Let Me See!

Soon,

Tang San left with a deeply sorrowful look on his face.

Using the Marauder's Map to monitor the area, Zhang Tianyu saw that Tang San had left and returned home.

There were only two living people in the area: him and Xiao Wu.

Only then did Zhang Tianyu relax.

After lying around with Xiao Wu for a while longer,

Xiao Wu suddenly shot upright as if she'd been stung. Her expression had changed completely. Frowning, she looked as if she were facing a great enemy, warily inspecting the spot where she'd just been lying.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Tianyu sat up and looked at Xiao Wu, then at the ground. "Do you feel something moving underneath you again?"

Xiao Wu nodded and immediately asked, "You felt it too?"

Zhang Tianyu frowned as well. "I think I felt something, but I didn't pay much attention."

Xiao Wu looked astonished. "You didn't pay attention? It felt like something tough and springy was brushing across my back."

Zhang Tianyu froze, then hurriedly said, "Turn around. Let me check your back."

Xiao Wu immediately turned around, gathered her scorpion braid in both hands, and showed Zhang Tianyu her back.

After looking for a while, Zhang Tianyu said, "Everything looks normal. I don't see anything dirty on your back, either."

"That really is strange!" Xiao Wu let her hair down. "Could there be a snake around here? Could one have been slithering around beneath our backs just now?"

At the thought of it, Xiao Wu couldn't help shivering.

Zhang Tianyu shrugged and smiled. "We're both Soul Masters over level ten. Are we really afraid of an ordinary snake? With our strength, would a regular snake dare come near us?"

Soul Masters carried an imposing aura that could intimidate others. It had little effect on powerful Soul Beasts, but it was quite effective against ordinary animals. Regular beasts simply wouldn't dare approach a Soul Master.

"That's true." Xiao Wu relaxed. "Then... what was that strange feeling I had?"

Though she was no longer so flustered,

she didn't dare lie back down. Instead, she sat on the ground with Zhang Tianyu and watched the moon.

"Have you thought about what you'll do in a few days?" Zhang Tianyu asked. "We can't stay at Ah San's house forever. His father may be gone, but it wouldn't look right."

Xiao Wu thought it over seriously, then said, "Then we can only go back to Nuoding City. We can spend the vacation exploring the city, eating, drinking, and having fun!"

Zhang Tianyu looked helpless. "Miss, having fun costs money."

"We're Soul Masters. Are you saying we'll have no money?"

Zhang Tianyu gave her a thumbs-up. "Well said. So, when are you going to pay me back those six silver coins you owe me?"

Xiao Wu immediately looked embarrassed. "Oh, I'll pay you back when I get my next allowance!"

Zhang Tianyu said nothing and merely shrugged.

She said that every time, but whenever her allowance came, she spent it before it had even warmed her hands.

In the original story, without Tang San's support, it wouldn't have taken long for her to starve and head back to the forest.

Now Zhang Tianyu had taken his place.

"Where do you think we should go next?" Xiao Wu asked.

"I don't know." Zhang Tianyu sighed. "I'm the only one left in my family. I thought I'd be free to go wherever I wanted, but I've realized that having no one and nothing tying you down does make it easy to go anywhere. It's also lonely."

Xiao Wu fell silent. She hugged her knees and gazed quietly into the distance, her eyes seeming to ripple like mist over water.

Suddenly, Xiao Wu asked, "Tian Yu, do you know how your parents died?"

"I heard it had something to do with some kind of feud, but I don't know the details."

Xiao Wu nodded and was about to speak when her expression suddenly changed. She reached behind her.

Seeing her sudden movement, Zhang Tianyu immediately asked, "What's wrong? What happened?"

"My back!" Xiao Wu reached back with one hand, her voice anxious. "There's something on my back! Quick, help me check!"

"Okay!"

Zhang Tianyu hurried behind her, but—

"I don't see anything there!"

"Right here!" Xiao Wu pointed to a spot on her back. "Right here! Ah, now it's moved over here! It feels like something's crawling around. Tian Yu, hurry and check!"

Zhang Tianyu leaned closer and inspected her carefully, looking completely baffled. "I really don't see anything!"

"How can that be...?" Xiao Wu began to panic.

She clearly felt something crawling around on her back, so why couldn't Zhang Tianyu see it?

Just then, she felt the thing crawling faster and faster across her back. Its movements grew more obvious, more brazen.

She grew increasingly panicked.

The unknown was the most terrifying thing of all—especially now, when even Zhang Tianyu couldn't see what was moving on her back!

"Damn it!"

"It's moving faster and faster!" Xiao Wu grew even more flustered. "Tian Yu, you really can't see anything moving?"

"I really can't see anything, Xiao Wu." Zhang Tianyu sounded anxious too. "Do you think I'd joke about something like this? Could it be..."

Zhang Tianyu was just about to say, "Could it be under your clothes?"

But Xiao Wu seemed to guess what he was thinking.

She clenched her teeth, shut her eyes, and steeled herself.

Whoosh!

She abruptly pulled off her top!

Swish!

Her smooth, fair, delicate back appeared before Zhang Tianyu!

Her skin was absolutely flawless—

soft and fine, tender and gleaming,

so much so that it even reflected the moonlight!

That was absurd!

Had someone coated her in lacquer or something?!

Ahem, of course, that wasn't the point!

The point was—

he hadn't expected Xiao Wu to be so bold!

He'd thought he would have to persuade her at length before she'd reluctantly take off her clothes.

He hadn't expected her to do it on her own, without him even saying a word!

Impressive!

No wonder she was an elder sister who'd lived a hundred thousand years and taken human form—a senior, through and through!

I could never match that kind of nerve!

Looking at her beautiful back, Zhang Tianyu's thoughts instantly flew back to his previous life.

At that moment, it was as if he'd returned to the time in his previous life when they'd shared a joyful moment...

"Hurry, Tian Yu. Help me check what's on my back!"

Xiao Wu didn't have time to worry about anything else. She quickly urged him.

"Okay!" Zhang Tianyu replied at once. After looking carefully, he said, "I still don't see anything wrong, Xiao Wu. Are you sure you're not imagining it?"

Xiao Wu looked confused.

She'd discovered that the strange sensation on her back had disappeared as soon as she took off her clothes.

So was it the clothes?

She immediately tossed them onto the ground and inspected them carefully.

But there was nothing wrong with the clothes, either.

Then she raised her head and met Zhang Tianyu's eyes.

At that moment, her face turned red.

Oh, you're blushing? Come on, let me see!