Chapter 507 - Squirrel with Mushrooms (2/2)
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The night was deep as water, a round moon hung high in the sky.
Perhaps because of the monsters outside of town, the town was already completely silent once night fell. Under the moonlight, thin demonic aura started rising in the woods out of town.
Lonemoon dragged Shen Ying and Yi Qing out of the town. Searching for that bit of demonic aura that they sensed during the day, they went right towards the woods. There had yet to be any immortal cultivator in this plane, so the best way of publicity was to kill this demon, and let the people in town know what a cultivator was.
He had noticed during the day that the one making trouble in this town was a small demon, whose demonic aura was weak and hid inside these woods. Lonemoon thought at first that they’d spend quite a long time before finding it. Yet within less than two minutes after they entered the woods, a figure came out on its own, and fell on the ground in front of them very deliberately. It bumped onto a stone when it fell, and made a movement toward the side, before letting out a cry of pain.
“Ouch~~~”
Lonemoon: “…”
Shen Ying: “…”
Yi Qing: “…”
Perhaps seeing that the three was indifferent, showing no intention of going forward to help her, that fallen figure laid on the ground without getting up, and then made a louder,
“Ouch, ouch!”
“…”
“Ah, so painful!”
“…”
The three still didn’t move. The figure finally couldn’t help it, turned its head, looked over and reminded them with surprise and a little anger, “Aren’t you… helping me up?”
The three exchanged a look, and then replied at the same time, “No!”
“…” This was different from what I expected!
“What on earth do you want?” Lonemoon gave it a look. Did it think they were blind? Not to mention such affected acting, this was apparently a demon, right? It was okay that it didn’t know how to change to human shape, but couldn’t it at least cover that huge squirrel tail at its back? It was a blatant insult on their IQ, okay?
The squirrel demon froze for a moment, completely unaware that its identity was already exposed. Seeing that they showed no intention of helping, it had to get up on its own. It patted the dirt on its clothes and picked up the bamboo basket on the ground. As though it was scared of exposing its identity, it even pulled the hat on its head, as though scared of exposing its identity. It covered itself in its big coat… except the tail!
“Cough! Thank you, kind people.” It coughed, and continued to speak with a voice innocent and somewhat fluttered, “Since you all helped me, I just happened to have gotten some rare good mushrooms, maybe…”
“We didn’t help you!” Before it could finish, Lonemoon interrupted it directly.
“Eh?” The squirrel demon who was interrupted froze momentarily, and a bit of panic flashed across its face. It ignored his point with a blank face, and summoned up courage to continue acting, “No, you all did help me. Let me sell you my mushrooms. Look, I just picked these!”
With that said, it reached over with the basket in its hands. There was really a basket-full of mushrooms. There was a red type and a white type. The red type showed little bits of demonic aura, while the other one was a spirit herb with spirit qi.
Lonemoon glanced at the squirrel demon, “Which kind of mushroom are you selling?”
The squirrel demon became overjoyed. Its face was written full of the happiness of a plot being successfully carried out. It hurried to produce those red ones and said, “This kind, this kind!” Then it thought about it, took out another white one and added, “This kind needs to be bought too. But you have to eat the red ones first. After waking up in the day, you then eat the white ones. You can’t just buy one kind.”
Lonemoon’s eyes narrowed. “You mean after eating these red ones, one has to spend one night unconscious before waking up?”
“Yeah. But you still have to eat white ones, or you will feel very bad.” The squirrel demon nodded honestly.
“It is so!” Lonemoon nodded. “Is this your first time coming out to cheat people?”