I Received Messages From Future Self!-Chapter 225 - 221 Minefield

Chapter 225: Chapter 221: Minefield Chapter 225 -221: Minefield The Taotie indeed lived up to its reputation as a humanoid Ferocious Beast. With a black broadsword in hand, it danced airtight circles, and as about a dozen hungry wolves pounced out from the bushes, they were cut into broken corpses by the fierce blade as it rose and fell in the Taotie’s hands.

Watching from behind, Fang Xiaocao felt her heart pounding with trepidation, silently grateful that Tom had been sufficiently powerful back then, and the Taotie had been without a handy weapon, allowing them to defeat and capture the Taotie through careful planning.

At the same time, Xiaocao couldn’t help but feel proud of her own intelligence for having thought of using hypnosis to subdue the Taotie and recruit it into her ranks.

Otherwise, facing the Taotie in its prime, such a humanoid Ferocious Beast with terrifying combat power, Xiaocao shuddered even just thinking about it.

No one would want to make an enemy of such a horrifying existence.

At least Xiaocao herself didn’t, not with the Taotie in its current state.

“Ha!”

With a fierce shout, the Taotie’s hand rose and its sword fell, the black broadsword slicing through the sky, harshly striking on a wild wolf’s head. “Crack,” went the wolf’s skull, instantly shattered by the sharp blade, cleaving the wolf in half effortlessly.

The wolf was instantly split into two flaps of flesh, its colorful innards spilling out “hurriedly” onto the ground, emitting a nauseating, fishy smell.

“Ugh,” Xiaocao reacted to the pungent scent of the wolf’s innards wafting through the air by almost vomiting, overtaken by waves of dry heaving, “Ugh, Taotie you really should die for this, can’t you be a bit less violent, ugh…”

Hearing Xiaocao’s words, the Taotie took out a disposable cloth, casually wiped the blood off the black sword, revealing a ferocious grin: “Heh heh, once I start killing, I just can’t stop.”

Xiaocao: “…”

An iron blockhead is an iron blockhead.

Xiaocao couldn’t be bothered to get angry with this iron blockhead.

Thanks to the relentless efforts of the Taotie and Tom, the two world-class top killers, a mere pack of wolves had all been reduced to scattered limbs and broken bodies.

Xiaocao curled her lips and covered her mouth, distancing herself a bit.

The combined stench of wolf and the smell of blood all over the ground was simply worse than mustard on canned herring—a truly overwhelming scent.

It burned her eyes, making Xiaocao tear up.

“Let’s go, let’s go!”

Xiaocao urged repeatedly.

The Taotie and Tom, naturally, took Xiaocao’s lead to heart; if she said go, they would not insist on staying.

After a discussion, Tom took the responsibility of clearing the path, while the Taotie covered the rear, also closely guarding Xiaocao.

The trio hurried toward Wan Xiaozhou’s direction.

After about half an hour, the three of them finally met up with the scouting Wan Xiaozhou.

“Princess Your Highness!”

Wan Xiaozhou jumped down from a tree and bowed respectfully to Xiaocao.

“Xiaozhou, you’ve worked hard~”

Xiaocao said cheerily.

“What’s the situation with the road ahead?”

“Is there any danger?”

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Tom asked in a grave voice.

“The road ahead is somewhat rugged, but no danger has been detected,”

Wan Xiaozhou answered solemnly.

Tom nodded, “Continue scouting the path!”

“Yes!”

With that, Wan Xiaozhou stretched his long legs and vanished into the dark, oppressive forest under the night sky with a few agile leaps.

Xiaocao blinked but didn’t stop him.

She just felt that Tom was a bit cold-hearted.

Wan Xiaozhou had just returned from scouting, why not let him rest for a while, have some water before going again?

“Princess Your Highness, shall we continue forward?”

“Otherwise, we might not get there before dawn.”

Tom spoke gravely to Xiaocao.

Xiaocao nodded, “Mm!”

Tom pulled out a tablet, checked the safe route marked by Wan Xiaozhou, and after making sure there were no problems, he continued forward following that path.

Xiaocao shrugged and followed closely behind.

The Taotie trailed with an indifferent expression as if to say, unless faced with heavy weaponry, he doubted anyone could kill him.

This was the confidence of absolute power!

After another half hour or so, Tom suddenly stopped, made a silencing gesture to Xiaocao and the Taotie, and cautiously looked around.

Xiaocao was taken aback and immediately crouched down.

Taotie’s expression changed as he drew his weapon.

He was ready for battle.

Taotie looked at Tom, asking with his eyes what the other had found.

Tom waved his hand dismissively and took out a sophisticated tool kit from the multi-purpose bag on his body.

“Taotie, protect Princess Your Highness and step back; there are mines here. It’s either a minefield left from wartime, or someone wants to ambush us,”

Tom whispered to Taotie.

Upon hearing Tom’s words, both Taotie and Fang Xiaocao’s expressions shifted dramatically.

Taotie reacted swiftly, immediately pulling Fang Xiaocao back slowly towards the direction they came from.

“What’s the situation?”

“Didn’t you follow the route designated by the maid?”

Taotie asked, puzzled.

The maid was Wan Xiaozhou’s nickname.

It was a name Taotie had given her.

“Do you think I would make such a rookie mistake?”

Tom retorted.

Taotie shook his head.

He knew how professional Tom was.

The likelihood of him making such a mistake was extremely low.

Probably on par with the chance of choking to death while eating.

So if Tom hadn’t misread the map…

Then there were only two possibilities!

Either Wan Xiaozhou had betrayed them!

Or Wan Xiaozhou had been captured.

The wrong route was sent by the enemy.

No matter which possibility it might be,

It meant there was an ambush nearby.

Tom turned his head to look at Fang Xiaocao and Taotie.

Seeing that Fang Xiaocao had been brought to a safe distance by Taotie, Tom breathed a sigh of relief.

He then began to quickly dismantle the mines around them.

Tom was not afraid of being hurt by the mines,

Nor was he worried about the injury-prone Taotie being hurt.

His only fear was that Fang Xiaocao would get hurt.

Now that he was certain that even if there were a mishap, it would not affect Fang Xiaocao, Tom began defusing the mines.

Watching Tom’s cautious actions, Xiaocao broke out in a cold sweat for him.

Taotie, while holding Xiaocao’s hand to ensure her safety, rapidly scanned the surroundings with vigilance, searching for the possible assailants.

In a short while, Tom had disarmed a good dozen bombs.

Tom walked forward two steps, checked one more time with an air of resignation, and then shook his head as he stood and walked towards Fang Xiaocao.

“It’s no good, there are too many mines,”

“I’ve dug up over a dozen in just a few steps,”

“It’s impossible to tell how many mines are in this minefield, and if I try to clear a safe path, the workload is just too great,”

“And defusing mines isn’t even the hardest part, the problem is, we don’t know where the enemy is,”

“If they come charging out halfway through…”

“We’d all get skinned alive even if we don’t die.”

Taotie nodded in agreement.

“Let’s get out of here quickly and find another way around this place,”

Taotie said gravely.

“But what about Wan Xiaozhou?”

Fang Xiaocao asked in a serious tone.

“Forget about that traitor for now!”

Taotie said nonchalantly.