When the apprentice's voice was heard.
Du Yuan, who had been smiling and chatting with Chen Nan, immediately put on a stern face, her eyes flashing with anger: "I don't have time for you now, get lost!"
She didn't want to be disturbed while eating.
Not even by her own apprentice.
"Master, please calm down, your disciple will get lost immediately!"
Leng Yinyin didn't know why her master was angry, but she dared not disobey, and immediately left the inn.
Chen Nan felt a wave of frustration.
He had wanted to see his sister-in-law's reaction upon seeing him, but was unexpectedly driven away by Du Yuan.
Due to the alcohol, Du Yuan's face had a faint blush. She propped her chin with one hand and smiled as she looked at Chen Nan: "Brother, have you married yet?"
Chen Nan shook his head: "I was married once before, but unfortunately..."
Du Yuan couldn't help but ask: "Unfortunately what?"
"She divorced me!" He sighed at this, picked up his wine cup, and drank the wine in one gulp.
"Something like that happened?" Du Yuan looked surprised: "Whose daughter is she? Was her head kicked by a donkey? You are so excellent, and she divorced you?"
Chen Nan gave a bitter smile: "Perhaps in your eyes, I am excellent, but in others' eyes, I am just a good-for-nothing."
Du Yuan smiled: "Perhaps this is what people call 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder'..."
Before she could finish.
She froze.
Her watery eyes trembled uncontrollably.
I...
Why did I say 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder'?
Could it be that I've fallen for him?
No, no, no!
He is just my brother.
Chen Nan's heart trembled violently.
Oh my goodness!
The mature and beautiful aunt has fallen for me?
This is so awkward!
Bang!
Without any warning.
A deafening explosion came from outside the window.
A brilliant firework erupted in the east.
Chen Nan's face changed drastically, and he quickly said: "Sister, I have something to attend to, so I'll take my leave! I hope we meet again someday." With that, he jumped out of the window and quickly disappeared into the rain.
They all had "Cloud Piercing Arrows" on them.
Once these were released, it indicated that something major had happened.
The nearby constables were required to rush to the scene immediately.
Even under normal circumstances, this was the case.
Let alone during this special period.
"What's wrong?"
Finally, Chen Nan arrived at a private school.
He had been to this school yesterday.
He had housed over a dozen households from the south of the city whose houses had been flooded.
There were eighteen elders.
Thirty-three children.
A total of fifty-one people.
Before Wu Jiu could reply.
A pungent smell of blood wafted over.
Chen Nan looked into the school.
The scene before him made his pupils tremble.
The once clean and tidy school was stained red with blood. On the ground were skeletons that had been gnawed down to the bone.
Mutilated corpses and severed limbs were everywhere.
"What is going on?"
"Who killed these elders and children?" Chen Nan's scalp tingled. Even seeing it with his own eyes, he could not imagine the scene before him.
Wu Jiu looked at the claw marks left by animals on the ground, his eyes flickering with deep apprehension: "Downstream from Tongcheng is a lake called Tai Xuan Lake. Legend has it that there is a water monster in Tai Xuan Lake. Anyone who falls into the lake never returns."
"Looking at these claw marks, it's highly likely that the water monster from Tai Xuan Lake took advantage of the flood to come upstream and entered Tongcheng."
Chen Nan said in a low voice: "If that's the case, aren't the people in the city in danger?"
He had initially thought that staying in the city would be an easy task.
Who would have thought that as soon as the floodgates were opened, another water monster would appear and cause trouble.
Wu Jiu's expression was solemn: "We need to have the people in the city evacuate towards the north, as far away from here as possible."
Chen Nan didn't say much.
At this point, it was the only thing they could do.
Getting the people to evacuate north as much as possible would ensure they wouldn't be eaten by the water monster.
Of course.
This was not a long-term solution.
The most secure method was to find a way to lure the water monster out and then kill it.
After spending the entire night, led by the seven of them.
All the residents from the south of the city had been evacuated to the central part of the city.
However.
The livestock were not taken.
Chen Nan still had use for them.
He intended to use the livestock to lure out the water monster.
Forgetting about rest.
Chen Nan ate a quick meal and then went to his newly purchased house.
After several days of cultivation.
Penicillin could now be extracted.
He needed to teach Wu Jiu's wives how to extract penicillin. If it wasn't extracted in time, their efforts of the past few days would be in vain.
After teaching them the method of penicillin extraction.
Chen Nan returned to the county office.
As more and more injured people were brought in.
He needed to go and help with their treatment.
But halfway there.
A familiar figure appeared on the street ahead.
She stood quietly in the rain.
Her face held an icy gaze.
Seeing her.
Chen Nan felt a strong sense of unease.
Leng Yinyin's appearance was definitely not a good omen.
She was clearly here to cause trouble for him.
He then looked towards the five-story building in the distance.
He saw Leng Qingmei holding an oil-paper umbrella, looking at him with a smile that was not a smile.
Obviously.
Leng Qingmei had told Leng Yinyin about her encounter.
This time, Leng Yinyin was intercepting him to avenge Leng Qingmei.
Although he controlled the laws of space.
He didn't believe he could defeat a peak Soul Gathering realm expert.
And at this moment.
The distance from here to the inn where Du Yuan was staying was at least five kilometers.
Moreover, it was raining.
Even if a fight broke out here, Du Yuan might not be able to sense it.
The situation was very unfavorable for him.
Leng Yinyin spoke, gritting her silver teeth, her voice icy: "Brother-in-law, I heard you are very arrogant, playing with my sister again and again."
"Do you think my Leng family has no one?"
Chen Nan looked at Leng Qingmei with disappointment: "It seems you have forgotten my warning to you!"
Leng Qingmei's eyes were cold, and she angrily said: "You forced me to do this."
Leng Yinyin took out an ink jade thumb ring and said indifferently: "Brother-in-law, as long as you wear this ring, I will let you go!"
Chen Nan retorted: "What if I don't?"
"Then I will kill you!" A killing intent flashed in Leng Yinyin's eyes.
There was no one in the city.
Even if she killed Chen Nan, no one would trace it back to them.
"Why don't you try?" Chen Nan's eyes flashed with brilliance, and he made a move that baffled the Leng sisters.
He not only didn't run away.
He even charged forward.
"With your cultivation at the fifth level of the Yin Gathering realm, how can you be my opponent?" Leng Yinyin said with disdain.
"Whether you are my opponent or not, we'll know after a fight." Chen Nan's fighting spirit was high. When the two Leng sisters simultaneously entered his range.
He slammed a palm towards Leng Yinyin.
But Leng Yinyin was a peak Soul Gathering realm expert.
She calmly dodged Chen Nan's attack, and then a surge of yin energy struck Chen Nan's chest.
But what happened next.
Made her scalp tingle.
Her sister, who was hiding in the distance, seemed to have suffered a violent attack, and vomited a mouthful of blood with a "wow."
And Chen Nan.
Was completely unharmed.
Leng Yinyin's scalp tingled, and she looked at Chen Nan in terror: "What's going on? Why am I attacking you, but my sister is getting hurt?"