"Xiao Honghong, help me!" In my urgency, I touched my collar.
Beneath the collar, Xiao Honghong had been sleeping for a long time.
The moment my words ended, she suddenly woke up.
Without any delay, she flew out, creating a red whirlwind as she went, "Squeak squeak squeak." Nᴇw novel chapters are publɪshed on NoveI(F)ire.net
After just a few chirps to drive them away, those low-level Gu Insects, the water bugs, fell to the ground in large numbers.
The rest retreated en masse, not even escaping back into the High Priest's sleeves.
Frightened and losing direction, they scampered in all directions.
"Pfft—" The High Priest, as if struck by some invisible heavy blow, clutched his chest and staggered back several steps.
The burly men looked shocked but still rushed over to support the thoroughly drenched High Priest like a mop, "High Priest, are you alright?"
"Gu Woman, such a powerful Gu Woman, I failed to recognize her, and she's from the Tian Family, the Red Gu Woman!! Very good!!"
The High Priest trembled with fury, the eyes revealed from under his hat and mask swept a venomous glance at me, "Bring... bring Bai Zanhe back, I'll hold them off here."
Several men hurriedly dragged the injured girl to a van, but no longer did she cry out, instead, she stared blankly at me and Xiao Honghong, "Sister Tian Na's... Gu Insects..."
Beichen, with a stern face, was about to pursue, but I held him back.
I could deeply sense that the High Priest was actually quietly burning his own blood, ready to fight us to the death at any moment. I whispered to Beichen, "Don't chase the poor, besides, we're going to Barbarian Village soon, so we'll solve it all then."
Provoking a frenzied enemy is the last thing to do as it could easily lead to mutual destruction.
For us, the most advantageous strategy was still to outsmart them.
"Okay." Beichen approved of my words and halted.
Seeing us not taking any action, the High Priest had a moment of astonishment.
He then cast a malicious glance at me and boarded the van.
"Let's go, back to the guesthouse to rest for a while; traveling by train all this way is tiring." I gestured to call back Xiao Honghong, who obediently lay on my shoulder.
Our group then returned to the guesthouse.
At the entrance of the guesthouse, the three of us looked seriously concerned.
The guesthouse was unexpectedly locked from the inside with a chain and an old-fashioned copper lock.
"What happened? There were people washing clothes at the entrance just now." Xiao Li walked up to the front door and peered into the guesthouse through the crack.
I already understood the situation at hand, "They probably don't welcome us staying here anymore and have issued an order to evict us."
At that moment, a few hundred-yuan bills were stuffed through the door crack.
A voice of an old man coughing a few times came from inside, "This is your room money; you all should leave the town early and stop troubling us anymore."
"Troubling? When did we ever trouble you?" Xiao Li, enraged, banged on the door a few times, "Old man, at least make it clear!"
The old man paused, and said coldly: "It has been raining for more than two months non-stop. If no one is sent to marry Lord Dragon King soon, I fear a great flood will occur... You people understand nothing and almost ruined everything, killing us all!"
"Old man, do you know when Barbarian Village will marry off a bride to Lord Dragon King?" I ignored the old man's hostility and asked through the door crack.
My tone was very polite. After a moment of hesitation, the old man looked through the crack of the door and informed me, "It's said to be in five days. Do you people even think you can stop it? A bunch of outsiders, you probably can't even find the water path to Barbarian Village."
"We will prove that the rain is merely a natural weather phenomenon, that there is no such thing as Lord Dragon King, and there is no need to sacrifice the lives of ordinary girls to appease him." After speaking, I picked up the luggage on the ground and said to Xiao Li and Beichen next to me, "Let's go. When one place doesn't keep you, there will be another that does."
"Yuanyuan... no, Su Wan, you… are so domineering." Once Xiao Li left Spring Wind Town, she stopped using my pseudonym and almost called me by the wrong name accidentally.
She looked at me with admiration and excitedly hugged me.