When I saw clearly the man standing at the entrance of the main hall,
I was so startled that I took several steps back and shrank behind Granny Bai at once.
The man was so good - looking. I knew at a glance that he was the monster fiancé my parents had arranged for me, as A Wen had told me... He seemed to be someone with the surname "Si".
I could still vaguely remember what my parents looked like, but I had absolutely no impression of this so - called fiancé.
... The only thing I remembered about him was his two long fangs sinking into that woman's wrist!
This dog - like monster!!
Obviously, he didn't come here to look for me. Since we had never met before, he should be looking for the woman he had bitten.
Well! The people he bit would turn into zombies, while that woman just sucked people's blood dry... It seemed that the woman's level was much lower than his!
Although I knew he probably didn't recognize me, I still hid behind Granny Bai in fear.
The man with the surname Si only had eyes for the red - clothed woman lying in a heap on the ground with a talisman on her.
He stepped forward, bent his long legs slightly, and helped the woman sit up. He picked up the yellow talisman and flicked it gently. The talisman paper immediately burst into flames without a fire and turned into a small pile of ashes. The man reached out and pinched the red - clothed woman's chin, forcing her to open her mouth and stuffed the ashes in.
With a soft moan, the red - clothed woman finally came to her senses. Looking up and seeing the man with the surname Si, she immediately hugged his arm and sobbed, "A Chen! A Chen! I'm sorry! I was so hungry! I had no choice but to run out..."
"Okay."
The man with the surname Si showed no expression on his face which was in the shadow of the moonlight. He just responded indifferently, "It's my fault. Let's go back and eat now."
Saying that, he supported the red - clothed woman and turned to leave.
Watching their backs, I let out a long sigh of relief... The two monsters were finally gone!!
"Wait a minute!"
Before I could fully calm down, Granny Bai had already blocked the two who were about to leave. "Sir, your female companion is not in good health. You'd better not take her away."
"Granny Bai, don't interfere with them..."
I gently tugged at the sleeve of Granny Bai's blue cotton front - buttoned jacket and murmured softly, "We're here to save people."
If we angered these monsters, God knows if they would turn into the Black and White Impermanence and slaughter everyone in this room!
The man with the surname Si looked aloof. He gave Granny Bai a disdainful glance, and then his eyes naturally fell on me.
"What? Are you threatening me?"
He had seen Granny Bai use the talisman against the woman.
"If you let her go on like this, more people will die!"
Granny Bai waved the clothes of the little boy who had lost his soul. "Dozens of people have already died... If we hadn't come today, there would probably be a room full of corpses."
"So what!"
The woman supported by the man with the surname Si seemed to have regained some sense. She tucked the curly hair on her cheek behind her ear, showing a coquettish look. "They're just a bunch of poor refugees. Their deaths are like crushing a few bugs."
"Alas!! Even ants have lives. It'll do you good to accumulate more virtues!"
Granny Bai loved to sigh. She shook her head at the red - clothed woman and said, "Everyone else wants to be human, but you want to be a ghost! It's a pity... "
"What's there to be pity about!"
The red - clothed woman pouted. "I like this kind of life. A Chen! Take this little girl back for me!"
The man slightly raised his eyebrows but said nothing.
"A ~~ Chen ~~"
The red - clothed woman pouted and spoke in a coquettish voice. She seemed used to acting coquettishly and willfully with men. "I think her face is pretty. Take her back to the mansion. I can pluck out her eyeballs one day and cut off her nose the next. It'll surely amuse me!"
Her coquettish voice sounded soft and waxy, but it made people shiver with fear.
The monsters in *Journey to the West* were no different!
This woman was just a poor girl who had crawled out of a brothel. After just a few days of good life, she actually wanted to take out all the bullying she had suffered on others?!!
"This woman..."
The man with the surname Si seemed to be very kind to the prostitute. Hearing her request, he actually pointed at me and asked Granny Bai, "Name a price. I'll buy her."
"Hehe!" Granny Bai didn't answer his question. She just stared at the red - clothed woman and said, "If she can take medicine and receive acupuncture in my clinic to control the corpse poison, she can still live like a normal person for a few years. If you let her go on like this... Sir, you know some Taoism. You should know what she'll turn into in the end!"
She had seen him use the soul - calming talisman just now, so she knew he was also in the same line.
"She's human."
The man with the surname Si was completely unyielding. He said coldly, "I'll ensure that she always remains human! But you... You don't look much like a human!"
Saying that, the man took out three or four gold leaves from his military uniform pocket and casually threw them at Granny Bai's feet. "This is for you."
He was tall and had long arms. He reached out and grabbed my shoulder from behind Granny Bai. "She's coming with me."
"Stop!"
Granny Bai was also angry. She was usually a good - tempered old woman. Sometimes, there would be some people in the clinic who were full of hostility because of their illnesses. No matter how they cursed and got angry, Granny Bai would never be angry. But at this moment, she actually scolded the man with the surname Si sharply.
"She's my granddaughter. How dare you abduct a civilian girl?!"
Granny Bai's eyebrows stood up. Her eyes were as black as two deep pools in the moonlight. She reached out to grab the man's hand.
I could see that Granny Bai's fingernails suddenly became long and sharp, just like the spines on a hedgehog.
"Hahaha!!"
The bastard with the surname Si finally let go of my arm. He actually burst into laughter, scaring the crows that had just settled on the old persimmon tree outside the City God's Temple to fly screaming into the pale - moonlight sky.
"How could a monster like you have a human granddaughter?!"
He stopped laughing and said coldly with a solemn face, "Hand her over, and I won't destroy your cultivation. Otherwise..."
He took two steps back and kicked the broken door panel. The door panel couldn't withstand his strength and crashed outwards with a "boom". In the flying dust, I saw a group of soldiers with loaded guns surrounding the temple. All the black muzzles of the guns were pointed at us, and the refugees who had been running around like headless chickens before were all huddled like quails against the wall, not daring to move.
"None of you can leave!"
That bastard actually threatened us with these ordinary people.
"... Why do you want me to go with you?"
I couldn't help but shout, "I won't let your woman use me as a plaything!"
Hearing my words, a shy look actually appeared on the red - clothed woman's face. She nestled against the man like a soft noodle.
"Don't be ungrateful. Otherwise, I'll kill this old monster and still be able to take you away!"
The man looked at me coldly and said, "Du Xinghe, do you think I could forget you?!"