"Ow. Ow." Liu Ji wiped the rainwater from his face.
"At last, I dragged them all over here. It was several hundred meters." Sitting beneath the great tree, Liu Ji felt utterly exhausted.
Those two were probably brothers, right? They had dumped these people on Liu Ji and vanished without a trace. The rain was pouring down so heavily that if these people kept getting drenched, they might just die in it. So Liu Ji decided to move them somewhere sheltered from the rain.
After searching for ages, he finally found a tree that could provide cover. Liu Ji carried all twelve people beneath it, and it had nearly worn him out.
"Come to think of it, those brothers were incredibly fierce." After wiping his face clean, Liu Ji leaned against the trunk and sighed, a hint of puzzlement on his face. "Do we have people that formidable around here?"
"And it looked like they came down from the mountain. What happened up there? I was even thinking of going up to take a look... and then there was an earthquake." Sighing, Liu Ji rubbed his hands together. So cold.
"And why did they run off in such a hurry? Did they have some other urgent matter?"
"...Hm?" Liu Ji suddenly caught sight of something.
Two balls of red light rose out of the darkness.
They resembled the eyes of some creature, gleaming with a sinister air.
He instinctively gripped his longsword.
"Who's there?" He stood and shouted, staring warily at the red lights.
Nothing answered him, yet the red lights drew closer instead.
There was no moonlight tonight. All Liu Ji could see were those red lights, but... that did not stop him from drawing his sword.
He pulled out his longsword and casually tossed the scabbard aside. Liu