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Chapter 3883: Monster Attack?

"The countdown is finally less than twelve hours," Qi Xuanxuan sighed, resting her small head on her hands.

For the past two days, they had been resting and adjusting in this small base, cultivating in the mornings and evenings, and strolling around nearby at noon. Life had been peaceful and pleasant, no worse than at the Royal Academy.

Since the top spot in the preliminaries was secured, everyone was too lazy to wander into the Phoenix Wood Forest to rob other teams for rubies.

As for Mo Lian's team, after obtaining two sections of phoenix wood and enough points for the finals, they hadn't made any further moves.

Besides, in the previous days, they had already amassed over seven hundred points by robbing rubies from other students, which was more than enough for the finals.

"It looks like it will all be over by tomorrow evening," Little Fatty and Lu Yu both said lazily, sitting on the wooden window sills, each holding a wine flask and occasionally clinking them together for a sip.

It was almost July, and the weather had become quite hot the moment the sun rose above the horizon.

Fortunately, they were deep in the Phoenix Wood Forest, where the sunlight was mostly blocked by the trees, so it wouldn't feel scorching until noon.

"It's noisy outside. I wonder who else has arrived," Duanmu Qing, who was bored playing chess with Jiang Shaoxin, slightly raised his eyes and glanced out the window.

For the past two days, they had rented the best three-story wooden building in this small base, paying thirty thousand spirit coins daily.

The environment was impeccable. In such a temporary stronghold, being able to find a dwelling backed by trees and facing a water source, with a well-built structure, was something to be secretly happy about.

The owner, grinning as he counted money, naturally provided excellent service.

People came and went in the small base, but their area was blocked off by the owner, so practically no one dared to disturb them.

But today?

He checked the time; it wasn't even noon yet.

Qi Xuanxuan stepped out of the wooden building onto the corridor and looked down.

She saw dozens of ragged, sickly-faced adventurers pouring in. The wooden building's owner was down below, arguing loudly with them.

She didn't know what was said, but suddenly, one of the burly middle-aged men raised his thick palm and slapped the owner across the face.

The owner's face turned green. He signaled to his staff, and a conflict erupted with the group, attracting the person in charge of the small base, who brought people to handle the situation.

After watching for a while, Qi Xuanxuan entered the room and said to everyone, "Do you want to go down and see? Those people said that half an hour ago, they encountered a wave of monster attacks in the forest. It seems many people were injured."

"Monsters?" Qiao Mu slightly frowned.

For some reason, hearing those two words, she inexplicably thought of corpse puppets, wondering if she was overthinking.

The sudden attack by the man-eating bee swarm earlier felt very suspicious.

If corpse puppets were to appear here, Qiao Mu wouldn't be too surprised.

Running to the base when in danger was also not wrong.

At least here, there was strength in numbers, plus those bamboo fences on the outside...

Ahem, well, the bamboo fences weren't very protective against ordinary wild beasts. At best, in the eyes of these cultivators, they were just decorations.

"I'll go down and see," Mo Lian said, getting up. Without another word, he glanced in Duan Yue's direction.

The latter was leaning boredly on a brocade couch nearby. Seeing Mo Lian's gaze, he couldn't help but roll his eyes.