A Little Monster With A Wife Is Amazing – CH71

Chapter 71: “That Vine Monster, Where Is It…”

The sea of coral flowers was located on the west side of the island, quite a distance from the eastern pier. Even so, the sound of the explosions and the subsequent fighting reached Jian Tang and the others clearly, proving just how fierce the battle at the pier was.

The small monsters who had been playing earlier had already scattered in panic, hiding in the coral flower sea and not daring to come out. Little Yu also took Jian Tang to hide behind a large coral reef, nervously watching the commotion at the eastern pier.

“Is there only one person on the other side?” the small monsters hiding nearby whispered. “If it’s just one person, the large monsters of the guard squad can definitely handle him, right? They’re battle mercenaries hired by the mayor at a high salary!”

As if in response to their words, several curdling, agonized shrieks echoed from the eastern pier one after another, before returning to a heavy silence.

In the suffocating quiet, messy footsteps soon echoed from the streets along the shore. A few terrified townspeople ran while crying out hysterically.

“Impossible, impossible… How could one person completely cripple so many high-level monsters… He’s not human! He’s definitely not human!! He’s a humanoid natural disaster!! The High Priest’s prophecy is coming true!!”

The small monsters hiding in the sea turned pale with fear one by one, trembling and not daring to move a muscle.

After about ten minutes, the mayor’s trembling voice came over the town’s broadcast system, his tone practically carrying a sob.

“All residents of Weiyi Ninth Town, please gather at the town’s central square immediately! This applies to all residents! Please gather at the central square immediately! You must arrive within fifteen minutes! Anyone who fails to arrive on time will have their whole family held collectively liable, and will bear the consequences themselves!”

This notice instantly caused the town, which was already enveloped in fear and unease, to explode into chaos.

The townspeople hiding in their homes panicked, feeling highly hesitant and conflicted. But under the mayor’s repeated persuasion and warnings, the townspeople, having lost the protection of the guard squad, finally walked out of their homes one after another and walked reluctantly toward the central square.

The small monsters hiding in the coral flower sea lost their composure as well. A few faint-hearted ones broke directly into tears.

Having experienced far more terrifying scenes, Little Yu and Jian Tang were flustered but managed to remain relatively calm, trying their best to comfort the other small monsters.

“Don’t worry, maybe it’s just to take attendance over at the square,” Jian Tang said. “I heard that every time that weirdo just demands the resident registry to flip through it on the spot. This time should be about the same.”

“That’s right!” Little Yu added. “Three or four towns have already been broken into by that gate-blasting weirdo before, and didn’t nothing major happen? Nothing will go wrong this time either, for sure!”

“Have you forgotten the High Priest’s divination prophecy?” a small monster said through tears. “In the High Priest’s prophecy, he said the weirdo breaking into the town would bring a terrifying disaster to us. If it’s just taking attendance and looking at the resident registry, can that be called a disaster?”

“We’re doomed, we’re really doomed. Big trouble has befallen us this time!”

As pessimistic and despondent emotions continued to spread, Little Yu was powerless to help and could only turn his gaze to Jian Tang.

“Little Tang, I’m sorry.” Little Yu felt extremely guilty. “If I hadn’t called you over, you wouldn’t have suffered this unprovoked disaster.” He used his dolphin tail to hollow out a small hole in the coral reef, placing the little vine at the opening.

“Little Tang, hide well here. Come out only after things outside have quieted down,” Little Yu said. “You’re a visitor, and there’s no record of you on the town’s resident registry. That weirdo definitely won’t be able to discover you. As long as you hide quietly, you’ll be fine!”

Jian Tang opened his mouth, but in the end, he didn’t say anything and simply nodded.

Little Yu hid the little vine well, then carried the crowd of weeping small monsters to swim to the shore, landing on the island to head for the central square.

Hearing that there was no more noise outside, Jian Tang quietly swam out from the coral reef where he was hiding.

Just as Little Yu said, if he simply hid in the dark, he would most likely escape the ordeal. But if Little Yu and the others were harmed while he managed to survive by luck, Jian Tang felt he would live the rest of his life in guilt and a troubled conscience.

He used his little tail to pluck a small green leaf from his body. It was actually a leaf-shaped spatial card, containing his human clothes and backpack, the ring and rabbit pendant gifted by Feng Xun, as well as several high-level items paid to him as a reward when Lord Fila had dispatched him to execute the “Dream Dust” mission before.

These precious belongings were Jian Tang’s confidence—if that weirdo suddenly went mad and started slaughtering monsters, with so many high-level items, he could at least hold out for a few rounds to buy a chance for the townspeople to escape.

Jian Tang cast a buff aura on himself to enhance his concealment and stealth attributes, shrinking his body to the size of a thumb-sized little twig. He quietly swam to the shore, blended into the green water plants lining the town’s ground, and stealthily slipped toward the direction of the central square.

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At this moment, the atmosphere in the central square was suffocatingly tense.

A large crowd of townspeople gathered here in silence. Even the miners working in the seabed mines had stopped working, forced to come here to undergo scrutiny.

Every monster entering the square could immediately see a man dressed in a black trench coat, standing quietly on the giant stone high platform in the center of the square.

Is this that gate-blasting weirdo?

The man wore a black mask, and the upturned collar of his trench coat concealed most of his face. A pair of eyes as sharp as a hawk’s were coldly scanning the crowd of monsters below.

Some townspeople who had witnessed how the other party handled the large monsters of the guard squad were too scared to even look more than once, hanging their heads and not daring to breathe loudly. Other townspeople who hadn’t seen him show his might at the pier had also long learned of the man’s terrifying strength from their companions, so they couldn’t muster the slightest desire to resist, submissively joining the ranks.

Even the High Priest, who was bedridden due to illness, had been brought out by his family. The High Priest was an elderly sunfish monster. When he was carried to the square by his family, many townspeople cast respectful and regretful glances toward him.

If they had listened to the High Priest’s advice and closed the spatial entrances earlier, would they have avoided being sought out by this terrifying task-taker, and spared from being forced to endure this unprovoked disaster?

But no matter how much they regretted it now, it was already too late.

The weak High Priest looked up and saw the man on the giant stone high platform. His face suddenly turned exceptionally hideous, his mouth murmuring, “No… no… no…” before his eyes rolled back, and he fainted away.

But even though he had fainted, he was still forced to lie as a corpse in the lineup on the square; no one could escape.

“They’re all here, they’re all here. The residents of the entire town are all here.”

After counting the number of townspeople, the mayor walked shakily onto the high platform, presenting the resident registry file to the man in black.

Feng Xun didn’t take the registry, jumping straight down from the high platform and walking toward the townspeople standing in formation.

When he broke into other towns before, he hadn’t gathered the townspeople because he only needed to check the resident registry to determine whether that vine monster lived in the current town.

But this Weiyi Ninth Town was different.

According to the statements given by residents of other towns, among the 36 monster towns in City A, only Weiyi Ninth Town gathered the most marine-type monsters due to its adjacency to the Sea of Healing. When Feng Xun checked the historical spatial coordinates of this town, he discovered that its past spatial entrance was located inside the water park.

—Right in the water park where Yuan Cheng had performed his magic show and staged that evil sacrifice.

On the second day after the incident back then, Feng Xun had quietly lurked into the water park, attempting to find out if there was an entrance to a monster gathering place nearby, but he hadn’t succeeded.

Now that he possessed more coordinate clues and had the historical spatial entrance coordinates as a reference, after a large amount of simulation and deduction, he had finally accurately locked onto the new spatial entrance and successfully broken in.

Compared to other towns, Weiyi Ninth Town clearly deployed more guards at the entrance. But since Feng Xun could handle even three Realm Lords with ease, how could he care about these minor grunts?

He didn’t even use much force, breaking in effortlessly. Then, just like before, he politely demanded the resident registry from the mayor and required the other party to gather all the townspeople in the central square.

The sea breeze blew thoughtlessly across the island, and the palm trees around the square swayed gently. On the immense square, only the sound of the man’s leather boots stepping on the stone slabs could be heard.

The other party walked very slowly, his sharp gaze scrutinizing the rows of monster residents. All the residents were quiet as cicadas in winter, shivering all over.

“Three months ago,” he suddenly spoke, his even and indifferent tone causing every word to strike terror into the hearts of the town’s monsters.

“Who went to the water park outside?”

Standing in the lineup, Little Yu felt a sudden jolt in his heart for no reason, generating a very ominous premonition.

The monsters on the square looked at each other, but no one spoke.

The man in black suddenly snapped his fingers, and a black bee appeared at his side, emitting a buzzing wing-beat sound.

“The monsters who went, step out on your own,” the man’s voice was deep and cold. “Don’t wait for me to take action myself.”

The big-headed fish mayor looked nervously at that strange “bee,” guessing that it might possess a certain lie-detecting function. If the townspeople hid the truth, forcing this terrifying man to take action himself, the scene would definitely be more tragic than at the pier. He hurriedly waved frantically at the townspeople.

“Quickly do as he says! Anyone who has been to the water park, step out quickly!”

After a moment of dead silence, a few monsters walked shiveringly out of the formation.

Although they couldn’t transform into perfect human forms, in the appearance of aquatic creatures, they could still perfectly blend into the viewing pools of the water park to accept feeding from human tourists. Freeloading food and drinks had always been one of the great pleasures of these monsters.

Who would have thought that this niche hobby would actually face a public execution today… They were so wronged! They had only tricked some humans out of snacks to eat, the crime shouldn’t warrant this level of punishment!!

Little Yu was currently in his merman form. Looking at those monsters walking out of the formation, he bit his teeth and braced himself to step out as well.

A total of 12 monsters stood out from this batch. The black bee circled around the central square, flying past the front of all the monsters before finally circling back, coming to rest on Feng Xun’s shoulder.

No monsters had lied. Good.

Feng Xun walked before those 12 monsters, his stern gaze sweeping across them one by one as he spoke once more.

“Among you, who was once severely injured inside the water park?”

Little Yu’s heart gave a violent thud, and his fish tail dragging on the ground couldn’t help but twitch.

Even though it was such a microscopic twitch, it still didn’t escape that pair of hawk-like eyes. Little Yu immediately felt the man in black’s terrifying gaze lock onto him.

The sound of leather boots stepping on the ground echoed again on the deathly quiet square. No matter how strong Little Yu’s psychological quality was, he was ultimately just a juvenile little dolphin who had barely passed a hundred years old. When the man came to a stop before him, Little Yu felt his teeth begin to chatter out of fear.

So… so terrifying.

Just the pressure and aura radiating from this person alone were this frightening!

“You were severely injured inside the water park three months ago?”

The man’s tone was faint, as if it were just a casual question.

Little Yu, however, felt the pressure like a thousand-pound weight crushing down, making him almost unable to breathe. His tense brain didn’t even have the strength to weave a lie, only able to mechanically utter the true answer.

“…Yes.”

“Who saved you and brought you back?” the man continued to ask.

“It was… a friend of mine.”

“Where is it now?”

The little merman’s lips trembled, but he didn’t speak.

He wouldn’t say, and he couldn’t say.

Because he had already faintly realized what this terrifying weirdo wanted to do.

A buzzing sound suddenly reached his ears. Out of the corner of his eye, Little Yu saw that strange black bee fly right before his face.

Because it was close enough, he discovered that this bee’s compound eyes were much larger and more protruding than those of ordinary bees, densely packed like countless black holes staring at him, which was hair-raising.

“That monster that saved you,” the man spoke once more, “where is it now?”

Little Yu bit his teeth, forcing his voice to remain steady.

“…I don’t know.”

The next second, he only felt a sharp pain in his neck. The bee’s sharp stinger pricked into his neck, and the intense agony made it impossible for him to maintain his merman form any longer, turning back into a little pink dolphin as he fell heavily to the ground.

The surrounding monsters shrieked in horror and retreated one after another. Feng Xun stared down at the anesthetized pink dolphin lying on the ground, comparing it with the pink little fish the size of a koi in his memory.

It was indeed it.

Only it had grown larger and fatter now.

While Little Yu was panicking over why his entire body had suddenly lost all sensation and whether he was already on the verge of death, a cold longsword was pressed before his eyes.

“I am no good person, nor do I have much patience,” Feng Xun looked down at the limp pink fish on the ground, his tone icy.

“I am asking you for the last time,” he said.

“That monster, where is it?”

Some townspeople couldn’t bear to watch any further and covered their eyes; Little Yu’s family members were both anxious and afraid, unsure if they should take a risk to snatch the dolphin from the tiger’s jaws; the mayor was even more frantic, desperately shouting, “Speak! Little Yu, speak quickly! If you don’t speak, you will die!!”

A brief commotion broke out on the square, but Little Yu clenched his teeth and remained silent.

Feng Xun let out a cold snort. Just as he was about to swing his sword, his gaze suddenly froze, and the longsword veered at a strange angle, blocking his lower left arm.

With a “clink,” something slammed hard against the longsword, then was bounced away, clattering as it fell to the ground.

It was a golden pendant.

“I’m right here!”

All the monsters looked over in astonishment, seeing a emerald green vine straighten its body beneath the giant stone high platform of the square, drilling out from the lawn below the platform.

“The monster you are looking for is right here!” Jian Tang was shivering, the small green ears on his head also trembling violently. Even though he was scared to death, he still forced his head high, shouting fiercely.

“Let go of my friend! Whatever you want to do, come at me!”

A Little Monster With A Wife Is Amazing