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In this despairing silence, a clear voice, tinged with curiosity and wariness, suddenly rang out from the edge of the pit:
"Hey, who are you?"
The voice seemed to belong to a girl.
Lu Mingfei couldn't lift his head, and even moving his eyes was extremely difficult. He couldn't tell if the other person was calling him or talking to themselves.
But his five senses, honed through numerous trials and tribulations and now extremely acute, clearly detected the other party's movements.
A rustling sound rang out, accompanied by the rolling of small pebbles.
The owner of that voice was carefully sliding down the steep pit wall.
The footsteps approached from afar, light and tentative, and finally stopped beside him.
"Who are you? What are you doing here?" the girl's voice rang out again, closer now, filled with deep confusion.
Lu Mingfei smiled bitterly to himself.
His current posture is—prostrate on the ground, face buried in the soil, limbs spread out in a starfish shape.
To outsiders, it wouldn't look like a sorry state, but rather utterly ridiculous and bizarre.
After all, only he himself could "feel" the invisible mountain that crushed him.
Seeing that he remained motionless and unresponsive, the girl seemed both confused and curious.
Then, Lu Mingfei felt a hand, slightly cool and rough, begin to grope his body.
First the back, down the spine, then the arms, waist, thighs...
Except for the front, which was inaccessible because it was pressed against the ground, every part of his body that could be touched was carefully "explored" by that hand.
The movements weren't gentle; they carried a sense of... searching?
Just as Lu Mingfei was confused, he heard the girl click her tongue in obvious disappointment:
"Tsk, where did this poor wretch come from? He has nothing at all."
Lu Mingfei: "..."
He understood instantly!
This girl wasn't there to care about him, this "lying monster," she was there to "loot the corpse"!
They mistook him for an unlucky guy who died there for some unknown reason, and wanted to see if he had anything valuable!
A sense of absurdity, both laughable and pathetic, lessened the despair somewhat.
Holding his breath, Lu Mingfei used all the remaining strength in his body to desperately shift his head, which was stuck deep in the rock, to the side a little bit, and finally managed to glance at his side out of the corner of his eye.
What came into view was a girl squatting next to him.
She was dressed in a rather thick outfit, made of some kind of brown leather and coarse cloth, in a simple and primitive style.
Her face is typical of an Asian, with a touch of childishness and wildness, making her quite adorable.
But what's most striking are her slightly trembling ears covered in thick, brownish-red fur—rounded and fluffy, they look just like the ears of some kind of large bear!
"Beast-eared girl?" This term, which he had only ever seen in fantasy works, instantly popped into Lu Mingfei's mind.
A huge question arose: Where exactly is this place?
As far as he knew, there was absolutely no intelligent race on Earth with such obvious non-human characteristics!
Could it be... because of that damned Trial of Ten, he was thrown into a completely unfamiliar other world by the power of spatial distortion?
If that's the case... perhaps this seemingly ordinary animal-eared girl in front of him is his only hope of escaping!
At least, she seems to be able to move around freely, and maybe she can find someone to help her?
Seeing that there was indeed nothing to be gained from the "corpse," the girl seemed to lose interest, clapped her hands, stood up, and turned to leave.
"Hey!" Lu Mingfei cried out urgently, disregarding everything else, and used all his strength to speak, though his voice was a little hoarse, "Hey, cute animal-eared girl over there! Where is this?"
The girl stopped in her tracks.
She turned around in confusion, tilting her head, her clear eyes filled with surprise:
"A cute animal-eared girl?" She pointed to herself. "Are you calling me?"
"Yes, I'm calling you." Lu Mingfei tried to make his voice sound clearer.
"Huh?" The girl was even more surprised. She squatted down again and moved closer.
Lu Mingfei could even see her breath condense into a faint white mist in the cold air.
"Don't you humans all call us 'monsters'?" Her tone carried a hint of wariness and curiosity.
Lu Mingfei's heart stirred.
It really isn't Earth!
He quickly considered how to answer.
Do I even consider myself human?
The offspring of two S-class dragon hybrids, with dragon blood flowing through their veins, underwent inhuman trials and forged their Star Body...
Strictly speaking, he has transcended the human realm in terms of biological systems.
However, judging from the perspective of consciousness and soul, he should still be considered human.
But right now, gaining trust and help is the most important thing.
"I am not human." Lu Mingfei tried his best to make his tone sound sincere.
“So I won’t treat you like monsters, on the contrary…” he paused, then added, “you’re adorable.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Mingfei clearly saw that the girl's fair cheeks flushed red at a visible speed, spreading all the way to her ears, and even her fluffy bear ears seemed to twitch slightly.
"Even if...even if you say that..." The girl looked away in a fluster, her voice lowering, tinged with awkward shyness, "I still won't help you...I won't help you..."
She said this, but her body moved.
She reached out and grabbed Lu Mingfei by the collar of his shirt.
then……
Under Lu Mingfei's utterly astonished gaze...
She lifted him off the ground as effortlessly as if he were an empty sack!
Lu Mingfei: "!!!"
He was completely confused.
How can this be? !
He is Lu Mingfei, who has endured fire, water erosion, wind, earth pressure, ice, and lightning strikes to finally forge the Star Core Body!
His body density and weight are far beyond what ordinary people can imagine!
Even without being suppressed by that invisible force, its very existence was far beyond what a petite girl could lift so easily!
unless……
This girl with animal ears is no ordinary character; she possesses an incredibly high level of power in this strange world…
Fourth-order? Fifth-order? Or even higher-order beings?!
The girl seemed oblivious to the turmoil in Lu Mingfei's heart.
She looked at Lu Mingfei, who she had lifted up and who was no longer lying face down, and a happy smile appeared on her face. Her previous shyness was replaced by pure joy.
"What's your name?" she asked, shaking the "human-shaped pendant" in her hand.
Suppressing his shock, Lu Mingfei quickly replied:
"My name is Lu Mingfei. Thank you for your help."
He paused slightly. "May I ask your name? And where is this place?"
Although the method of this "help" was peculiar, it did indeed pull him out of that embarrassing and desperate situation.
"Lu Mingfei?" The girl wrinkled her small nose and muttered, "What a strange name."
She puffed out her chest and introduced herself with a naive yet proud tone:
"My name is Sheena! This is Uru!"
Chapter 188 Is this okay?
Lu Mingfei was about to ask more questions about this unfamiliar place called "Uru".
But without warning, a long-lost, cold, mechanical voice exploded in my mind:
[The Trial of Strength has been passed; now proceeding to the Trial of Courage. In this trial mode, the system will temporarily seal the host's cultivation level.]
Lu Mingfei was instantly stunned.
The Trial of Strength... passed? Just like that?
He subconsciously looked down at his body, which had just been suppressed by a mountain of fingers and unable to move, and then looked incredulously at Xina beside him, who had an innocent and curious look on her face.
Power! Power! Power!
Help from others...
The power of others...
Is this okay? !
A strong sense of absurdity welled up inside me.
He struggled with all his might for a week but could not budge the "Trial of Strength" in the slightest.
It's ridiculous that he was approved just because a strange girl casually picked him up?
"I'm numb!" Lu Mingfei cried out silently in his heart. The judgment mechanism of this trial was simply outrageous!
What made him even more uneasy was the next hint.
The Trial of Courage has begun, and the system will temporarily seal his cultivation!
His cultivation was sealed?