The Sleeping Scorpion Demon's scale tumbled through the air, slowly cleared the courtyard wall, and landed on the street outside.
Xu Yuan
As a little girl who had just turned seven and didn't know its value—
She clapped her hands, turned, and ran back into the house, slamming the door with a bang.
"How could you throw away something so precious!"
Yalita sprang to her feet and made to rush outside.
Xu Yuan held her back.
"An innocent man gets into trouble because he owns a treasure," he said.
"?" Yalita stared at him.
Oh no. She doesn't understand.
"We can't protect it, so we might as well throw it out. That way, other people will fight over it, and they'll know we're under Lord Scorpion Demon's watch," Xu Yuan explained. Yalita was no fool. She understood at once and took her younger sister's hand.
"You really are smarter than me."
Xu Yuan listened quietly to what was happening outside.
Silence.
They were all cautious enough, it seemed.
But with something so tempting right before their eyes, and everyone needing to accumulate Merit to survive, someone would soon lose patience. All he had to do was draw one person into making a grab for it.
After all, I can't fight in public!
"Let's keep eating, little sister. You'll have to look after me from now on," Yalita said.
The sisters sat down at the dinner table.
"Can you call that Monster here now?"
Xu Yuan spoke between bites.
"You mean Lord Demon Scorpion? I can't even find it. How could I call it?" Yalita kept eating without looking up.
Can't find it...
Outside, it was still quiet.
Xu Yuan could already sense murderous intent and probing thoughts weaving back and forth. Everything remained poised to erupt in the silence.
Then—