nashuaworldcup Chapter 489: The Hunt
Chapter 489: The Hunt
"So you were singing that day, but why didn't you take action yourself?" Chen Futu frowned as he stared at Liu Longyue.
Liu Longyue said arrogantly, "Your performance has made my life more interesting for more than ten years, and you are destined to be the one to destroy the Great Qian Dynasty, so how could you die like that? Until later, I was thinking about how to get close to you and investigate your secrets. It turns out that you are hiding a huge secret, and your civil and military officials are not from this world. Am I right?"
Chen Futu was extremely shocked by Liu Longyue's words, but he could only pretend to be confused and neither admit nor deny it.
“It doesn’t matter if you don’t admit it. I came to your side in person that day. You are just like me, stubborn and self-willed, and often have a woman’s soft heart. Since you didn’t lay a hand on me, I won’t kill you. Besides, I think you are quite interesting. The days in the Northern Frontier were the happiest time in my more than ten years of desolate life. Until the day you got the key, I knew I would have to leave the Northern Frontier.”
Upon hearing Liu Longyue's words, Chen Futu rebuked her, "So, you're just taking advantage of my tolerance towards you."
"Chen Futu, aren't you using me to control Beiwu? You even dare to dream of obtaining the Ancestral Temple? What a joke."
Liu Longyue snorted, her phoenix eyes filled with undisguised mockery. She spread her hands, exuding an air of magnanimity, "I have finally led the Northern Wu to the Central Plains. This is the test of the Ancestral Temple. I have brought hope to the people of the Northern Wu. The Ancestral Temple is now mine."
Chen Futu curled his lip. "So, you've tied the fate of the nation to the ancient temple."
"I am a member of the Ancient Palace, and everything I have done is to help the Ancient Palace stand at its peak again. Chen Futu, I did not want to kill you, so why did you seek your own death? I begged my father to spare your life, and even went so far as to put on an act to let you go, but you chose to die. Don't blame me."
"Tch, all talk and no action. You think you're so kind?"
"In what way am I inferior to Qin Liangyu!"
Liu Longyue's sudden question left Chen Futu completely bewildered.
Guan Xing's eyes widened as well.
At this moment, Liu Longyue was somewhat out of control, even appearing exasperated.
Ding!
[Emotional fluctuations detected in Liu Longyue. Please lick her to try and save your life.]
"Get the hell out of here."
Chen Futu subconsciously brought up Liu Longyue's favorability panel.
Good grief, still only 100% favorability. No wonder she's so angry.
So she was just putting on an act in northern Xinjiang, and she even invested her own feelings in it.
Or perhaps, she was born with a mission, and then she grew tired and weary from the intrigues and power struggles in Beiwu.
Once she entered the Northern Frontier, life became more leisurely, and she grew to like the peaceful life. After all, she was the nominal Princess of the Northern Frontier, and most of the time no one restricted her.
Seeing that Chen Futu remained silent, Liu Longyue took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the agitation in her heart. "I'm giving you one last chance. Submit or die. Choose one."
Why does this sound so familiar to Chen Futu?
Guan Xing muttered, "You two really are a perfect couple; you speak in exactly the same tone."
Chen Futu said sullenly, "Your Majesty, I am ready to die, but I have only one last request, please grant it."
"Don't worry, I will turn you into a corpse puppet and keep you by my side forever." Liu Longyue uttered these sinister words without hesitation.
Chen Futu felt a chill and muttered, "I mean, can you please not be so perverted?"
"Enough with the nonsense, what are your demands?"
“I have some things in Niujiao Village that I want to retrieve for you personally. Don’t worry, you can take them with you. I can’t escape. Once you get the things, you can execute me immediately.”
Chen Futu started digging the pit.
Liu Longyue hesitated for a moment, then finally nodded.
She didn't believe that Chen Futu and Guan Xing could escape when surrounded by so many powerful figures.
Soon, Chen Futu and Guan Xing were pushed to the front of the group, with a dense crowd of powerful figures watching them from behind, as they marched towards Niujiao Village.
Liu Longyue sat in a dragon-drawn carriage, carried by sixteen martial emperors, the carriage brimming with sturdy armor.
The Copper Armor Corpse and the Drought Demon followed Chen Futu and Guan Xing like two fools. If their master died, they would both fall into the hands of the Ancient Palace. Therefore, Tong Shan was not worried at all. With him personally in charge, the Great Sage Emperor was bound to die.
The group of powerful individuals quickened their pace and soon arrived near Niujiao Village.
Chen Futu glanced at the dark village and asked the system, "Are you sure you've visualized it?"
[Confirmed. Please be careful, host.]
Chen Futu's heart skipped a beat, and he transmitted his voice to Guan Xing, "Stay close to me. There's something strange about this village. This is our chance to escape."
"Could His Majesty have arranged a backup plan?"
"Don't ask, I'm afraid you'll be scared."
Chen Futu smiled mysteriously, and as he spoke, a gust of cold wind blew out of the village, causing the powerful figures present to shiver inexplicably.
The pitch-black night was like a monstrous beast lurking in the abyss, capable of devouring everyone.
Tong Shan immediately stopped the group. He stared at the village and said seriously, "Something's not right. Something's very, very wrong."
As the strongest being, Tong Shan could clearly sense a trace of unease, a feeling he hadn't experienced in many years—the aura of death.
Liu Longyue asked from inside the dragon carriage, "Why are we stopping?"
"Your Majesty, there might be an ambush in the village. Perhaps we shouldn't go in," a Martial Venerable expert advised, feeling a chill run down his spine.
Liu Longyue glanced at the village and said unhappily, "You call yourselves martial artists? With so many people here, what are you afraid of?"
There are nine Martial Venerables present, including three peak Martial Venerables and even one Cloud-Piercing Realm expert. Even if there is an ambush, there is no need to be afraid.
So the crowd, in a grand procession, escorted the dragon into Niujiao Village.
The village was eerily quiet. In a normal village, even without candlelight at night, there should be sounds of insects chirping and birds singing, but now there was no sound at all, like a dead village, which was inexplicably creepy.
Ding!
[Host detected entering Ox Horn Village, Corpse Anecdotes begins]
As soon as the system voice finished speaking, gusts of cold wind blew out from the depths of the village, carrying a strange, fishy smell.
"ah!"
Guan Xing, having witnessed something, suddenly darted behind Chen Futu, trembling all over.
"What are you doing!" Tong Shan roared in fury. "Chen Futu, didn't you say you wanted to retrieve something? Get it done right now, so we can send you on your way!"
Chen Futu smiled and said, "We'll get there soon. The things are at someone's house."
"keep going."
Liu Longyue didn't find anything strange. As she said before, with so many powerful figures around, Chen Futu couldn't defy the heavens.
As the group ventured deeper into the village, a light mist rose around them, and something seemed to be swaying back and forth in the air.
Guan Xing clung tightly to Chen Futu's arm, his voice trembling as he transmitted a message: "Your Majesty, I sense there are ghosts in the village."
"What nonsense?"
Chen Futu knew that she had discovered the embodiment of Chu Jiangliu from the system. The system had said that the embodied Corpse Anecdotes would not contain ghosts or monsters; it was a living person, just with too high a cultivation level or a somewhat frightening appearance.
As they were talking, a commotion suddenly arose at the back of the line: "Where are they?!"
"Your Majesty, two people are missing!"