"You!"
The woman in red, Fang Xin, flew into a rage. The blue-clad maid's words had struck her sore spot. If handing this maid over could make those monsters stop hunting them, she would have done so long ago. Why would she have waited until now?
The problem was that those monsters were unreasonable. They would not care who was close to Liu Rulan and who was not. It meant nothing to them.
They only needed to do one thing: complete their mission, capture them all alive, and claim the Curse-Slaying Demon Saint's reward.
So-called negotiations could only happen when both sides had cards to play and their strength was evenly matched.
Without strength, why would anyone negotiate with you? That was exactly the situation now. Even if she handed over this maid, those monsters would not stop pursuing them.
Since handing her over would not save their lives, there was no point in doing it.
More importantly, they had pinned their hopes on Liu Rulan. She was the one who had opened the Soul Clan Temple and escaped from the Curse-Slaying Demon Saint several times. Such ability was no small thing.
Perhaps it was not Liu Rulan's own power, but she must have grasped some secrets of this world to have escaped death time and again.
That was why they had kept this maid by their side all along—hoping to find a chance through her to get in touch with Liu Rulan, hoping Liu Rulan would shelter them.
But now that the blue-clad maid had exposed these little schemes, Fang Xin, the woman in red, became embarrassed and furious. She immediately wanted to slap the maid half to death again.
She was nothing more than a lowly maid, yet she dared speak to her master like this. She truly