Chapter 39 Beast Chen (1/2)

“Cough! Well, bro…” Shi Yitong had to endure the awkwardness in order to clear things with Zhu Xuan. “I think you misunderstood something. I’m really not…”

“Not what?” Zhu Xuan was lost.

Just as Shi Yitong wanted to explain himself, a loud explosion suddenly interrupted the conversation.

The explosion came from somewhere nearby and we immediately looked in the direction where the sound came from. I couldn’t see anything. A burst of smoke blew from the distance as if a giant object had crashed on the ground.

Then, we heard a cry for help from afar.

“Help!”

“There is a monster! Someone died!”

Zhu Xuan’s face suddenly became sullen. He rushed towards the direction where the sound came from, leaving the three of us confused and standing there.

“Gu Yu, what should we do?” Shi Yitong asked foolishly.

“What else can we do but follow?” I patted Shi Yitong on the back. “Go after him! Don’t lose him!”

We didn’t know how long we chased him for, but we only caught up to him when we arrived out of breath at our destination. It was the exit of Longning Temple.

We could see a small asphalt road. Usually, there were many vendor carts selling snacks and souvenirs on both sides of the street. It was the current time for lunch, so there were many pedestrians on the street.

The moment we arrived here, I thought that a car crash had happened. Because at the center of the frightened crowd, there was a large pool of fresh blood. Obviously, someone was seriously injured.

However, when we took a closer look, we found that there wasn’t a body nor vehicle at the scene. On the contrary, everything around the blood pool was knocked over, whether the bricks on the street or the small carts at the sides. It seemed they had been violently knocked over by someone.

“What’s… going on here?” Shi Yitong’s reaction was the same as mine. We were utterly stunned.

“Madam, what happened here?” Su Xiaoyun was the first to recover and she ran to a middle-aged woman standing on the side of the street.

The middle-aged woman was still in shock, she looked at Su Xiaoyun, shaking uncontrollably. “Monster…monster…”

“Monster?” Asked Su Xiaoyun.

“A huge monster suddenly jumped out of the woods, and then, then…” The woman pointed at the blood with her trembling finger. “The monster dragged a man away…”

“Dragged a man away? Where did they go?”

However, this anxious inquiry was not from any of us. We turned around simultaneously. As we expected, it was Zhu Xuan who asked.

“They were… heading that way.” The woman pointed in a direction towards the woods.

“Thanks, and please go back home accompanied. Don’t stay here any longer,” Zhu Xuan said and ran into the woods without hesitation.

“Hey! Wait!” I immediately ran after him; Shi Yitong and Su Xiaoyun followed closely.

Zhu Xuan soon found out that we were following him. He shouted at us with a gloomy face, “What are you doing? Didn’t I tell you to go back?”

“Why should we listen to you?” Shi Yitong, who had already been dissatisfied with him, became angrier.

Just when they were about to have a big fight with each other, I came forward to calm them down.

“Alright, alright. Now isn’t the time to fight with each other. Zhu Xuan, the blood on the street… Is it true that the beast Chen dragged a person away?”

Zhu Xuan glanced at me and nodded. “That man lost too much blood, he is doomed.”

“I still don’t understand,” Su Xiaoyun frowned and said. “The whole story about ‘beast Chen’, what is it? Why did beast Chen hurt people? Is it because humans are its food? Or does it hate humans? And this is a big world, why does it only attack Mt.Diecui?”

“No, none of your theories are right,” Zhu Xuan said while breaking open a way through the branches in front of him. “The beast has no particular feeling for humans. It hurts humans solely for revenge.”

“Revenge?” The whole story was getting even stranger.

“Revenge on who?” Su Xiaoyun asked.

Zhu Xuan looked back at her and said, “Bai Ze.”

“…You mean, beast Chen and Bai Ze had a history?” Shi Yitong was surprised. “What happened?”

“Bai Ze sealed beast Chen 30 years ago, and it held a grudge since then. And… there are some other reasons,” Zhu Xuan vaguely said. He apparently didn’t want to say anything else.

“Where is Bai Ze now?” Shi Yitong said angrily. “It caused this mess, so it should take care of it! The lives of countless residents and tourist are in danger. Two people died in only two days, and who knows how many more deaths will happen! Gu Yu, you must call Wen Jiubo right now and tell him about this!”

“But…” I was dumbfounded, but before I could respond, Zhu Xuan interrupted me.

“It won’t work. No one can help.” The light in Zhu Xuan eyes dimmed.

We stared at Zhu Xuan, perplexed.

“Bai Ze is dead, it can’t protect us anymore,” Zhu Xuan whispered. “This is just an unrealistic expectation humans always hold towards the so-called gods.”