Tomb raiding: Today is another day I don't want to go home.

Chapter 101 Yan Huai Fei Fei, Zhang Qiling Chasing After Her

Tentacles shot out from behind, relentlessly pursuing them, as did the place they were about to step into.

Yan Huai was mostly focused on dodging, and didn't notice that every place where his blood had dripped was inexplicably churning and boiling, nor did he notice a figure swimming beneath the surface of the water, rapidly moving in the direction he was heading...

Only when the boiling sound around him grew more intense did Yan Huai suddenly stop and look back—he had been wandering aimlessly in his sea of ​​consciousness for over an hour, but still hadn't found any clues or seen any changes.

Besides these golden tentacles that kept appearing along the way and relentlessly chasing after him...

Now, however, there was an additional uproar and another person. The former made Yan Huai feel that there might be hope, but the latter only made him feel that hope was shattered, leaving him only with tears in his eyes.

Zhang Qiling...

"You..." If I had known you were in these tentacle nests, I would never have bothered running away!

Yan Huai stared with a bitter expression at the dark figure entangled with the tentacles attacking from behind. He breathed a sigh of relief, but also sensed that something was wrong.

Hmm, something's not right... Zhang Qiling is about to chop him up, isn't he!

Holy crap! I'm really going to chop him up!

After slashing down the tentacle that was about to pierce his eyeball, Yan Huai turned and ran. Meanwhile, a black-gold ancient sword was already half-submerged in the water, its hilt still trembling slightly from the remaining force...

"Zhang Qiling! Don't hit me, it's me, Yan Huai!" Hmm? Why does that sound so familiar?

As Yan Huai shouted, he subconsciously recalled what he had said, and then... wasn't that what he had shouted when he sneaked into Zhang Qiling's room in the dark before?! (Chapter 64, the part where Black Glasses was tricked by Yan Huai to the outside of the small courtyard—hug, overnight stay, plus... I like you)

This time, however, Zhang Qiling didn't stop. On the contrary, he went all out, as if he didn't even know Yan Huai.

"Zhang Qiling?" Yan Huai persisted, using the posture of blocking the Black Gold Ancient Blade to close the distance between himself and Zhang Qiling. "What are you doing? Don't you remember me?"

However, Zhang Qiling only frowned at Yan Huai's words. He didn't react in any particular way, but he swung the knife in his hand even more fiercely. But was this appropriate? This shouldn't be!

Judging from Zhang Qiling's expression alone, Yan Huai was certain that the person in front of him was not under control, nor even showed any signs of being forced or driven. The only possibility was that all of this was Zhang Qiling's own will, including attacking him...

But why?

Yan Huai felt incredulous and somewhat aggrieved. After parrying Zhang Qiling's blade, he turned around and slashed off a large number of tentacles before continuing to run.

What else can he do? Run away and wait to get beaten up? He can think of a way while running, but if he has to face Zhang Qiling head-on, he will only feel frustrated.

So, what appeared in Zhang Qiling's mind was this scene: Yan Huai was desperately trying to bleed with his hand while simultaneously fleeing frantically, while behind him...

Zhang Qiling chased after him without even breaking a sweat. His agile figure would occasionally use the "bridges" formed by his tentacles to quickly close the distance with Yan Huai, then deliver a powerful kick to the latter's lower back—sometimes, of course, to his buttocks...

This is the scene as seen from Yan Huai's perspective, who is trembling as he meticulously records the beatings he suffered. However, from Zhang Qiling's perspective, the scene is quite different.

Ahead, a "blood corpse" with a big butt sticking out and incredibly fast broke free from the tentacles' restraints once again. It darted away with incredible speed, only to be stopped briefly by tentacles emerging from the water. This cycle repeated itself endlessly, so pitiful that it made anyone who saw it feel exhausted for it.

However, this does not include Zhang Qiling...

The dark figure disappeared into the water, and Zhang Qiling appeared a foot (33.333 centimeters) in front of Yan Huai in his astonished gaze.

That was the spot where Yan Huai would have bumped into if he had taken just one more step forward, but the opposite was true; it was he who was bumped into.

Seeing the leg coming at him diagonally, Yan Huai subconsciously put away the Branding Blade and caught Zhang Qiling's attack head-on.