"Piaopiao!"
Smiley emphasized her name.
"Didn't you want to avenge Juliet?"
Chen Piaopiao trembled all over.
Juliet...
She looked at Ling Chu again.
Gritting her teeth, she activated Light as a Swallow and rushed toward the nearby tree trunk in the direction Smiley had indicated, then leaped upward.
She no longer dared to dart around as quickly as before. Every movement had to wait for Smiley to tell her where to go.
Her speed immediately dropped by more than half.
Ling Chu did not rush to attack her. Instead, she began moving along the edge of the web.
To stop her from escaping, Smiley had no choice but to constantly adjust the threads while also dividing his attention to point out safe routes for Chen Piaopiao.
Both sides required precise control, and his movements finally stalled for a moment.
At that moment, Flower Plucker drew another Misfortune Slip.
Zero Luck and the misfortune left him deeply uneasy, but Smiley had urged him several times already. He could only continue trying to curse Ling Chu.
Flower Plucker poured magical energy into the paper slip. Just as the gray-black talisman paper caught fire, a gust of wind suddenly blew through the forest.
It was merely an ordinary forest breeze, yet it happened to pass between two broken trees, sweeping up the dead leaves on the ground and blowing the Misfortune Slip from Flower Plucker's fingers off course.
"Wait!"
The paper slip flew from his hand.
Instead of drifting toward Ling Chu, the gray curse smoke swirled along with the talisman paper and flew toward Smiley.
Smiley's gaze turned cold.
Several threads instantly crisscrossed, slicing the Misfortune Slip into pieces.
The gray mist dispersed less than half a meter from him.
"What are you doing?!"
"It wasn't me." Flower Plucker's expression darkened. "The