Chapter 101
Chapter 101: Giegie, Charge—Kill All the Magic Beasts!
Li Hai Sheng’s mouth twitched. He opened his terminal and transferred three million to Qian Qi.
This wasn’t getting scammed, he told himself. This was buying his life. A survival expense. A very expensive survival expense.
System drifted closer to Li Hai Sheng, flickered, and then delivered a neat little dagger of information:
[Qian Qi. This guy is probably here to kill you. His most recent contact is Chen Tong. One hour ago, Chen Tong transferred him 10.2 million.]
“What?!” Qian Qi exploded, pointing at Li Hai Sheng like he’d committed a war crime. “Ten point two million! You asshole! You just told me you only had three million!”
System: …
Yes. Exactly. This was the point.
Qian Qi had been planning to ditch Li Hai Sheng and let him fend for himself, but now that she knew he still had money? Oh, she wasn’t letting this walking wallet out of her sight.
She clasped her hands behind her back and put on an earnest, heroic expression.
“This dungeon is dangerous,” she said solemnly. “Stay close. Follow me. I’ll protect you. Two people together have better odds.”
Those words hit Li Hai Sheng’s heart like a warm blanket.
His mission was to figure out what Qian Qi was doing, then kill her. But inside the Hell Dungeon, there was an even more urgent mission: kill the boss. That was the only way out.
If he let Qian Qi do most of the work, then landed the final hit on the boss… he’d get the rewards and a perfect chance to finish off an exhausted Qian Qi.
A beautiful plan.
“Fine,” he said, nodding. “Let’s move.”
“Great!” Qian Qi spun on her heel. “No time to waste. We find the boss before dark!”
They headed into the gorge forest. Towering cliffs strangled the daylight, leaving the bottom dim and cold. Thankfully, Qian Qi had a flashlight, so at least they weren’t walking blind.
Li Hai Sheng studied her thin arms and legs as he followed. “Girl, are you a flight-type awakener?”
Qian Qi smiled in the dark. “Yeah. Why? Jealous?”
“Not jealous,” Li Hai Sheng said carefully. “Just curious. You walked into this dungeon like you knew exactly what you were doing. And what a coincidence—surviving the entry basically requires flight. Do you know something?”
Qian Qi sighed like she’d been carrying generational trauma for decades. “It’s a long story.”
She stared into the black cleft of the gorge ahead, voice heavy with fake sorrow. “Twenty years ago, my elderly grandfather—who never liked bathing—told me on his deathbed that if anyone asked me that question, I must never answer.”
Li Hai Sheng: …
His jaw clenched. “Don’t play games. You and I are partners now. The more I know, the better our odds.”
Qian Qi turned to him and, not even subtly, glanced at his terminal. “My elderly grandfather also said… if someone insists, that’s fine.”
She held up two fingers.
“Two hundred thousand.”
Li Hai Sheng finally understood.
She wasn’t being mysterious. She was selling information.
Chen Tong hadn’t lied about one thing—this girl was a greedy little gremlin.
Li Hai Sheng scoffed internally. He’d lived in the adult world for decades. He wasn’t paying a teenager’s “lore fee.” There was no way she knew anything. Coincidence, that’s all.
So he changed the question. “Then why are you here?”
“To grab a windfall,” Qian Qi said cheerfully, “and kill the boss.”
“A windfall?” Li Hai Sheng scanned the bare rock and shadow. “This place is nothing but gorges. We’ve been walking forever. No magic plants, no magic beasts. Where’s the windfall supposed to come from?”
Qian Qi’s gaze flicked to his terminal again. “I’m waiting for it to drop on its own.”
Li Hai Sheng felt like she was implying something, and he didn’t like it. He pressed on anyway. “Do you know where the boss is?”
“Of course not. First time.” Qian Qi stopped abruptly, eyes snapping toward movement ahead.
From the darkness between the cliffs, a magic beast emerged—two meters tall, shaped like a massive wolf. Behind it, more eyes glimmered. Green. Hungry.
Qian Qi immediately ducked behind Li Hai Sheng.
“So if we run into magic beasts,” she hissed, “you protect me, okay?!”
Li Hai Sheng’s brain stuttered.
Wasn’t she supposed to—
Before he could finish that thought, he saw it: not one wolf. A whole pack. More than a dozen.
Qian Qi threw both arms up and screamed like she was announcing a sports match. “Go, Big Gie! Big Gie, you can do it! Big Gie charge—kill all the magic beasts!”
“Shut up!” Li Hai Sheng snapped, face turning green.
Pack-type magic beasts were like wolves—if they had backup nearby, they’d call it. If he got exhausted here, he was done.
He turned to bark an order. “You lure a few away and I—”
There was no one behind him.
He spun.
Empty air.
“Big Gie~!” Qian Qi’s voice rang out from above. “Fighting~! I’m waiting up here where it’s safe!”
Li Hai Sheng’s vision went white.
He wanted to scream every curse word he’d ever learned. If she could fly, why didn’t she just carry him?
Instead, he watched her hover at a safe distance, waving like a manic cheerleader, while he stood alone facing a wall of teeth and claws.
He swore one thing with absolute certainty:
After they killed the boss, Qian Qi was going to die horribly.
Gritting his teeth, Li Hai Sheng yanked a retractable D-rank long blade from the pocket of his defensive armor and charged.
The leader wolf threw back its head and howled. The frost wolf pack behind it leapt as one—vaulting over the leader and slamming toward Li Hai Sheng like a living avalanche.