"You..."

  The petite beauty had just uttered one word before she realized something and shut her mouth.

  That extremely clear word, after the effect of the strange instrument in front of her, was transformed into the familiar old-fashioned voice of the guardian and rang out loudly.

  Chen Yue felt dizzy again. He didn't expect to be tricked by such a little thing. What's more, even her old-fashioned voice was fake.

  Without saying a word, Chen Yue coldly stepped into the room. It seemed that the sound inside could be heard outside, and he naturally didn't want Poison Dragon and the others to hear anything unusual.

  For Chen Yue, it would undoubtedly be the best result if Poison Dragon and the others were teleported to unknown places.

  Quickly pressing a certain button on the instrument, the petite beauty raised her hand, and the instrument immediately disappeared. Then, she quickly flew into the air and was about to fly towards a corner of the wall.

  There was no doubt that whether she was the so-called guardian or not, she definitely knew the ancient ruin much better than Chen Yue.

  With a thought, the Frozen Rabbit that had come in with Chen Yue suddenly jumped up and spat out a puff of freezing breath, quickly catching up with the petite beauty.

  "Ah~"

  The petite beauty let out a short exclamation and was frozen by the extremely cold breath. Her whole body turned into an ice sculpture. After flying forward for a short distance, it fell down with a "clatter" in mid-air.

  "So weak!" Capturing the other party so smoothly made Chen Yue feel a bit unreal. The attack that he was about to launch next was forcibly withdrawn.

  Walking slowly to the front of the frozen little thing, Chen Yue frowned slightly.

  Originally, he had long suspected that she wasn't the so-called guardian. But this ability was too weak. It was as if she didn't have any attack ability at all.

  How did she manage to play everyone like a fiddle?

  Thinking of those almost omnipotent means, even if he had witnessed them with his own eyes, it was hard to believe that they were created by this vulnerable little thing in front of him.

  "Damn it..."

  Shaking his head, Chen Yue was about to go forward to wake up the petite beauty first. Suddenly, his vision blurred. The Frozen Rabbit had somehow run in front of the little thing, lowered its head to sniff the frozen beauty, and suddenly showed a bit of annoyance in its big eyes. Then, it barked a few times at Chen Yue, with a pleading look in its eyes.

  "You..." Chen Yue's steps halted. He clearly felt the emotional fluctuations coming from the Frozen Rabbit, and his expression suddenly became strange. He asked in disbelief:

  "You want me to let her go?"

  In Chen Yue's shocked eyes, the Frozen Rabbit nodded.

  Rubbing his forehead a bit with distress, Chen Yue quickly calculated in his mind. The intelligence of summoned beasts was naturally not low, and they also had their own thoughts. However, there was no doubt that as almost immortal creatures, they were more like passers-by in this world. To a large extent, they were indifferent to everything in this world. Therefore, they seldom disobeyed the orders of apostles, let alone pleaded for the creatures in this world.

  Of course, the Frozen Rabbit was special. It didn't have the memory of living in the spirit world.

  After countless thoughts flashed through his mind, Chen Yue finally understood the Frozen Rabbit's behavior. Then, a new thought popped up: Why would it plead for her?

  Basically, there was no possibility for the two to have an intersection.

  "I see." Suddenly, remembering that the Frozen Rabbit used to always run to the core area before, Chen Yue immediately understood. Perhaps this was how they got to know each other. Then, thinking about the ice lake, with its secrecy, it was extremely difficult to discover. However, it was found by the Frozen Rabbit. Perhaps it wasn't the Frozen Rabbit's credit but this little thing that led it there.

  After all, the Frozen Rabbit looked beautiful and cute on the outside and didn't seem to have any aggressiveness. This little thing probably wouldn't deal with it as vigilantly as it did with Chen Yue and the others. In that case, it was reasonable for them to have a friendship.

  "Alright, but if she still tries to escape, you must freeze her again." Considering the negligible threat level of the petite beauty, Chen Yue agreed without hesitation.

  "Goo goo." The Frozen Rabbit jumped up and down joyfully. Chen Yue could feel its happiness.

  The freezing breath originally belonged to the Frozen Rabbit. So as long as it sucked back the freezing air, the other party could wake up.

  With a carefree smile, Chen Yue stopped looking at them and turned to check the layout of this control room.

  The room wasn't big, only about a hundred square meters. It was clear at a glance. And just like the hall outside, it was shabby, with only some dilapidated tables and chairs and the like. There wasn't a single presentable thing.

  "This is impossible."

  Instantly, Chen Yue made a judgment.

  If the guardian's strength was a bit stronger, it could still be barely reasonable. But behind the scenes, it was a little thing with no combat ability at all who was manipulating everything. Then, such a shabby and simple ancient ruin was completely unreasonable.

  "Yingning." With a soft moan, the petite beauty who had been rescued by the Frozen Rabbit sucking back the freezing air slowly woke up.

  Shaking her still stiff head, the little beauty hadn't recovered from the previous incident. She raised her head blankly and happened to meet Chen Yue's sharp gaze. Feeling the huge pressure from Chen Yue, her small body immediately tensed up like a bowstring.

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  "What on earth are you?"

  Looking at the little thing with a pale face and big eyes on the verge of crying, Chen Yue frowned and withdrew some of his imposing manner.

  "Thing, how dare you say I'm a thing..."

  The little thing, who had just felt a bit better, immediately became furious when she heard this. Her little face flushed with anger, and her fingers trembled as she pointed at Chen Yue, unable to speak.

  "Goo goo." Beside her, the Frozen Rabbit suddenly barked softly and put its head close.

  "Ah."

  Hearing this familiar sound, the little thing turned her head in surprise. When she saw the Frozen Rabbit, an incredulous look immediately appeared on her face.

  The previous conflict was too short. Whoever suddenly encountered a big change would first pay attention to the tall and big Chen Yue instead of the inconspicuous Frozen Rabbit crouching at his feet. So the little thing didn't notice the Frozen Rabbit. For the same reason, during the lightning-fast contact, the Frozen Rabbit didn't recognize the little thing at first either and just obeyed Chen Yue's order.

  As if a wronged child had seen a relative, the little thing suddenly sprang up, flew to the front of the Frozen Rabbit, tightly hugged its relatively huge head for her, and started sobbing.

  "Wuwu, Sister Bing, wuwu, he bullied me."

  "He who bullied you is clearly your Sister Bing... Wait, Sister Bing?" Hearing the little thing wrongly accusing others, Chen Yue couldn't help but roll his eyes. However, when he heard the little thing's address for the Frozen Rabbit, his eyes suddenly froze for a moment.

  "You, you're female?" At this moment, Chen Yue was sweating profusely. Before, he really hadn't paid attention to the gender issue of the Frozen Rabbit.

  The little thing ignored him and kept crying like a wronged child. Instead, the Frozen Rabbit, hearing his blurted words, immediately glared at him angrily. At the same time, through the spiritual connection, Chen Yue clearly felt the emotions of three parts anger and seven parts shyness coming from her.

  "Uh." Chen Yue shrugged helplessly and wisely shut his mouth. A strange feeling also rose in his heart.

  Originally, he hadn't thought about this aspect, so it was okay. But now that he thought that the Frozen Rabbit was female and its source of life was even inside his body...

  This feeling was so strange...

  "However, it's much better than having a male creature inside my body." Soon, Chen Yue adjusted his mood.

  Over there, the Frozen Rabbit and the little thing had already started communicating. The Frozen Rabbit couldn't speak human language and just chirped softly. But the little thing seemed to be able to understand it. She nodded or shook her head from time to time, and her eyes drifted towards Chen Yue from time to time. Now the Frozen Rabbit was explaining why they were here.

  I don't know how they communicated. After a while, the little thing was already beaming with joy. Her clear laughter came from her lips, like a clear spring dripping from the mountains, ethereal and pure, full of a kind of innocent purity.

  "Alright, I know what's going on." After knowing the purpose of Chen Yue and the others' coming, the little thing had completely calmed down and regained her composure.

  She flew up and hovered at a position level with Chen Yue's eyes. Looking directly at Chen Yue, she said seriously, "Your name is Chen Yue, right? Nice to meet you. I'm the only living being in this ruin. Let me introduce myself first. My name is Meteorite Crystal?Finorel?Diafernand?Ganino. Ganino is the name of the civilization I belong to. Finorel?Diafernand is the name of the human who created me. Meteorite Crystal is my real name. Since you're the master of Sister Bing, you have the right to call me that."

  Sure enough, this little thing wasn't a natural intelligent creature. Chen Yue understood when he heard this. She should be the crystallization of wisdom of the Ganino civilization.

  Taking a deep breath, Chen Yue calmed down his surging emotions and just stared at Meteorite Crystal intently.

  Even if he knew very little about ancient ruins, he could guess the value of this little thing.

  It could be said that even if this ancient ruin really had nothing, it would still be completely worthwhile. Such a living being that survived from the Ganino civilization was itself a living dictionary. Its value had obviously far exceeded that of the so-called ruin.

  "If only I could abduct her away." Without hesitation, this thought flashed through his mind.

  Feeling a bit uncomfortable under Chen Yue's burning gaze, Meteorite Crystal slightly shifted her eyes. When she saw the Blade Beast in Chen Yue's hand, her eyes suddenly narrowed. She stared at the Blade Beast with a strange look for a while before looking up nervously at Chen Yue and asking.

  "Who is this sister?"

  "Sister?" Chen Yue was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped. He looked at Meteorite Crystal with an extremely strange look.

  This little thing, did she have a hobby of calling every living being sister? If the Frozen Rabbit was female, it was natural for her to be called that. But did the Blade Beast also have a gender?

  Chen Yue felt that his brain wasn't enough.

  "What's so strange?" Meteorite Crystal curled her lips disdainfully and explained seriously, "This sister is at least forty million years old. I'm only over thirty million years old. It's normal to call her sister. As for you, you're really a little kid."

  "You..." Chen Yue was almost choked to death by a breath. Being lectured by such a little thing that wasn't even as big as his palm in a way of flaunting her seniority was really a situation where he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

  Most importantly, he couldn't refute at all. She had survived since the last civilization period, so it was normal for her to have such an exaggerated age.

  "Over thirty million years old." To be exact, Chen Yue was shocked. Compared with her, Venia's age was insignificant, let alone just Chen Yue himself.

  When Meteorite Crystal said that the Blade Beast was forty million years old, Chen Yue could understand. The ages of summoned beasts were terrifyingly exaggerated. No one knew how long the spirit world had existed. In that strange world, without the crisis of death, the ages of all summoned beasts were extremely exaggerated.

  However, what Chen Yue didn't understand was the Frozen Rabbit. How could she be called sister? You should know that the Frozen Rabbit had only appeared for just one year.

  When he asked this question, Meteorite Crystal said matter-of-factly, "Sister Bing. I can't see through her age. It should be beyond my calculation range. Well, then, of course she's sister."

  As she said this, she flew around joyfully, giggling as she flew. "I'm so happy. I didn't expect to see a fellow of the same kind after thirty million years. I thought there was only Sister Bing. Who knew there was another sister. With so many sisters accompanying Meteorite Crystal, Meteorite Crystal won't be lonely anymore. Great, hee hee."

  "Fellow of the same kind?"

  Chen Yue was shocked when he heard this. His eyes immediately shot out a sharp gaze and stared fixedly at Meteorite Crystal. Slowly, he spat out four words from his mouth:

  "This—is—impossible."

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