As Jiang Yuan's thoughts drifted, a wooden stick suddenly hit his leg.
He looked down.
Several half-human-tall green-eared creatures stood beside him holding wooden sticks, making strange sounds with their mouths.
"×&%￥#@… (Damn humans)" "%!$# … (Go to hell)" Even without using an appraisal skill, Jiang Yuan recognized these monsters.
[Abyssal Beast]: Goblin.
[Grade]: Ordinary.
[Level]: LV4.
[Skill]: Conceal Aura.
[Evaluation]: Hard skin, low attack power, low-level malicious Abyssal Beast, living in dark underground nests, likes to conceal its aura and ambush sleeping or incapacitated enemies.
"Hiding nearby, waiting for an opportunity, thinking we were both injured so you came to ambush us? What truly despicable creatures." Jiang Yuan sneered.
"%!$# … (Go to hell)" Several Goblins, either holding wooden sticks or daggers, shrieked and attacked him.
"Experience delivered right to my doorstep, it would be a waste not to take it."
Jiang Yuan's thoughts stirred, and a black-red fire point appeared before him, the surrounding temperature suddenly rose, and the ice melted rapidly.
Before the few Goblins could react, their bodies suddenly ignited like torches, and in less than two seconds, they burned until not even ash remained.
[Ding, you killed a LV3 Goblin, Experience +30]
[Ding, you killed a LV4 Goblin, Experience +40]
[Ding, you killed a LV5 Goblin, Experience +50]
[Ding, your level has increased, current level LV6, all attributes +10, gain +10 assignable free attributes]
...Night fell in the Abyss, and a blood moon appeared in the sky.
A bonfire on the dark ground was incredibly conspicuous; normally, it would undoubtedly attract attacks from various Abyssal Beasts.
Therefore, ordinary Hunters dared not light bonfires at night; some guilds, even if they lit bonfires for illumination, would arrange guards or carry items containing the pressure of high-level Abyssal Beasts to prevent sudden attacks from Abyssal Beasts.
Or there was another method.
That was to eliminate all the nearby Abyssal Beasts, so you wouldn't have to worry about Abyssal Beasts suddenly appearing to attack while you were eating or sleeping.
Jiang Yuan did just that, so around the bonfire, there were carcasses of various Abyssal Beasts.
After Jiang Yuan finished eating the nineteenth piece of roasted meat from a Tier 1 Abyssal Beast Ironhide Pig, Lin Qingyan suddenly opened her eyes and sat up from the ground.
"You're awake?"
Jiang Yuan, his mouth full of grease, reached for the twentieth piece of roasted meat.
Turning her head and seeing him, the memory of her defeat resurfaced in her mind.
It made Lin Qingyan unable to help but clench her teeth, tighten her fists, and wisps of cold air spread from her body.
"Still want to fight?"
Jiang Yuan ate the roasted meat, saying without lifting his head, "I advise you to rest. If you continue to overconsume, even your talent's Origin will be affected."
"...Hmph, don't think of me like those ordinary people," Lin Qingyan said, using her first talent.
A healing halo appeared behind her, and the warm light it emitted shone upon her entire body.
She quickly recovered to her peak state.
But after recovering.
She did not choose to fight again either.
Fighting again would be nothing more than losing once more.
She checked her clothes and looked at Jiang Yuan with a strange look, like she was looking at a criminal: "You didn't do anything strange to me while I was unconscious, did you?"
"Don't talk nonsense, how could I be that kind of person?"
"Whether you did or not, I'll know with one look." Lin Qingyan pulled up her panel and opened the camera section.
"Before the fight, I turned on the camera.
After I fainted, the camera would only lock onto myself."
Jiang Yuan almost choked.
"Your operation is really too outrageous..."
"You seem very nervous."
"H-how could that be, haha..."
When Lin Qingyan saw the scene of her falling into Jiang Yuan's arms after she fainted, an unnatural blush flashed across her small face.
Jiang Yuan seized the opportunity and said, "You did that yourself, it wasn't me..."
"Shut up!" she said, flushed with anger.
Then she saw what happened afterward.
Lin Qingyan's beautiful small face immediately darkened, and she looked at Jiang Yuan, sneering, "Was my face fun to play with?"
"Uh... the feel, the feel was pretty good." Jiang Yuan awkwardly turned his head away.
"You still dare to say that!" Lin Qingyan was furious.
"Next time, next time I will definitely kill you!!"
Looking further back.
She saw the scene where Jiang Yuan carried her on his back to kill Abyssal Beasts.
Every time he moved or jumped, Lin Qingyan on Jiang Yuan's back would briefly separate from him, and then press heavily back against him, especially in the chest area.
The more Lin Qingyan watched, the more uncomfortable she felt in her chest, and her face couldn't help but turn fiery red and hot.
This bastard, didn't he know to put her down?
Wasn't he afraid that her, that part would be flattened?
"There's nothing I could do about that.
If I didn't bring you, I was afraid you'd be eaten by an Abyssal Beast..." Jiang Yuan explained.
"Don't talk to me! Shameless! Despicable! You have no face!!" Lin Qingyan huffed angrily, sat cross-legged on the ground, reached for a piece of roasted meat, and began eating large mouthfuls without any regard for her school beauty image.
As soon as she thought of the scene she just saw of herself lying on his back, she felt the uncomfortable sensation of her chest being squeezed.
No wonder she felt a strong sense of discomfort after waking up.
Her defeat this time was truly filled with humiliation!!
This bastard.
She really shouldn't have acted with him!
After finishing this meal, she would go her separate way from him, the further the better!!
But before that...
Lin Qingyan still couldn't help but ask Jiang Yuan a question that had bothered her for a long time.
"What exactly is your profession?"
Jiang Yuan, who was eating heartily, raised his head and said very naturally, "An Assassin."
Lin Qingyan almost choked on her breath, her not-small chest beneath her hooded jacket heaved violently with anger, making Jiang Yuan unable to help but shift his gaze.
"Do you think I'm stupid? Is there such an Assassin?"
Facing the beautiful school beauty's questioning, Jiang Yuan just glanced at her sideways and said indifferently, "Those who lost have no right to ask questions."
Lin Qingyan was angered to the point of speechlessness, grinding her teeth in anger, her chest heaving violently.
She turned her head, having made up her mind.
If I say one more word to him, I'm not the Qingyan Empress, I'm a dog!
...The two each found a direction and left, parting on bad terms.
Jiang Yuan was also happy that he could kill monsters alone without worrying about someone stealing his experience.
Time passed quickly as he searched for monsters, killed monsters, and leveled up.
Soon, it was the third day after entering the Abyss.