Chapter Sixteen: Danger

  As the path went forward, the sky gradually turned black. The night sky in Sichuan is pitch-black, and it's hard to see even one star, let alone a starry sky. However, the night sky in Qinan is extremely beautiful, with each star's light connecting to form various patterns, every single one shining like a dazzling gemstone.

  If she walked any further, she wouldn't be able to see the road clearly. Just as I was about to stop her, I heard a very faint sound, like... running water. At this moment, Leng Yu's eyes lit up and she started running, she saw an apple!

  Ge Yu Feng followed, and indeed there was an apple tree. Leng Yu excitedly climbed the tree, plucked an apple and took a bite, it's so sweet! He quickly took off his outer garment to pack apples. Ge Yu Feng stood under the tree, looking around, feeling strange, in such a big place, is this the only apple tree? The surrounding area was dense with tall trees, he tilted his head to distinguish the direction of the sound of the stream flowing, and walked a few steps to the right, saying to Leng Yu: "You wait here, I'll go take a look over there!"

  "Hey, wait a minute, where are you going?" Leng Yu wasn't afraid, after all, she was an assassin trained by the Ruin organization.

  Kerui Feng replied: "I'll go take a look if there are any other fruit trees around." As he spoke, his figure disappeared into the dark shadows of the forest.

  Ge Yufeng hadn't walked many steps when the sound of running water grew louder, and then he saw a long, curved stream with apple trees all around. He said softly, "With so many apple trees, there should be others too." However, it was already dark enough that you could hardly see, but looking at the apples under the trees that hadn't been eaten away, it meant that there must be something around here.

  Just as he was about to head back, a loud explosion suddenly rang out, and the ground shook violently. Ge Yu Feng's face changed instantly, listening to the sound, it was absolutely a huge creature!

  "Boom! Boom! Boom!" The sound, though spaced out at regular intervals, shook the earth with each step. Ge Yufeng looked in the direction of the sound and saw a gigantic creature he had never seen before, its body even larger than an elephant's. Its nose was long, its mouth revealed two sharp, pointed tusks, making it seem like a mix between an elephant and a wild boar. However, on top of its head were three long, silver horns. As it opened its mouth to let out a deafening roar, Ge Yufeng felt his eardrums almost shatter, the sound still echoing in his ears as he quickly turned around and ran back, silently scolding himself for not noticing earlier that there were no signs of apple rot on the ground, and how could it be possible for this place to have such fresh and vibrant apple tree leaves without any living creatures?!

  On the other hand, Xu Fan listened to his mother-in-law's words and doubted: "Are you sure you're not dreaming?"

  He Yongtao shook his head and sighed: "I'm old, who else would be after my life for this kind of thing? Can you still be fooled?"

  Xu Fansi thought for a long time and said: "Do you know what that woman's name is?"

  "I don't know, I haven't even seen her person, just heard a voice, and then the Huayuan tree appeared."

  Xu Fan walked out of the police station, gazing up at the pitch-black sky without a single star, and thought to himself, "Ge Yu Feng, what kind of strange affair have you gotten yourself entangled in?"

  Back to Ge Yu Feng's side, Leng Yu was shocked and fell to the ground, apples scattered all over the place, still unaware of what had happened. "Earthquake?" Until Ge Yu Feng ran over, his face stern, Leng Yu came back to her senses, looking at the situation which seemed very bad, let's run first! While running, she asked: "What's going on?" Ge Yu Feng was apparently still in shock from that enormous unknown creature, hesitated and said: "Just now I saw a huge unknown creature, it seems..."

  "What's going on?" Leng Yu asked anxiously, her body swaying unsteadily as she stumbled and staggered.

  "Seems like you're very happy?" Ge Yu Feng also slowly and uncertainly said.

  "What? Are you scared silly?"

  Ge Yu Feng lightly laughed, maybe, ran very far, didn't hear that thing's cry, relieved and stopped, panting slowly walked out, returned to the mountain cave, Leng Yu irritably said: "The apples all fell off! I'll go again tomorrow!"

  Ge Yufeng's eyes stopped him and said, "I've never seen that thing before, nor do I know if it's ferocious. If it is, can you escape? Not to mention killing it, it's several times bigger than an elephant. Now we don't even know if it has discovered us or not. What if it discovers us and chases after us?"

  Leng Yu listened to his severe consequences and felt that he looked down on himself, angrily saying: "I am the eighth-ranked killer in Ruin!"

  Ge Yu said coldly: "Only strength, no brains, can you still be called an assassin?"

  Leng Yu's eyes widened, no one had ever spoken to her like that before! Which man wasn't catering to her every whim and flattering her? He was actually treating himself like a weed! Just as she was about to get angry, she reflexively stretched out her hand to grab the red 'hidden weapon'.

  "Apple?" He took it without hesitation and started eating, Ge Yu Feng walked to the entrance of the cave and sat down. That creature must have seen them before appearing, so they had to be extra careful tonight, and he decided not to sleep, continuing to whittle wood. Nothing happened that night, Ge Yu Feng's hanging heart fell, as the sky turned white, Ge Yu Feng narrowed his eyes looking out at the sea, his gaze dark and deep. After a moment, he stood up with a "whoosh" sound, walked into the cave, Leng Yu opened her eyes, she could feel the cold aura emanating from him, lazily saying: "What's going on?"

  "The men in black are coming!" As soon as Leng Yu heard this, she immediately reacted and Ge Yu Feng's figure flashed, grabbing onto Leng Yu, coldly saying: "Let's go!" Leng Yu obediently followed him, Ge Yu Feng pulled her into the woods, Leng Yu calmly said: "Hiding here won't work, they have scanners on them."

  Ge Yu's eyebrows furrowed in thought, and after a moment, he led her deeper into the woods. Although there were unknown creatures lurking within, it was still safer than being caught by the black-clad men. They didn't have anything of value on them, so how could they possibly deal with them? The bullets found on Leng Yu's body were almost depleted, and they couldn't afford to engage in a fierce battle!

  "Bang!" The sound of the bullet being fired, extremely fast, flew towards Ge Yu Feng's direction. Ge Yu Feng wanted to dodge but unfortunately couldn't, Leng Yu suddenly used force to pull him to one side, the bullet only grazed his arm. "Thanks." Without stopping, seeing the bright light in front, Ge Yu Feng sped up and ran over, stunned. That unknown creature was right in front of the apple tree, lowering its head to eat an apple, seemingly sensing them, turned its head towards Ge Yu Feng's direction and opened its mouth wide "Roar——"

  Ge Yu Feng couldn't stop, he could only grit his teeth and run in that direction. Leng Yu saw him running towards the enormous object and her face suddenly changed color, "This is going to be a terrible death! Not even our bones will be left!" At least if I fall into the organization, I might not necessarily die!

  Ge Yu's cold voice said, "If you want to escape, I can kill you right now." Leng Yu was speechless, but suddenly thought that this wasn't so bad after all. "Be careful!" Leng Yu shouted loudly and pounced on him, knocking him to the ground. The bullet shot from behind hit the creature's body with a loud "clang" sound, but unexpectedly bounced back out.

  Ge Yufeng looked up at it, his heart slightly clenched, with a very strange feeling, as if he didn't want it to get hurt, just like worrying about an important person. But seeing the bullet hitting something like copper wall and iron wall, becoming blunt, and seeing that it was not injured, he let out a sigh of relief.

  "Bang! Bang!" Ge Yu Feng and Leng Yu were both stunned, what's going on? They heard two different gunshots, and there were other people coming! Leng Yu was still lying on top of Ge Yu Feng, hearing the footsteps getting closer and closer. Ge Yu Feng's eyes showed a hint of surprise, Mu Shu Zhen?

  Leng Yu didn't know who this woman was, seeing that she had no hostile intentions, he stood up and saw Ge Yu Feng staring blankly at the woman with a general appearance, feeling disgusted in his heart. This woman is Qi Xue? The person and name don't match at all!

  Mushen saw the two of them in this posture as soon as he arrived, thinking that the timing was really not right, and it was immoral to disturb others' intimacy!

  Ge Yufeng walked over with a calm face and asked, "How did you come?" Mu Shuqin was speechless. As expected, she knew that even if she came, she wouldn't be able to get a good reaction from him, but instead would be scolded by his bad tone!

  Musu Ke didn't even glance at him, and walked straight towards the unknown creature, bursting into a bright smile. "Long time no see, Reddy! You've grown so big!" Ge

  Yu Feng saw her laugh so happily for the first time, so pure and without any hidden meaning. He was surprised in his heart, had she been here before? How did she have such a good relationship with this monster? By the way, could it understand human language?

  Mushu ignored herself and didn't get angry, standing on the side watching them interact leisurely. As for how she ended up here, ask later.

  Mushu gently stroked its body, Ledi's head lowered and rubbed against her face intimately, the soft fluffy tail seemed to be very happy to wrap around Mushu's body, just like a child coaxing his mother, Ge Yufeng did not disturb them either.

  Suddenly, Ledi's gaze turned to Ge Yufeng, and he let out a low growl. Ge Yufeng looked at Mu Shuqin in confusion, and Mu Shuqin's smile faded slightly as she said, "It wants you to pet it."

  Mushu raised an eyebrow and walked over, reaching out to touch its head. Leng Yuqin stood aside with a pale face, feeling superfluous.

  "Yù Fēng, I'm hungry!" The sudden voice broke the silence. Mu Shū Jī and Gě Yù Fēng's faces simultaneously turned black. Mu Shū Jī quickly retracted his shocked and unknowing anger. Why did it feel like they were performing a triangular drama? If he had known earlier, he wouldn't have come! With a calm face, he stroked Léi Dì.

  Ge Yufeng gave her a cold glance, "Shut up, we're not familiar enough to address each other like that." This form of address was too nauseating. Apart from his father and Ma Shu, as well as some close friends, no one else had ever called him in such an intimate manner, and it didn't feel right in his heart.

  "Ha! You've seen me, touched me, and now you think you can just pat your hands together and go back to the way things were before? Not even bothering to call out to me?"

  Ge Yu Feng pursed his lips, wanting to say something, but Mu Shu Bian directly turned around and walked away. Looking at him getting angry, she didn't want to get involved in this mess, she didn't like watching this show!

  Ge Yu Feng saw that she seemed to be in a huff and left without looking back. He looked at Leng Yu Xing and said, "You saved me, I'm grateful, but it doesn't mean I'll indulge you! Being threatened by someone!" After finishing speaking, he walked towards the direction where Mu Shu Zhen had left.

  "What a friend! I was stupid to come and rescue him, he's probably happy with the woman and didn't want to be rescued in the first place! What kind of cop is this?! Thinking of what Leng Yu said, his face turned even colder. Sigh, indeed, it's better not to make friends, otherwise you'll just end up getting bothered again!"