Caught You Again, Zhu Zhuqing

Fat Guga precisely locked onto a figure in the crowd.

"Gugugaga!"

An excited cry rang out.

Hearing it, Zhu Zhuqing, who had been walking alone down the street, shuddered all over.

A sense of dread instantly rose in her heart.

Dead memories began elbowing violently at her cerebral cortex.

She did not even have time to take a step and flee.

Before she felt a pair of short, chubby little hands with astonishing strength grab her waist and hoist her upward!

Her body instantly left the ground, and she was forcibly propped atop a round, rolling forehead.

"It's you again! Let me go! Let me go!"

Zhu Zhuqing was shocked and embarrassed.

This was just like six years ago.

Only now, she understood shame. She felt like an overturned turtle, limbs flailing in the air.

She struggled with all her strength, even using Soul Power.

But Fat Guga's fat was not just for show. Its strength was absurdly terrifying.

No matter how Zhu Zhuqing twisted and struggled, she could not move it in the slightest.

It simply held up the constantly struggling Zhu Zhuqing, waddling on its short little legs as it proudly ran toward Lin Xiao's group.

All the passing pedestrians on the street were dumbfounded. They stopped and stared, their faces full of disbelief.

A girl in black was actually being carried off in broad daylight by a cute, chubby penguin?

Had the world really gone this mad?

Even penguins were becoming human traffickers?

In a corner of the crowd, several groups that hung around Suotuo City, specializing in tricking newcomers and doing shady business, looked at one another.

Good grief... were their competitors this ruthless now?

We still had to sweet-talk people into secluded corners before daring to make a move.

And this thing was just snatching people off the street!

You're unbeatable! Who could compete with you?

Everyone silently made up their minds: Fuck it! We're quitting!

Even non-humans were getting in on the competition for food, and they were bolder than us. What the hell were we still doing this for? Might as well go home and farm!

"Gugugaga! Boss!"

"Let go of me!"

A cool female voice, tinged with embarrassment and anger, followed close behind.

Lin Xiao, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu, who had been walking while looking for a hotel, paused at the sound and turned around in unison.

"!!!"

Fat Guga abruptly slammed on the brakes. Its flesh, along with the girl's flesh above it, jiggled several times.

Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu's eyes nearly popped out as they stared fixedly at the other girl's two full, round mounds.

Ning Rongrong subconsciously raised her hands and gestured in front of herself twice. After comparing them, her defenses instantly shattered.

Jealousy twisted her features beyond recognition.

Her little face fell as she muttered softly, "How could they be so big... Did she grow up eating feed?"

Xiao Wu was also full of envy, but when she looked at Ning Rongrong, her expression became confident again.

"Rongrong, it's okay. Small ones are cute too~"

Ning Rongrong's brows shot up, her cheeks puffed out, and her index and middle fingers jabbed forward.

"Ahhh!! My eyes!! I'm going blind! Wuwuwuwu—"

Xiao Wu clutched her aching eye sockets and let out a miserable wail.

Zhu Zhuqing covered her face, her ears burning red. She felt too ashamed to face anyone.

The corner of Lin Xiao's mouth twitched slightly.

"Fat Guga, put her down first."

"Guga! Boss! She's an old friend, Guga!"

As it spoke, Fat Guga did as it always did and directly tossed her forward.

"Splat—!"

Caught off guard, Zhu Zhuqing once again fell face-first onto the ground.

She even bounced twice with a "Duang~ Duang~."

I'm tired... Just destroy the world already...

Lin Xiao was helpless too. Getting Fat Guga's short little arms to put someone down steadily really seemed to be a difficult task.

The key was that it could not reach!

Lin Xiao extended his hand.

Zhu Zhuqing hesitated for a moment, then raised her hand and took his. Using the strength from his palm, she awkwardly got to her feet.

"Zhu Zhuqing?"

"Mm..."

The girl buried her head in her chest, her voice as faint as a mosquito's buzz.

Literally buried in it...

Lin Xiao changed the subject, breaking the awkward atmosphere.

"What a coincidence. I didn't expect us to meet again."

"Mm, I was planning to go to Shrek Academy to find someone."

"What a coincidence? We're going to Shrek Academy too! We can go together!"

Ning Rongrong said with a smile, acting as though she had known Zhu Zhuqing forever.

Zhu Zhuqing looked at them and sighed inwardly.

She had fled the Star Luo Empire alone and traveled all the way to Suotuo City just to enroll in Shrek Academy and find Dai Mubai. She had never expected to run into these two again after six years.

And they were both going to join Shrek Academy as well.

Could this really be a fated bond decreed by heaven?

Xiao Wu, still crying beside them, curiously poked her little head over and looked back and forth among the three of them, her face full of confusion.

"Boss, you know each other?"

"Mm. We met when we went to the Star Luo Empire before. Just like now, she was carried back by Fat Guga."

After Lin Xiao finished speaking, Ning Rongrong eagerly chimed in.

"That's right! That day was so exciting! See that silver hairpin on Zhuqing's head? Lin Xiao gave it to her."

Zhu Zhuqing subconsciously touched the hairpin on her head.

She did not know why, but ever since it had been shoved into her hand six years ago, she had liked it more and more. She could not bear to throw it away, so she had worn it ever since.

Afterward, everyone got to know one another.

With Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu, two terminal cases of social butterfly syndrome, the group quickly hit it off.

Lin Xiao smiled.

"Let's go. Keep looking for a hotel."

They continued onward.

Before long, they passed the famous Rose Grand Hotel.

"Bang!!"

A battered figure was sent flying out of the hotel at just that moment!

He rolled across the ground several times before finally stopping.

Lin Xiao raised an eyebrow. Well, they had arrived just in time. He quickly signaled everyone to stop and watch the show.

But when Zhu Zhuqing saw the man's face clearly, her pupils constricted.

Dai Mubai?

She was about to step forward to see what was going on.

But before she could move, two pretty figures had already rushed out first.

A pair of identical twin girls hurried over and carefully helped Dai Mubai, who had fallen to the ground, to his feet. Their voices were full of concern.

"Young Master Dai, are you okay?"

Dai Mubai clutched his chest and coughed violently several times. His face was ugly, and there was a faint bruise at the corner of his mouth.

He gritted his teeth and forced himself to save face.

"Cough, cough, cough... I was careless. You had no martial virtue, attacking below the belt! Otherwise, I definitely would have won!"

The twin girls gently dusted him off and comforted him in soft voices.

Zhu Zhuqing's gaze turned icy, and her fists clenched tightly.

So this was why you ran away?

And twins too. You really know how to have fun.

Just then, an ordinary-looking man in blue walked out.

"Thanks for letting me win."

"Tang San, I'll be waiting for you at Shrek Academy. When the time comes, I... Hm?"

Before he could finish speaking, Dai Mubai's expression changed. Ignoring the pain from his injuries, he swiftly turned his head. His gaze pierced through the crowd and locked directly onto Zhu Zhuqing, who stood not far away.

A resonance from my Martial Soul? Who is she?

Tang San followed Dai Mubai's gaze.

With just that one look, his eyes instantly turned bloodshot, and he began panting like a bull.

Last time, his father had told him that these penguins had gone to the back mountain.

Not only had they dug open his mother's grave, they had taken everything stored inside, leaving not even her body behind.

This was simply the greatest humiliation imaginable!!

Unable to suppress the surging rage in his heart any longer, Tang San roared sharply:

"!!! Stinking penguin! I'll take your life!"

His hands swept rapidly across the Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moon Night at his waist, and countless flashes of cold light suddenly burst forth.

Throwing knives, willow-leaf blades, and bone-piercing nails shot through the air one after another.