Perhaps eager to save someone, he hadn’t spoken to Lingzhou since entering the village, or maybe he never had much to say to her. Watching Shang Fa walk by himself, Lingzhou wondered why he had brought her along. Her presence seemed irrelevant.
Suddenly, a faint sound came from a straw house behind them. Shang Fa, who was already ahead, didn’t hear it. Lingzhou’s mouth twitched unwillingly. Could that stubborn guy really be in this abandoned village?
“Alright, seeing that this guy isn’t entirely bad, I’ll help him this time.” Thinking of Shang Fa’s expectant eyes, she softened.
They had searched all the houses in the village, not even sparing the dog kennels and pig pens. Could the sound from the straw house be from a rat? Lingzhou was about to call Shang Fa, but seeing him kick open a wooden door, she abandoned the idea.
“Good-for-nothing, are you inside?” She carefully opened the straw h
ouse door, finding it empty.
It seemed she was hallucinating—actually having a hallucination related to him? She looked carefully at the small straw house, confirming it was just her imagination before decisively kicking the wooden door.
“…” Only the sound of her kick echoed in the room.
“Damn Cloud Yihen, come out right now!” Given Shang Fa’s appearance, he wouldn’t let her go easily if they didn’t find Cloud Yihen.
The Shuiyang River on the right side of the village was the only river in the Huang Water Beach area and the lifeline of Feng Hua Jingdu. Strangely, upstream of the Shuiyang River was the prosperous Jingdu Moon City, while the Huang Water Beach side presented a desolate landscape. Moreover, except for this village, there were no other settlements around the entire Shuiyang River.
“General!” Shang Fa roared, rushing towards Cloud Yihen, who was half-submerged in the Shuiyang River.
At this moment, Cloud Yihen had lost his military camp’s imposing manner. His armor was completely torn open, with over twenty wounds of various sizes. Some wounds submerged in the water were already festering, emitting a nauseating stench. He still maintained a slight consciousness, just for revenge…
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