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His voice wasn't loud, but it pierced the cold wind clearly, reaching everyone's ears:
“Fellow residents of Willow Village, the three of us are only staying here temporarily. We have no ill intentions toward Willow Village. We will leave once the snowstorm has subsided.”
His words were met with deathly silence.
The villagers looked at each other, their wariness undiminished.
No one answered, no one dared to believe it.
In the end, it was the old village chief, whose back was covered by a tortoise shell, who broke the deadlock.
He swept his cloudy yet steady gaze over Lu Mingfei and the other two, and tapped his cane lightly on the frozen ground, making a dull knocking sound.
“Ahem…Guests are always welcome.” The old tortoise’s voice was hoarse and aged. “Since the guest has indicated that he is staying temporarily, then…let’s enter the village.”
He paused, his gaze sweeping over the village's simple, cramped stone houses and huts, and added:
"The houses in the village are simple and already full. If you want to stay, you will have to find a place to build your own shelter."
“No problem.” Lu Mingfei agreed readily.
Within the invisible cage woven by the villagers' complex and wary gazes, Lu Mingfei, Teal, and Witt entered Willow Village.
Lu Mingfei's gaze quickly swept across the layout of the village, finally landing on a relatively sheltered open space backed by a tall, hard stone wall.
He pointed to the stone wall and said to Tyr beside him, whose expression was indifferent:
"Till, please use your abilities to carve a cave in this rock wall. The three of us will stay here for the next few days."
"Roar—!" Witt's pent-up discontent erupted instantly.
He took a step forward, his thick, scaly tail lashing the ground irritably, splashing up snow.
He glared at Lu Mingfei, two thick puffs of white air billowing from his nostrils, his voice like muffled thunder:
"You bastard! How dare you order Lord Tyr around doing such menial work for you?! Do you really think Lord Tyr is your servant?!"
"Shut up, Witt." Tiel's voice wasn't loud, but it carried an undeniable, cold authority that instantly extinguished Witt's anger.
The lizardman's massive body froze abruptly. He could only let out a resentful growl and retreat angrily to the side.
Its scaly feet stomped the ground with a dull thud, and its eyes glared fiercely at Lu Mingfei, filled with primal savagery.
Lu Mingfei, however, seemed not to hear Witt's low growl.
His gaze calmly fell on the lizardman, a faint smile even playing at the corners of his lips:
"Witt, is it? It seems you're quite unhappy with me?"
"So what if it is?!" Witt retorted, his neck stiff, making no attempt to hide his hostility, his thick arms bulging with muscles.
“In that case,” Lu Mingfei’s voice suddenly turned cold, his eyes sharp as knives, “I also have something I want to teach you.”
Before he could finish speaking, Witt felt an irresistible, immense force instantly seize his body!
Before he could even react, the scene before his eyes began to spin wildly and blur, and all he could hear was the howling wind!
His massive body was as if it had been violently thrown up by an invisible giant hand, soaring straight into the sky!
"Ugh—!" The terrified scream was instantly torn apart by the gale-force winds high in the sky.
In the blink of an eye, Witt had been thrown thousands of meters into the air.
The vast Willow Village below shrank to a tiny gray dot, and a biting chill instantly enveloped him.
He struggled, only to find that the strength he was so proud of seemed so insignificant in the face of the high altitude.
Lu Mingfei's authoritative and icy voice rang in his ears with perfect clarity, like a divine decree:
"As a dog, you've provoked me time and time again. Do you really think I have no temper?!"
The next moment, before Witt could recover from the despair of falling from the sky, his vision blurred again!
As if space itself had been folded, Lu Mingfei's figure appeared before him like a ghost!
boom--!
A deep, chilling explosion rang out in the sky!
Lu Mingfei delivered a powerful kick in mid-air, like a dragon swinging its tail, striking Witt squarely in the chest and abdomen!
That terrifying power, enough to split mountains and shatter rocks, erupted instantly!
"Pfft—!" Witt spat out a mouthful of blood mist mixed with fragments of internal organs.
His powerful body, like a boulder launched from a catapult, vanished as a blurry afterimage.
It tore through the air at an astonishing speed and crashed down onto the vast snowfield several kilometers away!
Rumble——! ! !
A deep, thunderous roar came from afar, blasting snow dozens of meters high.
It formed a huge snow pit, and the shockwave even traveled back to Willow Village, causing the willow branches at the village entrance to tremble violently.
Within the village, all the villagers who witnessed this scene,
Sheena, Liv, the three Batian brothers, and the old village chief were all horrified, as if they had been nailed to the spot by invisible ice spikes!
At the edge of the pit, Tyr's golden pupils narrowed slightly, but her face remained almost coldly calm.
Lu Mingfei's figure did not land.
He seemed to be walking down an invisible staircase, strolling leisurely down from thousands of meters in the air, his clothes fluttering in the wind, like a god descending to earth.
His gaze was like lightning, finally hovering about ten meters in the air in front of Tiel, looking down at her condescendingly:
"Keep your dog under control."
"There won't be a next time."
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Having said that, he didn't look at Tyr again, and moved slightly.
He unleashed the Void Soaring Dragon Step once more, his entire being seemingly merging into the wind, instantly vanishing from his spot and leaving only a faint afterimage in the air.
Tiel remained silent, her face expressionless, as if the one who had just been kicked away was not her guard.
She simply turned around calmly and faced the hard stone wall again.
She raised her fair fingers, and a point of dazzling golden light condensed and compressed at her fingertips, emitting a low hum.
laugh--!
A beam of scorching golden light shot out, precisely and efficiently cutting and melting the cold rock.
Pebbles fell in a flurry, and the outline of a stone cave quickly became visible.
She could understand Lu Mingfei's behavior.
She had warned Witt several times along the way.
Unfortunately, that's how infected people are; their thinking degenerates as they continue to become more animalistic, and they act more on instinct.
No matter how many warnings are given, after a while, wildness will regain its dominance, and they will forget the lessons.
It's a bit of a shame that we've lost a fairly handy "tool" and a temporary source of food.
But at this crucial time... it's better that Witt died.
At least, she would no longer have the chance to anger Lu Mingfei and affect her plan to observe this "brave man".
At the bottom of that huge snow pit, several kilometers away, Witt was embedded deep in the snow and permafrost like a flattened lizard.
He was in excruciating pain all over his body, especially a piercing pain and numbness in his spine, which was clearly a broken spine.
Blood stained the white snow beneath him, and every breath was filled with the stench of blood and the excruciating pain of being torn apart.
Although Lu Mingfei's kick contained terrifying power, it also seemed to have deliberately left room for maneuver, not directly turning him into mincemeat.
Thanks to the infected's strong defenses and tenacious vitality, Witt barely survived.
But at this moment, he had completely lost the ability to move.
They could only lie like a lump of mud at the bottom of the cold pit, unable to move, awaiting their unknown fate.
Lu Mingfei appeared near the simple stone house of Xina's family.
The entire Willow Tree Village could see that earth-shattering scene clearly.
Sheena was currently hiding behind her half-open wooden door.
Only half of its small head and a pair of slightly trembling brown bear ears were visible.
Her clear, large eyes were filled with lingering fear and apprehension as she timidly looked at Lu Mingfei, too afraid to come out.
Lu Mingfei landed on the cold, frozen ground in front of the door, his voice regaining its usual calm:
"Xina, could you take me to meet that village chief you mentioned?"
Just then, the sound of a cane tapping the ground came from the side.
The old village chief, who had almost completely turned into a tortoise, had somehow appeared before Lu Mingfei, leaning on a cane and walking with a faltering yet unusually steady gait.
His cloudy yet deep eyes calmly met Lu Mingfei's gaze, and he spoke in his aged, hoarse voice:
"Sir, what business do you have with this old man?"
Lu Mingfei turned his head, his gaze falling on the old tortoise's face, which was marked by vicissitudes and bestial traits:
"Village chief, I would like to ask you some questions."
……
The cold wind howled through the cracks of the simple stone houses in Willow Village, and the houses were filled with the mixed scents of animal hides, frozen soil, and faint herbs.
The interior was simply furnished: a rough stone table, two stone stools, two wooden beds of different sizes, and some pottery jars and earthenware pots piled up in the corner.
Lu Mingfei sat on the cold stone bench, his gaze calmly fixed on the old village chief opposite him, who seemed to have become one with the tortoise shell.
Sheena curled up on the only slightly larger wooden bed in the room, her hands wrapped around her knees, her brown bear ears standing up alertly, and her clear eyes scanning back and forth between Lu Mingfei and the village chief.
The cramped space and Sheena's presence silently revealed her identity.
She is the granddaughter of the village chief, who is severely afflicted with tortoise-like features.