Chapter 88: Drinking Blood and Eating Hair

  Li Ling heard An Jing shouting "Father", and was slightly startled, but deep down he was more joyful than shocked.

  "Father, it's really you." Anjing saw the face of the black shadow with the help of the sunlight shining down from the top of the thruster.

  The face of the dark shadow, due to long-term exposure in the dark, has turned almost pale white, but its appearance remains unchanged, still a regular Chinese character face, with hair and beard covering about seventy percent of the facial area.

  At first, Anjing quietly relied on the sunlight shining down from the propeller to steal a glance at the black shadow's appearance. But unexpectedly, the black shadow's appearance was extremely similar to her father's. However, when the black shadow cast a terrified gaze at Anjing, she would never forget her father's bright eyes even if she died.

  Heiying didn't know what Anjing was saying, and was scared into retreating backwards.

  "I am Anjing, Father, don't you recognize me?" Anjing didn't mind the black shadow's whole body being covered in dust and giving off a foul odor. She held onto Black Shadow's arms, looking up at him with pleading eyes.

  Heiying looked at Anjing's calm face, but only held his head and wailed loudly. However, he did not admit that he was Anjing's father.

  Li Ling patted Anjing's shoulder with one hand, and Anjing turned around, her eyes welling up with tears: "Father isn't dead, that's great, he's my father, he didn't die."

  "Ah..." Li Ling looked at An Jing with a relieved and warm smile.

  "He may be suffering from shock or interference from the magnetic field here, causing memory loss. What you're doing won't help him remember you, but will only make him afraid of you." Li Ling nodded quietly to comfort her.

  "Ah, I understand. I was just too excited. Sorry, Li Ling, thank you, Li Ling." An Jing said sorry for her previous overreaction and thanked Li Ling for really helping her find her father, An Xiang Yu.

  "Your father is indeed a true soldier, able to live in such a place for ten years, it's not something an ordinary person can do." Li Ling felt a slight sense of admiration.

  "General, quiet miss, what should we do now?" Mandala said calmly. Not that Mandala was not happy, but rather she didn't know how to express her happiness.

  "Now... us." Li Ling was about to say return by the original route, but An Xiangyu raised his head and looked at the net mouth of a more than ten-meter-high thruster, as if waiting for something.

  "Wait... wait for the food to fall down." An Xiangyu pointed at the net mouth of the ten-meter-high thruster on his head, which was only about twenty or thirty centimeters in size. However, for some reason, not a single grain of sand fell from the net mouth.

  "Could it be that An Xiangyu has been relying on this propeller's web mouth to fall down and maintain his vitality all along?" Li Ling couldn't help but feel a deep sorrow.

  The quiet one has already cried into a tearful person, the once so majestic military father, fallen to this point, as a daughter watching, her heart is estimated to have been broken long ago.

  "Food!" An Xiangyu still held his head high, crouching on the ground and waiting.

  "This method is about as likely to work as Jiang Taigong fishing!" Li Ling sighed softly.

  "It can be imagined how An Zhongxiao spent these ten years!" Mandala calmly looked at An Xiangyu.

  "Father..." An Jian couldn't bear An Xiangyu's pitiful state, so he slowly approached him, grasped his dirty hands, and carefully combed his hair and beard.

  An Xiangyu felt a kind intention from An Jing and smiled at her with a slight smile.

  Plop... A small scorpion fell from the web, An Xiangyu grinned and picked up the fallen scorpion, handing it to Li Ling and the others: "You guys... want to eat it?"

  Li Ling waved his hand and shook his head. Mandala just looked at him calmly without saying a word, quietly wiping away her tears.

  Seeing everyone being reasonable with themselves, An Xiangyu opened his mouth and swallowed the scorpion he had caught in one gulp.

  Then continue to crouch down and wait for some small animals to fall into the net mouth of the thruster on top of their heads.

  "It seems that sometimes, small animals would fall down from time to time, but if they encountered larger animals like wild goats, wolves or snakes, he would kill them and store them away, eating them slowly. It seemed that the meat of those sheep and wolves was much more delicious than these small scorpions and lizards." Li Ling said this, his own nose slightly sour.

  "I must take Father out." An Jing's tears couldn't stop, her eyes firmly looking at Li Ling: "Li Ling big brother, I must take Father out."

  This proud girl quietly called Li Ling "big brother" for the first time.

  This is both dependence and trust.

  Li Ling forced a smile and said: "En, we can definitely get out."

  Then several small lizards and scorpions fell down, and even a mouse was swallowed alive by him.

  This is what it means to drink blood and eat hair.

  "I... I'm full." An Xiangyu patted his belly and turned around to walk towards Li Ling, holding her hand.

  Li Ling found it strange that he would come to hold her hand. Was it because she could give him a certain sense of security?

  However, Li Ling didn't want to think about these issues carefully, and just smiled slightly at him. Then he said to Anjing and Mandala: "Let's go back."

  "Hold on, we can destroy this thruster's net port and get out," said Mandrake.

  Li Ling looked at the height of about 10 meters and shook his head: "It's too high, there's no way."

  "How would you know if you don't try?" Mandala's eyes remained fixed on the nozzle of that thruster.

  "General, you use both hands to send me up to a height of ten meters, and I'll try cutting with the cicada wing blade." Mantaro said.

  Li Ling had actually thought of it too, but after reasoning, this method was simply not feasible. Every metal here was extremely hard, and they had already verified that when they first arrived. However, this was still a glimmer of hope, so Li Ling nodded his head and did not reject Mandala's suggestion.

  Li Ling smiled warmly at An Xiangyu and pushed away his hand, saying: "An Jing, you come take care of your father."

  He nodded heavily and quietly, holding An Xiangyu's hand. Perhaps because of his initial roughness, he now looked a bit afraid of An Jing.

  Li Ling crouched down, crossed his hands and placed them on the ground.

  "I'm sorry, General Ming, I've caused you trouble." Mandala apologized with a bow.

  "It's nothing, just giving you a springboard, right?" Li Ling raised his head and smiled slightly: "Hurry up and step down."

  "Yes, military execution." Mandala didn't hesitate either. After all, at this moment, hesitation was not allowed, and if there was a way, it had to be tried.

  After stepping on his own crossed hands, Li Ling let out a low growl and sent his hands filled with true energy upwards, the powerful thrust along with Mandala's downward force sent him flying over ten meters into the air.

  In mid-air, Mandala draws out Cicada Wing Blade and unleashes a swift and powerful slash with all her might.

  *panting sound*

  The cicada's wings were cut off at the edge of the net, and the blade broke with a loud crash.