Gu Rearing

When Geng Ji led his people over, this was what he saw—a fish-tailed Si Jinyan, Chi Li using a cloth to wipe Si Jinyan's tail, a massive Aberrant Form beside them, and an old woman sitting next to it, patting the Aberrant Form again and again.

No matter how he looked at it, the scene was bizarre. If Si Jinyan had not appeared so calm, Geng Ji might have shot it on the spot.

Si Jinyan stared fixedly at Chi Li, who was crouched before him. The tip of his fish tail swayed lightly as he lowered his gaze toward a Scale in front of him. "This part isn't clean yet."

Chi Li raised his head slightly. That Scale was right above him. Unlike the others, it was larger and more... unusual.

Suppressing the urge to punch him, Chi Li wiped away the last bits of Aberrant Form flesh and blood from Si Jinyan's tail. Then he tossed the strip of fabric he had torn from Si Jinyan's pants into his lap. "Do it yourself."

The tip of Si Jinyan's tail swayed twice in grievance.

Geng Ji coughed at just the right moment. "Looks like you've already dealt with it?"

"A lot of Aberrant Forms suddenly sprang up on the way here, so dealing with them took us some time," Geng Ji explained. He pointed at the Aberrant Form in the corner. "What about that one? How should we handle it?" He had assumed they had come to clean up the aftermath.

Si Jinyan recounted what had just happened, along with the information they had obtained from the old woman.

After hearing it, Geng Ji could no longer suppress his anger and burst into curses. "Yao Di is absolutely deranged! He actually used the people in these villages as test