Demon King's Repayment - chapter 58
It was noon and the sun was on the top of the head. Even in the dense jungle, one could still feel the sun.
Yuan Xiang was a little worried about Han Rui who was hiding in the back basket, “Doctor Han, how do you feel? The sun is so strong, do you need to avoid it?”
“Thanks to you I’m fine. Since entering this mountain forest, my spirit seems to be getting stronger,” Han Rui’s voice came from behind.
Wu Yuan squatted on the top of the back basket and stretched out his paws to pull out Han Rui, who was covered in it, to play with him, “This is already the Spirit World of Celestial Wolf mountain. The Qi is abundant and incomparable in the world. It is most suitable for his kind of spirit. It grows, but there are also a lot of Soul Eaters that feed on spirits. If you want him to be well, don’t accidentally let him be taken away by a demon.”
The three of them were talking and a hollow golden ball rolled out of the bushes and happened to stop at Yuan Xiang’s feet. Yuan Xiang bent down and picked it up. This was a winged hollow gold ball. It was very delicately made. It contained a small golden bell inside. It rolled up and the ringtone was crisp. Obviously, someone used it every day to play.
This was a popular toy among Queqiu children. It was woven from rattan into a sphere, with a ringing bell inside. Some people would dye the woven rattan with colors or hang colorful feathers inside to make it colorful. It rang when rolling, which was very interesting. There were a lot of them in Yuan Xiang’s house, some of which were made by Yu Yao when she was young.
But after all, it was only a children’s toy. It was very rare to use gold and fine craftsmanship like that one. It must be a toy of a child of some noble family.
“Give it back to me, that’s mine,” a voice sounded from behind the woods.
A little girl under ten years old was standing under an old locust tree whose leaves had fallen out. She had a fair face, dark pupils and a thin, silky cloak. She was naked inside, standing in the snow.
Although she looked like a human being, it was almost impossible for a child of a human to be in such a deep mountain, in such a weird dress.
Yuan Xiang handed the golden ball forward and the girl reached out and caught it with her fair hands. Her fingers were round, tender and white with a little dirt. No matter how she looked, she was still just a child.
“What are human beings doing here?” A woman’s voice sounded from the girl and it was cold, not like her small appearance.
“I’m here to find a friend.” Yuan Xiang said, “Her name is Hui Teng, do you know where she lives?”
“Teng?” The girl’s dark eyes stared at Yuan Xiang for a moment and finally stretched out her hand forward, “You can see it soon after turning at that point.”
Yuan Xiang thanked her but when she turned around to leave, she looked back at her.
The little girl stood under the dead branches covered with frost and snow, wearing a short cloak that was light and smooth like butterfly wings, exposing her arms and legs with her little feet just stepping on the cold snow.
Like Li Yu, she must have gone into the human world, or she had been carefully taken care of by her family since childhood, like Wu Yuan. She was familiar with human life habits and had prepared a set of exquisite and beautiful human clothes for herself. If it was a demon who was far from the world and lived in isolation, it may not be able to figure out the way in which humans wore three layers of clothing and footwear. She used a cloak to cover her body.
“Aren’t you cold like this?” Yuan Xiang asked.
Although this little girl was just a demon, Yuan Xiang looked at her lonely appearance, standing barefoot in the snow in thin clothes and could not help feeling cold for her. So she took off the cashmere hood on her head and put it on the little girl.
This kind of hat had a circle of fluff on the edge, a pair of ears to protect the cheeks on the side and two white hair balls hanging under it, which was very warm.
“Thank you, little sister,” Yuan Xiang waved goodbye and got into the path pointed by the little girl.
The girl stood on the snow, stretched out her little hand and touched the hat on her head. The hat was a bit big and warm to her. It retained the human body temperature and did not have the unpleasant smell as imagined.
“Ah Nah, didn’t you say you’re going to eat that human?” A low and dull voice came from the ground. The snow slowly rose up and a huge humanoid demon formed from rocks and snow piles.
The little girl sat high on the shoulders of the stone man, swinging her bare feet, playing with the pom poms hanging from her hat enthusiastically.
“Forget it.”
“But Ah Nai, I’m already very hungry.”
“Let’s go, let’s go find a tiger to eat. Even a bison is fine. What’s so delicious about human beings? They’re smelly and so small, a bite won’t make us full.”
Yuan Xiang, who didn’t know that she had escaped a catastrophe, followed the girl’s instructions and turned into the mountain road.
Wu Yuan then cautiously popped his little head out of the basket, looked around and quietly said, “Ah Xiang, that demon was so scary just now, were you not afraid?”
“Was that a very powerful demon just now? I couldn’t tell, she was so small.”
“No, no, no, she was not small at all, such a big, big one. It scared me,” Wu Yuan’s natural ability was perception, which could see through all changes and point to the truth.
Yuan Xiang hugged the basket on her back to her chest and touched his little hairy head comfortably, “It’s okay, whether it’s a powerful demon or not, I think she was still very kind. Look at the front, she really didn’t lie to us.”
Wu Yuan looked up and in the depths of the cedar, a wall made of yellow mud was faintly revealed. The thatch on the top of the wall was covered with white snow. The smoke and dust raised from the roofs of the wooden house.
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yarnie
oh boy its so interesting whenever author gives us new characters to discover *-*