"But before we save them, we need to make more thorough preparations."
Having calmed down, Gu Changming immediately added this.
Xu Taiping nodded slightly.
"Of course."
As he spoke, he had already opened the Divine Soul Mark in his mind.
In an instant, another image surfaced in his mind.
The scene in that image was none other than the little hillside where the old locust tree stood.
Except that, in the image, a young girl and a big yellow dog were lying on the hillside's cliff face.
A closer look revealed that they were Cuicui and her Big Yellow.
"Big Yellow, why did you make me lie here in the grass?"
Just then, Cuicui suddenly asked Big Yellow beside her in a whisper.
Big Yellow gave two soft whines.
Seemingly understanding, Cuicui said with a look of surprise:
"You're saying those two are bad people?"
Big Yellow whined twice again.
Cuicui's glossy black eyes immediately widened.
"You're saying they plan to put drugs in the river to poison us?!"
Big Yellow nodded vigorously.
Though Xu Taiping was very surprised that Cuicui could understand Big Yellow, what surprised him even more was naturally the content of their conversation.
Cuicui asked quietly then:
"Then what should we do, Big Yellow?"
Big Yellow gave several whines in a strange tone.
After listening, Cuicui nodded thoughtfully.
"You're right. We need to tell Grandpa about this first, then have Grandpa tell the Village Chief."
As she spoke, Cuicui seemed tired of lying there, so she shifted her position.
But the moment she moved her arm, a small pebble beneath her rolled off the cliff with a clack.
The two mountain bandits crouching beside a stream below the cliff immediately turned their heads in unison.
The two were precisely the mountain bandits Big Tiger and Li