The Blessed Beauty Returns with a Dimension-Chapter 938 - 914: The Village’s Secret

After Jiang Xiaoxiao finished her speech and demonstration, all she did was recount the methods she had seen from other ability users.

These individuals immediately found inspiration and enlightenment.

With no time to eat, they went straight back to their rooms to train. They wanted to master their abilities and evolve them into more powerful strengths to protect themselves.

And of course, to protect others.

At this moment, the four of them were filled with passion. The abilities they had were enough to make them Jiang Xiaoxiao’s most steadfast allies, no longer a burden like before.

Suddenly, their hearts became incredibly strong, strong enough to give them confidence to defeat anything in this world.

Jiang Xiaoxiao shook her head. Now everyone was motivated, had ideals, and was making progress, while she became the only one with some leisure time.

Fine, they were dutifully training here, so she would go out for a walk, perhaps hunt, chop firewood, and experience farming life.

The real aim was to find the energy No. 9 needed.

Nothing Flower!?

Jiang Xiaoxiao thought it must be some kind of plant, but the problem was, looking out, the vast expanse was covered in snow, all white.

Flowers!?

How could they possibly be visible?

Jiang Xiaoxiao stood outside, staring blankly at the mountain because she felt her eyes weren’t deceiving her.

On the mountainside outside, it seemed to be bamboo.

Bamboo!?

But with the Star Sky Forest of the Otherworld as a precedent, bamboo seemed like nothing.

If she saw a panda, Jiang Xiaoxiao thought she could remain calm and carry on.

Turning around, she saw a piece of clothing behind the trees.

"Who’s there!?"

Jiang Xiaoxiao frowned vigilantly.

Someone dared to come here to spy, not knowing the word ’death.’

Village Chief Gu truly didn’t care about his people’s lives.

After a moment, a rustling, a person emerged.

"Wah wah!"

The cry of a child.

The cry of a baby.

Jiang Xiaoxiao frowned even more.

Playing the affection card now?

The boy stood in front of Jiang Xiaoxiao, his face bruised and swollen, almost unrecognizable, a baby crying desperately on his back.

"Gu Xin? What are you doing here?"

"I have nowhere to go... I was kicked out, they say I’m a traitor, to be punished." 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Gu Xin gently patted his back, but the baby kept crying incessantly.

"Come with me!"

Jiang Xiaoxiao felt like she always had a meddlesome heart.

The two went inside, the warmth quickly suppressing the boy’s shivers.

Jiang Xiaoxiao let him sit on a chair and ladled a bowl of porridge from the pot for him.

She gestured for him to take down the child.

"Give me the child. She’s been crying all this time; is she sick?"

Jiang Xiaoxiao found it strange. The child wasn’t crying initially, so why did it get worse after meeting her?

Gu Xin shook his head, "No, my sister is hungry. We’ve run out of rice, but if I feed her some porridge, she’ll stop crying. She’s not sick."

Then he sat there, holding his sister, at a loss.

Jiang Xiaoxiao took one look, the child seemed a bit strange.

But her meddling was only that far, once the porridge was finished, he should leave.

This place didn’t entertain idlers.

Wu Yang opened his eyes to glance at the boy, then closed them again.

He was busy.

Whatever the boss wanted to do was fine.

A little kid couldn’t stir up much.

In front of his master’s prowess, he wouldn’t stand a chance.

The baby’s crying gradually weakened, perhaps the porridge helped.

"Gu Xin, how long have you lived here?"

Jiang Xiaoxiao needed to understand the village’s situation, the Nothing Flower was still a mystery to her.

Better than nothing.

"I was born here, I’ve lived here since I was born."

Gu Xin silently fed the porridge to the child.

"Where are your parents? Your family?"

A boy living with a sister, bearing clear signs of bullying, there were plenty of people with the surname Gu in the village.

Was the Village Chief Gu turning a blind eye?

Or was it deliberate.

"My parents are dead! Last year, my mother gave birth to my sister, but my sister was frail and always sick. My father went to the mountain to collect herbs, trying to make elixirs himself, but got attacked by a venomous bamboo worm, losing a hand.

At the end of the year, the village chief said my sister was chosen to be the sacrificial offering, but my mother disagreed and eventually replaced my sister by jumping off the sacrificial altar. My father followed her.

Now it’s only me and my sister. The villagers say that my parents angered the Medicine God Ancestor, causing the snow, and were very unfriendly to us. If not for your presence, my sister might have been chosen again this year."

The boy silently fed his sister porridge.

Jiang Xiaoxiao never saw the baby’s face.

"How about my classmates? Are they still alive?"

The boy looked up, his dark eyes dimly glowing.

"They won’t die. At least they’re the village sacrifices for a few years. The villagers wouldn’t let them die. Although if there’s no food, it’s uncertain, depending on how long the snow lasts."

Gu Xin’s gaze gave Jiang Xiaoxiao a pause; how chilling and eerie his eyes felt.

"Doesn’t the village have enough food?"

It was said they had lived there for many years, so their basic supplies should be self-sufficient.

In the past, she found yams and other things while digging on the mountain.

The forest was dense, full of vegetation, there should be plenty of edible plants.

"You probably don’t know what Kunlun Mountain’s environment is like. Nothing can be grown here, relying on the most primitive methods of foraging in the mountains. Most importantly, in the mountains surrounding us, there is a bizarre creature, the bamboo worm!

We can’t leave this place, nor can we deal with the bamboo worms. Fortunately, they come out at night, so during the day, we can forage in the forests. But now the snow has sealed the mountains, villagers rely on their stored food to survive.

But the food will run out, and when it does, no one knows what will happen."

Gu Xin turned his face up, "Sister, I know I’m one of them! You don’t trust me, but I beg you for one thing, can you tell me how you got here? I want to leave, I want to take my sister and live."

As he spoke, his eyes shone brightly, filled with longing.

Jiang Xiaoxiao thought for a moment, "Actually, I followed your tracks here, my friend was captured and left clues. Truthfully, I don’t even know the way out. Besides, even if you want to leave, with the current mountain situation, we dare not attempt it lightly, fearing death here, let alone you with a baby.

Even if you want to go, you have to wait for the snow to stop, when the road becomes passable."

Gu Xin looked at the snow outside, shook his head, "Sister, you don’t know how evil these people are! I’m afraid if we wait too long, we won’t make it."

"Do you know what the Nothing Flower is?"

Jiang Xiaoxiao probed, not expecting the kid to know.

The boy paused for two seconds.

"I don’t know!"

Both fell silent.

After feeding the baby half a bowl of porridge, Gu Xin also had half a bowl. He bowed deeply to them and left with the child.

Jiang Xiaoxiao didn’t urge him to stay.

She always felt something was off with the boy.