"Elder Brother, are you overthinking it?"
The one following Shen Yuan was called Dong Fang, a chatterbox. Honestly, Shen Yuan didn’t like him much, but hearing him now actually made Shen Yuan feel a bit better— he hoped he was just overthinking things.
But reality often differed from expectations, and sotis it felt like the more he thought about sothing terrible, the likelier it was to happen.
"Huh?" Dong Fang was startled as he looked around the previously crowded gathering spot, now empty, and suddenly beca puzzled, "People... really disappeared, huh?"
Shen Yuan’s expression darkened as he turned and said, "Now do you believe it? How much ti was wasted when I told you to go inform Chen Yuanzi and you didn’t? Hurry up and..."
"Oh, oh..." Dong Fang nodded repeatedly, about to set out when a weak voice ca from a distance, "Is... is that you, Brother Shen?"
Shen Yuan tensed up, secretly initiating his technique, and looked over.
It was Chen Yun. He still looked incredibly weak, struggling to even walk, but Shen Yuan didn’t let down his guard. From a distance, he called out, "Brother Chen, shouldn’t you be resting and healing instead of wandering off?"
Chen Yun managed a pale, wry smile in response, "I was terribly thirsty just now, so I asked Brother Su to fetch so water, but the lad’s been gone for half the day without returning. I couldn’t help but go get the water myself."
With that, he lifted the water bottle in his hand.
"Where did Brother Chen fetch the water from?"
"Just to the southeast. Brother Su went towards the northwest, and since he hadn’t returned for so long, I guessed that the water source must be far away there. So I thought I’d try the opposite direction and, hey, I actually guessed right... I found a well after only a few hundred ters."
Shen Yuan nodded slightly, he had surveyed the terrain, and sure enough there was a water source in that area. The water source indeed was far if one headed northwest.
The other party’s story at least seed fine for the mont.
"Cough cough..." Chen Yun coughed, "Brother Shen, could you help boil so water? My chest was frozen earlier, and I still feel a lot of coldness inside; I can’t drink cold water."
"You should sit down and rest first, I’ll boil the water for you." Dong Fang was eager to step forward, but Shen Yuan pulled him back.
"Hmm?"
Dong Fang looked curiously at Shen Yuan who, instead of returning the look, calmly said to Chen Yun, "I’ll do it."
As he spoke, he walked step by step towards the other man.
Seeing this, Dong Fang was startled and instantly beca alert. Could it be... Elder Shen still felt sothing was wrong with the other party?
He quietly observed Chen Yun who indeed looked extrely weak, not like soone who could cause trouble...
And hadn’t Yun Ke’er sealed that insect?
Why this tension as if swords were drawn?
"Brother Chen seems to have recovered well, just now you looked so weak you were about to fall asleep, and once we left, you could get up and fetch water yourself," Shen Yuan said with a smile while drawing closer.
"No choice... I was too thirsty, and desperation really left no choice," Chen Yun also said, smiling as he slowly approached.
As the two n drew nearer, the atmosphere grew increasingly strange. Dong Fang suddenly felt an odd sense of disharmony and, hearing their conversation, started to catch on.
That’s right, when they left, Chen Yun looked too weak to even reply, but after they left, he could get up and fetch water himself?
And given his half-dead appearance, he fetched water and returned, yet Su Changqing, a magician, shouldn’t be slower than a sick man, right?
With that thought, Dong Fang felt a chill run down his spine. Not sure if it was just his imagination, he suddenly noticed Chen Yun’s lips looked much more colorful than before, unnaturally red— could it be...
"Hey? Why have you all co back?"
Just as tensions were about to explode, a familiar voice suddenly rang out!
This made both Shen Yuan and Dong Fang turn in surprise.
The owner of the voice was Su Changqing, carrying a large bucket of water. It looked like... he really went to fetch water and had returned safely.
The imagined horror hadn’t happened after all...
"What’s wrong with you?" Su Changqing looked at the three of them with suspicion, feeling that sothing about the atmosphere was off.
"You..." Shen Yuan furrowed his brow, wanting to say sothing.
Could it be that he was just overthinking?
But as soon as his hesitation showed, sothing unexpected happened!
Chen Ying, who had been standing three ters away, suddenly appeared before him at such a speed that it seed as if she had leaped through ti. Under the horrified gaze of the other two, she pierced straight through Shen Yuan’s heart!!
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"This...."
At this mont, not only Dong Fang and the other person were taken by surprise, but also the spectators on the periter!
In their point of view, it was Shen Yuan who was overthinking.
After Su Changqing left to fetch water, Chen Yun took a while to slowly get up and head in another direction. He truly went to fetch water, stumbling along the way, looking extrely feeble, nothing like the red-eyed monster they saw just now.
If everything was a pretense, then to whom was the weakness while fetching the water displayed?
The crowd couldn’t figure it out, but Chen Qing and Chen Baifeng thought of it instantly.
"That thing has a very sharp mind!" Chen Baifeng said with an icily sharp voice.
Chen Qing nodded slightly. The Ancient Demon did it for these people to see; it was guarding against information being relayed from the outside. Although there were few secret communicators capable of long-distance ssaging, everyone present ca from major forces. It was uncertain what kind of equipnt they might have, especially Jiangnan.
This Ancient Demon was rely a newly born youngling, yet its cunning already matched that of the most seasoned hunters—a truly troubleso being.
However, it’s a pity... it encountered Shen Yuan!
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"Let’s go!" As soon as Su Changqing saw Shen Yuan being pierced, he imdiately pulled Dong Fang to run.
He was very clear that if Chen Yun was still under the monstrous creature’s control, staying behind would be akin to waiting for death. As for the lad beside Shen Yuan, one could tell at a glance he was just a sidekick and probably wouldn’t be of much help. At this point, the only option was to find the little girl nad Yunke’er or Chen Ying!
"Pretty smooth, huh..." Chen Yun licked his red lips, revealing a familiar ferocious smile.
He had considered that the descendants from Jiangnan couldn’t all be as formidable as that little girl. Otherwise, there wouldn’t have been talk of many being unable to keep her in check.
The ones capable of subduing him must be only three people then: the little girl, the head nad Chen Ying, and this Shen Yuan, who appeared to have the air of a senior brother.
For so reason, Shen Yuan was the most wary of him, so he chose to target Shen Yuan first. As long as he could take over Shen Yuan’s body, he could also possess his techniques. Given Shen Yuan’s deanor, his strength probably wasn’t far behind that of the little girl.
With the sa techniques, facing that little girl and Bai Feng again, he would have a full assurance of victory.
Killing all of them, absorbing them, would fulfill the contract with that certain one. They wouldn’t make things difficult for him then, and the grand task of reviving the Ancient Demon Hall would be initiated by him!
What a fool!!
Inside the Ancient Demon’s body, the true Chen Yun was furious. Wasn’t Shen Yuan usually quite astute? Why couldn’t he see that it was a fake, so clearly?
Fool, fool!!
Unless there was a surprise, it seed he was truly done for...
But the surprise did occur!
"Do you demons all like to laugh like this?"
"Hm?"
Chen Yun was startled and looked up abruptly. The voice ca from none other than the guy whose heart had just been burst open!
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