Night.
Cui Hao crouched in the withered yellow grass and asked Lin Luoyu beside him in a low voice:
"Fourth Senior Sister... is this really going to work?"
Lin Luoyu said calmly, "If you think it won't, why didn't you raise an objection with Eldest Senior Sister when we were first making the plan?"
Cui Hao followed his heart without hesitation. "What a thing to say. Because I didn't dare, obviously."
"And now you dare change the plan halfway through?"
"Not really..."
"Then what's the point of saying all this?"
"To complain, obviously. Didn't you complain about your superiors when you worked before?"
Lin Luoyu glanced sideways at him, only to see Cui Hao staring ahead with a grave expression, utterly focused.
That solemn expression had absolutely nothing to do with the words coming out of his mouth.
She chuckled. "Are you scared?"
Cui Hao said gravely, "I am not!"
The place where the two of them crouched was called-Desolate Ridge.
It lay near the western edge of the Black Tortoise Kingdom, three provinces away from Yuzhou City.
Since ancient times, people could be misjudged, but places were never misnamed.
Desolate Ridge was indeed thoroughly desolate.
Yuzhou City at least had trees. Even trees were a rare sight here.
Most of what grew here was slightly withered, yellow grass.
Some lands simply could not sustain people: droughts, sandstorms, rockfalls.
There was no fertile soil to speak of, only dry, stony ground.
If you dared plant crops, they dared die.
But desolation was relative, too.
To humans, this place was remote and useless, short of clothing and food, no good destination.
But for demons at the bottom of the heap...
This desolate land was fertile ground.
For no other reason than that there were no people.
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