Otherworldly Desert Dust-Chapter 528 - 483: Intelligence Points Allocated to Zero

Under the starlight, the desert revealed a faint purple hue.

The knights of the Lan Guang Temple clad in splendid armor seemed to be enveloped in a shadow of shame, heavily stepping away from the cactus area.

At the Salt Sand Pond, the supposed "Corpse King" finally got off the woman, wiping the sweat beads on his forehead.

Finally, he brought her back to life.

Never thought that Five Nuts Cake had such lethal power; thank goodness for the wisdom of our ancestors, inventing such perfect food early on, weeding out those with fragile genes, as Huaxia does not nurture the idle, only those born tough deserve to enjoy various traditional delicacies.

As the allergens were cleared from her respiratory tract, Taiya gradually began to breathe on her own.

To prevent this fragile woman from encountering another mishap, Wu Hen wise up this time and covered her eyes.

Who knows whether she might faint again upon finally opening her eyes and seeing the star-filled sky.

"Stop tugging at your eye-mask, be a blind temple concubine until your condition stabilizes," Wu Hen was also drained by this woman.

"Oh... thank you... for saving me again..." Taiya could now speak, feeling embarrassed about her susceptibility to sudden death.

"What else are you afraid of? Tell me all at once. Phobias, allergens, early psychological traumas, any kind of aversion, can't eat cilantro, can't digest onions and ginger..." Wu Hen said.

"There's nothing else, just sometimes afraid of slippery things, or fluffy, too narrow spaces also make me uncomfortable, excessively irregular objects creep me out, then there's a shadow over things with antennas on foreheads, I don't particularly like children, especially noisy ones," Taiya was quite honest, spilling many of her dislikes in one go.

"Whoever marries you must have cultivated misfortune for eight lifetimes," Wu Hen remarked.

"We can't get married, as temple concubines need to serve faith all their lives," Taiya said and quickly added, "But we can date; however, if we have children, boys must guard the Lan Guang Temple and become knights, while girls would serve as temple maidens, carrying on our legacy."

"Alright, alright, I don't need to understand that in detail, moreover, don't you dislike children? I'm not considering... what a mess, I feel like there is a dumb aura around you, staying with you, my IQ seems to lower!" Wu Hen expressed.

"Is it already past midnight? Haven't my knights found me? That shouldn't be right, the garment I'm wearing emits a kind of radiance; they should be able to find me following this radiance," Taiya said.

"I heard some noises earlier, but I don't know if it was them or a horde of corpses passing by. Anyway, we aren't too far from Oasis City, and since the Corpse Tide has already receded, why don't we just walk back ourselves? You must have some standing in Oasis City, right? They won't bombard me with a Glazed Tile Cannon as I approach, right?" Wu Hen asked.

"Of course not, I'm not only well-regarded in Oasis City, but our temple concubines in Lan Guang Temple are also Divine Messengers in the Cang Chu Divine Realm," Taiya's cheeks returned to normal, no longer as stiff as before, and she revealed a light smile.

Pure.

Utterly pure but foolish…

She was poles apart from Dai Jing whom he had encountered at the Blood Lake Base before.

But honestly, dealing with someone like Taiya didn't require much cunning.

"You should be quite familiar with Oasis City then, I'm curious, what's beneath the city? I had a friend guide me there," Wu Hen inquired.

"Beneath the city is our Lan Guang Temple, of course," Taiya said, even a bit proudly.

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Wu Hen's eyes suddenly lit up.

Oh?

The Lan Guang Temple had high-dimensional Yuan You Fragments...

His gaze unconsciously shifted to the clear yet foolish Taiya, and his confidence surged.

Secured!

Looks like securing the high-dimensional Yuan You Fragment is a sure thing!

With my previous feeding of Pure Yuan You, coupled with the impact of this high-dimensional Yuan You Fragment, achieving Fifth-Rank Hearing looks promising!

"It's getting late, let's head into the city," Wu Hen said.

"The day has already dawned," Taiya, although her eyes were partly covered, had already sensed the shimmering light from the east.

Indeed, the silvery light poured over here, landing on her body, her skin faintly revealing strands of Light Gauze, the gauze changing various colors with the rising sun, beautifully ethereal, truly like a Dawn Goddess, pure and lovely.

Wu Hen watched her, saw that she was obediently wearing her eye mask, and witnessed her extraordinary presence, and an idea surged in his mind...

When God created her, did He distribute her intelligence and immunity elsewhere?

...

Stepping into the dawn, the two walked out of the Cactus Forest.

Having exited, Taiya could remove her eye mask.

She pointed towards Oasis City, and they quickened their pace, lest they be preyed upon by the wandering Alien Species in the desert. After several ordeals, they were both extremely exhausted.

Especially Wu Hen – trapped by the Corpse Tide, bombed by heavy artillery, all were nowhere near as tiring as reviving this delicate woman.

"How strange. Why is Oasis City draped in white gauze everywhere? Generally, only when someone with high status from Lan Guang Temple passes away would there be a white gauze assembly like this." Taiya noticed Oasis City from afar.

As for Oasis City itself, its city gates were adorned with extremely soft white gauze, fluttering in the wind, conveying a sense of solemn tranquility.

"Let me ask, if you died, would your status merit such a white gauze ceremony?" Wu Hen initially wanted to follow Taiya's line of thought, but a more intelligent voice in his subconscious raised this question.

"Of course. I am a very important figure in Lan Guang Temple. If I were to die unexpectedly, this would be the standard procedure," Taiya replied.

"..." Wu Hen didn't know what to say for a moment. Seeing that she hadn't realized anything yet, he could only helplessly say, "It would be too hard to guess who passed away."

The city gates were already open. On the wasteland, one could see traders and travelers who had hidden elsewhere eagerly rushing into the city.

Merchants, travelers, gold seekers, hunter squads, and wanderers from various wastelands had all been frightened by the Corpse Tide. They would rather pay a costly entry fee to take refuge in Oasis City that offered them a sense of security.

Wu Hen and Taiya were quickly submerged by the flood of people entering the city.

At the city gate, just as Taiya was about to declare her identity, Wu Hen covered her mouth and voluntarily paid an entry fee before leading her into the city.

Taiya was utterly baffled and earnestly told Wu Hen, "Even if you have money, there's no need to waste it like this. My status alone is enough to get you into the city for free."

"Take a look at the main street's end. See who they framed with huge floral wreaths," Wu Hen pointed out.

Taiya turned to look and immediately saw a huge bas-relief of herself!

It seemed to be carved from some sort of ice jade. That posture, that face, was unmistakably her own.

But she hadn't died, so why would there be a sculpture for her in frost jade?

"I need to tell them..." Taiya said.

"Hold on, don't rush. Remember when we were fighting the Corpse Tide, someone on the city wall gave the order to fire. Thousands of Glazed Tile Cannons bombarded us regardless of our lives. At that time, I thought you were just a disposable character, but now it seems something is off," Wu Hen said.

"They were only trying to prevent the Corpse King from getting close due to some mysterious energy in it that would disable our light weapons," Taiya explained.

"Isn't your value higher than the Corpse King's?" Wu Hen asked.

"Of course, I'm higher. I can deal with many, many Corpse Kings, as long as they aren't excessively dense disasters," Taiya stated.

"That's just it. Besides, I clearly don't have any Corpse King features, so why were those people on the city wall so eager to confirm me as a Corpse King?" Wu Hen said.

Taiya suddenly became silent, seeming to be seriously contemplating.

Wu Hen felt it best to observe changes quietly for now. He still needed Taiya's help to enter Lan Guang Temple to get the high-dimensional Essence Ghost Fragment. If she was being targeted and persecuted in the city at this moment, he would need to help her eliminate the danger first.

"So, have you figured out who in this city might want to harm you?" Wu Hen asked.

"Ah??" Taiya opened her mouth in surprise, "Someone wants to harm me??"

"What were you just thinking about?" Wu Hen questioned.

"I was just feeling a little uncomfortable. They shouldn't have used so many flowers densely surrounding my statue, and besides, I prefer tulips, not roses..." Taiya said.

Wu Hen took a deep breath of the cold air on the street!

Give some intelligence to the cunning little vixen, please, I beg you.

"Don't expose yourself for now; let's go into the city and find my comrades, and ask them what's going on here," Wu Hen said.

"Alright, by the way, I haven't met the other two Corpse Kings yet... oh, I mean your two comrades, sorry about that," Taiya stuck out her tongue.

Wu Hen led the girl further into the city.

They were almost at a rather secluded inn when Taiya suddenly realized something and asked seriously, "Mr. Wu Tian, do you really think someone in this city wants to harm me?"

"Do you trust me?"

"Of course, you're a good person who has saved me several times," Taiya nodded.

"Just stay close to me, as if you really are dead. After all, so many people in this city held a memorial service for you; you can't hurt the feelings of the entire populace, as well as your knights and temple colleagues who cried so sadly..." Wu Hen said.

Taiya seriously pondered this time.

Wu Hen also realized that his argument sounded a bit like coaxing a child, which indeed wasn't very effective on the adult Taiya, who was actually quite innocent, not stupid.

Before Wu Hen could speak again to change the topic, Taiya seemed to have understood and smiled.

"It seems quite interesting. I also want to see how many people would be sad for me if I died and how they would talk about me privately," Taiya said.

Wu Hen pursed his lips.

No need for brainstorming deceptions anymore. If everyone in this Otherworldly Dust realm were like Taiya, how wonderful and harmonious the world would be.