Chapter 48: The Fox Tribe

  Su Qi Ruo would wake up in the middle of the night, her dreams shattered by a sharp pain that felt like a knife cut or a needle prick. This strange pain sensation grew more pronounced with each passing night, making it difficult for Su Qi Ruo to fall asleep. No one told her what was happening to her body, despite her repeatedly asking Shi Rui Wen for an explanation. However, Shi Rui Wen remained tight-lipped, and no matter how much Su Qi Ruo pressed him, he simply rolled his eyes lazily, as if that were a sufficient response.

  It was unclear whether her body had become numb from the prolonged pain or if it was recovering, but a week later, Su Qi's physical pain suddenly disappeared, and she became a lively and healthy normal person again. If she hadn't been tortured by the pain for a week, she would have suspected that the previous physical pain was an illusion.

  "Qi Ruo, how will you spend Singles' Day?"

  "Qī Ruò doesn't need to celebrate Singles' Day anymore~"

  "Oh, yeah!" Lin Qingqing squeezed her eyes at Su Qi Rao, "Qi Rao, you no longer belong to us!"

  "What are these ideas?" Su Qi rubbed her forehead, "In short, those two people are not my boyfriend, do you understand?"

  "Alas, being in love is also not bad! Youth is short-lived, why not just go for it!" Lin Qingqing said with a pretentious air of seniority.

  "In short..."

  “Su Qi Ruo” Su Qi Ruo's retort had just begun when Xi Rui Wen suddenly shouted from downstairs, the timing was so perfect that it seemed intentional to disrupt Su Qi Ruo's momentum. Su Qi Ruo rushed down the stairs in frustration, "What are you doing? Can't you calm down a bit?"

  She Ruiwen rolled her eyes and said, "I'm helping you get undressed."

  "What a relief!" Su Qi stepped back cautiously, seeing that Yang Ruiwen didn't move and felt strange for a moment. After thinking carefully, she realized that she had misunderstood, it was just getting rid of the Singles' Day! "I think Singles' Day is pretty good, you don't have to join in on the fun!"

  "In the vast and clear autumn, in such a desolate season, walking alone on the small road filled with fallen leaves, don't you feel a hint of sadness, a hint of melancholy? Don't you yearn..."

  "Su Qi couldn't help but interrupt Yang Ruwen's sentimental speech,"I have a toothache!"

  "Huh?" Si Ruiwen raised an eyebrow, "You're questioning me?"

  "I'm no longer a little girl, okay?" Su Qi asked impatiently, "Is there anything else? If not, I'll head back."

  "I'll take you to a fun place!" Without giving Su Qi Ru any chance to refute, Si Rui Wen pulled Su Qi Ru and ran towards a deserted area. When there was no one around, he directly opened the boundary and flew up into the sky.

  "Shi Ruiwen! Aren't you afraid of being seen by others in broad daylight?"

  "Shh!" Si Ruiwen saw that his index finger was placed on his lips, making a silencing gesture, and then landed in a corner full of withered grass.

  "What do you want to do?" Su Qi asked in a low voice, it's freezing cold outside and running into the wild grass heap will get you a cold!

  She Ruiwen pointed in one direction, "Look!"

  Following the direction of Shu Ruiwen's finger, Su Qiruo actually saw a boy and a girl entwined in an intimate posture, with their bodies pressed together. She rolled her eyes in disgust and turned her head away, cursing, "Are you sick or something, bringing me to see this?"

  "Take another look!"

  "Don't look!"

  "Look! He's not of human kind."

  "What?" Su Qi Ruo hastily turned her head to look in the direction she had just seen, and was shocked to discover that the girl from before had collapsed on the ground, motionless. Next to her stood a man with a skull on his head, dressed in black, his scarlet tongue greedily licking the corner of his mouth. His lean figure stood out against the backdrop of withered grass on the hillside, and as the autumn wind blew, his shadow flickered in and out of sight, making him seem even more sinister. Even though it was daytime, Su Qi Ruo couldn't help but gasp in shock, muttering to herself, "What is he?"

  As Su Qi Ruo was speaking to herself, the man, whether he had heard her muttering or was simply gazing around carelessly, suddenly flashed a strange smile in the direction of the grass thicket where Su Qi Ruo was hiding, causing Su Qi Ruo's skin to crawl with goosebumps. Had she been discovered?

  "Is the play good?" The man held the skull on top of his head in his hand, weighing and playing with it as if what was in his hand was not a skull, but just a curious toy.

  "Goodness gracious, where did you dig this up from?" Shi Ruiwen stood up straightforwardly from the grass thicket, pulling along Su Qiruo who was still hesitating about whether or not to reveal herself.

  "This burial ground isn't easy to find, you came too early." The man casually discarded the skull in his hand, expressing his dissatisfaction towards Ji Ruiwen.

  "Wow, I've seen the Fox Clan transform before, it's just like the legend says!" Shi Ruiwen explained nonchalantly.

  It wasn't until then that Su Qi realized that She Ruiwen and the man in front of him were acquainted, and it seemed like they had an appointment. What did these two want to do?

  "What did you bring her here for?" The man glanced at Su Qi Ruo with a careless tone.

  "We've always been inseparable!"

  The man seemed to be skeptical of Ruiwen's answer, let out a cold snort and stopped asking questions. "Just don't forget our agreement," he said before turning around and leaving first.

  She Ruiwen pulled Su Qi Ru to follow behind, "That girl just now..." Su Qi Ru couldn't help but ask a sentence, did this man already harm that girl?

  "Don't worry, she'll wake up soon, there's nothing to worry about." Si Ruiwen said nonchalantly.

  "What have you agreed on?"

  "Just looking around." Si Ruiwen replied casually.

  "What are you looking for?"

  "I don't know."

  "I don't know what you're dragging me for!" Su Qi suddenly burst into anger, "What's wrong with you on such a cold day?!"

  "Seriously, I don't know what kind of thing we're looking for, but it should be around here somewhere!"

  "Behind the mountain?"

  "Right!" Xie Ruwen nodded and pulled Su Qiruo to continue following the man.

  "What are you looking for in this desolate and barren mountain wilderness?" Su Qi asked with a hint of annoyance.

  Cranium.

  "What!" Skullcap! Su Qi Ruo thought she had misheard, what was he doing looking for a skullcap?!

  "Oh!" Si Ruiwen thought for a moment, "Maybe it's the skull!"

  Su Qi was a bit frantic, and Si Ruiwen seemed to have water in his brain. "What are you doing looking for this thing on the back mountain? How do you plan to find it? Are you going to dig up graves?"

  "Of course we have to dig up the skeletons in the backyard! How else can we find them?" Si Ruiwen gave Su Qiruo a "you're really stupid" look.

  "I'm out of here!" Su Qi Ruo flung her hand, and Shi Rui Wen was truly crazy, digging up skeletons in the back mountain in broad daylight. Just thinking about it made Su Qi Ruo's skin crawl with goosebumps - how could Shi Rui Wen even think of such a perverted thing?!

  "Do you think you can go out?"

  "What do you mean?" Su Qi asked cautiously, as if Yang Ruiwen still wanted to force her to stay and accompany him.

  Shi Ruwen pointed to the sky, Su Qi raised his head and looked up, only to see that the originally dazzling sun had turned into a dull yellow, leaving behind only a circular shadow. "Seal boundary?"

  "The fox fairy set up a barrier, afraid that Grandpa would change his mind. None of us can leave until we find what he's looking for!"