Chapter 101: I Think I Saw My Eldest Sister

This still is not rich enough?

A storage space that can hold so many iron hedgehogs and Pegasus carcasses—just how vast must it be? And Lu Yuhui guessed that there were already plenty of things stored inside Yu Yan's space.

At the very least, there was surely a good amount of Qu Ru meat, Black Tortoise meat, and the like still left in there.

Compared with his own miserable state, carrying one fifth-rank Pegasus in each hand and another on his back, bent so low he could barely stand upright, Yu Yan looked carefree and unrestrained as she easily held the fifth-rank peak Pegasus in her hand.

"Um, Sister Yan."

Lu Yuhui would have loved to fidget, if only he had a free hand. "Don't you think you should help me carry one?"

"I don't think so."

Yu Yan held back the curve of her lips. "You're fifth rank. I'm only at the peak of fourth rank."

"Besides, I'm a woman, and you're a grown man. Aren't you embarrassed?"

Lu Yuhui: "..."

He very much wanted to say, no, he wasn't embarrassed at all!

If Yu Yan hadn't brought it up, he would have forgotten that she was merely a woman who stood not even up to his chin.

It was just that Yu Yan gave him the impression of being far too strong, far too unfathomable.

...

Lu Yuhui had already fully adjusted to his new body, and his speed could barely keep up with Yu Yan.

At last, when walking with others, Yu Yan no longer had to lift people by the hand and carry them along—though, to be fair, with her strength it had not been much trouble at all.

But the men she had met were all at least over five foot seven.

To keep their feet off the ground, she could only fly while traveling with them. Flying like that consumed a bit more wind-element energy than simply racing along the road.

Besides, she was a woman; that sort of posture was a little hard on the eyes.

Unless absolutely necessary, Yu Yan still preferred to preserve her image. What if she ran into Lin Zhe someday?

In his eyes, she had always been a delicate little darling, a weak and helpless girl.

Yu Yan found that over these past two days, she had been thinking of Lin Zhe more and more often.

Perhaps it was because successfully reuniting with her twin younger siblings had given her boundless confidence in finding her relatives in this instance world.

Yu Yan no longer instinctively resisted thinking of Lin Zhe—the person she had once believed she might never see again in this lifetime. Since her younger brother and sister could be found, then her parents surely could be found soon as well.

What reason was there for Lin Zhe to be any different?

He loved extreme sports, and his physical fitness was excellent.

He was also clever; perhaps he was even now surviving quite well in some corner of the instance world.

As long as the two of them kept striving to live on, there would always come a day when they would meet again.

The second section

"Big sister, you're back?"

More than ten minutes later, Yu Yan and the others returned to where Yu Lei and the rest were waiting. Lu Yuhui was carrying one Pegasus in each hand, and Yu Yan looked the same—though when Lu Yuhui had主动 volunteered to help, Yu Yan had teased him right back.

Still, despite the banter, Yu Yan had taken the initiative to carry one of the Pegasi herself.

The reason she had gone to such lengths, instead of tossing these four Pegasi into the Lotus Space, was this:

Lu Yuhui knew that her storage capacity was not small, so that was fine. But Yu Rui, Yu Wei, and the others looked rather dim-witted, and it was better they did not know too much. It would make her feel unsafe.

Well, fine—truth be told, she was just used to being cautious.

No matter what she did, she instinctively wanted to keep one hand hidden, and then another hidden besides!

Only by holding enough trump cards could she roam happily through the instance world without worrying about flipping the board at any moment. And besides, three of the Pegasi were still alive; if living creatures were thrown into the Lotus Space, who knew how long they could survive there?

The two of them threw the Pegasi to the ground.

Yu Lei circled excitedly around the carcasses. "Big sister, what are these?"

The spiritual energy was so dense—especially this dead Pegasus that his sister had brought back. It could even compare to the lightning beast blood crystal he had absorbed!

That was not surprising. The dead Pegasus Yu Yan had left behind was precisely the fifth-rank peak one that had died with its eyes still open.

The lightning beast blood crystal Yu Lei had refined was sixth rank.

But a blood crystal was only the most concentrated, most spiritually rich essence of the lightning beast's entire body.

In the end, it was only one blood crystal. How could it compare to a whole Pegasus, with flesh, blood, and bones all intact? If they were lucky, there might even be a blood crystal inside its body! That would depend on Yu Wei and the others' fortune.

As for these four Pegasi already exposed before everyone's eyes, Yu Yan had no intention of claiming them for herself.

Whether it was bloodline, bones, or blood crystals, they would all be used to enhance the strength of the people in this group.

Even if they wanted to save their own share and take it home to give to relatives and friends, Yu Yan would have no objection.

The villagers' strength was meant to be improved in the first place; this had all been part of Yu Yan's plan. Otherwise, how could she lead a pack of weaklings through an S-rank instance and out into the outside world to find a suitable base?

That's right: as for the villagers of Phoenix and Crane Village, so long as they were not utterly foolish, Yu Yan intended to lead them to a path of survival.

After all, that was the place where she was born and raised; they were either neighbors or childhood playmates.

If there was any way to do so, Yu Yan did not want to watch them die before her eyes.

"These are fifth-rank unknown instance monsters. I killed one of them, and the other three still have one breath left."

Yu Yan pointed at the Pegasi on the ground. "Xiao Lei, you kill them."

From fourth rank all the way up to fifth-rank peak, the Pegasi had essentially all been handled by Yu Yan.

In front of Lu Yuhui, Yu Yan had personally killed that fifth-rank peak Pegasus. As for the remaining three fifth-rank Pegasi, she had only injured them and not killed them, for her own reasons.

In everyone's eyes, she had appeared alone.

To leave the instance, one only needed to kill a single fifth-rank monster.

Yu Yan had no intention of explaining that misunderstanding.

So these three fifth-rank monsters would first count toward the seven members of Yu Lei's group.

After all, for her, the mother and daughter would certainly leave the instance together with the twin siblings, and the twins clearly could not abandon their companions. This haul of four fifth-rank monsters was simply not enough no matter how one counted the slots.

The next hunt—and even the one after that—was inevitable.

Then so be it. On the next run, or the one after, once they had filled eight spots, she would simply take advantage of the chaos to kill one extra fifth-rank monster.

As for why she had not let Lu Yuhui kill them directly and bring back the corpses, instead making things so troublesome by insisting on capturing them alive: first, Yu Yan had intended to use the near-dead fifth-rank monsters to train Yu Lei's ability to react.

Second? What a joke.

She had taken Lu Yuhui out to lure and kill monsters, and her thoughtful little brother was already unhappy.

He only felt that, as his older sister, she treated him less intimately than she treated an outsider like Lu Yuhui. If she then let Lu Yuhui kill these three Pegasi as well, Yu Lei would surely be choked with grievance to death. Of course she had to give her little brother a chance to shine!

"Me?"

"Can I really do it?"

That was what Yu Lei said, but the excitement in his eyes showed that he believed he definitely could—and that he was extremely satisfied with Yu Yan's arrangement.

His sister really did love him after all.

She had taken Lu Yuhui out to kill monsters, and still had not forgotten to bring the monsters back for him to kill!

Yu Lei's eyes sparkled brightly. Under the envious and jealous gazes of everyone, including Lu Yuhui, he rolled up his sleeves and strode toward the half-dead Pegasi.

Just then—

"Big, big sister?"

A slightly uneasy voice, still a little weak from having been unconscious for too long, sounded out.

"Second sister, you're awake?"

Yu Lei immediately abandoned the Pegasus and rushed to Yu Wan's side.

"Mm, Xiao Lei... I think I saw Big Sister just now?" Yu Wan said, still somewhat in disbelief.

Was that really Big Sister?

It seemed like her, and yet not like her.

The Big Sister in her memory was warm and gentle. The woman before her, however, was anything but warm or gentle. If not for the fact that she looked exactly like Big Sister, she might not even have dared to approach and speak to her...

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