“Don’t bully the mute!”
In the mute’s astonished gaze, a beastly figure covered in bone blades charged forward.
It scooped up the mute in a princess carry, rescuing him from the lightning.
Even so, the residual shock from the lightning made both their scalps tingle, their hair standing on end.
“Mute, where did you provoke these two behemoths?”
Zhang Xiaobei’s eyes were closed, with only the eye on her forehead open.
While carrying the mute and running, she cast a fearful glance at the Thunder God and Rain Master in the sky.
“……”
The mute looked at her, too exhausted to gesture.
“What’s wrong?”
Zhang Xiaobei blinked, “Are they after me?”
The mute looked at her silently. Otherwise?
Zhang Xiaobei, in her beast form, and the sober Zhang Xiaobei did not have completely synchronized memories.
The sober Xiaobei didn’t know what happened when she was in beast form.
And the beast-form Xiaobei, with developed limbs and a simple mind, was like a wild beast.
She didn’t necessarily know about everyday matters, prone to forgetfulness.
But if someone offended her, she would remember it deep in her bones and wouldn’t rest until she retaliated.
The children from Xiangtian Village last time were just like that.
She’d rather knock him out and sneak out to vent her anger.
By the time he rushed over, she had already handled the matter.
“Damn it!”
Zhang Xiaobei, finally understanding, stopped abruptly while holding the mute.
Her last vague memory was of the mute provoking the behemoths.
He was the one who should be running.
Zhang Xiaobei glanced at the thunderclouds chasing them, then tossed the mute aside.
She turned to run.
“It’s my turn to run, you rest.”
“Wait.”
The mute quickly grabbed her, “Running won’t help.”
“Can you stop taking my breath away? If we don’t run, are we just waiting to die?”
Zhang Xiaobei was puzzled but stopped anyway.
She warily eyed the thundercloud, bared her teeth, and let out a guttural, beast-like growl.
The mute simply said, “Wait.”
In the short time they were talking, the thundercloud had already caught up.
The mute pulled the baring-toothed, growling Zhang Xiaobei behind him, facing the thundercloud himself.
For some reason, this thundercloud always gave him a feeling of unhurried leisure.
And the lightning just now, he always felt…
Even if Xiaobei hadn’t come, that lightning wouldn’t have struck him directly.
To kill him, or to render him unable to resist, should not have been difficult for these two deities.
But they had been dragging their feet until Xiaobei returned.
And finally, this was one of the reasons he dared to let Xiaobei stay.
— These two deities exuded the same aura as him.
This was an aura that the ‘Sea God’ of the fishing village and the ‘Mountain God’ of the bandit lair did not possess.
It was purer, and more sacred.
Coupled with their delaying tactics, the mute could only make a bold guess in the midst of danger, taking a gamble.
— These two deities, might they have some reservations?
As the thundercloud grew closer, the sound from Zhang Xiaobei’s throat became more urgent.
Her fur was standing on end.
Her beastly instincts allowed her to feel the terrifying aura emanating from the thundercloud more clearly.
It was as if death was constantly approaching.
“Mute, why aren’t we leaving!”
Zhang Xiaobei asked, unable to resist the instinct to flee.
She wrapped an arm around the mute’s waist, slowly dragging him backward.
Leaving crooked snow trails on the ground.
Although she resented the mute for constantly ruining her affairs and preventing her from hunting,
her intuition told her that the mute’s brain was indeed sharper than hers.
“……Stop……”
The mute weakly patted Zhang Xiaobei’s hand, his voice hoarse.
He was already injured, and now she was dragging him backward.
Especially the tense Xiaobei, whose grip had no restraint.
The mute could barely breathe, let alone answer.
Fortunately, this posture didn’t last long.
Five bolts of lightning struck around them, forming a cage of thunder.
With a crackle,
Zhang Xiaobei bared her teeth and growled at the lightning.
She cautiously walked around the thunder cage, every cell in her body screaming in panic.
The mute could only pat her soothingly, telling her to be quiet.
Then he looked up at the thundercloud above, waiting silently.
Within the thundercloud, the Thunder God and Rain Master were also observing the two below.
The Thunder God stroked his chin and tutted,
“One half-demon, one barely, barely, barely a demigod. The bloodlines in this mortal realm are becoming increasingly chaotic.”
The Rain Master twirled the two drumsticks in her hands before tucking them at her waist.
“What do you think, should we notify the Heavenly Music Divine Official?”
“Let’s notify them,” the Thunder God said.
“This kid’s bloodline abilities have been stimulated quite well.”
The deities in the Heavenly Palace had long lives and strong abilities.
They had seen through life and death, joy and sorrow.
Many were indifferent.
Even their own descendants, if they lacked strength, they wouldn’t bother to look twice.
Reasons like ‘fate dictates life and death, heavenly secrets cannot be revealed’ could always be conjured.
But this kid below, his bloodline abilities were stimulated quite well.
Perhaps he was worthy of a second glance, and a little guidance and cultivation.
The Rain Master glanced at him, “Don’t forget you just struck this kid.”
“What’s wrong with that?”
The Thunder God said nonchalantly, “This little injury is just a matter of one pill, and even without it, he can recover on his own.”
“Besides, I helped him find his descendants, there’s no reason he should blame me.”
The Rain Master didn’t bother arguing with him, raising her chin, “What about the little half-demon? Still going to deal with her?”
“Looking at her aura, she’s a patricide. Letting her go like this might be inappropriate.”
The Thunder God placed his hands behind his head and looked away.
“I’m not going to court that bad luck, let’s leave her for now. When Heavenly Music finds out, he can deal with it himself.”
Anyone with eyes could see that these two little ones had a good relationship.
“Alright. Then I’ll notify him.”
The Rain Master tapped the large drum in front of her with her fingertip.
A playful thunderclap jumped out, like a little sprite, rubbing against her finger.
Then it flew towards the Heavenly Palace.
“Let’s go.”
The Thunder God held the demon-slaying token, they still had plenty to do.
……
The terrifying thunderclouds gradually receded until they disappeared.
The mute observed for a while longer before realizing that the two deities had truly left.
Zhang Xiaobei, in her beast form, finally stopped growling and asked, “Mute, why did they leave?”
The mute shook his head.
[Don’t know.]
But… he had probably gambled correctly.
……
The mute and the others didn’t know why the Thunder God and Rain Master had suddenly left, but Jiang Lin, with his god’s-eye view, saw it clearly.
“Patricide…”
Jiang Lin glanced at Zhang Xiaobei in her beast form, realizing that deities in this era also paid attention to this.
This matter,
Perhaps only the mute and he knew it most clearly.
In Zhang Xiaobei’s memory, on the night before the Sea God festival, the mute took her and escaped.
And that was indeed what happened, except…
There were some twists and turns in between.
Because, in the original plan, they hadn’t escaped.