Chapter 261 : You Rock, Highgod! 11 (1/2)

Once she’d killed the first porcupine, several more popped up beside her.

Their original plan had been to wait for her to take the bait. But now Shi Sheng had simplykilled it, so they couldn’t sit still any longer and jumped out, glaring at her fiercely.

Shi Sheng flicked her sword to clean the filth off it before her calm gaze swept over the porcupines that had her surrounded.

‘With only this many people—Pei!—PORCUPINES, you want to rob me? In your dreams!’

The porcupines’ attacks were a bit weird. They were surprisingly able to shoot out poisoned quills. But these attacks were useless against Shi Sheng, so she managed to kill them relatively easily.

All the creatures Shi Sheng came across subsequently used the exact same bloody tactic.

First, they would bait her into approaching. And if that didn’t work, they’d attack anyway with all their group members. But since their attacks were so weak, Shi Sheng just chose to avoid encountering them because she felt that dealing with them all was a waste of energy.

Shi Sheng walked for an indeterminate length of time before she finally met a human.

Well… a half-dead one.

It was a girl. Her face still held some hints of immaturity, so Shi Sheng concluded she couldn’t be older than 12 or 13. But she appeared to be on her last breaths, as if she could croak at any minute.

Shi Sheng squatted beside her and searched her body. There was only a single letter on her person. The handwriting on the envelope was so illegible that Shi Sheng didn’t feel like making the effort to read the letter inside..

She didn’t open the letter, instead stuffing it back into the girl’s clothes. She pondered for a bit before carrying the girl towards a distant cliff.

……

The girl woke up from the pain.

The first thing she saw upon opening her eyes was a sword gleaming with cold light, her pale face clearly reflected on its razor sharp blade. She could feel a warm stickiness oozing down from where the sword’s tip was pushed against her neck..

‘This person wants to kill me?!’

“Well, you woke up fast.” Shi Sheng shifted her sword aside. Had the girl not woken up at that moment, she’d have become a corpse by now.

The girl’s face paled even further in terror, her lips trembling as she looked up at Shi Sheng with tearful eyes steeped in despair.

Shi Sheng, “…” ‘Is my(lz) appearance that scary? I don’t get the aesthetic senseof the people or animals here…’

“Do you know where Dong Jing is?” Shi Sheng began approaching the girl. The bloodied girl jerked back like a startled bird.

No matter how Shi Sheng questioned her, the girl had no other reaction besides fear. She didn’t make a single peep despite clearly being quite terrified.

It was then that Shi Sheng discovered the girl was a mute…

‘Oh come on!’

Fortunately, the girl knew how to write. So after Shi Sheng repeatedly expressed that she had no interest in killing her, the girl wrote out an answer in some crooked handwriting.

Great Desert City.

‘With a name like that, it ought to be a pretty important city in The Great Desert. With Dong Jing’s status, living there is…normal, I guess.’

The young girl had experienced the death of her whole family at the hands of their clan’s enemies. She was the sole survivor. She had brought the poorly written letter along in her travels as she was planning on seeking shelter with a family friend. This person just so happened to also be staying in Great Desert City.

As thanks for giving her information about Dong Jing’s whereabouts, Shi Sheng brought the girl along with her.

But the sight that greeted them when they got there was a city full of corpses and rivers of blood. The smell of decay was so thick, it seemed like it could suffocate you.

Several carnivorous devil beasts were gorging on the corpses in the city, making the scene look even more savage and brutal.

Shi Sheng, “…”

‘This development’s completely out of script! Let me(bbb) digest this for a bit…’

[Side Quest: Stop Dong Jing. Auto-accepted.]

‘What? What side quest? Why isn’t it a hidden quest? And what’s with stopping Dong Jing? Bet you’re just having a ball with this, ain’t ya?’