Su Beicheng was left speechless. Somewhat awkwardly, he scratched his messy hair. "Dad didn't really mean to deceive you. Dad was just worried... worried that I'd scare you."
"Besides, don't you see that I'm fine? This little situation wasn't enough to stump your dad."
Su Qiao was speechless.
Before saying that, why didn't you take a look at your own condition, and then at the condition of the people following you?
She rolled her eyes at him. "Stop bragging. You almost got yourself killed this time, didn't you?"
"What did I tell you when you left? No matter when or where, you had to put your own life first."
But he had gone and risked getting himself submerged by those bugs to save someone, despite clearly being able to avoid injury.
If he hadn't remembered the potion she had given him at the last moment, there probably wouldn't even be bone fragments left of him by now.
"Hehe, Dad's fine, isn't he?"
Su Beicheng didn't bother wondering how his daughter had learned about all this.
He rubbed his nose and cautiously tried to placate her. "Look, I'm not injured, and I haven't lost any arms or legs. Just like you said, I'm perfectly intact!"
"You..."
Su Qiao was just about to speak when a cry of alarm came from the edge of the woods in the distance, accompanied by tremors that made the earth shake and the mountains sway.
"Run! Run! The Tata Beast is back!"
Host, a large exotic beast resembling an elephant has arrived.
"Everyone, get into the aircraft."
Su Beicheng reacted swiftly, immediately ordering the people below to enter the aircraft for shelter. Then he pulled Su Qiao toward his own aircraft.
"Daughter, quick, get in!"
"Wait."
Su Qiao grabbed his hand in return. "Do you have