“At a time like this, monsters appear?”

Lin Baici’s scalp went numb. This was a matter of life and death!

But Lin Baici was not the type to sit and wait for death. Even if the chances were slim, he would fight back. So he summoned the Red Earth Clayman.

Wearing a gas mask, he didn’t have to worry about his vision being obscured. But the sandstorm was too strong, and he couldn’t even see Xia Hongyao, who was close by.

In this situation, he could only rely on the little clayman, using it as a radar to indicate the exact location of the monster.

The little clayman was made of red clay, but in this sandstorm, it was also struggling. As soon as it appeared, it was almost blown away. After stabilizing its body, it immediately buried its head in the sand.

It didn’t mind squinting its eyes and could see everything clearly, but the wind was too strong for its small body to withstand.

“The monster is here!”

Lin Baici patted Xia Hongyao’s back, signaling her to let go of him. “Stay down and don’t move!”

Gao Mawei noticed that Lin Baici was about to get up and immediately followed him. “What’s wrong?”

The sandstorm drowned out all sound, making it impossible for the two to communicate effectively.

Just as Lin Baici was about to push Xia Hongyao down and use body language to tell her not to move, the sand beneath him suddenly sank.

Lin Baici’s body fell.

“Quicksand?”

Lin Baici was shocked. His instinct was to push Xia Hongyao away, to get her out of here, while commanding his Muscle Buddha to come and pull him up. But in the next moment, a pair of arms hugged his waist.

“It’s me!”

Queen Scorpion shouted.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

When the sand that fell with Lin Baici finally settled and no longer obstructed their view, Lin Baici saw that it was a sand cave.

The sand dust blew over the cave entrance, making a whistling sound, like the strange cries of countless migrating monsters.

This was a safe zone.

Xia Hongyao climbed up and crouched in the sand cave. “Can you bring my friend down?”

Lin Baici asked.

The cave wasn’t very big, but it could still accommodate four or five people if they squeezed together.

“Just wait!”

Queen Scorpion crawled out.

A few seconds later, Hua Yueyu, Jin Yingzhen, and Gu Qingqiu were all pulled down.

“Cough cough!”

Hua Yueyu coughed, feeling dizzy from the fall. Jin Yingzhen thought they were in danger and became a little panicked. But as soon as Gu Qingqiu fell down, she immediately crawled to a corner, keeping herself moving to make it harder for the enemy to hit her.

In the process of evading, she still used her peripheral vision to observe her surroundings. When she saw Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao, she suddenly felt relieved.

With them here, they were safe.

Queen Scorpion returned and waved her right hand, causing the sand to move like a lid, covering the entrance of the cave and turning it into a safe nest.

“A monster is coming!”

Lin Baici looked up at the cave entrance.

“A monster?”

Queen Scorpion focused and carefully sensed, but she didn’t feel any strong presence. However, Queen Scorpion was a cautious creature. It made some mysterious sounds, like chanting spells, and immediately, some finger-sized scorpions appeared under its feet. They quickly crawled out of the sand cave to gather information.

[That is a very powerful monster. If you go up there, your flesh will become its food, and your soul will become its puppet.]

“Is it a god?” Lin Baici sat down.

[No!]

Gourmet God’s comment: [Are you not resentful when you see a feast in front of you but can’t eat it?]

[Then hunt, eat, eat! One day, you will be able to devour the whole world!]

Lin Baici wasn’t interested in devouring the world. He just didn’t like the feeling of hiding, which made him feel weak.

Becoming a Dragon-level should allow him to roam freely in the God’s Ruins, right?

According to the classification of the Nine Provinces Security Bureau for the levels of God Hunter, as long as one possesses divine favor, they are considered Wolf-level.

Then, when divine favor reaches the fifth level and as the main force, they conquer three God’s Ruins, a God Hunter can be promoted from Wolf-level to Leopard Head.

Lin Baici had already conquered the Dragon Zen Temple God’s Ruin, the Palm Port God’s Ruin, and even played a crazy maid game in the Dragon and Beauty Bar, meeting the standards.

In reality, that crazy maid was one of the Seven Wonders of the Nine Provinces. The games she designed were much more difficult than ordinary God’s Ruins.

Generally speaking, most people take at least three years to go from becoming a God Hunter to being promoted to Leopard Head.

One reason is that divine favor is difficult to obtain, and the other is that God’s Ruins are too dangerous. No one would joke with their own life, so they would definitely explore cautiously.

Someone like Lin Baici, who encountered so many God’s Ruins and rule contaminations in less than three months, was like a lucky goddess who had been resented.

This bad luck was unparalleled.

Lin Baici couldn’t even wait for the annual God Hunter license assessment and had already been promoted to Leopard Head.Moving up, possessing ten divine blessings, and serving as the main force, after breaking through five God’s Ruins, Lin Baici will be promoted to the level of a Rampaging Bear.

At Lin Baici’s current speed, it is estimated that he will secure the Rampaging Bear title within a year at most.

Of course, if Lin Baici is brave enough to explore three God’s Ruins that have existed for more than ten years and still return alive, bringing back valuable information, then he can directly be promoted to Lion King.

If he single-handedly captures five God’s Ruins, he is also eligible to directly skip a level and become a Lion King.

Above the Lion King is the Dragon level!

To ascend step by step, one needs to break through dozens of God’s Ruins, but if one person captures a ten-year-old God’s Ruin, they can directly ascend to Dragon level.

However, generally, no one does this because they don’t want to die.

About nine minutes later, the main body of the sandstorm passed, and although there was still wind blowing on top, it was not as strong as before.

“Queen, open the entrance, I want to go up!” Lin Baici wanted to confirm how many survivors were still there.

“Shouldn’t we wait a little longer?” Queen Jin Scorpion wanted to be more cautious.

“No need, that monster should have left!” Lin Baici had not recalled the Muscle Buddha, but there was also no feedback from the battle, which indicated that the attacking monster, although powerful, was also cautious and did not want to easily provoke enemies.

Queen Jin Scorpion opened the entrance.

Just as Lin Baici was about to jump out, the Queen had already come over with her scorpion legs, hugged Lin Baici, threw him onto her back, and began climbing up the walls of the sand cave.

“You can grab onto my hair!” Queen Jin Scorpion suggested.

“…..”

Lin Baici looked at the Queen’s golden hair and wondered if she was a masochist.

Did she enjoy having her hair pulled from behind?

Lin Baici didn’t want to do that and planned to grab onto the Queen’s shoulders, but she turned her head and glanced at him.

What’s the matter?

Are you looking forward to it?

Then I won’t be polite!

Lin Baici grabbed onto Queen Jin Scorpion’s hair.

On the ground, the sandstorm continued, but it was much smaller now, and visibility was about seven or eight meters.

Everyone was lying on the ground, with most or even their entire bodies buried in the yellow sand, caused by the sand and dust brought by the sandstorm.

Lin Baici rushed to the side of the nearest man, grabbed his leg, and pulled him out of the sand.

“Cough, cough!”

The man coughed, gasping for air. He had almost suffocated just now.

Lin Baici began to save people.

Although the sandstorm only lasted for about ten minutes, the sense of oppression it brought was too strong, making everyone feel like they had spent an eternity in hell.

By the time five minutes had passed and the sandstorm had completely dissipated, Lin Baici had almost dug out everyone.

“Everyone, help me check if there are still people buried in the sand!”

Lin Baici shouted.

The number of survivors now did not match the number of people who had followed him before. There were more than twenty missing, probably blown away by the sandstorm.

As for whether the attacking monster had killed anyone, Lin Baici could no longer determine that.

With such a large sandstorm, any traces of murder would have been destroyed.

“Baici, that building is still there!”

Gu Qingqiu pointed to the west. Perhaps due to the wind, the black shadow on the horizon became clearer.

“Rest for five minutes, then let’s go!”

Lin Baici didn’t want to waste time. Besides that monster, who knows what other dangers there are in this desert?

What if another sandstorm comes?

Lin Baici retracted the tank, and as for the other supplies, he didn’t bother to pick them up. There were still some in the Black Altar Bowl, enough to eat.

“Spit, spit.”

Fei Xiao kept spitting out the sand in his mouth as he walked over. “Baici, what do you think caused this desert? A Divine Taboo?”

He was, after all, the head of the Ninth Division of the Haijing Security Bureau. He couldn’t just call Lin Baici a Divine Lin like everyone else, although this young man was indeed very powerful.

Thinking of this, Fei Xiao glanced at Queen Jin Scorpion.

Damn it!

To be so handsome that even monsters are willing to be your mount, is there no justice left in the world?

Envy!

Extremely envious!

“I don’t know!”

Lin Baici shook his head.

Everyone looked disheveled, even the beauties like Hua Yueyu and Jin Yingzhen looked very embarrassed, but Queen Jin Scorpion still looked heroic.

Unfortunately, only the upper half of her body could be seen.

“Let’s set off early!”

Fei Xiao suggested. He also didn’t want to wait. The longer they stayed, the more dangerous it became.

“Okay!”

Lin Baici was about to call everyone, but a man sitting on the sand suddenly sank, his whole body sinking into the sand.

Splash!

“Be careful, monster attack!” Lin Baici shouted to alert everyone.

Everyone was startled and quickly got up, running towards Lin Baici. In the process, some people kept sinking into the sand.

“Is it quicksand?” Fang Tianhua looked at the spot where a man disappeared. It didn’t seem like it, right?

Lin Baici threw out a Dragon Tooth.

Swoosh!

The bronze sword pierced into the sand.Muscle Buddha ran forward with big steps because the ground was sandy and its weight was heavy, so each step would sink in.

Lin Baici held a pine torch and stared at the ground.

“It’s the Pharaoh’s Scorpion Army!”

The Scorpion Queen smelled the scent of her kind.

“How many are there? Are they stronger than you?”

Lin Baici asked.

“There are quite a few, about the same as my servants, but they are all ants in front of me!”

The Scorpion Queen was very confident.

Muscle Buddha rushed to the location of the bronze sword, squatted down, and punched the ground.

Bang!

When Muscle Buddha pulled out his hand, he grabbed a black scorpion about the size of an adult with five thick fingers inserted with dragon teeth and black blood flowing.

The scorpion screamed and stabbed Muscle Buddha with its poisonous sharp tail hook.

Muscle Buddha drew out the bronze sword and slashed.

Swish!

The scorpion’s tail hook was cut off, and blood splattered.

Crash! Crash!

More than a hundred scorpions emerged from the ground and attacked the crowd.

Muscle Buddha used the scorpion corpse in his hand as a projectile and smashed it at a scorpion that was pouncing on Lin Baici.

“Lin God, help!”

The scene was chaotic. Some people were unlucky and were caught up by the scorpions in the blink of an eye.

The scorpion’s tail hook pierced them, and then the scorpion with saw-like teeth bit their heads.

Crack!

Their heads cracked, and brain fluid flowed out and was eaten by the scorpions.

The Scorpion Queen took a few steps forward, blocking Lin Baici, and then opened her red lips and let out a piercing scream.

The scorpions that were frantically slaughtering these people suddenly panicked. They abandoned their prey and gathered together, staring at the Scorpion Queen as if facing a formidable enemy.

Because this female scorpion gave them a great sense of oppression.

The Scorpion Queen made some strange syllables, seemingly communicating with the scorpions. Then, these scorpions suddenly burrowed into the ground and disappeared.

“They left?”

Hua Yueyu tightly held her voodoo staff, ready to electrocute at any time.

“No problem. I told them that if they don’t leave immediately, I will eat them!”

The Scorpion Queen was very proud. It wanted to tell this human that it was strong.

“Thank you!”

Lin Baici finished speaking and ordered everyone, “Come and thank the Queen!”

Everyone knew that the scorpions retreated because of the help of this monster, so regardless of whether they were sincere or not, they quickly expressed their gratitude.

“No need.”

The Scorpion Queen didn’t care about these. It only drove away those monsters for Lin Baici’s safety. “As long as you and I give birth to a powerful Scorpion King, I will be satisfied.”

“What?!”

Fang Tianhua was stunned. He felt like he heard something incredible.

Fei Xiao also looked confused. As the head of the department, he considered himself knowledgeable, but this time…

He looked at the female scorpion and wanted to remind her that there should be reproductive isolation between them, right?

“Let’s go!”

Lin Baici was a little impatient. He had thought about killing this scorpion monster before, but although its intentions were impure, it had ultimately helped their side and saved some people. If he killed it again, wouldn’t it be inappropriate?

Everyone moved towards the black shadow on the horizon.

After walking for half an hour and crossing a huge sand dune, they suddenly saw a group of people fighting ahead.

“Mummies?”

Hua Yueyu exclaimed.

The people being besieged were a group of mummies without bandages. They were tall and had long legs. If they were not mummified, their bodies would be strong. They were obviously fierce warriors.

“They are from the Third Department!”

Fang Tianhua was overjoyed.

Among those people, there was a man in his thirties with a crew cut hairstyle. He was extremely powerful. His weapon was a three-meter-long horse-cutting sword. Every swing would cut a mummy monster in half.

His posture was relaxed and free.

“That human is very strong!”

The Scorpion Queen’s face turned serious.

“Of course, he is Zhang Heng, the captain of the Third Department, a lion king-level commander!”

Fei Xiao laughed, feeling proud.

In the Haijing Security Bureau, the first three departments were the elites among the elites, specializing in exploring the God’s Ruins that had existed for more than three years.

“I’ll go help!”

Fang Tianhua immediately ran over, wanting to show his face in front of Zhang Heng and get to know him.

“Hey, hey, your captain is still here. Do you have no shame? Are you in such a hurry to transfer to another team?”

Fei Xiao teased.

He said this, but he didn’t really care. If Fang Tianhua was appreciated by Zhang Heng and brought into the team, it would be his ability.

People go up, water flows down. To become a stronger Divine Hunter, one needs divine favor, meteorite stones, and divine taboos. Only by following a powerful team can one more easily obtain these things.

Fang Tianhua ran more than thirty meters away, and suddenly his left foot stopped. He felt something grabbing his ankle, which startled him.

He quickly lowered his head, only to see a withered hand clutching his ankle.

“There’s a monster!”

Fang Tianhua shouted, lunging forward with all his might, pulling the underground creature out like a radish with the force of his sprint.

It was a desert mummy!

Roar!

The mummy opened its mouth wide, roaring and pouncing at Fang Tianhua, intending to bite off his throat.

Fang Tianhua swung his knife, slashing it across the mummy’s face.

Puchi!

The blade lodged in its face, but the mummy didn’t die. Fang Tianhua rolled to the side to dodge.

Whirl! Whirl!

On the ground, the sand writhed, standing upright in the blink of an eye, condensing into more mummy monsters.

“Run!”

Lin Baici shouted, “Run forward!”

Suddenly, a hundred mummies appeared around them. Lin Baici couldn’t possibly kill them all instantly, so casualties were inevitable.

In this situation, the sooner they could rendezvous with the divine hunters of the third division, the safer they would be.

“I’ll clear the way!”

Xia Hongyao rushed to the front, her short knife slashing continuously.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The mummies she hit all exploded, turning into a pile of sand dust, but they began to recondense after a few seconds.

“Immortal?”

Fei Xiao frowned deeply.

Whoosh!

Lin Baici knocked down a mummy, and seeing it start to recondense, he switched to a pine torch and swung it over, but failed to ignite them.

“Yueyu!”

Lin Baici instructed, “Fire one towards the front!”

“Mm!”

Hua Yueyu held a voodoo staff in both hands, pointing it forward.

Zap! Zap!

At the top of the staff, a pale blue arc of electricity appeared and shot out.

Boom!

The lightning struck a mummy, shattering it, then jumped to the next one, and then continued. In the blink of an eye, it had hit seven mummies, shattering them.

“Wow!”

Hua Yueyu was excited to see seven mummies killed in one shot. She changed the direction of the staff and fired another one.

Boom!

“Don’t waste your divine power!”

Lin Baici quickly reminded her. Releasing this required divine power. If Hua Yueyu continued to use it recklessly, she would soon be exhausted.

He didn’t have anything to quickly replenish the divine power of the female anchor.

“Oh! Oh!”

Hua Yueyu quickly nodded. She stroked the staff with her hand and suddenly felt so good.

Muscle Buddha appeared, swinging his heavy fists. Each swing shattered a mummy, but they quickly reformed.

Someone had already been knocked down and bitten to death.

This couldn’t go on. These mummy corpses moved quickly. If they didn’t reach the third division soon, these ordinary people would all be dead.