83 Want To Dance? (2/2)

Truly admirable speed, but what was she doing?

Hongyue proceeded to destroy the section of the royal garden, her eyes focused on the flowers before her. Her fingers moved quickly as she continued to act in anger. Every petal she touched was imprinted with a drop of her blood— a blood hex.

When she was 'admiring' the purple flower in her hand, she was actually keeping her eyes on the dewdrop on the curve of the petals. Whatever the water was able to reflect within the surface was like information fed into Hongyue's mind. From that, she was able to spot two shadowy figures in the trees, one behind the lower wall of the entrance, and three behind 2 different sections of the garden around her.

In the beginning, they started off quite far away. Each was keeping their eyes on her, and their stances were quite lax. It didn't appear like their motives were to kill, their goal was probably to keep their eye on her possible weakness. It would be possible these rats were following their first set of given instructions.

However, as she talked with Jiayi, she could see something wrong at once. Near the bushes of flowers, one of the dark figures moved extremely close to the other one. With a quick movement, the second one was overwhelmed and fell out of perception.

Danger.

As she continued talking, it seemed to be happening to all of the figures in their hiding spots. As she continued to keep her eyes concentrated on the commotion, her breath stopped. On the back on the newly arrived attackers' left ears, there was a black dot. She almost didn't see it.

Her eyes narrowed at once.

They were getting replaced.

Her heart jumped.

Oh, it appears like there was a crow in this palace after all. Her story was not told in vain. Most likely, the crow who wanted to get rid of her.

This quickly? She must be a larger threat than she originally thought.

Since everything was shifting so fast before her eyes, just how can she play quietly in an event like this?

Hongyue sighed inwardly.

Looks like she needed to make a different move than planned just in case. Feigning anger, she was working to set up another entanglement trap for her safety.

As Hongyue released another handful of petals in her hand, she concentrated on the air around her. Breathing in, she cleared her mind. Pulling the movement of the air toward her, her lips moved.

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The flow of the wind was instantly changed. Just like the first batch of petals, these petals floated about as if at random. However, the ones with the markings of her blood hovered closely to the hidden figures in the garden.

Turning her head to Jiayi, Hongyue suddenly grinned, ”Want to dance?”