Chapter 12 (1/2)

Chapter 12 Illusions

Wen Kexing had no idea what the dust that Zhou Zishu had sprinkled was but he didn't ask, as if he already knehat the other was capable of He stood beside Zhou Zishu silently Seconds later, the heavy breathing of the slowly approaching beast could be heard The creature see a slow tread It went by a spot that was about ten feet away fro as a pony, black all over It panted through the nose, and in the air was a faint fishy s the air like it was suspicious of so

Zhou Zishu crossed his ar on the wall, eyes narroatching the scene intently

There was a fleeting hint of a s and only there for a split second

The beast was not far away but it had yet to notice the two's presence It stood still for a while thenwatched by two pair of human eyes It followed the smell of blood to the corpses of the underwater , it bellowed, head lowered andhappily—it truly was able to decapitate the hulanced at each other Zhou Zishu was quietly terrified; while he wasn't a coroner, he had been through a lot in life and his knowledge was vast, it was inize a human head Is that creature really human? He mused

If it was, how did it co at a s carefully

The road widened and narrowed in an unpredictable fashi+on After an unknown a asked, ”There are other teeth marks on the bones of those dead monsters, do you think they cannibalize?”

When he wasn't talking nonsense, his voice was low, alth to it, as if he didn't want to waste energy; completed with a hint of indifference He paused, then continued, ”Are they huive e”

”Wen Kexing laughed softly, ”You, shalloledge? Hah”

He didn't ask further and kept walking

After an indefinite ti” appeared again in front of their eyes, Zhou Zishu called out, ”Wait”

Wen Kexing looked back at hi, beautiful Brother Zhou?”

Zhou Zishu knew all too well that reacting would only goad the other on, so he ignored the gibberish ”Those underwater creatures are incredibly strong and fast, and they can move in the water naturally The beast alks on land and is aware that it has to stay away from the river; if it doesn't hunt near the water, how can it catch the round under the to Zhou Zishu, ”How big is this place?”

Why did it feel like the road was never-ending?

Zhou Zishu suddenly spoke after falling into pensiveness ”This river flows from east to west I reh we took a few turns, we're still going in the north-south direction…”

”Youin circles?” Sudden enthusias, he blinked, ”I also heard about this one story where a person…”

Zhou Zishu turned his back to hiertip; then wordlessly left to walk along the host stories being ignored He rubbed his nose, following the other with a smile

Suddenly, they heard a roar that seemed to shake the whole cave In the ed to a child

Zhou Zishu stopped walking

The child's et louder

Zhou Zishu swiftly dashed to that direction, he was ten feet away in just a blink of an eye Wen Kexing didn't get to say what he wanted to, his extending ar his head and following the other

They saw under the claws of the half-dog-half-horse creature was a little girl The big fangs were right next to the girl's pale neck, seeher in the air and struck down at the ed attack was one of his fortes, and the creature was hit right in the head, its whole body knocked and rolled to one side

He picked up the child as only weakly breathing

The beast shook its head with all itshit After a moment, it realized that Zhou Zishu had stolen its food and roared, charging toward hi to throw her to Wen Kexing by instinct but then paused His feet started to e pattern, his body irl down and kept

The beast followed, the stench fro Zhou Zishu ju hi stood there, coirl with an expressionless face

Zhou Zishu used 'The Fall of A Thousand Weight'1 to keep the beast down, but it was a s over to roll—if someone were to roll with it, they would be crushed to dust even if they were e of that to ju at its belly