Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 443 - 161: County Town Trembles! The Great Revered One Intends to Seize the Authority of a True God! (10,000-Word Mega - , Subscription Requested)_4
With this setup, outsiders were unable to see what it looked like.
Fan Wu and his companions attracted much attention as they traveled on the road.
To them, such attention was normal; they were used to being the focus of scrutiny.
But Xing Fengzi felt somewhat uncomfortable with it.
He constantly sensed that some passersby or merchants were looking at their group with eyes filled with wariness, shock, astonishment, or fear.
It was as if their group was the most noticeable presence in the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Just like a band of bandits descending from the mountains.
Wherever they passed, they seemed to cause panic among the bystanders.
Xing Fengzi thought...
It was very likely due to that person, suspected to be His Highness the Prince of Nanjun, being tied up on the back of Old Blue Ox. Leading the way, the Rat Bride also appeared to be bound. At first glance, it looked as if three bandits had kidnapped a newlywed couple.
Thinking about it this way.
It really did look like that!
Harboring this peculiar idea, Xing Fengzi followed Fan Wu and the others for a long stretch, until he felt his legs becoming weary.
He also noted that it had grown dark; without realizing it, they had walked the entire day.
In fact, during this whole day, they had hardly stopped to rest, not stopping even to eat.
Nightfall.
Descended.
Fan Wu finally made the Rat Bride stop, not because he felt tired. With the "Power" attribute he possessed now, he could probably walk non-stop, day and night, for a month without feeling much fatigue.
Fan Wu stopped because the path ahead was no road, but a turbulent river.
The rushing waters surged continuously within the river channel.
Even though they were still a good twenty or thirty paces from the river ahead, they could still hear the deafening sound of the flowing water.
Such a swift current would likely take a boat placed upon it and, within a short time, drag it uncontrollably until it crashed on the riverbanks.
"Is there no bridge?" Yun Jiuqing looked out over the barren river surface in the not-so-bright moonlight.
She could only see the rushing waters.
Yun Jiuqing cast a suspicious glance at the silhouette of the Rat Bride before she couldn’t help but ask, "You didn’t deliberately lead us to a place without a bridge, did you?!"
The Rat Bride, donning a large bamboo hat, also seemed shocked by the scene before it.
Faced with Yun Jiuqing’s question.
The Rat Bride hurriedly defended itself, "No... no-way! I swear there was a bridge here the last time I passed! I’m not lying to you, really!"
Hearing the tone of the Rat Bride, Xing Fengzi butted in, "It doesn’t seem to be lying."
"I’ll go over there and have a look," Xing Fengzi said, and then he approached the riverbank. Even when his shoes stepped into a large expanse of muddy silt, he didn’t mind much.
Soon.
Xing Fengzi noticed something amiss and promptly warned Fan Wu and the others, "Daoist Priest Fan, Yun Scholar, the Rat Bride is right; there used to be a bridge here. It’s just that... it seems someone has dismantled it."
"You can tell from the traces left behind when the bridge was removed. It was torn down violently; there are wood chips and stone fragments all over."
"What?" Yun Jiuqing was taken aback, "Who would be so wicked as to destroy a bridge?"
The crucial point was... that bridge was the one they needed to reach the Rat Immortal Cave. Wasn’t this causing trouble?
That’s too despicable!
Xing Fengzi shook his head and replied, "I don’t know who dismantled it, but ideally, the Rat Bride would need a day and night to travel from the Rat Immortal Cave to the Zheng Family and another night and day for the return trip."
"This means... the bridge was very likely dismantled within the span of a night and a day. To dismantle a bridge so quickly would require a considerable number of people."
"Hmm?"
Just as Xing Fengzi spoke, he suddenly noticed a flicker of firelight not far away on one side.
This made him involuntarily frown, "Daoist Priest Fan, Yun Scholar, there seems to be someone coming over there."
Yun Jiuqing immediately turned to look.
Indeed.
She too spotted the flecks of firelight.
The firelight became more apparent.
Clearly approaching their direction.
Yun Jiuqing waited for a moment, and when those carrying torches had come closer, she finally saw who they were and couldn’t help but freeze, "They seem to be... just a group of ordinary villagers?!"
"No, something’s wrong!"
Yun Jiuqing immediately became alert, "On such a late night, aren’t they afraid of encountering vengeful spirits or evil ghosts in the wild? Which means... they might not be ordinary villagers!"
Having spent so long by Daoist Priest Fan’s side, had she not personally seen strong apparitions be killed, or at least witnessed Daoist Priest Fan kill them?
Even if Yun Jiuqing was "extra clever," her rich experience told her that something was definitely amiss in the current situation.
