It's broken! I was targeted by the villain after the apocalypse

The middle-aged woman slowly woke up. She moved her lips and said weakly, "Water, I want to drink water."

Liu Jinan gave her a bottle of mineral water and a piece of bread.

The woman ate voraciously, and in a blink of an eye only half of the bread was left and the bottle of mineral water was empty.

She swallowed, obviously not full yet.

But she stuffed the bread into her pocket anyway.

"Thank you for saving me. I have nothing to repay you. This ring is worth some money. I'll give it to you."

The woman took off her jade ring and put it into Liu Jinan's hand.

Liu Jinan quickly declined: "It's just a small favor, you don't need to repay us, can you tell us how you got injured, that will be your reward for us."

The woman nodded and said, "I am a villager living nearby. A few days ago, a heavy fog suddenly appeared in the mountains. It lasted for a long time and seriously affected the normal life of the villagers."

"So we gathered a few companions who were familiar with the mountain roads and worked together to find the cause of the fog."

"We walked along the mountain road and finally found a giant tree that was spewing mist."

Xu Zhaoxin asked thoughtfully: "With such thick fog, can you still tell the direction?"

The woman smiled and said, "People who grew up in the mountains have their own way of identifying directions. Moreover, some of us have awakened wind abilities and can blow away the fog in a small area."

"What about the others?" Zhang Yaoyao asked.

The woman's smile faded and she shook her head: "We are separated."

"That giant tree was too powerful. As soon as we entered its territory, we were attacked by it with its leaves and whipped with its branches."

Thinking of that scene, the woman couldn't help shivering: "I fainted on the spot, and when I woke up, I saw you, and the others were gone."

“Kind people, please, if you see them, can you save them?” The woman clasped her hands together, her eyes full of pleading.

Liu Jinan comforted him, "If we meet them, we will definitely lend a helping hand. But it's very dangerous here, I'm afraid we can't search and rescue them, I hope you can understand."

The woman thanked them repeatedly: "This is already very good, thank you, thank you so much."

Zhao Simo suddenly asked her: "The mountain road is steep and the fog is heavy. Do you need us to take you down the mountain?"

The woman said hurriedly, "No need, I know how to get back, so I won't trouble you."

Zhao Simo continued to ask: "How many of you are there?"

The woman was stunned: "Three people."

When the woman left everyone's sight, Zhao Simo said in a slightly sarcastic tone: "There's something wrong with this woman."

Liu Jinan felt the same way. He touched his pocket and the ring he had returned to the woman suddenly appeared in his pocket.

He took the jade ring and looked at it carefully. Was this ring a must-have gift?

Hu Jianye was confused and felt that his brain was not enough. "Wait a minute, what's wrong with that aunt? I can't keep up with your train of thought."

Xu Zhaoxin said: "She said she was from the mountains, but her shoes were brand new."

Liu Jinan added: "She didn't have calluses on her hands. I saw that when she gave me the ring."

"She acted alone," Zhao Simo fiddled with his watch and said in a deep voice, "I kept emphasizing the word 'mountain' to guide her to say three when she finally answered me how many people there were in total."

"Shan" and "San" have similar pronunciations, so Zhao Simo used psychological suggestion to make women reveal their flaws.

"If she had decided to have three people traveling together, she should have emphasized the two of them at the beginning instead of using the general term "they," said Zhao Simo.

Xu Zhaoxin was impressed by his actions. He calculated secretly in his mind and finally came to the conclusion: "Although your speculation sounds far-fetched, its accuracy rate is as high as 90%."

"Do you regret saving her now?" Zhao Simo curled the corners of his lips proudly at Liu Jinan.

Regret?

Liu Jinan thought for a moment and said, "She was surprised when she first looked at me."

"So what?" Zhao Simo disagreed.

Liu Jinan said: "So even if I had doubts, I didn't choose to detain her, let alone kill her."

Zhao Simo sneered, "Xiao Tiantian, do you trust your own judgment so much?"

Liu Jinan pondered for a moment. His confidence came not only from his self-confidence, but also from the Book of Superpowers.

This woman is indeed not a villager, she is one of the guardians of the space gourd.

The ring the woman gave him was not an ordinary emerald ring, but the key to the test.

Without the ring, one cannot take the test, so in the novel, even if the Heaven-shading Tree is defeated by the psychic and the fog dissipates, no one can enter the test.

It was not until the arrival of the protagonists that Gu Letian used his healing power to rescue the fainted guardian, and thus accidentally entered the test place.

However, Gu Letian's healing ability had reached level five at that time. Liu Jinan was worried that Siqin could not reach this level, so he brought an extra bottle of Huoxiang Zhengqi water.

Everything was as he expected.

He did not want to say more. The content of the novel recorded in the Book of Superpowers was his trump card, and he had not told even his closest people, let alone the old fox.

To be honest, he might even be sold and have to count money for others.

"Let's go and defeat the tree that emits fog first." Liu Jinan said seriously.

Zhao Simo said with a smile: "You don't have to be so abrupt in changing the subject, sweetie?"

"What is it to you?" Liu Jinan pretended to be angry and embarrassed.

In fact, I was very happy.

Old fox, I never thought that one day you would be cheated, did you?

It’s really just one word: awesome!

Going further up, there are no more stone steps, and all you see is a winding mountain road.

"An An, since there is something wrong with that woman, is what she said about the giant tree hurting people true or false?" Hu Jianye scratched his head, feeling as if his cerebellum had shrunk.

Liu Jinan said calmly: "The injuries on her body don't seem fake. The giant tree should really hurt people. When the time comes, we will attack from a distance and try not to get close to its attack range."

"Understood!" Hu Jianye was very excited when he heard that they were going to use long-range attacks, "Let it have a taste of our martial soul fusion skills!"

Halfway up the mountain, Zhang Yaoyao clearly felt the strain: "I may not be able to hold on for much longer. The fog here is too thick, and my special powers are being consumed rapidly."

"How long can you hold on?" Liu Jinan asked.

"No more than five minutes."

Five minutes. It is indeed difficult to find the location of the Heaven-blocking Tree in such a short time.

"Old Hu, make some noise."

"okay."

As he spoke, Hu Jianye condensed a ball of unstable light and threw it away following the small ball of light at Liu Jinan's fingertips.

"Boom!"

A ball of light exploded, and strands of light pierced through the thick fog.

Liu Jinan held his breath and waited, but half a minute passed and he didn't see even a leaf.

It's like a blind man lighting a lamp, a waste of wax!

And just above everyone, vines were hidden in the thick fog, twisting and crawling, ready to strike.

The next second, they seemed to have received some kind of instruction and started to whip everyone!