On her wedding night, she went into exile with her pharmacy arsenal

Chapter 2021 Monster or Divine Beast

Su Shengsheng squatted beside the stone steps, holding a piece of freshly baked pancake in his hand, and handed it to the girl huddled in the corner.

The girl was about fifteen or sixteen, her fingertips still trembling, but she took the cake with the force and whispered, "Can we really leave here?"

"Of course." Su Shengsheng patted the back of her hand and said in a bright voice, "Everyone cheer up, eat your fill, and stay in good spirits."

She was wearing men's clothes and her hair was tied neatly, but her jawline was soft and there was always a hint of warmth in the corners of her eyes when she spoke. The girls had long seen that she was a woman and did not hide it.

Several girls gathered around her, and even the one whose eyes were red from crying slowly had a smile on her face.

"Thank you. If it weren't for you, we would have died in the dark room soon."

The girl leaning against the pillar said softly.

Su Shengsheng looked at her and remembered that she was "Number Seven" and was locked in the dark room with "Number Nine".

Number Nine had been silent the whole time, but now when he heard what Number Seven said, his brows furrowed.

"If you really want to thank me, why not..."

Before he finished speaking, Number Seven's face turned pale.

Su Shengsheng keenly noticed that there was something wrong with their attitudes, as if they were hiding something, something only they knew about.

Just as Su Shengsheng was about to ask, he heard footsteps at the gate of the courtyard.

She thought it was Yan Ruyu who came back. When she turned around, there was a smile in her voice: "Finally you're back. If it's any later..."

Before she could finish her words, her voice mostly faded away.

The person who walked out of the shadows was not Yan Ruyu.

The blue-gray brocade robe was stained with grass debris and dried, darkened blood, and the sword wound on the shoulder had been bandaged.

He had a scimitar hanging around his waist and a cruel smile on his lips. He was Zhou Lie, who was supposed to be tied to the pine tree by Huo Changhe.

Several of his men followed behind him, their hands on the hilts of the swords at their waists, their eyes as cold as ice.

The girls surrounding Su Shengsheng fell silent in an instant.

The shoulders that had been stretched out just now shrank back again. The cake in someone's hand fell to the ground with a slight sound, but no one dared to pick it up. They just lowered their heads, their shoulders shaking uncontrollably.

Su Shengsheng stood up and took two steps forward, standing in front of the girls.

Her brows knitted, her eyes filled with confusion. She had witnessed the situation with her own eyes. When Huo Changhe ordered his men to tie up Zhou Lie, he deliberately made two extra detours. How could Zhou Lie be alright? And how could he even bring his men here?

"What are you going to do?" Su Shengsheng's voice turned cold, and the original warmth disappeared, leaving only tense anger.

Zhou Lie took two steps forward and stopped three steps away from her. His laughter was filled with ferocity. "I should be the one asking you this. This island is my territory. You guys broke in, smashed my house, and killed my people. Do you really think you can just let this go?"

"You damned dog!" Su Shengsheng's voice suddenly rose, anger brimming from his eyes. "You chose to be a good person and do such vicious things! These girls, some of them are only thirteen or fourteen years old, how could you have the heart to hurt them? Have you lost your conscience?"

Zhou Lie's eyes swept across the girls. His gaze was as cold as a knife. Whoever he swept across would shrink back a little.

He spoke slowly, "I'll give them a chance to live. Now that they've come to my side, I'll pretend that what happened today never happened. If they refuse to come..."

He paused and tapped his fingertips on the hilt of the knife: "Then die here now."

Su Shengsheng immediately turned around and whispered to the girls, "Don't be afraid, I'm here to protect you. He won't dare touch you."

Her voice was soft, but her tone was full of determination, like a reassurance. The girls who were originally trembling, clutching the corners of their clothes with their fingers, slowly stopped trembling.

Zhou Lie looked at this scene and suddenly burst into laughter. After laughing, his eyes became even colder: "Just you? You don't know what you can do. You came to me today, so it's just right. I'll arrest you too, so I don't have to look for you again."

Su Shengsheng's anger surged again, and she puffed out her chest: "Do you know who I am? My father is..."

"Of course I know." Zhou Lie interrupted her before she could finish, his tone full of sarcasm, "Your father is Su Zhenhai, the governor of Rongzhou, right? But so what? If I kill you on this island and throw you to feed the fish, who would know it was me?

Besides, Su Zhenhai himself is a coward. Even if he knew, he wouldn't dare to offend the Liu family."

"You're talking nonsense!" Su Shengsheng was so angry that her voice trembled, and the anger in her eyes was almost burning. She clenched her fists, and her knuckles turned white from the force, but she did not rush forward like usual - she knew that she could not be impulsive now, and there was a group of girls behind her to protect.

The air suddenly became tense and even the wind seemed to have stopped.

The mockery in Zhou Lie's eyes grew stronger. Just as he was about to say something else, a weak female voice suddenly rang out from behind him, as thin as a mosquito's buzz: "We...if we go over now, will you really spare our lives?"

When that voice came out, everyone was stunned.

Su Shengsheng turned around and saw that the person who spoke was girl number seven. She lowered her head, her fingers tightly grasping the hem of her skirt, and her shoulders were still shaking slightly.

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Mu Wan was holding the silver ingot by his arm, with the tip of the hairpin against his neck.

He couldn't help but tremble in his voice. "What kind of monster is that Long Xing? Why are you so nervous about it? It doesn't matter what it eats, why would it make you so angry?"

Mu Wan's nails were almost digging into the silver ingot's flesh. His eyes were bloodshot and his voice rose a few notches with an almost insane urgency: "What do you know? It's not a monster! It's a divine beast! It's a divine beast that can travel a hundred miles in the water in an instant!

Have you ever seen a monster that can find treasure underwater? It can! It has an innate ability to know where the good things are hidden. Only it can find treasures that have been buried deep underwater for hundreds of years!

Her words fell into Yan Ruyu's ears, and Yan Ruyu's mind moved slightly.

Looking for treasure underwater?

She suddenly remembered the Liu family's mysterious water god sacrifice, with the formation and chanting, which made a grand scene. At that time, she thought they wanted to do something in the name of sacrifice. Now, hearing what Mu Wan said, the hidden truth seemed to be greater than they thought.

Were those sacrifices just a facade? A cover-up to conceal the truth? Their real purpose was to release the mythical beast, Long Xing, into the water to retrieve something?

Yan Ruyu raised her eyes to look at Huo Changhe, who happened to be looking at her as well. Their eyes met in the air, and they didn't speak, but they both read confusion and understanding in each other's eyes - this matter must not be that simple.

Huo Changhe took a half step forward, his tone steady, not too emotional, but with a hint of probing: "Such a big island, you've gone to so much trouble, enclosing the land and sending people to guard it, just to raise a monster?

If it's really that precious, it shouldn't be so fragile, right? Even if I eat something wrong, I'll just feel full and it will pass. How can it be a big deal?"