Chapter 3657 — What Did You Say?
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
"As you command!" Having received his orders, Meng Jiuming raised his hand and sent a burst of fierce energy that shattered the restrictive spell on Wei Zhao's cave dwelling outright. With his strength at the peak of the early Foundation Establishment stage, such a feat was naturally child's play for him.
"Xiao Bai! Xiao Bai Bai!" Shangguan Lan'er rushed in without a moment's delay.
Meng Jiuming and Meng Zhou exchanged a smile of conspirators whose scheme had succeeded, and followed her inside.
As far as the two of them were concerned, matters had now progressed to the point where Wei Zhao was as good as dead. To do away with Shangguan Lan'er's spirit pet—what a monstrous crime that was!
Never mind the Welcome Pavilion—even across the whole of the North Island of Cloud Terrace Island, he would not have the slightest foothold left! With any luck they would truss him up and hand him straight over to the spirit beast clan of the South Island, to pay for a life with a life!
Yet when they saw the scene inside the cave dwelling, Meng Jiuming and Meng Zhou's jaws dropped in an instant.
"Woo woo! Woo woo!" That little Curl-Curl Bear, which ought to have been on the verge of death, was now bouncing about merrily, clinging to Wei Zhao, showing not the slightest sign of injury or weakness. From the look of it, it was actually playing happily with Wei Zhao? What on earth was going on?
"Xiao Bai, you're all right?" Shangguan Lan'er, who had been too frightened by Meng Jiuming and the other to even open her eyes, finally came to her senses. Joy was written plainly across the girl's face, and the heart that had been hanging in suspense at last settled back into place.
"Woo woo!" At the sight of Shangguan Lan'er, the little Curl-Curl Bear immediately sprang down from Wei Zhao in high spirits and scurried nimbly up onto Shangguan Lan'er's back on its stubby little legs, its movements so agile it was almost absurd. Did this look like a creature injured and at death's door?
Behind them, Meng Jiuming and Meng Zhou could only exchange bewildered glances, and Meng Zhou blurted out in sheer disbelief, "Good heavens! How is that possible! It was clearly badly hurt and about to die—I did it myself, don't I know... gah!"
Meng Jiuming clapped a hand over his mouth at once, while Shangguan Lan'er turned her head and looked at him with deep suspicion: "What did you say?"
"Uh..." At this moment Meng Zhou wished he could cut out his own tongue with a knife. What a wretched mouth he had! Was this the sort of thing one could just let slip? A life was at stake here!
Fortunately, Meng Jiuming was quick-witted. Sensing the danger, he hastened to answer, "Indeed! We saw the situation with our own eyes at the time—how could we not know?"
"Is that so?" Shangguan Lan'er looked the two of them over, half believing and half doubting, but she did not take it much to heart. At this moment only one thing mattered to her: that the little Curl-Curl Bear was unharmed.
Phew! Only then did Meng Jiuming breathe a sigh of relief, and he shot Meng Zhou a venomous glare. Thank goodness this young lady was easy to fool—otherwise, if the truth had come tumbling out, he would have been dragged down along with him.
As for Meng Zhou, he was by now close to collapsing to the ground in fright, clamping his hand tightly over his mouth and not daring to utter another sound.
Uneasy, Shangguan Lan'er picked up the little Curl-Curl Bear and examined it from head to toe. Though the creature was lively as could be, the large footprint on its chest was still plainly visible. Recalling what Meng Jiuming and the other had said, she turned to Wei Zhao and demanded furiously, "Hey! Was it you who kicked Xiao Bai in the chest?"
"No. When I found it, it already had that footprint on it," Wei Zhao denied, shaking his head.