Chapter 4403 — The Courier of Cloud Terrace Island
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Originally, once the last incident had been settled, Lin Dongfang had proposed that they all move to West Star Mountain Village, but after some discussion the group had politely declined.
With a great one like Lin Dongfang to shelter them, moving to West Star Mountain Village would indeed have been safer than the Gu family villa. But each of them had a life of their own; none had yet reached the point of being utterly free of ties. To shut themselves off from the world so completely was plainly unrealistic.
Besides, after this last affair, even a savage like He Dantou had been frightened out of his wits—what of the common rabble?
This was, after all, only the secular world, and the strength of everyone here stood at its very peak. Each was renowned and feared; it was for others to dread them, not for anyone to dare provoke them.
Even if someone truly could deal with so many masters at the Great Perfection of the Heaven Rank, should they by some chance draw out the great one behind them, Lin Dongfang, who the hell could stand against that?
For the underlings to go off on their own and leave the unconscious women behind, forcing Lin Dongfang and Aunt Qing to look after so many people at once, was plainly unreasonable—the old couple still wanted their time alone, after all. So they simply kept everything as it was: the women remained lodged in the villa, and the others still came in pairs to stand watch in rotation.
Today it was Wu Chengtian and Qiu Lingshan's turn for watch duty. Qiu Lingshan was inside the rooms tending to the women, while Wu Chengtian was busy downstairs with General Weiwu and the Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast—one man and two beasts all looking extremely tense, as though facing a mighty foe, in the middle of a game of Dou Dizhu…
People, when bored, will always contrive some confounded nonsense—cultivators are no exception. Playing Dou Dizhu with two spirit beasts, Wu Chengtian's feat was surely unprecedented and would never be repeated.
Rarer still, at this very moment his face was plastered all over with strips of white paper. Playing Dou Dizhu with two spirit beasts, he—a full-grown human, no less—was actually, damn it all, the worst loser of the lot…
Wu Chengtian scowled and glared, seeing that he was about to lose everything yet again, the tension thick in the air—when the doorbell suddenly rang.
"Who is it?" Wu Chengtian was slightly taken aback. Seeing that neither beast showed the least sign of alarm, he knew the visitor must be an ordinary person of no threat.
"Delivery!" came a young man's voice from outside the door.
A delivery? Wu Chengtian grew all the more puzzled. He had never bought anything online; and even if the others had, they would never have had it sent here. Where would a delivery even come from?
Moreover, all the villa's supplies were bought by their own people in rotation at the nearby supermarket, and Uncle Qing often brought things over as well. So no one here would ever have ordered a delivery!
At this thought, Wu Chengtian felt something was off. He shot a look at the two beasts and rose at once to answer the door, while the two beasts, with perfect understanding, slipped silently out the back door and circled round from both sides—at the slightest sign of trouble, one man and two beasts would attack as one.