Chapter 4254 — He Is Lying
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What in the world kind of godforsaken place was this, so grim and so eerie?
Not only Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao—Guo Dengtao and Wang Feng saw it too. In an instant their scalps felt ready to burst, their temples pounding, and the two of them, seasoned mid-Golden Core cultivators both, nearly fainted dead away from fright.
Damn it all—even running head-on into a top-tier Nascent Soul spirit beast would not have been this bone-chilling! Was this thing dead or alive? Just what manner of monstrosity was it?
"Hmph. Coming to a place like this to act coy and show off your little romance—tell me, is there actually something wrong with you, woman? Trash is trash. No strength, no sense, and not a shred of courage either. Taozi, just look at the kind of goods you've picked up!" Even now Feng Hongyu had still not noticed the grotesque rhino creature. She went on mocking Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao, walking forward without so much as a glance ahead.
Seeing the direction she was heading, the expressions on Guo Dengtao and the others turned even stranger still. They exchanged looks, and for a long while not one of them could get a word out.
"What are you all standing there dazed for? Hurry up and follow Brother Chu—do you want to fall behind and die here?" Seeing their odd looks, Feng Hongyu still had not caught on. She kept up her jeering and kept walking.
Caw! Suddenly a crow cried out, and a carrion crow fighting over entrails burst up from beside her feet. Feng Hongyu gave a great start and felt, dimly, that she had stepped on something stringy and slick. Caught off guard, she slipped, and her whole body pitched forward, stumbling and flailing, out of control.
There was a squelching plop—and then the world went utterly silent. Guo Dengtao and the others were struck dumb. Even Wei Zhao, staring at the scene before him, had to choke back a strange expression. For a long time no one could speak.
At that very moment, because of that blind, blundering fall, Feng Hongyu had pitched headlong straight into the bloody hole torn in the rhino spirit beast's flank.
"What is this—ahhh!!!" A shriek tore through the sky. Feng Hongyu scrambled frantically to get out, her whole body smeared with dark red blood and bodily fluids, half a length of intestine even hanging from her shoulder—and she came face to face with the head on the ground that was still gnawing at entrails.
An encounter like that would have driven anyone out of their mind with terror. Feng Hongyu, so haughty a moment ago, was scared shitless on the spot.
She could not even be bothered to crawl. Feng Hongyu simply sat there collapsed on the ground, howling and screaming as she desperately scooted backward, leaving a wet trail behind her—blood she had picked up, or piss from sheer fright, or perhaps the two mixed together.
Wei Zhao watched, choking back laughter. What goes around truly comes around—and it had come around so very fast!
Chu Bubai, who had been clearing the way at the very front, heard the commotion and hurried back. He rushed over and hauled Feng Hongyu up from the ground with one hand, and in her panic Feng Hongyu finally clutched at a lifeline. Without a second thought she screamed and burrowed into Chu Bubai's arms.
Smelling that pungent reek of blood, watching Feng Hongyu smear all that sticky, revolting filth onto him, Chu Bubai's face went green. The corner of his mouth twitched for a long while, and he could not squeeze out a single word.
"All right. It's all right now, no need to be afraid!" The disgust on Chu Bubai's face flickered past, and then, forcing down the nausea churning in his gut, he wrapped his arms around Feng Hongyu and spoke to comfort her.
Wei Zhao looked at him, then looked at Huang Xiaotao in his own arms, and suddenly felt like laughing. For a man to be saddled with a dao companion like that—people really did die of comparison, and goods really did get thrown out by comparison!