TPWBI Chapter 86

“Ah.” Yang Yi froze.

Hei Lie’s expression was especially serious as he analyzed, “The Spark Tribe has become what it is today, all because of you. You will certainly become the most important target.”

What Yang Yi had brought was something they could not hide, no matter how they tried.

Even if he was hailed as the messenger of the gods, he would still be coveted by others and very likely become the prime target.

Those greedy for everything the Spark Tribe possessed would probably want even more to seize the person who had brought it all.

Yang Yi understood this well. His urgency in developing the tribe was also to secure his own safety.

“But there’s no need to be this tense. You live right next door to me, and there are guards at the door.”

The two of them lived on the same floor, neighbors to each other. If anything truly happened, he could be there in minutes.

Since childhood, Yang Yi had always had his own room. When he went to university, his father directly bought a place near campus. After a brief stint in the dorms, he quickly moved out.

Now, suddenly sharing a room with someone else, when there was only a single bed inside, no matter how he thought about it, it felt strange.

And what made it even more awkward was that the other person was this man before him. Yang Yi couldn’t even figure out where this sense of discomfort was coming from.

Yang Yi already had a personal guard squad assigned to him. Ever since the trade fair began, at least five people followed him at all times, taking turns on duty to keep watch.

Hei Lie also hadn’t gone out on expeditions anymore. He stayed in the tribe, ready to return to Yang Yi’s side at the first sign of trouble.

“You don’t understand the power of talents. If someone has a talent similar to mine, with strength not far from mine, at such a short distance, I still might not be able to save you.”

“I’m not that weak.” Yang Yi still disagreed.

Although his height was no longer increasing as rapidly as before, now he was about one meter eighty-six or eighty-seven. But his hearing, smell, eyesight, and speed had all become noticeably sharper than before.

Compared to the natives, he was still quite far behind, yet it was still a big improvement.

“Besides, I have Little White.”

Little White, who had already grown to the size of an ordinary adult goose on Earth, flapped its wings and took off upon hearing Yang Yi call its name.

It let out a series of “Gwa-gaa—gwa-gaa—” cries, showing off its might.

Little White’s wings had now grown extremely strong. Its beak was especially hard and powerful. One jab could pierce a hole straight through.

Every time Mao fought with it, he would end up covered in wounds, looking terribly frightening.

There were a few times Yang Yi couldn’t bear to watch and told Mao not to provoke it anymore. But this kid’s desire to win was just too strong. After some time, he would come again.

Even a level two warrior wouldn’t find it easy to please in front of Little White.

Hei Lie gave Little White a sideways glance. Little White instantly froze all over, awkwardly retreating to a corner, completely losing its earlier proud demeanor.

“I’ll lay out a floor mat by your bed. I won’t disturb your rest.”

“No need to get so tense. That way, I won’t be able to sleep well at night.”

Yang Yi thought it over and still declined Hei Lie’s kindness.

With Little White at his side, and given that the two of them were so close, separated only by a single wall, it wasn’t much different from being in the same room.

Hei Lie paused for a moment, but in the end didn’t insist: “If there’s any movement at all, you must call me.”

“Don’t worry, the one thing I have no shortage of is this.”

Most of Yang Yi’s space storage was already half-cleared out. The majority of the seeds had basically all been taken out, and there weren’t many other items left either. What he had the most of now were still books.

At present, books still had to be copied by hand. In the tribe, there weren’t many people capable of doing this work, so the progress was rather slow.

However, Yang Yi had kept some of each type as mementos and safeguards, never taking everything out completely.

Although Hei Lie wasn’t very willing, he could only awkwardly say goodnight to Yang Yi.

These days, trouble was breaking out everywhere. It was obvious someone was targeting the Spark Tribe. Yang Yi wasn’t too worried about his own safety, but he still couldn’t help being affected. His sleep felt lighter than usual.

In the depths of the night, Yang Yi suddenly woke up for no reason. The moment he opened his eyes, he saw the scene before him twisting and warping.

He tried to open his mouth to call for help, only to find he couldn’t make a sound at all, as if he were in a vacuum.

His body couldn’t move either. It was as though his entire being was bound in place.

Not good!

A spatial ability user!

A hand reached out from the distorted space.

Yang Yi desperately cried for help in his mind, and at the same time, he frantically dumped everything from his spatial storage at that hand. The hand clearly hadn’t expected such a thing to happen and instinctively moved to block.

Right after, it stopped being hindered and directly grabbed hold of Yang Yi’s leg. Just as it was about to exert strength, a flash of white light streaked by.

A miserable scream tore through the rooftop. A severed limb flew onto the bed, hot blood spraying directly onto Yang Yi’s leg, the warmth still palpable.

The twisted space instantly dispersed, and the force binding Yang Yi also vanished with it.

Xiao Bai leapt up and flapped toward the window, flying out while crying loudly in rage.

The fluorescent lamp was switched on, and the room was suddenly flooded with light.

“Are you alright?” Hei Lei’s tall figure appeared before Yang Yi, his face full of worry.

Yang Yi collected himself. But when his gaze fell on the severed limb lying on the bed, he couldn’t help frowning slightly.

Although he had been in this world for quite some time, he still wasn’t able to adapt to such bloody scenes.

Without changing expression, Hei Lie picked up the severed limb from the bed and tossed it outside, then bundled up the blood-soaked bedding and threw it all out as well.

The entire temple had been awakened by that scream, and lights flared up everywhere.

The guards rushed in at once. “Divine Envoy!”

“Go support Little White. Also, throw out what’s at the door.”

The guards dared not delay and quickly departed.

“This room can’t be slept in anymore. Come to mine.”

This time, Yang Yi didn’t refuse. His heart was still pounding with fear. His understanding of this world was still far too shallow and naïve.

He was lucky this time. If it happened again, there was no telling what the outcome would be.

“That person’s ability was the same as yours, only even stronger!”

Opening a spatial rift without a trace and dragging someone away, silent and unseen. It truly was silent and unseen.

Hei Lie was already a level five warrior. He, too, possessed a similar spatial ability that allowed him to retrieve objects from a distance.

However, his power was still limited to a certain range and only within the scope of what was visible, and it applied only to inanimate objects. It was nothing like what had just happened.

“It’s not the same,” Hei Lie directly denied. “He merely has the ability to twist space, sealing you off.”

“Sealed off?” Yang Yi pondered for a moment. “Like a barrier?”

“Something like that.”

Yang Yi was puzzled. “But why were you able to enter the barrier?”

“This is more like an illusion. Although the space was twisted, you were actually still right here. It’s just that the outside world couldn’t perceive your existence. Because I have a symbiotic contract with you, and because I’m a level five warrior, he wasn’t able to block me.”

Yang Yi felt endlessly grateful for the existence of this symbiotic contract. “Just now, the cry for help in my head, that was what you sensed?”

“We’re very close. I could clearly feel that you were in danger.”

“Luckily I had you.” Yang Yi was deeply moved, chiding himself for his earlier naivety. But then he asked doubtfully, “Then why wasn’t he inside the barrier?”

The thought of that strange scene just now sent chills down Yang Yi’s spine. If not for his strong mentality, he would have been scared to death by that suddenly appearing hand.

“He was there, too. But because the whole space was twisted, it was like light being refracted. You couldn’t see everything.”

Yang Yi nodded. So that was it. No wonder he couldn’t move and couldn’t make a sound.

Or rather, he had made a sound, but the distortion of space had prevented him from hearing it.

From downstairs came Little White’s excited, piercing cries. Yang Yi leaned out the window and saw it stomping on a man’s head, beating him relentlessly.

A crowd had already gathered around. Everyone had been woken up.

Just now, Little White had quickly sensed something was wrong. But since it couldn’t enter the barrier to find Yang Yi, it had only been able to fret anxiously on the spot.

Once the barrier was broken, that man had scrambled out the window to escape, but Little White immediately chased after him.

Little White was extremely fast now, and this time it was furious, determined to wash away its earlier humiliation. The man hadn’t even made it out of the square before Little White leapt and pinned him to the ground. Missing one arm, he no longer had the strength to get up.

Yang Yi still felt a chill in his heart. But at this sight, he couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

“Don’t let Little White kill him. We still need to interrogate.”

Hei Lie nodded and whistled at the window.

The guards stepped forward to communicate with Little White, then dragged the man out from under it. When everyone saw his face, they all froze in shock.

That man was Chen!

One of them immediately rushed up and kicked him, full of hatred:

“Are you insane? Why would you do something like this!”

Hei Lie and Yang Yi soon received word as well, learning that the attacker was Chen, the one who had followed Hei Lie for a long time.

Chen had always been a powerful warrior, performing outstandingly in the Spark Tribe. Hei Lie valued him greatly and had even planned to groom him into a leader.

No one had expected… that he would turn out to be a traitor!

No wonder he had been able to enter Yang Yi’s room so easily, without being noticed.

If it had been anyone else, the moment they appeared nearby, they would have been taken away.

If Chen had managed to drag Yang Yi off, it would have been just as easy for him to slip past any search.

Not only that, even Hei Lie hadn’t known Chen possessed such a talent. To Hei Lie, this was also a blow to his judgment.

Yang Yi patted his shoulder. “You’ve already done very well. The problem lies with these people.”

“This has taught me a lesson.” Hei Lie gripped his hand. The warmth of the touch made Yang Yi’s heart jolt slightly. He wanted to pull away, but couldn’t, so he could only ignore it for now.

They had always focused their vigilance on the new members, assuming that those who had originally left Blackstone Tribe together and built everything with them were of one mind.

Though they had done checks, they had not been so wary.

Who would have thought that the Blackstone chieftain had been so farsighted, planting a spy so early on. His vision surpasses both Hei Lie’s and Yang Yi’s.

Compared to the Blackstone chieftain, they still had much to learn and understand.

Yang Yi comforted him: “Think of it this way, it’s not necessarily a bad thing. You were planning to rely heavily on Chen. If this hadn’t happened now, his betrayal in the future would have caused even greater harm.”

“This time we’ll investigate thoroughly. We absolutely cannot allow something like this to happen again!” Hei Lie’s eyes were full of hostility, but when he turned back to Yang Yi, his expression softened again.

“It’s very late now. Go and rest. Tomorrow, there will be a lot you need to handle. The more you act as if nothing happened, the more afraid the enemy will be.”

“First, let go of my hand.”

Yang Yi glanced down at their hands, utterly speechless. This man had been holding on and forgotten to release.

Only then did Hei Lie seem to realize and let go, but he didn’t feel there was anything inappropriate about such closeness. With a calm expression, he said:

“Sleep. I’ll keep watch over you. What just happened won’t happen again.”

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