Author: 颜凉雨 / Yan Liang Yu

Translator: Kinky || https://kinkytranslations.com/

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Chapter 71: Plan W

The young girl in black blew away the petals in front of her with a gust of wind. When she looked down again, the four had vanished.

But they couldn’t have truly disappeared.

Otherwise, they could have escaped like this when they were trapped between the stone walls.

Invisibility stationery—the young girl in black tilted her head slightly, figuring it out.

Closing her eyes, the enclosed maze segment appeared in her mind, along with the wind filling the entire path.

The wind was blowing in one direction, but at a certain point, it met resistance, bending around something invisible, just as the rain had avoided her body earlier. In her mind’s maze, the wind deviated, forming a strange shape around some unseen objects.

That was the spot.

The young girl in black opened her eyes, looked down, and fixed her gaze on the place where the wind direction was altered.

Wind Blades swiftly descended!

[Owl: Someone used [(Defense) A Hundred Misses] on you~~]

The young girl in black’s eyebrows furrowed imperceptibly. The Wind Blades, originally locked onto a lethal point, veered off course, slashing into the maze walls.

“[A Hundred Misses]?” The young girl in black murmured to herself. “Then let it be a hundred and one.”

Countless Wind Blades attacked one after another, each deviating from its target!

In just over ten seconds, dozens had been launched!

The young girl in black counted in her mind.

Fifty.

Sixty.

Seventy.

Eighty…

Before reaching a hundred, the four in the maze suddenly deactivated [(Defense) Cloak of Invisibility] and appeared, standing still and watching her, showing no intention to attack.

She paused, slightly confused, then felt a breeze behind her ear.

Instinctively turning around, she faced a giant sword, its tip glinting with a cold light!

[Owl: Someone used [(Offense) Ten Years to Forge a Sword] on you~~]

[Ten Years to Forge a Sword].

No wonder they used invisibility—they needed time to prepare and feared she would discover them prematurely.

No wonder they reappeared—they needed to divert her attention.

But it was a pity.

The young girl in black leaned back with unimaginable speed, narrowly avoiding the sword as it grazed past her nose.

Qian Ai and Kuang Jinxin couldn’t hide their disappointment.

Wu Sheng’s face twitched slightly, sharing the regret.

Xu Wang, of course, felt it most keenly. The sword was his. It was so close. Even if it couldn’t be fatal, a minor wound would have been a small victory.

The young girl in black let the wind under her feet weaken and descended slightly, narrowing the distance between them. She calmly looked at them. “I thought a team that reached me so quickly would at least have some skills. It seems I overestimated you…”

“Plan F.” She shook her head slightly in regret. “The name is more imposing than the content.”

“Our plans go up to Z.” Xu Wang looked up at her. “And we won’t always rely on the cloak.”

The young girl in black was momentarily stunned.

Belatedly, she realized the brim of her pointed hat had been cut. The corner of the fabric drooped slightly.

For the first time, a ripple appeared in the young girl in black’s eyes.

But she became colder.

The ground beneath the four teammates suddenly trembled.

It was subtle, but eerily familiar.

Qian Ai: “Captain, I have a bad feeling…”

The other teammates: “……”

They believed him; after all, when it came to misfortune, Classmate Qian had the most authority.

Xu Wang: “Spread out—”

Before he finished speaking, his teammates had already scattered!

But the speed of the vine-like plants emerging from the ground was faster, instantly growing several meters tall and as thick as bowls. Like green octopus, each vine entangled one of them, lifting all four into the air!

“She even knows Xiao Bai’s skills?!” Kuang Jinxin was too shocked to worry about being trapped.

Qian Ai despaired. “Maybe she’s even dyed with Xiao Huang’s yellow hair…”

This wasn’t an NPC, but an all-in-one NPC!

Xu Wang didn’t join his teammates’ discussion, nor did he struggle. Instead, he held his breath, focusing all his attention on one point!

The giant sword, which had attacked the young girl in black and then disappeared, suddenly flew back, cutting through the vine trapping Xu Wang!

Xu Wang crashed to the ground with a thud!

Ignoring the pain, he controlled the giant sword to fly towards the other vines!

“Clang—”

A huge stone fell from the sky, colliding firmly with the sword, sending both flying!

Xu Wang tried to recall the sword again, but the young girl in black was quicker. Using a gust of wind, she whisked the sword away and forcefully embedded it into the maze wall, with almost the entire blade sinking in!

In an instant, countless vines and leaves sprouted around the embedded part of the sword, entwining what was left of the blade until no glint of its edge could be seen.

Xu Wang looked up. His gaze was sharp and unyielding, with not a hint of discouragement.

“Your strength is lacking.” The young girl in black suddenly spoke, with a rare hint of acknowledgment. “But your fighting spirit is commendable.”

Xu Wang: “Someone told us to run at the sight of you, without a second thought.”

The young girl in black: “You should have listened to them.”

Xu Wang wiped the blood seeping from his neck and smiled. “Luckily, we didn’t.”

As the young girl in black was puzzled over his reaction, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her back. A massive force propelled her towards the ground of the maze path!

The speed was too fast, and the force was too great. Her wind couldn’t gather in time to carry her away.

Simultaneously, water surged into the maze path, quickly covering the ground and drenching the roots of the vine plants!

Just before she hit the water, the stone summoned by the young girl in black finally crashed down on the “attacker” behind her!

A cry from an unknown beast tore through the night sky!

The young girl in black landed on the ground, using a last-minute gust to cushion her fall and landing lightly in the water.

She stood up; her cloak was mostly soaked. She was ankle-deep in water.

Lifting her head, she finally saw the assailant.

A small dragon.

The kind that would just be starting at a dragon kindergarten.

The thing that had been pushing against her back was its tiny horn.

[Owl: Someone used [(Offense) A Dragon Swimming in Shallow Waters is Teased by Crawfish*] on you~~]

*(龙游浅水遭虾戏) A folk saying that refers to a person who is bullied by a weaker person after losing power.

Finally, the notification sounded, and the dragon in the air, recovering from the pain of the stone collision, dove towards the young girl in black!

The young girl in black summoned Wind Blades, not to attack but to surround herself defensively, ready to intercept if it dared to approach.

Unexpectedly, the dragon turned towards the vine plants the moment it entered the maze path!

Caught off guard, the young girl in black could only watch as it bit the main stem of the vine, pulling it up with all its might!

The vine plants, losing their roots, withered instantly, releasing Qian Ai, Kuang Jinxin, and Wu Sheng, who were entangled by the “green claws”.

However, with the upward momentum of the dragon’s pull, the three were flung several meters into the air before crashing down heavily!

Qian Ai and Kuang Jinxin couldn’t help but cry out in pain, scrambling to their feet amidst groans.

Wu Shen slammed against the copper door and slid down into the corner formed by the door and the wall, remaining motionless, seemingly unconscious.

The shallow water soaked his pants and shirt but couldn’t rouse him.

Qian Ai and Kuang Jinxin’s expressions changed drastically.

“Wu Sheng!”

“Sheng Ge—”

The two instinctively thought to run towards Wu Sheng but were suddenly stopped by Xu Wang from the other side. “Focus on the fight—”

Qian Ai and Kuang Jinxin paused, glancing at the fainted Wu Sheng and then at their captain, who had just pulled the young girl in black down and was confronting her. They hesitated. “But…”

“No buts!” Xu Wang interrupted them and got straight to the point. “Switch to Plan W—”

Qian Ai and Kuang Jinxin froze, exchanging a glance. Suddenly, the water sprouted vine-like plants again, recreating the earlier scene exactly, wrapping them up once more from head to toe, immobilizing even their arms, let alone using any stationery.

Satisfied, the young girl in black withdrew her gaze from the vine plants and looked back at Xu Wang. “Your stationery is as numerous as ants, which is annoying.”

Xu Wang: “Just stationery?”

The young girl in black: “And the plans, too many to the point of irritation.”

“I thought so,” Captain Xu said with a trace of pride, then suddenly asked, “Do you know why the stationery just now is called [A Dragon Swimming in Shallow Waters is Teased by Crawfish]?”

The young girl in black paused, her expression blank.

She suddenly felt a sharp pain at her ankle.

Reacting instinctively, the young girl in black kicked, shaking off the thing clamped onto her ankle—a crayfish.

The crayfish traced a beautiful arc in the air before falling back into the water, still visible beneath the surface, snapping its little claws.

The young girl in black: “…”

A crayfish couldn’t hurt her.

But it succeeded in making her, for the first time, really want to hit someone.

Summoning the wind.

The young girl in black disliked the ground, preferring to fight in the air.

The wind rose.

But she didn’t.

A chill crept up from her feet, spreading throughout her body.

The young girl in black looked down. The ankle-deep water had frozen without her noticing.

[Owl: Someone used [(Defense) Three Feet of Ice*] on you~~]

*This is part of the idiom “Three feet of ice cannot be frozen in one day’s cold”. Which is a metaphor for the seriousness of a situation that isn’t caused in just one day but accumulated over time. However, the stationery only referred to the first part.

“Sorry, I prefer ground combat,” Xu Wang, a few meters away, dropped the playful tone and solemnly activated the second stationery.

[Owl: Someone used [(Offense) A Hail of Bullets*] on you~~]

*(枪林弹雨) Idiom referring to a fierce fight.

The young girl in black tried several times but couldn’t break the ice, trapped in place!

A barrage of bullets rained down.

Xu Wang held his breath, concentrating intensely!

The fastest bullet reached right above the young girl in black’s head, then vanished into thin air, as if swallowed by another dimension!

Then, like a torrential downpour, all the bullets approaching the young girl in black disappeared without a trace!

At the same time, the ice began to melt!

Xu Wang, astonished, raised his arm to activate another stationery, but a cluster of plants suddenly entwined his wrist. By the time he realized something was wrong, he was suspended in the air like Qian Ai and Kuang Jinxin, and his arms were immobilized.

The young girl in black exhaled lightly, obviously finding this battle not as effortless as it seemed.

“I don’t like using stationery.” She looked up at Xu Wang. “So I have plenty left—bulletproof, ice-melting, everything.”

Her black cloak, dirtied from the fight, made her pale face stand out even more.

“I take back what I said,” she said. “You indeed deserve to reach me so quickly.”

Xu Wang shook his head. “Not just to reach you, but to break through you.”

Suddenly, a strong current surged through the newly melted shallow water, turning the entire surface into an electrified net in an instant!

Standing in the water, the young girl in black felt a shock, tingling and painful, uncontrollably falling into the water!

As she tried to stand up, the current struck again, stronger than before!

The young girl in black’s body was stiff, unable to move or focus her mind!

A dark shadow swam past her feet.

The notification sound came belatedly—

[Owl: Someone used [(Offense) Lethal Electric Eel] on you~~]

The calm in the young girl in black’s eyes finally shattered.

She looked at Xu Wang in disbelief. It wasn’t that she couldn’t accept her defeat, but she just didn’t understand. “You’re tied up by vines. It’s impossible to use any stationery…”

Xu Wang, bound like a rice dumpling, could only tilt his head towards her, his eyes and mouth smiling. “I can’t use it, but my teammates can.”

“Impossible.” The young girl in black turned to look. “They are tied up just like you…”

They were indeed tied up, but only two of them.

There was one more, leaning against the copper door, waving elegantly at her.

The young girl in black: “When did you regain consciousness…”

Wu Sheng blinked innocently. “When did I ever faint?”

Plan W: Attack at will, defend heartily, and leave the rest to Advisor Wu.

Core combination technique of Plan W: [Advisor Wu’s Ingenious Strategy]

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There’s a team with a whole little notebook full of plans, not to be messed with~~ (^o^)/~

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