Chapter 377: So Brutal by Nature
The prolonged training was unbearable for Number Three, and it often thought of its companions of the opposite sex from its childhood.
On the night before it escaped the base, Number Three seemed to hear its companion of the opposite sex calling it from afar. Thus, it escaped, risking execution.
What the divine beast Number Three had not expected was that after it came out, it did not find its companion of the opposite sex but, as if guided by some spirit, arrived at Ming Du City.
If it hadn’t been discovered, it probably wouldn’t have been forced to attack humans rashly. After all, this was its first direct conflict with humans.
Xue Bilian, of course, knew none of this and continued to pursue it. When she reached the outside of the palace gate, Xue Bilian was shocked.
Several of the female warriors had already been knocked to the ground by Number Three’s tail. Although not dead, they had fainted. The faster female warriors had already fled into the palace and closed the heavy stone doors.
Number Three stood among the fainted female warriors, not in a hurry to eat them. It tried to swing its tail around them, as if teasing them.
One of the lightly injured female warriors endured the intense pain and got up from the ground, holding a long weapon and shouting at the monster, “You scoundrel, come on, eat me if you dare.” Number Three lowered its head and stared at the female warrior, about to stick out its tongue to lick her face. Xue Bilian sensed that something was not good and pounced forward, riding on Number Three’s back.
This startled Number Three. It turned its head and saw Xue Bilian. For some reason, it suddenly became docile and slowly lay down on the ground, motionless.
Number Three’s behavior stunned Xue Bilian and the female warriors. Xue Bilian didn’t understand what evil plan the monster had in mind. She was so scared that her face turned ashen. She pressed herself tightly against the monster’s back, not daring to move.
The injured female warriors stood up one after another, holding their weapons and tightly surrounding the divine beast Number Three. The divine beast Number Three seemed to have lost all interest in these women, lying motionless on the ground.
Xue Bilian, who was riding on its back, had already begun to pale. She was afraid that Number Three would play some trick.
Ever since the first encounter with monsters attacking Qingfeng Mountain, she had repeatedly imagined in her heart where these monsters came from and why they were so brutal by nature.
She clearly remembered that the scales on those monsters were basically the same as those on Number Three, just a lighter color. It seemed that the divine beast Number Three originally lived in Qingfeng Mountain. Qingfeng Mountain was its original lair.
Thinking this way, Xue Bilian couldn’t help but sigh deeply and said, “Number Three, as long as you promise not to trouble the people of Ming Du City anymore, I can let you leave here and return to your lair, Qingfeng Mountain, to reunite with your beast tribe. If you can understand me, nod your head. If you don’t understand, shake your tail, so I know your intentions.”
The female warriors continued to circle the divine beast Number Three, not understanding what Xue Bilian meant at all. If monsters could understand human language and distinguish between good and evil, right and wrong, they wouldn’t come out to devour humans.
Negotiating with such a beast was no different from seeking one’s own death. Perhaps the divine beast Number Three really thought that everyone was afraid of it and would kill them.
After Xue Bilian finished speaking, she fell silent, but sweat poured down her face. In fact, she was using the opportunity to stabilize Number Three’s emotions and then find a chance to escape and kill Number Three.
After careful observation, she had discovered a prominent bulge on Number Three’s neck, about five centimeters long. This might be Number Three’s weak spot.
The critical point was on the back of its neck, which seemed a bit unusual, but Xue Bilian had already decided to go all out. Perhaps she could pierce its neck from that bulge with her sword and kill the divine beast Number Three.
As she thought, Xue Bilian slowly moved forward. If she could get half a meter closer, she could, without anyone noticing, stab into the bulging part of Number Three’s neck with her sword.
Even in that instant, Xue Bilian’s mind conjured an image of Number Three’s trachea being pierced by her sword, its eyes glaring at her in anger, but unable to resist.
Thinking this way, Xue Bilian couldn’t help but feel a little proud. She raised the bronze treasure sword in her hand. The blade reflected a clear white halo in the sunlight. She wanted to kill the divine beast Number Three when it was off guard… After a confrontation.
Looking up, the divine beast Number Three had already disappeared without a trace.
“That beast got lucky,” Xue Bilian lamented inwardly.
The injured female warriors rushed over. Just then, outside the city walls of Ming Du City, the roar of another monster was heard, followed by the response of the divine beast Number Three. It was utterly bizarre. How could things have turned out this way?
Xue Bilian sighed in disappointment. However, she now understood the reason why Number Three had given up on them and chosen to leave: the appearance of another monster had likely attracted it.
Could that creature be Number Three’s mate? What kind of situation was this? Xue Bilian was utterly confused.
The danger to Ming Du City had finally passed. However, Xue Bilian was not at ease. She dispatched several female warriors to strengthen patrols of the surrounding environment.
After such a long entanglement with the monsters, although they had escaped safely, Xue Bilian still felt physically and mentally exhausted and wanted to rest. Thinking this, she returned.
However, when she returned to the outside of the palace, Xue Bilian suddenly thought about whether Feng Yue had recovered. So, she hurried into the palace.
When Xue Bilian returned, Feng Yue was lying on the large bed in the palace, already asleep.
The imperial physician said that Feng Yue had been given the best medicine and was expected to recover in three days. Xue Bilian sat in front of Feng Yue, her watery eyes glistening with tears. She looked at Feng Yue, sighed, and hesitated to speak.
Only then did she realize how lovely her second sister was. Perhaps she had been too stubborn before, and shouldn’t have suspected Feng Yue of colluding with Hong Chen. How much harm that had caused to both sisters.
Xue Bilian sat with the sleeping Feng Yue for a while, then returned to her own bedroom.
Facing the mirror, she looked at her somewhat pale cheeks and let out a low groan. Just as she was about to pull out the jade hairpin from her bun and go to bed, there was a rapid knock on the door outside.
“Come in!” Xue Bilian quickly put the jade hairpin back in and haphazardly tidied her clothes before turning around. The door creaked open.
Hong Chen walked in, her face covered in sweat, and said, “Leader, the little brothers and the other two have already left. I couldn’t catch up and had to return.
About two kilometers away from the city gate, on a mountain, I saw that monster and another monster together, their heads intertwined, seeming very intimate.” “Ha, so they are a pair after all,” Xue Bilian couldn’t help but chuckle in amusement.
