Chapter 128: Father
“Pfft~”
“Pah, pah! What a strange taste!”
Aoxi, who had been blasted in the face by the light cannon, stuck out her tongue. The taste, completely different from gunpowder smoke, felt a bit strange to her, but she herself was unharmed.
However, this clearly marked the opponents as enemies, not friends.
Amid Obei’s reminder to remember to leave one alive, Aoxi dove straight down like a streak of crimson thunder, plunging into the group of Shandia warriors, charging left and right.
The group of Shandia people hadn’t recovered from the shock of the opponent’s face taking a direct light cannon hit when they were punched, their facial masks all shattered to pieces.
“Smack~ Smack~”
In just a few seconds, Aoxi returned to the ship carrying a large bundle of furry, feathered Shandia people, then patted the nonexistent dust off her hands.
“Why did you bring them all back? Just leave one alive and kill the rest.”
Jin was very dissatisfied with the sudden addition of a pile of people on the already small deck. In his view, these people who attacked without even asking questions clearly couldn’t be reasoned with.
“Don’t be so quick to fight and kill~ They’ve grown up this big, which isn’t easy either.”
Aoxi stripped the cannon barrels and pistols, clearly hot weapons, from these people and tossed them to Obei nearby.
“By the way, these people all have wings on their backs. Could they be your relatives, Jin?”
“Though compared to your big black ones, theirs are small and white, which are pretty cute. With wings this small, they probably don’t need to sleep lying down specially, right.”
As she spoke, Aoxi squatted down and pinched the philtrum of the leading man with her small hand.
She hadn’t used much force earlier, so this group should just be simply passed out.
“Oi~ Wake up, or we’ll make boots out of your scalps~”
The American hell joke worked brilliantly even in this different world.
Almost as soon as the words were spoken, the Shandia captain with strange patterns painted on his face abruptly opened his eyes and instinctively began groping for his weapon.
“Don’t bother looking, your RPGs have all been confiscated by us.”
A hand gently pressed down on the Shandia man trying to struggle up, as Aoxi pointed to Obei nearby, who was eagerly studying those weapons.
Clearly no reaction mechanisms were visible, yet they could fire beams with considerable power; Obei was very interested in this goblin-tech-like thing.
Seeing this little girl, not even as big as his own son, lightly pinning him down with one hand, with a black monster twice his height standing behind her, eyes like he wanted to eat someone, the Shandia captain wisely chose to reason with them first.
“You, what are you people?”
Crackle~
A tiny electric arc flashed from the palm of Aoxi’s hand pressing on the opponent’s chest, making him jolt immediately~
“Don’t get the positions wrong, Indian.”
“You’re the captives now, so we have the right to ask questions.”
“My hometown has an old saying, ‘Those who understand the times are heroes,’ you wouldn’t want your companions hurt, right~”
Aoxi’s expression suddenly turned cold, her emotionless golden eyes staring through the opponent’s eyes straight into the Shandia captain’s soul.
Having spent a long time with Jin, the interrogation enthusiast, Aoxi had learned how to put on a show as the good cop.
“Cough~”
Feeling the suffocating sensation of his heart stopping just now, the Shandia captain completely gave up struggling, looked up at the sky, and said:
“We are Shandia people, not ‘Indians.'”
“What do you want to know? As long as it doesn’t threaten our village’s safety, I can tell you. But first, don’t touch my companions, and let us go afterward.”
“Sure~”
“But you can’t lie, can you~”
Seeing how cooperative he was, Aoxi immediately switched to a gentle tone like she used with usual pulls, giving Jin and Obei goosebumps behind her.
This tomboy who usually went around with “this young master” suddenly acting like a lady made the two instinctively uncomfortable.
Aoxi’s reason for changing attitudes like Sichuan opera face-changing was her intent to properly tease the opponent, after all, the grudge of him washing her face with a light cannon hadn’t been settled yet.
This was also her good temper; if it were Jin, these people would have long been chopped into dumpling filling.
“Fine. You, you ask then…”
“Mm~ Such a good child.”
“So… name?”
“Zannick.”
“Gender.”
“Uh… male.”
“Male then male, why do you people always pause like that?”
Aoxi was puzzled; it was the same when checking the roster before—these big men always froze for a moment when asked their gender.
“Whatever. Age.”
“Thirty-two.”
“Occupation. Ah, I mean, what do you do.”
“I’m the grand captain of the Shandia guerrillas.”
“Mm, still an officer~ So, home address?”
At this question, Zannick hesitated.
“I, I can’t say. I can’t let you dangerous guys know the village’s location.”
“Dangerous guys? You’re pretty good at playing the victim first.”
Aoxi pointed at her own face.
“Tell me, did we strike first?”
“This young master getting blasted in the face by your light cannon and fighting back—any problem with that?”
“Aren’t your companions all still alive and well right now?”
“Did we say we’d give you a cannon blast to wash your face too?”
“Hm?”
“Answer me!”
Glancing at her blazing eyes, Zannick didn’t dare make eye contact.
Normally by their rules, guys from the Blue Sea like this, with a skull flag on the ship, should be executed outright.
In fact, that’s what he did earlier; seeing a pirate ship suddenly appear near the village, while their patrol squad hadn’t returned for a long time…
An ominous premonition arose in Zannick’s heart, leading him to fire a cannon without even seeing the opponent clearly.
But he never expected to hit an underage little girl; even if she might be an invader, this was unacceptable to the proud Shandia warrior.
This was also part of why Zannick had been so cooperative with Aoxi earlier.
But now involving the village and tribesmen’s safety, no matter the reason, he couldn’t budge.
“Gulp~ Kill me!”
“I’m a Shandia warrior, descendant of the great warrior Kargra! I absolutely cannot betray the village and shame our ancestors!”
With that, he tilted his neck, ready to be slain.
“Tch! Troublesome guy!”
Aoxi stood up directly, releasing the hand pressing him down, signaling the rest to Jin.
She really wasn’t good at interrogation stuff.
And just as Jin stepped forward to chop off some parts from the opponent, another anomaly came from the distant sea of clouds.
“Father! Where are you?”
“That God Squad of the sky people has come to the village again!”
A young man who looked only twelve or thirteen was glancing around alone on the sea of clouds, loudly calling Zannick’s name.
“Yuta! Don’t come over… Ah!!!”
Zannick had just started shouting to keep him away when Jin nailed his outstretched hand to the deck with one slash.
The scream instantly drew the young warrior’s attention.
“Father, is that you?”
“That’s right, it’s him~ him~ him~~”
Aoxi cupped her hands around her mouth and shouted, her voice echoing through the sea of clouds.
Meanwhile, Jin had spread his pitch-black wings and was diving at top speed toward the other’s position.
