and banging on the door outside. Iss waved his hand without looking back, and a thicker layer of ice almost sealed the entire wall.

There was another gasp in the room, and the little sand man finally became shy after realizing it.

Although Mo Ying is much older than him and has no hair... she is still a girl!

He broke away from the thorny girl's arms and raised his head triumphantly: "I found the star you dreamed of!"

Veins popped out of "Xingxing"'s forehead, and he just wanted to bang his dog's head.

"Let's go after you find it." He said impatiently, and before Osha spoke again with a twinkling look in his eyes, he held out a finger as a warning: "Don't push yourself too far!"

Osha sniffed angrily.

"...I can't go with you." Mo Ying reacted quickly.

Yis sneered—it’s not up to you!

Osha tugged at the girl's simple white burqa and tried her best to signal with her eyes - to coax him!

Mo Ying was stunned. She actually didn't understand what the little sand man was trying to express by blinking like a twitch, but she suddenly felt blessed.

"I can't just abandon my companions like this." She said tentatively, "They will be used as sacrifices. If you are really the star in our dreams..."

"I'm not." Iss interrupted him firmly.

Silent Shadow rolled her eyes.

"But there is always a reason for you to come here, right?" she said, "You can't...just come to save me, right? What price must I pay so that you can also protect the safety of my companions?

Where is Yu?"

"They like Suga's previous stuff!" Osha betrayed his "collaboration partner" without hesitation: "Give him your books!"

"...We have a lot of books." Silent Shadow immediately answered, "The Thorn people brought many books with them when they wanted to exterminate the clan hundreds of years ago. Those books now have transcripts... I think what is recorded in them

Some of the things may be very different from what you know from the Sandi people, and some may have been lost to the Sandi people long ago. If you want to understand the real Suga civilization, you will definitely need them."

Yis: "..."

Great, now can anyone confidently negotiate a deal with him? Those rags are not what he wants at all!

Then he thought of Bertram's rapidly graying hair.

"...I'll take you out of here." He said firmly, "Where are you going?"

"Just leaving here may not guarantee our safety, whether within the barrier or outside the barrier." Mo Ying cautiously pressed forward, "We have some problems that must be solved, otherwise...the elders will not

They will let us go."

"Sacrifice?" Is asked. He already felt a little... nothing mattered.

Come all come!

Silent Shadow nodded.

"Okay." Iss asked calmly: "Then how did you originally want to destroy the sacrifice?"

The chickens looked at each other hesitantly, and then all looked at Silent Shadow.

"We want to find the elders and tell them that it is wrong to sacrifice living people. If they don't stop doing this, we will tell all the Tricksters about it." Mo Ying answered very seriously and took the opportunity.

Staring directly at the "stars" with light blue eyes covered with gold.

It was indeed... as beautiful a blue as she had dreamed of.

Iss looked at her doubtfully, and after realizing that she was not joking, he laughed angrily.

He originally wanted to help them "appropriately". Anyway, it was originally their own idea, not counting his involvement in any internal battles, but this plan...

He had just thought that this prickly girl was not stupid, but this "plan" was so mind-numbing... Even when that idiot Ed was at his most stupid, he was not so naive!

"Let me guess," he sneered, "You have already met the elders, stated your requests, and then were locked up here. Most likely, you will be treated as a 'voluntary sacrifice' sacrifice. The one on the top of the tree

The neck was cut by the pool... right?"

The chicks shrank their necks silently.

"Yes." Mo Ying admitted very frankly, "I already know what kind of mistakes we have made - we are not strong enough. Under the suppression of absolute power, we have no power to resist, and we are not even qualified to have a fair dialogue.

None. But, now——"

She looked at Iss with burning eyes: "We have you."

Thorny Man's eyes are golden, like a dragon, with golden eyes and black vertical pupils. But Moying's eyes don't look cold or dangerous at all, they are just as bright as the sun.

Too simple and bright.

"I can be your temporary support," Yis said, "but I will leave soon - I am not here to save you."

Silent Shadow nodded.

"Of course," she said, "I know that only we can save ourselves...but we still need a little time."

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When the frozen door was finally opened, there was no one inside.

The old thorny man on crutches touched the ice that had not completely melted, and narrowed his cloudy eyes.

"...Bring forward the sacrifices," he said.

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"They want to advance the sacrifice!"

The angry exclamations, accompanied by the thumping of footsteps, crashed into the cellar hidden under the lake house, and also hit the ears of Is, who was half-awake in the tree.

Iss raised his eyelids and was no longer angry - these stupid chickens didn't understand what "hidden" meant at all? If he hadn't been here, they would have all been captured long ago!

Beside him, Osha was lying on a branch, drooling as he slept. The little sand man had just washed his smelly fur in the clear lake water, and dried it in the sun to make it fluffy.

The wind was undulating, and it seemed like it was calling out enthusiastically, "Come and touch it!"... He just touched a few of them.

He felt they could leave.

He had sent those chicks under the wings of their mother hen. And the "teachers" he rescued from house arrest, although they politely expressed their gratitude to him, were obviously not like the chicks.

So naive to believe an outsider like him.

Even those little chickens don't all believe in him...including Mo Ying.

They were trying to figure out how he got into the barrier and what his purpose was, but Yis hated "speculating" the most.

He just won't tell them.

They even tried to trap him so that he couldn't leave...that would be even more impossible.

Leave as soon as he gets the books that Silent Shadow promised - he should probably hurry them up.

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"Teacher Ru'an!" In the cellar, Silent Shadow looked eagerly at another middle-aged Thorny man.

It is difficult to tell the difference between a young and middle-aged man in appearance, but the temperament of that man is obviously much calmer.

"Even if the sacrifices are brought forward," he continued to write and draw on the paper without raising his head, "they will not completely give up the necessary sense of ritual, and they will have to wait until some important people arrive... We still have at least five days.

Time, if it is too late to complete the rune, or it does not work as we hoped, then we can only stop it by force. It is true that none of our people are warriors... but the guards of the sacred tree are also from various colleges.

Those who are elected will probably hesitate when facing their teachers and students in the college..."

Moreover, among the elders, there will also be people who cooperate secretly.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look up at his students.

"Who is so impulsive?" he said, "Your plan will never work. It will only make them more vigilant, and the holy lake will be guarded much more closely than before... We could have had more

Time and more opportunities.”

"I'm sorry." Silent Shadow lowered her head in shame. Although she was not the leader, she could not stop her companions. If Is hadn't rescued them... they would have been treated as hostages before being used as sacrifices.

And their real plan...the plan she didn't tell the outsider who did have blue eyes as bright as stars was even more difficult to succeed.

They even bothered the teachers, allowing their actions to be discovered early. But now that the arrow is on the line, they can no longer retreat.

"Don't worry, Mo Ying." Another teacher who had been flipping through a book looked up and smiled at her, "Even if we fail to succeed this time, more people will know the truth about the so-called 'sacrifice', and more people will

Stop it, change it, and maybe there will be a better way than what we can think of now."

They may die, but they will succeed one day.

"Then," Mo Ying said hesitantly, "That... Xingxing, he should be able to help, right?"

She could tell that he really didn't want to get involved in their affairs at all. However, even if he just stood behind them, as a kind of deterrent, it would make their chances of success greater.

The two teachers looked at each other.

"He is indeed very powerful," Ruan said, "and also very dangerous. Such magic... we have never heard of. If his purpose is to control the sacred tree, we have absolutely no way to stop him. Although it seems that at present

There is no malicious intention... But if you want to get his help and just want to deceive and use him, it is absolutely impossible. But the time is too short, and we can't pay too much for him just because of a dream.
Chapter completed!