Chapter 13 A Bigger Threat

Feng Bujue dragged the horrified Orb at top speed for twenty seconds, catching up with Buu, who was drifting in the river.

At that moment, the fatty had switched to a face-up backstroke position, using his hands to cover his mouth and nose and hold his breath.

"Careful! This pollen..." As soon as Buu saw his teammates, he shouted.

"We're fine!" Feng Bujue interrupted him directly and immediately continued in a commanding tone, "Quickly turn yourself into that 'balloon state' you talked about, now!"

In this critical situation, Buu didn't have time to think; he instinctively did what Jue-ge said. The next second, his body slowly left the surface of the water and floated into the air.

"Orb, grab him, hold on tight!" As Feng Bujue said this, he had already run past Buu.

"Huh?" After these few dozen seconds, Orb had just barely adapted to Jue-ge's speed; he was still completely stunned. Now that Jue-ge had suddenly issued an order, he naturally needed a little time to react.

Fortunately... Orb reacted pretty quickly. At the instant he was about to pass Buu, he stretched out his hand in time and grabbed him.

The next second... the spectacle of Feng Bujue's "one-dragging-two water-skipping" was staged...

Jue-ge took the lead, treading on the water; he used his right hand to grab Orb's left arm, dragging him behind; Orb's right arm grabbed the "ballooned" Buu; Buu floated in the air, waving wildly in the wind like a kite...

"Buu, besides holding your breath, is there any other way you can avoid breathing in that pollen?" Feng Bujue was still trying to solve the immediate crisis while running.

"No," Buu replied quickly, then puffed out his cheeks again and continued to hold his breath...

"Jue-laoshi, I have two respirators and oxygen tanks; I can give one to Buu," Orb said at this moment. "Uh... but you need to stop first. Like this... it's not convenient for me to take it out..."

"No need to rush," Feng Bujue grinned and replied, "Let's wait until we find the others."

Hearing that Orb had another set of respirators and oxygen tanks, Feng Bujue immediately felt relieved. Because the [Oxygen Pipe] was a "bound-on-use" item, Jue-ge couldn't give the item to other players... Therefore, the oxygen supply equipment that Orb carried was very important. Before they walked out of this pollen-covered area, the five people besides Jue-ge were all relying on this respirator. Under this premise, having another set of equipment was equivalent to increasing the team's action efficiency by onefold.

"Hey! What's going on?"

Just as Jue-ge was pondering, Xiao Ling's figure appeared in front of them, and she immediately shouted at the three of them.

At this moment, Xiao Ling was still bouncing back and forth between the two stone walls, without falling into the water; and... she was wearing a gas mask on her face.

"I already forgot... her outfit comes with a gas mask when 'display facial clothing' is active," Feng Bujue said in his heart after seeing the other party, "In that case... things will be easier to handle."

"Grab Buu! We'll talk on the way," Jue-ge immediately shouted back at the top of his lungs.

"Okay, it's easier than jumping myself," Xiao Ling responded.

The height she was at was already slightly higher than Buu, and when she saw the three people "flying a kite," she immediately understood what Jue-ge meant. So, when the three passed below her, Xiao Ling flipped over and grabbed Buu's left ankle...

At this point, Jue-ge had gone from dragging two to dragging three...

"Whoa... is this a train..." Before long, Ruo Yu's figure also appeared in front of them. When she saw the situation of the four, she couldn't help but complain.

"Hey... is it really okay for you to be so leisurely?" The reason Feng Bujue asked this was because Ruo Yu wasn't rushing...

In this place where they couldn't breathe, Ruo Yu had actually inserted [Feng Sheng] horizontally into the stone wall and was standing on the hilt of the sword, waiting calmly in place.

"It's okay, I have relevant skills; it's okay if I don't breathe temporarily," Ruo Yu said, leaning over and spinning. "In this situation, I guess you will definitely catch up quickly, so... I'll wait here for you for a while, so you don't worry." After she said the second half of the sentence, she had already pulled out Feng Sheng and grabbed Xiao Ling's hand. "Since you're dragging three, just take me along too."

"You really aren't polite at all..." Feng Bujue grinned, exerted force on his legs, and increased his speed by a few points.

He would run faster and faster, first, because he was worried about the pursuit of the "father" behind him, and second, because he was afraid that [Ta Xu]'s "walking on water" effect would fail. Because this effect wasn't without limitations... As long as the weight on Jue-ge reached a certain weight, he would sink. Therefore, for every person Jue-ge brought, he had to speed up a little, the principle was like skipping stones (fluid dynamics says that the greater the flow velocity, the smaller the pressure, when an object with a density greater than water glides across the surface of the water, it drives the water below it to flow quickly in a very short time, thereby reducing the pressure, while the water further below is stationary, creating a large pressure, so it creates a pressure on the object, when the pressure is greater than the gravity of the object, the object will bounce up, this situation repeats many times, the object will appear to jump on the surface of the water). And if he stopped in place, it might cause the water-treading function of the shoes to fail (similar to the function of standing in the air, once it fails, it needs a period of buffering before it can take effect again).

"By the way... how come I don't know you have a breath-holding skill?" Even dragging four people, Jue-ge still had the strength to speak. He had only just discovered that running with the [Oxygen Pipe] in his mouth was actually easier than running with normal breathing.

"It's not breath-holding; it's breath regulation," Ruo Yu replied loudly from behind. "I just learned the skill today when browsing Surprise Box."

"Oh... is it something like a turtle breathing technique?" Feng Bujue replied, turning his head.

"I'll show you when I have time," Ruo Yu replied.

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Although her tone was understated, the skill she bought this time was definitely extraordinary...

[Name: Mingyu Gong (First Layer)]

[Skill Card Attribute: Special Skill, Permanently Mastered, Ability Increases with Cultivation]

[Skill Category: ???]

[Effect One: Divine Skill Begins, Inner Breath Settles]

[Learning Conditions: Female Player, Level 35 or Above, Melee Specialization A, Activate Spiritual Arts Specialization]

[Remarks: Peerless martial arts of Yihua Palace, orthodox and supreme internal skill. Those who achieve great success in divine skill will have endless power, profound strength like ice, eternal youth, and be invincible in the world.]

Presumably, many people will have such a question in their hearts... Ruo Yu herself is also a player who doesn't lack money, and her game level is not low. In principle, her equipment and skills should not be worse than Feng Bujue, so why have you never seen her take out anything legendary?

Here, the answer can be revealed...

In addition to basic equipment (things like flashlights), Ruo Yu is more inclined to things with "growth" characteristics when actively buying equipment and skills. And she doesn't want ordinary ones; what she likes... are all top-quality.

For example, [Feng Sheng] is a weapon with "sealed power." When the number of evil spirits slain by this sword increases to a certain number, its seal is lifted, directly becoming a legendary artifact.

Another example is this [Mingyu Gong]. Don't look at the ordinary effect of its first layer, but its price is as high as tens of thousands of skill points... Most people will give up when they see that inexplicable effect description and then look at the price... But Ruo Yu was very decisive after seeing the words "ability increases with cultivation." and bought it.

Different from Feng Bujue's "real-time improvement" approach, Ruo Yu is the type that either doesn't buy it, or buys it in one step. She can patiently accumulate skill points until something she thinks is "worth buying" appears (so she has trained so many levels and the skill points have not been spent).

Under this concept, it will undoubtedly give birth to a player who is "ordinary in the early stage and heaven-defying in the later stage." And this... is also the reason why Vincent placed his bet on Ruo Yu.

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"Jue-ge! Big trouble!"

After dragging four people and running for three minutes, Xiao Tan's shout suddenly came from the front, and his figure also appeared.

"Hey! Why are you running back?" Feng Bujue said, "Your side is the direction of escape! And there are pursuers behind us!"

"It doesn't matter!" Xiao Tan shouted with a look of panic.

Before the shout was over, a huge shadow slowly approached from the river behind him and entered everyone's sight...

"There's something even fiercer coming from my side!"