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To prevent the blood fiend from causing too much of a commotion, Gray ordered the blood fiend to stay where it was while he sneaked over alone.
After advancing cautiously for a while, Gray saw the ruins of a building through the gaps in the leaves.
Collapsed walls, collapsed houses, and a building with a detached roof. It was a ruin of a building.
Amidst the ruins, he saw the roaring blood fiend.
It was a blood fiend with black fur all over its body. Its body was three meters long and its joints were thick.
Its eyes were as big as a baby's fist. On both sides of its head, there was a curved horn that was as sharp as a machete.
At this moment, the blood fiend was being attacked by four people. There were many wounds on its body, and bright red blood was dripping everywhere.
If nothing went wrong, the blood fiend would be killed by the combined forces of the four people.
"It's them!"
Gray's eyes widened in astonishment when he saw the four of them working together to kill the Blood Fiend.
These four people were the purple-haired girl, Sophia, and the rest who had traveled with him.
"How did they... get here?"
"How did they know... about these ruins?"
"Could it be that they... secretly looked through my things?"
Gray was on high alert.
His first thought was that the other party had secretly looked through his things and found the map of the ruins. That was why they were here.
"No, that's not right. I have always carried the map of the ruins with me. They couldn't have stolen it from me."
But soon, Gray shook his head.
It was necessary to be vigilant when outside.
Hence, Gray always carried his money and the map with him. Even when he was bathing, they never left his sight.
He did not think that the other party had the ability to sneak a peek at the map of the ruins without him noticing.
"Could it be a coincidence?
But this is too much of a coincidence. Is this really a coincidence? "
However, Gray didn't quite believe that this was a coincidence.
When he was in Fergus City, he coincidentally came to Oka City with the same caravan. Now, he coincidentally came to the same ruins. Could this really be explained by coincidence?
Bang!
Just as Gray was thinking about this, the battle between the four of them and the Blood Fiend had come to an end.
With its neck pierced, the Blood Beast struggled for a moment before collapsing to the ground.
It smashed into the ground of the ruins, causing the ground to tremble slightly.
"I didn't expect this blood fiend to be hiding in the ruins. If Miss hadn't discovered it, I'm afraid we would have been ambushed by it."
The woman in the orange battle suit said as she took out a rune bag to collect the blood.
"I wonder if anyone has visited this ruin before."
The woman in the red battle suit looked into the ruins.
The purple-haired girl Sophia was about to speak when she suddenly frowned. She looked at the tree where Gray was hiding.
"Something's hiding there."
Peng!
As soon as she finished speaking, the brown-bearded man, Teresa, already understood.
He stepped on the ground, and his body shot out like a cannonball. He suddenly appeared beside the tree, and chopped at the tree with his axe.
He intended to chop down the tree and Gray who was hiding behind it.
The shadow ability actually failed. Gray was surprised and immediately jumped out of the shadows.
He quickly unsheathed his sword and slashed at the incoming axe.
Clang!
The axe and sword collided. Then, Gray suddenly felt a huge force coming from the sword, and his whole body involuntarily retreated.
He didn't know what kind of Blood Art the brown-bearded man, Teresa, had cultivated, but his strength was actually stronger than his Frost Tiger's.
"It's you?!"
Sophia and the other two quickly ran over. When they saw that the person hiding was Gray, the woman in the red battle suit couldn't help but exclaim in surprise. Then, she immediately said with an unfriendly expression.
"You followed us!"
"Kid, why are you here?"
The brown-bearded man, Teresa, who forced Gray back with his axe, also had a murderous look on his face.
"That's what I wanted to say."
Holding the magic sword, Gray looked at the four of them calmly.
Although there were four of them, he wasn't afraid at all. After all, the nine blood fiends were nearby and would arrive in a moment.
"For this ruin, I specially came from Sidney to Oka territory. What's the matter with you guys? Why are you here?"
"You want to say that this is just an accident?
Do you think we'll believe you? "
The woman in the orange battle suit snorted coldly.
Gray frowned slightly. After thinking for a while, he took out the map of the ruin and threw it to the woman in the orange battle suit.
"This is a map of the ruin that I got from a crack in a book."
The woman in the orange battle suit reached out and took a closer look. The next moment, her face was filled with surprise.
"It's really a map of the ruin …"
She didn't think that the map was fake, because the ink on the map was obviously left a long time ago.
"How can there be such a coincidence?"
The brown-bearded man, Teresa, looked at the map while on guard against Gray. His face was also filled with surprise.
"Really!"
"Young Lady, look."
The woman in the orange battle suit handed the map to the purple-haired girl, Sophia. The purple-haired girl took the map and frowned after looking at it.
"You said that you got this map from a book. Who wrote this book?"
"I think it's someone called … Joseph. I can't remember his full name."
Gray thought for a while and recalled that he had gotten this map for a long time. He couldn't remember the author's name.
"Young Lady, it really is a coincidence!"
Hearing Gray say the name, the woman in the red battle suit was astonished.
"Could you please explain, where did you get the location of this ruin?"
With confidence, Gray didn't show the slightest fear even in the face of four people.
"We bought the location of this ruin from a man called Justin Johnson in the Sidney Marquis territory. According to him, this ruin was discovered by his grandfather, Joseph Johnson."
The purple-haired girl, Sophia, said.
"Joseph Johnson?"
Hearing this name, Gray couldn't help but remember that the author of the book was indeed called Joseph Johnson.
He only had a map and didn't bring the book. If they had secretly looked at his map while he was asleep, they shouldn't have known this name.
"It really is a coincidence?"
However, it was hard for him to believe that it was a coincidence. After all, it was too much of a coincidence.
"Although I'm also very surprised by this coincidence, since we've met, why don't we explore this ruin together? What do you think?"
The purple-haired girl, Sophia, looked at Gray and said with a smile.
"Okay."
Gray also said with a smile.
From the purple-haired girl, Sophia's tone, he could tell that she was being forceful.
Obviously, if he didn't agree, in order to prevent any accidents from happening, or if Gray found helpers to kill them on the way back, the other party would use some methods to force him to stay.
However, he didn't mind. In fact, this was exactly what he wanted. The ruin was right in front of him, so he naturally couldn't just leave.
As for the threat brought by these four people, he had nine blood fiends, so he wasn't afraid.
If it wasn't for the fact that he was worried about the power behind these four people and that the blood fiends couldn't use their abilities and weren't as strong as normal blood fiends, he wouldn't have minded taking the ruin for himself.
"Haha, young master, welcome to work together again!"
Putting away the battle axe, the brown-bearded man, Triza, chuckled.
"Yes, I didn't expect to have a chance to work together again."
Gray also had a smile on his face.
The first time they worked together was when they were dealing with the spirit. Therefore, exploring the ruin together was their second time working together.
However, he had a strange feeling in his heart. He felt that this coincidence was too strange, as if it was arranged by someone.