"Best advice is to stay away from her," Yao Yao said to the camera with a smile.
"Right, we're planning to withdraw," Lin Xi said. "Just now, Mohe and the Whale God... the Whale God clashed. In just one exchange, their 'Eight Great Vajras' became 'Seven Great Vajras'. All physical attacks against the Whale God were useless. Mohe was quite wise and chose to retreat immediately. However, I need to remind you all that Mohe's retreat direction is not back to Siping, but towards Shengjing. We suggest you be careful and will hang up now. Ya Nan, let's go."
The Eagle Demon ended the video. It was no problem for the two of them to withdraw from the summit of Tianchi Mountain. Lin Xi was also light, so the Eagle Demon could glide down the mountain with her.
"Do you think they might, after failing to hunt the Whale God, turn their anger on us?" I guessed.
"It's not impossible," Yao Yao grabbed my wrist and checked the time. "But by the time they get here, it will be dawn. We should eat and sleep."
"Since Mohe fears the Whale God, is there a possibility that we could team up with the Whale God to deal with Mohe together?" I asked again.
Yao Yao gave me a side-eye. "Are you dreaming? Why would the Whale God contact you? What benefit can you bring her?"
"How will we know if we don't ask!" I was actually feeling guilty. I felt that with our strength, we might not be able to defeat Mohe. This feeling was even stronger after Lin Xi introduced me to the terrifying strength of that polar bear demon. Even a blue-aura great demon staying to hibernate was so powerful that even with eight demons and Lin Xi, we wouldn't be sure of winning. Yet, Mohe had two such demons!
Even if Yao Yao defeated the other two demons, they still had the "Seven Great Vajras," all of them purple-aura!
If we couldn't utilize the Whale God's power, our only hope now was the Song family patriarch. I dismissed Song Wenzhi as insignificant, hoping he wouldn't cause the entire force to be dispatched to hunt us just because he was humiliated by us. However, according to Chen Lu, Song Wenzhi's father was the only son of the Song family's 'Song' core, equivalent to a 'crown prince'.
The insult to the "crown prince" was like an "insult to the nation." How could the "ruler" ignore such a matter?
But there was no use thinking about this now. Forget it, let's sleep. We'll deal with whatever comes our way. I insulted him, so I'll bear the responsibility when they come seeking retribution.
Feeling tense and sweating, I went into Chen Lu's bedroom, which had a private bathroom and a rather large heart-shaped bathtub. It would probably take over an hour to fill it with water, and I didn't have that kind of leisure. After a bath with hot spring water, I pushed Lu Qianxun to the far side of the bed, lay down by the edge, and closed my eyes to rest. Yao Yao seemed to sense my anxiety. She sat at the head of the bed and let me lie on her lap while she massaged my head.
Her gentle touch was heavenly. At some point, I fell into a deep sleep in Yao Yao's tender care.
I was sleeping soundly when, without any warning, I dreamed of "Song Lei's cousin"!
I was so scared that I almost woke up because she appeared in the form of a "paper figure" again, facing me from the side!
I wanted to pinch my thigh to force myself awake, but it seemed I was controlled by my cousin and couldn't wake up.
I knew this wasn't a dream; it was just her way of entering my brain and contacting me.
So, I deliberately focused on the environment in the dream. It was a place I didn't recognize. The surroundings were dim, misty, and empty. The terrain was rugged, and a cold wind occasionally blew, like some desolate wilderness, or perhaps, the underworld.
If it were the underworld, I'd have something to brag about in the future. As a living person, I could freely enter the underworld and become a Yin-Yang person, a rotten... cough cough, I've watched too many Stephen Chow movies.
Unable to escape, I could only face her. I forced a smile and went forward. Her paper form was too thin, swaying left and right in the wind. I even wanted to find a stick to tie to her, or make a frame of bamboo for her, like a kite.
"Greetings, Madam... how have you been?" I initiated the conversation.