Chapter 11: Aftermath Of The Robbery
“Lottery Draw times*1”
“A Piece of Information (to be completed)”
At the moment Huo Yuhao killed Second Brother, two lines of text appeared on his retina, but Huo Yuhao did not plan to check them immediately and decided to return to the valley to see the casualties of the Merchant Association and the mercenary group.
At this time, the valley was no longer as lush as before, like it had been swept by a Level 8 gale, with gravel and dirt pits everywhere.
Not far from the valley, there was a pit ten meters in diameter, which was the mark left by Fourth Brother’s Wood Explosion Technique.
When Huo Yuhao passed by there, he could not help but click his tongue, involuntarily sighing at the terror of the power of this Soul Skill similar to the Corpse Explosion Technique.
Whether it was the Ice Explosion Technique, the Corpse Explosion Technique, or the Wood Explosion Technique he had just witnessed with his own eyes, none of them were harmless.
The Corpse Explosion Technique even created the strongest record in Douluo Continent history in the hands of the Death Emissary, single-handedly elevating the value of explosion-type Soul Skills.
Of course, among them, Holy Spirit Cult Supreme Elder Xuan Zi deserves great credit.
Huo Yuhao came in front of Lang Shan. At this moment, Lang Shan was lying on the ground, with a Healing Soul Master nearby helping him bandage his wounds.
Upon seeing Huo Yuhao, his mouth pulled into an ugly smile.
The bone-deep wound on his chest was still oozing blood. No wonder beast Soul Masters have such tenacious vitality; an ordinary person would probably have gone to the underworld to draw a number after such a blow, yet he could still smile.
Huo Yuhao said helplessly, “Leader Lang Shan, you’d better lie still. Don’t let the wound worsen.”
“Also, that escaped Evil Soul Master has been killed by me. You don’t need to worry about the road ahead.”
Digesting Huo Yuhao’s words, Lang Shan, who had been pulling at his mouth, had his pupils contract slightly, somewhat in disbelief.
However, he soon calmed down. Ignoring the Healing Soul Master’s dissuasion nearby, he forcefully used both hands to prop himself up from the ground and sat up halfway.
His bloodshot eyes looked at Huo Yuhao seriously, then he said solemnly, “Thank you so much, Brother Tuanzang.”
Huo Yuhao nodded to him, said nothing more, and walked directly to Li Fei’s side.
“How’s the wound?”
Hearing the familiar voice, Li Fei stopped bandaging and looked up, saying:
“It hurts like hell.”
“But luckily, I can still feel the pain.”
Li Fei showed a relieved smile, his chest heaving violently due to surviving the disaster.
He looked at Huo Yuhao, who was squatting down and sitting cross-legged to the side, and said, “This time, we really got lucky!”
“Those Evil Soul Masters didn’t apply corpse poison to their claws; otherwise, we would really have died here this time.”
Huo Yuhao smiled at him and said, “Not applying corpse poison means those Evil Soul Masters probably planned to eat people.”
Li Fei nodded in agreement, but with that same optimistic and sunny expression, he said, “Yeah, luckily they fought among themselves.”
“Looks like my time hasn’t come yet.”
“Brother Tuanzang, when we get to Xuan Feng City, I’ll treat you to a meal at the best restaurant there, and we’ll watch a show at the most luxurious brothel. I guarantee it’ll satisfy you.”
Huo Yuhao patted his shoulder, did not respond to his invitation, and his peripheral vision unexpectedly caught Xiao Xiao hugging her knees and covering her face under a big tree in the distance.
“I’ll go check on the young lady. She must be terrified.”
Xiao Xiao curled up her legs, buried her head in her knees, bit her lips tightly, her face pale, her calves trembling uncontrollably, her mind full of the scene of the Evil Soul Masters slaughtering just now.
She sensed someone sitting down beside her before she dared to lift her head a crack to see who it was.
But as soon as she looked up, her eyes met Huo Yuhao’s.
“Ah!”
She suddenly startled, then used her tender little hands to randomly wipe away her tears and snot.
The result was that her face got messier and messier.
In the end, she simply gave up and stopped caring, hugging her knees and saying sullenly:
“You’re not here to laugh at me, are you?”
“Forget it, laugh if you want. I won’t mind.”
Hearing this, Huo Yuhao looked at her dirty little face and burst out laughing.
Amid the laughter, Xiao Xiao’s legs tightened continuously, her fingers turned white, revealing a grievance-filled expression.
Suddenly, she felt a warm big hand stroking the top of her head.
The laughter beside her stopped, and a gentle voice flowed into her ears like a stream: “See, you do care a lot, don’t you?”
“It’s normal to be scared seeing that kind of scene.”
“Feeling scared means your heart still holds reverence for life.”
“That’s a good thing. Revering life allows you to cherish life, and cherishing life allows you to transcend death.”
“Never get used to scenes of flesh and blood flying everywhere; some people will worry.”
Huo Yuhao signaled Xiao Xiao with his gaze to look behind. As soon as Xiao Xiao turned her head, she saw Xiao Dingyuan looking over here with a face full of worry.
Xiao Xiao pursed her lips, turned her head back, stared at her own toes, and said, “Besides being scared, I hate my own weakness even more.”
“Uncle, do you know? I’ve actually already reached Level 20.”
“I’m just one Soul Ring away from being a Great Soul Master.”
“From the awakening of my Martial Soul until now, I’ve always been a genius in everyone’s eyes. They say I can achieve Titled Douluo in the future.”
“In Soul Fighting with peers, I rarely lost.”
“But those were just performative sparring. Today, I realized that in a real life-and-death crisis, I didn’t even have the courage to summon my Martial Soul.”
“Clearly, those with lower Soul Power Levels than me were fighting bravely, while I, who is a bit stronger, could only tremble and hide in the back, trying to control my legs from shaking.”
“I hate that version of myself. So embarrassing.”
Huo Yuhao ruffled her head and said, “There are no born strong people.”
“My former captain once said to me: [A true strong person is one who, realizing their own weakness, still charges toward the ice and snow.]”
Xiao Xiao was silent for a while, then looked up, her emerald green eyes staring seriously into Huo Yuhao’s eyes, and said, “Uncle, I want to become a strong person!”
“Next time something like this happens, I don’t want to watch weakly!”
“I’ve decided to go to Shrek Academy!”
Hearing Xiao Xiao’s words, Huo Yuhao’s facial expression stiffened. He had not expected this development.
But soon he relaxed. For Xiao Xiao, Shrek Academy was barely a good choice.
However, Huo Yuhao still planned to remind Xiao Xiao.
“Child, if you go to Shrek Academy, you must avoid Freshman Class One.”
“There’s a teacher named Zhou Yi there who treats her students like people from the Sun Moon Empire. If you encounter her, you probably won’t cope.”
Xiao Xiao tilted her head in confusion, but still nodded solemnly.
Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao sat for a while, and the east began to show a fish-belly white.
The Merchant Association and mercenary group in the valley had finished preparing and were ready to depart.
However, looking around, almost everyone had some injuries. Lang Shan was directly lying down, replaced in his duties by his younger brother Lang Yan.
Li Fei directly waved to Huo Yuhao as a signal, telling him the convoy was ready to depart.
Huo Yuhao brought Xiao Xiao back to the crowd, then mounted his horse, guarded the left side of the convoy, and continued forward along the originally planned road.
