Chapter 495: The Wendigo Arrives, Plans and Accidents, Mie Mie to the Rescue

"Hunger... descends!"

With the cannibal scavengers' call.

Everyone outside the ritual hall felt a chilling presence flash by.

Jiu Feng and Miller's eyes were already filled with ecstasy.

They stared intently at that antlered black shadow.

"So that's it, so that's it... so this is the effect of the Summoning Sacrificial Ritual..."

The two had studied sacrificial rituals for years, their exploration of mysterious ceremonies etched deep into their bones.

Now they were like children seeing a novel toy.

Thrilled beyond measure.

Mona felt the same way.

Except she was thinking more about learning from this summoning experience, to see if she could continue refining and adjusting the Bloodline Tracing Ritual.

"Hunger..."

A murmur akin to delirious whispers echoed through the room.

It was the Wendigo's response.

The two cannibals' eyes were already filled with piety, sickness, and madness.

In their eyes, the black antlered shadow rising from the ice spike had transformed into a grand being covered in ice and snow.

A tremor in their souls made them naturally assume a worshipful posture.

"Frost wraith..."

As the two called out.

That antlered black shadow vanished with a "bang."

But within the ritual circle, that chilling presence grew even denser and stronger.

Clearly, the Wendigo hadn't chosen to leave.

Instead... it was descending.

At Johnck Zoo.

Yu Yuan had already entered the Shadow Dimension.

Through Synchronization, he saw everything happening in the ritual circle through Mona's eyes.

Just as the antlered shadow appeared within the ritual circle, Zhi Zhi's voice also rang in his mind.

"Master, the Wendigo has stopped. It seems to be listening to something—it must have sensed the sacrificial ritual's call."

Soon after, Zhi Zhi added, "It raised its head and howled at the sky, as if responding..."

Before she could finish, Zhi Zhi's voice grew urgent:

"A blizzard has risen—it's gone..."

But Yu Yuan's gaze had already pierced through the Shadow Dimension, looking toward the Johnck Zoo in the real world.

Because just as Zhi Zhi shouted her last words.

The once-peaceful zoo suddenly erupted with a small blizzard.

This blizzard came abruptly, without any warning.

Its range was small, only about a few dozen meters, but it wandered restlessly through the zoo.

In an instant, it had traversed the entire zoo.

Yu Yuan stood at the highest point of the Aquarium building, watching the blizzard move freely before finally returning to the open space in front of the Aquarium.

The blizzard dissipated, revealing the Wendigo's three-meter-tall, gaunt figure.

But this appearance was vastly different from before.

There was more caution and... sneakiness...

The Wendigo's body was slightly hunched.

Its head remained perfectly still.

As if afraid of making the slightest sound.

Its large, emerald-green eyes rolled around, darting up and down, left and right.

It practically had "someone's out to get me" written all over its face.

Clearly, Yu Yuan's earlier attack had left a deep impression on the Wendigo.

Now it was being overly cautious.

Yu Yuan looked down at the Wendigo's expression from above, finding it quite amusing.

"Pretty high vigilance! It's grown a lot in this time!"

But just as he thought that.

Perhaps because it didn't sense Yu Yuan's presence, or maybe because it sensed the restless mood of the two cannibal believers below.

The Wendigo's eyes flared with green light, its body straightened.

It took steps toward the Aquarium.

Yu Yuan didn't plan to wait either—delays bred complications.

The Shadow Dimension opened, and he extended a finger, pointing at the Wendigo.

—Diagnosis: Epilepsy

Yu Yuan struck with his strongest control psychic ability right off the bat.

After a single enhancement, the ability's effect had grown significantly stronger.

The Wendigo had just taken a step, reaching the Aquarium's entrance.

Its body suddenly stiffened, twitching and convulsing violently.

Bang—

Its three-meter-tall body toppled backward, crashing heavily onto the snowy ground, directly forming a man-shaped crater.

"Go!"

The moment Yu Yuan and Zhi Zhi unleashed the psychic ability.

They left the Shadow Dimension at maximum speed, using Shadow Stride to leap next to the Wendigo.

The Parasitic Blood Vine, which had been lurking underground, moved even faster.

Just as Yu Yuan and Zhi Zhi appeared beside the Wendigo, the Parasitic Blood Vine had already burst from the ground, tightly coiling around half of the Wendigo's body.

The reinforced thorny spikes couldn't be resisted by the Wendigo's skin.

The spikes pierced through, frantically absorbing the Wendigo's life force and energy while rapidly parasitizing spores inside its body.

A golden birdcage also appeared in Yu Yuan's hand—it was the Gold-tier item, Canary's Cage.

Canary's Cage grew wildly in the wind, already reaching five meters in height, about to envelop the Wendigo.

The pointed pendant hanging on the Wendigo's chest suddenly erupted with a powerful energy fluctuation.

Roar—

A voice that shook one's very spirit rang out from that pointed pendant.

In an instant.

Yu Yuan's head felt as if it had been smashed by a heavy hammer, his mind going completely blank.

He lost all consciousness.

This was definitely not a sound a Silver-tier creature could make.

Yu Yuan's mental resistance was over two hundred, yet it crumbled without a fight under this roar.

He wasn't the only one—the Parasitic Blood Vine that had just wrapped around the Wendigo.

Under this roar, the blood vine shattered.

The once-taut vines went slack, scattering on the ground.

The previously parasitized spores also turned to dust.

Canary's Cage reverted to its original form, falling to the ground.

Yu Yuan's foolproof plan fell apart completely.

All because of that pointed pendant.

The epilepsy on the Wendigo was directly cleansed, and it regained consciousness.

The first thing it saw was the unconscious Yu Yuan before it, recognizing him as the enemy who had gravely wounded it before.

Glancing at the half-cracked pointed pendant on its chest, the Wendigo understood this was its only chance.

Old grudges and new hatreds surged within it.

Its clawed hand thrust straight toward Yu Yuan's head—the situation was dire.

Yu Yuan's consciousness was still reeling; there was no possibility of defense.

Zhi Zhi—

Zhi Zhi, hidden in Yu Yuan's shadow, went berserk.

Her body was translucent; she had also taken a heavy hit just now.

At this moment, she didn't care about anything else. Her body lunged forward, trying to block Yu Yuan.

But a white figure moved faster than her.

Mie Mie—

With a soul-stirring sheep cry, Yu Yuan's chaotic consciousness gradually recovered under Mie Mie's Morning Call. The power of Dawnlight healed his spirit.

At the same time, the pale green glow of Hoofprint Spring spread outward.

Dispelling contamination, darkness, and cold within a ten-meter radius.

Mie Mie had actually voluntarily disengaged from equipment state with Yu Yuan.

Appearing beside Yu Yuan, her golden sheep horns met the Wendigo's incoming claws head-on.

Clang—

A piercing sound echoed through the zoo.

Hearing the sounds of battle nearby, Yu Yuan saw the shattered Parasitic Blood Vine and the fallen Canary's Cage.

He understood that the plan to capture the Wendigo had failed.

Seeing the Wendigo's missed strike, and snow beginning to drift again in the zoo as it prepared to flee.

Yu Yuan didn't hesitate. He shouted at Mie Mie:

"Mie Mie, Dawnbreak..."