Chapter 2013: Dog-Eat-Dog, All Covered in Fur
Feng Qi was slightly stunned, then suddenly realized: "Did you lay another layer of trap inside the killing formation?"
Hua Jinyan nodded.
Feng Qi lamented: "The routine is still—"
Whew, that was close!
Feng Qi looked up at the thunderclouds gathering in the sky, which gradually began to dissipate at the moment she closed her mouth.
"The what?" Little Taotie tilted his head, asking in confusion.
Feng Qi smiled warmly and, of course, didn’t say "Supreme God." Instead, she lied: "The routine is still like elementary school education, plenty of it!"
Little Taotie was skeptical: "Are you lying to me?"
"How could I be? What would I lie to you about?"
"Hmph, you’re lying to me for sure, I can tell!"
Feng Qi thought to herself: Kids grow up, it’s getting harder to fool them!
Little Taotie shook the Horse-Faced Bell: "If you don’t tell the truth, I won’t let you go inside and stay."
Feng Qi pointed her paw up at the sky: "You saw the thunderclouds just now, right?"
Little Taotie furrowed his small brow: "It was just for a moment."
"That was because I shut my mouth, didn’t say anything. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been for a moment, it would have struck down immediately."
"So you were indeed lying!"
"Isn’t that beside the point?"
"Hmph!" Little Taotie hid the Horse-Faced Bell in a pink crystal box: "You’re not allowed to go back today."
"I can go back tomorrow?"
Little Taotie didn’t answer.
"Not answering is consenting, so okay, not going back today, I’ll just go back tomorrow and catch up on sleep."
Feng Qi lay down on the ground nonchalantly: "I’ll just sleep here, with the sky as my blanket and the ground as my mat."
Little Taotie: "..."
Feng Qi closed her fox eyes, wrapping herself with her large fiery-red tail.
Little Taotie looked at the unmoving red lump on the ground, furrowing his small brow, feeling extremely conflicted.
She took the Horse-Faced Bell out from the pink crystal box, her young voice full of resignation: "Fine, you can come back and sleep."
With a "whoosh."
A red flash of light flew by.
The fiery lump on the ground swiftly darted into the Horse-Faced Bell.
Little Taotie’s small mouth opened slightly, shocked by Feng Qi’s speed.
"Ah—" a cry of pain came from afar.
𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂
Little Taotie looked over and saw chaos in the direction of the restaurant, with many people crowding around the entrance as if watching the commotion.
Little Taotie held Hua Jinyan’s hand tightly and jogged over to see the commotion.
They squeezed through the crowd, and because they were small, they easily got in.
Inside the store, two men were wrestling, one with a head bleeding profusely, and the other with a chopstick stuck in one eye, also bleeding profusely.
Little Taotie was surprised: "It’s those two bad guys!"
Hua Jinyan squinted his eyes: "Looks like they tried to find the formation eye to break the formation but ended up poisoned instead."
"Poisoned?"
"A hallucinogenic substance, extracted from wild mushrooms."
"Why are they fighting?"
"The effects of the hallucinations make it difficult to determine what visions they see, maybe they see each other as enemies."
Little Taotie covered his mouth, laughing secretly: "Like dogs biting dogs, with a mouth full of fur."
"Let’s go back first and let Uncle Lu take care of them."
"Alright! Wait, wait a moment!"
Hua Jinyan stopped his steps: "What’s wrong?"
"The porridge is cold now, let’s buy some hot ones. They’ve been hungry for a long time, they can’t eat cold food, they might get a stomachache."
Hua Jinyan nodded: "I’ll go buy it, you wait here for me."
"No, no, we’ll go together, what if we run into more bad guys?"
"Okay."
Little Taotie held Hua Jinyan’s hand tightly: "We can’t be separated, you hold my hand tight, don’t let go!"
"Okay."
As they were squeezing out of the crowd after buying the porridge, wanting to go back to find Lu Yuan, Lu Yuan was just outside the crowd, seemingly trying to squeeze in.
"Uncle Bai Lu, weren’t you taking care of those children at the guesthouse? How come you’re here?"