Absolute Choice 7

by Pear Lands In The Autumn Spring

  Preventing Ka Xiaozi from raging was the same difficulty as saving everyone. How hard was it to prevent this?

  Raging most likely referred to losing reason due to infuriation.

  Was Ka Xiaozi actually a person who could not control her raging temper?

  Shi Xiaobai softly said to Ka Xiaozi, "In a while, regardless of what happens, you have to remind yourself to maintain your calm. Also, do not go further than three meters from This King."

  Although he had not chosen choice 2, Shi Xiaobai wanted to take preventive measures. He wanted to see if he could prevent the instance of her 'raging', something which he had no idea how it would happen.

  Ka Xiaozi quizzically blinked her eyes before nodding and saying, "Alright."

  Shi Xiaobai hesitated for a moment, and finally could not help but ask, "If...This King is saying if. If you were to encounter something that is extremely infuriating, so maddening that you would lose all reason. What might you possibly do?"

  Shi Xiaobai's intuition told him that Ka Xiaozi's raging would be a terrifying matter.

  Ka Xiaozi frowned slightly. She was clearly curious why Shi Xiaobai was suggesting such a hypothetical situation, but she did not ask. Instead, she fell into deep thought for a moment before gently saying, "I don't know. That's because even though I have been infuriated, I have never lost my reason."

  When Shi Xiaobai heard this, he was filled with even more questions.

  If Ka Xiaozi really never lost her reason, what would happen next that would cause her to rage?

  What could have happened that would reach a B-level reward when prevented?

  Shi Xiaobai was left clueless. He could only think of a way to not let Ka Xiaozi wander too far from him and see how he could do his best at protecting Ka Xiaozi, whether he could inadvertently prevent the baffling raging.

  There was something urgent that troubled Shi Xiaobai as well—he needed to save all the rookies present, even though he did not know what would happen at all.

  At this moment, the rookies had began searching the valley, but they did not find even a grass, worm or fly.

  "Why do I find this place so gloomy. The weather is clearly very hot, but my back is cold."

  "Me too. I keep feeling like something is watching us. I'm almost having goosebumps."

  "This valley doesn't have a dragon at all. What shall we do? Should we wait here till the dragon returns or go to the other end of the valley to take a look?"

  "This place is slightly odd. Shall we quickly get out of here?"

  "..."

  The rookies sounded out. There was nothing living in the desolate valley, the dead silence was dreadful.

  Shi Xiaobai thought for a moment before saying to the crowd, "Since the dragon is not in the valley, why don't we leave this place. This King also finds this place somewhat odd. Something bad might happen if we stay here any longer."

  Although this valley only had gray soil and rugged boulders, it gave Shi Xiaobai a feeling that danger lurked everywhere. He felt that it was best if he led the crowd in departing.

  Due to the stunning punch from before, Shi Xiaobai enjoyed an extremely high status among the rookies that numbered more than forty. Therefore, they would choose to listen to anything Shi Xiaobai said as long as it wasn't problematic.

  Furthermore, it was not only one rookie who found the atmosphere in the valley eerie.

  The crowd immediately echoed him and began planning to leave the valley.

  Shi Xiaobai warned them, "Everyone, do not split apart. Pay attention to protecting each other."

  Shi Xiaobai was constantly wary of danger happening at any moment. Therefore, he said those words with a very serious expression.

  However, the rookies did not notice this and did not put Shi Xiaobai's words to heart.

  The silent valley felt gloomy, but there was not a single bug.

  What danger could there be?

  The rookies nodded their heads in response. They did not gather together with nervous expressions, but instead, they walked towards the valley's exit in scattered groups.

  Shi Xiaobai did not say anything more as well. It was not convincing to stress the dangers of an empty valley.

  Shi Xiaobai could only focus on the exit. He stood in the rear, while Ka Xiaozi quietly stood beside him.

  "What's the matter? You’ve been looking odd from just a moment ago till now. Are you not feeling well?"

  Ka Xiaozi asked out of concern.

  Shi Xiaobai shook his head and softly said, "Nothing important. It's just that This King has an ominous foreboding."

  At this moment, the rookies walking right in front had walked out of the exit. Nothing dangerous had happened, and with a few rookies safely departing, the rookies behind followed closely behind.

  Shi Xiaobai heaved a sigh of relief. It appeared as though the danger did not lie in this strange valley.

  However, Shi Xiaobai did not relax his vigilance. He was still constantly monitoring everything around him. Logically speaking, this vast mountain valley had nothing obstructing it, and that should result in strong winds, but having walked in here for more than a few minutes, there was not even the tiniest of breezes.

  All he could hear was the shuffling of feet and the occasional conversations, nothing else.

  The rookies streamed out of the valley's exit, with more than ten rookies having left the valley.

  "Ah!"

  Suddenly, a scream rang in the empty valley!

  Shi Xiaobai's heart leaped as he widened his eyes.

  He saw in the crowd, a laughing rookie walking while his entire head suddenly disappeared, leaving behind half his neck. Hot blood spewed out of the broken neck, splattering on the rookies around him. The girl closest to him had her face completely splattered with blood as she issued a scream of fear.

  In just an instant, this rookie, who was right in the middle of the crowd, had his head severed in front of Shi Xiaobai's eyes. Furthermore, at the instant his head was severed, his head did not fly into the air before dropping to the ground. Instead, it had instantly disappeared into thin air!

  What the hell was going on?

  What just happened!?

  The valley was still the valley that had nothing. Other than them, there was no other creature. Yet, a rookie had suddenly his head cleaved off in front of everyone else.

  They did not even know what had happened!

  "Make your choice, youth!"

  Shi Xiaobai fell into a trance for a moment before the scene in front of him changed.

  Shi Xiaobai was not given any time to probe the situation. The moment the rookie's head was cleaved off, the rookie had only a few seconds of thought before dying. It also meant the failure of the choice.

  Time wound back to the moment the Absolute Choice appeared. Everyone was still standing in the middle of the valley.

  Time stood still, and in front of Shi Xiaobai were the three rows of black text that had already materialized.

  There were still the three choices, as well as the fiery voice that incessantly resounded in his mind.

  "Make your choice, youth!"

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  Chapter310 Blood-red fireworks

  The scene of that rookie being beheaded came too sudden. The moment his head separated from his neck, it had disappeared as well, as though it had been swallowed by the air.

  Although Shi Xiaobai was paying attention to the movement of the crowd, the rookie was in the middle of the group, and the speed at which he was beheaded was too fast. He did not manage to catch the entire process. His timely glance only allowed him to see the rookies neck tear apart from the middle, while blood spewed out like a fountain.

  The scene was bloody and terrifying, but it was even weirder.

  However, Shi Xiaobai had instantly forced himself to calm down. His strong state of mind allowed him to remain calm as he observed the blood spewing wound while facing the bloody scene.
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  Life was fragile, it was as though a gentle wind could break it.

  However, life was also tough. Even when beheaded, one's mind was able to remain active for a second or two.

  The rookie struggled instinctively before his death, buying a second or two for Shi Xiaobai.

  This one or two seconds were very precious and Shi Xiaobai did not waste any of it. He stared intently at the half of the bloody neck. Before the corpse collapsed to the ground, he discovered a very critical piece of information.

  Shi Xiaobai's eyes were very good, so when he focused from afar, he discovered that the broken neck seemed like a neat, clean cut, but through the spewing blood, he could see a tiny row of holes.

  The rookie's head was not cut, pulled or twisted off, but...bitten off!

  A cold beam flashed in Shi Xiaobai's eyes as the fiery voice constantly repeated in his head.

  "Make your choice, youth!"

  Shi Xiaobai chose choice one without any hesitation—save all rookies in Dragon Mountain Valley.

  ...

  ...

  Shi Xiaobai looked up and surveyed the air above the mountain valley. Shi Xiaobai had judged from the rookie's wound that his head had been bitten off. That meant the disappearing head must have been swallowed into the belly of an invisible monster.

  However, the sky was clear. There was not the slightest oddity. There was not even a gentle breeze blowing through the valley.

  Shi Xiaobai found his senses rather keen, with his sixth sense particularly empowering. However, he could not sense any indications of other lives.

  If there were truly a monster which had bitten off the rookies head and swallowed it, that meant the monster was not only invisible, its aura, breathing and killing intent could be hidden. Its sounds could even be extinguished. If not, when the rookies head was being bitten off, there should have been a sound, but there was none.

  What sort of monster could conceal itself in such an impossible manner?

  Could it be that the rookie's head was not bitten off?

  Shi Xiaobai fell silent for a moment. He said to the rookies that were discussing how gloomy the valley was, "Since the dragon is not in the valley, why don't we leave this place. This King also finds this place somewhat odd. Something bad might happen if we stay here any longer."

  Shi Xiaobai repeated what he had said previously ad verbatim. He had even deliberately mimicked his tone.

  The rookies agreed and began planning to leave the valley.

  Shi Xiaobai warned them, "Everyone, do not split apart. Pay attention to protecting each other."

  Just like before, the rookies did not put his words to heart as they walked towards the valley exit in scattered groups.

  Ka Xiaozi's concerned voice was heard once again, and Shi Xiaobai gave her the same answer.

  There was no difference from what had happened, as though it was a repeat of everything.

  And the rookie who had suffered decapitation was about to walk to the spot of his death. Shi Xiaobai had remembered the location in those valuable one or two seconds.

  As the rookie was walking, he was talking and laughing with the girl beside him. He looked rather relaxed.

  Shi Xiaobai did his best to control his emotions. He tried not to turn his gaze above the rookie's head as he hid the anger and killing intent in his heart, as though he was a killer lurking in the shadows, waiting for a prey to appear.

  "Three!

  "Two!"

  A black beam suddenly bloomed in Shi Xiaobai's right hand as a black sword appeared.

  "One!"

  Shi Xiaobai thundered angrily as he slashed at the rookie's head. Anger that exuded from the golden sword beam tore through the sky!

  If an invisible monster had truly eaten the rookie's head, that meant that the moment the rookie's head was severed, the monster's head would appear above the rookie!

  Shi Xiaobai's only chance was to grasp that fleeting moment!

  And this strike was timed perfectly!

  "Roar!"

  A roar winced with pain resounded in the sky above the valley. When the golden sword beam flew to the spot above the rookie's head, it had indeed struck something invisible. The sword beam shattered and at the same time, bright red blood burst out of the sky like a lotus' bloom.

  The rookie and the girl beside him were drenched in the blood as they immediately gave panicked screams.

  The rookies turned their heads.

  Shi Xiaobai roared, "Quickly conjure your psionic barrier and defend. There are invisible monsters in the valley. Protect yourselves well!"

  The crowd jumped in fright, but their reactions were not slow. They hurriedly conjured their psionic barriers.

  They looked up into the sky and saw nothing in mid-air, but there was blood constantly dropping.

  The monster only issued a cry after it was injured but it no longer made a sound after that. However, there was no way to hide the wound caused by the sword strike. Blood was constantly dripping.

  The location where the blood dripped changed positions with every drip. Its trajectory was haphazard in the air, as though the invisible monster was moving in mid-air while rolling about in air due to the pain.

  The crowd could even imagine the picture of the monster flying around disorderly. However, other than the constantly dripping blood, they could not see a thing.

  What was most terrifying that although the monster was moving so violently, it did not make a sound. Despite moving so fast, it did not stir up even the slightest breeze.

  If not for the wound or the dripping blood, they would not be able to see, hear or even sense the existence of the monster.

  "Heavens, what monster is this?"

  "What should we do? It doesn't seem like invisibility is the only attribute the monster has."

  "How terrifying. No wonder I kept feeling an eeriness in this valley."

  "Just now, the monster had flown above my head. If not for Shi Xiaobai's strike, what would have happened? Would that monster… have messed up my hair style?"

  "What do we do now? Kill it?"

  "Quickly kill it. Once the blood in its wound clots up, we would not be able to see it any further!"

  The rookies sounded out and felt somewhat nervous. There were already people suggesting to kill the monster.

  At this moment, Shi Xiaobai had struck once again.

  The rookies did not know what terrifying event would have happened if not for Shi Xiaobai's timely strike; therefore, they only panicked slightly but were not overly apprehensive. But for Shi Xiaobai, he could not forget the scene of that rookie having his head swallowed.

  A bloody death had previously appeared in front of his eyes as a cruel form of reality.

  Shi Xiaobai had to force himself to repress his grief and anger. In that previous second, he had calmly observed the wound on the rookie's neck. He also had to memorize the location of his death.

  The more negative emotions he had to repress, the deeper they went, and the anger that brewed turned more intense!

  Shi Xiaobai's killing intent was roused!

  "Kill it!"

  Shi Xiaobai bellowed and charged at the invisible monster moving in mid-air. Although he still could not see the monster, the dripping blood from the wound exposed the monster's trajectory.

  Shi Xiaobai slashed out!

  Kun Peng's Sword of Wind, Ten Thousand Li Hurricane!

  A hurricane sword beam slashed into mid-air. There was a need for a certain level of judgment as when the blood dripped, the monster would have moved away. There was no way to guess where it would go in the next second. There were six directions it could go!

  "Roar!"

  The sword hurricane struck something mid-air when a shrill roar was heard. Several blots of blood bloomed like flowers!

  "It hit!" the rookies exclaimed.

  It was not as simple as being hit. The monster had clearly been severely wounded by the strike. Although the monster was invisible, its defensive strength was
extremely poor.

  However, after that one strike, blood was still dripping, and it became even more frequent. The trajectory of the moving monster also became strange and unpredictable.

  Shi Xiaobai frowned slightly. He had a nagging feeling that the shrill cry was somewhat odd.

  At this moment, Feng Yuanlin roared, "Everyone attack together and kill this monster!"

  After Feng Yuanlin said this, he was the first to throw his shield into the air!

  The other rookies immediately reacted.

  Since Shi Xiaobai had shouted 'kill it', what were they waiting for?

  Mu Yuesheng raised her hands and shot out several bolts of lightning into the sky.

  Liu Yu waved upwards as numerous charms flew into the sky!

  An Mo began playing his flute, producing sonic waves into the sky.

  Zhou Chuchu lashed out with her whip towards the sky!

  Kevin picked up a rock from the ground and, using the Price of Might, hurled it towards the sky.

  Mozzie constructed a psionic warhammer. With the burning inferno of Grilling Hammer, she shot it towards the sky!

  Over forty of the other rookies began attacking as well, sending their attacks into the sky!

  However, the monster moved too fast, and its trajectory was too messy. There was no way to judge where the monster was from the dripping blood. At this moment, the crowd's attacks were not focused on one point, but spread out, nearly blanketing the entire sky!

  Therefore, even if they failed to accurately capture the monster's motion, there was no room for the monster to escape under such wide scale attack!

  Explosions boomed one after another!

  The rookies pricked up their ears, waiting for the moment the scream would expose it amid the explosions.

  "Roar!"

  Very soon, the painful roar they were waiting for was heard, but it was not only one!

  "Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar!"

  Roars began to fill the sky in every position like rolling thunder. At the same time, burst s of blood began blooming in the sky, as though there were blood-red fireworks filling the sky. Blood began to rain down like a torrential flood.

  Everyone was immediately left astounded.

  Shi Xiaobai similarly had a drastic change of expression. He finally understood why the second scream sounded somewhat odd. It was because the cry had subtle differences from the first cry.