Zhu Caiwei’s face was covered with blood and mud, her neck held by the sword. She was first panicked but quickly realized that before finding out Ge Panming’s location, Xia Xianning would not truly kill her. Zhu Caiwei calmed herself. At this moment, both she and Xia Xianning could hear increasingly closer footsteps and noisy commotion in the distance, which made her more at ease. She said, “I didn’t expect you to actually hit a woman.”
Xia Xianning paid no attention to her various attitudes, quickly glancing in the direction of the approaching people with understanding in his eyes, and replied: “Gender equality.”
Those people gradually approached, not Zhu Caiwei’s helpers, but just ordinary Chiqiong tribe members.
Xia Xianning thought for a moment and added another sentence: “Whoever is cheap gets beaten.”
What made her even more uneasy was that these Chiqiong tribe members were clearly arranged by her to trip up Xia Xianning, but when he saw them, Xia Xianning didn’t seem panicked at all. His sword was even steadily held against Zhu Caiwei’s neck.
The Chiqiong tribe members ran over together, including many familiar faces who had dinner with Xia Xianning the night before. Leading the group, Zhao Bo looked surprised and couldn’t help but ask: “Mr. Xia, what are you… doing?”
He was older and could see through many things, having long felt that Zhu Caiwei had evil intentions. Unfortunately, the tribal leader had always protected her, so Zhao Bo couldn’t say much. So now seeing Xia Xianning’s actions, his surprise was more than displeasure.
But there were also many loyal supporters of Zhu Caiwei in the Chiqiong tribe. Someone shouted: “What are you doing! Is the human race trying to provoke us? Or do you think you alone can fight our entire Chiqiong tribe!”
Xia Xianning did not answer these questions, instead asking calmly: “Why have you all come here?”
Only then did others remember their purpose for coming. Some wanted to yell at Xia Xianning but were stopped by Zhao Bo.
Zhao Bo said: “Our tribal leader called everyone to a meeting tonight, but when we went to the tribal leader’s home, we found no one…”
