Chapter 342: Chapter 265: If You Want to Accuse Someone, Why Worry About a Reason?

’I can’t believe the Spiritual Energy Wave I perceived belonged to a Mutant Beast. If I’d shown up a moment later, those two would’ve been killed by it.’

Lin Li muttered to himself as he walked toward the dead, black Wild Boar Beast.

It was only a First Rank Middle Stage Wild Boar Beast, far weaker than the Mutant Beasts he usually hunted in the wild.

But it was still a fresh kill, and a perfect meal for the Magical Little Tree on the Mysterious Small Island. He couldn’t let it go to waste.

Lin Li came to a stop before the nearly decapitated black Wild Boar Beast, squatted down, and reached out his left hand to touch the lifeless creature.

With a mere thought, the black Wild Boar Beast vanished instantly.

’Done. I need to get back quickly. That Mutant Beast’s screams were so agonized, a lot of people on the highway must have heard the commotion.

Once those two leave the woods and tell everyone outside what happened, people might start showing up here later.

If they see me at the scene, I’ll have to go through the trouble of explaining everything.’

After some thought, Lin Li turned and walked briskly out of the dim woods.

...

A slightly anxious voice rang out in the dim woods.

Holding her phone, Su Yue used its built-in flashlight to navigate. The beam didn’t reach far, but she continued slowly into the depths of the dim woods, calling out as she went.

"Lin Li."

"Whoa..." Not watching her step, Su Yue tripped on the undergrowth. If she hadn’t been quick enough to grab a nearby tree, she would have fallen flat on her face.

"Lin Li."

After steadying herself, Su Yue called out again, but there was no response from within the dim woods. Even the agonized pig squeal she had heard earlier was gone.

In that moment, the only sounds were the soft whisper of the wind and the rustling of leaves.

WHOOSH...

RUSTLE... RUSTLE...

With no one else around, the sound of the leaves rustling in the wind was enough to make anyone’s heart race in the dim surroundings.

"Lin—"

Just as Su Yue was about to call out again, someone suddenly tapped her on the shoulder. She snapped her mouth shut and spun around frantically to look behind her.

"Su Yue, didn’t I tell you to wait in the car? What are you doing in here?" Lin Li said with a smile. "Don’t tell me you wanted to sneak a peek while I was taking a leak!"

The moment she saw it was Lin Li who had tapped her shoulder, Su Yue let out a sigh of relief. She had been terribly anxious, worried that he’d been attacked by a wild pig and that something awful had happened to him.

She had been about to laugh out loud with relief, but Lin Li’s joke made her mood sour instantly. Annoyed, she reached out and pinched him hard on his ribs.

Lin Li, who was completely unguarded against Su Yue, could only watch wide-eyed as she launched her surprise attack, claws out.

"AHH—"

"Are you crazy? What did you pinch me for?"

Lin Li, who barely made a sound even when injured by Mutant Beasts, let out a piercing shriek under the assault of Su Yue’s terrifying ’claws’.

"Hmph. That’s what you get for sneaking up behind me and scaring me."

Seeing Lin Li grimacing and yelping in pain from her pinch, Su Yue, who had been rather annoyed just moments before, found her mood instantly brightening.

"When did I scare you? I saw you calling my name, so I came over to tap your shoulder and say hi. How is that scary?" Lin Li grumbled, rubbing the spot she had pinched.

"I don’t care. You scared me, and that’s that," Su Yue said, turning to walk out of the dim woods.

"If you’re determined to find fault, you’ll always find a reason. You’re being so unreasonable..."

When Lin Li saw Su Yue walking out of the dim woods, he hurried to catch up. "Right, why did you come in here anyway? Didn’t I tell you to wait in the car? Did you need to use the bathroom too? If you have to go, now’s the time."

Su Yue glanced at Lin Li walking beside her. "I heard an awful squealing sound from in here while I was in the car," she said. "I was worried you’d run into a wild pig, so I came to find you. It’s not because I needed the bathroom."

"..." Lin Li, who had still been grumbling internally about Su Yue’s unprovoked attack, froze for a moment when he heard what she said.

Then, any lingering frustration he felt vanished in an instant.

Lin Li raised a hand to rub his nose. He didn’t say anything else, simply falling into step beside Su Yue as they walked out of the dim woods together.

...

Things unfolded more or less as Lin Li had expected. After escaping the dim woods, the young man and woman who had been attacked by the Wild Boar Beast told the roadside bystanders what they had been through.

Some of the more experienced onlookers immediately deduced that the wild pig the pair had encountered was likely a Wild Boar Beast.

The young man and woman were shocked to learn that the wild pig they had just encountered was actually a Mutant Beast. Their hearts, which had only just begun to settle, started pounding in their chests all over again.

Then, at the suggestion of the onlookers, they immediately called the local Superpower Administration Bureau and reported what had happened.