Chapter 1063: Chapter 1061: In Distress
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The village was covered in mottled bloodstains, as if it had just suffered a calamity.
If Xiaoi were here, Sally could trace the ti in this place to see what happened.
Suddenly, she recalled the pack of wolves she encountered upon waking, each covered in blood, and not their own.
Could it be that the village was attacked by those wolves?
Sally continued to walk forward, “Ah!” she suddenly cried out in pain, a shard of broken porcelain had pierced her foot.
Bright red blood oozed out…
Red!
Isn’t she the Creation God? It should be golden Divine Blood!
She suddenly rembered that when giving birth to the egg baby earlier, the blood was also red.
Where has her Divine Power gone? A chilling fear swept through her.
“Who’s there?”
A female voice echoed.
Sally looked towards the sound and saw a girl dressed in coarse cloth and hemp clothes.
Her eyes were blind, gray and lifeless.
“Hello, I’m Sally, passing through in distress. Can you tell where this is?”
The girl, hearing that Sally was also female, relaxed a bit, “I…I’m called Hong i. The day I was born, the old plum tree at the entrance of the village was in full bloom, so my father nad Hong i.”
“That’s a beautiful na.”
“Our village is also called Hongi Village.”
Sally chatted with Hong i for a while and learned about what had happened to Hongi Village.
As she guessed, wild beasts had frequently been attacking the village recently. Hong i’s parents and elder brother also t this misfortune.
The villagers had all fled. Due to her blindness, Hong i had been abandoned by her uncle and aunt, seen as a burden.
On the escape route, not even good people are guaranteed survival, let alone a blind girl. Hong i understood her uncle and aunt’s decision, and she stayed in the village, waiting for those beasts to co and reunite her with her family.
Sally looked into her eyes, “Is your blindness innate or acquired?”
“I went blind after a serious illness at age seven,” Hong i replied. “By the way, you should leave soon, it’s very dangerous here.”
“It’s already very dark out. Traveling at night isn’t safe. Besides, I’m hungry. Are you hungry?” Sally asked.
As soon as she spoke, Hong i’s stomach growled as well, and her face turned beet red.
Sally smiled, “I saw so food in the kitchen, can you cook?”
“You can use anything from my ho, I’ll help you with the fire,” Hong i replied.
Sally nodded, “Okay.”
Although blind, Hong i grew up in this courtyard and knew where everything was. She was especially familiar with tending the fire, sothing she must have often helped with.
“I have a second brother who went off to join the army seven years ago. If he were here, my parents and elder brother wouldn’t have been in trouble.” Hong i gazed fixedly into the fire in the stove.
The firelight sparkled in her gray eyes, bringing them to life.
Sally poured the mixed dough lumps into the pot of vegetable soup.
“The deceased are gone, and the living must move forward. You need to grieve and move on, live well. Your parents and brother surely wanted the sa. By the way, where is your second brother stationed?”
“My elder brother said his army is called the Zhenyuan Army, and his na is Zhou Xiaoshan.”
“Alright, we’ll set out tomorrow to find the Zhenyuan Army.”
“Can we?” A hopeful light appeared on Hong i’s face.
“Of course we can. I have nowhere to go anyway.” Sally smiled, glancing at the egg baby tied behind her… for now, she’s just an ordinary Beastman, survival cos first.
Spotting a chicken coop in the courtyard, Sally went over to take a look.
There were four chickens and eggs in the coop.
Sally couldn’t help but brighten her eyes, opened the coop, and collected the eggs.
There were six eggs. Considering she had just had a child and Hong i hadn’t eaten in two days, she cracked all six into the pot.
“There are four chickens in the coop and there were eggs. I collected all the eggs. In tis like these, we need to eat better to have the energy to run.”
“Yeah, I thought they had been bitten by the beasts.”
“We’re lucky, hehe.” Sally served Hong i three eggs and dumpling soup, and herself a big bowl, “Let’s eat!”
“Sister Su’s cooking is really good!” Hong i praised after sipping the soup.
“There’s more in the pot.” Sally glanced at the egg baby tied on her back, which seed to have grown since its birth.
Can she still develop and hatch without the Ancestor Dragon Power?
Thinking about the texture on the eggshell, it’s likely a mouse baby, maybe it might be possible.
The next morning.
Sally changed into old clothes and shoes left behind by Hong i’s mother, also made of coarse cloth and hemp, but better than her post-birth robe for coverage. The shoes were large, but she wore them as slippers, better than being barefoot.
She bundled the chickens’ claws and put them in a basket to take along. She also sared soot from the fireplace on her face, then took a stick to guide Hong i out of Hongi Village.
They had to leave; in the middle of the night, wolves road the village, letting out haunting howls.
Sally wasn’t bothered, just turned over and continued sleeping.
Hong i was terribly frightened, trembling, and didn’t sleep well at all.
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After crossing mountains and hills, Sally led Hong i to a small town.
Many had fled here too, but so widowed elders stayed, unwilling to leave their roots.
Sally traded the four egg-laying hens she had for so money and durable snacks for the journey.
“No wonder Sister Su didn’t kill those chickens.” Hong i remarked as Sally sold the hens for eight hundred Copper Coins.
Sally replied, “It’d be a sha to kill them, plus money is more useful. There’s an inn ahead, with shabby doors and windows, and nobody’s around, seems like the owner and staff left too. Let’s go there for shelter. We will continue tomorrow morning, and I’ll ask the old people around here if anyone knows about the Zhenyuan Army.”
“Thank you, Sister Su. If it weren’t for you, I’d probably have been eaten by those beasts.”
“We help each other, no need to thank .”
Sally settled Hong i in a guest room, where there was a pile of bedding and daily necessities, clearly showing the inn’s residents fled hurriedly without handling anything.
Sally left so food and drinks with Hong i, advising her to lock the door and sleep after eating. Staying healthy is key on a journey, for illness can be troubleso.
Hong i acknowledged all her advice.
Sally didn’t imdiately leave the inn but went to the kitchen, finding plenty of fruits, vegetables, and staple items like rice, salt, and oil.
She packed so supplies in baskets.
She hid the rest, in case others also ca to scavenge like her.
Walking around the streets carrying food, Sally passed by a blacksmith shop.
Seeing a la old man working the bellows and forging, she entered.
“Hello sir, I’d like to ask about sothing and trade these foods for a defensive item,” Sally said, pulling two small bags of flour, sweet potatoes, carrots, spring onions, ginger, dried bacon, salt, condints, four large pears, and a small bottle of sesa oil from the baskets.
The la proprietor eyed the food and Sally’s soot-covered face, “Take your pick from the wall, what do you want to ask?”
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