Chapter 202 Brother’s Frustration

The explosion surged up from below, causing the floor beneath everyone’s feet to absorb most of the impact.

However, the sudden collapsing floor and the smoke it kicked up instantly blinded everyone, leaving them with no choice but to protect themselves.

Only after a while, when the shockwaves from the explosion gradually settled, did the devastation around them come into view.

The entire template area was completely destroyed, rubble from collapsed buildings scattered everywhere, and everyone had fallen to the lower level, separated amidst the chaos by fractured stone plates.

Summer Jincang pushed aside a stone slab that had fallen on him, quickly downed a bottle of healing potion, and then crawled out from the wreckage, immediately searching for his sister’s figure.

Although he had been struck by the slab, he wasn’t seriously harmed; he drank the potion mainly to prepare for possible enemy appearances. But now the enemies hadn’t shown, and there was not a single familiar face in sight.

He scanned the area and shouted loudly, “Xinyan!”

In his heart, Summer Xinyan had always been that little girl who needed her brother’s protection. In this dungeon, he had wanted to shield her from even a scratch, yet despite all his precautions, he hadn’t anticipated such a turn of events.

After such a violent explosion, Xinyan must have been hurt!

She might even be buried somewhere, waiting for someone to rescue her!

Damn it! Why hadn’t he thought to give her a tracking device beforehand?!

As he wallowed in frustration, a slender arm suddenly emerged from underneath some rubble—looking just like a girl’s.

Summer Jincang froze, then rushed over to help lift the stone slab: “Xinyan!”

—But unfortunately, underneath the slab was Murong Yue.

She had several injuries from being hit and looked quite a mess, yet when she met Summer Jincang’s momentarily stunned gaze, she nervously scrambled away from the area where the slab could fall: “Sorry, not your sister! Please be careful, don’t hit me again, thanks, hero!”

Summer Jincang still held the slab until she got clear, releasing it only afterward; the slab crashed to the ground with a thud that shook the entire floor, yet it couldn’t match the tremor in his heart.

Sister……

But before he could dwell on his sadness for long, a sound of collapse suddenly came from behind. Both of them instinctively turned to look, and saw a stone slab in the corner that had collapsed suddenly split in two, revealing below… a gigantic plush toy.

Both Summer Jincang and Murong Yue were stunned.

Then, from beneath the plush toy, a black cat suddenly jumped out, leisurely sitting atop it, swishing its tail and eyeing them for a few seconds.

“Why is there a cat here…?” Murong Yue was even more confused.

But that cat was so cute! It looked really clever…

“Just you two here?” The black cat slightly opened its mouth, but the voice that came out was that of Summer Xinyan.

Murong Yue: “……”

Well, that takes care of that.

Summer Jincang was taken aback for a few seconds: “Sister?!”

The black cat jumped off the plush toy, and in a flash of black light, its body enlarged to human size. When the light faded, Summer Xinyan appeared—she was actually in the best condition among the three, with not a single scratch on her.

In fact, during the explosion, she had instinctively taken a defensive posture. Ling Mo had originally intended to get to her first, but the ground between them had exploded, forcing her and Ling Mo apart.

So at the last moment as the smoke consumed everyone, Ling Mo materialized a plush toy behind Summer Xinyan—just the one that had been buried under the slab.

Then she had transformed into a black cat and hidden inside the plush toy, using it to cushion most of the impact from the fall, emerging nearly unscathed.

It was a bit amusing, really.

She really was something back then… always had clever ideas.

Seeing the black cat suddenly turn into his sister, Summer Jincang didn’t even have time to ask about the details before rushing over to spin around her, hurriedly pulling out healing potions: “Sister, are you hurt? Did anything hit you? I’ve got high-grade healing potions—do you want to drink one? Sometimes internal injuries don’t hurt at first, and it can get serious later—sister……”

“Stop, stop,” Summer Xinyan took two steps back, narrowing her eyes, “I’m not hurt, and I have no internal injuries—nothing on my status bar, okay?”

“Ah, oh… That’s good, my sister really is lucky.” Summer Jincang became cheerful again, “Don’t worry, from now on, I’ll stay by your side to protect you.”

Just then, Ling Mo hadn’t fallen their way; it was truly fortuitous, and he thought maybe he could take this opportunity to make his sister—

“No need, Mo Mo will protect me.” Summer Xinyan glanced back at the plush toy, “If it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t be so fine.”

Summer Jincang: “……”

Damn, that guy is using tricks to fool his innocent sister in a place like this—pretending to care with the plush toy. If he really worried about her, why didn’t he come to protect her himself?

—As for Summer Jincang, he was right at the center of the explosion, the first one blasted away, without even a moment to react. He didn’t get the chance to help his sister.

It was infuriating.

But it was fine, Ling Mo wasn’t here now.

“Don’t worry, sister, he’s not by your side anymore. From now on, I’ll take good care of you.” Summer Jincang added very gently.

However, just as he finished speaking, Summer Xinyan suddenly pulled out a walkie-talkie from her spatial watch, and Ling Mo’s voice came through: “Hello? Xinyan? Are you there? Are you okay?”

“I’m fine,” Summer Xinyan breathed a sigh of relief, “What’s your situation?”

“I’m with Zhang Daren and the others right now. Gao Tian just contacted us, saying he’s figuring out a way to rescue the injured teammates, and we need to keep moving up for revenge.” Ling Mo paused, then continued, “I just checked, the route back on my end has been blown up, but I found a way to keep going up. It seems the game is forcing us into the final stage; we might encounter some danger next, so be careful and wait for me to find you.”

“No need!” Summer Jincang immediately squeezed up to Summer Xinyan’s side, smiling on the surface but with a menacing tone, “I’m right here with my sister. You just take care of yourself.”

There was a pause on the walkie-talkie before Ling Mo’s voice came back: “Oh, then Jincang Ge, do protect Xinyan. I’ll find a way to meet up with you as soon as possible.”

Summer Xinyan nodded: “Mmm… Be careful, Mo Mo.”

“Okay, you too.”

Beside them, Summer Jincang: “……”

It felt like punching a cotton ball.