Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 1453 - 716: Brother, Help Us Fulfill This Wish

Did it work?

Everyone stared at the scene outside, falling silent one by one.

It had all happened way too fast.

Just a few minutes ago, Wen Guixin and the others were still by the scarlet crystal, complaining about why Xu Xin hadn’t shown up yet.

And in those few minutes, they had suddenly gone through a battle that could definitely be called a life-or-death struggle.

And now, the main cannon of that giant warship made everything feel even more abrupt.

"Th-this shot..."

Zhao Xiaochuan’s voice was stuttering.

"Oh my god... the power of that shot... it’s way stronger than our nukes, right?"

Zeng Tao swallowed a mouthful of saliva and muttered under his breath.

"Ah!"

Wen Guixin’s eyes widened as she looked toward where the purple-black pillar of light had been.

There was no longer any purple-black beam there.

The massively thick pillar of light that had been shooting straight into the sky had completely vanished.

All that remained was a deep, slanted hole that had pierced straight through the ground!

She jerked her head around to look at the three of them with Xu Xin. "That tremor just now—was that you too?!"

"Yeah, that was us. The alien invader soldiers in that city should all be dead now."

Xu Xin glanced at the still somewhat weakened Xu Ying as he replied.

"Wait..."

Beside them, Lou Fei’Er had already pieced all the information together in her head. "So you’re saying... right now, both the alien invader soldiers and their leader... are already dead?" She sounded incredulous.

"They all got blasted to pieces by their own warship’s main cannon?"

"That’s right... Yingying, what are you trying to do!"

Li Wenxi hadn’t finished speaking when she saw Xu Ying stand up, one foot lifting slightly.

That movement clearly meant she was about to tap her toes on the ground and teleport!

Li Wenxi grabbed Xu Ying’s arm in one go.

"I... I’m going over there to take another look."

Xu Ying’s voice was still a bit weak, but that couldn’t hide the excitement lurking in her tone. "I want to see whether those scarlet crystal fragments were completely destroyed."

A warship main cannon that could pierce through the roots of the World Tree in an instant should be able to obliterate those condensed scarlet crystal chunks.

But... Xu Ying still didn’t feel quite at ease.

"Don’t hold me, I need to go check!"

Xu Ying shook her arm, but couldn’t shake off Li Wenxi’s grip.

"Are you insane!"

Before Li Wenxi could speak, Wen Guixin cut in. "Do you not remember what state you were just in? If you go over there now, are you trying to get yourself killed?"

"I’m fine. Those two pills just now already got me back... *cough cough cough*..."

Xu Ying coughed a few more times.

She even coughed up blood.

"You call that fully recovered?" Lou Fei’Er also grabbed onto her. "Quit it and get some rest for now."

"Wiiing..." Keke crawled up beside Xu Ying’s leg, his little claws clutching at her pant leg.

"I’m not..."

"Yingying. If anything happens to you, we won’t be able to get back. Don’t go doing something like this." Xu Xin said.

Of course he was extremely worried about Xu Ying—more worried than anyone else.

Even if she was from another timeline, she was still his little sister.

He knew his sister’s personality way too well—stubborn as a mule. Once she decided she wanted to do something, you couldn’t stop her even if it was truly dangerous.

So he resorted to this kind of moral blackmail.

Sure enough, it worked.

"I... but..."

Xu Ying’s gaze struggled as she looked toward that slowly rising mushroom cloud.

"I’ll just take one quick look... Fine, fine, I won’t go! Just stop clinging to me, you two."

Xu Ying said, sounding a bit deflated.

Li Wenxi and Lou Fei’Er still didn’t let go, instead hugging her arms from left and right.

Lou Fei’Er even snorted. "Don’t even think about running. If you think it’s safe, then take the two of us with you. It’s safe anyway, right?"

"You two..."

Xu Ying stomped her foot in frustration, but she didn’t keep pushing it.

"Alright, alright, you lot."

Qin Fu clapped his hands to draw everyone’s attention. "These two alien invaders aren’t even completely dead yet, and you’re already thinking about other stuff."

"Seriously." Zeng Tao was sitting on the giant boulder that had crashed down on the alien invader that had injured them, propping his chin on his hand while swinging his short legs. "You guys are way too relaxed. Aren’t you worried these two bastards will suddenly lash out again and hurt someone?"

Everyone started checking on the condition of the two alien invaders.

Wen Guixin even walked right up and began corroding them with her ability.

She didn’t quite trust that the gun Xu Xin had picked up could really kill these two alien invaders, so she planned to confirm their deaths with her own hands.

Xu Xin, however, was staring at Xu Ying, who was still being held from both sides by Li Wenxi and Lou Fei’Er.

There was a hint of suspicion in his eyes.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

Xu Ying’s gaze shifted slightly.

"Yingying..."

Xu Xin frowned. "You’re not hiding something from me, are you?"

"...Huh?"

Xu Ying rolled her eyes at him, annoyed.

"What’s that supposed to mean? What could I possibly be hiding from you?"

Then her brows lifted. "Ah... there is one thing I did hide from you. Remember back in high school when your phone went missing? That was me. I was sick of you always playing on your phone in front of me, so I stole it. I didn’t know your password, but watching you stress out over losing your phone was really satisfying!"

Xu Xin’s eye twitched twice. "That was you? I... can’t believe you still remember something from hundreds of years ago."