He had to admit that, ever since meeting this girl, he had found her shrouded in mystery.
The longer he knew her, the more he realized she was not merely mysterious, but extraordinarily clever.
In just one day, with only a few conversations with Jiao Lin and Jiao Chen and a few walks around the village, she had uncovered the entire story from beginning to end.
It was hard not to warm to someone like that. Hadn't he, too, unknowingly lowered his guard around her?
At the same time, he recalled something Yun Huanling had once told him: "Of all the people in this world I could make an enemy of, that little devil is the last one I'd choose."
At that thought, a flicker of amusement crossed Yun Chao's eyes.
A slender hand seized his wrist and tugged him aside, and she snapped at him coldly, "Are you mad? How can you still be daydreaming at a time like this?"
Only then did Yun Chao notice that Jiao Lin had slashed the arm Su Jiu had used to pull him aside.
A trace of guilt flashed through his eyes. He did not need to think to know that Su Jiu had injured her arm while saving him.
Yun Chao immediately grew more focused. Su Jiu said coldly, "Almost this entire stretch of sea is within that fish demon's attack range. Keep watching for water arrows shooting out of the sea."
Even as Su Jiu spoke, over a dozen water arrows hurtled toward them.
They dodged most of them, but each still took a hit. In the instant Su Jiu turned her face aside, one cheek was brutally slashed. Before she could attend to the wound, she was already facing another wave of water arrows.
This volley was denser than