CHAPTER 1150: SECTION 709: TRANSACTION (2)_2

Normally, a standard Dark Zone adventurer squad should have six to eight members, but here there are only four people visible, and each is injured. The young Awakeners, holding herbal ointment taught by Malin, are tending to their external injuries. As for internal injuries, the young Awakeners don’t have a good solution — Malin has confirmed, these little fellows simply lack the Blessing Spell talent, and it seems they can’t establish the faith required to acquire spell abilities. So, Malin personally treated these four unlucky ones and then asked the young Awakeners to take the critically injured back to the medical facility in the city. Malin called over the female giant who could still walk on her own; her physical condition was quite good, Malin thinks the other three owe her a debt as valuable as a life.

"Sir, is there anything else you require?" Because Malin saved her, this female giant asked very respectfully.

"You must have heard of Sage Yu. There are Awakeners in this area, right?"

"Yes, he also said that you, sir, are here, and would never leave someone helpless." Saying this, the female giant directly knelt down: "Sir, please save my teammates!"

"Before I take action, you at least need to tell me the predicament your team ran into." Malin also wanted to help, but he didn’t even know where their incident occurred, let alone talk about a rescue.

The female giant then detailed the situation of their team—three days ago, they heard stories about Awakeners and confirmed that there was a group of zombies with red-painted forearms claiming to be Awakeners, making peace with humans, and even able to trade with them. Thus, they eagerly came to this area, and upon confirming such an Awakener existence, they traded chocolate with a young Awakener who could speak for information on various locations and chose one of them happily. During the day, they found a small shelter yielding substantial gain.

As night approached, out of habit, the team exited the small town, set up formations in the wild, and rested overnight.

Then, the night watchman, a half-blood Elf, went missing.

Such situations are not uncommon in adventuring teams, initially assuming his death, the team decided to quit while ahead and prepare to leave. As the weather began to turn gloomy, they encountered the sentry on their northbound path, who had been corrupted by Chaos, followed by a sizable Chaos squad, the adventurers were chased relentlessly, barely escaping by jumping into a river, all present when they came ashore, but as they were fleeing, something went wrong... The eight-member team had a ninth shadow appear mysteriously, a Wraith emerged from nowhere affecting nearly everyone, except the highland gnome who was still conscious using her Immortal Master gifts, she ignited her essence blood, freeing all teammates from control.

Malin had seen this highland gnome before. She looked much like an eight or nine-year-old human child, only with pointed ears, her eyes resembling those of a Domestic Fairy, her entire body’s orifices bleeding, living was a mere pleasantry of saying—had Malin not forced a bottle of World Tree potion on her, she would’ve died at any moment, and Malin wouldn’t have been surprised.

Once the team awoke, the Wraith was displeased, it possessed the captain, the two sides clashed, and then successfully attracted the Chaos pursuers, the Wraith seeing things getting unfavorable, exited the captain’s body and fled, the female giant, being the strongest in the team, grabbed the highland gnome in one arm and the captain in the other, with the Elf scout’s help, narrowly escaped death—meanwhile four teammates chose to distract the Chaos pursuers, without their sacrifice, the female giant’s team could not have escaped alive.

In other words, these guys disappeared into nowhere.

This situation was easy to handle, Malin sent Shen Ping’an to find Shen Wansan—after all, the nearby Chaos troops were the true enemies, Malin previously didn’t want to teach them battle formations, ultimately humans and zombies are different, but now it seems that rather than stabilizing internally, it’s better to first consider how to crush the invading Chaos troops in the Dark Zone.

As for finding the female giant’s teammates, of course they sent Salis.

The Legendary Spirit, having enjoyed good food and drinks by Malin’s side for years, now had no rival in the sky. Upon receiving Malin’s command, it flew into the sky, making the female giant grateful to Malin—such a powerful Legendary Spirit pet flying just to locate her teammates, such assistance led the straightforward female giant to not even consider what kind of compensation could compensate for this.

Yet Malin felt as long as they survived, adventurers would continuously come here, their interactions with Awakeners would be the best help to Malin.

Half an hour later, Salis flew back, it found survivors, three injured guys hiding in a cave under a cliff, Malin then fed Salis, sending it to locate the Chaos camp—such a sizable Chaos force couldn’t possibly burrow underground.

"I know that place, we sheltered from rain there before entering the Dark Zone!" The female giant exclaimed upon hearing Malin’s explanation.

Thus, Malin had the female giant coordinate in soul-searching to confirm the location, and in the next moment, a teleportation channel appeared.

The female giant looked at Malin as though gazing upon a Deity, after receiving Malin’s affirmation and approval of ladies first, she immediately dashed through it, with Malin following suit.

Upon arrival, Malin saw the female giant and her three teammates crying tears of joy, embracing each other.

Malin’s arrival made them pause, then realizing something, they lowered their heads: "Thank you, you must be Lord Malin." The Domestic Fairy among these three women instantly recognized Malin’s identity.

The canine Orc female beside her wiped blood off her face: "Thank you, our little Pi is just a giant, she definitely can’t use Immortal spells, it must be you who saved our teammates, thank you."

"No need to thank, you still have another teammate." Malin glanced at the three present.

The Elf half-blood girl heard Malin’s inquiry and immediately started to sob: "Brother Ming river sent us here, he drew away those Chaos."

"Where did he go?" Malin asked.

"North." The female giant’s three female teammates spoke in unison.

Malin used telepathy to direct Salis to search north, while signaling them to enter first.

Upon bringing them back to the base, these girls were immediately frightened by the city’s ’zombies’, fortunately they quickly realized, with Malin present, these should be Awakeners who could understand and conduct human-like affairs.

After thanking Malin repeatedly, they were also escorted by the female giant into the medical area.

When the female giant returned to Malin again, knowing she was also injured, Malin just felt that this woman’s physique was indeed immensely strong, truly worthy of giant blood.

However, considering she would only cause trouble if following along, Malin did not agree to take her to intercept—yes, Salis found the Chaos troops, also discovered that member of the adventurer team who drew away the Chaos, this guy had good luck, perhaps Chaos wanted to extract some information from him, hence they didn’t kill him.

Of course, this also indicated that the half-blood Elf was certainly dead — otherwise Chaos wouldn’t need to extract information from this brave Ming river gentleman.

However, Ming river being alive could be told to the female giant, so upon hearing Ming river wasn’t dead, the female giant uttered a "great" and then rumbled to the ground.

Malin instructed Shen Ping’an to find someone to drag the female giant back to the medical area — she’s fine, likely relaxed upon hearing her teammate was alive, causing her nerves to let up, saying she’s fine because this giant young woman snored to heaven and earth.

Finding Shen Wansan, upon hearing there was Chaos, he was furious—whether during his zombie days or as an Awakener now, he had nothing in common with Chaos, and upon hearing Malin planned to ambush these Chaos, Shen Wansan directly brought his most elite subordinates.

All were sturdy Awakeners capable of wielding weapons; Malin hadn’t skimped on preparing their gear this week, moving a cold weapon warehouse from New Hangzhou for them using potion pathways.

Awakeners specialized in outdoor operations, hence Malin estimated the distance between both sides, then chose a canyon as the ambush site, of course, Salis would watch over them, if the route changed, Malin could naturally switch places to perform that inviting them into the trap.