Blood trickled from between her palms, drop by drop.
The blood dripped into the hot spring, then vanished without a trace in an instant.
At the most dangerous moment, when Cui Xiaoxin's life hung by a thread and her chest was about to be pierced by one, or perhaps three, holes, a black figure suddenly leaped up from the bottom of the pool and met the black steel fork with his own flesh and blood.
No one had expected someone to leap out from the bottom of the hot spring. No one had expected someone to be hiding beneath the hot spring at all.
Cui Xiaoxin hadn't expected it.
If she could have expected it, she would have jumped out of the hot spring long ago. How could she have continued soaking there so peacefully until now?
When Liu Lü discovered the clothes beneath the rock, the three of them had all assumed that someone was spying on them nearby. They had never imagined that the person wasn't hiding behind the stone wall or in the bushes, but directly beneath the hot spring. Fortunately, it was dark and the spring water was murky, so the other party couldn't see anything.
Still, the thought that someone had been hiding beside them while they bathed was even more terrifying than a sudden assassin, wasn't it?
The assassin was even more shocked.
He was practically scared witless.
He had followed them all the way there and finally found an opening to strike. Just as he was about to succeed, someone had leaped from beneath the hot spring, broken his killing move, and blocked his Sea God's Trident.
Was this damn thing an ambush? the assassin thought.
*Could it be that they discovered my presence long ago, then set up this trap to lure