I Wonder Which Idiot Stole It

The sound of rustling clothes came from behind; Ji Yan had put on the clothes Shen Yi had taken out.

"Junior, you can turn around now."

Hearing Xu Yingshi's words, Shen Yi turned around. These clothes were all newly bought, and he hadn't worn them yet.

Seeing Ji Yan wearing them, they looked very loose.

After changing clothes, perhaps due to a psychological effect, Shen Yi felt that Ji Yan seemed a bit self-conscious.

He didn't think too much and walked over to the two of them.

"Junior, I haven't introduced myself to you yet. My name is Xu Yingshi," Xu Yingshi offered her fair hand, looking at Shen Yi as she introduced herself.

"Hello, Senior Xu," with that, he shook her hand briefly and let go.

"Senior, how did you two end up in such a state? Did you run into some very powerful Outworlders?" Since arriving, Shen Yi hadn't had the chance to ask what exactly had happened to make them so disheveled.

"It's a long story. Just mentioning it makes me furious," hearing Shen Yi's question, Xu Yingshi's smiling face instantly turned angry.

"I discovered a very good place and planned to take Xiao Yan inside to find treasures."

"As it turned out, I don't know which idiot stole the Frost Flood Dragon King's Dragon Core, causing it to stop its shedding process and directly recover to its peak state."

Hearing the words "Frost Flood Dragon King," Shen Yi's eyes flickered. He seemed to have heard this somewhere before but couldn't recall it immediately.

Suddenly he remembered. Earlier when he was hiding in the grass, the two of them were running away, and one of them had said exactly this.

He immediately realized. No wonder he felt one of the voices was somewhat familiar; the one who spoke was Ji Yan.

The situation back then had been too critical, and he hadn't thought about it, assuming she was still at the base.

Thinking of this, everything became clear.

So the one chasing them was clearly the Frost Flood Dragon King. Remembering that terrifying aura now, he still felt a lingering fear.

But Shen Yi didn't say it aloud. "Senior Xu, isn't the Frost Flood Dragon King's Dragon Core inside its body? How could someone take it away?"

"The Frost Flood Dragon King is different from other Fierce Beasts. It doesn't belong to the Fierce Beasts, nor does it belong to the Outworlders. If we must classify it, it's more like the Yao Race mentioned in books."

"Yao Race?"

This was the first time Shen Yi had heard of this. In his understanding of this world, books only mentioned Fierce Beasts and Outworlders. Why did a Yao Race suddenly appear?

"The reason it's called the Yao Race is because the Dragon Core in its body is neither a supernatural crystal nor the kind of Ability Orb left behind after a high-level Outworlder passes away."

To Shen Yi's doubt, Xu Yingshi explained patiently, continuing.

"Its Dragon Core is more like a clone of itself. When it is about to shed, its Dragon Core will fly out of its body, turn into an ordinary Frost Flood Dragon, and go out to search for things needed for the shedding process."

"Why doesn't its main body go out to search?" Shen Yi asked curiously. In his view, the main body was definitely much more powerful than the clone, so going out would be safer.

"When it is about to shed, all sensory abilities of its main body will disappear, and its eyes won't be able to see anything."

"Furthermore, its Dragon Core has a very special ability. It is said that there is a separate space inside the Dragon Core, but unlike the storage wristbands we use, its independent space can allow living things to enter."

"When the Frost Flood Dragon King sheds its skin, it can only complete the process when the Dragon Core returns to its main body. If the Dragon Core is taken away midway, its shedding process will be interrupted, and it will fall into a deep sleep."

"When we went in, we saw a few idiots attacking it. The Frost Flood Dragon King, which had fallen into a deep sleep, completely woke up."

"When we tried to escape, those idiots inside were all killed."

Speaking of this, Xu Yingshi gnashed her teeth, as if those people deserved their deaths.

"Immediately after, we were discovered by the Frost Flood Dragon King and pursued relentlessly. The Frost Flood Dragon King in its peak state is simply not something we can resist."

Shen Yi saw a trace of fear in her eyes.

"I wonder if the Dragon Core was taken by those idiots. A bunch of half-wits who didn't understand anything. If we two weren't lucky, we might have become its food by now."

Although she spoke lightly of their escape, Shen Yi could feel the hardship involved.

Being able to survive the pursuit of such a terrifying existence was already extraordinary.

"So where is that Frost Flood Dragon King now? Did it return to its lair?"

Currently, neither of his two seniors could deal with it, and he certainly couldn't fight it unless the System gave him a hack to reach max level and make him invincible.

"It probably won't live much longer. Having lost its Dragon Core and being awakened from its deep sleep, it was actually burning its life force when chasing us. Now it's probably hiding somewhere waiting to die," Xu Yingshi wasn't too sure. Throughout the process, she was the one talking, while Ji Yan didn't say a word.

"When we were running for our lives, our wristbands were shattered by the Frost Flood Dragon King, otherwise you wouldn't have seen our distress signal."

Speaking of this, she suddenly thought of something and stared intently at Shen Yi.

"Is there something on my face? Why is Senior staring at me?"

"I suddenly remembered, our wristbands were discarded elsewhere. How did you find this place? Could it be that you followed our Xiao Yan?" Xu Yingshi looked at Shen Yi with a sly smile.

"No, I also went to the location on the wristbands earlier. Not seeing you two, I just wandered around and didn't expect to run into you here," Shen Yi casually made up an excuse. He couldn't easily explain the System.

"It's a good thing you came, otherwise we wouldn't have known when we could return. Xiao Yan was seriously injured, and we didn't have any medicine on us."

Hearing her speak, Shen Yi always felt like he had overlooked something, but he couldn't think of it for the moment.

Since he couldn't think of it, he simply stopped thinking about it.

Over the next few days, Shen Yi went out to find food every day. Staying here for a few days, he actually got along very well with the two of them.

It was just that Xu Yingshi would occasionally tease him and Ji Yan, always stopping right when Ji Yan was about to get angry.

Their living space was also expanded slightly by Shen Yi.

"Sure enough, watching those wilderness survival shows before wasn't in vain," Shen Yi used wood to make a bed for the two girls, so they didn't have to sleep on the ground anymore.

Ji Yan's injuries were also recovering rapidly. He had also gone to look for the Frost Flood Dragon King but found no trace of it.

He figured that, just as Xu Yingshi said, it had hidden somewhere to die.

During this period, Shen Yi encountered an Outworlder once, a Black Water Dark Snake, but it was only a Second Order Outworlder.

He easily dealt with it, skinned it, and finally collected all the task items.