Chapter 3815: 4.1415 Rushing to their Deaths...
"Someone advancing in a place like Phoenix Wood Forest is just asking to be carved up," the female mercenary in the Fierce mercenary team laughed seductively, her eyes slightly glinting.
Wang Kuang burst into laughter, extending his fan-sized palm and wrapping it around the woman's shoulder. He nodded approvingly. "Yaohong is right. Everyone get ready, we're setting off now. Little Dou, lead the way."
"Alright," the skinny, dark mercenary named Little Dou immediately got up and led the mercenary team into the Phoenix Wood Forest.
The Fierce mercenary team, including Gu Yixuan and his three companions, totaled twenty-five people.
Huang Qishan now leaned close to Gu Yixuan, lowering his voice to him, "Are we really not going back to the academy? Do we have to go in and get involved with them?"
Gu Yixuan clenched his fist reluctantly. "Didn't we join Wang Kuang's mercenary team precisely to re-enter the Phoenix Wood Forest as experience-seekers and try our luck?"
"Leaving now would just be throwing away all our previous efforts," another Royal Academy student, Zhong He, couldn't help but say.
Su Fugui glanced at the worried Huang Qishan and grinned, "Brother Huang, you're not getting cold feet, are you?"
"Joke, me, get cold feet?" Huang Qishan glared, giving Su Fugui an annoyed look.
"I knew Brother Huang wouldn't be scared back by a few words from the导师 (tutor/instructor)," Su Fugui shrugged. "Besides, we're not going to cause trouble. It's just that there's an anomaly in Phoenix Wood Forest, and as cultivators, we also have an obligation to investigate it."
Su Fugui's words sounded grand and quite convincing. If Huang Qishan hadn't known his personality of never doing anything without profit, he might have actually been swayed.
"Hey, are you coming or not?" At this moment, a team member from the mercenary team turned around, frowning at the four Royal Academy students dawdling at the back, and couldn't help but shout at them.
"Coming, coming, we're here," Gu Yixuan and the three others replied, quickly stepping forward.
"Kids, don't worry. Since you're here to gain experience in Phoenix Wood Forest, I can't just let you go back empty-handed, can I?" Wang Kuang, with his arm around the wriggling woman, turned and smiled at Gu Yixuan and the four others.
"Follow Brother Wang, and you'll always pick up some benefits to take back."
Gu Yixuan nodded, thanked Wang Kuang, and quickly followed with Huang Qishan and the other two.
Wang Kuang was right. Since they had entered a treasure mountain, how could they return empty-handed?
They had to dig something up in Phoenix Wood Forest, otherwise, it would truly be a wasted trip.
Wang Kuang, embracing the woman beside him, chuckled and said, "I wonder who is so bold as to dare to advance in a place like this."
"Brother Wang, although I don't know who it is, it must be someone with a bad brain," Little Dou laughed heartily. "There are so many mercenary teams here, and teams of cultivators, and who knows, maybe even some murderers who escaped from the city."
"Hahaha, her advancing here is just asking to be besieged, isn't it?"
"Exactly, exactly."
"You say finding a secluded place in the city to advance would be fine. The city has a city guard to maintain order, and even if there are experts with ill intentions towards her, they'd still have to consider the higher-ups..." A mercenary pointed to the sky.
"Hahaha, isn't that right?" Little Dou laughed again. "Right now, that person is fresh meat in the eyes of all cultivators."