Cave Refuge

After joking around with Ye Liuyun and taking a seat, Zachary’s Divine Sense kept focusing on the other person.

At that moment, an obese lady sat next to the person, and although they seemed not to exchange any words, Zachary noticed they were gesturing on each other’s legs with their hands—a form of secret communication, it seemed. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Upon discovering this, Zachary immediately used his Divine Sense to carefully observe the lady.

Under the meticulous investigation of the Divine Sense, her original appearance became clear in Zachary’s mind.

Recognizing the familiar body, Zachary instantly identified her; the lady disguised as a heavyset woman was none other than Butterfly.

It appeared that although she hadn’t been captured directly by Yara, Yara had undoubtedly put considerable pressure on her, otherwise she wouldn’t have been in such a hurry to disguise herself and flee from Kyoto.

If the obese lady was Butterfly, then the one sitting beside her must be a member of her group.

Spider? Probably not. Despite being young, Spider had a mature appearance, plus she was almost always inseparable from Thorn Snake, so it was unlikely that the person was Spider.

If it weren’t for Spider, the person was very likely Spirit Dog. Zachary had seen Spirit Dog’s appearance before, but Spirit Dog was usually quite unkempt.

This time, having cleaned himself up, if it weren’t for him communicating with Butterfly, Zachary would have never recognized him.

Yara probably didn’t expect that Butterfly could leave Kyoto right under his nose.

Watching the two secretly communicating through gestures on their legs, Zachary was very curious about what they were saying.

Meanwhile, Ye Liuyun, somewhat bored, greeted Zachary and then closed her eyes to rest.

Feeling a bit bored himself, Zachary watched the two continue their covert exchange and suddenly felt a playful urge. Having mastered the Art of Controlling Objects, he found it quite simple to manipulate unowned ordinary items within the range of his Divine Sense.

Zachary seamlessly merged with the fabric on their clothes, and as they started to gesture in code on each other’s legs again, many threads suddenly appeared on Spirit Dog’s trousers.

Under the control of Divine Sense, these extra threads became incredibly hard, and every time Butterfly pressed down to gesture, the threads would pierce into the flesh of Spirit Dog’s thigh along the gesticulated area.

At that moment, it was Butterfly’s turn to tap out coded messages on Spirit Dog’s leg. At first, everything seemed normal, but as Spirit Dog’s trousers were manipulated through Zachary’s Art of Controlling Objects, each coded phrase Butterfly sent made Spirit Dog’s face contort with intense pain.

Butterfly noticed something was wrong with Spirit Dog’s complexion and looked confusedly at him, as he clenched his teeth, struggling to withstand the agony.

Once Butterfly stopped gesturing, the piercing pain in Spirit Dog’s thigh instantly vanished.

Sensing something was off, Spirit Dog carefully prodded the spot where Butterfly had been tapping out the code, but even as he increased the pressure of his touch,

he did not experience the same pain as when Butterfly was communicating.

Refusing to believe it, Spirit Dog repeated the motions on his leg in the same manner Butterfly had used for the code, but no matter how hard he tried to mimic it, there were no other issues with his leg.

At the moment, it wasn’t convenient for Spirit Dog to take off his trousers and examine his skin for problems. After repeated unsuccessful attempts, he pressed down on his skin a few more times, and finding no issues, he took a deep breath and calmed himself down.

Butterfly looked confused at Spirit Dog, who had just been behaving erratically, as if he were insane.

Realizing Butterfly’s puzzled gaze, Spirit Dog felt a bit helpless, could only sigh again, and then prepared to inform Butterfly of the issue he just encountered using covert gestures on her leg.

However, to his surprise, as soon as Spirit Dog started to send coded messages on Butterfly’s leg, his fingers acted like sharp knives, cutting through Butterfly’s trousers with precision with every gesture, without harming her skin.

As the Spirit Dog kept sending secret codes, Butterfly soon realized that the thigh area of her pants had turned into tattered strips.

At that moment, the cool sensation on her skin told Butterfly that what she was seeing with her eyes was not an illusion. Indeed, it was the Spirit Dog that, for some unknown reason, had torn her pants.

Angrily, Butterfly immediately shifted the thigh that had been close to the Spirit Dog, facilitating their communication via secret codes, away from the Spirit Dog’s direction.

Perhaps because she moved so swiftly, the remaining scraps of cloth that had clung to her thigh were flung away completely by Butterfly’s sudden motion.

As the fabric covering her thigh vanished, the hole in her pants exposed her fair and delicate skin.

In reality, exposing a bit of thigh didn’t bother Butterfly at all; after all, the bikinis she wore while playing at the beach before the catastrophe showed off much more.

But at the beach, that had been her own choice, intending to flaunt her impressive figure, whereas Butterfly felt this exposure was the Spirit Dog playing an intentional prank on her.

So although this time it was just a small tear as she stepped back, the implications were different.

Furthermore, considering the Spirit Dog’s recent insane behavior, Butterfly worried whether it had contracted some kind of brain disease—its self-harming actions and now the tearing of her pants could all be manifestations of a bout of sickness.

At this point, the Spirit Dog appeared somewhat baffled, not understanding why using the same force to communicate secret codes as before had resulted in tearing Butterfly’s pant leg.

Taking into account the sudden pain on its own thigh, the Spirit Dog felt something was definitely not normal.

Just as the Spirit Dog was about to use secret codes to communicate with Butterfly, he discovered that the thigh Butterfly had been leaning toward had now moved to the other side, and the patch of snow-white skin exposed on her thigh silently denounced the Spirit Dog’s unreasonable actions just moments ago.

The Spirit Dog was just about to grab Butterfly’s arm. While using secret codes on her arm might draw attention, if he minimized the movement, it could still be kept from prying eyes.

The Spirit Dog’s intentions were good, but at that moment, they caught the attention of Dong Tianyu.

So when the Spirit Dog grabbed the sleeve of Butterfly’s arm and exerted a little force to pull her closer, there was a ’rip’ sound and the sleeve on Butterfly’s arm split clean off. With the bulky covering gone, her arm revealed a slender, lotus root-like, delicate hand underneath.

This time, the sound of the sleeve tearing was different from the silent transformation of the pant leg into strips earlier. The sudden ripping noise attracted the attention of the entire cabin.

At that moment, every passenger who wasn’t asleep began craning their necks around, very curious to find the source of the tearing sound.

Nowadays, unlike in ancient times, even the most conservative women wore short sleeves in the summer, so bearing one’s arms wasn’t a big deal for Butterfly.

However, at this time, after applying makeup, not only her facial features but also the other parts of her body concealed by clothing, everything portrayed the image of an overweight middle-aged woman.

But the arms she revealed showed delicate jade-like hands, and anyone seeing her current disguise would feel that something was definitely off.

Therefore, Butterfly frowned, intending to snatch back the sleeve that had been torn off by the Spirit Dog.

But as soon as Butterfly’s hand grabbed one end of the sleeve, and before she could even pull, the sleeve in the Spirit Dog’s hand seemingly intentionally turned into shreds of cloth against her wishes.

Seeing this, Butterfly became infuriated.

The incidents that had just occurred could be self-comforted by believing the Spirit Dog was mentally unstable, but now, in Butterfly’s view, this was a naked provocation from the Spirit Dog.

However, the sound of the sleeve breaking had already attracted the attention of others. So the most important thing was not to confront the Spirit Dog on what it was trying to do, but to figure out how to divert other people’s attention away from her.