Survival in the game world begins with Biochemical 2

Chapter 552: Why did Kara join Leida’s side?

In front of Ensis City.

Li You sat beside the campfire that was lit by the Spiral Sword, staring at the flames, while Melina's figure appeared beside him.

She looked at the spiral sword and said, "I can indeed feel the power of fire from this sword. It is a strange flame that has never been seen in this land. If it is this kind of flame, then maybe it can really replace the fire and ignite the Sealed Tree."

"But... the flame in this sword doesn't seem to be strong enough. I'm afraid it's not enough to burn the Sealed Tree."

Using the spiral sword instead of the fire was actually something Li You had thought of earlier, but he had originally planned to try it when the main body ignited the golden tree.

However, when he arrived in this shadowy land and faced the same situation of "burning trees", he naturally thought of this matter again, so he asked Melina to help confirm it and then made a decision.

That was why Li You secretly contacted Mulitir and asked her to escort the Twin Moon Knight to find Messermo. In fact, the Twin Moon Knight's injuries had not healed at that time, and it was Messermo who healed her. But in this way, there was no need to worry about Leida and the others getting Messermo's fire.

However, after carefully confirming the intensity of the Spiral Sword's flame, Melina expressed concern again.

Before Li You could say anything, V, who was standing a little further away, took over the conversation: "Don't worry, the flame of this sword can be strengthened by adding more firewood, and it can also be improved."

"But in the end it was still not enough, so this guy was just tying himself up in knots and causing trouble for himself." She explained, but she also complained about Li You, "There are other ways to delay Leida and the others. I don't understand why you chose the one with the greatest risk."

"If the intensity of the Spiral Sword's flames can't be increased, we'll have to face the duo of Messermo and the Twin Moon Knights on our own. That would be interesting."

Li Youze was throwing the weapons he had collected during this period into the fire, and said, "I just thought of something at the moment, so I had a new idea."

He put in weapons very quickly, and the last reserve weapon in his backpack, Mulitiel's magic giant sword, was quickly reduced to ashes in the fire.

Afterwards, Li You confirmed the intensity of the flame, and then thought for a moment: "The flame of the spiral sword is close to the next stage. We only need to add a little more fire to strengthen it again."

"But you've already burned all the weapons you got recently, right?" V asked, "What else can you burn?"

Li You stood up and drew out his spiral sword, and the campfire dissipated. "I don't have any weapons that can burn, but I still have some in this shadow land. Apart from anything else, didn't we see a few other wicker men before?"

"You mean the Furnace Golem?" V suddenly realized, "That's an idea. But we don't have enough manpower right now? Yuzu and Edge are not here."

Li You just smiled at this. Didn’t he deal with the Furnace Golem in front of Shadow City alone?
V also thought of this, so he spread his hands and said no more: "Then hurry up."

Li You nodded: "Don't worry about Messermo for now. Ampah has Yuzu and Aggie to help, so we should be able to investigate with peace of mind. Let's proceed according to the plan... Let's go to the Azure Coast first. There are two furnace golems there!"

Melina nodded, and her figure turned into light and disappeared. Li You then took V and used the blessing to teleport to the coast covered with blue flowers that they had visited before.

The group had seen it when they came here before. There was a furnace golem on each side of the Blue Coast. In Li You's current eyes, they were the best fuel for the Spiral Sword.

As for the battle, needless to say, with previous experience, Li You asked V to help distract the Furnace Golem's attention, and then drove the spiral sword into the golem's body to suppress and absorb its flames from the inside!
The whole process went smoothly. The first furnace golem simply turned into fuel for the spiral sword. There was a flash of fire on the sword, and it became noticeably brighter.

The plan went very smoothly, which did not surprise Li You. However, it did surprise Melina a lot. After all, Li You demonstrated his ability to transform into a dragon in front of her, and his ability to devour other flames with the spiral sword.

"You actually have such an attitude... and that sword, can it suppress and absorb the power of other flames?" Melina couldn't help asking on the way to the location of the second golem.

"Otherwise I wouldn't dare to say that this sword can replace the fire." Li You responded.

The valley where the second golem was located was also soon arrived. Li You transformed into a dragon man again, and relied on the cooperation with V to quickly knock down the furnace golem. The loud noise when the golem fell scared the animals in the nearby grove and they quickly fled.

"Boom——"

This time, Li You pulled out the spiral sword, and then saw with great satisfaction that the spiral sword's fire strength changed from +3 to +4, and the forms of the greatsword and the extra-great sword were also unlocked.

The forms of the Spiral Sword that were originally being unlocked were the greatsword, greatbow, halberd, greatsword and extra-greatsword. The last two items were calculated together and were special counts, so now all the conditions were met.

In other words, Li You can now use the Spiral Sword to replicate the five-hit combo of the Fire King's incarnation one-to-one.

"very good!"

He swung the spiral sword a few times before pointing it at the grove beside the river valley: "So, are you going to come out by yourself, or do you want me to pull you out?"

There was no movement in the woods.

Li You smiled and said, "Then don't blame me."

The next moment, a figure suddenly flew out from the grove!

However, looking at the slightly twisted posture, it seemed that the man was not there voluntarily, but was kicked out by someone.

"Puff-"

The figure flew a considerable distance, jumped directly across the river, and landed at Li You's feet, where he stepped on him. The man wanted to struggle, but the spiral sword had already pierced into the ground next to his head, so he stopped moving immediately.

"Don't, don't do it! I have no hostility!"

A weak male voice then came out of his mouth. The man who was stepped on by Li You raised his hands to block in front of him, his body trembling slightly.

The man was wearing a strange black suit that was covered with fine stitches, a white mask shaped like a sleeping face on his head, and silver braided ornaments draped from head to shoulders, which looked quite strange.

Li You looked at him and asked, "Who are you?"

"I, I am..." The man hesitated, but could not speak. Li You frowned slightly, and V also walked out from the other side of the river: "Leave it to me, I will pry his mouth open."

Li You thought about it and felt that the person who could appear here must not be a useless NPC. Even if he had nothing to do with Leida and her group, he himself should have side quests. He felt that there was no need to be too harsh, so he did not agree immediately.

He was still thinking about how to deal with the man, but Melina suddenly appeared and said, "I have seen this man before. He is a companion of Leida and the others, but he is also a follower of Saint Torina."

Li You raised his eyebrows: "Oh? You are the...Xu Liye?"

The man nodded timidly: "Yes, it's me! Who are you...?"

Li You instantly went through the numerous pieces of intelligence he had collected before, and extracted the key information from them. So he pulled Hullie up from the ground and said, "You are Leida's companion, so what are you doing here? They should be busy challenging Shadow City now, right?"

Xu Liye was even a little afraid to reply. He swallowed hard before saying, "...Yes, I'm sorry. I don't have the strength or the intelligence, so I can't help Ms. Leida and the others... I'm sorry."

Li You's hand holding his collar trembled again: "Did I ask you this? I asked you why you came here!" In fact, Li You could guess why. This was the Blue Coast, suspected to be the place where Michaela abandoned her half-body Tolina, and Xu Liye was a believer of Tolina, so he came here naturally to find Tolina.

The reason why Li You repeatedly asked was to determine the attitude of the person in front of him. What did he think of the relationship between Torina and Michaela? Was he an enemy or an irrelevant person?

And most importantly, he might know something about Kara.

Although Melina was traveling with Kara, not to mention that she was sealed before coming to the Shadow Land, even before this incident happened, Melina was not always monitoring Kara's actions.

Li You also asked, but she didn't know why Kara was involved with Michaela and her group.

But the Xu Liye in front of him might have some unique information.

Although Xu Liye is a man, he is short and thin. He was kicked hard by V before, and now he was shaken hard by Li You. He felt that his body was about to fall apart. He no longer cared about being timid and answered truthfully: "I, I... I really can't hold on any longer!"

"After Lady Mikaela's charm wore off, I remembered. I thought of Lady Torina - I remembered her figure, her scent, and the allure of deep, deep sleep...

"...Ah, I can't do it anymore. Even if I have to give up everything, I want to see Lady Torina again..."

Li You understood and let go of his hand, letting Xu Liye fall to the ground. "So, in order to see Tolina, you didn't go to meet up with Leida and the others, but ran here alone? With your fighting ability, you can run quite fast."

Hullie was still trembling, and did not answer, and Li You did not need him to answer. From his words, Li You had roughly figured out this man's character.

"You are here to look for Saint Tolina. You want to see her, right?" Li You's tone was more relaxed. "That's right. I was actually going to look for her too. We can go together. I roughly know where she is."

Xu Liye was still trembling, but it was obvious that he didn't want to act with Li You at all.

Li You smiled and reached out his hand again, but this time he pulled him up from the ground: "I'm sorry for what happened just now. After all, I don't know your identity. Don't be nervous. I'm not your or Saint Tolina's enemy. I think you should know Kara, right?"

Hearing Kara's name, Hurier obviously reacted: "You... know her?"

Li You answered truthfully: "Not only do I know her, I came here just to find her - I am her master."

Huliye: “!!”

"You just...actually have such a thing?"

Li You looked at him: "You are indeed familiar with Kara, right?"

Seeing that Xu Liye was a little hesitant, Li You waved his hand and said, "It's just right. We are on the same route. How about I take you to find Saint Tolina and you tell me about Kara?"

Even if Yuzu was here, she could see that Xu Liye obviously didn't trust Li You and didn't want to agree. But Li You put one hand on Xu Liye's shoulder, and the force was so strong that Xu Liye felt that his shoulder blade was about to be crushed. He didn't dare to refuse and could only say, "Okay...Okay."

Li You smiled: "That's great. Let's go, I'll lead the way."

——Soon, Li You and V brought Xu Liye back to the bottom of the previously sealed pit.

"This, here is...!"

As soon as he arrived here, Xu Liye seemed to have smelled some secret medicine that refreshed his mind. He immediately became energetic and changed his previous sickly appearance:
"I smell it, I smell it! It's the scent of Lady Torina...ah, Lady Torina..."

V, who was standing by, looked at him as he was intoxicated with the seal, and his expression was slightly disgusted. Li You was not surprised and said, "Now do you believe that I didn't lie to you?"

Hurier nodded: "Yes, yes! Lady Tolina is right down here!"

"Then did you know that this place was sealed by Michaela before?" Li You asked.

Hurier paused for a moment before he said, "I... I don't know. I only know that Master Mikaela gave up half of his body, but... I am still attracted to Master Torina, I can't help it."

Li You said, "I don't care what you are doing here. You and Kara should be more than just members of Leida's team, right? Tell me, is Kara also interested in Saint Torina?"

This time, Huliye simply nodded: "Yes! She, she is... a comrade, a comrade pursuing Lady Tolina."

Li You: "Oh? How do you mean?"

"She, she feels tired of living just like me, so she seeks a peaceful, deep sleep from Lady Torina."

Perhaps because he felt that these things would not have much impact in the end, coupled with Li You's attitude, Xu Liye finally told the truth: "I first met her when I was looking for Lady Tolina's past in Gailede. At that time, she was also looking for the things that Lady Tolina left behind."

"We met at an abandoned ruin in Galid, and we were both interested in the sword that was preserved in the ruins and contained the power of Lady Torina. I saw that she seemed to have just started to come into contact with Lady Torina's legacy, so I gave the sword to her, and that's how we got to know each other.

"Later... I met her twice more. Both times she was looking for the power of Lady Torina. Because I found that she was indeed very obsessed with Lady Torina, I also provided her with some water lilies. Later, later..."

"What happened next? Tell me!"

Seeing that he began to hesitate again, Li You raised his voice slightly, and Xu Liye immediately said: "Later, she left a letter to contact me and asked me if I knew where Lady Tolina was. She also wanted to meet Lady Tolina."

"But at that time, I was under the influence of the charm, so I... took her to see Lady Leida. And then... I don't know what happened exactly, anyway, she soon became our companion."

Li You looked at him and the corners of his mouth twitched.

It turns out that Kara's connection with Michaela is also due to your role as the middleman?

Li You almost couldn't help but wanted to pick him up and throw him to the ground, but in the end he didn't do it. Instead, he paused and asked: "When was the first time you saw her? What was her condition...?"

Huliye thought for a moment and replied, "It's been a long time since we first met, probably close to a year. She was fine at that time, but later I could see that her mental state was not very good, very similar to mine. So I think that without the scent of Lady Tolina, she would have a hard time falling asleep."

Li You frowned when he heard this.

If what Hurier said was true, Kara's condition seemed to be really bad, so much so that she needed the help of the Tolina water lily to sleep peacefully.

He looked at Melina beside him again. Melina also knew what he meant and said, "As for Kara, I have indeed seen her use Torina water lily to help her sleep, but I didn't expect it to be so serious."

Hearing this, Li You also completely confirmed the matter. He paused, then took a deep breath, and then grabbed Xu Liye.

"No need to say more. Let's go find Torina!"

Having said that, he picked up Xu Liye and rushed towards the originally sealed pit!
(End of this chapter)