WHEN BEAUTY MEETS BEASTS

516 Underground City

Huanhuan couldn’t find the way she came. Helpless, she could only spread her wings and fly into the sky. She turned to the other side of the mountain.

Sure enough, she saw a river not far away.

Huanhuan ran over and jumped into the river to catch fish. She kept laughing.

Xing Chen despised the water. He stood alone on the shore and watched in silence as she used the dragon spear as a harpoon and stabbed it into the water.

Huanhuan carried the dragon spear back to the shore. There was a string of fish hanging on the dragon spear. These were her spoils of war.

She placed the spoils of war in front of Xing Chen and smiled especially brightly. “Do you want to roast them or fry them? Or shall we cut them into sashimi?”

The fishy smell hit him, and Xing Chen frowned in disdain. “Whatever.”

In the end, Huanhuan cooked a pot of fish soup and cut a plate of sashimi.

This was Xing Chen’s first time eating raw fish. The fish that should have been very fishy became tender and smooth in his mouth. The taste was unexpectedly good.

Huanhuan said as she ate, “Unfortunately, there are no seasonings. If there were seasonings, they’d taste better!”

“Do you only ever think about eating?”

“Eating is a pleasure. My goal in life is to live happily until I die!”

Xing Chen had no appetite and had never felt that eating was worth enjoying. However, looking at her happy appearance after eating and drinking her fill, he couldn’t help but look forward to ‘living happily until he died’.

After eating and drinking her fill, Huanhuan found some wood nearby and cut it into the same size. She tied the planks side by side with vines to make a simple raft.

Huanhuan lowered the raft to the river. She jumped onto it and stomped hard. It felt quite sturdy.

She waved at Xing Chen. “Come on, I’ll take you on a ride.”

This was the first time Xing Chen had seen a raft.

He stepped onto the raft and felt it sway gently with the current. It felt refreshing.

“Let’s go!” Huanhuan untied the vines that were around the stones, then the raft immediately floated down the stream.

The moist wind blew in her face. Huanhuan opened her arms and laughed. “This feels good!”

The sky had darkened, and night had fallen.

Huanhuan lay on the raft with Little Brat quietly lying on her chest like an exquisite doll.

She crossed her legs and rested her arms behind her head. She looked up at the starry sky leisurely and praised sincerely, “It’s beautiful!”

In the dark night sky, the dazzling galaxy meandered into the distance.

A lavender mist descended from the sky and covered the land like a veil. It was dreamlike and beautiful.

This was a unique scene that could only be seen in the demons’ territory.

Xing Chen sat on the raft with one leg bent. His right hand was casually resting on his knee, and his short gray-white curly hair swayed gently in the wind.

He had no interest in the scenery.

Compared to admiring the scenery, he was more willing to admire the female in front of him.

He asked, “How do you know how to make rafts?”

Huanhuan said casually, “I learned it from someone else.”

“Who did you learn it from?”

“You wouldn’t know even if I told you.”

Xing Chen stared at her for a moment and asked coldly, “Are you really from this world?”

Huanhuan smiled slyly. “Guess.”

The raft drifted down the river until it was almost dawn. Huanhuan finally saw the watchtower.

She jumped ashore with Xing Chen.

The watchtower was built by the river. It was about 10 meters tall and was made of stone. There was a window at the top of the tower, and figures seemed to be moving inside.

As soon as Huanhuan and Xing Chen appeared, a beast walked out of the watchtower.

That beast had pale skin unique to the demons and a very unique hooked nose. He looked Huanhuan and Xing Chen up and down. He could tell at a glance that Huanhuan was not a demon. It was definitely impossible for ordinary beasts to appear in the territory of the demons.

He was about to call someone to capture the ordinary beast who had sneaked in when his attention was quickly attracted by Xing Chen behind her.

The aura of a powerhouse on Xing Chen made it difficult for him to breathe.

He realized that the other party was very likely a high-level demon and immediately knelt down. “Greetings, Lord!”

Xing Chen said indifferently, “Take us to the underground city.”

“Alright.”

The hooked-nose beast did not dare to slight any high-level demons. Even if the other party had an ordinary beast with him, the hooked-nose beast would only treat the ordinary beast as the high-level demon’s pet. He did not even dare to look at them, let alone interrogate them.

The hooked-nosed beast knocked on the door behind him.

Thump, thump!

A moment later, a huge hole appeared in the ground.

There were stairs in the cave that led straight to the underground city.

Under the lead of the hooked-nosed beast, Huanhuan and Xing Chen walked down the stairs into the underground city.

There was no sunlight in the city, but there were many fluorites for lighting.

Fluorite looked very similar to crystals. They would glow in the dark, but their crystals were not transparent. They were mostly smooth and looked a little like pebbles.

Fluorite was a mineral unique to the demons. Its only use was to light up the place. Coupled with the fact that it was produced in large quantities, it was not worth much at all. Even if it was placed by the roadside, very few beasts would take it.

Huanhuan was very interested in these fluorites. She squatted down and touched them. “Can I take two?”

The hook-nosed beast carefully glanced at Xing Chen. Seeing that he had no objections, he replied softly, “Of course. Take as many as you want. In any case, they’re all worthless.”

Huanhuan chose two thumb-sized fluorites. After wiping them clean, she put them in her arms.

There were many demon beasts in the underground city. When they saw Huanhuan, they revealed hostile and guarded expressions. However, when they saw Xing Chen behind her, their expressions immediately changed. They knelt down and bowed.

In the demon race, strength and bloodline determined everything.

High-level demons were like the moon in the sky to ordinary demons.

Huanhuan saw the beasts kneeling on the ground and muttered to Xing Chen, “How can we shop happily like this?”

Xing Chen: “What do you want, then?”

Huanhuan’s eyes lit up. “Turn into a child so that they won’t recognize you.”

Xing Chen rejected her suggestion again.

He wasn’t going to become a child as he would look short when standing beside her.

The hooked-nosed beast acted as a guide. As he showed them around the underground city, he introduced the characteristics and uses of each place.

The underground city was truly a very interesting place. Huanhuan saw many fun things here, such as big frogs that could beat drums with their bellies, earthworms that disguised themselves as stones to deceive foreign beasts, and black wild fruits that were known as the hardest fruits in history.

Huanhuan picked up the black wild fruit and heard the beast selling it say, “As long as you can bite it open, I’ll give you all the wild fruits on this stall!”

Huanhuan tried to put it in her mouth and bit it gently.

With a crack, the fruit shattered.

The beast selling wild fruits: “…”

Huanhuan chewed twice. It was quite crunchy, a little like a macadamia nut. If she stir-fried it with Lu Fruit when she went back, it would taste very good.