"Were you that eager for me to leave? If I hadn't protected you last night, would you still be alive now?"
"Huh?" Xu Zhiqiu turned and looked around, spotting quite a few venomous snakes lying dead on the ground, chopped into pieces.
The sight was far too bloody and disgusting. Xu Zhiqiu nearly threw up everything she had eaten the night before. The moment the smell reached her nose, her stomach churned, and she hurried into the grass to vomit up yesterday's food.
Seeing how fragile Xu Zhiqiu was, he stood up. "This is an age of war. Monsters and bandits are everywhere. You'll see far bloodier sights in the future."
"Got it." Xu Zhiqiu shouldered her backpack. There were snakes by the river, so it seemed she couldn't stay here long. She needed to find somewhere else.
"Where are you going?"
"Just walking around."
He could only follow behind Xu Zhiqiu as the two of them walked along the river.
A thin mist shrouded the early morning. As sunlight emerged, the mist dispersed, opening up their view.
Xu Zhiqiu stopped in a clearing in the woods not far from the river. She could build a house of her own here.
Once she had made her plans, Xu Zhiqiu looked at the male monster following her. "Can you use demonic power to cut down trees?"
"What for?"
"To build a house." Xu Zhiqiu squinted slightly in the sunlight falling across her face.
"Are you planning to stay alone in the woods and wait for death?"
Leaving with you would be the death of me. Xu Zhiqiu smiled. "Yes, waiting for death."
He laughed, the sound dry, hoarse, and eerie. "Is that so?"
"Yes." Xu Zhiqiu answered readily, but inwardly, she was sweating with apprehension. After all, this fellow wanted to