Chapter 36 Parting

Fang Yue turned back to look at Wei Ba and Ni Dongmei, "You two should head back. We'll take it from here."

"I wanted to go back ages ago." Ni Dongmei rolled her eyes. If it weren't for Wei Ba insisting on seeing them off, she wouldn't have wanted to step outside for even a second, wasting her clone's strength.

"Ye-ge, Wu-wu, remember to keep in touch! I'll work hard at the Jibing Sect. You have to come visit me often!"

Fang Yue just nodded in response, but Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu was quite emotional, hugging Wei Ba and sobbing. Anyone who didn't know better would have thought it was a farewell of life and death. In reality, they were both in the same school and could see each other anytime.

Giving the two some private space, Fang Yue led the team a little further ahead.

The two girls chattered for a while before Wei Ba wiped away her tears, her face breaking into a smile through her tears. She looked around, lowered her voice, and said, "Oh, right, my friend replied to my message. He happened to be free and helped me check on that headless corpse news from the neighboring men's school. It's true. And he really died while playing a game, and it just so happens to be the game we're heading into now!"

"Wah! Don't scare me… I'm already a coward…"

Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu trembled. "Did he say why? Did the game equipment malfunction? Does Tengli Group have any explanation?"

"The official response seems to be nothing, I don't know their attitude, but the matter seems to have been suppressed. If you're interested, we can investigate it together."

"…Forget it, I'm scared."

"That headless corpse, he suddenly died while playing our game. Don't you want to know why? Aren't you afraid of your head suddenly exploding while you're playing?"

"That's a low probability event, right… And the officials will definitely give an explanation…" Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu said weakly, a bit like an ostrich burying its head in the sand. At the end, she didn't forget to add, "At worst, I'll just stop playing this game, then there won't be any danger…"

"Alright, then I'll wait for my day off and investigate this matter myself."

Wei Ba was a bit more thoughtful and felt that the matter at the neighboring men's school shouldn't be a simple game equipment accident. It might have been murder or something else. Suddenly having your head explode while playing a game, that explanation was too far-fetched.

While the two were talking, Fang Yue finally urged them impatiently.

"Then, then we'll say goodbye here!"

"Okay, be careful on the way!"

The two waved goodbye. Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu trotted a few steps to Fang Yue's side, mounted the horse, and was handed a fiery red fruit by Fang Yue. After hesitating for a moment, Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu ate it with tears in her eyes.

"Eat properly. Look at Xue Lie's little Xue Dou, he knows how to eat things. Are you not even as good as a dog?"

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I can't compare, I really can't compare!!

The tears streaming down Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu's face were all the water that had entered her brain back then. Why, why did I have to tell Ye-ge that my talent was that eating things would increase my stats? Couldn't I have kept that a secret? Then I could have avoided this kind of suffering…

Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu, whose life was getting better, completely forgot that without this talent, she wouldn't even have been able to stay in Guyue Village in the first place.

Watching the team leave in the morning sun, Wei Ba was filled with envy.

"Let's go, in a few days, the Jibing Sect's welcoming team should arrive."

These past few days had been torturous for Wei Ba, and Ni Dongmei hadn't had it easy either. She didn't care about being cooped up in the inn like it was a prison, but the Jibing Sect's team was late in arriving, and she was eagerly waiting for them every day, which was really agonizing.

The two returned to the inn and stayed there for several days.

In these few days, Mo Village finally determined the candidate for the third captain.

The final winner was indeed Vice-Captain Lang Mo.

Some people suspected that Squad Leader Lang Wu had opened a back door for him, and some said that Lang Mo had bribed Squad Leader Wu for the position.

In short, his reputation wasn't very good, but he had indeed secured the position.

In order to correct his reputation, Lang Mo began patrolling day and night, showing his face, and indeed greatly improved his reputation among the villagers.

"Being a captain isn't too difficult after all!"

Lang Mo felt good about himself, but Squad Leader Wu shook his head slightly. He understood that this was simply because Lang Mo hadn't encountered a powerful youkai yet, the kind of pressure that required the captain to stand up.

That kind of burden, where the hopes of the entire village rested on his shoulders, was the key to measuring whether a captain was qualified.

Right now, Lang Mo was at most in a probationary period.

The departure of Fang Yue's team didn't seem to have any impact on Mo Village. Everything was operating slowly according to the usual rhythm.

People came and went, carriages came and went, nothing changed.

But only Squad Leader Lang Wu knew.

Whether Fang Yue could safely return to the village, whether Fang Yue could convince Lord Han to protect Mo Village, this matter was related to the life and death of the entire Mo Village!

"You must… you must make it!"

That's what Squad Leader Lang Wu thought, but no one knew which would come first, tomorrow or an accident.

Several days after Fang Yue's escort team left.

What Mo Village waited for wasn't the Jibing Sect's welcoming team, nor was it good news from Fang Yue… but a huge black cloud.

The black cloud was very thick, with lightning and thunder inside, heading straight for Mo Village.

"An ominous sign…" Squad Leader Wu frowned slightly.

"Is it going to rain heavily?" Lang Mo scratched his head.

"…" Chen Xiaomiao, who had lost her spirit, didn't want to say anything.

The villagers retreated to their homes in fear, and the defense team began operating again, treating this phenomenon with solemnity.

Only Squad Leader Lang Wu, guarding the center of Mo Village's ancient formation, was trembling all over!

…It wasn't that he was trembling, but that the entire ancient formation was shaking. That kind of massive vibration, involving the entire formation, caused his body to tremble along with it.

"That black cloud… the ancient formation is reacting to that black cloud!!"

Realizing this, this time, Squad Leader Lang Wu himself was trembling, trembling in fear.

He raised his head and looked at the huge black cloud far away in the sky. A feeling of oppression rose from his heart, as if he was about to be covered by a huge black cloth, unable to see any light.

…

Qingya Inn.

Ni Dongmei stood on the roof, staring intently at the distant black cloud, her face full of disbelief.

"How could… how could there be so many!" kanShuLa

She was afraid, and even had the thought of running away immediately, but she couldn't escape, and there was nowhere for her to escape.

Wei Ba was by her side, she couldn't let Wei Ba die in Mo Village!

Operating her inner energy, she poured it into the communication meatball to make a call.

"Shishu, and the other elders, haven't you arrived yet!"

"…"

What responded to her was only a deathly silence, just like the huge black cloud in the distance, oppressive, silent, and terrifying!

Although Wei Ba didn't know what was happening, she also understood that Mo Village seemed to have fallen into a crisis once again.

Fortunately, Fang Yue and the others were no longer in Mo Village.