Chapter 426

Chapter 426: What Are These Freaky Things?
Yu Zhao glanced at Feng Jiu Si, then at Shui Qiu Bai. Spirit power gathered under her feet. She bent her knees and jumped straight out of the starship, then turned back and gave the two of them a small smile.

Feng Jiu Si and Shui Qiu Bai pulled back their outstretched hands in disappointment.

They were a bit unwilling, but since Yu Zhao had not accepted either of their gestures, they could only force themselves to accept it.

After everyone met up outside, Feng Jiu Si suggested: “Let’s look around nearby and see if we can find any information about this planet.”

As long as they knew where this planet came from, they could find the right coordinates on the star map and then figure out the route home.

No one objected, but when it came to splitting into groups, they ran into a problem.

Now that Tu Xiao had dropped out of the competition, the chances of Feng Jiu Si and the other two winning the bet had gone up. All three of them wanted to team up with Yu Zhao to raise their stakes.

While the three of them were arguing, Tu Xiao suddenly lost his temper. He shouted: “You’re fighting over teaming up with a piece of trash? You’re really getting more useless the longer you live!”

His voice was full of gunpowder.

Before Yu Zhao could say anything, Feng Jiu Si and the other two rushed out to speak for her.

It was exactly the same as the scene that day when Jin Yuan had made things hard for her.

Tu Xiao was so angry he almost exploded. He snapped: “Fine, you all want to protect her, then stay here and argue! I’m leaving!”

With that, he flicked his sleeve, and his figure disappeared.

His body still had not fully recovered, and this was a strange abandoned planet. Feng Jiu Si and the other two naturally could not just watch him walk off alone.

The three of them looked at each other. In the end, Feng Jiu Si was the one who ran after him.

That left Shui Qiu Bai and Huo Shao Yan to automatically team up with Yu Zhao.

Huo Shao Yan stood where he was and muttered under his breath: “What is wrong with Tu Xiao, his temper is getting weirder and weirder.”

Shui Qiu Bai glared at him, signaling him to shut up. Then he turned, pointed in another direction, and said to Yu Zhao in a low voice: “Let’s go check over there.”

“Alright.”

So the three of them walked in the direction opposite from where Tu Xiao had gone.

Yu Zhao had already known from inside the starship that this was an abandoned planet.

But it was only when both her feet stepped onto this cold land that she truly felt the rotten air rising from deep inside the planet.

Huge cracks crisscrossed the ground. Riverbeds were dry and broken. The mountains were cut clean in half. Sand and dust filled the sky. Every corner seemed to show off the glory of the past, yet also told the story of its death.

When she looked up, there was no blue sky and no white clouds. Instead, the sky was a strange blue-purple color, with bands of silver light sometimes streaking through the gaps.

All around them, it was so quiet it was scary. It made people feel a lonely fear, as if the darkness was about to swallow them whole.

Yu Zhao’s mood was affected whether she liked it or not. Her soul felt like it was drifting away for a moment.

Before she could even think of a way to shake off that feeling, Huo Shao Yan suddenly let out a loud, miserable wail that yanked her floating soul right back into her body.

Huo Shao Yan did not know what sad thing he had suddenly remembered. He was crying with snot and tears everywhere, pounding his own chest, looking completely heartbroken.

This was much more real than when he had pretended to cry in front of Yu Zhao before.

Shui Qiu Bai had also been affected by the environment. His low mood had just started to build up when his unlucky cousin broke it apart.

He took a big step forward and slapped Huo Shao Yan across the head. The blow sent Huo Shao Yan’s head to the side.

That slap was simple, rough, and very effective.

Huo Shao Yan snapped out of it. He wiped his tears with a grimace, sniffed hard, and asked: “I-I… what just happened to me?”

“There’s something wrong with this place. Stay alert,” Shui Qiu Bai said, his face serious.

Yu Zhao and Huo Shao Yan had already gone through it once, so they both silently became more guarded.

On the other side of the planet, Feng Jiu Si caught up with Tu Xiao.

Tu Xiao was sitting on a raised rock, sulking.

When he saw Feng Jiu Si, he turned his head away and said in a strange, sharp tone: “Why aren’t you off coaxing that little wretch? What are you doing here with me?”

A strange feeling flashed through Feng Jiu Si’s heart.

But he did not think too much about it. Instead, he smiled and said: “You know what she’s like. Why waste your anger on her?”

The corners of his lips curved up a little. His smile was like a warm spring breeze that blew away the anger in Tu Xiao’s chest.

A hint of obsession flashed in Tu Xiao’s eyes.

Why had he never noticed that Feng Jiu Si was so handsome, even more tempting than those beautiful young women?

“Tu Xiao?”

Feng Jiu Si felt his scalp prickle under Tu Xiao’s gaze. For one brief moment, an absurd guess came to his mind.

The next second, he denied it himself.

They had all grown up together since they were young. He had never heard that Tu Xiao had any strange hobbies.

He must have seen it wrong.

Tu Xiao snorted and stood up. He said: “Since you came to beg me on purpose, I won’t argue with you. But stay away from that wretch from now on. I feel sick when I see her.”

Feng Jiu Si lowered his eyes a little, hiding the doubt in them. He answered softly: “Alright.”

“That’s more like it. Let’s go farther ahead and see. We have to find clues before they do.”

After he finished, Tu Xiao rushed forward at full speed again, returning to his usual decisive self.

Feng Jiu Si stared at his back for a moment, then lifted his feet and followed.

Three days later.

Yu Zhao and the other two returned to where the starship was parked.

Huo Shao Yan looked around and said: “Weird. Why aren’t they back yet?”

Before they had split up, they had agreed to meet here in three days.

Yu Zhao said: “Maybe they found something and got delayed.”

Huo Shao Yan was not convinced. He said: “We didn’t find anything. How could they?”

“Hard to say…”

Before they could finish their talk, the three of them suddenly looked up in the same direction.

Far off at the edge of the sky, a small patch of gray mist began to rise.

In just a moment, the mist spread quickly, blocking out the sky and sun as it swept toward them like a tidal wave.

At the same time, a loud buzzing sound filled the air.

At the very front of the mist, there were two tiny black dots.

Looking closer, they were not black dots at all.

They were the late arrivals, Tu Xiao and Feng Jiu Si.

Behind them, the gray mist was actually a huge swarm of dense gray moths, flying toward them with their huge mouthparts wide open.

“Damn, what are these freaky things?!”

Huo Shao Yan yelled, his scalp going numb. The color drained from his face in an instant.

Very few people knew that the fearless young heir of the Huo Clan was most afraid of bugs.

Whenever he saw an insect, his legs went weak on their own.

He grabbed Shui Qiu Bai’s clothes and shook, his voice trembling badly: “Cousin, what are we going to do?”

Shui Qiu Bai also felt troubled.

They were still too far away, so for now he could not sense how strong these moths were.

But just looking at the way Feng Jiu Si and Tu Xiao were running for their lives, he knew those two also had no way to fight back. Even if they added the three of them in, they probably still would not be able to handle it.

There was only one best plan.

Leave this abandoned planet.

Shake off the moths.

“Go meet them and be ready to enter the starship at any time,” he said.