Chapter: Chapter 282, This Person is Quite Good-Looking
Chapter 282: This Person is Quite Good-Looking
Sometimes, whether person or beast, one can’t escape greed.
*Squelch.*
The dull sound of a sword blade cutting through flesh and blood.
The huge head of the strange fish was severed in an instant, completing its ascension.
The man woke up at some unknown point. He stood calmly on the wide fish back, holding the unconscious girl tightly in his embrace, and slightly shook his head with his sword.
“What a pity, this was supposed to be an opportunity for you…”
After saying this, Chen An suddenly felt dizzy. He quickly tightened his grip on the girl in his arms to ensure he wouldn’t let go, and then fell straight down.
He had just woken up and his physical condition was extremely poor, with internal injuries in disarray. He still needed to rest peacefully.
However, his forceful use of spiritual energy just now had worsened his injuries again. It was already a testament to his strong physique that he didn’t explode on the spot.
In the last moment before completely blacking out, Chen An adjusted his posture to avoid crushing the girl.
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*Splash—*
The sound of waves crashing on the shore, a clamor.
As Long Li’s consciousness gradually returned, the first thing she felt was someone… tugging at her?
The hand was not large, but the strength was considerable, as if trying hard to pull her out from somewhere.
Faintly, she could also hear the sound of the person gasping for air from the exertion.
Despite this, Long Li didn’t want to bother. She just wanted to lie down peacefully for a while longer.
It was as if she had sunk into a warm ocean, making her too lazy to even open her eyes.
Until her idleness was broken by a loud shout.
“Grandma, come quickly! Look what I caught?!”
It was a childish female voice, soft and milky, filled with surprise, obviously treating them as caught fish.
Long Li had no choice but to try to wake up.
However, her eyelids were unusually heavy. After trying several times, she finally managed to see a sliver of light.
The light shot into her pupils, causing a moment of disorientation.
Then, a human little girl, with two pigtails tied up like antennae and wearing a light yellow floral dress, appearing to be about five or six years old, came into her sight.
The little girl had big, watery eyes, dark and bright, and was curiously examining the ‘catch’ she had reeled in.
As she looked, she swayed her head like an adult, tutting in admiration.
“Oh my, how many pounds is this?”
“Incredible, incredible.”
Soon, her eyes lit up as she seemed to have seen the man’s appearance. Her sigh turned into an unconscious murmur.
“This person is quite good-looking…”
“At least better looking than my brother, at least…”
The little girl lowered her head and began counting on her fingers, seemingly struggling to quantify how much better looking he was.
In any case, he was much, much better looking than her older brother who constantly bragged about his handsomeness.
Finally, her gaze drifted down and she saw the girl being held tightly in the man’s embrace.
Their eyes met.
The next moment, the little girl yelped, as if startled, and stumbled back several steps.
Just then, the grandma the little girl had called arrived at the scene.
She was an elder with graying hair and a slightly stooped figure.
She approached, stroking the little girl’s head to comfort her, and cast her gaze.
“Don’t be scared, Yuanyuan, Grandma’s here…”
The old woman smiled kindly. Her gaze fell on the man’s pale face, and a look of surprise flashed across her eyes.
This young man… is so handsome.
She then looked at the girl in the man’s arms. Upon seeing her amber vertical pupils, she paused slightly. However, she didn’t show much reaction, merely subtly shielding the little girl behind her.
Unlike the little girl, the old woman’s demeanor was much more cautious.
She frowned and took a step forward.
As she got closer, she could see the numerous wounds all over the man’s body.
Dense, varying-sized gashes covered him, as if he had endured the most severe torture in the world, truly shocking to behold.
At this point, the surprise on the old woman’s face could no longer be concealed.
The fishing village was remote and rarely had outsiders.
Yet today, the appearance of these two people, not only of unknown origin and extraordinary looks, but also with strangely emanating injuries, was baffling.
For a moment, hesitation flickered in the old woman’s eyes, as if she were deciding whether to speak.
Across from her, the girl did not rush to speak but looked on quietly.
It was like a game of who speaks first loses.
“Grandma…”
However, the little girl hiding behind the old woman peeked out her head and gently tugged at the old woman’s arm.
As if sensing her grandmother’s worry, she mumbled, “Grandma, that big brother is so good-looking, he definitely isn’t a bad person!”
The old woman’s expression faltered. She thought to herself that if he were just ordinarily good-looking, she wouldn’t be so conflicted.
Finally, after some deliberation, the old woman sighed helplessly.
“Enough, we can’t just leave them to die.”
Besides, there was one more crucial reason she didn’t mention.
It was because these were people Yuanyuan had found.
Unlike her brother, this little girl’s luck was exceptionally good.
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Since ancient times, the continent has been divided into two.
Although it nurtured all living beings, roughly speaking, there were only two races vying for dominance.
One was the demonic beast race, living north of the Heavenly Veins, with myriad demons, led by the Dragon lineage.
The human race naturally occupied the south, where countries, large and small, revered cultivation.
Here, nations were no longer puppets controlled by sects but relied on strength. Even the ruler of a country had to cultivate and must be the strongest combatant in the entire nation.
Sitting by the sea, picking up a twig at random, the girl aimlessly traced patterns in the sand, lost in thought about the information she had recently acquired.
It was hard to imagine that following the ancestral bloodline’s call, she had actually crossed the ocean, traversing thousands of miles to arrive in… the human race?
Initially, she had thought perhaps a deep-sea dragon palace or some other bloodline inheritance awaited her.
All she could say was that, fortunately, they had seemingly escaped their pursuers completely and were temporarily safe.
But…
Gazing at the other side of the sea, the girl propped her chin and murmured to herself.
“I wonder how Sister Qing and the others are doing now…”
The sky gradually darkened, and the calm sea surface began to slowly rise, becoming somewhat turbulent.
The seawater washed over the beach and then soaked the girl’s bare feet.
Today, she was wearing a light blue “short skirt.”
The skirt was originally prepared by an elderly woman for her granddaughter to wear when she grew up. However, Long Li had nothing else to wear, so she borrowed it for a few days.
There was a significant difference in their height and age, so the skirt inevitably looked much shorter on her.
Actually, it was fine. After all, when a person is beautiful enough, even wearing a sack wouldn’t be that bad.
The gentle sea breeze blew the hem of the skirt, as if trying to blow away the girl’s melancholic thoughts.
Beside her stood a somewhat nervous young man.
